skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For starters, the requirement of a third-party library introduces at least two problems:

1. An additional potential point of failure
2. The core software (a DB, in this case) can (and probably will) evolve independently of the third-party tool--thus introducing an additional layer of maintenance problems.

I'd argue further--and this is of course just an opinion--that such a basic feature as this ought to be supported out-of-the-box by anything that claims to call itself a "database" in the sense that MySQL does.
Did anyone dare authorize?
I find using simple commands like `du` and `tree` sufficient for me...
It is amazing how many companies forbid the use of STL, templates and all related mechanisms that enable automatic memory management in C++ in their style guides, while still coding in C style.
> The point that I am making here is that ICBMs worked swimmingly as launch vehicles, and weren't just pushed onto NASA for a task that they weren't fit to perform.

Since the task of an ICBM and the task of an orbital launch vehicle are virtually indistinguishable, that shouldn't be all that surprising. It's the same task, just with a different payload.
You don't understand why an organization that makes multiple billions of dollars in profit every year is worth a lot of money?
Knowledge is power, France is Bacon (2010)
Heh. Whoops. Thanks. :*)
>> It's claimants duty to provide reason for his assumptions.

Read the literature. Godel and many others have provided volumes supporting it.

You wouldn't walk into a physics department and claim that "black holes" are ridiculous right? Your nonchalant dismissal of the assumptions is sort of like a creationist claiming evolution is false because monkeys exist.

1. You have totally misunderstood the proof.

2. Homework: ponder why relativism is self-contradictory :).
I think you can say that, to various extents, for all forms of "intuition". The only reason I can intuitively bang through basic arithmetic is because I spent plenty of time as a child studying it, and doing it over and over again until the skill started to "become a part of me". Large amounts of practical experience or rigorous formal education both fill more or less the same role in creating a basis on which intuition about something can emerge.

Anyway, I don't think that we disagree on the actual point here, that claiming that somebody has "intuition" isn't somehow attributing their proficiency to the occult.
Powering your iPhone when there's not enough juice
OP here. Like people have mentioned, it's the granularity of the Dropbox API. Sorry about that. The backdrop of the landing page is basically a screenshot of what your visualization will look like.
> Unfortunately, antibiotics are widely over used and pathogens are concentrated in poor administered hospitals.

Some countries have people who sell incomplete courses of anti biotics, without a prescription.[1] Someone can buy a few days worth of pills - enough to get them over the illness, but also enough to promote anti biotic resistance.

For example, people in India die from pnumonia (largest killer of children in India) and these people need to use antibiotics. They often can't afford a complete course. And then other people misuse antibiotics for simple diarrhoea, which isn't helped with antibiotics.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193708/

> The bacterial disease burden in India is among the highest in the world1; consequently, antibiotics will play a critical role in limiting morbidity and mortality in the country. As a marker of disease burden, pneumonia causes an estimated 410,000 deaths in India each year2, and it is the number-one killer of children3. Many of these deaths occur because patients do not have access to life-saving antibiotics when and where these are needed. At the other extreme, antibiotics are used in situations where these cannot be expected to improve the patient's condition, particularly as treatment for the common cold and uncomplicated cases of diarrhoea (which are appropriately treated with oral rehydration therapy).

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/policy-and-issues/an...

> The rise is substantial in the retail sector where antibiotics are mostly sold without a prescription,
You can do Rails to a fair extent without really knowing Ruby, and just fumbling through it with a bunch of gems and messy code. In some ways it can be the gateway to learning Ruby itself, if you were so inclined to do so.

For things like CoffeeScript, which are fairly thin layers over another language, I'd always advise to just learn JS first. Dart and Clojurescript though are so far removed from their compilation target that you don't really need to know the JS, as long as there's good library support for what you want to do. In the case of clojurescript the interop is so seamless that it puts the focus on learning the APIs, which is where the true complexity lies. Of course, and even more so with typing, you also have the compiler to back you up.
Do they know that their logo very closely resembles Australia's largest investment banks? http://macquarie.com.au/

I know this oversight can happen and it sucks, but the two are in the same industry (Macquraie has a global presence and quite a substantial US one), so it might come under some sort of copyright infringement. Just a heads up!
yup, we had to tradeoff controls, buffering, audio, and filesize for ubiquity of consumption and simplicity of user experience (i.e. inline/autoplay). Have you tried gifs in an iMessage? They're really fun to add to your texting!
> This is all good, but if it were not Google with its 200 in-house lawyers, but some bootstrapped startup out of Austin, TX that had the temerity to copy 20 million copyrighted books, would judge Chin apply the same constitutional insight?

You mean the same constitutional insight that led him to neglect fair use and decide against Google, only to be reversed on appeal by the Second Circuit which ordered him to do it right?

Yeah, he probably would have done exactly the same if it had been Joe Startup and not Google. Whether Joe Startup would have survived through the process long enough to get to the Second Circuit without being forced to settle and give up is a different question.
Many card reading devices these days support near-field communication and will allow you to pay using your smartphone. In this case there isn't even a card. So some merchants will surely be fine with this physical card solution.
When people say you shouldn't be afraid to say I don't know they don't mean say 'I don't know' and then stare in silence at the person asking the question.

How you phrase the whole response is important, as it is with every response in an interview, but what more people need to realize that the phrase 'I don't know' is not something that should never be uttered or admitted.
You know anyone could shoot a man in Reno just to watch them die but it takes a real super genius like me to talk at them until they just commit suicide.
Nice innovation! But I still prefer the physicians to do it in case I would need to have an EEG, EKG or EMG in the future. Great info though!
AFAICT, they tell you to put the window shade up during landing in order to wake people up and thus to get out of the seat and off the plane as soon as possible. I've never had them ask to open window shades at night (possibly because they're not closed).

Which is perfectly fine with me.
The hating on Coin is unbelievable. It seems like a great first step towards backwards-compatible card consolidation.

Are there going to be issues with it? Of course.

Will it last in the long run? Well, the phone thing is obvious, kids. I bet these guys are aware of that and have a plan.

Regardless, its an innovative piece of hardware that moves the ball. That's better than any of the shit I've built.
Great work mailgunners!

Where does the project name (Flanker) come from?
This is just like http://windirstat.info/ which can be run on the desktop. Very handy tool...
I dislike this article: it seems to suffer from 'perfect is the enemy of good'-itis and willful misunderstanding of how complex -- and difficult -- commerce can be.

The author basically argues that things should be wonderful and easy and the service providers should handle it all (ignoring the difficulties of such a provision):

I should use a plastic card, cheap, easily replaceable, low cost (free in most cases), and my card account should buffer my purchase as long as the combined total of credit/cash in my accounts is greater than or equal to my purchase. I should then be able to place either the entirety of my purchase or parts of my purchase in separate accounts that provide different benefits. (Think, business, flight mileage, cash back rewards, etc) The service should often be smart enough to learn where I move my purchase and do so automatically if I so choose.

and

I believe we should be moving away from cards altogether. I think google wallet, square, and other RFID/NFC technologies are thinking about the future, where our devices are consolidated and integrated with the world around us. Bitcoin, a virtual currency, proves the success of something that exists purely in the aether, and keeping a Bitcoin wallet on your phone is easy.

How is going from 'wallet filled with cards' to 'one card' not a step in the right direction to 'no cards'? Maybe the technology or industry isn't moving as fast as the author would like, but it's entirely hyperbolic to say that Coin's trajectory runs opposite from the author's ideal vision.

Coin's goal is to abstract the ownership of a credit card away from the plastic itself. If you want RFID/NFC to succeed -- as the author does, as I do, and as I'm sure many other people do, then that's a good thing.

(The preorder legality side of things isn't my domain, so I can't really comment on that.)
I don't give a shit what computer janitors think about my language. I fucking swear because I fucking swear. Real people swear. Swearing is an excellent way to express your distaste.

I'm educated because, factually, I am fucking educated. Computer nerds--even the ones with computer science degrees who are fewer and fewer these days--always receive extremely narrow technical educations and are complete idiots when it comes to anything that isn't code. This is why they are libertarians. Libertarianism is the dumbest mass movement since puritanism. It's utterly bankrupt of culture and can only exist in the minds of people who severely overestimate their knowledge.

I come here to vent my hatred for libertarians. There are lots of libertarians here. They think the best way to solve major social issues is literally to do nothing and have no government, no community, no society. It's the dumbest ideology ever but it's very well funded by Koch, Thiel, etc. The Tea Party and austerity politics are the achievements of libertarians.

In my perfect world libertarian billionaires would be convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.
A few orders of magnitude? So at least 100x more? You might want to rethink that. sf.net gets more traffic today than github does. So, two orders of magnitude is most unlikely.
What types of algorithms would you implement? Would they be compute bound?
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Check out this page: http://mattmahoney.net/dc/textdata.html
Asking this is like asking if Google should have IPO'd at a mere ~$35B valuation back in 2004. They could have got 10x that today!

Obviously, as time progresses, a successful company's value will grow. But there's also risk. The real question was if $1 billion that day was better than $5 billion in a year? When you're not already a millionaire, the answer is probably yes.

Even sweeter of a deal when you get the mentorship of Facebook to help your business grow and improve your likelihood of success.
As someone who's been actively involved in engineering Bluetooth LE devices, believe me, with constant daily usage, it will NOT last 2 years. There are so many factors involved with BLE, not just limited to usage, but with respect to range, environmental conditions, etc.

What's your point? None

I actually forgot to add something to my original critique: if your device (iPhone) dies, and Coin isn't authenticated you can't use your card(s)!! Haha

Can't believe I missed this. There's another bullet of flaws to add.

Their FAQ is vague and doesn't really answer any questions, especially the important ones. They attempt to give clever and confronting responses to serious questions and most people can see right through that. Comments on their FAQ like "Should last" and "a lot can happen between now and Summer 2014" - get out here. If you want customers to pay (a premium) for an experimental product - be concrete and firm.
I found Lancelot Hogben's "Mathematics for the Million", originally published in 1937, to combine history and biography, concepts and calculations, explanations and illustrations, in a very engaging manner.
I'm in the same boat applying to a Master Program. It doesn't help that i spent the better part of my 20's as a business owner with no boss that can write a letter for me.
Sorry, "The City" is a local reference term. Just like "The Store". Trying to dereference without a local frame leads to confusion.
The VM works on MIPS too.
I simply do not buy pants which don't come with extra pockets over the thighs. They are really hard to find, but they Solve The Problem. (I'm Brazilian, but atypical in this habit)
I don't think I've ever been in a bar that held my ID, just my CC.
Opsworks.
Three iPad Air Cases that Won't Weigh it Down
The same can be said for anything in life. I really hope you wake up everyday praying that the laws of physics hold today because there is no proof that will hold today.

If you claim that goodness is artificial/relative/subjective, then you are hilariously self-refuting yourself. :)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/#5.9
> Browser vendors are free to integrate the VM into their products, and if they don't want to there is dart2js which is acceptable.

That's a tremendous amount of effort and it is likely to reduce the performance of JavaScript. Cross-language GC, in particular, is really hard. See Filip Pizlo's message to webkit-dev on this subject (citing two recent papers), which is part of the reason that Dart support was shot down when Google proposed adding it to WebKit: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...
Fair enough. Looks like not a lot of love for Heroku for you.

This could be a nice fire under Heroku's ass to get more competitive.
so, you think they'll accept liability for fraud?

I don't think so, there's also no way for anyone to trace the transaction back to them
Yup. Our choices have consequences, and he put a lot of effort into making the world a crappier place so he could have a bit more stuff, most of which he probably did not actually need.

But the author did even realize half of it. A cashier demoted here or docked pay there is only the tip of the iceberg. The bigger cost is how every manager of every corporate store he scammed was put under pressure to look at all employees as insects, for fear that a few bad apples were running a side business doing favors for friends.
I use this wallet:
http://www.vat19.com/dvds/the-mighty-wallet.cfm

It's paper thin, but strong enough that it hasn't fallen apart after years of use. It only has 6 pockets though, so it's not going to separate all of your cards.
Awesome, can't wait to try it.
My personal position is that "soliciting" an "underage" sexbot should not ever be a prosecutable crime, but that they can be used in the current way to determine probable cause for warrants searching suspected pedophiles.

If there are actual human victims, then prosecute with all the harshness possible; but if some pedophile gets off on 100% computer-generated images, well, then that's probably a win for society that reduces violence and exploitation.
I've done this several times while being completely honest about what I'm doing... returning gifts without a gift receipt probably from a different store.

Step 1) Find two employees who are polar personalities.
Step 2) Attempt to return the item while being completely honest about what you're doing. (books/software/clothes/whatever)
Step 3) Get denied.
Step 4) Try again with the second employee and mention how the first employee didn't let you.
Fair use and the factors for determining if something constitutes fair use are part of case law going back centuries, and copyright for the public good has been held up for just as long (in spite of setbacks like the extension of copyright length and the anti-circumvention sections of the DMCA).

To your specific suggestion for the future, fortunately Congress codified fair use back in the 1970s, so the "four factors" enshrining fair use are absolutely found in copyright law:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
I guess we are talking about RDS options though :)
I know MS Japan and Taiwan is making some other tan to increase selling. Idk if other tech company should follow Microsoft decision, since Asia culture is a little bit different.
Ah, credibility issue. Never considered that one before. Couldn't you get around it by giving the bidders certain time slots to bid (and then reveal them in real time)? That way you could submit a "fake" bid, but you'd also risk pricing out the real bidders.
What this article suggests is pretty much impractical. The writer clearly does not understand the financial / payments infrastructure. Coin is not perfect, but at least they're taking a practical and pragmatic look on the problem.
Pushing a couple terabytes a day through kafka 0.7. We don't use zookeeper on the producing side and it alleviates this a lot. It's a little more brittle pushing host/partition configs around, but we accepted loss of data in this system and its worth the simplicity of it. Also played with the idea of putting an elb in front.

I'm having way more trouble with the consumer being dumb with the way it distributes topics and partitions. End up with lots of idle consumers, while others are way above max.
>...I think the cruel part is that everything appears normal - but your are totally invisible...

Indeed. I cannot for the life of me understand the logic behind this behavior. If you've been banned or had a comment killed, it would be a basic courtesy to provide some sort of notification/reason in your profile.
sorry, I realise that was ambiguous; dropbox's
Mine is isomorphic to a traditional programming language in terms of execution, whereas theirs seems to use an actor model.
I would like to say it is because MySQl has been sold to a company with no reason to keep it well. That's the one of biggest reason to make existing MySQL users to move on.
Simply human nature.

Cultural programming has de-attuned you to this fact because we make laws and social custom that mostly keep these things in check (well, except for those 1% folk).

I'm not surprised, I'm glad I live in a society where it's so uncommon to be scammed that it disgusts you so.
I don't understand. So the second employee magically helps you because the first wouldn't? To make him jealous or something? What's the con here?
iPad Mini iPad Air First Impressions
Doing hardware is hard. Protean's CTO, Henry Balanon, spoke at the Code Michigan civic hackathon on that very subject:

http://www.slideshare.net/balanon1/code-michigan-without-com...

Its not always the first product to ship that wins, its the best product that ships. I've seen the product evolve and the echo card is worth the wait.
Tcpcrypt: opportunistic encryption proposal for TCP (2011)
> You're playing craps, only the dealer rolls the dice for you behind a screen and tells you if you won or not.

Looks like you have no clue what you're talking about.

The outcome depends on a 3rd party system, which is out of Futureblock's control.

The only real problem I see with the whole thing is trust. Do you trust them not to steal your coins?
Exactly. An ICBM getting something up there and moving sideways fast is doing the same thing as a launch vehicle getting something up there and moving sideways fast. ICBM technology is rocket technology, rocket technology is ICBM technology.

The place where they really start to differentiate is the return vehicles. ICBM reentry vehicles have different requirements than other sort of reentry vehicles (basically they should have properties that make them harder to track and shoot down) but even then the physics is all the same physics.
Mobile is Tweeting the World
Thanks for that. I thought it broke for me, but then I realized my entire dropbox is one movie file and the blue screen was appropriate.
> C++ has automatic memory management, but it also supports manual as an option and for some reason people keep using it.

Automatic memory management in C++ does not effectively protect you from use-after-free.
By his logic wouldn't Kickstarter be illegal? Many KS projects charge users before making a product (they use Amazon to process the payment, but the user's credit card is still charged, which may very well be a Visa). I think this is a little silly.
The one plastic card approach seemed to describe https://walla.by/the-wallaby-card
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To clarify about the pre-order issue: There's nothing inherently wrong with asking for funds to push the development of a product forward. Kickstarter has done a great job of promoting that model, and the world has seen a lot of good come out of it.

However, Kickstarter has also done a lot of work to educate the public about the risk of this type of funding (certainly to their own legal benefit or otherwise), and thus the public can better understand that they are dontating money toward a dream, versus buying the next generation video game console a few weeks before it comes out.

Coin is taking your money to bring a product to market, while acting like that product already exists. Answers in the FAQ like "we don't take your shipping address because you might move" are a willfully ignorant slap in the face, because they are far more likely the ones at risk of going out of business than me moving houses.

If they said very clearly that you were funding a new product with all the inherent risks, like Lockitron did, this would be a different story. But not educating the consumer about what's actually going on is exactly what the FTC is trying to protect against.
Financing a startup with homemade jam, cutting my own hair and clinical trials.
There isn't any question or moral ambiguity here. Replace the code with an undercover cop and re-try the thought experiment.
This one.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60
Well if you're not even going to even bother spending 30 seconds to read the whole article, please spare us your invaluable contribution to the discussion of it.
Wow I would be really uncomfortable working on that project.
If you swiped my card AND took physical imprints, I would be really suspicious that you were storing my credit card information for future fraud. There's no reason for you to take an imprint as well as swipe, since you have the authorization code for the card present transaction, and the signature, which should be enough to fight chargebacks.
Yep, and if you're on OS X, you can use Disk Inventory X[0] to get the same tree-like layout.

[0] http://www.derlien.com/
Is parametric polymorphism leaky?
> It stores data in plain text on your card

So does your credit card
Those are doing a lot of damage if you ask me. Real kids are not that "open" to have cyber-sex with strangers.

By making fake jailbaits, you are baiting adults into... cyber sex with kids! "Hey, the kids love it! Let's keep going!"

This is not a solution.