skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a joke, it just pipes everything to /dev/null
Fully agreed, a very awesome release and the list of features is in no short supply with this version. Of note:

* The improvements to foreign data wrappers to allow them to be writeable along with the Postgres FDW will improve visibility for the functionality
* Lateral joins
* Materialized views
* The checksums for checking against corruption

We've elaborated some of our favorites over at Heroku Postgres - https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/9/9/postgres_93_n... along with how you can provision a 9.3 on us to begin using it right away, and then of course you can always see the full whats new on the wiki http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.3
This is an excellent suggestion. I imagine a future where when we meet people in real life, rather than ask, "what is your phone number?" we ask, "what is your public key?"
Would it be possible to add a kind of auto-discover of a web-interface to control the RaspFi? So that friends/guests dont have to install a client or any other app, just by what is bundled on an android, I believe most already have some kind of DLNA, Samsung S3 has it, but they call it Kies or ShareAll or something. So a guest would discover the RaspFi, and control it/manage it like any other dlna device. Do we need to develop some kind of adapter between dlna - mpd?
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I'm aware of the categorical revolution, since I'm young enough to have been (mathematically) raised on that perspective. Some of the more abstract algebraic geometry is actually coming back to computational applications. See, for example: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/226664601_From_Oil_F...

To say that something is not applicable is hard to argue. And besides giving examples of when it is applied (and you claiming it's still an unimaginably small fraction of mathematics) all I can say is that the understanding of some object can provide insights and applications in unexpected ways. Dynamical systems inspire computer graphics, Mobius bands inspire carburetor belt design, category theory inspires Haskell... I just don't think it's fair to ask for the immediate applications of any given theorem because the ultimate application is understanding what's going on.

But thanks for the great discussion! :)
India to launch its maiden Mars mission in November
No, it would not have been, and no, it didn't.
There are, but I'm not in the scene enough to give you a number. I just wanted to point out, however, there are plenty of companies that made no/little revenue that sold for millions (or even a billion in Instagram's case). To be fair, Instagram did click with users and wasn't an investor play IMHO, but it's certainly possible to become personally wealthy without ever making serious revenue.
This is great. The PS Vita really has more than enough power to express a modern video game. I hope that this becomes popular and makes it more viable for large game companies to spend less time on graphical detail and more time on pursuing original ideas.
My own job has some form requirements, one of which is a spreadsheet in Excel. Looks like I just found a way to automate that...
I concede that my original statement was written in haste and thus not phrased the best.

But here's the thing: As soon as you start talking about existence of things, it's nothing but a semantic argument.

I will finish with a youtube clip from a Prattchet-based movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIfCGf_suxs The gist is that a lot of things exist solely because we believe in them.
OpenSource is good but also false security, because there is no guarantee that the box is actually running the software, the real answer is diversification and distribution .
Nice! I think the inflation adjusted graphs should be the default though.
Neiman Marcus up for sale with $6bn price tag
I have noticed this trend at many work places. Often the people who appear to be working the "hardest", are the people that have spun their work lives into a tapestry of chaos. Their schedules and workload are so intensely unmanaged that the only thing they manage to do is commit to more things.

Unfortunately this sort of behavior is often encouraged by higher ups, because it looks like you are doing a lot. However, I think it's obvious that spending a lot of time in the office doesn't equate to getting a lot done.
Why is there a Railroad Retirement Board in the US budget? Shouldn't that somehow be combined with Social Security?
Well, Jamba Juice also doesn't fit "8 oranges, 5 bananas, and 2 pounds of strawberries" into a single smoothie either.
Good point. Excel then functions as the kind-of dashboard to lots of more powerful code.
If spotify support is needed www.mopidy.com is probably the way to go. It implements the mpd protocol and plays local files, spotify and others.
It's also one of those situations where it actually does make sense for the government to intervene. A 2L bottle of Coke is cheaper than 2L of milk. Is it really any surprise when people buy the Coke instead?
Now is the time to do a startup
http://www.controlanything.com/ is what I used for a different project.
Well, that escalated quickly!

I wasn't thinking about the latest iPhone. I was talking about how some companies will chip in a "old" phone to get you to sign with them.
I think those are called part time personal assistants.
IPhone + Yellow Jacket = stun gun
Actually, the US budget is not at all inaccessible ... this is one in among thousands of budget visualizations that are done every year for all sorts of publications. It is nice, doesn't need the hype.
http://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=7025

It looks like the author is entertaining the idea of postgres support (if you read further down the thread). A timely donation might make it happen.

Everyone has their own preferences for administration tools, so it's hard to find a one-to-one replacement. You might find something at one of these places though:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreSQ...
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/13...
Reread the GP; it is not arguing with you at all. The issue is the appropriateness of such things within the professional sphere (of which a hackathon is a part.)
This is the key point: "This is all how you probably should be running this business anyway--with a sense of urgency about cash, that is, until you start making enough of it to pay for your overhead."

And it is exactly spot on. Raising an equity round is tough, and its very "expensive" money in that it gives so much of your future success away to someone else. So when you go into your business thinking "This is the product, these are the customers, this is the market, and this is how I make money." Your need for funding is limited to getting you to cash-flow break even. Then when you have traction you may find that you want to grow quickly to capitalize on that rather than let someone else get in on the market.

So your two times you ask for money? To get to the point where you've proved the product and to get the company into self sustaining growth. And in the ideal world your seed round gets you to the first one, and your series A gets you to the second. Of course there are almost as many paths to success or failure as there are grains of sand on a beach, so there are no hard and fast "rules" about these things.

There is a great set of books for new parents, one called "What to expect when expecting" and the other "what to expect your first year" which have general sorts of guidelines about how kids develop and grow. We don't have those two equivalents for startups but they would be best sellers if we did. These books approach the problem of providing solid advice for an infinitely variable set of possibilities.
iPhone 5S specification sheet appears to have leaked
> I feel that trading in a marketplace controlled by professional investors with access to research and high-frequency trading tools is a losing proposition.

That is probably true, but you shouldn't let that keep you out of the stock market. You just shouldn't try to beat the professionals at their own game.

Instead of picking individual stocks and trying to beat the market, invest in an index fund that will buy stocks to approximate the whole market. This means that your gain will be roughly equal to the average gain across the whole market. This means that you won't get the huge gains that you could have if you had chosen the right individual stocks, but you also will avoid the huge losses that would have happened if you chose the wrong stocks.

You may lose money in some years where the whole market does poorly, but over the long term, you should see consistent gains.
Spreadsheet is more convenient way of visualizing a lot of numeric inputs and outputs at the same time.
Tell me this supports the Vita as a controller and I'd be sold. I really miss being able to plug my system to my TV like I could with the PSP. (Honestly, if they could just release a cable for the Vita that connected to my TV, I would be ecstatic!)

While we're on the subject, when the heck is Nintendo going to release 3DS support for the Wii U?!? I'd like to finally retire my GameCube w/GameBoy player.
Introducing 123D Circuits.io: virtual breadboard, Arduino simulation and more
If normal people are going to use it, it has to run in a browser, hence JS. There are working open source crypto libs in JS today, and kind of the nice thing about them is that they're not compiled, so (if unobfuscated) you can literally just inspect the source.

That said, we plan to generate keys like bitcoin does, so there if you have a bitcoin library in your language of choice, that part is done.

The server code will probably be less useful because there are so many choices, everyone's got their own preferences, and the server is pretty dumb compared to the client. Our leaning is to go with apache tomcat mainly because it's apache and it's widely deployed and, not least, it's what we use.
One of the main advantages of phpMyAdmin is the ability to work on the database without the need of a command line. Not all website maintainers have access to that level of control.
I disagree with this. I think most people are not looking for a cable alternative, but an alternative to DSL. Fiber isn't really helping because it's rate limited by the ISP.
OK, I was just confused by your parenthetical. I guess you're saying that you're not certain, but you think that's the most likely.

I am curious as to why you think that's the case, though. The linked article estimates roughly 500 additional deaths per year. It's hard to know what proportion of those to assign to the TSA versus fear of terrorism, of course. But for any reasonable proportion, I think, I just don't see how it works. The TSA would have to be saving hundreds of lives a year for it to be a net gain. In a hypothetical non-TSA world, there'd have to be a couple of terrorist attacks killing everyone on board an airliner each year, or a 9/11-scale attack every few years.

There's no reason, as far as I know, to think that the TSA has prevented anything of the sort. The main reasons for the relative lack of terrorist activity on American airlines in the past decade and change are:

1. Terrorist organizations just aren't that well funded and organized. 9/11 was pretty much a one-off event for them, costing relatively huge amounts of manpower and money.

2. Cockpit doors are reinforced and kept locked, making it hard to take over an airplane.

3. Passengers now know that a hijacking likely means that they will die, so any would-be hijacker is presented with dozens if not hundreds of people who suddenly have nothing left to lose. 9/11 counted on passengers thinking that they would survive the event if they remained docile, and now that this attitude is gone, hijackings are no longer really possible.

I've not seen any evidence that the TSA has stopped any terrorist attacks during its existence, let alone enough to account for hundreds of lives each year.
The Urban Dictionary API wrapper[1] isn't in Python:

installation

$ npm install -g urban # bin
$ npm install urban # lib

[1]: https://github.com/mvrilo/urban

Edit: Though looking at the site it again it only lists it as "command-line tool and API" instead of "Python wrapper" like all of the rest. Seems odd on a page dedicated to Python API wrappers.
Indeed! if God mad His existence easily knowable, it would take away your free will to have faith.
I'm a financial analyst that uses VBA quite frequently (and sometimes unnecessarily, admittedly, I just like to program). I first learned to program in Python and I find VBA not as enjoyable to work with. However, I don't think I could justify going out and getting this product. Very small niche indeed, I'm not sure who would really need it.
this is because some blocks are added and removed from year to year. In this type of visualization, it's impossible to keep things the same size and position while also changing the amounts.

The best way to use this isn't to switch between years. If you click on any cell, you can see a graph of how that changes over time. If you double click on any of the cells, you can see a new visualization of everything that makes up that cell. For example, double clicking on the department of justice will show you it is made up of X billion from the department of prisons and X billion from the FBI.
Why not just use VBA?
+1 for Sequel Pro. Quite the respectable client on OSX.
I doubt it. The trend has been towards things that are easier to remember than phone numbers, and public keys are much harder to remember. If public key encryption ever becomes commonplace for personal communication, it will probably be via identity based encryption; if a web of trust is involved it will be between IBE authorities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_based_encryption
That said, the js crypto isn't the part I'm worried about. It's all the scripting vulnerabilities to guard against in the browser.

Still, if anyone has mission-critical privacy they want to protect, we expect there will be hardened native clients to choose from.

Most posts from most people are going to be public anyway. We keep the public stuff public, but signed and search-indexable, and we let you do private stuff securely if you want to.
56K Modem bookmarklet brings back memories..
Neocities.org is down, 10s of websites go offline
Makes me think of Dr. Suess's story "The Sneetches": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie...
No, that's exactly my point. Sometimes you want an event to occur at 9 AM EST, regardless of how that translates to UTC.

That you cannot infer the timezone from the time offset in ISO 8601 is a good point though.
Your Boss Isn't A Jerk, She's Just "Self-Anchoring"
The theory is that when a policy choice affects everyone in an indistinct way, the proper forum for the dispute is the political process, not the courts.

Re: non-citizens, no, for even better reasons. If one country's policy actions are hurting the citizens of another country, the proper forum isn't a lawsuit, but rather the battlefield.
Perhaps, whatever...

I realize I'm in a bad mood for unrelated reasons, and I ended up venting here.

Sorry for the noise.
(fyi, these replies are meant to be read in reverse order from how they're displayed, i think...)
HeidiSQL: http://www.heidisql.com/
4 Trends Pushing Startup Changes
Not that I know of.

"holier-than-thou Whole Foods shoppers" is just hyperbolic language designed to drive blog readership.
Please correct me, but there seems to be something wrong. Look at the 2013 budget, "Per Capita", and "Inflation Adjusted". Those numbers should essentially be the same as "Plain Dollars", which is multiples larger.
>Sony on the other hand has significantly more cachet.

That's a problem. Root kits. Memory sticks. MD Minidiscs. Beta video cassette recorders. Something will inevitably be "wrong" with this new Sony product; they all inevitably disappoint.
They call it "Disrupt" and then get offended when people do something disruptive.
We're looking for software engineers at TheLadders (http://theladders.com), here in New York. My contact info's in my profile. :)
Everything in this thread is going way over my head. Would someone be kind enough to explain it to me like I'm 5?
Amen. He has world's of respect from me on that front.
Are there any other ones that let you explore what makes up the agencies and departments? I was looking but couldn't find any that let you explore beyond the high level amounts.
After watching "The Power Principle", I am a little afraid of the whole thing. If Roșia Montană site will be opened for mining, it will become the second largest gold-mine in Europe. This is Gold, there are billions involved! The stakes are a little bit too high, as this can be seen from how the scenario on the subject developed itself over the time. People died for less, my generation (in their 30s) is just too young to realize that, so I'm afraid... Its worth trying though.
The day before launch, 1% of iPhone traffic is already rocking iOS 7
No, I use many languages that care about whether parens (each one of which is its own token) are balanced. The language of balanced parens (a language that includes "" and "((((()()(()))())))" but not "()())(()" or "(((()))))") is a simpler language that also cares about parens being balanced. It was also the first language I saw in compilers class that was not regular.
"Never Work on Master" - yes!

"Updating Master to Reflect Trunk" - (ignoring the "trunk" misnomer, that's been addressed by other comments). I've recently started taking a step to make this relatively unnecessary. I delete my local master branch. It has made my workflow a lot cleaner!

(a) I never accidentally work on master anymore.

(b) I never have to switch to master to pull the latest from the remote.

(c) One less thing to keep in sync and clutter my repo.

Basically, I can now just do `git fetch origin` periodically to get updates from the remote, and then anytime I want to rebase or make a new branch or whatever, I refer to origin/master instead of master. And you can always `git checkout origin/master` if you want. It's the best!
Google Buzz has gone away
The base year for inflation is 1976, so the multiple is because a dollar in 1976 is worth multiples of a dollar in 2013.
Seems like something the FDA would protect Americans from, no?
It means javascript execution is slower in 3rd-party browsers. They can make up for that by e.g. using better networking libraries: http://www.guypo.com/mobile/ios-browsers-speed-bakeoff/
Tell me more about these "viscous cycles."
I was excited to see this:

"Automatically updatable VIEWs"

But then read this:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_...

"Simple views can now be updated in the same way as regular tables. The view can only reference one table (or another updatable view) and must not contain more complex operators, join types etc."

As primarity a database developer, to me this is useless. Not sure why I'd want a view for only one table.

For permissions there has been column level perms for some time, which is more efficient than multiple views.
Article on Docker. Awesome Alan Kay reference.
I think VCs and Angels work based on a set of rules similar to Wall street. They take risks most of the time blindly to gain more. Who can test every aspect of the idea? Who can analyze and predict all the outcomes? They make money like middlemen. They don’t make money because of production. Here are the rules:

-	If one of many ideas works, it makes big and it compensates for all those failed

-	Create hype through journalism, this is performed by using big numbers, which are not necessarily always correct numbers. Who can prove the numbers are not correct?

-	Ideas funded by previously successful investors are more likely to get higher valuations and then being sold. That is why on the front end of every new company you would see the name of investors. Does the consumer care about the investor’s name? Obviously no.
What exactly is the relationship between time and money you're referring to? Is it the time value of money? Honestly curious.
Quickly add a badass webfont to your site, css provided.
I used to use it a lot, but now that I got on to navicat, I never gone back to it anymore.
Sell us your smashed iPhones
I don't think that's all that wrong since you are moving from one budget to another, but what confuses me is that the animations are not consistent. Although they seem to be fixed to the specific display state it's inconsistent. But I do like the replacing effect of the transitions to not simply change the labels and numbers which is not easily noticed.
Opera Mini represents the ONLY way to get around Apple's onerous restrictions: render the content entirely on servers and push it to the browser. It's inefficient and messy and makes for a less than stellar user experience. It also sets the barrier to entry very high. This is why you won't see Firefox on iOS. Mozilla would be happy to build it, but they won't live the lie of having a Firefox name on the Mobile Safari engine (in slower 3rd party mode).

No one is jumping to conclusions here. This is the specific result Apple wants and is by design of their policies. It's well known and there's no debate over it. You can have your own browser on iOS, but it can't interpret JavaScript (no interpreted code on iOS), meaning it's completely useless on the modern internet. It's the perfect way to enforce a one-browser-to-rule-them-all rule, locking out all competitors, while couching it in a 'security' guideline.
As a heavy user of DataNitro in the finance world, I can attest to how much it has improved my life. It allows me to interact with my data providers' excel plugins in a much more expedient manner. I could use their direct data feeds, but testing things on those is a PITA.

Largely, though, I agree that DN isn't really necessary/useful but for a small niche... but when you need it, it's EXTREMELY necessary.
> Value Pack for 14,994 yen additionally includes one DualShock3 "PlayStation Vita TV edition (white)" plus USB connector and an 8GB PSVita memory card.

Looks like it's still going to use proprietary memory cards then. It's too bad, if it took an SD card or supports a USB mass storage device it would have been an easy sell for me (assuming it comes to the NA market.) Having to factor in the cost of an overpriced memory card makes it a harder sell.
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The distrust on the tech industry - issues around nsa, cloud & privacy!
It costs monies, but Navicat is an absolute treat.

http://www.navicat.com/products/navicat-for-postgresql
What iOS Can Learn from Unix
I'm going to second this comment (I happen to be a 'hiring manager' as they say) and if someone posts here they are looking for work and I have an opening I'll see if I can match them up and contact them if I have contact info. (and sorry Ernie we're in the Bay Area and we haven't been able to make it work effectively with remote folks)
A constructionist view of the Constitution is that "press" is short for "printing press". Ben Franklin is probably rolling in his grave at this cheap attempt to limit expression to a few "legitimate" journalists.
Scenes From 21st-Century China
NSA has cracked BlackBerry "security"