skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: I do wonder what keeps Verizon from offering FIOS if they wanted to. Is it too expensive to rewire a huge sprawling multi-floor apartment complex?

My understanding is that Verizon has dramatically slowed their FiOS rollout, primarily because they don't think they're likely to be able to sell you "premium services" long-term. Does anyone think that within 10 years there will be any content worth having not available over a 100Mbit (or gigabit, even) pure IP connection? How much can Verizon expect to charge for such a connection?

FiOS made sense when they thought they would be Skype, HBO, NetFlix and iTunes combined, or at least get a cut on all of those. But even if we don't get regulated Network Neutrality, competitive pressure alone will commoditize content and application delivery over IP.
Copyright law would make such a feed of closed caption transcripts illegal to distribute.
Supposing Datomic was open-source. Can you give a short summary of what you find so appealing about its design?

Honest question, I'm curious.
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>>> Because now you're on the hook to maintain that fork forever.

Yes, with power comes responsibility. If you don't want the responsibility, don't ask for the power.

>>> but there's no real cohesion or interaction between all these isolated forks.

If there is enough people interested in the project, that can find one who wants to take maintainership. If they can't, the project doesn't have that much value for them.

>>>> It's a real problem with the fork-centric model that Github promotes.

I don't see a problem here. If there's a strong community, fork changes naturally gravitate back there due to the advantages of community size. If there isn't, making random people be able to mess with the code base is not going to fix it.
He is a relatively popular programmer so people will still comment on his presentation (even if it is a little redundant at this point). Unsung database veterans like Tony Marston have been saying things like this for years but few people took them seriously.
You should report it as a bug at crbug.com if you haven't already. Sounds like something they would fix
> Further, cable providers can't make a living when all of their customers downgrade to the three basic-cable channels they actually watch, plus HBO.

Personally I'm quite fine with that.
Precisely. Prerecorded (the majority of) TV has never created trends.
> Asking a kid to choose a music instrument yields a decision every bit as informed as rolling a dice.

Except that is his own decision.

> Why bother?

Because a kid is a separate person, not an extension of your personality.
Yeah, I guess I just don't see the point in legislating something that is going to be gone soon anyway.
Mike @ RethinkDB here-- the document model is similar to MongoDB in that you store JSON documents, and there are no schemas, so it's not a relational database.

Our query language (ReQL) does support a lot of SQL-like queries, such as group-by and JOINs, but there are no relations defined.

It's also worth noting that a great team has sprung up to build a C# / .NET driver for RethinkDB (https://github.com/mfenniak/rethinkdb-net).
That's why they start by mentioning the GRG, which does do some investigation of its official entries and is aware of issues like pension fraud.
But what about popular projects... I could see that if there are > than X forks over Y time period with commits and pull requests to the main project without any accepted changes.

Look at twitter/bootstrap for example. Huge number of forks for that project.
Again, I'll acknowledge some people truly can't. I've found they're a fairly small subset of those claiming/imputed "can't".

We're not talking Roman slaves here. "Work 'til you drop or we'll kill you" isn't at issue.

A poor person in rural India really is poor. Under $2/day income (world median) is poor. My sympathies and help.

Blaming the social structures WE live in, no. Assistance, tools, opportunities, etc are prolific; if you're not using them, it's not because they're not available to you.

Yes I'm leaning on the "if someone doesn't do it they don't really want to" trope. That's largely the POINT in this thread, as pointed out by others too. I just see far too much "golly, going to Walmart and buying beef/beans/sauce/seasoning for $5 and cooking it for 10 minutes to feed 4 is just too hard", which a poor rural Indian or a Roman slave would look on at with sheer astonishment.
I'm ok with that, I've have ditched cable tv and switched entirely over to OTA digital broadcast, netflix and hulu. Considering adding Amazon Prime to the list, and it is all still cheaper then cable.
I use gnucash. It works fairly well, but the leap to double-entry accounting might be a little strange if you've only used quicken (but a good thing to learn in the long run).

I've been meaning to switch to ledger/hledger, which is command line based, but haven't switched yet.
If you really want to understand the theory behind Linear Algebra, "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Axler is a good choice of book, it's very approachable, but is completely axiomatic.
Before even going into the side-effects of such a diet let's just have a look at the numbers used:

Olive oil (extra virgin)(price per kg quoted) 3.30 (price per kg actual) 6.39 (weekly quoted) 1.96 (weekly actual) 3.80

Yellow split peas (dried)(price per kg quoted) 1.16 (price per kg actual) 0.98 (weekly quoted) 1.62 (weekly actual) 1.37

Bananas	(price per kg quoted) 0.68 (price per kg actual) 0.68 (loose / leftover 2+ BBD) (weekly quoted) 0.38 (weekly actual) 0.50 (1)

Carrots	(price per kg quoted) 0.46 (price per kg actual) 0.80 (loose / leftover 2+ BBD) (weekly quoted) 0.26 (weekly actual) 0.50 (1)

Onions	(price per kg quoted) 0.42 (price per kg actual) 0.90 (loose / leftover 5+ BBD) (weekly quoted) 0.23 (weekly actual) 0.50

Red cabbage (price per kg quoted) 0.80 (price per kg actual) 0.96 (loose / leftover 3+ BBD 1 piece) (weekly quoted) 0.45 (weekly actual) 0.96 (1)

Tomatoes (chopped, tinned) (price per kg quoted) 0.78 (price per kg actual) 0.93 (3 400g cans est. BBD of opened can 4 days) (weekly quoted) 0.87 (weekly actual) 0.93

(1) this requires you to go to the supermarket twice a week for e.g. 3 bananas, 3 carrots + 1 cabbage - it also assume that the cheapest offers are always on sale (which is not the case) plus that none of the food goes bad.

weekly total quoted: 5.78

weekly total actual (no transport cost, cheapest goods always on sale) 8.56

at this point you're already far over the proclaimed budget and if I call this rightly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woyzeck) you're on a diet that the protagonist (Woyzeck) was put on to find out if he will be going crazy by just eating that kind of food (peas).

(update) sorry forgot the rice and oats

Long Grain Rice (price per kg quoted) 0.40 (price per kg actual) 1.39 (weekly quoted) 0.25 (weekly actual) 0.88

Oats (price per kg quoted) 0.75 (price per kg actual) 0.75 (weekly quoted) 0.42 (weekly actual) 0.42

weekly total quoted (updated): 6.45

weekly total actual (updated) 9.86
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The article you linked mentioned that six Representatives either owned or had owned a car dealership. I don't think this qualifies as disproportionate by any stretch. With 435 Representatives, that's about 1.4%. Compare that with Reps (and Senators) who were lawyers.

I personally would rather have a Congressman who had some familiarity with business rather than being gentry for life in Congress.
Too little, too late. We needed this around 1990.
Am I the only one to whom consecutive replies like this sound like one's own thinking process?
Why it has to be automated? What's wrong with actually having some mailing list or other community forum and discussing it there would could be the consensus maintainer?
Definitely, we're leaving the production-ready tag off until we've built in some of these features.

Secondary index support is ready to go, we'll be releasing v1.5 with it in a few days.
Butter is cheaper than olive oil, and it's good for you.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/0...

Compare that to olive oil.

Also, add milk. Yes, fresh milk is out of the question, but not powdered.
You got me - I have never been poor and have always found time to eat healthily. But let me explain my thinking:

If I wanted to make more time -

- I would give up all TV.

- I would give up all internet, magazines and newspapers, except when commuting.

- I would approach all my neighbours to see if I could car pool to get to work quicker, or if my kids could car pool with theirs to get to and from school without needing me.

- I would try to move into a smaller, cheaper house that has a quicker route to work.

- I would try to move into a smaller, cheaper house that takes a little longer to get to work then cut down the hours I work.

- I would try to switch jobs to reduce my commute time.

- I would try to spend less money on clothes, kids toys, holidays, movies, furniture, TVs, etc and cut down the hours I work.

I think the vast majority of people in the UK - even poor people - have at least one of the above options available to them.
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Add to that the ability to set up shop wherever is most convenient: http://elonmusktesla.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/tesla-motors-t...
Many enterprise databases have a requirement where during the regular progress of business, database rows are never deleted or updated - instead, for every change, a new row with a timestamp is added with a copy of the old data, and then mutated. In other words, many, many business applications built on top of databases have half-assed version control of the data built into them.

Datomic takes the knowledge that many databases are built like this, and basically designs with that in mind. The ability to say "give me a view of the data as it was 1 month ago" is built into the system from the very beginning, rather than added on later.
I agree for the most part... as long as that package system has a way of rolling to a new maintainer because of action/inaction of the old maintainer.
Television is luxury, not infrastructure.
So can I declare an enum value to be e.g. a list? Is that value "frozen" when the enum declaration is processed or what?
Another one to add to the list: http://ars.io/
And I built a slightly more extreme version based on the original! The main difference is you can check multiple domains at once, but the most likely versions still appear early in the list instead of checking each domain as a full set in sequence:

http://metricsparrow.com/toolkit/email-permutator/
I dislike how "LAMP" is considered a first class citizen, still. Why is "LAMP" preferable to things like nginx, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, or other now extremely popular alternatives?
Disclaimer, I work for RethinkDB a competitor of MongoDB.

I completely agree with you that NoSQL is not a pure-white solution but I disagree that it's only useful for specific use-cases. NoSQL has frequently been touted as this magic concept that makes databases scale well. It doesn't as many of the poorly scaling NoSQL databases on the market today show you. The most you can say is that it maybe lets you ignore a few particularly hard to scale operations. However there's also no reason that a NoSQL database can't scale well it's just that you have to actually design it in such a way that it does and Mongo failed at this.

Joins are a very useful feature of structured databases but there's no reason you can't have them in a NoSQL database. I speak from experience here, RethinkDB has joins (distributed joins no less). They're just as useful in a NoSQL world as they are in a SQL world.

I think the author's analogy "NoSQL : SQL :: Dynamic Typing : Static Typing" (to use SAT syntax) is a good one. I know some damn good programmers who prefer dynamically typed languages like LISP and I know some damn good ones who prefer statically typed languages like Haskell and I think programmers can be similarly productive with either a NoSQL or a SQL databases backing them up. Currently NoSQL has the very real downside that none of the NoSQL databases on the market have really nailed it (ours included but we're working on it) whereas there are some very well established and well tested SQL databases on the market so it's a perfectly rational choice to say you prefer the better tested SQL route. However I contend there's nothing inherently flawed about the NoSQL concept.
Like the additions, but going to have to agree... liked it better when it was all one page rather than having to scroll back to the top and click back and forth between pages... I often used the page for reference when scanning icons and for example usage.
Surely the kid can choose an instrument on the basis of the one that they like the sound of or even what seems 'cool'. They will probably have more motivation to study something that they have chosen themselves even if it is for fairly superficial reasons.

It's not like there is an objective way to choose a "better" instrument anyway since half of the fun is playing with others who use different instruments.
I would argue that its actually a multi-tiered question where the choice isn't really "NoSQL or RDBMS" but "NoSQL or ORM talking to RDBMS or going straight to RDBMS"

Here, the naive developer uses MongoDB as an all-in-one that rolls in the part of ORM that too often gets sole consideration, 'How do I persist my objects?', and effectively ignoring everything else. Try as I might to eloquently phrase my frustration with this all, it usually ends up in a rant against those relying on automagic who don't feel the need to understand every decision being made for you.
Looks alright. Really don't like the look of the icons. They remind me of cheap Samsung phones.
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> The economy is not "a pie", because it's not a zero sum game. The pie can grow, leaving more for everyone.

The interesting question is: what causes the pie to grow?

There is really only one thing that can fundamentally increase the size of the pie and that is natural resource income. The other thing that increases the virtual size of the pie is improving the efficiency of converting natural resources to things people want (standard of living).

It's also important to remember that after natural resource income (mainly energy) the next economic fundamental is food, housing, and basic utilities (heat/water/sanitation/electricity).

Workers are required to convert natural resources to improved standard of living. But workers also have wants and needs.
The more people that don't work in book publishing participating, the better. I just don't know if anyone outside of publishing and BEA is going to hear about it.
Thanks so much for that! This is the world my mother grew up in, and I now feel I have a much more detailed mental picture of it.
There's very little coordination between forks and URLs point directly at repos, so I'm not sure how this would work.
Mine arrived yesterday, can't wait to play with it!
I was surprised not to find the most common username that I have encountered: johnd@ and jdoe@.
Zach Holman has written about this: http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

In fact, this slide deck was extremely reminiscent of his style, down to the font and some other details. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who designed this deck was influenced by some of Holman's previous presentations.
I have already covered this and you completely ignored it.

It is you who is spewing up rhetoric.

As for magic - seriously and as for being special - seriously!

I'm above average height, think alot and I can not get by on 3k calories a day, somebody smaller with a slower metabolism who thinks less can, you just come along and asume it is wrong and justify it on the basis that you know better and offer NO evidence.

Lets put this down to difference of oppinion and that you are not me and I am not you and as I have said everybody is different and it is those that impose such cookie cutter type attitudes that are the ones that concern me, thats you that is.

Your tone has been dismissive, insulting and frankly everything that a troll is, if it looks like one, talks like one and acts like one. Well you can see my point of veiw and choose to ignore it, which you did and then went on to support my concerns with perfect clarity in an example you can't make up.

Comming along and telling somebody that they are lieing because they don't fit the normal aspect is frankly not what these forums are about, sorry I don't have research paper written about me, but and this is the shocking news, not everybody does because we are all different. Applying an average against the top and bottom end of the scales is just silly and goes against what an average is meant to be.

As for people who need higher than everage intakes for many reasons there are many examples if you can be bothered to look, and I have no desire to let you near my medical records or indeed go into detail about my medical history at all for the sake of pandering to somebody who offers no proof. And no I have not had a gastoric bypass, so you can count that one out.

I wished I could eat what norms eat and maintain myself, I can't and I'm sorry I go against your hitleresk views off people.
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Unfortunately not- Apple enforces the rounded corners and defaults to a black background (the PNG itself is alpha transparent)
Did you just fail the conditional reverse Turing test?
In "Ghost World", it was to show how offensive it still was.
Just so! I had three projectiles (rock1, rock2, rock3) and they shared a global "fire selector" that operated as a sort of mutex.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/90b814fd-df52-4fcf-9127...
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I've witnessed an abortive attempt bring a large city from MS to Google - good luck.

I'm truly all for it conceptually, but in my experience this kind of project tends to be full of false expectations and bad math, but plenty of press.
My point is making declarative statements like "If you want to you can" isn't helping because it feeds into the perception that everyone is just being lazy and not trying hard enough.

Because sadly, that is the thought process of a vast majority of people. That poor people are poor because they want to be.
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Maybe it's time for a HN Brighton meetup?
Meanwhile...[1] Homicides from firearms aren't even close to the largest cause of death. More people kill themselves with firearms than they kill others (19k vs 11k--I'm not sure where that wiki page is getting its numbers since their own citation matches mine[2]). We also have 5k unspecified or non-firearm-related homicides. Across the whole world, about 1.8 people die per second, 14k is about 2 hours, spread across an entire year. All this is why 14k is a handful relative to other causes of death.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10LCID_Violence_Relate...
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I was under the impression that ITAR was just as applicable to individuals as to organizations. Is this not the case?
This is really the killer feature of MongoDB its API embeds very nicely in host languages and is very intuitive to use. I work for a competitor called RethinkDB and we've spent a lot of effort trying to make something that can compete in terms of ease of use. The leap we're really trying to make is for people to not have to throw their database out with their MVP.
A Friday challenge: In Python when is u'ß'.upper() equal to u'SS'?

I discovered one case today, there may be others. Answer: https://twitter.com/moreati/status/332910618858364928
Surely you're making a custom font with the icons you need, rather than publishing the whole thing? In which case you can supplement the fontawesome icons you're using with any icons that you're missing (such as the ticket icon from Entypo that the fontawsome one looks like an exact copy of.)
Doing binary arithmetic on enums can be very useful! First | Second = Both.
Mine arrived two days ago. Beautifully laid out, two symmetrical 46-pin female headers, micro hdmi and microSDHC. Boots flawlessly and looks like a usb drive to Win 7. You need a magnifying glass to see some of the components on its underbelly.

John Clark has just created a new website called armhf.com which has step by step instructions for loading Ubuntu 13.04 into eMMC memory. Site's 20 days old and provides image downloads.

Chose this board as the controller for a Techno-Isel to 3D printer conversion.
Pumping gas as a job is such an anachronistic concept to me that it didn't really register.
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"NoSQL is about the right tool for the job."

I never liked that rationale:

* The job almost certainly will change. Data lives a long time, usually much longer than the original application.

* It's likely to conflate marketing claims with actual fitness for a purpose. A special-purpose system with special-purpose marketing may sound great if the special case lines up with what you're doing. But that doesn't mean that it's actually a better fit for that special purpose. And, thanks to confirmation bias, people almost always think their situation does sound like the special purpose for which the system was built.

* A database system is a system, not a tool. A tool is used in a particular instance for a short period of time, the results are obvious, and it's easy to switch tools if one is not working out.

Of course, there are always valid reasons to choose the special-purpose system, and I'm not saying you shouldn't have used Couchbase. I just don't like the "right tool for the job" argument.
Did you mean "practically" or "politically"?

Because, while it does not cover the "wrong way down a highway" part of your scenario, such a law would certainly save lives. High speed is a significant contributor to fatal car accidents.

The EU already has such a law for large trucks.
If the community is not functional - i.e. people can't find consensus on patches - I don't think automatic solution can fix it. It can enable functioning community to handle things better - i.e., enable to hold votes more efficiently if the community is into voting, or enable to process patches more quickly if it's ok for the community to merge them. But if some people want the patch in and some want it out, automatic merge is not going to solve it - only to piss off those who want it out and alienate them from the project. And give others feeling that it's ok to force decisions through without hearing out the others.
I don't think this legislation breaks any existing monopolies, does it?
Closed captioning has always seemed to me to be a notoriously bad data set due to misspellings and misphrasing. Has anyone tried to do (a better) speech to text of a cable news channel, for instance?

Doing frequency and sentiment analysis on this dataset would be pretty interesting.
A good amount of HFTs fail. I've heard numbers ranging from 70%-90% of new HFTs fail within their first 2 years. Very similar to startups when you think about it.

Also, HFTs are most definitely taking profits from each other. In fact, in a lot of cases the faster, more successful HFTs kill off the new ones to the market. Not to mention there are a good number of predatory HFTs who exist solely to game other HFTs
I can browse through the texts and quickly read them compare to clicking on individual audio which I believe will be time consuming.
I'm surprised that they're moving to Google Docs as well. From my experience Google Docs does not fare very well in government & enterprise settings where people are used to Microsoft Word.
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Some countries like Switzerland have plenty of guns and they are pretty safe places.

Those who want to harm other people find the means to do it. Let's focus on the roots of violence, not the means.