skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be better served by using his Jepsen series as an opportunity to learn how to evaluate and break databases yourself instead of waiting to be spoonfed.

A $DATABASE_COMPANY was recently looking to hire somebody to be a dedicated database breaker. The Jepsen series was mentioned in the job post.

Worshipping celebrity is unhealthy in what should be an engineering profession and is a sign of a deeply embedded pop culture.

Don't be lazy.
For clarity, we (I'm the CEO of Runscope) offer two products: Runscope Traffic Inspector for logging/monitoring traffic to any API and Runscope Radar for ongoing automated testing. I don't mean to hijack the thread, just want people to know we do a bit more than just testing. Congrats on the launch!
Instagram bug has users seeing content from 5 days ago
Microsoft is doing a big developer conference this week, and is announcing a lot of new stuff that HN finds interesting. When WWDC rolls around again, I'm sure there will be a ton of Apple stories on the front page.
If you are referring to in-kind donations, elections laws require that such donations be treated as though the donor wrote the candidate a check, and the candidate endorsed it right back over to them in exchange for the goods and services actually rendered.

Direct support to a campaign and political advocacy are two different things. This is why I can believe that the Citizens United case was not completely ridiculous, and that this one is beyond reason. Your right to free speech ends at the tip of your own tongue. If you give your words to someone else, he might not be able to speak them.

In the same way, if you give control of some money to someone else, they will be the ones responsible for how it gets spent, not you. They may be under different contractual and legal obligations.

As is the case for people seeking public office. They must follow rules that ordinary people will probably never even need to know.
You can have the result, but you're not getting my data
I didn't downvote you, you're right, I was thinking between an iPad and an iPhone (and I had forgotten that iPad Mini is cheaper). But perhaps people are downvoting you because you are pointing out a technicality when the point is really that to get full advantage of the Apple TV you need some other device that's exclusively made by Apple and that's not cheap.
I'm surprised you still have to communicate your destination to the driver after you get in the car. Shouldn't Uber let you specify your destination in advance, entirely through the app?
It's awesome for YouTube and you can stream any local media using Plex.
The purpose of using a VM is that the developer ships one version of their compiled software that can be run by anyone who has the VM on their system. Otherwise, the developer needs to anticipate every single architecture a user might want to run it on. They might not be able to anticipate all these cases which might not even exist yet.
No. It's correct.

I can say this having spent months in the laboratory to learn things which were already known. Who knew that precision quartz pressure gauges were called 'manometers' in the late eighteen-hundreds? I didn't, and thought I'd invented something new for a couple months in my first year of grad school.

The adage is a good one. Reading a lot and reading widely pays off.
This is pretty cool. Can you describe how you went about designing the slick outer packaging? Did you use an external vendor to design & produce? I am doing a DIY project with my kids and wondering how to get the outer packaging for the arduino board inside. Any pointers appreciated...
Today is the first day of Microsoft's developer conference, BUILD. (There is also a non-trivial number of MS employees who read HN, including me.)
Surely someone will leak the songs?
What do you plan to do next to advance your skills and understanding of software making? How important was being in the spotlight to motivate you to go down this path?
Their main target with this library is Windows Store Apps though - not web sites or applications. I'm sure they'll work on cross-browser compatibility, but I don't think it's one of their priorities.
I got one of these emails despite having never used the service. I'm starting to think all these hookup dating apps aren't worth it.
They sure made it sound liked the crowdfunded prices were cheaper than retail: "We are offering four variations, and at the conclusion of the Crowd Supply campaign on May 18, all the prices listed below will go up by 10%"
So, to clarify: we seem to have stumbled upon the principle of "If an industry has low barriers to entry, it ought to be deregulated".

For medicine, there are low barriers to entry--recall that barbers used to be surgeons. Our heuristic would suggest that medicine shouldn't be regulated--but that's nuts.
They will not, whoever buys it owns all rights to the music and can resell it if they want (Sony, iTunes, Amazon could be buyers for this reason) or could just release it to the world for free.
This reminds me a lot of a previous HN post (Observations from a Tipless Restaurant):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6126926

They observed that serving staff who were thinking about the tips they would be getting fared worse in their service as the servers would not be able to concentrate as well on the orders that they were taking. A similar dynamic should be at work here.
That's all nice, but there is significant room for improvement.

In almost every measure of quality of life the US ranks low to middling compared to generally less-wealthy industrialized nations. We score #12 in the human development index, and all our #1s are in bad things like surveillance, military spending, prison population, etc. We don't inherently suck, we just spend vastly more on cops, prosecutors, prisons, soldiers, and surveillance.

The surveillance state does more than delegitimize as discredit the government, it takes vast resources away from providing the good things government can do. Trading individually corrupt and brutal police for militarized and insanely armed police only enables us to say "Tut, tut, but that use of force was legal." That's not an improvement. It just costs more.
The automatic raise-lower after holding the button is the only reason I won't buy one. Seems like a huge safety issue. The current desks we have in our office have a push-button to hold and a up/down toggle to raise lower. Both must be held to make it move, let go and it stops moving.
Touchscreen controls + reference to Apple on the home page. They're targeting an audience who won't mind spending the extra money as long as it's for the 'coolest' thing.

I do like the built in power system.
The Early Bird Gets 2-For-1
It wouldn't be fair to mention this without mentioning of the 3 fixes landed since that repo was created, 2 are for cross-browser compatibility bugs..

That aside, I love how this negativity only seems to stick to Microsoft when every other major player has their own private set of bits that only work well on their platform (WebOS, Firefox OS "proposed standard" mobility APIs, Chrome endless variety of "we're doing it so it's going to be a standard" APIs, etc). It's no excuse, but it's hardly unique to MS
Congrats! This is such an inspiration. What kind of resources did you use to learn?
Prominent "View on GitHub" button is really indicative of the progressive changes Windows has been making lately.
> Any ideas if/when they'll modernize NTFS? Right now it's a race to the bottom to who has the worse FS, HFS+ or NTFS. WinFS or ZFS on OS X would be a godsend.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-n...
Secret, so far: Two months in
Turkey's Constitutional Court: Twitter ban violates freedom of speech
"Removing the start menu was a terrible idea that anyone who cared could have predicted"

Why?
If the issue is how common the people are going to be by demographic in the workforce, then shouldn't we start early in making them comfortable with the people they're going to be around, as the ice breaking generation, by mentoring them with the common rather than the rare?

I mean I genuinely do not understand why this is actually helpful. The lady engineers I talk to are either all pandering to me, or are as confused as I am.

I don't understand why we're presuming that a girl can't have a good, positive male role model, just like I, a boy, had a good, positive female role model.

.

"She might go on to be one of a tiny (and steadily decreasing) number of women in an overwhelmingly male university-level engineering program."

So, as we bucketted women out of the mainstream and told them they could only learn from people like themselves, their global participation began to drop.

I mean really, the data you're recommending seems to suggest that what we're doing is destructive.

It was not the case, in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's work, that the newly liberated woman was expected to learn only from other women. They're supposed to be equal.

The supporting claims seem to be assertions of better-ness with no supporting data or logic other than an intuitive feeling that the child's recognition of similarity is somehow more important than the child's early exposure to diversity (something most data backed child rearing studies disagree with.)

I do understand that your opinion is that a girl will have an emotional need to only learn from women.

Do you have any data to defend this? This seems bizarre and offensive to me, as it does to the female engineer who spoke up elsewhere in this thread.

I think that, just like men, women can learn from anyone, and should choose the best source, not the most similar source.

You can't create an inclusive society by educating explicitly exclusively, in my viewpoint.

I would love to see actual data, rather than beliefs or opinions, which suggest that learning from a demographically similar role model produces better results than learning from the best available role model, or that taking a role model from what you claim is an extreme minority, rather than building bonds and understanding with the majority, leads to more inclusion, despite that you also claim that inclusion is decreasing, despite that this sort of like-only mentorship is increasing.

It seems like your own data contradicts you. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
What is a pre-print anyways
Create a Visual Studio Project to Use Mashape APIs
I know Bunnie as an incredible hardware engineer with a lot of experience across the entire process of getting a product from design to manufacture. I'm sure the decisions were made for very good reason.

Freescale has extensive open source board support packages for several flavors of Linux and Android. With the exception of the TI's OMAP5, all of the A15 implementations I know of are under lock and NDA and even though Bunnie could source them, the documentation and software support packages would not be as easy and would require working closely with the manufacture to get them. I have no idea about OMAP5 as I haven't even seen one in production. Most mobile ARM processors AFAIK do not support gigabit ethernet yet, save a few Marvell SoCs (less for mobile and more for other embedded).

Smartphones designed with modern ARM processors require teams of 2 dozen engineers working their asses off for months to make a single revision, and this is when they're partners with the chip manufacturers (ala Google, Apple, or Samsung). Bunnie is working with a much smaller team and with different constraints.

Any board like this is going to be expensive to manufacture and assemble. Even if he were to do a run of 100 units at a time, the overhead of assembly and part purchases in such low quantities are likely to run $100+ a unit. Combine with the extra support costs of including an FPGA in there, and it's not unreasonable to charge so much for such a niche, low quantity product.

Edit: Also Freescale is on the low end of the high end ARM market and they know it. I wouldn't be surprise if Bunnie got some extra help from them during integration.
Microsoft's earnings are tightly coupled to the tech churn they themselves instigate; it is impossible to count on their new technologies until each gains self-perpetuating inertia.

"Trust, Users and the Developer Division" discussion 2 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107544
Much success and wisdom to you in your efforts - love the courage, and your eagerness to take feedback.

As to the app, my recommendation is to avoid putting .zedstate files inside the project directories themselves. Instead, keep them in a ~/.zed/ directory. Keeps folks from having to make special .gitignore commits for all of their projects.
Did Charles Darwin go to a R1 institution?
The blurriness is the result of antialiasing. I start with an EPS; can you tell me how to convert this without running into that problem? I'm afraid I'm not very good at anything graphical.
I'd love to see the code.
Jean Michel Jarre - Music for the Supermarkets
No it's rock solid underneath.

The TCP stack hasn't been a 32-bit driver since XP.

NTFS has been modernised already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS

The registry is fine - it's people pissing around in it that break it.

Win32 - haven't touched it for years. Driver model: not my problem.

Mavericks is a crime compared to windows 8.1. I use both, regularly. It's virtually impossible to use efficiently with a keyboard unless you have twisted mutilated hands to hit meta keys galore and half the apps don't actually survive more than 2 minutes without crashing.
They called it WinJS since the start—it seems this is the same library that's used to build Windows 8 metro apps in JS. They just officially open sourced it now (although you could always access the source, as it was just another dependency for your Visual Studio project) but it's been in use by people from Microsoft and otherwise for quite some time.

e; library to build windows apps = WinJS
A fat binary with both common native architectures and also vm code would seemingly take care of this edge case, no?

Also, what's wrong with emulation?
The 100mbit ethernet is a secondary port. It has two, so you can act as a MITM or router or whatever. (search the crowdfunding page for "1gbit")
This is how an engineer feels when he's surrounded by idiots
The title of the submission bugs me, as it directly contradicting the spirit of the album:

> "The main theme is music being accepted and respected as art and being treated as such."

The point is that music should always be treated as art...
Uber does not disclose passenger destinations to drivers to prevent discrimination, e.g. far-away pick-ups with short rides.
That's why I was asking for his opinion, rather than a defense from a third party that mostly said "you shouldn't ask."

Sometimes it's actually perfectly valid to politely ask someone why they think something.
Just currious... Say someone purchased the album and then sold duplicates, would Wu-Tang be able to sue? Technically there are no damages, Wu-Tang isn't out any money from missing album sales and the seller is just trying to make a decent ROI on his 5 million dollar asset.
How Important Is Your Portfolio?
I had asked you several questions. Were those going to be responded to?
>>Connections don't just spring out of nowhere.

I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole here because I know where this is leading to from past experience on HN, but....

I think in the tech-scene(probably society in general) some of those connections are easier made(and sometimes come as default) depending on gender/race.
The price is an issue here.

I understand it's supposed to be open for hardware hackers, but lets face it: who wants to hack a laptop? most hardware hackers are happy using a raspberry pi and a Ubuntu laptop. Why would you want to risk breaking a $1k open laptop to open your garage door when you can get a fully functional Linux computer for $35, or a cheap Android for $60?
Yeah, reminds me of those JScript windows shell things from ten years ago or so [0].

[0] - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb77...
I share/understand your cynicism, but am hopeful that Microsoft is really turning a corner with the latest management change. The messaging has certainly been a lot more cross platform. And something like WinJS you don't do in a day or a week, I could easily believe that throughout its life it was a 'windows only' thing until the strategy changed and now its a cross product thing but carrying a lot of technical debt from that previous positioning.

Lucky for both of us there is a built in barometer for seeing how committed Microsoft is, in the form of the Github issues list.
I think that the advancement of the "science" of marketing has left us all jaded. Public figures do not speak like normal humans, they communicate in PR-ese, saying as little as possible with flowery speech.

We're subjected to so much marketing and PR spin that we've become immune to it. Look at Twitter and how that's evolved -- one of their big business models is gathering TV viewer sentiment in real-time. I think that we've all been trained to distrust most things communicated in a public setting, because chances are that somebody is selling something.
Just wanted to point out that can.Component[1] is a custom element implementation that does support IE8.

[1]http://canjs.com/docs/can.Component.html
I was under the impression that most people agree that music is art. Maybe some of it is bad art, but art none the less.

The idea that there can only be one that has to be toured around to be experienced in order for it to be art is just ridiculous. I'm a fan of Wu-Tang but this is just a gimmick on their part.
Hooray, IPython 2.0.0 now has `Audio` in IPython.display. As someone who uses IPython notebooks for audio signal processing, this is huge. There were previous user-contributed ways to get around it, but now it's built in.

See http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/2.x/... for an example.
Build systems that obviate the need for trusted authorities.
That's because both thoroughly understand the difference between a standard, and picking a random implementation that all other browsers would need to inherit (which was exactly what WebSQL would have led to).

Instead we got a kickass asynchronous IO ordered map + secondary indices implementation, which is vastly simpler to describe and implement in a uniform fashion, on top of which one could easily write an SQL parser/planner, or simply use it as a blobstore for a cross-compiled SQLite binary, or whatever else.

(Funny how SQLite is about the only SQL implementation that would even be suitable for this. Same reason WebSQL was a bad idea.. it essentially required SQLite's exact semantics)
I think the OpenPandora project has confirmed the OMAP5's availability and has samples.

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/15560-soc-back-and-forth...

http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/15747-news-from-the-embe...
The web page gives me pretty much absolutely no idea what this product does, except for the abstract "notify me of things". How does it do it, how do you interface to it, etc?
I came to a company last year where they were forecasting how they were progressing on a project by counting the number of objects that had been written. As in, the tech lead estimated the project would require like 200 object classes and some PM was crossing off objects as they were being written.

Anyone who has completed a complicated functional program would probably understand how that could be a misleading measure of progress and, worse, lead people to spend time writing poorly engineered untested code. I think the people who implemented this system understood that counting lines of code was a dumb idea, but somehow thought this was better.
So she has at least one mentor she can talk to directly about problems and hurdles she experiences because of her gender, and benefit from her experience?
Generalize just a small bit: Despite (potentially) low barriers to entry, medicine hasn't got elastic demand, or a generally well-functioning market for services. It might be possible to fix/change that, but we'd be talking about something very different than medicine today.
The "problem size"/"program size" ratio is very informative.
(remember when people wrote JavaScript on the server?!)

Wait, I'm doing that right now.

And chasing popularity is not necessarily a good thing for news. Despite the noise made on HN and the like, Snowden did not pull in the pageviews. The missing plane, however, continues to pull in readers/viewers after weeks with no new info.
Where I currently work, Grails is the default platform. This means that we have a landscape of 10-15 Grails apps. It is very nice.
Thank you. In fact, I haven't yet launch the mass production. I'm running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to have at least 400 preorders.
As I have done a lot myself, I didn't had to invest so much. The only part that was done outside is the design of the plastic enclosure. I found a good designer in china, it cost me only 700$ for both Node and Hub with 3D printed prototype.
In total, I think I spent about 1500$. I had to buy an oscilloscope, some componants and others tools...
Or you could just buy a Roku?
this is one of the worst, most backward-looking, anti-innovative views of art today that i've ever encountered. i'm sure they'll make money on it, but i can't wait until the first rip of this 'unlistenable' album hits pirate bay. as a piece of 'institutional critique', the website/album/company itself is moderately interesting, but barely that since most of what they say regarding contemporary art, exclusivity, ephemerality, and Damien Hirst can be rather easily countered -- due to their tendency toward bombastic or hyperbolic statements without any evidence thereof. let's pay attention to people trying to make the world better and not this pseudo-intellectual, luxury circle jerk.

also, terrible website & tired copy.
http://scluzay.com/
Jennifer, I was going through the top 10 stories, saw the jenniferdewalt.com domain, and thought, "oh, it's that girl who sat down and taught herself how to code!"

In my mind I've sort of associated the brand "Jennifer Dewalt" with ambition, dedication and inspiration. I send your posts and websites to my sister to encourage her down a similar path. Keep up the great work! :)
A month or so ago, I made the mistake of answering a text message from my en route driver asking where I was going. I thought, "Oh nice, he's plugging it into GPS beforehand." But I was wrong. He must have not liked my destination because the trip was promptly canceled by the driver and I had to spend another 15 minutes waiting for a new one.

Lesson learned: never tell your Uber driver your destination before you get into the car. :\
That's just not true. Deregulation in everything from telecommunications to highways to airlines to labor is real and the impact has been undeniable. For example, airline deregulation in 1977 enabled FedEx and UPS to buy airplanes, enabling the modern era of package delivery and companies like Amazon. People fail to appreciate just how regulated things were in the 1970's. Measures that agencies wouldn't dream of today, like outright rate setting, were commonplace back then.

Assertions to the effect of "the government is bigger than ever" are just unsubstantiated hand-waving. Federal spending as a percentage of GDP, excluding interest, social security, and medicare, is down from 15% to 10%. That reflects a real and dramatic shrinking of the scope of government.

You can argue that deregulation hasn't had the same impact proponents suggested, but it's all relative. Industries with economics of scale tend towards monopoly or duopoly in the absence of regulation. The fact that deregulated industries still often exhibit oligopolies isn't proof that deregulation was just rhetoric. Search, desktop operating systems, consumer microprocessors, and package delivery have all trended towards having one or two dominant players, yet those industries never had regulated monopoly incumbents.