skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
001Sky is a Riddle, shrouded in mystery, wrapped inside an Enigma. Thank you very much.

That is a lovely compliment. Trying to understand the rest of what you've written though? Is nearly impossible.

It's like you've run out of logic (fail). Now you're only left with Ad hominem in-articulare?

The actual point was made in the original post.
That list of initial titles is pretty small, I hope it will soon include all the recent humble bundle games, since most (if not all) had linux ports as well as being steam-ified.

I know it won't do much in the way of making linux any more popular for the hardcore gamer, but it would at least make me happy
Could someone that's really familiar with Postgres give me the skinny on replication? I like Postgres a lot, but finally moved all of our data storage to MySQL because, according to the documentation I read just a couple months ago, Postgres couldn't really do multi-master replication.

This post, dated prior to the documentation I read before the switch, seems to suggest it would do it just fine as long as it was asynchronous. I'm not clear though on just how ugly its async replication might be (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/high-availability....).

I'd like to use dbmail to store mail in a database replicated across multiple servers (which would need fairly reliable replication), as well as syslog and other logging facilities to sql (where reliability isn't quite so big of a deal).

Is Postgres up to this now, or not?
I though Google was committed to producing a Map app for iOS 6, no?
No, that's going to be the Kindle Scissor.

Followed shortly by Kindle Rock (the true paperweight).
Watson is a research product that aims to create artificial intelligence from the ground up, i.e., true artificial intelligence.

Google is merely processing massive data sets using manually crafted algorithims. This is a complete different project, which has little or nothing to do with artificial intelligence.
All good points. Additionally the timing worked as well and allowed them "not to die".

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

"If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup. It certainly describes what happened in Viaweb. We avoided dying till we got rich."
Because by and large, scientists tend not to run for office.

As an engineer I am almost bored to tears when I think about running for political office and what the campaign and the job entails...it's likely that scientists just have more interesting things they can spend their time on.
You can't use this for FTL communication, sorry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
I haven't used the raw stream protocol directly, but if you mean Xlib, I actually find it more usable than most toolkits. (Although a big part of that is being able to use select(), whereas most toolkits force you to do everything in callbacks while the toolkit drives the main loop.)
Y-combinator has had a long run of successes, far beyond what could reasonably be attributable to luck.
Ok, so organic is correlated but not the cause. I will stick with my weak, can't be transported long distances tasty food.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

With two such random linkages in the path between startups and money,
it shouldn't be surprising that luck is a big factor in deals.
And yet a lot of founders are surprised by it.
We are in a position to change politics in this connected era, yet we don't do it. We need modern thinkers to propose new election systems, new forms of government, new ideologies more consonant with modern times.

It will take time, old school politicians are dying, new crops are learning the old tricks to perpetuate themselves in power. New ideas are emerging, people is getting sick of corruption, occupy movements gaining momentum, etc.

We just need strong voices and calls to action. Things need to change, and no matter what, things will change.
http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

"The other catch is that the payoff is only on average proportionate to your productivity. There is, as I said before, a large random multiplier in the success of any company. So in practice the deal is not that you're 30 times as productive and get paid 30 times as much. It is that you're 30 times as productive, and get paid between zero and a thousand times as much. If the mean is 30x, the median is probably zero. Most startups tank, and not just the dogfood portals we all heard about during the Internet Bubble. It's common for a startup to be developing a genuinely good product, take slightly too long to do it, run out of money, and have to shut down."
Because our laws have been so overly complicated that we have come to believe that we need lawyers to write them.
Who out there has the tools, time, and expertise to build browser add-ons of general merit but finds $5 and some screenshots to be an insurmountable hurdle?

edit: On perusal, I see it's not even $5 per add-on or publish, it's a one-time fee to register as a developer.
I posted a longer comment about this last night[1], but the short version is: Amazon is clearly much more interested in profiting from content than hardware. That means they want cheap devices that people will take everywhere and read lots of books on. The Kindle DX is less portable (and thus you're less likely to take it on your commute, etc), and its main advantage is for reading PDF's, on which they make money.

So I think it will be an expensive second-class citizen for the forseeable future. It's not in their interest to change that.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4483305
Would love to hear any sales mistakes you've seen startups make!
Nobody does a domain lookup to test validity?
What makes you think that those with the resources to implement dragnet surveillance do not have access to properly signed certificates, which let them Man-In-The-Middle the connection without triggering a browser warning?
The difficulty of writing regexes for email validation wasn't the main point - the main point was that emails don't follow spec so any regex based on that is inherently wrong. However, it seems like saying "most email validation regexes are broken" is equivalent to saying "email validation regex is hard"
That's not the list of Steam Linux games, it's the list of games added in the Steam database recently for any platform.
What I'd love to see is for car manufacturers to throw away integrated navigation systems and replace them with standardized mounting points for smartphones / tablets. I'd like to be able to upgrade my car electronics every 2 years without having to rip apart the dashboard.
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Just a little update:

I finally heard from the client, he gave me a story about how his phone broke, his mother-in-law has been sick, how people who owe him money haven't paid it and how none of the potential clients for the software have come back to him yet.

He offered to pay part of the invoice now and part later. I said fine but I will apply interest to the invoice and he only has a further 30 days until the issue goes further.

I wait with baited breath for the rest of the payment.
What kind of company do you work for? Which "broker" do you recommend, if any?
I found this hard to believe, but:

Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1:

No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.

Maryland, Article 37:

That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God; nor shall the Legislature prescribe any other oath of office than the oath prescribed by this Constitution.

Mississippi, Article 14, Section 265:

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.

North Carolina Article 6, Section 8:

The following persons shall be disqualified for office:

First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.

South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4:

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2:

No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.

from: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/12/15/whic...
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Regardless of the applicability to pg, I think this is a smart conversation. When evaluating hypotheses, we have a cognitive bias in favor of past success, when past failure might be the more informative signal. Planet Money did an interesting podcast with the author of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Success-Always-Starts-Failure/dp...

discussing just such a hypothesis:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/09/04/160555540/episode-...
The extra USD 200 for the 4G model are not all about hardware you know. I doubt 4G chipset and the 32GB flash chips are costing that much.
Has anyone found specific language that is effective when 'asking for the sale'?
Year 2012, human kind can get signals from 35 years-old spacecraft which is passing edge of solar system.

Year 2012, I can barely have signal reception with my brand new smartphone at my home.
My point was that it's not a British factory: it's a Sony-owned plant that happens to be in the UK at this point in time. Sony is a Japanese-American corporation; all this chest-beating is quite unwarranted.

The point about capitalism is that "Euro" capitalists don't want to face any risk, as this story proves: British money didn't want to back the Pi when it was unproven, and even now they could only find Japanese-American money.

I live in the North-West of England. I'm surrounded by modern (and mostly empty) high-rise developments built in the last 15 years, alternating with cheap new low-rise which have been rebuilt from scratch on the ashes of failed towns, and they're slowly decaying again, because the problem is that you can't maintain a nice house without a nice job, and construction jobs are not even for local people these days.

the sort of jobs that provide social mobility are in services (as we all know on HN), in high-quality manufacturing, and in the public sector; and it's clear this government has no idea how to help those sectors.
Javascript is a real programming language
Elections are the least worst system so far, but they are far from optimal.

In effect what we get is "second rate people recruiting third rate people". If you have ever had anything to do with the general public you will realize the average person is pretty stupid. That is why they so easily fall for all the lies politicians tell.

In particular the public consistently votes for deficit spending and the accumulation of unsustainable debt, short sighted policies and policies based on emotion rather than reason.

We need to find some way to skew the legislature towards people who are honest, and who are more than fast talking lawyers - people committed to rationality and sustainable policies.
Giving people access to that data was a monumentally important step I agree. I just don't know where we go from here, and I find it hard to believe that Google has the answer given the quality of some of their data (no offence intended). They have some capability themselves, but will it be enough? There is so much more to mapping than road lines and point clouds.
I totally disagree. The biggest (or maybe 2nd biggest if you include battery life) disadvantage of ebook readers has always been contrast.

It was most obvious with the 1st gen, where they were unreadable in anything besides bright, direct sunlight. Even in the current gen, the cheapest paperback is still more readable in lower light than a Kindle or Nook.

Amazon knows its audience with the Kindle ebook readers. It's not gadget nerds, it's readers. Contrast and screen brightness are absolutely key to readers.
I rarely do searches on my Kindle 4, and when I do there's a not-as-cumbersome-as-you'd-think-but-pretty-cumbersome-anyway keyboard that you can use. In exchange, I get a smaller, lighter Kindle that's easier to pack around.

That said, the physical page-turn buttons are the best part. Without those, I'd never use the thing.
It depends on the design (PTH or SMD). A lot of PTH takes a lot of people, as many parts still can't be machine-placed.

The facility we use an hour from us runs about 600 PTH units (about 40 components/board) on one assembly line with 10 people in about 4 hours. I doubt one would always work them at that level. Lead-bending, wave soldering is all pretty much automated.

The bulk of an SMD process is done by pick-and-place, our stuff gets run on 10,000+ CPH machines. You need one person to load/de-load panels and switch out feeders - and one person can work multiple machines if everything is set up right. The machines in general are really good these days.

Printing and machining the PCBs takes some time, but this is a process that can flow continuously once you let a little backlog build up at each stage. Electrical testing can be slow at the back-end, as is polishing board edges, packaging, etc.

I could see it taking 30 people to do 10k a month, but the same 30 people possibly capable of 60k+ a month. It depends on where you load them in the process. The more SMD the more volume you can get up to the testing/packaging stage. rPi is mostly SMD, with some PTH - so they have to mix the processes, but its really hard to avoid...)

Notably, however, if you look at the Hackberry (which I like better, btw!) the vast majority of the connectors are SMD. I wonder if the rPI could see some labor savings (at higher BOM) by switching to them.

One thing we've been working on in-house is making big automated jigs to program and test entire panels of devices at once, before they're de-paneled. These are really expensive to make though (think $5k+ per jig) - but they save us thousands of hours of labor a year. We're moving to make machines that can do it without jigs now. Fun stuff =)
Disclosure: I own a kobo ereader.

One thing that is really interesting to me is battle of spec marketing and how Amazon is really managing to outdo its competitors here.

As far as I can tell the Kobo Glo and the Kindle Paperwhite use the same new display and lighting technology. However Amazon has christened theirs as the "Paperwhite" and so several sites I have read have discussed how kobo has released a competitor but it uses the "older e-ink pearl" technology. If anyone has some clarification about the displays I would happy to get more detail, but from the matching resolutions, to the similar device photos on their respective websites, to the description of how the front-lighting is achieved lead me to believe that Amazon is using commodity e-ink technology available to everyone else and christening it as a revolution.

Their other claim is that they get 8 weeks of battery life with the light enabled. Closer reading of the small print reveals that this is going by 30 minutes of reading a day, for a grand total of 870.5 = 28 hours of reading with the light. On their site Kobo claims 55 hours of use with the light on. Amazon does not say in their comparison if the light stays on for the whole 8 weeks, or just while it is being read. But either they have achieve an incredible breakthrough in battery life to allow for 8724 hours of lights or their battery life is 1/2 that of a competitor. Regardless I have seen several sites claiming that Kobo has some serious catching up to with "only" 55 hours of battery.

Anyway, just the usual specs jockeying between tech companies, but in this case as an owner of a kobo I was intrigued by the details as I have experience with one of their competitors. Always interesting to see what gets reported unchecked and what doesn't.
actually i was just reading on the SciAm blogs about this, and learned a bit more about the edge of our solar system (and how the scientists involved in this effort are tracking progress).

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/09/05/...

key comment: 'Decker and his colleagues conclude from the plasma measurements “that Voyager 1 is not at present close to the heliopause, at least in the form that it has been envisioned up to now.” '

just an interesting addendum to the story that NPR glossed over.
In retrospect I think you could be right on both counts. First, I should have called the guy an astroturfer instead of a troll to use more correct terminology. Second, yes, the guy may not be a Samsung forum shill after all, but I'm basing this possibility solely on the fact that he took the time to add some profile information about [himself | some real person]. The reason why I didn't believe this account is real still exists though: it was created and used solely for the purpose of commenting on the Samsung thread.

While this may or may not be a coincidence, my reaction is so negative by default because recently there have been a lot of single-purpose accounts that seem to exist only for one thread before they're being abandoned. They are usually employed to troll, to attack someone personally, to post or promote blog spam, or to shill for something. In fact, it has gotten so bad I can usually tell by the post's content and style whether this person is engaging in a quick hit-and-run or if they intent to stay around. I believe we're still putting too much weight on "green" accounts. Maybe their posts should be gray by default.

I might have come up with a false positive in this case, but there is no evidence to support that yet.
The Kindle treats each page of a PDF as an image that it scales to the width/height of the screen. You can zoom in and move around, but it's not at all like reading a book.

Given the PDF format, this is really the only way you can really deal with PDFs that might have images, columns, etc. Much more inherent formatting than with just a text .mobi.
I have a 2011 Lenovo X220 that has a reader made by UPEK, but it doesn't employ "ProtectorSuite" software. Lenovo has their own suite of management applications called ThinkVantage; one of which being "fingerprint reader" management.

I checked the registry but I'm not sure where to look. Searching for "UPEK" didn't yield anything resembling a scrambled or encrypted string in or around the search results, and "fingerprint" rendered too many results.
> Is PagerDuty worth it for $18 per month?

Yes. We use them at Netflix.

The real value that they add is they take care of the edge cases you haven't thought of yet. :)
> Google is locked in a battle with the world's largest company, Apple

Wait, what? By what measure?
That's not faking device capabilities. It's just faking what a particular movie looks like. Nokia's doing something on an entirely different level.
Maybe it's just me, but there are circumstances when I prefer a good index to a text search. If a term is informally introduced and used a couple of times in the few pages before it's defined, for example, I usually want the formal definition, and I can just remember that that's the second index entry rather than the first rather than Ctrl-G-ing my way through a bunch of uses.

(I do passionately hate bad indexes, though.)
No, Postgres' built-in replication doesn't support multi-master.

With one of the many third-party replication packages that have grown around PostgreSQL (specifically, Bucardo v5 which is in beta right now), you can do multiple — as in more than two — writeable masters, though, as the linked page notes, the replication is asynchronous. With older versions of Bucardo, you can do two masters — again, asynchronously (though you can technically get more than two if you want to engage in some significant configuration gymnastics).

What they're calling "synchronous multi-master" replication is actually implemented using "two-phase commit", which isn't replication per se, but rather application code using a database feature that allows specifically crafted database interactions to be written to multiple databases, and only successfully committing if the participating nodes agree that they've all committed.
Very little, they already have https support - I am sure that they could handle disabling http . that is not the point.

I see the point Jimmy Wales was making - it's the old: 'if you have nothing to hide' - and it should stand.

If you want to keep something private you have the right to do that....I don't care what I do in public....
And Navteq, Tele Atlas, TomTom, and a few more... They don't have the marketing skills of Apple and Google, but they don't need it because they are not consumer-focused companies.
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The fact that this would get noticed if they did this for dragnet surveillance. They can (and likely do) do targeted MITM, but doing it across the board would be noticed quickly.
If you're worried, just download a dump of wikipedia and browse local (http://dumps.wikimedia.org/)
A parliamentary system is one in which the executive and legislative branches are one (EG if the president was a member of congress, and chosen by congress).

@lmkg seems to be referring to a proportional electoral system, not parliamentary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

As to the implication that proportional systems don't result in individuals representing constituencies or geographic regions, there are numerous hybrid systems that manage to achieve the best of both worlds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
So what do you guys do to counter this? Do you use encrypted VPNs? Any specific ones you'd recommend?
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It's a dual Y-axis chart.
1. No app of significant size will actually allow this. If you've ever tried to switch over a large data set with a high query volume you'll know that it never "just works".

2. Just because there's an API behind it, doesn't mean that it doesn't matter which one you use. As a trivial example, Linux and OSX are both POSIX but it's hard to make an argument it doesn't matter which you use.
Sorry, yes, this wasn't supposed to be exhaustive just to illustrate the point that not providing a warning on apparently erroneous email address entries was some what pathological.
Just a small tip which may ease the search for methods. The general term for "on the fly" learning is online learning [1].
The rest depends on your problem but there are often online variants of offline methods, e.g. when you work with Gaussian process regressions

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_machine_learning
The JSON data type is nothing more than a self validating varchar field i.e. fairly pointless.

Better off just validating the JSON yourself in the application layer and maintaining cross database compatibility. To be honest it is rare that you would even need to explicitly validate as when you deserialize into objects it will just fail at that point.
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http://lifehacker.com/5940565/why-you-should-start-using-a-v...
$40 for a light, and better contrast, and better resolution. 800×600 was getting pretty long in the tooth; cramming 1024×768 into the same space may not sound like much, but I'm looking forward to the higher pixel density for sure.
there is a standard for validating emails. it is described in RFC 3696 - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3696

one implementation is in lelp - http://www.acooke.org/lepl/rfc3696.html - but that package is no longer maintained (i know, because i wrote it).

i don't know of any other implementation. but that's the right way to do it. imho.