skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep a positive attitude.

It's tough feeling average when everyone wants to be a rock star but most people are closer to being average.

As far as your day job "that's why they call it work" it's not always going to be fun and exciting. You'll go through periods of time where you lose and regain your passion.

The guy working heavy construction in the construction zone on your way to work probably isn't 100% happy with his career either.

If you've been doing this for 7 years you are smart and you can keep up. Consider changing to a new company or new project. Sometimes managers have a way of making you feel not smart enough or able to keep up.

A career change is possible, typically you'll have to take a lower salary.

Music is an awesome hobby that you can do on the side. So keep learning musical skills and making music. I had a band in college so I had the dream of being a rock super star that has been replaced with being a tech super star (SaaS apps, big house, five cars).

So keep a positive attitude at work, maybe seek out a new project or maybe a new company for a change of scenery.

A nice distraction from your day job would be focusing on your music in the evenings and on weekends . . . if you have an interest in starting your own business look at starting a music related website or SaaS app or a SaaS app to replace your day job income. StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com has a good podcast to learn more about that option.

The economy is tough out there so appreciate having a stable job as a developer.

Good luck.
This startup wants to tackle the 1 bn € market tracking small construction tools
7) Unabashedly eats the fruit (technology) while denying the existence of the tree (science).
Thanks so much. It's amazing what hiring a genuinely talented designer can do.
Why respect them for something they did a thousand years ago and then ceased to?
The exploiter's gain is greater than EA's loss, especially when you consider that EA desperately wants people to use Origin. That doesn't make it ethical, but I won't shed any tears over it.
I'm only an interested observer.

This could also be of interest to you: http://simplehomenet.com/solutions.asp?page_id=HomAidPi
It uses a Pi too!

Also could be of use:
http://www.zigbee.org/
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My site is affected. I don't know how to handle this situation because the issues affect whole region.
What's wrong with `git pull`, `svn update` etc?
Softbank invested $20 billion in Sprint
They have "trusted users" who get a star beside their name, for some weird reason you can't use arrow keys to backspace you can use backspace, plus it takes a good minute for comments to load, comments seem to work in IE browser only.

I know people who have tried to make a general comment and are denied but others who make far harsher statements seem to always get them posted. It seems not so much censoring as some weird agenda, it's bizarre. A lot of times commenting is restricted which is too bad since I like to see what people think of stories; pro or con.
This got me wondering for quite a long time: I'm pretty sure almost all EC2 issues happen on the US east region -- why is that? Is it because it's the most used region?
Nice - thank you!
Mu4e v0.9.9 is out
Hellbanning is necessary to keep the trolls out. The problem is, HN's hellbans are really clunky, especially given how pg practically invented spam filters. You'd think there'd be some kind of bayesian predictor on whether a poster is a troll, and modding them troll would simply increase the probability that their posts would be DOAd.
> Oh please. A proper root cause analysis is different from blaming everything on the West.

That's another rule I forgot to mention:

5. Anyone pointing out the clear history of repeated violent actions by X against Y shall be labelled a: Y sympathiser, "blame-the-X" bleeding-heart liberal, anti-X, etc

> It would have to include the idea that the current cultural clash is with an extremely violent religion as can be shown by its teachings.

You seem to hold a Western stereotype of Islam[1]. How can you accept this stereotype and at the same time bristle with indignation when someone points out that the West is a collection of extremely violent superpowers, as shown by the West's history of constant war and invasion?

What metrics do we use to calculate which 'side' is more violent? Number of people killed, and number of countries invaded? On that basis the West is clearly far more violent, isn't it?

> 9/11 as the showcase of the clash between the West and radical Muslims was planned by a descendant of a rich Saudi family. There were not many poor and underprivileged amongst those plane hijackers.

Injustice is oxygen for radicals at every strata of society, so my point is that if you serve your subjugated people more justice and less injustice, you are getting increased stability and security in return. It's a good trade for people like w1ntermute who are satisfied with their global status and not troubled by questions involving morality and ethics.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_violence#Western_ster...
Exactly, here on HN we don't need those new-fangled "collapsible comments" like Reddit has. We prefer to treat our threaded comments like mere oddly layouted linear threads and allow no digressions!

"Load more comments" and "comment score below threshold" ... we have the technology ...
Creating and Documenting Your Pragmatic/RESTful API using Restler 3.0
That’s right. We also apply a HN style decay to the scores, along with a boost for open content.
Amazon in talks to buy Texas Instruments mobile chips arm
An aesthete and a curmudgeon. Sadly reminds me of http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/boyd/, also a 9fan.
Odd... my site is on Heroku and there seems to be no trouble.
Kindle Paperwhite is now available in Europe
Would you go?
Will you leave your job to join an accelerator on the other side of the world without knowing what might happen or how big a failure it could be? (My friends are trying to persuade me not to go...)
Think so... it's the cheapest, and is the default choice. Sounds like it would have an order of magnitude more usage (and therefore problems) than the other regions.
Hudson -> Jenkins

OpenSolaris -> OpenIndiana

OpenOffice -> Apache OpenOffice

MySQL -> MariaDB?

VirtualBox -> ?
How do good garbage collectors provide better performance than manual allocators? I'll admit to being fairly under-educated when it comes to garbage collectors, but I don't see how they would improve the performance of manual allocators. Are they faster at the actual allocation, or are they better at layout and cache coherency of the data allocated? I would have thought it would be incredibly difficult to match the efficiency of good manual allocation strategies.

Disclaimer: I work in games, where controlling and managing memory allocations (particularly heap allocations) is critical to maintain low frame times, which is why I'm interested in this.
It was also not the "edge of space".
This is quite a useful tool; I will definitely give it a shot
You should have duplicate infrastructure in another region which you fail over to automatically or manually.
So is it just looping and hoping it converges? It won't do logic to figure it out, something like:

x :: Real
x = 2 / x

Guess that's to be expected, though a bit disappointing; I think it means the "loeb" given will be a lot less broadly applicable than the general mathematical version.
He loves Go.
The issue was that we wanted to limit the abstract to two lines on the homepage. Limiting to one sentence meant that long sentences were taking up more than that. So, we truncated based on word count.

We could have done something more complicated with checking sentence length and then truncating etc. But, the Rumble is time limited & it wasn’t a priority.
Sounds like an EPIC adventure.
>This is such a stupid strategy. The right thing to do is to look at the root cause of all this. After all, there are lots of angry people all across the world that hate the Western world and want to hurt it, but most can't.

Put this way, it's even more stupid. It's as if people go about "hating the west" for no reason (or because their "religion tells them so", which is a Glenn Beck level argument).

A thing called colonialism did exist. Some hundred million people were killed in invasions and wars and while fighting for their freedom, and some 2 billion people were living under foreign occupation.

And then you had a thing called post-colonialism, that does exist. With hundreds of interventions and resource-grubbing all over the world. With so called "banana republics" set up. And with countries thousands of miles away of some areas, have the audacity to believe they have "strategic interests" in those areas, and that it gives them the right to intervene, get their resources for cheap, place puppet governments, etc. You know, like some country in the American continent controlling Philippines or killing people in Vietnam.

What sets the Arabs apart is their vast oil riches. Without that, they wouldn't have the money or power to do anything to the West.

Arabs, as in "arab states" could not care less about "doing anything to the west". What sets those people apart is indeed their vast oil riches, that had provoked unprecedented resource-grubbing, puppet government establishment and invasions western powers.

Does anyone imagine what a foreign power invading the US would mean to the US people, and under some BS pretext at that? But invading Iraq under the BS pretext of WMDs, wrecking the country in the process, killing hundreds of thousands, taking control of the oil and leaving them in a state of civil war by playing into the competing tribal and religious interests, is somehow "normal", because they are "arabs".

So, the people there have a lot of reasons to "blame the west". It's not like they have any spectacular resources, either. WWII era guns and ammo, and cheaply made stuff, while the "west" kills them with drones and 21st century military technology.

>The minute that crude oil loses its relevance to the Western world, the Arabs will just go back to what they were before - a bunch of desert nomads with no real power.

Actually they had a huge empire, including parts of Europe, even before the crude oil gained relevance.

The west managed to turn them to "a bunch of desert nomads with no real power" precisely when it wanted to get ahold of cheap labour and later the crude oil.
Some quotes about him:

http://uriel.cat-v.org/quotes
Historically, a number of great cultures used Eunuchs, or people who weren't allowed to marry in high-ranking offices (the Chinese, Byzantine, Ottomans, and the Church). Apparently, good leadership is not tied to testosterone.
We are going to set this up for our app, however there's a limit to how useful it is when you are reliant on services such as MongoHQ/PubNub (in our case) that are also affected!
This is a commonly made argument, but it's silly. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were declared by the secular government of a secular state for geopolitical reasons. Most of the individuals are Christian, but the war and tactics have nothing whatsoever to do with Christian doctrine or motivations.

The "Muslim militants" under discussion launch attacks for specifically Muslim motives, with carefully constructed justifications cross-referenced to precise verses from the Koran and Hadiths.
They should work on the availability. A friends Startup isn't progressing as fast as he'd like to because he can't buy enough Raspberrys...
> He had to leave the platform with as little spin as possible since there wasn't enough atmosphere for him to control his descent.

Maybe that's why he seemed so calm?
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I like what I see, but I'm puzzled. Searched for a movie, found, but can't see the price for it in the listing.
http://goodfil.ms/film/264469-quest-for-love
I thought that for a moment, but I'm consoling myself with the fact my purchase has helped this happen (in a tiny tiny way). Every cloud has a silicon lining, I have a new toy and unintentionally I did a little bit of good.
Again with the green tick with an 'i' icon as a status, rather than a yellow/red icon, jeeze.
I watched the Algorithms course from the same lecturer, very good and decent introduction. Make sure you have decent Math background.
Why would anyone store JSON data in a relational database, thus losing the opportunity to join with the objects kept as JSON data ? I guess that I like normalized data too much and that some people have performance constraints, but still - a denormalized tables solves that problem and keeps output formatting sanely out of the data model.
As a point of reference, NASA didn't award gold astronaut pins to shuttle astronauts until they went above 50 miles altitude.
The article claims that "Over 400,000 new jobs have been created by Apple’s App store.", but that's just shoddy accounting. What about mcdonalds in europe installing thousands of touch screen replacing cashiers and the tons of other apps that replace people, does that go into that accounting ?

And what about the intense price competition between workers that online, global platforms create ?

Will those 2 million needed technical jobs cause more job losses ?

My problem with this article is that it tries to create a rosy picture of a big change our economy is going throught, while in reality we just don't know how things are going to turn out,whether we will have enough jobs for everyone, and how rough and long the transition period is going to be, and it does so just to sell a product(which might be valuable).

It's just like reading medical research done by pharmaceutical companies.
I loved the "Don't click this" on the main homepage https://tabuleapp.com/
Netflix Launches Today in Sweden
u sir r evil.
In addition to the cases you mention, in the past month alone we have also had a man given a community sentence for posting that British soldiers in Afghanistan "should die and go to hell", and a man arrested for creating a Facebook group praising the alleged killer of the two police officers in Greater Manchester.

These all come under the Communications Act 2003, which prohibits any "message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character"

It's stupid puritanistic legislation and it needs to be repealed.
The golden ratio is a terrible window ratio for editing.
Some of my us-east-1 servers are affected, others are happy so far, so it's not the entire datacenter. However, connectivity on affected servers has gone from just flaky to completely gone.
Unfortunately, from here (http://uriel.cat-v.org/quotes), we can see that he was around 30 years old when he passed away.
In relation to recently-enriched Arab states, w1ntermute stated that: "Without that, they wouldn't have the money or power to do anything to the West". He appears to think that well-funded Arab states are directly supporting radical Islam - my response was directed at that wrong notion, because as you note those states are actively involved in suppression of radicals.

US backing of oppressive regimes in the region is certainly an injustice that fuels radicalization of citizens in those countries.

Thanks for the book recommendation, I'll have a look at it.
Microsoft Bans Halo 4 Pirates, and Some Idiots Absolutely Deserved It
Once again, title creators succumb to the power of relativity. My eyes keep on skimming on this topic, and it makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. "Today" is awesome.
How To Set Up An IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) On Fedora 17
I really, really hope that when they make windows software for it, they do the sensible thing and just re-brand the zune player instead of unnecessarily writing something new, because zune is hands down the nicest music software out.
Very ambitious, but still possible
Really, that's the main achievement of this? Not the testing of the next-gen pressure suits? Or the scientific data on the effects of free-fall and Mach level speeds on the human body? Or the fact that the results will be able to be applied to ongoing efforts with space travel?

No, I guess you're right. I'm an idiot.
depends.
What other side of the world would it be?
How old are you?
What will it cost you to move back if it fails? Do you have that contingency plan ready?
Your career prospects after that experience will be impacted by how this experience will turn out, but overall I think it should be positive, because it shows you are ready to try new things, and you are not afraid to take some risks. However, you should talk about this with several HR people to understand exactly the consequences.

Your friends don't want you to go because of the bounds you have with them, obviously, but I'm sure they'll support you if you choose to go, but remember to keep thoose bounds alive, it's essential.
According to http://uriel.cat-v.org/quotes he was 30 (22 in 2004)
The project I've been working allows a theme developer to adopt bootstrap styles. One thing I don't like about bootstrap is having to subject the markup to bootstrap's classnames so I drop in bootstrap styles through mixins instead.

Especially all the grid related class names don't seem elegant to me for building a WordPress theme (fine for a quick mockup/early stage site though).

Let's say you want to have a wider sidebar, you'd have to change the php template file when it should be a simple tweak in the css.
Garbage collected systems typically implement allocation with a simple pointer bump. This is possible because values are moved in memory by the garbage collector, updating references automatically. You can then compact all the empty space when collecting garbage, making allocation easy.

This is obviously faster than malloc which is what people compare with when they say allocation is faster with a garbage collector. Collecting the garbage, i.e. de-allocation, can be more expensive though, since it might require scanning large parts of the heap.

Since games generally use region based allocators , the performance gain is probably very small there. If you make lots of calls to malloc, then the gain would be larger.
Space jumps, wings and hope
at·ten·tion deficit disorder (-tnshn)
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Had a bunch of timeout alerts. Some machines of an application server array have the packet drop issue. ELB says that everything is peachy. Folks, we're experiencing yet another "EC2 flavored SNAFU™".

Initial though was: f#*k, I ran out of network I/O, since EC2 simply states "low, mid, high" as performance specs, therefore some proper planning is out. Turned out that with load avg under 0.02 on all machines, the I/O wait wasn't to blame. Average response time, per Pingdom, went up from 170ms to 450ms. New Relic isn't happy either. I guess we should all thank Amazon. Again.
git push seems usable. :(
Is there a way to see the top 4 films for all countries at once instead of having to individually select each from the (really nice) drop down menu?
Your friend is, quite simply, an idiot. The supply chain issues for Pis have been well known for a long time.
Well technically you don't join (document store approach) or you keep your IDs and FK's as surrogates outside the JSON blob and use them as indexes only (hyprid mongo-ish store).

What it does give you is a JSON object store with somewhat better stability and real transactional guarantees compared to say CouchDB or MongoDB.

However, the issue I have with this approach is more that there is some opportunity to add more processing into the database black box, which is expensive to scale up. I'd rather it wasn't type aware of JSON (i.e. it was just a varchar(max) column) and all that processing sat in the application itself which is cheap to scale out.
took a while to get that reference.
So there are people using them to do something other than watch rip-off movies on their TV :-)
Just FYI: People have probably downvoted you because your link requires authentication (and redirects non-authenticated users to http://authenticate.rsdelivers.com).
...maybe my perspective is different, but WHY would you want to do validation of a "complex" field at the db level? (I mean, for a web app you end up with 3 (!!) layers of validation now: 1. client (javascript), 2. app (...), 3. db (javascript? PL/something?) and, as an added "bonus", you loose the ability to migrate to a different db

...all these db features seem like maintainance nightmare waiting to happen. ...why don't people keep the rdbms "slim" and mean and write the logic in your app code, where it belongs? (you don't even have version control for the code in stored db procedures and things like that!!)
Been waiting until my local Maplins get them in (there doing that) and as I prefer to walk into a shop then this might explain why they never got any in end of September. Good news and good move.
One less obnoxious sexist racist corporatist libertarian troll. The world is a slightly better place.

I can only assume he killed himself due to the massive cognitive dissonance caused by his ludicrous political views.

I hope the downvoters appreciate the irony as they try to silence dissenting views.
For example, an advanced garbage collector can group the remaining allocations together, reducing the fragmentation and potentially increasing cache hits.
Aha. Nice, thanks for the explanation. Just one more question: Why would jokes about gays be unacceptable? It's perfectly ok to joke about straight people...
That's both rude and unhelpful, and does nothing to address the original point (that they should focus on availability), which I would tend to agree with.
Great!

Can we now turn the Pi into a new version of the Amiga 500?
"I'm just saying" is a trope. It's certainly not as tropey as what you see in the second joke. The humor in the first is in the pure ridiculousness of comparing the height with what it would be on a globe, which is why it's written with the adoption of the sort of persona that would follow up a comment with "I'm just saying."
Create Webfonts by uploading SVG graphics
Well, it's not going to be cool or best practice to use cloud services for your startup for the next week or two. Fortunately people on HN will then forget until the next AWS outage and your setup will be fine again.
When I tried to do this myself, I ran into a problem with lots of errors happening for reasons exterior to my app - People have strange plugins, that may fail; if the user navigates away from a page, before all javascript has loaded, it might cause unpredictable errors. You probably need to filter these out, to be able to use it for anything.
...is there any point in making a db so "fat" feature wise? ...isn't a text field where I can serialize anyth anyway I like (with the related logic in my app of course) enough for 99% and things like this a feature that only benefits 1%?
I'm not sure how one can come to any conclusion. It's just as likely that it was an oversight as it was a misunderstanding. Although I would say it's unlikely that anyone sat back and said, "Let's not pay for this image right here." Apples imagery budget has to be astronomical. Even if the artist were asking exorbitant rates for that photo, it wouldn't make sense for Apple to use it without licensing it. The risks are too high. They'll pay much more now.
Ask HN: Help naming a novel browser+search interface
I am working on an amalgam of a browser and a search engine (and no it is not Chrome like). The idea is that users can search and browse simultaneously, and do away with the idea of hyperlinks, or at least have links recede into the background. Based on your keywords and selections, content is returned and arranged.

This is along the lines of the semantic web.

My question is how do I describe it to a layperson? Thinking of a catch-phrase

- Browsearch: does this name ring bells? perhaps too nerdy?
- Searchplorer:
- ...

Any other ideas?
Thanks HN you are awesome!

p.s. I shall post here once we launch into beta