skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how large the background file is but it took a few seconds to load. That may be a visual effect you're going after but I'd think you could compress the image a bit more. Just a heads up.
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>it has to drop prices on the whole line of products of its own.

Why?

>And who's to guarantee another company C isn't going to use the situation, knowing full well company A cannot afford another round of predatory pricing?

The competitiveness of a market depends on the costs of entering it. If the amount of capital needed to enter the market is significant, new entrants willing to risk that much will be much less frequent.

Predatory pricing allows monopolies to artificially raise those costs, simply by amassing a reserve of cash. Indeed, the real problem is not company B being defeated, but company B never even trying because the returns just aren't enough to justify the inflated entry cost. Company C never gets a chance.
We use SQLite as a file format for our desktop application (based on PySide) using SQLAlchemy. I decided to use SQLite after realizing I was slowly reimplementing many features of a database. I also read this [0] article entitled "SQLite As An Application File Format," which was the final straw for me to take the plunge.

Overall, the experience has been a joy. Our application is an engineering simulation application. Our core simulator is written in Matlab for historical reasons, and we can communicate data easily using the database. Writing GUI models and views over the database on the Python end of things is very straightforward, once you have your SQLAlchemy models set up.

I agree that migrations can be a pain, but thankfully our tables are usually small enough that we can alter tables simply be recreating them. I also found this [1] StackOverflow answer that explains how to easily change a column name in place.

Those looking for a GUI to view SQLite databases should check out sqlitebrowser [2]. It's the best I've seen, and the developers are very responsive to bug reports and pull requests. It is also cross platform, and is present in many Linux package repos.

[0] http://www.sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/6684034/1333514

[2] https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser
Is this Apple's latest attempt at blocking innovation?

(Apologies if I offend the fanboys / fangirls who think only Microsoft ever did that)
Thanks for the comments. The detailed benchmark data is in the perf/ directory, I just did some basic analysis.
Coincidentally I received a used SQLite textbook from Amazon today with this database design tucked inside.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsigXtOCcAAIGJh.jpg

Discovering design notes in old textbooks is one of the joys of buying used books.
>Do such comments have any effect?

If I understand correctly, the process dictates that the FCC formulate responses to the concerns raised during the public comment stage.

And maybe later, after everything has been ruined, if we're lucky, at the future congressional special committee on FCC commissioner misconduct hearings, Kucinich or someone will rake Wheeler and his buddies over the coals for failing to address those concerns.
While you're correct that real money markets will do a better job of filtering the less knowledgeable, play money markets are still able to hold their own against real money PMs. There have not been many studies comparing the two, but what few there are find play and real money markets do nearly as well as each other - with caveats.

Both fake and real money markets offer better than baseline predictions but real money prediction markets do better when signals are less clear, i.e. no odds markets to serve as a basis. And according to the markets studied in "PM: Does Money Matter", the discrepancy is eliminated when play money markets weight based on confidence (amounts bet this takes past success into account by noting larger bets also reflect wealth which can only be accumulated by past success in play money settings).

Even more than money, the key factors in Prediction Market Design are the availability of tools which enable the easier aggregation of information and strong incentives (monetary or not) for being correct.

http://aws.iwi.uni-leipzig.de/em/fileadmin/user_upload/doc/I...
Ripping a stream is not hacking.

I did it through FlshGot. This is no science. It's just a rightclick.

This is not some hidden elite treasure you need to hide here.
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It wouldn't surprise me if that was a standing order from the top - make sure it can scale to everyone on the planet. I built a service not too long ago where they were expecting 50M users in the first year. Real numbers? It's hovering around 300k users. But the good news is it can handle those 50M if they ever come :-) It is highly over-engineered.
Wow, that's an absolutely terrible idea. I don't think Google would ever do that, if simply because the risk of it getting out is too great, it would absolutely destroy the trust of the brand.
Which is possibly (probably?) correct in this case, and many other issues we as tech people care about. But that doesn't dispute the facts in his post; it's merely a tangential thing.

For example, most regular voters care about copyright extensions, but the lobbyists do, and so it gets extended time after time.
There is a fourth type of journalist that stays. Those that are passionate about an opinion. And that's a bad thing, because it means the proportion of extremist opinion in media might increase.
I explained the analogy above. DRM is not like a bike lock at all.
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> An 8GB stick of ECC RAM might cost you less than $99 to purchase outright, but Softlayer (the #1 most used bare metal server company by YC startups) will charge $88/month for it ($11/GB/mo to add 8GB to one of their base configurations).

I never understood this. I started and sold a hosting company in the early 2000's. I've run managed hosting divisions for Fortune 500 companies. Hosting is STUPID profitable (>30% margins). Why doesn't Y Combinator grab 10-20 racks in a cheap colo center, buy $100K-$200K worth of equipment, and provision that to YC startups similar to Rackspace's OnMetal offering?

I do DevOps now, but colo is still not as hard as everyone makes it out to be.
Lawrence Lessig is working on a people-power initiative to fix the problem of getting private finance out of elections:
https://mayday.us/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday_PAC
The CUI V78xx is a really interesting part, thanks for the tip!
> I'm talking about such mechanisms running in Facebook's, Apple's, Google's, and the NSA's server farms.

Which is? Security threat for them (same as DRM which runs on your machine is a security threat for you). It doesn't sound sensible.
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"Why do local ISP markets tend towards monopoly, even though it has been illegal since 1992 to grant local cable monopolies?"

This is because last mile internet access is a textbook Natural Monopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
I'm still not understanding why it should be illegal. We can start with an assumption that Vendor X eliminated their competition by fair practices or they would already be subject to antitrust regulations. If Vendor X uses their position to unfairly prevent competition (either in their own space or others), they are already breaking the law. If they aren't doing that, I fail to see why just having lock-in should be illegal.

This is not to say I'm a fan of vendor lock-in. Quite the opposite, actually. But I do know laws like this will always have unintended consequences, will always be manipulated by those same large companies ostensibly being regulated to give them advantages over new entrants, and, as a result, will always make the competitive landscape more difficult than it would have otherwise been. How big does your market have to be? How big does your company have to be? Is the broadband chip on your phone subject or just your whole phone? What about trade secrets?

The advantage of the antitrust laws is in the lack of specificity. It takes a complete trial to actually show wrong-doing.
I bought the soundtrack. It is very reminiscent of the more atmospheric The Social Network tracks, but doesn't hit the highs of that album (as one might expect). Still recommended for people who like synth-y atmospheric background music.
Not according to people like Serge Lang
I'll make a note of better hiding my notes in textbooks I'm reselling so they aren't removed before reaching their new owner.
We are doing super fast online analytics, mixing with traditional SQL supported by SQLite. It's very easy to extend and modify. It's a programmer's dream.
There is no such thing as "personal DRM". That's what you and the previous poster fail to understand. DRM is always about policing others by invading their digital space.

Protecting your own digital space is called security. Let's be clear on terms usage, otherwise time will be wasted because of misunderstanding.
This is bloody depressing to read, and rings true in my experience.

One of my pet peeves is relocation costs. Companies in nyc try to hire me at least every six months, particularly since I used to live there. You can tell who is an asshole by asking about relo packages. If they start at $5k my wanker detector goes off. Assholes offer maybe up to $10k, often as a hiring bonus, so it's taxed; maybe $6k might land in my checking account. That's a joke for a mid-30s data scientist. A trip to nyc for me plus partner to shop for apartments alone is $2.5k (2 airline tickets, taxis, meals, boarding a dog, 3 nights in manhattan hotels). Then the costs of apartment rental, job search for partner, winding down an apartment lease here, selling a car, and moving a grown up apartment -- ie I own a real bed and dressers and a couch and a table -- across the country. A relocation would cost me on the order of $15-$20k after taxes.

Yet ceos whine endlessly about the lack of good employees. You never see them in a bwm dealership bitching they won't sell a 5-series for $30k though.
Most of the other comments are political in nature, so I thought my comment fit better with the one comment about editing.
I'll start back to a clean slate and check these out.
Fair points. But I wonder why I see it this way? Maybe for my age/demographic? 30 year old urban professional?
I completely agree. Had bowel issues for years. Finally figuring out how to avoid that was worth all the tinkering.

I hardly think about it anymore. And I'm very glad to have figured it out without pharmaceuticals.
It's a long drive (from Manhattan) and the airport rates are capped around ~$40 or so.
> I don't think the FCC cares.

I think the FCC cares, otherwise, it wouldn't keep adopting regulation aimed to restrict the degree to which broadband providers can deviate from neutrality.

They've also specifically asked for comments on how their current proposal on how to do that can be improved, and the YC comment letter addresses that question and the more specific subordinate questions asked within it.
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> and the same thing is a huge deal in the photography world.

Is it big enough to start deploying the lawyers? That's what software companies have to do. If you're not doing that, then it must not be a big enough deal to you. If you CAN'T do that, then I think you should get out of the biz.

But, I bet you won't because you are probably getting something more than money out of your career. Maybe you enjoy the work. If it were all about money, you would have become a banker, right?

No sympathy here either. You have no natural right to get paid every single time one of "your" images is used. (Oh and who owned the stuff you took a picture of? Should you pay them to photograph it? Should they get paid every time the image is used?) With no natural rights, you have to use the legal system. Nobody cares if you sue some big corporation, but please...complaining about people posting stuff to imgur.com? What money was lost because your image showed up there? Did you try sending them a cease and desist? I bet they'd take it right down. If you don't do that, then you're not trying hard enough.
Gosh I adore using Base, to the point where I choose SQLite over Postgres/MySQL more times than not, because its interface makes working with a joy. Sequel Pro and PG Commander are good, but not as good (well, the former is pretty close, but then you're using MySQL which I just find painful these days).
This is a delightful discovery. I wonder there exists a used book anthropology of sorts for these tidbits.
> Why?

Suppose you produce socks and another company does the same and tries to compete. You produce 1 million socks a month and another company only 10 thousand. You obviously can't just drop prices on 10 thousands socks of yours, because that would still allow your competitor to stay in business - since there is demand for the rest of 990k of socks at your high price, your competitor would simply grab another 10k of your socks market share and then you'll only be able to sell 980k at your high price and not 990k. You actually have to drop prices on all 1 million socks of yours, which is going to be pretty damn detrimental to your profits.

> The competitiveness of a market depends on the costs of entering it.

What's there to prevent a rich investor from entering the market and competing? Google had no problem competing with Apple on the smartphone market, it seems. The goal is not to allow anyone with no money to compete. The goal is to allow to compete companies who have sufficient resources to do so. That's what the competition is about.
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Only if you have time to kill. Lots of really cringe moments.
You know in God's court of justice, perfect justice will be done.

In human court, it's a crap shoot. My enemy focuses on human opinion and I laugh giddily as I trumph him in God's court. "You are a really dumb shit." I laugh gleefully as he chooses human opinion and ruins himself in God's eyes.

He is giddy because he ruins me in man's opinion. I am giddy cause he's a real dumb fuck in God's court.
You still hit the problem that it's possible to make a program that can output every possible permutation of every possible song. Saved as midi files you could actually realistically do that for short songs.

How can you extend copyright to include such a thing? Presumably you don't want to - but it on you to somehow distinguish between them.

Also, pre-computer automation was not as impossible as you might think, some examples: A double pendulum with a pen, a spirograph, a sand bucket on a rope, a spinning top with paint.

And see this reply from someone else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8032980 - generated artwork has existed before computers, and it is not copyrightable.

I have not completely decided if I would agree with your proposal or not, you would need to be much more specific about the limits of where copyright would not apply. Because as broad as you make it sound I would not agree, but if more limited then maybe.
Okay, OpenMPI will help you with clustering multiple Parallella units to work on the same task. AFAIK it won't run on the Epiphany itself, so you have to look elsewhere for that.
Is this a feeling "most" people share?
What? You don't love the 6month contract offers to relocate to 3 states away even though you're current employed? :/
Congratulations on hitting as many fallacies as you possibly could in a single comment. You managed to compare, literally, "poisoning the water supply" with... web development.

You know where it stops? It stops when you start putting people in danger. I cannot believe you're seriously asking that question (and yet, I have to believe you are seriously asking that question, because the alternative is that you're an awful troll).

I would like to encourage you to read my comment, and then read it again, and keep doing that until you understand the difference between killing people and blogging on the internet.
I would then like to encourage you to read up on things such as "white hat hacking", pentesting and so on to give you an insight as to why, in the IT world, if the good guys don't push the limits first, the bad guys will.
Impressive design. It's obvious you spent a lot of time on the usability. While impressive, I don't see myself coming back to this. For me personally, there's a lot of stuff going on in the page, and it feels a bit overwhelming. What's the use case you had in mind?
> One thing I've learned about trying to motivate someone else to do something - a la Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people" and Pink's "To Sell is Human" - is to shut up about yourself and focus on the other person/party.

The FCC -- as is common in regulatory agencies releasing proposals with a call for comments -- specifically wants impacted parties to detail how they are impacted (including financial impacts), because the FCC is tasked to take those impacts into account.
Loads of tourists are terrified of walking anywhere in NYC both due to fear of crime and fear of getting lost, and thus take cabs for distances that probably don't warrant them.
Covering the whole room in foil so the wifi wont leak. Major cringe. One of many.
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The use of a giant-ass Arduino and wave shield was chosen since the (shitty) 44KHz wave file format gave it roughly the same audio quality I figured a wiretapped AT&T phone conversation would have.

Oh dear. With that attitude I have a feeling the NSA might soon send him back a track listing just to mess with his head.
Interesting. Seems like the flat die (spoiler: works like a cookie cutter) would work fine on a much smaller scale. For example, you could manually press it down on a piece of cardboard, maybe with a lever action. A cursory search seems to indicate such contraptions exist.

Seems like that ought to get you up to laser cutter speeds (3 mins/part) with a much smaller investment.

PS - not usually one to complain about this, but the contrast of the font on that page is ridiculous.
Landing your first job is the toughest but afterwards your portfolio should be sufficient for many jobs.

I suggest working on your portfolio as much as possible. It's the closest you'll get to having real life work experience. Hack together some projects you can link to from your resume. Then market yourself online using a personal site you can reference when job hunting.
I thought we'd all added "Threes! vs 2048" to the ever increasing list of useless topics of argument.

Skimming over the comments here, I could easily replace Threes! and 2048 with Mac and PC, or XBox and Playstation, or Beer and Wine......
>In what circumstance could a 3rd party non-violent entity coerce you?

Predatory pricing. Buying up necessary capital. Paying other companies to not deal with you (Suppliers, Retailers, Advertisers etc.)

All completely voluntary, and these are just off the top of my head.
Finally. I remember roughly two years ago I was working as a typographical consultant, and this was by far the most irritating issue I came across. It surprised me that despite being aware of the issue, the Chrome team still hadn't fixed it.
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Public transit in the Bay Area isn't ideal and I appreciate every effort attempting making to make it better. Would you guys consider connecting with the East Bay? Going from EB -> PA takes a very long time between BART and Caltrain.

If you find this exciting you might also enjoying Night School:
http://www.night.sc/
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Damn, I wish we had that in the Bay Area. I usually take Uber or another black car service from SFO because to Oakland in a taxi it's $90+ on the meter and lots of extra fees.
If you want to be a stickler on significant figures, it's actually 2,000 qps.
The difference is in the action of the person, not in the method of the machine.

And a photo is different from a video in the timing factor.

BTW Copyright laws are impossible to mathematically define - they always have a subjective factor: Does this seem creative or not?
You can also just (eg) copy the backing file wholesale. It's portable and endian-agnostic. I guess it depends on exactly what you're trying to do and what guarantees you're requiring.
Don't speak for me, because you are wrong.
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> "Digital Rights Management" -- you know, words mean something.

They mean what they were designed for. And that is excessive preemptive policing. About "trusted execution" you are wrong. Original meaning of trusted execution is exactly about security, not about DRM. Actual usage of that term is more than often happens to be about DRM (which is conflicting with security actually, because DRM can be viewed as a security risk).

See https://youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4

If you constantly mix up security, authentication, trusted execution with DRM, I think you should consider your own level of knowing what you are talking about. I explained everything above.
Oops, got mixed up with the conversions!
Maybe I could interest you in my game called Thirties!

Exactly the same, but with far more impressive numbers.
> Easy to make . . .

For some definition of 'easy' I suppose... (not any definition that the average person would use).
I get this error - "You can't take this test now. Please contact support@hackerrank.com for more details."

Edit : https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/gfmhcts2 seems to be the actual link, but when I try logging in, the error message says that my credentials are invalid.
Whoah what? You can compile BerkleyDB to match the SQLite API? Has anyone here ever done that in production, and if so, how does it go? I can see that being amazing

Edit:

Hold on. As per Slashdot[0] and the license itself, BerkleyDB Open Source is licensed under AGPL, which means that it will be triggered even as part of a web service. That sort of rules it out for me personally, although I'm curious how much a commercial license would cost.

[0] http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/07/05/1647215/oracle...
I worked for eight years in standardized testing. I ran systems that facilitated operation of a number of different standardized tests for government and commercial clients. One of the tests was a certification used by states for a particular cosmetic procedure. The test was written in Spanish and English. A significant number of people who took the test did not speak other of these languages, usually Vietnamese. This wasn't a problem because the test key had obvious patterns in it to facilitate passing the test. You simply told another person what the pattern was, and anybody could pass it without being able to read a word of English or Spanish. It was obviously set up this way on purpose, although no other test I worked on was like this.

I learned a few things about standardized tests after working on them for so long: 1. almost none of the criticisms of standardized tests apply to a well-designed and maintained test, in particular "susceptible to gaming" or "culturally biased against minorities"; 2. many tests are badly designed; many tests function only as professional barriers to entry and governments/certification bodies don't care all that much how unfair the tests are as long as the final numbers come out right.

I worked on two tests for the federal government. They both were done with great care to be as fair as possible, although I learned how they manipulated the process to get the demographic mixture they desired.