skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Percona and pt-online-schema-change is not just "some third-party library".

It's an industry-standard tool and one of the most respected forks of MySQL. It's not a layer of maintenance problems and they sell commercial support.

Their customers include the BBC, Yelp, and Cisco: http://www.percona.com/about-us/customers

Also, for the record, Oracle added online schema changes in 5.6.
Your card looks sexier than the coin one (to me!). And suddenly we have two competing hot-shots in a day that would bring out the best in each other. Wish you guys and the coin guys ALL THE BEST! Screw all the naysayers, go prove the world really needs lesser cards to carry!
- Thanks for sharing.
Project Skye – The Omnidirectional Spherical Blimp
Well isn't this awkward with coin and all…
"If you willfully intend to break the law, but fail to actually break the law, you can still be charged and convicted of a crime"

Suppose I try to kill you using my specially crafted voodoo doll, but fail to do so (my magic powers are not what they used to be) then I can still be convicted? What if I curse someone, is that enough to be convicted? I doubt it.

There is something called "moral luck" in philosophy, which relates to this.
You're misunderstanding what "problem" GitHub is trying to solve.

Remember their slogan? "Social Coding." No other platform out there has the userbase, let alone the sheer usability of GitHub.

There's a reason GitHub fanboys exist: it's a service that's delightful to use.
Useless? Something you would use? Commentary?
A legend/key would be nice.
Similarly (but freer), http://www.citybik.es/ is an API for bike sharing systems around the world.
The main goal of raises isn't cost of living adjustments, but as a part of career progression.

If you're staying in a stable role and productivity, then you need COLA.

If you're improving, in time you become significantly more valuable both to the company and to outside market, so you deserve much larger compensation than back in the years when you were a fresh-out-of college newbie.
Hmm. No offense, but that looks like somthing my 12 year-old son would use. I can't be seen with that! :)
> And if you didn't buy the iPod yourself, their bad listing might not even be selling for them.

i don't follow your leap from the first part of that statement to the last.

it's completely at odds with admitting that austenallred could have disseminated what they discovered and improved some peoples financial decisions.

instead he was rewarded for exploiting an asymmetry of knowledge.

i think the root of this is that some people deeply want life to be a winner take all game.
There's probably some cool insights in here, but I'll need some help understanding it. For instance, what does an edge in the graph represent? What can I tell from the boldness of the line?

@DavidChoinard can you give us a key?
- In my opinion, freelancing made me a better programmer and marketer. I started out as a beginner and Im not saying Im an expert, but from the jobs I received, I became way better.
You're kidding right?

I'd wager that a huge number of MySQL users are using replication. Running a single database in a production environment is totally unacceptable and a major business continuity problem.
America is so behind with payment systems. The rest of the world has chip cards and now touch-less payments. I am astounded to see that the US is still using magnetic strip cards.
The field itself is fractured. Many midwives make the point that a complication free birth is not a medical event, and the majority of births are complication free. Have the medical intervention nearby for an emergency, but don't make it the default.

There is a line or argument that intervention is a self-reinforcing cycle, in that the initial intervention raises stress levels in the mother, which promotes a fight-or-flight response, which causes the birth process to regress, which increases the likelihood of more intervention, and so on. This isn't to say intervention should be avoided, but only do it if it is necessary, since it does have consequences.
This is like the gym for the mind, i.e. A great place to get in shape, but many people will sign up with great intentions and quickly fall by the wayside. The cognitive dissonance of admitting failure to save some clams will prevent them from cancelling. Genius!
Because the ethics committee is never going to sign off on an experiment that has even a hint of risk to mother or child who aren't already at greater risk from a lack of intervention.

It's the same reason you don't conduct Phase I clinical trials of new chemotherapeutic agents with people who don't already have cancer.

Birth is already risky enough. "Let's science that, to see which has the best outcome," while a completely rational approach not only to decreasing harm, but also to increasing health, just isn't going to fly.
How hard is Go to pick up for beginners? Any recommendations for basic tutorials?
As an aside, I use MailGun with the Linux nullmailer package to send notification emails from my home (and every other, really) server.

It's a solid service, very easy to configure, with generous free limits (for the five emails a month my server sends) and with a very nice UI. Props to the team.
Could just be me, but seems just another pay-to-learn type service. What differentiates Udacity from other similar educational services?
Please look at the context of my comment.
As recently as last year there were still niches where spelling errors led to arbitrage opportunities: I knew someone who was into CCGs (e.g. Pokémon, Magic: the Gathering) and would search for variations on card names, score cards cheaply, and keep them around to trade at full value later. Same rationale (which I agree with!): eBay gives you a way to say "I will not accept a price less than $N" and a way to say "I will accept the highest bid regardless of magnitude." Trying to second-guess a seller's choice between those is just totally not viable.
FYI RDS is no longer HIPAA compliant following the latest Omnibus legislation.

You need to be running dedicated instances inside of VPC with your own DB install.
People don't really remember what the Web looked like back in Netscape Navigator days. Back then IE replicated some quirks from Netscape so websites would look similar.
most hilarious rejection letter ever.
Seems cool to me, obviously a few flaws but not so much that I'm not thinking about getting one.

Question: what kind of BLE technology goes in a card that thin? Looking into some applications of BLE myself and I haven't seen anything like that. I'd love to know what's in the card and how I could build a similarly small bluetooth device.
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1. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/213658/two-or...

2. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/06/adding-backen...

3. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8451868/adding-a-database...

4. http://jatin4rise.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/part-2-calling-a-...

5. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11396549/web-app-engine-g...
Since when were bureaucratized quality standards part of Open Source?

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"GitHub optimized being lazy" -- translation: GitHub enabled more people to get involved with Open Source.

There are no-fewer quality-obsessed developers participating in the community as a result of GitHub. There are, however, a lot more people involved, and a lot more code being "churned". The suggestion that the community is suffering as a result is a dubious claim that you offer no real evidence for.

It sounds to me like you miss the "good old days" when the club was more exclusive.
Probably not. Amazon has intentionally crippled external replication in MySQL for years now.

It's a form of vendor lock-in and you shouldn't support it.

Without replication it's impossible to migrate out of RDS without taking downtime (I've been through this and it was painful).
- Im glad that athletes are finally smartening up.
Australian banks are pretty excited about NFC payments, too.

https://www.commbank.com.au/business/merchant-services/maste...

(Version 1)

(Version 2 & 3)

https://www.commbank.com.au/personal/online-banking/commbank...

Interesting that Android is a first-class citizen here.
I fail to see the need to authorize a third party to visualise your Dropbox when your files probably all sit at least on one of your machines anyway and there are perectly fine open source tools that do treemap visualisation very well:

* For Windows,use http://windirstat.info/

* For Mac, use http://www.derlien.com/

* For Linux, use http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
>(BTW, wasn't Google doing the same thing with a physical card for Google Wallet and ended up abandoning it?)

They abandoned it.
up-front price is largely different between the two. psql looks to be 50% cheaper when reserved for 3 years. weird
There seems to be a suspiciously large dose of "How smart I was to exploit the trusting nature of people" even if he makes it clear that what he was doing was illegal.

If I had to guess, the moral compass is not truly reset - I see a future ether as a CEO or a Wall Street Hedge fund trader for this person.
A fictional conversation with the CEO of Coin
There are some places lately with online ticket sales - I'm thinking particularly of http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2013/04/26.html - who have begun to demand not ID, but the credit card with which the ticket was purchased. It's an interesting anti-scalping measure.
Rewards are transparent. Spend some money and before you know it, you get a $100 check or gas cards or amazon credit etc. What a headache!!! I hate it when people give me money for free!
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I missed that. But 20 down to 8 is still a headline vs a benchmark, and benchmarks can be ... swayed based on who is benchmarking.

But I think my point elsewhere stands - I hardly want to parse email these days, even though I consume more of it. Most of my mail is outsourced and it seems to be a trend.

Maybe not a good one. I am not sure. I used to hate spamassassin though
At least $29.95
It's nice to read about an athlete doing well financially in their retirement. With 60% of NBA players filing for bankruptcy[1] after retiring, kudos to Jamal Mashburn for being a success.

[1] - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1085063-the-9-most-financ...
If you think your opinion on a message board carries 5 cents worth of weight to someone who has poured their heart and soul into a business idea, you're mistaken.

In other words, you or me calling an idea horrible on the Internet is not going to stop a bankruptcy. If Coin gets enough preorders they are going to build a product, whether it is a failure or not.
You need assets to perform a basic cognitive function?
I think my point is that its still companies / providers "innovating", not individuals, because many indviduals have given up running their own mail.

So, its a good thing, yes, but I think the unit of abstraction is not the individual developer but the "organisation". WHich is oddly different from most OSS
I have a Delta AmEx that I use to get miles. This card also has my biggest limit. When people don't take AmEx, I use my older Discover card. This has my second biggest limit and second best rewards.

When they don't take that, I use my Chase Visa card, which has a pretty small limit and pretty crappy rewards. I also have my first card, a Capital One Visa card, which I keep around because there's a cool picture on it.

I also have a business credit card for work, and another for my personal LLC.

And there's my debit card I use for ATMs.
So this is the issue with the term "dark" and the internet, it just makes it sound seedy and people are up to no good, using tools for illegal for very underground purposes. No where in the article itself does it mention "dark web" apart from the title.

The Dark Mail Alliance watch out.
Dart seems interesting, but its sponsorship by Google creates a major problem - what incentive does Microsoft, Mozilla, or Apple have to implement Dart support in their browsers? What about JavaScript devs who choose not to support Dart (especially since many still have to support even as far back as IE8 due to enterprise/companies/organizations/schools that opt for long-term support solutions for software)? I don't think good answers are available to these questions, which makes me hesitant to jump in as quickly.
Boston - Atelion Health - Full Time - On Site

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/jobs/55465/listin...

Job Description:

Frontend Software Engineer and Core Team Member of Innovative Healthcare Startup

Qualifications:

Proficient in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 development of data-driven apps (mobile and desktop)
Experience developing successful commercial apps
Skill creating compelling data visualizations and responsive user interfaces
Passion for optimizing user experience in difficult problems
Able to work full-time on-site in our Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA office

About the Company:

Atelion Health is an early-stage startup company. It is a MIT Media Lab spin-off from the New Media Medicine Group (http://newmed.media.mit.edu) creating a software platform that empowers patients to lead the management of their chronic diseases through a revolutionary new model of collaboration with clinicians. Six years of research provide evidence that our disruptive approach will yield unparalleled improvements in experience, outcomes, and cost.

Transforming healthcare is one of the most challenging and rewarding missions. It is not just about engineering but about navigating an entrenched culture and perverse economic incentives. You should be excited about being part of a revolution and have passion for developing elegant solutions to complex problems. The time for change is now, and Atelion Health is poised to have a profound impact. You will be part of a team that will help to improve the lives of millions.

Specifics of the Job:

You will be a high-level team member, involved in all aspects of the platform and user experience, but your focus will be on the cross-platform frontend applications. Applications for patients need to take complex medical data and make it accessible and compelling in ways that engage them in improving their health. Applications for clinicians need to allow them to efficiently and effectively care for thousands of patients with constantly evolving conditions while making each patient feel like he or she is the only one that matters.

You should not just be a programmer, but a true software engineer who enjoys analyzing problems and architecting mobile applications. You communicate extremely well and enjoy collaborating with backend developers to create the optimal user experience. You write clear and concise code, understand the benefit of effective documentation, have expertise in rigorous testing methodologies, and have experience in deploying and maintaining commercial apps.

Desirable Skill Sets:

HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript
Angular / Backbone / Ember / etc.
Data Visualization (D3.js a plus)
PhoneGap / Sencha Touch / etc.
Android / iOS / Windows
Unit Testing / Integration Testing / UML / Design Patterns / Refactoring

Perks:

Competitive startup salary
Equity in the company as an early member of the core team
Healthcare benefits
Conveniently located in Harvard Square

Contact: johnomoore@gmail.com
What specifically do you refer to?
Android takes more than 80pc of global smartphone market, led by Samsung
It is quite puzzling about how you are equating buying & selling on e-bay without ANY misrepresentation (Product is as described & Payment is legimatelty delivered) to a Confidence scam where the author very clearly cheated the stores by misrepresentation/lying.

Similarly why is ticket buying and selling a Con? Long-hold Time frames and upfront-risk are a very legitimate way to add value.

Is it possible that there is some cultural/educational/somethingelse deep-seated mooring that does not see this as "hard-work" and instead as profiteering?
From this thread I learned that there was some purpose to making in not flat. It's even sillier than the credit card itself.
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If anyone from Watson every wanders through HN, I - and everyone that have replied to this comment - am interested in API access.

christian [dot] genco (at) gmail
You can always just look at your comment history while you're logged out. If things are missing, you've been shadowbanned.
Where is this fund based? Says Florida, but where?
If you don't encrypt they will read everything all the time. If you encrypt with this service, maybe they will need to file some paperwork before they start looking.
Yes: structured `goto`, in form of `break` and `continue` is widely used and usually not frowned upon.
Well, the committee also has a job of selecting the rest of the applicants, if there are still places left after professors made their recommendations.
As much as someone's willing to pay.

Personally, it does not surprise that FB is willing to pay 3B. FB is struggling with the younger crowd as of late, it's a great strategic move in my opinion.
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The data on a magstripe is just that: data. I'm suggesting that digital services could offer you a digital "magstripe" without the need to ship cards.
Are there any other companies / banks that have this disposable credit card concept? I know paypal had it years back, but I haven't seen any surface since then.
Yea, Firefox 2.0+ is shipped with support for generators/iterators, array comprehension, let, and destructuring assignment:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_...

Firefox 3.0+ added support for expression closures and generator expressions:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_...

Firefox 22+ supports fat arrow functions. Just open the console and try it yourself:

>>> let z = x => x * x;
undefined
>>> z(5);
25
>>> let y = (a, b) => a * b;
undefined
>>> y(2, 3)
6

None of these features are standardized yet.
When should you listen to customer feedback?
Just felt like writing about it, sometimes listening to feedback is the wrong move.
Looks lovely. But much more importantly, what Sublime theme is being used in your screenshots?
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This will never catch on in Australia unless they can clone paypass/paywave. Now most of our transactions are contact free with chip and pin as an option for large purchases.

Just having to enter a pin in Australia is going backwards.
Let me tell you about this great new invention called the internet! Even though it is still pretty new, it does actually have a quite large userbase!

I guess, soon people will forget that you can call other people without a conference service, and praise some conference service for its huge user base.
Like Jeff I am also a young faculty member at Brown (http://cs.brown.edu/~kraskat/) and I couldn't agree more with him. The Ph.D. application process has a lot of flaws. We (the Big Data Management Group at Brown) are also always looking for very talented people and similar to Jeff we started to hand out small challenges to candidates interested in doing data-centric systems research (see also http://cs.brown.edu/~kraskat/phd14.html). In addition, last year we started a research internship program (http://database.cs.brown.edu/big-data-internship) - it is quite competitive to get in, but still easier than to be admitted to the PhD program, and the best way for both sides to determine if there is a good fit with the group and the PhD program. Finally, I would like to mention, that we actually do consider MOOC courses and github portfolios as part of the candidate evaluation.
I don't get it... that's a cellular automaton joke?
At Whole Foods they often want to see the back of the card to see the signature if the purchase amount is over $100. They most had gotten burned sometime in the past because I go to this Whole Foods in my home town at least 2/3 times a week and the checkout clerks know me and my wife but they still insist because sometimes we use different credit cards.
Their whole existence is based on being free, so they don't have a lot of room to breathe. Reminds me of the old mantra of "If you're not paying, you're not the customer".

Maybe the open source world should take more donations to solve the hosting problem. I'd send money to the EFF to replace bad file hosters in a heartbeat.
Well, that made my head hurt in a hurry. I've used Readability in the past, but was completely unaware of their API, and so I lazily searched it and the top result was a Ruby implementation on Github[1]. Alright cool, it does expose a lot of values.

Wait, what's this in the sample code?

article = ReadabilityParser.parse("http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html")

Hrmm. And apparently the author is a HN'r, though they haven't done much in the past year...

1. https://github.com/phildionne/readability_parser
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You mean the cost of the porn side of it?
I don't think his reply runs contrary to your post, if you include the last part of that sentence:

> To keep you from being effectively paid less (because the cost of living keeps going up), and to make sure you feel satisfied with how much money you're making.
(Thanks!) It's Phoenix theme: https://github.com/netatoo/phoenix-theme
"Update: I've been currently gagged/banned from responding to HN comments. Sorry."

For what it's worth, this is false.
I'm guessing that the thickness of the edges represents how often do two given senators vote the same way on a bill. And then the nodes are laid out in a way to cluster together those that have a history of voting similarly.
Thanks! Makes our day to hear (I'm a mailgunner).
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I think it's more like "piracy is legal if you do it on a large enough scale".

If some snot-nosed teenager scanned a book and posted it on the web, the court would squash him like an insect. But a multi-billion-dollar company with an army of lawyers at their disposal scans every book and puts them all online, suddenly that's "fair use".

It's like the old saying: if you owe the bank $100 you have a problem, but if you owe the bank $100 million, the bank has a problem.
Not true a lot of small mom and pop stores who are not that electrically savvy still do take an imprint.
I can't even tell what you're being sarcastic about.
Does Facebook's personal ranking algorithm leak external profile data?
Then there's the case I've seen more than once: Non-developers (non-technical folks) can be vulnerable to what I call "The Listerine Effect".

While looking for something to fill a genuine need (as expressed by the technical development team) the sales and marketing might convince them they have a problem where they don't -- thus leading to purchasing something that nobody really needs, but is required to use because "we spent too much on it to let it go unused".

There's warehouses full of shelfware that got bought that way.
I get at least that good with

DEFINT A-Z
And I was bullied at school. That's why I spend my day browsing child-beating websites.

But seriously, I have to disagree. I'm aware of the absurdities that arise from populist demonisation of paedophiles. (E.g. the 17-year-old girl who arrested for child porn because she sent a picture of her tits to her boyfriend.) But I really think we should take steps to choke off the demand for live images of child abuse.
"The truth is that constantly stealing and manipulating instead of relaxing and focusing on producing real value to trade with others is not in your self interest."

Do you have any proof this is true? I would guess there are whole classes of people for whom stealing and manipulating is in their own self interest. Sociopaths for example.

Honest question: are you sure you aren't rejecting the parent's premise because you don't like the conclusion, not because you disagree with the premise?
Is his version of the quote ... off by one? After all there are two hard things in CS...