skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your answer which clarified the misunderstandings. But your last post was not a clarification but raised a big question to me. It looks like I was talking nonsense about PCB design with customer service.

I never suggested you to change your name because I know it's your personal choice. Since I ran through it even with mistake and run a couple of rounds and waiting forever to get it done, name changing is still not a process with tons of time and effort. From this kind of experience, we learned that it is the government process. Because you haven't encountered too much hassle yet, you feel like this kind of tedious is not bearable. No, it's not. A lot of things are more tedious than that. That's why I took iphone design as an example. The same for software development and deployment. So much hassle.

Now I feel your attitude is a lot better. You did some research and try to understand their system. But still if you don't pay them a loyalty fee, you cannot argue. It's their choice and your choice is either go with it or take other action like changing your name.

The credit report example told us that it may occur at any time, and they are not going to change their process for the time being. I discuss this issue generally from the culture perspective because it's an alert to other people, not specifically go against you.

I feel sad for you to have this frustrated experiences. In the real world, we also have a lot of such experience. Again, think from the other side point of view, if they allow you which may take a risk for having a lot of free customers complaining against their customer support for real financial issues, what can they do? Then you may feel a lot easier to accept their decision.

Thank you for not down voting me. I took my time to make you understand.
mysql> drop database PRODUCTION
Do you really want to drop the 'PRODUCTION' database [y/N] y^Hn
Database "PRODUCTION" dropped
Will the servers be running Mono instead of .Net, or are parts of the site being rewritten in a different language?

What about the databases?
People like this grind my gears. Many things go into being rich, but the top of that list is making more money than you give away. Practically by definition, people who continue to do this will continue to get rich.

There is no shortage of humanitarian efforts, funds, and foundations started by the wealthy for the sake of the underprivileged. To suggest these are insufficient because their founders remain wealthy is foolhardy.
Way back, I found out that there are an infinity of such patterns. I was really awed by that!

http://blog.zyrthofar.com/2012/07/multiplying-recurring-deci...
"39 explosions for the purpose of geological exploration (trying to find new natural gas deposits by studying seismic waves produced by small nuclear explosions)"

(As well as several other interesting tests/uses)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_Nati...
It's quite possible to consider those facts in isolation.

What they have accomplished is impressive for 17 year olds, but it's very reasonable to acknowledge the moral (and legal) gray space their work occupies.

Moreover, it's possible to comment without bringing both of those facts up together. I know I'm not particularly interested in extolling the virtues of these particular individuals. It's just not interesting. Maybe the OP feels the same way?
Personally I think this is a public policy issue to be addressed with the government which in democratic nations requires a sea change social movement given that most are pretty conservative. Addressing the issue of wealth disparity to rich people seems entirely pointless to me. Anyway, this more like a publicity stunt not meant to address poverty but to get this guy rich and or famous visa vis plugging his book.
113 at current count.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge

Yes, there are 1,426 billionaires at current count, but that is still a significant number. Many != the majority.
Ramen is crowdfunding for software
Ramen is the first platform where startups can obtain capital from their first customers and collaborate with them as the product is being built.
Worst Bar Chart of 2014?
No, he must be a racist, since he's saying exactly what I said. After all, you are ascribing a motive to me, so why not him? You self-righteous whiner.
Brother and sister co-founders just proved today people care about data privacy
Psychobiotics: How gut bacteria mess with your mind
Never had an issue on my pebble... been fairly rough with it too I might add. It's a solid piece of tech.
This is why, while I hate Oracle and everything they represent as a company, I kind of like their database because of the flashback feature. You can do

SELECT * FROM table AS OF TIMESTAMP some_timestamp;

and that is pretty practical. It works online, no restore, no nothing, and while it only works as long as the old data are in logs, on a production system, you should have the spare space to have some history. Theres also FLASHBACK TABLE tab to BEFORE DROP but that shouldn't happen, right?

Of course, you should probably do every update of production data in a transaction, check the result and then commit, and if you want to be sure, you can do UPDATE ... RETURNING to check what's changing. Autocommit on manual access to production is pretty crazy. But still, flashback is useful.
It seems hypocritical to me that Apple facilitate the running of other OSs on their machines but refuse to permit their OS to legally run on non Apple machines.
Ha, yeah, it'd be interesting to see which domains on there became valuable and/or successful companies.

After I made this I saw Andy Baio did a list back in 2002 too: http://waxy.org/projects/domains/
Please tell me more about my psychology. This is fascinating stuff.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Boss: We have thousands of bad orders that must be fixed now!

Me: No we don't. We have 121 bad orders.

Boss: There are thousands of them!

Me: No there aren't. There are exactly 121 of them. I'm sure.

Boss: I'm not going to argue with you!

Me: Good. Because you'd lose.

I fixed 121 orders that night. The next day my login & password wouldn't work.
Real prosperity
The only big difference is the SSD.
I had a recruiter send me an email exactly 5 months ago today claiming "I've placed ten folks with AOL in the past year, and Patch is the most profitable and exciting division especially for the engineers."

First time I've ever had to respond to a recruiter to tell them they were full of shit.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/08/09/layoffs...
Last time I was looking, the company had put their prices up significantly, and then had no stock and no manufacturer and no news on when they would have any more.

Now it looks like their website is gone completely.

They don't come up on eBay much at all; I suspect you'd get a good amount for them.
Correct, but retailers make nowhere near 200 from a sale, still enough for Sony to not make a profit though.
before producthunt existed how did you share links about cool new products @rrhoover?
Lawsuit Alleges NASA Is Failing To Investigate Alien Life
Interestingly, FOSDEM appears to NOT be an acronym or initialism, just an all-caps name with some relevant letters reminiscent of free/open-source.
Finally closed my first ever seed round. Wanted to share what I learned:
Inspect the code on that post. :)

Uglier but fully self-contained example http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/01/08/css-text-overlay-att...
Y'know, I have seen Mr. Kay talk before, and I wouldn't regard him as an idiot. However, he's seemed to have missed the entire point Bill was making.

> So what about China and India? Their recent growth performance has been exceptional, but both are still desperately poor countries by the standards set by Switzerland and Norway. The gap will take many generations to eradicate.

Which Bill completely acknowledges? However, he also makes the point that today, China and India are moving up at considerable speed when it comes to income. They have the abject poor still, no one will disagree, but compared to where they were 20 years ago, even the poorest in those countries are much, much better off, and all signs point to it getting better very quickly.

> But you do not have to venture far from the centre of Nairobi or Shanghai, and only round the corner in Mumbai, to see sights unimaginable in Norway or Switzerland.

The appeal to emotions here wasn't needed, nor was it affective. Not to mention, it still misses the same point: Bill isn't saying that things don't suck currently, he's saying that while they're not great, they're considerably better than they were before and that's an ongoing trend.
The Rangely C2758 adds QuickAssist for even more crypto/compression throughput.

http://ark.intel.com/products/77988/Intel-Atom-Processor-C27...

I have one of these sitting on my desk with an m-sata SSD. It compiles emacs just as fast as a R510 with 2 X5570s @ 2.93GHz.

When Intel goes 'tock' on these this Summer and manufactures them in 14nm rather than the current 22nm, the power consumption will drop even further.

and then there is Denverton. :-)
The problem with geothermal power is access. It's the reason why Iceland is almost entirely powered by renewables, and why the rest of the world isn't.

So if Iceland finds pockets of magma at 5km, it's only really a breakthrough if you can access magma at shallow depths in other regions.
Papertrail is great for this...you can of course setup syslog to route to a central server and just be logged in tmux / screen on that particular machine to read off the stream of logs (I prefer papertrail though + saved searches and hipchat "pings" when saved searches are matched on incoming events).

General devops / sysops/ sysadmin knowledge can be had through a variety of means - I got most of my knowledge from simply reading the FreeBSD manual and making a lot of mistakes with my own servers.
mapM_ (printf "The %s thing with Haskell is that it can be extremely compact\n")
["nice thing", "problem"]

This works. :)

Alternatively, you could do this:

forM_ ["nice thing", "problem"] $
printf "The %s thing with Haskell is that it can be extremely compact\n"
Checksum found in 1400 book
In the past, I've set up big MOTD style messages that say "PROD" in fancy ASCII graffiti when I ssh/connect a DB client/whatever to production. I think I will set one of those up now for my current setup.

Also, sort of related, I'm using MacOS, and in the back of my head I've wanted to create a tool that will change the color of the menu bar (at the top of the screen) to, say, bright yellow, when I'm connected to the VPN so that I don't accidentally visit a porn site while still connected to work.

That said, neither of these systems is even close to fail-proof :)
I'll just leave this[1] here as evidence. I still celebrate his work, just not his character.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7134774#up_7135480
Top 10 Startup Investor Rejection Phrases
I use IPython/SymPy for the same purpose. It is nice to be able to do these calculations on my local machine, in stead of relying on an internet conection. Plus I get the powers of Python to back me up if I want to do anything more compilcated.
Wait, where are these names taken from? Neither Opteron of Apteron turned up anything...?
Well, on the server side Linux is better than Windows, price, speed, tunning, customization ... It'a a no match.
This makes me wonder how far away something like the "Be Right Back" episode of Black Mirror, as others have already mentioned.

This seems more like another memorial service that may make sense with the kind of in-roads technology, the Internet, and social media are making into more and more lives. I think an interesting application of this would be having QR codes that match up with digital memorials like on headstones, or in-line akin to a hyper text function in epitaphs.

It's not necessarily something I might want for myself or loved ones, but this is a fascinating aspect of how people deal with death and a person's digital life.
"Megaupload" on Apache Mesos
In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there still be love for .COM?
Isn't that dangerous? I wonder if they would be better off having users install something locally that goes between the DB and the client?
You know what? I'd also be pretty pissed off if I worked hard to be considered an American and you insisted on calling me Filipino because you happen to know where my parents are from. I would be pretty sore if you acted like not doing that was a special favor you were doing me, by "lying" to people about my ethnicity, and not just being a decent human being.

It would sound like you value my expressed wishes for how I am represented less than you value showing off to strangers some secret you think you know about what's between my legs or in my blood that frankly is none of your business, let alone theirs.

I'm not really sorry if that feels like an imposition on your morals, because if it does then your morals kind of blow.
What position are you starting from? My old workplace was a university group where we (admins) were recruted from the available pool of PhD students. So I'm used to guiding people from "no knowledge" to "enough knowledge to be dangerous". The first step was to force the prospective admins to run a specific system on their "productive machine" and keep it in such conditions that _everything_ works.

This way, a complete admin newbie would learn about digging through the systems by working out the kinks of practical everyday problems. Remember, this is only the most basic instruction, nowhere near enterprise-grade.

If there was a "prospective admin" who had never before run Linux, I'd tell them to install and use Ubuntu/Mint. (Those guys whould usually only be trained to be a helping hand for a "senior" admin.)

If he'd already used Ubuntu at home, I'd tell them to start using Debian and work out how to set up an SSH server and set up their home machine so they could access it remotely.

If they had dabbled with Debian, Fedora, SuSe or something similar, I'd tell them to install Arch and set up some "interesting things", like a mail server or a nis server.

If they were using Arch or Gentoo at home, I'd just personally show them the important things about our system and have them wingman with me for a few days.

If you are already an advanced Linux or BSD user, my approach is of course not appropriate. Instead I'd recommend to pick skills that you want to learn (iptables? Exim?) and set that up. Read Manuals! Read RFCs!

Best of luck.
I've got a C2758 on my desk with dual 10G over PCIe.

works just fine.
When trying to put our webserver-cum-database-server onto nagios, I tried to apt-get install nagios-plugins. For some reason when installing that, apt wanted to remove mysql-server. I just pressed "Y" without thinking (because, hey, it's like 99.9999999% the right thing to do). So apt dutifuly stopped and uninstalled MySQL in the middle of the day.

Within about 2 minutes CTO strolls in asking about the flood of exception emails due to each request being unable to connect to the database.

Thankfully, I was able to apt-get install mysql-server, all the data was still there, and things were back to normal within 5 minutes.
> The photographers have created and published their work under the expectation that existing IP law will be upheld.

That's tough shit for them, then. Existing IP laws currently are really hard to uphold, and soon they will be literally impossible to enforce.

Also, IP is not a right; it's a privilege provided by the government.
Easily move/change iPad Calendar events
Hi. Theoretically yes, and we started there, but as someone mentioned, it has really low efficiency and will work only for few seconds. It would be expensive, and people are likely to stick with solid rockets for heir simplicity.
I've never been kicked out of a McDonald's for staying more than 20 minutes. The rule was likely created because large quantities of low- or non-paying people were inhabiting the space for long amounts of time, driving paying customers elsewhere. I don't blame the owners of this McDonald's for instituting a time limit, and I suspect that even if this happened in another country the business owner would likely do the same. I'm also sure McDonald's would welcome another entrant to "disrupt" the space and get them out of their establishment.
of course and no one is buying nintendo's new console, hence its not profitable from day 1.
Navigating the (admittedly confusing) CC licenses and figuring out how to place attribution that's both obvious and subtle seem like reasonable prices to pay for using an awesome image for free.
He's not entirely innocent. It's more like blaming himself for being hurt after being told to drive a car with no seatbelt or brakes, while knowing that the car has neither, fully understanding what could happen, agreeing to it anyway, then driving 80 mph down a residential street while still groggy from waking up.

Regardless, I am very glad they are now out of business. :)
I sold a pair in good condition for ~$1500 (~$1300 in pocket) on eBay a couple weeks ago.
And this is why there is crumbled up paper in the MOMA.
Did a similar thing, but in a less critical domain (warehouse management). Updated the status of all packages to "NEW", which would have meant that everyone who ever ordered something from that company would have gotten another delivery for free, provided the articles were in stock.

We were able to restore the data pretty quickly, but we had to interrupt warehouse workflow for a few minutes. They were surprisingly accommodating, almost amused by my mistake.
I'm drawn to this story because of my aging parents. This will become more of an issue, if not already, because of the aging baby boomers. It's important/beneficial for seniors to have a meeting place they will willingly go to.
But it is pretty hard on the eyes.
What is Patch?
Many did give much wealth to the Gates foundation, but it would be far from most.The wealth divide seems to be a pretty real problem. Concentrating all the wealth of the world in a few people seems pretty sub-optimal, trials[ 1] of directly giving cash to impoverished people demonstrates that if wealth was redistributed more evenly, it would not be wasted.

[1]http://forbesindia.com/article/real-issue/direct-cash-transf...
Love it. A great HR-scripted call.
It's really easy! Seismic surveys are key to the oil & gas industry, and can be used for other resources as well. We use thumper trucks instead of waiting for earthquakes.
Yes - things such as two transposed digits can easily and should be trapped on the client side.
Before that, the US did it in New Mexico in 1967 with project gasbuggy. It was nuclear fracking basically.
I deleted the entire sales team's sales database (for Canada's second largest cable company) because I was making a minor change and was too lazy to back it up first.
This thread is fascinating. For an industry obsessed with A / B testing the colour of a button or the placement of a link there are plenty of people who don't seem to realise that details matter.

Sure, they shouldn't matter, and it'd be great if we could get past them to actual competence, but not swearing in front of customers or wearing smarter clothing are the kinds of things that make a difference.
You're changing my words to fit your beliefs. I never said the large alliances have even dozens. Only one alliance is believed to have a decent stock pile of alliance available titans. And even thats just a rumour. You can say that this doesn't mesh with them using them if you want but the fact remains.

To answer you last question it's because it is a LOT of work to build them and not fun work either and it is extremely expensive to get into building them so the number of people that do it is limited and the people that do it tend to do it when there is orders for them and it'd be pretty well known if one entity was offering to buy none stop production.

PL is believed to have a decent cache(~20) the other alliances involved don't. I'd be amazed if the others had even one or two spare ones each, best case they convince a few inactive titan pilots to log on and give theirs to someone that lost one in the short term while they build a replacement for them.

>why not spend it all on building the biggest ships in the game?

Because only a handful of people can fly them and they are almost never useful. It's much better to spend your resources on smaller ships that everyone can use and get 2000 pilots out there not worried about dying.
This was done mostly to attract attention and publicity. Our team at Boost accelerator is fundraising 500k.
This might be a left over from my experience from older (slower) VMs, but I am curious why you went that route over Boot Camp. Looking at the stack it seems like you would spend almost all your time in Visual Studio or SQL Management Studio without much need for native OSX software. Why not get the speed boost of a non-virtualized environment in the OS you would be spending an overwhelming majority of your time in?
Not at all. Running other OSes increases the sales. Running OS X on non-Apple does the opposite. It's a corporation, not some OSS guys spreading the word, at the end of the day.
I don't think either wealth disparity or unemployment are themselves direct problems. I think the huge and fundamental problem, which is a problem even in a so-called 'rich' country like the US, is access to the basics of human life, which I think are food, housing, and education of a certain standard. Wealth disparity itself may be ok, but in the US at least it seems to contribute to costs of education and housing rising so as to prevent access by a large segment of the people. Ways must be found to solve that, even if wealth disparity itself doesn't necessarily need solving.
Wouldn't it be nicer if the domain names were divided alphabetically into 26 labelled pages? Right now it's 29 and difficult to browse.
There's a filter button there too where you can select the TLD you want to see.
It gets really scary when you imagine that the path to monetization for this thing might be advertising. Great, I can remember that fishing trip I took with grandpa, but he'll be subtlety shilling for some online retailer at the same time.
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Keep going. 240+ people summited (not attempted, but summited) Everest in 2012 alone. You're still a long way from "most".
They already passed such legislation. And you're right, it is a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy-Smith_America_Invents_Ac...

Basically, it moves US patent law from first-to-invent to first-to-file. So it lowers litigation costs for the big guys who take ideas from the little guys and use their big legal departments to file the patent on it before the little guy can.
Well, process and thread scheduling can make a very noticeable difference. Years ago, a few guys decided to revamp the Linux kernel's "good enough" thread scheduler into an actually nice one. The first iteration could handle creating and destroy 100,000 threads in 3 seconds on a box that used to take hours. Lately there have been benchmarks relating to interactivity of desktop programs, timing how long it takes for a program to respond to input. This varies dramatically depending on what priorities the kernel gives to various processes (when under load).

Implementation details can make a difference in how nice a system is to use.
it was 1998. i was young and foolish. no, seriously, i was 19. i was also SUPER convinced that it wouldn't work :) I have since learned to be waaaay less convinced since then.