skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people would say that PostgreSQL gives you the same portability that you have with your app, but at a different level. You can port your PostgreSQL database from a Linux server to a Windows server and back again and your application doesn't care. But because you are porting at the db layer, your application could leverage a bunch of PostgreSQL features that are very useful. As a developer, this might not matter a lot to you, but as a company, who relies on its data and expects longevity from its systems, this kind of thing matters a lot. PostgreSQL is a technology that you can rely on in the long haul and you will not be held hostage to a technology owner whose interests are not aligned with yours.
The spreadsheet example is an interesting one. I'm aware of several domain-specific products that target very niche markets, particularly in the scientific space, that are essentially little more than glorified spreadsheets. However companies still pay hundreds to thousands of dollars a license for these products because they bolt on enough domain-specific features to their spreadsheet that make it easier for people who are domain experts, but not necessarily Excel experts, to do their job. In a lot of cases these products are developed by small teams.

So maybe launching a general Excel competitor is a pretty daunting task because you're going up against the gorilla of the market. Targeting a specific subset of its user base can still make for a viable business.
Yay, I don't have to use ctrl-K codes like the original TP3 editor!
We're Hiring: Software Engineer at Friendemic
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This full-time technical position includes hands-on development and management of the company’s data warehouse, report generation tools, and web-based systems to ensure strong optimization and functionality.

Candidates should be rockin’ engineer skilled in all aspects of infrastructure, web-app production and data management. We’re looking for a jack of all trades, in terms of development and programming. We want a full-stack engineer with experience in:

Backend Development (Python, Ruby, and/or PHP)
MySQL or Postgres
HTML
Javascript / JQuery
CSS
Automation and Cron Jobs
Data Modeling
Data Visualization
CRUD Application Development

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This position requires a software engineer who excels at organizing content and troubleshooting. Candidates have got to be quick in all things web-based, handy on a command line, and eager to understand user behavior. Attention to detail and creative problem solving are essential. Applicants must have the ability to analyze, review and modify systems and models by designing, maintaining, documenting, testing, developing and monitoring.
Experience with the following is beneficial:

Unix/Linux shell scripting / CLI
Automated PDF generation
HighCharts API
Social Media API’s
OAuth
Amazon Web Services
I was rather hoping for Tumultuous Tarsier.
Where I live if you get the basic TV package with your internet it's cheaper than internet alone. The reason is some of the channels (like HSN, for instance) pay your cable company to be broadcast.
Google has a tradition of jumping up to 10% in either direction after quarterly releases. It might be worthwhile to buy both, put and call options before a release and then profit from the one that goes into the money.
Maybe you shouldn't be building an app, or programming, especially if you don't care enough or have the patience to learn things that aren't directly in support of (what you think is) your MVP.
Nor would I, but I also wouldn't mind seeing Slate and The Atlantic vanish from the internet.
"It turns out I'm not alone in adding these types of restrictions. Yelp blocks everybody but Google, Bing, ia_archiver (archive.org), ScoutJet (Blekko) and Yandex. LinkedIn also has a similar opt-in robots.txt, though they have whitelisted a larger number of bots than yelp."

At least we can contact/email Yelp and LinkedIn regarding to the crawlers if one can crawl or not according to their robots.txt. It's more generous than just allowing the big search engines such as Google and Bing. I'm not quite sure what's actually happening if we ask them though. I'll try that.
A Penny Saved: Psychological Pricing
If he starts cloning Persian cats we have to be really worried - Btw is it true that space X employees have color coded jumpsuits and hard hats as uniforms :-)
Excellent point.

Flagged, especially because it doesn't really describe what the book covers, how it covers it, or anything much beyond "Sign up here!"
Thats what I thought when I read the article too. I feel the same percentage of people would give their phone up if you said "So how about those [local sports team]".
It seems to me that this study says very little about the effects of superfluous apologies and more about the social etiquette of greeting someone before you ask for a favor.

The study's confederate could have said "Good morning," "Hello there" -- anything other than simply making a request -- and achieved a better response rate.
I think today foursquare does serve a lot of the dopplr niche. When i'm traveling and i check in to a new city, i find other folks who are in town. It's not so good for planning, but it works for discovering who's in town.
Do you have the link to the reddit thread? :)
If you still have data in Dopplr that you want out, now's a good time to migrate it to TripIt. Here's a simple script I wrote to do it. https://github.com/jlev/Dopplr2TripIt
What I had in mind was that it would remove the ambiguity. I actually clicked at the link expecting some nifty power management stuff and came away not disappointed only because I enjoyed it.
There could be an element of trustworthiness associated with apologizing for anything since you are inherently taking responsibility for something. But also it could have been that leading in with a request (with no foreplay, regardless of the type) may have come across as being brash.
Yes, this is what I mean. Exercise empathy first - even just "I'm sorry, this is obviously frustrating" is a much better start than an angry defense of why you obviously can't include X and Y in the free version.
Decapitation, But Not Cannibalism, Might Transmit Memories
I think it's going to far to call the study seriously flawed: The core claim presented "we find that superfluous apologies increase trust in the apologizer" is being properly controlled (superfluous apology, acknowledgment, or neutral greeting followed by a trust test).

Suggesting that the mechanism for that result is caused by ice-breaking effects, or by delaying the time between the introduction and the request, or by conforming to some unknown social norm are follow up experiments you'd want to perform... but there's always a follow up question, it doesn't make the initial discovery flawed.
Am I missing something, or this would make a real difference only if you monitor has a low top refresh rate? If the refresh rate is 144 Hz, like the one they talk about in the article, I wouldn't expect that waiting for vsync will have big impact on the fps.
Megaupload Raid ‘Destroyed’ (Way) More Than 10,000,000 Legal Files
"space" is also a great adjunct next to "disrupt" that needs to be destroyed. How about I "disrupt" the "space" next to your "face".

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Google Testing Blog: Espresso for Android is here
Yes, more power to the community. Wikipedia is still alive despite its massive openness. There just need to be enough trusted watchdogs.

My idea: Have the system automatically populate the title, but allow it to be overridden by the community. Only community members with over 1K kudos can change the title. As soon as a second member (with over 1K kudos) wants to re-edit the title again, the title will automatically get locked to prevent back and forth edit-wars. Only mods and admins can then finalize title.
Tesla's Elon Musk buys James Bond's submarine for $860,000 to make it real
Will this not vary wildly depending on skill level/niche/region?
I thought the "taste my longsword" snippet on the second level a little risque for my own kids. That said, maybe it was meant completely innocently and my minds in the gutter.

I love the fact that you can continue past certain things by pressing enter. It'd be REALLY nice if you could do most things from the keyboard (pause/resume time, cast the spell, etc)...having to grab the mouse is disruptive when you're trying out code.

Good work all around though. Very fun game and I look forward to its future!
Interesting. I apologise incessantly for everything and everyone, to everyone. I've never put much thought into why I have this behaviour, but it's possible I stumbled on the same phenomenon as these folks purely due to pressure.
Currently the Rift does not do positional tracking. So, in other words, the Rift can't tell when you move your head in space forwards or backwards. The quality of tracking up/down/left/right is good enough right now. If you have a Razer Hydra, there are some demos that will use it for positional tracking (forwards/backwards/squat/climb).
The last paragraph states:

"How trustworthy are these results? The accumulated findings from several experiments help build a convincing case, but unfortunately the field study - which had the potential to provide the most persuasive evidence - is seriously flawed. The actor apologised for the rain then asked to borrow a phone, or in the comparison condition he just asked to borrow the phone. There was no proper control condition. This means we don't know if the impact of the apology was specific to making an apology or merely an effect of uttering any kind of ice-breaker."
Ah, thanks. Apparently the HN dupe detector doesn't know that 'slate.com' and 'www.slate.com' are the same site. :-)
Ask HN: Holding on to the source code till you get paid?
happy friday

i was told that it is illegal if you work as a contractor for a company, to withold the source code until you got paid

note: i have been making the requested changes to the source code and submit it to appstore, but i havent been paid fully yet, and it does seems the startup doesnt have money at the moment.

any comments or wisdom are much appreciated
Hopefully future new learners will have it easier. :)

If there's anything else that's confusing that could use elaborating, let me know.
CodeCombat is hilarious. I may actually teach my girlfriend some code :)
(disclaimer: I work for usermind)

We are in fact writing in go. Its not required to know it coming in, but it certainly wont hurt your chances.
The best thing since the excel facebook browser:

http://mashable.com/2011/07/03/hardlyworkin-excel-facebook/
Who said anything about patience or not caring? I didn't.
You didn't mention any speciality so the rates will vary depending on the skillset but I would expect the median to be at least around 50 GBP - this is why we started an organized company providing solid software development services at more competitive rates (see codedose.com)
I'm sorry you feel pressurized
How many people typing [ sofa ] want generic information about sofas, compared to people buying sofas. The keyword drips ads.
Google's Schmidt 'respects' but disagrees with privacy complaints in Europe
I have observed this behavior very often in others.

For example, recently I showed up to a yoga class, and there was construction going on the street outside, so that it was mildly inconvenient to get to the parking lot. The yoga instructor apologized profusely for the inconvenience.

I didn't understand why I'd want to be apologized to for this: not only was it outside her control, but the inconvenience was trivial. I felt slightly less at ease after such an apology.

But looking around at others, it was quite obvious that this gesture had had the intended effect. I guess, in this regard, I am the odd one out.
> In the first, 178 students thought they were playing a financial game with a partner located in another room.

Really? I took part in studies like this when I was a student, and I knew full well I was playing a computer, despite being told otherwise. You don't need to be a psychology geek to have heard of their standard operating procedures.
I feel manipulated but I couldn't help giving you an upvote anyway.
I don't think the current generation of Simpsons writers would be the best group of writers to put this comparison to, but rather to the writers of shows like Futurama (which as I'm sure many devotees will know, consisted of a staff of mathematicians that actually developed proofs for plot continuity and one-offs).

Though, I don't think mathematicians really is the ideal here (hell, I'd even go one further and put magicians ahead of mathematicians). I prefer Conan O'Brien's observation that comedy is most similar to music and how musicians often make good comedians (and why stand-up comedy is inundated with musical comedians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_comedians). Because comedy is about character, point of view, timing and rhythm more than it is about formula.

There are plenty of comedians out in the world that make a living having read their share of formulaic stand-up books, tell their lazy formulaic jokes, get their easy laughs, collect a paycheck and burn out into obscurity or languish in D-List infamy. Or more relevantly, write mediocre episodes of an animated sitcom that stopped being funny 12 seasons ago aimed at a fan-base that watches out of habit.

Mathematics can provide the latter, but the former takes an approach that goes beyond the mathematical. That isn't to say that great mathematics can't produce great material, but like the mathematics of the Eulers, the Pythagorians, the Euclids, The Turings, and so many others, it takes subverting the problem at a slightly different angle.
You could probably do this by having a robots.txt file that blocks all crawling. When you want to be re-crawled, you can edit it to allow the relevant spiders to crawl you. I would imagine that spiders do not automatically re-check sites which disallow everything often, but Google (and probably others) let you manually submit URLs to be crawled.
Need to find a way to use up the excess produced in this world. You could just dig big ditches in the ground and dump lots of new goods in there, but the general public wouldn't get behind that the same way they do a war.
The fact that this is on the front page of HN and that you are commenting on it says something about the effectiveness of effort.
So that it crashes now? ;-)
I am yet to understand what docker brings to nova, what the existing lxc driver couldn't do.. It seems like an abstraction layer which is hidden by nova.. therefore no new gain?
> Yes, more power to the community. Wikipedia is still alive despite its massive openness. There just need to be enough trusted watchdogs.

Wikipedia has enormous meta community, and it's likely that such a huge amount of meta is toxic.
I was just trying the first level and it seemed broken. Kept complaining about a missing semicolon where I don't believe there were any errors.
If you're talking specifically tablets, then you won't get any extra input methods - when a tablet is used, your hands are in a position that only the touchsceen can be used effectively and your other appendages are not that useful for input.

So either we figure out how to make touchscreen+voice to work effectively for content creation, or we'll have to use something other than a tablet experience for that.
This will keep happening. The same way parallax sites were hip for a while. The same way everyone turned to flat UI, or how we made "painting x" with CSS alone.

And thanks to these patterns, every now and then, we get an awesome HN Parody site.

What a wonderful herd.
>> Crucially, for half of them he preceded his request with the superfluous apology: "I'm sorry about the rain!" The other half of the time he just came straight out with his request: "Can I borrow your cell phone?"

Couldn't it just be the chit-chat? I mean "Hey, how are you? Can I borrow your phone" versus "Can I borrow your phone", would probably give better results too :-/?
What kind of project was it that both Lua and Rust were in the running? Those are pretty much on opposite ends of spectrum, at least the spectrum of imperative languages with functional parts.
The organic results are a list of sofa vendors, each with pretty boring text descriptions like "we offer great sofas at great prices and with up to 4 years interest free credit available, there has never been a better time to buy!
‎Fabric Sofas - ‎Famous Brands - ‎Leather Sofas - ‎Carpets". Similarly on Bing and DDG. There is not much to choose between them.

A page full of blah blah sofas is not very helpful if I'm looking to buy a sofa.

To me it seems actually more useful (and attractive) to show
photos, prices and filters in the "Shopping" results seem actually much more attractive and useful, or a map, or some kind of ratings.
G-Sync syncs the monitors refresh rate with the FPS your graphics card is feeding the monitor - thus removing screen tearing and other anomalies that happen when the refresh rates are out of sync.

It doesn't make a difference if your card is renderring at 60 fps with out a hitch, but you can see the difference when the fps drop to 50 or 40. Check out this video: http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/18/nvidia-g-sync/
The key reasons they got an interview (and accepted).

-The application was concise.
-They seem to understand the hurdles ahead, had a plan.
-Founders have been friends a VERY long time. This removes a lot of risk since startups die when founders don't get along.
-Little bit a domain experience.
Could this be integrated into future versions of Nvidia's mobile gaming device?
the point is that refresh rate is kept equal to gpu frame rate, so there's no need for vsync. this results in less display lag without mid-frame tearing, basically best of both worlds.
Exactly. I worked at a defense contractor for a long time, on language training software. I've never felt the need to defend myself despite having a strong antiwar stance.

We need a strong military - we just need to stop going to war at the drop of a hat.
Is the "useless" apology doing the job or did it work as an icebreaker ?

I remember old studies which said you have far more chance getting 20 cents asking for the time first.
10 second limit is up. Next resume.
Concrete5 CMS has been doing a good job with blocks for years.
Well, for USA there are only two possible kinds of war opponents - guerilla warfare or countries that have also nukes; and you're not that likely to use ships like the one described for Afganistan. The only combat use for the ship is against nuke-capable opponents, and MAD is not an excuse to build military systems that won't function in any serious war with the intended enemies.
Nexus 5 quietly appears at Google Play for $349
How about a tiling manager like i3 or awesome?
1 MVP, 1 A/B Test: Every MVP Needs an A/B Test, Like a Sniper Shot Needs a Kill
It is worth noting that people who do not have 8,000 blog subscribers or 10k twitter followers have used essentially the same playbook and made significant amounts of money doing so. Take Nathan Barry or Brennan Dunn, for example. I think some HNers know who they are these days, but a year ago, "nobody" knew them, and they both have published stats in the mid five figures for their first books.

Also, if you're savvy about things, the "$ per audience member" has enough dynamic range in it such that it makes up for a smaller audience size. "Revenue divided by Twitter followers" strikes me as a pretty silly metric, but if we accept it as a rough test of the proposition "Being Internet famous means you make mad bank, conversely, there is no profit without Internet fame", I have personal knowledge of enough data points to say that that metric has greater than X to 100X dynamic range.
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To me, there are few things more infuriating than a Comcast representative saying something like, "Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that. I would also be frustrated if my cable modem were not acquiring a signal." This type of "empathy" has disillusioned me from most empathy used in customer support.
It's a genuine shame to destroy submissions that don't include vital context in their titles because they weren't written for external sites, and to make it impossible to submit and discuss why something is interesting or highlight part of an article rather than whatever the title spotlights.

Text submissions with a link in the comments might be a nice solution for people who don't want to contribute to what is essentially a manual RSS reader.
I apologize for things out of my control fairly frequently as a way of displaying (genuine) empathy for people in bad situations. Not so much for superficial things like everyday rain but say if someone is looking forward to an interview and doesn't get the job, I'll say something like "Sorry you didn't get the job".

I don't do this to build trust, but I guess it makes some sort of sense that if someone displays a consistent level of empathy towards the problems of others it would make them more trustworthy in general compared to someone who doesn't.
If you just type "sofa", the most logical assumption is, you're trying to buy one. Here's what I got, searching for "sofa" from a WAN address in the Boston area:

http://goo.gl/QuLvsD

Lots of ads, and the organic results are also mostly sellers, essentially free ads.

However, the results change radically, and the ad density drops, as you add qualifying keywords, e.g., "sofa kinds", "sofa quality", "sofa donation", "sofa wiki", etc. I would judge Google's results as top-notch.
IndieGoGo doesn't seem to have such a limitation. You can double-check me:
http://www.indiegogo.com/about/terms
Or, along those lines but less world-dominating, "Sorry for [choosing a time and location for our meeting that resulted in exposing you to] the rain."

Same point, though. The superfluous apology lends an implied sense of influence and responsibility.
What's with all the buzzwords? That's not out of the box thinking!
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Richard Branson Shares Letter He Wrote to 12-Year-Old Fan About Keys to Success
That's fair.

I'll do better.
So, I'm not sure either, but I think the AUFS addition makes images easier to sync between machines?

That is, say I start with an Ubuntu image. Then I run an application on it on a Docker cloud. Then I install Python 3.0 and NumPy on it and take a snapshot. And then I want to run the new app with these libraries. I think when you deploy, or when images are being sync'd to machines, they can use the differential compression based on AUFS snapshots. So instead of transferring 300 MB, maybe you will only transfer 30 MB.

That would seem logical based on what I've read. But I have never actually gotten Docker to work, so I don't know. Would appreciate any comments on this.
Any benefit if your game is rendering 120fps and your monitor is doing 120hz? Even though they're the same speed they're not necessarily in sync?
Finalterm - modern terminal done right
Google places API makes my customers happy!
Do you/did you receive traffic from DDG? Because DDG uses Yandex for [some] organic search results and if you block its spider you will also partially block DDG.
I get one ad there. The first organic result is the Sony homepage. The second is the wikipedia page.

Seems pretty reasonable.
Has anyone integrated this into their project yet? Would be great to see examples of it working well.