skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why would you want this over a NoSQL store?"

If you can use a more general-purpose system like Postgres and get everything you need, then that's better than relying on special-purpose NoSQL systesm. The better question to ask is: why use a NoSQL system when Postgres works just fine and is useful in more situations?

The history of databases is a history of absorbing special-purpose systems into general-purpose SQL systems. XML databases were once a major topic (albeit misguided); now it's just a feature. Same with Columnar storage, or OO databases, or geospatial (postgres is a leader in geospatial, as well).

Because data integration is so incredibly valuable, it pushes strongly toward general-purpose systems and people dislike one-off special-purpose databases unless they deliver a huge amount of additional value.
Favorite line in the whole thing "Some of the fundamental security features made available (e.g. full field encryption, randomization through IVs, etc.) were disabled because we were not comfortable sharing such IP on the internet while our patents are still pending"

So, apparently they are going to be patenting padding/randomization in encryption and "full field encryption". Our patent system at work for obvious things.
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500K installs. How many turned around and uninstalled? So far everyone I know that tried it has uninstalled it. (I understand that it could be my circle of friends...)
10 links to their own website in that post. Not even links to other content, just root links. I feel bad not having much more to add because I don't really understand their technology, but that really stood out.

Probably some auto highlighter running amok.
They'll HAVE to follow because Deutsche Telekom will hand on the limitations to their resellers.
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I don't think you can just pass '(i) to palindrome? here - doesn't the number need to be converted to a list of digits first? I got #t for everything using your code.

I took some code off SO and it bumped up the runtime substantially:

#lang racket
(require srfi/1 srfi/26)
(define (digits->list num (base 10))
(unfold-right zero? (cut remainder <> base) (cut quotient <> base) num))

(define (palindrome? lst)
(equal? lst (foldl cons empty lst)))

(define ITERATIONS 10000000)
(for ([i (in-range ITERATIONS)])
(palindrome? (digits->list i)))

racket palindrome.rkt 11.66s user 0.55s system 99% cpu 12.293 total

I'm a racket beginner so I'd be interested in better answers to this.
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I'm just a GNOME hater...
Forgive my uninformed comments.
Germany fines Google a paltry $189,000 over Street View Wi-Fi scanning
Would love to hear the HN community's views on this taboo topic!
Looks like they stand firmly behind their DMCA takedown. EFF should slap them with a trout, as far as I'm concerned.
If you're happy with SymPy, then Sage doesn't really give you anything. That is, it gives you SymPy, which you already had.

Sage is many things intelligently integrated, of which SymPy is just one example. Superficially Sage is a set of command-line and web user interfaces with a preprocessor on top of the Python programming language. The deeper part of Sage is a set of libraries that tie together many high-quality tried-and-true open-source packages by providing a unified API and object model (theoretically based in category theory, I think), plus a set of package-specific APIs for when those are more desirable. The packages include Maxima as the main tool for symbolic computation, SymPy as another, NetworkX for graph-theoretic operations, PARI/GP for number theory, and many more: http://www.sagemath.org/links-components.html
No, everyone would not be behind carrier grade NATs. Presumably, in a dystopic future where CG-NAT became the new norm, the outcome for people like us is that we'd pay extra every month for our Internet service.

The rest of your comment presumes that the only connectivity on the Internet is via IP packets. But that's not true; it's an assumption based on historical patterns of access. Instead, assume the emergence of a routed message relay substrate built out of TCP connections (or even best effort SCTP or some other TCP-friendly datagram service). You'd "connect" to that next-generation Internet by making the same kind of connection your browser does, and having done so would be off to the races.

This stuff makes me want to blog again.
>> Slamming the service because you don't like the postings of people you chose to subscribe to is just a little bit ridiculous.

It appears you are viewing Facebook as some kind of alternative to Google+, or as a news feed where you can 'subscribe to interesting people' or something like that. That's one way of using Facebook, but I'd estimate the vast majority of people use it more like a network of friends, relatives, close or distant acquaintances, famous people/companies/products you they like, etc. The idea behind Facebook Home is to put information originating from this network in your face, all the time. Just saying you should simply block updates from anyone who isn't interesting enough to randomly show up on your home screen, kind of defeats the purpose of the feature.
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I can only imagine the shitstorm that will happen when Facebook starts actively curating content for you...
It really depends on the data structure. If you've got something that can have an unknown amount of variables in it and you're already serving up JSON, then I think using JSON is the way to go.

Another use-case: We've got hundreds of clients that send health statuses for a ton of different metrics every 10 minutes. Stuff like Wifi strength, exceptions caught/uncaught, various errors and crash reports, blah blah. Anyway, we need a flexible store for all of this stuff because we're always adding more metrics. Whatever the clients send as their request body gets added as a JSON object.

We also want to dynamically display all of these metrics. We can literally grab the data as JSON and make the keys table column headers in an html view. Adding new metrics can automatically be reflected in both the database and in our html views. We can query against new fields without changing schemas or business logic.
This is a story about a restaurant that opened in 1999 in the Marina, isn't it? How much do you want to tell me about gentrification in the Marina in 1999?

Thank you for setting me straight about my job making web pages and iOS applications.
Thanks for the link, I love the idea behind this game.
OK, we are all learning first hand here about the "slashdot" effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect (now Hacker news effect).

We are working to get the site back up (a simple Wordpress site set up by the marketing department that does not use our database). In the meantime, please take a look at http://mwne.ws/124r2GL

Thanks for all the comments. We clearly didn't anticipate this level of excitement, but are grateful for the interest.
Most of the time when I think of a pivot I imagine changing the product pretty substantially, but I think this seems more true to the analogy.

Well... if you are an advocate of the @sgblank "Customer Development" approach, then changing the product is the last thing you do. The goal of Customer Discovery is to find a market for "the thing you are building" and you only change to a different "thing" if you can't find a market.

Of course, there are cases where the line between the "thing" and the "business model" can be a bit fuzzy. In the case of TFA, switching the business model essentially was a change in the "product" that was being offered. But the important thing is that they found product/market fit - even if they didn't follow the letter of some process in doing so.
One of the more powerful products out there. Really worth the learning curve...good riddance CSS!
I see it in another way. There's another reason why they have so many downloads - Facebook is a brand name, and people just wanted to try it out, they'll uninstall it the next day.
Boy, I better get hopping on my FF OS app. :D
I think most interesting will be in countries like Argentina (where I live). The government here has put obscene tariffs on imports, especially in technology. The government does this in an attempt to promote growth in local manufacturing and technology companies (albeit an attempt which only hinders the purchasing power of their people and growth of their economy in the long run.)

For example, iPhone's are not available here through the normal market. If you want an iPhone you would have to purchase one through MercadoLibre (Latin America's Ebay). An iPhone which costs you $600 in the states or Canada would cost you nearly double here. Even Android devices are generally extremely overpriced.

This combined with BBM and terrible messaging packages are the reasons why BlackBerry does so well here. Nearly everyone owns a BB here.

If Firefox can offer a reasonably priced phone which can offer an app ecosystem and (data driven) messaging service, I think they stand to win significantly - at least in Argentina.
As well as being a great game so far, it's a real inspiration that one person could put this together.
Reading this list, I'm honestly blown away that the IRC culture has evolved from "RTFM"

Pretty cool that there are people willing to "waste" their time explaining stuff now.

Is this just a product of there being large masses of programmers out there before, where it was pretty specialized a decade ago?
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Death is pretty final. Pain is only temporary. Plenty of people who want you around, who care enough to help you through it, many you don't even know yet.
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for one time things, no account required :D
It's funny that you mention mistakes and inaccuracies, because I'm actually waiting for the author of the OP article (Cyrus) to get around to replying to an email I sent him 4 days ago pointing out that the claims about Silk Road in http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/fbi-halted-one-ch... are completely false and this can be proven by merely reading the PDF used as the source for the article.

Thinking about complaining to him on Twitter, maybe if I start being more public about it he'll bother to do something about a year-long mistake...
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The Windows Phone ones are out there. ;)

Now, I get your point, but there are too many useful scenarios where having an online ID helps (and too many benefits for providers if you have an ID too) that I don't think this is very feasible.
Coral cache version as site seems to be struggling already: http://blog.ciphercloud.com.nyud.net/responding-to-the-myths...
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Why are you blaming the users and the friends, but not the service?

I friend people based on how well I know them and wanting to keep in touch, not how interesting their facebook posts are. Sure, I don't really care about all the mundane things my friends' kids do every day, but it's nice to know what people are up to in general. That doesn't mean the stream is irrelevant or useless to me, but it also doesn't mean I need to see it every time I turn on my phone.
May be honest, it's just very convenient. "That demo we have on our site to show off the technology? It's really crippled and doesn't actually show off the technology... We promise the real thing actually works! Oh, you want to hear about the DMCA takedown? That was just our legal team, you know how they can be!"
So, if I can show (adverse) differences in opportunity, then affirmative action for women would be accepted?

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/07/14/high-price-of-being-born-female/ - Covers many topics on lack of women's income.
http://www.bls.gov/ore/abstract/ec/ec070130.htm - "White fat women need not apply. Where is the White Fat guy study?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherhood_penalty - Penalty any woman pays when they choose to have a child. Affects socioeconomic and educational basis negatively.
http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2009/06/18/the-motherhood-penalty-the-pay-gap-between-working-moms-and-childless-women/ - How about from the WSJ, instead of Wikipedia?
http://phys.org/news205501664.html - If you do have a child, or cannot get easy access to birth control, the poorer you are the worse your income disparity will be.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents - Scroll down.. Really?

Well, hmm..
> A couple of recent discussions in a few board threads contributed to by our competitors have questioned CipherCloud’s approach to delivering cloud information protection.

My BS meter is running high.
Is there any testimonial using TokuDB?
Judging from alpb's post, they either currently work there, or did in the past. "retail website" being the key phrase used frequently internally to Amazon.
Another good phrase: "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller" - which is when you do the opposite strategy (lots of little gains, but with the risk of losing it all and more).
You'll note the word "easy" appears nowhere in my post. And of course I have no experience whatsoever in experiencing/dealing with under-representation, so I clearly have no idea of any of the issues involved.
To be picky ... Most other providers aren't resellers of Telekom plans. They own their own infrastructure and only have to rent the cables going from the distribution box to the customer's house. And this line is not charged by the traffic or bandwith. And Telekom can not change the way how they charge this line. There are federal regulations for that.
Those extra kilowatts can be sold to other areas. That is exactly what is happening in most instances.

You can't sell the left over bandwidth of an infrastructure you provide to a consumer.
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And oh, about the forums.. it was just a bunch of jealous competitors trying to put us down.
Or they can just cut germany from their services. Three days without google and facebook - the german citizens will be busy flaying alive DT officials.

Flaying alive top corporate executives and beer makes the perfect octoberfest - lots of fun for everyone and not a single human being will be harmed.
Yes, it works fine now.
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I'll admit you may not have seen the cultural diversity in the area since the city is spread out, but Houston has as many OR MORE ethnicities than LA or NYC since the last decade has seen a huge increase in the number of refugees and students and workers from every little corner of the globe you could imagine. In addition to the Vietnamese and Chinese who have been here for a while, there are now large numbers of Indians and folks from Central Asia and the Middle East who may not yet be counted. Having lived in Nigeria as a kid, I'm excited that as of the last couple of years, there are possibly more Nigerians here in Houston than anywhere else in the world outside of Nigeria--more than NYC, LA or Chicago. I miss the walkability of Boston and how easy it was to run into so many people compared to the seclusion you feel in a driving city. Even though Houston is pouring hundreds of millions into bicycle trails at this moment, I know it will take a long time for this spread-out city to afford as many opportunities to bump into all sorts of people every day outside of a few key areas, and for that reason it's possible to live here and encounter little diversity.
"How does Postgres even index an hstore?"

It allows normal btree indexing of, for example, the values for some given key by using functional and/or partial indexes.

It also allows indexing of "contains", "contains key", "contains all of these keys" and "contains some of these keys" by using GiST and GIN indexes.
> Why does Facebook have to do anything here?

Because they broke the web for their users.

> Reducing file size is more important than short term convenience here.

Not for users, no. The only gain here is facebook's bandwidth costs, at the expense (and inconvenience) of its users.
I'm in no way qualified to speak about this as I have no professional credentials. However, being an engineer with an extensive history of anxiety and depression. Don't die yourself! This exception is catchable! Programmers have unique skills and ways of dealing with the world. Programmers and engineers have a knack for seeing all the potential outcomes of any given current state. Given a predisposition to unfavorable neurochemical states (seasonal or acute depression), the determination of potential outcomes can become insanely negative. That is, in a normal engineer, the engineer sees all the happy paths and negative paths. In a depressed engineer, they see mostly negative paths. In this way, the brains of engineers can cause emotional problems when chemical conditions go crazy. It was critical for me to realize that the chemicals in my brain, didn't represent reality and clouded my judgement rendering me unable to seek help. Until you get help, just remember that they are just chemicals.. you don't have to die because they are a bit out of sync.
First: Stop eating shitty food.

Srsly, most depression cases can be cured with Diet and Exercise ONLY.
The question then becomes "Why do I need more than one computer accessing git when computers now weigh 1kg?"
AWS tech maybe, but you can be pretty assured that the data centers (or at least networks) are are almost completely segregated.
Best friends, I don't know. Probably just my SO, but I idle in an active IRC channel with 10-12 of my high school gaming buddies. Most of us don't see each other but maybe once or twice a year, but we've used that channel since before we graduated and I don't see it going away anytime soon.
Where do you live? (Country,(State if in US), City).

As Agildehaus said: Death is final, lets talk first.
But they only rent the last mile from the Telekom. Starting at the DSLAM they usually bring their own infrastructure. (Except reseller contracts).

In the last years there also have been many small, local ISPs popping up, often partly owned by the city (Stadtwerke). Some start rolling FTTH connections and finally bring germany to the internet-first-world.

Cable providers, at least Kabel Deutschland (which is the only option here where I live), are sadly no alternative, while they offer high bandwidths without volume based throttling, the traffic shaping they do at peak times and for torrent traffic is ridiculous and makes their service almost unusable.
> It....doesn't actually show off the technology... We promise the real thing actually works!

And would be happy to have a full and frank discussion about the way our system works.... as long as you sign this NDA!
Show HN: my first nodejs module, fsjs
It's on GitHub:

https://github.com/arpith/fsjs

It lets you structure your app a little differently, app.js:

require('fsjs')(8000,'user','repo',function(data,defaultCallback){
defaultCallback('<!doctype html>'+data)
})

And (in the same directory), edit.js:

exports.get = function(file,callback) {
console.log(this.request.url)
// '/arpith/fsjs/edit/README.md'
callback('the file edited is '+file)
}

Feedback would be great.
It sure didn't when I was there three years ago, but maybe they moved quickly.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/firefox-os-app-workshops/
What about stiffling a free market? What's hard about forming two separate companies?
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Yes, hence my "not the answer you're looking for" :)
That depends on the power plant type. Gas fired power plants are very much variable. Nuclear not so much.
Fantastic prototyping tool
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Look for a woman's organization (things like The Society of Women Engineers for engineering jobs, student groups that cater to women, perhaps in a hall were sorority members hang out, etc).

Looking at Syracuse, http://wuc.syr.edu/ and http://multicultural.syr.edu/programs/index.html might be avenues.
I am lucky enough to live in Cologne we have fibre in almost every household (NetCologne) so I don't really worry .. But still most people have to rely on Telekom offerings cause there are no other options.
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So you wrote a brute-force algorithm in a slow, interpreted implementation of a dynamic language, and you were surprised that your solution took a long time to run?

Using a faster language implementation could have allowed you to use the same brute-force algorithm and come in under the time limit, but your real problem is your algorithm, not your language implementation.

You can write fast code in a fast language and get very fast running time.

You can also write slow code in a fast language, or fast code in a slow language, and still have acceptably fast running time.

But you wrote slow code in a slow language, the worst of both worlds.
I might start using "Sent from my Pokedex" or "Sent from my Pip-Boy 3000"
GitHub URL: https://github.com/arpith/fsjs
The Pirate Party, Social Democrats and the Greens already want net neutrality. Nice of the Telekom to play the bad boy who will cause a net neutrality law.
IRL you can't backup, bro. No rollback.
There should be a "Show HN" RFC for submission titles. Needs "Show HN:" + [name of project] + [10 words explaining what it's about], IMO.
"...if you poke holes in it oil and gas come out."
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> The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Everything they do is destroying their reputation. Unfortunately, only among a few people who would have been suspicious anyway.
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The first thing I thought when I looked at this was that with CyanogenMod this could be a great secondary phone I could use to keep track of Android accessibility as well as learn android programming. Then I looked at the Android 4.2 hardware requirements and it looks like it won't have enough ram to provide a good experience. I won't get one of these until Firefox OS has enough accessibility for blind users to be used on a daily basis.
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We received an excellent feedback of the community and we'll adding some features soon!! Thank you all!
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5589206
There is a typo front and center.

"Tittle"
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Hi Matthew,

You suggested that the FBI could re-write the API request to be: http://api.fbi.gov/wanted/most

Which would return a set of known fields. You then go on to say:

"After complaints that “notoriety” is a made-up number, the FBI can hide the field; the intent-driven design is unchanged."

This suggests that the API author is free to add, remove or rename fields in the response without bumping version as it's part of the "intent-driven design".

In response to your second point, I then don't understand what the real purpose of intent-driven API design is. The only different appears to be that you given more RESTful URLs than using loads of query parameters?
Until the entropy of HN makes it impossible to post or read a final time?