skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is also very easy to use and manage.

This is something that SQL database fans don't get. A small start-up can't afford to have a team of guys fiddling with incredibly obscure performance tuning settings.

A developer might not know how to optimize a slow-running Postgre query, but he knows how to cache data and denormalize in a manner that makes the query he wants to run fast. And a document-store plays nice with this.

Any simple relational beauty of SQL databases falls down once you get over a few million rows, and then the hideous hacks and bizarre settings start coming out. At that point you need a pile of domain-specific knowledge to make them play nice.

Mongo takes the domain-specific knowledge out of the equation and lets the developers apply their existing skill-set to the data.

I've you've got a thousand employees? Get a few DBAs and Postgre.

If you've got, like, five?
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It's actually very nifty - if you use a "secret"(obscure) key or checksum to check authenticity of hardware, then it still could be legally duplicated as nothing before DMCA was passed would prohibit that. If you use a scrappy poem as that key/token... then it's clearly copyrightable, and its duplication by some other manufacturer can be restricted with ages-old laws.
People die on Everest, regardless of how well they were prepared physically, mentally, or materially. Not taking oxygen is not the worst way to be unprepared, it likely only means you will give up sooner. The sooner you give up on the attempt on the peak, the more likely you are to survive it.
Really good info. I'd love (and even prefer) to release my game today so I can get feedback earlier. But in its current state (shitty graphics, no tutorial, 50% of the intended features implemented) I'm lost as to if that would be good or bad. Common sense dictates the best way is the "big launch" you're talking about.

I think I can make a good/great game eventually given a long enough time with many feedback cycles, but I'm not sure if the user base for games ever grow that way. It seems that you get your one chance to be amazing from the start or you wasted all your time.

My plan is to get to a point where I can have people in coffee shops try it before I make it public or have a very tiny private beta eventually. But I wish there was a way I could get feedback sooner from more than friends and family.
Fox? it coulda been worse...
It probably makes the most sense to just look at advertising as a share of GDP or some sort of sales metric (this page indicates it has been pretty stable for the last 50+ years: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/can-newspaper-publishers-su...).

There isn't any obvious reason it would drop over time, I think the bigger question is how will advertising evolve over time.
Public Universities Ramp Up Aid for the Wealthy, Leaving the Poor Behind
If he agrees to it. Just out of curiosity, why do you care if he's doing this for less than altruistic reasons?
Dell also has a "scan my system" function too. But it's nice to be able to download the drivers you need on a different machine. One that has a working ethernet driver, for example.
Twitter has a search box too. Many people who use twitter use twitter's search for current events before google's. There are more things that people search for than just what to buy.
I am in CT :)
fastmail is great. Their UI is so easy to use when you need to use it (I use IMAP).
Yes, the Flushing Quaker Meeting House is listed as 1900 as well, although actually it was built in 1694.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Quaker_Meeting_House_%28Flu...
Can't wait for all the wannabe-startup-bros to start throwing those terms around now when they're looking for coders. "Hey man, wanna come forked on my awesome new idea? Send me your pull request and let's get started!"
Maybe check out MetaFilter
"Three of the largest, most influential and defining technology companies of our lifetime (Google, Facebook, Twitter) make money pretty much solely through advertising."

lol, a couple weeks ago i got into real deep thought about this and realized the same thing. The question i asked was what spurred this, companies relevant from the eighties and nineties like apple, amazon, microsoft all sell something. Then i realized that it may have been the huge success of google and adwords that spurred this. Since every entrepreneur would use this excuse about how google just focused on product and thought about revenue later, yet implicitly these entrepreneurs already know that they will focus on ad revenue. All the companies making headlines today are or will be ad focused, snapchat, tumblr, vine, frontback, instagram etc.

This has also created a situation where users expect a product for free and if you charge someone will make a clone with a slight twist and offer it for free, so developers rather offer it for free and not attempt charging. I find this phenomena mainly with social products but this is what VC's and guys like Mike Arrington find exciting. They find enterprise boring because you have to be methodical, know the business and sell! The one thing modern tech can take from wall street is the excitement in sales. I believe snapchat is worth around 800mill if this is the case then we should take TV series model for creating companies because we are in the business of making entertainment shows to last a few seasons.

I am very excited when i hear about companies like nest, jawbone, pebble, nike fit, etc!
Can you point us to it please?
Sharing links with friends, discovering new content, getting news I'm interested in. (I use Twitter, but not Facebook.)
I know the fundamental idea behind PGP and related technologies. My question is, if bumping his key from 2048 to 4096 bits will keep him safe until around the year 2020 (as stated by a previous reader, and from keylength.com), why not just use a 8192 bit key, or 16384 bit key and be safe for virtually your lifetime?

Does the computing cost to encrypt/decrypt make this impractical?
> going after tools that make users like Facebook more

I suspect it has more to do with the fact that many of these tools strip ads.
>Turns out they were right.

What do you think they've been vindicated about exactly?
I live in Austin, came of age there and despite having a lot of Friends in Houston, I didn't really start trying to hit up the nightlife there till I was well out of college. Even then I didn't actually have any problems till I started trying to get into the bars and clubs that were more ... shall we say ... "white" (close to Rice, Washington Ave etc)

I point out being from Austin, because over here, clubs don't even charge cover, you just walk in and out of whatever club or bar you want. So going to Houston, it took me a while to realize that all the time we spent waiting in line, or that getting turned away from clubs for having "torn jeans" or jeans that were too baggy was actually racist nonsense.

In one particular incident I will never forget, my buddy and I were trying to get into a club called Drake, when it first opened (its now a "black" club, which is pretty ironic) but at the time we showed up pretty early (by Texas standards) ie about 11pm so that we could avoid any hassles with the bouncer ... but we got told to wait ... so we waited ... and waited and waited ...

People would line up behind us, and then after about 10 minutes, disappear, and then they'd get into a "VIP" line and be whisked in. It was a fairly upscale crowd, and we were still young-ish so we just figured we just didn't have the pull those people did, one particular girl and her posse came in chatted with us and got in through VIP (this is significant for later) ... After waiting about an hour, we decided to leave so we could get in elsewhere before we blew the night (clubs close at 2am) ... on our way out, we bumped into the "friendly" girl who was also leaving after being in there for about 15 minutes ... and after a few pleasantries she asked us why it had taken that long for us to leave ...

we looked at each other for a bit, confused and then she said
"you really didn't know they don't let black people in that club?"

She was white.

So yeah, I don't party in Houston, or if I do, I stick to "black clubs". Its a shame really, but I know Houston pretty well and I think the explanation for this (apart from good ol' fashioned Texas racism) is that its so big. Its easy to find people like you there, so people form groups and simply don't mix, which makes more sense once you factor in the racism. In Austin for example, the same dynamics are there, but everybody just has to party together because its so small ... but as the population has grown bigger, racist incidents have been on the uptick. As in ... an Asian lady called me and another lady friend of mine the n-word to our faces just a few weeks ago (we were literally just standing around ordering food, and she stumbled up to the food-truck half-drunk, spotted us and went "uh oh ... ns" ... I kid you not). That hasn't happened to me in Austin in almost 10 years ... I think

Thats just how Texas is, which is a fucking shame.
Admiral?

As far as I know, Roald Amundsen was not affiliated with any military. Ironically he died while trying to rescue other, less competent, explorers.
Kinda... for 42.zip the first layer alone is 68GB albeit the final layer is 4.5 PB.

It wouldn't surprise me one could engineer a docx bomb that would consume gigs of memory.
It Can Wait. Take The Pledge
Not quite, I can barely dabble a few words but it is widely spoken here in Peru.

here is a link of a youtube where it is spoken clearly (maybe you can use that )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AjTi4q_kIo
Something like a Yelp or Tripadvisor seemingly has made it seem possible for restaurants (or hotels) to not advertise anymore. If you provide good food and good service, your restaurant/coffee-shop should bubble up to the top and be seen consistently by a lot of people. This is a simplistic take on the restaurant business of which I know nothing about, but at least that seems like a plausible scenario.
Where can I sign up for that?
"[CloudFlare] is getting 50 to 100 calls per day from customers demanding more answers about the firm's involvement with the U.S. National Security Agency, Prince says.
But that's information the company can't give out, he explains, and the inability to say anything about government requests is seriously hurting his business.
"We get calls regularly that say, 'CloudFlare must be working with the NSA,' which we're not," Prince said. "

If CloudFlare isn't working with the NSA in some way (even by force/legal requirement) then I'm not clear why Matthew says he can't say anymore.

I'm not under any NSA gagging order nor have I been assisting the NSA which is why I can say as much as I want, because thus I'm not under a gagging order either.
Just to out-pedant you, the size of the sun is still quite finite, most (all?) things are.

Perhaps colloquially, finite here is (not un-like literally) a metaphor, in this case for not-unfathomably-large, or more precisely, measurable.
Interesting question.

There may be some nuance I'm not aware of, but to my ears passing away and passing on are largely identical euphemisms for death.

If I really were to stretch I'd say passing on sounds a bit more like something applied to a person who was actively engaged in life, whereas passing away sounds a bit more like what might be said of an elderly person who has already somewhat detached from the world even before death, but that's pretty tenuous.
They mean the same thing, but "passed on" implies a belief in an afterlife.
It's similar to television. All of these companies have relatively fixed costs. When adding a new customer is super cheap, and your product has the potential to be super popular, then the optimal business plan is to maximize the number of customers even if revenue per person is tiny.
Advertising will continue to exist but it will change forms. Once upon a time TV and Print media was the main source then it was desktop web. Today it is mobile and in future it will be something else like Google Glasses.
New Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome
Nokia stock 400% up, from $1.73 to $6.36 per share in just 14 month
They "almost" have Velcro between their thighs.
I would like to see the patent trolls trumf that.
New cross-platform mobile sound engine. None other like it that I know of.
Could you clarify/expound on this?
Other people like doing stuff I don't like, they're excluding me by not doing what I want! Wah!

Bars are far less exclusionary when it comes to gender than the tech industry, so perhaps we have something to learn from alcohol culture.

There's nothing wrong with drinking, if specific people can't not act like sexist assholes while drinking, then they have a problem which they should fix. Watch what happens in a bar when someone disrespects a woman, you get a tweet to the face.
Where's the Canvas\HTML5 game made achievement?

For that matter, where's the rest of the server administration tree? It could branch, with helpdesk administration into enterprise desktop support, with network administration into BGP routing, and with corporate server administration into enterprise server administration.
Net neutrality faces uncertain U.S. court ruling
> At first, it uses only old-style classes because it doesn't inherits object explicitly.

Please explain this further.

> usage of Python-3-style syntax, which is also valid in Python 2.7

Will do this
I installed Social Fixer, and it doesn't strip ads, at least not by default.
That is what Amazon are trying: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=10011555...
Time complexity of RSA operations is somewhere between O(n^2) and O(n^3) with n being number of bits of modulus, so using longer keys than necessary gets impractical really fast.
Companies that are publicly traded are under constant pressure to increase profit. DELL becoming a privately held company allows them to relieve some of that pressure, especially with Michael Dell being a large shareholder.

The PC market is shrinking as individuals and enterprises alike are relegating more and more tasks to smartphones and tablets. The useful life of a desktop/notebook also continues to be lengthened. DELL will continue to sell computers and make profit, but unless they change their focus significantly, they won't be a company that the stock market would love.

I think they made the right decision. if they turn around and become the next Apple or Lenovo, they could always go public again.
To counter whining about sheep with a literal defense of flocking behavior is going to be hard to top.
You don't practice what you preach, dude. How is this helping you make payroll?
Use PGP. With your existing email address, and without the fuss: https://parley.co (I'm one of the people building it, and now that outlook.com supports IMAP, we support outlook.com ;)
I haven't looked in a long time, but it used to be that if you knew the exact model number of a Lenovo laptop the website would show you just the drivers you needed. Not the nameplate model, the model number specific to the screen and components and so on.
Is there any way to prepare the seeds for consumption that destroys the compound responsible for this; e.g. boiling into a mush?

Just curious if there was a way that, rather simply, these could have been made completely edible had Chris done it.
You're not gonna bill me for reading your comments, are you?
A YC13S company (Datarank) is using twitter data (among others) to try to quantify the general public's attitude towards certain products. So that's a possible revenue stream. Rather than a company paying to advertise, they pay to find out what people think about their products.

https://www.datarank.com/
"It might turn out that size 10 shoes are more fraudulent than size 15 shoes."

There should be a pretty limited list of mailing addresses that would order size 15 shoes (Shaq's house?) and the black-market for reselling them must be a lot tighter.
It's at the database level now.
Ask an IT guy. The internals on the 990 desktop series >>> the 960 series >>> the whatever... 600-somethings, etc. Continual improvement, model after model. When you're dealing with thousands of employees, ease of interchangeable internals is a godsend. What have they done lately? Kicked ass.
Tip to others trying the game: Play multiple games at once. Start a game, then open the menu on the left, click Start Game, and begin another. I've found some players are quite unresponsive and having a few on the go keeps it interesting. You get notified when it is your turn in each game. Enjoyed my first foray into this game, nice work guys :)

Feedback:

- As someone else said the 'End Turn' button should disappear or be more heavily disabled when it's not your turn. A more prominent alert at the top of the screen when the turn hands over would be nice too.

- Notifying of the turns you need to take is great when you have multiple games on the go and totally saved the experience for me. It would be even better if you could jump between games
more quickly. Imagine a quick-jump menu on the right with all your active games in it.

- Music/Sound please! (I'm sure you're working on this!)
I will try and implement these. Thanks for the suggestions.
Perhaps it's just for the convenience of their audience. Instead of 99% of people not knowing what her job description entails, by substituting "programmer" it is reduced to to 90%.
Discovering new content. I follow influential people in the areas that I'm interested in. And they are always sharing interesting links/insights/opinions. And I also share some!
Incorrect— they have causal analysis.
Sadly the Voyager doesn't run uTorrent...
You can use mine and compare the two, and based on your feedback either I or any other dev can improve it.
are there no problems with mongo 'once you get over a few million rows'?
The source is even better: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2667694577001/writing-a-new-d...
Ask HN: Mother driving me crazy over getting a job. What to do?
I've been working fulltime for 10 years and last year I quit my job to try freelancing so that I can create cool things of my own and for the clients. I am struggling to get clients and most of my saved money is gone but I do get enough clients to keep going at a bare minimum lifestyle.

My mother is telling me to stop this madness and get a job. She thinks I waste my life by being a freelancer. She is driving me to the brink of depression.
As an entrepreneur have you face similar problems with your family members?
Let us know exactly what they do the binary, and at least give us public keys to verify signatures.
> In 2 milliseconds it has bulleted skyward, accelerating at nearly 400 g's—a rate more than 20 times what a human body can withstand.

This is entirely incorrect. 9g is the limit that someone can stay conscious, but the body can withstand a lot more.

Experimental subject John Stapp withstood 46.2 g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G-force#Horizontal...
EFF: HTTPS Everywhere Firefox & Chrome Extensions
Twitter Plans To Float Shares On Stock Market For Up To $20BILLION
McCandless had a map (though given that Krakauer himself perpetrated the myth, you can't really be faulted for thinking otherwise). Wikipedia, as well as the movie and a variety of primary sources make it clear that one was found among his possession. It's also possible, if not likely, that the onset of lathyrism left him no window for realizing his plight and walking out - the damage was irreversible at the time of ingestion (I'm admittedly sketchy on how fast the onset actually is - presumably it varies a lot).

Personally, I find the details completely beside the point. McCandless sacrificed everything to test his philosophical conjecture and I have nothing but respect for that. I honestly would've thought there'd be more empathy for it here.
Wow, that sounds nuts. What OS are you running? I've never actually seen this happen before.
" Krakauer took a poor misfortunate prone to paranoia, someone who left a note talking about his desire to kill the “false being within,” someone who managed to starve to death in a deserted bus not far off the George Parks Highway, and made the guy into a celebrity. Why the author did that should be obvious. He wanted to write a story that would sell."

Well, if there's one thing I'm sure about, it's that selling books wasn't why Krakauer was compelled to tell that story.

Reading Krakauer's accounts of his own life, in both Into The Wild and in Eiger Dreams, it's pretty clear he felt the same urge to challenge himself with the wilderness that McCandless did, and that the books are Krakauer's attempts to understand that drive.

Those books are mainly journeys of self-understanding that happen to be available for other people to read.
There is little difference between the two, as it relates to kicking the bucket†. However, using "pass on" may imply passing on to some sort of afterlife, as opposed to simply departing the world.

The phrase "pass on" has more meanings. For instance, you can "pass on" an investment opportunity, meaning to decline to make the investment. Also, you can use it transitively, as in transferring something to somebody.

†http://www.answers.com/topic/kick-the-bucket
> it's cool to hate on mongodb

Tens of thousands of computer geeks all randomly chose to hate a product. Clearly a coincidence or unlucky alignment of stars, nothing to do with said product, of course.
Programmers do work in shifts. They are not crazy like bankers...
Valid feedback, not an excuse, but we drafted this with a lawyer ages ago and haven't had the funds to properly revise. That said - it's not an excuse, and I have nothing to say but we're sorry. It was an launch oversight.

We will look to revise this to get rid of the yucky stuff. Lawyers can't be that expensive :/

That said, you can opt out of all emails, and we obviously the link stuff is just dumb and not enforceable.

Apologies.
E-commerce fraud takes many forms. Three main types of fraud impact merchants: payment fraud, new account fraud and account takeover. We described all three recently at Sift in a blog post: http://ow.ly/oPrS2.

In the stolen card scenario you describe (a type of payment fraud), the e-commerce merchant is actually liable. In other words, if that card is reported stolen by the cardholder after the goods are shipped out, the merchant loses the revenue. This is b/c for online credit card transactions, they are categorized as "card not present" transactions, since the merchant can't be as certain the actual cardholder made the purchase. If the transaction had occurred in a physical store, the card company would be liable.
90% of what you're buying when you bring an IB firm to help with your IPO is the name. Why? Because the name has value, it helps sell stock.

I have a good friend who is a COO a very successful start-up. He said "When we IPO you better believe we're getting Goldman to do it".

It's a free market, no one HAS to use these IB firms and take a 10% haircut on the money they raise. However, they choose to do it.