skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (map eli5 (acronym-expand "ACID"))

Atomic: Transactions are all-or-nothing. You never see half of a transaction. You either get the world before the transaction, or after it.

Consistent: The before and after worlds are always valid, never corrupt.

Isolated: From the outside, it appears that transactions occur one-after-another, never overlapping in time. In Datomic, this is actually the case: Transactions are fully serialized.

Durability: If a transaction succeeds, you can be confident that the consistent "after" world is safely on disk.
We can just push him there again when he launches it ;)
To your search box point, the search box is to move Ubuntu to the mobile and to the online market just like Android, Apple and even FxOS have a search box directly to either Google search or app search (FxOS does app search of course).

The point is they try to move away from "browser search" to "Oh I need something quickly and I just need to press ctrl/command-F search this". If they do have a button to disable the feature (and assuming they do this properly) there is no violation of privacy. Of course I am sure I would be much happier to opt-out during installation process. That's a topic you have to raise to ubuntu dev. With enough people say fu they will introduce this opt-out.
I'm pretty sure it's the other way around: he wouldn't be launching a cruise deal aggregator site if he weren't so gung ho about working on cruise ships. http://tynan.com/cruisesheet
Linux 3.12 - list of changes
They didn't happen at the same time and it wasn't an official warning. I just get a sense of them wanting me to work more hours and maybe let my wife take care of the kids (she works in the same industry and gets the same pressure). I think they know better than to just say it bluntly, but they are applying social pressure to which I am completely immune. My wife once got a blunt "your kids are preventing you from working the requisite 70 hours" speech from a "friend" who hired her with the promise of being family-friendly. She quit the next day.
Hey, have you tried some of the catfood that's available in stores these days? A couple of cans of Nature's Best, and not only are you ready to code for hours, but your coat will be shinier and you're less likely to develop a urinary tract infection.
Facebook down
The webpage is down!
I know of at least one shop that does most of their work offline and keeps a local SO cache for exactly this purpose.
/me wonders if some high ranking party official bought a lot of btc and is using his nation to pump a bubble...
Can you ramble about how datomic is from ops perspective for a moment if you will? thanks
Yeah I don't want to get too venty because I'm too cynical/pessimistic as it is but..... I'm a professional web engineer now & especially as the cloud hosting universe stabilizes, most stuff seems so trivial. Can still be interesting, but yeah most startup level stuff is solved.

Previously I completed a master's thesis on audio signal processing / machine learning. Trust me, the work I was doing in that world was 1000x more advanced because it was essentially ALL r&d, but you get paid more in today's world to implement CRUD sites at an acceptable flow rate. It's a good way to sharpen some CS skills I was missing, but I think algorithmic development is much more of a dream job.
How The NSA Is Recruiting The Next Generation Of Cyber-Spies
trackball is what I've been using. Trackball vs turntable is a bit of a religious battle in certain 3d modelling circles.
Fraternity Pledge Loses Testicle in Hazing Ritual,
Cotton Bureau shirts are really high quality, was surprised by that.
Well, it made me giggle.
This is the way it should be. There should be a forum that's half HN and half non-geek business skills/ideas.
> There are a lot of other analyses that clang does for you. If you clone the clang repository and go to lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers, you’ll see all the static checkers.

You can get a list of these from clang with `clang -cc1 -analyzer-checker-help`

Looks like this http://pastie.org/pastes/8466312/text
Lego Launches Toys More Complex Than Blocks, Fit for Digital Age
Does the Datomic Console app count against the 2 peer limit when running?
Well if BTC has a .01% chance to replace USD, the Euro has at least a .005% chance to replace the USD
100% Compression Using Pi
Don't Freak Out, but the First 3D-Printed Metal Gun Totally Works
Most of the browsers on Windows are still 32-bit, and knowing how much memory Maya/MotionBuilder can take, especially with next-gen console looking stuff - it makes me wonder how would that work?

I know the solution is to install 64-bit browser, but that doesn't seem to be the default for most of the popular browser on 64-bit Windows machines (or maybe other os's too)
Maximum monetary contributions to a political party in Canada is only a fraction of what it is in the US (1200$ max). Also it is impossible for a corporation to donate directly. This reduce lobbying to diner parties and yacht rides.

My guess is that lobbying is less intensive in Canada than in the US because it is very difficult to do legally. I watch a commission in Quebec about the alleged local corruption and I am stunned to see that most of what is at stake there would be absolutely legal in the US.
My recommendation is always just to read Pro Git from cover to cover.
I think it's pretty disingenuous to compare The Onion to the Chive and the Oatmeal, with which it has almost nothing in common, and say they're "going out with a whimper." 20 years ago, newspapers were how people got their news, so the Onion imitated it. Now, people get their news via the web and cable news channels, both of which they are also imitating. They've shifted their priorities away from your preferences — that's not the same as surrendering.
I use Roon myself (blog.atommorgan.com) and have had nothing but a positive experience. They've always replied to me on Twitter and my entire experience has been near flawless. Very easy to use and I think it looks great. It's nice to hear that they plan on staying free too. This was probably the main reason I chose Roon over Posthaven (even if I have to pay for add-ons).
Appointmind Version 5.9.0 released
also, the contrary is also kind of true - they say that no matter what they tell you, it's a people problem.
I shared the room with a guy I met earlier this year at MicroConf (another great conference). I think Rob Walling or Mike Taber put us in touch.
> a lot of it revolves around speculation

Pretty much all of it. People in Shanghai, for example, use properties as a cash-storage mechanism, thinking it more secure than a CD.

This is all going to end badly.
Mindstorms is at least 10 years old.
Debugging the RFID Module: Hardware Debugging Saga
>There is no reason whatsoever for me to expect the Unity Dash search to return results from the Internet, just like I wouldn't expect the search box in Windows 7 Start Menu to do so.

This is the default behavior in W8.1, however.
Video: International Robot Exhibition 2013
As an author of a Git GUI, I've thought about this problem a lot. git-cola is quite user friendly, but its target audience is specifically power users (I wrote it for myself). I don't like dumbing things down for new users.

If you think about it -- targeting new users is not the ideal for a maker-centric tool. A master chef uses the sharpest knife around. The new chef is only new for so long before he graduates up.
Blockbuster Didn't Have To Die. This Video Rental Company Proves It
Their videos are great, especially their series genre parodies. Sex House and Onion Talks are my favorites. Their brand of surreal/sardonic humor translates well to television.
Those with money do. (Often through BVI shell companies).
Why do Balaji Srinivasan and his admirers seem to share so much in common with Tea Partiers? At least the small government crowd (seems) to stand on principle, rather than just angle for new ways to make money. Don't try to weasel your way out of paying taxes.
Trivial is not necessarily the opposite of difficult though. Solving an easy but non-trivial problem can be done with average engineers, if you a sufficient number of them to get the work done.

This is what happens when a company hires genuinely exceptional people to do easy but non-trivial work:

http://www.quora.com/Working-at-Google-1/Whats-the-worst-par...
Show HN: Instantly run commands in the cloud using Docker
Fair point.

But if you Share with a Community, and the people comment on the video, it would work.

Insert clever emoticon which indicates shrugging.

I'm frankly stunned to see people complaining about the death of the previous YouTube comment system. Remember that one insightful, helpful, or funny YouTube comment that you saw that one time? Me, either.
Datomic is a very cool project, but it's worth being aware that triple stores generally exhibit significantly worse performance than relational DBs for most query workloads. For non-huge projects they're perfectly capable though, and do offer some flexibility benefits.
Thanks for the reference. The site looks like a promising place to connect with a business co-founder.
China. Some have noted that the rate just crossed ¥2000.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/08/from-walm...
Ask HN: I built Autocomplete for Gmail extension, now what? 
So I built this tool that I thought would be useful for people who use email frequently (think Sales people, marketers, lawyers, etc).
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autocomplete-for-gmail/moakamdcggbilpgbgoghnnfecmcmcocb

I launched it on the Chrome Web Store and I have around 33 weekly users, with 150 impressions every day. Any idea on how to get higher up ranking on the Web Store or just general feedback on the extension?
A variant, which is more interesting to think about:

Could a single average programmer, starting today with cloud technology available today, build a Twitter clone in 7 years if he would get the current +200M users at the same pace as the original Twitter got? Twitter clone here meaning a replica of Twitter 2013, with all supporting functionality (ad management etc.).

I say no, (s)he wouldn't be able to build it.
I almost claimed a custom URL yesterday when I was writing up the YouTube comment change and in the process updating my G+ profile. They wanted my number to claim it, which I believe they already have for 2-factor on Gmail. In the end the whole process with YouTube was so galling that I just deleted my whole account. As OP notes, it's not like Google+ was the first place people would look for me, and it's not a useful resource for me, so why have it at all?
Angular.js with Django
"We have just as many MPs as the US has senators and a tenth of the population."

wikipedia says Canada has 308 MPs and 108 senators; and the US has 2 senators per state and 50 states so 100 senators. US House has 435 reps.

Still a good point re: population per representative
This is really nice, I just found an awesome deal! Too bad the listed cruises are only for United Statians, and I couldn't book a cruise when I clicked on the link, because they only accept bookings from United Statians. Fixed it by just visiting the website of Holland America Line, from there I can book it. But it would be much nicer if I could just purchase it from your link. I assume you'd also get a commission for it.

It would also be nice of there would be some pictures of the cruise or the cruise ship. Anyway, bookmarked this, will come in handy :)
Yes, why is this not mentioned more prominently?
The Game isn't a novel, it's an account of the author's experience in the so-called seduction community. It's arguable as to whether you could learn how to "pick up" women from it, whatever that means. (it's not an instruction manual) It is a decent read though, Strauss is a talented author.
Yeah this kind !
But you know I also listen to video games music or series OST (Wow, Game of Thrones, etc..)
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
I was wondering what this post could be about when I read the title and was pleasantly surprised when I clicked on it. It gave me a good laugh - we'll done OP.
It took me about 30 seconds to figure out what your product does. You might want to move the bit about your partners to the bottom of the homepage and the stuff about the product and its features to the top of the page. I don't really care about your partners if I don't even know what you do in the first place. Good luck.
Why would China not like bitcoin? They can

- track all financial transactions by all people to find dissidents and find NGO funding sources

- throw 10% of a datacenter at it whenever they feel like it and pull off a 51% attack

- lock up a huge number of bitcoins via the above point
Because the entire input to my brain is owned by me, once it's recombined with all the stuff that's already there. And that input is significantly higher than it would be if I were contracting or working for a small startup. There is value in working in a really big pond, with some of the best in the world, on a variety of projects that are all pushing the cutting edge of what's possible in their fields. If I ever leave Google, I'll have this toolbox of techniques that'll make me much more effective than the other folks in the startup melting pot. Think of it as a very practical grad school education where they pay me a bunch of money and I get hands-on experience instead of boring classwork.

I do have a "own time/own materials/not along the lines of business" exception, but the problem is that Google is in so many lines of business that that could be construed to apply to everything.
does depth map = bump map here? are you treating each pixel as a depth or each pixel as a quad with its boundary points recorded in a depth map? it seems like the latter might be better because you get the norm of the pixel for stronger lighting calculations.
no. sorry. is on.
Beautiful, but the article fails in delivering the actual coordinates:

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=UTA+Flight+772+Memori...
Genious
I actually do do that almost always. Habit started with books actually. Exactly true as far as learning and retention.

Noting even that when learning php somethings that I cut and pasted had weird invisible embedded characters that caused things to fail [1]. That was actually a pretty good learning experience trying to take something that appeared correct character by character and figure out why it wasn't working by stripping things down the the basics.

[1] Might have been on w3schools or something like that.
Yup, I was floored when the waitress at the Marigold Kitchen downtown brought me my meal and a copy of the Onion!
Square is discontinuing monthly pricing on February 1, 2014
The "Round Trips" don't say where they go and all the links on the right don't work for me.
I don't understand why they call it "custom". More like "assigned".
I propose that we refer to Ubuntu as Voldemort from now on.
> All possible finite files must exist within π.
> The first record of this observation dates back to 2001.

I'm surprised to hear this, since I had a buddy in high school in the early 90s who insisted on the same thing. Even then I could see the problem was storing the offset & length of the desired sequence would be worse than storing the sequence itself. This friend was brilliant, but he had a history of crazy half-joking ideas. He insisted the natural numbers don't exist, since you have to cross an infinite range of real numbers to get from 0 to 1.
Scalable Commutativity: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors
AngularJS 1.2.0: timely-delivery
Amazon is selling Cars
I'm not at all a G+ fan, and yet I wholeheartedly support Google's decision to require it for YouTube comments. There is no single policy they could've enacted to improve the quality of their comment cespool, and I feel that the people complaining about it the loudest were likely part of the problem.
Deleting your account was less galling than using your phone number to confirm your identity? Hm.
Print version?!? Wow - who knew. I guess Chicagoans.
At this point, I'm worried that stock manipulators could be setting Tesla fires.
So exciting. Great work guys :)
What would be your first step of doing something the best in the World?
> at least 20-30GB of space

What would be good would be if there was an easy way to filter the local database for specific tags before putting it on the phone.
Panayotis, you spelled the word "intellectual" wrong on your homepage.
Wow that's really impressive!
It's always wonderful to see solid implementations of really terrible ideas.
This is weird. I could suggest a custom URL typing it myself. The form said that it would be reviewed but it got approved straight away.

May be is because I just used Google's suggestion but removing the accent in my surname (I don't like them in an URL, and besides is the same thing I use in LinkedIn).

That was 9 days ago.
In order to gauge interest on HN you will need to tell them the price -- setup and annual maintenance.

Then compute the estimated tax savings. "Savings" means the present value of a deferred tax liability. Until the tax deferral is large this value is not worth chasing. Especially since the true cost is not in the money. It is the distraction to management.

It's a good idea. But compute the cost/benefit.

Disclaimer. I am an international tax lawyer. I fix these things when people fuck 'em up because they don't spend money on the maintenance.

Further. I really like the idea though. Much of the bespoke international tax stuff can be standardized and product-ized. If you pursue this idea do your analysis assuming setup costs are zero. They won't be but try it out. Assign all of the costs to annual maintenance. Assign a price to the penalty risks if the maintenance fails. See where your break even is. My guess is you won't bother until the foreign income generates US net (of foreign tax credit) tax liabilities of a couple of million a year.

Another idea -- offshore structures in a box for holding IP, especially IP under development.

Hold on. I'm at Chipolte. Must run to register internationaltaxlawyerinabox.com. :-)
Phosphorus - Intelligent Lightning Fast Redis storage for JS.
Ca you fix it, please?
Honest question: are these terms of service significantly different than other services? Do Twitter / Github / etc have similar terms?
It's just a matter of time before someone starts a service to print out all of these online-only sites so you don't have to read them on a screen.
meh, he's quite clearly drawing attention +by+ suggesting it.
On my nexus 4 I managed to scan the giant QR code... except for it was read a serial code instead lol
You're being generous about it being laziness. I'm blaming my own on old age. :-)

But seriously, there are pros and cons with this. On the one hand, by outsourcing certain aspects of memory, we can hold much more. It's kind of like learning to call APIs rather than re-writing everything from scratch. On the other hand, I believe that instant recall has it's advantages. (I think our generation can do math approximations in our head faster than the current generation, and that's an advantage)
Yes, Datomic console counts as a connected peer.
You can technically apply to make it anything you want, and the set of allowed names should technically be far larger than the set of disallowed ones. But I'm waiting to see if they'll let me take +akkartik rather than +KartikAgaram, so we'll see.
I think its like being married, everybody has to claim their wife is the most beautiful woman in the world, even though its not true :)

As long as you don't believe your own hype, I think its okay.
Now there's an interesting question. IANAL, but here's what I understand the law to be, from years doing small business and startup stuff. It would be really nice if a lawyer or two could read through and comment....

Here's how I understand Canadian trademark law. There will be commonalities and important differences with other jurisdictions.

In Canada, one cannot trade mark an existing dictionary word. One can trademark a representation of a word. Canonical being a dictionary word, it cannot be trademarked in Canada - but particular combinations of colour, font, background, images could be trademarked.

Ubuntu is also a dictionary word - just not in an English or French dictionary, the ones best known to CIPO (Canadian Intellectual Property Office) and its associated bits of the government.

So theoretically, one cannot trademark Ubuntu, the word. There are Canadian trademarks for representations of the word, but they have nothing to do with computers and Canonical.

Having said that, "novel" combinations of ordinary dictionary words can be trademarked. I never bothered to registered "EdgeKeep" and "Securing the Edge", but I marked them as trademarks - (TM) instead of (R) - everywhere I used them. Had there ever been a dispute, precedent would have been on my side, but I could have lost to deep pockets.

For example, Office cannot be trademarked as just a word, in most jurisdictions most of the time, but Microsoft Office can be.

My understanding is that some jurisdictions limit the dictionary word restriction to specific languages, but whether this is de jure or de facto (by law or by convention), I do not know.

So this gets complicated really quickly, because ubuntu and canonical are just words, Ubuntu and Canonical refer to specific products and companies, the U&C terms may be trademarkable in some jurisdictions but not all, and, in any case...

...if one needs to refer to Canonical the company, then one may, despite that word being potentially trademarked in one or more jurisdictions. Whether one may make as liberal reference to the products of that company is another question.

But IANAL, and even if I was, it might not matter until a judge spoke on this particular question, or a relevantly similar one.

Fun, eh?

PS I really, really like the idea of using "RestrictedDerivativeBy<insertAdjectiveHere>Company" instead of Ubuntu or Canonical, because it makes the point so much better in a sarcastic and humourous way. It makes all of the above moot, but when did mootness ever stop a good debate? :->
No, Nissan is selling cars on Amazon.
Was the cruise line Royal Caribbean?
Xi Jinping's third plenum starts tomorrow, and many people believe that they will reform the hukou system, allowing people to sell their property in the country and buy property in the city. That could create a lot of urban homebuyers and encourage more migration to urban areas.
Instead of inject printers, is it possible to use a laser printer but use graphene / MoS2 nanotube in the cartridge?
It is basically cheaper to cruise than to live at home.
Wow, looking at the desert on Google Maps is _crazy_. Does anyone know of any desert Street Views?
Pandora for clothes shopping releases promo video, that sadly isn't narrated and thus will not engage users well.

If I extrapolate from what I know about Pandora and substitute clothes for music I suppose I can guess what service is offered, but there is not enough information in that video to make me give you my information.
An environmental scandal that’s happening right underneath your feet
Has anyone done a conversion from mysql to mariadb recently? How was the experience?
Since 'tedunangst is being coy, let's be clear that what he's saying is that they aren't at all secure.
Is there free shipping as well?
I've been working with Datomic, as a developer, in a production environment for the last 4-5 months. In terms of the work done by your ops guys, I'd say it really depends on how you're using it. Datomic has it's own AMI, which can be a hassle if you're used to rolling your own (which we ended up doing). I'd say one of the biggest challenges to overcome on the ops side is dealing with transactor failures. If a transactor dies, then the data from the peers will likely just fall on the floor. If you use DDB as a store, you have to keep an eye on your provisioning and scale appropriately.