skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also don't do much Visual stuff (I do mostly console based apps on Windows) with Visual Studio, but hey - they got the name :)
Probably several (of the top Google results) would result on an actual download... after a lot of redirects and malware installs.

Edit: let's test it :)

Search: scott turow ebook download

1st link - paid site (did not try)

2nd link - 1 redirect, ended up on a chinese site, donwloaded. PDF, opened perfectly. Less than one minute download.

3rd link - direct download

The books were: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, and El peso de la prueba – Scott Turow

That's a hard barrier indeed.

But the hardest is jumping over the hurdle that is legal distribution (and the awful royalty bargains the author mentions).

I've desisted of buying some ebooks on Amazon due to unreasonable prices and/or delayed release dates. Case in point, A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan, I went credit card in hand to Amazon's site to buy it... but they're not selling it, only the paper version.

I'd also pay for a Netflix ebook equivalent, probably more than I do for Netflix itself.
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It occurred to me as I was writing another comment about how much I love ZeroCater that they might be the perfect fit for what I'm trying to build right now. I've started validating and getting Beta customers for a personalized perks program where people don't get a set group of company0wide perks, but instead get them personalized to what makes them a happier and more fulfilled person. I've been trying to figure out the catering problem, because I don't actually want to CREATE any perks, but instead partner with people that already fulfill things that would be considered perks. Catering is definitely the one I have the hardest time imagining managing.

Is this an appropriate place to ask if anyone thinks ZeroCater would be interested in being the fulfiller for catering for that system and/or they could ask Arram or the appropriate person what they think? (email = tommy@thecityswig.com)
So much for getting anything done today... :-)

I really liked googles map reduce lectures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPBkvYh-ss
Wish google would update the quality and fix the link to the slides - heres a copy on slide share:
http://www.slideshare.net/sriprasanna/introduction-to-cluste...
You can find the links to the rest of the videos and slides from there, theres 7 total I think.
So what about boring, measured, and technically correct articles ... with crazily sensational a/b tested titles :P but seriously, I wouldn't have a problem with a sensational title, if the actual article itself does a good job of arguing for or against said title.
Has there been a currency (assuming bitcoin is a currency) that's deflated by 2000x in a few years? Not saying it can't be done with paper money, but it's less convenient than it is with bitcoin.
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NP. How late do you sleep?
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No, you could still have one cached copy for everyone. The SSL termination happens before the user's request gets to the caching server. As far as the cache is concerned, it is a regular http request. The only problem is you cannot have generic caches that live closer to the end user; the cache has to be controlled by the person controlling the SSL termination.
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Yes, but modern English lacks case markers.

If we consider ‘a couple of apples’ a genitive construction, then I guess you could probably say it's similar to два яблока (‘two apples’), where ‘яблока’ is singular genitive form.

(The example is in Russian, which seems to be like Polish in this regard.)
Consider yellow to mean "stop", and the length of it becomes irrelevant and the roads become a little bit safer.
Intriguing. I'd like to know more about the differences between value added Angel investors vs. VC investors. Is that something documented or merely an observation?
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Where Can I get t-shirts printed for cheap for our startup?

Thanks
Active/Active WAN-based Replication in GemFire vs Oracle & MySQL
Total overkill, especially given that replicated RAM storage is quite pricey when compared to traditional alternatives. Ideally, you just use Redis to store (cough cache cough) latest forum threads/comments and have everything else on disk (maybe in a RDBMS?). You get performance and price.

EDIT:

>Another of those tricks has to do with the fact that nearly half of our code is also written in LUA running directly on Redis.

Urgh. Ugly.
I've used it for years and I like it.

However, I'm not prepared to make any statements about how safe it actually is. I don't have quite deep enough security expertise to know that.
I was going to give it the benefit of the doubt and assume there were branches (eg: development branch) but I am sadly mistaken.

It seems to be a rudimentary implementing of the MVC pattern, which is interesting to say the least.
I've heard some pretty terrible stories about the vegetarian options offered by ZeroCater. It seems that many times they give the omnivores a full meal and then the vegetarian meal is the same meal without the meat, meaning it contains virtually no protein.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I am sensitive to other people's preferences. Has the situation changed lately?
If you're in danger of getting fired over a commit mistake, you have more and bigger problems than this article can fix.

These are good tips, nonetheless.
So you are equating human beings with pigs and cows, here?
Why I'm not buying Bitcoins
Looks more like a "here's an abandoned, incomplete project looking for someone to take it over" plea.
Pixate Engine is a native framework for iOS (and Android soon) for styling your native controls using the CSS syntax. There's no web here other than the shared syntax of CSS. For example, to style a native UIButton:

button {
border-radius: 5px;
background-color: red;
}

Think of it as declarative markup for styling native controls.
It is a grey area, at least in the US. The main federal law for computer crimes is the ancient Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The provisions of the act state all work off the concept of "exceeding authorized access" - but the law never defines what authorized access actually is. Logging in with a default username and password has never been tested in court, as far as I know, and I think there are arguments to be made for both sides about whether that counts as authorized access.
with (nolock) is amazing. I worked at a very large fortune 500 company where that was the company policy because if you removed nolock, the thread contention would grind the servers to a halt. This also lead to some really interesting bugs, like a 5 million dollar order not flowing through a system because the row wasn't in the result set.
I use cli for everything but the occasional history inspection, for which I just use gitk. I have just recently started trying out p4merge as a mergetool.
We plugged spring integration, spring batch and jasper in and we're sorted.

The main problem with SSIS and SSRS is that you just can't put it in version control or scale it up inexpensively. Plus to be honest the tooling is shitty and unreliable (says me who spent all day fighting T-SQL debugger HRESULT crashes in SSMS whilst trying to reverse engineer a huge shitty black box SQL sproc into something scalable and testable in Java). Ugh.

We run both massive SQL server and postgres installations.
Have you found anyone with a public JSONP API? That'd seem to enable a new level of in-browser apps... though perhaps Blockchain.info/MtGox aren't ready for the accompanying level of traffic.
Doesn't have anything on AvFoundation. That's kind of my litmus test.
> Haskell only seems hard at first because it incorporates a lot of ideas that other languages do not.
Indeed, even if you know Haskell, it may take years to master all classes in its standard library and most commonly used modules (like Parsec.)
I might be facetious, but to me there's no difference.

90% of entrepreneurs here think their startup is by no means a "micro startup". They aim high, aim for growth... yet most of them fail, they can't even call themselves a small, lifestyle success.

So aim high, aim to be a "startup". You'll probably end up as a micro-startup as a result.
I don't disagree that the stack is good.

I also see that the term "real BI" is a bit meaningless :).

In terms of the companies using it, it looks like I might be a bit off, but its probably somewhat dependent on the industry.

One company that I am following is http://www.domo.com/. The founder has a great blog (www.joshjames.com) and seems to be trying to shake up the BI space a bit. I would love to know their back office stack.
How does Postgres performance rank on Windows?
Your point is accurate but your tone is deplorable. To you this is just another post about just another Github report, but to the author this is something they spent several months on.[0]

[0] https://github.com/mgauthier/php_diamond/contributors
Flagging for sensational, link-baity title.

edit: unflagged after modifications
Congratulations Jesse. Its clear you made the decision after a lot of thought. PyCon 2013 was my first and it was especially better because of the help and support we got from you and your team. It was remarkable to see you on top of things and helping everyone out.

Good luck on your new venture and the company is lucky to have someone like you.
You will never find someone use the term "SQL Server" to refer to anything else. Now, sometimes people just call it "SQL" and that is legitimately confusing.
But when you say it's the "hardest thing in the world," what does that mean? Why is it hard?
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Just so if any one is interested, yet another php framework: https://github.com/oguzbilgic/hivli
You can certainly prevent shell/SQL injection very easily with a good type system. Yesod, one of the Haskell web frameworks, certainly does this. Basically, you just give strings gotten from the user a different type than normal strings so that you can't use them without sanitizing or explicitly circumventing the sanitizer.

I don't know enough about web development to tell you if you can prevent XSS or CSRF, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could.

The important insight is that a good type system can fairly easily do much more than most people realize. Certainly far more than you can do with languages like Java!
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They aren't beating inflation right now, but historically they have. ~5 years ago interest rates on savings accounts were roughly 5% and inflation was 3-4%. Empirically, people actually saved less during that time (although there were many other confounding factors).
Agree with all your points. Additionally, MS is probably seeking to get back a bit of the developers love, who are influential in the browser popularity game.
We had to throw nolock into a few things but to be honest, they should have been solved by better architecture and stopping the DB engine doing everything including app logic.
What? I'm pretty sure that CocoaDocs is for projects on CocoaPods, i.e. not Apple provided libraries.
Do you fellas have a list of value stories associated with the insights generated from fusing web analytics and social?
I think you're getting even further away from open source.

If this tool could connect to a remote repo (like the GitHub repo) and operate on the changelog, then you'd be fine. No one would be able to use it privately without publicly exposing their repo.

Perhaps then you could charge a fee to get an ssh key to add to you authorized_keys file, which would allow for private use.
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Having a "company car" used to be a great perk, back when the tax code only considered it compensation if it was dollars.

We don't want to go back to those days. There was so much energy being put into working around the tax code and dead-weight from inefficient benefits. Even if you only got $4000 of value from the $8000 company car, it could have the rational choice given tax rates.
Judging by the commit history[1] it seems FuelPHP isn't being actively developed anymore.

https://github.com/fuel/fuel/commits/1.5/master

Although this is the 1.5 branch, the other branches are also similarly inactive (it appears to have ended about a month ago).
Oh, perhaps it will. But I'm not arguing about the ability of the economy as a whole to adapt.

I'm arguing that the extreme-sounding response of the meatpacking industry, which everyone in the thread is flipping out about, should be completely expected given the motives of those doing the filming, and their attitudes towards the meatpacking industry - they don't want to reform it, they want to shut it down. While economies can adapt, people and industries get left behind. Whatever you feel about meat, this is just a simple attempt on the part of an industry and its participants to defend their livelihoods, and should be understood accordingly - it's a perfectly rational act.

This is so gobsmacking obvious I'm amused by the downvotes. Half the country fought a civil war in defense of slavery. Are people seriously surprised meatpackers want to criminalize a little filming in defense of their own industry?
No. Since he's advocating chucking morality out the window, I can only assume he had something special and immoral planned (which largely went unexplicitly stated). The most efficient isn't to spread a limited wealth over a large number of people, but to reduce the number of people with little wealth. After all, since we've thrown out the concept of society as a means to protect principles of justice for individuals, we can surely afford to sacrifice some individuals for those lucky enough to be left in the selected set.

But you're right, he was probably only suggesting theft.
Bang on. I would probably extend it to include the email-first startup strategy that was posted here by Sachin of Posterous fame a while ago.
Since ZeroCater provides a physical service to companies and is located in SF Bay Area with a uniquely high density of companies it probably doesn’t apply here, but I can imagine some form of a computerized sign up is needed for other MVPs.
Data migration becomes a lot easier the closer to "raw" data you store. The farther away you are, the tricker it will be to write those migration scrips. And, if what you're storing is rolled-up enough, you may not even have the information you want/need any more. Note that the source data doesn't have to be what you're serving queries from; it could be an archive with batch scripts to re-process that's only dusted off in case of disaster/migration.
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Congrats on your marriage. I really enjoy your blog posts and podcasts and comments here on HN. They taught me a lot. Thank you.
Of course I'd argue the "fact". It isn't one.

Are there centralized influences, operating toward their own interests? Of course. Always have been. Those pursuing an effective strategy of sales & social normalization of X do so because it pays off. In a world of increasingly homogeneous media domination, putting up significant sums to buy influence pays off - hence the increasing concentration of wealth, supplying what can be marketed to increase demand.

This influence is not, however, infinite/total in scope. Options exist. You don't have to buy into anything "they" manipulate you to. It's still a choice. You can say "no" and buy elsewhere or do it yourself. Corporations are not gods; they are not omniscient/omnipotent/omnipresent, and do not strike you down with brimstone if you fail to buy their goods/services. You can turn off the TV, choose your own teachers & influences, and spend your money with whomever will trade as you see fair.

That much of society submits to such influences, well, that's their choice. I've chosen not to abide by those choices in large part, and know that where I do it's MY choice, and that I have options thereto.

Selfish influence arguments aside, there's also the matter of just doing a good job supplying what people need. People need Y, company Z does a remarkably good job of supplying it, people pay what it's worth to them (or less, what a great value!), and Z pockets the net profits. So? What's wrong with reaping rewards for a job well done?

BTW: This is Hacker News, on Y-Combinator, devoted to the notion that anyone can concoct something techy and - with a goal of profit - persuade others to buy it.
You're first step is to switch mindsets.

You see it as taking risks versus hard work, then placing value on them.

I see taking risk just hard work. Just $500 left in my checking account? Work harder. No college degree? Work harder. Work hard to be able to take risks.

Everything else will be crystal clear thereafter.
Suppose a society in which a few families owned and controlled essentially all wealth. I don't imagine that society could be said to be egalitarian or equitable no matter what laws or "rights" its citizens had, do you?
The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

2 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the Spirit enabled them.

5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,[b] 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

----

It get's old. Funny thing is they didn't record what the Holy Spirit said!

God says....

24:9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after
that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go
into his house to fetch his pledge.

24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend
shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

24:12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun
goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and
it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,
whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy
land within thy gates: 24:15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire,
neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his
heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin
unto thee.
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"RDBMS" does not necessarily imply that it speaks SQL, correct? My company produces document clustering software that can interact with virtually any database (via ODBC) that speaks SQL to examine any stored documents and cluster them. It is extremely annoying to try to convey to a prospective customer that it works with "virtually any SQL server" without them thinking that means just Microsoft SQL Server. I agree with guard-of-terra -- we should not be ceding common/descriptive terms to Microsoft.
That is great! Didn't know my lib is so well documented ;)
"Far from authoritarian" ?

She put hundreds of thousands of UK citizens under secret service surveillance for the crime of disagreeing with her government's decisions.

I was one of them. Aged sixteen I walked out of our house on the way to school every morning and passed the fake BT engineer changing the tape in the green switch box outside the house next door, reattaching something to our house phone with crocodile clips.

Mail took weeks to arrive because it was intercepted and read en route. I was stopped for questioning at every border point I passed in Europe until I was in my late 20s.

All this because not being a Thatcherite in Britain in the 1980s made us "enemies of the state".
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AVFoundation is an apple library, which isn't on cocoapods meaning cocoadocs doesn't support it. Apple do their own documentation pretty well and I don't really see a need to duplicate that to be honest.
be sure to head over to Charles Stross' page and read his set of posts on the publishing industry. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...

It's very readable Stross specific background knowledge for the publishing industry and knowing it will help you in dealing with publishers.
Any performance benchmarks of Pixate vs procedural code or vs similar DSLs, e.g. Teacup, Formation in Rubymotion?
You do your argument a disservice in saying he sold his soul to the Republicans. I think it's more likely that his goal is using his "extreme intelligence" for the things he wants to do, and it just so happens the Republicans decided to fund his "startup" (so to speak).
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Much of software is now construction rather than creation
I don't see the problem of buying thins with bitcoins directly, as long as the merchants are willing to accept it. And it will happen when/if the market stabilizes.
Gold has a lot of disadvantages (fractionating, checking for purity) that bitcoins doesn't.
AVFoundation is a library provided by Apple. CocoaDocs documents third party libraries published through the CocoaPods (http://cocoapods.org/) tool.
It varies wildly based on platform, filesystem, hardware, and usage cases.

Is your workload write-heavy? Is it more read-heavy than write-heavy? How much query throughput are you talking?

At the smaller scale, it doesn't really matter. At the larger scale, your app's characteristics determine how much (if any) you are disadvantaged over running a more performant Postgres+Linux combo.
The difference between a normal currency and bitcoin with regards to deflation is that bitcoin is almost infinitely divisible, whereas traditional currencies are not.

Divisibility acts in opposition to deflation to create liquidity.

The idea is in the future you don't trade bitcoins per se, but microbits, or picobits etc (or whatever they will be called).
I would also like to get in on this circle jerk. You should totally start up a business where you claim to know stuff about security because you port scanned your Linux box. YOu can take their money and then they can get hacked then who cares? You have money. It's great that we can provide so much to the community here!
I wonder what license the image was released under. While this could have been deliberate by Disney, I doubt they would use a (seemingly) very popular design on production material.

Then again, things like this have happened.
Using 3rd party CDNs, like Google Hosted Libraries, are often slower anyway.

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/03/18/http-archive-jqu...