skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely that traffic engineering is much better in Germany and makes a huge difference. Roads are better sign posted, on ramps are very generous.
As I mentioned elsewhere in Germany you are also not allowed to overtake on the right on the Autobahn. So there is a huge push for slow drivers to stay on the right and cars are nicely sorted by speed. Therefore you need to relatively rarely change lanes whereas in the US people will constantly change lanes on freeways especially in busy places like LA. That not only leads to higher risks and makes driving more aggravating, but also slows everyone down. It happens quite frequently here that I will be on a 3 lane freeway and there are three slow cars next to each other. That would be unthinkable. I believe that this allows the German Autobahn to serve more cars than freeways in the US while having in average fewer lanes. I always have this metaphor in my head where I think of it similarly to a Ethernet cable that can now submit more data because the protocol allows for fewer collisions etc.
And you are thus less likely to be friends with an introvert than an extrovert.
Yes. You can oversubscribe your friends to your kidneys. You just have to be willing to give them, but that does not need to actually happen. You'll be fine as long as you pick your friends wisely.
I think there's a general trend towards dropping the hyphen in common words.

Knuth talks about this in his discussion over "e-mail" v "email": http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Also a fellow OKCite, and I agree wholeheartedly that it is a great place to live (although Tulsa is better).

However, I had no idea there was any kind of developer community here. Any other events going on? Or at least a centralized place to find them?
How sustainable food startups can thrive
2) The FCC is investigating this issue, but I suspect Verizon's throttling will be allowed.

3) XLTE is LTE with double the spectrum. All else being equal, more spectrum is faster.

4) Yes, obviously.
That's exactly what it is. Code Golf is pretty fun to look at, check out the questions here: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/

There's some cool techniques different people use to solve some seemingly major problems in just a few characters.
One child a minute dies from Malaria.
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/malaria_facts/...
C* is short for Cassandra
Just fine, I've used temp cards several times for that exact use-case.
>>If anything her career has accelerated sharply since our first born. Which is positive of course. But it certainly seems counter to the "prevailing wisdom" on HN.

Earlier you said:

>>I cook the vast majority of breakfasts/dinners/meal-planning. Do almost all the dishes. Do 75% of the day-care pick-ups/drop-offs. Most of the late-at-the-office-hours are hers.

I think your situation is not the norm. Not saying it's right or wrong, but it's not the norm. btw, I'm married with a 3yr.old daughter and a son on the way. In case this context is needed.
We have the questions in the debate concerning demographic bias in business or power completely wrong. These articles should disturb us because they aren't about examining what demographic bias means but a rather they produce fluff pieces meant to distract from the issue by saying "see look, a woman can run a country/company and it's no different." The debate is framed in the context of the glass ceiling, if it exists and if there are barriers to entry. What the debate should be about is the glass floor and the group think that is the result of in homogenic environments.

We have way too many articles by women describe how the ceiling works or is broken and way too few from men that look at the problem of the glass floor along the lines of "i'm a man working in a mostly male power structure and here's how this structure creates adverse results." We are so used to accepting the latter we can hardly imagine its effect. Until the entire power structure of a institution mirrors that of the social demographic makeup there is really no reason to take these articles seriously.
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Yeah, you're pretty much doomed. If your framework is so great then it should be its own company; conversely if the framework isn't good enough to be its own company then you shouldn't be using it.
+1 to driving. It feels like such a waste of potentially productive time. You can't even use it to think out complex problems, because you have to pay attention to, yknow, driving.
It depends on the Autobahn. I strongly felt what you described on pretty much any Autobahn around cologne where there always was a lot traffic and many on and off ramps. However, my ride usually would take me from there onto the 44(?) towards Paderborn and there was no speed limit and it was a joy even in an old Golf 2. There were very few on and off ramps and moderate traffic. My car would be able to speed up to ~220km/h over the course of several minutes, but it was so worth it.
This is a fun property of scale-free networks in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network).
You're falling into the interesting number paradox here, regardless of not using the word interesting. You can't make a statement about the cardinality of a set if your definition of that set isn't expressed using mathematics. In other words, you're saying "I'm not going to give a mathematical definition of this thing, but I can nevertheless give a mathematical proof of a mathematical statement about that thing."

For example, why is the set of all questions utterable by humans not a countable set? By that reasoning there are more numbers than questions!
And that sucks, and we need to do more there... but that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense to pay additional attention to things that are more likely to present a direct threat to me.
That may be an end result, but the direct consequence of continuing to support this is that Adam's lawyers make their salary for the year.
What I didn't mention in my post was that I did use SQLAlchemy Core to write some pretty complicated queries. It's actually quite good. I like it.

There were some spots that things got hairy though, and the code was pretty hard to follow. I don't fault SQLAlchemy here, but I wrote the query in SQL and it was simpler to work with.

SQLAlchemy is absolutely on the right track, but using the core doesn't diminish the fact that you need to know SQL to use it effectively.

I agree with your assertions that just an ORM is not enough, raw SQL is hideous, and that raw SQL spits in the face of programming language advancements. Sadly, it's the assembly language of databases and, unlike CPUs, doesn't have a good abstraction model.
I'm basically sitting here twiddling my thumbs and once VS support is included in indie (aka not ridiculously expensive) I will immediately buy a subscription. Until then, my (limited) money goes elsewhere.
This was actually how I first heard of the friendship paradox. There were a number of articles related to this earlier this year; here [0] is one and the original article [1]. Sorry for not linking earlier.

[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/523566/how-the-friendsh...

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1458
So the answer is yes, the coasts will run out of tech talent and need to import it.
This is actually a great overview/review of some of the things that I've encounter regularly at work, but never seen discussed seriously in a book or class.
Elon Musk Says Robots Could Be More Dangerous Than Nukes
System safety engineering
Salt devs don't have any reason to make salt-ssh a second-class citizen, because they're working on a third transport. Everything's going to be (mostly, already is) abstracted from the transport so that salt-ssh, zeromq, and raet (the new transport, a kind of hierarchical distribution of messages to deal with massive deployments where the zeromq one-master-to-all-minions setup has scaling problems) are interchangeable. Also, raet uses CurveCP rather than rolling their own crypto, minimizing area where they can screw up enc/auth.
Url changed from http://pando.com/2014/08/04/san-francisco-cab-company-admits..., which points to this.
ah yes. foxpro! this is the first web language i ever learned. it was awesome because the db and application language live in the same space. You could run SQL directly inside the language...

When i learned the "best practices" of the time (1996 ish)... i thought it was extremely inefficient to have to "formulate a sql statement", then call it then retreive the result...
YeSQL seems a little bit like it's reinventing the Microsoft data access ecosystem of 10-15 years ago - stored procedures behind a code-generated API. Retro is cool.

The Clojure SQL ecosystem is weird. clojureql seemed wonderful for a while, but has been left to rot and the fact that nobody's really picked it up implies people have just moved on with their lives. Korma and YeSQL seem to handle most of the Rails-like use cases, and I guess everyone else has moved to more esoteric datastores.
It should be grounds for classification as a vexatious litigant since it clearly indicates that they're not serious about following through with a lawsuit and are just running a shakedown operation.
Learn to recognise anti-patterns and deal with them ASAP: http://pragprog.com/book/bksqla/sql-antipatterns

Also, learn about red/green/refactor. Refactor mercilessly. Learn both ORM and SQL, understand the technology you're working with.

The "wide tables" problem is easily addressed through "associated data" tables. Don't store everything in the one model. You have one model which is for computation, searching, comparison, etc. You have another model which is for storage of stuff that is only required at report time. This is a ORM-level of "partitioning". Just avoid "fetch-related" style ORM requests and you're golden.

It's really worth reading whatever references are available on tuning your particular database for performance. You can take the advice onboard and let the performance advice contribute towards your ORM design.

The SQL-templating approach is tempting, but it will very quickly lead to problems as someone adjusts a template and adds or removes parameters. Do you have tests in place to ensure that the SQL templates still function as expected? How tightly bound is your SQL to one particular vendor's product? Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. Did you know that MySQL will automatically update the first TIMESTAMP column any time that row is updated? It doesn't even ask!
Your friend must be a test tube baby because all women have gone through menopause by 50.
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I remember initially looking at the saltstack docs and deciding, like the author of the post, that they were extremely dense at first glance. It's interesting to read that after he'd used salt for a while the dense documentation was useful.
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Incentivizing and Crowdsourcing Availability of Research Outputs: Simulacrum 1.0 [pdf]
Hmm, it's up for me, west coast, Washington state.
15 seconds seems a bit low considering it can take a few seconds to open the app, have you tried testing other times? I know it's a balance between getting the rider an answer quickly and giving the drivers time however you may force an available driver to miss the dispatch if it's too low.
Thanks for the info about 2 and 3. For 4, he "promised" me multiple times that they would keep unlimited data in my new contract. He said they just wanted me moved to the new network. Messed up, if they're actually trying to trick me. I asked if I could record the call and he said no, he'd have to hangup if I did.
Dear Google, I like the Old 'Google maps' better
You can't really integrate this into ownCloud well, since it's an entirely PHP based piece of software. And a lot of places ownCloud currently works (shared/reseller hosting) won't work with EtherCalc.

Check out sandstorm.io though. (There's another comment about it above.) I got EtherCalc working on it pretty easily, and I think it really IS a killer Google Docs replacement. :D
Has the market value of taxi medallions fallen after the advent of Uber and Lyft? I think there is a big risk that this way of organizing things is about to go away, which will leave taxi medallion owners with a huge loss.
Great idea, great that you shipped, now improve, improve, improve. Put the code on github and let people file issues and pull requests. Yes, many things in the code can be cleaned up, but kudos that you got it out there instead of having it run on just on your personal VPS.

We need more dead simple-to-install open source webapps, especially with a modern look!
Yep, this won't play as an option for the top row of keys inside an iOS 8 keyboard extension. There is no method to display art beyond above the area where the default view of the keyboard resides.

Obviously, Apple doesn't have to play by their own rules... but I understand how this could be abused.

The CYRKeyboardButton seems like a great starting point for someone building a keyboard native to their own app or if the art is used on the lower rows of keys.
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/facts.html

You are far more likely to be infected by malaria than ebola. Ebola is scary and makes for great news that draws lots of attention -- but it is largely sensational and not truthfully something you need to rationally fear, unless you work with infected individuals.
Without the ORM, though, what would be the point of using Django? To me it seems like this would be a better fit for a more minimalist platform like Flask.
Came back with the same feeling. My guess is that it is a self-hosted personal notebook of sorts that supports Markdown entries and photos. Maybe?
I was completely serious. How much do you think the media coverage he's gotten over this would cost if he'd paid for it as an advertisement?
Its not just your intuiton the bell curve tops outs squarely in the middle of the two not with two nice peaks. I found this out looking in to Myers briggs(I think its very qustionable). People can never work out whether I am introvert or extrovert.
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Indeed! http://developer.xamarin.com/releases/studio/xamarin.studio_...
Well not having a linux working version ( at least of xamarin.android) is not helping to fight back that sentiment
Update: Man Most likely does NOT have Ebola but they are still testing him/waiting for tests to come back.

"A New York City hospital is examining a sick patient who recently returned from a West African country where the deadly Ebola virus has been spreading, but authorities said it's unlikely that the man has Ebola."

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/New-York-City-Hospital-...
Still down for me. Still Searching
Let me rephrase what I think your argument is:

"I think that we should set speed limits to somewhere around where they are now or lower, and then re-engineer our roads to make it harder for people to speed. This is practical and will save lives, and the evidence supports this."

If I'm reading you correctly, I have a number of problems with it:

1. I don't think it's in any way practical to re-engineer roads on the massive scale that would be necessary to do this. If, as asserted, the majority of people exceed the speed limits the majority of the time, you're talking about re-engineering the majority of roads. That's an enormous project compared to resetting the speed limits.

2. You're a bit light on details about what you would do to make people obey the speed limits, but you list as contributing to speeding "wide lanes, big setbacks, and homogenous environments." Leaving aside homogenous environments (are we now talking about re-engineering not only all of our roads, but also all of our cities in general?), I'm sure that making lanes narrower and setbacks smaller would in fact make people drive slower, but would it actually increase safety compared to the counterfactual of not re-engineering and increasing speed limits? I doubt it. Certainly, I don't see evidence for it.

3. Hidden in here is a question of legitimacy. Are current speed limits a result of a social consensus about the speed/safety tradeoff made by an open society? I don't think that there's any convincing evidence that they are. They appear to be a reaction to OPEC and a revenue model for local governments at least as much as they are about a democratic consensus -- and to the extent that they are about a democratic consensus, they seem to be based on one in which the democracy in general was not aware of the deleterious effects of low speed limits in terms of speed differentials.

So, look, the situation right now appears to be:

a. Roads designed for speed, but with artificially low speed limits leading to inflated danger.

And a couple of possible future policies could be:

b. Roads designed for speed, with higher speed limits leading to reduced danger compared to a.

c. Roads designed for lower speed, with the same or lower speed limits leading to reduced danger compared to either a. or b.

It seems like you've jumped to the conclusion that option c is the right one, but I don't know that it is, even granted that it is the safest option.
bullshit. we need to emphasise the maleness of CEO's in power structures as a whole and the homogenic group think this creates.
No worries. Appreciate the good wishes.
>The main problem with raw SQL is that what you really want is a genuine programming language. You almost want programmatic access to the SQL AST, so you can generate syntax as opposed to concatenate strings together. Kind of like a DOM API, but for SQL.

What you described is basically EF+LINQ.

var query = context.Users.Include("Users.Group").Where( u => u.UserType
== UserTypes.Basic).Select( u => u.Group);

That's going to spit out a SQL statement that joins Users to Group and selects all groups where the UserType is UserTypes.Basic. You can even do ToTraceString() to see the generated statement.
I've talked to lots of people ranging from investors to developers, for whom "C#" is a dirty word because of its relationship with Microsoft (which, at its most benign, is viewed as stodgy, old, and slow by these folks). In my humble opinion, it's a shame, because their developer products are fantastic, and Xamarin has done a great job of bringing those tools to new and highly relevant platforms.
Sure, ben at metasoftware.co.uk

I'm notoriously bad at answering emails but I check that one more than most :).
I think lots of us have had this idea, great to see it implemented.
Well, knowledge does not jump from written media to brain, else, everyone would be doing their own molotov cocktail (I still prefer the Joliot-Curie), TNT (pretty easy, we learnt it at school while doing mono nitration of toluene), nuclear bomb ... that is what makes the world quite safe in fact.

I was forced to borrow from the adult library when I was 11 because I had already read everything and I was too demanding. But I guess it was not enough :)

But I don't think hidden social rules are taught in books. Behaving «socially correctly» is not taught either. Which so far has been quite my main problem.
interesting that right before (a year or two) Uber/Lyft/etc...'s time the prices of medallions hit something like $200K/$600K in SF/NY and there were stories about that in the news. Speaking about dialectics - top blossom of anything carries its undoing with/inside it.
Isn't that what LinkedIn does?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/20/t...
Your chances of recovery from Malaria are far higher than recovering from Ebola. Malaria is more of a regional issue and does not necessarily have the ability to reach pandemic levels where Ebola, because of its communicability, does.

Edit: Though you are correct it is not necessarily something to be freaking-out over at the current moment. That said its a serious problem that we should not assume is benign. We should be working to contain it outside of the US.
SynoLocker demands 0.6 Bitcoin to decrypt Synology NAS devices – CSO
How much faster can one drive for every foot of lane width while maintaining the same risk of injury or death?
This is fascinating for me, because I've recently had the opportunity to watch someone from a pure maths background learn SQL from scratch. It seems like a very different experience when you arrive on day one appreciating the underlying theory of relational databases, as opposed to my experience from a more enterprisey background. I didn't realise what a mental block the subset of SQL available to Hibernate had imposed until recently, and I suspect things like ActiveRecord hide even more of the good stuff away.
As well as lawyers, crossfitters, and vegetarians.
I would love to see more books/articles/blogs on unsupervised learning and ensemble techniques. E.G. - can I use k-means clustering as input to train a naïve Bayes classifier?
Observations Reveal Massive Eruptions on Jupiter’s Moon Io
I've never heard this before. It kinda hurts my brain a little to think about.
Does anyone have a decent version control system for stored procedures? How do I keep them in my git repository alongside my code? How do I maintain them?
We have! It's an interesting tradeoff between making the riders wait too long for their ride to be matched to a driver (in many cities the waiting threshold after which a rider gives up on the app is firmly in seconds) and giving the driver enough time to safely accept the ride.

I see you work for iCracked =) I am a user, and have been seeing your iCracked cars around. Really interested in how your system works in analogous aspects!
Dear Lord in heaven, no.

Yes, the data language and the application language were all the same language, which led to some awful spaghetti code where data access was strewn all over the place.

Then you also get to deal with scaling issues because your db and application logic all run on the same box.

But hey, you can still download and run Visual FoxPro from MSDN if want,

Source: My team is in the process of slowly strangling a FoxPro application whose only system spec is "what it does".
Firstly, this type of practice is fairly common in certain markets, hotels and airlines being key. We believe there are more scenarios to which it could be extended.

Secondly, it's a matter of perspective. Each person has a price they're willing to buy at, and that generally reflects an individual's willingness and ability to spend. Yes, you may hate paying more, but your decision to purchase it anyway means you valued that item enough to buy it at what we offered it to you at. Theoretically if we surged too high, people would stop purchases and the price would go down.
> I did get a “pull request welcome” response on a legitimate bug, which is an anti-pattern in the open source world.

Can someone explain why this is an anti-pattern? Is there some sarcasm I'm missing? Seems like exactly the kind of response I appreciate when I submit issues in open source projects.
For those of us on Java, I've grown to love http://jdbi.org/. JDBI has a lot of features that are convenient (e.g. auto-mapping of columns to a POJO), but synthesizes DAOs for you from interfaces annotated with SQL queries, e.g.

@RegisterMapperFactory(BeanMapperFactory.class)
public interface TripDAO {
@SqlQuery("SELECT trip_start AS start, MAX(timestamp) AS end FROM location_updates WHERE trip_start = :start GROUP BY trip_start ORDER BY trip_start DESC")
public Trip trip(@Bind("start") Date tripId);
}

And allows you to plug in providers for mixing in Optional types, PGgeometries, whatever you can fit into an interface.
I'm only recently coming to realize the huge purchasing power of the irony-demographic.