skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people making comments about killing the engine is a monumentally bad idea. If the car has a conventional key ignition, turning the key even to the accessory position can engage the steering wheel lock.

If the key is in the ON, or ACC position the steering lock will not engage[0]. I do agree that killing the engine should not be the first thing to do. It should introduce a fuel or ignition cut to lower RPM (like some cars do in neutral to avoid users from doing neutral to drive WOT drops).

[0] I used to work on cars for a living.
Row-level locking, mvcc, multiple write threads. Mysql (default Innodb engine) is actually pretty good at io scalability since ~ 5.5 (2010). We have google, percona, Facebook, oracle to thank for this.
I see where you are coming from, but you are highly emotional in your discourse. If you were calmer and rational you could probably make your point without being "down voted to hell"

Talking about it and raising awareness make a lot of difference. In the end all the money from football comes from fans and marketing, with marketing representing a good part of it. Nobody will pay to have their image associated with this kind of things.

So the people who buy the products from the companies that incentive the governments to build the stadiums must know that they are killing people indirectly. We are not rational buyers, but the more explicit a matter becomes, the better we factor it into our buying process.

EDIT: Raising awareness on the fans also helps. You probably wouldn't go to a stadium to watch a game if there was a photo of someone who died building it glued to your seat or if their graveyard was courtside, it's all about making the end payer aware.
Moreover, a CO is still conscripted. Quoting from http://www.sss.gov/FSconsobj.htm

> The person whose beliefs allow him to serve in the military but in a noncombatant capacity will serve in the Armed Forces but will not be assigned training or duties that include using weapons. ... Conscientious Objectors opposed to serving in the military will be placed in the Selective Service Alternative Service Program. ... Length of service in the program will equal the amount of time a man would have served in the military, usually 24 months.
Hey, Skype API hmmmm that's a nice idea, since WebRTC is in early stages.
And it is actually helpful for others to see each others comments. This helps them not make redundant votes and each comment is a unique comment. I understand why you suggest that though.
no no next to that key
I actually have an interview with Google in a week or so, and I'm absolutely terrified. After some reflection, I realized that I'm not afraid of not getting the job - I like my current job and wouldn't mind staying. I'm fundamentally afraid of failure - of being unable to do well on the problems and having the interviewers think I'm stupid. It's so silly, because I'll likely never see these people again, and I should be confident enough in myself and my abilities to not let their opinions affect me at all, but there it is. What if I can't make heads or tails of the weird binary search problem they give me? What if I get confused (I ALWAYS get confused) trying to manipulate a linked list? What if I get sent home after the first one or two interviewers? What if this reflects poorly on the Googler who recommended me?

I feel like a coward for being afraid of this stuff.

Anyways, I just wanted to get that off my chest.
Using Microsoft's own cloud services to distribute its leaked software. Such audacity.
I would emphasise the point made about Postgres read performance. If all you are doing is reading single rows from a single table using an index, then yes Postgres is overkill and other solutions may perform better. However, the overhead that Postgres has is due to a remarkably effective query planner, which can be a godsend if you have a complex multi-table join. A few years ago I was working on a project with a large Postgres database that regularly did queries joining 20 tables together, which Postgres was quite happy to accommodate.

Also, that overhead can be suffered only once for many similar queries if you make use of prepared statements, which can bring the performance of simple read queries up.

Also, bulk writes can be sped up through the COPY IN BINARY interface - we were getting bulk load speeds basically limited by the write speed of our RAID array.

In short, I have been very impressed indeed with Postgres. They do it right.
Again, how is this relevant?
Is the term "emergency brake" only used in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking_brake

"Although sometimes known as an emergency brake, using it in any emergency where the footbrake is still operational is likely to badly upset the brake balance of the car and vastly increase the likelihood of loss of control of the vehicle, for example by initiating a rear-wheel skid. Additionally, the stopping force provided by using the handbrake is small and would not significantly aid in stopping the vehicle."
> I get it. Anonymous people on the internet are assholes. What I don't get is how letting anonymous assholes typing things you've seen hundreds of times keep you from finding some signal in the noise is a good idea. There are some great insights to be found out there.

The way I see it, is anonymity itself is the problem. I don't bother reading comments anywhere, because the chance of me being "enlightened" is slim to none. I have no idea who is posting, or if what they are posting is true, or who they are. I'm more likely to get quality reading out of books on specific topics I want to learn. Comments are just a waste of time. I think HN is the one place left which still has decent comments.
hint: open in private window
PostgreSQL appears more popular on HN because MySQL isn't as sexy, feature laden, and a lot of Rails developers jumped away from MySQL due to some of its flaws. For all non HN users, MySQL is hugely popular, as is PHP. Both are cheap, widely available, and easy to setup on both Windows and Mac.

MySQL is fantastic for probably 90% of what you'd ever think to use it for. MySQL is also a lot easier to find cheap hosting for and has tons of documentation spread throughout the internet. It's worked well for plenty of websites at ridiculously massive scale for a long time and by the time you ever get "to scale", your problems will almost always be with your code, structure, a poorly designed query, or a severe lack of caching long before you run into problems with MySQL.

PHP and MySQL aren't the sexy HN choice, and there are problems with both, but both will get you a very long ways before they are ever your main problem as a startup.
It seems important to mention that two people were jailed for the threats to CAROLINE CRIADO-PEREZ, one of which was a woman.
> I'm asking why you see yourself as a seller-like-Walmart

I see myself as a seller, and sellers have largely chosen the fee up front model because it is more efficient.

If you need an income of $150K per year for your time, you're probably not going to find many who really wanted to offer you $200K, and you're probably going to deal with a lot of people who only want to offer you $50K. Why would you want to spend potentially months or years in talks with people who cannot afford you just to finally find the gem who wants to pay you even more? Setting your price at $150K gets you talking with people who will pay you that much.

Even if you managed to get an offer $50K above your hidden asking price, does that justify the time spent finding it when you consider average employment terms? You cannot look for work for free. It is actually quite expensive.

I will add that setting yourself apart means, well, doing that. You shouldn't even consider doing what other people are doing anyway if you agree with me on the premise of not wanting to become a commodity.

> If the company also can't price the tasks they need finished, how is anyone else (i.e. the employee) supposed to know?

Does it matter? People selling their employable services tend to price them by the hour, day, month, or year. If the project costs $100K or $1B, it doesn't really matter from your perspective, unless you are concerned about the well-being of the investing party – but that is a risk even with low costs.
He also had a successful exit in Zip2 (acquired for $300mm) before Paypal.
Not for long, Autodesk just bought them today. Looks like the marketplace-for-assets is starting.

https://creativemarket.com/blog/2014/03/19/building-the-worl...
While CFB can be considered a self-synchronizing stream cipher, OFB is a typical synchronous stream cipher. Being stream ciphers, these modes suffer from the usual bit-flipping attacks and nonce-reuse problems, same as CTR.

One problem specific to these feedback modes (and also to sponge functions) is the possibility of falling into a short cycle. A random permutation is expected to have log n cycles, with one big cycle taking around half of the values and a few shorter ones. Falling into a short cycle would imply quickly repeating the stream, which is catastrophic. The good news is that for a good block cipher the probability of this happening is overwhelmingly small, i.e., 1/2^(n-1) for block size n.
What's the threshold of involvement if someone walks into my unlocked house while I'm out and steals my TV?
In about 34 years, yes.
Not caring to look myself, did this man's father raise him?

My father certainly influenced my outlook on many aspects of life when he raised me. I am of course responsible for my own actions, and it is everyone's responsibility to rise above the shortcomings of their parents, but to ignore the role a parent plays in their child's development is just silly.

For example, my father is an evangelical christian. I am not. Realizing that my father is gives a window, however murky, into my development and provides context for many of my beliefs and convictions.

Noting the similarities between the father and the son gives us potential insight into the [lack of] moral development of the son.
>you strongly implied that his father being a Nazi somehow influenced his own behavior

A lot of psychological traits of a person form in early childhood. Do you think his childhood environment was very conductive to development of an unconditional empathy and other humanistic feelings toward other human beings, especially ones of non-"Aryan race"?
That said, Chris Dixon, Balaji Srinivasan & Marc Andreessen (all a16z partners) have been pumping BTC harder than a sump pump. Not sure that blog post is the best example.
Well fortunately for the staffer, if you steal something worth less than $750 it's just a misdemeanor.
Just to put this in perspective, Qatar won the bid in Dec of 2010 -- they are _literally_ killing 1 worker a day building this.

I spent some time in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and saw this "big money, big building" craze first hand... it truly is modern day slave labor. No more thought is put into the migrant workers than you would an extra shovel, concrete or tile - they are a resource to expend during construction. The locals don't see them as human, just building material.
"Again, depending on the choice of the database-engine, MySQL can lack certain features, such as the full-text search."

Both of the two biggest engines (MyISAM, InnoDB) support full-text search. It was added to InnoDB in MySQL 5.6/Maria 10.
A good guess might be "once the corporation makes up single-digit percentages of GDP".
> Every attempt [the media industry makes] to fix copyright protection results in proposed legislation that tramples internet [sic] freedom. I think there are many people in tech who would be on their side if real compromise was put on the table.

The whole post stems from this idea, yet there is actually no possible compromise. What these companies want is to make piracy hard, if not impossible. But if we have private user-to-user communication and user-controlled computing devices, it will always be possible to easily pirate. If a friend can privately send you a home movie, he can also send you a Hollywood movie. And if a friend sends you a Hollywood movie but you are unable to play it, that machine in front of you is either not a computer, or not your computer.

I believe private communication and computing is the much nobler goal, as this is the only way the power provided by technology will remain distributed throughout society rather than centralizing into too few hands. And I believe this regardless of how badly the resulting piracy ends up hampering creative production - there is no opting out of technology, and freedom/privacy/self-determination are simply more fundamental than professional creative works.

So to me, the "right thing" to do is in fact to avoid funding the content cartel's lawsuits/lobbying to further destroy the Internet. The right thing to do is to steer clear of anything that encourages the adoption of perverted technology like DRM. The right thing to do is to abstain from easy services like iTunes/Netflix, who sell the illusion of progress while recentralizing the Internet behind the scenes. The right thing to do is pirate and seed as much as possible, as the only acceptable distribution technologies are those completely under the users' control. The right thing to do is encourage adoption of encrypted p2p software amongst the general public, so that ISPs are less able to differentiate service based on type of traffic. And finally, the right thing to do is to support artists through ways that are sustainable in the face of every recorded work being freely available - eg concerts, public showings, tips, and crowd funding.
I deleted my post. not because I'm not standing to my opinion. But "why should I care about slavery?" is a complete misinterpretation about what I said.

My point was that I think this should be fixed where the modern slaves come from. And not where they are.

My point was that fixing the symptom doesn't fix the cause, apparently no one got that or I did a terrible job at explaining it. I still stand by it though.
Lessons Learned from a Private Beta Release
Walking with Hexapods
Sequoia Capital invested in Color. Sequoia also invested in WhatsApp.

The failure of Bitcoin won't make SV look silly. It will be business as usual.
Five Things March Madness Can Teach You About Building A Business
I bet most people on HN still use MySQL, they just don't talk about it as much
You're a bit muddled up here. Tinpots dictatorships of various flavours have required exit visas for years, sometimes even for their own citizens, but Dubai/the UAE does not and has not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_%28document%29#Exit_visas
Ask HN: ISPs with alternative business models
My city is currently soliciting ISPs to build a city-wide fiber network, and I'm wondering if there are any ISPs that have alternative business models.

The only ISPs I can think of that have alternative business models are municipality-owned ISPs and Google Fiber.

It seems that everyone wants to measure potential ISPs against Google Fiber, but I don't foresee any traditional ISP, whose business is selling service, being able to match the price of Google Fiber, whose business is selling advertising. Both Google and municipalities have an incentive to keep prices as low as possible, but traditional providers do not.

If there are any other ISPs that have a business model that is not primarily built on selling service, I would love to know about them. Thanks.
I don't see how the regulation level of Coinbase affects anything. Some people will store their keys on Coinbase. Paranoid users will use hardware wallets like Trezor. And there's a lot of options in between. The point is that its that choice (for starters) which differentiates bitcoin from Paypal.

What if Paypal were to adopt bitcoin as a deposit/withdrawal method, right next to credit card and bank transfer? That won't change the public-private key nature of bitcoin crypto. The blockchain won't go anywhere. Coin mixers and dark markets will still be there.

Coinbase isn't going to take over bitcoin any more than MtGox did. I don't quite understand what you're worried about.
Yeah, I was actually a bit surprised that this thread wasn't mostly people pointing out the irony of this particular person scoffing at someone's security flub.
I thought this was a reference to the backbone cabal of the '80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_cabal
I'm glad I can just see these replies so I can actually not have to play, and not have to sit here wondering what happens if your score goes high enough.
You can set up custom email aliases per group, but we've only just started building it out. More fully fleshed out custom domain support is on the way.
I guess which sites you visit influences the quality of the comments a whole lot more than anonymity or not.

At least my experience is that some of the most thoughtless and intolerant people are the same who will happily post using Facebook login, full name etc.
Well, the police might send someone over to collect your statement and give you papers for the insurance company if your teevee is stolen. Or they might make you come in and do it. But they certainly aren't going to open an investigation and pursue the thieves.

Likewise with your startup's trade secrets.

But Microsoft or Goldman Sachs will get the attention of the FBI right quick when they complain. You would get some attention if you showed up dead with a gunshot wound instead of just missing a teevee -- if you're white, anyway. But if you show up dead in a car crash, the cops won't care once they scrape you up so traffic can flow. Police have a complicated set of social criteria they use to decide what to care about. Mostly they correspond to social priorities.
Picking a March Madness bracket using natural-language text
Right, Scrum. That's the one I hate the most.
True, but Fisker took more than that, and then went bankrupt. Car companies can fail like any other startup. Tesla itself very nearly failed.
"Microsoft Activation Server Software Development Kit"?

I don't get any hits on Google for this before today.
If there's plenty of that to go around in this case, just focus criticism there rather than lineage or what seems like conjecture.
> I still don't get it.

You are not alone it seems.

(If someone knows where I can find discourse-installations except for the sandbox, post a link please)
Reuters has been trying to topple Bloomberg relentlessly for years. Although they managed to reach feature parity with them on the content, data & analytics and communications(BB Chat vs. Reuters Messaging) on most of the asset classes they continued to loose even at FX where they are the strongest: Bloomberg at its core is a communications company and Reuters didn't manage to break into the most valuable part of their community i.e. buy side.

Buy side, asset management companies like hedge funds, pension funds, has be the target audience for any startups so that sell side companies would flock into the systems for creating transactions. The term flocking must be taken literally as buy side doesn't have time to wait around to find their favorite counterparts. The easiest(!) way to achieve this is to create JV's with financial institutions which is exactly what Markit did
- founded in 2003
- reached $1B and 3000+ employees in 2013

BB can only be toppled by breaking into the buy side community and getting the backing of some of the key players on the sell side. Would they care? Absolutely, as they hate the fact that they have no negotiation power over their data & terminal spend with BB. The cost of maintaining BB terminals is definitely not a noise or a friction of their expenses as some commenters suggested: At every market downturn trading desks are asked to slash terminal costs by deciding between the terminals(BB vs. Reuters) or start sharing terminals. With Reuters banks could negotiate contracts. However with BB they can't negotiate at all as they absolutely own the community.
Slight delay..

The last time I used satellite was ten years ago and, I was on a Huges satellite which had a FAP that meant the max transfer per week was as small as dialup. (Possibly excluding some http pages that get cached in the satellite itself..) Plus ten times the latency.
One day everyone else will start to notice this cycle as well. Look at the reporting for the recent Sochi games, where the first week was rife with stories about unready facilities and hotels.

Then, once it starts, everything is forgotten and the sports become the center piece.
As is becoming abundantly clear, the world is run by politicians with little to no understanding or respect for science. These people, like most, believe in the "genius" theory, where an Einstein just magically appears and make a huge breakthrough once every hundred years. They don't understand that science is a slow, incremental process which happens over hundreds of years, and requires steady investment for progress to continue.

As it stands, the politicians could care less if we entered another dark age. All they care about are votes, and power.

I hope the best for this initiative at YC, but having known brilliant scientists, they are the furthest thing from entrepreneurs. They are intrinsically motivated, and don't care much for fame, money or prestige. As such, most are terrible at making sales pitches.

Sam makes it abundantly clear that there won't be another Bell Labs. Sadly, that is precisely what we need. The real breakthroughs will require extremely slow, deep thinkers which have the autonomy and time to work on very hard problems without interruption in the form of sales pitches, VC meetings, demo days, and above all a constant scramble for funding.

This [1] is the closest I've seen to a modern day Bell Labs.

1. http://janelia.org/
a noble task in ignoble hands
2048 is like 1024 for cool people.

Sorry, its not a real start up. But imagine if it had advertisements.
I recently read the Gregory Hays translation [1] and thought it was great. Meditations was Marcus Aurelius's "notes to self" and the Hays edition captures this informal nature. It makes for an easy and delightful read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Aur...
You're probably right. In the case of soccer/football worldcup though I really don't think it's gonna help. These seats will be filled anyways.
Missing json, smallserial data types for Postgres.
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