skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Aria2 in the past to download ISO's of Linux and FreeBSD. There is definitely an advantage to using multiple sources at once.

On an unrelated note, it would be cool if large HTTP downloads provided a header indicating a BitTorrent source as well. That way intelligent clients could switch to BitTorrent or use both in parallel.
Are all of the features of RubyMine included in IntelliJ IDEA? I've never really been fully clear on that, and I love PyCharm--but given that I use Python, Javascript, Ruby, etc., I'd rather just get the one product than need PyCharm and WebStorm AND RubyMine.
The problem with a low barrier to entry is that there is less filtering, so you get very bad programmers claiming to be experienced developers. However a good programmer can surely use PHP constructs (that are not so much different than the ones offered by other languages at the same level of abstraction) to provide modular and easy to manage code. If the customer wants the cheap developer, she or he will later learn that there is a real difference, and next time will be willing to pay more, as it is actually a way to pay less in the long run...
I enjoy Powershell as well, but the Basic-style command structure is a bit frustrating. Particularly when trying to achieve parity between a Windows "shell", a Linux shell, and a Mac terminal "shell." Comma-delimited args in commands don't fit the bill there.
Thanks cobrabyte, really appreciate you doing that!
> As someone who submits patches to open source projects, I would be pretty damn pissed if the project I spent hours/days/weeks learning the architecture of pulled some shit like this.

That's a good point, and I agree. But that's not the perspective being presented by this article, as far as I can tell.
Not exactly what you were looking for, but you can connect from PostgreSQL to MongoDB via Foreign Data Wrappers - https://github.com/citusdata/mongo_fdw
So is the required input power! The input power is required in order to generate heat to initiate the reaction, and the output power is heat. In any case, it would be child's play to use a thermoelectric converter to efficiently generate electricity from the vast claimed heat output.
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You can link your credit card and get your first BTC instantly. This is a new(ish) feature and I've not tried it but I do remember seeing it.
The 42 limit comes from the aufs code itself. My guess is that it's because of stack depth: if you stack these kernel data structures too many levels deep, you might trigger an overflow somewhere. The hardcoded limit is probably a pragmatic way to avoid that.

Of course if you had infinite memory and those kernel data structures were designed to never overflow, then you would have a performance problem on your hands instead of a kernel panic :)
Nothing's an absolute assurance, mistakes happen in all walks of life.

If you're talking about streamlining the FDA process without significantly increasing the risk of harmful drugs slipping through, I think everybody's in favor of that.

If you're talking about streamlining the process at the cost of higher risk, then that's probably a nonstarter. Why? I (and most people) am not willing to increase my odds of being harmed on behalf of someone else's profit margin. You'd have to be crazy to accept that deal.

Expecting the market to 'just do your research' on drugs is crazy. It takes experts with PhDs a long time to verify a drug as safe, and they still make mistakes sometimes as you indicated... you're expecting me to do it? I haven't taken chemistry since high school.
I'm not swayed by the fact sheet. I understand physics. I also know enough to know that we don't really know shit. Things happen that prove earlier notions to be wrong. It used to be that we all KNEW that the Earth was flat, and that it was the center of the universe too. There could be something going on here that we don't understand. I'm not saying that's what's happening, but I want to attack his claims ONLY by measurables.

All I am saying is let's prove his claims to be bullshit _by measurement_. Otherwise we're doing nothing but putting out more hot air than this generator does.
Well, it's drawing 200kW form the input, and the other 800kW from harvesting radiowaves and alien probes, I guess.
Aren't they big enough at this point to cut deals directly with the vendors? 10,000 drives at a discount, that sort of thing.
LinkedIn is one such app that should be blacklisted.
yeah arguably that particular example wasn't very useful, but there are dozens which really rock: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies
I liked this sidenote in the article: "made their founders billionaires (New Economy founders typically retain large blocks of their own stock)"

Histoically, founders gave up most of their equity to investors. "A" round? Investors take 50% for $3 million and set aside another 20% for an employee pool. "B" round? The founders end up with 4% of the company.

I think pg helped everybody realize "Hey, us founders have the power here. We're not giving up shit. In fact, pay us out at each round too. We need to be millionaires sooner than any possible 5-year-out exit."
It was around 24 thousand/year.
Learn Python and/or Ruby. Not for the salary bracket it will put you into, but for the horizons it will broaden in terms of how you understand programming.

Don't learn Django or RoR either. You'll just be solving the same problem in a different way. Intead, try something entirely new--write a chat or job server with Twisted, try your hand at image processing, write some ML classifiers, and so forth. It's not as hard or out of reach as you'd think. Imagine a fun problem to solve--something you've always wanted your computer to do (perhaps something that irks you, that you want to automate) and just do it!

You'll find yourself in that "other category" without that having been your objective at all, and you'll have much more to show for it.
I thought that part was just to start the reaction at first? Does it require 200kW all the time?
If you don't stand up to a bully, then you will always be the victim of bullies.

I would imagine some patent trolls think twice about going after Newegg because they will fight. Fighting in court is not what a patent troll wants, they want the easy victim that will surrender easily.

Because if they go to court, not only does it cost them money but it could cost them their patent. It's better to go after an easier target.

It's why Wal-Mart was known for fighting all lawsuits back in the day. Because after the first time you settle with someone that "slipped" in the aisles you will suddenly find that someone "slips" in your stores nearly every day.
As a fan of Flask/Bottle/Sinatra/Express style web frameworks I miss a Go framework that works in a similar fashion. Don't know of any better way to prototype APIs so quickly and with such a small mental effort.

Edit: Just discovered [Martini](https://github.com/codegangsta/martini), that's exactly what I wanted.
It's refreshing to see a positive comment about PHP at the top of a HN discussion!
Not necessarily a surprise: holiday shopping is days away, and anyone looking to upgrade ought to consider the Moto G.
For more read this http://www.labcritics.com/2013/11/26/fda-asks-23andme-to-sto...
Because of the ready availability of efficient thermoelectric converters, this is a distinction without a difference.
Give Your Spirit Clojure
Cute way to learn ClojureScript.
Have you tried adding affiliate links or email blasts for rosetta stone or similar services?

I feel like that could be a bigger money maker than subscriptions for you.

Learning a language consists of 2 parts. Grinding out vocabulary which your app helps with. And learning the structure of the language which rosetta or pimsleur can help with. If you can drive traffic to providers of that 2nd part, it would be valuable.
As a practical matter, I worry about corporations screwing me over more than I worry about "jackboot thugs." The government has very little incentive to mess with me. I'm much more worried about employers using my browsing habits to deny me jobs, companies using my spending habits to deny me a mortgage, etc. Not as bad as having "jackboot thugs" break down your door, but a heck of a lot more likely and potentially life-ruining by itself.
Ask HN: Hiring someone on vacation
Let's imagine you are an US company, you meet someone on vacation (who planned to stay less than 3 month) and you really want to hire this person because of his unique skills, and offer him a long-term contract. What kind of legal procedure can you engage?
There is a slight performance overhead with lvm, but nothing dramatic. The other advantage of the AUFS driver is that it is more proven. If you have a way to get aufs on your system (and I believe debian does), my pragmatic ops advice would be to use that and give the other drivers some time to get hardened. Of course my advice as a maintainer is that all of them are equally awesome :)
The Mobile Playbook, 2nd Edition
If you don't want it then you don't want it. Both Gadget and Martini pretty clearly outline the value that they bring to the table. If that value proposition does not win you over then these frameworks are not for you.

I personally have seen a great improvement in code simplicity, readability, and overall DRYness when projects are written using Martini.

Choosing a framework isn't about following some sort of socially acceptable way to build your web apps. Just build them! If a framework solves a problem for you then use it, otherwise keep using net/http handlers.
Over? Well, okay, I trust you this time.
Have you seen Martini?

https://github.com/codegangsta/martini
Mixbook sees 'perfect storm' for Google's Dart language
Who are these people and why is Richard Stallman among them?
"If you're talking about streamlining the process at the cost of higher risk, then that's probably a nonstarter."

For me that's not a non-starter. It's the start of a process that involves looking at just how much money gets saved (and by whom), just how much additional risk is borne by those taking the passed medications, and how much faster we're getting new (safe enough and effective enough) drugs on the market.
> That's sensible when you consider that postgresql used to be a SQL layer over postgres.

Were they ever actually separate layers? I thought that PostgreSQL was a rename of Postgres that happened shortly (one-two versions) after they swapped query languages from the Ingres-derived QUEL to SQL.
Are you a prosecutor?
What are the consequences of the two options aside from fixing the original issue with git rebase? Should I be worried about some critical OS feature being disabled with option A or very slow git performance with option B?
Just another great example of the fact that if you let them build a machine that can limit speech, it will inevitably be used to limit your speech given enough time.
> All I am saying is let's prove his claims to be bullshit _by measurement_.

If we did that for everyone trying to sell a highly flawed device with engineering requirements that are not yet mastered by even world experts, we could measure such claims all day and achieve no real benefit. It is his job to demonstrate this to us.

It is possible that this device is actually performing better-than-breakeven fusion. But I would happily bet money against it.
I'm not sure what problems the author had with Cygwin that he didn't with Git's msys environment. I'm not denying that there were problems, I'm just curious what they were.
I believe a basic income would be a great idea, but it would have to be, in part, subsidized by increased taxes on the working population.

Another approach would be the 1:12 rule that Switzerland didn't adopt.[1]

1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25076879
This is a weird article. It ignores powershell entirely and I really disagree about cygwin being this bloaty and difficult thing to install. If you just want basic unix utilities then cygwin is a breeze to install and use.

On top of it, you can download compilations of standard gnu unix untils at sourceforge compiled for windows. I have a standard unixutils folder on the c: root of the drive of all my computers so I can easily access stuff like wget, netcat, grep, etc. Works well enough.
I was confused by that as well. I agreed that, from what I read, that they made the plaintiff's arguments look quite silly. I would say the plaintiff's lawyer half argued Newegg's case for them with his whole a patent is still valid if prior art was a secret thing.

My current thought was they planned to appeal from the beginning to get it out of that district. Why waste time in a district you know there's an automatic 80% chance you're going to lose?
China's Rich Fleeing the Country—With their Fortunes
Hack the habit loop - breaking bad habits for good
A solution to this dystopian future would be the basic income

I'm fascinated to see how philanthropic society will choose to be. Here's why. With the advent of robots I believe that something fundamental has changed. Elites, if they so choose, will not need to accommodate lower classes.

Previously, there had to be some sharing because elites still had to rely on other humans for policing and military. However, it seems like robots might cut that connection. What will happen when elites feel like they don't need a large part of the population? Will they be altruistic?

I don't know. Personally I'm pretty cynical and think we're heading for a future that's both more egalitarian and dystopian. The internet will give people a similar opportunity to succeed but those who do succeed won't be charitable to those who don't.
The "Menlo way" of software development
My guess is that it isn't actually the "NSA" keyword that is penalizing those articles but maybe some other type of filter. For instance, what if it instead penalizes topics basic on keywords relative to other articles? Basically a way to keep the content of the homepage fresh and unique, instead of having 6 different topics at one time on the NSA, or 6 topics on bitcoin, it instead penalizes those popular keywords to prevent a flood of similar content, with this filter actively changing based on the popular keywords at that time, If this was the case- I would actively encourage this filter, the thing that I love about HN is that it doesn't beat a dead horse.
The hstore enhancements coming in psql 9.4 will pretty much put mongo out to pasture.

"Mongodb" already nearly exists as a single column type, 9.4 will complete it.
In the future the argument will be that with both patent trolls and government spying that doing business in the US is a bad idea in the long run.
Is it possible to remove Narendra Modi's name from this list before someone creates a Facebook meme out of this page.
I bought PhpStorm, RubyMine, and Appcode in the Dec 21 sale of 2012, all 3 of them have been upgraded to the latest versions (just updated RubyMine today)
> There could be something going on here that we don't understand.

In science, the null hypothesis rules. The null hypothesis -- the premise that something is false until evidence proves otherwise -- is why scientists have a reputation for skepticism. It also filters out claims like this one.

A scientist wouldn't give Rossi the benefit of the doubt. A scientist would demand scientific evidence, not a marketing sheet with some very obvious defects.

> I understand physics.

If you understand physics, why has it not occurred to you to ask why Rossi doesn't use 200 KW of the claimed 1 MW output power to remove the input power requirement? How hard is that?

> All I am saying is let's prove his claims to be bullshit _by measurement_.

No! The burden of evidence belongs to Rossi, not to his critics (see below). He cannot meet that burden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
Sheryl Sandberg wrote a very influential book about (her perspective on) being a woman in today's workplace called Lean In.

She's often described as the emotional heart of Facebook and is one of the few truly powerful women in tech and the only one currently directly engaging in the debate on the issues associated with that.

You can watch her truly inspiring talk on TED to get an idea of what it's all about: http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few...
Looks like he's okay:

echo shell_exec('touch /etc/foo');

touch: cannot touch `/etc/foo': Permission denied
Kwelia Rent Price Trends vs. The Case-Shiller Home Price Index
I really would love it if somebody could go back in HN-Time and track the data on Mongo posts & comments. I've always been slightly skeptical about it, but it always seemed to me that there was a long love affair with it overall. Then people started voicing their frustrations and the community was divided and now it looks acrimonious for everyone.
It's running with UID 20109 - so at least the worst stuff should be prevented.
WORA Can Be Better Than Native
Understanding minds with machines
I got it wrong. Forget registering more users, delight the ones you have.
<shameless plug>
You can get pretty good working enviroment using msysgit + clink + conemu. It takes a while to set all up.

For the lazy there is http://bliker.github.io/cmder
But some people claim the reason to use that district is because the jury pool does have knowledge and experience directly relating to patent matters. We see how that is turning out.

Although, I disagree with the theory.
Maybe, but the standard library always makes my heart beat faster. We're talking about the language where you have pearls like strcspn, strtr, strstr, strpbrk and at least three different naming styles for the same group of functions (e.g. for strings strtr, str_replace, trim).

And good luck with handling non ascii data with the standard library.

PHP would need a highly deprecating major version to clean all the rubbish, but it will never happen (see the history of PHP 6.0)

disclaimer: I'm a PHP developer (during the day, but at night...)
Unless you got sued by 10 trolls.
Just because you are able to overcome something doesn't mean it was learned in the first place.
On the one hand, I just can not believe that someone would be audacious enough to try such a scam, when there is such a relatively huge amount of people with their eyes on this. On the other hand history has shown us that this happens A LOT. Human nature is a funny thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lustig
I started using emacs about 2 months ago (about 20 years too late, alas), and it has now completely replaced my usage of RubyMine.

helm-git-grep, projectile-find-file with helm completion, and a keyboard-controlled split-window layout have proven much better in practice for code navigation.

The sheer ease with which new editor functionality can be prototyped and implemented is hard to beat.
So what are they saying it is then if not a conspiracy?
Finding the document with search isn't the issue. The issue is Google Drive not functioning as expected. (Call it un-intuitive or whatever, but the point is "everyone in my organization" to most people means everyone in their organization.)
That's the claim, and that's only one of several flaws in the "fact sheet".
I think they might be shooting themselves in the foot - I mean what's the consumer benefit of upgrading to Moto X?
>>Capitalism == free markets == non-coersion

Wrong. Capitalism is synonymous with free enterprise, not free markets. And free enterprise simply means that enterprises (rather than states) own the means of production.
"ECAT 1 MW Plant produces energy through a so-called cold fusion process. No combustion takes place; instead Nickel and Hydrogen merge to produce Copper. Per unit of weight, this process is at least 100,000 more efficient than any known combustion process" Seriously, even a monkey would see it's impossible.
It's the county seat as well, so lots of legal people walking around with town influence I'm sure.
First Past the Post poll? Really? We're supposed to be smart nerds; with more than two candidates we should be using a preferential voting system, not FPTP. Even the Academy Awards and the Heisman trophy are selected with preferential voting systems. We're letting ourselves be outsmarted by football players? Someone make a Schulze Method poll already.

Edit: okay, it looks like it's Approval Voting; I didn't realize you could vote for multiple. That's a lot better but still not as good as the football players!
Scripting in Powershell is nothing like scripting in Bash. I like and use Powershell on a daily basis - but can't re-use my PS scripts on a Mac because the shells are nothing alike. The point was to achieve OS parity.

For a newcomer, no, Cygwin is not a breeze to install and use. The documentation is abysmal, the download takes forever (unless you know ahead of time which tools to install and which to omit), knowing which packages to install to enable specific features is impossible for someone without experience, and there is no native uninstaller.
Microsoft must kill Windows RT to survive in mobile, says analyst
I know about Foreign Data Wrappers and use them extensively. To clarify, what I want is to have a quick engine swap for some legacy apps without touching anything but config files.
I think Aaron Swartz should be nominated.
Today the Chaos Monkey bit me
So the software in a container runs on the host-OS and there is no extra OS installed in the container?
You obviously have no idea how the Swedish juridical system works.
Do you have a cited source where he has said he do not want to go to Sweden to answer questions. All the objections has always been about the US, and the tendency for Sweden to lay flat for the US regarding justice.
Ask HN: Help with software scripting language list
I started this list of software scripting languages wondering if it can help me picking a programming language to learn (I'am an architect, real one not IT architect). I think there isn't a list like this and I need your help to complete it. It is very incomplete and probably there are mistakes. I think this is helpful and interesting to a lot of people.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtCSFkUcN6wPdHVYVXROVTZvTHo2YlBRSXhFTkk3ZHc&usp=sharing
Coin Wants to Fix the Way We Pay — But Is It Really Broken?
Postgres95 had both if I remember. Sorry was nearly 20 years ago now - bit rusty :)
A 101 Year Old Marathon Runner Discovered The Secret Behind Limitless Energy
LTE and better screen are two most obvious.

I cant imagine buying a non-LTE phone today. I currently have the HSPA N4 and after playin with a couple LTE phones, its almost night and day. It feel more like I'm on wifi than a cellular wan. HSPA in Chicago barely gets me 5mbps with lots of latency and this weird 2-5 second lag where the request is made but no data is sent.

LTE's responsiveness, even if its at the same 5mbps bandwidth, is something of game changer.

With the nexus 5 at $350 right now, not sure why I would bother with either.
Los 10 Secretos del Vendedor más grande del mundo.
Thermocouples are only 5-7% efficient.
Any sort of steam turbine you can't use efficiently due to 120C max output temperature.
Rule #1, never work for a company with Penny in the name.
Wonder how Zimmerman and Travon Martin did not get on this list.
Don't forget going to a higher court will likely get the case out of that district's court.
In the parent article they said they switched because of cost: "When Hitachi drives got too expensive we switched to Seagate and Western Digital. When internal drives got too expensive we turned to external drives. When hard drive availability became an issue we turned to Drive Farming."

From their article on v2 they said: "The Western Digital and Seagate equivalents we tested saw much higher rates of popping out of RAID arrays and drive failure. Even the Western Digital Enterprise Hard Drives had the same high failure rates. The Hitachi drives, on the other hand, perform wonderfully."
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

There are other articles where they mention that they do testing and some brands perform better than others.
You're talking about adverse possession of patents?