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If you like Redshift, you really should look at BitYota (http://www.bityota.com/). Launched the same day at the AWS Re:invent show as Redshift, it provides much of the performance of Redshift with much more customization, as well as a more rounded set of SQL extensions (including SQL-2003 OLAP functions and UDFs in multiple languages).

I don't work for them, but they make a good product.
I didn't say "execute queries", I said search. Unless you have a tiny amount of data, no indexes means searching is not feasible.
I carried a Lenovo W510 15" that was simply not workable on flights and heavy and clumsy for standing in line at security checkpoints. And "pro" systems like this don't play well with airline power systems. The surface has worked on Qantas, Air Canada and Lufthansa flights where I have had power. At my desk I project to a big monitor and it has worked out pretty well.
Sofa still rules! And now in open-source.
Cheers, Koen.
It's a very interesting feature. What would be the best fit for it?

Home address would be too complex with too much variations, same thing for gender or title. Login/password would be better handled by a token cookie...

It seems to be best used for email or phone number fields, or other very standardized data only.

Addendum: the example given in the post would be bad, as for most credit card forms you would want a control code input, and generaly wouldn't want to encourage sensitive data to be autocompleted.
Operator overloading is good if the operator continues to mean the same thing across domains. If I have two integers and I want to add them together to create a new integer, that's pretty clear. It's still clear that if I have two complex numbers or fractions that I would want to immutably add them up and create a new number. And so on with things like lists and sets, which as you pointed out are set operations.

I would be less inclined to extend this to domains that aren't about numbers or sets, like

genie + bottle

What exactly does that do?

It's kind of like implementing an interface. The implementation should do what it says on the box. In this case the box is the sign for addition.
Hi I'm Tyler. I work at a startup, I'm not an engineer, but I like to make things.

Like many of you, I have lots of ideas. I also enjoy going out with friends for a drink. I like people telling me about cool things to check out later. But I never remember later what my ideas or those friends' recommendations were, because the brain isn't meant to be that kind of memory device. So I taught myself Objective-C and Xcode and made an iPhone app called Slapshot to solve this.

Here's how it works:

Just type and close the app.

That’s it. Slapshot will email you exactly what you wrote 12 hours later.

I'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping promote Slapshot please send me an email hn@slapshotapp.com, I've got a free promo code with your name on it.
no, it's categorically not good to make an application more fragile. A weakness restated is not a strength. Every database should have an optimizer, period.
I was wondering the same. Thanks for answering this question.
Another Palantir customer:

https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&id=145c347388e1b1a8f5...

Click on Complete View in the tree view to see the full feature list.
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This is awesome. LDS has been a case study in how iterating leads to a really great product. I just hope they are earning enough commissions so they can keep creating quality domain search products.
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Never bring a quadracopter drone to a monofilament fishing line fight.
I wouldn't be surprised if 1PW works with autocomplete data pretty soon.
If it is an app you care about then you better go read the reviews before updating because you cannot roll back.
If every single application everywhere rolls it's own auth every time, you're going to have 10 auths (which according to security advice should be seperate) to remember.

You're confusing with what is [perhaps] technically the most reasonable solution with what your potential users will be willing to do. That's a mistake.
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Some design issues prevent me from updating regularly and when I do, it's a painful process.

1.) Installing applications of size X generally requires 2X amount of space. I'm not a dev so I don't know what happens under the covers, but I can understand why (copy compress package, unpack/uncompress and deploy to filesystem)

2.) When you update, it's an all-or-none proposition with the "Update All" button

3.) Because of 1 & 2, if you're low on space and one application is too big to update, when you press the "Update All" button you get an error message and nothing gets updated

So, I now have a red "93" on my App Store icon, and unless I want to manually go and update each non-big app individually, that's how it's going to stay.

Bonus: Loading the icons in the "Update" screen impacts the UI something fierce (as does updating, I guess), so Updating individual apps is an exercise in frustration. This scales linearly with the number of apps you need to update, so at this point I'm past the point of no return and will likely not update an app unless it complains directly to me. Even better, finding the app in the update screen is painful since they're sorted by time and not name, so it's nearing the point where if I can't use your app because you complain to me, and you're not an absolutely essential application, I'll probably just delete you.
Nexus Q was barely a commercial product for like a few days. And didn't they gave them away for free in the end? Hardly anyone will cry over this.

That being said, I wish they kept the name, and relaunch it as a completely different product, as an Android-based console with the latest chip, more RAM, more storage, and so on, for $200, as a competitor to OUYA.
Why not hire someone to shoot that with a shotgun?

On a third or fourth drone the guy is going to get the hint.
Which, in an ideal world, shouldn't have had any impact. Of course, it's not an ideal world, etc etc.

However, the original point stands - even "liberal software companies" will fire people for less than nudity on your screen.
Did you seriously expect a NES emulator written in CSS? Color me surprised.
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as the article notes, you can achieve invasion of privacy by using a stepladder and a camera; this should be no different.
Newegg's strategy here is basically applied game theory, where they loudly and publicly state that they will never pay licensing fees to trolls, and then they loudly and publicly show that to be the case. Worse, they're actually winning their court cases, and destroying the value of their opponent's patent portfolio.

Nobody in their right mind would waste time trying to troll them now - unless they have a really rock-solid case, which is unknowable before litigation.
I guess I have a collector's item then :-/
One thing to do is to take a picture/video of the guy doing it and post it publicly. Fight fire with fire, as it were.
Are they disabling the submit button for a second or two after showing it? Otherwise you can trick the user into clicking where the submit button is going to appear and then trigger the autocomplete.
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Well, yeah, you certainly wouldn't do that for the sake of intuitive design. It would just be neat. That's all it would be. Just like a home made craft or art project.

There's nothing wrong with that and I'd appreciate it. Even if it was only once.
Ok I am being downvoted for responding exactly with my experiences with Pebble. 11 months of waiting and abysmal communication from Pebble's part. SDK delivered in April while expected in August the previous year, but hardly addressed at all during the biweekly updates. Now they get millions in risk capital. I can see who was the useful fool here.
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I was thinking it'd be a fun pellet gun target practice. Or maybe even an opportunity for you to build anti-spy-drone-pellet-gun-turrets....and then mount them on your house. Seriously. It's "The Bread and Butter Battle" of the makers.
This references a supreme court decision from 1946. It's hard to imagine that the court was trying to protect this behavior, my guess is that they were addressing the issue of whether a property owner had rights to control air travel over their property.

Likewise, it's almost inconceivable that there are not guidelines covering minimum cruise height or similar. You can't just go buzzing everyone's house with your private ultralight, can you? If not, I expect the same guidelines should apply to your United Twerpists dodecacopter(tm) drone.
And if fine-tuning of the angles is desired, a genetic algorithm should work great for optimization in this case.
This has not been my experience in recently helping build a startup and seeking VC money (that they are overly exploitive), but perhaps we had more realistic expectations going in. Anecdotal surveying amongst prior founders that came in as mentors during our recent accelerator stay suggested that at a typical $20-50mil exit (an average "successful" tech company sale), "unproven" founders should each expect to have 3-5% in equity remaining. That's after 1-2 seed rounds, and at least A and B rounds.

Terms significantly improve for "proven" founders.
Ex-googler: While I think open allocation is toxic and the reason I left

I think you mean "closed allocation".

the best way to get into one of these projects is to get Acquihired into it.

Isn't that fucked up? What does it say about a company when it can't trust the people who've been there for years to do any of the real work and it, instead, buys mediocre talent at a panic price (typically $3-6 million per head) on the acq-hire market?
can we expect this data to start feeding into Google Now?
Or you could just invest in some curtains...

If the guy is truly a nuisance, get all the neighbors to pitch in and buy tons of drones and just take a day off work and follow that guy around constantly.
For varying contexts of bad. It impedes on things like static analysis.

You don't want the surface area of your programming language confined to 1) runtime 2) being run by a specific binary. Where is the offline tooling? Where is the variety?

This handicap makes me despise Perl. And I say that as a long time professional Perl engineer.
It's good to hear from someone who is balancing both. I chose to work for a startup so I am aware that somedays I will be putting in a lot of hours and energy but I just haven't actually gone through it yet (like I am now) and am realizing it's easy to get sucked in. I'm interested in finding out where these places you suggest are. I've also heard OKCupid is the site that people in the Bay Area use. That will be a last resort for me because it's so impersonal. I really admire people who can do it all. Thanks for the really good points.
Fighting back often all it takes, making bully pay that is.. you do not need to win every fight you just need to make people think twice about messing with you, there are always easier victims to play with.
In practice, you end up with apps which dynamically build up predicates in different sections of the code. And when you combine that with many predicates, many tables, and other constraints such as ordering or aggregates, things get complex pretty quick.

Even if you have the best developers who understand all the in an outs of the dataset, re-implementing an optimizer in the app is rarely the right choice.
Different industries, full featured desktop application vs. a software library. Windows software sold as a package versus a free development library for iOS that only runs on Macs.

I don't see there being much trademark confusion here.
Biology. Icelanders in the U.S. don't murder people very often either. Nordics make good neighbors.

Then again, if you've read the Icelandic Sagas, you'll find that they used to be bloodthirsty enough in pre-modernity. Culture matters too. Just not as much (in the range of societies that exist in the first world today).
Biggest problem: many small shops, especially Wordpress shop themes and many self-written shops don't use the autocomplete="..." attribute to properly indicate autocompletion support...
I felt the beginnings of this before I built my treadmill desk [1]. Moving constantly helped a lot.

[1] http://shanereustle.com/blog/cant-stand-sitting.html
From the comments:

"I reached out to play support via email, and here is the response I got: "We're aware of a streaming issue with the Google Play All Access app and the Nexus Q and are working on a fix""
The premise in the title seems be pulled out of thin air after actually reading the piece. You're right there just wasn't enough information to say anything either way.
Thank you so much!

I thought it was me, I've been working at my standing desk at home for about >3 months now and my right foot (my left knee is a mess so my bad standing posture puts all weight on the right leg) is in a real pain.

I'm wondering if a wobble board can help?
http://goo.gl/36ZCb
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But ... OP promised.
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Ask PG: Can we have an honest discussion around Abusive Flagging on HN?
the below is a screengrab of http://news.ycombinator.com/news, pages 1 - 3 (reformatted for continuous viewing), as of 13:00 EDT on Thursday / 16 May 2013. (highlighting and related commentary added).

i put this together as a high-level and informal analysis of post rank as a function of: time since submission (hours), upvotes (points), and the volume of comments. comparisons made relate to the post Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715168]..

> http://i.imgur.com/ZCR2hun.jpg

without knowing exactly how rank is determined, the yellow-highlighted post’s positioning appears to be significantly depressed relative to where it should be, based on examining similar posts (in terms of time since posting, points, and comments).

it has been mentioned that this irregularity is likely due to said post being atypically ‘flagged’ as spam. i have no data to back this up, but having seen similar behavior before, i believe this to be the case - and it appears to be a fairly common occurrence with posts that present a viewpoint counter to that of the majority. i believe this apparent abuse of the spam ‘flagging’ feature on HN is seriously detrimental to the community.

i think it would be beneficial if we could: (1) get a statement clarifying rules/good practices around ‘flagging’ posts, (2) some form of verification that abuse of this feature has been occurring, or evidence contradicting it, and (3) a discussion around potential changes to the system.. i personally believe keeping the feature in-place makes sense, to help deal with actual spam, but would recommend implementing some logic to help mitigate its abuse (such as a upvote/comment threshold that, if achieved, negates the effect of flagging).
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Does guestrepo support non-hg guestrepos (as subrepos does)? My beef with git submodules is it only allows git.
Beyond all the concerns about destroying other peoples property, discharging a firearm in a residential area can carry pretty stiff penalties depending on the local laws.
I was thinking NFC tag-to-watch to trigger limited-interaction sorts of prompts on the phone and then bluetooth from the watch to the phone for relaying the indicated data or firing actions or whatever. (bump watches, each watch gets a 'send contact' prompt, watches broker a bluetooth contact card transfer from respective phones)

And as for the computer/lock thing, I was thinking Bluetooth. Someone might have to rig up a custom profile for it, but they'd have to do OS integration and awareness anyway. So it's not so much more a roadblock.
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I know it is early days for RubyMotion's OSX development support, but I will ask anyway: anything like ProMotion for the OSX side of the house?
Our server API still receives noticeable traffic for versions of the app that date back to late 2011 when we first launched.
My insight: it's the degree of integration of society. No disenfranchised sections.

Besides Iceland, two other countries stand up: Japan an Switzerland. In the former, not even police or yakuza bear fire arms, things are solved mainly on reputation. In the latter, every citizen has to know how to operate a firearm, on account of not having an army.

So it's not the availability or lack of thereof of guns. It's the "social tension" (what exists between people) that binds people together. A society of strangers and cvasi-anonymous people leads to higher violence. When people are separated, they don't prevent each other from falling into a life of crime.

A society where whole swaths of people are in poverty believing they have no chance to succeed leads to the worst cases of violence. Even the slight idea that there is a path from poverty to success, even if it is an illusion, keeps the violence down.

But when people are convinced that the system is stacked against them no matter what they do, then they dissociate from the large society, form a new attitude - that they don't need to play by the rules, they don't need to have compassion, because the rich have all the power and resources anyway and they actively block the poor from raising up. That's basically whet the shit hits the fan.

Remember the French arab revolt from a few years back, in Paris? Same thing. Arabs emigrated in France after WWII for work. They remained in France and had children. Now french people don't need them any more, but the kids are born in France, they have no idea of the countries their parents came from. They don't want to leave, but they are not welcome in France either. They are without a place of their own. Thus, feeling of racial discrimination and violent protest.
This has a couple different issues involved. Property rights to the air above you and privacy rights. It seems the court agrees that the air above you is a public space. For privacy rights, it uses the example of leaning a ladder against your neighbor's house to spy into it. So it claims that hovering the UAV just outside their window is also a privacy violation. But what about hovering it just outside the window but my side of the fence? What about using a telescope from inside my house to spy into their house? Or standing on the public sidewalk to spy into their house? Does a "peeping tom" need to be on your property to still get in trouble? And if he sees you undressing is it worse than if all he sees is you eating dinner? What about looking into their backyard from my second story balcony? or into their house?

The only complication that the drone adds is that is provides you additional vantage points that you didn't have before. But if the air above you is public space, the same rules should probably apply as if you were standing on the sidewalk.
Amazing work. Do the Genesis Now. (:
One of the best posts here in days! Posts like this is why I read hacker news!
I think I follow your point about SMTP being secure only node-to-node, but doesn't S/MIME (PGP, etc.) solve the problem of security?
Thanks I will try this. A healthier body and mind should lead to better work results.
I don't know what you were expecting. I was expecting information on their promise during the financing period. That included the fact that the SDK should be available to all backers as Pebble shipped. And some communication on its progress I took for granted, being part of the ride and being treated as someone that gets involved early. I expected updates on "with the SDK you will be able to do this and that", "now we have added this API, what do you think", "the SDK will be based on this toolchain and work on these platforms" etc. Nothing of this kind. I spent too much time with waiting for information from Pebble already, I don't think I will bother more.
I wonder if fireworks are legal there. A couple of roman candles could work nicely.
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This might be purely anecdotal as I don't know the exact causes for it off the top of my head, but I'd like to add sciatica to the list of possible conditions that may develop from standing too long. I know for me at least, I never had symptoms of it until I had a job that required lots of standing around. I would still walk around a fair bit and all that as well, but there were noticeably long periods of stationary standing too.

If you're not familiar with sciatica, it starts with a numbing of the right leg usually, and can develop into an all out debilitatingly painful burning sensation that can flare up at any relatively small stress on the legs. Well, I got that, and it's not fun. I had to get some orthotics to help mitigate the pain, but to this day I still get pretty bad flare ups if I do any kind of stationary standing that totals more than 20mins in a day without the orthotics; the numbness begins closer to the 10min mark though, so all out debility is easier to prevent. Walking for long periods of time is fine, it's just standing that's painful. And I stopped working at that standing job over 4 years ago now, with no other noticeable constant stressors going on since. So yeah, no standing desks for me unfortunately. Makes going to some concerts a pain on the ass too, which sucks, but that's another story.
I think you are missing the subtle tones, implications and context within the comment. It was not meant as a blanket statement hence it is a comment against a specific item.
right. I had heard about this before and thought this was like a follow up about him refusing to stop. But really it is just the same story. And now I see the original story is hardly anything more than a police blotter type blurb without any real meat.
The article says 600,000 people a year die from "Work Exhaustion" (their quotes not mine). That reminds me of the conditions that lead to the rise of labor unions, although in looking at various sources it seems that China already has unions of one form or another? Clearly not doing their job if that is the case.
> fishing net that can be fired from a potato gun

kickstarter that ASAP
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Having the capability and giving people enough rope to hang themselves is one thing. Just don't try to sell it that way. And for goodness' sake, don't implement the core functionality that way.
has he released the code? or the binary?
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I did not state that an optimizer should not exist for a database - I think thats key actually - but rather that the tradeoff they made this time around was fundamentally good in that - at least for now - it forces the developer to think about application performance.

If that happens to make an application more fragile, I think that is more of a code organization/tooling issue than anything else.
While production was delayed, software is another thing. I backed it for being able to program for. They never explained why being late in physical production meant they did not have to say anything about the software part.
Thousands of drones flown by enthusiasts to learn about robotics > one idiot who doesn't know how to be a good neighbor. I'd hate to see a burgeoning field shut down because of a paranoid response.

If someone were flying a drone uncomfortably close to my house/window I'd just turn my hose on it.
In my experience the vast majority of popular musicians cannot read musical notation, and it doesn't really seem to impact much.

It seems like it's more important to read Fruity Loops or Ableton filter notation nowadays.
So you would be ok with someone doing this at your home?

I'm asking both of you this question.

I think there is plenty in the story to know that this behavior is asking for trouble. Where I'm from this would not have resulted in a friendly chat with the fellow on the street.