skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another bit of Dutch heritage in New Amsterdam.

I was thinking of the North Sea floods. As the linked Wikipedia article notes, this also struck England significantly, and was among the key impetuses behind the Thames Barrier. Noting the closure frequency of this structure (and the increasing frequency with time), and the projected replacement dates (it's actually moved back a bit, I'd recalled 2030, current estimates are 2050-2060) is interesting. Also with recent rain-triggered floods in the UK, London and southeastern England now face a double threat: rising sea levels from the oceans, and increased runoff from land. Absent active pumping to clear rainwater flows down the Thames, a Barrier itself is not a complete solution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier
Library cards are still free.
What is a fan worth to you?
What equity is given for this (/how has it changed?) and is this pre defined or 'negotiated' ?
Thanks! The checkboxes are there for show, no hooks on them in the demo. You can select multiple rows using the checkboxes or the control or shift keys. If the option allowMultipleSelections is false then the checkboxes become radio buttons.
Normally, settlers leave their home land because they don’t have anything to lose. So they look for new things that may improve their lives; just look at the history. Why on earth, rich people want to go to Mars? They cannot drive a Ferrari; they cannot build a mansion either. Just to prove that they are cool people?

Paul Graham said: “Live in the future, and then build what's missing.” Probably Elon Mask is trying to apply this rule. Well, at least I don’t get it.
Access.

Built a database to do basic inventory of instruments and calibrations.
No -- the point is still that you recompile each header for each source file that uses it.

You're right, I was thinking about this wrong. I was thinking that the main cost is not the direct includes (M x N), but that each header further includes other headers. (M x N^O). One-time includes prevent the exponential explosion, but you are still left with M x N. But I tend to use ccache to avoid unnecessary recompilations, so I rarely feel the brunt of this.
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That short story is indeed what should receive some more emphasis in the marketing materials ;) Is there also a similar post about interop the other way around, like Clojure's gen-class?

For piecemeal migration from Java to Smalltalk being able to compile a class to an existing interface is key since once you have that you can just plug it into the Spring context of any existing Java app and slowly migrate from there.
Short term pain, long term gain.
TED Curator Chris Anderson On The Conference's Past, Present & Future
I've (and all of my developer friends) have been calling it Postgres for years.
Too much thinking about something which does not ultimately matter.

I regret even bothering to write these two sentences.
I wonder if he is a believer in the technological singularity.
Yes. But this takes time away from building things when you only have 3 months before demo day, and I'm sure there's always stigma attached to pursuing "outside-money" when everyone else is fine taking the 80k from the 4 investors YC trusts.
Why Mobile First is not the Right Strategy
Ask HN: What would you put on a concise FAQ for mobile developers?
I've seen denials on several counts. That climate change is occurring, that it's anthropogenic, and that the mechanism is CO2 (and other greenhouse gasses released on account of human activities). Much of that confusion being sown by direct and deliberate disinformation campaigns by carbon-aligned interests.

The evidence to my mind is rather incontrovertible in favor of significant anthropogenic climate change.
Its only me? or i´m the only one here to think that Metro UI is corny like the 80´s ?
i think that as time goes by, people will be ashamed of using this as they were ashamed about their hair style in their pictures from the 80´s :)
You don't need to tell anyone you're married. Just schedule time at city hall and grab a couple of bystanders (or close friends) as witnesses.

1) It goes against stuff we both believe in - so no.

2) We've got a handle on the legal stuff. In the UK anyway it's not that big a deal for the way we live our lives (see http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/relationships_e/relati... if you're curious)

3) Dude! I've been with a fantastic sexy woman I love for more than 17 years! She presumably quite likes me too. If you think for a second that I'm going to do anything that has the slightest chance of messing that up you are sadly mistaken ;-)
I would suggest trying the following:

1) Pick just one project that you see yourself actually finishing. What's the one project that you're most passionate about? (It would be good if this wouldn't take more than 2-3 months.)

2) When you have some time, rather than jump straight into the project, plan the steps that you'd need to complete the project out first. Make these tasks fine-grained, preferably keep the time required to complete each task under 10-30 minutes each. Organize them by subsection too, if you'd like.

The point of this is to (1) make it easy to jump into project anytime you have 10-30 minutes, and (2) to ensure that you always know what to do next.

3) Make a commitment to check off at least one task a week / work for 15-30 minutes a week on your project.

3) Whenever you have some time, work through the list.

As you get more into it, you can increase your weekly commitments.

Give it a try. You can finish your tasks, you just have to be committed to do so. Be disciplined, and promise yourself that you won't jump to another project until you have finished the one you're currently working on.

YMMV, HTH.
I think it proves that people will post any copy pasted message you ask them to. Its like those chain emails from back in the day except even more pointless.
Designing an electric car that people actually want to buy is a lot more than an engineering problem, too. Why would somebody want to pay 50k on a car that can only drive a few hundred miles before needing a couple hours to recharge? It all seems so simple now that Tesla is gaining traction, but it was considered a huge risk just a few years ago.

I'd say that Elon truly excels at coming up with creative ways to overcome barriers... and those barriers aren't always engineering related.
I rather doubt any bank would lend you money if you intend to use it to put yourself on Mars. Maybe unless they were satisfied the risks were low enough and confident that you would continue to have an income of money that could be used to pay back an Earth debt. Even then there is the issue of collateral.

I suspect Mars will be only for those with a total net worth of at least 500k (selling all of your Earth assets to get there probably makes sense).
This is just a wiki page, not an official announcement.
It's often hard to step out and see that the idea just doesn't have legs, especially if you've invested so much of your time and effort into it.

When you come to the end of that runway, you need to make a hard decision.

Also, when you change plans, you can look for new investment in the new idea. The assumption is that if you can't get follow on funding for your current idea, then it really is in your interest to come to the end of that runway sooner so you can be forced to make that hard decision and focus your efforts elsewhere.
Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied
Can I use this quote? Working on a company built around supplementing credit information to solve this problem. Would be curious to hear an international perspective on this.
My point was that I'm running a customised set like the one he describes and my speeds are fine, I sometimes even get a 450Mbps link speed.

Saying that, I see no downsides to leaving it fully auto and I think I'll leave it at these settings now.
Good call, guaranteeing $150K plus the seed money for the given inputs was far in excess of what you could raise elsewhere for comparable inputs. Simply the seed money, social capital, and demo day was attractive enough for me to apply.
This is a convertible note[1], just like the previous incarnations. Which means that the amount of equity it is worth isn't determined until a priced round happens (where a valuation is set).

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/21/convertible-note-seed-finan...
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If I walked into a bank with a job offer on Mars for, say, 4x my Earthly salary, they might be willing to loan me $500k. I might be willing to pay it even if I'd only make 3x my salary after the loan payments.

If this becomes a reality, banks would come out of the woodworks willing to provide the necessary financing -- at significant interest rates, of course. But that would open up the pool of candidates quite a bit beyond just those who have $500k in assets.
Pocket is Like a Gambler
I hear D is backwards compatible with C (and C++?). They already have modules: http://dlang.org/module.html . I should use D more often.
> It is certainly not our hope that people use this as an avenue to dehumanize the unfortunate.

There is no way to use a homeless person as a prop that doesn't dehumanize them.

> But is it more acceptable to see the unfortunate clearly wearing thin clothing when it's 20 degrees out and maintain the idea that they are people who must maintain their pride, or offer them the chance to sell out?

I wholely reject this line of thinking. Doing one thing right does not absolve a wrong. By that line of reasoning, the people in the Bum Fights videos were better off, because they were paid. Net positive, am I right!?
Dimsum is like head or tail, but pulls randomly from the entire file or stream
demoing the "row selected" state, by the look of it.
Show HN: LongPW - I'm experimenting with this idea. Feedback is welcome
I have been using it for a few weeks personally and it actually doesn't get in my way. I'm using it for my Github, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, HackerNews accounts.

Please feel free to leave feedback and contribute fork the repository.
No offence taken by me - just in case you were worried ;)
The office hours help all the startups. Decreasing the amount invested helps the successful and borderline startups because it means less of our time is taken up mediating founder disputes in the ones that are exploding. And yes, that was a significant time suck; Jessica says the majority of her time last batch was spent dealing with founder breakups.
Elon thinks people with enough money to go there for the thrill of it will be the first to do so, not people who can't earn enough money right now, and would do it mostly for the money, just like a lot of people have volunteered to go to war for the salary they would earn.

But I can see that happening later on, in an effort to get "normal" people moving there.
Kickstarter doesn't want to sell shares

http://allthingsd.com/20121105/kickstarter-ceo-no-ipo-for-us...

“We think the most disruptive aspect [of Kickstarter] is the removal of the investment component,” Chen said. “People are supporting projects because they want to see them happen. It’s so different than giving money because you want to make a profit.”
This is a wiki page created to discuss the steps that would have to be taken should the decision to change the name be taken.

As far as I know, the core team's position is that the product is called PostgreSQL, with Postgres being an acceptable alias.

If you ask me, this comic sums up the issue adequately: http://xkcd.com/747/

Alternatively, if you want to have a few laughs, check this out: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:05_-_Gabrielle_Roth_-_p...
Grab it while it's hot!
As mentioned, this page has been up for ages (I've actually read it previously). At this point its sort of pointless, it is normally referred to as 'Postgres' by people giving PG talks at conferences and such.
Equations for Organic Motion
If they have the ability to do this, then what would SOPA have bought them?
They can do what they want. God is just.

God says...
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So it has become easier to fail fast. The inertia to prevent death has been halved. Good or Bad?
nice information i like it thank you http://www.readenews.com/2012/11/samsung-galaxy-note-ii-sale...
Generally people are willing to accept a lower quality of life (in terms of spending) for short periods, like during a summer or winter of YC. Splitting a 2br apartment with a cofounder, even in SF or MV, isn't going to consume that much of 80k -- maybe $4k/mo, tops, including utilities, food, and the premium for month to month.

What screws people is when they have high fixed expenses -- like a founder who has a kid in college, a mortgage in another expensive city, non-working spouse, expensive medical insurance or medical costs, etc., or some combination of these. It's not hard to need $5-10k/mo to cover upper-middle-class fixed expenses, especially if you have to run it through payroll and thus ~50% total taxes, and then add living in the Bay Area for the summer on top of that.

That is why a lot of startup founders do it when they're young, not because being 22 is inherently better for doing a startup than 44.
I don't follow. I'd think that for any given header, you would only have to recompile it if the #include dependencies listed in that file (or their subdependencies) changed. I'd hope that for most projects this is far from every header. When would this happen?

It also seems like this would be a win even if only used for rarely-changing system headers. As shown in the slides, for small projects the lines of unchanging standard includes dwarf the project specific code. Wouldn't it be a big win to avoid parsing and compiling all of these?
Turns out I had to delete the old network from Network preferences and add it again, it was probably set to 2.4GHz only like it was originally.

Now I'm on the 5GHz again I seem to be getting a more consistent 450Mbps link speed although actual throughput seems the same.

I think I might just leave it on fully auto now, it seems to work pretty well.
That depends on how rich you are, and how disabled your children are. Of course, you could just kick your disabled children out into street, where they can't look after themselves...
Ask HN: Which web hosting provider should I use?
I have a site that has around 500MB of static HTML files and a 400MB database.

What recommendations does HN have for:

1. Hosting providers
2. Large database hosting
Potentially there's a thing about "grey market" - eg a supermarket (Tesco) in the UK buying Levi Jeans from a different region and selling them cheap in the UK.

(http://www.out-law.com/page-2814)

I'm not sure what the state of the law is now.

But I think it's just bulk pirated goods. Many t-shirts with fake labels stitched on or look-alike handbags sold as real brands etc.
The One About the Native HTML5 App on Windows 8
Man with amnesia asks for help on Reddit
Yes I've read it. I'm merely emphasizing the word "hacking" in general.
Some suggest that if they could melt the core of Mars, which is solid right now, it would create the magnetic field that Mars dearly needs to keep the atmosphere on its surface, and also to protect the people there from the radiations. But yeah, that doesn't sound very easy either, and who knows what kind of problems it could create if attempted (like awakening the large vulcanos, or worse).

More interesting reading here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
some other names that I often use when refering to postgresql:

pgsql

psql

postgre

In the end postgres might end up just as confusing as postgresql, and in favor of the current name, at least it is status quo.
People will do anything for fame.
Nope, as long as you post a magic disclaimer on your wall and also forward it to 20 friends. Shall you forget to forward it, very bad things will happen to you.
Hivelocity has great prices + cloud (http://hivelocity.net/ and http://hivelocity.net/specials for dedicated server bargains)

Softlayer has great support + cloud (http://softlayer.com)

Heroku has a ton of convenience (http://heroku.com)

They can all easily provide the hardware etc necessary.
RabbitMQ 3.0 Release
As mentioned, this page has been up for ages (I've actually read it previously). At this point its sort of pointless, it is normally referred to as 'Postgres' by people giving PG talks at conferences and such.http://www.readenews.com
The New Orleans projections assume a levee breach.

"If levees breach, almost all of the city would flood. The surrounding region is also mostly flooded."
TrueTime measures a point in time plus/minus an error interval. The API allows a program to query for when a time/error pair has definitely passed. Each transaction acquires locks using 2-phase locking. At commit time, the time/error are read and the decision to commit is stored durably using Paxos. The locks are then held until the time of the transaction has definitely passed. This guarantees that no process which grabs the locks after they are released can commit at an earlier time than previous holders of the lock.
pg, can you express percentages of yc startups that went through this?
MySQL + Percona.
YC is treated just like software. Time to scale back and move forward. Those bottlenecks were obviously causing a problem.
Rich people are winning a game. Its a way of making your life meaningful. Its not a very good way.

Making a future for mankind - that's a very cool game. I'd go in a heartbeat, and I'm doing fine in America (more than fine - been a startup founder many times, money in the bank).
The author writes: More and more, I've found that the simpler the tool is, the more effective it is as a channel of creativity.

Reitz argues that simpler camera lenses force him to focus on the craft of photography. This argument comes back around in the "IDE vs text editor" dust ups that occur periodically. The simpler tool (for some definition of "simpler", neither Emacs nor vim seems particularly simple to me, but then neither does Wordpad or nano) forces you to concentrate on the craft of coding, rather than manipulation of all the metaphorically shiny GUI objects.
Demo in editable form: http://plnkr.co/edit/8uJcHy?p=preview
"Free money" is dangerous, it creates something like a moral hazard in early stage start-ups.
You and your client are two people separated by a common language.

I followed your link to Github. This is the first item:

"Improved scheduling with jQuery-based time/date-picker.
Removed secon"

Well not exactly, I skipped over:

"Merge pull request #31 from ASoft-se/bugfix_get_assets"

Plus:

"Clone in Windows"

And:

"Branch: master" etc.

If I'm your client, do you really think I want to deal with that? If I'm your client do I even care about that level of detail?

There are some sausage factories which are interesting, architecture is generally one for which people love seeing the process of creation. Most aren't, as your experience using VIM in public attests.

Your client cares about a few simple things: when it will be done, how much it will cost, and what it will do. If your email explains those details it will be successful.

The fact that your client saved trying to understand your solution for the weekend indicates meaningful effort on their part, but it's not surprising that they are baffled by Github. It's not for lay people.

Good luck.
MySQL http://www.readenews.com
I agree. wrapbootstrap is going in this direction, but they seem to have had the same ~dozen themes since they started out. I'd love for more really talented designers to create bootstrap themes -- non-designers are hungry for them. I'm particularly interested in bootstrap themes that make good use of creative typographic elements.

A subscription service would be very interesting, and if it were a reputable designer, I'd sign up in a second.
Most companies usually use more than one.

At my current job we use PostgreSQL and MySQL in production, and H2 in development. At my previous job we used Sybase SQL Anywhere (horrible, wouldn't recommend it), Microsoft SQL server, MySQL, Amazon RDS and H2.
Self-Filling Water Bottle Harvests H20 From Air
The problem comes with FTTH networks like FIOS where every customer would need a generator if they want to survive long power outages.
How the world is learning to code online for free
It seems to me there are two types of people interested in the colonizing of Mars. Those who think it will happen eventually, and those who want to make it happen. Elon seems to be firmly in the "I want to make things happen camp." With his involvement in Telsa, SolarCity, and the rumors of the hyperloop thing, it seems like he applies this attitude towards just about everything he is interested in, no matter how outlandish.

I suspect he probably doesn't spend to much time thinking about what would be cool if other people did something. He may consider it idly once in a while, but I would be surprised if he considers it seriously while also not involving himself in it.

Obviously you'd have to ask him though.
> The office hours help all the startups.

I would say that they were definitely valuable to us, if for no other reason than to get a chance to talk with investors before there was anything really at stake. The way investor meetings go is something that's hard to explain and something you just have to experience. This gave our class the opportunity to get a little used to how investors think and the way they interact with potential investments. While that may seem to be somewhat intangible, it's hard for me to estimate how much that initial experience helped ease us into doing it "for real" later.
I know I did :)

Bought 6 ebooks, and I'm happy it was posted and upvoted on HN, otherwise, I would have missed it.
> changing any one of the modules bundled in the pch will force you to recompile all compilation units using the pch

Is there a fundamental reason the compilation can't be optimized away?

For example, given a header file A.h, couldn't you precompile it and generate a bloom filter of all preprocessor tokens contained therein (except ones defined in files that A.h includes)? Then if B.h (which includes A.h) changes, see if any of the preprocessor macros that are defined at the point of inclusion are in A's bloom filter. If not, you can safely skip the recompilation of A.h. If so, you should probably change A.h anyway to directly include the definition of any macros that are affecting its compilation.
I don't see that as a problem. If I'm not otherwise committed when we have a colony, I'd be the first to go.

After that, OTHER PEOPLE will find ways to monetize. People went to America because it was an untouched land of opportunity, not because somebody told them they could export furs. It was clear that there was opportunity but unclear what it might be.

I can think of many things that could make your rich on Mars. Any kind of sports/competitions in reduced gravity, space hotels/amenities (things that makes space more like home) and indeed mining of raw materials. And these are just the first things that come to mind. There's probably better ideas.
Do backend-as-a-service databases count?
See also Scala's compiler, which detects and re-writes tail calls as stackless iterations (http://oldfashionedsoftware.com/2008/09/27/tail-recursion-ba...)
I guess you haven't tried to compile a big project like WebKit to experience the pain of importing large header files.

Well-defined modules, if standardized, would be a huge boost to C and C++ compilation speed. Remember the proposal does not take anything away, you can always use #include, but adds a new method for those wanting to take advantage of it. Why the resistance there?