skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to PR efforts, there are also some experienced non-PR Wikipedia users who take a slash-and-burn approach to content that's not fully compliant with Wikipedia policies. Rather than attempt to pare it down to what survives, they will simply remove it all.
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NDA and all of that, but if you pick up this book:

http://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-wee...

and grep for the phrase "polyglot persistence" you'll find some great information to get you started.

a video promo for the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSAc56YCOaE
cool idea. Maybe do something clever with the collected data in terms of visualization.
Actually, I would read iPhone vs Android as not a true head to head. Androids have always trended towards budget and have generally been a shift towards allowing telecom crapware on them. Two of Apple's weaknesses. :)
I'm thinking she might be afraid of the word "Hacker".
I'm also in Austin and have been hanging out at Center61 (http://www.center61.com/). It's a pretty nice space for social entrepreneurs. Their definition of social entrepreneur is flexible and I bet your open source work would qualify. At $25/mon it's pretty affordable too.
I don't want to be an indie dev no more.
I think drinking nothing but beer all the time is a pretty obvious sign.

Unless you're the most famous brewer in the world -- then I suppose it might be easy to miss that sign.
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I've lived through this situation-I lived, but the product died. My boss at the time was the primary developer (really, only developer) of our healthcare web app. He had been hacking on it in one for or another for over a decade. Guy up and has a stroke one morning getting out of bed and dies. Database documentation has no bearing on reality, all of his reporting code was uncommented. All of his programs were 8 character max camelCase names with no (to me) bearing on their function. Product basically died with him-I've kept it running in a zombie fashion, but all new features or even creating new reports is impossible.
You are right, it's a good convo. And one worth to be continued. I also do not assume we know everything, but I think we can. And I also think that it's giving up to just assign stuff we don't get to 'something we cannot understand or see or ever find but is there and is intelligent on top of all that'.

Also like I mentioned before, I have no clue how AI would clash with the existence of a God or religion. And so I don't understand why religious people get so upset about it. There are many things we improved on where we don't try to take god's place (as I guess that's what it's all about) according to religious people; like when we made a wheel, did we better God's work or try to out-do His work by showing that wheels are more efficient for a lot of things than legs? I don't see the difference with copying or even improving on intelligence. So what that clash is I don't know but religious people seem to get downright aggressive when you talk about strong AI which gives me, and many others, even more incentive to just side them with the crazies.

I was born in the Dutch bible belt and I was raised with religion in school where I had to learn verses by heart and recite them every day; the people too stupid to learn them (small village with lot of inbred) were punished for not being able to learn them and I was punished for asking questions like didn't God create these stupid people too, why punish them for something they cannot do? My aunt used to give me physics books for my birthday written by religious professors; actual physics books with quantum mechanics and string theory. And although I did not believe in god at all from a very early age (mostly because none of the people who tried to push me into christianity wanted to answer any critical questions) and I don't and never will understand how someone can believe in most of the the things religion dictates, those books my aunt brought showed not everyone was a crackpot and actually there is no reason (and there isn't ffs) why physics, AI, evolution theory would not simply rhyme with religion. They are not mutually exclusive as so many (I cannot find another way of saying it) misguided individuals seem to think especially in the US. I assume you are not one of them as you don't mind critical discussion etc.
I have to agree with Matt - the hitpiece article is crap and smacks of how TC gleefully wrote about Yahoo's demise every time it could a few years back.
Ahhh, "Summer Song", I remember you well! Many a day were spent driving in my Mustang with the windows down blasting this song. I've now been lucky enough to hear Satch play twice. He puts on an awesome show - highly recommended!
He likely 'took delivery' in another state and then transferred the title/registration into NJ. At least this is how it is done in Texas where Tesla sales are also banned.
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You "A" point is why we've seen the rise of "content marketing" over the past few years.

Of course, that practice gets exploited a lot, with people using word mixers, automated article writing, low quality writing, etc. as a means to just fill up their websites.

However, there are lots of businesses that do content marketing in such a way that it benefits the company's search rankings, but also provides high value content to interested person. Since we're talking SEO, look at Moz. They sell premium tools to help companies improve their search rankings, but also offer a wealth of free, quality information to people interested in online marketing.
If you know what true alcoholism looks like you should know that the term "functioning alcoholic" is a false dichotomy.
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> Either the regulations that make competing as an ISP difficult need to be stripped out [...]

Which regulations are we talking about here? This seems like really low hanging fruit, but of course it probably isn't.
Someone posts a detailed, intimate story about a horrific sequence of personal experiences onto their Twitter timeline, notices that it's been forwarded to HN - which doesn't have the most sensitive of reputations at the best of times - and is momentarily worried about the possible fallout.

And you're essentially accusing them of trying to pull a cynical PR move. Have a think about that.
Let me throw my hat in the ring:

Title: Google Announces Go Programming Language

My snark: Poor choice for a name, it clashes with the board game Go.
Yes, you are wrong. There's a huge difference between trying to shut down conversation, as you seem to imagine such a reaction to be, and simply trying to keep conversation on someone else's site from spilling over onto your own, which is the most anyone could possibly hope for out of a referrer block.

Personally, if I'd been subject to the sort of ongoing campaign of abuse Ms. Debenham describes, I doubt I'd have held up under it one fourth as well. If I'd found the fortitude to post about it in the first place, seeing the post linked on HN might well be enough to convince me it'd been a bad idea talking about it in public at all. She seems to have found a happy medium between the need to protect herself and the desire to put her experiences out there where they might be of benefit to others, and I say good on her for it.
You can check it here: https://github.com/RunOrg/RunOrg/tree/master/server/cqrsLib I'm sorry for the state of the official site, there will be one soon.

A `Stream` corresponds to change events (I'm not sure these even had an official name in CouchDB).

A `Projection` corresponds to a design document.

The various `View` implementations are optimized for various aspects of CouchDB views, with `MapView` being the literal equivalent of a CouchDB view. Except they can be chained (you can apply a map to a map).

Unlike CouchDB, views are evaluated eagerly, though the `HardStuffCache` (and other planned `Cache` implementations) are evaluated lazily on a per-document basis.
Synopsis:

Pay to play discussion bans person for trollish posts following requests for better behavior from moderators in reaction to previous trollish posts. By logical inference this banning proves that intelligent discussion which admits the possibility that TDD has shortcomings is nothing but cargo cult hero worship of a technically inept has been and that TDD is the sole true religion.

Commentary:

In my opinion, this is why hell banning may be better for cases where there is not a shared set of standards between moderators and posters. The loss of audience is not so apparent immediately and the lag time means there is less likelihood of immediate escalating reaction while the poor behavior is still spotlighted. Hell banning also offers the possibility of readmission should behavior change with the retention of identity.
How hard would it be to get Android installed and talking to the hardware properly?
Please note, I am posting this with despair - it's little surprise that women are under-represented in our industry if this kind of thing can stand.
I was bullied like this when I was in high school. My car was vandalized on several occasions, almost everyone would throw food at me if I entered the cafeteria, and I was hospitalized once after losing one of many fights. A friend of mine wasn't so lucky and ended up in a coma for six months. That kind of abuse never leaves you.

Every time I read a story like this it all comes flooding back.

Sadly even > 12 years on and I still don't have any good answers.
I don't think you know what a real alcoholic looks like.

Edit: Alcoholism isn't just drinking alcohol all of the time. It is a life threatening and often fatal disease. True alcoholics destroy their lives and the lives of everyone around them.

So downvote me all you want but people who have no experience with the powers of addiction should keep their petty labeling to themself.

The OP is making a blanket statement about a man he has apparently met a few times, and even states that he goes around to various other forums stating the same thing. In my opinion that is extremely rude.
Here's what you said, but with some context you missed:

> If people don't want something to be linked to by a particular community of people who historically dismiss or question accounts of abuse, people who are perfectly happy to ignore their wishes and desires not to have it posted there, they shouldn't post it on the public internet.
s/languages/OSs/
Yea, I saw G3 when it was him, Vai, and Petrucci, and it was amazing.
Please post using your full name if you are going to make direct personal attacks at a named individual. It's very hard to take comments like this seriously.
I've been trying to get my friend's to use Google+ since we all spend so much time in Hangouts and Gmail (where you can see the G+ notifications). Hangouts is probably the best part of the "G+ revolution", and they really dropped the ball on the integration with G+ (I can't have an event attached to a hangout, etc.) as well as developer relations for building cool apps with Hangouts Chat (not just video). I hope that this means a more focused and deliberate shift to focusing on Hangouts. Hangouts video is great and chat is good, but could be so much better.
Yeah. They iterate so quickly. It's amazing how much work they've done from 2.5.
It’s just… what can you even say? Someone not only thought this was a good idea (which is bad enough) but then went ahead and actually built it.
Show HN: 100 entrepreneurs share the story of their struggles and life experiences
I have been working on a book over the past few months. The objective of the book was to talk to 100 entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to understand how they went through the various challenges that come with starting up a business.

I was fortunate to talk to a number of extremely successful entrepreneurs including the founders of companies like Freelancer.com, Fiverr, Udemy, Grooveshark, RackSpace, Tagged.com, etc. Outside the technology space, I got to talk to the founders of companies like YogaFit who are the world's largest Yoga training school, All American Clothing, Wild Wing Cafe, etc. There are also a few entrepreneurs I talked to who did not succeed in their ventures and they described the pains of finding a regular job after a startup failure.

Overall, it was a wonderful experience talking to farmers, bakers, social media experts, sales executives, etc. as they told the story of their struggles.

Here is a preview for the book : https://www.dropbox.com/s/0evrb66hvg4ucoy/Preview-copy.pdf
Amazon link : http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-entrepreneurs-struggles-experiences/dp/149759975X/

I have included the master list of all entrepreneurs featured in the book in the last page of the preview; in case anyone's interested.

Would love your feedback on my book.
I've had extremely low alcohol wine that tastes pretty close to every other glass of wine I've had. (But then I'm someone who thinks most wine tastes the same.)
I have no idea in this particular instance, one sensible option is that these comment threads are a space where many victims of abuse feel their accounts are dismissed and/or questioned.

If you're coping with a trauma, it's not a pleasant thing to have happen.
The regime is certainly a sibling of Mao's and a cousin of all the "communist" regimes established during that period. There are a lot of stylistic similarities in their art, propaganda, speeches and such.

A surprising number of traits seem to be features picked all totalitarian regimes, including ancient ones. Deification and mythologizing of rulers and accompanying art is something found in many accounts of kings from some of the oldest pieces of port writing we have.

What is striking and unique about this regime is how long it has managed to maintain this totalitarianism. There are young adults who are now 3rd generation natives to this craziness. It's also amazingly isolated. Isolation is not rare in history, but in the context of the modern era it makes it very very strange.
Interesting idea, how would the framework scale to say ~1 million items?
Agree. Where you see nonrelational popping up analogously is particularly in new SaaS shops, many of which aim to take some Oracle's pie.
I submitted this because my feeling about UI programming is that I'm missing some sort of theory/language/spec for describing what I want and what the APIs can give me.

I don't know if that's a failure of my education, or if it's just not out there, but I always feel like I'm guessing what a given API call or widget will do. With other areas of programming, I make plenty of mistakes, but they're because I ignored a case, or misread documentation, or didn't think through how an algorithm would function.
300 million monthly active users... what a dead product.
Ooh, you were doing brilliantly for the first 8 words.
An interesting article and it does seem like people rushed to embrace NoSQL and are now trying to force it into some kind of consistency after the event - not a bad thing, incidentally - there's a lot of interesting work here (Vector clocks, CRDTs, etc.).

One thing that surprised me though was the lack of a key player: Amazon. Their Dynamo paper was hugely significant and as a company they use eventually consistent stores for a whole swathe of products at scale.

Why mention Facebook and Google but omit this other major player, especially are their experiences tell a different story.
As long as one of the bullies is sufficiently bloody, maimed, or dead, you'll have accomplished your purpose.

Plus you can chose when to retaliate, every member of a group bullying you can't be with overwhelming numbers all the time, especially at their home and the like.

I too was "different", brilliant, and bullied to more than a small degree early on into junior high (8th grade) ... but I had over the years, starting in elementary school, established a reputation that while I was a generally very nice and good guy, if you crossed various lines there was absolutely no limit to what I'd do to retaliate (note, with a continuum of force, just no upper limit to it). Oh, yeah, I started learning how to shoot in 1st grade, and was very good at it, although I'm not sure if that was clear to others until high school when I was on the rifle team (I certainly never made threats, especially of that nature).

The key, of course, is deterrence. Perhaps it's a Southern (USA) thing; I grew up in a culturally Southern area, one parent raised in it, another from the Deep South, although a skewed version of it, Louisiana and Cajun (French settlers who were forced to leave "Arcadia", a formerly French part of Canada). So unlike this victim, once a line was crossed, I did care about getting my adversaries hurt, that was the objective after all. Let it be cost free and you can see what happens.

Strange anecdote: one day when I was a senior it did come very very close to serious violence, the closest ever, but the adversary ran into a closed off for that period area where teachers were. His complaints that I was armed with a dog choker chain around my right fist fell on deaf ears as I silently and casually put it in my pocket.

I was later told by a school authority that the school would have done nothing to me if I'd beaten him up (!). Back then, at least (1979), I guess it made a difference having a perfect record of good behavior and being college track etc., vs. being a notorious trouble maker and not so bright (come to think of it, pretty much all the other bullies had given up by then).

If you can't bring yourself to retaliate, and it's clear to your adversaries ... don't know what to say or advise. But that you'll lose big time, as this victim did.
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Why does it need to be called "anything bullying"? It seems to me that for anyone who's been bullied, or who hasn't but has seen what it does to someone who is, the noun stands quite well on its own.
I have friends in Tanzania, and you could also consider South-Africa, and probably a lot more that I don't know anything about. But it depends on exactly what kind of "Wild West" you're looking for, and I'm no expert on Africa.
gotta agree more with techcrunch than a groupthink former employee from google.

google+ is something people these days joke about, like that service you're forced to sign up to but nobody uses.

yes, they are integrating features to collect data across their platforms, but essentially google+ as something people come to like facebook is the walking dead.
> "G" hitting a woman 117 times in 30 minutes on video (after which he tried to smother her with a pillow)

Your assertive language seems to indicate that you have seen this video or are in some other way 100% sure that he is guilty of the act claimed. Maybe you should reserve opinion till you have enough evidence?

Edit : Those who are downvoting me because you disagree with me: this is not reddit. Remember that I wrote a polite and personable reply even though my feelings are as strong as yours.
Blogger (dynamic templates) and Business Insider are two that come to mind as suspects. Both render blank pages in Chrome w/ JS disabled.
Your code is not hard to test because you don't do TDD. There is a different rule:

python -c 'from subprocess import *; print Popen(["python", "-c", "import this"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0].splitlines()[-3].replace("explain", "test")'

Yeah I know it's ruby thread :)
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You think metered internet access is a better solution? Seems to align the costs and who pays for them a bit better. So if I'm sitting here watching Netflix 24/7 365 my bill is understandably higher. It'd prolly make me how much I used Netflix but that's understandable.

Any plan where I don't directly pay per byte I download seems destined to run into problems like these - Comcast doesn't want to deal with the increased traffic Netflix is pulling into their network, but really what are there customers paying for but that traffic?
Absolutely. They start to look like a mass-media, trying to generate hypes and sensations, which pretty often are done in a very cheap way. And once you start and point out this in the comments below the article, they say "you don't get the irony". Okay, thank you smarts.
Updating Firmware Version 7.8.21 on Certain HP Network Adapters May Brick Them
This is clickbait. The last story they had on HackerNews was shortly after the RapGenius drama. According to someone smeared in that story they tried to blackmail him: Pay us and we won't publish. Tweets from them collaborate this: "It is a report on Expedia BH (Blackhat) SEO, check your G+ account Martin, anyone in charge can contact us back. Yes, my husband contacted you there, please keep communication with him.". I usually do not mind an agenda, but in this case I do not want any HN readers burned by this company. This post will give them 1000s of visitors and perhaps a few clients.

So there definately is an agenda. Google banned a few of these people's sites. They are not happy about that. But they still have something worthwhile to say right? Wrong. This is only written to create uninformed controversy and a difficult PR problem for Google.

They are not insiders leaking how big sites do shady SEO. They were creating spammy small sites and sometimes were sourced to write linkstuffed articles for bigger sites. They can see just as much as we can see.

We don't know if these tactics are even working. Maybe Google already discounted any links, through algorithmic detection, spam reports or manual spam fighters. Who knows? Certainly not the spammers that were caught time and time again: Proving Google is way ahead of them. Google can't ever say: These guys are right, we favor big sites. But that is the popular sentiment they are exploiting. One does not have to feel sorry for Google, but I hope people realize the position they're in here.

If you want to know more about how Google fights spam (they probably dinged a few major sites during the time it took me to write this post): http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/fighting-s...

If you want actionable SEO advice for your startup: http://hackersandfounders.tv/RDmt/rand-fishkin-inbound-marke... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3IZFGERbM
Let's not start another needless witch-hunt. We already see what it did to Brandon Eich.
With Linux, either (a) it works perfectly or (b) you're buggered - there's no in-between.

With Windows, it might work somewhat or with great annoyance. Or it might be lovely! Until Windows rot sets in.
"This one weird trick"

"Bartenders hate him"
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nginx has ngx_http_spdy_module and Google gives away mod_spdy for Apache 2.2. QUIC's server is in Chromium's code base; they haven't broken it out into a separate project (the protocol is still not stable).

I've used mod_spdy on Ubuntu 12.04 for several months now, and it seems to work pretty well.
You can't legally selectively default on debt; see the ongoing Argentinian "pari passu" saga as documented by FT blogs. Doing it illegally is basically hanging out a "we're now a rogue state lol" banner in New York to welcome businesses.

Having said that, I'm in favour of politely but firmly squashing the tax haven states. There is some work in this area but it's very slow.