skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're making a web app, IMO you shouldn't use SQLite at all - not even for testing. In a live scenario SQLite has problems with multiple users. And in a test scenario SQLite is too forgiving when it comes to types - which means that once you switch to your live database, e.g. PostgreSQL, errors will occur that you hadn't foreseen because PostgreSQL isn't as forgiving as SQLite type-wise.

In short, use PostgreSQL both for testing and live. I recommend Postgres.app for Mac users: http://postgresapp.com/
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> “If you have to go back to court every time you look at the information in your custody, you can imagine that would be quite burdensome,” deputy assistant attorney general Brad Wiegmann told the board.

Come again...? So we're breaking the separation of the three powers because otherwise the authorities have to be inconvenienced with the "quite burdensome" task of "going back to court"? He can't be serious.
Of course. So a lot of things are in the works right now, but in a nutshell, I'm currently scraping data about (nearly) every taxi company in the U.S and feeding that data into an admin panel which lays out the data in a way conducive to finding items which have been reported as lost in a given geographical area..theres still a lot of work to be done on that front, but that's the core concept...as for scaling, yes I definitely think it has the potential to be globally scalable in the future, but for the moment I'm concentrating on the U.S as a proof of concept...if I can get it working here, though, I would definitely be interested in introducing it globally later.
Yeah. To a manager, offering to take a 25% pay cut signals that you think you'll be delivering 25% less value. Find reasons it'll be better for them, or at least no worse.
Anyone else disturbed that this was written in a way that associates stolen trade secrets with his current employer, even though based on the article one has nothing to do with the other? Also, the purpose of writing that he's a Russian national is what?

Guilty or not, it's almost as if the intent of this article is to defame.

This is a low PR point for Microsoft as far as I'm concerned. The only companies that pull this shit are already circling the drain.
The decentralized nature of bitcoin is baked into the protocol, its a technical feature, not a social one. So it has less to do with market segmentation of the userbase, whether 80% of the people use bitcoin-qt, blockchain.info, or mtgox. My biggest fear was that we were going to see MtGox blow up in the early days, when it had 80% of the market. Luckily, it didn't happen until the later days (when it only had 30% of the market).

When the social/service distribution gets lopsided, it does present a huge risk. But its "only" the risk that service blows up, not a risk of the protocol getting co-opted. Even with 80% of users on MtGox, that never compromised the essential decentralized feature of bitcoin: having absolute control over your coins on the blockchain. The analogy to google mail is that Gmail users can still e-mail hotmail users (and send/receive e-mail from users on their own custom SMTP servers).

An example of a protocol getting co-opted might be Google Talk, which they announced last year was discontinuing support of XMPP. So now Gchat users can only message other Gchat users, not other XMPP users (though I'm not sure if Google has actually disabled it yet). This would be like if someday Coinbase announced that users couldn't send to any bitcoin addresses anymore, only other Coinbase usernames.
Youtube (audio stream)
In-depth, but quite dated...
This and remote teaching (of code etc) are few of the things tools like these can adapt to.
That's certainly true, but you could also make a strong case that flight recorders aren't necessarily a place where you're going to have a race to put as much technology in them as possible. I doubt we'll see a YC startup for this any time soon.

I could make the most awesome flight recorder ever seen, but nobody will buy it (speaking of which, who actually buys these? The airline like they do with engines or the manufacturer like they do with, say, the batteries?). They're going to keep buying the Honeywell or the Teledyne one because that's just who they buy recorders from.

I can't even fathom what would be the cost to enter this market. The engineering and testing and certification costs must be immense. Even if you do this, I don't think you'd be able to charge a premium for a better product. Imagine yourself as the Boeing 797 project manager: you're hundreds of millions over budget, the shareholders are getting upset, etc. Now your data recorder engineer comes up to you and says "here's a list of data recorders that meet federal and international standards, sorted by price." Which end of the list do you start from?
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The match is almost always on the deferral amount. So a 50% match is up to $8,750 extra with the current limit (subject to vesting!)

There are other options for an employer to contribute. The total contribution limit (including deferred income) to a given employer's plan is $52,000 for 2014. Salary deferral is limited across all employers, but if you have multiple employers contributing on a non-deferral basis, then it seems you can go over the $52,000 limit

http://www.irs.gov/Retirement-Plans/Plan-Participant,-Employ...
I feel like this is not a good comparison. Boeing took fifty years to go from the company that built that plane, to the company that helped build the Saturn V. I'm all for long time horizons, but I don't think that most startup founders envision spending fifty years on a company in order to finally, at the end of that, get to do what they wanted to do in the first place.
This is a rather inaccurate statement to make. I've used Socket.io with double digit concurrent users before and Socket.io handled things fine.
This epic issue: https://github.com/learnboost/socket.io/issues/438
> Why has this story been killed so it doesn't appear on the front page?

Looks like it's back, for now.
Yes you are... doing otherwise leads to carpal tunnel syndrome
You're not disagreeing with the parent. They said more than double-digit.
DK2 isn't good enough. That's why it isn't the consumer version already. Palmer has said in interviews that the consumer version will be higher resolution and higher frame rate. The higher frame rate is required to enable low enough persistence without flickering.
That's very humbling to hear (I've spent, cumulatively, a lot of time maintaining WAL-E), yet log shipping is a feature of many other database systems.

That said, I do write and maintain WAL-E for reasons that go beyond mere vanity or NIH, and not every data base system may have an accompanying tools at even WAL-E's level of investment (kudos to Heroku) given the use case.

I'm glad you like it so much as to cite it as an advantage.
Sure, but why TCP and not UDP? Why threads and not processes? Why a web server and not a mail server? Why ports instead of sockets? The list you made is a decent baseline for somebody doing web development, but a smart person programming in another domain could easily pick up any of these things.
Having personally experienced the floor mat issue in a Toyota 4Runner, I definitely didn't hit the wrong pedal. I intentionally hit the gas pedal. I had floored it for about a second or two, lifted my foot and the pedal didn't come with it. Thankfully I realized what had happened really quickly and was able to pry the pedal back up with my foot. Prior to that event I would have never even considered a possibility of the accelerator getting stuck like that.
I got a notification for your comment, but not for the sibling comment by jaredsohn.
Nest has a round screen. Not on your wrist, but none the less.
>I think Tumblr has it right when it comes to blog commenting

Tumblr's model is absolutely awful, though, because it conflates likes, plain reblogs and reblogs that actually add commentary together (and sometimes doesn't even note all of the latter?) into a single stream of "notes", making it basically impossible to trace or even find the actual conversations and commentary from all the noise. Their quote inlining can be terribly confusing at times too. I honestly wonder how anyone manages to discuss anything on the site.
Here's a recent commit fixing one.

https://github.com/conformal/btcscript/commit/299dcc2fad071d...

Chain splitting bugs in btcd get fixed all the time, that's why its considered alpha quality software.
i still use mysql.Maybe futured will db2c.
Yes, it's embarrassing. It shows the un-professionalism of the situation.

One assumes the real press conference was delayed so he could do the grandstanding.

That said, there should have been nothing said at this stage anyway until some sort of real conformation was performed.

I guess it's all about entertaining the masses who demand their ongoing live entertainment fix.
Does the voice recorder still function if they pull all the fuses? It's possible, if that's the case, that they will get the lead up to the event on voice recorder. seems like planes have redundancy though and this particular system is probably on a different power supply.
But this isn't a cleaning service. It should be reasonably expected that they automatically process your mail for spam filtering and image caching and other parts of the service. They are not using the service for espionage.
It is a good demonstration that in cases like this user democracy is a loosing strategy.
I tried Hired and got quite a few offers in this range:

120k-140k
0.10% to .20%

Not really competitive with Google/Apple/FB/Amzn or even a mid-size tech firm.
Well, then you missed out on the date rape joke halfway through. Unnecessary additions to an otherwise good article.
The BB UI is my goto rebuttal to many site/ui revamp suggestions people make.

I doubt BB will be toppled, until a breach is made in their data coverage
I have no problems with multiple users and SQLite. A website with 1000 active users should run fine with just SQLite. Maybe you should start reading https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
I've managed a 16384 with a score of 245892 - this version eats up so much time per attempt that it's almost depressing when I lose on a careless mistake..
Looked at GreenAddress. Very cool. I have some relevant questions, that may be OT in this thread. Can we chat? I am at kalepune (google's email). Thanks
Joking around is something that almost never happens on HN because this site tends to be full of tight-wad pedants who take themselves too seriously.
... ironic since most of that movie was shot in Austin :)
All these types of deals (even not in the game industry) use gross revenue since anything else can be manipulated.
All this is telling me is that a lot of people are kind of bad at this game. :/
I was going to build an app for this too but I wound up just using trello for it, works really well.
Oh, I'm familiar with the term. I tend to not think it is real.
What would you do with your life if all who have ever known you die?
This was clearly developed on a very large monitor ... because when I press the up arrow, it scroll the document up and I can't see the bottom of the board.

I got 8096 btw!
HN is in fact open source (an older version of it anyway): http://arclanguage.org/

However much of the "secret sauce" is, well, secret.
What are all the filthy rich people in Silicon Valley not named "Musk" doing with their money?
It's broken for me!

There are no tiles, and I'm the only user online.
I feel afraid for that pigeon
This is correct. Looking at the most recent FAA CVR reg. revision in 2008, which increased the required duration to 2 hours:

"Revisions to Cockpit Voice Recorder and Digital Flight Data Recorder Regulations" [1]

The FAA proposed that all CVRs be able to retain the last two hours of cockpit audio. Both the NTSB and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada noted that the short duration of available cockpit audio hindered the investigation of several accidents.

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) did not support the proposal to increase CVR recording time because the FAA did not propose any increase in the privacy protections regarding the access and use of information recorded on a CVR. The ALPA stated that existing protections are inadequate despite years of its attempts to change the standard.

[1] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2008-03-07/pdf/E8-3949.pdf
Other things on the plane also have similar beacons (the flight recorder, most notably) but have yet to be found, so it's not completely out of the question that they be deployed but not located.
A recent thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430501, "What if you didn't need money or attention?") reminded me of this post I wrote a while back, and thought you guys might enjoy.
Probably not. The aircraft would have been at the extreme edge of the radar's range, and in an area that is probably not getting scanned terribly often.

Jindalee uses a directable beam to scan the area or interest. It takes hours to do a full sweep of its entire range (bear in mind that with over the horizon radars you have to do a 2D sweep, not the 1D sweep of a standard line of site radar). Generally speaking, the radar tends to be targeted on areas of specific interest, not just randomly sweeping (the sweep pattern depends on current threat profiles). Maybe if Malaysian authorities alerted Australia quickly enough they may have pointed the beam to the right area, but as I understand it the alert didn't start going out until much later.
Disclaimer: ex RAAF radar engineer...
Correct. That's why you can in fact, input your own hex value which is where these come from.
I wouldn't equate this situation with incompetence. Lack of resources and training. Nor should we expect a country of that size of have the training and resources but that expectation is being placed on the Malaysian government. Its really tough spot for the Malaysian government, people want answers and finding an airplane is like finding a needle in haystack the size of rhode island. In comparison, Air France wreckage took 2 years to find.

It doesn't help there's all these theories about hijacking or the pilot going rogue. People/Media ignore the most probable theory that the plane had mechanical issues and crashed. I had calm my mother's fears on the phone couple days ago as she heard from a media source that plane was going to be used to deliver a nuclear weapon to the US mainland which is a completely absurd theory. Real incompetence is how the media spun this event out of control in the name of ratings and ad revenue.
I can't change my color on HN :( I didn't even know that this existed!
I'm coding up a version where the user enters the dimensions of an arbitrary hyperprism and plays in it. The controls are going to be obnoxious though, best idea I have so far is ab-cd for moves in small boxes, ef-gh for metaboxes, ij-kl for metametaboxes, etc.. I'm also trying to make a smart AI so I don't have to play said versions.
Here. I'll start you on better class on cryptography than any video, pdf, or slide deck you're going to find.

Go to this repository, grab the code, and figure out how you can attack it: https://github.com/jackjack-jj/jeeq (of course, along the way go learn whatever you need to). There are several interesting weaknesses in this code, and yet it's not just a toy: it was briefly deployed in a widely used application.

(If you google for it, you might find some of my analysis on it, which would potentially spoil the learning experience, so I suggest you don't. Though if you finish with this one I can dig up some other weak cryptosystems.)
No problem, keep at it and keep reading hn! This might be a nice good look for you to try, I have heard good things: http://hammerformac.com/
Another tricky part to competing with high priced financial services like this is that often the decision maker doesn't bear the actual cost. In a large bank spending another 20K for core services isn't going to affect a trader's or salesperson's bonus and on the buy side (hedge funds or institutions) these are often taken care of by the prime broker.

When it's someone else's money, you're likely to pick the highest quality and not really care if 80% of the functionality/quality is available for 25% of the cost.
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MySQL Advantage: "MySQL can be installed very easily"

I've always heard MySQL's popularity had a lot to do with how easy it was to install, but now a days, I really can't see install ease being a factor. The date for the document says February 21, 2014, so they should know about EnterpriseDB and their installer or maybe my idea of easy is different.

In my opinion EnterpriseDB did a really good job with their Postgres installer. They certainly designed it to be easy to integrate with other products, which makes sense, since more Postgres installs means more potential customers.

I was actually taken back by how easy it was to integrate with my products Linux installer. And what makes the installer really nice is, it puts everything in a single directory, which makes all the difference for my product. My product has a Postgres 9 requirement, and I was really worried about losing potential customers who were running Postgres 8 and could not upgrade. But since the install is pretty much self contained, you can happily run Postgres 8 and 9 on the same machine.

If you know Perl and are curious, download my product (http://gitsense.com/download.html) and take a look at the install.pl file. My only complaint with the db installer is, it doesn't provide a way for you to track the install progress. To work around this, I just fork a process which does the db install and I'll print a dot to STDOUT which lets the user know the install is jugging away.
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This is the only way I'll be able to win :). Thanks!

edit: And we lost the first game.
>Medieval Christian scholars were faced with a dilemma: their religious beliefs required them to believe that the soul was saved through a relationship with Jesus, yet going through the newly discovered Greek and Roman writings it was obvious to them that great men of virtue and honor were alive many centuries before Jesus lived. How could these people be of such high caliber yet believe such vastly different things?

If they were faced with a dilemma than they were certainly fools. Don't Christians believe that God created the world and thus was present long before Jesus was born? Did they think that virtue and honor did not exist (or were not even possible) before the birth of Christ? What about Noah, Job, Moses, David, Joseph, Daniel, The nations of Israel and Judah, ETC. of the old testament. These were scholars and had not read of these people or did not think that great men who were believers in God could influence those outside of their religion in a positive way? Did they not read when king Darius of Babylon make the God of Daniel the Official God of the land?

I am completely confused by this dilemma.
I'm confused--are you against the agile manifesto?

As the sibling comment states--Dave Thomas and topic article are making the distinction--they're advocating for agile, not money-making Agile as you vocally disapprove of.

p.s. I find it a little amusing (ironic, even) that your site was built by a company who apparently uses the things you do not approve of. Interesting choice, to be certain.
Could you give me a range of how much a dev can expect to earn at bloomberg? I'm curious because currently I'm a client (front office finance) but by next year I hope to get a tech degree and job. I'm just bracing myself for what kind of pay cut i'll need to take.
Somehow I suspect Mary Jo Foley would be a little amused by the idea that she was a Microsoft PR outlet. :-)

(Disclosure: I am a developer at the company)
I'm buying whatever sort of soap you're selling. What the Author of the link seems to be suggesting is that we want these moviemakers to survive. I'm not sure that's been settled.
and the rest of us [1366X768] are left behind

i can't believe you got 8096, i got like 8

edit: a new high, 16
Your definition of family has become so vague as to be meaningless. In genetics, adoptive parents are not considered family. I recommend you look into the evolutionary foundations of human mating systems, and their consequences (e.g. kin selection).
Just a friendly reminder, never ever move the highest number out of the corner.
You have allowed your political views to cloud your judgement.

Details of the satellite images and retasking of search aircraft would surely have leaked and the Australian government would have been rightly criticised for withholding that information had it not been announced.
Is this a proof that democracy does not work ? :)
Which does make it sexy for those of us who prefer quality to glossy hype.
It might be useful to record the inputs. Someone could train an AI to play 2048 like HN.
It depends.

I am living in a tiny Texas town, and I do pretty well freelancing PHP stuff. It wasn't super hard, but it took me maybe two years or so before it was really comfortable.

I don't know many employers who would go for remote work after hiring you-- I don't think that you could convince a business that is used to having you as an onsite employee to change that, but it isn't that hard to find other employers if you have skills.
This is such stupid advice.

I don't run my own mail servers. Nor do I run my own DNS, generate my own power of, gasp, keep my money stashed in a jar in my back yard.

And neither should you.

Pay somebody else to do the awesome things that coinbase is doing to keep your coins safe.

--

(This advice is void for people holding HUGE sums of coins. For people holding <10 coins or so, I don't see a problem using coinbase. At all.)
Great to see there is demand to improve mailing lists.

Though IIUC Threadable latches onto Google Groups? That sucks. How about a clean break guys?

I'm working with the opensource http://github.com/kaihendry/imap2json & mlmmj, and I'm pretty happy.

And I have my data too, to boot.
Right after an exceptionally dumb move is made, all activity seems to halt for just a moment, like everyone said "crap!" all at once.
>When will people start going to jail over this?

Why do people have to go to jail? One of the fortés of our economic system is its tolerance for failure. Stupidity, while a liability in civil court, is not criminally prosecuted.

Fraud, gross negligence, etc. are. The bar for proving guilt of those offences is high. I do not believe that high standard has been met, at least not yet. The situation deserves criminal investigation, perhaps. But jumping to the conclusion of jailing those involved is rash.
Eat my shorts?
MH370: 20 of the passengers worked for Freescale Semiconductors
Give me a shout when you're in bootcamp (my unixname is 'nbm'), especially if you're interested in working in infra and want help finding out about and choosing between teams.
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Got you. This is very helpful, thank you!
I suppose I considered it reasonable to consider things that are helpful should be done.
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