skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the specs for MariaDB, I can see why our last client dropped MySQL for the front end and went with it.

The XtraDB engine, basically a fork of InnoDB with patches, is actually very nice. We've had to do almost no modifications to the data structure when moving from InnoDB for some DBs (that we're not using Postgres for).

Fun fact: XtraDB is also the default in Percona http://www.percona.com (No, I don't work for them).

There are things you still need to carefully look into before migration if that's what you want to do. Minor things like naming is only part of it. Read. Read. Re-read the documentation :
https://mariadb.org/docs

I've felt MairaDB is the direction MySQL should have gone after the 4.x branch. In many ways (though the technical aspects are totally different), this split is very similar to what happened with FreeBSD after the 4.x branch with the start of DragonFly. When in doubt, fork.

The beauty of Open Source.
The last point is really important. Otherwise you'd have engineers and groups fighting over where to put curly braces, 2 space indents vs 4, whether tabs are OK, etc--none of which actually matters.

This is probably the most insightful comment to come out of this discussion. The exact numbers aren't all that important, but having a consistent style (including line length limits - which I'm fairly sure no one will argue that there should not be a limit) and not checking in stylistic changes (or at a minimum, disentangling them from actual changes of substance) is important.

The problem is, we as programmers obsess over details (especially the closer you get to the hardware). The key is to obsess over the correct details, or obsess once and move on.
This post made me really happy. THIS is the kind of encouragement that 'non-technical' aspiring founders need. Less of the "if you can't code you don't have valuable skills" attitude. I have a blog post sitting in draft form that has scarily similar advice to this based on my own experiences, however this describes it with some really inspiring YC examples.

I started working this way at the start of 2012 and all of my projects since then have been far more popular/successful and more pleasing to work on. This is because I'm fully in control of project progress, I can see things through to launch, pushing the limits of my coding skills and bringing my 'concierge' MVP to life.

For those looking for technical help with a project longer term, don't forget that by starting this way you're stripping back and leaving pure technical issues which allows those with technical skills to clearly see where they could bring value which makes offering help very interesting.
"They" do not say it, DeLong does.
Not familiar with OPML editor, but it looks like a way of activating features that are only available on the author's own computer (e.g., editing comments) that is useless to everyone else. Seems like a bad way of doing that though.
popurls clone script anyone?
Usually when a post about Google shows up on the HN front page, someone from Google shows up in the comments and takes some common-sense action. They are probably figuring out how to handle it now.
Not really -- Amazon would just have to have a policy along the lines of, "We only sell guns via gun stores in your local area," and their legal team would only have to ensure compliance with regulations in 50 states (and whatever other countries they do business in). The last rifle I purchased was from a friend in New York, and he mailed the rifle and the case to a local gun store, which is basically what the law requires. Amazon could do the same in the USA if they were willing to enter that market or were willing to allow third parties to use Amazon for such transactions; I suspect that their corporate image is a bigger issue than the law.
I don't understand where you're coming from. How is it not a valid complaint to point out that Google is restricting one company but not the big advertisers? How do you know their day will come? How can you say favoring the big guys isn't rational for a bid-based service when the big guys are most likely to be the biggest bidders?
I had theefl-trunk installed before, but ppa-purge didn't remove everything, i suppose.
Went through libe* libraries and purged whatever came from e17. Installed again.. working now, woohooo!
This is good news for sites like Facebook that track users across multiple, unrelated sites.

Individual sites can still track you with third-party analytics tools by creating a CNAME (DNS alias) to a third-party tracking domain.
Truth is a defense to libel.
This - suffering comes from being attached to the outcomes.” - reminded me of a similar quote from Bhagavad Gita (paraphrased) - "Do your duty without attachment to the outcomes"
The only way to stop a bad guy clicking through an assisted-opening knife ad on the internet is with a good guy clicking through an assisted-opening knife ad on the internet. You have crossed the National Assisted-Opening Knife Ad Association for the last time Google! We have representatives!!
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Merely making an HTTP request to a site -- any HTTP request, as far as I'm aware -- is sufficient for that site to set a cookie on your machine.

If on the other hand the site wants to store something in localstorage, the site has to run JS on your machine. That's a much higher bar.
Apparently Fedora and SuSe also decided to a while ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5147574
The UK also has 1/5 the US' population - what does all this mean?
The value of (large sums of) money is logarithmic.
Don't know which base, it varies.

So it's all pretty logical.

I would have chosen random to 5$, but then again I hope I know the tricks how to make money value linear.
> "mysogynists tireless efforts to terrorize women in tech"

Crazed hysterics are not necessary and accomplish nothing constructive. There are far too many ideologues on both sides of this discussion poisoning the well for the rest of us.
If I understand correctly, Google asked them to REMOVE the knife's from sale on their site - not just from any ads running on adwords.
Hopefully Ubuntu makes a similar switch in the near future. Long overdue at this point.
> he tends to talk slooooowly

`mplayer -af scaletempo` and then pressing ] to increase the speed of the video, without altering the pitch of the sound, was my solution. (And I hear also the Coursera player lets you to change the video speed.)
"Having a community that likes lots of small commits..."

Is that even a thing? I feel like commit sizes is generally a pretty person by person thing. Aggregate a bunch of people/projects/dev-groups and you get some vague metric of a language.

The point I think isn't to show X is slightly more expressive than Y, but to illustrate a general trend.
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It's also interesting that there is no effective difference between a switchblade and these "spring assisted" knives. Yes, the mechanism is different. But in both cases, you push a button, and the blade pops out rapidly.

The very existence of these knives is clearly to circumvent existing laws regarding switchblades.

This is entirely separate from the big-guys vs little-guys argument being made against Google.
I don't care if it's beautiful, or how it auto-saves drafts, I want an e-mail client designed with security from the start. Everyone seems to be up in arms about privacy these days, but people forget both how much data is available inside their mail spools and the fact that none of it is encrypted. Put S/MIME or PGP support in your roadmap as a first-class feature and I'll be interested in your mail client. Consider a text-only mode and develop with a type-safe language and I'll definitely take a second look.
XtraDB is not only the default in Percona, they originally wrote it (forked from InnoDB).

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/12/16/announcing-pe...
I saw this quote on stack overflow that best summarize my experience with Angular: in angular the easy stuff is really easy and the advanced stuff seem disproportionally hard.
I was a part of a company that had this sort of practice. It was the worst company I ever have worked for. You end up with everyone trying to get everyone else thrown under the bus so they look like the good guy because they haven't fucked up. Pure idiocy at work.
Are you sure about that? I have the impression Google wanted them to remove assisted opening knives from their site. The Amazon ad they used as an example was not for assisted opening knives, but the Amazon page they showed was.
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This is common in much of the finance industry, well, at least banks anyway.

In fact, I would be surprised if anyone could come up with a more systematic and brutal example of this method than that practiced, oddly enough, at the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates.

The founder even has a manifesto that represents the basis of the "radically transparent" workplace culture called "Principles of Ray Dalio":

http://www.bwater.com/Uploads/FileManager/Principles/Bridgew...
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Should paring and chef's knives be illegal then? They don't require opening at all, can be quite sharp, and are widely distributed. Baseball bats, tire irons, icicles: almost anything can become an untraceable weapon.
It's called the Dart Runtime which is not included in non Google browsers.
The compliant issues you mention (for the most part) do not exist.

There are very few extra legal limitations for selling ammunition over the internet. These legal limitations could be shifted to third-party retailers, with Amazon as a middleman only.

There are literally no extra legal limitations or regulations for a company selling (non-firearm) firearm parts, which Amazon does not allow.

Selling ammunition requires roughly the same amount of legal red tape as selling knives or tasers (which Amazon already does).
Ask HN: Did TextDrive disappear for you too?
Last week (3/21) I discovered that all of my sites hosted on TextDrive were no longer reachable:

ಠ_ಠ ping rabasa.com
PING rabasa.com (8.17.82.104): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
^C
--- rabasa.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

Here is a brief history of my inability to connect with anyone at TextDrive about this.

3/21 - An email is sent to support@textdrive.com
3/22 - Another email is sent to support@textdrive.com
3/22 - A tweet is sent to @txd
3/25 - A support ticket was filed at https://w.textdrive.com

I've checked my Spam folder, so I know I'm not missing any correspondence from TextDrive. It seems like they've simply disappeared. Has this happened to anyone else?
You can also watch Dale talking about PouchDB http://vimeo.com/56632201

(Hi Dale!)
You push a button and the blade snaps out in both cases. What's the real difference? The internal mechanisms differ, but the end result is the same.
This site would be even stronger if it didn't mention the "sensations... inappropriate jokes... distastefully ugly backlash outside" at all.

Those captivated by that flaming (but short-burning) controversy can already appreciate the contrast. Others with negligible awareness of the controversy can just enjoy the awesomeness, without the injection of another emotionally-loaded reference.
> They're trying not to burn bridges, which is good business.

I think that's the parent's point: that you cannot afford to burn bridges with Google, even when they are wrong. Speaks to their power.

> Google asked them to stop advertising for one category of products.

I read it as Google asking them to stop advertising through Adwords as long as their site carried the products in question, even if the ads weren't for those specific products. If your interpretation is correct, however, I would agree with your conclusion.

Perhaps the OP can clarify.
You can edit the source files with any text editor, and compile, test and submit using `sbt` from the command line. No need to use Eclipse.
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I'm entirely sure that Amazon spends more. But for that keyword whoever bids the most spends the most. Google optimizes by the keyword, which of course they should, just as companies like Amazon don't bid on keywords because they're benevolent, but because they want to optimize their own return. Removing players from the market cannot possibly serve Google's financial interest, and that conspiratorial angle makes absolutely no sense.

Because their seems to be some confusion about how bid systems work (including by the dead post below), if Amazon and others outbid this company, netting more for Google, this would be a non-issue because you would have never seen this company's products.

It is notable that Google absolutely bans knives in the context of weapons, full stop (the author of the linked posting seems confused and thinks "such as" gives the specific culprits, when those are merely examples). This company may have authored their ads in a weapons manner, or targeted weapons-type keywords -- the sort of nonsense that gets Google sued by a bunch of state Attorneys down the road, everyone clucking about how evil Google is selling (indirectly) the knife that the kid used to do some evil.

EDIT: The only possible favoritism that Google might be showing her is in the context of legal responsibility. If some random knife site sells a kid a knife via a Adwords ad, everyone will come gunning for Google. If Walmart sells a knife to some kid, everyone will go gunning for Walmart, regardless of how they got the initial contact.
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> The commenters in this thread are writing off the data because...? They decided the measure is bad?

Yes, because what the measure actually measures isn't a valid proxy for what it purports to measure.

> When the measure conforms to experience, it's probably worthwhile to look into it.

No, if the adopted proxy (here, "LOC per commit") has some sound rationale for being used as a proxy for the actual quality of interest (here "expressiveness"), then it is worth actually getting some results with it for which you have a firm expectation of what those results would look like if you were able to directly measure the quantity (in this case "expressiveness") for which you are using the proxy (in this case "LOC per commit").

If after such testing the proxy -- which you first looked to for reasonableness, and then tested on the "simple" data for which you had a firm expectation of what the results would be for the quality of interest -- seems workable, its worth investigating what kinds of results in returns for things which you don't have a firm idea of where they would fall. (Which is the only reason you actually use a proxy measure for in the first place.)

In this case, the proxy fails at the first test (sound rationale for using it as a proxy for expressiveness), which makes the second test (do the results line up with what you'd expect on a known sample set) meaningless.
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Most email is sent as unencrypted text over the Internet.

Secure email is not possible unless you're all being very careful, or you're using some other protocol.
Google engineer - 11th graders in Vietnam could pass Google interview
The Old Reader is okay for now, but it's slow.
If they are non technical and don't have the hustle and flow skills then what exactly would they be bringing to a startup generally?

Assuming of course it's not money cause money solves most problems.
Or perahps I3!

http://i3wm.org/
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Somehow I wasn't previously familiar with tmux, and that looks _fantastic_.

I've been stacking screen sessions for years, so this is really exciting. Thanks!
Totally agree. I have been feeling this gut for nearly everything open-source out there. It's time to reign-back-in! Sorely.
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Many, many thanks for taking the time to give your thoughts, NicoJuicy!

Would it help if the first thing on the website said something like this: "Solve your folding laundry dilemma with NeverFold" instead of "Say goodbye to folding"?

What sort of pictures would help make it obvious. Is there any certain frame in the video that would "speak thousands word" on what it is about? Just to give me an idea what stood out for you and I'd be able to leverage on that particular picture.

I'll definitely change from "Reserve Now" to "Pre-order Now" and see how it works out.

Would you like to see prices somewhere on the front page?

Love the "Send it as a gift" idea. Will definitely add that.

Thanks so much NicoJuicy. Hope to hear some more negative comments as they're most helpful! :)
A quote that would be best served with an example....
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. If you have any questions for me, please let me know.
You have Stripe ready to take people's credit card information but you don't have About section describing your information.
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I need details of your transcoding and streaming capabilities. Specifically, can you transcode well known formats to h.264 at various output resolutions and then create m3u8 playlists for HTTP-Live streaming? We had to roll our own solution to handle doing just that from user-generated content. I saw that RTMP was mentioned but that's it.

For doing any sort of video on mobile apps this could come in handy. Most people are just using progressive downloads on small clips or offloading to youtube these days.
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How do you level the playing field in this case? One account has 50% disallowed items (50 of 100) and another account has 0.005% disallowed items (50 of 1,000,000). You could bias _against_ large accounts by banning when they reach a fixed number of disallowed items - but then you let little guys (or any big guy that makes lots of small accounts) skate by under some arbitrary limit.
This is why the OP talked about S/MIME and PGP, methinks.
We will pile hacks on top of hacks until the web is indistinguishable from a very drunk and very angry magician.
Show HN: Nutrients Per Calorie, a web interface to the USDA foods database
Knives are among the oldest and most versatile tools known to man. I have, on occasion, used my pocket knife as a gardening tool, screwdriver, box cutter, prying tool, wire stripper, wire cutter, torque wrench, and hammer. It is not the best tool for any of the above, but sometimes you just lack the time needed to go back to your garage and get your toolbox.

Nothing about "assisted opening knives" makes them "clearly intended to be used as weapons." It is a convenience, just like my pocket knife conveniently locks open. Why should a tool not be convenient?

Finally, the important distinction here is that Google is not refusing to advertise these knives, they are only refusing to allow this one, small company to advertise those knives. That is a key detail -- Google has no problem with the knives when Amazon is selling them.
Great! Thanks! Just sent an email over

-Annie
Safari has blocked third-party cookies for many years. I've never noticed any problems in real world use.
Ask HN: Do you want a free Mobile UI Designer?
Hi HN,

I'm a young mobile/web designer who is looking for an interesting project or two to work on. What do I want in return? Feedback and recognition. That's it. If my work is shit, I'd expect you to tell me. I don't want to waste your time, don't waste mine by skirting around potential issues. Sound interesting? Read on.

What you get:
Free as in beer work. No, I don't have a specific number of hours per week that I can dedicate to this, as I'm a student. Don't ask me for an estimate. I just won't answer.

What you have to do:
Convince me why I should work with you instead of everyone else. Have something that is going to change the world? Tell me why.

Now, since you know nothing about me, here are some links you should check out if you're interested:
Homepage - http://robs.im
Dribbble - http://dribbble.com/RobSim
Email - me (at) homepage
i think you're off by about ten orders of magnitude
It isn't even that noble. The reasons that cities bought them is that the Federal stimulus paid for them.

The machines jam in the winter, the batteries have a shelf life, and they become filty and disgusting in the summer heat. The company is a good at lobbying though.
Arizona doesn't officially require you to carry an ID at all times, but they now have a de-facto law requiring ID to enter a public place.
That's gonna be a tough challenge but we've focused very much on building a solid product that looks and feels native and runs fast.

You're right there are many bookmarking apps and most of them are really good so we are taking a stab at a problem that's been solved many times before. ;)
People really need to get a backbone and stand up for themselves. Sorry if that seems harsh, I've just noticed quite a few Ask HN threads where devs feel guilty about leaving for a variety of reasons.

They could fire you at anytime. You can leave at any time. It is common courtesy for either party to give 1-2 weeks notice. But that is not a rule, and I've known cases where people give notice and are asked to leave immediately (a rather extreme example that probably won't happen).

They might ask you to stay until the project is finished, or to stay for a bit longer. You can accept. You can demand a one-time bonus for staying longer. You can stay on as a contractor. Or you can just refuse and leave this very instant.

*The exception to this is that sometimes employment contracts will state that you're contractually obligated to give them X days/weeks notice. In which case you should fulfill that obligation.
Google Removes Comedy Group's Video from YouTube. Kafkaesque Nightmare Ensues
I would agree with you if Dave Winer were to be posting this in a passing. But he seems to be actively and heavily promoting it as a product people would consider using, and paying perhaps. You know Dave is not into providing things for free, so your reference to "fun" is probably misplaced.
I think that's a big differentiator in people's CLI preferences. When I see prompts that don't include $HOSTNAME, and people eschewing tabs for multiplexing in all cases I just assume they rarely manage remote machines.
I'm not the OP, but I do work for Knife Depot. Google did not ask us to stop advertising for one category of product. They asked us to remove those products from our site, and if we didn't, we could not advertise for ANYTHING via AdWords, including kitchen knives, cutting boards, pocket knives, etc.
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Is the state of linux email clients so abysmal that rebuilding the mail.app interface (without some of the fancy features (VIP, smart folders, etc)) is a desirable goal?
Thank you for help. With all of that, I'm still getting no result.

Second line of CSS/SCSS reference appears but it's like ..:4 and points to no file.

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/4EJBBjd.png
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We use MediaWiki, SharePoint Online, special repository for API documentation (private repo on github - it's convenient way to share with outsourcers), and sometimes we have readme in internal repositories also.
I share opinion of our CEO, that 0 information should be stored just in somebody's memory.
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Not to mention that conference generally generate a lot of "sex" -- the result of a successful mutually acceptable pickup. I personally know of two marriages with 5 "by products" of conferences.

There are some good points in that post, but they get watered down by the much weaker less thought out ones.
You can watch any of the Coursera videos sped up at 1.1x, 1.5x speed, etc. It helps.
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