skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truthfully, I've never run an ad blocker before, until over the summer I got extremely fed up with a particular web site that I keep going to out of old habit (slashdot.org). A couple times I left a browser tab on the site, and in the middle of the night some video ads started playing through the computer speakers. And over the summer, I was at the camper on a hotspot connection, and accidentally burned through my entire month's bandwidth allotment because accidentally left their front page open when I went hiking for a few hours. Again, those aggressive video ads.

Slashdot's auto-refresh, which can't be disabled without some technical tinkering, is horrible, just horrible. I've left feedback that they should include an option to disable auto-refresh, but was ignored. I guess it's more profitable to ignore your users and force more ads on them.

I installed Adblock Plus and tweaked some Chrome settings to get the system to mostly ignore Slashdot's horrible auto-refresh. It still sometimes scrolls my page a bit, though, which is still annoying.
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Sony has now pulled ‘The Interview’ from theatres
Julian Assange weighs in on Barrett Brown sentencing delay
I'm pointing some insects can be indistinguishable from other kind of meat, if not sausages. Tarantulas taste like shrimp or lobster, ants with flour taste like pork because it's fried in fat.

And I've eaten those if that's enough evidence, it's available in my country.

Seriously, that response of yours was uncalled for. This is not a pissing contest.
Surely customers will be able to choose 1 or 2 hour delivery before they make their purchase?
My point was that of the group of 'vocal detractors', most of them are going to be the same people who are currently saying "Hey relax, it's just a movie, a comedy".
One more anti-pattern to avoid during interviews - don't be the naysayer during your interview!

If they say they're going to be trying "technology/algorithm/framework X", don't immediately say "that will never work!". Sure you've got 30 years of experience and you've tried that and failed with it 15 times but they're young and impressionable and they can do anything. Plus they might be right in this instance!

Instead, you're the flexible guy who balances his experience, intuition and caution with the realization that while X might have failed you in the past, there might be situations where it's the right fit. So play the wise sage and say something like "that's an interesting idea, I'd be careful about Q, R and S but if it's implemented correctly that might be exactly the right plan (for instance, sometimes people really do need a NoSQL database, but often it should be put next to an RDBMS ... don't just choose one!). And you'd certainly like to be on the team working with X right? (you are presumeably at the job interview to get the job).

So the right play during the interview is to look like you'd be a valuable member of the team. Once you've joined the team you can help guide them to a proper solution - whether or not it includes X.

Bonus: Do not in ANY CIRCUMSTANCES get drawn into flame wars during your interview. Editors, IDEs, editors versus IDEs, languages and frameworks are tools - your position is that you use the one that best fits the project and maximizes productivity.
Or, if you prefer: http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/xjpl01/the-word---rand...
Regardless of your views on Ayn Rand, this journalist goes to a week long conference and writes about two talks? Click bait. Pass.
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Congrats to Suhail and team. They have done absolutely incredible work with Mixpanel, building the world's best analytics solution, starting from a tiny team and against stiff competition.
I would like to see Yahoo on iOS (even tho I don't use it), because I want to see Google to have a competitor. And in the last few years Google is getting stronger and stronger. I hope Yahoo gets a chance.

Where are this rumors from?
Assange – statement on the sentencing hearing of US journalist Barrett Brown
> Google is trying to help the brick-and-mortar companies compete with Amazon

I'm not sure that wording is accurate. Google is leveraging the brick-and-mortar companies to compete with Amazon and collect more data about its users. Arguably some of the most valuable data they could get; spending and buying habits.

I doubt Target is thrilled that Google is looking to inject themselves as a middleman between them and their customers. Target has historically leveraged customer buying habits pretty aggressively [1]. I'd be surprised if their execs aren't frantically trying to figure out how to keep Google from "helping" them compete with Amazon.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
Minus Mjolnir, I've tried the rest and still prefer Slate[1] but it hasn't been updated since Feb 2013. Actually I had never heard of Mjolnir before now. I like Slate's ability to define a config file that is just a little more powerful than the competition, plus it's easy to sync across machines. I haven't updated to Yosemite, but Slate works wonderfully on Mavericks.

[1]: https://github.com/jigish/slate
See that's a seperate app that exists on one platform, while FB Messenger is cross platform and already used by most people, so adding one feature (while anathema to the way companies are doing this atm, opting to make each feature an app) would instantly overtake a lot of the value of snapchat.
BetterTouchTool has the same functionality as the snap tool baked in, and it's free!

(In preferences look at "Action Settings" in the advanced tab).

http://www.bettertouchtool.net/
From the time of the telegraph traders and markets have always been trying to get an speed edge. This has never stopped and likely never will. The meaning of HFT changes with the times.
There is actually a lot of overlap in the feature set. When I moved from MSSQL to a gig that was all Postgres it was fairly smooth to do so, the main differences being OS related. Thus you don't need to switch over entirely to add a useful tool to the toolbox.

MSSQL has some advantages in parallel query execution and data warehousing enhancements - if you can afford the licensing for the latter. The other view on that is you can tip up as many Postgres production instances as you have hardware for without impacting the software budget.
I understand that VCs value succinct, but not sure what the value of this is to anyone else. Other than to beat home the point that VCs like succinct.
It is also very buggy around fullscreen apps, enough so that I stopped using it after a week. Slate et al worked much better for me (still slower than TWMs on linux) but forced or at least tempted more setup which is definitely the benefit of Amethyst.
To the extent it's an audience thing, it's got more to do with the audience not knowing what would or wouldn't be a credible thing to say about the internal workings of the search and "deals" team inside Google.

If anything, I'm inclined to think charitably about Google, because my contacts there are on the security team and are uniformly excellent people.

I know the feeling though; I've taken similar swings at deadpan humor and struck out, too.
Where you see hell I see market forces making everyone freer and more powerful.

Once everything has intelligence, we'll need to manage that intelligence. We need one phone app and not dozens.

There's only one thing I can see that can make that happen. Open protocols. Open device APIs. Then we can make our own management apps. Oh what a wonderful day that will be.

When I can coordinate my bathroom scale with the app that manages my grocery list. When I can automatically start my car at 8:30 am, but only if my shower ran. When I can actually teach my house to understand whether I'm actually there or not.
Outside of docker, most people aren't using snapshots super heavily, which sounds like the root cause here.
That's a great response. Thanks.

I suggest that you put this detail on your website - it's a compelling argument for the product (apologies if it's already there but I couldn't find it if so).
I'm stuck with an old version that I haven't been able to update yet, and it recently started uploading images and documents with full write permissions. The TinyMCE support team tells me that's not possible, but that sure is what it looks like to me.
I hope this does not come across as cynical.

As an engineer my first thought when I saw what it printed was how do you turn a bolt with a plastic wrench without breaking the wrench?
People are irrational constantly.
Syncing Postgres to Elasticsearch: lessons learned
I'm no algo trader, but I used to think the same way you do about math. I found that studying physics really gave me that first appreciation for how awesome math really is, and how it can be used to model so much of our world.
Honestly, I like getting out of the house and going to the store. Not every day, I do my share of buying online. But there are plenty of times I'd rather go out and I'm not tempted to sit around and wait to be brought something, even if it could come within the hour.

I often do reverse show-rooming. I'll browse through a real bookstore, which is fun, but I'll look up reviews on mobile and factor that into my buying decisions.
I really wish they would invest in helping their users answer the "Why" question more. Why did users click that link 5000 times? Why is this funnel dropping off? Why did the time-to-first-interaction increase?

These are questions for the business, but I feel like Mixpanel could add so much more context. "We noticed that 'time to first interaction' has gone down with 'watched home page video'." That would at least be a clue.

MP has the data, but all of that analysis is manual (or was, last time I used it).
Any ISBN or link for that? Google mostly returns old unrelated titles.
"Disrupting vocabulary"
How I Reduced the Idle Energy Drain of 2048 app by 87% using Eprof
2015 is so going to be the year of personalization and actionable analytics. Seeing this stuff everywhere.
In what I'm sure is just a coincidence, the group bragging about 'winning' the comment period (who are a notorious Koch front group: http://i.imgur.com/YE4kpt1.png) just happened to have written a legal opinion to the FTC in support of the Comcast / TWC merger as well:

[Warning, .RTF file download since Imgur is down, page 196:] http://www.shareholder.com/visitors/activeedgardoc.cfm?f=rtf...

Excited to see which new donors show up in their 2014 financial filings.
"100% windproof"

Downtown in any big city would probably prove that to be wrong very quickly. Toronto destroys umbrellas.

They make some nice claims WITHOUT any warranty at all.
The taxes has to be handed in as well, not just charged on the customer. So not only do you need to do the database lookup, you also need to wire the money and fill out any paperwork the customer's country-of-purchase requires.
Exactly. Google isn't trying to help anyone but themselves, that's business 101. Just like Instacart is helping themselves by leveraging Whole Food's inability to delivery groceries to customers.
Baidu claims deep learning breakthrough with Deep Speech
A few: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyle-denniston/gingrich-suprem.... A few more times, e.g. with Japanese internment, the court has capitulated and decided in a way that aligned with what was going to happen anyway. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_switch_in_time_that_saved_n....
Kudos to the hardworking team. I'v always thought that Google would acquire them, but their commitment and goal driven startup means a lot to their clients at this point, which is awesome.
Ever ordered a pizza? 1 hour delivery doesn't come close to any kind of realistic safety margin.
It's a draw on cost too, as Prime prices are sometimes inflated beyond other stores or even the regular retail price.

As for convenience, those without a doorman always think twice before placing orders online.
Since the principles of photography post-dated the Constitution, I'd say it's a fair assumption that in its time the expectation was that exclusive access would be needed to (laboriously) copy something.

But it's kind of pedantic to argue over a single word.

The pertinent question is 'Do the views espoused by the Constitution as a whole (and subsequent case law) offer an opinion on the rightness of mass copying-without-exclusive access?'

Which is pretty thorny indeed. IANAL, but from what I've read it seems as though the Supreme Court is steadily trending more towards supporting an inherent right to privacy as a buttress against decisions that would otherwise feel wrong.
Will it also be available for android any time in the future?
This is a good first step.
The GSLV has been notoriously difficult to get right for ISRO.

Next step is to get the Cryogenic Upper stage to actually provide the critical thrust that will finally power it into a GesSyncronous orbit. On this mission it was bolted on but passive.
> just how did whatever Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution that Sony uses miss terabytes of data flying out of their network? How did their sophisticated on-premise perimeter security appliances miss such huge anomalies in network traffic, machine usage or host relationships? How did they miss Sony’s own edge being hijacked and used as public bittorrent servers aiding the exfiltration of their data?

In my experience, nobody takes DLP seriously, except maybe [some] government. It's more of a "At least we know about this issue; nobody feels like dealing with it, so just flag it and continue as normal." In fact, almost all DLP and similar systems i've seen were intended to only record violations so they have evidence to litigate with later.

> It’s clear from the leaked data that Sony has a culture which doesn’t take security very seriously. From plaintext password files, to using “password” as the password in business critical certificates, through to just the shear volume of aging unclassified yet highly sensitive data left out in the open. This isn’t a simple slip-up or a “weak link in the chain” – this is a serious organization-wide failure to implement anything like a reasonable security architecture.

This is all large organizations. All of them. As one previous manager so eloquently put it: "There are too many security violations for us to fix; all we can do is prioritize and go after the biggest fish." The only places that take security seriously are places that hire BOFH-quality security nazi managers.

> Who do I think is behind this? My money is on a disgruntled (possibly ex) employee of Sony.

Or a contractor (e.g. Snowden)
It is the programmers job to check for overflow. There are a lot of comments here about having a language check for overflow, but that is not practical. Specifically, the language doesn't know what to do in the case of overflow. The best it could possibly do is throw an exception, and I suppose that's what those commenters want it to do. But it's still up to the programmer to decide what to do and implement something. Are you going to do that for every math operation in a program? If not then you're already thinking about where potential problems may occur. Sometimes you want an overflow. I like to use 16 bit values to represent angles from 0 to 360 degrees - you can add and subtract these and never need to worry about the wraparound - I don't want that to throw an exception. If your code is going to overflow when you don't expect it to, you've got a bug and the language isn't going to be able to save you.

I feel like noobs hitting an overflow for the first time think the world would be better if the machine could "just take care of it".

That said, one solution to overflow in some cases is saturating arithmetic. Supported on some processors, but by no languages that I know of. That may be worth considering.
IIRC release is the default when testing or benching.
I'm pretty sure that for smaller companies the overhead and added complexity erases any benefit of a more competitive price. Just look how many people are considering not selling to customers in other member states.

Which is btw the exact opposite of what EU was supposed to promote. Doing business within EU should be simpler so that we could compete against companies operating in the unified American market.
The SSD EBS claims a default performance of 3 IOPS/GB with a burst of up to 3000 IOPS with a 99% consistency. One of my larger instances uses SSD EBS and so far I am happy with it. In particular, I was very impressed how much faster updating Ubuntu was when I first booted the instance. I am planning to move my Postgres RDS instance to SSD EBS next week. I think (I hope) it will fix a particular stall my application experiences sometimes.
Regardless of whether they're backed by SSD, all EBS volumes on an instance sit behind a 1 Gbps pipe (except for the more exotic and expensive instance types). That's part of the reason why Amazon talks about IOPs instead of raw disk bandwidth.

Go ahead and run:

$ sudo du -hs /*

..on a vanilla m3.* instance and run iotop in a different session. You'll see bandwidth numbers that 2002 would be embarrassed about.
So like everyone without a job, I’ve started to learn Rust. And like everyone who has started to learn Rust, I now feel it is very important to tell you about my experience with it.

Well, that sums that up pretty succinctly. :)
What does the local store win on?

I think in the long-run, it'll be price.

Sure, in the short-term, Amazon can do what they do and undercut on price, but in the modern age, Wal-Mart has pretty much figured out the optimal model of inventory storage/distribution and the model of keeping inventory on-hand and having customers come to them enables them to do this at an incredibly large scale and at razor-thin margins. Yet they are still margins.

As we have seen before, delivering products at that scale and selection via delivery is extraordinarily challenging to do profitably. Amazon can do a lot of things, but one thing I don't think they will ever be able to do is bring products to peoples' doors at a cheaper price than Wal-Mart can store inventory in large stores and distribute to customers who come to them. There are just too many complexities around the delivery/customer service/quality control processes to make the economics work out.
MP is only ever going to be able provide you with analytics from on your site, so it's going to be able to miss the greater context. The greater context of user interests would give the motivation of why someone's engaging with something or not.
Upvote for the Swingline ref. I needed that.
What most don't realize is that Amazon is taking on Fedex, UPS, and the USPS by doing it themselves for profit. This is actually very smart if you can solve the logistics problem long term because this model can be leveraged in many other cities.
It's in no way clear that Amazon wins on selection. In 25K SKUs, Amazon will have electronics, but almost certainly hace fewer SKUs than a dedicated electronics store. They will have groceries, but not as many as a grocery store. They will have clothing and housewares, but surely only a small sampling relative to Macy's.

I shop at Amazon Fresh in Seattle sometimes, and the selection is significantly trimmed relative to pretty much any local grocery store I can walk into. The tradeoff is the convenience of not having to go to the store and spend my time traversing the aisles.
Umm. He's not a journalist. He's an academic. And he's hardly obliged to do blow-by-blow reportage of an entire event.
...in exchange for a number of different problems including (in no particular order): severe vendor lock-in, mediocre to acceptable performance, and relatively high cost per unit of performance.
Let me elevate a comment in a subtread to the top level: nuclear winter is bunk, real effects would be on the scale of historical volcanic eruptions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8768412

BUT, if you want a disaster of that scale, nature will be happy to provide! Just have a big meteorite hit an ocean; hitting a big and deep body of water is critical, because otherwise "too much" of the heat radiates back into space. That's a big reason the vast majority of fielded nuclear weapons never got very big, there effects doesn't scale well.

There's some good science fiction that covers this and how to respond, email me at my contact address if you want a recommendation that is necessarily a spoiler.
Yet that same phenomenon means that losing your phone feels like losing all the objects tracked by your phone. I agree that this can be done well if we try but it should also be so resilient that you can be on a new phone with the same applications, data and settings in just a few minutes.
Isn't that what you being in your space is about? Understanding the "Why"? If someone else can do that automatically, you're no longer needed in that space.
Regardless of the "open source" nomenclature, this is actually pretty helpful. Not a lot of sizzle and flash in these slides, just hard numbers and facts. That can be harder for a younger company, where there is less data to pull from. But the matter-of-fact nature of the deck is key. You should have a vision, but you need to back it up with an actual execution plan and reasons for why that plan is achievable.
I've seen this "limitation" mentioned in various online forums, such as the following.

"Mac OS X interface and ergonomy is (as said by apple) not 'compatible' with the focus-follow mouse mode. Why ? Because a single application interface is split into lots of different elements. For exemple, you use an application like photoshop or word, you'll have different panels floating around the main window. With sloppy focus mode enabled, with an application below, you would'nt be able to reach them. And how should they consider the desktop, which is, finally, just a 'root' window managed by the Finder..."[1]

Here are some more.

"Sadly, it seems that for the time being there is no good way to do this in OS X."[2]

"The fundamental problem with sloppy focus on the Mac is that the menu bar is always associated with the currently focused application; if you had sloppy focus, accessing the menu bar for a specific application would be supremely difficult."[2]

[1] - http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000149.html#comment-...

[2] - http://superuser.com/questions/27306/focus-follows-mouse-or-...
The description of it as "lasting no more than a few seconds" is inaccurate, as shown by the notation (at http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/Varelli%... with a modern transcription at http://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/inner-images/...). The first two texted lines "Sancte bonifati ... digneris" with the points and squiggles right above the words are typical plainchant notation as found in a lot of early manuscripts (pre-diastemmatic, not staff notation); while the two textless lines up top which look more like modern notes are the 'accompaniment' to that plainchant. FWIW those two top lines look nothing like other notation from that period.
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I am pretty happy about the addition of ALTER SYSTEM. I haven't tried it yet, but I think it will make automatic failover to a standby easier to implement. Does anyone have experience with this?
Johann-Dietrich Woerner to Be Director General of ESA
Happy to answer questions if other founders have any on the topic of fundraising, pitch decks, etc.
Or even if you only happen to have a pretty standard skill-set, but are reasonably good at what you do, good at selling yourself, and happen to be connected with the right sort of people. (Though making $2000 a day might also require being quite hard-working, depending on what you do.)
Don't forget to downvote both comments, Randians!
Ask HN: Why is there no datatype “rows of (another) table” in databases?
This way we could still do:
1<->M
M<->M
1<->1
No more handeling of IDs and if you don't want the DB to do the "implicit join" just omit the column.
Would we loose any kind of flexibility?
I strongly suspect that I am missing something here but I don't know how to find information / search for it.