skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's set the crazy point right now, when Amazon University offers Masters in Law we'll know it is a virtual Costco from Idiocracy.

On a serious side, it stops when Bezos can't make it work and there aren't many things that fit in that category. I'll see you at Amazon U.
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I used to read one book at a time but now I really just want to read a lot of different things. I've started forming a habit of waking up by 6:00am (I used to wake up at 9:00am only a few months ago) and reading for an hour before going into the office. Then at night when there is some time I'll read a bit more. On the weekend I will usually spend an afternoon at the library reading or programming. I don't have kids and am not married so time is not an issue.
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Yahoos Bristle at Mayer’s New QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs”
Obama: I'd fix HealthCare.gov myself, "but I don't write code"
I had no idea cruises were so cheap. Wow - it is literally cheaper than rent alone to live on a cruise ship.
You forgot the part where the business guys come in and ask why they aren't making money off this and decide to either cancel the service or start charging for it.
By market cap, I think it's GE. Depends on how you define conglomerate, but they're pretty diverse - financial services, plastics, aircraft engines, consumer goods...
I plugged in the actual coordinates (16.86554, 11.95371) in Apple Maps and their image is pretty interesting too. The whole site is swept over by sand and you can actually see the memorial. I took a screenshot for those without Apple Maps, here:
http://i.imgur.com/1SiHKGS.jpg
I am pleased to see that the traditional SQL databases are still advancing. Having used various NoSQL databases, I always miss the declarative nature of SQL.

I have to agree that MariaDB's main stronghold being MySQL drop in. The other MySQL drop in out there is MemSQL, which is closed and they really keep pricing under wraps.

TokuDB is a great engine. I don't think Postgres has a storage engine that matches the benefits TokuDB brings, but other than that I don't see many benefits over Postgres for a new project, but haven't compared the replication features closely.

Migrating a big codebase to Postgres from MySQL can be kind of a pain unless everything wrapped everything in an ORM like sqlalchemy. The main pain point for me in a recent migration was how postgres handles mixed case in table/column names. Most of the function differences between the two are fairly easy to resolve.

Can anyone with experience with JSON in both Postgres and MariaDB make a comparison?
Mentioned elsewhere in the discussion — Tesla is fighting to take the dealer out of the equation.
click the button, typical lead-gen to a dealership
I noticed that Angular was likely to release this morning since all the issues for the milestone was finally cleared out - looking forward to moving to 1.2 stable from 1.2 rc2 (we're using rc2 in production code!).

Also looking forward to seeing new Angular features being worked on again!
Until you get a new hr director (who has their own agenda to reduce the pay qantum) and suddenly your stack ranking and magically a load of "B" and "c" players arrive.
1) Post fluff blog post about how cruises are great places to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416. Get upvoted.

2) Follow up with link to the website you built to find cruise deals.

3) Profit.

How much are you making off this, Kirubakaran?
Think of the value added by StackExchange and other websites. The amount of efficiency the Internet has created is incredible.
I think the problem is that the economics of offline rendering play out a bit differently. We've been doing offline rendering for a pretty long time now. And compute resources keep going up vs cost and time significantly, but the price of rendering is so small versus the price of artists. That your bottleneck is always* going to be on the artists, and improvements in performance will always* be spent with improving visual fidelity once you get past a certain speed.

Turns out, if you want high-quality(All quality is relative) rendering that doesn't take much time at all, we can do it any modern game engine can output decent image in about 30 ms. And an even better one still quicker than a human can react. And there are tons of people which that is quite sufficient.

Videos from source filmmaker show that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I
http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/

Also see UE4 infiltrator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bLOi3mo9NE

* I use always lightly here, that is of course not true on certain time scales.
Close. As in it's possible, but they don't have dominant market share in many of the industries they have a presence in. Another conglomerate - Reliance - is also in that conversation.
One of my high school teachers had stacks of Onion compilation books in the classroom.

I was kicked out of that class more than once.
Actually if someone wanted to really sell cars online, they would need to find a state with super lax dealership regulations and then truck/ship the cars to the consumer. Effectively we could all be buying cars "from wyoming" or wherever.

What would it cost to ship cars to users? $500-1000/car? (across 48 stateS). carmax charges $500 transport fee if you order from a different location than your local one.
Conductive ink is conductive, but not very conductive: http://c1qfxugcgy0.tumblr.com/post/58354457557/girlprince-ky...
Well, not just this purchase, but a percentage of all purchases from anybody who clicks on this link and checks out within two days (if this was the last affiliate code they clicked on).

This link will probably make the poster (or whoever they copied the URL from) a few thousand dollars.
Price is always relevant. I heard Nolan Bushnell talk at a VC lunch 20 years ago and he said (approximately) that all marketing research is bullshit until you say "What's your VISA card number?" This was the mid-90s and he was espousing lean startup philosophy then. But I digress.

The idea ("international tax structures in a box") can only be intelligently pitched as a money question.

E.g., "Your income tax liability this year is $2,000,000. You can postpone payment and use that money as working capital for one year, and you pay zero interest on that working capital "loan" from the IRS. At your gross profit margin of 40%, at the end of the year you will have $800,000 in profit that you would not have otherwise achieved. What's that worth to you, Dear CFO?"

Take what the CFO would pay for that result. This is the value you have delivered to the customer. Now you assign a price to that. Tell the CFO you will deliver a black box of magic that delivers $800,000 of pre-tax profit in exchange for $X.

This is how a CFO should look at these complex structures. And this, by the way, is how you do value pricing.

I look forward to your email.
D3 Front-End and Data Visualization Consultant (Up to 3 Months) - New York

http://www.gro-ventures.com

At Gro Ventures, we are pioneering agricultural supercomputing as a means to transform Africa into a breadbasket for the world in a span of 20 years. African agriculture is riddled with inefficiencies rooted in the lack of free-flowing, real-time information—a necessary component for data-driven reform and the creation of a truly functional commodities market. Data visualization is at the heart of agricultural supercomputing, defined as the integration of various technologies widely used around the world today to create the first real-time agricultural data analytics platform for Africa. Through agroinformatics and state of the art data visualization, we will for the first time in Africa’s history allow real time data driven decision making.

The project will consist of building several customized web visualizations based off the results of an agricultural study of several countries. We are seeking individuals or teams who can develop a visualization application consisting of pricing, yield, weather and various other economic and commodities driven data. You will work directly with our Head Data Scientist and Research Analysts to design and implement a state-of-the-art web visualization.

We are looking for talented, experienced engineers to work out of NYC for a period of 4-12 weeks depending on agreed upon timelines and deliverables. Candidates must be proficient in the following areas:

-Extensive Javascript and CSS experience.
-Experience with one or more SVG or Canvas-based visualization toolkits, i.e. D3.js, or a keen interest in learning.
-Know the ins and outs of websockets and AJAX communications with various backend data services.
-Understand data binding and have used MV* frameworks enough to be dangerous.
-Prior data analysis experience (even at the Excel level) very useful.
-Basic understanding of financial concepts, including pricing and returns

Interested candidates should submit a resume or LinkedIn profile by email to info@gro-ventures.com with the subject line D3 Front-End and Data Visualization Consultant.
Considering the potential savings, you could extend your search area to neighboring states if necessary and still get a good deal.
The Experience Design of Server Farms
You don't count the floor pan as any sort of isolation?
We read the source code, reverse-engineered existing applications and hardware, wrote test harnesses, and implemented things ourselves. :-)
Why would anyone ever take a dealer referral with the price quoted as MSRP? What good would that do you?
Doesnt twitter and facebook have the same type of ToS?
I came here to point this out. I would imagine other services have pretty much the same exact lingo in their terms. I think the author should definitely look into those before he claims Google+ to be worse. It seems like a very bias judgement before he does his background on the other services.
But the dealers are there to protect consumers from mean old manufacturers!

/s
If you've got the time, Gentoo is very rewarding indeed.
No, people could always have said things about me and I'd have no way of stopping them.
No interest for 12 months with the Amazon store card!
This is what Tesla is trying to do. Of course they are running into a lot of issues.
That's why we draw a distinction between following the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Or, as the dude put it, "you're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole."

Apple's tax structure rightly prompted outrage, and Ireland was shamed into closing the loophole: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24542794
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I'd just eco PureDanger's comment regarding the architecture. I'm no expert on the matter but the concept of having the components of the database taken apart, as they are with Datomic, would give you potential arrangements that you couldn't get with traditional architectures.
Yes you could do that, but again I don't see how its user-friendly to have to resort to creating multiple accounts to bypass the G+ requirements.

No one is saying that Google doesn't have the _right_ to do this, just that its obnoxious and goes against the very user-friendly/oriented image that Google itself tries to perpetuate. You've yet to address this very point.

>That's not a fact, that's just a saying. Youtube is free to you, it's not free to advertisers. There can be products that come free to some and not free to others.

You're just splitting hairs about what constitutes an expense. Youtube is not 100% free to use. There are costs... like the time it takes to watch an ad before your video plays... that's a bit myopic on my part as well, but if you want to get technical...
Ideally in broadsheet or tabloid form, with layout that can be specified by the content producer!
The guy had a lot of options, mine was just one. Take or leave.
This site was linked from that post, which is probably where kirubakaran found it. I'm not sure why you think he's making money for sharing Tynan's link. Are you suggesting that, while submitting links to HN is free, he paid off two different people to submit the blog post and the link to Cruise Sheet separately? Why?
You then have to store how many levels down the real, as opposed to index, data is. If you have looped enough to have reached an index that is small, the depth count will on average be so large that it takes about as much space as your original data.
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Considering the company is run by first time founders with virtually no hiring experience, I don't understand why they were compelled to write a post on how to hire.
This Literal Treehouse Is A Glass House Built Around An Entire Tree
> Took me five dealers and I had to drive 45 minutes to get the car

That's not bad when you compare it to car sales in the past, but really, it's far from optimal. If you read just what I quoted and replace "car" with any other product I'd say it's kind of ridiculous unless the product you're looking for has very specific options and is out of production.
Unfortunately, there is likely [please correct me if I'm wrong] a similarly-worded array of clauses in the contracts for many of their other services (or even g+ itself), that if taken seriously (i.e. not in a legalese manner), would likely cause a similar level of unjust alarm.
This is exactly why either the negative income tax or the basic livable income are such great ideas. Like most of on HN, we're among those best positioned to be on the winning side of this inequality. I'm very much in favor of the approach Switzerland [0] has taken couple with its social services, because it's enough money and social support programs for the following things:

1) A roof over your head (not the best housing, but adequate)

2) Food in your belly (not great food, but enough)

3) A healthcare program (where you don't have to worry)

4) Basic education (so you know enough to learn further on your own)

5) Enough money left over to afford a computer and an internet connection (so you can learn on your own)

With all those needs met, everyone has what they need to do well for themselves. Those at the winning end of inequality know they've given everything necessary for others to join them if they make the effort. The winning end can reap further rewards by deserving it in the form of making the five line items above insanely efficient to deliver. Create cheaper, adequate housing, make food more plentiful and nutritious for cheaper, make healthcare more effective and cheaper, make basic education more effective and cheaper and make computers and internet access cheaper. The people who contribute the most to those goals deserve to live the best because they've done the most to contribute to the general welfare of all.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532738
Yep. That's roughly $500-$700. Does Amazon have a cap on aff fees?
I absolutely disagree. In recent years, I've found that The Onion has tightened up their news cycle considerably; they're addressing current events with more vigor and volume than ever without sacrificing their wit.
I'm not sure the data on vehicle age is available like that.
Generally speaking, five year olds should not be choosing databases for anything critical. But I agree that Datomic and company can do better with their marketing and general product description.

Here is one of the better explanations I have seen:

http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/programming/datomic-for-...
SEEKING FREELANCER - D3 Front-End and Data Visualization Consultant (Up to 3 Months) - New York

http://www.gro-ventures.com

At Gro Ventures, we are pioneering agricultural supercomputing as a means to transform Africa into a breadbasket for the world in a span of 20 years. African agriculture is riddled with inefficiencies rooted in the lack of free-flowing, real-time information—a necessary component for data-driven reform and the creation of a truly functional commodities market. Data visualization is at the heart of agricultural supercomputing, defined as the integration of various technologies widely used around the world today to create the first real-time agricultural data analytics platform for Africa. Through agroinformatics and state of the art data visualization, we will for the first time in Africa’s history allow real time data driven decision making.

The project will consist of building several customized web visualizations based off the results of an agricultural study of several countries. We are seeking individuals or teams who can develop a visualization application consisting of pricing, yield, weather and various other economic and commodities driven data. You will work directly with our Head Data Scientist and Research Analysts to design and implement a state-of-the-art web visualization.

We are looking for talented, experienced engineers to work out of NYC for a period of 4-12 weeks depending on agreed upon timelines and deliverables.

Candidates must be proficient in the following areas:
-Extensive Javascript and CSS experience.
-Experience with one or more SVG or Canvas-based visualization toolkits, i.e. D3.js, or a keen interest in learning.
-Know the ins and outs of websockets and AJAX communications with various backend data services.
-Understand data binding and have used MV* frameworks enough to be dangerous.
-Prior data analysis experience (even at the Excel level) very useful.
-Basic understanding of financial concepts, including pricing and returns

Interested candidates should submit a resume or LinkedIn profile by email to info@gro-ventures.com with the subject line D3 Front-End and Data Visualization Consultant.
eBay Motors [1] is already doing that. Competitive prices via dealers.

[1]: http://www.ebay.com/sch/eBay-Motors-/6000/i.html?LH_BIN=1&_n...
Brazil requires one month of work after notice is given by either side. The employer may give up the additional month if the employee resigns, and the employee may choose to deduce the pay of this month from their severance if they don't want to stay. The employer may also choose to terminate immediately and pay the wage of the additional month even if the worker doesn't work.
In light of the fire at the Internet Archive's offices this week, I found this Medium post strangely prescient, and in particular the following comments:

>> "The decision to put the servers on display is an aesthetic one, clearly. But there’s a security aspect as well. In the short term, the servers are at risk of having some idiot walk up and damage them. So far, no one has and Kahle isn’t too worried about that. He’s more concerned about the long term. He’s thinking in decades and centuries.

>> “What happens to libraries is that they’re burned,” says Kahle, “and they’re typically burned by governments.”

>> He knows the Internet Archive is unlikely to be literally set to torch by American agents, but as the place dances on the edges of copyright law, the possibility that it’ll be shut down by a stroke of judicial pen looms large.

P.S. I'm not implying any kind of conspiracy theory here at all.
If I knew what I wanted, had already test driven the car and Amazon offered it for less (No tax perhaps?), why wouldn't I get it from Amazon?

Off Topic: I see you appended the referral tag. Good luck grabbing the 4%-8% on it.
I wish more people would care about Sony's record.

They initially officially supported Linux on the Playstation 3, but later decided not only to remove the feature from new models, but reach out through the cloud to remove the feature from existing consoles [1] [2].

This is also the company that put rootkits on CD's [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5886509

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otheros

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
For the record: Apple, off the top of my head, is in the business of consumer hardware, professional hardware, accessories, consumer software, productivity software, consumption software, cloud storage, communications, and eCommerce platforms.
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Apple miscalculated the optimal price initially and then changed it a few months later. No, obviously he couldn't anticipate that.

Microsoft squandered their lead in smartphones, you can blame them and Ballmer for that, but the particular video people love to continuously bring up has nothing to do with where MS made mistakes.
For this exact reason I registered my own 1-letter URL shortener domain and use it to create my own custom redirects whenever I want without submitting to someone's BS TOS.

It's better to promote your own brand than someone else's.

Send me email at: g@c.gg :)
I look at his case the same way I look at all those anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay. They hate themselves and in order to compensate for that internal conflict they put a lot of effort into a public show of opposing what are their own internal demons.

The misery they cause the people who get caught up in their personal psychodrama is unacceptable. But I think this type of problem is orthogonal to politicians who engage in illegal activities (e.g. being gay hasn't been illegal for a long time), it is more of a loss of perspective.
Well, at least you're honest about it. :\
I have some QR code artwork hanging on a wall in my house. That artwork made it into a photo that happened to be taken in that room which I shared on Facebook. I was surprised when someone was able to take that photo, zoom in on the off-angle unevenly-lit code behind glass, scan it and post its message as a comment.
E-Bike at $5k
Catch Software releases hotfix for Enterprise Tester 4.9
Nope, I don't use Ubuntu.
That's different. Beauty is subjective, so she may be the most beautiful woman in the world (to you).
http://www.angio.net/pi/

In 100 millons of digits of pi there is less than 1% of chances of finding a given 10 character string. Probably mankind wasnt on earth enough time to have calculated yet the amounts of digits that would imply finding there something big with high chances.
That must be the worst argument I have seen in a long time.
HFTs. This story hit HN a couple of months ago:

> A year into his new job he had a job offer from UBS, the Swiss bank, and a promise to bump up his salary to $400,000 a year. Serge didn’t particularly want to leave Goldman Sachs just to go and work at another big Wall Street firm, and so when Goldman offered to match the offer, he stayed.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...

But yeah, realistically only a few programmers in the world are probably pulling down the kind of salary.
This is terrible.

Let me get this straight: you get $170 million from the Libyan government for a terrorist attack. You are from the Congo. And the best thing you can think to blow the money on is to put rocks in the desert, so rich white people can see it on Google Maps? You couldn't have, I don't know, built a hospital or a school or something that would actually help people who are still alive? I imagine that much money could go pretty far in Congo.
Good point, but I don't think it muddles any messages, at least when the audiences are clearly defined. Marketing to devs using Amazon APIs or consumers shopping and watching movies isn't going to overlap.
I think online car shopping has a huge potential to grow, especially considering most consumers dislike negotiating at dealerships. That's why Edmunds.com launched the "Price Promise" (http://www.edmunds.com/price-promise.html) that locks you into a price before you ever have to speak to a salesperson.

While we're on the topics of online car shopping, I work for Edmunds.com on the API team (docs here: http://developer.edmunds.com) and we provide all kinds of car data for use in your application (and it's completely free as compared to all of our competitors). Feel free to email me (mbock at edmunds dot com) or comment below if you have any questions.
people still use QR codes?
No, the machine always runs big-endian.
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Incorrect, the powerPC may be capable of both, but not the xbox360 in practice.
There like domain names. No surprised at all. I'm surprised twitter hasn't charged yet.