skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Answer to your last 3 questions :

- Replace MySQL with MariaDB (hopefully your tables are InnoDB and the transition will be "relatively" seamless). You can continue using the rest of your app as-is.

- Yes. There are many by the simple fact that a lot of people are unaware of what they're really doing and what impact certain indexes, queries and even to some extent, compile-time options will introduce.

- Schema is everything for an RDBMS. If people just take the time to calmly and carefully consider what it is they're trying to do and what options they'll truly need vs. just guessing what future "growth" would be like, they will have fewer actual (rather than imagined) growing pains later.

Of course, most of these problems could be mitigated if new projects started off with Postgres or MariaDB, if they're taking the RDBMS route.
I think you are misusing the term sucker in this context. They are getting paid regardless of what happens to other people, that doesn't sound like they are being stupid.

The suckers are those that vote red vs blue.
Ask pg: how about a /classic2 for "voted on by accounts 3yrs old"?
We have http://news.ycombinator.com/classic which, if I understand it, is for anything voted up or submitted by an account that is one year old or older. That was put in place, I think, to make a better home page due to the submissions/voting influx of new accounts a few years ago.

Now that it's been a few years since the launch of /classic (which is what I use as my home page), I think it's clear that today's /classic and the /classic of two years ago are very different. Today's /classic is almost identical to http://news.ycombinator.com/. What about adding in a http://news.ycombinator.com/classic2 (or making it a parameterized option) so that we can see stories voted up/submitted by accounts 3+ years old?
Gmail Down for 12 Hours, Google Says 'Sorry About That'
At least 10 million people dealt with partial Gmail outages throughout most of Monday. "We realize that our users rely on Gmail to be always available and always fast, and for several hours we didn't deliver. We're updating our internal practices so that we can more quickly and effectively respond to network issues," Google officials said.
All of the new desktop environments I know of (Win 8, Gnome 3, Unity) are steps backwards. The classical desktop concept (taskbar + floating windows) has tens of years of evolution behind it. If there was a better concept, it would have been invented before.
And since the bureaucratic overhead is so high, you better ask for enough money to make it worthwhile.
If the components are sufficiently isolated, I'd much rather have many smaller components (with individual security models) than one monolithic system.

That's why e.g. the Unity3d plugin is so great. A complete 3D engine (with state of the art graphics, the ability to load almost any 3d format on earth, ...) does not belong into the browser. I don't want that code on my work PC.

OTOH, its great to have the ability to run games in the browser. The performance is much better than WebGL (because it contains compiled code, and because it is a complete, tuned, engine and not just an opengl implementation). And it's fairly safe, since it's built with Mono/.NET, you don't have problems with shellcode injection etc..
Manual window management isn't the perfect UI paradigm for anyone, regardless of input method. Being able to overlap by a few pixels isn't necessary for me.

A simple way to see where window management should have gone is to look how it has changed within applications, where the resistance to change is lower. 15 years ago it was all MDI applications, where the idea that a doc has a window . Soon people realized that noone really needs to overlap their word documents windows, or move their photoshop tool dialog by 3 pixels, so more modern applications used docking managers to snap and tile their workspace together to use as much of the available area as possible.

As usual in the demos and mockups of both Win8 and this concept, the applications demonstrated happen to be simple communication apps, media players and so on. I'd like to see Photoshop, Visual Studio, AutoCad etc. that actually have a large workspace with several confgurable areas. I don't think it would be horrible to lose the movable windows, but I'd want something as powerful in return: Windows should manage the desktop the way a good desktop application manages its different areas.
I'm pretty sure that iPhones have encrypted their data since the 3GS. That's how they "remote wipe" it. They send a message to the phone to delete the encryption key.
No it's not. You're being reductive. Even self-motivated, driven, talented people have shit happen in their lives that can effect their performance and capability at work. Then they will require both formal and informal support from their company, which has a duty of care.

This nirvana of extreme self-motivation at all costs you seem to espouse is not a reality for most people on the planet. It is most likely a privilege.
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Is that a question?

Just because he mentions it doesn't make this an article about software freedom. It's a quote, that's all. It's tangentially related, but that's about it.
Sounds like the recipe for a monoculture. And people wonder why the Valley gets stick for being exclusive.
Your question is answered in the Q&A page linked from the email:

Has the recent revert from Intel triggered this decision?

A: No. It is completely unrelated. This decision was made by our engineering management team and was based solely on the current quality feature set we defined for XMir, independent of any discussions with Intel.
LNEC Organiza Curso de Inspeção Visual Assistida de Fachadas e Paramentos
> (And in practice I don't think you would want to deploy on anything besides Gunicorn.)

(You should definitely have a look at uWSGI.)
My Experience with MongoDB
You would think someone who claims to be an expert on databases would have a clue about his industry.

MongoDB is a document database and is as different from almost every other NoSQL database as it is from every SQL database. It very much stands alone and requires your domain model to be structured in a particular way. To say that it "represents" NoSQL is ridiculous. And to act like a guide on how to scale MongoDB to store 100GB is a problem is also ridiculous. I can create domain models that almost every SQL database would struggle with that MongoDB could breeze through and vice versa.

And seriously anyone claims Cassandra or Riak are misspent adventures are simply delusional. They are solving real world problems in particular around horizontal scaling today that could never be done as cheaply or easily as before. A master-master cluster that costs nothing, scales linearly and can be managed by a developer. Would love to know what product existed years ago that could do that.

Likewise I take exception with the criticism of MySQL. It is an easy to use, manage and install and has the best tooling bar none. It does what it is intended to do perfectly. Some people who deal exclusively with ORM layers will never see the imperfections and just see the ease of use.
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Same thing here. I can't run silly stick man games from ~2004 on my laptop I bought 3 years ago with this.

Just like PDF.js, it's brilliant on my desktop, but unusable on my trusty old netbook (that could do this things prefectly well with native code).
Vertu's new Constellation is its second Android phone
I'm not saying you can't do it on your own. I do believe that there are multiple ways to skin a cat, but what I don't agree with is that opting to pick the route of going through school is not going to prep you to work with real-world data. You can argue that formal training is not necessary, but I fail to see how that means that there's no value in what's taught in school.

The very fact of the matter is that through my research I have gained exposure to working with real, unstructured data, and I have had the opportunity to develop skills that I believe stand me in good stead to pursue a career in industry as a data scientist.

So, basically I guess I'm reversing the argument and saying that as much as you can acquire any skills without going to school (and that includes primary and secondary school), there's nothing in my experience that points to the fact that picking the route of formal training is going to place you behind the 8-ball as an aspiring data scientist.

The author has managed fine indeed. My contention is with the following quote from the GigaOm post:

> "“I think the applied experience is a lot more important than the academic experience. It probably can’t hurt to take a stats class in college.”

I don't see applied experience and academic experience as being mutually exclusive concepts, so to make the statement that one is more important than the other is to fail to understand that as much as you can learn things on your own, school can also provide you with hands-on skils to become a data scientist.
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So does this allow me to look at flash on iphone...?
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Things mathematicians know but most people don’t: proofs are what’s beautiful
Sorry but "fun" or "developer productivity" aren't allowed.

You have to have a database that is expensive, obtuse or difficult to manage to be taken seriously.
I'm not sure why you find that anecdotal number suspicious. If most PulseAudio users are using Ubuntu, of course most PulseAudio problems are going to be discovered on Ubuntu.
With some insider knowledge: Because this document is commentable for (some) Googlers, though you don't see the comments on the /pub version that is accessible externally. Docs would rather force you to verify your state (Logged in or anonymous) than having some things 'not work' because you're expecting permissions from login cookies you don't have.
that seems to jive well with the article about not talking to your kid in directives:

"In low-income households, parents commonly speak to their children in simple commands, and participant Aneisha Newell said the week on directives was particularly significant to her. “Instead of saying, ‘go put on your shoes,’ I can say, ‘All right, it’s time to go. What else do you need? … That gives my child the chance to respond, and say, ‘shoes,’ ” said Newell, 25, who has a 4-year-old daughter and a 10-month-old son and works for a company providing recess supervision and after-school activities in Chicago Public Schools.

Newell said many of her friends and relatives think she’s crazy for talking to her daughter as if she’s an adult. “I can quote this: ‘Neisha, no one wants to sit and talk to the kids like they understand’ That’s basically the response I get."

(I hate that such a thought provoking article couldn't get a better discussion than a college freshman debate over nature v nurture)

in my experience that's one of the best take aways from the articles,

I find even really educated parents tend to give alot of commands to their kids, I would recommend mixing that up

my daughter just entered the 'why' stage,

the other day, I flipped it around and for 10 or so minutes, even thing she would ask say, I would ask her 'why?'

it was really facinating

I think it ended with:

"because I am a big girl"

"why"

"because I pee on the potty"

"ha ha, yeah I guess so"

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second thought

I've often heard that learning a second language forces you to relearn the basics of the english language

similarly, I think that putting thought in how to comminicate with little kids forces you how to relearn communication skills with all people

book recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/038057000...

one of the big take aways from that book was not to invalidate your kids feelings, even if it seems silly or stupid to you

I find that to be a really useful comminication tip with adults too

and one the most people don't do a very good job with
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An SEC Whistleblower Just Got $14 Million From The Government
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Why do you object to calling this 'making money with Open Source'? I agree that "making money by developing and selling closed source extensions to open source products" is 'making money with Open Source'. Especially considering he also developed and maintains the OS product.
The title of this article is the opposite of what the article says.

He made almost no money with open source. He made tons of money by withholding features from the open source library and instead only offering them under a commercial license as an add-on. Since this is itself a violation of the LGPL, anyone using the Pro version isn't even using open source at all, as both the original and Pro enhancements are at that point licensed with a commercial license.

An accurate title would be:
"How to make $100K by writing an open source library, waiting for a lot of people to build a product using it, then holding back essential features until they pay you money, which they will do because they are suffering lock-in and it's way cheaper to pay you than pay a developer for dozens of hours of work to adopt an open source solution."
This is excellent news for Chromecast owners. We've been hearing about pending support for Chromecast since it was first released but basically nothing had come of it. Give me a few more digital sources (I'm looking at you Amazon Prime) and I'll be one step closer to completely dumping cable tv.

Anyone want to bet on the over/under for when HBO Go/Showtime Go will appear? I imagine it will be a bit of a shot across the bow to the traditional cable providers.
> I can create domain models that almost every SQL database would struggle with that MongoDB could breeze through and vice versa.

I am always interested in learning about models that SQL/"traditional relation model" can't easily (or less easily) represent or query. Last time I asked someone pointed me to Datomic's EAVT (entity-attribute-value-time) model as a good example.

Do you know of any more than EAVT?
I currently have the need to repeat a process over and over on an ipad. The thing is, things seem to go wrong in a real-world situation where it doesn't in the simulator.

I was able to script 99.9% of the process, except for the part where you manually have to click the 'send' button.

2 hours, some clear tape and a 4-line batch file later, this was born.

Fun fact: The headphone wires around the stylus are needed to generate just enough of an electric field to trigger the touch event. If I remove them, or disconnect them, the touch is not registered.
MySQL is a good database for basing a CMS on. (for a loose definition of database)

PostgreSQL is a good SQL database.

And don't take me wrong, I'll take MySQL instead of PostgreSQL for simple and medium projects.

"Is the barrier to entry too low, and problems are from legions of rank amateurs?"

Maybe. Well, "low barrier to entry" is not a defect.
Leadership Tips: Struggling Leads Your Team To Success
here's a sketch of a small idea that came to my mind:
http://i.imgur.com/ZaIR5yD.png

... basic idea was: "box" - not very original, but imho appropriate when thinking of storing things. as illustrated on the right, the form is the intersection of the shapes on the three visible faces of the box. the two in the front make up the "T" and on top is a very minimal "S". i thought of this intersection as a simple visual analogy of encryption.

wouldn't consider this a final logo - probably there could be done some more work on the details.
Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary
Heh... almost as smooth as my 2-year old dual-core iPhone 4S, or the single-core WP7 HTC Mozart I had before that?
Suspended by the free host.
Freespee Puts Together Real-Time Bidding Tool for Click-to-Call Advertising
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WORKFLOWY IS AWESOME

so simple, so smooth... gets me tingly
I feel like every time a science article gets attention just because it "feels true" and which is based on just another retrospective cohort study (which can't untangle causation) it sends the wrong message to the public about what real substantive scientific research is like/needs to be like.
I'm sorry, but that's just a terrible way of thinking about things. If we assume things that have been around for a while have reached their apex by virtue of them having been around for a while we'd never make any progress.
MySQL is also generally poorly "designed". MySQL is to a database as PHP is to a programming language.
I think the point is the nonlinearity of speed as a function of the number of cars, i.e.,

"Charging for something reduced use by 20%, and overuse-related problems by 95%"

"WOW! Why don't more people do that?"
On the role of Startups in the digital ecosystem (clear dynamics)
So if I install the extension, do I need to disable Flash plugin on Firefox?
The premature return to SQL
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Cars and bikes do that, too. You don't instantaneously go from 'axles parallel to each other' to 'constant angle A between front and rear axles'. Instead, you go from 'not turning the axles' to 'turning it at constant speed' to 'keeping it at a fixed angle' and back.

That's why road exits and a cloverleaf interchanges should never use perfect circle arcs to connect straight road parts. The curvature of the road should change continuously such as in various splines or parts of superellipses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse). An Euler spiral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_curve) is optimal, but for cars, small deviations from the optimal aren't as bad as for railway cars.
Why The Next Crisis Could Come From The Shadow Banking Sector
Don't single out the pentagon, the whole government acts this way

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-congress-fights-ov...
You have to remember this is entirely self-selected. Just because there's probably a number of tech companies in those areas doesn't mean employees there are counting the days down to the first of each month to post here.
I too am awaiting Amazon Prime to support Chromecast. Hopefully we'll see it sooner thanks to Hulu+ throwing it's hat into the ring.
Has anyone heard any news on a UK release for the Chromecast?
As a person who has worked in an open office environment for the past five years, our next office will not be open.

There's nothing more frustrating to a developer than hearing four sales calls happening simultaneously.
:P

"Note: That Amazon link to Windows 8 Pro is an affiliate link so I do earn a percentage of all sales through it. Using that link does not increase your purchase costs though and your support of WindowsObserver.com by using it is appreciated."
MongoDB aggregation: Neat trick to group by any time interval
The Basics of Social Media: Audience, Conversation, Conversion, Community
Or better, it's not "reality" wrong, but "financial records of certain institutions"

It's a world of difference
...or not: "Upper Stage of New Falcon 9 Rocket Did Not Explode After Launch, SpaceX Says"
http://www.space.com/23038-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-explosion-...
Are you claiming people are solely the product of their environment? There is substantial scientific evidence to the contrary.

Keep in mind I'm not saying it's a deterministic inherited thing (it's clearly not). However I believe there is strong evidence that everyone is born with a unique personality and potential. An "environmental chaos theory" does not do justice to unexplained outliers, those with recognized mind-affecting genetic conditions, and many other real-world scenarios.

My situation is even more unusual than you realize. I didn't even meet many people while growing up; throughout my childhood I was almost entirely separated from the outside world (lived secluded in the mountains). Almost no neighbors near by. I never went to public school. Extremely protective parents did not allow us to ever talk to strangers. All this is the same case for my siblings, yet they have no desire to pursue technology, while I do.

Note that by no means am I trying to downplay the importance of environment. I'm simply trying to illustrate that the claim "environment determines 100% of someone's mental and personality development" is empirically wrong.
Hell, why not make it 5 years.

Ahh, ops account is 3.907 years old. ;)
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Why do we need this? The way that Flash has diminished in significance since high-quality browsers on smartphones and tablets emerged is a good thing. The web is better with Flash gone completely, not dragged along through compatibility layers.
Genetics is complicated- it is possible for offspring to develop traits that were not present in either parent.
> What an awful way to encourage inventive people to follow their dreams and build new products for everyone. These attitudes kill entrepreneurship.

How to provide useful feedback is a very serious problem. On the one hand, I agree that we are usually biased toward negative criticism, on the other hand overly positive feedback is exactly 0% useful.

If people on HN have this kind of reaction, it's very likely that other people out there will also have this kind of reaction so as an entrepreneur, you really want to know real people's reaction so you can improve your pitch.

So let's make sure that we provide constructive and encouraging feedback but let's also not refrain emotional reactions just because we want to encourage inventive people to follow their dreams and build new products for everyone. Otherwise, it's not feedback anymore.
The Key to Project Success? Just one crucial element