skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the search story is. One technology that really does deliver, and has totally impressed me, is Lucene/ElasticSearch. I'm used to all sorts of hyperbolic claims, but holy shit, ElasticSearch just delivers. We tossed in about 40M documents from a SQL Server DB, and not only did it require less resources (a 30%? reduction in size), the queries are beyond anything that'd be approachable using SQL Server. And I've only touched the surface, using it as a pure plug-n-play setup.

With DocumentDB, not having a local version severely limits what I'd consider this for. Losing that flexibility is a big deal. Maybe this is just a limited preview and they haven't build the management side for local installs.
There are a lot more security threats. My startup's URL reputation lookup service is being integrated with one of the biggest app platforms to help developers build security into apps. There are so many security threats that come with the standard WebView - mostly because I'm confident Apple and Google didn't think about how they could be used today.
Because that's just as much of a ghetto, Microsoft can't control it as they'd have to buy it and I doubt Oren would sell it to them.

Not only that, there are better products that are free.
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Important quote (since people had asked about it on HN):

Why had she written that blog post banning sexual harassment?

“There are so many new investors coming into the Valley from New York and everywhere else, and we just wanted to lay that out there,” Livingston said. “The overt sexual harassment you read about — the men who say they don’t invest in women — I can’t force them to invest in women, but I can say you can’t sexually harass our founders. And so that’s what I did.”
I served on an attempted homocide trial two years ago. It was the most interesting five days I had in while. If you do get called, make sure it's for a crime that requires a 911 operator, EMT, surgeon, detective, and incarcerated gang member as your witnesses.
If you just Google the title you can skip right past their pay wall. Incoming search links don't get checked against how many articles you've read.
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But it's also kinda selfish don't you think?
Can you explain from first principles why "one vote per person" is a good way to efficiently produce law, given that most of us accept that it's not a good way to produce many other things (like food and automobiles)?

If everyone got a single vote on what model of automobile should be produced, and only the winning model was produced, surely we all agree that the resulting automobile would be much worse than the average automobile produced by the market. In this scenario, it's obvious that there would be mass voter apathy: the amount of time it takes to research automobile designs and manufacturers isn't worth it, because your vote is extremely unlikely to effect the automobile you receive. But when each person has to pay for their own automobile, it's absolutely worth you time to research automobiles, because you get exactly the automobile you purchase.
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I don't understand the questions. Who is asking these questions? Am I legally obligated to answer? Is that really how jury selection works? Seems a bit ridiculous that they are allowed to ask such specific (and often irrelevant to the case at hand) questions.
Beware a wolf in sheep's clothing...

Edit: the downvoters clearly weren't in the industry in the 80's and 90's and haven't dealt with them in the enterprise / volume licensing department recently. Comparing the two, they're even more ruthless, unfair and incompetent than ever and will screw you as hard as they can once you're locked in.

This stuff gets you through the door, as does BizSpark etc, then you're not a friend but a cow for the milking via VL, audits and licensing changes.

I speak from experience working for 4 paid up gold partners over the last decade and then dealing with them in a corporate capacity back to '95. Every game ends the same.

Edit 2: appears you can't tell the truth about Microsoft these days in the same fashion you couldn't tell the truth about Apple about 3-4 years ago...
> He asked what she was doing there all on her own, and whether she was there maybe for a Match.com date. Livingston said that she worked in tech, and was meeting a reporter. He said he was an investor. She said she was, too; that she co-founded Y Combinator. He said maybe if she had some startups in her portfolio that other investors had overlooked, he’d be happy to talk about investing in them. Maybe she and he could go and talk about those investments together one night?

I'm sorry, but I fail to see how this is "hitting on" her. Maybe he had those intentions, but this conversation doesn't prove it. The Match.com stuff is sketchy, but he didn't say anything rude or sexual. Maybe the tone was lost in translation to text?

Ok, say he was hitting on her. Is that wrong? Is that bad? Would it be different if the genders were reversed?
I've been trying to tell everyone this in the last year. Things have really changed in the Microsoft world. For the better.

It makes me forget they killed my pappy!
I'm going to posit licensing/cost issues as the easy downfall. However, something about the closed sourcing against the context of the open source movement from MS has me wondering about specific implementation details they feel are differentiating or expositions of brilliance/hacks?
Yea that was a shocker for me too. Maybe that works if you are staying in your parent's house basement, but I just can't see anyone anyone in the US pay $650 for living expenses.
August Capital GP on “What a VC Is Really Thinking During Your Pitch”
All of you are young :) Being over 30 makes you likely to side with the plaintiff.
Url changed from http://www.fastcompany.com/3034489/the-future-of-work/deep-d..., which points to this.
It does, because somebody might have done something to the filesystem between your test and the rest of your code.

This is why I found your "Defensive Programming 101 really" comment slightly arrogant (perhaps I misunderstood the intention). Writing correct programs is not easy and one should not mock others, because there is always something new to learn.
Every company I listed either grew from developer to developer + publisher or is still just developing. More importantly I don't think the distinction matters as it's a natural next step if you accumulate enough success - Dropbox didn't start with a product for other businesses either.

Specifically Rovio, SuperCell, King, Zynga and Mojang owe all their success to their own games released in the last decade. (Although king used to license/publish little flash games but they pivoted past that years ago).
Are their any legitimate programs like these for Bachelor's degrees? I've had my eye on doing something like this, but as I never completed my undergrad before getting sucked into the tech goldmine, I'm ineligible. Online undergrad degrees seem to mostly be diploma mills with no real value.
"Microsoft has DocumentDB service now."

"Oh cool, which document database is it? MongoDB? CouchDB? Cassandra?"

"It's DocumentDB!"

"...."
What is your total household income?

If you select "Under $50k" they say "More likely to side with plaintiff". If you select "Over $50k" they say "No effect on either lawyer". That's not how conservation of expected evidence works. (Several other questions work the same way.)
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The question isn't "Will you be seated on a Jury?", it's "Will you provide the NY Times advertisers with very specific demographic information?"
Ask HN: Finding Short- to Long-term Work on the East Coast
Hello!

I'm in a bit of a bind and would greatly appreciate any advice anyone here has (I'd especially appreciate work, if needed).

I left a pretty poor working environment at the end of a contract in July. I'm thinking of applying to graduate school and took a few weeks off to write my applications before seeking work. I think this was a reasonable decision given some graduate-program specific details but it definitely was a financially tough choice to make.

Unfortunately, I've had an unexpectedly hard time finding work, especially as I may be leaving the Boston area (where I live) in September 2015.

I've got a couple of questions:

1. Does anyone need help (part-time or otherwise) from someone very experienced with Python and R? I'm a self-taught programmer but a biochemist by training. I'm very happy to share some scraping, GUI (wxPython) and web-based projects (requests, flask, SQLAlchemy) projects as needed. No job is too small.

On a related note, would someone need part-time work for only 12 months?

2. I'll hopefully have work by the third week of September but I'll need to travel a lot for graduate school interviews (should they materialize). How should I best break into freelancing/passive income by November? I've seen the very detailed insights of tptacek and patio11 but I'm not sure how to get past the first step - finding customers.
It depends on who are you explaining it to.

If you are explaining it to a seasoned C++-only programmer it makes sense to explain lambdas in terms of other C++ features. Even more if lambdas are based internally on said features.
Its difficult to deny the need, relevance and popularity of the topic of this degree. I just think that there may be a startup idea here: just offer an opportunity to learn the curriculum as a vocational training/course over 4-6 months, along with a practical project at the end of it (say a Kaggle problem). I can imagine a tie up with companies to solve problems, very much like Kaggle and tie ups with companies looking for analytics talent.
I see rpis everywhere... Are they self-replicating?
mouse cursor trapping is glitchy, I can't seem to look around without my view snapping back to the floor..

Chrome on OS X
> SBCL also uses static linking. It doesn't recompile every ASDF imported library whenever I compile my application. It just does so when it is actually necessary. Why doesn't it work so easily in Haskell?

It does; in fact, in GHC -- the dominant Haskell implementation -- at least, its even easier: it doesn't recompile installed packages period. Packages are precompiled, and are merely linked when you compile an application that they depend on.

Aside from it being factually incorrect, I'm not sure why this is even relevant to the discussion here -- "dependency hell" doesn't come from recompiling libraries when you recompile applications, it comes from conflicts between version requirements for dependencies among packages installed in a single repository (which is why sandboxing is a tool for addressing it.) It manifests when you try to install a package with dependency conflicts with another app, not when you try to compile an app that depends on the conflicting packages.

> I think it's the strong type system because every small code change can break the whole fragile structure of a Haskell application.

I think before you try to explain why something happens, you should first be sure that the thing you are describing actually happens.

> Could that be the reason why there are (AFAIK) so many hackage projects aged or even unmaintained?

I suspect the reason is the same that there are so many Ruby Gems in the main repos that are aged or even unmaintained (and I'd be surprised if this was different in any similar package database that wasn't actively culled of non-current projects -- which would have its own downside) -- the repository system is, by design, low cost to enter, so lots of things that have no strong demand or lasting commitment get posted to it.
Wouldn't have surprised me to see it called something like Microsoft NoSQL Database Cloud Edition for Agile Developers Powered By JavaScript 2014.
That really depends. Is he/she cleaning their office or a developer?

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/04/03/how-much-do-game-deve...
>If you go to a more "boring" market that competitors ignore

An example in the form of a digression: I live in a town in a relatively rural area of the SF peninsula. I've recently received some bids for a small job involving heavy machinery, and -- at least in this area -- suspect that owning your own business in that "boring" market provides a more reliable source of revenue with a better quality of life than 95% of HN readers who work in cubicles at tech companies.

Owner A is a fellow who owns a bay area company that does grading work. He built his own house in the Woodside flatlands, where land costs tend to run in the millions of dollars, and the construction cost including permits of building a new house may be $2M-$3M alone. Neighbors include Larry Ellison and the Steve Jobs ex-Jackling estate. It's true he's driving around a lot for bids, but many folks would prefer that to staring at a screen. It's probably psychologically and physically healthier as well.

Owner B is a fellow who owns a bay area company that does excavation and sewer work. He owns a house in Portola Valley (another affluent community, for instance home to VC Vinod Khosla, who hosted Obama recently) and a second home in the Sierra foothills. Has a stable of Porsches and eight motorcycles. Is a pillar of the community, and sends his crew out to open roads closed by storms or downed trees when the town or fire department can't get to them quickly enough.

They may miss out on the upsides of billion-dollar IPOs, but a precious small percentage of startup founders or employees will get those anyway, especially post-Sarbanes-Oxley. I'm not saying I'm going to quit
http://recent.io/ to dig septic tanks, but it does put bay area quality of life in perspective.
Oh wait, I forgot about that one. I did have one that went towards the plaintiff and it was being an old fart. D'oh. But I still wound up with the "The Defense lawyer now loves you" message at some point. Heh.
I have no idea, as I've never been a Canadian with a Canadian company who has to get on Amazon MTurk after next week.

But this is part of your core competency as an entrepreneur. You're supposed to be able to figure this stuff out. All the pieces are in this thread: get an EIN, maybe get an ITIN, maybe that means you have to petition at your local US Embassy, maybe get an address in the US, maybe that means a UPS Store box, maybe that means a registered agent.

And then when you do figure it out, write a long blog post about it that details the "exact steps I need to take" so people in your position in the future can learn how to do it. Do it on your company blog so future clients can see that if you're going to be this diligent about figuring out how to take care of your own business, maybe you'll be that diligent in taking care of theirs.

Sorting this stuff out is your job, all the programming stuff is ancillary.
Also very much depends on where you're at.

There are a lot of small towns in America where you can rent for $350 or $400 per month.

I lived on a $50 per month grocery budget when I was 21 (maybe $75 today). Worked a part-time job that paid for my apartment, and worked as an entrepreneur the rest of the time.

I think it's pretty amazing how low your bills can be when you're really young, have no family, and little to no concern about health issues (I had no health insurance for a decade, never had a single health issue either, which is purely luck / genetics).
I've been a long time elasticsearch user and can say that I personally HATE sql syntax when it comes to querying data in mysql, just because I usually can't get the joins right etc to build a search that is reasonable. However, they might be taking this approach because sql syntax is familiar. JSON data structures for querying over HTTP was used with elasticsearch because they were familiar to most developers. I think overall it helps adoption if you have layers that are not completely foreign to the implementing developers. They could have written their query syntax in protocol buffers or coffescript or what ever the hell they wanted really, but I think that would have hurt adoption.
I am bloody filthy red as well, I wonder what one has to do to get on the plaintiff's side.
Gotta reverse all answers to see...
Honestly, I don't think I've ever had expenses under 1200$/month (also San Diego) even when I lived with my parents.

Rent here is 400$/month minimum - and that's sharing a room or splitting a house with 4 friends. Not counting utilities.

Food budget alone should be at least 400$/month as well if you're eating a meager 13$ of food a day.

You'd be amazing if you had less than 400$/month of car expenses including payment/repairs.

Then there's everything else. Health bills, insurance, internet, Netflix, etc.
I guess it depends on what exactly you mean by "honest." Rich people would have more voting power, but also the incentive to vote "correctly." Right now, in the real world, rich people have much more political influence than poor people, and very little incentive to vote "correctly."
The "Do you believe investing is similar to gambling?" question has choices of Yes and No. Some investing is similar to gambling. Some of that gambling is benign or even beneficial and some, like the derivatives bomb that blew up in 2008 is dangerous on a global scale. Some investors would never see themselves as gamblers but are. Some are over-cautious and moralistic about their investing.

Similarly, while there are frivolous lawsuits, and lawsuits that are technically not frivolous but are very harmful, like patent trolls and SLAPPs, there are also domains where personal liability does not reach today, like police violence, that could benefit from bonded practitioners with their bond at stake.

No matter, the plaintiff thinks I'm too establishment. I've been dismissed.
I engaged on conversations with his sister Viviane about using the brand in the past, but she's totally focused on reverting benefits to IAS and not just licensing.

Could you explain the above for those of us which don't understand it. (I'm familiar with Senna from the documentary of the same name... brilliant.)
It's difficult to convey tone in a writing, and given the Match.com comment and subsequent grey area stuff, it sounds like he was hitting on her.
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Hi, I'm sorry if my comment came across too strong. It was not intended to be insulting at all, I'm really annoyedthat mystery meat navigation continues to persists.

The vast majority for this and similar basic errors in UI/UX can be laid at the feet of the lemming-like trend towards mobile design even when it is not appropriate, especially for desktop applications.

Your website is a great example of this. It is clearly designed for mobile viewing and browsing and as such it punishes the user who is on a desktop with non-friendly and very cumbersome navigation options. As well, it loads very slowly and even when it loads, it requires the user to engage in a huge amount of effort to actually find or read articles.

This is really basic basic basic stuff! I mean, it is just a blog we're talking about. It isn't rocket surgery. And yet, instead of being easy, fast and low-effort... it is the opposite. We know how to do blogs. Really we do. This stuff has been nailed down like decades ago. And the fundamentals have not changed and will not change... unless humans drastically change and evolve to use our senses differently.

By no means am I an expert in the field but I do try to read up here and there and learn the basics.

In that light, I'll refer you to those who are experts in the field and who do have some very important things to say (even if most designers are not listening!)

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-chrome-ratio/

Again, please don't take this personally. Very large companies like skype, google, firefox and the vast majority of the up and coming internet darlings like uber, airbnb, etc. all make these mistakes.

If you want to stand out as a professional and expert, you would do well to learn the basic fundamental principles of UI/UX and through that stand out as a true 'expert' who really knows what they're talking about.
Why all the hate? So far it just looks like a monetization tool to embed in a Chrome extension. Nothing says it's going to run there by default. We have no info on the presence or absence of compulsory disclaimers. Nor do we have any info about the default quotas of daily processing per install.

If the extension provides value to the user, it might be a way to compensate the provider for the said value. The same way ads compensate the provider of apps. In either case, computing time and bandwidth are used.

Now, having said that, if it ran 24/7 and used GBs of bandwidth per day on a single node, I would definitely side with you. But if it was embedded in a way where you get extra value once you enable it, that's another question.
Neat and all.... but with the beauty of "radio" one could basically light up a crapton of folks in any given area all listening to the same song.

I remember back when I delivered pizzas, it was not uncommon for most of us drivers to all be humming the same song as we are getting stuff inside, since we all listened to the same stations.

If it was a really good song ending as I got back to the store, it was not uncommon to find that I waited it out in the parking lot along with at least two other drivers. :)
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If you ever get the chance to do jury duty go for it. I used to hear people talking about how to get out of it but I was curious enough to show up and go along with the process the first time I was called. It was quite interesting, and at the time I was employed at a company that paid 100% daily wages if you were selected for a trial.

The defendant was accused of stealing a car and I had been the victim of car theft before, so I figured I was out quickly. After I told them about the theft the defence lawyer just asked 'were you traumatized?' and I laughed and said 'no, just annoyed. I got my car back a week later undamaged'.

Couldn't believe it but I was seated on jury for trial, and I got to see how the police worked it and learned about 'shaved keys', etc. Fascinating. I'm not really pro-police but I remember wishing the detective who caught the defendant had worked my case, where the thief was never found.

The personality dynamics of the deliberations are really interesting, too. The defendant was a young Hispanic man and our foreman was an old white guy whose first words were 'Well, he's guilty why waste time talking about it?' Total shocker, the others were furious with him and shouting and arguing, etc. Great stuff. I grabbed the evidence bag and looked through everything, deciding that I'd be pretty good at stealing cars if I ever needed to.

The tl;dr of this is that if you are a fan of short stories (like a good Kurt Vonnegut story) then jury duty is definitely for you. After doing it I'm certain I would go do it again and I highly recommend it.
Agreed, futarchy seems clever but there seems to be too many reasons why you'd never reap the theoretical benefits in practice.
maybe not in a city, but I've lived in a rural area on less than $1000/month and I still know people who pay less than $300/month for rent.

after rent, having no car (bicycle) and no data plan cut things down even more.

only real issue is lack of medical insurance.
> They do this because they want the ability to arrest the people who are recruiting muslims using these videos. The "recruiting" thing is impossible to prove, so ...

I take issue with this. They think someone is guilty of a real, serious crime, but they can't prove it so they want to convict them of something else. That is bypassing the concept of "innocent until proven guilty".
A quick comparison between DocumentDB vs MongoDB: http://daprlabs.com/blog/blog/2014/08/22/azure-documentdb/
They released a full-text search service as well today: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search/
Sounds interesting; is there an active East Bay DevOps group? Seems like there's got to be more of us in Oakland?
This is being fixed in gulp 4 - check github issues for more info