skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would private enterprise really fund fundamental research, such as particle physics at CERN or astronomy? These things are important for our understanding of the nature and the universe, but the economic return is extremely hard to predict, although sometimes very large. Who would have thought that something like the world wide web would originate from particle physics? The returns from fundamental research can be several decades later.
Patents are a legal construct designed by and for corporations for their benefit. To argue that they are somehow not capitalist is somewhat disingenuous isn't it?

It always bothers me when I see absolutist statements such as this one. Are you claiming that there's some plausible 'pure-capitalism' existent outside of all laws?

Isn't the basis of capitalism itself wholly dependent on the governmental construct called currency? What about policing and a court system? It's hard to imagine anything approximating the modern idea of trade without those functions.

When you boil things down, 'government' is just a set of rules we all agree to. Capitalism is a set of rules we agree to in the area of trade. These are inexorably linked ideas.
I've been running Brutal Legend fullscreen with Unity and a gamepad since it came out, no issues here.
Do you guys have any plans for Canada?
It works amazingly well. However don't split windows then use ctrl-w j to switch. The browser captures ctrl-w first and closes the tab. Other ctrl-* combinations don't work probably for similar reasons.
> I'd argue that our scientific process and development would improve exponentially as result of replacing the old Socialist, state funded model with a voluntary consumer model.

I'd argue the exact oppsite: that the current private research work done especially in the field of medicine would yield vastly more benefit for lower costs if it were completely replaced by state funded research.
Yes, I was definitely mistaking it for NaCl, the CPU-specific approach.
That sounds like a problem that could be solved in nodejs pretty easily. I also want to get going with Go but just don't have any pressing need for it right now.
The problem with Torment is that it's a great piece of interactive fiction trapped within the RTS-turned-RPG engine they inherited from Baldur's Gate. Torment's strength is the writing, which you have to read through the engine's small and clumsy dialogue system, which becomes painful pretty quickly.
No they just know how not to fuck up their queries to start with so we don't need a DBA to optimise 300 join statements...
[video] Slam Shell 2013 - Giant Oil Spill
Really loved your story. Went to ASU worked for IIS...etc. If you need outside marketing I would look at Terralever. They are there locally and are very "private". CJ and Scott will help you out tremendously. Good luck.
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From reading the abstract, i assumed it was satire. Is it serious?

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
So is this a box spring? Or more like a futon? Maybe add something on up your site that has a cross section picture?
Well, your web server is not your database server. If it is, just know that your first scaling task will be to separate the two onto separate systems.

I was in a hurry when I wrote my earlier reply - system monitoring is not the only monitoring we perform. We watch the database itself for health and performance. We watch for abnormally long queries, abnormal locking, excessive deadlock resolution, replication health, and exploits.

Backups themselves require a bit of specialization - there are at least four different methods I'm aware of off the top of my head, and the proper choice for which to use is going to depend on the business (we typically set up 3 of the four - logical dumps, rolling binlogs, and binary dumps).

HA plans, particularly live failover, requires a deep knowledge of the database, its replication solution, and your business needs. Safely failing over a live MySQL database in a way that results in no data loss is hard to do.

Quite a bit of specialized knowledge is required to work with databases, even for normal sysadmin tasks.
+1 for Solr - looking at the search on domcop.com, it seems like a perfect fit for the faceting stuff.

There might be some messiness with the regex search (looking for user-defined patterns of consonants, vowels, etc) as I've never needed to set that up, but the rest would be really clean.

See also this blog post that discusses how RoomKey uses read-only Solr instances that are repopulated daily to speed up searching for latency-insensitive data (think "does this hotel have a pool?" etc):

http://www.colinsteele.org/post/23103789647/against-the-grai...
This... Plus Gmail... Man that's fantastic. I have sent an embarrassing number of emails that end with :wq.

Once you try Vim, it's really hard to go back. I also tried using mutt instead of GMail, and while it gets me 90% of the way there, the lack of graphical preview of attachments and things like filters and HelloSign make GMails web interface more useful.
Do it for yourself. Don't worry about comparing your work to others. If you make something you yourself are proud of, then what does it matter if Notch or Terry Cavanagh are participating?
You want some way of specifying an interface - that doesn't necessarily imply classes. Also, class-based inheritance tends to be a poor fit for interfaces; note for example that C#/Java have their own special-purpose interface mechanics, and even C++ which allows multiple inheritance tends to use implicit template-based interface implementation instead.

Discriminated unions on the other hand are - the name says it - intended for cases where you want to discriminate between multiple possible values. They're by design not intended to hide differences behind an interface; they don't address the same problem at all.

All in all, I think that neither classes nor discriminated unions solve the interface problem (nor were they ever really designed to do so) - that's a different problem.
This is cool and all, but it's a hack and it confuses the meanings of the viewport meta tags. Why should a "width=device-width" setting magically alter how touch events are processed? It makes no sense.

Wouldn't it make more sense to introduce a new setting something like "immediate-events=yes" that lets developers opt-in to this behaviour?
> The paper gave voice to an observation that people make about their peers, but that they don’t know how to express

I think Alexander Pope expressed it well when he wrote "A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing."
FWIW, I'm currently maintaining a project that does half a billion API calls per month for ~$400/month
Too bad android chrome is not the same as the AOSP browser that is built in to android which is what the webview uses...
Good tip, thanks.

I'm dabbling with quantified self strategies. I want to cover everything.

Health (BP, glucose, etc), food, pills, github commits, potty breaks, phone/chat/email, exercise, and most importantly sleep.

I want the data collection done passively (I will never journal).

I even want the total self app to periodically ask me what my mental state is. "Are you happy?" "Do you have a head ache?" "How does your tummy feel?"
Been thinking about this a lot lately, and I think one of the problems is the language and metaphors we use to describe the quality of the code.

Words like 'clean', 'elegant', 'well-structured', even SOLID are qualities of objects we want to consider at a distance, like statues or paintings. They are words of repose and reflection. You know: business death.

Here's an example from this essay:

"There is a reason good code is considered to be a form of poetry. It's elegant, clean, easy to read, and fun to write. These are all exceptional qualities that we should strive for every single day."

Try telling a product manager or CEO or other stakeholder how 'clean', 'easy to read', or -- God forbid -- "fun!" your code is, and watch their eyes roll back in their head. (I exaggerate for effect.)

These ideas make sense to us as developers because that's what we spend our entire day doing: considering, reflecting and thinking about code. But I think what we should be talking about is the inherent speed of the codebase. I'm not talking about my velocity as a developer, or the velocity of the team and how many story points they deliver per sprint, but the inherent velocity of the codebase as a function of its technical debt. Codebases, from a business standpoint, should not be "clean" or "dirty", but rather "fast" or "slow".

Technical debt should be surfaced to the stakeholders using language that conveys the dollar value, the fiscal liability, of technical debt. The most accurate way to describe that and show how debt is slowing your team down, is to talk about its inherent speed.

"Our codebase is getting slower" makes business sense to a Product Manager. "Refactoring this will make our codebase faster" is a phrase that conveys the worth of initiatives that otherwise seem to have no immediate effect on the bottom line.

All of the tools and agile methods we have talk about velocity in terms of what a team is delivering, and can parse that down to the sprint and developer level. But in my experience, the most significant contributor to a team's relative speed is the (intertia|speed|velocity|momentum) of the codebase itself, as a function of its technical debt. I think we need to start using language that intuitively and constantly surfaces the dollar value of technical debt to the stakeholders, so that "just ship it!" no longer sounds like a sound business strategy.
It's already happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6889305
This is awesome.

Did you start this as a side project?

Also curious how you built the bed as well…definitely a great price and a very elegant site. Aligns well with your product.

I don’t know if we have any New Yorkers here, but Bob’s furniture (official sponsor of just about every NYC sports team) sells lower cost furniture, and you’d never know it based on their cheesy late night commercials, but they’re actually an extremely fast growing private company, and did a ton of growth in the furniture industry during the “great recession”

Kudos to you. You should setup a blog and track progress and tell the story. I’d definitely be a reader!
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AWESOME!

Worth it just so you can avoid a freaking furniture store!
"Pinch-zooming is great for taking a closer look at a photo, some small print, or dealing with a set buttons/links that are placed too closely together. It's an out-of-the-box accessibility feature."

No! Pinch-zooming is fantastic for navigating content. It lets you see an overview of the whole page, then zoom in on the bit you're interested in. It lets you control how much is seen on screen depending whether you want to read it in depth or skim it. It is a key feature of browsing the web on mobile devices. Mobile websites that disable pinch-zoom by using enormous text on extremely narrow fixed-width pages are a pessimization, and are almost always worse than the desktop page rendered on the mobile.

That's my opinion. I search in vain for a browser whose "view in desktop mode" actually works.
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Guh - every few months this comes up, and it's fairly hilarious to me how much anti-oracle dogma there is here.

Oracle is the most feature-rich database in the industry, and the most expensive, and the most complicated. This comes with benefits and curses.

It is freakishly powerful. If you want, you can roll back just your view of the database to three hours ago. You can show different versions of the same schemas to different clients. You can dynamically scale out your database to hundreds of servers without having to manually shard. You can do multi-master replication, master-to-slave, master-to-slave-to-master, any combination you can think of.

Your database clients can automatically detect when a primary has gone down and fail over to a standby, which will automatically be brought online, no admin intervention necessary.

If you give Oracle raw disks, you can tell it to automatically use the faster parts of the spindles for more commonly used data. Or give it some SSDs, and it'll use it for cache. Or, if you buy Oracle storage servers, it'll actually offload basic query execution to the storage.

With that power comes great cost and complexity, which is why many web companies don't bother with it - when you get to google or facebook scale you build these types of capabilities into your application tier.

But I know of a ton of multi-petabyte Oracle implementations at big traditional companies, and they love it. Because they don't want to have to build all of that functionality at the application tier, and they trust Oracle's reliability.
LOCKER Malware - Yet another new variant of Cryptolocker Ransomware
The Incompetent Co-Worker: I once worked with a guy who constantly made a giant mess out of everything he touched. I later found out his last name was a verb at all of the competitors around town for 'to mess something up', and over the course of my job shifted from working alongside him to simply putting out all of the fires he created as fast as he could start new ones. My productivity _appeared_ to go down, while he was always ready to take on a new project (before handing it off to me in a mess). The worst thing he did while I was there was delete all of our copies of an entire website we had been working on for months, only a week before launch. He would also edit documents live using in-browser editors (with no undo history) and when he made a mistake we would LOSE code and have to re-write sections. He was always viewed as the hero, yet nobody seemed to realize that all of the issues he (eventually sometimes) solved were self-created and preventable.

The incompetent IT guys: At my college we ran a number of PC labs and a number of Mac labs. The guys in IT clearly had training enough to _use_ macs, but they really didn't understand the concepts of network administration. We were a design program and one of the requirements was that we be able to install custom fonts for use in projects. One day people got to class the morning a massive project was due and nobody could open their project files to print them! I discovered that the _user_ font folder had simply been replaced with a shortcut to the _system_ font folder, and we didn't have the permission to restore it. So they had deleted every users custom fonts already, and now after I discovered and proved their error they had to restore it to the way it was. They looked like _heros_ for fixing the big problem on the worst day, but ultimately it was only their incompetence that created the problem in the first place. Their reasoning was that TTF fonts can sometimes carry viruses within them that infect Windows computers… (And we use OTF fonts on OS X)
It is nice to lie down on the beds and get a sense of what you want. We went to a store for our son's mattress, but when it was time for our daughter to move out of the crib I made phone calls to a couple of big mattress suppliers. They purposefully have things like a Sleepy's specific model that only lasts a year, to make comparison shopping nearly impossible. On the phone they'll map a previous model to the current model for that year (and the big ones can do the same thing across competitors). Its much easier to call two different companies in the span of 30 minutes, when you know what you want already and get a better price than you would in the store, with less time and hassle.
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plain jane writeup @ local pub at time of:

http://www.wral.com/17-year-old-dies-in-durham-police-custod...
Thanks for all the answers? So I'm wondering couldn't we do a lot more hydroelectric in the US by running pipes alongside rivers?

Why do large hydro electric projects always use dams? It seems like a dam wastes a ton of land creating a lake?
John, thank you for this. As many have commented, I am kicking myself that I had to buy a mattress months ago and had to go through the whole bait-and-switch, renamed-same-mattress-from-store-to-store BS.

Next mattress will be from you guys --- any king-sized mattresses in your future (or is that what the twin XL)

Again -- thank you for disrupting this corrupt business
The site, and the bed, look great. Congratulations.

I'd be really interested to read a follow up post detailing a little more about your story, how you guys got started, challenges you faced, what you'd differently, etc...at least the details you're comfortable sharing.
Speaking as someone with a physics degree, I like to quote Peter Thiel (for once):

> This is why physics Ph.D’s are notoriously difficult to work with; because they know fundamental things, they think they know all things.

- http://blakemasters.com/post/22866240816/peter-thiels-cs183-...
It's not so much the change as letting websites disable zoom. Letting websites disable zoom is a braindead user-hostile decision that could only have been made by people with perfect eyesight (or perfect glasses.)
>> HN does not want you to write jokes in here -- and especially one liners without any other content.

But humor is insight, and brevity is the soul of wit. I saw it as commentary on the headline itself, which was ambiguous and vague. I thought it meant scientists had found an easter egg or the Enigma code hidden in DNA.
Have been looking to buy a new one for a while and this looks to be a great find (on HN of all the places!).

Would love to have a recommendation for an affordable(!) good looking bed frame on the site while you guys build the replacement.
According to the Amazon listing, it's just 3 layers of dense foam with a cotton cover. The story is interesting but the only selling point seems to be the return policy. You can get more mattress for less money from Ikea or even Amazon itself, and I wouldn't want to sleep on 5 inches of foam at any price -- it's more a mat than a mattress, and is going to be even thinner once you put your body weight on it.

Their twin is $199, and less than half the height of a normal mattress. For $139 you can get a 5-star-rated 8" foam mattress with 4" of dense foam, 2" of soft foam and 2" of memory foam, delivered tomorrow with the same certifications and 5-year warranty. [1] For $229, you can get a 12" foam mattress, which is more like a traditional full height mattress. [2]

1: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006L9QN4G/ref=oh_details_o...

2: http://www.amazon.com/Signature-Sleep-12-Inch-Memory-Mattres...
We are available in the US only at the moment, but Canada would be the next logical expansion for distribution. That being said, we don't have a specific date on this yet as we don't want to overextend ourselves and risk the quality of our service.
Nearly time for the GnuPG Crowdfunding to commence
I still think this stuff is very conservative with the macronutrients ratios.

I would pay for a keto-friendly version, but as it is, it seems too full of carbohydrates to fit my current needs.
>I search in vain for a browser whose "view in desktop mode" actually works.

Have you tried Firefox for Android?
What is Replica Set in MongoDB
From the abstract: "This socialist system should be augmented by a capitalist system, in which basic science is also funded by private investors who reap financial benefit from the sale of subsequent technologies based on the knowledge obtained from the research funded by their investments."
What type of foam do you use? My concern has always been that not enough testing has been done on the foam, and the chemicals used could leech into the both, especially if you like to sleep naked on the bed. I used to sleep on a memory foam mattress, but after a couple of years, I noticed a distinct discoloration of where I slept, and it suggested to me there was some sort of interaction between my body and the foam, so I threw it out.
That's starting to change!

Android 4.4 (KitKat) includes a new WebView component based on the Chromium open source project

Will the new WebView auto-update?
(...) There are large engineering and logistical challenges. We're not quite there yet, but we're working on it.

https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/ove...
Why do Russians pour asphalt over snowed roads instead of plowing them?
Thanks! That's a good idea. We'll follow up with a blog post and share some more of the backstory.
Note that this is only different in the

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no">
vs
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

case, almost all browsers already remove the delay for user-scalable=no pages, but its a good improvement to be fast and still allow zooming, the article explains that, but I got confused skimming the title + first paragraph.
I'd argue that a such a sweeping hypothesis as one made by the "paper" is so broad so as to be meaningless, and that you couldn't actually come up with enough facts to prove it one way or another. Just seems like troll bait, honestly.
Reverse ingeneering framework : inject javascript at runtime in any app : FRIDA
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If you are sending a marketing email to a person, an easy image that has unique data is their name. :) And I didn't even think hard on this. Pretty much any content that could have been easily done as text is easily done as a "dynamic" image.

Now, they can detect duplicates, but only after they have gotten the contents. Unless I am mistaken on anything. (highly possible.)
You can override the forced non-zoom features in settings.
Indeed, node.js was my other option. But compare deploying another server-side technology to just copy/pasting a binary.
> ...except that bitcoin doesn't exist in a vacuum.

No currency exists in a vacuum, this is a meaningless point.

> It's not the exclusive currency of anyone, and never will be.

You don't and can't know that.

> Bitcoin doesn't affect economies.

It will if it gets mass adoption, so again an irrelevant point since we're talking about its future, not its present.