skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SkyDB is definitely most interesting thing I seen this year in DB field, mostly because it's a rare example of out-of-the-box thinking and considering higher level use cases than usual (data semantics level I'd say) may give you an orders of magnitude speedup.

But should I suggest, considering SkyDB highly experimental, maybe port it to more flexible backend like Mapkeeper[1] that gives for free not only easy switchable storage backends, but (not switchable, but changeable with a little effort) network/API backends (now it's Thrift), event engine (now it's libevent), etc. It would be nice to focus on core SkyDB things (which I think are data organization, API, stored procs etc.) while "outsource" the non-core low-level jobs to things like Mapkeeper.

And by the way, lmdb backend have being merged into Mapkeeper not so long ago :-)

[1] https://github.com/m1ch1/mapkeeper/
It's not just medical care. Housing follows the same trend[1].

These kinds of studies make me wonder if, politically, we care about cost savings at all.

1. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/housing-homeless-mentally...
Yeah, I'd be curious to see traffic data from people who got to various spots on the front page and see what trends emerge.

Though, now I'm remembering that the post was also on /r/webdev and /r/web_design, so that skews things a bit.
Same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5618716

Already discussed there. :-/
Funny you bring it up, because from a Bayesian perspective, the main character makes some pretty specious arguments and the final choice to not convict is probably wrong; see http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2012/11/odds-again-ba... and the excerpts from http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... ("Was He Guilty as Charged? An alternative narrative based on the circumstantial evidence from '12 Angry Men'", Vidmar et al) in http://studiolo.cortediurbino.org/how-useful-is-bayesianism/
Not the guy you were replying to, but I use a Tesla with a Fahrenheit/Rainbow RBA running some local custom juice. It's nice to be able to wind my own atomizer coils at my desk.
I read it as "95% are bad, so its not worth the hassle in the hope that you end up with one of the good 5%".

I and most of the people I know have received all of their jobs through conferences/meetups, word of mouth/direct referrals etc and I find that much more pleasant than dealing with linkedin and phone spam. I do still maintain a LinkedIn account though.

I am now cofounder of a startup and, despite my LinkedIn profile clearly stating this, I still received messages from recruiters about jobs.
If a visitor doesn't have one, I don't think you can.
Both Google/Gmail account and Google Apps account.

I may not be correct about 'any' android phone though. I've only used stock and several custom ROM on Galaxy Nexus ranging from version 4.0.4 to 4.2.2. After you add a Google/gapps account you'll see this in sync setting- http://s24.postimg.org/fxbv98s05/Screenshot_2013_04_28_23_42... . I've found 'Google Photos' always checked by default. First time this feature was introduced, I didn't notice and my G+ filled up with random images from my mobile gallery. Since then I consciously turn this off everytime I flash a ROM.

Edit: so you don't necessarily need Google+ app installed for this to happen.
No probs, good to hear!

For those interested in how an ecommerce site stacks up with traffic spikes, Shopify did a great job, the weak link was paypal. We had a good number of (potential) customers email to us to say that paypal locked up during payment, we were taking several orders a minute for a while there but still annoying that some were dropped.

One of our mailing lists also grew by 1200 names in 3 hours and Mail Chimp coped fine.
I think that once you reach a certain level of sophistication, you become able to make more money with less risk by working within the system. Just about anyone on this site could come up with really smart burglary plans, but even ignoring the morality of it, why bother? There are easier ways to make money with they sort of brainpower.
Just yesterday I used GDB for the first time in years because I fancied an alternative to Println debugging for Go. Works pretty well.
Anyone that isn't a professional chef is probably going to leave a little blood on a knife by cutting themselves with it.

There's a difference between a knife drenched in blood and a tiny bit of blood from a cut, certainly, but as far as forensics goes that may not matter - they may want to find any evidence of blood, like some blood caught in the space between the handle and the blade, on the assumption that a killer may have tried to clean blood off a weapon.
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> Edis is a protocol-compatable Server replacement for Redis, written in Erlang. Edis's goal is to be a drop-in replacement for Redis when persistence is more important than holding the dataset in-memory.

Isn't the entire point of Redis that it's meticulously written in C by some Italian guy, specifically designed for in-memory datasets? Protocol compatible is one thing but maybe name it something with a greater edit distance?
I think that it's worth mentioning that even though Jamaica was ahead of Canada in the "2013 World Press Freedom Index," there is a generally anti-gay sentiment there[1].

[1] It's worth noting that they don't hate gay people, but there were apparently some issues with young men/boys selling themselves for money in the recent past, so the general reaction to this was that gay sex should be limited/regulated (or something to that effect). I don't remember it imparting a 'liberal mindset' to me.
Suggest us your Idea About Webmatrix 3
Currently Microsoft Launch Webmatrix 3. Do you have tried it.

Run it, We hope it will never crash as it did in V2 prev.

if you got lucky suggest what happened on your side. We will fix it. don't blame us for IE6,
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick now one of America’s highest paid executives
Have a look at the book or seminar - the enjoyment of cigaretts is dealt with at length and forms a core pillar of the argument. If you don't want to quit though, then you don't want to quit and nothing is going to make you open the book with an open mind.
>I'd like to read antirez's opinion about this.

It looks like he already made his own (3yrs ago): https://github.com/antirez/Bigdis

> in redis you have to design how you are gonna store your data with it's limitation and performance in mind.

Hmm, that's interesting. This is the very reason I've always loved Redis and I'd love a Redis-for-disk.
Including those additional segments helped maintain perspective for me -- seeing each one shrink incrementally gave a better sense than one animation from Holocene to all of Earth's history.
Me too, then I Googled it:

https://github.com/Moodstocks/redisk
https://github.com/quirkey/redisk
It doesn't take much brain power to walk into RadioShack.

And the money to be made in crime is way more than developer salaries. The new frontier for crime is bitcoin fraud.
This tablet sold out in under an hour in Japan
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> Another possible solution is to find a way to eliminate the for-profit hospitals.

Oh God, no. Did you read that incredibly-long and incredibly-powerful healthcare article by Time? Non-profit hospitals are among the worst offenders.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136864,00.... (subscription)

Some of the most innovative hospitals are actually for-profit. Here's another great article by Atul Gawande comparing Steward Health System, which was founded by Cerberus Capital, to the Cheesecake Factory (but in a good way):

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_...

> Medicare's solution - "It’s pushing providers to band together into accountable care organizations, or ACO, that get a flat fee for all care related to a patient." - sounds destined to fail from the outset to this layman.

As an entrepreneur, I agree that it's a tragedy that HQP is being abandoned instead of scaled. But ACOs will absolutely have a financial incentive to keep patients out of the hospital and hire companies such as HQP. The problem is that this transition has yet to occur, so HQP is ahead of the market. Hopefully they can find smart investors in the meantime (perhaps this article will help).
Answer these please:

How can I know you aren't one of the 95% who will waste my time? Why should I even talk to you?

How can I know you won't misrepresent me?

What are the consequences of you screwing me over? (Lost time, lost opportunity, reputation damage)

How is your rate of success measured?

It's not like this is a single "oh, I met a bad recruiter once" anecdote, this is an industry wide plague.
Would I lie about my responsibilities without checking? No. Even to save myself financial loss, no.

It's loathsome that you ask.

Saying "We don't think this is possible on our end but are investigating to help wherever we can" is different than saying it is not possible.
This looks like a good approach to health care, and I don't want to be snarky guy, but... Health Quality Partners is about to lose their funding and they get an 8-page glowing article on washingtonpost.com about how great their program is and why it should be continued. It looks like some PR agency is really earning their money.

See, of course, Paul Graham's article on PR agencies: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Going back to the subject of the article, I wonder how much this visit program actually costs, and whether it could be direct-marketed to wealthy people with elderly parents. "For $10,000(e.g.) a year, we can reduce your parents' hospitalizations by 33% and help them live independently." Sort of like concierge medicine.
What do that "national health insurance" look like for physicians? Does it include pay cuts? I'm pretty sure in those 59% of physician's eyes it doesn't.
Well it wasn't long ago that JS, arguably the most used dynamic languages gets GGC.
And yet you never considered that — with names like "Wet Asphalt", "Nephritis", and "Asbestos" — this might be the intent?

When you click on a color it tells you that "It'll rock!". It's satire for Christ's sake.
around 3000 for a half hour or so when Blink-182 pushed out content to their social channels (Facebook/Twitter) using our site. Have also had slow build up to 2800 when one page went viral. The site/app is http://backspac.es
If it is a bulk load, surely slow writes aren't a serious issue as long as throughput is good? Or are you saying the average write takes 30s?
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It's very possible to quit while still maintaining that you enjoy smoking.
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My site made it to #1 on hacker news last wednesday for a couple of hours. It peaked at 287 concurrents. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting that kind of surge and only had it on a small linode, so it couldn't handle the traffic. Since then, I've moved it to an S3 bucket with cloudfront as a cdn. http://www.appraptor.com
The presentation that goes into the details is at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/attachments/3686/gc-strategy-en.p...
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Thanks!

Not yet, I'd love to try it with other sites and types of reviews.
A DNA Test doesn't work like that.

Probability tests do, but not things we label "probability" that aren't. "there is a 25% chance of rain tomorrow" isn't really a 25%. It is a confidence score.

Something people can grasp better than DNA: Let's say you have a partial thumb print in an imaginary murder. You could eliminate suspects who don't have that portion of the thumb print, but you couldn't confirm that the person or people who match did it. Only that the thumbprint is a "Pocked Loop", "Whorl", or "mixed" and so anyone with a "tent Arch" is not the killer.

You can be 100% confident that the print excludes the person with the "Tent Arch" and if you knew there were only 4 people in the room when the victim in our imaginary scenario died you could even go so far as that since only 2 of them have a potential match that you have a 50% confidence in the match. But Running the test 800 times will not get you to a number better than that.
Maybe I should lobby for the regulation of flowers indoors because pollen upsets my hay-fever.

>I would still be pissed as hell to be sniffing nicotine just for the addiction of somebody else.

Don't worry, even sitting right next to someone who is using one, you are almost certainly not "sniffing nicotine".
Sorry, I meant user-friendly, where the user is not a programmer. Actually, making a package system friendly for users will make it friendly for a lot of programmers too - who are also users (and don't feel like wrestling with package systems too).
The answer to that question depends on whether you think physicians lack insight.

I think that most physicians are smart enough to look at the national insurance that already exists (Medicaid & Medicare) and to recognize that their reimbursements would be cut. I think they can balance that against the complexities of the current system and some might be willing to trade somewhat lower pay for the ability to focus on providing care.

20% of health care costs come from physician pay, of which about half goes to the cost of running a practice. Most reformers know that cutting physician pay, while part of almost any plan, is not going to be the most important way to save money.
There may be a lot wrong in Canada, but I don't think the Press Freedom Index is any kind of valid indication.

Exactly the same as described in the article is happening in the Netherlands (or worse, like wiretapping on a massive scale), our freedom of information acts is systematically and openly sabotaged, and we've always had the strict limitations on public protests Canada has introduced. And for some reason we rank #2.

There's a coronation this tuesday and people who may possible be disruptive are being pre-emptively locked up and their lawyers muzzled. So much for liberal freedoms.

The Press Freedom index is about how much the government kisses up to traditional media, and, given how much media are in bed with the powers that be, no indication of actual freedoms.

That correlation has been broken a long time ago, and accelerated by the internet.
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Obligatory XKCD reference:

http://xkcd.com/482/
Overload(ed).
Agreed but I'm sure everyone doesn't need to use it as not everyone smokes :P

I quit earlier this year with the help of it. Actually everyone I know who ever used it successfully quit. The biggest thing I ever heard (and experienced) with it was strange and vivid dreams.

Still now I have vivid dreams of smoking a cigarette weekly (or more). Hoping that passes.
"science and technology have been stagnant for the past 50 years."

Exactly, especially the continued use of old drugs, lack of modern genetics, continued use of Bakelite and iron instead of aiming to develop newer materials such as composites and carbon fibers and modern alloys is appalling. And we still don't know how old the universe is, if there are planets at all outside the Solar system at all, we still have to wait for the images of outer planets, nobody really knows how to fight cancer, people around the world are starving because the green revolution has never happened, treating complicated medical cases is difficult due to the lack of X-ray tomography and MRI, sailors still navigate using a sextant because a global satellite navigation is completely inconceivable and innocent people rot in jail even though DNA evidence could prove their innocence at least in some cases.
The idea may or may not have been correct, but it seems to me the implementation also reinforces negative stereotypes about women. The Ada initiative blog is quoted as saying that fear is a real impediment to women approaching the open source community, so this probably will help. But it also implies that female coders as a group have a reason to be ashamed of the quality of their work, and that they don't really belong in the community.
Thanks, it was built during Disrupt Hackathon in 24h today :-)
I found that only the first two days were hard. After that, it is easy to quit.
I guess it adds value for someone who doesn't know that Flat UI exists.
Thanks for pointing it. It is a 24h hack, so we'll keep it going!
Why would that be shocking? Seems pretty sensible.
Passed last May by the National Assembly of Quebec in the midst of the student upheaval, Bill 78 requires organisers of assemblies involving 50 or more people to register the details of any demonstration with the police at least eight hours before it begins. Anyone who does not comply with the law faces a fine from $1000 up to $125,000 depending on his or her involvement and leadership in the protest.

That's creepy. Would that pass a legal challenge in Canada's higher courts? The right to assemble is a constitutional right in the US. How does that work in Canada?

I looked up Canadian freedom of speech laws and came across

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada

specifically: “Limits on speech were incorporated in the criminal code in relation to treason, sedition, blasphemous and defamatory libel, disruption of religious worship, hate propaganda, spreading false news, public mischief, obscenity, indecency and other forms.”[3]

That generality is pretty ominous sounding.
Was any part of the above comment offensive?

Yes, in the sense that no matter what you post, if there's any substance to your point at all, someone will be offended by it. Don't sweat it.

(You're not hellbanned as of this post, if that's what you're wondering.)
She passed in the 1980's. She was born in 1890 or so.
We have libc, besides the arch is probably a bad example for engineering. Maybe civil, but the wheel would seem like a better example of a fundamental engineering component.

I also think you are being disingenuous to software engineering. There's plenty of understanding of the process, 50 years of computer science counts for something.
Neat.

I looked at the Raspberry Pi schematic and it seems comprehensible, aside from my ignorance about the bcm2835.

now i just need to pick a SoC. Are there any hobby/startup friendly HW vendors out there?

The calxeda chip looks like what I would want. How to convince them to give me a sample, lol.
> Plus there could be room to expand into different niches with it, like dating.

Hmm, has anyone done this with events in general? You say what you want to do and when, and it matches you up with someone.
The releases are cryptographically signed, so its not an issue that the download is not done over SSL.
Or is there something else that worries you about FTP?
I used to be the tech lead for the UI and much of the infrastructure behind ovidsp.ovid.com. We regularly had 20000-50000 concurrent user sessions active. Each one had a dedicated backend process, so we had an exact count of active users. The UI served over 1 billion http requests per year... using a custom http server I wrote in Perl :)
I found the side effects of Chantix to be unbearable. Insomnia, nightmares, you name it. I was a total basketcase. I gave up and just use ecigarettes.
Apparently both Cambridge and "Canadia" are inside London, and their search is catching a fair amount of stuff that isn't a job advert from twitter.
Guys, this is our TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon project that was built in 24h. Sorry for all the faults and under-explanation on the site.
There is nothing inherently freedom-giving or preserving within the modern liberal movement/mindset.

For example, modern liberals would take away guns from people who have done nothing to earn that distrust.
FTP is perfectly sufficient. Why should they use FTPS instead?

The cryto signature for the file is here ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.6.tar.gz.sig
My own homepage? 1 (usually me)
The last big site I worked on? About 55,000 concurrent users on an average day before I left (now it's about 110,000).
"What does that accomplish?"

Well, deleting the account sends a signal to LinkedIn, albeit tiny, that it isn't providing value to him. It also removes a (presumably) quality engineer from the pool of talent available to be found on LinkedIn. This eventually will force the good recruiters to look elsewhere for engineering talent.

The blog post is an attempt to amplify those two signals.

I agree that whining isn't helping much, if at all, when you think about it as whining. I'm mostly agreeing with the deletion of the account, not so much the blog post announcing it.

If you are offended by the blog post, but can see the validity in actually removing yourself from a network that isn't providing much value, then we agree on everything.
If a manufacturer wants to put "asbestos and ebola" into an e-liquid, how exactly is a regulation going to stop them?

Is it a regulation that stops the restaurant down the street putting asbestos and ebola into my morning coffee and muffin?
Is it because they spent less then a billion dollars?
The odds get to be beyond astronomical

The odds of winning the lottery are pretty poor too. Yet people win them every day.
It may surprise you, but there are developers outside SV.

And outside SV, were the ventures aren't so highly speculative, the market hasn't been cyclic.

In fact, in my now 25+ year career in tech, the market for developers where I live has never crashed.
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To pile on with business ideas - consider creating a "regex academy" to give out certificates to people who complete your regex course and pass your exam. Your website will draw users, and graduates will flaunt their credentials, drawing more users. This will give people a sense of accomplishment for having invested the time. Also, add some sort of Q&A thing, a-la stack exchange, so regex masters can earn karma by helping others.
s/triffic/traffic
It might be a cool idea to somehow build a tool that does this for Netflix/Hulu.

I generally go to movies in the theater with people I know, but it'd be interesting to have 'shows' of a movie on Netflix, and chat about it with strangers watching it at the same time.
One of the first couple of episodes of Cosmos (maybe the first?) has a similar thing to convey the scale of time in our existence in the universe. Pretty cool.
I would rather have a surgeon working on me in the relaxed, focused state of mind that comes after few drags of an ecig than a surgeon working on me with the shaky, irritable mind of someone craving a cigarette.
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Rather than place the present day at midnight on the clock, how about placing the present day on the current value given by the Doomsday Clock [1]. Then, with a little arithmetic, you can label midnight with the projected date of Doomsday :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
Sleep is certainly a challenge as a founder, or I would say "overworking" in general. It can be tempting to try and fix things by working more on them, and I've found personally that it rarely helps. With sleep, if I get 7.5 hours of sleep compared to 5 hours of sleep, it makes a huge difference for how much I can achieve, how focused I am. Especially the tasks that take a little more willpower (which are usually the most important ones) are the tasks that get left until tomorrow if I haven't had enough sleep.