skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact I was watching a presentation somewhere (I forget where), where folks were using NoSQL databases as a sort of pre-processing layer for the RDBMS. In this regard it's very useful on the high-end.

Where I am less convinced is outside the high-end, and outside the idea of a transition tier between input and RDBMS (or between RDBMS and output even). As a persistence layer, NoSQL is applicable largely to the subset of cases where Object Oriented Databases were. Here the GP is right that the industry is keen on relearning the same lessons every couple of decades.... However, as pre-processing and post-processing, there seems to me to be a much larger set of use cases out there but again only where the RDBMS is no longer really able to handle everything you want it to do.
Additionally, if I'm reading this properly, it only includes people who chose numeric passwords when they could have chosen anything (presumably beyond alphanumeric even). This means that all of the folks who chose a password outside of the PIN domain (presumably because they know better) don't have their PINs represented here, and I'd wager that a better proportion of those numbers are beyond 1234, 0000, etc..
I don't find this interesting at all. What is the point of doing that?
It is just you. That article is a classic in long-form investigative journalism.
Square has strong growth and a proven revenue model and still [just] got a multiple of [16x]

--worth putting this in context: 16x is 1.6x of 10x

http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/05/24/all-revenue-is-not-creat...

Square is also facing:

-- Massive entrenched competition, that is highly profitable;
-- A politically shielded oligopoly with global political reach

Unlike FB, twitter, etc which are genuinely new ideas to which that have had unique first mover advantages.
Thanks, this is an interesting story. As I mentioned, I think there are plenty of things wrong with our healthcare system, and I only use the word "best" in a very broad sense - for example, the US has the highest rate of success for therapies and surgery (In Britain, for example, only half as many people survive colon cancer, although that could be related to any number of factors). I am sure there are many experimental areas of medicine where the US does not excel, because we have to wade through so much red tape to get anything approved.
Open iPhoto. Select all photos with Cmd-A. Drag them to a folder. The end!

To preserve separate "rolls": open finder. Navigate to Photos. Right-click your iPhoto Library and choose "show package contents". Find the Originals folder and drag it out. You're set.
My suggestion: read more of Rands' oeuvre before you ascribe manipulative psychopathy to three words in a title.

Once you see that,

You should have said "if you see that." Here's what my eye saw as I was scanning the HN news page:

...
...
Blah blah (randsinrepose.com)

Click!
I recruit technical people. Our clients seem to like working with us. We try to treat job seekers with respect. We take an ethical approach to everything we do. But like any business, we do of course go to market to sell our services directly to the target clients, and we go directly to the people we wish to sell. No apologies to anyone for that. The reason recruitment exists is because employers pay money for it. If anyone has an issue with recruiters then stop whining about it and instead make sure your company stops using them. People who whine about recruiters but still get jobs through them or work for a company that hires from recruiters are like people who criticise the oil industry but are happy to drive a car and consume the thousands of oil derived products. Hypocrites.
One can still have a public accessible resolver, so long it is TCP-only. Amplification requires UDP spoofing.
The diamond cartels continue to prop up a fake market fed by the product of human misery largely by convincing people that diamonds have always been a clear symbol of social status and of devotion.
Not equally, I could only go half as much.
Ha, they quickly stuck a date in the title. ;)

I was going to comment this is a "pre-internet" story.

The film Blood Diamond came to mind as I was reading this, and the "Diamond District" in New York City. Lots going on behind the scenes in the "diamond industry".

This is a superb lesson in 1. artificial scarcity and 2. how consumers can be conditioned to accept new symbols (a diamond is just a rock; but what does a diamond "mean"?).

Both are principles that, for better or worse, apply to how business is done on the web.
But this is the fundamental trade-off isn't it?

If you aren't concerned about your data on input then you can't reliably transform it on output, right?

In this regard fixed schemas slow down one side of development (handling input) but speed up another side (handling output, and related tasks like reporting).
Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD in your stack?
Do you use FreeBSD on you side projects or at your company? If so, why did you choose FreeBSD over popular linux distros or maybe even Windows (if that's your cup of tea). My question is also within the context of server environment and not the desktop.

Please NO BSD vs Linux flame wars.
Thanks
EDITED: CloudFlare got great technology, got minor issues with billing (mine case), but solved them after this post.
Where is it explicitly fake? I went back and looked again and still don't see it.
Another fantastic bit of information about the history of the diamond trade, courtesy of Frontline, circa 1994: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6186684678299366197
Ya, :fixed doesn't behave as intended there. I tried it out on a 15" MBP, 13" MBP, iPad, Cinema Display, and phones, so I've seen that it's pretty cramped. I'm not great at responsive design yet, but I'll mess with it. Any advice on getting the images and text to scale to smaller screens within their divs would be appreciated.

On that note, can't wait to see how Polygon.com is built.
Comparing a while loop against a foreach loop of an array
DNSSEC-signed responses can be very large. Here's an example of turning a 31 byte request into a 3974 byte response: http://dnscurve.org/amplification.html That's ~128x amplification -- with a 100Mbps connection, roughly 12.8Gbps of responses would be sent to the forged IP source.
Document fails on Android :(

I assume all commercial applications of this work would "help" consumers spend more, and this add another layer of cruft to decode when shopping.
It doesn't make sense to handicap every platform just because one is broken.
Vimium dev here. We actually disabled Vimium on Google Reader because we were getting complaints about how it breaks Reader's own keybindings. If you wish, you can re-enable Vimium by going to the options page; once enabled, its keybindings should take priority over the page's own -- please file a bug if that isn't the case. (However, if you pressed a key that doesn't correspond to a Vimium command, it will automatically pass the keystroke down to the page's own key handlers.)
1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.
I can't reply to the OP's reply, so I'll write it here: my advice is to give up on responsive design, particularly if it's giving you trouble. Why bother unless it's "free" (given to you by some premade design you're using)? In general you're going to have to design a page different per medium, so why make the technical implementation of that design more difficult on yourself by having responsive design as a constraint.
God how I miss that.

Where can I find 100's more like this, _on the web_?
Really? Python's handling of reaching into the outer scope of a function is just as confusing (although I hear it is fixed in 3000?)

Do you mean:

try:
foo = '42'
except Whatever:
raise
print "foo is %s" % foo

If so, I really like that feature. It's much clearer to me than what I'd write in another language:

foo = None
try:
foo = 42
...
> The impact of tax rates on productivity and development is something economists masterbate about, enterpreneurs don’t waste their time thinking about it. We have business to do.

It affects your ability to raise money, and the terms you'll be able to get. That's something that actually does matter.

> Instead of bitching at each other, could one Presidential candidate please show even the least bit of leadership and character and stand up for and encourage the entrepreneurs in this country ?

Do you have any concrete proposals for how to do this, or would you just like politicians to pay lip service to your pet cause?
By fallenapple ( from showdead):

Ha, they quickly stuck a date in the title. ;)
I was going to comment this is a "pre-internet" story.
The film Blood Diamond came to mind as I was reading this, and the "Diamond District" in New York City. Lots going on behind the scenes in the "diamond industry".
This is a superb lesson in 1. artificial scarcity and 2. how consumers can be conditioned to accept new symbols (a diamond is just a rock; but what does a diamond "mean"?).
Both are principles that, for better or worse, apply to how business is done on the web.
Wikipedia is now using HTML5
Easy: Longform.org.

Slate aggregates and curates some of these:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/longform.html
noticed how Linus acts? Steve Jobs? FUCK patience. FUCK feel good touchy feely discussions.

Are you Linus or Steve Jobs? Are you as talented? And also the head of some important effort that people are desperate to join?

If not, then perhaps you shouldn't model yourself on people who are widely regarded as total assholes.
'pro' is what you should expect. best is marketing lingo.
That looks pretty good. Any plans for companion apps for other modes o' transport?

I didn't realize TripIt handled so much potential data, until I mapped out the whole app in Keynote to start this project. Credit where it's due – while I hate the existing app, it's still no small feat.
Hmm, that doesn't strike me as very annoying, but couldn't you just disable them?
The manufacturer he failed to identify is most likely Shenzhen Lyric Pioneer (http://www.lyxfsz.com/), which is behind dozens of the All Winner based Android tablets, under a wide variety of brand names.

(One of their more amusing product pages: http://www.lyxfsz.com/en/products_view.htm?id=27 ... )
Since I don't know anything about QED, I'm not equipped to answer this question. What I can say, however, is that much of what we consider to be "causality" is just a matter of probability. There's nothing in the fundamental laws of physics that says that a flower pot that fell off the window sill and broke into a million pieces an hour ago, can't now suddenly put itself back together and then fly back onto the sill, just as if nothing had ever gone awry. The fact that flower pots don't typically tend to do so, is that this turn of events is extremely unlikely.

In fact, as far as fundamental physics goes, the forward arrow of time and the backward arrow of time are indistinguishable. I.e., if you were to look at a movie of subatomic particles interacting, you wouldn't be able to tell, if you didn't already know, if the film were being played forwards or being played backwards. (As a slight caveat to this--a caveat that does not detract from what I am saying, but should be mentioned for the sake of completeness--there is one tiny aspect of fundamental particle physics that breaks this time symmetry, but it is a rather subtle one. The physicists who discovered this won a Nobel prize, and as I understand it, why this symmetry should be broken--no matter how subtle the effect--is still a deep mystery.)

What we consider to be the forward arrow of time comes completely from thermodynamics, not from fundamental law. E.g., if the Big Bang occurred at the end of time, rather than the beginning of time, we wouldn't be able to tell the difference, because from our point of view, that would end up being the beginning of time anyway.
Huh, I didn't notice you could add tools. Added!
He seems to equate low price to mean there is no profit margin, which isn't right.

There is obviously enough margin to get the device to the USA and sell it in a retail store for $75 (a retail store that demands its own margins)

I'm surprised that seeing it at Fry's didn't change his mind to 'these things are going to sell like crazy'
Original URL (with a few more cities):

http://www.armellecaron.fr/art/index.php?page=plans_de_berli...
Be a little careful with this level of disdain.

Sharding may have been available in the 1980's, but what it lead to in some products is quite amazing. Consider Teradata's clustering ability which is sort of like sharding your database but without the disadvantages typically associated with it. Postgres-XC now offers something similar as a semi-fork of PostgreSQL.

Basically what we are talking about here is a two-tier database layer where storage and coordination are separated, and two phase commit is used between these two. Thus the coordination tier can enforce referential integrity between storage nodes if necessary and thus allow write-extensibility.

This isn't something without uses. For high-end, high-write-load databases, serving very large amounts of traffic (think airline reservations), this has been a typical approach for quite some time.

The fundamental problem though is that once you give up on local consistency over a given domain, you cannot have any guarantee of global consistency. The current relational approaches (Postgres-XC and Teradata) both enforce ACID compliance. BASE doesn't offer any consistency guarantee and therefore it is only good for throw-away data.
The fraction of visits that involve seconds is vanishingly small.
> People who buy diamond rings, therefore, are actually rational actors.

Don't they stop being so once they are aware of the diamond market. Isn't it more rational at that point to pay off student loans or put a down-payment on a house?

If something that can be A) expensive to purchase and B) has little resale value is needed why not an expensive trip to Bora Bora? It fact it has 0 resale value because you only come back with pictures and a tan from it.
calm down redditors

Please knock this crap off.
That court ruling is months old, and it doesn't apply to their old unlimited data plans, which makes it basically pointless since their new shared data plans include tethering anyway.
'abennett is a spam account for "itworld.com".
One of the most interesting aspects of autonomous cars at the moment is, at least for me, that thinking about them gives a nice framework to notice how much influence technology has on culture. Starting from architecture (garages) over special laws and movie plots that simply would not exist without cars.
Looked neat, and then I saw this:

"You qualify for a $500 scholarship if you're female or from an ethnic minority group underrepresented in the software engineering field (African American, Chicano/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, etc.). The tech world is notoriously unrepresentative of the larger population. We believe that the sooner that changes, the better off we all are."

How is that not discrimination?
Getting back to the story: Hands-on with Dungeons & Dragons Next
So the problem is some nebulous undefined possible fear of reprisal (note that I specifically excluded that above..), not the fact that a request was made in the first place.

Sorry but you don't get to extrapolate that far.

Facts:
WH asked Google to see if a video violated their ToS.

Google said it did not.

That's all. Anything else is conjecture.
Chewing is scientifically known to help thinking. Swallowing is a side effect.
"A diamond is forever."

Translation: Please, please, please don't resell it. You'll screw up our cartel.
How do employers weight this kind of experience when considering a graduate of this program? I'm sure there's a lot of companies in around SF who already know DevBootCamp, but what about employers outside of California?
Oh yeah. I merged things together in my memory.
I'm not sure how much of the original TripIt team is still around since it was purchased by Concur.
Similar article, although a less historical perspective:

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/06/page/0059

(warning: paywall)
Extremely actionable advice in this. Compared to a lot of super fluff books, I used this immediately, and it made me more money. Great book and worth every penny.
Mobile shopping: A surprising gender gap emerges
Can this be used to edit together custom porn clips?
Yes, I hate distracting chat popups when I am gaming, especially ones from coworkers.
So, if I'm reading this right: your chronic worrying and your inaccurately pessimistic appraisal of your life was using up lots of time and motivation, and by correcting that belief you seem to have fixed that problem?
That makes me sad too. Just asked our billing team to look into it.

PS - found the error on our side. Fixing. You'll be getting an email shortly.
It would be unfeasible to do so. Assuming the displayed image is a reasonable size, say a dimension of 320x240, you would run out of pixel space in a jpeg due to dimension limitations after about 38 minutes @ 24fps. Granted, that's not using the manifest, just straight skipping around in the sprite.

To make this anywhere near possible on a large scale would be feasible though. The easiest way would to be create the manifest while encoding the video. Take the same compression scheme but save the encoding diffs for every frame.

Seems like a terrible use of time.
The one command-line feature I want most on Github is `git grep`. I have cloned projects locally solely to be able to do that.
I tried a standing desk, and got horrible blood flow pains on my arms when typing.
Yes, as a pre-processing or post-processing layer for an RDBMS ;-). It might also be a useful backplane for some kinds of applications, but most of those are going to have some sort of fixed schema, so you run into a bunch of issues with this.

Another area is for high-write throw-away data. If you are facebook, do you really care if every message gets through or every feed element gets propagated?

Also perhaps content management (which is a write seldom, read often field) might be good, particularly where data can be reconstructed from other sources. Maybe doing the writes first in an RDBMS and pushing out to MongoDB might be a good thing there? You could then do things like referrer tracking and log analysis back in your RDBMS.

Although hybrid databases are way cooler. One idea we are throwing around regarding LedgerSMB development right now is using JSON types in PostgreSQL 9.2 to store extended attributes, so you could have a customer account, and decide you want to store some extra data about this that we don't support right now, and have it stored in JSON.
Something tells me you've either never walked around Istanbul, or you've never walked around a suburb, or both.
In which way is "position:fixed" not behaving as intended? Just curious because this seems to be the textbook use case for fixed positioning.
I dont really know much about security hacks, but if open dns is such a problem, then why does google have one (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using)?
That's hogwash, they were goat paths!
Legal blood doping: Beetroot juice
Yes, in fact AI of super-human intelligence plays a central role. To go into much detail would spoil one of the books, but needless to say Vinge supposes that exponential improvements in computing power will inevitably lead to that happening, and he does as good a job as I've seen anywhere in exploring the ramifications.
Can you afford to be right in this case? Even if you ultimately win, defending a lawsuit is expensive. Are these companies pretty much in a monopoly situation?

If they have competition, and you can get some of their competitors on board and generate some traffic, that might get them to come around. Otherwise it's going to be a struggle. Hope it all works out for you!
I notice that the only AES modes they support are CTR, CBC, and GCM. The lack of ECB is a hopeful sign; way too many things have ECB as the default, which is nuts.
Their publications:

http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/page-52755-en.html

I think sciencedaily.com might be a year late?

http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/files/content/sites/bluebrain/files...
Success of Crowdfunding Puts Pressure on Entrepreneurs
You missed a very important one. Veterans have VA health care which, despite some loud media screaming to the contrary, is actually very good.

I have been a professional programmer since 1974. In 2000 I had a job with no health benefits, and a situation arose such that I needed to see a doctor. So I went to the VA asking if I could be seen there and the response was that I should have been going to the VA all along.

Long story short, I have been going there ever since and it is far better than any corporate health plan that I have ever been enrolled in.

TL;DR if you are running a startup, hire veterans. They do not need your health care plan, you probably get some kind of tax credit, and many veterans have worked under more pressure than you will ever encounter.
I'm sure the right employers love it. These are literally the least pricy Rubyists available in the U.S. that can be proven to actually know how to code.

Good fit for a fast growing Ruby shop that is not too picky about depth of technical skills.
Digg, MySpace, Flickr—stories about vaunted startups that failed.
Perhaps in reference to "penguin murdering" he means people who sacrifice penguins to make sure that linux machines run correctly?

Or is there a religion that does murder penguins and he's referring to that?
It absolutely is discrimination, but it's a form of discrimination that many (most?) here approve of.
It's best to understand your problem domain and use the tools that are most appropriate.

Sure. The big problem though is that the problem domain of RDBMS's is ad hoc reporting which is pretty universal.

rom my experience, you should be leaning towards NoSQL systems (of which there are many, each suited to different use cases) when you have very large scaling needs (in terms of dataset and qps), heavily polymorphic data, or data that has ambiguous structure.

On the other hand, you should choose an RDBMS if you are pretty sure reporting needs will change or you will need to accommodate new metrics on a frequent basis.

The problem is there is a huge overlap between those two. NoSQL means telling your customers "no, we can't do that new report you'd like right now." That's a huge tradeoff for any customer-facing app.

After all the basic tradeoff is between flexible input and flexible output.
http://longreads.com

http://longform.org
Late response but yes. I have used them. Almost all of the Win 7 Phones that have come out. They all feel the same after a while. The tiles, that's all there is after a while.
Where Are the 47% of Americans Who Pay No Income Taxes?
Wow. They could have saved space and just said "(not White, Asian, or Indian)".
You've distorted what I said beyond recognition.
Why Rubyists ignore concurrency
> as a justification for limiting the expressiveness of a language

Is it really more expressive just because there are N ways to do it?
My buddy gave me his card yesterday and asked me to go to the ATM for him.

His PIN? 4321