skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While of course you're correct, it's a bit like saying "you can just pack up your code and run it somewhere else". If the entire architecture and workflow are based around proprietary AWS tools (Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic load balancers, RDS, Cloud Formation, autoscaling, etc) even if your code is technically portable, you're still suffering from vendor lock-in. Arguably worse than the bad old days of the Microsoft monopoly.
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Awesome! This is a good cause, I'll try to give some more money when I can afford it!
Good to know. Since I don't know what country you're talking about, can you give me some percentages to help me understand better?
"Here at fadgadg.et, we are making the internet of things a reality. Our beautiful SmartFondue comes with a exquisitely-designed iPhone 6 app that subtly notifies you when your cheese is ready. Integrating perfectly with the iOS UI, the app adjusts the lock-screen and main UI colour in perfect synchronicity with the SmartFondue itself, transitioning delightfully from virginal white to the deep golden yellow of perfectly-cooked cheese."
It's good to talk about, but not every article on performance needs to be prefaced with a talk about security. Being aware of the performance costs of your tools is just as important in many cases.

Besides, if we're talking about language design and compiler optimizations, there are plenty of ways to check overflow without resorting to a branch on every arithmetic operation.
Not a whole lot. In 2012, the most important thing I realized while making a deck was to state your problem, solution, and vision at the beginning.

Your deck shouldn't tell the whole story. YOU should be telling the story. And your slides should function as bullet points to tell that story.

In 2012, the only addition to our deck was a clearer sense of how we'd use the money with a use of proceeds section. I think that's unnecessary though. I think a "what we plan to do in the next 12-18 months" is more specific.
Just want to say to the PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB guys that it's always great to see the progress on this. My hopes for 9.5/10 is that we will see PLV8 and Replication baked into the actual release.

PLV8 is such a natural fit with the new JSON(B) types that it's probably going to become the most used extension with that data type... And imho sorely missing from the out of the box experience. I'm glad that they've concentrated on getting the data structure and storage right first. Hopefully we'll see this in vNext.

As to replication, I understand that this is part of EnterpriseDB's business model, just the same not having the basic replication pieces baked in, is still lacking compared to other databases. Even if the graphical tooling was commercial only, and all the knob frobbing via config or command line is more complex, having it in the box is a must imho. I actually really like how MongoDB handles their replica sets, and where RethinkDB is going with this as well. Though they aren't transactional SQL databases primarily, it's a must have feature these days. Replication with automagic failover is a feature that has gone past enterprise-only.

One last piece, would be if there were built in functions similar to the String.prototype.normalize that was added to JavaScript... so that input strings could be normalized easier for comparison/indexing, though PLV8 support could/would bring this readily.

All the same, thanks for all of your hard work, and I look forward to the future of PostgreSQL.
Agreed on all counts. At least build the tip into the cost, like the ride-sharing services do.

I'd vastly prefer doing away with tips altogether and just paying a living wage, but the least these services can do is to spare me extra work.
They're second-class, except for celebrity founders who call themselves "serial entrepreneurs" and can regard fundraising as an afterthought.

Having 60% of one startup, and having to do all the work, is inferior to having 20% of ten startups, and having power but no responsibility to any single one of them. Founders have more power within their specific companies (if things are going well) but investors have the power that matters, because they're diversified and involved in a large number of things.
How much time and money are europeans spending on this? the best way to deal with this is not having it in the first place. VAT itself is a really bad idea.
The only thing I would really read into in that pitch deck is their revenue and growth rate. VCs are not swayed by hip fonts and background colors (as much as we would all like to believe).
This is by design. Slides are supposed to be visual aids only. They are an accessory of the speaker, not vice versa.

When I prepare slides, I would use the notes field accompanying each slide for additional information that would be useful for someone reviewing the slides after the event. That way, I can still distribute them and get use out of them after the event, without sacrificing their effectivity during the event.
Even if it did, the interesting stuff can be filtered from the raw data and saved on the device.

Making customers depend on online service is a really hostile move. I wonder if the protocol between app and band can be reverse engineered to allow connecting other apps...
This sentence is wrong

"The change was made because EU wants to get more money from transactions for American companies – or to force them to move more operations to EU to get VAT reductions."

and it can be understood by just comparing the table right above, where you can see that for an American company based in the US (last three Non-EU rows) nothing will change, so no American company would be forced to move to EU.

What's true, on the other hand, is that this law would not allow some companies, including some big American ones (like Amazon) to take advantage of putting their European HQ in countries with lower VAT rate, like Luxembourg (15% til this year[1]), and so selling (invoicing) products to endusers for a lower price.

Same can be said for right after about this exact part "a perfectly legal strategy to pay less taxes". VAT is not paid by the company but by the private user that buys the product/service. So they didn't pay less taxes thanks to this, but probably sold more product.
If we want to discuss about saving taxes, we can discuss about tax rulings for this companies, though...

I am not a fiscal/economic guy but this girl got it all wrong...so I stopped reading at this point.

[1] due to this law, Luxembourg will raise its VAT from 15% to 17% trying to compensate the money loss caused by this change (afaik it won't be enough)
30 days / 5 weekdays per week = 6 weeks
Bandwidth available for EBS volumes varies. For instance, with EBS-optimized volumes it can be 500Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps, or 10Gbps, depending on the instance type, as shown in this chart from an Amazon presentation:

http://cl.ly/image/440b142t0T1x/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-18%2...

The "NA" of the 8xlarge instance types is because there's no ebs-optimization as an optional feature on that instance type; you automatically get access to 10Gbps.

Here's a video of the whole talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OH4-Hx3tlE

Here's the slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stg302-28617072
SPOT app launches to help discover the coolest products
I invite you to read the article I posted before commenting next time.

I also invite you to understand that 33% in politics is a huge minority. 67% of Hispanics voting Democrat, in an election, make the Democrats the clear winner of that particular demographic.

Finally, the "rich" are the top 10%, or 1%, or even 0.1% based on what particular income inequality chart you're looking at, leaving the entire bottom >=90% available for the demographics I mentioned.
A Japanese inn owned by the same family for 1,300 years [video]
It's a trend. When all your friends share sepia coloured photos, and yours are boring normal colour, they stand out. People don't like to stand out. Also, a nice purpleish filter is perfect to hide skin imperfections!
If the government opened your mail and made a copy while it was in the possession of the USPS would that count as seizure? search? What if they automated the process?
Pretty epic video. Looks like it must of cost a lot to produce though, at least 50k? Anyone with experience have an idea?
I wanted to comment on these exact same things, e.g. "nobody takes DLP seriously" and "this is a serious organization-wide failure". You have done a nice job highlighting them. Unfortunately your comments are buried in the middle of a very long discussion.

In general, in the numerous discussions I've read so far, people are much more focused on this breech itself, not on the root causes nor how to prevent these types of breeches in the future.
Ah well. I work on zSeries mainframes, and this architecture does support interrupts on integer overflows (as well as many other number formats). So I thought that x86 architecture already got that option too.
From the article you linked "That's about $34 a day per homeless person"

$34*365 = $12,410.
I had to laugh when I saw my response next to @getsat's. Both are valid viewpoints. In other words, not everyone who uses tools has to know how to make tools.

Tool makers have more insight into the assumptions behind the tools they create -- they might know how a tool was meant to be used and what its limits are. That being said, there are times when using a screwdriver as a hammer is expedient and does no harm. Of course, there are other times where using Black-Scholes to model a high-volatility market outside of the 'smoothly differentiable' market assumptions it was built on can crash a large part of the economy. It can be a dangerous game to use someone else's tools without knowing their assumptions.

As for applied math suggestions:

1) Watch Feynman's take on applied math in physics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obCjODeoLVw

2) Read this essay "A Mathematician's Lament" which points out the math learned in school is likely not really mathematics and that surprisingly math is not practical but aesthetic -- mathematics is closer to art than we are taught:
http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.p...
This is a woefully confusing decision on my part. There are actually two features: mouse-follows-focus and focus-follows-mouse.

The former just means the cursor moves along with window focus. So if you cycle to the next window clockwise, the cursor moves to the center of that window. Or if you focus a window on another display, the cursor moves to the center of that window. This makes it really convenient to do things like navigating between spaces on multiple displays as the display with the cursor is the one who responds to space switching.

The latter is probably what you're thinking of. You move the cursor and the window underneath it comes into focus. It's kind of experimental and still seems to be fairly buggy, though.

The "impossible" thing is that in OS X there is no distinction between the window that is focused and the window that is the keyboard responder, so the classic idea of focus-follows-mouse doesn't work. I haven't found the distinction personally very meaningful.
Most implementations that allow them, from those I've seen only take the last (in actual order) value...
You're right, lots of amateur-hour developers might still be using mongodb
Well, theoretically you could simply add that to your hosts file permanently or patch their app to send the info to your server instead then write your own web application to handle it. Or fully reverse engineer the interaction with the hardware and write a new smartphone app instead.
There's a pizza chain that does this for online orders, and it drives me crazy. I don't tip until after service is rendered, because tipping ahead of time insures nothing. There's no place to put a custom note on the order either, so I have to order by phone. It's good for them that they have great pizza, because I'm sure this turns off a lot of potential customers, but not me.
Not directly, but higher taxes tend to go hand-in-hand with the gov't ensuring a higher average standard of living.
Different problems, but vendor lock-in isn't really one of them imho. If you are skilled enough to setup pg instead of using RDS you can always move off it to systems under your control.

If you don't have the skills, you can migrate to another provider like Heroku.

As far as my experience, they aren't extending PG in non-compatible ways.
Agree that in hindsight web browsers was a dumb thing to take down MS over. It was difficult at the time to make the claim that a browser-less computer would someday be effectively useless, but that point came.

The lawsuit should have been over their Office suite. (And no, in the end, the best product did not win.)
Record of past warming shows carbon was emitted fast–and twice
What Are the Limits of Police Subterfuge?
You don't need to (and if you ever do, you will have or recruit the know-how)

http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/big-data/
Duet Display for iOS now available: use your iOS device as a second screen
Heap [1] actually does a good job of what you're asking for.

They have these flows that chart the user's path through your site, so you can see where, when and why they dropped off where and when they did.

1. https://heapanalytics.com/
The size of the bar doesn't represent usage. If you hover over, for example, Chrome 39, you will see it has 0.13% of global usage.
True enough... I can't even begin to wrap my head around the XML wrangling functions in T-SQL, I feel like a n00b copying JS methods for jQuery when I go there. That said, it's probably one of the easiest RDBMS servers to administrate for small-medium sized deployments.
At the end of the year why does it matter what my VAT burden is anyway? As long as I have enough cash in the bank to pay for the things I need, and my bank account isn't negative at the end of the year, then I'm fine right? What behaviors are you trying to support?
Thanks for this advice Michael
Your health insurance doesn't cover non-covered expenses.

That retirement plans aren't a mystery doesn't negate needing 8+% returns to comfortably retire.
https://www.secret.ly/p/cdipjjrrdgfrdgayrhgdfrryly
The State of Consumer Technology
Same here, have the skills to run it but not the motivation - rather spend all the time on product dev.

Our one exception was PLV8 support, and RDS added that a couple months ago.
jkulmala, the other part of your claim is wrong: "The change was made [...] to force them to move more operations to EU to get VAT reductions". After Jan 1, 2015, there will be zero VAT-related incentive to move to the EU, because any company (EU or non-EU) will get the same VAT reductions: the VAT in the customer's country.

Edit: yes, I meant VAT "reductions" not "payments". My point holds though: there won't be any more VAT incentives to move.
In this action, AT&T was compelled to fork their traffic to an NSA monitoring room. This was a step that added overhead that, I would think, exceeded mere observation.

It's not like they posted a man on a hill to watch the traffic go by (or a pair of blimps in MD...) They required AT&T's coöperation to proceed here. Like putting a checkpoint on the road.
I was thinking recently that at this point, I'd only feel comfortable opening up a retail business if a significant part of the business was oriented toward short notice purchases, as that would be somewhat protected from Amazon and other online retailers.

With this development that "short notice" protection doesn't seem so concrete.
Just to counter everyone who says "learn another language like Haskell", I completely disagree.

You're at the point where you know some language and OOP at a decent level. You now need to invest time learning things like data structures and algorithms that are APPLICABLE to your work.

Keep adding incremental knowledge, but make sure it is having a direct benefit to your work at all times.

The "learning paradox" of having to master languages repeatedly is a waste of time at a junior level. You'll continuously invest in a new language without ever finding it applicable (eg. "learn java, learn JS, learn CSS/HTML, learn python, learn ruby, learn haskell, learn rust, then learn x-framework for each language, learn y-framework cause someone on the internet said x-framework is too bloated, learn this, learn that ...").

As your questions on line 3 asks, I say invest in the higher-level concepts that work across languages. Focus on a domain (some language, 1 or 2 frameworks, a DB) and stick with it.

And, as others have said, find a mentor. If you want to keep freelancing, you'll find a mentor at a meetup. You will definitely gain a lot from experience over a book/tutorial in certain situations.
Much like Android, Chrome does not have very fine-grained permissions. On the plus side, it's pretty much just a zip file so it's easy to open it up and see what it's actually doing.
This is not true at all. Copying papers and documents was very common and expected in that time, and it has been since the dawn of writing. The 4th amendment is clearly meant to protect against this:

"The right of the people to be secure in their [...] papers [...] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

Why should the amendment protect papers if it is only the physical page that is protected and not the actual information?

It is more of a question of what is reasonable -- does a person know who has access to their information? Do they put their information out there with the understanding that it isn't private? The very basic idea here is that people should know what rights and privacies they have, and violating the conditions where they can reasonably expect privacy should be illegal.
Is your complaint that a hospital can charge you for a service that was rendered, that they perform services you might have to pay for, or that they assume you're not interested in rate-shopping your surgeon?

Yes, you are legally obligated to pay for services rendered. I think you'll be hard pressed to find someone to argue the opposite, though.
The talk wasn't actually about intercal. It was about BS which was inpsired in a minor way by intercal.
Building a RESTful api in Node.js using hapi v8
I've written migration unit testing tools before between SQL Server and PostgreSQL specifically (there are specific gotchas between the two).

If you need help migrating to PGSQL send me an email and I'll help you escape from MSSQHell. :D
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>"[...] would be admitting that VAT is a regressive hidden tax on employees"

Could you elaborate a little more on that? I'm curious of your reasoning.
Localytics does that pretty well. In their funnel view, you can see, for each step in the funnel, it shows a comparison of users who went on to the next step of the funnel vs. users who did not, and highlights a diff of their actions.
What about the other costs of the ritual? That is, the implicit disenfranchisement of those that cannot afford, whether literally, or as a result of differing social norms, to abide by these arbitrary practices. Given what the court system stands for, namely equality and fairness, how can one reconcile the preservationist and exclusionary nature of these standards with those ideals?

Frankly speaking, I don't think that a whole generation (or several) of people wearing t-shirts in court is going to do much to change the judiciary's ability to reign in the executive. If current practice is any indication, the executive will flout judicial decisions just as it already does with legislative ones: behind closed doors and with "creative" interpretations of said decisions.
To give $50 to a charity through Amazon Smile, you'd have to spend $10K. Still pretty nice of Amazon I guess, but if you'd rather not deal with the extra Amazon Smile extensions and junk, most people could just do a $5 or $10 to the EFF and be done.
I'm not familiar with Rust, but I wonder how much copying this does for deeply nested types?
Show HN: Repo/tag names, pre/post-build scripts, maintained in the Dockerfile
The title does not properly convey the awesomeness that is the awful language he invents.
Spot the signed integer overflow here that leads to undefined behavior on targets where "int" is 32-bits:

uint32_t leToWord(uint8_t bytes)
{
return bytes[0] |
bytes[1] << 8 |
bytes[2] << 16 |
bytes[3] << 24;
}
Many young people simply assume I am not up-to-date because of my age.

In reality I invest a great deal of money in technical books, as well as time in reading them, and writing code for the exercises in the books.
How Exercise Changes Our DNA
Honestly I'd be shocked if an ER doctor knew the price of a service before doing. They probably know a general range (give or take a few hundred dollars?) for a given test, but even that I'm mostly guessing on.

Unless they're a small operation, I don't know that they'd have any direct visibility into the billing/insurance/finance side of the operation. Maybe that is the issue? I don't know how to combat that in a large hospital setting.

The one time I had surgery I ended up getting 3 separate bills for varying amounts, but any time I asked for documentation about a given procedure or test it was provided in writing well before the due date of the bill.
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It seems to be a continuation of PEAR's research program in some form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Engineering_Anomalie...
Just heard about Shyp yesterday. Seems like it's the same idea but selling the concept of regular people helping each other for a more personal service (like Uber, Lyft). I kind of like that approach. http://www.shyp.com/heroes
I don't agree with your possible beliefs. What about:

3. Since we tested this change on a subset of A and a subset of B, we can assume it will work for all of A and all of B.
Yep. MySQL isn't dead yet, either. :-)

I'm not familiar enough with MongoDB (or Postgres 9.4) to really answer the original question. My guess is that Mongo will still be applicable to certain use-cases, but—like you mention—the majority of users will be those who really don't understand the technologies and their strengths/weaknesses.
There are some open-source options, and several closed source options for this... parts are closer to baked in with 9.4, but being realistic, you need to defer to a commercial option.

EnterpriseDB pricing for this isn't too bad (about $7k/cpu-socket/year), which is a lot less than MS-SQL, DB2 or Oracle for most uses... but it's imho a feature that should be in the box.
First off, thank you ianyh!! Tiling window managers are a huge productivity tool, and when I see people manually resizing windows, it's painful to watch. I'm on OSX now, but used XMonad extensively when I was on a *n?x distro.

At the moment, I'm using Spectacle for OSX. http://spectacleapp.com/. Are there reasons I should use Amethyst instead? I'd love to see a feature matrix or something in you FAQ about the other options, and what Amethyst brings to the table.
I'm kind of excited about the REGEX macro definitions