skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. & this makes sense from an architectural perspective, since the demands of each domain are different.

I was arguing from practical terms and my own experience. Even in established, DB-heavy, "we have hundreds of DBAs" organisations, you can't have a porcelain schema. It evolves over time, breaks, get optimised and de-optimised.

The Oracle shops I've worked in don't have one schema, they'll have dozens. Usually because they can't shoehorn emerging requirements into the databases they have. Or because of project timelines. Or they need to be performance tuned in some special way, which in the case of Oracle could be considered a dark art.

These orgs may have just one big data warehouse, but that becomes a dumping ground. It's possible to do your dimensional modelling (I worked on star schemas in the past, but that's about it) -- but it's a big ball of mud to try and weave together.

Even then your OLAP is under-stress because it's got a lot of ground to cover. Usually they start out as marketing engines, but get co-opted into all sorts of things. The most common and troublesome is regulatory reporting. Once your data warehouse gets used for something like regulatory reporting you're a bit stuck as nobody wants to touch it.

Then, because point to point integrations between the databases is brittle and cost-prohibitive -- they break the golden rule and take data out of the OLAP and put it back into the OLTP. I won't name names, but this is commonplace.

SalesForce is one of the biggest Oracle DB users (I read biggest at one stage, but can't find the reference). Even then the SalesForce data model is so denormalised you could call it one big table[1].

I use MongoDB day-to-day and it's fit for purpose for what I do. That said, I'm not a rabid fan and an alternative/hybrid approach is always on the horizon. What I don't buy is the "the DB world has already solved all these problems", particularly when things like "relational integrity" and "two phase commit" get thrown in the mix - truth is there is plenty to be solved.

[1] http://www.dbms2.com/2011/09/15/database-architecture-salesf...
Does it solve the key rollover problem?

http://superuser.com/questions/73685/keyboard-doesnt-let-me-...

I've always wanted a keyboard that let me press as many keys as I want to at the same time.
You've thought this through too much for my liking ;)
One of the biggest publishers of meditation products is MindValley (http://mindvalley.com). The story of its founder, Vishen is well documented, and really inspiring. He bootstrapped and grew his business to seven figures without external funds. His purpose is not only monetary; he seeks to "push humanity forward" with his groundbreaking programs.
It's okay, more or less fine with two notable exceptions. There's no way that I know of to increase the chrome size in Chrome (oh well, I've switched back to Firefox anyway), and the systray icons don't grow (the applets and all that jazz do, but not the systray stuff, which I try to minimize anyway). Otherwise, yeah, you can bump the DPI or bump the font sizes, whatever floats your boat. I use it on my Chromecast Pixel all the time. (KDE 4.11)
If you've got a kid, especially a young one, 16GB isn't enough for pictures and video. Not even close. My niece has filled her 64GB iphone many times over with shots of her kid. I'm sure there are tons of other use cases too.
I was nodding along through a lot of this post. A while back, my wife and I started selling what are essentially speech bubble shapes cut from MDF and painted with blackboard paint. We sell and ship from Australia:

http://blackboardbubbles.com/

(They're bought by people for parties, weddings with photo booths, photographers, etc.)

I built a one page site and got a sale before we'd even created the product. At first, we relied upon a sibling with access to a college laser cutter and mailed out the product in expensive boxes.

Many of our adventures parallel that of Chris'. Weeks to get quotes progress on custom stickers, months of getting laser cutting quotes (including quotes from Asia or using material other than MDF), for the custom-made boxes we now use, handles, etc. We still paint the shapes by hand and cut/sand the handle shapes from broom stick dowel.

We've made some progress, but still have creases to iron out. Selling a physical product is an interesting adventure for someone who normally works on and builds virtual products/services.

I laughed at the photos of the room getting filled up with supplies. I've just installed new shelving in the garage to handle the 200 boxes we have folded and ready to go, the 600 cut-out pieces of MDF, the packing peanuts and bubble wrap, etc. Feels good to get on top of it all though!
Just to make this clear, I don't doubt your personal integrity.

However, I have lost faith in the ability of US-based companies using US-fiber and US datacenters to protect against NSA snooping.

I am not naive - I have no doubt that German fiber is monitored as well, but afaik LE could gain access to your servers and serve you a gag order - something they could not do over here.

So, my comment was in no way specific to Stripe - I don't trust Google or Apple either.
PS: Also learn good posture from a good yoga or martial arts instructor.

Read books like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Shoulde...
Well this interpretation is roughly on par. How does the fact that Google might employ shady practices as well really add anything to the discussion? Does that absolve Apple from any wrongdoings?
From the site:

> We know you live and die by keyboard shortcuts. We do too. On the CODE keyboard, up to six keys can be pressed at once, which is known as 6-Key USB Rollover.

(http://codekeyboards.com)
And this, incidentally, is why there never will be "more jobs". Occupation is production over productivity. With an increment of productivity, you can ramp up production up to mass-production keeping the same occupation level. But markets get saturated, so you can't increase production indefinitely. Still, productivity, with automation and robotization and renewable energy sources, could be make practically infinite. But for the reason in the post above, work is not distributed in the work-force.
yup, I used to exercise a lot and then I fell off the boat for about 5 years, simply because I no longer have a gym partner. Could feel my health failing. About three months ago I started doing the seven minute workouts, five or six times a week. I've been tweaking them a little bit, adding weights, changing exercise (but overall the idea is the same). I feel great. I think basically it boils down to: Commit to doing something that works for you, and stick to it.

Also, since I'm a lab scientist almost my entire time working is standing up.
IEEE Conference on Data Mining
You are one example of people falling into the trap, sadly.

$1 a piece is the price you get in the US, and as an individual trying to buy Cherry MX switches from a company that already bought them for a lower price.

In china things are different, and when you are a company and buying in bulk, the price can go to as low as $0.2 for a switch.

This keyboard is ridiculously overpriced. I am against this because it clearly shows the guy just wants to exploit this "kickstarter" mindset and HN entrepreneurship culture of "price high" and people will think it's revolutionary.

This reminds me of the beats by Dre headphones.
God bless local neckbeards.
I sometimes intentionally drop mine, to show people how a phone can be. I happen to have the version with the plastic screen though, so it's no where near as brittle as glass (but scratches incredibly easily).
Diaspora after 6-9 months was nothing more than a roughish prototype. (One might claim it still is)
We still have four months left!
Please read the article again, more carefully. I'm sure you just skimmed it while at work, that caused this misunderstanding.
Does using a document store solve any of these problems, though?
"separate incompatible software stores" elaborate?
NSA intercepted chemical attack communications from Syrian Army
Include these 3 essential elements to measure what matters
Last time i tried openstack exactly for this reason (2-3 months ago) it was a nightmare to get _something_ to work with openstack + lxc. Nearly undocumented :(
It's a surname. Stephen Friend. I've worked with him on two trademark applications.

http://www.ghfip.com.au/ws/principal-attorneys/index.jsp

I originally engaged Thomas Haines to do help me with a patent. He's the only patent lawyer I could find in Perth who has a computer science background.
After doing little Lua I found that it was possible to mostly get used to.
OSX works out of the box because the hardware is known in advance.

If the hardware is supported by Linux, today's distros work out of the box too, and Linux supports a lot of different hardware components, especially older ones.

If you buy a new machine which comes with Linux pre-installed, like OSX is preinstalled on Macs, you can be pretty sure that it works just as "out of the box" as OSX does.
If you use a standing desk 20+ hours a week, you aren't sedentary. People who are stuck being sedentary won't be able to move to using a standing desk unless they stop being sedentary. There's a big gap between being sedentary and getting proper exercise.

Sitting allows people to spend a lot of time moving very little, in addition to time spent sleeping. Standing involves a fair amount of effort.

Just because using a standing desk often is a sure way for a person to not be sedentary doesn't mean it's the best idea. In fact the most sedentary people are probably going to have a hard time adapting to using a standing desk full-time.
Don't want to influence people who are going to order this but last week I order a Nexus 4 but I sent it back the next day it arrived. The internal ear speaker didn't work, apparently a very frequent defect. (see http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/mobile/2eVRjUXPS... )

The hassle was some of the people had the issue originated from a radio firmware (software). So I spent my evening unlocking the bootloader, rooting and flashing various rom without success to understand it was a hardware issue in my case (half the people complaining have software defect, the other half hardware).

Ended up buying an iPhone instead (my first).
You can't downvote replies to your own comments. But great way to act adult there.
People that can't type! But, why would someone who can't type buy such a keyboard?

I guess it's about aesthetics.
> inventing ownership to have an opinion

How do you come up with stuff like this? I came from a Nexus One -- but you totally caught me lying about what Android phone I use on a website.

Feel around the edges of the phone: soft plastic where the bumper is, and the back is covered by the so-called `gorilla glass` which makes it feel even more like plastic.

There is definite lag, but maybe because I type in numbers fast and you don't? I don't know -- in my daily use, these are my gripes with it. Feel free to downvote me if you believe I'm lying though.
Basically zero information. They keep telling us how MelbourneIT is usually more secure but doesn't do on to tell us how it is any more secure than other registrars. More importantly, even with admin access to to their control panel how can it be so easy to change registry information of such high profile sites with a click of a button?
exactly, and i've heard that sentiment a LOT more than i've heard the "let's move to europe" idea.
What about the Happy Hacking keyboard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard
It makes it just as easy for the whitehats and for the blackhats so it makes no difference. It may give some people a false sense of security that they would have not had if they were able to look at the code.

Presumably dropbox is through its enormous distribution a very fat target and I find it hard to believe that this published effort would be the first instance of such an undertaking. You're average blackhat isn't going to publish his hack but will market it for all it is worth.

Then you get pages like these:

http://1337day.com/exploit/description/19604

(click 'ok')

I don't think the dropbox team obfuscates their code as a security measure, they more likely do it to increase the depth of their moat by a little bit and to make it a bit harder to write third party clients against their non-published api's.
Immersive Software Apprenticeship.

Programs similar to Hack Reactor and Flat Iron are trying to solve this problem as we speak.

http://hackreactor.com/

http://flatironschool.com/
Yeah I use strong typing, assert()s, and 'if (!x) throw ...' everywhere. Nevertheless, I figure if the biggest risk to my code comes from cosmic rays, then I'm doing pretty good.
Yeah, another thing is when I'm talking on it with someone for awhile and try to get back to the "call screen" which doesn't happen, and they are still on the phone (if I want to open a browser or do something while I talk on the phone). The screen never comes back though until I either press power or the other party hangs up.

That part is the most frustrating, although someone might reply to this saying that this actually doesn't happen.
How Google roll out OS updates and new distros for their server fleet
Clickable:

XHook: Easily intercept and modify XHR request and response https://github.com/jpillora/xhook

XDomain: A pure JavaScript CORS alternative https://github.com/jpillora/xdomain
Now when I think of it more, yep, thanks for the reality check and wholeheartedly agreed.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sitting+harmful+even+if+you+...

Sitting for long periods tightens the hamstrings and cuts off circulation to your legs. Even if you exercise. Standing for long periods may give you varicose veins. Not sure there's a real solution here, other than to periodically disrupt any form of immobility.
I was in the Apple store in Amsterdam earlier this summer and saw a large sign saying "STARTUP" on one wall. At first I was confused, thinking of startup companies, but then I realised it seemed more like a place where they help people get started with their new devices.
I'd go with a one because I like HTC better than LG. Plus I've had both manufacturers (had a Nexus One up until about a year ago) when I got the Nexus 4, and I thought the HTC hardware was better.
What has the price been lowered to? (The price is not shown outside the US)
The best posture is a varied one.
One case = anecdote. There is actually some evidence that you can't counteract the effects of sitting with exercise, unless you exercise more than you sit. And what exactly does "I'm healthy" mean? Is that what the doctor says after doing some test or is it just how you feel? What would be the status of your health (as measured by tests from a doctor) if you had an active job and some moderate exercise for the same period of 13 years?

source: http://m.runnersworld.com/health/sitting-is-the-new-smoking-...
Seems extremely similar to another project with the same philosophy: http://pikock.github.io/bootstrap-magic

It's very nice to see how customizable all those CSS frameworks really are. The days of not having to fiddle with all those colors are upon us.
If you go on the course page

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

You see archives of the two previous iterations of the course. Their material is always available, and you can stream or download the videos from there.
There are ways, but maybe KDE is a better alternative
Availability == whether or not local carriers are willing to carry, or at least tolerate, the phone in question. This can be especially problematic with unusually cheap phones like Nexus 4 that aren't even tied to anybody's contract. Unfortunately, Google doesn't have much control over telecoms around the world.

Even in Korea, where the phone's manufacturer (LG) is based, it took several months for Nexus 4 to become officially available. Lots of hurdles, including LG not wanting to cannibalize sales of its other phones.
> Lifting weights and enjoying it to the point where you want to better yourself at it? I don't see it as extreme.

I do. It is moving for the sake of moving rather than to achieve some productive effect. To me exercise is riding my to a place where I need to go rather than going by car if the distance is about right and the weather on the way out not too brutal. Walking, playing with the kids and so on. Lifting weights would indicate that I have calories to burn that go towards nothing else that helps. Usually at the end of the day I'm tired enough that I long for a bed rather than for more movement, especially not movement involving weights bought for the specific purpose of making that movement harder.

If I really did have energy to burn after a full day I'd probably take up some sport or spend that time and energy improving the place that I live in.
OMG I bought one last week!
I once knew a guy who thought he could eat as much junk food as he wanted as long as he made up for it with "super-foods" (moringa MLM scam actually).

Regular workouts don't decrease death risk if you're also a couch potato --
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38385104/ns/health-fitness/

People who sit for most of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of heart attacks --
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/most-dangerous-th...

Sitting shuts down the circulation of a fat-absorbing enzyme called lipase -- http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0610-stand_up_for_yo...
Do you have more information about any release date for the next generation Nexus 4? I'm looking to buy a phone "by Google" and wouldn't want to be buying the Nexus 4 just when the new one is about to be released. Thanks.
Thanks for the post! A lot of great insight, and a bit of inspiration as well.

My only thought: You're going to use the profits to get rid of that PT Cruiser correct? ;D
While we don't have underground housing underground malls are not exactly rare. Montreal, Toronto and many other places besides.
I think usually the draw of a nicer keyboard, if you do it right, is not in speed but in saving your hands from having serious problems down the road. Problems which could seriously end up costing you tens of thousands of dollars if you type for a living.
If RAM is cheap, why don't we load everything to RAM and run it from there?
> And experimental fusion-power plant or two will already

> exist in 2014

They do.
This may be my own pessimistic take, but something about the simplicity and obvious-correctness of that advice makes me think it'll never be as blogworthy as a less realistic goal that you'd have to buy something new to try.

Or, it's like the idea doesn't have the magic of an idea that you can't do right now but won't require any effort when the time is right- like "I could get up every few minutes and stretch and walk around already! That can't be it... I need to buy a standing desk and that'll make me stand all day so I'm healthy."
Are you aware that users running the TOR Browser Bundle will normally be a node (i.e., they will provide proxying services to other users/nodes), just as with Bit Torrent clients?
The future from the 50s and 60s would also be pretty loud. With the recent discussions about the annoyance of leaf blowers, image the noise of a city where each car would have this:

"Jets of compressed air will also lift land vehicles off the highways, which, among other things, will minimize paving problems"
Here in Italy, peanut butter is actually surprisingly available. Ranch dressing can be found here and there, and root beer is of course completely unheard of because it's an acquired taste that most people who haven't grown up with it dislike.

I'm going to be back in the US in a week, and I can't wait to eat:

* Mexican

* Bagels

* Barbecue

* Thai

* Mexican

* Mexican

* Mexican
Of course there are. It is the forever configurable Linux after all. But since the discussion was about Apple products having the close button on the left is a benefit ;-)

But really these things are frustrations at first but you will learn the differences and get over them very very quickly. Just ask anyone who switched from win to osx.
A standing desk made me more likely to run around in short mini-breaks. The hump you have to get over is smaller for that than getting out of your chair.

So a standing desk helped me have a more varied posture.
For the problem with missing SMS notifications, there's software in the play store that'll periodically trigger an alarm if there are unread texts / unanswered phone calls. You can usually also use a different alarm sound than the default for these, so you can use something discreet for the original text arrival message, and then something more obnoxious for the repeated alarms. The best thing ever.

The one I use is "Missed Call Reminder", but there are plenty of others.
Very interesting read. I have to admit that I have been guilty of this self handicaping on more than one occasion. The self illusion of being able to achieve great things if you just put in the time is very difficult to overcome. To me I believe that the difficulty comes from a mix of complacence & fear of discomfort.

One thing that still bugs me to this day, is why this types of issues seem to be more prevalent in the software industry than anywhere else. Has anyone have an idea as to why this is?
That MindValley guy seems shady at best. After digging around their site for hours, you will be hard pressed to figure out exactly what do they do.
NASA'S Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation
You'll find the first two in some Indian cities. At least Bangalore, since I saw them on shelves in some of the bigger stores. Not sure about root beer.
The problem is that there is no evidence that suggest standing in front of a computer screen helps at all in those situations as well. You're still stationary. You aren't moving. Moving your feet around below you to adjust the weight on your legs does nothing for your cardiovascular system.

Unfortunately, as people who are tied to their computer screens for most of the day, we have very few options. One is to exercise. My story is one of being in better health than I was when I was in a job moving around all day just to give some perspective to this topic.
Why it must be your most interesting idea
Facebook and "face".
T-Mobile and magenta.
I am sure there are more "interesting" examples.
No LTE? No Buy.
Have you looked at her post history? Might as well turn it around and say; "someone just registered -an- account to posts positive comments about them"
PHK about freedom and the future of the Internet
> Lifting weights would indicate that I have calories to burn that go towards nothing else that helps.

Resistance training does go to something. It goes to conditioning your muscles and building bone density which are both incredibly important the older you get.

I also agree one should do other things, which is why I mountain bike, do martial arts and kayak.
That's not entirely true. Even after the end of the Cold War the manned spaceflight program in the US has received several billion dollars a year in funding. It's more than possible to operate a quite proficient manned exploration and colonization program with funding at that level. The problem is more that NASA and congress have been completely ineffectual at using resources effectively. The ISS was almost entirely built and launched after the end of the Cold War, and it's total cost was at least 50% greater than the entire Apollo program, for example.
In Germany you have to collect signatures from a certain sample of the electorate (typically 0.1%) with which they affirm that they want to see you on the ballot.

For municipal elections that's possible to achieve for an individual.
I had a physical by my doctor about 3 months ago, as stated in my writing. So, yes... "I'm healthy" was declared by tests from a doctor.