skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/docu...

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Pretty remarkable given Microsoft's approach to open source in the 1990s that they're now using a service built around Linus's bespoke open source version control system to allow people to suggest changes to their documentation.
Gotcha. Thank you.

The stickers sound like a great thing! Basically $10 iBeacons :)
Fair enough that the existence of tools isn't really indicative of anything. Although at least the three I mentioned have a few hundred stars on GH which suggests some people are actually using them.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience! Your comment suggests to mean that you haven't had the need to fix the versions of any of your dependencies. Is that really true? I would find that quite surprising given that you've been coding in Go for a couple years.
It bugged me more when I was younger, but its such a petty thing to be worried about.

Also as a rounder gentleman, Id much rather continue to lose weight and get in shape than worry that I'm kinda short.
Congratulations on just finding this but it's old as hell and honestly pretty stupid.
I have to believe it's coming, since a lot of MSFTs core business is still selling server-licenses for business who host their own data centers. I for one would love to use something like this, and our company is one that's not comfortable with third-party open-source tools, and we have to host in our own data center...
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For the record you have to allow fullscreen for anything to happen.... took me a while.
> when there are amazing free resources all over the place.

in fact, most of the worthwhile resources are free, since this isn't a discipline that has really been taught at any level until recently, but draws from several.
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And all the messaging around hiking the hell out of their undergrad fees in recent years.
There should be an "omeagle" version of this where you draw pics with strangers.
Awesome! I'll update our beacons and try that out :)

I guess that direction, velocity etc would be cool, but since they need to be communicating with an app on a smartphone anyway it might be overkill.

On the other hand, if beacons/stickers could somehow transmit that info independently of a smartphone app (e.g. through a hub device with internet connection) that could be pretty amazing!
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> The defense lawyer has now fallen in love with you…

Uhhhhh. There wasn't a single thing that sided me with the plaintiff. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
There definitely will be volume discounts although until we begin shipping in full production in October we won't worry too much about forward pricing. But in the future these stickers will go way below $10 each. Glad you like the product :)
It's really smart. It's a document database, so they call it DocumentDB. It's better than calling it something like Dolphin and then explaining that it's a document database. Simple and clear is a good thing.
You're being downvoted because this is wrong.

Some banks will allow you to essentially say, "I made this charge but I don't want to pay it." In that case, the merchant can go after you for the product you stole, and you can even be charged with shoplifting. (People might do this if they're dissatisfied with the product but can't return it, claim it didn't arrive, etc.) That could go on your credit report as an unpaid debt to the merchant you stole from.

There is no credit score penalty for reporting that you saw an unauthorized transaction. The bank just wipes it out and issues you a new card. It's happened to my family multiple times.
C is a a portable macro assembler, that's all.
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I never thought of using destructuring-bind together with quasiquoting in such a direct way. It does seem that that's a simpler way than what I have done. I'll have to think about it some more. Though we have to consider I had to write this in Ruby, where I don't have access to CL niceties. :)

It did get me thinking, though, so I appreciate the advice. I'm wondering now how to port that idea to Ruby.
I know this price is pretty on par with the likes of Northwestern and other great schools that offer similar online programs. But it seems a bit insulting when schools like Georgia Tech are offering a $7k online Masters CS. A lot of the infrastructure of modern college is online anyways, so I'm not sure that putting the lectures online and removing the facilities completely is progressive. Learning to scale these classrooms efficiently and continually reducing the fixed cost per student seems to be what we're (me, without the dedication/job willing to pay for this degree) waiting for. Especially, if the goal really is to provide an education available to all online
Agreed. The question I'm interested in is, how do we solve that attribution problem?
>> “Wait—I love state and data mu­ta­tion. Why would you take >them away?” Be­cause they’re false friends.
>CL is NOT particularily functional. Just because we know how >to write good side-effect free code, doesn't mean its a >functional language.

He didn't claim that CL or even Lips were pure functional though:

"Yes, I know that other lan­guages of­fer func­tional-pro­gram­ming fea­tures, and that Lisps aren’t con­sid­ered pure func­tional lan­guages."
Doesn't mean I shouldn't be well-compensated for it. I'm creating value for others, right?
Microsoft is the new IBM. :)
So, honest rich people get more voting power than honest poor people?
Am I alone in thinking that sql-like syntax is actually a step backwards from building query documents programmatically (MongoDB style)?
Where others see "fragmentation", I see "choice".
I like the Georgia Tech MS Computer Science [0] which was in the 8K range. That seems reasonable for an online education that's mostly self-driven.

I hate the feeling pay to play of a lot of our higher-level education as it seems that what you learn has nothing to really do with where you learn it.

[0] http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
I didn't know about it! Thanks
DocumentDB utilizes a highly concurrent, lock free, log structured indexing technology to automatically index all document content. This enables rich real-time queries without the need to specify schema hints, secondary indexes or views.

How does that work? Isn't that going to incur a major performance hit? If not, why don't other databases get rid of indexes?

Also, if anyone from MS is reading, http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/docu... links to http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/docu... which is a 404 error.
I think the people who work well in open office spaces are the same people that enjoy working for hours in busy coffee shops. Perhaps, a little of both (noisy and quiet) is ideal and forces you to practice focusing in both situations. The nature of the work is also a big factor.

Personally, sometimes I find it harder to concentrate in total silence, but other times I look for quiet places to relax and read.
there seems a fundamental incongruence between a market based decision mechanism and a singular fiat decision. prediction markets are valuable because of their ability to absorb complex and dynamic information. while they point to a consensus it is a fleeting one by definition.

for theoretical examples the 2 presented are especially awkward and seem fated to trip over themselves not because of the mystic beauty of self reference but rather because they are the wrong tools for the job.

perhaps to start thinking this way its better to remove legacy institutions and things like government bail outs and ceo pay as a priori conditions.
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If you're looking for something similar for Python, check out BlitzDB:

https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb

It's a serverless, flat-file, document-oriented database which supports indexing and transactions and comes with a built-in ORM layer and a rich query language modeled after MongoDB.
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The only SD cards I've had that have suddenly and catastrophically become completely unreadable are Sandisk class 10 cards, so don't assume they'll do any better (I've owned too few SD cards to tell if this was just bad luck or a problem with the model).
DynamoDB really isn't document oriented storage.

Instead it's a key-value wide column store, with 1st and 2nd level index support.

I haven't delved into the MSFT pricing model, but DynamoDB is pay-for-through put. You provision your table with a certain amount of read/write performance that is guaranteed, and you pay for that.
As others have said, $60k sounds steep for this. I wonder if these data science programs will catch on. Having done my bachelors in 'nanoscience' - I feel that these data science courses are a little buzzwordy in a similar fashion. I'm somewhat skeptical that these data science programs will exceed the value of a graduate degree in stats, math, cs, etc.
I've been using DynamoDB since it was released. I wrote a nodejs driver[1] and a nodejs data mapper for it[2], so I have a decent bit of experience with it. Browsing the DocumentDB docs the two services seem to be very different. DynamoDB is really just a key value store with some very nice properties, but also a lot of tradeoffs. One such tradeoff is querying data is very limited in DynamoDB. In Dynamo you can only query data by its primary hash key and optional range key. These keys you must specify upfront when you create your table and cannot be changed afterwards.

DocumentDB seems much more similar to mongodb and appears to have a very flexible query ability. In my opinion, one of the best features with DynamoDB is you can tune the number of reads/writes each individual table requires. This lets you scale up and down your database and greatly helps keep costs down. This is a feature that only a hosted database service can offer. I haven't yet read any pricing info on DocumentDB, but hopefully they offer a similar feature as this is really where a hosted database service can shine.

[1]https://github.com/Wantworthy/dynode
[2]https://github.com/ryanfitz/vogels
> The student, who is currently studying for a master’s degree in conservation of protected areas at the National University of Costa Rica in Heredia, refuses to reveal who is suing him. He says he does not want to “put pressure on this person”.

Surprisingly magnanimous.
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Yup, it will cache the files automatically and check mtime's so that only the changed files need to be reparsed for dependencies. It ends up being really fast to build once dependencies are installed.
If you're interested in topics like this, check out Paul Kennedy's "Engineers of Victory". It basically talks about how the road to victory in WWII were a number of operational and technological challenges that needed to be solved.

http://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Victory-Problem-Solvers-Turn...
Krita [1], probably. They focus on painting nowadays because they don't want to be competing directly with GIMP, but it's a very capable photo editing tool. I use Krita for a lot of my photo stuff because it supports more than 8 bits per channel. Still, I think GIMP has enough developer attention, and GEGL is powerful and compelling enough, that GIMP won't get replaced any time soon.

[1] https://krita.org/
OP reminded me of this

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1997-09-25/news/sky-writer/fu...

And this

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/contemporary-prose-o...

Fugue? Small scale stroke? Or just a need to quieten the brain? Has this man had a neurological examination of any kind?
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I have about 15 years of experience building software, software companies, and doing product development. Having never earned a degree, I was wondering if there were any credited online courses to earn a degree.

Id like to be able to do an online masters.
One way to approach a behind the curtain automatic index generation would be to gather data about collection usage, and use such data to enable targeted indexes.

I don't think it would be feasible to have "indexes for everything", as the numbers involved would scale geometrically.
Not necessarily.

I would say it allows flexibility in thinking about your storage and access patterns, which in turn allows flexibility in use. Hopefully without the expense of performance, and integrity.
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Another case of Not Invented Here syndrome from Microsoft. One wonders why they couldn't just take the open source and very well architected RavenDB http://ravendb.net .Net Document DB and provide first class support for that within Azure.
Hi Chris,

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how? you're just doing the same thing with MongoDB in their own json-like syntax instead of the T-SQL that everyone knows
If you want a simple wrapper around Mechanical Turk without the hefty fees, check out GridForce: http://gridforceapp.com/

It is a Microsoft Excel 2013 Application that allows you to crowdsource your spreadsheet right from Excel.

Disclosure: I built GridForce.
I've been called for jury duty once, and wound up being seated, and was foreman. We acquitted the guy, accused of stealing some stuff from a cop car. I think he was guilty, but none of us thought the State proved their case beyond reasonable doubt.

It was an interesting experience, and I was heartened to see that pretty much every juror in the group really took to heart the whole "presumption of innocence" idea and the notion that the State really had to prove guilt, not just hint at, or suggest, guilt.
"With luck, that will lead into a 2 year Europe->SE Asia trip"

Plenty of people, high population density, enjoy that don't do a McCandless!!!
Every one of your examples is more a publisher than a developer. Your point is not incorrect, but is being made about the wrong thing.

Your parent's post is quite right--you don't get rich making games anymore, least of all because the margins are crazy thin. You get rich publishing games.
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This article seems to incorrectly assume that if you are born in a country you will be a citizen of that country. In reality, most of the countries in the world don't grant citizenship to anyone born in their territory[1]. Outside of the Americas only a handful of countries do.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
It's funny, the defense is swooning over me, while I feel more sympathetic (just based on the prompt given, obviously I don't have any evidence) with the prosecutor.
Employee #toolate at Dropbox most likely isn't making minimum wage though.
I think it's more about the pains of being independent, rather than just game development.
You can still build documents programmatically. The SQL-esque syntax is optional. The primary interface is HTTP.
No local installation. No banana.

I wouldn't tie a product to a single cloud vendor.
Well I'm assuming when half the pis turn off half of them will go red.
Ha...it's because of this name that I gave yet another SPA javascript framework a look.
Or https://github.com/Max00355/LanderDB
I think it's easy, but not quite obvious to the non-technical user. Then they have the issue that once they've tapped on the icon on the homescreen, they are thrown into Safari. And doing the multi-tasking gesture shows them Safari, not the website directly as a first class app, so it's not obvious how to get back. If they tap again and the URL is not identical to what they are currently viewing, they will get a new tab. So there's good reasons to ship an app, even it is just a webview.
I don't think Burning Man will ever have a true September. There's no amount of money that can make it perfectly safe and comfortable, and it takes rather a large amount to make it even modestly so, at least by the standards of the wealthy.

Driving in is slow and boring. Flying in is fairly dangerous. Even if the event itself can be made perfectly comfortable with enough money -- and it really can't -- at least the journey will always suck a little, one way or another.
For simple queries there is virtually no difference (and clearly one should favor what he knows best).

But there are cases where you need to build the query object programmatically (and dynamically), and I believe it's a bit awkward to do that to obtain an SQL statement. But possibly it's just my personal taste :)
Oh, I see, I've missed this detail on the first read. Thanks!
Where the heck is the “Mark Donohue” engine?
Many NY Times links require a subscription. Am I missing something here, or is this only read by subscribed HNers?
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No, smart, effective rich people get more voting power than smart, effective poor people. Which is not so bad, since if they are smart and effective, they will usually vote for the better policy anyway.
Oh hey, thanks for the advice :)
I remember some discussions on Gulp's issues tracker where maintainers were reticent about integrating sequential tasks execution.

But that's great if you are going to do it. This may make me come around and give a second chance to Gulp.
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It seems the drug war subverts sensible legal principle again. I find the reasoning behind US v. Shabani to be completely abhorrent. And as a 9-0 decision, it's absolutely shameful. You can't reasonably prove that a conspiracy to commit a crime existed if the criminal act never actually happened. You would think that at least one justice would have thought that through a bit more, and dissented.
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DocDB is built atop a very well battle-tested distributed systems framework with replication based on a multi-Paxos implementation. I haven't done any benchmarks, but the replication model is far superior to MongoDB's "journal journal" model for performance. http://daprlabs.com/blog/blog/2014/08/22/azure-documentdb/
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I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, Microsoft has on-premise versions of several Azure offerings (i.e. WebSites, IaaS, Service Bus) which are released in Windows Azure Pack (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows...). It might take some time though.
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I'll be sticking to the least populated countries and areas possible.. the 'Stans, Mongolia, Eastern Russia, etc.
I liked it!

How about leaderboards? :)
I wrote this short article about "this" in the hope to make code more readable and save you from debugging time.

Feel free to comment on it here or call BS. I'm here to learn. :)
The ability to adjust consistency isn't really a new concept. The first I saw it was in Amazon's DynamoDB paper in 2007. Cassandra uses the model outlined there as well, and I'm sure there are others out there that I'm less familiar with.
"I estimate that my living expenses over the 20 months of development were around $13k"

$650 a month? My utilities, insurance, and food budget easily exceed that, nevermind rent. My first job paid $35k/year, which was comfortable enough (in San Diego), but I was living paycheck to paycheck.

The problem with budgets like this is that they work for some people, not everybody, and set up artificial expectations (i.e. in terms of crowd funding or other capital). I am definitely an advocate of frugal budgets, but there is a line. I don't see $650 month working when you have a wife, kid(s), dog(s), mortgages, and/or car payments - but then again many independent developers are wise enough to not take on those things. I have all but the mortgage, and I consider my burn rate of $3k/month pretty frugal.
Whoa, never seen any MASM code before. What an interesting hybrid!
One of my favorite quotes below, attributed to Bob Dylan:

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
Anyone know if there is something similiar to this for Go?
Err, Apple:

Airport, Bootcamp, Safari, Time Machine, FaceTime, Grand Central Dispatch, QuickTime...

and I won't even start on the open source side of things...
Just for what it's worth, civil cases have plaintiffs, not prosecutors.
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I'm happy with myself for at least mostly getting what those were. I think I'd have to see more uses to really see the benefit, though.

I am curious on minBound and maxBound. They seem to be the same... What distinguishes them? Or, you are just saying these are two values that are defined. And they can only be given a value of a type that can be bounded?

Also, thanks for expanding!
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Hi,

We're two young guys in Scotland who made this over the summer. In brief, you connect your Stripe account and get notifications via email (push, sms, Hipchat, Slack and others coming soon) of important events that occur.

We'd really appreciate any feedback or opinions on it: https://hooked.io

(reposted thanks to the advice of dang)

Thanks!
some of the most vital and complex ecosystems, responsible for huge amounts of life on the planet. I think I would rather look elsewhere.
RavenHQ was recently added as an Azure Add-On, you can use it now. But RavenHQ seems much more expensive than DocumentDB (even when doubling the "introduction pricing"), and it's not really integrated in Azure (I understand that it runs on Amazon, in a US datacenter only)

But it will be very interesting to compare features, Raven really has a lot of advanced features.
On MTurk are you adding any qualifications to your tasks? If not you are much more likely to get bad results.
I'm taking the GTOMSCS from Georgia Tech, for less than $7,000. I asked Berkeley if they have any plans to change their steep price tag ($50-60K), and they said no, because I'll be allowed to go on campus and get all benefits of an on campus student. I told them I don't plan to do so, and that I think I'm paying a high premium for a "feature" that I don't use.

They didn't reply.

in G.Tech you CAN'T go on campus, although the degree is the same. I didn't hear of a decrease in the on campus program enrollment there.

I think that if GT will show profit and that it didn't hurt their on campus program (and that the program rigor is not affected) then other universities will have to follow.
Or even just Google it and it will work just fine (it has to for Google bots). This is there way of reminding people that that they need to make money and make them not feel like a charity in giving them said money.

I would give them money if it gave me some degree of power over what categories of articles they look into making, but I'd never give them 15$/month.
Is There a Bootstrap/Wordpress Hacker News/Product Hunt Theme?
I'd love to implement an up-voting site for relevant links shared within my team.

Any suggestions?
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Speak more than one language? So does Google