skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're totally right

this is why i believe a smart scale is one of the best examples of good data tracking: you step on it whenever you think of it (not on some weird schedule; nor do you have to wear it or take it with you). it does the mundane stuff of capturing the data and sending it to the cloud, which you would otherwise have to write into some notebook.

if it's a system that's fully automated though, one might lose interest in collecting it in the first place: the QSers always like to say – when you add a little friction to a process, you end up paying more attention to why it is. so instead of just blinding capturing your weight, setting up alerts for goals and seeing trends fall and rise will get you to make the most of the data – instead of just collecting data for data's sake.
Ya know, it's hard to say without actually being in that exact situation. I won't say we would never invoke trademark law, but I will just say that - in general - I don't agree with trying to treat trademarks as overly broad.

Maybe the "Moz" / "Doz" one is a little bit more of a grey area than I see it, I don't know... I'm biased towards a certain mindset here.
He doesn't work for Moz, but I do. John is a "Moz Global Associate", but doesn't get paid by Moz. I however have commented a couple times and assumed my responses were enough to display I work there. But I should have definitely stated it more clearly as well.
When I've tutored for web development and CS I've surprisingly been able to change the same as my freelance rates. This might suggest that I don't charge enough for freelancing, but I charge above my hourly rate at work and live comfortably in the bay area.
Twenty Bucks: Team Fortress 2
Thanks for the comment. Yes, that's exactly the benefit.

You could in fact have heterogeneous JSON documents within one file, and json_fdw could still handle them. If a field you declared in the table schema doesn't appear in a JSON document, json_fdw would just consider that field to be Null.

The issue is, json_fdw is built such that one table can only associated with one JSON file, and users typically have many JSON files lying around. For example, you'd have one JSON file for each hour's worth of website error logs.

If that's the case, you could create a distributed table. That way, you could run the query one distributed table and have the query run on all your JSON files instead of just one.

That said, it's probably best to associate one type of JSON logs (say your website error logs) with one distributed table. That way, your queries go over your website error logs or your mobile application logs, but not both at the same time.
How many developers do you know who can truly and massively fuck up the world economy while pursuing their bonuses?
Atoms weigh more than electrons.
I enjoyed the post very much. Just out of curiosity, though, why did you choose not to capitalize any words?
BLACK METAL
The main difficulty is in getting people to switch to the new client. If only some people switch, you have effectively split Bitcoin into two separate currencies with all of the old coins existing separately in each currency.
Why I “Complain” Publicly, Via Blogging
> But he isn't 'the' authority in FP, simply 'an' authority.

Sorry to see mr. Armstrong does not meet your requirements, would you like to take the matter up with mr. McCarthy instead?

> And this particular thread seems to be more grounded in discussing FP concepts than Erlang.

So? That makes it ok to speak in a disparaging manner about someone who did more for reliability of complex FP systems than anybody else that I'm currently aware of? And to fail to even do the author the courtesy of checking his/her credentials before firing off an ill thought out rant?

Really, not recognizing your elders and betters, -5 points, not knowing who they are, -50 points and being dead wrong on top of all that -500. The article is interesting for one reason only, it's Joe Armstrong writing about a new entrant on the VM that he designed and for those that are interested in such stuff his opinion carries a lot of weight. To dismiss his writings as the drivel of just another anonymous 'someone' who couldn't be bothered to do his homework about FP is ridiculous.

Anyway, I'm done with this thread.
this goes very deep; i like it. i'll drop you a note soon.
I work for a non-profit called Open mHealth. We are working to build an open architecture around health data from mobile apps and devices. The basic idea is that existing applications can have their own proprietary way of getting data into their systems, and we want to evolve a standard way of getting data out of these systems. We are developing an API specification around this. https://github.com/openmhealth/developer/wiki

Once app developers adopt the Open mHealth approach, much of the work of getting data out of these silo'ed apps will be done. This is important because the real value of this data comes about when the streams are combined to be analyzed and visualized.

I am posting here because many of the issues outlined in this thread and in the original post are things we are actively trying to solve.
A drop of Coffee
whoa, am I on reddit now?
According to another comment http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/05/31/why-trademarks-are-im... Anji Ismail nofied :

1. Capseo bought DOZ.com back in April 2011 and Capseo has been selling Online Marketing since September 2009. So it was just a matter of time that we launch DOZ.com.

2. We didn’t fill in December 2012 as you said, but March 12, 2012. (cf. USPTO)

3. DOZ is not an inbound marketing software
Sure, but that's my argument. They go into it thinking this, but the system changes their goals. I'm sure politicians think this too going in, and then the ones left are the ones who can play the donations game.

Startup orgs (for- or non-profit) allow you to actually start serving people now, not later, and that gives you better insight into solving problems and picking them.
have you ever written a book before?

i ask because many writers have found that
a book changes in the course of writing it.

so the outline you prepared at the outset
might morph quite a bit before you finish.

thus, you might toss lots of 100-word days
out the window, because you were writing on
a path that ended up being a false detour...

better to write a chunk you _know_ will last.

but it _is_ good to develop a writing habit.

-bowerbird
Ongig Co-founder says next dev uses Twitter Bootstrap (vid)
[Slideshare] Less vs. SASS
A presentation I gave last night at WPI, I preserved the slides and put them online.

They're more of a comparison of LESS and SASS where I lead the others to make their own decision which to use.
I had a 15.4" Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop from 2003 with 1920x1200 and it was amazing. When I released it a few years later it was not possible to buy a laptop from Dell with that resolution :(
Wait, do you think intermediaries never create actual wealth?
>if you wait until the time is right or the conditions are right or you have enough money or time or something else, you will probably never get around to doing good. And even if you do, how much good will not get done while you're on your journey to being able to do good.

I don't really understand this criticism of him. He isn't trying to save up millions of dollars before doing good, he's working for money and giving it away as fast as it comes in. Sure, making more money isn't the only way to do more good, but if he has chosen charities that use money to do good then his logic can't be refuted: "The more he makes, the more good he can do."
> Nobody's stopping anybody from spreading their opinion, last I checked. I said the downvotes were deserved.

directly contradicts

> [it] deserves every step closer to invisible that it's getting

from your previous comment.

Also, you know that downvoting something enough hides it from HN. On HN, a downvote doesn't mean "I disagree", because we have comments for that. A downvote means "this comment isn't HN-worthy".

As for the actual discussion topic, I mostly agree with you and I don't understand why you're discussing it with me. I'm defending another's right to disagree with you and me.

> The culture of "whatever happens to guys in prison is their own fault" NEEDS to stop.

I agree, but I'm appalled that you think you can enforce a culture change by hiding the opinions of people that don't want that culture change. You can't shove culture down people's throats.
Judges can only act retrospectively. The Supreme Court cannot wake up and say "X is unconstitutional". They look at the issues as they apply to a particular litigation.

The laws that brought NSLs and similar things were designed to make it incredibly difficult and expensive to appeal in a court. The alternative to warrantless searches has been a top secret court dedicated to National Intelligence issues that approves 97% of warrants. The PATRIOT act laws circumvented even that nominal oversight.
The effective method of fighting that though seems to be organized political action. The needed skills to organize and drive such groups does not seem very common so it understandable and advantageous for everyone that their efforts are put else where.

Though it is dangerous to ignore this arena completely.
It's the ciiiiircle of life. We're at the "Cambrian Explosion" stage of front-end frameworks. The variance in approaches, technologies, and boundaries between the various moving parts is just the ecosystem sorting itself out.

Come back in 3 years. It'll have settled down.
A corollary is that both these claims can simultaneously be true: 1) most successful founders are futurists; and 2) most futurists are cranks.
Why? It is not like you can trade in Karma points for a new car. Just another popularity contest.
Can someone remind/explain to me what happens if I were to use both my phone's current battery but put a super cap in front of it?

ie When I plug my phone in to charge, the super cap is "instantly" charged. Then a smart charging circuit would use the super cap to charge my battery.

Situation and my expectation:
I'm headed home from work, drop off my laptop and leave for some social gathering, but my phone is about to die. Trying to charge me phone for the 1 min I'm in my house in futile.
However, my expectation is that the super cap would fully charge. Then while I'm walking to my destination, it could charge my battery to some reasonable percent.

I'd be really happy even if I could get ~20% or so from the fully charged super cap.
Would definitely be better than nothing.
The prisoner forging his own chains.
Correlation very much implies causation, it just doesn't guarantee it. After you test that hypothesis, you'd find correlation if the hypothesis was correct. Saying "correlation is not causation" is useful for dismissing data offhand, but where you find causation you'll find correlation.

Also, graphs are demonstrably NOT completely meaningless. They can absolutely be misleading, but they can also accurately depict the underlying data. I think the point of this thread is that the authors of this study have proposed a hypothesis and collected data that supposedly reinforces it. The data (and methodology) can be analysed and verified. There's no need to start from scratch, in this case, to determine if the findings can be substantiated.
Depends on what you want to achieve with it. I installed Ubuntu Server, threw and configured SAMBA and a small LAMP server on it and not much more. For getting the backups from the production servers I use rdiff-backup and cron. I'm not using RAID at the moment as it suits me better to just have four big drives.

A friend of mine is running the same setup plus a Plex Media Server and some small toys.

My Twitter and HN handle are the same and my email is on my profile if you have any specific question.
Boy, I want one of those. I just found Nixie clock building kits. I'm really tempted to buy one as the primary clock for my office. That'd look fabulous.
Ideas like this and http://airpair.com are really exciting to me. Being able to summon an expert on demand and quickly solve problems outside of your expertise sounds great. Check out http://www.meetup.com/remotepairprogrammers/ if you're interested in a "free version" of this concept.
I don't know you or Michael, but just from this exchange, it looks like you are the one out of line here. Nothing you have written has contributed to the discussion.

Sometimes people have obsessions. I will rant for days on how much Java sucks as a language, how 99% of American corporations have idiots running their supply chains, how energy storage is the singular important problem facing alternative energy, and how City Planners are a bunch of nimwits that are inadvertently destroying livelihoods of millions of people in their quest for the ultimate Sim City. I'm sure you have some of your own. It isn't that big of a deal to ignore someone's posts on HN.
Yes, he's waiting essentially. Not waiting looks like doing something that actually is saving the world - starting at a small scale if you have to at first.

Getting to small version of the change you want to see is vastly preferable than trying to be Buffet and then starting a foundation. By then, you've lost all connection to the problems you wished to solve and the mentality of even trying to make this change.

Again: Stop waiting guys! You can actually do this now and grow your little org into a great force for change.
You don't see the people that aren't in prison because they do see it as a disincentive. America doesn't have the highest crime rate in the world either, we simply catch more criminals and have vastly expanded the number of things that qualify as crimes, as well as lengthened sentences.

We might have more crime than other first world countries in general, but it's not like prisons are the cause of it. That doesn't mean it doesn't work.

Besides, what are you comparing it to? All other countries use prisons as well, and what would the alternative be anyways?
On the other hand, only Bill Gates has had the vision to lead his charity into wiping out polio from the planet. (only 3 countries left, and only because terrorists keep shooting at volunteers before they can administer cures IIRC).

Sure, money helps charities. But a brilliant leader, like what Gates has been to the Gates Foundation, is a force multiplier to that money.
resort to good old police-work and the judicial system to back it all up.

The problem is that many countries where we have radical militants operating have (a) porous borders and (b) an inadequate police/judicial system. So unless you want another situation like in Mali where there was free reign for militants then you do need the military involved hence a war on terror.

And that is the crux of the issue. When you look at weak states like Mali or Nigeria do people really want a hands off approach ?
I've coded in coffee shops for a few years. I usually spend the first half of the day at one and then switch at lunch. It can get expensive, but I usually justify it by telling myself I'm earning money (not completely logical).
I think that is a unfortunate negative stereotype that has prevent many from earning more and going more good with it.
Northern Ireland Town Fakes Prosperity for G8 Summit
Many desktop monitors can be rotated 90 degrees, effectively giving you a 9:16 ratio.
i own them all and have tried each one on and off for the last couple of years. i like each one in its own way (and, also, am friends with guys at each place)

if you're just getting started and you aim to keep it light, then i'd start with the withings scale. you leave it in your bathroom, set your goals, step on it when you feel like it and watch trends and alerts from time to time. i find my weight tells me more about me over time than many other metrics: it shows my bad weeks from my good and, in indirect ways, shows when i stress out and get bad sleep (and therefore, end up eating poorly and exercising inconsistently)
What do you get in the JVM?
I've always thought this subject was very interesting as when I was younger I lived in Germany and German was actually one of my first languages, I used it in school as well as with friends. However when we came back to the US there was simply no opportunity to use it so I have lost most of it. Same goes for Spanish that I used to use semi-regularly when I was in my teens.

Naturally when I joined college I started studying language classes, Japanese the first year and every year after, as well as concurrently learning Chinese starting the second, I also went to college in Japan for a year focused on upper level Japanese. The process was me religiously studying, watching tv shows, constantly writing essays on my thoughts about society, culture, news, Rubik's Cubes, artificial intelligence, etc. even blog daily. Also listen to music. I can't emphasize enough how much I'd write and from the beginning engage daily in only using Japanese and Chinese in conversation. It took a year and a half to be conversational in Japanese (largely due to the completely different grammar and kanji) and for Chinese only around a year. I have also recently started Korean, to find that the overlap of Chinese and Japanese make it almost trivial to learn. So language similarity is also important.

Also in my years of interacting with foreigners who are learning English. The best speakers are typically ones who came here younger, there is even a large difference to students who studied abroad as early as high school (versus college)

I can definitely contest that you can still learn a language to very technical competency as late as in college. It just takes a lot of effort and discipline, and perhaps a bit of accumulated skill. Finally, you certainly get better at learning languages with every new language as with learning any subject.
Infinite Work = Infinite Payout
Since I don't really have a sense for the size of the houses in SF, I'd be interested to know how SF's numbers for "$/sq.foot of floor space" and "$/acreage" compare with places like Palo Alto.
What do you mean by a VPN connection? Doing direct connect and then your own transport, or just the aws IPSec tunnel stuff over their normal transport?
I stand by everything I said in my previous comment while noting that you didn't respond to the main point of that comment or the one that preceded with it.
This, more than anything else, is going to be what kills Silicon Valley. All those twenty-something hackers today are going to look up one day and realize that they can't have a family in the Bay Area, and leave.
From the courageous beginnings, in vogue with what is usually advocated by the startup culture:

"Minor had at least one brush with bankruptcy early on. It was the early 1990s, and he was trying to get CNET off the ground, Businessweek reported then. He had maxed out his credit cards, expenses were piling up “and he was $40,000 in the hole,” according to the magazine."

To:

"How do you sell the technology company you founded for $1.8 billion and five years later file for personal bankruptcy?"

How he portrays it:

“A case might have been made that I should never have strayed from technology,” Minor said in the e-mail, according to the Daily Progress. “However, I like doing things outside my comfort zone, and I believe that willingness in part accounts for my tech successes.”

How others may have seen it:

"Minor had a falling out with fellow backers of 12 Entrepreneuring Inc., a business incubator he started in 2000 with Internet veteran Eric Greenberg, amid allegations of lavish spending as startup investing began falling out of favor. (...) Conway led a revolt to recoup the investor group’s money, raising questions over $45 million in office-lease commitments and $13 million on furnishings and technology equipment"
Inflation isn't the problem - GDP is $15T or some such, and they're investing this over time - so $150T is what they're comparing. Perhaps in niche markets they could do so.

The main problems of that much money is that you get into investment mode which is more conservative, top-heavy, etc. This means it's slower, less likely to find the best innovations, and lower social-ROI.

However, some problems require such capital - like what Elon Musk is working on at SpaceX, but again that's focused capital.
Why all of the attention to direct cash giving/transfers?
I don't think he's planning to start a foundation, he's donating to existing ones, like the against malaria foundation.
When I read these and see the general response I wonder how the average code-jockey today would respond to the articles that were quite common in Elektor and other 80's era electronics builders magazines.

This stuff is childs play in comparison to the kind of gear hobby electronics types would churn out in those days and if the response is as strong as I think it is this may mean that a new wave of home-brewers is about to launch.
I learned about it just last year and forgot about it again until today. It's just not even much of an option if we're going to be honest, unless you want a minimal experience.
Shoot me an email. I'll gladly help you.
Introducing Octokit
Accelerate Phabricator with Nginx
Hogwarts for Hackers
I like the approach you're taking Naveen. I do wonder whether individual, disparate data steams have any value, or whether its a case of the sum of the parts is less than the whole, so to speak (along with concerns like security, etc etc that others have raised), but the concept is intriguing. Will be watching / following.
I thought it was 500 karma, and gets periodically karma inflation adjusted.
Github: Introducing OctoKit for Ruby and Objective-C
Even with the quotes, that's still too strong a statement. Until they have been processed by a court they are innocent.

The USA has held innocent people without a trial for over a decade. Some of those people were children when "arrested".

This situation weighs against every American and yet it's still ongoing.
The title here is a little deceptive; it's the median price for a "single family home". A lot of the inventory in SF is either apartments in small buildings or duplex / multi-residence structures, which are generally less expensive (and it would be better to have more of those and fewer single family dwellings, since they use space more efficiently.)
I am curious why this isn't ported to more languages like mustache is. I ported it to PHP, but it's not really language specific for just the templating part, though context assignment and callbacks might be (but aren't hard).
Do you believe the US is the one to police the world? That interfering in Mali or Nigeria is going to make the US safer?
Sell. Seriously. If you own one of these, sell. Then laugh.

This real estate hyperinflation is going to destroy the very engine of class mobility and youthful enthusiasm for a better life that powers the Valley. When that's gone, the Valley will decline. When the Valley declines, the local real estate bubble will pop.

Want a historical example? Detroit. It once had the highest average income in the U.S., and now look at the property values there. The reasons for its collapse are different and it's unlikely that SF (which is desirable for other reasons like climate and landscape) would ever fall as far or as fast as Detroit, but it's illustrative nonetheless. It shows that one should be cautious about long-term value in overinflated one-horse-town economies.

And if SF is not a one-horse-town, it soon will be. Industries other than tech will succumb to the lure of lower costs of doing business and leave.
Austin is calling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794372

Lower cost of living, less restrictive zoning laws, and a more business friendly legal system.
To tag onto this, I found "Learning from Data" [0] by Abu Mastafa to be a great intro to the field. It's not heavy on the math, but it doesn't gloss over it either

[0]:http://www.amazon.com/Learning-From-Data-Yaser-Abu-Mostafa/d...
SF is only a tiny (49 sq mile) part of the Bay Area. It's like saying nobody can live in the New York City MSA because the price of a 2-bedroom apartment in Manhattan is over $1M, despite the fact that most New Yorkers live in Queens or Brooklyn.