skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dont forget that SQL database still send raw text as request and get raw text in return!"

Depending on your database adapter, this is not the case. With Postgres, you have the Simple Query Protocol and the Extended Query Protocol (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/protocol-flow.html). A Simple Query involves text in and out. However with an Extended Query, properly parsed statements are always executed by the DB, and will always return properly typecasted data. You can also stream data to the client and use Cursors, if you have very large datasets (a life saver when reporting on large tables). Also, you don’t need to worry about SQL injection when using Extended Queries, as they are handled as prepared statements.

JDBC supports the Extended Query Protocol with Postgres, so if you are using Java, Scala, JRuby, or anything running on the JVM, you are good to go. But, I have not had to deal with raw text being returned from my Postgres queries in a long time ;)
Wow, I think that's my biggest ever karma loss.
Ah well.
Then you gotta read this

Some of the companies listed went from good to great to below average to completely gone.

http://freakonomics.com/2008/07/28/from-good-to-great-to-bel...

As the author points out in the above link

"The future is always hard to predict, and understanding the past is valuable; on the other hand, the implicit message of these business books is that the principles that these companies use not only have made them good in the past, but position them for continued success."

Another example that comes to mind is Ron Johnson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Johnson_(businessman)

He did great at Target and then at Apple but almost brought down JC Pennny
"Your original point was that adding housing would make renting in San Francisco more expensive. That point remains false."

No, it does not. Look at the actual cost of rents in SF over time.

You're arguing that adding these properties is causing competition and in addition, "google engineers" could migrate from housing in the mission to these new luxury condos, thus freeing up the mission places for (presumably lower rent/income) others...

I gaurantee you this will not happen.

Assume that some googler DOES move out from their vitorian apt in the mission to a glass tower near twitter... their new rent will be higher than what they paid in mission - and the apt they left will charge a higher rent (or possibly equal) to what they paid.

My landlord has 85 properties she owns and rents. She speak of the $3,300 single-room rents she is getting in SF with glee.
You can click the key at the bottom to dim other things, and light up only one that interests you.
Someone please build a nextlevel Command&Conquer on top of this. that would be wicked.
I don't think anyone's ever gotten good hard numbers, but just from having seen a lot of people's anecdata over the years, my general impression is that Digital Ocean seems to have more short-term outages and to oversubscribe their boxes a bit more.
Hackpad (YC W12) Acquired by Dropbox
Hey HN, I'm the creator of this multiplayer tic-tac-toe game called tic-tac-tic-tac-toe. It's a Firebase-powered variant of the game everyone knows that pits GitHub against Twitter. Let me know what you think!
While this seems like a really cool idea, I have a feeling that this is the sort of feature that everyone will enable at first, and then one single bad event will cause them to disable it forever.

I'm sure everyone has told a "white lie" at some point (e.g. "Sorry, I can't really hang out tonight because I'm not feeling well" == "I want to go see a movie by myself"), and anything that might hinder your ability to do that is likely to be disabled permanently the first time it causes an issue (or even in anticipation of it causing an issue).
Why is the title of the post so different than the article title? I thought it was an erronous link at first.
"The courts have established"

Why not make it a crystal-clear law, so that an ordinary citizen can understand without having to dig through case law and see what applies to their situation.
WE – Tonight Is The Night (Official Audio)
I can imagine sitting at a bar with friends and getting notifications on my phone that they are nearby.
Sure, hence:

> A database product should not be losing data unless you specifically allow it to.
Scientists Make First Embryo Clones From Adults
I love the reaction from ISC's handler on duty.
Globalsign's CRLs were temporarily removed from the dataset until they could verify it was "real":

> Update: We temporarily stopped reading
> “http://crl.globalsign.com/gs/gsorganizationvalg2.crl” . It had > 30,000
> revocations today, drowning the rest of the data. Trying to figure out if
> this is real. (4/16/2014 7:30pm)x
>
> Update 2: I used the online chat to talk to GlobalSign tech support and
> they confirmed that it is real and related to the revocations due to
> Heartbleed. Adding them to the graph again. (4/16 8pm ET)
This book is a fascinating read. Highly recommended to anybody that does non-trivial application development.
People seem to have loved the Everpix offering, but the business reality behind it wasn't as attractive:

http://research.ivanplenty.com/2014-economics-everpix-shutdo...
Seriously, who does design for HashiCorp? Their site designs, though similar, always kill it.
This is nice to see. SSD has gotten ridiculously cheap lately.
287 MB/sec / $20 ~ 14 MB/sec/dollar

I don't think MB/sec/dollar makes sense simply because disk speed does not scale. If you need a (very) fast disk, Linode is obviously the better choice.
Hey! I'll have you know I loved Google Wave. :)

Kidding aside, Google Wave is an interesting case because it's a product that actually was very popular, just in a use case that was completely different than what it was intended for, and in a way that didn't serve Google. Many startups/companies were using Google Wave as a simple project collaboration tool, and honestly, I still think it was one of the better tools out there for that, and I haven't found a decent replacement.
Yes, that's why it's called a 'developer release'
http://www.consul.io/intro/vs/serf.html
I would absolutely like to add a Crossfilter Filter type. I'd even accept a pull request ... ;)
I just save everything to Amazon Glacier that's not the current year. Current year + library files are dumped into S3 ... rinse and repeat.

For photos, I am using Adobe Lightroom and organize files into folders by year/month/day/subject during import. Edited GoPro videos go to YouTube etc and originals/edits straight to Glacier.

This takes a bit of effort to set up but works great great.
IE on XP and Android 2.x are the notable things that don't support SNI. Some people still care about these.
I think this makes a lot of sense for Dropbox. Documents are moving online, which means people won't need Dropbox for them.

I have a half-written blog post from months ago on why Dropbox should by Quip for this reason - they should be trying to leapfrog Google Docs to stay competitive.

Best of luck to the team!
In this case that is impossible. If you pick through Yahoo's filing you will see that what he was granted were "RSU"s not actual stock. This is something that Google uses too. Basically the value of an RSU is nominally one share, except that it is moderated by a performance evaluation. So if your moderator is 0 then your RSUs are 0 * n or 0 shares, if your moderator is 1.0 your RSUs are worth an equivalent number of shares, and if your moderator is higher than 1.0 your RSUs become a larger number of shares. The transform happens at the actual vest time. And fortunately there is a loop hole in the stock sales of insiders that allows for them to sell as many shares as they need to for tax liability purposes.

The reason the 83b is impossible then is that he doesn't know how many actual shares this will be. But that is ok since the company sells some of the granted shares to withhold for taxes.

This scheme of 'introducing a moderator variable' gives the company exceptional leverage over the employee as they can 'take back' all of their stock grant by setting the moderator to zero.

I don't know what his contract looked like but I'm guessing it has a minimum value exit (that was used to get him to change jobs) so it would have been hard for them to not pay him any of the equity.
They worked hard for that, didn't they?
Came across a computing version once upon a time: https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe
Agreed! I also appreciate that they tend to drop with robust documentation pages already in place.
I run/work in a small shop supporting a real estate brokerage with custom software. For every new core project, I ask if the problem can be solved in java. Not because it is the best language, or the one I am most familiar with, but because it is the language that almost all the other systems are run in. Ditto for databases--projects should use mysql unless there is a very compelling reason not to. And we use one data processing tool--pentaho kettle.

Now, we've actually had some other languages 'sneak in'--perl, bash, python, javascript. But they were for closely scoped projects and, in a couple of cases, I asked for a prototype in java and the other language first.

It is hard to do this, because I read hacker news and am interested in keeping my skills up to date with the latest and greatest interesting technologies. I and my team have other alternatives to explore (hackfests, not-work side projects), which makes it easier. I'm doing the right thing for this company, and that's the right thing to do.
If you like this sort of thing, and are on a Mac, you have Quartz Composer available, which I find fun to play with and which is actually pretty powerful.

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

Among other things, you can make your own screensaver, and have access to various inputs and outputs such as the built in camera, mic, URL's, etc.
Every time I read that name all I can think of is:

"Welcome to the age of the Great Guilds"

And then I open things with "ECED".
I tried both and like afreerdp better
Rails Security Cheatsheet
The US also has a law about stalking a particular person and the US, too, must get a court order. So it's even.

"We don't have as much money as they have in the States and we don't have these technical devices that they have in the States," Putin said.

"Ah but when we do....!"
Yes! I laughed at that too. Though it makes sense that a mass-increase in data like that would seem off, especially when it is so much higher.
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I remember I used to get notifications when people checked into places near me on Facebook.
I also worked for SCO (part of IXI in Cambridge) and think I even met you once :-)

The name SCO was very deliberate - the folks in Santa Cruz were a different company but when dealing with Microsoft people in Redmond wanted to seem like part of Microsoft. Consequently "Santa Cruz Organization" made it sound like they were a branch office rather than outsiders.

Many don't know what made SCO successful. Imagine you were a dentist. A local VAR would package up a system for you, such as a Compaq server, tape drive (for backup), terminals, SCO Unix, appointment and finance software and install it. SCO Unix tried really hard to be easy to use, ranging from the documentation to the software. (Remember it is a dental employee running backups not an IT specialist). The VAR made their money via a ~15% markup. There wasn't really much competition for small business systems at the time. Trivia: it used to be that the only software for managing a pet cemetery ran on SCO.

Caldera wanted SCO for access to that network of 15,000 VARs. The VARs were used to their markup on a $1k or more copy of SCO Unix, but it isn't as attractive as 15% of a $29.95 copy of Caldera Linux. Caldera would have been able to sell for more, but then the VARs would be questioning why they needed Caldera.

In the end it all failed, largely because Caldera wasn't needed. The irony is Clayton Christensen (of The Innovator's Dilemma) even spoke at the SCO annual event (SCO Forum) in 1999. SCO at the time was focussing more and more on "the enterprise" where Linux couldn't possibly be relevant :-) https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/51414/sco_forum_tec...
Also can someone suggest what is the best way to approach code reading? When I open a library in Python, I am not sure where to start reading, just a bunch of files. Should I randomly pick one file and start reading from there? Is there any common strategy?
If the difference matters, a $5 DO node likely isn't cutting it.
Wow, the infamous "merged product"... In '89 I joined MS to run the "LM/X" product, where we extended the Unix networking model to support the SMB protocols. A very interesting time where MS worked with HP to get the kernel and networking changes into the mainline code base while at the same time AT&T was doing their own version. Sun was pushing their implementation of PC NFS, and many interesting "standards" meetings were held. If I remember correctly, the PC networking protocols showed in in XPG4 (X/Open Portability Guide) in 1992.
Gorc: A full-featured Go client for Orchestrate DBaaS
Congrats Alex and Igore, Hackpad is really impressive. Great move by Dropbox.

What's the state of the opensource alternatives? Etherpad development seems to have plateaued a while ago.
IOS 7.1.1 Update release imminent by Apple 
iOS 7.1.1 Update release imminent by Apple
Why? If I have some free time and I'm looking for work to do, I can always just look at the calendar entries for upcoming days.
Folks, I figured it out! Let's use captcha so that visitors can prove they are robots! If you fail these captchas, you must certainly be a human!
Connect SDK: open source abstraction layer for existing TV protocols
Using Telco Data to Identify Events
Would you be open to sharing numbers here? For example how much data you're storing on Glacier/S3, monthly data transfer and monthly costs to you?
A Different Way to Think About Money
If you had a host machine with 8 cores, and a virtual machine with 2 cores, the virtual machine will only possibly use 25% of the CPU resources of the host machine -- one vCPU cannot be schedule in parallel across more than one physical core.

However it is advisable to minimize the vCPUs in VMs because it greatly enhances scheduling -- if a VM has 8 vCPUs allocated to it, with some hypervisors that lack advanced co-scheduled it won't be scheduled until 8 cores are available, and in some situations it will sit on 8 cores during its duration whether it is only using 1 or all. If you have a large number of smaller VMs, scheduling can greatly improves.

This isn't true for all hypervisors and situations. You mileage may vary.
The 9 game grid makes for an interesting game with two people, but the crowd tends to rush for the wrong move. I wish there was a way to explain that you don't need to dive on a move to block the other team as long as you don't let them play in that sector. Unfortunately cooler heads are usually outnumbered.
Yep. I'm kind of amazed at the level polish in their initial releases given that HashiCorp is what, 3 people? And they're up to 4 products now with Serf being released just 6 months ago and Packer not long before that.
So I'm not the only one... :)

Personal cultural reference for those who are confused:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom_(video_game)
April 17, 1978: Apple Computer?
That's only when comparing $5 to $20. Does the $20 DO model also have 287MB/s?
>The feature could spell trouble for other location sharing apps like Foursquare and Google Latitude

That could be difficult: Latitude was retired in August. https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3001634?hl=en
I'm sorry, but I think these startups just give other startups a bad name.

I'm the CEO of Picturelife and I wouldn't dream of rolling over like this so easily. We have thousands of customers and just killing our service would be such an assault on their trust.

All these services you mention are just taking the easy way out. There's a long road ahead for us and we'll going to keep making the product and experience better for people, no matter what.
This was the first thing my Econ professor made us read. Best econ class I've taken.
Really great writeup. Here's the most astounding part to me: "[Rubin Xu] decided to use Coppersmith's Attack[1] to derive the private exponent. In this attack, only pieces of the private key are needed and the private key is reconstructed mathematically. This attack is so efficient that he managed to extract the private key from only the first 50 dumps!"

That's no more than ~3MB of data. Some of the other winners hit the server with hundreds of thousands of requests which might have gotten noticed. Doing this with only 50 heartbeats (which could be spread across many days) makes the "undetectable attack" even less detectable.

[1]. Coppersmith's Attack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppersmith's_Attack
The cut off seemed to be more about people who stayed after the lawsuits started, rather than anyone who had ever worked there. That is a significantly smaller number of people. I haven't heard of any people having problems. These days the reaction I get on mentioning SCO is "who?".
Haha, I completely agree with you - which is why it's so silly I'm feeling like I'm letting people down - it's just 3 people. I need to get over it and move on.
Geolocation features aside, I'm more impressed by the fact that Facebook has created something that's opt-in rather than volunteering people right off the bat.
I wonder what, if any, effect this will have on those that feel Snowden is a Russian Spy.
Oh.. moar awesome than the patent database, most don't get that either... innovation, technology etc (?)

Everything from Flying cars...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNp_iO-2Jfg

...robotic car parks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6-GxKtQ0e4

.. the tarring of roads...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvFdo3tjFTY#t=2m36s

To the imagination of science...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z0LprRG2FQ

gravity powered generators..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxIRaJlTD4Y

something called wind energy(?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifOnhGsWMmk

and the miracle of democracy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IamKE4AQUQ
Team Github seems to be the far more popular choice. Though strangely, it seems like the smaller team Twitter does better. Maybe crowds aren't as smart in this case?
The possibility of running Xenix-native binaries elsewhere would negate much of Microsoft's later strategy. Hardware could be a commodity, but software should always be their own.
I was referring more to the applications within than container overhead.
I could open source it - but honestly, if only 3 people are using it right now, do you think it'll have enough traction for any dev to maintain it?
Has anyone got a way to do this for API calls? I'd love to be able to get some json back at the end of a call that shows how many queries/how long they took.
I pulled a quote from the article, didn't mean to mislead - sorry!
Can Open Source break into UK Public Sector really?
I am conducting my own one-man experimental survey on how to get open source software development into public sector.

My theory is (www.oss4gov.org) that there are thousands of services that only governments supply (i.e. Election Management Software) so there is no private market bleed over (like wordprocessors or CMS) - and its (morally wrong/unnecessarily expensive) that public sector pays private sector for licenses to work that should be a public good (NB not opposed to public sector paying private sector, just the license / ownership issue)

Anyway, the UK just closed GCloud submissions, and I fucked up the submission, but the one I started with is local authorities - and this is the enquiry I just put in - how can an Open Source provider join a framework agreement that requires the applicants to have already written the codebase? How do we get OSS in there?<p>Am I being ... a fool?

My text below is cut to 2000 chars:
:
Dear LASA

I represent one of the potential bidders on the LASA framework (Mikado Software Ltd) and
we run a campaign dedicated to spreading the adoption of open source software and methods in public sector (www.oss4gov.org). LASA is then an ideal place for us to be !

However I am concerned I may not be able to meet the minimum requirements - because the requirements are focused on proprietary software models, not open development ones.

Lot 10 minimum requirements (as stated in Attachment 2 Specification):

Systems and/ or software to enable eligible customers to carry out at least one of the
following business areas, completing ALL of the tasks/functions listed under that business
area. To clarify, you MUST be able to supply AT LEAST one of the following business area
systems in full.
What makes it lame?
Lubuntu looks released, Xubuntu has a final beta out [0]

[0] http://xubuntu.org/news/tag/14-04/
Haha, I'm trying to be funny, guess it didn't work! :)
I run Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro, and it works just fine with UEFI. However, I did have to do some tinkering with ReFind as part of the initial setup: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
MIT SpinOut Transparent PV Coating, Ubiquitous Energy, Has 5.8M Series A
Yeah, seems like a pretty clear-cut violation of the law. You can’t do that. If you think the law sucks then you have to lobby for change, not just violate the law.

Also, it’s not like Uber (absolutely terrible name in Germany) offers any advantages over, say, mytaxi (ordering the car with an app, paying with an app), besides maybe price. (And since mytaxi works within the confines of the existing taxi system they can’t really change anything about the price.)
Hmmm...do people actually buy websites that have $0 revenue on flippa?
What about automatically chatting with ANYONE nearby you that is using the app and "available" for chat?

I think this will be a good idea.

Imagine you in traffic, and launch the app to chat with the driver in the car side yours...
The same could works when you go to party and don't try to find somebody "available" there....

This, for Facebook, should be easy, right?
If you use Emacs and depend on Ctrl-space note that you may have to disable the keybinding in ibus-setup and restart the ibus daemon. This bug was claimed to be fixed but it wasn't for me. However I'm running Xmonad with some Gnome utilities.
Ha, is "giant" relative or what... I am currently at ~98% of my 215GB Dropbox account and am stressing about what to do. The next tier doesn't seem cost effective for me and I don't have much room for clearing house.

One thought I have is converting a sizable portion of old Canon CR2 raw files to adobe DNG since I've noticed that reduces filesize by roughly 20% for the files that I have. This isn't really a long term solution though and I'm actually kind of unsure of what to do. I keep hoping that I can hold out long enough until Dropbox's gb/price get's halved again. Then I'd likely be set for some time.

I really can't think of a cloud service for ~1.5TB of photos. Have you found anything that would suit your purposes?

I also use crashplan for offsite archiving of my photo library, but I really, really, like having the entirety of my photo catalogue accessible everywhere. Excessive, sure, but definitely nice.

With loom, I am hoping they integrate the jpg rendering of raw files into their photos views on web/mobile.
Dear Microsoft,

Better yet, open source XP and earn some serious cred!

Sincerely Yours,
The hacker community