skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it necessary for friends to "be an advantage" to you besides just being your friends?

No, not at at all. I just have no friends from my early days. (Ruthlessly bullied throughout school. Midwest children had no tolerance for programming geeks circa 2000.)

One of the primary ways people can find "you specifically" is through Facebook, and the other way is through LinkedIn. That's all I meant by "you need Facebook".

Recruiters, for example. I've gotten way more random LinkedIn offers that have led to jobs than I ever would've guessed. (~7 offers, 2 jobs. But of course the "offers" are just "offers to interview"; still, that's something.)
If you cant do the right thing for the right reason do it for the wrong one.
My production and staging/test environments are on AWS and I do development on my local linux box. Since DynamoDB is a web service I can connect to my DynamoDB tables from anywhere. If you have questions or need help feel free to contact me directly (or post here) and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have.
>If I had to guess the reason for that historical accident, I'd think it had to do with "white" not being a particularly uniform color on a lot of older CRTs, but one with varying hue and intensity in different regions.

also, the earlier monitors flickered more than later ones, and the flicker was more troublesome when the default/background color was light.
"some folks have another column in their life ledger, labelled 'satisfaction'. You can't see it, so their behavior seems irrational."

I like that. Is that a Spider Robinson quote? Couldn't find it.
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It's not necessarily contradictory. Such an experience would change the life of the participants. While not the goal of the experience, the end result might be the same.
At an established company, yes, that's a reasonable salary for a developer.

But when you're starting a startup, you don't take a salary of that size. You live cheaply and take only the minimum that you need as you commit yourself to building your company. It's not a life for everyone, but it is the startup life.
The Snopes article refers to the forward which cites US law. It doesn't directly address the hoaxes abroad.
If you need to pay salaries , you're going to have to burn your own savings or seek further funding.

This is a seed investment to help you prove your idea, or a bit of a boost for a business with profits too low to get impact from reinvestment.
Another RavenDB user here. Overall pretty happy with it.
Agree with some other comments on here that this should probably be implemented with standard HTML tables as a fallback. Looks pretty good, though.
memcached is a database now? IMHO Redis barely registers as a database; it's more of a shared heap that supports snapshotting.

At Instagram we use PostgreSQL, Redis, and Cassandra.
"These are often pretty smart people but they seem to mainly use FB for cat memes , pictures of food and the sort of "nerd humour" you might find on reddit."

FB does not do very well for other purposes.
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Tumblr is now the 9th most popular site in the U.S.
I'm counting down to the announcement that Marco Arment's The Magazine has been purchased for x-million dollars and is being turned into a platform to scratch this exact itch.
I wonder if the implementation of shuf would handle very large input efficiently? Reservoir sampling wouldn't need to keep the whole input in memory, which could be an advantage. But I don't know how shuf works.
Oh i don't know, the 800lbs gorilla that is twitter? Inertia? Laziness? Crowd mentality? I don't know why people think life/business is always a meritocracy. It usually isn't.
What the fuck.

NOONE wants your damn 25%-off-on-sunglasses advertisements sent as a push message.
How Samsung uses fake butts to stress test its phones
I consider it to be MySQL for purposes of a poll like this. If it was "which MySQL variant to do you use?" I'd expect to see MariaDB, Percona XtraDB, etc.
Well, you need a driver's license to drive a car. What do you need to run a country? Not common sense I suppose. Take a look at this "Todd Akin Headlines the Daily Show's Congressional Crazy Tour" : http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/todd-akin-he...
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> You can't give up your civil rights with single click.

Of course you can. Contracts can and do override a right enshrined in law. I can sign an agreement that gags me from talking about something, in which case I've given up my right to free speech (if you're in a country where such a right exists).

You seem to be referring to the EU's Data Protection and privacy policies - there are explicit exemptions under the EU/US Safe Habor (which applies here) that allow contractual opt-out from certain rights. I am not saying this is the case with Facebook: merely that it is naive to assume just because a right is enshrined in law doesn't mean you cannot give it up through a contract.
or "sort -R"...
"have state and federal judges sign them"

Oh, is that all?
The explosion of use of the Internet was driven by both a regulatory change in allowed use of Arpanet / the Internet, and the ubiquitous availability of cheap personal computing devices, driven largely by Moore's Law. Not by fundamental changes in underlying communications and computing technology. In fact the direct and largely similar progenitors of both modern TCP/IP and Linux systems were well established by 1982.

Cellular communications is based on principles first established by, of all people, Heddy Lamar (the actress) during WWII.

Gas turbine jet engines date to 1928. Recent technology has largely focused around noise abatement, though efficiency has also increased by roughly 50% since 1950. That's hardly the Moore's Law doubling-every-three-years experienced in ICs, and isn't too dissimilar from improvements in reciprocating internal combustion engine efficiency gains.

http://eetweb.com/applications/more-efficient-jet-engine-201...

And it turns out that jets are not more efficient than propeller-driven aircraft. The benefits instead are greater speed and higher-altitude flight, as propellers are limited by tip speeds and must operate well under the speed of sound, and perform better at lower altitudes and greater air density.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/09/piston-powered-aircra...

In two cases, enablers were principally electronics (Moore's Law) developments enabling latent technologies. In the case of jet aircraft propulsion, the story is more complex, and includes IC-enabled computers in design, manufacture, and avionics systems, but involves incremental improvements on a number of engineering fronts. On an efficiency basis, it's simply returned us to where we were using alternate technologies in the 1950s.
We're in the process of moving our analytics from MySQL to Infobright (Community Edition).
Bash.org is text. I can C&P sections of a conversation to share. Omegrep.com is images, so I can't.

Valid and interesting enough content, but I think the execution is a little lacking, and technically uninteresting.
It wasn't the Kings, those with power, who originally went exploring - they directed resources towards such endeavours.
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It really is: before facebook, I wasn't exposed to every passing fancy or idea that these people had.

Within the contexts where I met and got to know these people, they are great. In angry political comments, or wallspam trying to get something or other banned, they are not. Facebook forced me to acknowledge that I like a bit of formality and artifice in my relationships with most people. I think that most people are more attractive with their clothes on.
Unless you feel you can dispute it, the jurisdiction for your use of Facebook and the jurisdiction underwhich you agreed to use Facebook is Santa Clara County, Calfiornia, United States.

See 16.1 in https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

Also, although the EU has strict data retention and data-export laws, you agreed to give up when you signed up for Facebook because Facebook keeps its data in the US.
Agree with all of this as I have experienced it all myself in the last year.

Things worked out so much better than I imagined that I'm starting to think couples with the "kids ruin everything" attitude were actually looking for an excuse to disengage socially.

I would also suggest:

- Get the baby used to going out - friends' houses, restaurants. A bottle with a slow nipple buys you a lot of time if the baby starts fussing in a restaurant.
- Find a good babysitter
- When going out, do more planning than usual to make sure you have an awesome time

That last bit has made a huge difference. By treating your entertainment time as precious, the experiences you have are so much more fun and memorable.
Skip the "getting rich" step
Here's an idea. Elon Musk says he'll have the re-usable rocket ready in the next few years, and he says it will be a huge thing for the space industry, and what will basically make travelling to Mars possible. Is anyone else even anywhere near close to that? Probably not. So what if he does something crazy such as open sourcing the design of his re-usable rocket, with the condition that anyone who uses pieces or the entirety of the design has to give back the improvements as well. I'm not sure what effect this would have on his company. It might push him to focus even more on execution, but I think it would also greatly accelerate this space flight race.

The good thing about this is that any future rocket or spacecrafts that would use at least some of the ideas in that design, would be forced to open source everything else. So in a way, he could create something like the Linux kernel of the space world, and we could see a lot of innovation coming out of that, all of which would have to be turned back into open source, and help future, greater innovations appear even faster.
I love Dreamhost for bulk hosting. Here's why:

http://dylanized.com/the-dreamhost-control-panel-is-made-for...

Not sure about database size.
The sort is not stable. When I sort by W, I end up with Colts and then Rams. When I sort by L, at the bottom, I end up with Rams and then Colts.

When I sort by T, since they're all 0, I'd expect nothing to change, but the whole list inverts...

In general, it's very nice. I agree with TazeTSchnitzel's comment that it'd be awesome to have it pull data from a table, so that there's a fallback.
If that happens, immigrant #2 to Mars is going to be a collections agent.
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Oh dear... overly ambitious plans, changing everything for the sake of change, fearing assembly, using VS for OS development, and not even knowing how the GDT and IDT work. There's so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. I sense a doomed project.
Interesting! How is VoltDB working out for you?
Google's big Wi-Fi buy a hoax
It's a place where data is stored. Wikipedia says "A database is a structured collection of data." I think redis qualifies given that description, but I agree it's different enough to raise eyebrows if someone referred to it as their "database".
Good to see more music apps! I assume this isn't the first time you've been asked this, but how does this differ from http://loopyapp.com/? I've been using Loopy for awhile and love how intuitive it [generally] is but I do wish there were some more features on top of just the recording/basic editing tools.
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We are indeed working on that. We have given it little 'marketing push' because it is still very immature.
Well, they used a proxy to log into their own account, so probably not. Had they tried to demonstrate this using someone else's SSN, then yup - lock 'em up!
Why Israel's "Iron Dome" Missile-Defense System Actually Works
I am missing ElasticSeach. Besides a search engine it is a document database too.
Conway’s Game of Life for Curved Surfaces (Part 1)
Sorry, I addressed your last question as more of a general question--why should "anyone" get married, if they don't care about all the trappings.

I don't really think that you should get married. My default on these sorts of personal issues is always "you should do whatever you want and believe in." :-)

Thanks for the link; I'll take a look. In the U.S. there are some legal rights that are only available to spouses. (Which is why the fight for the legal recognition of same-sex marriage is so important.)
"The foundational principles of traditional medicine (Chinese, Ayurvedic, whatever) are generally bullshit. But that doesn't mean that everything that emerges from them should be ignored"

Those items are medicine, not alt-med or holistic medicine or TCM or naturopathy.

The problem is that this wheat will nearly never be separated from the chaff. It's possible for that to happen, as Osteopathy came from similar origins as Chiropractic, but not very common these days. There is little business and ethical interest in rejoining "alt-med" into science-based medicine.
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No precedent there ....

New Orleans is already almost completely below mean sea level. In many places, the highest geographic point is the Mississippi River. Building levees and flood-control structures directly contributes to the further erosion and loss of delta lands in the Gulf. The very structures that would save New Orleans also doom it. John McPhee's writing on the Atchafalya Old River Control Structure is fascinating.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/02/23/1987_02_23_039_T...
pg briefed Xconomy on the changes this morning, and the interesting part to me was the feeling that too many failing YC startups were feuding internally over the extra cash. He said such disputes have been taking up more than half of Jessica's time recently. Now startups will have less money to argue over.

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/11/26/y-combinator...
What constitutes a DB? Can we have "custom" as an option? We wrote 2 very light, single-use DB's for two specific use cases in order to get some performance we needed on real-time data, but they don't really have any kind of management or generic SQL-like access.
US export restrictions on rocket technology would likely be an issue.
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"I would be interested to know what you think of Western Medicine in the light of what Ben Goldacre says about how clinical trials are conducted."

The benefit of Western Medicine is that we know these terrible things and can work around them. They are not the system working as should be practiced. Using a fictional modality to treat patients is not a preferable alternative. Reform, not revolution.
<quote>... creating an unpleasant situation among one's fellow workers, engaging in bickering, or displaying surliness or stupidity.</quote>

OMG... our company is under siege!
Nothing wrong with ambition! It will be a great learning experience if nothing else.

Doomed = not commericailize-able? That doesn't mean its without value to the person behind it if they learn and derive satisfaction from the experience.
I don't have the best knowledge on DBs, but why would you use more than one of the same "tech"/paradigm? Why postgreSQL and MySQL? Don't they work similarly?
Or is it because you use postgreSQL for the things it is better than MySQL, and vice-versa?
What are the prices there?
With three runs available it starts to be interesting to see a graph about tendencies.
If there's one guideline that's violated the most on iOS it's the block on direct marketing for push notifications. If you go by the developer agreement you shouldn't be sending push messages telling people a new update for your app is out, let alone direct marketing. But everyone ignores it, probably because Apple don't really enforce it.

Some of the examples shown here aren't necessarily push ads though: you could imagine a restaurant app where you opted in to receive deals pushed in your area. But yes, I don't think users appreciate these kind of messages unannounced. Until Apple start enforcing it though, it's just going to keep getting worse...
Clearly not a student of history :-) The first people out the door and on their way will be the people who are sick and tired of the way this planet is run, they'll have new ideas about how things could be done. This is not entirely unlike the folks who sold everything they owned, bought a wagon and headed west.

Motivation was land ownership, and presumably a colony would make some rules about letting you own a chunk of Mars. Perhaps you could become a water farmer.
And that 50% is entirely preferable to loyally sticking with long-disproved falsehoods and pretending that they are preferable to updating any knowledgebase.
I'd like to see someone try re-inventing a minimalist userspace. Create an OS running on the Linux kernel without coreutils, binutils etc., and see how far you can go.

If you strip out loadable module support and such, is it possible to boot without the usual POSIX support structure? Without filesystems?
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Have you tried using specific channels (choosing channels with less interference from other access points in your area -- i use wifi-explorer) for 5ghz and 2.4ghz, instead of leaving them at automatic?
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> Well, you need a driver's license to drive a car.

You don't, actually. If that's all it took, we'd never have car crashes.

> What do you need to run a country? Not common sense I suppose.

"Common sense" is a lazy person's way of saying "what I believe". Akin is a fucking wingnut who was happily thrown out of office over his rape comments. Even before that, it's been pointed out that he was placed into committees with the least power because his colleagues weren't impressed by him. How is he even relevant? I'm not really okay with using 1 person as a representative sample of 500 people. It's like saying there was this one American who killed a guy, and therefore all Americans are psychopathic murderers.

More importantly, how does this remotely suggest that committees are an evil that Congress should do without?
Did you ever try to see who all those settlers who built America were? There is only a handful of names remained. Thousands and thousands are unknown. Do you think those thousands found happiness? They only fought to survive.

Before getting the town of 80,000 to a living status, thousands and thousands will fight to survive and will die immaturely. Of course, this brings happiness to those who helped to settle 80000 on Mars. They will enjoy on Earth.
Doesn't look like it. I just tried running "yes | shuf -n 1" (using the latest version of GNU coreutils, 8.20) and its memory consumption increased steadily until I killed it.

It seems like this would be a really useful improvement, and I'm surprised that it doesn't already seem to have been requested on the coreutils issue tracker.
There is an issue with the Facebook Like box's iFrame overlapping whatever element is positioned perpendicular to it, making whatever is under it unable to be clicked. In Chrome anyway, didn't test any other browsers.

http://hostingbytes.us/images/3/164201.jpg

Also capping at 1 million effects me as well.
I thought the frontrunner to git was bitkeeper, which as all the other versioning systems grew out of the experiences from DVS, which i guess refers to what you said, but bitkeeper was built long before monticello.

how does git backend for monticello work? does it turn objects into text so they can be versioned in git? if so that's exactly what dvs was doing for cvs.
> using VS for OS development

What does Microsoft use?
That's completely wrong direction IMO, and there's no market called 'Youtube for non-English users'. You should implement a HTML5 overlay so users could enable dubs on any existing Youtube video. The page with embedded videos would just include dubjoy.js or user could use a browser extension to enable dubs on Youtube itself. Then list all already dubbed videos on your website.
So does other popular domain registrars. Eg:

Namecheap: http://www.namecheap.com/legal/general/privacy-policy.aspx
Scroll to "Personal Information Following Termination of Account"

I think it has something to do with the ICANN rules.
Thanks, i see.. is there a requirement on when to take more funding then? what would happen if the startup didn't take further funding (put remained profitable)?
Ask HN: What is the best way to detect mobile devices?
Hi HN Community,<p>I'm an experienced web-developer who is just trying to create websites that display well on any screen/device (Responsive design). I know of CSS Media Queries, U/A sniffing and Device Description repositories like WURFL.<p>Is there any other better way/technique to detect mobile devices <i>efficiently</i> ? I could use a Javascript solution, but that will not really let me find out info about legacy phones or phones with poor JS support. What do you use personally to detect mobile devices? Could you please share, so everyone will benefit from it?? :)<p>Thanks,
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"Chakras, qi, energy, etc. are just names for phenomena you can experience. These phenomena may or may not be supernatural, but there is not necessarily anything supernatural needed for them to exist."

The experiential is a real thing, but it does not necessarily have any greater meaning or value. "Energy" is felt, but that does not mean that it is any more valuable to healing than the hallucinations of a drug, or ecstatic religious experience.
Other than the browser as a common delivery platform, do we really think that every publisher will happily join hands and standardize on one native magazine app?
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They shouldn't be web developers either. I get extremely frustrated every time I go to a site that has built its own custom responsive design framework for mobile devices that takes 5 seconds to load and doesn't follow web UI conventions (I'd much rather scroll down then flip pages when reading an article). </rant>
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By that definition data containers (dictionaries, lists, etc) built into popular languages or standard libraries are databases.
The early European-American settlers still had a basic expectation of the availability of natural resources. In the case of Mars, natural resources aren't simply an unknown, we know Mars to be a desolate place largely free of any valuable resources. This knowledge may change with boots on the ground, but the risk to those explorers far, far exceeds the risk taken by those early colinists.
It at least declares your intent for the message, which one presumably holds the copyright upon (although technically the company might own the copyright, I'm assuming that as the primary agent of the company in regard to that work, the author has some leeway). Unauthorized distribution of the mails would usually be a copyright violation, and excuses to the contrary can be negated by including a huge chunk of text that says "this must be private, seriously".

So yes, I see how it can help kind of but not really. It doesn't really change anything, just makes a case tighter should you need to make one, lest the defendant imply he had your authorization to distribute the mails.

IANAL.
He wouldn't do it. Same reason why he's always said they don't patent SpaceX designs. China would use the patents as an instruction manual and leapfrog them without open sourcing their own designs. It's the fear anyway.
Why use supports instead of Modernizr?
Specifically ITAR. It would never be allowed.
most of those are due to the refusal to use the word "cracker" for the connotations and subtleties that require it.
As it turns out, they previously were using Clojure + Python. http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/02/bugsense-hybrid-...
Do you hope to support existing Smalltalk codebases, e.g. Scratch/BYOB?
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That's cool. I'll take a closer look at it. I appreciate the response. Good luck with your firm!