skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given they mostly have business / law / academic backgrounds

Lawyers or former law students are the most numerous profession in Parliament. Gillard was a lawyer. Abbott studied Law as an undergraduate, as did Howard and Hawke.

The professional training of a lawyer equips them to vigorously argue a case they may not themselves agree with, and to do so in forensic detail. The skillset and subject matter has a strong overlap with the work of politics.

That doesn't mean we couldn't do with some more professional diversity in Parliament and the Cabinet. It'd be nice to see some more scientists, engineers and the like on both sides of the chamber.
IPython in Excel
Awesome repo here: https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Ed...
Check out antirez' great article about persistence[0] if you're interested in learning how to use redis in a more sophisticated manner than periodic checkpoints to disk.

0: http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystifie...
Fair point. To be honest my redis knowledge is about a year old. The AOF however does have to be loaded on startup which is a big problem especially if it wasn't compacted.
I knew exactly where Damascus was, but they put me down as barely making it inside their 200 mile cutoff, at 163 miles away. I think this is more about bad UI design. I got a hand cursor rather than a pointer, making it difficult to be precise, and I never noticed the zoom logo in the upper left.

Plus, with only 65 DOD responses, how significant is a deviation of only 4.5% from the norm?
Just wait. Times New Roman is coming back...
Are You ‘Hands On’ Enough To Succeed In A Startup?
I've used http://getharvest.com in the past and I think it works really great. Both on invoicing and time tracking. Haven't tried the payment part though.

This hasn't been released yet, it is invite only atm. But at least the site looks pretty good: http://invoisse.com/
@ozh:
thin gradient, or bevel, or shadow

The terms are definitely not interchangeable.
And it doesn't run the JIT compiler. Which means all 3rd party browsers in non-jailbroken iOS are slower than Safari and Phonegap apps are a lot slower than native apps.
Because feminism is invading. If you can't see this, you've probably not been a part of the tech industry for too long.

You appear to be saying that feminism == puritanism. That's just completely wrong.
> In any case though, basically everyone knows how to use the computer and the web now

Not in the world I inhabit. Tons of people have serious trouble doing things with computers.

I think the flat stuff is ridiculous.
> If you only have the option of choosing between jerks and assholes, your voting (or not) won't make much difference.

Disagreed. There are two more options that you probably missed:

1. Inform the election commissioner that you do not support any of the competing parties with your [reasons] on the ballot paper. Aka in tell the election commissioner that you need/expect better options.

2. Form a political frontier which provides an honest option to people who want to vote.

> ... the twice elected American government purported to represent the opposite of christian-fundamentalist-gun-toting-nutbags, has broken several of its promises and has indulged in significant domestic and foreign transgressions. This is not a problem unique to third world.

Doesn't justify the problems of India. This has nothing to do with the "third world" status, I agree with you there.
> Obligatory

Really?

http://www.righto.com/2013/09/9-hacker-news-comments-im-tire...
A word can't be racist. A word can be used by racists, but the word itself - no.

There is a whole spectrum out there. The word "nigger" is a term of endearment for many.
> It can cost the District a lot of money to do these foreclosures themselves, because the foreclosure process is time consuming and extremely friendly to the homeowner. Those costs can outweigh the taxes owed. Should a taxpayer just be able to get away with not paying because its not worthwhile foreclosing on them?

Yes. How much do we spend every year on the disabled, seniors, and veterans between benefits, support systems, etc? What is the marginal cost to extend that support to wiping away under $1000 in property taxes?

How much public support will they require after they evicted from their homes over several hundred dollars and have no where to go? We're just shifting the burden. That's my problem.
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Let's keep in mind that opera purchased Skyfire a while ago, which is a lot about server-side engine browsers.
Sure, it's better than the goroutine approach, but that doesn't say much. It becomes quite suboptimal if you have a large amount of data. I also think that you're likely underestimating the cost of the additional memory allocations.
This is not about karma.
States in India which have had stable majorities, through their full term in power, have seen progress. This progress has come despite the corruption, personalities, parties, freebies, policies etc because the India growth story is still in its infancy. It doesn't really matter what the talking heads and editorials think is important.
Stable majority = more decisions|work.
Unstable majority = no decisions|work.
If there's anything that need to be open source from day one, it's prosthesis.

It's more about the ability of prosthetic users being able to own the parts that has been implanted into their body than being able to modify it per se.

This way, prosthetic users cannot be barred from law or practicality to seek competent prosthetic specialists and professional that's not from the same company that makes the prosthesis. For example, if I have an retinal prosthesis from a company that went bankrupt ten years ago, I can still seek services from some other company, with a technical manual and blueprint in hand.
You don't need it for phpMyAdmin. The comment was mentioning the ssh tunnel feature as an advantage in desktop clients like navicat, which allows you to access the database while still running it on localhost.
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I'm in the middle of moving from mongo to postgres and I really couldn't be happier about it. During the migration I've found various bit of data that were corrupted over the life of the product (due to changes in the application). I already feel the relief of knowing what state my data is in. Oh, and I get to use sqlalchemy again which is a total win.
And what if you don't find a job that meets these criteria?
Why are you so afraid to try new things?
Note that HeidiSQL is not MySQL only, it also does MSSQL. I've yet to find a client as nice as HeidiSQL for my main db environment, Oracle. SQL Developer works, and has some great tools, but the UX is counter-intuitive and very slow.
Fatalities from automobile accidents have plummeted, to the point that suicide is now a more-frequent cause of death for men age 25-34. Note that suicides are down too, but car deaths are down even more sharply.
Early Cells, Early States (… and the future)
The Syndicate Wars sequel 15 years in the making
The world is flat ;-)
Thanks. Yes. It going to cover Ruby and Rails basics. Templeting, asset pipeline, SASS, CoffeeScript and front-end development best practices.
Does "the media" regularly objectify women or not in your opinion or not?

Why not just tell me the truth instead of asking me to cite you on your own opinion?

(I just can't imagine that you think "the media" is any better than this titstare app. Have you watched TV before?)
Okay, I'd agree with that; I do think however that Ouya's main issue right now is actual game quality, which this device kills. Unlike mobile phones and the like, I don't know if Worse is Better really works (yet, anyway, we will see in the future!).

I hope this makes the microconsole guys sit up, take notice, and start pumping money into some of these indie studios if they want to compete with this device. One can dream, right? Hy
Almost certainly MySQL, which is overwhelmingly the competitor in the psql space. A big reason why mysql took off is the same reason that PHP took off -- it is very quick and easy to take the first steps.
Colors and decorations are usually unneeded too but flat design uses them.
can you do a normal index on JSON though? I guess you can with the function based indexes. 9.3 actually makes JSON meaningful in Postgres since you can actually query it now.
But there are no write operations, so MongoDB is still a ton nicer here with its atomic modifiers like $push.
Prior to Jelly Bean (when "Project Butter" brought heavy optimizations and enhanced GPU acceleration to the UI), Android definitely exhibited some interface lag. Combined with older hardware, the lag makes the older handsets age less than gracefully. I'm optimistic that the more recent versions of the OS will change that for the better going forward.
I disagree.

You can use the extra computation power, DRAM and drive space when you do complex data analysis or run virtualization. I can either run huge data sets or have multiple VMs running to simulate various server configurations and test cases without having additional physical gear. And this is on a beefy commodity laptop that costs less than most Apple gear.
That's a ridiculous comment. The commentor is comparing the numbers of deaths that occurred over 20 years to the number of deaths that occurred during a single morning on 9/11?
Indeed, I hired a lawyer from the very first moment, long before I submitted my first paper for review. She says, that everything will be fine and she can handle it. But still my girl is alone in unfamiliar city and she must be scared and I can't imagine what's in her mind right now.
This is the same story I've heard everywhere, but have there actually been usability studies to show that flat buttons are somehow more user-friendly than 3D buttons?

It seems like most people's gripes are with the fact that skeuomorphism supposedly led to designs like Apple's Podcast and Find My Friends apps. I'd argue, though, that those app designs didn't suck because of skeuomorphism; they sucked because they were overdone to the point of not relating to reality at all anymore. No one uses tape decks anymore, so clearly that was a paradigm that fell flat completely, and Find My Friends, instead of going for a radar look or something similar, decided to go for an overly-puffy address book-type thing that just looked awful and cluttered.

My problem is now that no button is safe without being criticized for looking clickable, or in other words, exactly like every other div and text field on the page.
What looks modern is very often a cycle between "because we have the technology to do it" and "because we have the technology to not do it anymore".

We arrived at a point where putting more shadows, glitter, transparency effects and particles is no longer hard, so it no longer looks modern. The only solution to go forward is to remove all that fluff in a statement saying: "Our tech is so good we don't even need to show it anymore".

The same applies to building materials in design. 40 Years ago, concrete was all the craze and the material of the future. We would use that shit on everything. Today, a building made only of concrete looks passé, but I'm sure it will come back with a vengeance once we find out how to make it lighter/color-changing/glow-in-the-dark or something stupid like this.
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The fallacy is that people think they are in control in traffic, and that if they are careful then they'll be safe.

Dig up statistics about traffic fatalities, and see how many of them were caused by someone else. Here you can see that one third of casualties are not even drivers: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1105.p...
ah, but that's ruby ;)
Lack of opportunistic encryption (in the style of Hugh Daniels Free S/WAN).

General complexity and baroqueness.

IKE and various implementations -- keying in general. True, keying is a hard problem, but I'd prefer a simple default which was secure against passive eavesdroppers, and then progressively better systems.
Show HN : CartoonMaker (Windows Phone 8 application)
"I’m currently working on a new project called Curate. It’s a site that allows you to create, share, and discover collections of links on any topic you choose."

Not to be a jerk, but aren't there already tons of sites that let you do this? Delicio.us, Pinterest, Tumblr ... ? Does the world really need one more?
Good luck finding something like that. I don't think it will be easy
Game Quality. That's the key difference, at least compared to its direct competitors. IMO that's a large difference, and not one that Roku and the like can compete with. It's a serious value-add, and as long as the media services are as seamless as it's competitors, it's a good choice.
If the client is consistently behind payments, I leave them at the first opportunity. If I were you I would focus on creating those opportunities.
Interesting.
Yahoo ditches flat for 3D.
Google ditches 3D for flat.
The result?
Neither have good logos.
Real World Azure - Queue PopReceiptMismatch Bug
What do you think would be an appropriate comparison? The number of deer-related deaths that occurred on 9/11?
This modern look seems to typically have a slight gradient as well.
How does a company with 6 weeks runway manage to hire someone like this?
Excel and email. Works okay for small needs. :)
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He's such a whiner. For $80 or whatever you can buy an ethernet box with multiple relays and DHCP.
It is probably more correct to say, "Everything in life is a trade-off."
Instagram will get its first taste of advertisements next year
Everyone has to start somewhere! Keep up the good work.

I'm excited about seeing support for this beginner to intermediate level project on here. Hopefully this will encourage more people to try their hand at hardware and share the results with the community. Maybe I'll start sharing some of my smaller hardware projects on here...
As an atheist, I have mixed feelings about it. I like it as a training in logic, yet I feel it is of no theological value...
Seeing as I never gave any opinion on the question of "Does "the media" regularly objectify women or not", it's irrelevant, despite you erroneously attributing that to me. It's a derailing tactic.
I didn't know the PS3 did complete emulation of the PS2 at all. The earlier PS3s that supported backwards compatibility actually contained the PS2 hardware (the first gen had both the cpu and gpu, and the second gen PS3 had the GPU and used emulation for the cpu).

I know that there are a lot of PS2 games in the PSN store, but I was under the impression that those were actually recompiled for the PS3 and did not use emulation. Are those actually emulated?
The linked article makes the point that the "100 years" Brown faces has no relation to reality. What the NYT is reporting is literally a misreading of the sentencing guidelines.
In design the word "modern" has a specific meaning. Modernism is a movement, a school of thought that emerged in the early 20th century with Bauhaus and designers such as Mies van der Rohe who famously said "Less is more". It's a rejection of ornamentation and unnecessary elements. It embraces honesty for the medium and materials, and the idea that "form follows function".

The reason that flat design is modern is because it rejects the use of shadows, bevels, glossy textures because these are decorations that attempt to make a digital interface look like something it is not (i.e. real objects in the real world).
To disrupt a passport you basically have to disrupt the whole political system of the world first. It might be possible, but not in our lives, I'm afraid.
> can you do a normal index on JSON though?

Yes, using the ->> operator you should be able to create an index on a JSON field, e.g.

CREATE INDEX ON table ((field->>'thing'))

(an index on a JSON column makes no more sense than on e.g. an hstore column)
A lot of non-native English speakers have difficulty with articles (a, an, the, etc.).
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CMU's Autonomous Car Doesn't Look like a Robot
Care to provide some links for the less savvy?
I agree with "because it can afford to be now," but in a different sense. It's fashionable to be fat when food is scarce, and thin when food is abundant. It's fashionable to be pale-skinned when the lower-class works outdoors, and tanned when they work in offices. And it's fashionable to be shiny and realistic when it's a hard effect to implement, and flat when shiny realism is one library-call away.
A blog post quoting your own tweets? Seriously?
Having never founded a startup myself, I always find advice like this to be slightly surreal. Surely everyone who starts a startup is intent on selling product? It kind of sounds obvious, and yet it comes up on HN again and again.

I'm sure these are intelligent people doing this, with all the correct entrepenurial traits, so can someone explain how people get to a state where they aren't worried that "amount of money spent" > "amount of money earnt"?

On a seperate note - I've always wondered how you work out how much to pay yourself if you've not actually made any money yet and you are only using your investor's cash.
Fair question. There were a series of unforeseen circumstances that cut the runway tragically short. The stories you've probably read are missing a lot of info.
Common Sense as a Prior
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LOL. That's a good point. I will fix that tonight :)
The New World Map
Enjoy!!!
Yahoo! What a great logo!
Which of the old logos are you referring to?
Space ("bigger") and time are interrelated concepts (same damn thing/Minkowski vector) - if you have less time in an area (i.e. due to a gravity well, like Earth's) you can equally view it as more space.

The metric in a gravity well like Earth's is not the Minkowski metric, so you can't interpret gravitational time dilation (which is what you are referring to by "less time" in a gravity well) the same way you would interpret time dilation in special relativity. The simplest way to see this is to observe that gravitational time dilation is present even when everything is at rest relative to each other, whereas time dilation in special relativity requires relative motion.

the "volume" of "space" measured from within Earth's gravity well out to a fixed distance (say EML-1, for the sake of argument), differs to the same volume as measured from outside of the gravity well.

This is not correct as you state it. What is correct is that the volume you measure depends on your state of motion: the volume of space you will measure out to a certain radius from the Earth will be larger if you are at rest relative to the Earth than if you are free-falling inward towards the Earth. But two observers both in the same state of motion will measure the same volume of space out to a fixed radius from the Earth, regardless of their location relative to Earth's gravity well.

If cosmic voids have less space in them

This isn't consistent with their hypothesis; their hypothesis is that the voids have more space in them, not less. So you can't combine this with anything in their model to get a valid answer; you're starting with inconsistent premises.

(i.e. more time)

Less space does not mean more time; see above.

(if you don't have any matter-energy in a volume, then what "keeps" time?)

The voids don't have zero matter-energy; they just have a lot less than other parts of the universe (at least, according to our best current observations.) That said, spacetime itself can "keep time" even if there is no matter-energy present in a particular location.
One thing I keep coming back to is meditation. I believe it has improved my productivity by being more in the moment, getting distracted less easily and being more accountable with my mental bandwith.

Now if I could just curb my hackernews addiction...
Thanks. I will add the Evernote API later tonight
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I use 'upstream' for this purpose.
Outbrain to seek billion-dollar IPO
List of new features in 9.3

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_...
I wonder if he has a mortgage and/or kids.
The Kazakh restaurateur with global ambitions
Nothing is quite the gut punch like a job that simply evaporates. Good luck in your search.

Commenting from the enterprise programmer perspective, I have seen talented, well-credentialed, strong portfolio-wielding, but lesser-networked hackers spend significant amounts of time (up to a year) on the sideline while seeking work in my region. Hackers should remember that this actually happens.

Build a bit of a cash cushion. Be prepared to invest in yourself (http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html). If you stay or return to the enterprise world, don't join a "cost center" group.
I didn't know there was software to verify mathematical proofs. Heck, I didn't even know there was a formal syntax for writing them.
>Why is flat "modern"? I don't understand it.

Emm, exactly because for years we used shadows, 3d look and stuff?

So, anything that comes after that, is "modern" (it's a new look, that replaces the previous standard look).

It's like fashion. There's nothing inherently modern in "flat" -- in 5-10 years when ornamental will make a comeback, it will be considered "modern".
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Don't forget, many games already support the Apple TV. Instead of installing the game on the Apple TV, you play the game on your iPhone/iPad/iPod and the game streams videos to the Apple TV. Some games even have a dual screen mode. http://www.macstories.net/stories/the-untapped-potential-of-...
This seems kind of absurd. What are they doing, looking at an IP block belonging to the DoD and then laying claim that the DoD doesn't know their geography because a couple of people on their network did their quiz incorrectly? Give me a break.
Most busy professionals view the working poor who struggle from paycheck to paycheck with barely veiled contempt. These holier-than-thou Whole Foods shoppers marvel at the poor decisions of the poor, whether in consumption of fast food, using payday loans, or worst of all, buying lottery tickets.

Er, is this a Silicon Valley thing?
I responded to your assertion that:

> Given the response that occurred in the media and in general...

So no, it's not a derailing tactic. And if you didn't notice, this thread is three pages to the right. There's nothing to derail.

When you're having a conversation in person, do you accuse them of being a Troll and derailing the conversation when they respond to your ridiculous assertions?

Give me a fucking break. This is like arguing with a three year old. OK fine, you can have the last word if it's so important to you. I've already torn apart every single point you think you've made, so fuck off.
Unfortunately the majority of us don't get to be so picky when choosing a job - especially when we've just been laid off so suddenly.
I will work on that! For now, just use the contact form or Twitter (https://twitter.com/pyapis)