skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it more as a move from "one size fits all" to more specialized tools. The term "nosql" is pretty useless as it's way too general. Both your comments about "not implementing the hard stuff", and GP's about schema, only applies to some of the "nosql" projects.

Instead of looking at it as "aaawwm! NoSQL is attacking our bellowed RDBMS", try looking at the different projects and what they bring to the table. Maybe some of them can be a useful addition to your systems.
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Your post is remarkably clear despite your inability to choose a typeface or set kerning. Using standardized symbols is the way we communicate.

Flat design is a dogma, but nearly so dependent upon revelation and faith. A five colored gradient emulating perfect lighting of a semi-glossy aluminum rod is carving saints into the tympanium - semiotics for the initiated and confirmation of one's devotion to sacred values. The word "perfect" gives the language game away.
This reminds me of when Stringer Bell tried to get into lobbying on the Wire and just got his money taken and no favors done for him.
I definitely shall be, since I'm after something to replace Basecamp after my trial expired.
what kinda techs did you choose to build it with? XCode out of the box? Phonegap?
Well in the case of facebook, they did not had a great html5 app from the get go.

But when you see LinkedIn push back when they had one of the best known html5 app in the appstore, that warrants questions, specially since they are farther in the process than most teams

(they created an html5 app, iterated on it for couple of months, decided to revert back because of memory performances )

The lack of teams being open about their process or them being more in the shadow certainly does not helps, we need more success story with html5 being in the appstores. It still certainly considered a risk by management teams when you associate all your mobile efforts with html5.
The death of privacy is not nice. But it is still dead, but the corpse is warm so hard to notice.

Wait till governments notice what they thought was secrecy was actually privacy. Total freak out time.
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They attempt to break the web by app-walling user supplied content.

Imagine having to register and install a special program for each website in the world -- the WWW was made to make it possible for everybody to read it.
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When this was being debated on photography blogs, someone dug up the originally published version of Hansen's photo, published just the day after the event. Here's a side-by-side: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunthert/8485283411/sizes/o/in/... .

While the earlier version could also have been edited (quickly) before publication, there's no doubt that it had much more believable lighting and coloration. For the WPP submission, Hansen desaturated the photo globally, particularly the blue and yellow. He also locally edited the luminance of the left wall to be consistent with the right. The effect of both changes was to isolate the marcher's angry red faces as the primary point of interest.
What really happens when you have flat design is that you can't hide your mediocrity behind layers of eye candy.

Assume that you give both a carpenter craftsman and an amateur instructions to build a table. You only want solid blocks of wood, nothing fancy. Would you be able to tell them apart?

It's all in the fundamentals, I doubt a mediocre designer can develop a coherent visual system on flat design.
Nice work, but certainly no replacement for PonyDebugger[0] with SuperDB[1]. Plus, they're both FOSS.

Sure, those don't have support for NSNotifications, but I've found it's best to avoid those as much as possible anyway (essentially like a super GOTO).

[0] https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger
[1] http://shopify.github.io/superdb/
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Thanks. Just be careful of the hacks & see they dont break anything existing on your website.

If you are using Bootstrap Lightbox separately - make sure the other lightbox div id dont conflict with 'demoLightbox'
There must be some kind of adjustment. I don't think it's possible that Idaho could "outshine" California otherwise. (Well, it's Idaho, but even so, there just aren't enough people.) Not to mention parts of Maine and Vermont beating out New York City.
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So what's the way out? Arms races?
WTF is with Canadians and their inferiority complex that they need to mention this? Canadians are like whiney insecure girlfriends that are constantly wondering whether Americans are thinking about them.
Citibank hacked?
I logged in and saw this note in my account. Anyone else can verify this? I tried searching but didn't see any public details.

Your Citi® Dividend Platinum Select® Visa® Card account ending in xxxx was illegally obtained as a result of a data compromise and is at risk for unauthorized use, you will not be responsible for any unauthorized charges!. To minimize this risk, we have issued a card(s) with a new account number ending in xxxx.
There's a xkcd for that: http://xkcd.com/1138/

"Pet Peeve #208: Geographic profile maps which are basically just population maps."
Isn't this how all lightboxes work? Isn't this extremely common?
Postgresql documentation is terrific, really [1]. Then you can also use pgsql wiki [2]. Other useful resources are the searchable mailing lists archive [3]. Have a look also to pgcon.org web site, it's fully packed of presentation material (mainly pdf slides) gathered since 2007, just to give you an example look at Tom Lane's "http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/350.en.html [4]

Speaking of books a few of the best I'm aware of are:

- PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook (Simon Riggs, Hannu Krosing)

- PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance (Gregory Smith)

- Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to (Shaun M. Thomas)

all them from Packt Publishing

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/

[2] http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Main_Page

[3] http://www.postgresql.org/list/

[4] http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/350.en.html
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Neat seeing some things I already wrote on there :)

Music playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrb9Jb5VTLs

Face recognition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1aeMJY1AO0

A friend already wrote the running one too:
https://plus.google.com/102638891846233998637/posts/TFqoT49Q...
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> Java these days feels like assembly language programming.

Java is the assembly language of the Java Virtual Machine. It just took a long time for people to develop high-level languages on top of it. Those languages exist now.
I've never been tempted to downvote something solely on the basis of my disagreeing with it, until now.
It's best that he doesn't.

"Most of what we have learned about living in space is that we should not live in space. We are designed for gravity; without it, strange things happen to both body and mind. For each month spent in space, humans can lose up to two per cent of their bone mass. This means that each day, for hours on end, the ISS becomes the world’s highest-flying gym to keep its occupants fit. But even with such precautions, some returning space travellers require months of rehabilitation to readjust to life on Earth. Others, despite having access to the best facilities and treatments available, experience headaches, sight loss, and undiagnosed physical and psychological frailty for the rest of their lives."

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/greg-klerkx-sp...
What is it about the tech industry that makes it so politically inept?
Chrome Extension for automatic incognito sessions = more safety & privacy
I build "Incognito Filter" to:
use Chrome in a sandboxed private window for onlinebanking or sites with privacy concerns:
- Google and Facebook log your search history with Like or +1 buttons - prevent it by using your login only in private modus.
- Other extensions can log or manipulate your site while using online-banking - the private modus doesn't load extensions by default
I would guess that they're using a standard bill acceptor that does optical and magnetic tests.

They'd have to be really good fake bills.
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Let's hope the free market favors them ;)
The problem is that even we are prone to the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Tech people tend to fall prey to shady actors just as much as anyone else. We're blind to superficial charm when it's directed at our prejudices in the right way.

Based on what I've said about VCs, one might think that I despise them. Far from it, actually. The ones I've met, I like. However, I think they are bad judges of character and fund some awful people.

The difference between me and 99% of business people is that I know that I'm not a great judge of character. I'm probably average at it, but that's not saying much. It's like saying, "I'm average at national security"; if you don't have a rare stopping power, you're exposed. I wouldn't bet my career on someone (beyond typical management) without having that person meet some people who I think are better judges than I am.

Unfortunately, most people are highly confident in their judgment of character despite a lack of talent for it, and that's dangerous. Especially when they hand our power over, like when we're at a company and our decent-human-being-but-overextended founder/bosses install evil middle managers.
Olav should get banned for this -_-
Indeed, it's quite idiomatic. I would have still preferred if there was a switch/case construct that would generate a dispatch table for us (in fact, this was proposed and rejected in pep 3103[1]). A case statement would have been a nice, little addition to the expressiveness of Python, but it's not that big of a deal.

Here's another dispatch table technique that I really like[2].

[1]: www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/

[2]: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577864-fast-and-elegant-...
Why should the controller be generating graphics? The UI can do that.
I build Inkognito Filter to:
use Chrome in a sandboxed private window for onlinebanking or sites with privacy concerns:
- Google and Facebook log your search history with Like or +1 buttons - prevent it by using your login only in private modus.
- Other extensions can log or manipulate your site while using online-banking - the private modus doesn't load extensions by default
As far as open source documentation goes, I consider Postgres to easily be the standard. The official docs are so good that a book writer would have to try hard just to not plagiarize them, let alone surpass their content.
I met a backup astronaut (well, one who hadn't yet gone up to space) a few years ago...among her amazing engineering achievements, which I thought would've been enough for going into space, she was also a Division I NCAA track athlete.

The trials for Navy SEALS and other elite military ops are well-discussed...I wonder if NASA has any extreme tests they run...such as dropping off an astronaut on a remote island with nothing but flint and tinder and a shaving mirror and having to build a shelter with functioning refrigeration by the end of the week.
NIH is one research funding source and SUNY is one school system. I am wondering about the overall trend. How is it dicking with the budget when you get the same amount as last year? Not a lot of people can say that these days.
To be fair it's one of the better ones. But yes, I have no idea how this reached the front page. This is like every other lightbox I've seen.
FWIW, a compromise at Citibank is not the most likely way for that to have happened. It is more likely to be a large third-party compromise (many organizations manage to lose X00,000 cards in an incident) which gets reported to Visa/Mastercard per the PCI procedures. Those reports get fanned out to issuing banks, which often will take proactive steps to limit your liability, and by extension their own.
There is a really old O'Reilly book, I think, but there is also an O'Reilly book called "PostgreSQL: Up and Running" that came out last year that covers 9.2.
Yep. It's great. This one will aim at a different market, really.
My point is that the OP is looking for examples of real businesses telling real stories. In the story I linked, PoF is selling the same old "I fell out of bed into a pile of money" tale.

A few choice quotes from the first few paragraphs:

He developed software for his online dating site, Plenty of Fish, that operates almost completely on autopilot, leaving Mr. Frind plenty of free time. On average, he puts in about a 10-hour workweek.

Mr. Frind built the Plenty of Fish Web site in 2003 as nothing more than an exercise to help teach himself a new programming language, ASP.NET.

No mention of long hours promoting, begging users to sign up, tracking down weird bugs, or all the actual work that goes into building a business. Just a quick rundown of how easy it is to whip up a shitty website and become a millionaire overnight.
https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg
Saw this on reddit a few days ago. You could make a lot more money with it by making it a hosted solution and charging monthly/yearly.
Beauty is subjective.
How is what we're doing less secure than, say, provisioning servers through a provider like Linode that gives customers a web-based access panel? (One can use their provisioning tools to create users with root access.) Also, running a daemon may make folks more comfortable, but the reality is that the daemon still has the ability to add users, which in turn can be used to log in. Running things through a daemon certainly makes monitoring and firewall setup more manageable, though, and we're working on it.

LDAP is a bit of a headache to set up for some shops.
I think it can use either pg (wrapper around libpq) or postgres-pr (pure ruby), though I always use pg.

EDIT: Seems like they have dropped support for postgres.

EDIT2: Yes, I did mean postgres-pr.
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The former doesn't include redundant duplication of functionality and other bells and whistles. Since the only objective is decrypting content it'll presumably be more practical to port (and reverse engineer) and ship with fewer security vulnerabilities.

It's by no means perfect, but the less that can be delegated to a plugin the better in my view. I don't see this as an ideal choice, just a pragmatic choice for a better option given the circumstances.

My quantification for "a world better" relies on the subjective judgement that Flash is worlds worse than some mystery crypto blob. I believe that to be the case.
Beautiful product! Just be aware of the support nightmare that comes along with people trying to install your software in many different environments. I will never, ever create installable software ever again.
Maybe I'm just cynical then, but I take "please use this great app" in much the same way as "please donate cash".

I just assume that anything that hasn't been round for at least a few years is probably unstable in more ways than one. My solution is not to depend on proprietary software for anything absolutely critical in my life.
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Your "Hate Words" need some work. I don't think your hate words are used in the context you hope for in some cases. See the hot bed of hate that is Detroit Lakes MN.
Because "average" racism would be OK?
Wow, in about 4 minutes I was able to track down a UI positioning bug with the UINavigationBar that has been nagging us for two months.

Buying 5 copies now.
The zoom level seems to make the data look very different. Zoomed out and the entire midwest is red, zoom in and it looks like there is one racist/homophobe in each of Muscatine, Iowa and Peoria, Illinois.

It's also unclear what criteria was used to define negative. If a reference to Lonely Island's "no homo" song gets flagged as negative for example, that may not fit in most people's definition of hate speech.
I'm sure there's a use-case for this, but I'm not coming up with one off the top of my head. This comes across as an extremely rare type of problem to encounter.

What's the purpose of only binding x and z if the first argument of Bar matches? What if it doesn't match? Is an exception thrown? Are x,z just None?

[Note: I'm talking about the example, not the @case decorator, which does seem useful]

Edit:

After reading the library examples, the explanation above is not entirely clear:

with patterns:
Foo(x, Bar(3, z)) << Foo(4, Bar(3, 8))

here's the rest of the example:

print x # 4
print z # 8

I was thinking that somehow a new Foo instance was created only when the pattern matched. (Oh, and an exception is thrown when the match fails)
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FC seemingly goes out of his way to act like an ass, and he got himself banned from a bug reporting tool for it. According to another link in these comments, he was also banned from pidgin's IRC channel, and a friend of mine banned him from his G+ feeds.

FC getting banned from GNOME's bugzilla isn't a GNOME thing, it's an FC thing.
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He has only 8 apps (The others are only trail versions / plugins for those 8 and a test app):

1. Car Locator

2. Smarter Alarm

3. Screenshot It

4. Copy Paste It

5. Print & Mail Photos

6. Audio Photos Free

7. Scare And Share

8. Camera Translator
Do you mean postgres-pr? (postgres is marked as a deprecated gem to replace with pg)
The same could be said about people trying to use old web browsers.
Because it was so hard to add –incognito to the shortcut?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-start-google-chrome-in-i...
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I'm well aware of the effects of weightlessness on the body.

It doesn't change the fact that I've greatly enjoyed his presence and I'm completely bummed that he's gotta come back to boring old Earth.
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Now that is a reasonable concern. Keeping db hardware happy is certainly an expensive undertaking. I think I'm more used to the arguments like the one from Sauce Labs, where the VP whines, "What are schemas even for? They just make things hard to change for no reason. Sometimes you do need to enforce constraints on your data, but schemas go way too far," [1] and then goes on to say that his company is moving from using CouchDB to using MySQL as a key-value store with serialized JSON (data integrity and performance be damned -- I mean, really, the thought of converting millions of values in a table to objects just to run a home-grown MapReduce function on them when you could just LEARN HOW TO USE MySQL is pretty much the most insane thing I've ever heard lol).

Do you have any experience with Amazon RDS? I haven't tried it; I guess my concern would be the same as any other AWS product--they tend to fail catastrophically from time to time. Then again, if you're doing cloud NoSQL through Amazon, you're going to run into the same issues (see: Reddit).

[1](http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/05/goodbye-couchdb/)
Except that this isn't, which is what makes it interesting.
That is considerably less beautiful than OP's product, if beautiful at all.
how much profit did you make since releasing it?
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It was pretty hostile toward the interviewee for a "marketing handjob"
The data is normalized by number of tweets for a particular region (county, I believe). So what you're looking at is a comparison between the portion of total tweets for a region which is racist/homophobic/disabled-biased.

Put differently:
If county A has 100 tweets over the time period and 1 of them are racist it will appear identical to county B which has 1000 tweets of which 10 are racist over the same time period.
Any chance of a port to 10.7? I'd have bought it last week (when I first found it) if it hadn't been 10.8 only.
No, wasn't saying that, I was merely correcting the parent's understanding as to what the tea party is. The IRS's behaviour frankly only furthers their cause.
i don't get it, in what form/format does this machine 'dispense' bitcoins?

I'm not a bitcoin expert, but bitcoins are digital currency, right? How does a physical machine dispense digital currency? You attach a USB drive to it or something?
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I remember reading this when I was a teenager. I'm embarrassed that I ever found it credible.
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true in many instances, but i'm not sure it applies in this case.
In Idaho, New Mexico, and Wyoming, the counties that look really hot are very, very low population counties. For example, I'm assuming the giant red spot in New Mexico is Sierra County, population 11,988. The southern most county in Idaho is Oneida county, population 2900 (My high school was nearly that big).
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Nothing new here...Namecoin has been around since 2011
Apple does sell devices that obey these directives, it doesn't matter if you buy it direct or through a carrier. Buy an unlocked iPhone and try to tether on AT&T without paying for the required tether-allowed more expensive data plan. Same for Facetime over data, it's up the carrier.
None of the major population centres are well-represented in that map.
I know this doesn't provide you feedback or any value to the conversation, but I wanted to say congratulations on launching your app. Five months is a long time and it's easy to give up at any point after the initial excitement of building wears off, so great work actually finishing the build.
None of the nightmare scenarios are enabled by this proposal that aren't already possible though.

Flash is available and baked in, providers can already run to DRM-ed content since the ubiquitous platform enables it. It's currently used in part as the solution to the revenue problem.

All these problems already exist, mostly because of Flash. We still have to accept without inspection whatever Adobe sees fit to deliver (which leads to terrible results).

All this proposal really represents is an opportunity to unseat Flash and replace it with a more accountable party to complain to when a device you own can't play the content you buy.
You can't zoom in very far without the heat map degenerating into points for individual counties. I suspect in many areas they represent individual tweets or tweeters, but I'm not seeing any hover-over data, so I'm not sure. I'm surprised -- 150k tweets sounds like a lot, but there isn't enough data for a heat map effect unless you're zoomed out to the national level.
>Unfortunately, most people are highly confident in their judgment of character despite a lack of talent for it, and that's dangerous. Especially when they hand our power over, like when we're at a company and our decent-human-being-but-overextended founder/bosses install evil middle managers.

You seem like a very insightful person. This is exactly how this happens.
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