skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering these guys were working with petabytes/day scale web stuff beforehand (guess that narrows down the previous employer...), I'm sure they'd know, and that quote was for part time work, not 16 hours a day. I know both personally, have seen their code and previous work, and trust them to have given a pessimistic estimate.

If you have tight, modular code following good practices (e.g. a relational backend, not an ORM), you have experience doing it before, there's no micro-manager, and with a clearly defined, functional spec, you can build robust things that scale well relatively quickly. We're not talking about a new Facebook here, merely copying 80% of the functionality of an existing product for a launch in markets with no competition, as greenfield. Also, it's not like a site like that would reach a million users in a couple of months, nor would it win design awards, but why should it? It just needs to process transactions accurately and list a bunch of shops across a few countries.

I do think that the global market for programming talent is like that for real estate here in Singapore: I pay around 2 grand a month, and my neighbours across the street something like 8-10 for the same space. It is what it is. You'd be amazed how "cheap" it can be to hire a greybeard these days, sometimes less than twice a fresh Stanford grad...
Not every.

But assume you have a json field with various, lets say, product attributes which might vary greatly between various products, let's say, based on the category they are in.

Hard drives for example might have a "capacity" field, whereas monitors might have a "screen size" field. Also assume that you have 10000s of products, 100s with completely different attributes, 1000s of distinct attributes across all products.

Now you want to add a search feature that allows to search for products based on these attributes (like "give me all products where screen_size=37 inches")

If you don't have any traditional columns with indexes you can use to limit the amount of rows, that query will either cause a sequence scan over all products, or you will have to create a functional index over the screen_size field in your JSON document which then only covers screen_size, but not, say, the disk_size.

This will mean that you will have to create 1000s of indexes (one for every custom attribute) which also means that you lose a lot of flexibility: Adding a new custom attribute now means that you have to add another index (or you'll suddenly have to deal with unexpected sequence scans).

Using jsonb and a gin index, you need exactly one index to find arbitrary key/value combinations in your json document, giving you the flexibility of trivially adding new attributes but just storing that in the json document.
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Well that still leaves the NSA with much more money per year than Harvard and Stanford combined, although that does not say much about the intellectual output.
'Skunk power' creates confusion over nuclear fusion
To what extent does Australia's tie to the Chinese economy deserve primary credit for Australia weathering the GFC?
No we are happily still in London and UK only.

We were in Royal London House with GoCardless and Smarkets. They were (and probably are still) about 1.5 yrs ahead of us in many ways. We also are lucky to have an early investor who is on the board of Zopa.

Most founders I know who have progressed for a few years have at least one or two founders under their wing informally.
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>Nothing stops Mozilla from supporting JPEG2000 except their nasty attitude in general. JPEG2000 is actually supported by many image editors, unlike APNG.

I think in most of these cases the real reasons are more mundane - spending the resources on supporting extra formats would give them no competitive advantage (and a significant cost in terms of maintenance and security). It sucks, but that's the capitalist system for you.
Reminds me of {placekitten} †, similar functionality delivered as a webservice.

† http://placekitten.com/
Where does it say it is inspired by Bret Victor?
Wow, this was a great read. I live in The Netherlands and was unaware of this project. Too bad it's one of a kind and only accomodates so little people; I'd love to be cared for in this way should I ever need it.
3.6% unemployment and virtually every store has an "help wanted" sign [1] on its front door. Japan is facing an incredible demographic challenge: Japanese population decline has really started 3 to 5 years ago (depending on the source), and it will be getting worse and worse in the next few decades. It means its internal market is essentially shrinking, which makes a terrible case for large investments.

That said the situation is not terrible for workers. I found a job here even though nobody in the company could even talk with me (my Japanese was really bad at the time). The first few months were interesting, we were just communicating with signs and drawings... Programming skills are few and far between in Osaka.

Conversely I know immigrants who took 5 years to find a job in France, which is in the opposite situation: population up, gdp flat, gdp per capita down.

[1] At shitty wage, as you can imagine...
Actually, makecontext should have just taken a single void pointer not a varargs...
It's a really bad narrative. Given the extreme, illegal erosion in privacy at the hands of the State, it sure seems a lot safer to bet on "all bad" or "pretty bad" when it comes to these tech giants doing deals with the NSA.
If you are interested in more images or detail, the village is called 'Hogeweyk'(meaning: higher area/borough), not Hogewey or Hogeway as the article states.
Nice looking device, I've seen it live.
Biased? No: experienced. I actually found Silicon Valley itself to be friendlier and more open, with fewer nasty status issues, than Boston.
Ask HN: Advices for fundraising in USA for European startup?
Hello, I'm the co-founder of Madbraz (http://madbarz.com/) - a personalized fitness app for bodyweight training. Bodyweight training is training without any equipment, based on exercises such as pushups, squats, running etc.

My first question is: what’s the best way for a European startup to raise money in the US? We’re ready to move there if necessary.

Secondly, can you list some good accelerators/VCs/Angels in the US that are operating in fitness space? How to look them up and what’s the best way to approach them?

Madbarz has a strong community with more than 200,000 FB fans (https://www.facebook.com/Madbarz.1), and over 60,000 people on the waiting list for our app, with 400+ new signups each day. Currently we are in a closed beta, with around 1,500 users testing the app.

The team behind Madbarz is from Croatia (Europe), and we have users from all around the world. Up to date we’ve raised $115,000 form Traction Tribe, a Hungarian investment fund (http://traction-tribe.com/), but we are planning to raise a new round in the 1st quarter of 2015.
I have so many feelings about this article. I feel so much sadness for the parents who need to use these kind of places, but yet I feel happy that the kids have somewhere to go and that the parent(s) can pay for it.

I still don't like it much. The article's projections just left my head shaking.

Someone needs to tell these programmers/marketers that there's a wee factor called "humanity" that they need to use when creating their algorithms. I wish it was as easy as that. :( Could someone enlighten me around this? I'm not in the US, and I have a hard time even thinking about everything being open 24/7. (New Zealand is where I reside)

Though, the people who run these wee centres are doing some selfless work. Absolutely amazing, and good on them for doing it. It makes me happy there's still people like that around. (I realise not everyone would be like the daycare in the article but I'd like to think so.)
Weev's own words are probably the best way to expose him:

http://weev.livejournal.com/409913.html

The fact that he goes to such lengths to sound reasonable and yet fails adds a very dark cast to the whole affair and appropriating the "politically correct" language of what he considers the enemy is a big part of Gamergate too.

He struggles to keep it up for long periods of time though, e.g. his reponse to a comment question, "do you support gamergate?":

"As much I can support a bunch of beta faggots crying about vidya.

I agree that feminist nutjobs are ruining the tech industry, of which I suppose the video game development industry is a subset. I'll agree that #GamerGate probably has moral superiority to a bunch of useless whores whining about shit that they profess to dislike yet still want to dominate and destroy anyways.

However, probably all of the /v/ and /gg/ faggots need to be more admirable and brutal in their tactics. This reasoned and polite dialogue that they are attempting with these degenerates and their histrionic shills is obviously not going to work. They need to start putting jackboots on the ground."
>The report carefully avoided discussing why there are no new jobs on a net basis in Boston. The government there is just a tad oppressive, the rebels of 1776 have turned into the redcoats of 2014 and all that.

Blaming the MA state government requires rather a lot of justification, considering the taxation levels are on par with California and MA doesn't (yet) even make noncompete agreements unenforceable.
Nation-states are constantly refinancing or issuing new debt, sometimes daily. The pool of potential creditors for this sort of debt is very limited, and will react pretty quickly to changes in almost any area of public policy by shunning your debt if rates are not to their liking. Also, some of this debt is auctioned, with results indicating what the market thinks of proposed rates.

So yeah, in practice creditors can alter rates.
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There is also these guides that provide plenty of information on how packages work and best practices:

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html

https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject
> They also included a bunch of things shut down ages ago to pad the numbers.

Why to pad the numbers? Didn't they just include them because it's the purpose of their site?
I pirated music when I was younger, I used Pandora for a while, for a while I only listened to podcasts, and I rarely listen to music and yet I'm a happy Spotify subscriber. They've made the experience so easy that I'd happily pay double the price for the maybe 4 hours a week I listen.
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I'm really unfamiliar with Spotify's reimbursement model. Is it based on the flattr model? Your $7 being split between the artists you listen to?
It seems to me in theory it should be possible to make the economics work. I suspect few people would buy more than one new CD per month, so if the monthly fee is roughly equal to the price of a CD, the money flow could remain kind of the same.

Maybe so far the industry depends on whales (people buying a LOT of music all the time), on the other hand subscription services might also make money from people who would otherwise have spent less.

Being free, people might listen to more music on Spotify than they would have listened to otherwise. But that only means the money could be distributed more evenly. Maybe I don't listen to Lana Del Rey 150 times, but overall I will listen to 150 songs, so those 0.99$ will still flow into the system and be distributed.
For C/C++ code that you can compile I highly recommend rtags.

It uses clang (llvm) to figure out all the cross-refs so doesn't have false positives from fuzzy matching.

rtags - https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags
vim plugin - https://github.com/lyuts/vim-rtags
I live in the Netherlands too, and I also never heard of it. But what I understand from it, it's not really a village, it's just a large complex in the city of Weesp (the article misspelled it as "Wheesp").
Despite having never heard of it, it saddens me we don't have more of these style of nursing homes. Last year my grandma passed away as a result of Ahlzheimer disease, she spent the last year of her life in a traditional nursing home, which was a really depsressing place, she would been far better of in a place like Hogewey.
I would like to pay for this. For example, reserve me a number for 5 days for 5 bucks. Is there already a service like this?
The WSJ is not "the last remaining quality paper". The FT is much better for finance news for a start.
Introducing a clueless additional middleman rarely solves a problems.
Ask HN: Now that VisualStudio is free and .NET is cross platform
Will they make Visual Studio cross platform too so you can use this awesome IDE in writing and compiling code for other platforms like linux and mac? I still haven't seen any way to compile my code from windows to linux.
The '10x' super star and other myths debunked:

https://leanpub.com/leprechauns/read
Yeah, economics has become very political and it doesnt help that the subject is pretty poor anyway in terms of evidence. The HN economics discussions are cringeworthy, just people shoving half understood falsehoods around.
"What is natural tells us nothing about what is right."

I wasn't talking about what was right, just about what is driving human behavior. You are free to believe women are not more valuable than men. But if you don't pursue wombs enough, your genes and your attitude will not make it into the next generation. That is not a tragedy, but it results in men valuing wombs being the majority.

Do you like sex? Would you rather have sex with a human or with a goat? Would you say that is merely a cultural issue, and people could be retrained to prefer sex with goats? Would you say those preferences are merely a cultural issue?

"All I'm saying is that your ignorance is so obvious"

Well you haven't convinced me of your authority. You didn't even provide a single example. Don't forget that men's lives were different in the past, too. Sure you can point out hardship for women, but without comparing to the hardships of men it is meaningless.

For one thing, it seems to me a lot of effort was spent in the past to protect women (shield them from war and hard labor). Sure there were downsides, too, but it doesn't seem obvious that society just despised women.
Pardon the longer quote, but I want to comment on this -

Rather than trying to understand both sides of the
issue and make the “right” decision, Hellman said
that in the heat of the controversy, he listened to
his ego instead.

It was not until Hellman watched Day After Trinity,
a documentary about the development of the atomic
bomb, that he realized how dangerous his decision-
making process had been. The moment in the film that
troubled him most, he recalled, was when the Manhattan
Project scientists tried to explain why they continued
to work on the bomb after Hitler had been defeated and
the threat of a German atom bomb had disappeared. The
scientists “had figured out what they wanted to do and
had then come up with a rationalization for doing it,
rather than figuring out the right thing to do and
doing it whether or not it was what they wanted to do."

This attitude - screw the consequences, let's just scratch my curiosity itch - is extremely common in tech circles. Cryptonomicon did a good job presenting this issue in a highly digested form - that is when the Avi character is setting up a data haven for all the good reasons and the only people that show up for the (funding) presentation are the criminals and rogue government agents. I was messing with anonymous private p2p systems at the time when the book came out and it was frankly a shock to read, because somehow it was an obvious angle that I never considered at all. I was just engineering stuff because it was really interesting, but never did I consider the consequences of actual application. Realizing that there's an ethical component to every technical project was quite an eye-opener and it had profound effect on how was viewing projects ever since. Perhaps it's obvious to some or a non-issue to others, but then perhaps there are those here who can relate...
Testing connectivity features in mobile games
'Weyk' is old Dutch for 'wijk' (area/district) which is smaller than a borough.

In the town Sliedrecht there is also an area called 'Merwebolder' which is a small 'wijk' for mentally disabled people housing around 400 people.
Very interesting article.

Nitpicking: Why do they give the cost for this solution "per month", and then for comparison the costs in the US "per day" and "per year"? Did they choose to make it harder to make a comparison??
This looks really nice. While I'd probably be unlikely to use this; I'm sure a lot of developers would love this.

Nice to see some very simple wrappers as well!

If I could suggest an improvement; it would be to support other countries' Netflix's. The templates are very similar so it's a case of using a VPN on some of the scrapers to access other countries' Netflix.
Thanks for sharing your deep insights.
> What do you mean by "delay in consumer spending" ? Oh, you mean like in the US when people buy everything at credit so that they don't have to wait, and have zero savings and huge debts as they go ? Is that the model you recommend ?

In the context of macro economics, delay in consumer spending actually means just that: They'll spend money later. You fancy a new car, but actually your current one still runs fine? You'll delay your spending and just drive your current car a year longer.
> One note, if you do clone the repo, make sure to use the --recursive option (as the readme instructs) since there are a bunch of other git repositories imported in the repo.

Doing this, you can tell that this guy really doesn't care for the Emacs package-repositories :)
The HN title is wrong. The original one is way better: "A Worm's Mind In A Lego Body".

Indeed it is not an "AI", it's just an "I", a simulated one since it is a software, but no behaviors have been programmed, it just emerge from the neural cells simulation. That's the whole point.
90% of everything is crap (except crap). Making a video about bad games does nothing to solve that. Maybe people are simply failing in making good games? That's life, not sexism.

Besides, there are already more good games available than any normal human being could play in a lifetime. That's why the "gamers are misogynist assholes" theory is insulting and just wrong. You could make the same kind of video about movies, or books, and claim moviegoers are misogynist and readers are misogynist. The only reason this game hater campaign sticks is because people were always suspicious of gamers to begin with. Hating on a large, inhomogeneous group can never be correct, it's the same mistake that makes racism and sexism work.

What would help in making more good games: creating good games. Criticizing the efforts of makers is just lame, especially if you are not interested in their products to begin with.

I'm not a fan of many of the "tropes" in video games myself. I feel insulted if a game tries to win me over with naked girls and violence. However, if some other people enjoy it, why should it bother me? Those games are not produced with tax payer money, they are produced with private investments. Why not let the free market sort it out?

I don't understand how people like you fail to see the inconsistency of your own argumentation: you are gamers yourself, yet you accept the accusation of gamers being misogynist. I assume you don't think of yourself as misogynist. So it should be obvious to you that the Sarkeezian-accusations are bullshit.
Thanks for the endorsement, Greg! Makes me incredibly happy to hear that you've had a positive experience with 10x.

Re: the praise for Michael Solomon, for the record, I (the technical partner at 10x) was originally very wary about starting this company with non-technical cofounders... but, at this point, the value they add to our clients and to our business is absolutely undeniable. Michael and Rishon are world-class advocates for talent.

Btw, you all can learn more about Greg (the parent commenter) in last week's Mashable profile of nomadic coders -- http://mashable.com/2014/11/09/digital-nomads/ -- and at his excellent blog, http://typicalprogrammer.com !
It's a myth propagated by certain economists who believe there is an optimum inflation rate and that this optimumum is around 2%. They also predict a great calamity if inflation falls below zero. In practice, experimental evidence tells us that this theory is complete rubbish.
Cool ... though the physics was disappointingly "classical" ;)
It's already easy to immigrate to Japan. It takes less than a month to get a work-sponsored visa. Much easier than the US H1B.
"and alloiwng".

Come on; a typo in the main jumbotron.
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Is it going to be open source?
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But is that because MJ was better than the others, or because his marketing played out better? There might be some factors independent of the skill of the individual that end up making a star.
Both my grandmothers spent about a decade each in nursing homes due to Alzheimers. Both of them had clearly been trying hard to conceal their dementia for several years prior to that, because they were terrified accepting that something was wrong, and terrified of ending in a nursing home.

Once things had gone so far that they could not take care of themselves, and could not manage with the help of their spouses, they just fell apart within months.
From my experience in the entertainment industry I always wish I could hire a manager to represent myself in negotiations with employers/bosses/etc - even if this would mean having to pay a 15-20% management fee on my salary. But I just can't convince my boss to negotiate with my agent...

You can train and optimize your negotiation skills all you want, but in my opinion it is extremely valuable to separate the "talent" from the "money". Top performers, no matter in what industry, are usually extremely passionated about their craft and undervalue the monetary value they can bring to the table.

Having a third party represent them puts a "neutral" monetary evaluation on them. Good management allows a much more strategic long-term development that focuses on value building and not just opportunity hopping.
> there's a humorous point: all "xxxxxx sciences" are /not/ sciences. compare political science, social science, computer science, earth science, with chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology. the real sciences don't need what ends up being a self-negating qualifier.

Certainly I see the humour in this humorous point, and in my most chauvinist moments as scientist (well, mathematician) might mutter it to myself, but I cannot agree with it as fact.

> computer science isn't a science because it's a hodgepodge of algorithms and miscellanea, and very little theory-building.

It sounds like you're discussing programming (which I think of as not yet a science—but I am no programmer), rather than computer science. There is certainly a rich theory behind computer science—indeed, there is a vein of computer science that is essentially just lightly 'applied' mathematics. Just see a random sampling of questions at http://cstheory.stackexchange.com if you don't believe it!
That does not mean it hurts the economy as a whole. Capitalism never predicts that growth should be skyrocketing every single year. When there are reasons for the consumption to decrease, it does and that's when new market opportunities arise for companies to grab new consumers, either by providing more affordable products, competing on features, or providing new payment options to make easier for consumers to scale their purchases.