skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that it's not environmentally desirable to produce magazines.

Seeing as you have a uniquely digitally inclined audience, a shortage of funds and a global market, PDFs do make a lot more sense.

I didn't mean to devalue any potential content.

Your costs are very high. There's no reason you need London overheads for an English magazine on technical content. For example, I know many first language, highly literate, technical English speakers who with extensive writing experience would be happy to edit such content at much cheaper rates than 100GBP per page. For example, 10 GBP per page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_inequality
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Ask HN: Commercial projects that ended up being open sourced
I am looking at Brevidy (https://github.com/iwasrobbed/Brevidy) and it looks like a really nice place to read good code.

"Brevidy was a video social network that I built with Ruby on Rails 3.0.7, HAML, Bootstrap, and jQuery that was released into beta testing February 2012. Brevidy closed down shortly after due to the high costs of server hosting in addition to all of the add-on services such as video transcoding, email, error exception handling, database storage, etc. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to get investor interest without knowing a friend of a friend, so I wasn't able to afford the rising costs that accompanied the user growth."

Are there other commercial projects like Brevidy that ended up being released under a FOSS license that you know of? I am primarily looking at Rails apps, but projects from all platforms are welcome.

My intent is to create a list of such apps.
Small hints, since you're struggling:

- Make sure to man your stations, try to keep these operators alive and in the same place

- Playstyle depends on the ship type you're using, but you need to have something to penetrate shields soon. Ion weapons might help if you have enough/fire fast enough. Rockets/explosives are easier early on, but later defense drones will be very annoying

- If you're really having trouble: My wife disturbed me during one game and the battle was boring (enemy couldn't penetrate my shields). I went doing whatever she asked for and returned to a decently trained shields engineer :)

- Intrigued by the above: If you can do the same in an asteroid field... ;-p

Last but not least: I'm sorry that you didn't enjoy the game. Dieing is part of the genre and difficulty might certainly vary, but that's the fun of it. It's mostly about these "Really? THAT encounter when I'm out of missiles?" or the "Whoa, too much hopping around. I sure could use some fuel" moments, right before you're back to square one. For me beating the game isn't the goal and when I beat it, the game failed. :)
MailChimp are just spam enablers. The vast majority of e-mail I get from them is to e-mail addresses that definitely never ever signed up for anything. They claim they use double opt in, but that's just a damn dirty lie.

Furthermore, they are past masters at helping their spammers craft their spam to defeat SpamAssassin and baysian filters, so the spam that actually makes it to my inbox is disproportionately from them. It's got so bad that I've got special mail server rules that focus on just them.
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Too much water lol
So he's saying MySQL is bad, and MongoDB (because of a statement on their home page) is kind of like MySQL, so MongoDB is also bad. Also there was some article about scaling it to "only" 100GB which means it damages NoSQL as a whole in the "most harmful way".

Sorry but I don't really get the reasoning.
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No resentment. We're in the situation where several VCs rejected us because they thought another player (who has raised way more than us) was the better investment. Now, "the better investment" is crashing and burning, and all these VCs are turning to us.
I use Sendy[0] for this very reason. It uses Amazon's SES and whilst it isn't as feature full as Mailchimp it does the job, costs about $60.

Note, I'm not affiliated in any way I just started to use it as I needed auto-responders and Mailchimp was too expensive for my use-case.

[0] http://sendy.co/
Friends, consider this a warning. If you are working on something important and/or have a deadline - AVOID this game at all costs.
Sorry for the shameless plug: I have been developing my own email marketing platform, primarily because I felt that the editor to create emails of some large providers was not easy enough for many people to use.

I haven't posted it to HN before, and so far have only shown it to friends and clients. Please sign up (free trial) and see what you think?

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What is std::promise?
Everyone has invented an iPad. This is not news. Even with ARM CPUs and touch screens... http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/NC.html#NewsPAD
See my response above. We don't actually need money at the moment. We just raised 2 months ago :-)
Can I maliciously transfer my stolen bitcoins to rich/famous people and get their accounts frozen? Is there a minimum transfer, of will 1 satoshi per account be enough? What if I feed them into a bitcoin tumbler before the theft is discovered, does whoever was selling on silkroad that day get their account frozen?
Sendgrid, they have a far more sensible pricing structure based on no. of emails sent, which doesn't get expensive till you're truly at a larger scale. Sending 2000 mails a month should not cost $30 in my opinion. There are plenty of options though.
Your gut is probably correct. Sounds like PPV Networks.

Resources:

http://www.doubleverify.com/

http://www.mdotlabs.com/

http://www.spider.io/

http://integralads.com/

Good luck and report back. Expose them right here on HN.
Sociopathy very often results in criminal activity or otherwise simply the manipulation of other people. It is confused regularly with psychopathy, which positions of power are far more likely to attract. However psychopaths are generally not criminals and can be very useful to have around in many cases. This discussion is one of baseless scare mongering and it's not really worth it to dwell on.
> one could easily blacklist stolen bitcoins

Who and how would decide whether given bitcoins are stolen?
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It wasn't mentioned in the page, but I'm assuming the iPad version will need to be re-purchased even if I've already purchased for the PC?
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IMHO the replay value is way higher than many supposedly-AAA titles. I'm looking at my game time stats from Steam, so I'm not making it up :)
I guess losing depends on a matter of perspective.. are you losing if you have less market share but more profit?
Hey axaxs and mmgutz,

thanks for your feedback! I'm totally going to add archives to the web page. Its the very next step.

Cheers
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Yeah, I saw an article somewhere that pointed out what I believe is the problem with the endgame. In the last sector, the feel of the game changes completely. You've just spent seven sectors fleeing before the might of the unstoppable rebel fleet, and you finally get to the Federation base, and they say "OK, now find the biggest, baddest rebel ship and kill it." This jarring shift, combined with the flagship breaking all the rules (e.g. having drones after you've killed their drone systems) and yet still being trivial to defeat using specific gimmicks, really breaks the endgame for experienced players. Like the author of the aforementioned article that I can't seem to find, I only play the first seven sectors now. The final sector is so unenjoyable that I just quit when I get to the final sector and start a new game so I can go back to having fun.
Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6481526
Of course. Bashing MongoDB is quite the fun past time here on HN.

Having evaluated nearly every database for my own startup I find it extraordinary that there such angst towards a technology. Sure MongoDB has its faults but so does everything and surely competition is good to keep everyone honest. I mean would PostgreSQL really have had HSTORE if MongoDB never existed ?

At least stop rehashing the same tired arguments for everyone's sake.
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I'm in a position where I've learned the basics of rails (can make very primitive apps now!) and have completed the go-lang tutorial.

I love Go as a language and am itching to do something with it. Thing is, my personal project is a webapp. I'd like to use Go for it but rails just seems so much easier to make it happen.

Anyone have any thoughts or experiences actually making webapps with Go? It feels like I'd be better off making tooling or API wrappers with Go rather than the core webapp...
A few things here that I think most are missing:

1. Mailchimp is targeted (and priced for) the small business. Most small businesses aren't going to have lists more than a few thousand, which means most of Mailchimp's customers are going to be paying less than 50ish bucks a month.

2. If you've got thousands and thousands of emails to send, and are paying multiple thousands of dollars to mailchimp each month, you're probably just going to use mandrill and hire a dev to help you out there.

3. For those customers that are spending larger amounrd (500-1000 bucks a month?), they're going to marketing managers at midsize businesses who would never get IT love and can easily justify the purchase against conversions to sales.

4. Lastly, most people who use mailchimp send more than 1 email a month, therefore, most of the commentary surrounding the pricing divided by one send a month isn't really accurate.
Well, good for you.

I see a company that tries very hard to educate its customers and keep them on the straight and narrow.
> Is anyone going to gain anything from this ? No.

Well, if it stops someone from using MongoDB without really thinking about whether they ought to, maybe it'll save someone some grief in the future.
OOOrrrr... QNAP home-disk array + deja-dup = automated, really cheap full-disk backup NOT stored on some US-NSA-server..
That will display a map, but it won't display the local business listings which is part and parcel of Google's Knowledge-Graph driven maps listings. Also, the <IFRAME> will add non-trivial amounts of latency to the page display.

When you type in something that generates a map these days, you get Knowledge Graph entries, Maps, Related places and people, and a bunch of other ancillary things. How can Google simultaneously iterate and evolve their search, and at the same time, provided a fixed API for federating this stuff?

This is one of those things that works much better in theory than in practice. I'd rather Google federate social and login before messing with search answers.
I can't speak for the author, but it seems he presented his argument poorly on OOP. I am not sure if it follows the same line of thought I have about OOP, but I regard OOP more as a mental model than a practical one. In that way I don't think everything is an object, more of there are nouns and there are verbs, and everything is to be described in such relationship. I prefer to think and work in component based approach though. Functional programming, on the other hand, is a set of rules over your mental model. Ultimately, I think, it boils down to your mental model which suits you best and, having said that, subjective reasoning. But that's how I think about it, doesn't have to be true.
Sounds like the trade-off depends on the frequency of sending. We have ~ 700-1,500 subscribers (still in flux due to recent migration) but send to them ~ 20 times a month. Mailchimp's 'unlimited sends' plans are a big plus for us, although I DO admit their pricing is a little 'idiosyncratic' to say the least (what's up with the really narrow bands every one in a while?)
I have both the GMail and Chrome apps installed on my iPad, though I mostly prefer Safari. When I open a link in the GMail app, it opens it in Chrome. I can find no way to alter this setting.

One might argue that it's not the same situation, but it's quite clear that no player wants us to step outside their dome, and it's equally sad - however not surprising in any way.
1. What point are you trying to make
2. Are you bashing MongoDB because it's hip to bash it.
3. Do you actually know what you're talking about when it comes to MongoDB / "NoSQL" solutions in general because I think not.
This article's thesis is pretty much "both object-oriented and functional paradigms have limitations which become apparent when you push them to ridiculous extremes". Which is neither an interesting thesis nor one that is in dispute (except maybe among a very small number of people). But to be fair that thesis makes for far less linkbaity a title than "What’s Wrong with OOP and FP".
Ask HN: Where to find learning projects
Hey there,

some background information: I have a business information degree in Germany, working as a software developer for two years now.

99% of the time I only have to write simple scripts. I read every book about development, techniques, languages, you name it. I know I have a lot of knowledge, but there is nothing I can work on.

People always say "well, just commit to open source projects" which is easier said than done. And while this would be awesome, I want some kind of big picture to work on.

Question is: If you have no needs yourself and you are not so smart when it comes to "super cool ideas", how can I get some bigger projects to work on?

Edit: And yes, I am currently looking for another, more challenging job.
Scala. Especially if it shows a good approach on how to use functional and OO tools together, the "scala way".
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> At heart, the Stanford company in the story is greenwashing and repackaging a product that's already available. I have trouble getting excited about getting more people to pay more for a product that's already available. Isn't this just a zero sum game?

It is, but it's worth noting two important aspects here:

1. Unlike most of the audience of Hackernews, most of the people to whom you pitch a product don't know what a zero-sum game is, and learning about it is well beyond their abstract reasoning abilities.

2. Even if they knew, they would simply continue to unconsciously hope they'll end up with one of the positive terms.
From very quickly playing with it for a toy app, Revel is impressively easy to get started with. I do agree with elithrar that some things don't seem quite "Go-y" (variable names passed to Render turn into template data names...how?), and it sort of makes you say "huh" that today's 4 years of Go post mentions Gorilla and not Revel. Even in my short time playing wiht it part of me kind of wanted to go back to net/http to not use magic I didn't understand. Maybe that part would prefer Gorilla. But, anyway, if Gorilla is a better alternative to Revel, Go does not lack for decent Web toolkits. :)
But they are a bit different. MailChimp is about marketing emails, that's why 2000 - it's the number of subscribers, not emails. On paying accounts they have no limit to the number of emails sent. SendGrid gravitate more to transactional emails, and they limit number of emails sent per month. So choosing between them isn't that trivial.
I'm sorry, but the hstore extension is around 3 years longer.

first commit for hstore
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;...

Wikipedia states the first release of mongodb for 2009
If you saw it from the other end, in the eyes of a legitimate customer, you'd realise how laughable that is. MailChimp discourages spam to the extent that it's actually difficult to send email to your own customers! I can assure you that they use double opt-in, unless a customer has imported a list which they are trusted to only do legitimately. FWIW, I cannot remember having ever received any spam from MailChimp.
Except Blossom has validated their market by generating a huge waiting list of potential customers.

[edit: And they've already proven their technology. And, it's easy for investors to vet their product, because a lot of investors are coffee snobs.]
I have never really touched NoSQL for anything serious, yet i have worked with Riak, MongoDB and Redis. In the case of MongoDB i have worked with an ODM on top of it where i had to define a Schema and Object relations and was left wondering: What is the benefit of this anyway if i still define Schemas and relationsships ? Does it just make sense at a big scale when i would have to shard using MySQL ?
Schema migrations arent that hard today in MySQL with a good framework, so i am not really sold on the benefits for smaller apps.
If i can just save a JSON Object to it, thats cool (however Postgre is goot at that too), but in practice with server side validation and schemas i have to decode/encode anything anyway. Can anyone enlighten me on the real benefit ?

Edit I see many benefits in using Redis though, just for its sheer speed and more as a smart memcached replacement though.
Don't forget that Apple has had a pretty stunning retail store in Ginza for nearly a decade now alongside LV, Prada, Chanel etc.

http://www.apple.com/jp/retail/ginza/
Ideally NameCheap would refuse the transaction by sending back the coins to the address it came from.
I think the author also gets it wrong on the FP side, as he forgets the impure ones, like ML and Lispy ones, where side-effects are accepted.

This type of articles is also nonsense in a time and age where mainstream languages are going multi-paradigm and it is up to the developers to choose the best paradigms to model the application's architecture.
Sure, but you're assuming that I want Google-like results. I don't. I don't really want Knowledge Graph-driven business listings. I just want a map which shows roads in different colours rather than all-white (and a host of other cartographic howlers) which Google doesn't currently offer me.

But hearing "our way or the highway" coming from a Googler is making the argument for me to try DDG again, so thanks. :)
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Seriously.. try https://madmimi.com/
If you have many subscribers and a few emails sent to them, you can look at SendGrid, they have unlimited subscribers but limited send volume.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/11/ioc-spokesman-journalists-fr...:

Journalists will be allowed to use Instagram, Twitter and other social media to post still photos and news from the Sochi Olympics, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams confirmed to For The Win in an email on Monday.

"Please take as many photos as you like!" he wrote.

"Sharing pix on social media positively encouraged," he added in an additional email.
Unless you have a tiny number of subscribers, I think someone charging by emails sent is better value, but even without that, the step between 2000 on a list free, and 500 on a list paid for, seems somewhat bizarre, they should eliminate that.
That's some gorgeous schooling right there, kudos to you sir.
Until Amazon stop being US region-only for SES, it's a non-starter for mass emailing; we moved off it when ~ 4,000 sends was taking 2-3 hours nightly, and the flaky Joomla extension sending the mail would bail out halfway through, leaving me to pick up the pieces and resend. Still use SES for transactional stuff, though.
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This is special page for 'all' pricing, real users page is much better.
That's an interesting point. However, I think that the difference between forex and bitcoin in this situation is the goal of the end user. Many bitcoin users are using it because of the anonymity that the system provides, whereas users making large forex trades 10-20 years ago were mostly happy to add regulation and accountability to make sure that they received their money.

Forex traders may have been attracted to a market without regulation but their customers were there to make foreign currency trades. I'm sure that not as many bitcoin users would be happy to lose their anonymity to gain that accountability.
> But the thing is that if they push the "pure" ideology to its limits they will uncover a number of useful things along the way.

For example new elegant approaches to parallelism/concurrency that would be very difficult in an impure language.
Read the commits. That was when it was storing key, value pairs.

HSTORE as most people know it is the JSON/V8 implementation.
I guess there was a time where one had to care about the length of the source code.

that's why some came up with these abbreviations.
Prof Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa's Caltech course "Learning from Data" (http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse) is probably the best introductory course for really understanding the physics of how machine learning works.

See Prof's Yaser's 1 min overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlP0DpiM7Lw

The "Learning from Data Book" videos are online for free, and the book is on Amazon...

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Book: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-From-Data-Yaser-Abu-Mostafa/d...

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Has anyone tried the new Glacier-clone of OVH [0] yet? At 0.008 EUR/GBP it seems to be priced very reasonable, and there are no crazy retrieval price structures (altrough retrieval has a 4 hour lead time, just like Glacier).

[0] http://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/archive/
Yes, I should have said "more saturated", because first electronic devices were around for longer and second physical devices have more limitations than software, thus more difficult to make something new and useful.
I second this. It's almost like they discourage me from sending any email at all. Even when I need to send an important security announcement to my customers I still get chills.
> I mean would PostgreSQL really have had HSTORE if MongoDB never existed ?

Yes. The hstore extension was added to postgres in 2006 (commit 642194ba0cdc0aada9c99bf7712fcae5f3ac86d1), though it predates that date by quite a bit.

The first commit to MongoDB was in 2007

But that doesn't really matter. The reason I dislike MongoDB is that it shipped with unsafe defaults for years and caused people to lose data because of that.

For me, the one must-have feature of a database is that it will always allow me to read the data I've written to it (minus hardware defects). A database which can't fulfill that one feature doesn't qualify as a database in my book.

MySQL has issues there (it allows invalid data to be written and then "corrects" it and I've seen it corrupt table and index data multiple times without any evidence of hardware issues) and so does MongoDB (unless you changed the default config).

This has nothing to do with NoSQL vs. SQL (though, personally, I really like the flexibility for querying offered by the relational model) and everything with data integrity.
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Subscribers, not emails.
Looks like I was under a misapprehension. That leaves (1).
I'm asking for all permissions available.. I think it might help in the future when I need something like matching.. I don't know. For now is only using the friends name and online status, if I remeber well.
> - Intrigued by the above: If you can do the same in an asteroid field... ;-p

If there is also an enemy shooting at you, you will gain experience for shields and engines when asteroids hit/miss. Otherwise, no.
It is also criminal that Apple and Microsoft get away with enforcing a 'single point of app store'.

Monopoly or not, states set the rules and these two are points where imho government should enforce choice.
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If this was an intelligent piece analysing the pros/cons of MongoDB and when it would be an optimal choice then I could understand it. But this is the equivalent of blog spam from a guy who is selling a SQL Performance book.