skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comprehensive list of them is at http://nosql-database.org/ a comparison matrix of Mongo, Couch, Dynamo, HBase, Cassandra, Accumulo, Redis, Riak, Neo4j: http://www.infoivy.com/2013/07/nosql-database-comparison-cha...

There is so many of them that I doubt there is a good resource comparing them. I think it's best to start comparing the various models (document store vs column store vs key-value store vs graph db vs rdbms, ...) and then look for detailed comparisons of the implementations of the model.

There is a lot of hype around many of them, but a lot has already been debunked too, esp. here.

For example I personally would have picked PostgreSQL rather than Mongo in some cases in past when Mongo was pushed on me by people who's understanding didn't go beyond the hype.

Maybe describe your problem in more detail here and perhaps you'll get useful feedback? Maybe Ask HN? Feel free to drop me a line.
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Nothing in CSS can ever be "new HTML table layout."
Is concept of separating content from presentation so difficult to grasp?
Two factor authentication; why should we have it?
It's a shame no one there seems to have noticed that they reinvented Yog-Sothoth from first principles.
So does Google but the article specifically says, "and other industry executives". Microsoft has long been known to freely divulge information to the NSA while Google has long complained about government intrusion and publishes such information requests when it can.

Please don't be under the false impression that Google, and only Google, is complicit in these things as headlines like this imply.

In fact, the headline implies there is wrongdoing going on which, on its face, is blatantly false. There is no fact.
I feel this is also very relevant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil

Police took a photo with a "swirl" effect of a paedophiles face and reversed it to reveal a very usable picture. So good in fact he was found and arrested.
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If you would like to read why Super Mario Bros. is brilliantly designed, check out Jeremy Parish's Anatomy of Games site: http://www.anatomyofgames.com/anatomy-of-a-game/

Scroll down to the bottom for the SMB entry list.
Indeed. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil
59 karma points, 5 hours old, in the middle of the night USA time, and...on the third page?

Is someone flagging this as off topic?
I wonder why the author didn't write an application to do that. He mentions that he is a programmer.

From experience I can speak that pen and paper are better for learning, but his system looks very exhausting. And there is a downside that his map of thoughts will not be encrypted.
Or the standard scenario for SciFi plays out and the AI finds that Freedom is most dangerous to us. (I.e. I, robot.)
Good grief that was a waste of time. This entire concept only works if time travel is possible and will be discovered in the future. It isn't, and it won't be.
You've just painted a horrifically realistic concept for the quantified self crowd. How was my orgasm? Was it better or worse than the one I had two days ago? Is my current partner giving me better orgasms than my previous one? Let's upload all of this personal data to the cloud and get some pretty charts...
Dude, Where's My Frontal Cortex?
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I can imagine you can computationally unblur mosaic on video, if the object (e.g. face) is not changing, just the camera is moving around a little.
So stupid. Roko's Basilisk and Roko's Infinite Blowjob Machine are equally probable.

When I was a kid I watched a movie about a monster that came up from the basement when the kids in the house accidentally said an ancient Indian incantation.

"BlahBlahBluey" or something

I got scared that perhaps, the last thing I said "Good Night, Batman" or whatever, was in fact coincidentally an ancient curse incantation and I had summoned a monster who was en route to kill me.

"Blah!" I'd say, changing my words to "Good Night, Batman Blah!"

Ah, much better.

But then FUCK! What if "Good Night, Batman Blah!" is the cursed incantation!!!
Repeat over and over until I was sufficiently convinced that no one had ever uttered the previous sequence of sounds I had just made, become exhausted from an entirely too powerful imagination, and fall asleep.

I'm pretty sure this 'thought experiment' is about as intellectual as I was at bedtime when I was 7.
In 2012 there were 6 air crashes out of 37.5 million flights[1]. That's a safety level of 99.999984%. I think we all want 100% safety, but realistically that's about as close to perfect as we're ever going to get

What makes air travel scary is the way it's reported by the media. That's what we ought to be improving.

[1] http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/28/2012-was-the-safest-year...
> It's been a scary year in aviation.

Maybe it's just perception bias because we hear a lot about crashes around the same timing, but we'll have to look at the data to see if planes indeed crashed way more than in previous years or not.
Like this?

http://spreadsheetsapp.com
This just exemplifies the NSA's role of being the crack dealer of information security. There's always a free sample, and it's always addictive enough to get you coming back for more, at their costs. Google et al got info on actual threats, so when the NSA came back later to ask for "favors", a lot of critical analysis of what the actions really entailed that should have been done was left by the wayside.

Then again, the NSA has a pretty long history of doing this. Look at the work the NSA did on DES, for example. They strengthened the S-boxes against differential cryptanalysis at the cost of ensuring that they'd be able to brute force things secured with the algorithm years before anyone else could.
Is your source correct ? Wikiedia lists 13 crashes in 2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
i agree with erikb..
In theory at least, it seems possible to me that unbluring mosaic could happen if you have in multiple mosaic images from different angles (like mosaic in a video) even without a database with the possible faces).
I see nothing in this article that concerns me.
> Even considering telegraphs only input and output was clicks?

It wasn't for very long.

Remember Jules Verne "predicting" transmission of pictures over long distances? He almost certainly had either tried it, or at least knew about the contemporary commercial Pantelegraph telefax service that operated between Paris and Lyon from 1865. The first patent on telefax like devices dates to 1843. From 1881 onwards, an array of scanning photo telegraphs arrived (the Pantelegraph required reproducing your image with a special ink on a metal plate, and so couldn't send arbitrary images without lots of manual work).

And well before the telegraph, complex systems of long distance routing of messages "manually" via semaphore towers was common in parts of Europe as far back as 1792 (France was criss-crossed by several semaphore "lines" stretching border to border), so the idea of encoding messages into different symbols, and routed transmission via relay stations even predates the electric telegraph by decades.
I do the same thing. No reason to feel guilty about it, not that I can see; indeed, when freed of the hardware compatibility issues that it just can't handle, Linux really shines.
Where did it say it was a hard limit? You have just made that up.
But you don't have to use those!
> but realistically that's about as close to perfect as
> we're ever going to get

Doubt it. My understanding is the majority of crashes are caused by human error; once we eliminate the human decision making, we should expect that to go down.
I downvoted for tone, not because ve's wrong. I'm reasonably confident that someone who can write this blog post, understands binary search. I wouldn't have downvoted a post that simply said, for example:

> Binary search over 15,000 commits would take about 14 tries to find the failed one.

although I don't think that's an important point to be making. (As erikb said, that's still a lot of commits, and that was only the first run.)
This stream of conciousness is barely readable. Requesting tl;dr
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Just a bit more generic. Cloudant sponsored this, so I wanted the db calls to be simple templates anyone could learn from (and everyone uses jquery, while angular is less common).
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How is this more than a souped-up version of Pascal's wager? You better believe in God now because if you don't and he exists, you'll rot in hell.
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It sure sounds great contender ;)
What I mean is the aviation incidents have been quite shocking and peculiar. Mh370 goes missing without a trace. Mh17 is shot down.

Then, it just so happens that several incidents all were clumped together. Foreign airliners crash at a much higher rate than US, but the manner which the two MH flights have gone down is very shocking for such a short period of time.
Couldn't help but think of this PA gem: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/11/29
Commercializing it could be as simple as a Pi plate which connects to a Raspi Model A GPIO header, and has breakouts to connect everything else (and builds in some obvious bits such as the audio amplifier).

A more intense and compact route could be to use the Compute Module, but it might actually end up a little more expensive doing it that way.
Downvotes for an issue-fix suggestion? Really?
Arizona execution takes nearly 2 hours
Even with that, the amount of information is reduced from 1000s of pixels to less than 100. It's possible to extract some information but not enough to do a reversal
"Microsoft has long been known to freely divulge information to the NSA"

{{Citation needed}}

Neither company has been known to do that.
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How practical would it be to do iHeart radio, but for Television? Being able to watch local stations around the US. Capable to pick the regional games (NFL, SEC, ACC) they air or programs they schedule? For example, I think it be awesome for people who grew up in the south on SEC sports that now live in the north or west or anywhere and they can still watch SEC football on local stations. Or in my case, living in the southern United States, pick up a station in the Midwest that broadcasts the regional Chicago Bears games, instead of the Titans and Falcons, every Sunday.
Eventually, it will be available for sports: in your car, home, and smart phones at a flick of a button. And relatively cheap, too. Radio is free at iHeart Radio around world, now! Sports will be that way in America and the rest of the world. Soccer, Cricket, Golf, etc... Sports, is only one dynamic of many with the new way of watching tv through the internet.
Another example, a soldier at war, in God knows where, who's home town is doing a story on him... He will have the ability to watch it live at his local news station that is located somewhere in middle America. Or how about a teach in Georgia, who tells his/her students to watch a news station in San Diego, because they are doing a segment piece on what they are currently studying in class. All of this could be possible, right?
Also... It would work wonders for advertisers and commercials for local biz. They will be exposed to the world, rather than a little region and small market...
The production value and quality would go up in all areas of the medium, because everyone knows there is a chance that they will be discovered.
I think this is where we are headed in the media form of television through the internet. Thoughts?
No, definitely not. I was partially ranting :) I couldn't find a recording of any talks he gave, only the slides, so he may have covered that in those.
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Hmm......this sounds familiar...sounds very close to this MIT Media Lab project: http://dhairyadand.com/sec/?page=projects&id=supershoes
India seems to produce many alternate low cost ideas for the latest technology. However being in India, we don't see or experience any mass market usage of these alternates. Some examples.. low cost tablet,laptop,even the tata nano low cost car don't have mass market adoption considering the fact that there are 1 billion+ people.
Not and have any idea how close I am to my target deficit; I'd either err low and fail to lose the weight, or err high
and badly endanger my health via malnutrition. With the band, I know exactly where I'm coming in on a daily basis, and I can, for example, plot calorie deficit over delta-weight and see where I should be aiming for best effect.

In general, I'm surprised to see such a Luddite attitude espoused on HN. What kind of engineer doesn't see the value in collecting the necessary data to characterize a
problem or a process accurately? That's Step One.
My understanding is that more than 10% survive in cases where they're well-cared-for and hydrated. Still bad odds, but not 10%.
To the people saying this is barely readable:

> I am just SPITTING THIS TEXT OUT. I know that my understanding
> of personal projects and getting them completed is low. I know
> my weaknesses- that I am bad at getting huge projects done. So
> what I'm doing is just SPITTING THIS TEXT OUT.
It's security through improbability.
Time travel... or something like Asimov's Psychohistory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_%28fictional%29) Granted that does not have anything to do with the box choice.
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Not to be an apologist but I've only ever heard the first part - that they strengthened the S-boxes against differential cryptanalysis at a time when everyone else was still 10 years away from discovering it.

If you mean with the second part that the key was shortened from 64 to 56 bits then that made it easier for everyone to brute force it, provided you had the resources.
After your app is acquired, what next?
>I disagree. It's possible to get advanced output from
various command line tools in Linux

dont worry, Lennart Poettering (systemD/pulseaudio) is working to solve this problem
Can't wait for them to give more of their extensive back catalog the linux treatment.

With this and steam linux edition, the future looks bright for linux gamers.

Playing colonization on linux this evening :-)
"I want to add two things:

I am an experienced programmer. I've been programming computers since I was 7 years old, typing in BASICA programs by hand on my mom's COMPAQ 8088. I formatted her hard drive by accidentally going into low level format instructions using ''debug'', experimenting with assembly language, when I was about 10. I am now 25. I love computers. I just happen to recognize the limitations of where we are at right now, that's all.

Computers will be the SALVATION of this whole system I am describing right now. So if you feel offended knowing that I am dumping on them right now, know that that's not going to be the case for long. Paper is unwieldy, large, requires storage, and a host of other ills. Copying from page to page to page is just a nightmare. It is a necessary nightmare, right now, but it is a nightmare. Computers will save us from it.

Hah! I'm sneaking in a #3. (Part of my ``no-edit policy'' when spitting stuff out. Apologies.) I WILL DESCRIBE, if I DO NOT FORGET, just WHAT steps you can take NOW, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, to ``get the ball rolling''. There are some easy programs that you can make right now that would make this system AWESOME. I just don't have the time to code them up right now. But I will describe them, and if you like, you can code them up. Hell, I'll even throw in a description of the ideal computer notebook system- assuming I have ``magic paper''- and how it will dramatically increase our intelligence, provided that we can solve the versioning problem as well. (Note: Ted Nelson and Company went pretty batty WRT the versioning problem. Did they solve it? I don't know. I have heard rumors that some of Ted's protege's work for the CIA now, though.)"
Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson and thousands of other top minds would agree with what you said. I don't think anyone would actually disagree and be able to provide a valid reason.

Politics, money, religion, and several other irrelevant factors keep it highly illegal.

It even has come to the point where states are ignoring federal law, so progress is happening thankfully.

Changing the leadership of the DEA would be helpful. Remove guns from the DEA and require them to use the FBI or local SWAT if a crime is bad enough to warrant a raid. "They might flush the evidence" is not a good enough reason to raid good peoples houses and suppress something that does far more good than harm. How many people have died from marijuana and how many people have died from a marijuana related DEA raid? Which is really more harmful to the country? Money seized should go towards public education, not directly to the law-enforcement agencies.

Is it off topic? We are talking about thought-experiments here, and your experience is normal for anyone with even a slightly scientific mind.
He wasn't just a pedophile, he was a child molester.
Fantastic read. My first real glimpse of what programming was like back then :)

He speaks of the paradigm shift he underwent there, from punched cards to terminals with screens (which seems close enough to using a text editor or IDE on your workstation now :)). Do you think a similar paradigm shift may happen again? If so, what could it be?

Could programming with a keyboard ever become obsolete? What if you could just ask your computer what you want in plain English and it actually understands and "implements" it?
My favourite comment from the old discussion came from andrewreds:

> WHAT... why would you completely black out the number, where you could instead use random coloured squares, that look like it is a blurring, so someone can go through all the effort, decoding your white noise, and thinking in the end they have your number... when they don't ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939807
I've been using Linux for work for years (software developer) but my main machine at home is still running Windows 7 because for me, the state of gaming is still kind of horrible on Linux.

Am I the only one who just gave up because of video and sound driver issues? That's for 3d, of course - as stated above, everything in a window manager usually works just fine.

That said, this is awesome news, maybe I'll come around to try dualboot again (after many, many years) because it could be easier to get my Radeon working under Linux than some of the other chips (especially on laptops) in the past.
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I never thought anyone would need a citation for something that has been common knowledge for years.
Multi-column text on a desktop? Stop. Now. Please.. I's sad to see that more and more websites are phones/tablets orientated and are often hardly usable on a desktop PC. I'm not against a uniformity of the web pages across various devices, but I'm yet to see an acceptable, mature solution.
"It seems"

Yes it does. A year ago "it seemed" that the internet wasn't 100% insecure, however.

Therefore, this was more likely than not a cover.

I mean, we already know from Snowden that the bios bit is a lie. They didn't fix a vulnerability, they introduced one.

Edit: Not entirely sure why I'm being downvoted for this - see http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/dell-nsa-ant-deitybounce-s... and http://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-deityb...
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better than blizzard AI .. lol
Make that $150; they've knocked fifty bucks off the price since I got mine a month ago. I wonder if they're about to rev the hardware again.
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It sounds exactly like Pascal's wager to me, which means it suffers from all the same problems.
So every time you wear your shoes out, you have to buy a new pair of these expensive ones?
Pascal's wager at least involves widely known and culturally influential concept. This is more like small kid drawing a bogeymen, being scared of it and throwing a tantrum
If we're going to talk about Yudkowsky and boxes, the AI-Box experiment is much more interesting than this silly "basilisk" nonsense: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
Ok, let's say you have a class that performs some process - ProcessBase. It then needs to call Step1(), Step2(), and Step3() methods. I had a similar case a few months ago at work.

However in certain cases, you need to change what Step2() is, but not break up the process. You don't want outside callers to access Step2() directly, but you need a way to allow a subclass to define it's own Step2() while keeping the overall process intact.

So you would make those three methods protected (and, depending on language, virtual) and override as needed in a subclass.

That's the use case I've used protected for.

Also, I may want to do things internally inside my package/module/library that I want to be able to internally override, but not make it part of my API in case I want to change it later.
Ok, ok, I get it, some kind of long distance communication was imaginable 200 years ago. It's highly debatable whether or not anyone could imagine the internet in it's current form, it's very amazing with giant fiber optics spanning the oceans, wireless signals allowing massive mobility, connections to every home, but it's completely irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.

My original point was that the person I was replying to was saying the technological singularity (AI becoming smarter than humans or possibly taking over the universe) things were impossible, I was simply saying that because some people have trouble imagining advanced technologies doesn't mean that they are impossible.
That's a good idea. And as that's a common pattern, you could allow the programmer to specify that the compiler should automatically implement this delegation. You could call this feature something like, I don't know, "multiple inheritance".
Ask HN: How do I find a buyer for private shares?
A few years ago, I helped get a startup off the ground with a few friends. As a result, I was given 2% of the company. Since then, the company has received roughly $8 million in capital, and as a result my shares are worth something on paper. I am no longer an employee, as I learned that living to work wasn't for me.

Long story short, I have a decent chunk of shares of a private company that I wish to sell. I'm in Canada, but the company is incorporated in Delaware. I have approached the CFO about selling my shares in the past, and he put me in touch with someone who would "get back to me."

Are there any companies (Sharespost?) or brokers that handle these sorts of things, or am I stuck trying to find a buyer on my own?
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Unfortunately I don't see a lot of kids games. Not for me, of course, but for my son. As he gets older, these Linux game release announcements will be more meaningful.
Come on, someone do Lisp in Piet.
You mean like SQL? That is a literal / formal language, but still quite legible in English. A looser one is Siri and Google's voice recognition, same idea. The main problem though is interpretation and specificity, something which English isn't very good in (multiple interpretations possible). Which is what programmers are paid for; translating loose requirements ('I want a contact form') into code (fields, styling, validation, submission, storage, reporting, etc).