skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supersonic is an ultra-fast, column oriented query engine library
Sigh... Remember back in the days when "stealing" used to mean taking something away from someone?

These petty fights are getting tiresome.
English guy here, living in Scotland.

I personally don't take offence at the anti-English banter.

But, I challenge you to engage in the same kind of banter with Asians, blacks, or homosexuals, etc, and let me know how that pans out for you.

Is there a material difference, apart from the fact that English people don't take offence? In my opinion, anti-English statements don't really offend because a sense of Englishness is felt much less by an Englishman compared to how a Scot would feel his/her Scottishness. We're just not a very nationalistic buch.

I do agree that most Scottish people have no problem with English folk. On a personal level, it is just "banter". The more distateful sentiments are aimed at England as a nation, as far as I have experienced.
As multiple people have pointed out above -- no retina display. It isn't cheaper than iPad 2, which seems to have roughly a similar screen.
>By the logic of those links, Bill Clinton was too conservative to be nominated by today's Democratic party

No, only by the illogic of false equivalence. Obama is for "free" trade, directly said multiple times that he was against gay marriage until recently, is running on a platform to cut Social Security, and has cut a massive number of government jobs during a time of high unemployment. In other words, Bill Clinton is conservative enough to be nominated by today's Democratic party. Reagan was far too liberal to be nominated by today's Republican party.
Verizon LTE is significantly better than the competition. I was able to get 40 Mbit/sec downloads in Manhattan on my iPhone 5. The phone switches to WiFi when it is available so use is not so bad. But it is true that the data sharing plans charge $10 for each 2 GB increment.
yet you did not fix your mistake in your article title, guess you have a lot of fun

imagine yourself having fun with your ignorance of some jewish scientist,
it's exactly the same problem, even though more Poles died during WWII than jews
How DRM will infest the 3D printing revolution
REL, a Regular Expression composition Library
I don't want to sound cynical, but a repressive system is what capitalism has always preferred, right? So based on that alone you should see investors rushing for the gold already.

For potential angel investors, the lack of reliable statistics about the relevant markets is probably a big issue. Africa is also less homogenous than Europe, so we're talking about many different markets that need to be looked at individually.
> A platform like this would enable people to create proprietary websites, much the same way people can implement systems like Steam as native applications.

... and that is a __BadThing__.
Show your open-source commitment to the world
Are you saying that no true Scotsman likes the English?
I think Google aimed for the "below iPad" segment from the beginning and tend to think this was a smart move for them as they achieved fast growth.

...but Ms seems to be directly targeting the iPad segment, because pricewise this is not the "luxury segment" anymore, it's the segment of the users that actually want to do WORK, not just consume entertainment, on these devices and Ms wants them because they will spend more on all the productivity tools they need and they will be able to buy from Ms.
hard to tell from the screenshots but do you or would you consider adding a weekly look at cash flow vs. only monthly? looks like a nice product in the making though :)
http://railsrumble.com/entries/24-open-source-impact
The Presidential Innovation Fellows[1] are attempting to do the same thing w/ MyGov[2] and four other projects. The code for MyGov will be on GH[3].

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows
[2] http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/mygov
[3] https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/mygov
Would have been interesting to also compare the angle of a roving user not invested in any single ecosystem.

But I guess that isn't as easy to compare and would've included a mass of references and explanations which would've killed the narrative of the article.
Gary McKinnon extradition to US blocked by Theresa May
I always load this page for Show HN stuff http://www.hnshowcase.com/
For iOS, http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ is great. Adapts the layout to your device.
You might think it fair to call them "strawmen" but don't assume that all operationally-minded organizations are run my management with operational training. Some of us live these "strawmen" everyday.
Half is optimistic. In non-presidential year congressional elections it's not uncommon to have less than 1 in 3 voting. In true off-year elections in odd years where most folks are voting on lower court judges (in my state, anyway), local representatives on councils and school boards, it's much closer to 1 in 5 or less.

There are just over 600 people in my ward of my township. 67 people voted in 2011 for the Council seat that was up. It's disgusting.

I would posit that the cause is somewhat different, though: the partisan zealots are the ones that vote in every single primary and general election. For those of you who vote for POTUS and that's all, there are actually two elections every year. The country as a whole I think is more moderate than 99% of our elected officials, but the country as a whole isn't voting. It's largely straight-ticket people voting, especially in off years. This results in Members of Congress becoming more extreme because those are the people voting for them.
What an incredibly slanted article.
Graphene: a new set of defaults to ease refugees into Emacs
"... Apps to fill it" I guess some video games could be large, but wouldn't most people with tablets fill most of their storage with audio and video files rather than apps?
Intellectual property - nobody likes it until they amass it. I think even Oracle was anti-patent until they got enough.

In general, it's hard to be against something that's a keystone to how you make your living.
Why does espinchi's post not have Steve Job's passing post?

Edit: apparently because it only searches articles that are in memory. And that article was not in memory when op checked.
If the accusation is true then I think this case is justified. Zynga have done a lot of things I disagree with. This isn't one of those things.

You can't just copy 760 company files which I assume are not public into your private Dropbox account. It may have been a mistake. It might not. Either way some sort of legal action seems inevitable.
Yeah, it's a shame when laws and language evolve to meet the changing conditions that modern society faces.
The AAAs of enterprise IT security
Theresa May had partially and only partially redeemed herself in my eyes. I was so disappointed by the Richard O'Dwyer case that I didn't think her capable of any moral decision. One more move Mrs May, and I, and many more will believe you are a thinking human being.
Seeking a Magic Tool for Personal Productivity
The problem is that official explanations hidden facts (http://www.doomedsoldiers.com/MAK-crash-report-analysis.html) and forged the evidence (source: http://freepl.info/2512-millers-comission-has-forged-its-own...). The official report was based on... voting of commission members on the conclusions (what a "scientific" approach).

Alternative research done by the independent experts from US and Australia (like http://goo.gl/YREux by www.simulate-events.com) is being ignored and / or silenced.
Today, Kickstarter Begins Testing the E-Commerce Waters
Upvoted. They maintain it by introducing an endless stream of bugs and vulnerabilities.
I totally agree. Not only that, tools can vary depending on which industry you are shipping product in. If it has anything to do with finance or healthcare, PCI and HIPAA compliance can certainly impact what tools your security/compliance officer may or may not restrict. Many frown heavily at "cloud", which means more than half the tools in this blog posts could not be used if he decided against it.

I've been in all sorts of startups from small <$80K to $150M; the tools we used always changed, but post-it notes and whiteboarding were universal no matter the size. :) I know this post is about small startups but just for perspective...

The most consistent processes, which a lot of startups misunderstand when scaling up hence why MBAs fit in well here, are the ones that flow between the various departments like business, sales, engineering, marketing.

How each project is then executed within the various teams will change greatly based on the business. For an engineer at a previous bank I worked for, you have to consider audit trails, PCI compliance, two-person authentication for deployments, etc. It took 8 people to make one deployment to a production server with less than 1,000 uniques per day.

To most tech startups, the inefficiency is appalling and frustrating. That's why I left. But to federal regulators, it's necessary processes in place to maintain integrity.
I actually just uninstalled this the other day. It annoyed me that clicking on someone's username wouldn't take me to their profile page, and not only that but there was no longer any way to get there.
I can see this being a sort of "glassdoor.com" as well. It also seems that many people are content making well below market value. Money isnt everything, but being compensated fairly goes a long way with making me feel valued as an employee.
I see, that makes sense, but why is it so? Aren't the posts stored in a database somewhere? How does it work?
Gotcha, good knowledge - thanks!
That's cool, my mate cancelled his hosting recently and forgot to download his files. The website needs replacing anyway but if this works at least he'll be able to get the old one online again.

Thanks!
Nah. The general principle is that the location of a crime is the place where the "harm" occurred. Thus the Lockerbie bomber was tried in Scotland, not in Libya.
I am currently in the middle of reading “The Emperor of All Maladies”, a well written "history" of cancer, that puts what she did for the disease in perspective. Highly recommended: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/books/11book.html
You don't need the book. It's a very good but difficult class.
A new kind of fractal?
I stumbled across this and wonder what it is.
An interesting article by the solicitor David Allen Green on the legal perspectives of the case:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2012/10/gary-mckinnon

I'm not endorsing by posting it, but worth a read.
Steam Browser Protocol Vulnerability can allow hackers to hijack PC
You should be aware that exactly the same sort of banter is directed by English people at Welsh, Scots, French, Americans and practically every other nation living in England (I've experienced some of this myself as a Scot living in England), it is exactly the same in tone and intent as ribbing of English people in Scotland, and yes, sometimes it does have a nasty edge to it in any country, esp. when it is directed in a general way at an entire nation/race.

Silly, and sometimes ignorant, but there we are, that's patriotism for you; the last refuge of the scoundrel, as an erudite Englishman once said - you should hear what he had to say about the benighted scots...

Having lived in a few places, I'd say people everywhere like to generalise about other nations and tell themselves they know what 'those people' are like, I've done it myself a few times, and I've always been wrong when I did.
Root Cause Analysis and People Factors in TOC
I've been using this extension for awhile, and I can't duplicate your results - clicking on your username with the extension installed is taking me right to your profile page. What happens when you do it?
I will work on choosing different scales on all charts, including:

- weekly vs monthly on the "breakdown" chart https://img.skitch.com/20120722-rwkkn37g2p53stndgttbxsgqma.j...

- 12 weeks view instead of yearly view on the "burn down" chart https://www.wisecashhq.com/newsletters/20121013-mjckb43qgm6k...

It's definitely a "baby product" in the making - I want to make it grow a lot :) Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you, kindly. :)
I'm pretty uninformed about the African startup scene, what are some of the more interesting ones that have had some success?
Great feature!

I had a suggestion: This feature gives you stories 'above' a certain threshold. I think it would help a lot if there was an option for stories 'below' certain threshold.

Rationale behind it is that lots of folks here (like me) don't check the New Submissions section regularly and lots of good stuff never gets much love. If there was an option for generating a front page for stories below certain points, a user can review them and upvote worthy ones, which eventually can feature on normal front page. Any opinions?
Rather off topic by now, but http://www.isup.me is useful in situations like this.
Once WiseCash becomes profitable, I plan to work on automating data extraction from various tools (like QuickBooks, FreshBooks etc most likely), either as a first time setup or a full sync process.

I think WiseCash will complement those tools nicely.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Formal Innovations in Mobile News Apps
I had read about Lovelace in Doron Swade's works on Babbage, and for a long time was "that guy" who would come into CS love-ins and attempt to correct what I believed at the time were gross exaggerations of her contributions to the field. Eventually I learned to keep my mouth shut since it was usually met with hostility, and more importantly I'm not arrogant enough to think that what I had read by one author is going to be right.

The summary of Lovelace in the OP brought this back to mind as it is exactly what my stance had been when I'd ditched it for the more conservative "well I guess I don't really know". I never looked into it again until now. Does anyone have a recommendation for a balanced modern summary of her contribution?

I believe most of what I had read by Swade was written before she was as popular in the CS community as she now is, and when I raised his points in discussion I was usually told he was widely regarded to hold a grudge against her for some reason no-one really understood.
IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers
Where I found my "love" for OSM was when I bought a Garmin GPS and I used the OSM bike maps. Here in Germany they are very detailed and I have made 500km or so bike tours only relying on OSM maps. Whereas Google still doesn't have that many information about bike tracks.

When I need to look up stuff I usually go to Google Maps, too, but that's only because the OSM solutions out there frustrate me with irrelevant results and I have to scroll through endless amounts of data to get to the information I'm looking for. :)
sorry i have not signed up yet but how do you get the required data to create the forecast ? I mean are you using an automated aggregrator (like yodlee etc.) to pull bank details, credit card info etc ?
Nice series of videos (for those with not enough willpower to read the book ;)... )
I think neither suit the context very well. I would have thought MS to come up with something more intuitive to use, like Steam's Daisy Wheel: http://i.imgur.com/l7Rmw.png

It's not ABCDEF (good for learning), nor QWERTY (good for keyboards), it's something else, adapted to the current interface. It may not be perfect, but it's a good way to start.
Features of a Trustworthy Website
Apple needs API compatibility across major versions too.
> So it's not like they dumped a bunch of scrap iron parts or old machinery into the ocean.

No, it's much worse. Chunks of scrap iron isn't going to have much of an effect on the environment when compared to finely ground particles.

> This is a fairly common chemical compound with many biological uses.

Water's a common chemical compound with many biological uses, but that doesn't make a tsunami non-destructive.
i don't think so, and i don't believe they would. as stated above, to me, that sounds like a pretty different case..

there are plenty of hacked xboxes around that, similarly, add/expand functionality. i see nothing wrong with that, and looking at kinect, microsoft dosen't seem to mind much either (and in that case, actually seems to encourage it).

i don’t see the issue here as being one about 'jailbreaking' itself, but rather 'jailbreaking for the purpose of theft'. in your example, you've modified your device to download an app that otherwise would not be available via the app store (i'm assuming it was freely offered). but if you had done the same, but were downloading a paid app, let’s say angry brids, for free, then that’s a different story..
What's the difference between your suggestion & the 'new' feature?
In case you were asking why it's on the map in the first place, it's because even though it is not a state and was initially forbidden, as the seat of government, to cast votes for the Pres/VP, that changed in 1961 with the 23rd Amendment, which granted DC a number of electoral votes equal to the least populous state.

It's interesting to note that the entire South did not ratify the amendment, except Tennessee. Also, DC still does not have separate representation in the Congress.

More info: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-third_Amendment_to_the_...)
It's still time limited as there have been posts in the past to reach those thresholds.

Example: World Lens http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014555
Machine learning is full of hacks to connect theory to producing results given constraints. That's not too different from hacks that are done for the sake of performance in graphics rendering.
She's a thinking political creature. There'd have been enough outrage (especially from the DM) that she'd have never weathered the storm.
The way I see it you also learned it somewhere sometime ago. Coursera offers more and more courses some of which are quite in-depth. Motivated person may be capable to finish university degree in couple years. Coupled with the fact that this person may be gainfully employed in similar area, it will not be that hard to imagine him or her to eventually switch to a position that requires all the old and new knowledge. IMHO, examples that were given in the original article are in line with what I described.
Indeed... my original comment looks kind of dumb now. Odd algorithm though, if I may say so.
Amazuntu: Pictures Speak Louder Than Words
Homebrewing beer, which has a slim to none chance of me monetizing, but it does save some money on on buying beer (finally...after ~4 years, I'm past the break-even point of equipment purchases) and it's a fun biological science endeavor that you get to drink the results of.

I toy with Arduino and electronics a bit, but my circuits knowledge is sufficiently lacking that it's mostly learning/exploration and not very practical. I can build anything that comes as a kit, but designing anything from scratch is more difficult.
Elance introduces VAT invoices
My willpower skill was built with NES games like Megaman 2 and Battletoads. The first 2 stages in Battletoads was so fun...I tried so many times to beat the bike stage so I could see the rest of the game. I was wrong, Battletoads gets even harder after that. lol
This doesn't happen to me and it just shouldn't happen (I don't change the username in any way). Did you see this consistently? It's very odd.
The other side of their market is employers--even if accurate, I'm not certain that pointing to a inch after one year is helpful.

More generally, a name of with this sort of specificity gives people a chance to paint themselves out of the picture. Regardless of the duration references, some of the relevant audience is likely to say "that's not about me".
Considering that there has only been three elections where the winner of the electoral vote did not win the popular vote, per Wikipedia, it stands to reason that California and New York have roughly the same amount of influence either way. Therefore it is silly for them to complain over the system in place because it more than likely would still be what would be in place if the Presidential election was decided by popular vote.

Personally, I think this issue comes from a confusion of how the electoral college works and how Congress works. The things you say that bother California and New York are not determined by the electoral college, which is used to elect the President, it is in fact how Congress itself works. If those two states are bothered by smaller states telling them what to do then the problem lies with Congress, not how the President is elected.

It is only in the Senate where a smaller state gets the same amount of influence as every other state since they all get an equal number of votes. The electoral college electors and House of Representative members are determined by population count. The problem with a possible mismatch between popular vote and the electoral college is that states tend to be winner takes all, which they can change anytime they want since a state determines how its electors are chosen.
OK, let's do why anti-white (or anti-English) sentiment isn't the same as anti-black sentiment.

The issue isn't banter, it's that in some cases historical context gives "banter" overtones of something far more serious.

The Scots didn't buy and sell the English as property as recently as 100 years ago (did you know Britain only abolished slavery in parts of Nigeria in 1936?), the English didn't have their behaviour outlawed in the way homosexuals have (and they still don't have equality in the UK though it's getting closer) and the English can't make any claim that given a particular level of intelligence or ability they are less likely to go to university and more likely to end up in prison the way that would be the case if they were black.

Being English in Scotland offers no genuine sacrifice, disadvantage or oppression and hasn't for a long long time if ever. The same isn't true of any of the minority groups you mention.

So banter is fine and if you're English in Scotland it is just banter.

If you're in another minority group with a more difficult history then you need to consider that banter often hides or raises the spectre of something worse which makes it a very different thing.
Her hands were probably tied at the time, due to Abu Hamza etc which has now been dealt with.
I fully expect her to clarify the position for Richard O'Dwyer soon and can't see him ever being extradited.
UK Government response to question about unused IPv4 addresses
‘Dave on Wheels,’ deaf quadriplegic blogger, exposed as a hoax
Speeding up and running legacy test suites, part 1
At last..a great definition of cloud computing
Do you agree with the new defintiion?
The prime difference is that the proposed feature would rate the stories according to HN algorithm (taking threshold into account) not chronological order as 'new' does. It'd give a filtered-out 'new' section. As in, a story that is upvoted by 2-3 people and has made to second/third page of HN but never makes it to front page. Few good stories deserve wider audiences IMO.
Speaking Re-Caps: Great Weekend for Online Marketing
US intelligence admits Syria arms aid goes to Al Qaeda
or you being overly sensitive.
Look at Ada (Ada 2012 came out this year). Safer and more secure, not less verbose though. You can do real-time, parallel, distributed, reliable stuff with it. Try the OSS GNAT compiler (comes with your gcc or look at http://libre.adacore.com/ ).
Economies of Scale, Economies of Scope