skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the links in this article goes into a little more detail of why they switched: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1239

> See, MySQL and its forks, for all of the really huge
> and amazing stuff built on them in the last decade,
> have got some drawbacks. On this point, I risk triggering
> a lot of strong feelings from the sort of people who
> have strong feelings about databases, so for the time
> being, let's just say that it started to seem like we'd
> have a better time writing business software on a
> database that embodied a more rigorous approach to
> formal types and relationships. And because of years
> of our nerd friends telling us we should probably just
> use PostgreSQL, it kind of seemed like PostgreSQL might
> be that database, especially since we already knew we
> were going to use something with open code.

The phrase "...we'd have a better time writing business software on a database that embodied a more rigorous approach to formal types and relationships." is what nails it for me. This isn't a technical feature, per se, of PostgreSQL, it's more of an attitude that's embodied in the product.
The issue isn't the plug you put in, it's the wiring in the phone - which is fairly hard to make yourself.
I initially took this as a condemnation of HTML5 as a common runtime, but it looks to be more a condemnation of "shipping webkit yourself to get an HTML5 common runtime"

I'd love to know more about what they're doing on platforms that have webviews.
Great project ;)

I was just wondering ( totally irrelevant to the comments about security ), how such companies can give away their source code ( I assume that commandoIO enterprise is still NodeJS project ) and how they are protecting it afterwards. There is similar way of enterprise edition from Github ( https://enterprise.github.com/ ).
Borneo is going to a lifeless rock in a couple hundred years after they have killed all of their soil from Oil Palm production.

After a plantation is dead from over fertilization, no life will grow. With nothing to hold the soil in place it will wash into the sea.
But that's where it ends. Correct me if I'm wrong but pennies and cents can't be broken down any further. Bitcoins can be broken down significantly:

1 BTC = 100,000,000 Satoshis
1 BTC = 1000 mBTC (millibitcoin)
1 mBTC = 100,000 Satoshis
1 μBTC (microbitcoin) = 100 Satoshis

So if you think of it like this, it can be divided far more than 21million times.
Has anyone used Fastmail on an ongoing basis?

I've been contemplating the switch - but don't know anyone who's actually used it.
"Just bigger" can buy 10-20 more years. The details do matter.
So, you wanna get rid of limited liability for corporations too?

Because the arguments against limited liability for individuals in the form of bankruptcy laws seem to be pretty compelling arguments against corporate limited liability through incorporation.

Except, of course, that corporations are saintly entrepreneurial wealth creators while individuals are irresponsible scum.
git does, pervasively.
The Devil Take the Hindmost

http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Take-Hindmost-Financial-Speculat...
Yes, but the problem in this case is that the housing developer used one master key for all of the houses in the neighborhood. And now he is being asked to give over the master key to the police, so that they can search the house.

Will they copy it? Who knows... this is a question related to how much you trust the government and all of it's actors, policies, and procedures.

Or you can just not have master keys for all of the houses you build, or buy houses with unchangeable master keys.
Someone stole my car a few months back. I still bought a new one. People who park their cars in high crime areas are inviting trouble. Likewise people who deposit their coins with random Internet sites are asking for them to be taken. If you store your coins properly the chances of them being stolen are very very small.
git uses sha1 for ... everything. git's cryptography guarantees is based on signing sha1 commit ids. Perhaps it's time to move on?
Penapage rethink publishing
http://xkcd.com/882/
Do you mean something like http://ideone.com/? It's something I found the other day but haven't tried yet. I think it's probably more for testing some code snippet rather than working with a larger application, though. One I do use, however, is Adafruit's WebIDE for developing on the Raspberry Pi. http://learn.adafruit.com/webide/ Perfect solution for coding on the Pi and it's linked to Github/BitBucket.
20 Questions to help us save lives
Thats an interesting link. I've felt the same about left-wing activists - paying lip service to tolerance, while being very close minded in reality.
Doesn't mean I agree with nuclear power and GMOs, but I respect anyone who bases his arguments on scientific reasoning.
My teachers always told me that main criteria in "science" is possibility to verify and reproduce. Study which relies on statistics, but no raw data or code is presented, is not scientific.

It does not take millions to check for basic mistakes. One person with computer and free afternoon is enough.

It is like heaving open-source, but without any source code.
If anything it would be the internet hate machine (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-hate-machine), but I don't see 4Chan mentioned. I doubt they'd participate in dDOSing a Tor provider, not your personal army and all that.
From the bottom of the issue:

"Rick Waldron raised some concerns on Twitter (http://goo.gl/xk3CaX) so hopefully I can provide a bit more context:

We don't enable NaCl on the web at large because we don't want to see a particular instruction set baked into the web. We enable it for apps that are in the Chrome Web Store (even hosted apps which are in the web) because it's a place where over time we can get developers to migrate to PNaCl. For this whitelist, we have similar controls to what we have on the Chrome Web Store, and our goal is to eventually remove the need for it altogether."

Seems interesting anyway.
I've been using it for about 6 months now - couldn't be happier. The web interface is far better than Gmail's and it works better with desktop mail clients than Gmail ever did.

Only thing I miss is push email on my phone but I don't miss it as much as I thought I would.
I used ShiftEdit to develop a Python/Django webapp. I appreciated the cloudiness as I was quite mobile at the time and my laptop wasn't particularly portable. At the time it was the only free offering that didn't require a connection to GitHub, necessitating the code be open-sourced (quality was a bit low/hacky and the world didn't really need to see it!). Overall, I was pretty pleased with the experience.

Now I run Sublime Text on a laptop that goes everywhere with me and deploy using a proper VCS. I would certainly use ShiftEdit again in future if I was stuck without my laptop and needed to make a few quick changes to something, but I wouldn't use it as a replacement for a local editor.
The guy simply expressed an opinion about where he doesn't want to live. You can't force him to agree with your opinion on the subject, and you're unlikely to convince anyone with a barely coherent rant about a bunch of topics not even relevant to the original post.

Calm the fuck down.
The title is missing an important keyword. There are, of course, a lot of companies making much (much) more than this per seconds.

Also, how is Foxconn a technology company in the sense the others are? Don't they only (as oppsoed to Samsung for example which does that also) manufacture for others, what is designed by others? I really don't think they fit the description.
Yahoo is ranking employees. When Microsoft did that, it was a disaster.
Richard Stallman – Freedom
Dumb question: What breaks with the following approach?

1) set last_write_wins=true (so all updates, always apply, as described in the article)

2) avoid the "partition/rejoin may cause old values to stomp on new" issue by having "rejoin detection" which refuses to rejoin if clocks are "too out of sync"
I believe foxconn is now designing manufacturing equipment... if that counts.
Penapage-rethink publishing
I switched and was very happy with it. The webmail felt much leaner and faster than anything Google has offered these last years.

That said, it's not a switch without cons:

1. Calendar/Contact management. Still not built in to the service (although fastmail say they are working on it), so until then you will need something to double for that in. I double up and use Baikal[1] for CardDAV and CalDAV and it works for me.

But even with that in place you need to import your contacts and they wont get auto-synched to your device when you start emailing new people.

Get on it, fastmail! ;)

2. Fastmail does not offer any proprietary Google/Gmail or MS/Exchange protocol-support. This means that you will need to use IMAP to hook up, and not all IMAP clients supports push-email. This includes the built in Android mail-client.

3. Not accessing mail over webservices and http/https, you may find some corporate firewalls blocking you from checking your email. This is super-easy to forget! In that case, OpenVPN mobile is your friend.

Apart from that, I made the switch and I'm very much happy about it.

[1] http://baikal-server.com/
> If it hits that 3% the maximum I think bitcoin could be worth is about ten million dollars a coin

$10,000,000 x 21,000,000 = $210,000,000,000,000

Does the world even have that kind of wealth?
For APT couldn't you just force HTTP v1 to permit caching?

Most clusters of linux boxes I've admined I end up with a dedicated APT proxy on one machine, not a generic http network level proxy. The proxy I use has varied over time but at this moment I'm mostly using the approx package.
The Unacknowledged Compromise
Space Glasses
Thanks. I didn't watch the video yet, but I've read the article before. What I'm wondering is whether the bubble is stable, or inflating above the eventual equilibrium (and more importantly, deflating by the time I want to convert to another currency). I have a feeling the current lawlessness has a lot to do with the value attached to bitcoin, and that probably won't last.
I love Hong Kong (probably my favorite city in the world), but in the case of Singapore and Malaysia (which were the most closely tied), I'd rather be from the worst-off group in Singapore (Malay?) than from the best off group in Singapore (politically connected and Malay, except maybe from the top few families), so a lot of it was due to PAP and post-1965 actions. If you're Chinese or Indian it's even more clear which country is going to give you more opportunity to succeed.

The strangest thing is reading about how relatively poor Singapore and even Hong Kong were in the 1970s and early 1980s; it was really the opening up of China, end of the Cold War, and explosion in trade (as well as government policies in each which benefitted from these trends) which turned them into such amazing countries.
If you seek fulfillment from within it matters not where you are situated.
I've been using it for a couple of months now. (enhanced account), mostly as an implementation detail. Setting it up and migrating is simple, their web interface is nice, and the few questions I had were adequately and quickly answered. I've also been using them for DNS, which is very simple as well.

In short: Does what it says on the tin. It's email and they do it well.
Yes, because numbers can measure everything. Congrats on completely missing his point.
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Lobster: one-dollar user content marketplace
> Never return to Singapore because every day students declare pride in their country ? Great. Better not spend any time in the US, UK, Australia or countless other countries.

In Australia and the UK students definitely don't do this. In the UK 'patriotism' is generally seen as a pursuit of the ignorant and poor (eg, EDL, flag burning in Northern Ireland) and in Australia, while it's become more common, the same association exists (http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/society-and-culture/w...).
You can get free SSL certificates from StartSSL. There are also domain registrars who give you a certificate with domains you buy for no extra cost, and other CAs which are less than $10 a year.

And if none of those float your boat, you can always self sign if your willing to put up with the warning messages.

Your argument seems extremely hyperbolic.
I've used Fastmail for years. It's been rock-solid, both before and after the acquisition. I can only recall one outage that was long enough for me to notice in that time. It's very, very good if you want an imap provider. The only compelling argument for gmail, imo, is the integration benefit, which continues to increase (e.g. recent Now enhancements).
I like bitcoin, I do, but, please stop posting prices.
Car Racks - Bicycle Car Rack from Alimay Sports
Understanding AngularJS' ngView and its hidden features.
why BMWs are on average 4 times more expensive in Singapour than US? Low taxes at work? Need to use public transportation because cars ownership is taxed to hell and back? How came person using bus and not owning a car is considered to have better standard of living?
That looks to be a very dead Roomba or Scooba... which do not live on kitchen countertops, and have no means of knowing that they're going onto a hot surface, as cleaning your counters is not an anticipated use case. They'll also turn on and clean on schedule, if that's what you've set them to do.

This isn't a case of "Robot suicide", rather of wilful neglect and the "murder" of an innocent appliance.
I've used them for years. In fact I'm grandfathered on an old plan that had a single payment for "lifetime" service. They've steadily improved, and while I still prefer the very simple webmail interface they had a year ago, they've improved their current one since it was introduced.
I stand corrected (and misunderstood).

When I said "No." I meant it's ethically wrong to kill cyclists, and not "O.K". I was merely answering the question posed in the title. I agree my use of "TL;DR" probably made sure everybody took this the wrong way, and was technically out of place, too.
Revenue is not really interesting. Take Amazon as an example, they make a lot of revenue... but that's because they pretty much give away as much money as they can sustain.
Sounds like just unneeded overhead for some situations
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" (Mackay, 1841)

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a516

Good chapters on tulip mania, the original South Sea bubble, Mississippi company, the introduction of paper money and hyperinflation in the French ancien regime.

Bonus fun on "Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard", duelling, and "Popular Follies of Great Cities" (which were basically memes long before the internet).
IOS 7 Custom transitions
OTOH, it would not be hard to play the "paycheck-to-paycheck game" and withdraw all his cash, spend very little of it, and launder it through his trusted friends who could very well have imported it to Hong Kong (at $9,999 per flight) before he flew the coop.
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Is Steve Ballmer the Best Microsoft CEO Candidate?
If you make that comparison, I would say Singapore has been a much more successful economy.

Hong Kong is stuck in it's role as a financial center, of which it's competitive advantage is getting eroded. Plus that 'competitive advantage' really boils down to knowing how to speak English and having extremely low wages for a developed economy.

On the other hand, Singapore has successfully transitioned from being a financial center to the technological capital of East Asia. Something that the Hong Kong government desperately wants to do, but continues to fail at. And I am not even going to go into the current political storm.

Hong Kong is probably the more interesting city (I'm biased of course, having lived there for years and consider it my home away from home away from home) but out of the HK-Singapore rivalry, I think Singapore has the upper hand.

/rant
This was exactly what I was talking about. Muscle building supplements and bath salts.
Excuse my ignorance: what acquisition? who acquired them?
I'm sure shipping these chemicals internationally is a nightmare.
I think there might be a market for this , I have seen similar but for PHP based platforms the only one I remember now is http://www.appthemes.com/themes/

I am not interested right this moment, but might be in the future. What is your email ?
Care to elaborate more about how to find those consultancies?
Hong Kong has the "curse" (in the sense of resource curse) of being the "Gateway to China" -- I can't think of anything else a business could do in Hong Kong which is of higher value and return than that. It'll crowd out any other rational productive economic activity.
Pennies can and are broken down further all the time. There's a reason the "Money" design pattern exists.

http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/money.html

Besides, what's your point? If you break down any amount of money in two, each part is worth half what the whole thing was worth. Many people get confused by this, and I honestly don't know why.
I remember liking 'Irrational Exuberance':

http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/books.htm
The few occasions you need a car, you can get a cab.
Generally people don't need cars to get around if you think about it.
> The higher the difficulty, the faster they are being mined. Therefore, the scarcity of each individual coin is going UP as they are mined.

You are wrong. Coins are mined at a mostly fixed rate regardless of difficulty.

> BTC become more scarce with each coin mined

They are actually becoming less scarce since the total amount of coins in circulation increases every ~10 minutes (until there are ~21M coins in circulation). Believe it or not, supply is increasing but demand is increasing at a much faster rate, hence the price going up.

Mining difficulty on the other hand has pretty much no influence on price (although price does have an effect on mining difficulty).
Am I correct in thinking that EasyBulb, MiLight and LimitlessLED are all the same product but rebranded? What are your experience with these products? They seem like a very reasonably-priced alternative to Philips Hue but I'm concerned I might be getting into a 'buy cheap, pay twice' situation.

Similarly, are there any inexpensive but decent smart plug sockets available? (I should note that I'm in the UK, but I'm sure other readers would welcome US-specific solutions.)

And, same question for BLE tags - below ~£10 a tag would be awesome.
AMA on Reddit by a former Zynga developer
While I think availability of data and code is important, note that it does not accomplish many of the functions of replication of experiments. If two people implement the described algorithm and get the same results, we can be a lot more confident than if two people run the same implementation, because the same implementation is more likely to have the same bugs.
I've only visited for a weekend and was utterly prepared to hate the crap out of Singapore. We're not up to a good start when your landing card spells out in bold and red DEATH TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS (a bit more eloquent, but that's the gist of it).

Reality, however, is not quite as black and white and - although I would never want to live there for an extended period - I left the country with rather mixed feelings.

Let me pull out one example that really, really impressed me.

Near the Marina Sands (the $5B casino complex, which actually cost S$8B according to Wikipedia) they built the Gardens by the Bay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_by_the_Bay) for something above S$ 1B.

Those gardens, which are beautiful and very impressive; an oasis of calm and serenity in a bustling metropolis are built on reclaimed land. In essence: some of the most expensive ground anywhere in the world.

Just imagine the mega mall, the super hotel, or another office complex that could have been built on that land. And they "waste" it for a damn garden.

I thought that they did that despite the intense commercial pressure is immensely cool and is a really nice example for what are some great aspects about this city.
Well, when someone refers to states, they mean the 50 US states if they are speaking of US law, otherwise they would refer to it differently. Moving on.
He misspoke: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qetvk/i_am_ladar_levi...

I agree that he should have been more pro-active with PFS, but he did not consider a national security request to surrender his SSL keys as a legitimate threat. He's somewhat paranoid but he doesn't wear a tinfoil hat or anything.
An HN post title is of 80 characters. That’s the space you have to lure the reader. We spent more time coming up with the title, than to write the product launch blog. We sat down and listed all the posts that did well in the past few months. Later, we narrowed down on the ones that made sense to us and grouped them by the tone. Here are those:

a. Straightforward titles about the product
Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online
Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books
Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually
Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web
Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI

b. Problem/Solution title
Show HN: We got tired of asking ‘What browser are you using?’ and created this

c. Title by an individual
Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
Show HN: Weekend project, Intro.js
Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project
Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi

d. Title by a group
Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron’s crowdfunding app
Show HN: We just built a site that saves lives
We then came up with the titles that we could use for our product
Show HN: Hosted Linux sar - SeaLion
Show HN: We got tired of asking ‘Why Linux server went belly up’ & created this
Show HN: We’re tired of asking ‘What’s wrong with our Linux servers’ & created this
Show HN: Tired of asking “What’s wrong with our Linux servers?”, we built this
Show HN: The Linux sys-admin story. Why did we create SeaLion?
Show HN: Why did we create SeaLion? The Linux sys-admin story
Show HN: A tool from sys-admins to sys-admins. The SeaLion story.
Show HN: We wanted to simplify the tasks of a sys admin and created this
Show HN: Dear god, save sys-admins. The SeaLion story.
Show HN: A tool from sysadmins to sysadmins. Hosted Linux SAR.
Show HN: Hosted Linux SAR. A tool from sysadmins to sysadmins.

Our product is a sysadmin tool. So we ran these titles by resident sysadmins on what would push their buttons and chose this:

Show HN: Tired of asking “What’s wrong with our Linux servers?”, we built this

This title did make the sysadmins tick. We got nearly 10K visits in a few hours and brought down our servers.

This is one of the many things we did. We have spoken about the whole exercise in the post.
They acquired themselves from Opera most recently. Prior to that, they were bought by Opera in 2010.

http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-ac...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6448549
Wait...

> PostgreSQL is obviously a less broken foundation for the kind of software where it matters if you are correct about things.

and

> writing PHP, rolling our own application framework

In the same explanation? Seems like you still have some points where you can make serious gains in your technology stack that would have bought you more tangible benefits albeit not as much positive publicity.