skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>government's ability to simply print money and create out of control inflation, which has actually happened many times.

...I suppose that it doesn't even have to be out-of-control for it to have a fairly dramatic effect...

http://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/04/100-year-de...
In India? Do you know how expensive developers are? (Especially fully loaded, ie with all the overhead that a company has to pay.)
First of all, your English seems quite good. And English is a difficult language, especially the grammar. I wish I could express myself in Mandarin as well as you just did in English. Please don't be too hard on yourself. We're not language monks. The point is to communicate, and if anyone gives you a hard time about your ability while you're making a good effort, I think they probably need to get some perspective.

It's true, people are hesitant to make corrections. For one thing, although what you said might not have been completely correct, it was perfectly understandable. Another thing is that they might not know how best to make the correction without hurting your feelings or seeming pedantic. You just can't count on people to correct you.

One useful thing I did lately was to get on WeChat and start chatting with my Chinese friends. Many lines they send to me are goldmines of useful expressions, expressed naturally. Slowly but surely, I'm building up an arsenal of fragments I can use in situations that come up a lot. And I think each little fragment I master tunes my neural network to make learning the next fragment a little bit easier.

You say you can't learn from audio/video courses. I hope that's not true. I would think very carefully about why it's impossible. Maybe there's a way, and if there is, that would very very very useful.
Well, easier than that. But after 1971, you could go to a coin dealer, hand them cash, get gold, and I'm pretty sure they didn't report your name to the authorities.
But not resource efficient, and farmed fish have lots of problems.
1 - phi. It's quite shocking to see how many places it turns up and how many constants can be derived from it.
Such a terrible tragedy, both personal and for the world. I highly recommend the book referenced: "Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics".

R.I.P. Walter Pitts

(One thing that troubles me slightly: this article mentions a possible cause of the break between Wiener and the others which is presented as speculation in the book, if I remember correctly, but stated here as a bald fact. In any event I wish that Wiener hadn't acted so rashly.)
This is a good idea - and what they already do in the auto industry for parts that can be re-machined and sold again.
I'm glad all the terms and conditions are clear...
http://www.explainedbyarnold.com/terms-and-conditions/
I personally know lots of people here in Germany living off 20k/year and less. More would be better, but it's doable.
Hi Rob, just saw FitGuard for the first time and it's a phenomenal idea.

I'd recommend getting in touch with motorcycle helmet manufacturers (particularly MotoGP and WSBK sponsors) because concussions are a huge issue in motorcycle racing. As your site states, concussion severity is very abstractly diagnosed without data, and your product can make a big difference. The doctor has a tough time deciding whether the athlete is fit to race if he's had a crash and a concussion, and it ultimately comes down to a qualitative decision made by the rider and doctor. Data can definitely help save lives here.

If I have time for the track this season, I'll definitely sign up as a tester. I've never had a concussion, but I sure as hell would want to know how fast my head decelerates after a crash before getting back on the bike.

Good luck, and cheers on a great idea.
Untrue, S3 does (extremely rarely) lose objects.
Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)
Can we all just drop the charade and start calling Watson SkyNet already?
Neat. What kind of a sensor is it using? Also, why IG instead of Kickstarter?
razster, you seem to be hell-banned.
What's more frustrating is that after the disclosure of Heartbleed, a lot of commentators have been talking about how it demonstrates a colossal blow on free software in general, and that it is now horribly insecure.

Of course, anyone who is subscribed to a relevant mailing list knows that security bugs are discovered constantly, are promptly addressed and most never see much grace beyond being buried in the archives of some taxonomy.

All these marketing campaigns that are about making infomercials out of security vulnerabilities backfire by causing panic, exacerbating ignorance and creating talking points for uninformed pundits ("But Heartbleed this, Shellshock that..."), and I'd wager they skew the infosec community even further towards self-promotion and ephemerality.
I assume they already separate out valuable materials like aluminum.
I can't help but think they have given up on the Mac client. It's been at version 0.3.14 for an unbelievably long amount of time--so long that I've just gone back to Mac Mail.
Pyongyang promoting credit cards
I just started using git-annex to backup my photos to Amazon Glacier. It's really powerful in that it allows you to specify the minimum number of backup copies, whether or not to "trust" a remote repo, and can automatically sync files that have fewer than the minimum number of copies. It also supports encryption using either your own GPG key or a generated one that stays in your local annex repos.
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Apple was at Lucene Revolution in DC this past fall. It's a little silly IMO to extrapolate too much from a job posting -- Apple has had a large search infrastructure for a long time, as do most tech companies.
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Is it possible to get involved in some kind of online live chat situation during your commute?
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No large scale breaches are known externally, but they have certainly have had their share of security incidents and poor practices.

http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-icloud-hack-obvious-security-fl...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/10/22/apple-warns-icloud-se...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/icloud-users-take-no...
I wasn't a huge fan of seeing them in the SERPs back in the day; hopefully Google has an opt-out.

I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News; that could be cool.
I suppose it is so named because it's for virtually exploring an area to find apartments?
Found this article discussing some limits http://chargedevs.com/features/three-of-a-kind-polyplus-reac...
If the Fed were lending gold on a fractional reserve basis, a huge number of people would know about it: employees of the Fed, bankers, counter-parties. Why are all of them keeping silent? Why does the Fed endear such intense (some would say insane) loyalty? How do they cover the tracks of this huge operation (both in terms of people and dollars)?

Also, to believe this you have to postulate that:

1) Employees of the Fed are personally concerned about gold destroying the dollar.

2) They are willing to do something illegal (or at least unauthorized) to protect the dollar.

3) So they came up with a complicated, elaborate plan to manipulate the price of gold down that perfectly plays into the narrative of gold bugs (note the nefarious fractional reserve lending).

It's not impossible!
Thanks. Way easier to donate 0.5 bitcoin than it is USD.
> For the "fanning the flames" part, you'd have to either show me that entrenched media and political organizations aren't exacerbating existing, previously rather benign, divisions in society. And creating new ones. Or, you'd have to convince me that I'm interpreting what I'm seeing in American politics and public life, the wrong way. It would be a tough sell, but is theoretically possible.

How about convincing you they weren't doing it deliberately, but instead were chasing ratings using controversy and not caring about long-term societal results?

> For the other part, perhaps I overstated my case with the "320 million groups", but with regard to the contention that there are two buckets in direct opposition that Americans are naturally sorting themselves into - no, I don't think you can convince me of that. At least, I'm not sure how.

Fair enough. I think the two-bucket thinking is wrong, myself.

> I am quite confident that when it comes to LGBT issues, you and I would agree on just about every single item of actual consequence.

Except, perhaps, one: Do you think people should be able to sell reparative therapy, which is billed as a way to make gay people straight? (No, it's never used to make straight people gay, and I've never heard of it being applied to bis or asexuals.) If you think being gay is due even in part to environmental factors, then reparative therapy would have to be able to do something according to your hypothesis; however, it's been shown to be completely ineffective, which is evidence for the 'completely innate' hypothesis.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reparative_therapy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy
I absolutely love the API design here - running a realtime layer as a proxy in front of a traditional request/response webapp (which controls the realtime proxy through custom HTTP headers) is really elegant.
Git 2.3 has been released
Wait a minute..backup, you can hire a PR firm for a bug report. WTF.
There is no inherent correlation between the severity of the find and the PR budget available to the discoverer.

On top of this, some types of security claims attract considerably greater attention than others for reasons unrelated to their actual impact or merit. If you mention privacy, Internet of Things, malware, and rooting in a single sentence, you will get headlines out of it, no matter how bogus the underlying claims may be.

You need a reliable way of finding about the vulnerabilities that affect you even if they are discovered by a teenager in Romania and a PR agency is not involved.
Is this from the article? I'm not sure how phi relates to the speed of light, Newton's G, Planks constant or the numerous other force & energy constants described in the article.
It's an alternative to paper currencies. How much that's worth to you depends on how much you distrust paper currencies. How much that's worth to the global economy depends on how much the global economy collectively distrusts the money supply (and the central bankers and/or politicians that control the money supply).

This is a big part of why the price of gold moves the way it does. It's not that the value of currencies changes compared to gold, which is the unmoving reference point. Instead, what's going on is that peoples' trust in paper currencies fluctuates, which changes their desire to hold gold as an alternative.
Thanks for your reply.

I was asking to see if there was any crucial evaluation I had missed putting MongoDB into production.

Below are a few replies to the points you raised:

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Data Loss:

Agreed this is a big cloud over the head of MongoDB -

Is it still notorious for this in recent times? Hopefully DBA's for Mongo now have more experience, and the software has matured enough that this isn't a common problem. - or more than it would be for any database.

Even then, you can only fall so far if you take regular backups, and have a fail-over & data recovery plan.

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"SQL is hard":

I get your point - a lot of people don't like or understand SQL. However, you seem to lump them with everyone who would appreciate an alternative interface.

Personally, I quite like SQL - some would call me an SQL-ninja. However, I don't think we should be limited to SQL as the one-true-way for accessing data.

Sometimes these new "NoSQL" interface allows new technologies to emerge. For example, the reason MongoDB is being used with Meteor is two-fold:

1. Minimongo - A wholly javascript based mongo query engine. It would be a much harder engineering problem to build a similar tool for SQL / PostgreSQL.
2. Logical Replication - A Meteor instance is effectively a logical replica of the Mongo Database - only for "live" queries, which it interprets using (1)

(1) Means that queries/ their surrounding code can be isomorphic (same on client and server).
To replicate this for SQL would be a huge engineering challenge. How would you even replicate complex joins etc?

(2) Logical replication was only made available in PostgreSQL 9.4 - but without a pluggable query interpreter [even for join-less queries], it still wouldn't work.

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Relational Data:

Agreed, that data itself is best decomposed into fully-normalised form (Even up to 6th Normal form if you like temporal data). This allows for single-location, conflict-free and consistent updates/inserts/deletes.

But data usage is inherently document based - and the generation of those documents from fully normalised data, on huge data sets with complex relations, is a massive problem!

Until we have better tools for managing documents made of relational data - eg. PostgreSQL materialised views, but update only invalidated rows, - there will still be a drive to store data (& maintain) in the format that it is read.
I can see it as miserly, but I wonder if it's some kind of attempt to select for the kind of customers they want, i.e. customers who are themselves not too miserly. The 20gb tier is absurdly cheap, $0.99/mo. So much so that they wouldn't be giving up much real revenue if they just bumped the free tier to 20 gigs, but then on the other hand it doesn't cost a user much to go up to that tier, either. Maybe the threshold of "people who will/won't pay $1/mo for iCloud" therefore serves a useful function for Apple?
There will be...as soon as we build it. ;-)

(seriously, though: vote registered for Java as our next language.)
And increase demand for labour by increasing consumption.

People who were previously homeless and living on handouts could end up participating in the economy significantly more.

People who were extremely miserly might spend a little more on better quality food, different forms of entertainment, or taking holidays further from home than the local park.
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> debugging 2 different codes, where the second one is machine generated. After that you try to work around on the first to make the generated one do what you want.

Please forgive me for the accusation, but I've heard many people say this same statement to later found out they just meant "Well it's never happened to me... but it could... but it happened to this person I know...".

I personally can't think of many situations where you'd debug the machine generated javascript instead of using a sourcemap, can you give more detail on your experience?
I don't disagree at all, but as you say, you do those things in your job. It's likely that you also use them outside your job for personal purposes, which is why I agree that it makes sense for you to contribute. But most employees don't (and shouldn't) feel like it's their duty to pay for the tools they use to do their jobs.
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We are working in the used heavy equipment industry and will be working on these particular problems soon. Shoot me an email at josh [at] dirtjockey.com.
There have been historical incidents where that worldview was correct. To say that such circumstances will never occur again seems optimistic. (To say that they will occur as soon or as often as the goldbug expects seems unrealistically pessimistic.)
That's a good point.

So then, how did unbundling + price setting negatively impact the expansion of telephone lines?
In terms of performance or features? They had a paper at CIDR this year that claims they are competitive with a well known analytics DB (presumably oracle although it wasn't named explicitly).
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RSS is only dead if we let it die
I'd love to buy you a beer and learn a few things if you're in the Bay Area. My email is hi [at] josh.ml.
> where nobody wants to be the first to keep their source closed and try to charge for it

Seems like there's another option -- open source your project and also charge for a license to use it. By open sourcing people will trust it more which will cause its value to go up. And then more people would be willing to pay for it.
> I would probably interpret it as saying that there isn't a single cohesive culture throughout the US?

By that token, no country has a culture, because every country (except, maybe, postage stamps like Luxembourg or Liechtenstein) has regions with a distinctive cultural heritage which they don't entirely share with other regions.

So, put that way, it's trivially true that the US doesn't have one culture, but then neither does France, or the UK, or China, or Russia, or Italy.

Culture is everything which is passed down from generation to generation which isn't encoded in the genes. For example, my dark hair isn't in my culture, even though I got it from both of my parents; my language, however, most certainly is part of my culture. So's most of my taste in food and drink. Do I share all of my culture with the people I live close to? No, but I share a lot of things, some of necessity (language, clothing) and some because it was just how I was raised and what I see around me (hair style, meal times).

Here's an interesting website on the culture a large percentage of Americans more-or-less shares:

http://www.zompist.com/amercult.html

There's similar pages for Canadians, Russians, Chinese, etc all linked off that page.
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Maybe not their IT service, but their logistics and building operations certainly are.

I agree with your points regarding BufferBox, but I wouldn't say they are a hardware company producing a hardware product that you can sell to a customer. They were in an entirely different space, with very different set of challenges.

The YC post concerned companies that sell hardware to end users. Further, the initial post in this chain was someone asking if YC has had other hardware companies beyond Pebble. I don't think BufferBox is in that category.
The alternative, perhaps equally Occams-Razor-friendly explanation is that only hacks where China can be/is blamed make the news. Boring run-of-the-mill criminal syndicates don't cut it any more.
Sweet thanks! just d/l client on phone and open it and click link to dropbox and you get the extra GB.
I'm not sure this article gets the definition of the zero lower bound right (though I'd love to be corrected if it does.) As I understood it, the ZLB only applies to central bank lending rates to other banks, which if they become negative the other banks only have the incentive to hoard cash.
> That is, bin Laden was aligned against the Saudi government.

Bin Laden would actually arguably be considered a liberal in the U.S. At least according the government, the two reasons he attacked us were our support for Israel and our lack of action on climate change.

> the US contacted the Afghan government, then the Taliban, and effectively requested bin Laden's head. The Taliban refused. The US attacked.

That's not true. The Taliban said they would give up Bin Laden if the U.S. presented evidence that he was behind the attacks, and the U.S. refused: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.ter...
RIP! My first memories of RS (probably 5), pushing the Orange button on a Model I and hearing the 8" drives growl and clank. Thought I had broken something and got really scared.

Although I suppose bankruptcy does not mean RIP, but they won't be the same. The again, they have never been like the 70's and early 80's. Maybe I'm just looking through colored glasses, but electronics were more fascinating then, especially the early days of personal computing.
I moved over 35k photos from Aperture to Photo Supreme for organization/metadata and DxO for editing. Photo Supreme will read Aperture libraries and much of the metadata. The capability was pretty crude when I did it (mostly relied on it to recreate my hierarchical keywording system), but it's come a long way. Best part is that the database is only for speed—everything gets stored in the image files themselves or sidecars.

DxO is pure magic. It's been a joy going back and reprocessing my images—they look so much better now. The Clear View slider does wonderful things on landscape shots.

A nice touch is that Photo Supreme understands basic DxO edits, so things like rotation and cropping get reflected in the thumbnail.
I had worked with the guy, and a year later he was like "you remember that domain you sold me for $100? I just flipped it for $100k"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9007036

Not the first time I heard that comment...
For US (not sure if it's the same in UK), you might go with a provisional patent filing only. It's a lot easier and less expensive to file. You then have a year (I believe) to file for the actual patent.

My firsthand experience is with software, as opposed to biotech, and there the answer would usually be to focus on customers first. But I know that patents are more important to biotech investors, and companies. Hopefully the accelerator funding you has enough mentor presence in your space to get a more definitive take on the tradeoffs and timing.
I still use a roll of RS branded SnPb solder. The flux in that smells really good; nothing else like it.