skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Do you use any Business Intelligence database querying tool?
I often find creating custom queries against a specific database (e.g. MySQL) for Marketing/Strategy/Business people (e.g. they can't write SQL queries). However, I'm convinced there must be existing tools that are designed precisely for that kind of business intelligence querying and visualization. Do you know of any such software/tool?
It was wonderful speaking to Conrad, his PR-resources are a great start for anyone looking to get started with this kind of work
Boiled milk is also known as pasteurized milk. It's no longer raw milk if you've boiled it.
> I should note that I'm a hobbyist/enthusiast type of customer; if you're losing business on price grounds, I can definitely see where a price cut would help.

I think similar principles govern business spending, only $x for them is usually higher. I have a couple of business co-lo customers who have been customers for like half a decade; some of them are still using the hardware they came in on. They could save a lot of money by upgrading hardware (and thus reducing their footprint) or even moving to "the cloud" at this point, because while co-locating modern hardware is cheaper than "The Cloud" - co-locating ancient hardware is not.

The idea is that it works for them, so they aren't going to fuck with it. I'd bet money, though, that if I fucked something up and caused them a serious outage, they'd be gone pretty quick.

>(Also, it doesn't help that the wiki is crufty and out of date, and boot menu, last time I rebooted, was still on CentOS 5.)

I just want to acknowledge those problems. We only have vague plans for the wiki, but we're actively working on upgrading the rescue image and the hypervisor (which, I imagine, is the part of the boot menu you are complaining about.) - these changes will probably not be implemented until our switchover to the new ganeti-based system, but... that should be soonish.
It's normal to take many short exposures and stack them up to get a long one. The length is dictated by the amount of noise in your detector. From a look at the Wikipedia article, it looks like they need a lot more than just short exposures on Sofia.
Thank you. Actually this all started at as a simple web page [1] where you can plug your invoice into the site and get a PDF of your invoice back with no sign up required. I climbed up the search rankings and eventually was getting tons of requests for more features. That is when I decided to make a premium version. Even today a majority of traffic comes through the Upgrade button on the free tool. The second source of major traffic is referrals from existing customers. To date I have spent $0 on advertising and have had virtually zero coverage on tech blogs. I got lucky that my target customer starts out using free invoicing sites.

What app did you create?

[1] http://invoice-generator.com
I think you're confusing some concepts here. Dilution happens when new shares are issued causing your percentage ownership to go down. In general it's not a bad thing - when there's a new funding round the new cash will increase the value of the company to balance out the dilution and you end up with your equity being the same value. The thing people forget about when they talk about dilution from new rounds is that the cash added to the balance sheet increases the value of the company, probably even more than 1:1.

Liquidation preference is what happens when the preferred shares have a clause that says they are guaranteed 2x or 3x what they put in on any liquidity event. So if you take $10mm at 3x liquidation preference then that means any exit has an immediate $30mm taken off the table. A $30mm exit now becomes a $0 exit for the employees. Remember that generally the founders are holding common shares.
I wrote all of my own tools. The book itself is written in Markdown, and I use the Redcarpet gem to turn it into HTML. From that, I convert it into PDF and the ebook formats using Docverter.

http://www.docverter.com
A leather-bound open-source hacker laptop that you can build yourself
Block vs. In-selector Media Queries
hahah, i did the same thing.
If BetterTouchTool doesn't let you do some custom key/mouse input, it's probably not possible. :-)

You can use keypress + mouse movement:

http://imgur.com/ZeV8grb

...or just with the mouse alone:

http://imgur.com/JNXYf1q
Interesting. We are using Post code anywhere.co.UK for a variety of projects in the UK. What's your URL?
> 2) SOFIA's wavelength coverage is different that JWST's or anything else that is in the pipeline.

Depending on what you mean by "pipeline", that isn't quite true. Work is being done on several far-inrared missions, such as SPICA[0]. I'd consider SPICA to be in "in the pipeline" and it will cover much (if not all) of the far-infrared that SOFIA does. So I wouldn't call JWST and SOFIA complementary; rather, SOFIA is a precursor observatory and a potential technology development platform (for things like SPICA; not so much for JWST, since the JWST instruments are already being built).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICA_telescope
I was thinking more about my own healthcare system where the government pays the doctor. So his salary would just stay the same. In the US or other systems like it I can see how that would be an issue.
A lot of name-calling and false equivalencies with nothing to support claims aside from a conversation with Andrew Blake.
Five Simple Lisp Tips Guaranteed to Boost Your Productivity
Yesir. I'm using Puppet myself and it's saving me boatloads of time and energy and brainwracking.

The fact that it can be used not just for Vagrant but for setting up your nodes on a cloud infrastructure is kind of overpowered :D
Thank you for bringing this up. Transit/transportation difficulties are often a huge strain if you're poor. People often wonder why poor people aren't en masse educating themselves to move up out of poverty, thinking they have plenty of time to spare for most things. When actually if you're poor everyday tasks, getting to and from work, buying groceries, etc. often take soo much longer! Having no money often means having no time as well, not even taking into account the added burden of parenting and cognitive stress from crippling poverty.
I'm curious what you think "the founding values of technology" are

I'm talking about the pay-it-forward culture of the 1950-70s Valley when it was cheap to live there and people did everything they could to help each other out. This was the era when Hewlett-Packard refused to do a layoff: instead, it cut costs with a 10% pay cut and a day off work every other week. There was a time when software had an R&D culture, and Northern California was full of people trying to do something new and interesting.

Now, startups are a safety career for failed McKinseys and Goldmanites, whose VC friends put them into executive positions and let them boss nerds around, but it wasn't always that way. You didn't go in thinking you'd be a billionaire, but you could get what would now be an upper-middle-class lifestyle and work in the sort of R&D environment that doesn't exist anymore, because the slimeballs killed it.
Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code
»the author commits the generated files to the source repository, so that they are available to clients that use go get:«

I understand that they want to keep $ go get fast, but i think that it is a bad practice to commit generate files into a repository. Instead, $ go get should call go generate.
GMO Factory Monsanto's High-Tech Plans to Feed the World
Sam,
Does saying "discuss on hn: link" at the bottom of a blog post violate your voting ring detector or any other terms of service? I couldn't find anything about that.
NYC does have these. Called commuter vans. I know of at least one that I used to take down to Wall Street from the Upper East side. It was great. Fast service and a fraction of the price of a cab.

There are also Taxi shares in NYC, which are similar, but hold less people (4). These are somewhat informal affairs and you have to know where to go / stand. But if you're going downtown anyway, why not split the fare with 4 strangers?
Provisioning handheld GPSs with Ansible
I know this is not the solution you are looking for, but here's what I do, when I want a small image after a complex dockerfile and I don't care to distribute it as layers:

docker run layered-image -n container /bin/echo #noop
docker export container > tarball.tar
cat tarball.tar | docker import - flat-image

This has the disadvantage that your new flat image doesn't have any CMD directive. You can add it with another dockerfile, starting with FROM flat-image, and skipping straight to CMD ["/bin/bash", "/bootstrap.sh"]
I bought it from a seller on Sedo in January '14 using proceeds from the site.
No, you price more difficult routes higher, so that they can still be served at all.
Considering the "developed"/"developing" dichotomy is really just "First or Second World"/"Third World", um, duh?
"One wonders how far the company will take it: will we see gcc or LLVM support next?"

I wish! Would get asm.js for C# and forget JS for games like a dreadful dream.
If you happen to be writing your simulated vintage mac site on a modern mac, vImage (part of the Accelerate framework) supports Atkinson dithering from OS X 10.9 onward via vImageConvert_Planar8to[Planar|Indexed][124].

Not overly useful for one image, but if you have lots of them, it's nice to have a programmatic solution.
Reminds me of Averia, a font made by averaging fonts.
http://iotic.com/averia/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877025
Vibration isn't the reason why exposures tend to be short, and at the longer wavelengths SOFIA operates at it's not the dominant source of the image quality. The real reason is that at the infrared wavelengths seen on SOFIA the sky that we're looking through is very bright, and can quickly saturate detectors.

If you're interested in the nitty-gritty (with pictures!) there's a PDF that describes one of the methods: http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/instruments/FORCAST_observ...

Edit: More nitty-gritty here: https://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/ObserversHandbook/FORCAST...
Maybe the people at "thetwoweeker" only spent two weeks learning logic and statistics.
Now You Can Be The Person Who Brews Apple’s Coffee
And?

You could say that the people who tweet about xkcd are not a representative sample of the people who read xkcd. However, I don't see this as something absolutely intuitive -- my intuition is that it's a slightly distorted sample, but should not be _that_ off. I don't see why the people who tweet should have different characteristics to the people who read.

The thread is full of comments complaining about why the OP took this particular set -- I don't have too much problem with it. It's a sample, and quite a large one.
Hard to say. Hire a lawyer if it's important. This stuff is not easy.
My co-founder Dan and I launched WP Curve (24/7 WordPress support) in June 2013. At the time of writing, we're generating $24,166 in MRR.

We share a monthly report every month, here's our last report: http://wpcurve.com/june-wp-curve-monthly-report-people-produ... if you're interested.
Nintendo finds itself under fire from furious shareholders
After working for a company similar to comcast, I wish there was a password to get to tier 2 or the NOC. "Yeah I'm at your hub site, it looks like one of the cards in the CMTS I'm on has a faulty uplink cable" "Sir can I get your account number again?" "kill me"

http://i.imgur.com/UANtI.jpg
They try to sell it because they believe it themselves.

This is almost worse than them lying, insofar as incompetence can be more damaging than selfishness: you can negotiate with a selfish person to get something for giving them what they want. You can't get anything out of someone who can't deliver.
> In reality there is no better option for hosting OSS code right now than GitHub.

You're right that your code isn't permanently lost, but you're wrong that GitHub is the only option or even the best option for hosting your code. GitLab and gogs are incredible pieces of software and if your needs are small, you can even just use cgit or the built-in gitweb tool. DigitalOcean is one host that can trivially provision GitLab instances.

I've hosted my own git server for about a year at https://stealthis.ca. It costs less money than GitHub's cheapest plan and supports unlimited mirrors and private repositories with any amount of collaborators. It also has never went taken my code offline, ever, for any reason. You can guess what'd happen if somebody sent me a DMCA request.
Do you have a monitor on your PG boxen? I've got them set to warn at 50% full, due to table update issues mentioned.

For huge/destructive updates we run first pass on a clone and generate a pg_dump of DB or at least specific tables before the operation on Live
One of the problems with assuming male/female within datasets is that typically more females keep their gender information confidential, which ends up skewing the dataset significantly.

Also it would have been interesting to compare some of these charts to the overall sample set of Twitter, considering that it also skews more towards "geek", "student", "developer" as well.
Very nice! I was working on a similar concept, though more for streaming location data rather than GeoJSON (drawing mobile device paths, visualizing accuracy, etc).

I haven't gotten around to making an official blog post announcement but it's here on github for anyone who is interested: https://github.com/hungtruong/pinbin
This doesn't make sense.

Mailbox only works with Gmail and iCloud Mail. Gmail supports OAuth2.0 [0] while iCloud does not [1,2]. On the other hand, Outlook supports OAuth2.0 [3] and is not supported by Mailbox.

Thus, even if the choice of the authors of Mailbox gave them some edge, it is surely not the one you described.

[0] https://developers.google.com/gmail/xoauth2_protocol
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18649352/is-there-an-iclo...
[2] http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/01/apps-ask-icloud-password-...
[3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn440163
Is there some way that civilians admirers can ride SOFIA and get to participate in some of those activities set aside for grade schoolers? I would certainly be as excited as any 6th grader to have that chance!
Lots of "software" companies are just as political as big corporations, and startups in particularly are often much more chaotic/stressful and offer far less job security.

Notwithstanding the fact that a ton of companies that would like to believe they're "software" companies really aren't, the high turnover at Silicon Valley firms suggests that working for these types of software-centric employers isn't the happiness panacea you make it out to be.
> You could say that the people who tweet about xkcd are not a representative sample of the people who read xkcd. However, I don't see this as something absolutely intuitive

That a sample drawn from a group distinct within the target universe by a common factor (as "people who tweet XKCD comics" is within the universe of "people who read XKCD comics") is otherwise representative of the target group is a point which must be justified when using analysis of the sample group to draw conclusions about the target group, not something to be assumed unless there is evidence to reject it.

Because the distinction is, in and of itself, a manner in which the sample group is not representative of the target group.
> With I/O being the top bottleneck in modern databases and web applications, a lot of what people call "unpredictable performance" or "virtualization overhead" has mostly to do with sharing (and thin provisioning) storage devices between multiple servers/nodes.

The thing is, most of the problem with sharing a disk simply goes away once you go SSD.

Spinning disk has the characteristic that sequential access is pretty good... and random access is terrible.

If you have two processes both streaming sequentially off the same disk at the same time, if your scheduling algorithm doesn't allow for terrible latency, the disk is going to see random access. This is why spinning disk is so terrible for multi-user setups.

SSD doesn't have that problem. SSD has problems with writes that are not cell-aligned, but this is functionally similar to the problems raid5 has, and much like raid5, it's not a problem when it comes to reads.
Interest to put this under starting something profitable, but the tone seems a little snarky.
You lose interest in signing into Quora. Or maybe I never had the interest.
There have been a couple of good answers with regard to exposure time. With regard to vibration, the telescope is floated on an oil bearing and gyro stabilized. It is well isolated from aircraft vibrations.
It's probably misplaced to focus only on NSA in this respect, but if we talk about government electronic surveillance capabilities generally, they've been expanding through many agencies and parts of government. ACLU's recent focus on local police use of IMSI catchers is just one example; they started out as super-secret high-tech spy stuff and now local cops think they're super-awesome and are afraid they may to have to give them up if word gets out and the courts or legislators start taking a closer look.

Electronic surveillance used to be more stigmatized in some ways, but it's becoming more culturally normalized as a basic government tool (at least in the culture of government agencies -- I hope not as much elsewhere). So you see it used in more and more contexts.

I'm totally unfamiliar with the raw milk regulations, but I think that people who are concerned about them could reasonably worry that electronic communications surveillance will be used to enforce them in the future. Likely not by NSA itself, but perhaps through something that's in part technological trickle-down from NSA development or procurement.
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I would love to see the data with comparison to baseline too. and it is an example of a nanny state (the FDA is literally saying, we have to protect you from this) rather than acting as a licensed-milk-producer-seal issuer.

It's the same nanny state issue when the FDA shut down more beneficial AIDS treatments in the 80s and 90s when the only drugs on the market, that the FDA approved of (AZT), were essentially toxic and killed about the same number of people that they "helped". Why should the FDA decide what goes into the bodies of supposedly "free" people? They should only act to say, "This is the only type of drugs or milk the FDA approves of"
Genetic Mutation May Lead to Autism Subtype
Inside the Crazy World of the Men Who Do Oil Companies' Dirty Work
How so? I agree that as soon as you add a round of funding, the math gets wonky.

For example, I'm trying to model what a ~5% ownership looks like, and as soon as I add a round of funding that creates 10% dilution with no liquidation preferences, the site says the final ownership percentage is zero. It doesn't even matter what the exit is for at that point, without liquidation preferences, the ownership should still be ~4.6%.
How we got a top 70 iTunes app without really trying
Mode 7 FTW along with all the artists who worked with its limited graphics support. The Mullard SAA5050 will have a special place in my heart forever.
> Sorry, but you can't compare MtGox to the NYSE

I didn't, in fact I never mentioned Gox at all. Gox is not Bitcoin. I commented on your mention of taxes/filing being too burdensome, nothing more. Saying trading is not worth doing because of taxes/filing being too burdensome is just silly; the requirements are the same as for any other capital asset. People don't avoid trading the stock market because the taxes/filing of capital gains is too burdensome and they shouldn't avoid trading bitcoin for that either. If you can trade profitably, then it's worth it.
I got an offer last year from a company who offered me a 25% salary cut from my current salary and some negligible equity percentage, and then got all huffy when I tried to negotiate the salary. In their mind, the equity was worth so much money, they could pay me peanuts and I should still take the job. It was a huge turn-off. The guy basically told me to go off. "Why bother with startups, then?" he says. Completely missed the point of equity/salary.
Please don't compare one's attachment to another living being (like a cat) to attachment to objects, or even worse, intangible symbols (like a name).

A tendency to apply high value to symbols, instead of substance is a property I've noticed in less sophisticated people. They can't tell (or weren't taught to tell) apart symbol and substance, but symbols are way simpler, so they focus on the symbols.

Works for them to a degree. But it's stupid. Symbols exist only point to something else. Maybe being named after your grandfather means a lot to you as a symbol, but no one else feels that way. To them it's just your name.

And one is not honoring their grandfather by being particularly stubborn about their weird name, they're just being silly, and harming themselves.

You honor those you respect through your actions, not by wearing hollow badges (like using a specific name). By the way, I was named after my grandfather.
Not that you'd ever need to.

Their support is excellent. Email, IRC, usenet, SMS. In fact, I bet RevK (company MD) is on their IRC channel right now.

Added bonuses: native IPv6, no CGNAT, no traffic shaping, anti-censor stance, black-box canary. You can even send them GPG-encrypted email.

Disclaimer: very satisfied customer.
This is the problem with treating every customer similarly. Frankly, considering the user data and customer segmentation that a company like Comcast (or other providers) should have, you'd think that it would actually be a significant cost savings for them to be able to tag customers as "tech-savvy" or not. This way when tech-savvy customers call, you don't waste their time (increase chance for churn) or the Tier 1 CS rep's time (hard hourly wage cost).
TAB and RETURN work.
Sublime Text like tab navigation for Chrome
Google removing BBC link was 'not a good judgement'
Future of CI with Docker - CenturyLinkLabs interviews Shippable CEO Avi Cavale
I'm in SF, so I little expereince with the salaries in those places. It may be that it's their 'cost-of-living' difference that is at the heart of the issue.
Announcing Docker 1.1.0
Continuous Integration for AngularJS Applications with Jenkins
We launched ConferenceBadge.com January 2013 (team of 4). We are now profitable and fully pay ourselves with it.

We have no outside funding (we were invited to the YC interview, but weren't selected).

We now invest our time between this and one other unannounced project.

Life is good.
MUCH better term! :) I'd submit that learning a framework will actually do you a disservice as far as learning a new language goes.
Another way to phrase it is libertarians should focus on the heavy lifting of reforming small pieces of government where they are likely to have success rather than focusing so single-mindedly on issues they are unlikely to have much impact on.