skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not like S3 and no backup at all are the only two options. There's loads of backup providers (Carbonite, Mozy, Backblaze etc) out there. The comparison needs to be against those.
I'll trade your tulips for some of 1999's hottest stocks: Enron and Pets.com. Someone on the Internet assures me that their share price will go back up eventually.
Zen mind is the beginner's mind :)
I'm suggesting that if someone already is in computing, as most HN posters are, then the situation of biology academia isn't really relevant to your own industry vs. academia decision. If you're deciding between academia and a tech startup, you should probably look at conditions in CS academia as the relevant comparison.

Now if you're a biologist, the conditions in biology academia are the relevant comparison. But my impression, based on looking at what YC companies are doing, is that most people deciding between YC and grad school are in either CS or business, not the natural sciences.
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> I'm increasingly tolerant of other technologies.

I would like to think I am, but recently I have noticed that everyone seems to want to jump on the NoSQL bandwagon. A lot of the jobs I see I would be a good fit want experience using MongoDB (or something similar).

I have been looking to learn them, but having read up on the technologies, I can't find a reasonable use case for any of them in my own work. One that would not be equally or better suited to Postgres or MySQL (which I know well).

I have come to the conclusion that 90% of people using NoSQL don't actually need it, and are throwing away a lot of useful features just so they can play with the latest fad.
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It's more important to note that you can tell it to not move files and to not edit the metadata stored in files.

This makes it useful for playback and finding information without first having to trust it.
Your wife didn't do much research. As an Australian she would have been eligible for an E-3 Visa.

http://www.us-immigration.com/us-immigration-news/us-visas/u...
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Hi,
I've got a question about chances for me to find job in UK.
I am from Poland and I work as developer for 2 years. First job (for 1 year) was little company, writing for it CRM and some stuff to help managing clients. I was one of two developers so it wasn't exactly a "team" :)

Now I work for 1 year in bigger company with bigger team doing much more responsible and 'big' work. We are developing FleetManagement system which is used by hundreds of transport companies.
This is very big and i am doing pretty well in that company with all that big code. I got bonuses and my work is pretty appreciated. The team is little less than 20 people. It's really ok.

But i wanted to reallocate to the UK, mainly because of my girflend - she is willing to study there.

But to the point.
My english is pretty good, i can communicate with no problem i think this wouldn't be the "blocker".
But i dont have formal education, i finished just polish "highschool". It is A-level equivalent.

I went to college for 2 semesters but it was waste of time for me. 0 practical knowledge, literally 0.

So i started to work. I program since I am... about 16, but documented commerce work is 2 years.

I'm just 22 now (almost 22 tbh :) ).
What are my chances in finding job in UK?
Cups seem a lot more expensive, you can buy almost 700 sanitary pads for the retail price of 1 ruby cup ($28 ~ 1735 rupees). Also, the pads are more available and create jobs for women in rural areas because they are produced and sold locally.

I would give this one to Muruganantham.
I am searching from a long time for some (free) app with the following features

-can grab music from multiple sources (local, youtube, etc)

-i can vote for each track (up/down/rating)

-based on my votes it will guess my favorites (with some entropy so sometime will try to show me new kind of music)

Is there such a music player?
So you're proposing to add more of the things that make our current financial system have the costs it does? Given the large amounts that have been stolen recently, I think deposit insurance would cost a fortune for BTC.
I've run both. They solve different, but related problems.

* Tomahawk is a desktop app. It integrates various music sources so you can play from whatever source is available. I can search for whatever and it will look on my local harddisk, on my Synology NAS, on Soundcloud, youtube, etc. It will play from the "best" source, determined by search match accuracy and bitrate.
What's pretty cool is that it is integrated with Echonest (www.echonest.com) so you can define "Radio Stations" based on criteria like artist similarity, song mood, energy, etc. And those songs will be automatically resolved. My experience has been very good, everything works out of the box. Only the youtube resolver needs to be enabled manually (for copyright reasons).

* Mopidy, as far as I know, aims to do this on the server side. I've run an early version, I think 0.18 or something, on my Raspberry Pi. It involves some configuration to get it to work. Also, I don't think it can resolve songs in the way that Tomahawk does it: because MPD seems to have a static concept of the "Library". So you can import your Soundcloud "Liked songs", and they will be available in your library, but you cannot search for arbitrary songs. At least I didn't find that option.

A hybrid of both solutions would be awesome.
Of course they do. Unless google is not in charge of the ranking algorithm behind their web search engine.

The search algorithm is not the only tool in the ranking as we know google has a way to penalize a specific website among others.
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Civilized countries don't have violent prisons.
4 GB of RAM costs about $35. My main PC at home has 16 GB of RAM, an i7-3770 and a 128 OCZ Vertex 4 SSD as the boot drive. Boot time from off to Windows 8.1 login screen is 6 seconds. That's not hibernation or sleep mode - that's from completely off.

The entire system cost $850. Is that an unreasonable price to pay for a desktop computer?
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Interesting idea. I mainly read philosophy, classics, and some fiction. Anyway, I think between Goodreads and Amazon reviews, I can generally get a feel of what to expect. They also have the advantage because independent review/recommender systems are the norm, and they work for most people. I think reviews and recommendations are tough to get in to when you have a huge chicken/egg problem. Even if you aggregated all reviews for a book and added something unique on top, it's only making the experience marginally better.

I do think having unique context could be pretty interesting. The narrower and more specific a list, the more value it would add. Having a "My Top 5 Books" list provides no value to me. A recommender algorithm will win at that game. However, having a "Romantic Thrillers Where Protagonist Gets Kidnapped While On Vacation" list is at least something unique. I think search could be kind of addictive if there were tons of random and extremely narrow lists. If you did go this route it seems collaborating to build the lists would be pretty cool. Having lists tied to a user seems like it would make it harder to come up with really unique and narrow lists as a community. Maybe you could have both?
GOTO (Still) Considered Harmful
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Bitcoin holdings don't pay interest either and its purchasing power swings wildly. If you want to guard against inflation in the long run you have to own productive assets or lend your money to someone who uses it productively.
People believe Bitcoin has value because it's beautifully designed and mining coins takes effort, which gives each coin some kind of intrinsic value in terms of expended energy.

The Dutch believed tulip bulbs had value because the new breeds of tulips were beautifully designed and growing them took effort, which gave each bulb some kind of intrinsic value in terms of expended energy.
That was my favourite too.
I'm guessing that you live someplace where, unlike where I am, the temperature outside the back door is warmer than -15F ;-)
I'm trying to imagine a jury of your peers understanding the crime. "So they stole internet money? I'm confused."
The converse game exists: http://yizzle.com/whatthehex/

Edit: Actually, so does the “guess the RGB given the colour” direction, but I don’t find it as fun: http://mallory.jemts.com
Yeah, the Spotify catalogue isn't exhaustive by any means, but its pretty darn good. I miss some more obscure items from my mp3 collection, especially some techno/dance stuff I enjoyed in my early 20s (I shed a tear for that occasionally) - but overall I feel like the benefits of shedding a 30GB collection of files whose metadata I was obsessed by outweigh the negatives of dumping my personal music collection. If Spotify dies I'll just move onto the next service.

If there are a few obscure mp3s you can't live without you can import them into your Spotify client. They'll get auto synced to any mobile devices you have connected and the client installed on too (although not cloud synced to other computers - you'd have to copy them manually).

Spotify does a lot of local caching, so once you've listened to a track once it'll likely be cached so it doesn't hammer your collection too badly. Pretty sure I've continued to get good gaming pings while my gf listens to Spotify in the next room :)

EDIT: I did not know about the P2P stuff. Huh! Interesting ...
I had the job in the US, my wife didn't. Even if she did have her own E-3 visa that could have been jeopardized by my including her on my green card application on my H1B visa.

EDIT: The principal at the school where my wife was volunteering actually wanted to hire her as she was better qualified than some of the paid instructors she was helping. But at some level higher up the chain they had a policy of not sponsoring work visas, so that went nowhere.
Although I generally do not post something that is not constructive to an article, I have to say, I bought the same magazine when I was younger with Borland on and that is what made me want to become a programmer!

I was amazed when I read that point. The only difference is that I couldn't get anything to build in Borland. I started out in BASIC making my motherboard beep to tunes in a BAT file.
damn, I had a factor of 60 in there, for some reason I calculated 2 uploads per minute instead of per hour. Alright then, seems to be a fair price.
Using one myself and best thing I've ever tried! Takes some practice but once you got the hang of it it works great. But think it's different from woman to woman!
I think perhaps he is associating startups in the negative sense of "kids making an app hoping to get bought by Facebook"
I had a nightmare of VB6 code to work on. Something like 3/4 of a million lines, and lots of deadlines to meet. No consideration given to quality - just have it working by friday. It was in the financial industry.

On more than one occasion you would write a subroutine to do something, then a month or two later, you would see someone had already written that same functionality.
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So the trick is: lie to existing manufacturers to get the schematics, build simplified/more manual machines, use really cheap labors, and probably lower the profit margin? Reminds me of knockoff products but then it's probably a phase that developing countries go through.
I totally agree with you. For me more important would be to improve the way how I solve problems, how I think about problems. People tends to pay too much attention to the speed of coding.

I wonder if any tests were made about how much time is spend to actual thinking versus coding the idea? Which area is more worth to work on?
It says so in the article. Women felt shame leaving them out to dry since the subject is so taboo.
I disagree with most of what you said.

"exception oriented" programming is dirty. It's especially filthy when your expecting exceptions from a database for these reasons

a) Returning errors to the user is asking for a slipup handling the different exceptions, thus returning more info than desired. Cue the injection hacks!

b) Depending on the DBMS and its configuration, an upsert destined to fail may block reads and other writes from executing!

I had a feeling somebody would gripe about duplicated validation rules; it's a problem that needs an elogant solution on your own stack.
The jobs on the job boards are the ones that cannot be filled by referrals, career pages, etc...It's really a last resort.

If you post a job to a semi popular job board, you get a glut of CVs, most of which are completely irrelevant. You hire a recruiter to protect you from that.
Is the author seriously advertising google chrome as a safe way to download software ?
The very browser known to exist to increase the reach of google surveillance of what people do on the web doesn't seem to possibly be part of a solution here.

Those who give up privacy expecting to gain download safety will lose both.
Here's a link to his very inspiring TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/arunachalam_muruganantham_how_i_sta...
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You definitely have a point! But I think the margins are pretty high and I'd rather see that they'd go in to producing cheap cups than cheap pads :)
Ampache

A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.

https://github.com/ampache/ampache
Very True. There is one point the article missed. Many women now barter sanitary pads instead of paying with money. For example, in some rural areas, women exchange sanitary pads for vegetables from the farmer. IMHO that's amazing and something multinationals cannot do.

Edit: link http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/bartering-veget...
What a lot of people are ignoring deliberately is that Keurig offers convenience. Pop in the pod and push a button and coffee is ready in a minute. In that minute, I can either do nothing, or make a sandwich for lunch, or go tie my shoes so I can grab the coffee and run when it's done.

I don't think anyone is buying these things for their quality, but it's a quick, one stop method of getting acceptable coffee.
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That's cool! I was born in India but was brought up near The Hague. Any chance you might be able to share where you're working at the moment? Interested in know what opportunities there are in and around Amsterdam and Rotterdam. If you'd rather not post publicly, feel free to shoot me an email: me@kartikkumar.com. Thanks!
I might have been making assumptions on CouchDB which aren't valid - that remote users could query all documents (== pages) to get the comments.

Yes, you'd probably need to block that URL with a proxy, and only allow single page views to be requested. I think this is definitively a shortcoming of the BD; it should allow finer grained permissions.

However there is no enumeration of the valid IDs possible, short of a dictionary attack.

Well, by default CouchDB uses UUIDs, so enumeration shouldn't be possible either. Of course, both are subject to simple scraping of the HTML pages; a simple wget + grep can probably list them all, so you don't gain much, except for private pages you might have.

I did consider not storing emails, and for my use-case that's fine, but I figured sooner or later somebody will want to access them so ruling it out unduly would eventually result in a bug report.

Fair enough. I actually don't think CouchDB, as it is now, would necessarily be a better solution than yours. But the question is, why not? I believe the direction is correct, but the current implementation falls short, and that's a shame.
So Apple has an admittedly serious bug that is in the wild on iOS for ~17 months, and desktops for ~ 4 1/2 months, and everyone shits on Apple for it.

GNUTLS has a (using your words) "similar" bug in the wild for more than 13 YEARS, and its nothing but praise because "they audited the code"?
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Last I read the bill in Georgia didn't clear the House on crossover day which is the last day a bill can be passed on to the Georgia Senate.

With regards to the restrictions, the primary backers of the bill in Georgia were existing limo companies. I would be surprised if similar groups are not the reasons for the problems such companies face in other states.
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A few days ago I wrote up something on this same issue:

http://fexl.com/goto-considered-harmful

However, after discussing the issue on the cryptography mailing list, I realized that the really serious problem here was not the use of goto itself, but the lack of an obvious test case.

Clearly Apple did not have a single test case which made the SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange function call sslRawVerify. Since the whole point is to call sslRawVerify, this is an astounding omission in testing.

The "goto fail" pattern is common throughout OpenSSL. I of course think OpenSSL stinks to high heaven, but for reasons not directly related to "goto". I do think the use of "goto" gives off a bad "code smell" though.

I myself never use goto. When I'm writing code, I always create "if" or "while" blocks and then fill them in. It never even occurs to me to use goto.

My main objection to "goto", aside from the spaghetti code which might arise from it, though not necessarily, is that goto makes it difficult to refactor code.

Normally it's pretty easy to move a chunk of code into a separate function. However, if that code contains "goto", then you're pretty much stuck until you factor out the goto.
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It's Cyprus and the "levy" there was only for deposits over 100,000 Euro which weren't insured anyway...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Cypriot_financi...

So the only people who suffered were those who were daft enough to deposit amounts large enough to be uninsured in a badly run bank - can't say I have much sympathy.
> It's clear that people living in impoverished areas are not in a position to buy sanitary products at market rates

A study in 2011 said that 70% couldn't afford sanitary napkins [0]. Until 2011 or so, sanitary napkins attracted a 14% luxury tax [1]. They were now reduced to 1%, only after pressure from NGOs.

[0] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/70-cant-afford-sani...

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/ove...
I noticed this the other day as well. I was trying to download GnuPG. GnuPG.org, including the download page and checksums, is served entirely over http.

Even if it is open source, am I expected to pore over thousands of lines of code to verify that it hasn't been compromised?
> I don't know about you, but my institutions aren't failing. They just require regular maintenance.

There's the rub: do they get the regular maintenance they require, and who foots the bill when it breaks? What are the incentives to do so, and the consequences if you don't?

I don't believe institutions are 'failing' in the sense that they cannot operate, but that they are a net loss to society. The trustless economy is a response to the lack of trust in those who control the economy - whether by enacting policy or being too-big-to-fail - to operate for the greater good of society. It is not about distrusting people, it's that you shouldn't need to trust people. You may evade or buy your way out of the laws of the land, but you can never escape the laws of mathematics.

Of course the economy runs a lot better when you can trust everyone. There also exist better forms of government, if you ignore human fallibility or selfishness. But it's not about abolishing institutions, even if the purpose is to obsolete certain types.
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Well, in theory, Bitcoin is deflationary: By holding it it goes up in value, not down, over time. This has its own problems, and it yet remains to be seen if those problems are insurmountable. We shall see. But insofar as Bitcoin is what it is, this means that it doesn't suffer from this specific problem, in theory.
It depends on the people working with you, sometimes I feel commenting should be left for edge cases only. More often than not it seemed that people read the comments and stop focusing when reading the code; they just check if it vaguely matches the comments. When foregoing comments entirely there was much better feedbacks and questions on important points, the understandig of the code base seemed much better.

The latter also forces you to keep a very clean code, and tricky parts (things you couldn't simplify nor make self explanatory) surface better.
Keep in mind that thanks to my Aussie wife I have permanent residency.

In terms of "starting a business" I just had to register for an ABN ("Australian Business Number"). That may not even be a legal requirement but IIRC it had tax advantages. It's a couple years since I did it but as I recall I did it all online in a couple of hours and it didn't cost much. I then just include that number on my invoice. Very civilized.

At some point I need to register to charge GST but I'm sure I can do that online too. At no point have I had to visit a government office or get a bureaucrat to sign anything to start a business in Australia.
> Why buy disposable pads when you can use rags and wash them?

Hygiene
Same as AirBNB. If you can't beat them... lobby to ban them.
A smashing read. Entertaining and honest, thank you.
It's just that people have to understand that current Bitcoin service implementations are wrong. If you have Bitcoin private keys laying somewhere on your server, you are doing it wrong. If you're covering that by the fact that you have "cold storage", you are doing it wrong.

The only proper way to proceed is to use multisignature wallets. If you want to know why that's better, visit our explanation site: https://www.bitalo.com/why_bitalo

Fortnunately Bitalo is not the only service that provides this. More and more services were created lately, most notably:

https://api.trustedcoin.com/wallet/

http://www.bitgo.com

http://greenaddress.it

Vote with your money, don't support "Bitcoin banks" that can run with your money any time they want.
Cups, tampons are still have a social stigma attached to them in India. Napkins are non-obstrusive as well.
perhaps read any of the other comments? tldr, license and it's also terrible.
Bitcoin deposit insurance could be much cheaper than deposit insurance for traditional banks as they are not lenders and hence there is no credit default risk.

All they have to do is up their QA game and organize some external audit and certification system for all participants in the insurance scheme.
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