skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me that there are 2 big benefits over sizeup (though i'm basing this entirely on their website, i've not used it)

1 - With sizeup you have to manually move your apps around. With this, new windows are automatically tiled (and you can then move things around afterwards with the keyboard shortcuts)

2 - This seems like it supports more complex layouts (with various layouts built in)
Agreed. A few sentences in the README would do wonders.
Not if I use a camera to take a picture of it, from which I can look at it to make a copy.
I hear where you're coming from, but this isn't a stable budget. It's living in two-month feast/famine cycles rather than one-month ones.

I would wager that most professional freelancers do plan as well as I've described. And by that, I mean people who are into freelancing for the long haul and not just between full time gigs.

And, to be totally honest, I actually don't structure my finances like this (although I'm a very long-term freelancer). I have my own techniques. But I would consider this to be the baseline for not going insane and/or getting kicked out of one's apartment.
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JSONB is getting a lot of attention (and deservedly so) but logical decoding is much more exciting to me. Being able to capture postgres transactions to put into a durable log (like Kafka) for downstream processing is a fundamental tool needed to build a unified logging architecture. If you've worked with hadoop you've probably tried to approximate this by hand by taking regular snapshots of your database or something, but this is much, much more sane. Really exciting. Great work postgres team!
Out of interest how much would you charge to sign an NDA? I guess it depends on the content but what do you think is reasonable?
ICANN employees fell for fishing attacks
Merry –unplugged– xmas from Berlin
Because multi-master clustering is extremely hard to do when you need transactional semantics. For those that need it, scaling up is by far the easiest path. Most of us will never exceed the growth rate of server capacity over time, so you can just keep going up. HA using stand-bys and failover is well documented, and quite sufficient I might add.

If you don't need transactional semantics and you do need globally distributed multi-master key/value storage, I would not switch from Cassandra to PG, you already have a good solution for that.

If you don't need transactional semantics and you also do not need globally distributed multi-master key/value storage, use whatever you want, it doesn't really matter.
Yep! Although the result might be the same, the technique used is synthetic biology. Usually the synthetic route is more expensive but a lot simpler.
Would you share your phone with your best friend?
HFT shops compete for real estate and hiring (especially this and fiercely - non-complete clauses and lawsuits are standard) with each other but in terms of their trading competition it varies widely based on what algos they use.

An algo is basically just a trading strategy (sure, there's a basic set of these) but speed of data collection/processing and execution gives you more options. You can design an algo to hunt other HFTs or not. You can also trade against HFTs if you're not.
_Beginning Postgres_, Cooper Press (2015)
Does it actually exist? I'm interested, but I'm always dubious when I see a shipdate that is in the future.
> They can't outright claim they did it; because that would be an act of aggression.

really? a nation-state attacking a for-profit multi-national corporation with little more than embarrassing information is an "act of aggression"??

you better read up on your military history my friend.
To some extent, and based on traditional views of sanctions (I won't get into whether they actually work or not), the point of sanctions is to hurt the average people. Economic and political elites in Russia are still going to have lots of money and access to luxury goods, it's difficult to stop that behavior (especially in a kleptocracy/dictatorship like Russia). But if you hurt the people, the theory goes, then they will get mad at their leaders and demand a change in leadership, thus hopefully leading to a new administration with new policies.
I haven't thought of that for years. When I was doing my masters I actually TAed a class (CS for non-majors) for one of the creators of MUMPS and used that language for the labs. It was sort of hilarious learning it and trying to help newbies use it.

Can't complain too much since he gave me a very generous letter of recommendation.
Isn't this just putting a Tile [1] (or any number of other BLE devices) on an umbrella?

[1] https://www.thetileapp.com/
Kudos to you, for sharing your experience.
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I think Jacob Bronowski summed it up nicely:

"Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible."
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Because, human nature.
Stallman, duh. He looks like a real hacker. I'd never trust a guy in a suit to code anything.
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I agree with you in the sense that it could be NK due to the fact that it was clearly a well funded operation.

Also, my final point is rather weak and ignores the possibility that NK wanted to do it and wants to be able to deny they did it also.

I still doubt it is NK for many different reasons. Another one to throw on the pile is due to the threats of violence if the movie is released. Terrorists don't threaten and then back off, they simply commit the actions without giving you a chance to stop. Eg: If it was NK, they would say "In return for creating this movie, we are going to do X". Of what benefit is it to NK to not deliver on their threats?

Is it established at this point in time how the entire attack was accomplished and exactly what taken was taken? I think not. Avoiding detection for so long while actively exploiting a system is no small thing.

I don't doubt that the attack could have been done by NK, in fact it is likely that it was funded by NK. What I doubt is that it was done ( the actual hackers ) by anyone who agrees with NK politics. This seems strongly to me like work for hire by digital mercenaries. Whoever did it seems to be just following instructions rather than thinking. Eg: Go steal all their data and dump it to the world.

As others have pointed out, there are many other more selfish things that could have been done with the data than dumping it to the world.
There is a level of interpretation required here. The 4th amendment wasn't written in an age where it was conceivable that information could be copied for free or intercepted without taking something from a carrier. What's important is the intent of the protections. NSA has decided to interpret these wordings in a way which lets them intercept and copy communications, and it's the job of the courts to interpret the constitution and tell them that they aren't allowed to do that.
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I certainly don't want to debate that there is age discrimination in this industry. There is. It's entirely illegal. I worry about it myself, a lot! However, a few key people in the industry are amazing and give me hope. In no particular order:

Israel Gat, Diana Larsen, David Spann, Woody Zuill, Ward Cunningham, Robert Martin

Actually, as I make the list, it just keeps getting longer. Those are all people I have worked with or associated myself with in the last 12 months professionally. They are all extremely fantastic engineers as well as speakers, managers, and educators. Each one of them. The difference between them and the standard engineer is they have built a personal brand around themselves. They write, speak, and help with open source projects. Instead of being thought of as "older" they are thought of as the sages of the industry, filled with wisdom that can only be purchased with decades of industry experience. And companies bang down their doors to hire them. I happen to personally know that one person in that list makes a day rate of $10,000 and honestly, that person wishes they would get FEWER calls for work.

Keep going! Build your personal brand and you'll get the job you want.
If by "take" you mean deny or restrict access and use by the "owner" then, no, of course not. You don't need exclusive access to copy something (or record information about it).

For example, taking a picture of the Washington Monument isn't remotely anything that comes to mind when I consider what "seizing the Washington Monument" would entail.
That is why i'm working to get all the certifications I can to become a full time DBA (database administrator). For some reason companies want young programmers, but old time database administrators. I guess when it comes to data integrity, experience and being stuck in your ways counts more.
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I've always been a "more the merrier" sort when it comes to meetings. Does anyone else have some insight on #1?

#2 is incredibly important. I hate the term "action items," but I'm a huge fan of sending out an email with action items after every meeting. I find it gets me the things I need about 1000 times faster than I would have otherwise.
As a biologist, I groan every time somebody tries to send me a phys.org link. It's a really really terrible PR regurgitation site, I've never seen a quality article from it.
It's not just the setup. For smaller companies with tiny ops teams (or a developer that also serves as an ops guy), RDS can save a bunch of time in maintenance/security/upgrade land. You are going to get decent to good performance for most general cases, and you can easily create failovers and scale up/down without much of any Postgres knowledge. Especially when your product is in "get traction and survive" mode, it's nice to be able to worry more about your app and less about things like running a Postgres server or cluster.

Yes, you'll wait a bit longer for new versions to come out, but that may or may not be a big deal. It isn't for us. We have the in-house knowledge to run our own cluster, but RDS does such a good job that we don't need to.
how is that criticism? it was obviously said as a joke...
Make sure you compile your release/bench builds with --release (if using cargo) or (-O if using rustc).
Hi Santa, thanks for asking.

It's a lack-of-challenges (read culture) thing. My employer unfortunately tolerates mediocrity & isn't under investor pressure to improve. It drives me crazy, but can't leave until I have a new gig lined up.

I live in Austin & work as a product manager, FWIW.
Actually no, because the use case is quite different. We wanted to create an umbrella that really has an app that helps. With Tile, you would just get the location feature, without the weather forecast
Of interest to any UK businesses below the normal VAT registration threshold who were going to be forced to register for and charge VAT to UK customers just to comply with the new rules for other EU sales:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/11268706/Vic...
I would trade a position with a 20-year old. They have a bigger chance of becoming immortal.
It's not a dress code. It's just not adhering to another dress code. There's a difference. You don't just wear a suit RANDOMLY. Any random thing you wear is casual. Literally millions of different styles are casual, and there's like maybe five different styles of suits?
The thread started with:

> You would never know the difference between say, a sausage patty, a veggie sausage patty, and an insect sausage patty.

The argument is not "insects can't be tasty", the argument is "insects may indeed be tasty but people can taste that it's not beef/chicken". Given that people can tell the difference between, say, grass fed and grain fed beef, the claim that an insect or vegetable-based alternative will be indistinguishable needs more evidence than "nuh uh!"
Even though rails hides it from me, I honestly don't mind directly working with the SQL interface on this db, and it's language interfaces are awesome. Thanks, team.
I really wish someone would update these benchmarks to the latest releases of Scientifc Linux, FreeBSD & Dragonfly

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/
The word "existential" (attested since the late 17th century) was used as an adjective relating to existence long before the birth of Existentialism. In the phrase "existential threat", there is no cause of confusion (unless there is cause to speak of threats relating to Existentialism). So I don't have a problem with this usage.
Can't figure out if this is a real product or satire.
Hi Avre, yes, it does. We've manufactured a small quantity that will ship in January. We've also prepared our production lines to support bigger quantities as we scale our operations. Thanks for your comment.
They will be rolling out to additional zip codes as quickly as they can
The way this feature works in mailbox is you can "snooze" an email. After making your timeframe selection, it will leave your inbox, then return when you selected. For example, if you get a work email on the weekend about something you need to take care of on Monday, you can snooze it until "Next week" and it the email will immediately leave your inbox, then return the following Monday.
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> it is in NK best interest to either claim responsibility and embrace it, or to prove they didn't do it.

I'm not following. Taking responsibility would mean a massive violation of international and domestic laws and probably more sanctions. It would shame Chinese leadership, yet again, that their vassal state is a reckless danger to the world.

Disproving its not them is kinda tricky. What data has been shared with them. How could you really disprove anything?
Under normal circumstances, I don't know, it's personal. But with an app like this, I would probably do it, if she really needed it.
You're correct that they are indeed separate permissions but I think when Google started putting them in buckets for displaying to the user they lumped the two together.

For instance on one address book app the website currently shows them asking for:
Contacts/Calendar
-read your contacts
-modify your contacts

While the app on my phone says:
Contacts
-read your contacts
-modify your contacts

According to Android Police an update earlier this month to the Play Store app appears to have separated them again: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/06/apk-teardown-play-st...
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Well why not! What wouldn't we do for a best friend!
AFAIK RDS has turnkey read only replicas (and hot standby.)
They are split up into categorical sections of what data was released and/or each release serves a purpose ( a pst mail dump )

They are all compressed using rar files. Rar releases are trademark of scene releases. This was done by professional hackers who have been around long enough to stick to using rars...

I don't advocate downloading the releases so I can't really say much about the contents of the files themselves, only regarding the directory structure, since the file listings of some of the releases were publicly released online by infosec pros.
You don't have to capture anything to make observations or replicas. It just has to be observable. Which gets back to "search". The nit I'm picking is what exactly the post finds special about "searches and seizures" vs "searches"
There are several well-known space and time efficient data-structures that answer membership/connectivity queries.

The main drawback has typically been that whilst they can be made to be incremental (e.g. the addition of vertices or edges) quite easily, they don't retain enough information to be made fully dynamic (addition AND removal of vertices and edges) without prohibitively increasing the space complexity required.

This data-structure, however, has particularly good time/space properties that make it interesting to anyone working on large-scale graph-analytical problems with a temporal component.
What should the people with children do ? Send a strongly worded letter to their politicians and vote for the other party next time ?

I mean yes, it's a rather sad perspective but nobody came with a solution to change the world yet.

Of course if we could all agree to shoot politicians, journalists and bankers on sight ... ;-)

It is my opinion that western civilization need a collapse before it can reinvent itself better (I hope). The power structures are so well entrenched that nothing short of said collapse can dislodge them (or let us do without them like they don't exist).
"If an obscure libertarian like Grover Norquist can dominate electoral cycles with a "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" why can someone not similarly dominate electoral cycles with a "Privacy Protection Pledge"?"

I, for one, prefer when the 1% are not so influential in politics.
I would... as long as I locked my photos with a jailbreak touch pass code.. why not?
Do i3. It's one of the easiest to learn and the only way I was able to get into tiling window managers. I outgrew it when I got a 4K TV as it wasn't able to handle it well, but as others have said, it's "less pure" of a window manager. It's extremely dynamic, easy to move things around, and easy to resize. If you've used vim before it'll be even easier.
Most science journalism is PR regurgitation. Most journalism in general is PR regurgitation of one sort or another.

The nice thing about phys.org is that it doesn't talk down to the reader.
My first hope was that the video was actually a performance of the discovered sheet music, but is that actually correct? The video is amount a minute in duration but according to the article, "The scrap of music...would have lasted no more than a few seconds."
DBAs tend to be a little less to jump on the bleeding edge. Development is (sometimes) about trends, being closer to the marketing, where DBA are the keepers of the gold.

That said, being a DBA is not always a stable life. Depending on the organization (or the lack of it) there can be late night firedrills, off hours maintenance / migrations, calls to fix data wounded by bleeding edges. A good DBA can mitigate these problems, given adequate support by management - IOW given the authority to do so.
The answer is simple, as with any AWS service, a whole slew of concerns (but not all of them) become Not My Problem. I have enough problems.
I have O'Reilly's "PostgreSQL: Up and Running, 2nd Edition" (You can buy the ebook already) and it's mostly about setting it up and administering postgres and a look at the tools around postgres. It's not a book that goes in depth on actually on how to write SQL for postgres, although it has a secton on this, or develop applications with postgres. It's more of an ops book. Anyway, I like it because coming from MySQL I was unfamiliar with how to set up and use postgres and this book set me straight.
I posted this yesterday in the thread about the Rust-written window manager, but it's relevant here as well.

There are plenty of apps that provide varying levels of window-manager functionality to OS X. I would try a couple out and see which feels right to you. I have tried most of them, and personally prefer Moom.

http://manytricks.com/moom/
http://mizage.com/divvy/
http://ianyh.com/amethyst/
http://spectacleapp.com/
https://github.com/fjolnir/xnomad
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?m....
https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir
I turned 50 last summer and the last time I was looking, I had no problem finding a good job ... perhaps the best job I've ever had. But to survive the interview process, you can't act 50 (or 55 or 51). You need to be current and make it obvious you've kept yourself up-to-date.

To a lesser degree you can't look 50 either - I'm fortunate to have been dirty blond when I was younger and my hair doesn't seem to be greying yet but if it was and I was interviewing, I'd change it. Five hundred pounds and rolled into the interview in an oversized Aeron chair? You probably look older than you are to the interviewers.

I don't think most age discrimination is conscious but even where it is, don't help them out by acting or looking old/older.

Note: Since I have no idea how @MichaelCrawford looks or interviews, this comment is not aimed at him but is rather responding to a pattern I see when we interview people my age.
Really? A link to an article that doesn't show the full story unless you login or subscribe?
It will depend on the services that are implemented on the sidechains. In the end is all about supply and demand, if the services are useful and attractive to users will increase demand.
Use it also. Cool tiling manager.
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Real estate near exchanges has essentially been standardized and is no longer a significant strategic advantage.
http://briefly.today/leaked-emails-unveil-snapchats-secretiv...

Here you go
In Vernor Vinge's Deepness In The Sky, there really are code archeologists, as it's often simpler to find programs than to write them from scratch.

They believe that the Unix epoch (since extended many times over) dates to the moon landing (approximately correct), since the exact historical explanation has been lost.
I really just want a window manager that allows windows to snap to each other and the edges of the screen when resizing or moving them. Does something like that exist? I don't care for the pre-defined layouts or hotkeys, I just want to be able to visually drag/resize my windows and have them take up the most optimal amount of space.
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That performs decently now?

I got scared off using EBS a few years ago and use only the ephemeral storage + failovers.
I like tiling managers, but dislike having predefined layouts. Being able to split any tile horizontally or vertically arbitrarily many times is the way to go (i.e. i3-style). Would like to see tiling wm authors to consider this option when starting new projects.
I think you hit the nail slightly off center with, "...people aren't going to spend a bunch of money hiring people to build things unless there is a potential for a big payout at the end." Verizon and all other ISPs will make money and lots of it, period. Whether or not they make insane profits or more insane profits is what investors are looking at. Also, in regards to building infrastructure they already play games when reporting how much they've spent upgrading and maintaining infrastructure. Why would they do that? Because they know that the total amount is so ridiculously small when compared with their profits that they'll be laughed at if they try to make it a reason against regulation.
Those pictures aren't inconsistent with this "trade show" being about 4000 square feet of floor space with 50 people attending...
>We're going to change the world

How does the owner of a company that people use for swapping naked/drunk/silly photos expect to change the world? Snapchat could disappear over night and it wouldn't have much of an impact on anyone other than the people working there.
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Nice. I listen to Ozric Tentacles while coding. Psychedelic space rock with no lyrics. Start with something like Curious Corn or Erpland.
And like uber drivers, one day you will wake up and find your job replaced by a robot.
You don't get into an Ivy and get stellar grades without being a nerd. Not tech nerds, but still nerds.
Thanks, we changed the URL from http://phys.org/news/2014-12-japan-lab-ground-breaking-cell.....
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He's decided that nuclear winter involves a very very small nuclear war hitting a few large cities. Which means the vast majority of humans live.

If US and Russia unload, say, 75% of their arsenals I'm pretty sure that is inaccurate. Not to mention there seems to be no consideration of the radiation levels in various foods?
I would not be surprised if the FCC dealt with comments in paper form.