skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* There is a common misconception about SQLite3 dynamic type system. It can be done using SQL statements: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2762020, http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html . The browser vendors could enable static typing by default by adding a few lines of code or just a flag afaik. Beside that there are other SQL db engines. SQL-92 was the third revision of the SQL database query language. It's the common dialect that every SQL engine supports: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL-92

* Beside that even if Microsoft would use JetRed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine) or JetBlue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_JET_Blue) database engine and use a slightly different SQL dialect, everyone else would use SQLite anyway (and even Microsoft products like several Xbox games and Tools use SQLite). It's the same like supporting different XHR/AJAX API versions (like the ActiveX API calls of < IE9) or many other glitches. One could use a shim.

Without WebSQL support one has to compile SQLite via emscripten to asm.js -> 3 MB big JS file.
Would secure-wiping the phone if involved in a legal discovery process be considered destruction of evidence?

Does your advice apply when you're only using, say Exchange, as your only entry point (e.g. on iOS devices?) - in this case, all discovery can be done server-side.

I find it hard pressed to think this issue hasn't been covered more rigorously.
Put peanut butter between them after toasting them. Tastiest thing in the world.

And dip it in milk or chocolate syrup.
Another in the same vein: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/02/25/be-calm-robots-are...
Exactly. Even in the late 90s "3 tier" development pushed the idea of having a separate layer and sticking to APIs. This is just saying that instead of making big layers, make smaller ones. Which isn't bad, it's just that most of the time you don't need this. Add a new service, like "GetRecommendationFromFacebook?" OK, go ahead and deploy, because you haven't changed the rest of the services in your layer, like "LoginUser".

And there was a whole hubbub of discovery what with UDDI and DISCO and all that jazz I never really understood.

It'd be nice if they gave some solid examples of the "micro" part to distinguish it from the general SOA idea.
don't have to modify the second ammendement, just get non-conservative judges to interpret the consitution how it was meant to be.
I don't know if it is really what you are looking for, but I have always been curious about meditation but not the religious side of it, and was recently introduced to headspace.com. I have just finished the first (free) 10 sessions and subscribed for some more. I can't say I'm sold yet, but I'm still curious to practice it some more.
At the least, I enjoy taking 10 minutes every day to just take a break from life.
CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard is useful for dealing with this situation. There is a setting to enable it by default on newly installed apps. No matter what permissions the app says it requires, you are prompted when it actually requests them and can deny them at will or permanently.
Startup Idea: “Entrepreneur in Residence”
You are correct that it's not for everyone.

And similarly, if I was told "we never pair here", I wouldn't sign up.
When Altair Basic came out? PCs had a huge ecosystem of software by the time I was born, in the 80s. The Altair was released in January 1975 and Altair Basic was released in March 1975.

Ditto Google - I don't recall search being all that useful. I went to Yahoo to find websites until I was introduced to Google in 2000.
The site is loading all the content using AngularJS. With javascript disabled, you should see multiple AngularJS directives like:

{{connectRegions.sidebar_second.blogLinks.title}}
{{connectRegions.sidebar_second.featuredPosts.title}}
I think he's referring to the number of keys in the "strong set" as described here: http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/plot/
This is right, theoretically, but I'd love to see the stats on how many people carry two phones everywhere. It's either BYOD or someone using COPE for personal stuff. Not sure which is worse.
Wow, great read. Very frightening, especially when one considers what they could be at today.
Not only was this article interesting, but the website was great. The informative bits that dynamically appear while scrolling + the interactive rating system was very intuitive and smooth. Very impressive.
I do. I eat Soylent for lunch and breakfast.
http://36in36.com lets you submit ideas, and do as much or little work on a project as you want. If you submit an idea that is developed, you receive 25% (or so...depending on the idea)... but you also get a 1% ownership in the 36in36 project. If your idea doesn't do so well, you at least get to share in the potential of the other 35.
Interesting article - a lot of good stuff in it but I found it a bit to general to be really useful. As an example, the author states: "So you need to get to market with a viable product before anyone else does."

That's the type of statement that I question - there are plenty of examples of companies creating products in saturated markets where they were not the first mover. In fact, sometime being a first mover can be a disadvantage as you must, as a startup, spend huge amounts of time and money educating the market.

Now, the author's approach of "look at the trend, get in front of it" is great - but it's pretty rare that someone can do that. In startups, I've usually seen that luck plays a bigger role in it than anyone wants to admit - that is, you start a company, and you happen onto the right market wave at the right time.

Definitely bookmarking it!
> While SN 1006 did not appear to have such significant effects, a signal of its eruption can be found in nitrate deposits in Antarctic ice.

Not heard about this, are there any other signs from supernova we have detected on Earth?
They clearly do work, but at a larger scale than we're currently operating at. For smaller spends ($1000 or so), they've have a really low success rate.

Developers, specifically, tend to ignore ads (either subconsciously or via AdBlock).
They're not all the same - two of those companies - Facebook and Google initially had no clue about funding their companies. MS and Apple sold actual products that people could buy. As startups they did the really really hard work of convincing a bunch of people to open their wallets and pay hard cash for a product. I think this is a far more valuable exercise that attempting to create something that's popular by giving it away for free, and then selling some advertising product/platform/service that has a nebulous value which is often supported by spying/data-mining users. (aka Investor Story time http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm)
You pretty much described Southwest Airlines.
Really engaging post. Placed in the context of RethinkDB though it is a bit contradictory no? RethinkDB does not have first mover advantage and they are against the likes of Riak, Mongo, Couchbase, Cassandra, etc. All of those I believe are in a much stronger position according to the criteria in the post.
I think most soylent drinkers don't do it 100%. I drink it for breakfast and lunch, and do dinner with the family. So for me I do four servings over two days. I think they're finding that this a common pattern and updating the packaging to reflect it.
So what's your evidence for rats?
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms [1] establishes rules and regulations regarding the ownership, sales, manufacturing, and transport of firearms across state lines. Great article on them here on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Fir...

[edit] I didn't answer your question directly, they also determine what "defines" a firearm, they are the folks with the whole serial number goes on the receiver rule and that is a firearm. There is an ongoing "discussion" or "debate" over how close you can get to finishing a receiver before it becomes a receiver and thus a firearm by ATF rules. It is within the power of the ATF to rule that a CNC mill that is pre-loaded with the ability to convert an partially finished receiver into a finished receiver, is a controlled item.

[1] My grandfather once called it "the bureau of fun stuff"
Err, that's explicitly covered in the last paragraph; I've included a bit more for context:

[...] Moreover, their results challenge the long-standing, but poorly substantiated view that Yersinia pestis must have had a permanent wildlife reservoir in Europe, such as the urban black rat. Instead, new strains of the disease may have been frequently imported from Asia.

Nevertheless, an ultimate confirmation of this hypothesis depends on the availability of appropriate genetic material of ancient plague victims not only from different periods throughout time but also from different parts of Eurasia. The advent of aDNA techniques and international research collaboration across disciplinary boundaries will most likely be able to shed new light on this fascinating topic at the interface of human history and environmental variability.

We've already reconstructed Yersinia pestis strains from victims of the Black Death and the 6th Century Plague of Justinian....
> You're never in "the zone" if you're pair programming.

I have ADHD-I, so I am acutely sensitive to the fact that my attention can easily wander.

I am more in the zone, more often, with a pair, than working by myself.
I don't understand this at all. How do you manage to feed each member of your family for less the $65 a week?
> Shouldn't they profit off it?

Not saying they shouldn't profit at all. The question is whether they should pay something back to the government for doing all the early stage investment.

Consider: Seed Investor A puts 70% of the funding in at the earliest most risky stage. Venture Capitalist B puts in 30% of the funding to take it to market. Yet all of the profits go to VC B, save for a small percentage of sales/payroll. Would you call that a fair deal?

Except it's not an analogy. Taxpayers are the seed investor. They are massively subsidizing the tech industry.

Which is made even more ironic by how "Libertarian" and "anti big government" Silicon Valley likes to fashion itself. Silicon Valley! A kind of psychological overcompensation, if you ask me. Silicon Valley is a product of DARPA and government spending.[1] Not entirely of course... just the earliest, most risky, most sustained stage of investment over the decade plus it takes to produce fruit, which is then plucked and brought to market. The question is not whether private industry has a role to play or should profit, but rather should private industry keep all of the profits? I think this makes people very uncomfortable, to admit that the state plays a huge role in our allegedly "free market capitalist" economy.

[1] The High Return on Investment for Publicly Funded Research https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/technology/report/20...
But Romania is so beautiful this time of year, comrade hobs.
>At the time, Windows was very very primitive, they had not yet figured out how to make the windows overlap and re-paint (which we had figured out a long time before that). I actually felt sorry for them at the time because I just could not imagine how they would ever catch up with Apple, the Mac was just so much more advanced. It seemed to me like there was no doubt that they would be out of business in a few years completely replaced by Apple, it was just so obvious at the time to me.

while it feels somewhat paradoxical, reinvention of the wheel has been an extremely efficient way to move the industry forward. Probably because it is an effective way to subterfuge the incumbents, and incumbents are the most significant obstacle on the way forward.
I don't think anybody would posit that it's unreasonable to entertain the idea as kind of far-fetched long-term possibility, much like encounters with alien life or faster-than-light travel.

It's the fear-mongering that's the issue. It's as if these same pundits were warning us about the dangers of space travel because it could hypothetically cause us (1000 years from now?) to draw the attention of a dangerous alien civilization (does that even exist?) that could destroy the Earth. It's the same level of ridiculous speculation. And that has no place in the scientific discourse.

Write sci-fi novels if you care about this issue, but don't pretend it's science, much less a pressing technological issue.
Luxe raises $20m
The missing element here is: there were A LOT of small companies pushing microcomputer hardware and software products in the late 70's, Gates and Microsoft were pretty much indistinguishable from the field.

Anecdota: My Father used to subscribe to the Wall Street journal during this time, and him and I observed the whole thing play out. There no indication, none what so ever that Microsoft would win out the way they did. It was all really remarkable.
Like the industry needs more hipsters.
> However, your code will be unusable by anyone who follows the normal Go way of coding.

Well, that's not really true given the major projects using tools like Godeps [1], so while that argument certainly sounds good, it doesn't actually seem to be a problem in practice.

[1] https://coreos.com/blog/godep-for-end-user-go-projects/
Just go around removing space-savers, then let Boston tear itself apart.
There are lots of Major League pitchers in their 40's. There might be no Premier League outfield players in their 40's. Lots of players in both sports get injured and end their careers in their 20's.

No doubt that a starting pitcher's pitching arm takes a lot of abuse, but they can have much longer careers than almost any other athlete.
So the problem you've identified is real. I used to have some bootleg footage of some private amazon tech talks where the speaker emphasized that in distributed systems it was generally a terrible idea to have transactions span entities.

I think you basically have to learn to live in an eventually consistent world. In the case of people being deleted I would imagine that the user service exposes a pub/sub interface where address and billing services subscribe to "delete" events.
"... That success has brought Mountain View loads of tax dollars and a 3.3 percent unemployment rate, as well as skyrocketing home prices and intolerable gridlock. Good and bad, tech is responsible for most of it ..."

Now if you can figure out how to decentralise corporations, imagine the amount of time, space and resources you could save.

hint: why do digital companies still require a workforce to all meet at one physical location, every day?
Sesame. Your key, reinvented
Here's a publicly-accessible link to the full paper:

http://rdcu.be/cdlg
A bag is about 2 days' worth, not one. I can't imagine going through an entire bag every day. Serving size is just labeling as you suspect; in my house, serving size is correlated with size of glass.
If you check the nutritional information for Soylent and compare it to Ensure, you'll see that Soylent is not at all like Ensure.
This is more targeted for people who have an enterprise domain (Google Apps for Work, Blackberry, Citrix, etc.)

That said, if you want to create a separate profile for Uber or Line, you can already do so on Android 5.0 and above: https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2865483?hl=en&ref_to...
That's exactly the intended meaning.

Using 1 as the first number in the ratio makes people think of it like a comet, once you see it you won't see it again for the given period (and will not live to see another).

Using 4 in 100,000 would be an attempt to get more people to reason clearly about what the odds mean.
Any idea sounds awful if you phrase it right. Any idea sounds good phrased right. I don't think this is a good metric at all to evaluate a start-up.
Who Should Outsource the ISO (Information Security Officer)? Here’s the Verdict
How I Hustled to Get the Perfect Startup Job: From Tradecraft to Zumper
Hash rate is independent from bandwidth/storage. Assuming you can do N hashes/s, you can still do N hashes/s with merged mining of multiple sidecoins.

Also, presumably any bandwidth incurred by a sidecoin would have been incurred by bitcoin if the sidecoin didn't exist, so total bandwidth/storage would be similar.
Some of my personal skepticism boils down to: well, what are we going to do about it? There are only really two options:

(1) The methods to create strong AI will become known to us before we actually build something dangerous. At that point, since we will better understand the nature of the potential threat, it will actually be feasible to put safety restrictions in place.

(2) Someone will stumble upon strong AI in secret or on accident. I don't see how this is preventable, unless we issue a moratorium on AI-related research, which just isn't going to happen outside of scenario 1.

And so the answer becomes: let's wait and see.

That said, I don't believe there's anything unbearably harmful about the current level of speculation and "fear-mongering".
Thoughtbot's Code Review Guidelines
Wrong wrong wrong. For example, the guys at Google spent years doing research in the field before starting their company. Clearly MS achieved success with a different product than they had begun with.
Desktops don't mean any of those things, crappy old computers with none of your characteristics are very common.

Technology has improved significantly in the 3 - 4 years since Motorola made theirs, and Ubuntu's failed as a crowdsourcing campaign. Nothing has been proven.
Wilson is in it for the PR, not the guns. He's an interesting fellow. It would defeat his stated purpose if he didn't tell anyone.
Code reviews, traditionally, are a much more formal affair.

"Rotating pairs" means that you frequently change one half of the pair on a story or epic, to ensure constant diffusion of context about a codebase.

So for example:

Day 1: A & B work on a story.

Day 2: A rotates off. B & C work on the story and complete it. They pick up another story from the same track.

Day 3: B rotates off. C & A work on the new story.

At each point, you preserve and then share context.
Let's be honest, 99% of Google employees are not working on hard problems like self-driving cars, they're just finding new things to slap ads on. You might need to be impressive in a very narrow way to get in, but the work isn't going to be that challenging.
If your device is rooted, and by that I mean real rooted (bypassing SELinux), then it can get the encryption keys as at some point the data needs to be decrypted and viewable by you.
Soylent seems to be the only food product following software versioning.
I've worked in several places where this was the norm. More than one work-supplied phones on occasion, too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109010
I know right. I went through withdrawal when I was done. I binged it in like 3 days.
damn, that's some tiny <pre> font-size.
We are, just not so much in this thread specifically. Think about all the progress we are making in the bio-tech field - although this is clearly not the only answer to the problem. Don't get me wrong, conversations about moving ourselves forward are important, but I'm not sure starting such a conversation with what amounts to high-brow fear mongering is the correct way to do things.
Yep! RIP and even animated ANSI opened up some cool animations when it was exploited to make things like simulated motion and stuff like that, the good old days!
"Boston’s astounding month of snow a 1-in-26,315 year occurrence"

Until next year!
I don't mean to beat on Blackberry but I too thought of Blackberry when reading this. I had a different approach though. This was the sort of approach that Blackberry optimized to lock out any competition from the enterprise. Apple/iPhone was just soooo good that eventually IT departments had to capitulate and work with BYO devices. Things like the US government were the last to cave so you Obama had a blackberry for a long time. So Google _seems_ to be catering to that crowd with this but that's a ship that's kind of sailed. There might be a few stubborn outposts but if half my company (including the entire C suite) has an iOS device are we really going to get value out of implementing this Google stuff?
in case anyone missed it, it's by the author of CodeMirror [1], Acorn, Tern, etc. [2]. He also contributes to Rust.

[1] https://github.com/codemirror/codemirror

[2] https://github.com/marijnh
Exahome – the most efficient Smart Home system
I certainly couldn't.

I barely managed to swallow the grittiness of the mixture after following their instructions and shaking up my first batch a few months ago. I even put it in my vitamix on high for a while and it still tasted like undisolved powders sitting in the bottom of a jug of water.

I ended up throwing out the remainder of the first mixture, and the rest of my week's supply has been sitting in storage ever since.

Apparently there is a secondary market out there where dissapointed early adopters can sell their soylent to others, which speaks volumes about it's quality/taste/texture... that people who waited over a year for delivery can't even finish the stuff and want to pawn it off to somebody else. [0]

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-waited-five-months-for-my...
But don't forget to wrap it in bacon and deep fry it too.
535M hours lost a day, selfdriving cars can stop that and Google can monetize it
RethinkDB won't be in this position for long (and in fact, most lessons in the article came directly from the mistakes made in the process of building RethinkDB).

We found a big point of a differentiation (http://rethinkdb.com/blog/realtime-web/), which, depending on one's definition, can be considered discovering a new market, and we'll be the first open-source scalable database in that market. The upcoming 2.0 release will reposition the company around realtime web/push database. A huge part of the reason why we chose this path is the lessons in the article.
> A DVD drive like this seems like it would be used to make a lot of DVD copies, which implies trade, which raises the specter of illegal activity.

No it doesn't. Most people who have computers with DVD drives do not sell DVDs. On the other hand, most people who have gun manufacturing machines do trade in guns.

Just as relevant, you don't need a license for DVDs, but you do need a license for guns.
Jeff Bezos talk on the founding of Amazon (2001)
Why Soylent and not Ensure?
Your entire first paragraph is straw men. It doesn't matter how much any individual pays, it doesn't matter what any individual's sentiment is. If Google pays a researcher to do some research, they own it, regardless of how much any individual shareholder paid of that amount or what any individual's sentiment about that research is. Those things are irrelevant.

It's not as easy as "publicly funded research should be free", I agree. As I said, it's that funded research should benefit the funders.

Startups don't benefit from patents. There is plenty of (probably publicly funded) research to show that. Here's a recent paper on patents and innovation: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.1.3, or read Joel Mokyr's "The Enlightened Economy" or "The Lever of Riches" and see how James Watt held up the widespread commercialization of the steam engine by refusing to allow his patents to be used downstream (or read the NBER financed study on the impact of patents on downstream innovation: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20269). This paper (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2029098) is probably the most targeted towards whether patents help startups or not. The conclusion they came to was "the patent system was working 'neither well nor poorly for [startups]' and tended to favor larger companies."

And last, if it benefits "society", that is, all people, how can there be free riders? If you mean it benefits non-taxpayers as well as taxpayers, well, that is one of the points of taxes (as opposed to fees.)