skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be interested in our "Preemptive Schema Data Modeling" technology (http://crudzilla.com/doc/eu-doc/#data-modeling )

It basically allows you to do what you are doing without having to manage tables by adding and removing columns.

The idea is simple, preemptively create a table with a certain distribution of column types and then allow the developer to define models in their app and map properties of their model to available columns.

It is a pretty robust idea and works well, we use it in our product.

I'll be doing a thorough write up on it sometime in the near future.
Evian used to be Helvetica too:
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/sites/default/files/styles/l...
> In the case of Mt. Gox, or any other Bitcoin exchange, that credit is secured by nothing and insured by noöne.

I believe that's not quite true. IIRC there is a european bitcoin exchange, where at least the euro balance is insured up to a certain sum[1].

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/bitcoinc...
Don't you mean template <typename HasABinaryAssociativeOperationAndLeftIdentityAndRightIdentity>
Having gone through a couple thousand lines of Javascript that adhered to the "keep methods small", I call bollocks on that. Make methods as big as they need to be.

function doFooOnList(l) {
for (var i=0; i<l.length; i++) {
doFoo(l[i]);
}
}
function doFoo(i) {
i.foo();
}

gets old, very quickly.

After designing and building code for 20+ years, I can comfortably say that there are no arbitrary rules of software design, and some of the worst code I've seen has been a result of following "best practices" instead of thinking for oneself.

Write code like it is meant to be read, because that's what happens most often.
Keen eye (and mind).. Thanks.
FTFA: "Some of my colleagues are concerned that you are encouraging firearms within a densely packed concentration of young people who are away from home for the first time, and are coincidentally the age associated with alcohol and drug experimentation, and the commission of felonies."

Not only that, but the college years tend to be the age when a number of mental illnesses start to swing into high gear. Schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder come to mind.
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AyeGear VS Scottevest
Q3 is already running on the Pi using the proprietary drivers. This competition is for porting these new open sourced drivers to the Pi and using them to run Q3.
I don't think it's clear at all. There are a number of users on the IRC channel who seem to think that Atom will be open-source, including some Github employees!

(Tom Preston Warner has already stated that Atom's core will not be open source)
I still trust Bitcoin itself, but I (still) don't trust the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Cascading methods aka fluid interface are OK in many cases, e.g. various builders. OTOH immutable objects are preferable in many cases.

What I really disliked is storing intermediate results of a multi-stage computation in instance variables. It is so easy to return multiple values from Python functions. Also, thinking what you need and need not pass and return between interconnected functions helps structure them much better, into smaller, clearer pieces (as #1 correctly advises).
We made this because we are particular about our markup and wufoo's iframe and banner in the form was a non-starter for our client's needs.
This is mostly true, but in recent Postgres versions (since 9.1 I believe), if you GROUP BY the primary key, you can still include other columns in the SELECT statement. For instance:

SELECT a.name, COUNT(b.id)
FROM a
LEFT OUTER JOIN b ON b.a_id = a.id
GROUP BY a.id

Pretty nice!
From what I can tell, that presentation is assuming a certain class of graph structures in its DACB example - for example that there isn't an element E that can causally link the other nodes, emulating a causal relationship without there being one. Assuming a class of structures is not a general approach; in my example this would be the equivalent of assuming there is no sprinkler, but how can you make that assumption from the data alone?

There's another issue: their approach is statistical, so even if you assume a class of graph structures you can only draw conclusions that the causal structure "almost surely" exists, not that it does exist. What this means is that even within infinite data, you can't prove that the other structures are impossible. If I turn on my sprinkler when it rains the first {very large number} times, you may conclude that there is almost surely a causal link between the rain and wet grass, but there is no reason I have to do it. You aren't left with a proof.
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Well, what pretty much rules out that MtGox will be considered a ponzi scheme is that if it were, "ponzi scheme" would essentially be a synonym for "fraud".

Suppose MtGox wasn't a bitcoin exchange, but rather sold cars, which had to be ordered and paid for in advance. Now, suppose further that the CEO "stole" cars from the company and then bought new ones using the money from new customers when he needed to deliver a car to one of the earlier customers. That's just plain old fraud, not a ponzi scheme, and it doesn't become a ponzi scheme just because it's money instead of cars - and in particular, you as an earlier customer certainly are not liable for the losses of later customers.

edit: I mean, MtGox under the assumption that the loss was not due to a technical problem, if it way due to a technical problem, it's obviously not a ponzi scheme anyway.
Because journalists have an incentive to attract readers, and it worked. The blog post made it to the front page of HN.

(I don't think I've ever written a news article about a tweet and likely would not, barring extreme examples such as @WhiteHouse tweeting that the president had resigned or somesuch.)
Ask HN:  Is there room in alt currency for...
With all the "red tape" surrounding alt currencies, do you think there's room for "alt currencies" which technically only behave as a "tranfer" mechanism? In other words, if the alt currency was tied to the value of US Dollar, then folks who used it could simply use it as a mechanism for transferring the value reliably to someone.

This, I assume, would also open room for innovation since existing alternative currencies which are supposed to behave and be traded exactly as real currencies are also regulated as currencies. Perhaps governments couldn't regulate such a "currency" since its properties are far different than real currencies.
In case you are wondering why we crashed- it turns out that YESTERDAY Amazon changed their policy on npms and they no longer support self signed certificates. FML, but hopefully this might help other people avoid a crash

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-cert...
It's surprising hard to explain why it's ok for google to do this, but not other sites. The best I can come up with is "their search engine, their rules". Doesn't sound very ethical.
Fair enough. I guess "citation needed" passages from Wikipedia about "proto-money" in ancient Egyptian bartering are totally equivalent to the gold standard.
It appears by as if Comcast DNS has dropped all Enom domains.

I understand having secondary name servers and switching application IPs, but (pardon my ignorance) how does an web application host or website achieve high availability in this scenario?
The security of this worries me. I would have to understand their code very well before I would be comfortable running a program that gives root access to anyone over a web browser.
Making order in chaos: The good way and the bad way
This is insanely cool, for mobile?
> My major bugaboo is that I think the field of psychology is broader than the DSM, I don't argue with its failings, just that there is more to the entire field of psychology.

Fair enough. Let's make a comparison with medicine. Medicine isn't just doctors and clinics, there are scientists working behind the scenes to produce new research-based cures that have been validated as well as explained in scientific studies. Doctors who go off the ranch in medicine are censured or arrested because medical research is a science and clinical practice is fully backed up by solid, empirical evidence.

Psychology has clinics and practitioners, but what takes place there is not remotely scientific and is sometimes astonishingly ignorant (http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology), and there are no cures, only questionable symptomatic treatments. The reason? Unlike medicine, psychology has no scientific component to prevent absolutely any practice in clinics.

My point? Many argue that psychology isn't just clinical psychology, that there are scientific psychologists working behind the scenes. My response is to ask why this fact, these psychological scientists, have had no effect on psychological clinical practice, as is true in medicine? The answer is obvious -- psychology describes, it cannot explain, and science requires empirical, testable explanations, for reasons given here:

http://arachnoid.com/building_science

But don't take my word for it -- NIMH chairman Thomas Insel has recently come to the same conclusion, recently ruling that the DSM may no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals, for the simple reason that it has no scientific content.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...
Blog post about tweet going "massively viral" leads to chorus of outrage on popular Internet boards (news.cnet.com)
I think there is a 'before they start accepting contributions' implied.

Or are they already accepting contributions?
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> And the Army isn't either, strictly speaking.

Right, and if someone had taken a statement that, say, the Army has no power to regulate securities markets to mean that the government had no power to do so -- the equivalent of the error made in characterizing the Fed Chair's statement as being about the government authority with regard to bitcoin when it was about the Fed's authority -- that would be relevant.

> But it's clear that the U.S. government has no right to control something like Bitcoin

Its rather clear that the Congress has enumerated Constitutional power to regulate the value of any money that it doesn't issue in Article I, Sec. 8. Its also rather clear that the US government has a wide variety of powers to regulate commerce of an international or interstate character, regardless of whether it is conducted in bitcoins or bananas.

The only sense in which "it's clear that the U.S. government has no right to control something like Bitcoin" is in the sense in which the U.S. government doesn't have rights at all, it has powers. The US government certainly has a variety of explicitly granted powers that could be applied to regulate bitcoin -- and, in fact, some of them have been applied in a way which governs parts of the bitcoin ecosystem (as shown in, e.g., the FinCEN guidance on applicability of money service business rules to entities dealing in virtual currencies.)
Chart: Mobile broadband prices, speed, and Internet penetration around the world
If you only turn on the sprinkler when it rains, the wet grass is still causally linked to the rain. There's just extra mediation - you.
If cache size is infinite, why isn't hit ratio 100%-new photos? Due to auto expiration / TTL?
There are a few US based now right?

Can the market support so many US exchanges? (do any have working USD ?)

buttercoin (no selling yet? ACH? wire? CC?)
coinbase (technically not an exchange but USD works)
campbx (bank halted ACH/wire transfers on January 31, 2014)
kraken (located in SF, USD back soon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7321703 )
coinsetter (in beta, bank approved USD)
cryptsy (located in FL, USD soon, registered Money Services Business/BSA/FinCEN)
coinlab (never opened exchange)
coinmx (may not actually be in US, overseas CC charges, be careful)
Clever, but ultimately laughable. "A scraper site is a spam website...", that doesn't quite work for Google.
I was just about to post this link.

The change broke bower at on my laptop. The above link fixed it.
Whilst the numbers quoted in US dollar terms are quite staggering, I would be interested to know what the actual losses are based on the initial investment dollar amount.

I'm guessing many of these coins were mined or bought before the astronomical price rises.

Of course I understand that that is irrelevant to people who have perceived millions of USD, but interesting nevertheless.
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You are calling bollocks on a claim he doesn't make.
You said you only care about readability. But readability is one of the only reasons we code in "monospaced" fonts, because although they don't look as nice, it's very difficult to confuse capital I's with l's and 0's with O's.

Also surely you get the sense of informalness that comes from Comic Sans? Do you at least understand why it looks silly on something like a "DANGER, HIGH VOLTAGE" sign
`for (var i=0; i<l.length; i++)` is so 1970.
In Javascript, you have array.map and $.each, and can define functions in-place.

Same applies to Python, BTW; get used to list comprehensions and generators and you cannot look back.
Well, without actually knowing where his money is going (thus why I asked) it's impossible to say. I had no trouble digging up apartment listings for Seattle studios (or bigger) under $1,000, but who knows if he's in one of those or in something more expensive.

I think you may have missed my point as well: being financially insecure as a single man making $110k/year is weird, and has to be due to individual circumstances (whether bad luck or bad planning) and has nothing to do with the economy as a whole.
This is pretty interesting. I mean, it seems pretty intuitive and obvious once it's put out there like that. I currently deal with a few hundred million items that need to be delivered in real time, and we use a somewhat similar structure, although our algorithms for cache invalidation are much less sophisticated. I wonder how much effort it would take (and I can put forth) to improve my own system to be more efficient.

In other words, I wonder how much of this efficiency boost is due to FB's abilities (both in people and technology) to scale. The paper seems to imply that it's relatively simple, now that the data has been gathered, but for a one-person team like mine, I wonder what benefits I can take away from this.
This is confirmed by the recent move of AMD towards extremely hot GPUs. You already see that in the most recent 290x, but they're talking about making hardware that is comfortable running at >100C.

I'm not sure how relevant that is with regards to performance per watt, but I do know that heat is one of the most expensive (by-)products of electricity.
you need root permissions on OpenBSD merely to read a capture file.

How does that even work? It seems like if you can read the file there is nothing stoping you from trying to parse its contents.
Will running without relying on blobs mean that processing can be further optimised or is it more of a moral victory than a technical progression.

I'm assuming doing away with the shim means that there is some gain but in practical terms is it likely to be quite minimal? Will there be routines accessible that weren't accessible via the shim?
And 75%* of the companies that buy ads on Reddit end up with negative comments in the ads and end up turning commenting off.

*Not a fact, just my experience.
I remember how satisfying it was to get that demo to work back in 2011 (thanks to the help of Dave Emett). Feels like an incredibly long time ago now! I wonder what framerate people will be able to achieve...
I don't see how you can argue that Google's scraping adds value in cases like this. They literally grabbed the content off Wikipedia and put it in a box... right above the snippet from Wikipedia that appears in the #1 search result (which is Wikipedia).

Arguably if the source you're ganking content from is in the top 3 results, you might as well kill the scraped content box so that people can see more search results above the fold, since the content you scraped will be there anyway.

Of course, the boxes are good for Google, because they let them exert more control over visitors and traffic. Google puts enough of the source into the search results that the average visitor might never click through to Wikipedia.
Acquihires are typically four year commitments? That's crazy.
For one you were already using the site in order to get to where you can see it. I don't think google is making more money by putting certain information at the top, but they might be taking away money from where they got it from. They are also citing where the information came from.

Maybe google could give the potential ad revenue back to the sources.
This is super-cool. Not sure it's recommendable to use it in place of ssh, but maybe with ssl+http-auth it could be workable? It definitely adds some convenience for when I'm away from one of my boxes and I don't want to deal with putty.

As per all HN comments, one downside is that it kind of messes up with my vim colors, but that may be that my vim colors are messed up to begin with.
Sounds like a rock solid business plan. If they could only persuade people...
There are no procedures, only functions that return something. A function either returns something explicitly, or returns None. Easy.
Should you launch more than once?
Two years ago (or whenever the BCM2835 itself came out on the market), sure, but surely things have improved since? We've at least jumped a technology node, and hasn't nVidia improved?
I think that's why the key is only valid for 3 months.
Modular Dependency Management in jQuery
What do you think about Modular Dependency Management / AMD in jQuery?

There's a discussion around the logistics of the actual implementation and architecture: https://gist.github.com/davearel/9254418
Migrated to: https://gist.github.com/tbranyen/9255362

This conversation spawned from this blog post: https://tech.bellycard.com/blog/the-future-of-jquery/

The more we talk about this, discuss the implementation, and rally support, the faster we'll see this in fruition.
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Unicef Tap Project – Water Donated For Going Without Your Phone
I didn't, Stripe chose Paymill for me by not being available in my country.
> You can set the bind host with butterfly.server.py --host="0.0.0.0" which will allow other users to connect to your terminal. A password will be asked but IT IS NOT SECURE! So it's recommended as of know [sic] to run this only on local network for testing purposes.
Yes, that does not sound like much of a dilemma. We should all be so lucky to have those options.
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But we’re incredibly proud that VideoCore IV is the first publicly documented mobile graphics core

Wasn't Intel first by virtue of using their in-house "HD Graphics" hardware in Silvermont (Bay Trail-M and -T)? Regardless, this is a huge thing in the ARM world, and I hope other vendors will begin to open up documentation.
Links:
https://gist.github.com/davearel/9254418
https://gist.github.com/tbranyen/9255362
https://tech.bellycard.com/blog/the-future-of-jquery/
I've never heard of an 8-month internship. What sort of program is that? Like a semester+summer?
There's a comment on the blog post that I thought was very good, it was from Rob, and it ends with:

"Please, try harder or get forked. Not sure how else to say that."
I'm not saying that anybody who had money in Bitcoin is a hypocrite. But anybody who had money in MtGox, lost it, and now wants help getting it back is hypocritical if they were also singing the praises of Bitcoin in those ways. And that presuming that people with money in MtGox were Bitcoin proponents is not a giant stretch.
Probably goes down as one of the worst large scale blunders of this type given the sheer amount of people affected. It's actually fairly insane that node.js relies on npm like this - isn't it only a matter of time before one of the core node packages gets compromised and someone gets root access to thousands of servers and dev boxes?
Please, tell us more about how wealthy you are.
Ad revenue needs to die as a business model for websites. I will continue to block all ads on all websites because I can and they are ugly.
Yea with this happening I think what I would love is a bit more cpu power on the pi. Not even the new 64bit arm cores or anything but an A-15 or A-9 at double the MHz of the existing PI would put it in a huge sweetspot for embedded performance and make it far more usable for a desktop (with ideally more ram too but that's always good).
Or a Hacker News link to a blog post about a tweet. The flag button under the headline isn't there for decoration.
Well, if they are charging money for the thing and they tell contributors they aren't going to get paid, I'm not sure there is much more of a puzzle to solve.

Let's rephrase everything: People should be aware of Github's lack of communication before they start messing with this too much.
NHS data row shows rising public unease, information chief warns
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Vanity Fair International Best-Dressed Challenge
They aren't hidden, the posts that are ads are clearly marked as such
Oh right, that's fair. Same in Django (and you're right, mutation in this case would be horrible design), I suppose I was mixing the metaphorical with the actual.
Well done, mate. This is some great work that you did.
The two reasons I have to stick with Chrome are Batarang for AngularJs debugging and chrome dev tools for NodeJs debugging with node-inspector. I haven't found any alternatives to these in Firefox, but would switch in a flash if there was.
It does not. If I think of something sad, molecules flow through my body. If I eat icecream, I remember something sad. The problem of mental causation. Unsolved. There're other problems, just as deep.

Physical causation in on one side of the deep. Phenomenal experiences are on the other side.

Good read: Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness - http://consc.net/papers/facing.html
I noticed the Firebase reference on your page. Very nicely done. I just started working with Angular and using Firebase is a no-brainer.
I think kraken (https://www.kraken.com/) is based in the US as well.
First time I've ever seen someone complain about too many bitcoin exchanges :)
Bitcoin’s Mt. Gox: Inside the quick rise and even faster fall
Reddit Gold is a fine way to contribute to the company. I salute you.
Why are they still using the FIFO policy when their own data shows that S4LRU beats it in every area? Is it just easier to implement?
Bitcoin-Only Economies
Until there's one that doesn't suck, there should be more competition keeping the exchanges innovating and improving their services to be more competitive.
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Which Girard station? :) Are you in an apartment building? My house is at about 12th & Poplar, and a couple of years ago I saw a lot of Verizon activity on the numbered streets, but nothing ever coming down to house level.