skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, I use MySQL over Postgres because it was easier for me to configure and set up. I know MySQL much more coming from PHP and now I use Python/Django. I spent a few hours trying to setup Postgres and it would not install properly with Vagrant and I couldn't find really any helpful articles. I said fuck it, and installed MySQL on the VM in a matter of minutes and was up and running. Again, I am familiar with MySQL and got a production database on Amazon RDS pretty quickly.
Funny, the official tagline of the project is "We like epic shit". http://i.imgur.com/mvcyUX4.png

https://plus.google.com/115422404677762786098/about
Comparing annual finance sector costs against net investment is approaching completely misleading.

It's like being outraged at my annual grocery bill compared to the value of the food in my cupboard (ignoring the cost of all the food I ate).
By that argument, there is no moral argument against inflicting pain on others, because the pain of another is not something we can empirically observe, except by analogy of how we react to the pain we ourselves experience.
Could it be the author made it crackable because he wanted to be able to help anyone recover their files if there was some mishap? Just a thought.
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>> But why are freelancers not asking themselves how to pick the right client?

It's called supply and demand. There are less clients available then that there are freelancers.

Edit: Actually this might not be a 100% correct. Its easier for clients to do a Google search for freelancers than it is for freelancers to do a Google search for clients. I.e. freelancers always pull the short end, meaning it's not easy for freelancers to be picky about clients...
IANAL et al., but unless I'm mistaken, generating an API by analyzing requests and responses would be fine (under the purview of "research purposes"), unless you then subsequently use the generated API to access the service.

Also, it seems like authenticated sites would be difficult to scrape with this, i.e. ones that require login and possibly some logic (like sending a hash of request parameters) with every request.
The Chinese And Japanese Economies Are Delinking: Prelude To Conflict?
How do you define reactive programming?
Just as a matter of record you risk getting your IP blacklisted by using something like this without the web sites permission. Perhaps the poster child for web sites that go apeshit is CraigsList but most sites respond in one way or another. One of my favorites are the Markov generated search results that Bing sends back to robots.
Ally's focus is on providing excellent rates which we have done by limiting our focus. That being said, you can look for tremendous changes in our technology story later this year.
Author is clueless about the Bitcoin market.

Not important for the article though.
Also, one other note - I was talking about riding experience, not absolute age - something the CDC doesn't track, but other large studies I've seen do. There's a strong correlation between experience - whether gauged by years of riding or, even better, raw mileage.

There's also a huge correlation between unlicensed riders and serious injuries. Motorcycle riders are far more likely to be unlicensed than car drivers - last I heard was something like 3-4 times as likely.

Unlicensed motorcycle riders are over twice as likely to be in fatal accidents than licensed motorcycle riders.

I ride 15,000-20,000 miles a year - I'm well trained, equipped, and experienced. A lot of bike owners ride weekends, occasional trips, etc. I actually don't ride much on the weekends - and when I do, I'm pretty shocked how bad (dangerous, rude, etc) the riders are compared to the commuters I mostly see.
This is the Sean Penn that tied his then wife (Madonna) to a chair and beat her. What a prince.
Ask HN: Is it worth to start a Startup in the USA for a foreigner?
I'm a IT geek from Russia. And as a normal geek I have my personal side projects that I do for fun. And maybe one day I will do a business on top of them, who knows. However, I don't have any specific plans at this moment. But I would like to know what opportunities do I loose if I start software business outside of the USA.

Speaking about hiring, I think Russia is a good place to find well skilled developers and/or business partners to cooperate with. But as far as I understand building a product is just a half of work. I'm not sure how difficult will it be to promote and sell something outside of the country I live in.

If residence in the USA is vital for IT Startup, I would like to know how can I get there legally. The only opportunity I know is obtaining work permit visa(H1B etc). But I don't really need a work permit per se, since I'm not looking for a job. All of my friends who moved to the USA did it to find a job. But this is not my case, so they can't advice me.

Also I have israeli citizenship. Not sure, but maybe it could help somehow?
I'm from the northeast US.
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Yes 8 years ago poor security was a bit less of a risk.
Did HN react to the Kinect or Kinect 2 this way? It seems like there's a lot of burden put on Google to not do stuff that could be creepy even though that's all they do.
No doubt, biotech will be "eaten" by software. But the crowded market of biotech software has many viable open source alternatives. Besides, many tools have been developed or are being developed by established companies.

Yet, I don't see much evidence of growth. Looks like 'play money' for investors.
As a small business owner, I've been getting to know my customers really well. My business is focused on handcrafted cremation urns and urn like pieces, which can be dreary (black humor definitely helps). I hand hold people through their purchases and know what questions they might ask. Being small works in my favor.
And if you are a cybercriminal, learn the difference between 128 base-10 digits and 128 bytes.
I just installed it, it does look better.
dogebase?
Ray its more sophistication with the meaning of the technology as it applies to the law versus the law itself. The Google v Oracle trial gave us some good examples of what 'understanding' looks like in the judiciary, specifically in understanding that you have to use the same name for a Java method if you want to be "compatible" (widely protected as fair use) even though the words/characters are identical which looks like written text.
Are there any good iOS analytics that break out the non-US markets? How well is Apple doing in countries like Brazil, South Korea, or Turkey, for example?

Android has 80% of the world market so it's tough to know where iOS has significant market share.
Mind if I drop you an email? I have a couple of questions re: the extension.
a) Vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and chairman of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine Joseph Zissels believes maidan has nothing to do with the beatings but rather, he says, the government is involved.

(in Ukrainian language)
http://risu.org.ua/ua/index/all_news/community/vandalism/550...

b) Jewish girl helping on the maidan. She's telling that a lot of her friends go to help maidan after studies or work hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNZ9PVsD8HQ
I used to be all about Thrift. I first started using it back in 2008 and thought it was awesome for a long time. While it clearly works for Facebook (and many others), I've always had little problems with it. Connections silently fail (next request times out, following requests work again) if you don't make a call in long enough with some of the bindings. Generated servers sometimes leak memory. The type system is nice but creates all kinds of headaches when trying to reconcile it with something idiomatic in different languages. When many different services need to talk to each other it requires a lot of connections, each of which I came to view as a liability. Thrift's semantics are actually underspecified (http://twitter.github.io/scrooge/Symantics.html) so Twitter, who uses Thrift, came out with Scrooge, which is mostly compatible but not always.

My lesson was that Thrift is great if you have people who can look after it all the time. Thrift connections were never something you could forget about for a little while if you had a small team, though.

We've been moving away from Thrift towards a message queue-based system (using RabbitMQ) that lets us do everything Thrift does and more, and works every time. It used to be so nice to start a new service by writing the IDL and getting everyone to agree on a clean, well-bounded interface. Facebook forking their own project is kind of a last straw for my faith in Thrift, though. Oh well.
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Yes, I like him and have read much of what he has written, but I feel he missed the boat on this one.

Facebook did not buy this company to get users. Facebook bought this company because it was a threat. There is not much value in being #5 in social media. Facebook has to destroy or acquire every serious competitor that comes along, or they will start hemorrhaging users. You don't acquire a company to get new users so much as you acquire the company to keep from losing customers due to declining mind share and 'coolness', and thus to keep growing customers organically (because you are #1, not because you own FoobyAppInc). They paid $19B not because they put a dollar amount on each user, they paid that because that is what it took to get the other side to say 'yes' to acquisition. (All my own opinion, I claim no knowledge of what actually went down or what MZ actually thinks).

And that is the biggest reason I will never buy Facebook stock. You can take them out, or force their hand, with a few million dollars in VC and an idea. You don't need $50B, or what have you to challenge them, (whereas you would need at least that amount to challenge Ford, Coca Cola, and what have you).

The above is all from a value investor's perspective, of course, where you do not merely look at free cash flow valuation but also look at the company's moat (how easy is the company to defend from competitors).

edit: I hypothesize that Facebook and similar companies will find themselves in a very similar situation as Berkshire Hathaway when it was just a textile factory freshly purchased by Warren Buffett. They had to dump endless amounts of money just to break even. A competitor would buy a new loom that is 5% more efficient, and so BH would have to spend capital to get that same loom to remain competitive. It did not yield an advantage to either company. It may help the customer if prices can be lowered after the equipment is paid off, but the CEO's job is to reward stockholders, not customers. Buffett eventually shut it down as a money pit. It is not a foregone conclusion that this will happen to Facebook, but it seems likely, and is enough to have any rational value investor running away in terror.
That's nothing, they actually track store visits now to monetize ads. And if you opt out then a lot of things including Google Now stop working.

http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/

I find it odd that stories like that don't get much exposure on HN unlike negative stories about Apple, Facebook, Microsoft etc.
How, exactly, is it "misguided" to talk about politics and policy changes to mitigate the effects long before we reach the "run or die" stage? It's the only way to get things done currently. You're saying we should wait until the floodwater is at our ankles and only then do something?
That sounds rather trivial to me. Facebook has a huge userbase and I'm sure that if they made FB Messenger run on J2ME as well, it would have massive uptake. Seems like Zuck just wanted to spread the love around a bit and generate some news (or has some serious lack of confidence in the competence of his own developers).
That would be more analogous to Google correcting input for perceived spelling errors. Putting in garbage as a query isn't wrong, it has a well-defined answer for the vast majority of garbage.
Not so sure. In the UK we had Metro Bank a US funded startup bank, started a couple of years ago.
Now, you can finally say: It is OK to be a social startup and not be based out of San Francisco.
link? Or are you referring to "Why BitCoin Matters"?
I thought I'd never understand the Y-Combinator and unbelievably after that talk I nearly kind of do. What a great speaker, you can see that the guy had such a warm heart and spirit. My sympathies go out to anyone who knew him personally.
It's definitely on our list, but in the meantime there is https://code.google.com/p/route53d/ which will let you translate an AXFR/IXFR from a bind server directly into Route 53 authenticated calls.
To the same group: I've finished 18/19 with no previous assembly experience, so it's certainly possible. If this seems interesting you should try it, even if you've never written or really read assembly code.
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FYI Gargl vs Kimono - mentioned at the bottom original article.
http://jodoglevy.com/jobloglevy/?p=146
This is so true and sad my heart is with the Ukrainian people. We will win
Malware author probably uses a multitude of wallets, but the one shown in that screenshot has received a few actual payments:

https://blockchain.info/address/1HKCHx1RFhNHuF3NxLviHdrjNFzJ...
this is a clever idea - i've had a similar idea many many years ago infact but never followed through because i strongly disagree with making it easy to e.g. abuse google or yahoo by spamming their search engine. as much as i disagree with keeping proprietary secrets i agree more that people should have freedom of choice to do that...

in that regard its nice to see the big warning at the top of the page about ease of misuse (and a refreshing slap in the face - i was thinking 'pfft some hipster forgot common sense again' and expecting not to see anything of the kind)

there is something off here and i can't quite put my finger on it though... as a low level programmer I cringe when I hear web people using API to describe some weird little subset of APIs anyway. Here I feel almost like what this does is takes an existing 'API' (http - the internet) and refactors the interface in highly specific ways to make it easier to use...

At any rate. Its a clever idea and nice to see such a well thought through implementation - but its also far too open to misuse imo. I wish the creator the best of luck... hopefully no takedown requests too soon.
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No, registrar's are your portal to updating data in TLDs, but those TLDs are each operated separately. .com and .net are operated by Verisign, for example.
It's sort of silly though - founders already take risk with years of their life going nowhere, why should they also bear the entirety of the financial risk? Isn't the purpose of early stage investment to validate the idea? And by contrast late-stage investment is to grow the validated idea? It feels like these days everyone wants to invest only in validated ideas. It just feels suboptimal that hardly anyone ever wants to finance the actual validation... Am I missing something?
Seriously annoying, there's been a bunch of them posted on HN as of late. Bad trend.
This is an issue with current firefighting technology. Thermal imaging cameras are quite common in the fire service. Most manufacturers limit the frame rate of the camera to 9fps or less, as this falls beneath the 'fast camera' spec for ITAR.
1. "rational" self-interest

2. (magic happens)

3. the greater good

What I've noticed is that two categories of people believe in such schemes: libertarians, and primary school children.
The death toll has reached over 100 people now help
I'm not advocating pinning it on a few individuals but rather a whole bunch of individuals. Compare the convictions for the recent fubar to the S&L crisis.
"I have no idea"
Tell that to Douglas Adams.
This is a nice writeup of what has been going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Venezuelan_protests#Govern...

What I get from it in a nutshell: the protestors started by the group who was unhappy with the continuation of Hugo Chavez's government. That group has lost a lot of legitimacy after 2002's attempt coup[1], but the pro-government repression has been brutal, and that situation is brutally escalating.

Edit: a more comprehensive summary from CNN[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venezuelan_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

[2] http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/world/americas/venezuela-qa/
There's valid uses for both approaches; it all depends how you're querying the data.
Thanks. works again.
Increasingly, I predict that we'll see more and more of these unreported incidents worldwide, especially as corporate media becomes more and more consolidated. Thankfully there are alternative news outlets that are available if you dig. Accurate or not.

http://www.alternet.org/world/washington-tries-regime-change...

The lesson that this reinforces is that we can not rely on the media for the news. If ever we could.
Sad sad story. Feels very bubblish to me as well. I knew a couple of people who had, what could best be described as a meglomaniac breakdown kind of experience during the dot com explosion. The person I was closest too seemed to be so confused/mystified by what ever it was that got people multi-million dollar IPOs on no revenue or profits that they seem to have decided it was basically all acting, and they embraced full out meglo-mode. Big parties, lying about everything, pulling in as much money as they could as fast as they could and apparently just hoping that "somehow" the magic would happen and no one would care or something.
> The distinction between want and need and likewise between discretionary spending and mandatory spending is completely irrelevant...

...when you don't have the mental apparatus necessary to perceive it. BTW, I'm not referring to intelligence.
If you're curious about it for your own iOS app, we have that data for you. We keep all app data private to the app developer though, so we can't share aggregate statistics.
You can't really extrapolate from one event to "chances are...". Your chances of living past 65 are likely better than not, and do you really want to outlive your savings?
thanks for posting. Fixed within a minute.
Congrats Spenser, Curtis, and the rest of the team!
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Certainly - and that's not even entering the argument that what people desire and what is good for them (us) are not the same thing; especially in the long term (which imho is the only sane way to consider whether something is good or bad for society).
I would pay maybe £0.09 per SMS if I wasn't on contract. As it is, I am, but I still have to pay to get a delivery notification - that's £0.01 per message or £0.02 depending on your contract. I send maybe 100 messages per day on Whatsapp and probably about 3 texts.

Also, where I live (UK) literally everyone I know who has a smartphone is on Whatsapp. It's completely ubiquitous.
You certainly deserve my upvote. :)

You set out to correct a naive statistical assumption, computed it properly, and the result was about the same (not at all common for such problems). But you posted it anyway, in the spirit of sharing useful information.

As the Australians say, "Good on you, mate."
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It is better for your happiness to have hope about the future than to just give up. Unless you've been diagnosed with a terminal illness, you should prepare (plan and help enable) for a long life, because the alternative is just too depressing.
"..but it just wouldn't have occurred to the people running Yahoo's search subsidiary to branch out into web browsers and mobile OSes" - That's probably true, regardless if via acquisition or in-house development.
This comment made my day. Thank you so much for writing it.
I believe it is necessary at this point to emphasize that this is a discussion between real people, where logic is a bit fuzzy, and metaphor is sometimes employed. It is not a computer code that would fail to compile if even one detail was not true in a literal fashion.
Is there a correlation between success and learning disabilities?
If you have a complete suite of unit tests, integration tests and system tests, you should not have fear on refactoring your code.

Question: do you store events that could be not send in a persistent store to retry at a later stage ?
Hi Emily. Traditional manufacturing is death by a thousand cuts. Generally this manifests as increased costs and time to get into production. Our aim is to smooth as many of these problems out as we can.

Actually we're thinking about a series of blog posts teaching folks about manufacturing, is this something you would be interested in?
What about at Trader Joe's how they always have a nice conversation with you, what's your take on that?
"Bad" investments are one thing. Fraudulent ones are another.

And while financial companies certainly failed and folded up, did their high-level employees care in the slightest, as they move on to the surviving companies? Did they cry themselves to sleep in their personal wealth, accrued from the falacious business deals that bankrupted their companies (little more than temporary vessels for their greed) and also bankrupted the country?
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Not only is this argument wrong, the /opposite/ is true.

Buyouts are actually the /engine/ of innovation. They're the fuel. The oil.

You know this yourself. Just take a quick look at Silicon Valley - it's a hotbed of innovation. If you believed this argument, you'd expect to see a dirge of new businesses & a desert of new ideas. That's just not true. We have wearable tech. Quantified self. Bank challengers. News extractors. And things that don't even have names. The place is full of vibrant startups & new ideas. Just compare it to the energy, banking or agriculture sector.

So, why is the argument wrong?

Because buyouts /liberate/ innovative entrepreneurs from their old companies so they can go onto to found new startups - new startups that push the envelope again. San Fran is full of serial entrepreneurs who skip from one place to the next - first, revolutionising auctioning. Then, payment processing. Then, something else.

Just look at the PayPal mafia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

What if PayPal hadn't been bought out. YouTube might not have existed. Nor LinkedIn. Nor Palantir. SpaceX. Yelp. Yammer.

Buyouts lets these innovative people sell-up - at the right price - and move on. Not only that, but they allow them to move on with additional capital that they can plough into their next venture.

If buyouts didn't happen as often, entrepreneurs would have to wait another 3-5 years - or even longer than that - for an IPO. It would lock in capital, and enterprise would suffer. Plus, an IPO is mighty expensive & just not right for some businesses.

Entrepreneurs would be locked into their first companies.

This 'lock-in effect' is exactly what happens when Governments raise Capital Gains Tax - the tax on the profits of selling a business. If it's harder (or more costly) for an entrepreneur to cash out and move on, they stagnate - and so does innovation. This is a well-known and studied phenomena: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40411.pdf‎

Acquisition don't suffocate innovation.

Acquisitions are the oil of the economy.
Very interesting thank you.
Can anyone recommend any books on the matter? (on top of the one being recommended in the article itself).
Except using indexes is a major part of developing for a database. In many simple schemas, performance will completely break down without proper indexing. That's a bit different than spending time investigating if for-each is faster than a traditional loop.
[Amplitude generateRandomId]; --> is that persistent per device ?
Unusually it might just be easier to start outside the US. maybe not, but worth looking at.
The future looks "bright" and full of "hope".