skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this. Upworthy posts are so obnoxious. My favorite title so far is "Try Not To Groan When You Hear This Battlecry."

edit: They should also have added pop-ups like
"I think water is wet"
[agree] [disagree]
Houston Startup, Philantro set sights on Nonprofits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

"There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends. Commentators use beginning birth years from the early 1980s to the early 2000s"

Millenials are basically those 30 years old and under at the moment.
Our foam is a polyurethane foam like most other foam and memory foam mattresses. We use 3 different mixtures of foam in our bed, all of which have been offgas tested and meets the strict standards of the CertiPUR certification.

We definitely wouldn't sell something that we wouldn't want to sleep on ourselves but I can understand your concern with sleeping on something that isn't 100% natural.

If you're concerned about sleeping on foam then you might want to take a look at a more alternative option. Look for 95% natural latex foam (there is no such thing as 100% because they use glues) or for all organic cotton/wool tufted cores.
I see so many people in this thread who are extremely disconnected from the reality of what it takes to be successful in ecommerce. They haven't had to deal with the fly-by-night sellers who set up, steal their product data and images from you, blow out everything at below MAP price and then shut down when they get caught only to pop up next week under a different name.

Third party sales channels represent a HUGE portion of the market, you can't afford to ignore them as a reseller. Often your only advantage in a third party channel is the quality of your data and images. Your company name is never allowed to feature prominently, and if you think good customer service will convince somebody to pay 20% more for your product than the guy who's breaking MAP policy you are kidding yourself. Good customer feedback is the minimum bar for selling successfully through third party channels, not a differentiator. In many marketplaces, sellers who have bad feedback will simply set up a new account and start over, seeding themselves with good feedback from day one.

What all this adds up to is a lose/lose for honest companies that play by the rules, make no mistake, protecting the images that you've invested capital in to create is very important.
That's disappointing. Is there a reason you didn't just buy an unlocked iPhone directly from Apple? Or did you assume (just as I would have) that because you paid full price it would be unlocked?
The US Navy is actually the one most interested in lasers, because the huge power generation capability of ships lends itself to their use quite nicely.

EDIT:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/08/17658147-navy-unv...
You threw away a memory foam mattress because of that? Did you consider using sheets or a mattress protector? Did you know that sweat and oils from your skin will do that on any mattress, regardless of the foam or lack of? Do you normally make extreme decisions like this when it comes to your health?

I thought I understood consumers, but now you have me doubting myself. Human behavior is fascinating.
I was thinking of Dan Simmon's coining of hellwhip for High Energy Laser WeaPon myself.
try awesome, it's awesome. :P
> Virtually everything on that list are implementation details that the vast majority of applications and developers don't need to even think about.

Particularly if you hire a DBA.

But that's not what you meant... and you're right. If your business doesn't generate enough query traffic and data to stress your database, then no, you don't need more than the indexing and smart query development which your average developer can learn.

The moment your business hits that wall, however, you'll be scrambling to get someone who can dig into those "implementation details" and wring every ounce of performance out of your database.

> [...] do you think every query needs to be tweaked for this one: Push the query plan down into InnoDB

Nope. However, for that one table that is better served by using Tokudb, or MyISAM, or the Archive engine it does matter (yes, there are actually use cases for using MyISAM tables instead of InnoDB).

> 5a + 5b, Is MySQL so bad at memory management that you tweak it for every query?

Again, for every query? No. Also, 5a and 5b have nothing to do with memory management, and everything to do with the size of the dataset you have to pull into memory to identify and return the results. Knowing how this affects the buffer pool LRUs, disk usage patterns, and how to optimize the interaction between the two can be vital.
>"The experimental weapon, dubbed the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD)"

I gotta give it to them for their ability to name projects.
By "this", do you mean an intuitive natural-language one-stop-shop to get information from across all of Google's properties? Seems like pretty terrific UX design to me.

Or by "this" did you mean Tips -- i.e. is your argument that you shouldn't ask your users for discoverability advice? If so, I can see how doing so requires a bit of indifference to embarrassment, and a lack of care as to what snobs might think, but hey, discoverability is hard.

How would you design a way to teach users they can do queries like this?
How a Developer Learned Not to Be Racist and Sexist
Wouldn't it change all modern warfare? Aren't mortars a big part of all land battles?
Well... Tuft and Needle is rediculous name for a mattress company. But congrats to your success. Also, please switch up your renders for actual photos. The renders are quite obvious and feel deceptive.
Byron Crawford's The Mindset of a Champion
As I understood it, the memory tables are read-only. They're like a cache. So transactions aren't needed.
Ask HN: What do you look for when choosing a new programming language?
I've recently finished quite a bit of reading material on compiler construction and design, and a fair bit of PLT. I wanted to survey HN users on the pain points of languages they may use in production, and what they look for when selecting a new language or framework. This may or may not culminate into a new project, but either way this exercise will be useful to me (and perhaps you as well).
The inability to comprehend why a mashup of nouns into a long class name might be useful is one of the most annoying memes on HN. Is it just that programmers are slow typist or something? Surely any competent programmer should be able to string together what the individual terms mean in your example (Rectangle, Collection, Color Picker, Factory), and easily grok what the class is intended to be used for.
What is your web development shop's URL? You may get some business ;)
Django + Tastypie (though it was an addition to the Django app, rather than pure REST).
In case you're wondering why no one is expressing outrage and discussing this at length - they are. It's just that they're doing it over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6897853

The same story has also been submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6900376

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6898724

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6898709

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896932
Yeah, I think mounting it on a truck is the new part.
"Try Not To Do A Double Take When You Hear This One Verb."
It's sounds pretty cutting edge but a video instead of a still (why calling it a gallery?) would have been better.

Looking at these feats of technology and trends of early drones, lasers, processing, robotics, motor-limbs, 3D printing and other aspects of machine development it seems that the day is not far when the outreach of the Government is gonna get completely beyond people's ability to contain it.

I can imagine things like people not being allowed to use naked eyes while walking on the streets; force use of licensed Ocular Rifts to take a stroll instead. Driving cars taken off the list, use self-driving ones etc. Eventually shunt the squishy skin under a robot and rely only on the brain part of the human to do the mundane stuff.

Doesn't look great to me, but ...
Mortar rounds...
I know, rationally, that I'm competent. That does not prevent me from feeling like an impostor and having nagging self-doubts.
There's something even more fundamental about his own thought process than creativity, which is odd that he doesn't see -- namely, "Why does David Deutsch care about creating an AGI?".

Why is there a drive towards creativity / creation at all? So, creativity is still merely a simulation of a top level human function--you could probably program something to be creative, but how about /wanting/ to be creative? How about not wanting to be creative? How about being obstinate, or bored?
My mobile app, Routesy (http://routesy.com), falls into this category through a combination of sales of the paid version and advertising in the free version. It was one of the first 500 apps in the App Store when it launched in 2008 and has been pretty consistent in its earnings ever since then.
If it's possible to integrate this with BrowserFS, you'd be all set: https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS/#browserfs
Show HN: URL Shortener for Spotify and Rdio
> He does make a few good points, like the one that quantum phenomena do not give rise to mental processes, but that is trivial in the sense it's obvious to anyone with some knowledge of quantum mechanics on one hand, and what neurons are and how they work on the other.

This didn't prevent Penrose (surprise, another physicist) from establishing his little cult with Quantum Theory of Mind.
And on 2. I forgot customer support. I am a truly believer that customer support makes the biggest difference when running a business no matter if is online or offline.
There's actually something fairly interesting at play that should be mentioned: Typing with a physical keyboard is much more accurate than a touchscreen, but a touchscreen makes up this deficiency by a much simpler to use word completion feature. Error correction is also a breeze. Most of the words written in this post took advantage of those factors, and it took me about a minute to type everything up.
Original source: http://www.army.mil/article/116740/Army_vehicle_mounted_lase...
> real people whose mother was killed by cancer, and worry about that gene popping up in their own children

Certainly everyone's mother was killed by cancer who works on cancer. And no, not everyone who works at a Big Pharma company is terrible, but the problem is more that Big Pharma is concentrated on improving their current prescription systems, rather than finding a cheap one-off cure. If Big Pharma wants to stop acting like a giant faceless evil monster, I will stop treating it as such. But how can you really justify current medical costs without saying that someone, somewhere in that industry is doing something disingenuous?

> The politicization of science leads to waste such as the recent Solaris nonsense, where we allocate funding based on politics and posturing rather than where it will have the most utility across the whole nation.

The problem is that there isn't enough demand to justify the cost, if we're doing it in a "if a person is diagnosed, they pay for it" manner that capitalism demands. Cancer research costs many, many billions of dollars due to many factors [1]. Say we're talking about leukemia research. 40,000 cases were diagnosed this year [2], but should each of those cases have to pay for the extremely high costs of research? Or, could we distribute it in a way such that each citizen pitches in a much smaller amount to help cancer research? In my opinion, the latter makes more sense, rather than punishing those who get sick.

Lastly as for credibility in the research world, there are definitely lots of examples I could look up. And also plenty of examples to look up for your cases that you mentioned as well. I think it would be too hard to count, no? But when you see things like the Tobacco Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Institute#In_popular_cu...) it's hard to say that we should research everything privately, because the conflict of interest is just too high. In my opinion, publicly funded research could / should be reformed, but there's not as obvious of a bias one way or the other there.

[1] http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2011/nci-12.htm
[2] http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/leuks.html
What exactly are "Westerners" and what exactly are "Asian cultures" in the context of the research you speak of?
I'm hoping this will eventually work for streaming games over 802.11n from my PC to a Mac laptop. After testing with ping for a while, I think it'd work for any game that can tolerate the occasional spike from 5ms to 15-20ms latency.

It should have the advantages of being able to play every game, in better quality, without making the laptop uncomfortably hot.
>> Technical: We take a pragmatic approach with everything

Genuinely curious why pragmatism didn't include a SAAS for the website (like Shopify) or the use of something like Wordpress with eCommerce plugin?
Ripple is a scam, stop lying to yourself.

It's pretty obvious that the only lying going on is coming from you.

It's pretty obvious that Ripple Labs is buying back their own currency on the exchanges based on the volume. It's called damage control…

Yes because Ripple Labs, fresh from raising [an additional $3.5 million in funding](http://www.finsmes.com/2013/11/ripple-labs-raises-3-5m-fundi...) was clearly in really bad shape.

And all of that volume happening on the various exchanges (like the 232,348.28 that traded on [RippleChina](https://ripplecharts.com/market/CNY:RippleChina/XRP) the past 24 hours) is mostly Ripple Labs buying XRP, right?

This is just… dumb. And it makes no sense.

Ripple Labs can slow down or even stop distributing XRP until the price goes back to where they'd want it. No need to do buybacks when RL (at least for now) control the vast majority of the currency.

You should stop with these posts; it's just getting more embarrassing.
A PHP SOAP client for the command line
Yes, but that wasn't really my point. It's about forming the habit of mentally inhabiting someone else's shoes. Gaining the ability to even consider that something might look different from another person's perspective. Having the awareness that others have equally complex internal lives and factors affecting them.

That's what a lot of good fiction is superb at installing in one's mind. It's what books can do like no other medium. Good fiction is as close as listening in on another's thought stream as we get. I think it's particularly valuable for children.

Now, there's also non-fiction writing that can do this - experience reports, auto-biographies, letter collections (some of my most formative young-age reading experiences were Robert Falcon Scott's expedition diaries and his letters of good-bye and regret written near his death). But there's an element of someone presenting themselves to the world there that I think fiction more frequently isn't affected by. Though it's true that authors speak through their characters, so fiction writing isn't unbiased either, of course.
It's a huge part in terms of being able to demoralize troops, and soften up some dug in targets.
I did way better than I expected last time for my first entry in the contest, with my Legend of Epikouros (http://tenseconds.npng.org/ for the curious). Now I feel that I cannot top that >_<'

But I encourage everyone to participate, that was a lot of creative juices flowing!
Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) systems have been around for a while using guns rather than lasers - often based on CIWS from naval ships:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_Rocket,_Artillery,_and_...
__DBAs and Sysadmins (real ones, not these clowns who use nothing but chief or puppet and doesn't know how ./configure && make works) are becoming extinct purely from economical reasons__

As long as we're insulting people ... it's going to be 2014 in three weeks. Who compiles anything for PHP4? Boasting about an ability to handle other people's messy scripts sounds like an anti-pattern to me, and your recommendation to your org should be to develop a plan to refactor anything dependent on a library that has been deprecated for 6 years and actively out of development for 5.

I also feel like the vast majority of folks claiming merit badges as DBAs in 2013 are the product of failed technology roadmaps and technical debt with no plans to pay it off. I'm sure there are still places where true, full-time DBAs are worth their paycheck, but in my experience these are far and few between with the current status of OSS database options and hardware performance.
7DFPS is one, but for a more complete overview I usually check http://compohub.net/, but at the moment it isn't listing any compos in the coming months :(. You can check the issue tracker, where people have posted what should be added: https://bitbucket.org/randati/compohub/issues?status=new&sta...
All joking aside, the guy who wrote those kind of knew what the hell he was talking about.
I got a Nexus 5. It was bigger than I expected and I was initially unhappy. After a few days of use, I'm loving it. "Ok Google" is a winner.
Consumer hardware handles 1080p streaming over a network just fine, have you ever seen an Nvidia shield?

It streams PC games in 1080p to the mobile device and the control is then sent back to the PC game. It works surprisingly well.
Big data reshapes weather channel predictions
The domains table currently has 84 fields.

Are you sure you've read up on your C. J. Date? I've had that once before: someone complaining that "queries take too much time" with a paltry single-digit-GB database. When I asked about the specifics, the only repeating reply was "we can't tell you". You don't mention anything of value, but querying a few million records can't possibly take a few minutes on the aging desktop computer I've bought seven years ago, much less on a modern server.
Imagine this solution applied to App Store or Google Play apps. I think it's best to just to what they do and offer category views, new/hot/featured, lists for certain use cases, etc.
Everything is illuminated: ARM buys games lighting outfit Geomerics
Ygritte’s voice “You know nothing, Jon Snow”

Game of thrones !!
Is Facebook Planning a Move to ARM Based Servers?
This has been a continuous refrain from neo-Luddites regarding information technology well before I started noticing it near 40 years ago.

Yes, VR is more immersive, depersonalizing, and derealizing ... but I don't think it will prove much worse than large-screen high-res video games, or even textual social media, are now. Those prone to the implied problems are already getting their "fix". Heck, TV sucks up near 40 hours each week from the majority - and that was reached with grainy 720x400 resolution media with few options for interaction. VR provides diminishing returns for information addiction.
The entire time I was watching it I felt like they were pissing on Arthur C. Clarke's grave.
So you're saying that you yourself contribute regularly to heart, lung, skin, eye, and bone marrow cancers? If so you're a saint, but I think most Americans do not. This is understandable - if we live in a society that encourages us to pursue individual success above others, improvement of society is not our top priority clearly.

I certainly agree the government is not an ideal re-allocator of wealth. I think it needs to be reformed. But saying "Hey this isn't ideal, so we should throw it away" is kind of silly, no?
I'd love to see Costco have to compete with Amazon for my bulk household purchases, but I'm curious how this "set sized box" scheme will work. Part of the magic of Prime is not ("add-ons" aside) worrying about clustering your orders: Search, confirm price is reasonable, click, and it shows up two days later. Trying to fill a limited box sounds like it could end up as a fiddly value-maximizing game.
Out of interest, I hear a lot of people saying Flask is good for REST API's.

You don't use any additional framework?
Does this mean you manually have to code POST requests to accept data / save them to the database? Some kind of REST framework would seem like a far easier option. (I use Django / Tasypie - you configure the resource, and it automatically knows how to save a valid POST to the database).
I wonder how much the indexes are helping. It sounds like it could be a hard case for a query planner. You might be doing more full table scans than you realize, and it might not be as slow as you might expect. I think regex searches do full scans, so that gives an idea of the cost.

This is a great problem that would be fun to work on. Except that I guess you already found a satisfactory solution.
>>but a video... would have been better.

Boeing released video earlier in the year [1]. Raytheon has had video of their's shooting mortars since 2008 [2] and drones in 2010 [3].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NrG3zcf1s

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrtJbsyvmSo

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXfKbR0XRz0
you might be a perfect user for a system I'm looking to build. It's away for people that have skills to offer in exchange for credits they can use for others peoples skills. For example you do a marketing project and you earn credits that you use for a developer or screen designer etc. if your interested email me at bob@openrobotfactory.com. I'm looking for someone with your skills to help me get some early users (20ish) to work out the kinks.
Ask HN: would you pay for this service?
Hi,

I am thinking about creating service which will be like filepicker.io/(uploading photos, resizing, cropping) + storing photos on s3 + focus on moderation management (moderation on your own or by using Amazon Mechanical Turk). The main differentiation point would be focus on photos moderation management. It could be used for any social network website/app where people are uploading photos. What do you think about this idea? Would you pay for it?

Best,
Wiktor
There are re-shipping companies that can send you orders from the US to Canada.
I actually catch myself sometimes saying or thinking the tooltip text. :)

But what Deutsch writes here is somewhat opposite in approach to the problem of how to be annoying--he's trying make a non-physics research area seem fundamentally more complicated than it likely is. I'm willing to say it borders on mysticism, and the only reason I can think of for such behaviour in an otherwise fine scientist is a strong emotional attachment to some romantic idea of what it is to be a human being. There is zero (AFAIK) theoretical or empirical evidence for his grand claims about creativity, and he's playing the old game in AI: goalpost moving. Whenever AI does something that was previously thought to be only achievable by humans, the critics immediately jump and say: "Ah, but that's not really intelligent, is it?"
Is there any chance this was inspired by Priceonomics?

http://priceonomics.com/mattresses/
"Cars are better than horses because then we don't have shit all over the streets"

"Yeah, but the shit isn't really so bad, you can often step around it, and we have a tax to pay people to clean it up. Therefore horses are just as good as cars."
There are tons of left wing think thanks, tho'. In fact people regularly complain to the BBC due to their habit of calling Reform say a "right wing think tank" but the Fabian Society just a "think tank" implying neutrality and objectivity.
I love Costco not just because of their good prices but also because they have a reputation for paying and treating their employees reasonably well. Amazon does not share this reputation (at least for their warehouse workers).
I'm very interested in this mattress and we're in the market. However, I'm concerned about the 5-year warranty, as I thought it would be acceptable to expect a little more. Is that standard for foam beds, how do you differ from competitors in this regard, and can you explain why/how you chose a 5-year warranty model?
Your right, they don't use it intentionally, most people still think the google shopping results are part of the organic search return.