skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that regard, have a look at http://www.depesz.com/2012/06/10/why-is-upsert-so-complicate... which is a very good article explaining why you have to continue to wait.

Getting MERGE right is one of these "pick two" things. You get to chose between "fast", "doesn't corrupt data" and "doesn't throw errors at times" but you only get to pick two.
Atom – A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. WTF GitHub?
sitedown: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
I am using Julia to casually participate in a bioinformatics contest (I have no bioinformatics background but I am pretty darned good at coding and biochemistry). The technique i'm using involves blasting a subset of the genome with neural nets, and I'll be damned if Julia isn't fast. I haven't benchmarked it against python, but basically the program is running a hybrid swarm optimization/gradient descent technique to find 20:5:1 neural nets; it is able to find test and optimize a swarm of 100 neural nets over 50 iterations in about 2 seconds on my rather slow laptop (2.3 GHz Core i3) A friend of mine is doing the same contest (using python) and his eyes popped out when I told him how efficient Julia was.
The internet is slowly being transformed into cable television
Physical media is a very different market with different mechanisms. In the digital space there are no major offerings with selling files with video so far (besides small local examples like Headweb), so there is no segmenting like mentioned above.
> Most Indian IT giants who get outsourced projects routinely over work their employees

I've had to oversee a number of those for very large orgs and can vouch that the quality was consistently beyond terrible and caused no end of problems. Most of the work done that way was eventually thrown away.
> and it will likely sit there until all the implicated people have retired and/or they are 100% sure the Icelandic equivalent to the statute of limitations will cover all of them.

This is not an issue. The statute of limitations in Iceland depends on the possible length of the prison sentence for the crime. The maximum is 15 years, so that's long since passed in all cases.
And sadly the users would end up on the slow lanes !
ISPs or telecoms? Telecoms have been working on this for years.
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As an European I probably should be glad about this, since this combined with all the NSA spying issues and implementing backdoors into US products [1], should increasingly force innovation out of US and bring it to Europe, but somehow I'm not.

All the ISPs will slow down all the major companies services, unless they pay up. There is no "faster" Internet. It's just "paying to get normal Internet back", like they've already done with Netflix:

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/this-hilarious...

[1] - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...
Which only works until your VPN provider also refuses to pay up and gets put in the slow lane for having too much traffic.
Still, the knowledge and experience you gained via circumstance are important.
No, it's not. But the term "work" implies that someone really did some work and produced something out of value... but these efforts were just the work of money in the pockets of lobbyists and policy makers. What a said day.
The people at the FCC are saying the opposite of what they mean.

Yes, we are in the same boat with Netflix having to pay for bandwidth as before. However, by the FCC officially sanctioning something that would have been technically illegal before the Federal ruling, they've basically reversed course and declared open season on content providers the ISPs don't like.
I would like to see more companies go the way of shaming the ISPs. If people saw a message while a Netflix or Youtube video was buffering that said Comcast slows down this service artificially to make more money, I bet they would care more and would complain.
"If you have persistence, then IQ, upbringing, social environment, education dwarf in importance."

Politely disagree here. Most people who succeed in business are usually (but not in all cases) brought up in good homes, in stable social environments and receive good educations. Pull beneath the curtain and even the 'high school/college drop out' is usually from a middle class home or has received private education. There are many other things that play a role as well including race. Remember all the kerfuffle a year or two ago about the lack of entrepreneurs from ethnic minority groups namely black groups who weren't being funded. Its not part of the 'VC Pattern Recognition'. Believe me it also pained me to write about race because I've v low tolerance for it.

Furthermore, there is clear evidence across the most wildly successful companies you will see many entrepreneurs do look very similar. Many have similar upbringings, many have good educations/come from good homes, many are from specific sections in the class hierarchy and many are from specific races. Just look at most of the top venture investors most are white or jewish.

Persistence yes i agree is unbelievably important. By default telling many people you'll start a business will likely result in a mix bag of congrats but many people telling you why it is a bad idea or why it won't work.

However, please do not be so dismissive of IQ or social environment or education. All of these things play a key role.

Look at the S&P 500. The CEOs education is as follows 97% have a college degree and 67% have a further degree. Most common degrees are engineering. Stanford and Harvard have 4% of the CEO population in the 500. I will also include Zuckerburg/Gates in this stat even if he dropped out he still went!

Please do not be so dismissive of other factors it is just myopic and extremely ignorant.
"And he promised a series of measures to ensure the new paid prioritization practices are done fairly and don't harm consumers."

I have a measure in mind that won't harm consumers. Don't allow ISPs to discriminate against users regarding their already paid for internet traffic based on what they request. (Gee that sounds a lot like net neutrality.)

Anything less is open for abuse.

Perhaps "Discrimination" is a good word to tar this with, because it is. It's discrimination against companies, but it's also discrimination against users based on their tastes, preferences, and possibly socioeconomic status.

To say nothing of de-facto censorship issues.
That was exactly how phonics were tossed in the middle of the last century, resulting in a huge cohort of people no longer being able to read, as scathingly detailed in the 1955 Why Johnny Can't Read (followed in 1958 with a small item in the Reader's Digest, "Why Johnny Can Read in Joplin", my home town; read that in the early-mid '70s from ones my grandmother saved).

From memory, it was justified with a study of students at a University of Chicago associated school, i.e. lots of children of professors, they were obviously in the fairly large cohort that just pick up reading on their own. Those who don't were left to the tender mercies of Dick and Jane and their running dog Spot as Jerry Pournelle likes to put it, his wife used to successfully teach reading to the hardest of hard cases, juveniles in criminal detention.
Canada is more centralized than it seems.
The Prime Minister has more power than the US president (relatively speaking, of course!)...
The barrel is just a metal tube. How do you regulate metal tubes?
Releasing the SDK / hardware plans would be an interesting step: early adopters / DIYers can effectively alpha-test the hardware...
From the whole HN links mess, most interested are startups.
I created this page to not miss a single startup link posted on HN :)
There should be a fast lane, it should also be the only lane.
The tv on chinese page is MiTV 2, which is the second-generation MiTV, while the one on en page is MiTV, which is launched several months before. It seems that MiTV 2 in en page has not updated yet.
Contributions to Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency field
As I keep saying: There should be a fast lane, it should also be the only lane.
I keep a fig leaf of pseudonymity there, but it's a ridiculously thin fig leaf for anyone who knows me from HN. A few folks have figured it out over the years, but I appreciate your discretion, as back in my nobody-knew-who-I-was days I talked about some fairly personal stuff there.
I don't get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven't paid attention).

Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.

Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.

Why in the earth there is a need for slow/fast lanes and data caps?

I'm four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)
nsfw language warning - afaik the monster girl quest articles proc'd the big porn cleanup fiasco

https://web.archive.org/web/20110908191300/http://tvtropes.o...
One thing not to forget is that if you unleash refactoring on a grand scale you'll end up with second version syndrome.

Thus, management has a problem. To allow refactoring, they need to believe there's a technical person in charge that is able to keep the refactoring in check. But, as a manager, how would you asses that?
Yes. And certain companies are pushing hard to make them succeed these days. Mozilla is one of them.
Yeah, like a wikipedia for search results! I wonder if anyone has tried that.

It would actually be pretty simple. A search bar. If you search doesn't exist, you're prompted to create a new page and add in whatever links you've found. Users could also vote to merge searches, etc.

You'd need some major fraud detection of course but I think it would be possible.

Anyone interested in working on that?
Caching has killed the need for SSG's for the most part. You can cache Drupal or Wordpress or pretty much anything with either plugins/modules or via a proxy like Varnish. These things work, generally, by copying the dynamic page and serving up a static page until they detect the page has changed or the user is requesting dynamic functionality (trying to post a comment, log in, etc).

So you get the best of both worlds.
Postgres-XL:Scalable Open Source PostgreSQL-based Database Cluster
I agree about staying out of /usr/local. I install stuff there -- I don't want my package manager taking it over. That's kept me away from Homebrew.
There must be a massive feedback loop at play. A site that is popular on Google becomes more popular because it is well placed on Google and will then be placed highly on Google as a result. Can a search engine really work when the search engine itself is the greatest decider of quality? This must cause unintended consequences.
Nah, you're not an idiot. There's a tendency on HN of people saying "all programmers" to mean "programmers who live in Silicon Valley, use open source tools to write web apps funded by ad eyeballs, and put all their code on Github". Witness the countless posts about "why should I interview when I can point to a Github account", or that article yesterday about "articles every programmer should read" that had something about SEO in it (and then the replies from people unable to see why that was silly), etc.
Sometimes, ISPs are both.
Yes, the choice was between no rules and weak rules, either of which will allow the telecoms to do whatever they want to service companies (despite the meaningless "commercially reasonable" clause). The Title 2 reclassification wasn't even on the table.

This should be the main issue at this year's elections. Unfortunately, this is America, where the main issues are only those the large campaign donors care about.
European Court Grants the Right to Be Forgotten
This is exactly what MWoS is about.
Its not a plan to allow paid priority on the Internet -- that's already allowed without any restriction since the old Open Internet order was struck down by the D.C. Circuit. Its a plan to, within the limits placed by the court order striking down the old plan, limit practices that violate the neutrality principles the FCC has articulated as part of its Open Internet efforts, including paid prioritization.
FCC Kills Net Neutrality Hours After Comcast Introduces Nationwide Data Caps
You need a Federal Firearms License if you are "engaged in the business", which is clarified further as having a "principal objective of livelihood and profit through the sale or distribution of the firearms manufactured". See 18.921.a.21.A. The ATF and FBI have employed a wide range of interpretations for this clause, so an FFL might be warranted.

There are already shows and traveling folks with portable CNC setups who will mill a block of aluminum into various types of frames or AR-15 lowers. The 3d-printed issue seems quite similar to that.
Just making it easier for other countries. Shoot yourself in the foot, USA!
The CDM is strictly sandboxed.
It's not easy to try to fit new code in old code, I empathize completely with that.

This is where I was at an advantage, I was writing new code to fit with new code. There are ideas though that were keys to performance breakthrough which they certainly could borrow.
> the people that can review your work is roughly 50 or persons whom you met already...

I don't see the problem with this. If the reviews are signed, public, and citable, then it doesn't matter if it is your best friend who reviewed your paper. What he says in the review is public. He engages his name as much as if he was writing a paper, he can't just say "this is good" without being sure that it is and arguing why it is. Just as people would not be able to just say "this is bad" without arguing and pointing out mistakes. I'm pretty sure that such a system would indeed improve the quality of the reviews, and thus the quality of the papers.
A/B testing in Mailchimp: 7 years of successful experiments
If you're making a one page flyer with enough copyrighted information from Wikipedia to require onerous attribution, you're doing it wrong.
The term "Open Internet" is a marketing phrase promoted by Comcast for the purpose of creating confusion.

"We are gratified by the Court's decision today to vacate the previous FCC's order [to impose rules about net neutrality]. Our primary goal was always to clear our name and reputation. We have always been focused on serving our customers and delivering the quality open-Internet experience consumers want. Comcast remains committed to the FCC's existing open Internet principles, and we will continue to work constructively with this FCC as it determines how best to increase broadband adoption and preserve an open and vibrant Internet.

Comcast Statement on U.S. Court of Appeals Decision on Comcast v. FCC [6]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_Corp._v._FCC#The_FCC.27...
AI Program Appointed to Board of Directors of V.C. Company
I don't see a problem. You can switch ISP if your current one isn't net-neutral. Why should you force businesses to operate in certain way? They're not breaking any laws.
FCC Approves Contentious Net Neutrality Plan
This seems like a valuable approach. If we could come up with examples of services like nonprofits that would be unable to pay and have their services negatively affected I think that could make people care about this issue. Maybe if we focused on things like Khan Academy, where their content is largely video. I think in that case its clear their money would be better spent developing a larger knowledge base instead of paying extortion money to ISPs, and it might strike a chord with average users.
If you are interested in a site which creates a Jekyll blog, and installs it on GitHub for you, and has an Android app that acts as the correlate to the Wordpress app (and is open source) then check out http://teddyhyde.com. http://blog.teddyhyde.com documents how to modify the Android app if you want to help hack it.
People having the freedom to look at whatever they choose on a level playing field may not be in the interests of all concerned.

The consolidation of media companies possibly served interests other than profits. Look at what Putin is allegedly doing with the internet. Maybe in a way the eventual intent of this is the same. And for the same purposes. I don't think we should let it get started just in case.
Rifled barrels which have been machined to tight tolerances are non-trivial to make. But a smoothbore barrel is just a tube. For plenty of low-power cartridges, it doesn't even need to be metal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
Tom Wheeler happened. Despite his industry and lobbying connections, he raised a lot of money for Obama's campaign, so he was appointed as the new FCC chairman.
> I'm four years old.

I feel like this isn't quite right.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15...

The FCC proposal is supposed to prevent ISPs from degrading their non-fast lane service, but clearly that doesn't include data caps in Comcast's mind.

COMING SOON: 5 GB / Month non-fast lane access.
How are they supposed to verify a claim like that in advance? Their market share is dropping already, that's about as rigorous as you can get without forking the universe to run some tests.
> approved in a three-to-two vote along party lines,

Why the fuck are there party lines in the FCC? Or any other regulatory body for that matter?
Yes, it's common but handled a little more idiomatically, by presenting your available resources as VM/instance/machine. Of course, you aren't given the ability to exceed those metrics in a traditional cloud environment.
Ember delivers rapid improvements at Intercom.io
Anything the US does they will eventually try and put into a trade agreement and force others to do too.

We should never look over the water and be thankful it's not happened to us, because all we're seeing is how our (near) future is likely to be.
Icons!

As a designer, I've probably never seen so many icons on a page.
A lot of casinos and exchanges are using blockchain.info as a hot wallet instead of rolling their own multi sig hot wallet. Crazy risk
Researchers Teach A Robot To Catch Flying Objects
Google faces deluge of requests to wipe details from search index
Thanks, that was an interesting read.
And on Windows running both AllSnap and AllSnap64 help me a great deal, even though I'm still on smaller monitors.
Facebook scam and censure
Today people reported that McDonaldsEgypt's page apparently bought likes, identifying friends' likes that didn't make sense.

Twitter shows more people identified this supposed "glitch". [1]

McDonaldsEgypt itself admitted something was wrong. [2]

I commented on a friend's post on facebook about the issue and liked to the Veritasium's video about the facebook scam, and the post is now silently gone. [3] Other posts are gone too. [4]

The page McDonaldsEgypt is now just redirecting to /home.php. [5]

This is further evidence that Facebook likes are a big scam.
And now we see that their policy for dealing with public problems is one of censure.

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=McDonaldsEgypt%20since%3A2014-05-13&src=typd.

https://twitter.com/Diogocfrazao/status/466729752917995520

https://twitter.com/diestefanosouza/status/466712623778910209

https://twitter.com/Neil_Gulliver95/status/466905156110389248

https://twitter.com/PMiguelGarcia/status/466601518737932289

https://twitter.com/DJMirandaWright/status/466084060071485440

https://twitter.com/mattvat/status/466079234230726656

[2] https://twitter.com/McDonaldsEgypt/status/466937575471841280

[3] https://youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

[4] https://twitter.com/tetra1956/status/466267693734445057

https://twitter.com/SHIFTERpt/status/466540080719347712

[5] https://facebook.com/McDonaldsEgypt
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Tank Mistakes Accidents Cannon Fired by Amateurs in Dirvina, Ukraine 
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Great! the FCC has officially sanctioned ISP's to be Trolls, demanding some gold to cross their bridge. This guarantees that there will always be multiple levels of peering speed even if the connections are upgraded and are able to easily handle the load. They won't want to give up their troll gold. That's just peachy, thanks for letting us get screwed over even more, Go USA! </Sarcasm>
The FCC has voted to accept Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal on net neutrality
Interesting content,yet the tone could be improved. Thanks for sharing!

For example, "Let me tell you something you obviously couldn't think while designing page" comes off as condescending.
I highly recommend learning about copyright and licensing. If you use or contribute to open source software, it's a must, IMO. Here's a post of mine which would be a good start: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11455485/247696

Based on the number of GitHub projects which don't include a LICENSE or COPYING file, I would say you are not alone.
This Is How We Got Covered By TNW and Venture Beat (But Got Ignored By TechCrunch)
To help Google to essentially kill yet another browser.
The Artist and the Scientist – Two ways to become a programmer
Clearly you aren't living in the United States. My choices are Comcast, Comcast, and Comcast.

I'm really starting to think mesh networks are going to be the only solution.
I don't understand this comment. Can you explain?
And now Comcast is planning data limits for all customers, what conincidence. http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/15/technology/comcast-data-limi...
If there was some way we could verify DRM was "what it says on the tin," it could be a tremendous tool for ensuring our privacy and freedom online. When big companies DRM content, it limits our freedom, but if we could DRM our own data, it limits big company and government abuses.

However, there is admittedly a big caveat here. I don't know of a workable way to know that DRM is "what it says on the tin." Big business and governments could place back doors into such mechanisms, which would put us in an even worse position than where we are now.
I don't see that this is the case, at all. A single paragraph that has been edited enough times could be the work of an unbounded number of contributors, since it is always a derivative work of the earlier versions. If that single paragraph, modified for format, makes up the bulk of your flier then you should clearly include attribution somehow.
No I mean languages compiled to machine code. I guess that happens sometimes with JIT or with some implementations of these languages? In general Java and C# are run on top of portable virtual machine layers, right?
I'm guessing it's a reference to ELI5.
Can anyone make a serious argument on behalf of the carriers? Given the court decisions, the only way to protect the American people and the economy is to reclassify ISP's under Title II.

For the skeptics, it appears to come down to the question: which route offers better prospects for upgrading our internet infrastructure? Choice one is relying on a for-profit corporation with an effective monopoly that is beholden to shareholders; Choice two is relying on elected politicians beholden to the voters.

If you think there is a different argument that can be made on behalf of the carriers or if you can make the above one better, I would be very interested in hearing it.
FWIW I would think that how a weapon _looks_ matters less than how it performs. If it shoots and injures/kills it doesn't matter to me if it's bright pink with rainbows and unicorns all over—it's still a perfectly valid weapon.

Looking like a toy could even serve as a useful form of camouflage.

Finally I would say that the fidelity of 3d printers is going up and the price is coming down. I would imagine that they won't look like they were sold at Toys-R-Us for much longer.