skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still don't get the value of twitter

"Talk directly to semi-famous people" is one of the chief value propositions.

Suppose you are a fan of some public figure - say, an actor or a politician who has more than thousands of fan - snd you want to ask that person a question or give them a compliment.

If they're on twitter, there is a pretty good chance you could get through and have that person actually read what you have to say. If you're sufficiently witty and relevant it might even turn into a conversation. There is no other medium for which your chance of getting through is that large, and part of the reason why this is true is due to that 140-character limit.

Consider the unread messages in your email inbox. Any single email you open might turn out to be a quick topical one-liner, carefully edited to make a single point clearly and say nothing extraneous...but it's much more likely to be rambling and poorly edited. In the worst case, it could take an hour to read and understand a single email. So sorting through email (or any other non-bounded message stream) is daunting and best delegated to somebody else if you get too much of it.

The fact that tweets have to be so short forces tweeters to think carefully about what they want to say and to make their point quickly. If the message is a compliment or comment, it has to be an efficient one. If it's a question, it's an efficient question - you don't have to skim past a page of introductions and compliments and caveats to find it. And if the text is ugly or pointless or hateful, you can "block" the sender after you see a mere 140 characters of what he has to say.

So that's one use case - talking directly to people who otherwise would be protected by a circle of PR flacks. You can currently do that more effectively on twitter than most other services.

Even when talking to non-famous people, the 140-character limit imposes discipline that can make conversations more fun and efficient, but it only makes sense if some critical mass of the sort of people you like to talk to and hear from are already on the service, so it might not make sense for you yet. That's essentially a bootstrapping problem.
A neat trick on writing sql that I learned working with Oracle consultants:

SELECT field1
, field2
, field3
, another_field
FROM ...

By placing the comma at the beginning of the line, instead of at the end, we can very easily reorganize the sequence without fiddling with commas most of the time:

SELECT field1
, field3
, another_field
, field2
FROM ...
I have developed a very similar style, for the same reasons. It's funny to see this blog post, because I have gobs of SQL just like it on my other monitor.
Introduction to emacs gnus (screencast)
you lost me at "disrupting"
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Or you could use a pastebin and sign your messages with a private key.
Except, as much I am not a fan of the company, Oracle has done a far better job managing and improving MySQL than Sun so far.

Having the same company own both the main engine (InnoDB) and the harness (MySQL) has been tremendously valuable.
It makes sense that G+ could outlive Facebook if only because it's so tightly integrated with a suite of products that are so widely used, where Facebook's primary external integration is through apps that aren't essential to the day-in-day out...at least not yet.

I think Facebook has become to tightly woven into peoples' lives, though, that it's going to live on for quite some time. It all really depends on where the kids decide to go, methinks..
How did you decide on the pricing? Looked like $23 for 6 months.
I didn't say I agreed. I just said that that mentality existed. I think long stays in established areas leads to organizational rot and lore accumulation as information and expertise is sunk into an individual (this could be mitigated by migrating around a company every couple years and forcing lore to be written down and documented).
Now I'm curious - does Dropbox use rsync under the hood? (not rsync.net, the rsync protocol)
OT: I had not seen that there was a GCC compiler frontend for Go. Does anyone have any experience with that? Do you lose lots of Go specific tooling?
I think he meant that fake accounts were culled from the count, not in general.
Clicky: http://need1hour.com/

Seems like a good idea and I personally think the price is decent. The design generally feels nice, but the coloured boxes ("Learn more" and on Kendall's page) somehow feel wrong; like the colours are a hue off or something.
Most of the things mentioned are things that have destroyed large and established civilizations in the past. It seems unwisely dismissive to just say the United States could just "rebuild" from one of those things. Keep in mind he/she doesn't specifically mention that any of those things are currently happening in the United States.
I'm not familiar with Backbone.js so I think some of the "ah-ha" was lost to me. I thought it looked more like bug fixing since the first method without Dependency Injection didn't work entirely and Dependency Injection should as I understand it just make code more flexible.

The comment on zeroed setInterval's clearing the stack were appreciated though, something I'll keep in mind.
What kind of programming language is SPREAD?
This is great. Someone should change the title so it's descriptive of what's going on, although I have no idea what that title should be, heh.

This post is about Github moving some code from ruby to C for performance, MRI's GC, and judy trie-like data structure and how it compares wrt to both performance and memory consuption with hash implementations.
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Molex is a company that makes many different types of connectors, so a Molex connector would cut it.

http://www.molex.com/molex/search/keyword_select.jsp?channel...
In addition to this, the updater alway starts the default browser.. while not opening any new page.
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Only $10 for finding out who you are? Its sounds like you don't have very much confidence in your anonymity scheme.
Abilene paradox
Wisdom vs. Agility
I used to follow a bunch of best practices like this, that I now often find to be of too little benefit. If the function is small, multiple return statements won't significantly affect readability and it's simpler to code.
I haven't made the jump to using any of the 1.1 betas or this RC but the reported 30-40% performance bumps look nice. I'm really still waiting for an easy way to get gccgo working on os x though.

And I'm glad that they're bumping up the heap size to system-dependent values on 64bit systems. The fixed heap size of 16 GB was a really unfortunate constraint (even if it could be changed with a little hacking around).
You miss the point. Sure, the girl should have been punished. The issue is the degree. Her intent seems pure, it should have been taken into account!
I'm referring to teenage girls, my little brother who texts incessantly, and every other person I've texted in the past year. I checked and there are two people who use "u" for "you" but that's as far as it goes.

Also, if I were sending a telegram, I would use every contraction and elision available, and no punctuation but STOP.
Somewhat off topic, but I recently found this article about Google Web Fonts (and the comments) very interesting:

http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=3207
It has been more a lack of time and interest than anything else. KDE4 was added just past this release, and will be in 5.4 (unless another meteorite hits the wrong part of Russia).
The rest of his staff will one day refer to him as "that guy who really seems to like McDonalds"
The stack varies depending on the application. We're mostly built on top of JVM, and mostly Java. There's a mix of other languages and technologies as well. Our datastores are a mix of SQL and NoSQL, from several different Vendors depending on the application.

Most importantly, there isn't a dogma here. These decisions are fully driven by engineering.
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Skimming our github:

* Service for taking snapshots of websites (in production)

* noeqd (not our code, but it is in production, and written in Go)

* Webhook delivery service (production later this month)

* Stats server for storefront statistics (in development)

* Some reporting-related service I don't know much about (in development)

* bucket-to-bucket sync tool for S3 (command-line tool)

* Image resizing service (likely to replace our existing service written in ruby next time it bottlenecks)

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Using Firebase to Collaboratively Find an Apartment
I very like the WITH statement in Postgres.

It allow to break down the logic and composite the result.

Any idea if it's standard SQL?
I apologise, I meant the Java applet; I should have been specific. I have no problem with the JVM.
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What do you think about an email client with an interface like pinterest?
Forget the timeline of emails, manage them with a drag & drop interface similar to pinterest. Of course facebook and twitter integration
Perhaps you should have disclosed your own interests before criticizing Ninite....
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> I've been taught by some pretty experienced engineers that in terms of readability, multiple return statements are a bad idea

They were wrong and probably not as experienced as they/you thought. Guard clauses make code simpler and more understandable.
No, the analogies are spot on.

Anything in the preceding comments which seems ridiculous has been introduced by the concept of "zero tolerance", which precludes common sense.

Zero means zero. If the rules are enforced as written - arguably as intended - this is what you get. The preceding comments just take the concept to its logical conclusion.
Looks good but the stock Flat UI icons don't really fit in with the rest of the design.

It seems like the two major "styles" don't work well together.
Anyone know of any hosted MariaDB offerings out there that can be used with Heroku?
Would you recommend a BSD VM for web development? That's my use for linux, and would love to try something new, FBSD has a good reputation.
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Some previous discussion on Judy Arrays [0]. Apparently they are patented!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043667
The big battle MariaDB (or any DB) is going to have is gaining ground in the shared web host space. That makes up a pretty large portion of websites, and there is no incentive for those providers to change. I'd love to see other DB options in that space, its all PHP/MySQL.
Self-posted linkbait, he needs the hits man! Just one more hit!
I probably save 95% of my apartment search time with Padmapper instead of Craigslist. What is needed is an API so that fans of Craigslist can keep their torturous interface and the rest of us can get the info we need and go on with our lives.
What happend to "the scene"
This might not be the appropriate place for this question. However I don’t know any other place with more people of different age groups and so various backgrounds, so I will simply ask.

Back some years I was involved in what was called The Scene. I was part of a music release group. It was a crazy time when we traded gamez and MP3z through FTPs and looked up to RNS. Other great groups from that time where SUT, MAD, WHOA. I can remember how happy I was when I got my first topsite account. I could reach new top speeds when trading and had almost immediate access to razor1911 releases, so I could beat the guys on my homesite. We communicated through mIRC back them, where we had a channel and a newsbot. My homesite was a 100MBIT, 1TB (which at that time was really big!) with an Swedish guy as admin.

That was back in 2003 when I spend hours with getting new stuff, rippin it, releasing. Through travel, sports, studies and girlfriends my priorities changed and I quit and got lost. Now 10 years later I’m a grown man looking back at those years. I still see releases beeing shared through torrents and I know there is still something in the background. But I would like whether “the scene” is still existing, whether it is the same. If you’re were part of us back them you’ll know what I mean.

I really appreciate any answers since i'm looking back at those times.

Thank you
"a woolly Gladwell-style "thought piece" based on some flimsy anecdotal "data" and puffed through a lens of pure ego."

I love this description. You've put into words something I've long felt about a particular, and pretty large, set of HN submissions.
My personal style diverges considerably.

First, most of my SQL scripts are multiple statements, typically 6+, ranging up as high as 100. When I'm reading and trying to digset such scripts, the long format described by the author, particularly putting each column on its own row, makes it difficult to easily digest the script. I'm forced to scroll constantly to make sense of the statements in relation to one another. Instead, I prefer to my SQL to be more compact, so I can view as much of the total script as possible.

To accomplish this, and to maintain readability, I structure each statement something like this:

CREATE/INSERT/UPDATE line
SELECT line
FROM line
JOINS (if present)
ON (if present)
WHERE (if present)
AND (if present)
Additional SQL (qualify, group by, order by)
;

If I have a lot of columns, the select portion will get split into several lines, usually where there is a case when, column operations, or when the line is 200ish characters long.

This makes the most sense to me, as each command (create, update, insert, select, from, join, on, where, and, group by) is on its own line, followed by the information relevevant to it.
i recently dealt with a lot of this while discussing/resolving some of these issues @ https://github.com/jdorn/sql-formatter
It's possible the quota check is only run periodically. So at one check they were under, then they uploaded a lot of data, the next check they were over.
Summly had a young kid on board. And that's why it got all the attention.
What about profitability, do you mind sharing either gross or net margins ?
Rather than complain about a U.K. publication's possible refusal to play the PC game, or ignorance of how coalface might be stretched to connote blackface (a word that is certainly less freighted over there), why not learn the term as the British use it, e.g.:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coal%20face

"Originally used with reference to miners i.e those who remove coal from the 'face' of the mine, its now more commonly used to mean any work closest to the frontline

"Managers have no idea how hard it is for a sparky these days because they never have to work at the coal face.

"I love pulling apart engines. Its great to get my hands dirty at the coal face."

It's actually complementary to most of us....
Actually, there must be some legal issues here... anyone willing to advise?
World's first website is reborn
> Does this mean that employees should not be loyal to their employers? No. Those companies pay the salaries of their employees which should demand a certain amount of loyalty.

As I see it, companies try to get the most from you with the least from them, and your job is to try to get the most from them for the least from you. If you go beyond the minimum that you have to do, then you're setting yourself up to be taken advantage of.

If you think working harder's going to get your more money, then you should totally do it if you want more money, same for job security, same for you just find it an interesting problem, but morally you don't seem to owe them your best - they set out to screw you in the first place. That's their job, that's how people who own companies get rich: By not sharing the wealth equitably.
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Note that despite being on martinfowler.com, this is an article by Brett L. Schuchert, not Martin Fowler. I only noticed when the article cited 'Martin Fowler' as someone else on something. Although I had been thinking, gee, I don't find this nearly as clear as I'm used to from Fowler.
The comments are really what juices me
We decided on the time frame for the subscription as 6 months, because that seemed to be a good time estimate for 'regular' job search. We arrived at the $23 price point based on our earlier experience of selling a PRO plan worth $9, and feedback of the existing users. Having said that, it still is based on our gut feel rather than backed by any concrete evidence.
Space storms in stunning pictures
sensecall, shoot me an email also, please.
You, and the Illusion You Called “Reality”
Because git is significantly faster, better at merging, allows cheap private branching and private changes (don't have to do everything in public just to have version control), allows staging of changes, allows offline work, allows "out of band" collaboration between developers, is up to 30x smaller repos (mozilla), more redundant (everyone has full history)... (more)
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Any sample content? I'll probably buy it but I just wanted to know the format, the type of questions, or even if this is just an aggregation of content already out there. Thanks
Get Ebola...Boom, AIDS is no longer your (worst) problem.

Being forced to use a specific browser hardly means "it's no longer your problem".
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"... I have no idea what that title should be, heh."

It's a reference to the Beatles' song, "Hey Jude" (which opens with "Hey, Jude, don't make it bad | Take a sad song and make it better ...").[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Jude

Edited for clarity.
[strikeout, see comment above, it's in SQL99]

MSSQL has a similar construct with Common Table Expressions (CTE's) though, so it' not unique to PG.
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