skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breaking the question down into parts, so that Postgres is compared one-on-one with each of its potential competitors, consider Postgres-vs.-MySQL. After all, it's plausible that one of the first decisions you make is whether to use a proprietary database or an open-source database. If the former, then you're probably deciding among Oracle, Microsoft, and maybe IBM. If the latter, you're probably deciding between MySQL and Postgres. So let's concentrate on the latter for a moment.

Why do people choose MySQL over Postgres?

I don't know the answer to that, but I was TOLD by a DBA colleague of mine who believes Postgres to be technically superior that the reason companies choose MySQL is because of the commercial support. Though it's open-source, MySQL evidently is in some sense "owned" or at least "sponsored" by Oracle, and if you go to www.mysql.com you'll find that you can purchase various services (support, training, etc.) directly from Oracle. Contrast that with PostgreSQL which even today appears to be more a house divided. At www.postgresql.org, you're presented with a list of third-party consulting organizations. I'm not positive, but I would be unsurprised if that made corporate managers a little nervous. "No one was ever fired for buying IBM." as the saying goes.

Of course, this is just conjecture on my part. Perhaps someone with better intel can comment.
Conversely, don't write a whole essay. The point is to explain succinctly why anyone should pay attention to your first message / email to them.
Namecheap Is In The Middle Of A DDoS Attack
> The bank side is located in Reno, NV, so any checks have to be mailed

You can use the smartphone app to deposit checks just by taking a photo now, actually.
I think this is completely wrong. Just because one area - in this case, social media - works well does not mean others do not. Stop defining yourself through success relative to others. Yes, social media is a particular low hanging fruit - which also implies that there is a lot more competition.

Tesla. SpaceX. Palantir. They are real, hardcore technology companies. Do these not count?
What about Uber, Airbnb and Addepar? They are also changing they way important industries work.

There is enough disruption and technological change to offer opportunities in many different sectors.
I think acquirers are aware of notions like yours (I used to work for one of the acquirers you mentioned). These companies will eventually start to take great care to preserve the brand and product of the acquired company.

My experience with one of the banks you mentioned has not changed since it's been acquired.
The problem is also that, "watching you" is a bad analogy. It implies, like you mention, that the entity has to prioritize who/what they "watch". This is a bad analogy because unlike humans, who can't watch historic events and therefore can only speculate at them (not held up in court), these entities can look back with a high degree of accuracy.

The problem, is no longer that someone is "watching you". Its worse. The problem is that someone, one day, could watch your entire life. Then proceed to pull apart events and use them, mostly out of context, against you.

I wouldn't call myself paranoid. I'm not doing anything about it. Honestly, if the data was only retained a month, unless needed in a current investigation, I would agree with you, this wouldn't be worth mentioning. However, retention of data is cheap and the data of your life will probably outlast you. As such, the parent posters in this convo have a point, it is something worth giving attention to.

PS. And to be quite honest, I don't even care that they can look back at my life and scrutinize me for an email or two. The real fear is that they can pull specific quotes or life choices out of context. You as an individual can't even discredit them because you don't have access to the original files (unless the entity does you a favor and shares them with you). So you can show how innocent the same email quote or life choice is while in context. You are instead left with your memory, and hopefully powerful rhetoric to convince a jury you are innocent.
This is amazing. Meanwhile, we're struggling to find a non-API'd manufacturer willing to talk to us about a low-volume part we need custom-made: http://blog.automicrofarm.com/post/76020315789/frame-set-aut... The future is unevenly distributed, indeed.
I'd like to have a honorable mention of Archlinux here. Arguably, it has the easiest package management out there.

To create a package you write a single PKGBUILD file with a few required fields (like pkgname, pkgver, etc) and a bash build script - that's it. Then you run "makepkg" and it's done.

Take a look for yourself. This is a build script for tmux:

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/t...

If you know of an app which isn't available for Arch yet, I welcome you to give it a try and build a package. It's really easy.

And for completeness - the package guidelines for Archlinux:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standard...
Chubby Distributed Lock Service
‘Balanced’ Integrates Bitcoin Payments for 450+ Online Marketplaces
What we're seeing the social networking space at least -- and this is really interesting -- is a verticalization of the social networking space.

Over in the physical world, if you're a new company and you want to produce, I don't know, refrigerators, obviously you aren't going to start from raw materials and try to recapitulate the industry of forging metal, printing circuits, etc. In fact, you'll probably buy the vast majority of your components in a pretty late stage -- like, unless your special sauce is some new pump design, you'll probably buy your pumps fully formed.

Similarly, if you do think of an awesome pump design, you're more likely to try to sell it to existing fridge makers than also take on the design and creation of the entire refrigerator. And clearly this is all well-understood and unremarkable.

I think that what's happening in the social networking space is that there's a realization that there are (at least) two very difficult stages involved in creating a successful company. First, you have to build a gigantic userbase, fighting entrenched competitors with network effects, etc. Then, just as difficult, you need to monetize those users without driving them all away.

So, just like the pump company builds pumps and sells them to refrigerator company with no aspirations to build an entire fridge, we're seeing companies like Snapchat, Instagram, and WhatsApp tackle just the userbase-building. And then they sell to Facebook or Google, who have a lot of tools to monetize a userbase.

Of course, unlike the pump company, which just sells a product, the userbase companies sell their entire company. But I think it's fundamentally the same thing going on here: you can be great at building userbase without deceiving yourself into thinking that you're also great at monetizing your userbase. So your business model becomes, "Develop a giant userbase, then sell to Facebook or Google."
There is no need to throw in the casual sexism into your valid criticism. It diminishes your point.
Based on your average monthly balances in checking, is this really more than a few thousand a year? To me, the Simple app is worth at least that.
I've been looking for something like this! Downloaded.
Given the GNU makefile conventions ( https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Makefile-Conven... ), I'd say that packaging with automake is preferable to hand-rolling a Makefile.

If you don't know automake, this tutorial is fantastic: https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html
I hate that annoying nav menu, is too big.
As you only offer discounts on Amazon and Walmart can your chrome extension please just request data from those domains and not ‘all websites’? I'm very conscious of extension over-access.
Ulterior motive: https://xkcd.com/1204/
Well I'd imagine using computer vision that can identify door handles, elevator buttons (even so far as reading out the numbers on the display).
Incompetence is a matter of degree, as is famine. I'd be the last to say that Soviet economic competence was close to ideal. Indeed, it was significantly worse than even Tsarist economic management.

But food shortages aren't the same as famines, and in the famines (assuming we're talking about the famines of the early 30s), economic incompetence wasn't the primary driving factor, although this may be simply a case where we simply have different definitions of incompetence. Stalin explicitly wanted millions of Ukrainians to die as collective punishment for not being sufficiently red, and it's fair to say that he thought it was better to have a dead peasant than a peasant not part of a collective farm, where they and all their activities could be made easily legible to the Soviet State and placed under bodily control.

Those millions of deaths racked up could have been avoided if Stalin had wanted to, even within the rubric of central planning. It's really not even a matter of the famine being something that could've been "averted": the famine wasn't a natural occurrence but something engineered.

Central planning, particularly central planning under a dictatorship, being highly conducive to psychopaths killing millions of people is something I'd agree with, but it needs explicit argumentation.
Serious point, it actually took me a couple of seconds to make sure I hadn't missed a "Next Page" link. I'm still not sure I haven't.

(edit to add) I read somewhere that the first Google home page just had the search box on, and people used to wait because they thought it hadn't finished loading. So they added the copyright notice as a footer just so people would realise it had.
You are correct. I did not mean to imply that. I'm fully aware men can have all of those same traits and more.
We provide a consistent interface for returns through our order dashboard. You simply request a return, and we provide you with a prepaid mailing label to return the item to the retailer.

When the item has been delivered, we refund your card with a full refund.
Flamebait but a good lesson
And we passed a bunch of regulations afterwards which reduced the possibility of that happening again.
We do not use Amazon Associates (the affiliate program) in any manner. Sometimes the API finds savings beyond what we've guaranteed, which is how we make money.
So maybe state-allocated capital doesn't always lead to mass famine?
WhatsApp Is The 2nd-Biggest Tech Acquisition Of All Time
>on making more money. Not making society better. Not allocating capital effectively.

The simple flaw in your argument is that you assume that these things are usually mutually exclusive. In fact, it is typically the opposite; they usually are one in the same. The things that are "best" for society also tend to make the most money. People pay for things because they want (or need [2])them, because it makes their lives better [1]. To extend this to investments, smart investments are investments to companies who will eventually make money, because their products are worth buying.

Investing money is an incredibly rewarding but very risky activity. Smart investments will make upwards of 100x ROI, bad ones will lose every penny. Having smart investors is an imperative to maximizing the usefulness of money. Just look at Solyndra ;)

1. since people are having trouble understanding how to interpret this sentence let me clarify. "Better" is completely subjective. For the purpose of making buying decisions, "better" is whatever the person making this buying decision defines as "better" for them. All in all the point of "better" not really being "better" is irrelevant (as it the distinction between want and need). If you want to make the argument that investors are investing in companies that actually make our lives worse, then the solution is typically banning those companies and products directly, not banning investments to those companies.

2. thanks to /u/revscat (yes I know this is not reddit)
I am a little bit disappointed, that I have to be part of a company to apply there. No time to work full time while doing my masters.
Think of a phone not as a phone, but more like a really cheap way to have a portable computer with a screen and battery that you can put sensors on. It comes in the phone package because the industry is very much geared to churning out that form factor on the cheap.

Edit: and you can duck tape it to [car|bike|ect].
$19 billion: The Pricetag for Facebook's Future Relevance
DHL advertising hack against UPS [video]
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Balance of Payments.

Bay Area and LA Area pay the bulk of the taxes in the state - there is a net transfer of money from the rich counties on the coast to the poorer ones in the north and east, in short, it would take counties that get many services paid for and supplied by the state as a whole, to a level that could possibly resemble a third world country.

California is unmanageable - but its because via the initiative process the voters have boxed everything into a corner.
In my observation the blue states are less racist, so I agree with you. I guess shitting on SF is the trendy thing to do, so I expect that from a few. OP must have met a girl in Calgary that wouldn't go all the way with him.
Can someone explain the 'normal' production flow for low volume hardware, and how this is different / what steps it removes / why its better?

I'm just getting started with hardware and still don't have a good grasp on the stages from design to production!
Ionic is definitely the best I've seen. You can whip out an app with even the most rudimentary knowledge of Angular.
Acquisition fever is certainly a force pushing innovation downward, and I think the argument this article puts forward is sound. On the whole, however, I think innovation in the technology sector is driven by other factors. In particular, the barriers to entry for a new company in the technology space are extremely low.

Once upon a time a young company needed to devote significant monetary and human capital to building their software and hardware platform. Today, they can use open source frameworks and commodity hardware. Marketing once meant medium to big media buys, which had high entry costs and provided little to no insight into their success. Today you can literally buy attention by the individual customer, and enjoy a deep and detailed understanding of the success of your campaign. In addition the (relative) abundance of early stage investors means if you have an idea, you can bring it into reality with (relative) ease.

Innovation is so cheap that it doesn't have to happen inside a big company anymore. If a team gets bought out and cannot pursue a new opportunity, someone outside the company will step up and go after it.
Note that 1°C = 1.8°F, so your techniques for 18% tips can be adapted to C => F conversion (T x 1.8 + 32 to go from C to F).
Would it be illegal if you wanted to buy something and instead of ordering it directly by yourself you asked a friend who is an experienced shopper to order it for you? This friend just happens to have "The Price Is Right" style knowledge of the price of items, and he knows all the best coupon codes and deals that can be applied for a particular product so that you spend the least amount of money.

Zinc Save is a browser extension that acts like that friend. From what I see it isn't doing anything that a real human can't do by themselves (comparing prices on different websites and looking up coupon codes) but it just automates the process to make it easier for you.
I feel the same way. It would bother me to know that the support person has an opinion regarding my personal details regardless of what that opinion is.
Q&A With Sequoia’s Jim Goetz on Wassssup With the WhatsApp Deal
I'm only aware of wildly experimental implants providing like 200 dots of light. They aren't by any means a deployed medical technology.

This sort of system could provide audio cues in any environment. That's already a big step up from 'most environments'.
The West is The West because we used maths to insure sea voyages rather than just praying to the Gods, which is what every other culture in the world had done up 'til then.
We've been using Opera Critic (https://github.com/jensl/critic) where I work for about half a year. We did trial runs with Gerrit, Barkeep and Phabricator before settling on it. My impression is that its almost completely unknown outside of Opera, which is surprising given the feature set, clean UI and active development. The site used to review branches for the Critic project is also a demo: https://critic-review.org

It supports the model of having many atomic, reviewable commits on a topic branch. Where it seems to exceed Kiln is in the rebase/fixup workflow. You can push fixup commits in response to issues left by a reviewer. A fixup commit will automatically mark an issue it addresses as resolved when you push based on the lines it changes (the fixup must also be reviewed). You can later rebase the branch to integrate the fixups. It's pretty clever, and the way fixups are shown lets you see at a glance how the branch has evolved.

As a reviewer, and as someone who often digs through five year old commits, I want feature branches to follow the most linear path possible. Approaches that are started and abandoned, and commits made on top of a branch in response to review feedback are noise. A well-crafted branch often has little to do with what happened during development.
Yeah, unfortunately there's not much you can do. The big telcos are so politically powerful that any individual market (especially if it's a smaller one) doesn't have much bargaining power. This isn't a problem specific to telcos; this just happens anywhere you have one large unified side negotiating with a number of fractured parties with different interests (and would likely be the same when dealing with a government bureaucracy vs. a telco.)
Or when you can set up a financial services company whose entire mission is to trade based on insider information and market manipulation, but with a leadership structure that protects top executives from prosecution because they technically never get their hands dirty.

See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/to-catch-a-trader/
high interest rate 2-5%, security, no annoying lockouts for international purchases, dont have to talk to customer service, no limits on atm withdrawals or phone checking (with invisible security).
Bitcrypt broken
It is illegal to give false or misleading statements in order to defraud other investors, but it isn't illegal to "talk your book" if you aren't outright lying about what you are saying. You can flip on CNBC and expect to see lots of hedge fund managers hyping up their positions. That's not fraud.

If you are saying there is some fraudulent behavior involved in one investor calling another investor to fact check a founder's claim, I'm still not seeing it.
Things that are cheaper than whatsapp
Eh, I'm not so sure that'll happen. Military pilots aren't getting as many hours as they used to, plus it's actually a pay drop for them to leave and work for an airliner the way it is right now.

Right now the airlines have managed to talk high school grads into taking out huge student loans and drop 100K+ on a for-profit school, then take a job making ~ 20. There's no way that's sustainable though.
Ransomware crypto fail:

The number has 128 digits, which could indicate a (big)
mistake from the malware author, who wanted to generate
a 128 bytes key.
Finally, we simply deal with RSA-464 encryption, which
can easily be broken on a standard PC in a matter of hours.
What Facebook isn't saying about its WhatsApp purchase
many many "exits" wouldn't make for good IPOs on their own and that would thus put negative pressure on VC.
If you care about interest rates more than quick and easy access to your money, you shouldn't be putting your money in a bank account
No worries - good comment :). What I meant by "all-in" shouldn't be taken as "in total". In other words: in all the projects I worked on, only ONE TIME did I get to use MySQL. I installed Ubuntu once for fun - but when it came to work and what I did for work - it was MS all the way down.

These were choices made by my contracts and my employers. What you're saying is valid: I could have pushed to use another system or platform. I can do this now - but back then it was not nearly as easy to just pick up and learn the intricacies of different platforms. You might disagree, it's sort of subjective - but installing PHP/MySQL was a complicated affair if you're not familiar.

Finally - the whole premise of the post was the very question itself: "Did I do the right thing?". I was questioning, and I had to make a choice. I constantly did (and still do) that.
Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Chapters_on_the_Mathem...
and GE was known to Newton, so it wasn't 19th century even in the west (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_elimination#History)
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As an Englishman, i have found this whole thread about the cultural differences up and down the west coast somewhat fascinating. What i'm missing is a cross-reference to the European scale of societies.

I live in London, where we don't speak to our neighbours or make eye contact on the tube; would i actually be more comfortable in Seattle than San Francisco? Or would it be over the top, like being in Sweden or something? Or is the variation along a completely different axis?
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Or maybe it's the other way around.

Facebook got some news that Google is about to announce an ambitious, experimental project so they preempt it by buying WhatsApp for billions of dollars.

/sarcasm
My parents are both pilots. The numbers are just my estimates from having flown with them a bunch. Maybe my numbers are a little high, but I think I'd stand by them.

There's always a bunch of dealing with cranking open the hanger door with the winch, dragging the plane out, checking that there is no water in the fuel (both tanks), transferring the stuff you're bringing with you from the car to the plane, getting into the seatbelt, plugging in the headsets and checking that they're all working, talking to the tower, taxiing out to the runway, waiting for a plane or two to take off, and then actually taking off.

Anyway, have fun flying.
Secondary DNS from a normal bind nameserver.
"the top 25 hedge fund managers (financial rent extractors par excellence) make more money than all the CEOs of the S&P 500 combined" This is really impressive, considering that big companies CEOs don't earn little money.
They were lost in that nothing I did with ASP.NET (not MVC) has translated to what I'm doing today. No patterns, no habits, no tooling, nothing. COBOL/FORTRAN are languages and I'm not sure they correlate here - but maybe top-down design ripples still? :):). I learned a lot in Pascal - mostly how to comment things :)
I think the video made the mistake of focusing on features, and not benefits. (Not saying that the benefits aren't there, just that I personally don't see them, and the video didn't do a good job of making them apparent).
Using a term like 'hn' isn't really a representative example, since it's unlikely that any advertising would be purchased for such a term or have any custom "knowledge panels". So, first, turn off AdBlock (if you hadn't already done so), then try a more representative query like "flowers":

http://i.imgur.com/jsx1feJ.png

It's a big difference, and these different experiences with Google could just be a matter of which keywords people tend to use (e.g., very general vs. very targeted searches) and what extensions they chose to install in their browser.
From the numbers of my extension, Chrome users are more keen to install extensions. I believe that it's mainly because the Chrome Webstore makes it easier to find extension than Mozilla's.