skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the author's intentions, but I think the best outcomes happen when you hire brilliant men (and women) and manage them well.

In the case of the sales executive, it sounds like the author allowed his team to basically say "good luck doing this yourself, don't expect help from us." And he allowed the guy to move into an ivory tower far away from where things were happening.

If you decide you're moving in a certain direction, you need to make clear to the team, if necessary, that digging in their heels is not a response you're going to tolerate. Some people will probably have to move on.

I'm not surprised the article is anonymous. The owner sounds like a problem to me, as much as the "brilliant" sales executive. He's good at making a mediocre business, and his comfort zone is there. Trying to shake that up is a losing game for anyone, brilliant or otherwise.
Saturn didn't. Those were still dealers, just more closely-watched ones since GM was really trying to turn over a new leaf.
It could be illegal, especially if their own ToS doesn't permit them to do that, and promise you stronger privacy.

But it seems they have their bases covered on that, so we'll see.
"In current and common use" is not actually the opposite of "cryptic and ancient".
It is strange that SQLite will get this before MySQL. But good job to the SQLite team!
It doesn't really sound like the boss is providing a working prototype. It sounds like the boss provides throwaway code that is a step or two better than a screenshot or whiteboard drawing.
Miracle health device crowdfunds $730k, might be scam
Many times great minds behind companies have already seen other ways to make money. This could be Google when it was just a search engine, or Amazon when it was just books.

The idea of renting your house can be transportable to many other non-rentable items too. $10 billion is reasonable if in 3 years there's a 80% chance that it's a $2.5 billion company, and a 20% chance that it's a $75 billion company.
They get us to do it because we have more practice. They're going to be spending a bunch of time hacking away at a query or parse to make sure they have everything or else they might have missed some of that data. At worst, they make a decision with that bad parse or data. Language gotchas are a real pain for people at this stage. I agree it's not rocket science and any of those examples possess the capability to learn that sort of thing. The key difference between a doctor and I is confidence that we did it right.
Fürer's algorithm
FYI, the Digital Ocean tutorial writers get paid $50 to write them: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/get-paid-to-write-...

Looks like a great way for DO to both build a sense community and also appear high in Google rankings when you search for something. I googled some Linux question earlier today, and ended up on a DO page -- refreshing their brand in my mind.
This is not the first time Microsoft had actual employees look through their users' personal accounts. At least Google only mines the data algorithmically, but this is way worse.

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...

This is why I think Microsoft's "privacy attack ads" against Google are done in really poor taste - not necessarily because some or most of them aren't true, but because I know the company doing those ads is just as bad or worse for the very same thing they're accusing Google of. I can't support that.
Is this correlation just something you believe based on personal experience, or do you have some more substantial basis?
From mutual agreement in exchange of goods and services, or by force. Not the same. Only thieves and governments do the latter.
Hi Rey! Thanks a lot for responding. I didn't realise it was you who submitted it, I simply noticed that the title under which you submitted it is different - and much better - than that of the article. Usually in cases like this, an HN admin will change the title to that of the original. I don't know if they will do that even if it was you who submitted it, however.

Keep up the great work, I really hope you will succeed!
Funding Open Data With Gittip
Aside from the fact that both use mmap, there's little resemblance. LMDB does zero-copy reads and writes, this does not. LMDB is a persistent data store, this is not. B+trees are inherently very memory efficient, hash tables are not.

This is limited to the size of RAM, LMDB is not - LMDB is only limited to the size of the processor address space.
This uses locks for reads, LMDB does not - LMDB reads will scale to an arbitrary number of CPUs, perfectly linearly, this will not.

Hash tables are great for small data sets, horrible for larger data.
Thinkful launching AngularJS class
Slang is slang. It was then, it is now, and it should be easy to understand his meaning. Besides, this man professedly runs a grocery store and says his best hires were muscly delivery boys (rather than college students). So I quite doubt he is being elitist and hiring only those of high class.
Ah I see. Thanks for letting me know... 1deg.org is so much more than a "Yelp for Social Services," and we're aspire to make sure that all families can break the cycle of poverty. But you're right. Someone at HN will probably change the title.
I've converted from MySQL on previous project to MongoDB then to PostgreSQL with my current project, and I have to agree that the time it takes to get up and running with Postgres is still a bit behind MySQL.

The user permission system, the file-based authentication, the strange backslash command structure, the "no feedback" nature of the replication solution vs. the status report in MySQL all make Postgres a lot more "newbie unfriendly".
Hackathon for Homeless Social Services (March 28th – 30th San Francisco)
Physical mail is much simpler than electronic mail. Telegrams are more akin to email that an actual piece of mail.

How do I guarantee I don't look at it when I literally have to look at it to provide the service?

There are services which avoid this by using thinner servers, but they are in the minority.
That was a staged event. The jet was flown by wire. This is known as a false-flag attack. Please Google that (its a real thing). Fear of these types of attacks, or worse, is used to create an environment where freedom can be restricted in the name of "safety" which allows for better control of political dissent.
I see money as a measure of value.

The exchange of butter for chickens, and determining what exchange rate would be satisfactory for both parties, quite often does not take into account the effort, or cost, of producing the goods. Say it costs the butter producer 5 years of raising a cow, including the cost of grain and water, and also the processing costs, in the total cost of producing butter. Say it costs 6 months of very little grain and water to raise a chicken. Should the exchange rate reflect the "costs incurred" for production?

A market determines the value of these goods, as defined by the demand. That market value is explicitly defined by monetary value. In this view, money is simply a digital representation of the value of goods and services, allowing consumers and producers to more easily draw comparisons.

In many societies, a job in social services is valued much lower than say a job in IT. The effort involved might be identical, but the market determines the value of the occupation.
From what I understand, things are a bit different here - most camps/activities are for a week or less, so for a summer holiday of 7 weeks there is a lot of time to fill and a lot of organizing to do.
I'm not interested in a semantic argument. My arguments that mention government are, obviously, referring to my own definition of that term.
Announcing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.0.0
In the context of your example, your implementation is the best, hands down.

My fork had two objectives. The first was to nail the argument of "What do I do if my model has 1.2k LOC". Look at it as an extension of your solution.

The second was to show that before using Policy, there is mechanism in rails that you can use to extract bit of code away from the model (concerns, validators, etc.)

So yeah, you could say this was a future coding for possibly-if moons are aligned- extension points ;)

To reiterate, I start with in-model validation 100% of the time and move from there as needs be.
Meh, just try harder next time. ;)
Again, I don't think anyone here is talking about the military.
How much worse are Putin and Russia than the United States, really?

Its going to be difficult for people to comprehend this, but I think its a matter of just a few degrees. Sure seems to me that he is a dictator who will kill you if you get too powerful and cross him.

However, in the terms of military action, Russia's activities have been relatively benign in comparison to the United State's recent actions.

The United States and allies certainly have played a hand in recent violent political activities in Ukraine, although most likely through covert means.

Whereas Russia has come out in the open to assert its own influence over nearby borders.

On the other hand, are we quite sure that there haven't been any anti-establishment American figures who have been assassinated (by the establishment)? Certainly there have been. Most people can't accept that reality.

What is accepted is that the United States will readily assassinate leaders in other countries for geopolitical purposes.

What is accepted is that the United States will readily invade other countries under false pretenses in order to advance its own territorial or resource desires. And the United States has taken this policy to great length recently.

There is nothing ethical about any of these activities which involve deadly force.

The nation-state is an ancient concept that is fundamentally based on violence. Its just an extremely official and well-respected Mafia. But still founded on the same criminal and unethical principles of coercion by threat of death or imprisonment.
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I always hate when folks make comparisons like this to the USPS for the simple reason that the USPS has reams of laws, codes, and statutes it is bound to follow, full-stop.

These codes explicitly outline how I should expect my mail to be handled by the USPS. They also explicitly define how 3rd parties are handled when they violate your mail. It's all very clear in black & white.

We have expectations of the USPS because of a codified standard. Breaking those expectations is a totally different scenario than the MS scenario.
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How much cheaper or more accessible will the future version of the connected tablet be in 1-2 generations (25-50 years)? 20 years ago mobile phones were rare, expensive and not very good. What if the availability of energy takes a huge leap.

Those things can have a profound effect on the productive capacity of a people born into it. Can the third world brands of 'education as a major challenge' be solved to the point where most kids have a decent chance by our standards? If those kinds of changes happen, part of that increase in productive capacity almost certainly will go into building infrastructure.

Honestly I think that part of investing on a horizon like this and betting on either ambitious charities, companies or even in scientific research is that it's hard to know. Some people leave their endowments to Art and I'm not sure you can really coherently argue against it.
Yea and a curious counterpoint is the church wouldn't be built without Paul, who wasn't in the original 12, was educated and a "brilliant" charmer.
The amount of influence money has on the state is directly proportional to the amount of control the state has on the economy and justice system. Money in politics wouldn't nearly matter as much if the government didn't apply heavy-handed control to every market and courtroom around the country.

As long as power is centralized into a few politicians hands, there will always be a massive concerted effort to buy that power.

Everyone who champions for more state-intervention, this is the natural side-effect you'll have to live with. Welcome to your unintended creation. Transparency is the only possibly counter-balance I could see helping the situation, but I don't see any level of transparency being added to gov operations. The trend has been in quite the opposite direction.
The Birchbox model for the event/experience discovery space
I'm curious also how much climate control factors in.

Do the heaters use waste heat or draw from the battery?

I am sure that AC and battery warmers would have to burn some significant juice.
As long as there's money in manipulating the government, then money will manipulate the government, whether it's through campaign donations, bribery, cronyism, or something else.
To be honest, who would not want to "find [one's self] in a statement" (who writes like this?) like "I want to find a cure for the disease"?

Bill Gates and Malaria: Trying to find a cure (vaccine) and is treating the symptoms in the interim.[^1]

Would you want to "find yourself" in that statement?

[^1]: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Mala...
By "FED" do you mean the Federal Reserve? While they don't directly engage in violence as far as I know, their powerful influence is due to the dominance of the US dollar, which is established and maintained by violence, in the form of monopoly protection (if you create a competing currency, you go to jail) and taxation.
It sounds like just 40% of a year's severance. Not too much to walk away.

And it's a parable, not a true story. The timing was 1924 - the roaring 20s. It's a commentary against the flashy types, in defense of the folks who put their heads down and work.
Ask HN: Can we be notified on replies?
It's rare, but sometimes, I get replied and I want to continue the discussion. If I don't think of coming back to check threads, the discussion halts.

Would be nice to be notified of replies.
You're right, but people are going to take it wrong.

If you're a startup, tackling a huge problem that you don't know how to solve is very likely to lead to failure. You are correct in that.

But let's say you're starting a project. The technical part of the project is mostly straitforward, but there's this one part that you're not really sure anybody knows how to do. You'd better do that part earlier rather than later, or figure out a way where you don't have to do it. Find out how big the problem is when you still have time to do something about it. Find out if it will kill your project before you do a bunch of work that will be wasted because you can't solve the hard part.
Criminal investigations don't need a lawsuit. They mentioned the FBI was involved. The search was probably stamped by a judge.
Backup for humanity? Look, it'll be nuclear war that ends us. And if we can launch people to Mars cheaply we can certainly deliver bombs there as well.
Neustar acquires .CO domain registry for $109 million
Apart from the part where the law turned out to be so broken to make it happen...
We're rolling out more cities really soon :)
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Yahoo European operations move to Dublin to escape UK snooping
My point was really nothing to do with whether an application is a fit for SOA. It's more about how to design an SOA. Your point about a poorly designed SOA being an equally poorly designed app is well taken, but I think it's more work to design a good SOA than a good monolithic app. And this is where the effort of designing the interface comes in.

In a monolithic app interfaces can be more fluid because you can have automated tests and static analysis and compile time checks verifying that a given change works. That means you can prototype and iterate faster while the business requirements may still be churning considerably. To realize the benefits of an SOA you need a much more stable interface and some way to handle validation and correctness of the wire protocol. If you do it right and come up with a stable interface, you gain the benefits of decoupling system administration, scalability, and even development to a great extent. But if you do it wrong you end up a lot more work for an equivalent business logic architecture, and if you don't have any scaling issues than the cost-benefit is likely not to be there.

My rule of thumb about whether an SOA is a good idea to pursue at a given point in time is much more related to the team size than the nature of the app.
How is Google going to know what party you voted for, when votes are by secret ballot? Voter registration databases, which are public information available for a small fee from state governments, are far more likely to yield a profile of your voting behavior than your gmail contents.

Not only that, but anyone can opt-out of interest based ads for Gmail. Just go to Ad Settings (https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en)

You have the choice of not seeing targeted and relevant ads, or of not using gmail at all. Try Fastmail for instance. I don't see the need to bash Google for doing the right thing on security.
In some countries, email also has laws around it. My employer cannot read my email, even the email that sits on their servers in my employer-provided email account, except under specific circumstances dictated by law, with an oversight process dictated by law. YMMV. (There are exceptions for incidental access of email by technical staff for the purpose of making the email itself work, filtering spam, etc., vs. searching the contents and giving your boss a printout.)

There's an interesting intersection-of-laws issue. Our email is actually hosted by Microsoft Office 365. When Microsoft performs searches like this, do they touch multiple email accounts? If they ran the equivalent of a grep across their whole email infrastructure, they might violate Danish law in doing so, if their grep touched our mailboxes. So how they access email inboxes in general is something they ought to be pretty careful of. At the very least I hope they're making sure only to search Americans' inboxes, hosted on American servers.
Not in the guise of Android Studio, using the Darcula skin. It is actually rather pleasant to look at, as far as IDE's go. Just make those humongous fonts a bit smaller and it looks quite sleek. I wonder why so many Java apps insist on using oversized fonts and features, especially since Swing was introduced?
Thanks, Rey from One Degree here. Right now we're focused on improving our site and adding some great features so that our users (low-income families in San Francisco), can easily find what they need. Who knows exactly what the future holds? We're intently listening to our One Degree members, so they will likely help us shape what our product looks like in the future.

I can tell you that there's a growing trend that low-income families are using smartphones, so we'll be aggressively expanding in that direction. We'd love to create the best-in-class nationwide platform to access and use nonprofit and social services.
Depends on what you want from it. Personally the only thing I need out of a laptop is SSH, so my requirements are: SSD for fast bootup, small size/weight good keyboard, runs Arch Linux.

I have a second-generation Lenovo X100e (so the dual-core processor) and I couldn't be happier. A $45 upgrade to an SSD and $10 for an AGN wireless card saved me from having to spend ~$2-3k on an MBP.

Pretty awesome for what was basically a (high-end) netbook.
You really don't get it. You're comparing a privatized service to a public one. Not to mention that when you make a hotmail account, you agreed to the hotmail ToS.
> Traffic passing between their DCs is now being encrypted (well, it's been confirmed for Gmail.)

Encrypted how? With what keys? There's still a single point of failure to capture a huge amount of GMail traffic and an aggressive adversary who has penetrated Google's networks before. Google could be saying this and still handling over the keys to the gov't. The key is increasing the cost of bulk surveillance. This doesn't help. The only acceptable solution is one where I encrypt my data with my own keys.

> That's a legislative issue, and not something Google can fix.

Yes, but technical architecture changes what it means for Google to comply. If all they have is my encrypted data, that's all they can hand over.
Network average utilization was low by design. Keeping it steady was more important than low, though, and harder too.

Latency spikes come from Cassandra flushing data to disk (large sequential IO), Java garbage collection and heap resize, and page faults during compactions (random reads).

What I did to even traffic out was to enable trickle_fsync and size the flushes, set Java's max and min heap sizes, as well as to tune the Java heap ergonomics. I treated random reads as a fact of life - I did nothing to tune that.
Theresa May is not too happy

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/20/theresa-ma...
wobbly IMO. I used:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10117561/

But this is a lower height than mine, so anyone under 6' would need bed risers (it has 3" extendable feet).
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Would be great to make it a github repo so we can send PRs for changes.
I wish I could downvote. Instead of linking to source, it is linked to some useless 3rd party site the OP runs that doesn't even go direct to article and on mobile, the link doesn't even work. I had to google it separately on a different browser tab to get to source to read.
Unmatched? Compared to what? Those games look like shit compared to a PC that came out on the say day, let alone years later. Not to mention things like limitations of map sizes, player numbers, etc.
This is oddly much easier to understand and focus on.
Dvorak version please!
This seems to be correlation of the price level, not correlation of the returns. It's pretty much a useless metric.
Well, I won't argue against you have the right to say that. Heck, I might even agree with you, pending further discussion.

My only point is that Page's position is not implicitly "bad" or undesirable, in that he clearly is concerned about helping the world - he just has his own strategy for how to do it.
Even in cutting-edge businesses, big ideas need to be tempered by the discipline to see them through.
That was a lot of fun. It would be nice to have a small explanation of the particle equations on the page for the non-physicists in the audience.
It's weird they're not just calling this the future of PHP.
Tech Giants Knew About Prism All Along, the NSA's Top Lawyer Says
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Had to look it up myself.

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428799
I thought the Hexagon 16384 game was pretty innovative, as well as some other 2048 forks, but this is just getting out of hand.
I have an Updesk! Moat, my company, gives a motorized one to each engineer.

They're really great. You can sit on them and they're powerful enough to lift you up. They also have settings, so you can save your favorite heights.