skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic! That would make this perfect for me. Once I read (in an above update) that updates are included, I purchased the app in a heartbeat!!

I just shot you an e-mail via codecanyon.

Looks great! Looking forward to giving it a shot tonight.
What I would find helpful is some sort of operator to merge two JSON values. I use a JSON field to collect various statistics relating to a table's rows, and it'd be nice to not have to worry about overwriting old values. Something like:

json_merge('{"a":5,"b":7}', '{"b":6,"c":8}') -> '{"a":5,"b":6,"c":8}'
Random Access Memories- GrooveShark
The Middle Way works for a lot of things (aka goldilocks, all things in moderation).
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I have never thought about this feature for an app like this however now that you mention it, this is something I could see myself finding very useful, especially printing the Tasks list
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I see, obviously the math is a bit more involved. I assumed those 8000 were identical twins who were separated at birth. Thank you
Girl Writes What says almost nothing but terrible tripe. Like, that time she advocated domestic abuse as a way of relieving emotional and sexual tension in a relationship [1].

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/FeMRA/comments/y0nod/jto_brought_up_...
Or how 'bout this: you click "also sync my photos with drive" and then you enable the same option in Flickr and iCloud, and now you can use any of the three photo services to organize your albums, and people can use any of the three services to view them, and it's always the same fully-synchronized data for everyone.

I also want to be able to drag my iPhoto Library folder into Google Drive and have it get magically parsed and turned into G+ photo albums -- even if this is just a one-way process.
Ask HN: Opportunities for Structured Data?
What are some verticals where building you own structured data could be a viable business?

I asked this 2.5 years ago and believe there is still plenty of opportunity following this model.

For example, here is the rough general model:
* Identify a vertical with large number of distinct data sources
* Create structure around the data
* Make the data browseable and searchable
* Allow users to supplement data with their own content (usually in the form of reviews/ratings/organization)

Growth model:
* Expose smaller set of high quality pages
* Gain first users by promoting in target market blogs/forums/news channels
* SEO heavy
* Expand when there is enough data coverage
* Focus on utility first
* Layer in social for added distribution

Here are some verticals with existing businesses that roughly follow this model:
* Travel - TripAdvisor
* Jobs - Indeed
* Laywers - Avvo
* Doctors - Avvo/Vitals
* Movies - IMDB
* Used Products - Priceonomics
* Local - Yelp
* Autos - CarGurus

What do you think are some good opportunities to apply the structured data biz model?

A few thoughts:
* Disease / Medicine - It's still hard to get the information I want.
* Schools / Degrees / Expected Career Success - Extremely hard to compare higher education schooling options.
For the record, I'm out. Been out since a few months after Panda, now I just do a thing here and there for others.

>>If your worried about this update then you haven't been doing seo right

I love this statement, heard it right after Panda when the "good SEOs" were bashing the panda hit sites...and then their own sites were destroyed too. As horrible as it may sound, I actually felt good.
Look I'm no proponent of Monsanto, but they do have a point here.

Roundup will kill all non-monsanto plants; they change the formula every year to make sure that you have to keep buying seeds. In this case, the farmer grabbed a ton of seeds, sprayed everything with roundup and kept only the seeds which survived; the seeds he knew to be from Monsanto.

I don't like the idea that Monsanto can go to your farm and throw seeds and suddenly you owe them money, but it seems like they might be in the right here. The farmer did go out of his way to pursue survivable seeds without paying Monsanto for the privilege.

This is different from Yogurt where you have some natural selection. He didn't introduce a chemical to the Yogurt with the intention of killing all non-chemically-protected strains.
This is the very definition of FUD.
Is mathematics one big tautology?
FYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3986877
Ask HN: Do you say "Sequel" or SQL?
People that I've worked with (as well as a number of past professors) use "Sequel" when referring to the database (not a movie).

I know it's fairly common, but it really bugs the hell out of me.
I am in a similar space as BBG (fintech) and this type of stuff doesn't fly in our biz. Things are way too sensitive, and people are way too concerned with privacy for "typical" SaaS initiatives to be okay with them.
It's a rebrand of Picasa storage basically.
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You sure do. If you purchase the app you will get all updates for free.
You don't trust him with ssh access to your server, yet you trust him to run arbitrary code there. That doesn't make any sense.
South-Korea's largest rooftop solar installation on a Hyundai factory
I think it's very possible that google would push this out without thinking the quality of search would increase; if they think their PR will be able to continue controlling the message and getting discussion away from the potentially decreased search quality and fighting any possible damage to the brand through extremely tight & multi-layered propaganda around any dissent or competition that comes up in the news cycle.

Glass fans should be happy to know that shortly after the algo change they should be seeing another wave of public demonstrations, perhaps a self-driving car sighting or two.
So what you are saying is that Bitcoin will always require a horrific amount of computational power, just to prevent fraudulent generation of blocks? I'm starting to like the idea of mainstream Bitcoin less and less... 1000 petaflops just to maintain the network? Does that not raise the eyebrow?
Google has published total "bandwidth limits" where they say[1] "To address migration needs, you can download your entire mailbox approximately 3 times per month."

[1] https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=...
That's rather the point of macros - giving programmers the ability to new features to a language.
When a company makes a guarantee that they do not uphold.

You buy a storage bin from a company that guarantees 24x7 security and your stuff is stolen because there was no nightwatchman on duty then you have a case against the company. That doesn't give the thief a free pass or make their actions right, however partial blame does go to the storage company.

The same theory should apply to the internet.
Awesome! Going to buy it now!
On the face of it this is a nonsensical problem; a 10Gbps ethernet connection is not going to need 10M concurrent tcp connections; ethernet + tcp/ip protocol overhead is approx 4% (62 bytes overhead from 1542 bytes max per packet, no jumbo packets over the wider internet yet), the average UK broadband connection is now over 12Mbps (http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2013/03/14/average-uk-broadband-sp...), that gives approximately 800 connections to fill the pipe. Even at a paltry 1% bandwidth usage per connection and 4x10Gbps adaptors in the server that is still 320,000 connections, I have done 150k connections on a high end desktop Linux machine. Available memory (4kx2 socket buffers; you do want connections to be as fast as possible no?) and bandwidth will be a limit to the number of connections long before you get to 10M connections. You are far better off buying multiple machines (redundancy) in more than one location (even more redundancy) before heading off to load yourself up with technical debt that could choke a zoo full of elephants.

The Linux kernel has come a long way in the last few years with improvements to SMP scaling of sockets, zero copy, and large numbers of file handles; make use of it! The level of technical skill being applied to fix kernel problems is probably more expensive than you can afford.
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Hey Evan,

We met a few times during last years Gig Tank (I am one of the cofounders of http://banyan.co). Awesome to see you killing it. Are you planning on coming back to Chattanooga anytime soon? Would love to grab beers. My email is in my profile, and I would love to reconnect.
"This is how the rest of our culture works."

Your analogy is way off. We're talking about other peoples things here, not personal negligence. In Europe a company can face large fines for inadequately protecting customer data. If someone broke into your bank and emptied your account, would you "shake your head" at your bank and be done with it?
They're not dedicated anymore, its just a program that runs on Windows. You get a special keyboard when you buy it.

They don't have total vertical integration. Rarely do they own the data - most of it comes from other parties, either contributions from broker-dealers or from exchanges. Thats why you have to buy the special data sets on bloomberg. They do a lot of work digitizing quotes but these days its much less important than it used to be.

There are many companies (most significantly Markit) who are looking to crush this beast. Reuters has already failed IMO. But, the important thing is with the fragmentation of trading venues there's been fragmentation of the market data business. Bloomberg is great at aggregating many different data sources, but there are others (e.g. the NYSE) that could provide a great service that is geared towards a specific client niche. I think that's the more likely danger to them.
'Not punishing the person that got in' is too far, the guy did break the law. However, this is not exactly AT&T minding their own business and being taken advantage of, they should have a responsibility to act in a responsible manner with data they have collected and stored. They do deserve blame in this instance.

Describing it as victim blaming is also going to far.
patio11 has a good description on his site kalzumeus.com of how he market tested Appointment Reminder before he sold it to his customers. Sorry, don't have the link on me, but his whole site is pretty chock-full of good advice on selling software. Going through his lifecycle email course now, learning a lot.
Why do movie theaters charge the same price for popular films as for clunkers?
Monsanto developed a mechanism to prevent its crops from spreading by causing them to produce sterile seeds, but it pledged not to use the technology under pressure from anti-corporatist groups[1][2].

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[1]http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/terminator-seeds.asp...
[2]http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/1999/oct/06/gm.food2
http://autotelicum.github.io/Smooth-CoffeeScript/
is an excellent introduction into just-enough-code to make something. coffeescript is a much easier to understand javascript and if you combine it with node.js to do a web app, you can code your entire project in one language (plus some html and css markup).
Tech workers have to already be in the top 5 of all workers in those 4 categories.

If nothing else companies could hire and train unskilled workers themselves (this is how the military solves their particular problem even with poor earning power, low respect and autonomy as issues).
Would love to do that! Stay tuned :-)
They're rolling out great features, but it's still not possible to save all revisions of a file onto your disk in Drive. You have to download them one by one.
They do cut out BBG and charge their own fees. This is a huge trend in this industry.
and then there are the twinkle eyed ones that spend huge amounts of time alone (hermits, monks/nuns on long term solo retreat). It probably has less to do with being alone than feeling alone.

For lay people, however, living alone in the world goes against the grain; hard not to feel like an odd ball.

Something the article does not touch on is accepting the reality of alone-ness: we're all alone together (quote from an old friend).
Show HN: Weekend Project - Browse Instagram photos by location
That was our original submission about a year ago. Back then there was just a splash page. No screencast, no beta service and no released open source product: [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mist.io] [https://github.com/mistio/mist.io]
> rsync.net provides the services listed above, and any other services provided in the future on a BEST EFFORTS BASIS. NO GUARANTEES ARE EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED related to data retention, integrity, continuance, or availability. Your data may become unavailable, or be destroyed by any number of events, not limited to fire, floods, acts of terrorism, or other man made or natural disasters.

> Translation: ... We're sorry it has to be here, but it is business suicide not to have this clause. Understand that the owners and employees of rsync.net all have their most precious data stored on these systems, in some cases exclusively.

I'm not sure to understand this part of the Terms of Service [1]. How can an "Offsite Backup" company offer no guarantee related to data retention ?? It's easy to say to employees use it for there data, but I think customers actually pay for these guarantees, or think they do at least ... ?

1: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/tos.html
One more question from me since I can't seem to log into the demo now. Will I be able to disable certain features (eg, payment through Paypal - I would rather get a check)? Thanks.
...so many people, like those "patriotic hackers", support the Feds having the same power that Saudi Arabia is seeking

They do? I'm not sure I can name a single hacker that wants the US, or any other govt, to have the same power.
Timeless Web Development Best Practices
You could try getting married and / or having children.
Why would they comment on a case that not only is not in front of them, but in another country?
The problem of complexity has less to do with being relational and more to do with the data just being large and complex. Relational or not doesn't change that much. If anything, by not keeping it relational, you are much more likely to have a disorganized database that isn't normalized.

This whole "specialized database administrator" point just seems moot considering the equivalent for that are the so-called Big Data developers.
How is the farmer supposed to source non-Monsanto seeds?

How would he verify that seeds were from Monsanto or not?
I really enjoyed A Guide to the Good Life (on Stoicism) by William B. Irvine
It is less syllables while conveying the same idea. Stop letting it bug you and use the version you prefer. It isn't worth the mental energy.
Hobbits, Habits & Hobgoblins: Why iOS 7 Must Change
But it does decrypt the data at rest.
Show HN: Weekend project - Collect and share customer testimonials
What you seek for is a big change. 4.3 is an incremental update. Key lime pie can have big improvements in UI section, which I myself am looking forward to.
Er, her original dress is a floor-length green velvet one. You're exaggerating more than a bit. And maybe you do need to see the movie, since there are multiple scenes about how much she hates wearing dresses like this.
How did the farmer separate the premium seeds from the rest?
Very true. If a person is a hard core Buddhist he or she will never feel alone, because of the teaching of interconnectedness.

Sure for a lay person going to amusement park and riding that ride alone would feel like crap, but you can go and swim in a pool instead or do some other stuff.
Watership Down

It turned a lot of notions on their heads and made for an interesting read.
Ha nice... well now there's two!
Correct, instant upload shows up in Google+ (though I wouldn't be surprised if they make it surface in drive at some point, that could be convenient).

Edit: and unless you check the box "full resolution upload" it won't count against your quota anyway.
The way Android handles multi-tasking is a battery nightmare. I get random battery drain problems constantly and have had the same issue on all 4 of the Android phones I've owned so far. I don't care about 'real multitasking' so I wish Google would at least offer an option similar to Windows Phone where you can choose to maximize battery life at the expense of background services/apps. I can deal with consistently poor battery life but these random battery drains are not something I can plan ahead for. I can leave the house with 100% and 2 hours later have a dead battery or other days have no problems at all. It's infuriating how random it is.
Congratulations on your launch! I like how simple it is to use. A suggestion would be to let the user include their own background.

It usually takes me months just to decide if I should work on something :). That's awesome that you were able to learn iOS programming and develop an app in just 5 months.
Among other things, it means a much smaller surface than the bug-riddled ginormous Flash Player.
She's 4. If she were invited to a royal ball (at the appropriate age) I would expect (but not force) her to wear a pretty gown.

Of course being a princess invited to a royal ball is not a frequent situation, so I don't want her spending much time focusing on it. In short, it isn't wrong just unrealistic.

There is some overlap and conflicting priorities there, I agree. Hence the itchiness.
We (rsync.net) offered HN readers[1] 10c/GB, per month pricing, for life earlier this month ...

I have no idea if you're interested in SSH-enabled storage, or if you use CLI tools at all, but if you do, email us. We are the safe bet you're looking for. We've also been doing it much longer than the others you mentioned.

[1] New customers only, please.
I say sequel when talking about the language. I'm in my early 30s for reference.

I say relational database when I want to talk about the DB itself to distinguish it from the others :)

Btw ... the reason it is common is because sequel used to be a predecessor to SQL.
Never Give Up On Your Dreams
Does advice like this apply in some way to personal/career development?

I would like to break in to a particular technical field. I believe that to work in that field, I'll need to demonstrate some measure of experience in that field. To that end, I'll need to build. This feels like a 'build first, sell later' kind of approach.

Or should I tip the scale toward 'selling' myself on the basis of my other useful experience, and build my expertise on the job?
Except with an array you can change things programmatically on the fly. Or have it setup in a configuration file or database table. Very useful.
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Oddly enough I know for a fact that I'd identify him as a very promising founder. After 8 years of trying to pick founders, part of my brain has turned into a founder detector that I can no longer turn off, and the first few times I talked to Zuck, I found it hard to concentrate because I had to contend with a screeching Geiger counter in my head. Consciously, of course, I knew I couldn't fund him, but the Geiger counter isn't conscious.
A letter from Weev in prison
Per request, the letter cut+pasted from FB.

--- snip ---
Andrew Auernheimer's letter from prison:

5/5/2013

REDACTED,

How are you doing? How are the chops? I am disgusted to have to write an actual
paper letter but they took away all my electronic comms methods and put me in the special
housing unit where I am under 24/7 lockdown. All this for the high crime of blogging,despite
nation B.O.P. officials having made public statements that what I was doing wasn't against
the rules. Meredith had a conversation with the guy even.

It has been a week of this and I feel completely alone and abandoned. I don't even
have my loved ones or attorney's address (they took most of my papers and I happened to
have your address on a property slip they didn't toss). and am unsure when or if anyone will
find out about my situation.

I refused to consent to a payment plan for the fine levied against me from my commissary
funds, so now I can't buy food I can eat from the prison store anymore. Things are really
depressing. Please have people send books. I need them badly in 24/7 lockdown with no
library access.

I miss everyone, also food and sunlight. I was hoping people would send m tweets and
news articles about me but nobody has. Has the Internet forgotten about me or am I
still a hot topic?

Miss you all dearly,
Weev #10378-010
re: "author rank"

By this do you mean popular people will rank more easily like they do now? How is popularity determined? By links?

re: How do you solve it?

You don't. At least, not how Google does it. Google is trying to act like the government of the internet and tries to manipulate behavior into things that align with Google's goals - primarily making money via AdWords. To achieve this goal, they try to discredit competing advertising paid link systems because they break Google's system. It's akin to twitter making it all but impossible to have a successful twitter client.

At some point, there is too much money in the current system to render what Google's webspam team does as much more than an elaborate game of whack-a-mole. They hit spam, more spam pops up elsewhere.

The only way for Google to make their algorithm better is to take out or dial back the "buyable" elements - the social ones like links, tweets, facebook fans, etc. They did this pretty effectively with AdWords over the years. It's harder with organic results, but not impossible. Arguably, for many people you could put 10 reasonable, relevant, non-spam results on the front page of a given search term and it would be "good enough" for many people. Something akin to DuckDuckGo.

Since this is a non-trivial problem what Google is doing is basically better than anyone else so far, and there is a lot of value in the social signals if only because it makes people care more about Google than they care about ranking on Twitter or Facebook. So, kudos to Google on what they're doing, but there is nothing inherent to search that requires a link to be a vote or for that to be such an important relevance factor.
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Rock the Technical Interview
IMO - you have to always sell first in everything you do... yes we want to build first to prove first... but convincing someone else you are capable is the first thing to be done... assuming you can really do it - if you don't sell first no one will give you the chance...
From Galileo to WW2, science progressed at an amazing pace with little and sporadic government support (mostly in the way of prizes). Then governments stepped in and started throwing insane amounts of money at research projects - who was going to say no? Now everyone's addicted to public funds, and waking up to the realization that who pays the piper calls the tune.
I'm working on a third party installer for installing web applications on cpanel, get in touch at my email on profile.

(This isn't for cpanel addons, it's for installing packaged applications directly to a user's cpanel-based hosting account.)

It would be PHP-based and might work as an installer, user just needs their control panel login username/password from their webhost. (Too bad cpanel doesn't do oauth2). I've already tested with some of the major web hosting providers.
I've not seen convincing evidence that negative seo works, besides a few sites where they were already super open to being penalized upon any review, or small sites without much seo holding up their few rankings. It's not likely to return much if other competition exists and could cost a lot to bump one of your competitors for a month maybe two?
Bad designer here. The style of UI components doesn't make me a better designer. I'm a bad designer because I don't know what to put on a page. I don't know where things should go. I can do a sales/information page because there are a thousand of those out there to copy off of. But when I do something remotely original I'm at a loss. Rounded vs. square corners doesn't factor into this at all.