skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MongoDB is like MySQL: it promises you the world, and you believe it can deliver, and it often does, till that day when it committed a transaction which it shouldn't have, tripped over its own clogged up mess and spilled your carefully collected data all over the floor.

Without telling you.
Agreed. I read the HN comments to get insightful or actionable commentary. If I wanted to read cute comments, I'd hang out on Reddit.
Contrarianism to a fault runs rampant on this board.
Oh, I can't stand Mongo. But I have nothing but respect for the Wild Tiger guys, and wouldn't want to see them slandered ;)
Attacking Clientside JIT Compilers [pdf]
It's not an English word
And you included my pet grammatical peeve; "try and". And so I favour the effort to try to keep the language regular; various English spellings notwithstanding.
This is exactly what several flavors of secular humanism have tried, but it turns out, without the cultural and memetic stickyness, these things don't become popular. You can have a personal ethical system without a pretend religion. I don't see how this is in within anyone's interest or time. That said, I've seen things like a very liberal interpretation of buddhism take this kind of role. Mostly, it seems, for the benefits of meditation, but this is a small movement. I'm not sure where millenials will fit into all this, but they are even less religiously affiliated than gen-x, which is a good sign, imo.

Personally, if I had a choice, I'd love to see things go towards a more decentralized role (personal and private spirituality) than yet another centralized role like organized religion, even if some new "ethical" religion takes over. I do sometime fantasize about some new spiritualism that's outcome based, but once more than x amount of people are involved, then politics takes over and any ethical integrity is lost.

As a recent dad, I have found no real replacement for all the religious holidays part of my culture. How do you replace Christmas? How do you handle relatives asking when you will baptize your baby? My non-religious wife and I take a hybrid role where we'll celebrate certain things for the sake of family, but won't do others like baptism. I think shopping around for one of the more 'less religious' religions is just a waste of our time and a disservice to our kids. I'd rather teach my kids the history, criticism, and the folly of organized religion than shove them into one my liberal values will tolerate. Dragging them to a Universal Unitarian service just seems to be kicking the can down the road.
Trapping the Lord of War: The Rise and Fall of Viktor Bout (2010)
Reading through the comments, I realized that people even do speedruns in Nethack... impressive.
He probably didn't care because it's not much more than partitioning, running debootstrap, installing the few extra packages and copying config.txt and cmdline.txt. :)

That said a gpg signature could be a good thing to add.
Source needed. Can't make outlandish claims like that without supporting evidence.

Here's a couple disproving your claim:

https://www.scalebase.com/the-state-of-the-open-source-datab...

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking
The copy needs a fair bit of work. It needs to be more brief. The sentence fragments are difficult to read. It only works if I imagine two voices, like one of those commercials employing a fake conversation.
The Martian is a thoroughly agreeable read. I thought it might be a bit dry but it's interspersed with some really funny bits that made me laugh out loud.
An American accent is German is even more hilarious than an American accent on a BBC show.
So what if Perl 6 people stalled on giving the okay for Parrot to migrate some implementation details to Parrot?

My problem is that this gets argued both ways. This thread is far too nested anyhow, but here's my complaint.

Yes, Parrot and Rakudo drifted apart. There were poor decisions all around. Patrick and Allison and I in particular talked extensively about how to improve things.

We decided this: I personally volunteered to fix any bug, patch any memory leak, add any feature that Rakudo wanted. I spent a lot of time doing that. Several other people also volunteered to add any feature Rakudo wanted.

Time and time again, we went to the Rakudo developers with proposals and they said "No" or "Not yet". Thus my work was mostly fixing bugs and making minor performance improvements. (The major improvements were in that list. So were major revisions of most parts of Parrot to make it smaller, simpler, and faster.)

Then the NQP rewrite came. Parrot faced using a deprecated NQP for its compiler tools, adopting a deprecated NQP so it would keep working, or rewriting all of its compiler tools.

At that point, I decided that there was no point in working on Parrot and left.

I'll take responsibility for everything I did wrong (or for not doing things I should have done). I don't accept the current party line from Rakudo, however. To wit, "Parrot of course had to be abandoned, because it wasn't meeting Rakudo's needs."

Parrot may or may never have succeeded. Rakudo may or may not have succeeded on Parrot. We'll never know. Yet the claim that Parrot developers weren't interested in making it work with Rakudo is nonsense. In my experience, it was the other way around.
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Why LiveScript + React = awesome
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1108/

Age old argument of whether grammar is prescriptive or descriptive [1]. Anyone who has seen or read Shakespeare should be aware of how English has changed in the last few hundred years. Go back 1000 years and Old English would be utterly unintelligible to any modern English speaker.

Often I encounter people who get a bee in their bonnet about using nouns as verbs or people who are too persnickety about "less" and "fewer". Or the New York Times getting a bug up its posterior about "tweet" [2].

I find the effort some people, including the "comprised of" guy here, spend on this kind of thing somewhat bizarre and a little sad.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

[2]: http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/the-tweet-...
A Smart Wireless Router from the Designers Behind Nest
> “He has, like, 15,000 edits, and he’s done almost nothing except fix the incorrect use of ‘comprised of’ in articles.”

Oh man, truly that is God's work. It's likely too late, but it would be nice to save "to comprise" as a distinctive word with its own shades of meaning and differing usage from "to be composed of". Should one become a perfect synonym for the other the English language will have suffered a loss.
Just tried to use this app. Mostly old men, no girls and I understand why no girls is on this app, haha!
> Absolutely horrific; using it genuinely makes me hate my life.

First world problems indeed.
Looks very nice. Small deal, but the web fonts appear to be getting blocked for me so you may want to host those on the same domain. Keep up the good work!
...and so goes the language in many other ways.

He literally laughed his head off, and I could care less.
Silk Road founder's parents: Evidence suppressed
On the basis of regression to the mean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean), or what we might call the "J.K. Rowling effect," it would be far too much to hope that the sequel will match the original. Nonetheless, this has got to set some sort of record for the gap between a novel and its sequel.

Interestingly, there is a list of gaps between film sequels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_gaps_betwee...), and the longest gap is over 63 years, but there is no such list for books!
Well, if you think it's just them then there's plenty of good research[1] that shows the attrition rate for first generation college students is a definite problem. Cultural norms change takes approximately three generations for it to take hold. A Great American Underdog Story is that one of the participants helped move the discussion ahead on how can the USA promote worthwhile talent within our borders irrespective of how it got here[2]. Note: I do see you're Canadian, and therefore likely are unfamiliar with the actual demographics and concerns of the American Southwest, so while I think your joke isn't really that funny, that's OK.

[1] http://dus.psu.edu/mentor/2011/02/resiliency-among-first-gen...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act
Often I am working with files that are not code.
The CrazyFlie meets almost all of your criteria except for the camera part. http://www.bitcraze.se/
It's completely open and some users have managed to attach tiny cameras to theirs: http://forum.bitcraze.se/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=427
It sounds to me like her editor thought the flashbacks to Scout's childhood were the best part of the unfinished book - so as you said, she pivoted to the good stuff.
That mistake was intentional. My point was that language isn't programming, it's not exact. You understood the sentence and we successfully communicated. I'm a fan of correct grammar and I try to use it. But this article documents a very extreme reaction to a non-problem in my opinion.
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$70 dollars is a lot in some organizations. Far more than it should be when compared to the overall budget. Even if a 1% boost in productivity would realize $600 to $1000 in savings, the penny wise culture in many organizations would be stuck trying to swallow a $70 payment.
Former network engineer here who built these big networks in the 1990s. At MCI and UUNET we used to talk about all the services we would build to compete with GeoCities and AOL. If only we didn't have to face our peers every Wednesday at informal meetings in the DC area and tell them that we would favor our own traffic over theirs at our interconnects. The traffic and interconnects were growing so fast we couldn't stop open peering and risk "killing the goose that laid the golden egg."

Now things are different. Comcast is a content company propped up by a cable monopoly. Title II? Hell yeah. But no price controls. Whatever it takes to get us to have the residential bandwidth of, say, Estonia.
I came here to write a super snarky comment, but I don't have to. Thanks!
I liked your story, but was bummed at the end "We never got one in the end." Haha You should go out and get one online now! You deserve it! ;) haha
It's really annoying viewing a website (especially one that asks for cash) and not finding a page that talks about the team members behind the project. No accountability, No way I'd sign up
Relaxation of rules makes language less precise, and when phrases that mean different things come to mean the same thing, then expressing distinctions requires more words and clumsier constructions.

Also, take your example: "Language is comprised of rules that change over time." The correct alternative is shorter and simpler: "Language comprises rules that change over time." Most people don't even know that there are two perfectly good verbs "to compose" and "to comprise" that let you avoid the "is ... of" construction. If people see the clumsier construction in "good writing" they will never know that there is something better.
I've unfortunately had the same experience with hosted JIRA.

If there should be one place in the world where JIRA runs quickly, it should be on Atlassian's own hosting platform, yet I continue to be amazed at how slow it can be.
Hi there, we're currently still working out a good price point that would allow us to keep this project rolling while not putting off users. We've been completely bootstrapped up until this point and are hoping to be able to slowly build up enough momentum to the point where offering free use plans wouldnt suck up all our resources and jeopardise the future of the project. We're definitely keeping your suggestion in mind though.
Aaaand GPG signature added!
So I guess you think Facebook/Tumblr/Google/Yahoo/etc use MongoDB for their databases (or worse, that they run it on a single server)?
The move seems like a good fit both ways.

Just started evaluating Titan DB for a use case and would love to hear any comments from anyone with experience.
Ask HN: What's the problem with AngularJS?
Seems a lot of people here are starting to push it away for other technologies, mostly ReactJS which I struggle to see how the two frameworks are even alike.
Though OpenEmbedded is a fantastic tool with lots of recipes, lately I've been cooling off on the whole idea. IMHO, no embedded linux build is finished unless you have a way to update the device (for security issues etc). For OE:
1) it's too much work to rebuild everything when you want to pickup security updates
2) upstream doesn't generally update packages in a timely fashion
3) divergence between your recipes and upstream is a big problem
4) opkg isn't as full-fledged as dpkg/yum etc.

So lately, for my own projects, it's gotta be dpkg-based with an active upstream repo.
>I doubt I will convince you, and I doubt anyone else here needs to be convinced that natural monopolies exist.

You won't even try to provide an example? Perhaps it is not I who is "philosophically opposed to the concept".

>This simply does not make sense, which is further evidence that you're opposed to the concept. The high fixed costs of the laying of the cables relative to the small marginal cost of adding a new subscriber once cables have been laid is what creates a natural monopoly in this context. The massive economies of scale which are only available to the company which already has the cables laid make it infeasible for a new company to lay its own cables; that's how a natural monopoly is enforced.

You asked whether the cost of laying cables makes a company a monopoly. The question itself demonstrates "nonsense". If the cost of laying cables is an inhibiting factor for the first company, then it is also the inhibiting factor for any companies which follow. The cost of adding new subscribers is irrelevant. If the first company is not meeting the demands of the customer then the conditions are ripe for a competitor.
Unpopular opinion that needs to be said: plenty of people spend their military "tour of duty" writing instructions for computers. Even more are glorified paper pushers or janitors. Only a small subset actually ever see their lives at risk--being a fisherman is more dangerous. The main substantive difference is that in theory you can't quit on a whim.

We need to stop promoting an idea of martial valor over all other forms of work, and stop coddling those who demand that everyone grant their line of work more respect than everyone else.
Sorry to hear it, I think every consultancy and freelance dev with a few years experience has been there at least once. Usually when dealing with small businesses I will get one or two of these every year or so even though I try to filter them closely. Maybe I am a sucker sometimes, but it has always been a small business when it has happened to me, generally those with < $2M or so in annual revenue.

I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure it is illegal in the U.S. to publish the names (or details) of people and companies with bad debt. You are free to report them to collections, credit agencies etc, but publishing their names or other details is, I believe, a FCRA/FDCA violation. While generally applied to individuals, from what I understand it also protects corporations (but again, I am not a lawyer).

However, I would think publishing a list of businesses that you would not do business with again, like a black list of sorts wouldn't be illegal if you didn't say specifically why. Although I personally would not do this as the realities are it will make you look bad and potentially get you sued costing you money even though it likely would go no where.

FCRA = Fair Credit Reporting Act, FDCA = Fair Debt Collection Act.
Branchless code sequences
> We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.

A perfect religion for atheists.
From what I've seen its a moderate international alignment.

The US two party system provides a far-right choice and an ultra-extremist-right choice. This is a little too international for some to handle, or you can think about it as they're not modifying their message to fit local culture, which probably doesn't help recruitment.

Its a big world, and the sermons posted on the local church website here, might have little appeal to the attendees of your local church.

From the transcript of the MLK sermon at my local UU church:

"We just heard words from Dr. King, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a
single garment of destiny.” I have always found a profound parallel between that
quote and the seventh principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association – that
we affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all life, of which we
are a part. Sighing with relief because I am not being treated unjustly is not an
adequate response for a Unitarian Universalist when so many are forced to go
without what they need."

Its not exactly "workers of the world unite" or "eat the rich", then again its not the contemporary "Christian" message of "let them eat cake".

I admit I am intensely biased, if I were legally forced to join / attend a church it would almost certainly be this one.
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Thanks for letting us know! Typekit can be a bit of a bastard at times!
I guess it was a matter of time before someone wrote something like this.

Terminology complaint: if you're selling the information, it's not really a leak so much as corporate espionage, right? Why not just call it DarkInformationMarket or something?
Interesting - we switched TO jira about a year ago (onsite version), and I love it. Yes, it took time to set up our workflow, but I find it does both the small tasks (day-to-day management and issue tracking) and large tasks (cross-team planning) very well, while other tools we used fall down on one or the other. Also, it integrates with everything under the sun.
Looks nice but seems to crash upon clicking the "Do Magic" button. I'm guessing it might be getting stressed by the traffic from HN.
Shooting the Moon
No, we're both right. I was writing about the situation in semi-rural Gujarat in 2001. The wages on the construction sites I went to were indeed rs.150/month. Today the labour situation is very dramatically improved -- largely because of India opening its markets to the world.
Implementing a Bignum Calculator in Go with Rob Pike
> Europe is largely godless yet the society holds together just fine

Completely false and uninformed statement. Some EU countries are very religious and show no decline in active participation. There are unrests, but they have little to do with religion or its lack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism#Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Europe#Irreligion
The ice around Mercury's poles is in permanently shadowed craters. The polar aspect is what allows there to be substantial permanently shadowed areas (because the sun never rises high in the sky).

Ref: http://www.space.com/27450-messenger-mercury-water-ice-photo...
Video compression (even lossless) leverages the fact that successive frames are very similar; that's not the case here, as photos can be taken hours apart, in various directions, and in various zoom levels. So you'll get basically the same compression either way...
Sounds like this may be new in the UK, but it's been available in the US for a long time[1]. May want to update the title.

[1] http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/send-money-to-friends-...
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Really BIG, COMPLEX, DIFFICULT problems! :-o
It wasn't free for universities, but in the first half of the 90s, SGI offered so-called "Varsity" contracts, which was basically a campus license for OS updates and unbundled products like compilers, NFS/YP and the "Documenter's Workbench" (a fancy name for troff/nroff).
From the article it seems the donors are required to go to the office and do their business there.
>Every provider of POTS service to your houses and apartments is a regulated monopoly. And while they have to let DSL companies access the lines and long distance competition, the barriers to entry are still there, and the level of regulation is stifling making it hard to compete.

Not true and this isn't how this works. I work for a small, competitive provider of communications services, including POTS service. While we're regulated, we're hardly a monopoly. Yes, there are barriers to entry, but they are usually driven by cost and scale. In many cases it's regulation that permits competition!
Thank you! We're working on creating a tour page that would walk you through more of the features and explain how it differs from the competition.
I'm on a team working on immigration at 18F. Not sure why you assume it's miserable. Anyways, we're using a modern Rails/Postgres/Elasticsearch stack and the work is incredibly rewarding and motivating. Here's a nice description:

> 18F is working with a number of different federal departments. One of the biggest projects it has taken on is designing the website for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. That's the agency that processes applications from people hoping to become citizens and those covered under the president's executive actions who hope to obtain work permits. Godbout says the concept for the USCIS website is to make a virtual welcoming statement.

> He thinks of it as an "online Statue of Liberty. This idea of how do we present ourselves to people coming to America. Our digital process should be that beautiful, too."

source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/28/382178...
Because the VC4 is really cool, basically.
Grow your own mobile team and build better email at Streak (YC S11)
No, it's a free permit to hike in a park for a day. They want to track trail usage, and sometimes implement quotas to prevent overuse. There are occasionally rangers who patrol the trails and check for permits, but it's pretty rare. You may also need a separate parking permit for national forests (adventure pass), but apparently it's been ruled unconstitutional by the CA supreme court. Many trails in national forests/state parks in California require day hike permits (generally the good forested ones do).

You can see what a dayhike permit application looks like at the very bottom of this page: http://www.sgwa.org/permit.htm. Overnight (camping) permits are separate.
Agreed. We switched to JIRA for a few months and we all HATED it. Back to good old fogbugz :D
Sweatshops themselves aren't the problem, but rather the fact that the game is rigged against the average person.

They could just farm self sustainably, however they lack the knowledge and large landowners own the land. They also tend to have too many kids as well.

You can choose between being a peasant that is given some land to work as farmland in exchange for a shack to dwell in and some very basic food or be slightly less worse off in a sweatshop. You get fucked either way and there is no way out as education is a joke in cambodia and the like and there is no industry to employ any higher educated people to begin with.
Thank you! I'll try to do better.

A preposition makes more sense there. Which preposition could be argued. In New Zealand folks say 'he is different to us' instead of 'he is different from us'. One could imagine 'he is different by us' or 'he is different beside us' as correct somewhere.

Hm. Is 'try to keep' using 'to' in a prepositional sense? That's a slippery word.