skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that is very impressive. I look forward to seeing 5.7 hit GA (although as ck2 points out, that's probably some time from now).

I'd like to see how 5.7 affects our framework benchmarks [1] since the highest rate we observe in our project with 5.5 is ~145,000 per second by cpoll-cppsp when running 20 read queries per request (7,252 rps). Our project is obviously not a database benchmark—it's a web framework benchmark—but nevertheless I am interested in whether a significantly quicker database platform would yield notably higher performance on that test type.

(Many other variables differ of course. The queries we are running are presumably much simpler and our hardware is much smaller.)

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7...

Edit: Apparently someone has flagged this article submission and it's now on page two. I don't get the motivation. Yes, the content may be a little difficult to follow, but it's fascinating. Oh well!
Not compiling when assets haven't changed is a problem. I have been experimenting with https://github.com/ndbroadbent/turbo-sprockets-rails3 - seems to work so far.

For me, the more important thing was not compiling on a production box. Compiling on production box does lots of io and uses way too much cpu. I am ok with a slight delay in deploy due to assets compilation happening on my local machine.

I see a lot of people in this thread criticizing the assets pipeline. But I think it's a good idea with an implementation which is yet to mature. For now, it needs some work on my part(do I check in the assets, do I compile on production box, how do I ensure assets are only compiled when changed etc etc), but overall I am quite happy with the way it works.
Major record labels are the venture capitalists of the music world.

They invest large amounts of capital in a small number of artists, hoping for big hits that are highly profitable. Most aren't, so they're savagely dumped. Worse, unlike venture capital, record labels insist on control over the reproduction rights of the music they fund, so artists lose control over their own work. It's a really crappy deal for musicians, unless they're one of the lucky handful who go platinum.

When these articles talk about "the music industry", they're really talking about the major labels. They're getting beaten up, and for good reason. It's not piracy - it's distribution costs, which are converging on zero due to Internet technology. The labels were needed when it was an incredibly expensive and difficult proposition to put copies of a record in thousands of record stores. Today, artists can just put their music out on the cloud basically for free, and pay a very reasonable and competitive fee on download costs and payment processing from the likes of iTunes, CDBaby, Bandcamp, and others.

At this point, what are the major labels bringing to the table? Their increasingly irrelevant marketing prowness? Their marketing was based heavily on de-risking due to the investment expense (which is why the major labels pushed so much tame, crappy music - it was safe). That's exactly the opposite of what many musicians need!

So yeah. Musicians are doing fine. It's not as easy to get filthy rich now, but it's a lot easier to make a decent living doing what they love, without compromise. As for the major labels? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
This is the direction in which I was immediately thinking. As a software dev by day and musician by night/weekend/days off with experience living, working, and playing in several major east coast US cities I can say that the musician's job has gotten significantly more difficult as the physical medium dies.

Record companies used to provide a lot of money up front for prospective bands - this created much of the rock star persona the world came to love. Now, unless you simply luck out on connection or blatantly craft your music as a sale, it's prohibitively expensive to practice, play, and tour without living in squalor.

Without the capital from record companies willing to take a risk, the returns on personal (band) investment in their own recordings are dim.
Oops! Thanks for mentioning that omission, I've updated the title.
not all browsers support SVG (namely IE8). for folks who have to support LOB, this is still an issue.
I loved the idea of caring about design and making expensive, excellent versions of simple household products.

But I think they really jumped the shark with this. I reeeeally don't like my smoke detector having a million apps in it, and needing an app to connect to it. If it is at all connected to the Internet (and not just a closed-loop system), that's pretty scary to me unless the security model is absolutely sound.
I really wished they had innovated in that sense

For example with a wireless energy transmitter (it doesn't need to be too powerful).

Or "solar powered" with a good set of (rechargeable) batteries.
How 2013′s Nobel Prize in Medicine changed science
Microsoft has their SQL Azure service but, as of right now, they do not support FT (although SQL Server has robust support for FT). My assumption is that this will be supported in the coming few years though - FT is becoming a must for many BI situations and BI has been driving the MSFT SQL Server team for almost a decade.
I don't think the definition of detector is a stretch here, depending on how Next implements it. The units will talk to each other, so presumably there is a master node playing the monitor role, and it could certainly phone home in an event same as the thermostat unit does.
Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013 - Kalman Reti
One thing that bothers me about their android app is that they trick users into clicking ads. What I mean is that when you open the inbox, you'll see an unread message at the top of the list but when you go to tap on it, an ad has already slid into place shifting the entire list of emails down leading people to tap on the ad instead. What's even more scummy about this is that the behavior isn't consistent so sometimes an ad will be in the top of the list, sometimes it won't so the user doesn't know if to wait for the ad to load or not.

I don't mind seeing ads in my free products, I just don't like being tricked into clicking an ad.
A Photographer Shoots His Autistic Son’s Universe for a Photography Project
I probably didn't explain it well. My impression is that refactoring with an IDE is mainly an artifact of Java, not Clojure.

Also: Lisp macros are a unique kettle of fish. They support Don't Repeat Yourself in ways that plain functions cannot. Whereas an IDE is often used to generate repetitive code in files -- i.e. Automated Repeat Yourself.
Co-founder here - we decided to stay in stealth because we didn't need the press to get customers.

Our target customers are mobile commerce companies like LivingSocial whose inventory 1) has a higher cost of sale, and 2) isn't subject to the 30% App Store rake. This means that they are willing to be more aggressive with their paid marketing, similar to how things work on the web.

We just posted a case study with LivingSocial on our website if you'd like to learn more.
It looks promising. I don't get:

1. why they explicitly says that they don't send users to your app, but either to your mobile website or to the app store

2. why users, that do not come back to my app, will go back to URX
We'll probably take the plunge and get one for someone in the family when the next wave come out. Most of our documents are in Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Docs, etc. We also have a RaspberryPi and PogoPlug serving up plenty of local network storage. The only printer we use now is an all-in-one with wifi and support for Apple AirPrint and Google Cloud Print. Scanning from it is a little trickier but it can also scan right to an SD card from the printer panel. I can't think of the last time anyone else in my family attached a USB peripheral other than a mouse or storage.
The problem with fission is that its disasters are very hard to clean up. Mine collapses or fossil fuel fires are brief events. Most chemical spills either break down, are neutralised, or diluted to harmlessness (although far from all, see the various Superfund sites).

Fission disasters tend to emit nasty metals that are bioaccumulative, don't break down in a short timeframe and may be airborne or waterborne.

(Having said that, it looks like Bhopal was worse than Chernobyl for harm, and the chemical industry is still in business)
My smoke alarm is connected to the mains electricity. No need for new batteries ever. Just a simple extension from the power outlets in the attic and down through the ceiling.
The url, http://collegefeed.com/featured-jobs/, loads a blank page.
Agreed. It is amazing how it is possible for a product development team to come to believe that making me click several times to see the same information I could before via one click (or without clicking at all) is a good idea.
IOS 7: TextKit, UIDynamics, hidden gems & more in objc.io #5
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-Lap...
Agreed. I actually did (well, a hammer)

Incidentally, if nothing else this announcement reminded my to order a replacement.
He certainly had an interesting life, but I don't think the person giving their name to half the particles in the universe can be called ‘a little forgotten’.
is the nobel prize still the cornerstone of rewarding achievement in the sciences?

sorry to be so snarky, but i am genuinely interested, having long lost any trust in the peace prize comittee[0]. not to speak of the economics prize (which is not really a nobel prize [1])

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laure...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...

edit: formatting
I am sure Russian intel is following him and American intel is also following him. They know each other's existence like no shit Sherlock. The interesting thing is when will American capture him in front of the Russians lol
A (hopefully) smaller cut of everything instead of a large cut of specific revenue streams seems like it might encourage better record company behavior. Rather than highly promoting specific sections of the revenue stream to the detriment to others (overplaying on the radio causing lack of interest before the tour is done, etc), a more holistic approach may emerge, which better benefits all parties.
Someone would inevitably sue the manufacturer after pressing that button and walking away with a fire still burning.
Exactly. I know Google's market is primarily the US, but people in the rest of the world mostly read the same news, and get excited about the same products, but then they are unable to get them. Which is kind of depressing.
While Well-Intentioned, Canada's Startup Visa Will Have No Impact
URX links users into the middle of apps, not the app store or mobile web, and users don't have to use URX just the app developers/marketers.
I find Evernote's web interface has 99% of the features I use in the thick client, but YMMV.
The site was designed for only 50,000 simultaneous users.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/05/health-...

Didn't that site cost millions to make?

Wait, is this blog entry trying to sell their own products?

This is a better round-up of stories about the website:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/obama-admini...
It was sarcasm. They were saying that society sees smokers as people who are "worse thing in the world after the Third Reich," not that they actually believe that. The point they were making is that people view smokers in a bad light but hypocritically it's taboo to view the obese in a bad light.
> At this point, what are the major labels bringing to the table? Their increasingly irrelevant marketing prowness?

Everyone likes to cite Bieber as making it on his own, but he was a nobody before someone related to Usher at a big label stepped in and helped shoot him into the stratosphere.

> So yeah. Musicians are doing fine.

I'd argue a lot of musicians see it different. Now many have to debate giving up their day jobs because they're forced to tour 24x7 since they can't rely on selling cd's anymore since it is so easy to pirate them.
>the internet makes my day feel like running with a parachute

this phrase gets you an upvote. thank you! :-)
I think the bit that is very galling to everybody that works on the ground floor of the industry - that is, the writers, micro-labels, PRs etc that see the artists starting out - is that people keep talking about these majors as if they are the whole industry. The micro-labels, independent and DIY acts are a big part of how the industry works now, especially for new acts versus established ones.

The big labels might have taken a hit, but general consumption patterns have hit smaller artists, venues and labels as bad if not worse, if only because their size of revenue was smaller to begin with.
The ars article says the bend radius (400mm) is far to modest to allow that.
Higgs boson, not the Higgs
From One Intern To Another: A Guide To College Internships
We've added a little something to this month's sales contest. As you know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Know what second prize is? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is, you're fired.
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And yet the crowning achievement of conservatism in the last thirty years has been tearing down the processes, rules, barriers, morals, norms, etc. that were put in place during the Great Depression to prevent capitalism from tearing itself apart again.
Cursive: The IDE for beautiful Clojure code
Unless you're a freelancer/contractor, the loss of efficiency probably costs you nothing. It costs your employer, so maybe they should be funding your smoke detector?
Beyond what I said below about the effectivity of LinkedIn InMail, I don't like cold connections because I think it give less value and strength to the network. If the graph is complete (fully connected) what is the value behind the edges?
AVG, Avira, and WhatsApp DNS compromised.
This situation exemplifies a type of conundrum: conditions or goals X and Y are incompatible; they cannot coexist. Persons A and B observe this fact, and A concludes "Therefore X must be sacrificed to protect Y" and B concludes "Therefore Y must be sacrificed to protect X".

Your argument starts with the premise that the government is always entitled to data on particular individuals being investigated, and all other values must always be sacrificed to that end. Your review of the costs imposed, however, recognizes only the wiretapping of "every other user".

There is also an additional price paid, which is even more significant and unfortunately not recognized in your argument nor even in Leveson's arguments in the case. The SSL private key is not only for encryption, it also is designed to authenticate the server to the user. Thus, revealing it enables the additional party to impersonate the server owner online. (In this case, the impersonation would have taken the form of a compromised server, no longer under the owner's control, purporting to be the uncompromised server still under the owner's control.)

The evil comes in with the combination of this demand and the gag order. If the server owner could either keep the key secret or warn the users, this evil could not happen - but when both are prohibited, he is forced to enable the third party to lie to the users and make his server a fraud.

Accordingly, my view is that one of these things must yield - either the secret key demands or the gag orders. This is a higher social value than the wiretapping of persons alleged to be suspected of crimes ("alleged" because the secrecy of the process prevents the citizens verifying that the government has any legitimate grounds at all).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6514107
For newer artists though it used to be that labels offered tour support to help with costs. Now, a lot of smaller bands doing national tours that I've spoke to are instead of taking their pay from merch sold while on tour instead using that money to cover costs.
Why I now consider hackathons to be a key part of my education.
Read about deaths in dwelling fires here:
http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v14i3.pdf

There's more here:
http://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/reports/residential_stru...

When owners of commercial buildings disable life safety features, it is not uncommon for the Fire Marshal to require a fire watch (trained personnel on site walking around 24 hours a day) until the system is operating correctly.

A residential smoke alarm system without a battery as backup power source is not operating correctly[1]. A smoke alarm in or near the kitchen is incorrectly placed if it is producing frequent false alarms[2].

In the time it takes to download and install a smartphone app, one can probably replace all their smoke detector batteries - NFPA recommends changing them twice a year when clocks get reset for daylight savings time.

These are first and foremost alarms not detectors because there is no other annunciator device. Using the device in the way the manufacturer is suggesting - i.e disabling portions of it's alarm system - is how people die in dwellings.

Over-riding their fucking primary purpose for the fucking sake of fucking occupant convenience violates the fucking basic principles of fucking life safety.

This isn't disruption, it's fucking stupidity.

[1]Outside of retrofit applications, smoke alarms are required by the National Electrical Code [NFPA 70] to be hardwired and when located in a room used for sleeping on an arc-fault protected circuit. The battery is for backup.

[2]Though the kitchen is the most common location for a fire in dwellings, kitchen fires are among the least likely to be fatal because cooking usually is attended and occurs during waking hours. Many building codes also require a fire extinguisher to be located in the kitchen for new construction.
Of course music will still be around. I'm saying that music as we know it, music that has been made as a result of the industry and technologies of the 20th century, is dying.

Claims that it isn't are false and misinformed.

What is ALWAYS missing from the "new solutions" is the investment in emerging artists.

Sure, you see companies like Live Nation/Roc Nation setting up these 360 deals. There is definitely some promise to these new approaches, but the investment money is WAY lower than what it was. I don't know the figures, I can't find the numbers online, but I will talk to people I know in music to see if I can track down some facts and write an article on the subject.

My point stands, however. The author of this article doesn't know what he's talking about and the data he presented is useless and doesn't contain enough information to come close to accurately representing the music industry.

BTW, there is a great opportunity for "music venture capitalists".
That's how all fiat currencies work. For example, to use your words:

People think dollars have value because they're accepted by other people because other people think they have value.

You accept your paycheck in whatever currency you accept it in and believe it has value because you have faith that other people will accept that currency for whatever goods and services you want. It all works as long as everyone believes the currency will keep having value in the future. Bitcoins are no different. As long as a group of people believe they have value in the future, and will be accepted as payment for goods and services, they will continue to have value.
We just moved into a condo which had a very old [Nov 1999] BRINK's home security installation that we didn't intend to use.

When we first moved in all the keypads said: "CALL 1-800-<WHATEVER> FOR SERVICE. NOT READY."
We were not interested in a home-alarm service, so we simply left them alone and went about our move.

Fast forward 3 months: these alarm pads would start beeping in the middle of the night.
We had a friend watching our house during the day: they'd _never_ beep during the day, not once.
Around 1AM though they'd go off and starting chirping in 15 second intervals.

The first night: we were able to silence it by hitting "CANCEL" on the keypad.
On subsequent nights we could silence it for [what seemed like] a random period of time between 15 minutes and several hours.

Perhaps it was just the sleep deprivation, but I swear by the fourth night you couldn't shut it up for more than 5 minutes at a time.

Fed up with the alarm: I headed downstairs, pajama-clad, with my multi-tool and a flash light.

---

Turns out: this is the "low battery alarm" -- we cut open the strongbox and disconnected a sealed lead acid battery and shut off the breaker. (Which coincidentally takes out our CO alarms, but it was worth it for the peaceful slumber.)

The battery did test bad so I disposed of it. (Shame: I wanted to repurpose it.)

It seems that these sorts of "self-destruct" alarms are DESIGNED to (A) go off when you're likely to be home (night-time hours) and (B) they are hard to ignore (e.g: exhibit some kind of non-deterministic pattern.)
Hence the popularity of coffeeshops and other low-paying, transient jobs with musicians. I have a number of friends who work crap jobs so they can get away with touring. When I look at my financially stable but locked-in life, it's not a bad trade they're making.

I remember reading an interview with Nels Cline, the lead guitarist for Wilco, where the interviewer was surprised to find out that he had coffeeshop jobs until he joined Wilco. After all, Cline was a fairly well-known and respected musician even before Wilco. But frankly, being a well-known experimental jazz-rock guitarist means working in coffeeshops to pay the rent.
Meltdowns at NSA spy data center destroy equipment, delay opening
Gang Rape Victim to Receive 200 Lashes, 6 Months in Jail in Saudi Arabia
she asked for it :)
> Most home systems use ionic detection, which is better for large particulates. ... Photoelectric detectors are better for detecting small particulates - the smoke before the fire - and they are less prone to false alarms.

Other way around. Ionization detectors are more sensitive to small particles, while photoelectric detectors are more sensitive to large particles.

Large fires tend to burn "cleanly," producing smoke particles that are not too visible. While smoldering fires tend to produce lots of visible smoke -- the type that a photoelectric detector will identify.

https://www.firemarshals.org/rfsi/smokealarmfacts.html
Copyright infringement isn't a criminal offence unless it's done as part of business.

Thus, someone downloading or uploading torrents is not at any risk of "high profile arrests for 'IP Theft'".

Most people don't do anything to hide their torrenting, so the information is all public anyway.

I don't understand your point. Are you really trying to compare copyright infringement (usually not a criminal offence) with possession of drugs with intent to supply (a criminal offence, which can carry a prison sentence, and which has always been a serious crime)?
Do you think it would impact somehow in sales?
How does SQL Server's full-text search support compare to Solr or ElasticSearch? I have used full-text search in MySQL and PostgreSQL and have not been impressed.
Evernote has a web version www.evernote.com. Works on all platforms.
Yes, chicken and egg. But the chicken (students) are putting up the eggs (tuition). So I'm not extremely sceptical about the whole thing, but I consider it a very high risk for students eligible for an established master's program...

On second thought I just learned that the "online" prefix is abandoned now, so I am much more optimistic about the whole thing. And yes, it worries me that I would worry about a one word distinction...