skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDB Breakpoint Example for C – Set, View, Continue and Delete Breakpoints
Or just a single transaction with synchronous_commit!

> Specifies whether transaction commit will wait for WAL records to be written to disk before the command returns a "success" indication to the client.

> This parameter can be changed at any time; the behavior for any one transaction is determined by the setting in effect when it commits.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/runtime-config-wal...
NASA Curiosity Photographed Iguana lizard On Mars
That picture is not from the incident in the article. It's from an earlier incident in October.
"I spend 3-5 hours every single day and come up with the best freelance jobs of the day from all over the web. I painstakingly hand-craft this list every day."

This would seem to contradict the term 'passive'.
I think we agree more than disagree, but I still take issue with your statement of "more efficient IT heads" and that they need to be "weeded out." It's not a type of thinking -- there was a clear business reason. Re: my example of the large media company I worked at:

In 2007, it was a very small minority of employees who could afford the $599 device and wanted extra support for it outside of BlackBerry Enterprise Server. By 2010, there were a lot of iPhones and the case could be made that it would meet the needs of a significant portion of the company while pushing device costs to the employee as a BYOD, thus saving money while still being able to enforce some security policies thanks to iOS 4. The head of IT wasn't being a stodgy old fart (ok maybe a little) -- he/she made a rational policy decision that I think was correct at the time. Today I think they're on Google Apps.

The problem I'm seeing now is that dozens of employees are sharing logins for the same SaaS tools. And all the passwords are the same so that it's "easy to remember." A single password compromise could leak a lot of data and cause a lot of damage.

People like you and me know encrypt drives and walk away from a stolen laptop with only the cost of hardware, but IT managers today seem like they have a bigger headache to manage.
Dada web: interfaces we use everyday seen from a different angle
"minor fender benders"

The second crash in Mexico definitely was not.
“This was a significant accident where the car was traveling at such a high speed that it smashed through a concrete wall and then hit a large tree, yet the driver walked away from the car with no permanent injury.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-28/tesla-says-model-s-...
AccuWeather Acquires Sky Motion to Deliver Hyperlocal Weather Forecasts
Why does the media have a frenzy when something bad happens to Tesla?

It seems like the media is trying to find anything to publicly put them down.
I think he is referring to the blog having zero readers (or nearly).

But yes it's easier to pitch your blog's content if it refers to a business that is already getting some traction.
A Detailed Critique of the SEMAT method
Why Google Glass Will Never Be Mainstream
Even with IE11, I still have four VMs I have to run to effectively support IE.

Flexbox is still pretty far from a viable option, unless you don't care about multiline (in which case, go for it).
Perhaps the problem is on your side ?
The history of CSS is one where Microsoft earned an awful lot of bad will and what an epic fail the W3C has been in this regard.

Microsoft of course deviated from the nascent "standard" such that we've been burdened for years with "if IE ..." blocks to the point that the latest version of IE pretends not to be IE.

You reap what you sow.

But every time I come across the issue of "how to vertically center in CSS", an issue that has existed for years, I get angry. I get angry because the old way (vertical alignment on table cells) just works. As much as the CSS purists (some might call them "anti-table zealots"), it's hard to argue with something that works all the way back to IE4 and probably beyond (well valign="middle" probably does, CSS vertical-align: middle is probably IE5/6).

But beyond this there are so many things in HTML/CSS that should be simple but are hard. This is just one of them.

Consider spacing between table cells. There's (still) actually no way to do this... if you want no spacing between the leftmost and rightmost cells and the edge of the table, which I find is a pretty good use case. People end up doing things like:

td { margin-right: 0.3em; }
td:last { margin-right: 0; }

Any such solutions had varying backwards compatibility issues, a problem we're now largely getting behind us, but still...

Why can't I specify (separately if need be) the vertical and horizontal spacing between cells separately to the edge of the table (which should really be a property of the table rather than the cells IMHO).

The problem here is that the CSS WG seems to have started with a model and then just run with it without running it through very common use cases.

Looking at the article, it looks fine. One thing I'll say is it starts off with the "margin: 0 auto" trick, which everyone who does anything with CSS needs to know. Why is centering that hard? Why can't I just say "put this in the center"? Why can't I then use margins to offset from center or something?

Also FWIW, the margin: 0 auto thing didn't work in older versions of IE if you didn't specify a DOCTYPE and force "standards compatibility mode" (rather than the euphemistic "backwards compatibility mode".
BlackBerry Business Plan Must Leverage Customer Trust in Secure Network
They have plans for a cheaper vehicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_BlueStar

But they'd be competing against the Nissan Leaf (The Model S costs about as much as two Leafs). I think the way car manufacturers see it, it's a little early for electric cars. The Leaf has the market more or less saturated (and they're not selling that many cars). I'm sure Toyota and Honda had electric cars in the pipeline and will flood the market once it becomes viable (ie. when a good battery/range becomes affordable).

What Tesla has that the others don't (at the moment!) are the charging stations. That may make them more competitive.
I used the fire as an excuse to finally set up a monthly donation for them. They deserve it.
Brazil: http://www.startupnews.com.br

launched just a couple weeks ago.
They just DoS'ed the entire Federal government and put the full faith and credit of the government in doubt by risking default.

It's not exactly a stretch of imagination that the same kinds of people or organizations might also have the motivation, means and willingness to try it against one particular website: the website associated with the very same law, the ACA, which was their ostensible reason for DoS-ing the US government itself.

And note for those who can't make distinctions. There's a difference between whether parties were attempting to DoS the website, versus whether it was successful. Also it's entirely possible and reasonable that a DoS attack could result in being a partial contributor, though obviously not the sole cause of its woes. Distinctions. Shades of gray. Life. It's subtle that way.
It's actually easier than that. Techies are more likely to be atheists or not attend church. That's where most of the "charitable" giving in the US goes. A replacement for that would be fantastic, but there just isn't anything pounding into techies week after week that they should put 10% of their income towards charities.
No, it doesn't. It would only be a breach of fiduciary duty if the underwriters knew they could price the stock higher, but intentionally decided not to. Something tells me they were expecting a pop, but not quite this significant.
The Troika Takes Fright In Greece
This is pretty awesome. An api to automate deployments/management/monitoring would completely rock too.
Don't think so, there are some shares in facebook also by some other guys.
As a marketer who is also a founder I'd love to hear more about your idea.
What's funny is that anyone with a bit of a forward thinking could have doubled their money today by buying TWTR Inc (which is not Twitter) trading for $0.03 with an identical symbol TWTR, but on another market exchange.

As already happened several weeks before (after it was announced Twitter will be trading as 'TWTR'), the wrong stock exploded due to traders mistakenly placing their buy orders.

It should have been perfectly safe to assume similar would happen on the IPO day. It went from $0.03 yesterday to $0.06 today for a while :)

Just look at this graph over 1 month span:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=OTCMKTS:THEGQ
pptp should be avoided at all costs. A better choice would be l2tp/ipsec or openvpn.
The Essence of Software Engineering: The SEMAT Kernel
Saudi Nuclear Weapons 'On Order' from Pakistan
It appears that in two months, you can expect:

(152,300 fires per year) / (6 months) = 25,383 automobile fires based on data from 2006-2010

U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civilian deaths, 764 civilian injuries, and $536 million in direct property damage.

Facts and Figures

- Automobile fires were involved in 10% of reported U.S. fires, 6% of U.S. fire deaths.

- On average, 17 automobile fires were reported per hour. These fires killed an average of four people every week.

- Mechanical or electrical failures or malfunctions were factors in roughly two-thirds of the automobile fires.

- Collisions and overturns were factors in only 4% of highway vehicle fires, but these incidents accounted for three of every five (60%) automobile fire deaths.

- Only 2% of automobile fires began in fuel tanks or fuel lines, but these incidents caused 15% of the automobile fire deaths.

Source: http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/vehicle...
After an October accident, a burning Tesla Model S was captured on video by a passerby.

That was definitely the battery. It was triggered by debris on the highway striking the undercarriage and penetrating the 6mm armour plate surrounding the battery. They had to flip the car on its side (while it was burning), drill holes into the car to access the battery packs, and only then could put it out.
people who use Windows XP are mostly from third world countries

We're still being migrated from XP to Win7, if they keep doing the upgrades as people's computers come off lease (so they avoid extra downtime) I think the projected finish date was mid/early next year. At least 3 of my coworkers (~20 person team inside IT) are still on XP, this is a largish US corporation.
VPN should be TCP over UDP (at least OVPN is)
>I know which way is more productive for me.

How do you know this? It frankly doesn't sound like you have worked on an application of similar scope that has good test coverage. I went the first decade of my career without writing tests and said the exact same things you are saying.

I do agree that learning how to write effective tests is difficult and that you cannot do it by reading the web tutorials and the scant coverage given in most books. I learned how by working on an existing project with good coverage.

On my own personal projects what I began doing was writing tests instead of writing most of the exploratory code in the REPL, or instead of writing a stub of a template to test some new code in the browser. I took all that ad-hoc scaffolding that naturally pops up and just structured a little bit and called that my tests. My tests are more integration tests ... I still do not understand the compulsion for low-level unit tests that do nothing other than prove the underlying framework works correctly.
exactly. considering the batteries are down on the bottom of the vehicle. The front hood area has an open trunk beneath. Air, by default as shipped. So what's inside that particular car's trunk?
Did Tesla build their office?
Elixir v0.11.0 released
Given the fact that the article is vague, you should definitely "have doubt", but you're right; I was thinking about the first crash. I overstated that by a mile.
Also discussed whether consumers really want to choose.
The article says there's no talk of local headcount but goes on to mention they're coming back to Cambridge for local talent which I expect means they're looking to hire, not re-locate employees. Yet, nothing on Facebook Careers for Cambridge.[1]

Is it just too soon?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/careers/
If you are ever visiting London you should try and make a trip out to Bletchley Park. It's really easy. You can take a London Midlands train from London Euston to the Bletchley station and then walk a short distance to the park. I did it myself this summer and it was an immensely rewarding experience. Standing outside the cottage where Turing broke Enigma sent shivers down my spine.
I'm sure Boeing would say the same thing. And I think there were only two incidents with the Dreamliner!
This service also has noticed that it was down, check out the graph.
http://downrightnow.com/gmail
> It was poorly designed by a group of people who chose to ignore existing understanding of layout models.

Can you please elaborate how tables were the understanding of layout models 15 years ago?

The web was not thought to be interactive at that era, but to be printed, it's not the fault of the old specs that the web progressed significantly fast.
Sure!

The product is priced highly ($10k minimum) and provides a tremendous amount of value. We only need ~350 customers to get to $5M. (The serviceable market is something like 10M in the US alone, so it's not very niche either).

I think HN gave us a great launching pad, and because we have a lot of friends who read HN, it was easy to push our product announcement to the front page. Wouldn't have been easy to do on Reddit. Techcrunch still won't cover us :) That said, we've been covered by larger outlets than Techcrunch and yeah, they have a similar effect to HN.
Tesla, Apple, Google, etc... They're sexy, and in the public mind, so they drive traffic. Media used to be about information, but now it's about clicks and link bait.
>The waiters seemed to remember complex orders that allowed them to deliver the right combination of food to the tables, yet the information vanished as the food was delivered.

That could use some elaboration. If she was just watching them, how did she know the information vanished?
Could you make money but lighting teslas on fire and shorting the stock?
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Awesome. Using Popcorn right now!
Excellent point! Except the banks collude. Here's some evidence: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/07/the-us-ipo-...
big oil
Far from it: Tesla was the one that came out and said they had the safest car on the road. Even when NHTSA said it wasn't appropriate, Tesla flaunted a 5.4 star rating. Tesla supporters came out and said the first fire was a fluke. They came out and said the second is a fluke. Now the third time is a conspiracy?

It's possible that there's an engineering flaw or issue with new components that underlies the problem. That is a possibility. To deny it is to be delusional. We don't know what's wrong yet, and denying the problem exists prolongs the discovery process
It's newsworthy.
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> I didn't say that. You shouldn't try to put words in someone else's mouth.

I didn't say you said that. boggle

My point was to bring up the general phenomenon of:

-- some people are stupid

-- some people are ignorant (and/or draw conclusions from a very limited or ephemeral data set)

-- some people are liars

-- some people are malicious

-- some people spin

-- some "people", on the web, don't exist, or they're sock puppets

-- some people have subjective tastes ("Burgers taste bad." --> Therefore, all burgers taste bad for everybody. What?)
Todd is awesome, really glad to have him as an investor!
>> I wonder how many gas-fueled car fires have there been in the last two months... just asking.

Contrary to popular belief (and maybe common sense), gas-fueled cars rarely catch fire because of the gas in the tank. You'd need a gas leak and some form of external ignition, which rarely occur together. Apparenly with a battery-powered car, all you need is piercing damage to the battery.
Simplifying models has always struck me as a particularly dangerous idea in economics, since a lot of the time it's actually profitable for economic actors to deliberately exploit the difference between your assumptions and reality.
Good thing we have HN defending them at all cost then.
Just want to make it clear, that im not against cloud storage, like dropbox; or with google, MS, Apple or anybody else behind it..

What we need its that cloud-storage and backup be a optional solution. Im against cloud storage as a obligatory condition of the digital life.. and the trendy-push for to everything-in-the-cloud movement..

Because this leads to lock-in and really fucked-up concepts of property (like the Bruce Willis case against Apple being unable to leave the tunes he bought to his daughters)

So, cloud-storage? Yes.. but only as an option; otherwise you're locked (and welcome to the neo-feudalism)
As a programmer who's getting annoyed and tired of Java's boilerplate, I welcome this. I went from Haskell to Clojure to JavaScript.

I loved Haskell the language. What I don't is third party libraries are usually directly or indirectly (through a dependency) tied to an OS. I've heard, even on irc's #haskell, that it's hard to reuse code unless you're on linux. Coming from Java, this is a deal breaker for me.

Then I tried Clojure. I liked it, but I found it very challenging to refactor and mentally debug my code. I missed all the benefits of static typing. core.typed seemed like an answer, but when you compare it to other languages it seems to triple the verbosity which is a real turn off.

JavaScript (via CoffeeScript) is a pretty good middle ground, but immutable state is nearly impossible. If I get lazy, it's so easy to go back to a OO/procedural style and I don't like that. That probably does have its benefits, but not when you're trying to learn a new programming paradigm.

I know very little about Scala, but I get a terrible impression from it. Where Clojure is about simplicity, Scala seems to be about complexity.

Since I learned Haskell, I wished there was a way I could use it and have it "just work" when I decide to use a library. Frege may be the answer. I've heard of it a long time ago. My concern is that I'd be 1 of 3 people who'd be using it. But nothing's perfect.
Just to put in perspective, Ferrari had 10 458's set on fire randomly in 3 months.
>"...it is unlikely that [Bitcoin] will remain free of government intervention, if only because the governance of the bitcoin code and network is opaque and vulnerable."

And the traditional banking system is not opaque and vulnerable? Let us recall that -- despite its vaunted regulatory system -- the banking system nearly destroyed the global economy back in 2007, exactly because it was (and is) opaque and vulnerable.

Sometimes, I wonder if people stop and think about what they're writing.
The conspiracy theorist's typical argument; a lot of "well it makes sense, right?!" With absolutely no facts to back up the story.
Bullet Project
Well, they already have hundreds of millions in revenue that has been growing 100% a year. It's not like they've never made a dime. The other responses here give a few ideas for new revenue streams as well.
Yea but there aren't that many Tesla's on the road are there?
Sorry, but the real and imaginary designation is imaginary. The Fourier transform is just a functional decomposition using the sine and cosine as basis functions (the Fourier basis.) They have some special and useful properties such as being the eigenfunctions of a linear system which make them the preferred basis for most work.

Many other functions could be used in those tables which have the properties of orthogonality and completeness and the decomposition would still be one to one and self invertible. The wavelet transform, for example, which doesn't even pretend to be complex.

It was the understanding of wavelet theory that made me realize that sin and cosine decomposition (the Fourier basis) is just one of many.
It doesn't matter what you consider it, it matters what others consider it and it most certainly is emotional to most. That the affordable care act polls higher than Obamacare should make that clear to you.
We try really hard to come up with ways to use technology to create value, but there are heaps of opportunities like this one to curate a product by hand and deliver value derived from your knowledge and experience, rather than some clever hacking.
ART - an alternative runtime for Android emerges, promises better performance
I use a similar service called Orchard that has a "heroku-like" command line wrapper around the docker client. It's quite nice https://github.com/orchardup/orchard-client
PR drive by the big three auto firms. Possibly the oil companies too. Tesla is starting to become a threat.

I imagine the extent of the flurry of news reporting correlates to the dollars spent on advertising in each individual outlet.

It's painfully clear from the tenor of the writing and the selection of facts that they are trying to paint Teslas as being unsafe, un-roadworthy and electric cars as being a bad idea in general.

Relevant:
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I have taken cold hire remote jobs before. I am admittedly surprised to hear that it is considered rare.
Only one way to find out..
Great article, except for the last paragraph. The duration that you work has little to do with your reward structure. If you had a one hour workday, at any time of your choosing, but were then paid cash afterwards, you'd still nullify the effect.

If anything, I think the effect is an indictment of hourly wages, as opposed to salary or some other outcome-based compensation.
Ask HN: which marketing software/SaaS for your companies?
Co Founder of www.vendorsi.com here.

Hackers, tell me straight. When you are founding, how are you picking your software? Right now I don't mean hosting; but things like email service providers, web analytics, tools, and so on?

Most folks I've talked to say they're doing google searches, asking their friends, or just "using whatever the other YC founders use."

Is that true for you? Do you just use what your friends use? Are you searching google?

What do you think about the process? Do you like it? Hate it? Don't care at all? Don't even think about it?

And the last time you did buy the SaaS or software, were you happy with it?

Thanks in advance.
1/10th of the earning potential of google is still... substantial.
That's probably what the fire department decided was the cause of fire #2 and fire #3.
Let me tell you about a billion dollar company. The company is called Loudeye. It had a huge IPO party in Seattle with bands, a James Bond theme etc., gifts for each guest. The IPO price was $16, it soared the first day to $40. The market cap at the end of the day was $1.4 billion. They had 200 employees, $2.7 million in revenues, but had losses in the millions.

They IPO'd in mid-March 2000. The tech market almost immediately began collapsing the next day.

The founder used to give interviews during the so-called quiet period. A shareholder class action lawsuit argued the prospectus was false and misleading.

They sold to Nokia for $60 million in 2006. $60 million, not $1400 million.

I guess people remember the last time around when companies losing money instead of making money IPO'd.

On an individual level, it's hard to predict if Twitter will do well or not, but on a general level it's safe to say that companies large enough to IPO are generally safer when they're making money as opposed to losing money.