skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. The article is totally wrong.

From Eric Brewer himself: "The relationship between CAP and ACID is more complex and often misunderstood, in part because the C and A in ACID represent different concepts than the same letters in CAP..."

(from http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the...)
Thanks, joshdance.

There are so many quality resources out there for a newbie developer!
The thing to remember about fitting exercise into a demanding schedule is that exercise is a net energy/productivity boost.

You sacrifice some time to exercise, but gain energy and you will feel better and be better able to attack the rest of the things you need to do. You might even wind up with more free time than you began with.[1]

___________

[1] We all know we'll just use it to pack more work into the day. But theoretically you could gain time.
Fair enough. :)

I guess the much, much larger population is going to make less money if they do outsourced/consulting time work since they have to deal with a middleman because of it [who will take a cut and do project management/sales].
The first thing to know is that Verilog is not a programming language. It is a hardware description language. This may sound picky, but it fundamentally changes the way you need to think about using the language. With Verilog/VHDL/HDL, you describe a circuit, which requires very different thinking to programming languages where you describe a sequence of instructions.

The other thing to know is that HDL languages are mostly the domain of electrical engineers and hence have suffered a lack of any "computer science" in them. The languages and all of the tools are clunky and reminiscent of 1970/1980's style programming when CS and EE diverged. Hence, do not expect to find decent online tutorials or freeware source code available. It's all locked up and proprietary as with all other EE tools.

The best place is to start with a text book, this one (http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Digital-Logic-Verilog-Des...) is a nice introduction to digital design with examples from Verilog.

Personally I prefer VHDL, and this fantastic introduction (http://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Design-VHDL-Volnei-Pedroni/dp/...)

To make either of these useful, you will need a hardware platform and some tools to play with. The DE1/2 is a reasonably priced entry board with plenty of lights, switches and peripherals to play with at a reasonable cost and is well matched with the text books above.

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=E...
Some thoughts on the ruling:

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/19/5824130/7-thoughts-on-the-supre...

Shame they didn't abolish the business method patents at the very least, if not all software patents.
Simple question, what if more than one link starts with the same letter? (don't have chrome now to check straightaway, but curious)
we could say the same thing about sports (Michael Jordan etc), film stars etc - pretty much every field has it's share of such people.

Regardless of their arrogance, we need such people to move things forward.
Sorry to hear about your situation - what everyone said: focus on your health first, everything else should come second.

Also, please don't take random advice about diet fads from an internet forum. Many of the health problems you describe, including the weight gain can in fact be caused by the hypothyroidism and you won't fix it by trying random diets or even by various gym regimes (although regular exercise and eating healthily probably doesn't hurt of course).

As someone whose (almost) all family members have thyroid disfunctions, I know it is a problematic disease, but entirely treatable/managable in 2014 in most cases.

I don't know where you happen to be in, but both in my original country (Romania) and my current country (western EU) it has cheap or entirely covered treatments.

In summary, one way to go is via medication: try to find the right mix of medicine, and monitor the thyroid indicators regularly - this is a hit-and-miss approach because the thyroid function has a "lag" - you change the dosage when you feel it necessary, but then it is usually too late as it swings from hypo to hyper or vice versa. In practice it is almost impossible to find the right dosage on long term and you keep swinging from hypo (brainfog, weight-gain, etc) to hyper (weight-loss, random heartbeat, sweating, etc) and back. Especially the hyper condition is harmful on long term, and some of the medication is also harmful.

Which brings me to the other approach preferred in some countries and in many cases: removal (partial or full) of the gland and/or radioactive iodine applied to it. After this, you need to take pills, but generally the situation is much more managable and the outlook better.

I just wrote this up based on what I know from family members, but please do your own research, get proper treatment and a predictable income (as others suggested, ideally in form of a salary in a country with good healthcare). Take care!
You can hire IT people for 12k a year?
FPGAs with CPU cores have been around for over a decade. The difference is that in the past, the industry has mostly focused on the PowerPC core. Now that ARM has such tremendous popularity, it makes sense to focus on it.
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"In statically-typed languages, it is typical to define a type called Player containing two floats representing the x,y position. In a dynamically-typed language, it is typical to just use a map and store the position as key-value pairs."

What would you say the latter buys you?

I'm not saying I don't see any advantages, particularly compared to practices in some specific statically typed languages, but I think that clarifying this would be useful to everyone in this discussion.
So, English residents would normally pay a small prescription fee each month for their medication.

Health is devolved - England, Scotland, Wales, and NI have slightly different systems.

If you need Thyroxine for thyroid problems you will get that free each month. But you will also get all your other meds free. It's a bit of an oddity with the system.

There are a couple of doctors who privately prescribe unlicensed meds. I'm not sure how they avoid regulatory trouble. But there's a community of people who claim that T4 is important and these people sometimes pay a lot of money to dubious doctors to get it.
> I will worry more about the U.S. reciprocating by extending Fourth Amendment principles to those who seek to harm the people of the U.S.

Fourth Amendment (and Fifth Amendment) protections protect the US from a government pretending to be protecting them from "people who seek to harm the people of the US" without actually doing so.

While the direct targets are the most obvious victims of denials of due process protections, the more significant victim is the public at large -- due process protections increase the cost of security theater so as to limit the extent to which it is easier for the government to cut corners and engage in show punishments of scapegoats for propaganda purposes rather than do the hard work of finding the real guilty parties.

And for real, organized, enemies against which legal process is inadequate, well, that's what declarations of war against specific enemies. But permanent, open-ended, unconstrained war -- and arbitrary executive use of war-appropriate processes -- against whomever the current executive thinks might be a threat is another thing altogether.
The transparency can help to reduce costs, as things like negative results are shared, along with some of the infrastructure each company is building independently that isn't particularly exciting and could be shared without losing their competitive edge. Why should each company invest in their own data processing, visualization, search and modeling packages when much of that is not overly unique? Why not build a common base, and then customize the pieces that make sense? Sharing of clinical trial data, rather than repeating similar clinical trials? These are opportunities, but they certainly are not without risk. RDKit is one great example of an open-source toolkit developed primarily at a large pharma company for example.
10 Things I Learned from Paul Graham at Y Combinator
Ask HN: Who will inherit your projects when you're dead?
Hi - I had this in the back of my mind for some time, and wanted to get your point of view around this question. The fact is that, well, one day or another, we're all going to kick the bucket. Our traditional 'assets' will go to our loved ones, one way or another. But what about our digital legacy - projects, online businesses, accounts, code, storages ... ? How do you guys plan to answer this thorny question?
I actually find it surprising how many people feel recursive node_module dependency folders is justified. It seems absolutely the worst possible solution to me. Am I misunderstanding something about this. Is there any reason Bundler's approach doesn't work here?

It seems ridiculous to me how many folders are created when I just need a couple of node modules to do something.
forgive my ignorance, why is operator overloading particularly useful in scientific computing?
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Your Greatest Code Quality Threats and How to Solve Them
Programming as storytelling
Wikileaks: Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) – Financial Services Annex
So that sort of explains the new Unicode 7.0 characters "fool" and "trump-1" through "trump-21" as well as the existing "knight" playing-card characters. Wikipedia helps too.

'A Tarot deck corresponds in every particular with those called Tarocchi by writers of the 16th century. It consists of 56 numeral cards of four suits and 22 emblematic cards called atouts (trumps). Each suit consists of fourteen cards: ten "number" or "pip" cards, and four "court" cards, the Roi (King), Dame, (Queen), Chevalier (Knight), and Valet (Jack). Of the atouts, 21 are numbered from 1 to 21, and a non-numbered card called "Fou" ("Fool", also called "Mat" or "L'Excuse" in play) has various meanings depending on the particular Tarot variant being played...' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot,_tarock_and_tarocchi_gam...
That if you had said that you are learning about "atheism" at the start of this subthread you could have avoided a lot of confusion and suggestions from people offering advice about books to read about religion.
Actually the build chain for both Xilinx and Altera works quite well in Linux, in fact I have heard that some consider it superior based on memory management issues.

Modelsim is available on Linux as well, but only their more expensive SE product. They charge a premium for Linux platform.
Given only the task "move a VPS from one hosting provider to another", "rand(1000000)" is a decent estimator. ;)

But seriously, there are an incredible number of variables in this situation. Here are some I've encountered moving VPSes:

* is the code in source control?

* is the ACTUALLY RUNNING code in source control? This is different from the first one.

* how many services are running on the VPS? Moving a PHP webapp is one thing, moving a multi-process app that's using multiple daemons is quite another.

* has anybody documented the setup? Little changes in /etc can make a big difference.
I've been making the same assumption. :) So thanks for mentioning it isn't. I'm happier now to spend money to read it.
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Thanks, nicholas73!

We're going to bump up the price to 2.99 after this promotional period. We want to give our currents users/followers a way to get the app at a discount.
Enjoy the startup moneyboat while it lasts :D
Is there not a comment platform that already exists?

Seems strange if there isn't...
Coffeescript was not funded by the Knight Foundation and was not developed for DocumentCloud.

Jeremy started Coffeescript as a personal project in his off time while building out DocumentCloud/Backbone/Underscore.
He would get more sympathy by publicly facing the accusations, not hiding out from everyone.

Saying on his site that Sweden is "effectively detaining him without charging him with a crime" when Sweden isn't detaining him anywhere (he's holed himself up in an embassy in London) is the type of misleading nonsense that rubs me the wrong way.

Also claiming that the UK isn't honoring his political asylum granted by another country for purposes other than why he's hiding out (the political asylum was to prevent him from becoming a political prisoner in the US and facing what he calls a "credible risk of torture, inhumane treatment, and unfair trial" here) is also misleading.

He seems to relish in martyrdom.
Show HN: A tool to help your clients scope development projects
Bullfrogs in slowmotion 
Creepy and weird video will bullfrogs in slow-motion.
Reddit is like the world,there is the best and the worst.There are awesome subs like there are stupid/porn/horrible/hatefull subs.You only get what you seek on reddit.
It looks for any available letter in the link and goes with that...
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Hey guys, treated this like a weekend project. I was trying to copy pastebin's ease of use whilst keeping it useful for running viral activism campaigns.

Make sure to checkout a demo -> https://mentionbin.com/campaign/shut-the-back-door

And also try to create your own campaign to see how easy it is.
AWS needs to improve usability of IAM so that it gets broader adoption. The learning curve is non-trivial.
As a fellow gay man, I kinda know what you mean. I often out myself in interviews to see their reactions. If they have a problem with it, I don't wanna work there.

Though I'm in the EU, where discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal, so I have that protection.
We're also hacking on a more in-depth version
https://theworkmob.com/sitdowns/demo/

Love to hear what you all think
The Startling Accuracy of Referring to Politicians as 'Psychopaths'
India's youngest (NRI) multibillionaire who you've probably never heard of
Goel who controls 76.47 % of Clone Algo Inc, a Nevada, USA Incorporated Company, has a personal net worth of US$ 8.6 billion dollars (Rs 51600 crore). Clone Algo, which develops Artificial Intelligence in Algorithms as well as industry specific eco-systems for the second generation of Social Media, is valued at over US$11 Billion (Rs 66,000 crore).
What is the main advantage over getting paid in USD and buying bitcoins on your own? Other than promoting bitcoin.
My experience (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri.html, http://netfpga.org/10G_specs.html) is that both of the toolchains are terrible on both of the platforms.

Xilinx and Altera keep trying to convince us that they are software vendors, when in actual fact they are hardware vendors. Rarely is a company good at both.
So, i a assume the collected Patterns will then be quickly's proprietary knowledge. Right?
I'd recommend running this as a simple twitter account to test the concept. Reach out to people who follow the shows you are interested in. Tweet at a scheduled interval. If they don't follow it is unlikely the app would get traction. If the followers didn't grow organically once you had a core group of followers I would see that as a bad sign.

One more thought: if there was demonstrated growth and interest, you could use the twitter account to promote the app once it was released.
Adding as a reply as I couldn't modify it: obvious disclaimer - don't take medical advice from the internet, but try to visit a specialist doctor. The above two ways to go were the choice some of my family members had to make. Also don't experiment with medication on your own, but follow the prescriptions - however, the doctors will also modify the dosage mostly based on how you say you feel and the indicators from blood.
Hopefully they adopt Reddit's pattern of constant tweeking and improvement. Reddit now has a significant track record of adapting to the harsh comment environment that is the open internet, and it works surprisingly well.
I said he's attempting to be one. My rationale for that is his statements that make him seem to be basking in martyrdom. See my comments above in reply to another comment.

I call people I feel to be self-centered self-centered. I call people who try to convince other people that they're an innocent messenger for truth while demonizing anyone who says anything bad about them a wannabe cult leader.
It made sense for Xilinx to use PowerPC in the past, the chips were being fabbed by IBM.
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This is really cool. I'm excited to see how Mozilla takes on a CMS (or whatever it may be at that point).
But crowd-sourced moderation like reddit/HN scales really well: Let the users do the hard work of flagging/voting and a small community of moderators to do orientation-related work.
This is going on a bit of a tangent, but even Visual Studio used to run up against this problem all the time using some of Microsoft's own libraries. It was laughable at the time, but some of Microsofts teams (cough Patterns & Practices cough) loved to created DLLs with huge long namespaces. That coupled with the fact that Visual Studio projects were created in /Users/User.Name/Visual Studio/Visual Studio ##/Projects/ to begin with created a lot of problems.

As a result I almost always put all my projects at the root something like /src to reduce the odds of running into these problems.
Can you share some details about this - like pros & cons once vs. another?
I love this story. I do love to outsource my pet projects. After a long day at work, I come home and find myself too drained to write code. I have so many ideas and no motivation code. This article just gave me an idea that perhaps I should outsource my personal pet projects. Is there anyone here reading who has ever outsourced their pet project? I'm not talking about via odesk/elancer, but through another medium where you can get really competent developers like Bob did.
Here is a link to the extension with some screenshots:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webmotion/jeeajpen...
Anyone who likes Postgres and is looking for a good analytics DB should check out the cstore_fdw Postgres extension. [1] It allows Postgres to create and query files in the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) format [2] from Hive.

It was created and recently open-sourced by Citus Data (YC S11), who've made it a key component of their MPP Postgres offering.

I don't work there. I'm just a fan.

[1] https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw
[2] http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.0.0.2/ds...
Unlikely. Custom built Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) (i.e. bitcoin mining chips - e.g http://www.butterflylabs.com/) will always be faster than FPGAs (which are comparatively slow) and CPUs (which are fast, but general).
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Ask HN: Is there a website, which analyzes UX of Products?
I came through this awesome site useronboard.com which does a teardown of how different services onboarded different users.

Is there a similar site, which does a teardown of features of webapps or SaaS Apps?
Sometimes the wheels fall off and you have to pause and figure out what to do about it. You're doing that, so you've taken step 1. Step 2 is to aggressively take charge. As JohnBooty noted, exercise is a boost and will actually increase your productivity so you need to view it as such.

You probably don't even realize how bad your diet really is. Become passionate about nutrition - make it something that you're better at than anyone else. What you eat is more important than alcohol, smoking and many other things.

If you've fallen into the trap of taking fist-fulls of vitamins, stop doing that. Get what you need through good nutrition.

Eat on regular schedules - especially breakfast which will help regulate your sleep schedule.

Since you're overweight, buy a cheap bicycle and use that as exercise. You'll find it's low impact therefore low injury risk but high reward in terms of calories burnt and cardio. Also most adults forget how much fun the simple act of riding a bicycle is.

STOP eating all sugar now. No soda, no cakes, no sweets and become aware of the things you eat that contain sugar that you don’t even realize, like bread with added sugar. Don’t bullshit yourself. Stop sugar.

There are people in much worse shape than you are that are powering through. A friend is in his early 20’s and dove into a shallow river where he fractured his C4 vertebrae and is now wheelchair bound hoping that through working his ass off at therapy he can regain at least the use of his hands to become productive. From what I’ve gathered you have working arms, legs, hands, feet, brain. You have all the opportunity and power in the world. It’s going to require hard work, restraint and discipline. Take charge and kick some ass. Good luck.
From my position as a fellow Knight grantee (i run DocumentCloud, and interact with many of the folks involved in this upcoming project) i'm pretty excited.

The NYT and WaPo have world class developers, and the OpenNews folks are people who very clearly get both the web and the news.

And a project like this serves some concrete needs including one that DocumentCloud itself would benefit from. If this project ends up tackling part of the single sign on problem for news organizations, integration with 3rd party tools & platforms like DocumentCloud becomes a lot easier.

Sites like the New York Times and the Washington Post upload documents to our site, and then embed on their pages. Rather than requiring their users to login to DocumentCloud as well as the host site, we'd love to be able to have a standard way (that has buy-in from news sites) to authenticate users, especially if it's one that allows us to feed back moderation and the like back to the host organization.
I have backups of all my passwords. Some of these are paper based backups. I keep these in secure places. I also have a list of instructions and URLs and etc.

I try to keep an up to date audit of hardware and software and serial numbers and etc etc, with whatever I know about getting control of those when I die.

This is mentioned in my will.

It would be nice if there was an industry wide standard for "What to do when someone dies" - this will vary by country but it'll be something like "When you're granted probate and have the document send an official copy to this address, with this other information, and we'll unlock the devices for you to re-use or sell on; or we'll transfer the digital media to a new account[1]".

I'm thinking of scripting something so that if I die someone in my family can run a simple program that will provide death announcements to all my various online accounts. (This is obviously scary if it runs prematurely and announces my death when I'm not, er, dead.)

All of this is in the context of a private individual. I have no idea what the legal ramifications are if you're part of a business. But surely "What happens if Bob is hit by a bus" is part of any company's disaster planning?[2]

[1] obviously they wont. When you die all those ebooks and mp3s and films are gone, and it's a criminal offence to remove the DRM to be able to pass on that content to your children.

[2] Just like "we make proper backups all the time AND we have tested those backups" is. ho ho ho.
any very simple way to run it on a mac? thx.
How are you handling payroll withholding? Nearly every major nation has some equivalent of this. What about income tax withholding for cross border payments?

These are issues that even the most basic payroll services offer today (i.e., handling the actual withholding/deductions and remitting the proper amounts to the relevant tax authorities, not just keeping records). If you're not addressing the tax issues, you're product isn't dead simple--it actually increases the complexity of paying employees dramatically. Withholding taxes, for example, are due at least quarterly; payroll taxes are usually due at least monthly.
This is REALLY important. Juries were getting snowed. Look at the Apple-Samsung verdict.