skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From http://docs.datomic.com/architecture.html

"A Peer is a process that manipulates a database using the Datomic Peer library. Any process can be a Peer - from Web server processes that host sites or services, to a daemon, GUI application or command-line tool. The Datomic-specific application code you write runs in your Peer(s)."
It's a dealer referral service.

Call me when I can do a one-click buy with car delivered to house, from Amazon.
Thank you. Stack Overflow is like the wikipedia of tech knowledge.
It started out in print, founded back in the late '80s by a couple of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They were smart and jumped on the web very early (the mid-90s), which helped them build a national audience instead of just a local upper-Midwest one.
Perspective from David Foster Wallace - "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise". Also known as "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".

[pdf] http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazin...

However, I don't think this (somewhat critical) article should deter any would-be cruise goers, especially if you have work to engage you during the time.
1) In this case the cruise company was at fault, so that is why they went into "don't get sued" mode. No need rely on a stereotype here.

2) I'm not an American but I think your legal system is very good and many objective people do too: http://www.quora.com/Litigation-and-Lawsuits/Why-are-America...

3) I'd recommend anyone to watch Hot Coffee [1] which documents the lobbying and spin that encourages American citizens to think there is a problem with "frivolous lawsuits"

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445203/
Bingo! I have seen the smartest engineers (Princeton PhD in one case) rot in bad environments and mediocre engineers provide solid contributions in strong, engineering focused environments. I have rarely come across an engineer that doesn't want to build great products. If you want to suck the energy and enthusiasm out of team, add in weekly 120min planning meetings, required daily progress reports, and 4-5 product pivots.
The word "Cards" from the title in the page is almost hidden in (my) Chrome
Good essay about this in the Atlantic recently.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/the-surv...
Yep. RCL.
Really! I thought it had gone out of print years ago. Thanks for the correction.
Isn't it amazing how credit companies manage risk so well?
You're not creating anything though. If you print money, you're just devaluing all the current money, and stealing from people who already have money.

I'm not convinced twitter has created anything really valuable. Or anything that will be around in 5/10 years time.
You could go another level meta, and compress the location of the actual data in π by finding the location of the location in π.
That's a great idea for startup, would require tons of capital though. Not to even mention fight the dinosaur model of car dealerships.
I've been impressed with Postgres, and still have a sour taste in my mouth over MySql's sale to Oracle. So why would I want to use MariaDB over Postgres? Is there a compelling reason to give it a look?
Yea, I just got a email from Amazon asking "Why I didn't
use the video service." Why--because I already watch the boob tube too much. Jobs summed it up--stick with three
things and do them well.
Whenever I'm in Santa Cruz I pick up a copy of "Comic News" - they typically are in a newsrack machine with a broken coin mechanism. (There's a hole that you put your $1/copy into, honor system.)

http://thecomicnews.com

There is absolutely nothing like print for some things...
Charging the customer extra when there's not enough supply is inefficient and leaves money on the table. They just end up selling less electricity. In fact, they're depending on it to stop their grid from crashing. In general, raising prices in response to demand spikes is always worse than just increasing supply to meet it (assuming you can) because of demand elasticity. Having the customers all buy batteries fixes that, but in practice I don't see how it can be very efficient to have your customers tackle your supply problem one-by-one. It would make more sense to just charge some sort of premium to exempt them from high-demand-time surcharges. Would cover the battery cost and prevent the market distortion.

Look at it from the top down: would electrical companies rather be able to meet the full demand for electricity or not? Clearly, they would. Otherwise, why make electricity at all?

I'm not an economist, so I'd be happy for someone to take that apart. One objection is that this charge-more scheme allows the power company to price discriminate against customers who are less price sensitive (like hotels, who just need AC), but...well, I need to be convinced.
I'm willing to invest if you have patents.
> are you planning to ever have the ability to use a single Dockerfile to deploy an application which may contain multiple images (with links between them)?

Yes, definitely :)
You'll be able to read it when it's presented to the Senate for ratification. There seems to be some notion that the Senate is going to vote on it in secret, but I don't find any evidence of this being the case.
Keep reading... he suggests just that :)
Very much one of the biggest draws in my opinion, as I've been using Datomic in production for several months. We're a clojure shop and one of the things I've been working on recently is developing a library for parsing/storing/querying all of clojure's data structures into datoms. I hope I get to open source it :)
Anything that doesn't shatter your godlike image of Elon Musk, eh?
1. There is no proof that pi is a normal number.
2. The index of the position takes up space.
really, I was voted down for this?
Talking with YC Alum and ZeroCater Founder Arram Sabeti
Why your business needs an iPhone app
Feels like an artificial beta restriction to me. Also, it's branded "Amazon Analytics Service", not "Mobile Analytics".

I suspect it's only a matter of time before they branch out and take on GA.
This is the standard for (good) coaches too regarding teams winning or losing.
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1. If everyone uses this algorithm maybe we'll find out if pi is normal or not!

2. Shhh don't let the pie hear you.
First order of business is letting go of tribalism and associated cronyism. Along with that we can help them with know how and some funding.

The largest hurdle imho is that everything needs to be done from the ground up. You cannot rely on their leaders to do any good as they are all pretty messed up. Todays leaders need to be slowly replaced with more competent and ethical people. Which is obviously super hard as the talent pool is pretty shallow in this day and age.
Just checked it out. It's missing funnel tracking, which is a glaring hole for any analytics service.
Scaling is not domain complexity. Scaling may require significant technical expertise, but it's a safe problem: you only do it when you need to, which implies traction.
However, the distinction between "aesthetic" and "design" is once again subjective.
As an employee of Google, you should realize you're in a groupthink environment. I absolutely despise the new Google+ change. The top comment on the most recent video I watched was a Google+ comment consisting of the title of the video plus ten hashtags. That was it. The other Google+ comments were similarly horrible and content-free.

At least with the previous implementation, you'd get a top comment that made you laugh once in awhile.
For political leverage
This is the Elizabeth Warren that claimed to be native American?
Awaiting the project release:

https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS
I was late to read that when I read it in 1984!
the modern equivalent of the book is "Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi"
If anyone's interested, I wrote up a tangentially similar project last year. It was a fun use an afternoon ;)

http://e1ven.github.io/HaShrink/
This is why datomic's query magic is in it's indexes.
Sorry if it wasn't more clear. This is a completely new product built from ground up, new backend, new servers, new user tables, entirely new front-end, new features and functionality. The only thing that remains is the brand and the ultimate goal to connect people offline. I figured "Show HN" made sense because it's something we just made and went live with for the first time less than 24 hours ago and I wanted to show it to the HN community.
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I think the author is making it a bigger deal than it really is, nothing stops google from bringing down the google plus or any other service he might be using(just like google reader or wave) so according to his logic (printed on business card etc...) you can't even have a long unfriendly URL because google can shut down google plus any day they want to or just start charging people.
It's not a good compression algorithm because the offset into pi will require more digits to represent than the data you are trying to compress in the first place. Quite a lot more considering the law of big numbers. So ultimately this algorithm is going to expand the size of your data by some enormous factor.
The patent is already written, but I can't tell you the offset.
neither my co-founder nor I have kids. so it could work out well. not every technique has to work for everyone.

Some startups demand you travel for 2 weeks a year for "hackathons" in remote locations. I don't see the difference.
Please note that Datomic's architecture is substantially different than most traditional triple stores so I don't think it is useful to extrapolate performance for one from the other.
which movie version? (there are many)
Very nice!

I think we should have more April Fools along the year.
My favorite "project" so far is still RFC2549.
Gnome isn't abandoned, but it took a controversial UI direction, much like Win 8.

On Linux at least we have choice.
I think this behavior is created by the fundraising process as we know it. From angels to VCs to YC everybody focus on the team to decide wheter to invest or not.

The CEO is supposed to be inspiring leader and a good teamworker, if he praises the CTO as a genius he is perceived as both, with the plus that, if he is a good salesman, the investors believe that the CTO is a genius. So there it is, the startup dream team, a inspiring leader and a tech genius, the next Jobs+Woz.

And the best performances are usually of those who actually believe in it, so no surprise that after a few years successfully saying that, they start to believe in it.
I heard a story about a year ago of someone making a site online to see if this was viable. People ordered cars, and they would get them from the dealership and truck them to the house.

It wasn't a scalable implementation, but they were just trying to determine if a market even existed -- and it did.
"Petrol is way safer"

Specially when you add lead to it.
So store the reference table on a server in a friendlier jurisdiction ;-).
The Web Setup: Divshot
Apart from all the other problems with QR codes, the
tombstoning case (one of the failures here) is important in reality.

Without that, you have to awkwardly scan from exactly the correct direction.

The thing is, you surely could correct for that(?)
Well, in my experience managing my own software company(I guess I am CEO but I did code a lot in the early days so I know what it is) it is not so much about the quality of the people.

The quality is something very important when your company is made by two developers. When you go up from this, you have lots of interactions and complexity.

You have love, hatred, you have admiration and envies, you have people that need money or need time to see their family. You have people that is afraid of their own mediocrity that try to protect their knowledge or "own" part of the company(fiefdoms).

You have people in some areas fight against others(marketing or sales vs it), you have different personality types that don't understand each other.

If you get all this right, life becomes easier and you have time for writing in HN, or kissing your kids, because it is a fantastic machine that works alone, and yes your tech people will kick ass.

Get this wrong, and most people do it not wrong, terribly wrong, and life is hell(I know because as a geek I did terribly wrong in the past).

If the best engineer does not sleep, you have a sh*t engineer(Chernobyl).
Small fun bug: if you click twice on an item, the description at the bottom shows 'git null' :)
I'm not sure just from that screenshot that there is any real dynamic lighting/normal mapping. It's surprisingly difficult to tell, but I think they might have just blended radial gradient over the top of a darkened level background. That it is so difficult to tell is probably a testament to how well they've applied that effect!
He is clearly a mistake. In the consumer space it is always innovate or die. For PCs people buy Windows because they are cheaper than Macs and linux is a nonstarter. Chromebooks are the new ultra low end. For Tablets: Apple is the high end, Android is the low end. Kindle Fires are niche, and everything else is basically worthless.

In the business space they need to counter the cloud and APIization of the market. They need to make it simpler, integrated and more effective on Windows devices. And they need to target small businesses. The need to cloudize workgroups/domains and make it simpler.

The rest of the cloud market being built on linux/open source and relies on web browser standards to achieve cross platform penetration. But in the current reality, Windows PCs and iPads are all that matter.
This calculation should include the probability of various events interfering/participating in the process of drawing the word : wind, rain, gravitational flux, novas, sudden muscular spasms, moods, random compelling thoughts, etc.

I guess the first component in any "realistic" model is what to ignore.
The main stronghold of MariaDB is the drop in replacement for MySQL. If you already have a well established web app and you are planning on get off the clutches of Oracle, MariaDB is your easy choice. You don't have to make substantial changes or worry about breaking any existing functionality. As for performance, can someone who have used both comment on it? Also anyone knows if any exciting changes coming to MYSQL? Can't believe MySQL still doesn't have support for Json.
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Who are these mystical dev-fairies pulling in such salaries? Which sectors? Positions? Companies? I've had my fair share of jobs and I've never run into anyone who made that much as a developer. I'm talking strictly developer, not a PM, not a director.

What kind of people make this money?
Decide that "I am the best in the world" is true.

Then ask yourself what to do next.

Hint. Work damned hard for 30 years, focused on your skill.
You Might Be Sick of These ViralNova and UpWorthy Article Titles, But Not as Sick of Them as You Will Be After Reading This One
Get started; it takes time to acquire experience.
I buy and read a lot of programming books. For me reading books helps. I have a conscious plan about what I am trying to learn and using books is the fastest way to get there. It is true that there is nothing written in any programming book that I couldn't find on the online. The advantage of books over reading online documentation and blog articles is someone has curated and edited the content for me. I can sit down and start reading instead of spending a bunch of time googling things to figure out whats next.

One of the things I usually do is immersing myself in a topic. Buying a couple of books on a subject and going from one to the next. Starting with a more intro book and progressing to more advanced materials creates a very natural feeling learning curve. Since starting this my overall retention has improved greatly.

In-between the immersion cycles I read more general CS type books. It creates a nice mix of topical knowledge and theoretical knowledge.

Frameworks change at a much more rapid pace than the underlying languages. With ebooks you can usually find more up to date content than buying print books. Looking at the published date before buying is important. In the python space there are a lot of current books on interesting topics. There does seem to be a serious lack of Django titles that are current.

I buy most of my books directly from the publishers websites. Between informit.com and orally.com there is always some sort of 50% off ebooks sale going on. I have bought ~45 books this year and paid full price for 3 or 4 of them.
No, the whole YouTube thing. Having a channel, unchecking a bunch of boxes and worrying about extra policies - having an extra Google+ page with its own Talk address and inbox, in addition to the channel's inbox, etc. I just realized I don't use it, probably won't ever, and it'll only keep trying to get me to connect via other means, so I thought I'd nip it in the bud.
Linux Mint also uses Mate.

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366

Cinnamon is listed first, but Mate is much more of an equal player here than something like xubuntu is compared to ubuntu.
Prime eligible with $3.99 for 1-day?
I say "what what?" in the cloud.
Seamless. I'm not using stored procedures, views, etc., but for some simple InnoDB databases, MariaDB was a drop-in replacement. The command line tools are even still called mysql.
Is there a movie based on the notion that anything that happens when you carry a cup of hot coffee in a motor vehicle is automatically your fault, and that 1000 burn injuries is no big deal when n >> 1000000000 cups served? I'd be more interested in watching that one, I think.
I'm pretty radical when it comes to "intellectual property". As far as I'm concerned copyright and patents are both a matter of appropriating centuries of collective public property. Nobody invents anything from scratch.

But I don't see anything wrong with protecting a trademark, within reason.
http://iosdevelopertips.com has some useful stuff too.
I suspect this may be an example of Mr Hess's sense of humour.

Which I appreciate by the way.
similarly, we could just store files as pointers to books in the Library of Babel ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel ) - since there are books there that have the base64 encoded versions of your files as well
I have to press the back button several times to get off of this site (after clicking on this site several times). Each time I press the back button, I am given no visual feedback from the site (unlike on wikipedia, where I am scrolled through the page as I press "back"). This page certainly does break the back button.
Why wasn't it scalable?
If only this also replaced Mir with Wayland, upstart with systemd, and Unity with Gnome.
> unless you're willing to make solving those problems one of your core competencies...

"Unless you're willing to solve hard problems, don't try solving hard problems"?
I think if the project is contributed to open source and is independent of what both company does then this can work out.
I'm not sure the objections are petty. Reading down them, I get the impression of a lot of people who managers have categorised as "that guy" feeling even more disempowered by this article.

Now two things (amongst others) could be true here:

1. They are "that guy," and should learn not to be captious.

or possibly:

2. The article is a salvo in an ongoing workplace politics issue in which one side just wants to get work done without having to face objections or think deeply about them.

My own impression is that the first part of the article is exactly correct - there are some people who do ask irrelevant objections.

I'm not so sure about the second part: "you know them when you hear them."

I think, reading through the objections here, that the art of knowing whether an objection is petty may well be a skill that some managers just don't have.

I think also that a lot of managers feel very strongly that they have that skill.

Hence, one way of reading this thread is not as a set of petty objections to the article, but as a set of emotional responses from people who already feel put down.
Norovirus by itself is enough to keep me off cruise ships. http://www.cdc.gov/features/norovirus/
It can be much cheaper than that to get cargo ship carriage:

http://www.flightlesstravel.com/plan/cargo-ships/
One potential solution could be to adopt a UK-esque legal process whereby the loser of a tort suit pays the legal fees. If you risk paying huge legal bills by filing a lawsuit, you'll be less likely to do so unless the case is a slam dunk.
True, I didn't mean literally a novel, just that it reads like one (as opposed to a self-help book). I thoroughly enjoyed it, I quite like some of Strauss' other books too.
AngularJS 1.2 is out
Why the phone verification is required to claim a custom URL? Custom URL is a poor incentive to provide Google your phone number.
I would imagine it's a huge market. Just imagine it- you go to a website, pick out a car you actually want, customize the features there, and then get an actual price. Now compare that to going to a dealer, selecting from what they have, and haggling over the price. Buying cars now is a painful experience.
Thanks for number 1. I read that box several times over and just assumed it was a header. I never saw the cursor blinking until you told me I could type there.
I just bought the Chris Hadfield book "An astronaut's guide to life on Earth" :)
I am not from India, so someone can confirm or deny this, but I hear one can pass a whole day on India just consuming Tata products: from your car, to your food, to your clothes, etc.
So does viralnova just steal other people's content and post it as its own?
1. Well, here's to hoping.

2. He addressed this - you store the index in pi as well. If the index of the index is too big, you can store that too... indices all the way down!
Struggled with that too. Decided to lock rotation to λ,φ only and rotate with alt key, since it's pretty uncommon.

I should consider revisiting my project from earlier this year and implementing the described approach with versors from your example to simulate plate movement.

http://mxfh.github.io/d3canvasglobes/

(right now the mouse mapping behaves quite odd with rotated views)
Coders are the construction workers of the computer world. Software Engineers are the Architects of the computer world.
Have been cruising with them for over 15 years. Have a love/hate relationship with them (also, several of my friends work onboard a variety of their ships in the entertainment tech department).
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Earlier this year I wrote about how shrinking my business size down to one (me) allows me to work from trains. Specifically, I wrote that post while on board VIA Rail's The Canadian, which goes to/from Toronto to Vancouver in four days. It was awesome, and if you know where to look, these trips are always 50% off.

http://hackertourism.com/growing-by-shrinking
If humans were still around after being sent back to the stone age (without 100% infrastructure destruction), how long would it take to figure out how to generate enough power to boot a computer? I would hope that there are enough humans who know what electricity is even at a basic level to be able to get some generators running within a couple of years. Even still, there should still be a few power sources left that would just require fuel and the flip of a switch.

If it's catastrophic enough that the event destroys all of our computers and generators forever, I would be doubtful that humans would still be around in any capacity where knowledge would be an important factor.
what is the process for this? do you have to wait till they approach you or is there an online application?