skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sennheiser radio wireless headset for the TV - can watch TV at any time day or night without disturbing anyone. The sound quality is excellent. As its radio (not infra-red) I can move around the house still listening with perfect sound.
4) Commercial support.

EnterpriseDB, Command Prompt, 2nd Quadrant, and all the others listed under http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/

Many of those companies have people on staff who are members of the PostgreSQL core committee, or at least have commit bits. Can MySQL say the same?

If your response is going to be "But that's not commercial support from 'PostgreSQL' itself", that's the nature of the community. It was a deliberate choice by the community to structure itself that way: PostgreSQL — the community, the brand, or whatever you want to call it — can't be sold. This is a good thing, and I don't think I need to waste much time explaining why...
Fixed-precision integer arithmetic is evil.
At TechStars, they tell you on day one that not all the teams will make it through the program intact. I've actually seen a team member leave one team for another.
The console game makers don't have any obvious way to cut the retailers (or the console makers) out of the loop. In this case they do: Let people buy games for Linux instead of Windows and get an automatic 42% bump in revenue from everyone who does. Why wouldn't they do it? Especially given that they already have to write portable code in order to support Windows + non-Microsoft consoles + maybe Mac or (depending on what kind of game) Android and iOS, etc.

It's a lot easier to port something to the third OS once you've already done the second one, because the second one caused you to identify and separate all of the bits that are platform dependent, or (better) choose platform-neutral libraries rather than platform-specific ones in the first place.

And if Linux becomes a common gaming platform, and is free and capable of running on all computers, it becomes easier for game makers to ultimately say "we're not supporting Windows anymore, here's a free Ubuntu live CD" -- or just raise the price of the Windows version of the game by 42% more than the Linux version to make up for the 30% cut Microsoft is taking and let the free market do the work for them.
Footloose and fancyfree- try that with kids :-)
That's a perfectly valid reason in and of itself.
People commit suicide b/c they don’t live up to the stories
Yes, I meant a myriad of very small dicts. In this case a plain built-in is faster.
When you understand that there are no "non-questionable sources," you'll understand the point people are trying to make in this thread.

Extraordinary claims may or may not require extraordinary proof -- at least one famous environmentalist said so, anyway -- but extraordinary demands most certainly do.
It seems that almost all patent troll cases are tried in the East District of Texas because that district had strongly favored plaintiffs. I'm then curious: if a US company refused to do business with Texas citizens -- citing an inhospitable litigation environment or some such -- could they still be brought to court in EDTX?

Continuing the thought experiment, what if companies continued to do business but added a surcharge to products shipped to troll-favorable districts? It seems that the jurors in those areas would be more intimately aware of patent trolls if they had to pay a 1% extra fee when they ordered Avon products.

I'm sure some companies do such a thing and just bundle it up with the cost of the product itself, but I'm curious if any companies took a more forceful stance.
Sure it does.

I signals major change that could cause breakage and new bugs.
Your Biggest Carbon Sin May Be Air Travel
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Debt collection laws make it illegal to inform anyone about a third party's debt (except their attorney, creditor, a credit reporting agency, and their spouse). It's not libel, but publicly posting someone's debts is still illegal.
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This is surely a minority view.

Everyone uses syntax highlighting, for everything. for everything

I can't honestly believe the whole go community just decided to by like, oh gee, well Rob doesn't like it, I gues we'll just ignore what everyone else is doing and do our own thing.

For what it's worth, I use syntax highlighting in my go code, and so does http://tour.golang.org/
I am forced to use mysql for an experimental homomorphic encrypted db. Now that I know there's actual pro support for PostgreSQL that have commits I'm never going to use mysql ever again as I was just hung up on a few things while porting to Postgre. Great success I can't wait to nuke mysql from my system forever
I don't like the taste of the food because I don't like the cook. Is that what are you defending? Secondly, you have to be an expert or at least knowledgeable to certain extent to talk about ingredients and style of cooking. Throwing 15 ingredients in a heated pan doesn't make you an excellent cook. Just because you can taste something delicious doesn't mean you will know everything about the that food.
This was a polite way of saying that the blog is pretty darn unreadable. It really does hurt my eyes. Content sounded interesting, though.
I've been working in C/C++ for over 20 years now. I started playing with Go about two months ago, burnt through the tutorial in 2 afternoons, and was hooked. It's very easy coming from a C background, it has constructs I'm familiar with, but also picks out the best parts of Python-ish SmallTalk-ish languages, while still being compiled.

I'm looking forward to when I can write Android apps in it, instead of mucking around with Java.
I found these lines curious:

Get labelled a “Failure” and it can ruin your life. As a pedagogical methodology, embracing failure is the last thing these kids need.

So rather than telling these kids that failure isn't a bad thing and that they can learn from failing and grow we should continue telling them that failing sucks and makes you a failure? Or, if not telling them, at least letting them keep the mindset? And that's supposed to be the better alternative? How does that work?
Dumb question - wouldn't those patents have expired by now anyway? ... Oops, sorry, I thought it was 10 years. It's 20.
Bit of a filter bubble effect going on here.
I snickered when I saw how they described themselves, on their incredibly assy low-quality site, as "incredibly gifted programers".
I'm in the market for a new PC and now I'm definitely buying from Newegg.
Islam is in the position of control in many countries. It's in the position evangelicals want to be in (and try in the US at least). There's not much secularism going on in any of heavily islamic countries, and it's actually getting worse. Religious extrimism is on the rise. Here are a few facts and polls:

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/vubyx/only_a_tiny_m...
With all due respect, it's presumptuous of you to act as if you have a better grasp on the real world than other developers or that you have direct knowledge of what most developers use.
Same with YC. A few founders don't make it through the three months, some companies merge, others dissolve completely.
Maybe it's becoming a trend to attack the non paying employer or a client, guess this is the 5th site on the same category.

Do post what's the reaction when the company has a look at your page.
The android situation is definitely difficult. I should mention I'm on a Jellybean sense rom, so like you said it isn't stock.

For the background I'd recommend a nice dark gradient or something similar. The background has different parts being black and white and even with your semi transparent padding the text seems hard to read. I'd try to get more contrast there. I don't have any specific color suggestions though. Good luck!
I'll check tomorrow, there is a bunch of gaia folks at the office. You might be right, in which case we need to address that.
This is why I believe that the defendant of a patent lawsuit should have the right to contest the validity of any patents prior to the case beginning. It wastes time and money to do it any other way.
One thing to remember is that most writers did write too much. Take George Simenon, he would be greater had he signed less pages.

There is a current fad in showing everything, but it has not always been like this and many artist would burn their drafts with many good reasons.

Sometime I feel many people would rather be toilet perfume everyone buys than French perfume.
> Everyone uses syntax highlighting, for everything. for everything

I guess I'm not the mainstream kind of guy then.
Thanks for giving your insight, I found this post really interesting. Without going too far off topic, I was just curious, what kind of work did they have you do there? It just seems like the game industry doesn't get a lot of interns due to the complexity, cost, and time constraints of making major game like Deus Ex Human Revolution.
It works perfect on Firefox Nightly. And in fact, they state on the top of the page that you should use Nightly.
> It is the Java of databases.

That makes absolutely no sense what so ever. Java is the dominate enterprise development platform.

MySQL is most popular in non-enteprise environments.
I think it's the Marines that have the saying: "Anything worth shooting, is worth shooting twice." Unless the judge points out some obvious mis-application of the prosecutor's legal logic then it shouldn't be unusual to "weigh an appeal" as the logic was supposed to have been sound enough to warrant the case in the first place.
You still have to pay even if the end result is not what you envisioned. You pay a contractor for service, it's not a product purchase. Act professionally and he'll certainly try to make up for it. Being a douche doesn't help anyone.
It affected a whole bunch of languages, libraries and compilers, apparently because the strtod() implementation in question has been a popular copy&paste piece.

This guy here over at http://blog.andreas.org/display?id=9 mentions at least: "Android libc, gcc libio, gcc java runtime, newlib libc, GNU Mono, Apple's libc, mozilla"

It was particularly nasty because it could easily be exploited simply by putting that specific decimal number into a web form or whatever, and for each request a thread on the backend server would lock a CPU to 100% usage until sysadmins discover and kill those threads, worst case.
> A deluge of e-mails poured into my inbox over the next few months. I deleted most without reading them.

What's best practice here? Set up filters to route them into a special folder? You never have to read them, but you've kept them in case you need to go to the police and courts?
I suppose that depends on your definition of "database." This argument is very close to the No True Scotsman fallacy. Nowhere in the definition of "database" does it say that it won't default to truncating your data when you try to stuff it into a field that is too small. MongoDB, Riak, VoltDB, PostgreSQL, and CouchBase are all "databases" and they all have varying levels of strictness.

"it's the wrong tool" is an opinion and it is unsupported by history. It many cases, it's exactly the right tool and users are given the power to control the level of strictness they they require. Want to allow GROUP BYs that don't include all non-aggregate columns? Sure, you can do that. Or not. Want MySQL to accept what you give it and throw warnings instead of errors? Yep, you can do that, too. Or not.

The defaults are bad. No one will defend that. They are also easy to change. A privilege level allowing/denying the ability to change the sql_mode would be a welcome addition, also. Yet, MySQL is a capable tool that does some things really well, something things not so well, and some things terribly. Just like every other product out there. It is a tool. It works well for many, but not all cases. Apparently, you find it inadequate for your particular needs. I get that. You shouldn't use it.
"Sorry", but a lot of the code that is specific to iOS is in the kernel, and almost none of it is open source; claiming that the iOS kernel is open source is simply preposterous. The situation is even worse if you start looking at drivers, none of which are open source on that platform; but even the core kernel is missing major pieces on ARM.
Eventually things will change. Remember Christianity used to be very hostile to religions in time past (Galileo). Most Christian groups now are often hostile to science that disagrees with them from Creationists & evolution to Catholics and security.
Well apparently their "Two highly gifted programmers" had a hard time making a link in the footer point to their actual website so in case you're wondering whose behind this here is the site of the "webmaster"

http://www.alexlucastech.com

Obviously not the smartest move this guy could have made. As someone who has been pretty brash with collection practices in the past with customers who refused to pay I do not mind saying this was plain dumb, the guy clearly could use some lessons in running a business the right way
if you haven't already filled out a beta invite form, please do. we'd love to chat w you on how you go about handling referrals.
The CEO of Steam Gabe Newell disagrees with you. They (and Blizzard) are moving away from Windows 8 entirely.

Steam is coming out with it's "steam box" which is a linux run gaming and home entertainment system. You can also run windows on it if you want it's not a proprietary console device apparently.

There are articles everywhere how Windows 8 completely killed the PC gaming scene
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Commercial support for MySQL is evolving in a similar way. Oracle, Percona, SkySQL and others offer it (emphasizing their particular value-added flavor).
My own sense of failure is in the purely scientific sense:

In order to have a meaningful idea, it has to be falsifiable. In other words, it has to be a hypothesis, and testable.

Then you apply the test that would falsify it, and if the idea fails, you have learned something, and are able to focus your next hypothesis in a more useful direction.

It sounds like the objections like this article completely miss the point of that. It's not like we're telling people to go and do something random and stupid and then trumpet about it.
Game developers target Windows because it's(was?) popular. They'll target mobile devices more and more alongside consoles more and more (although, that line is already starting to blur).

Users gravitate toward what's available, what's usable and if possible what has the most vibrant ecosystem of apps. Games, if the developers want to make any money, will target that platform. If the apps are common on a specific platform, then it stands to reason tools for developing other apps/games will also be common on that platform.
Yes, hiring usually means payment. That company is just trying to get something for nothing. Slightly dishonest IMO.
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the downfall of Science in Islam during the 1100s beautifully: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7rR8stuQfk
Sound: OpenAL abstracts this decently. If you're not using it or an equivalent, you're doing it wrong.

Networking: Most folks building a bespoke networking layer seem to go with ENET, which is cross-platform.

Async file I/O: yup.

Threading libraries: something wrong with Boost Thread? (Boost gets coroutines, too, in 1.53, which I'm pretty excited about.)

Honestly, the biggest problem I see in writing a cross-platform game is device input. Trying to build a joystick/gamepad-based game for Linux and OS X are pretty painful. Fortunately I've lucked onto GLFW as a windowing toolkit, which handles the HID Manager boilerplate and other badness for them.
The WebUSB api has always been on the roadmap, but it got deprioritized for 1.0. It takes a long time to finish all these pieces, so some patience will be needed. :-)
Could relify.com help you?
The two sons are 18 and 23 respectively. The older one, Alex, owns the DNS record, so I'm guessing they have full access to the servers and all, and I'm guessing it's the 23 in him that posted this (I wouldn't expect this from someone more polished). The domain for the channelsource.BIZ site, however, is owned by someone else (still in Champage, IL) and is also hosted elsewhere. So it could be that AlexLucasTech is responsible for only the .ORG site. It does seem that they control it.

I would argue that even though they control the site that it may contravene at least a few laws, whether it's defacing a website - which they effectively did - or some kind of defamation - not because they are owed money per se, but they're clearly stating that if the company hires you then the company won't pay you, which is speculation at best.
I understand that restify has faster responses, but what else can put it on par with express?
Black sheep do exists everywhere even if you find them and fire them, they go out and create rumors about the company.

I've faced this twice.
Xilinx vs. Altera Tools For Hobbyists
I use them all the time when I need to buy some computer hardware. Except in cases when they don't have what I need. They have excellent customer service and return policy. And seeing that they have strong stance against patent trolls gives another good reason to support them.
One small flaw: the columns have huge gutters at high resolutions. Example:
http://i.imgur.com/BJD5N8o.png

The image example is for effect, but it does look goofy at 1980px viewport width too.
Yeah, you're right. I was responding to the general problem of finding stuff in your inbox as restated by others - not the suggestion of self-destructing email. Sorry I was unclear.
For what it's worth, my favorite teachers were always the ones who assigned the least work.
Reactions, a new iOS app by Geohot: 2 cameras are better than one
plugged-in chargers don't really use a significant amount of electricity.
It is very tiring to hear the same old irrelevant statement repeated over and over again. That early in its life Islam was less hostile to learning and what we now think of as science. This is largely meaningless of course and as irrelevant to Islamic nations and movements today as comparing the leadership and policies of any country or region a thousand years ago to today.

Islam is the driver of policy in a number of nations today - there is no obvious movement by these nations towards tolerance of science where it conflicts with rigid Islamic dogma.

I get the instinct of many to not want to tar all Muslims with the brush of radicalism and extremism. I share it. But the facts are not flattering when you look at the actual effects of policies and positions in the nations where Islam plays a key role in governance today. Papering over that by reaching back a thousand years to a supposed golden age of Islamic science is not helpful though. Uncomfortable truths are better faced honestly. You can do this without resorting to bigotry and pointing out things that make people uncomfortable does not have to be bigotry.
How long ago did this start? I wonder if it has anything to do with some of the issues with Github I (and others) were noticing on Friday[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/davidbalbert/status/294941563673522176
Excellent, hopefully she can fully sully the reputation of the USDOJ to the point where the Senate has to step in.

A horrible case like this is exactly the kind of case to bring to trial before the people to set precedent. The more egregious the violation the more restrictive the regulation will be. The harder you push the pendulum the harder it swings back.

Sounds like she's vindictive enough to dig two graves.

Does anyone know how much traction she's getting amongst the AM radio crowd? Sounds like something that audience would eat up, especially in light of Kelo.
ctrl-f atm machine

upvoted.
Bluetooth is in 1.0, but only headset support and file transfer support because of time constraints. Arbitrary serial connections coming soon.
I've heard rumors that Massachusetts is considering allowing people who don't read HN to vote...
Zipavideo. Multi codec video compression, low volumes while preserving quality
Obama's Techs Want To Open Source Their Work, Politicians Want To Keep It Secret
> up all the goals of a 3'rd grade education system

Can all the goals of a 3rd grade education system be reduced to a purely mechanical list of stuff?

Let's try applying your example of arithmetic to reading. What are the goals? To get children to read individual words? Or to get children to read a sentence, and obtain meaning from it? If it's just to read words, do you get those words from a defined vocab? Should they all be real words, or do you include nonsense words too?

While schools may not have stopped teaching students to read they have cut out other parts of the curriculum to focus on what's being tested.

And there's a risk of a cut off point - there's a bunch of children who will read, and there's a few children who are struggling to read. Do you spend extra time and money on the few strugglers (some of whom are going to fail whatever you do), or do you concentrate on the majority (and get most of them through the test and thus look good)?
The only workable solution I've found: maintain absolute transparency with everyone in your various networks, and never, ever, ever respond to the animal in any way. It literally takes years for them to break off from the hunt, and there is no protection from their predation as long as they can still smell your blood. Your attention fuels their hatred and their psychosis.

Notifying their family or friends is counterproductive - they have been programmed to treat their predator as a victim and will attack you as well, multiplying the threat.
Some ideas I got from this article:

"I bought an Android phone to differentiate myself from the superficial drones carrying iPhones."

"Nobody wants an iPhone any more, because everyone has an iPhone."

Too many anecdotes, not enough data.
Thank you so much for the input.

We have been going back and forth about focussing on a mobile app. Some of the mentors have urged against doing that, since there are already lots of apps to handle more mass input.

However, the very next feature we are looking to roll out is the ability to add a contact, location, and a few tags about them in one text. It would look something like this: "Joe Schmoe @Starbucks & Developer, Daughter Sally plays violin, from Boston"

I know that Evernote Hello is trying to solve the issue of meeting a bunch of new people at the same time and helps you remember people based on who you met them with.

Our focus is making something that is and short and simple as possible to trigger your memory. The ultimate goal is something that requires no active input from the user based on your contacts, your calendar events, what your Google Glasses see and hear. Although, we run into a ton of privacy issues very quickly.
The article would have been much more credible if it would have said something like "try postgresql instead". It has nothing to do with entitlements.
Yep. The entire goal of this project has always been to fill in all the gaps in web apis like these you suggest.
The Good and the Bad of OAuth 2.0 Authorization Implementations
>I think it's the Marines that have the saying: "Anything worth shooting, is worth shooting twice."

The war on drugs is not a war between nation states. This hotel owner is a civilian and a citizen of the United States, not an enemy soldier.

>Unless the judge points out some obvious mis-application of the prosecutor's legal logic ...

Isn't that what the judge just did in throwing out the case?
A user having problems with a piece of software should NEVER have to be an expert in the field to critique it.
I agree. Next time you buy something, and have a choice between Newegg who fought and put themselves at risk, and Amazon who took the easy way out, you know who deserves your money.
a digression but the writer seems russian by virtue of his/her sentence construction. I can't really pin down the reason, perhaps a linguist can help me out? (Disclaimer: I'm not russian. Edit: By the comments on his page it looks it's actually a russian. Also the use of livejournal)
Took me a second, well played... AHA! I say.