skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sounds as if she's struggling not just to budget but to earn enough money to pay for all her expenses, both recurring and unexpected. (She says she's often "desperate" around the end of the month.) That's exactly the kind of user that Even should try to avoid.

I'm not entirely convinced of that. She could also be the very type of customer that they'll want for their expansion (i.e. into a budgeting service). They could evolve to help people both stabilize their incomes and learn how to budget better to improve overall stability
>At the very least, sliding a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse next to your tablet then having it turn into "laptop mode" would solve the problem.

I don't really disagree. This might well be what the reconvergence looks like--in combination with software changes that better bridge different modes of operation.

That said, you may also be right that enhancements to interfaces could make a tablet-type device qualitatively better than today while also pushing it in directions that are fundamentally different from the type of device needed to do the types of tasks we mostly use laptops for today.
Emails Reveal Close Relationship Between Psychology Group and CIA
Why Raising Minimum Wages Is Riskier Than Expanding the EITC
Wow, now this looks useful! Ability to pass data between Python to R seamlessly? I'm putting this on my list to check out. Thanks!
That's pretty slick, and it's much more competetively priced than Navicat.
Ok, that 307,000' landing looked a bit painful (pretty big whumph at the end there) of course it hits the ground at 16mph if I did the conversion from 24 fps correctly.

But the really really odd thing for me is listening to the callout in feet and feet per second rather than meters and meters per second. I've gotten quite used to velocity in particular being called out in m/s.

I wish they were a bit more open with the progress they were making.
At this point, I'm mostly well aware of the alternatives. I just wish the right thing was also the easiest thing.
This neglects open handles.

Systems whose primary role is serving data requests, typically databases, webservers, and fileservers, can see high load but it is driven by IO rather than processing. Similarly, disk contention and or swapping can also result in high load.

Lesson: also look at iowait, swapping, and VM statistics.
Testing async emails, the Rails 4.2+ way
There are almost certainly rules/stipulations around the money that was taken off the table by the founders in their funding round. It most certainly was tied to vested equity, at an absolute minimum, rather than granted as something such as a one-time bonus with no strings attached.

I would be surprised if the founders get to contractually retain the entire $3MM taken off the table in that funding round. It is possible that this is the case (and so maybe not so surprising) but given the often unique terms in startup funding, I would be surprised if this were the case here.
While I agree with this, the unfortunate reality is that with the iPad specifically, older versions become useless as Apple pushes OSes that demand more from the hardware, and performance becomes a huge issue. And if it's not performance, it's storage space.

And opting out of the upgrade isn't much of an option, due to app upgrades that require the latest OS. And I guess you can also opt out of app upgrades, but then you're left with a 2-year-old+ device and 2-year-old+ software.

Maybe this is intentional. But for me, at least, rather than upgrading, I've learned to just move on to using a combination of my iPhone and MPB, and my iPad (3rd gen) mostly collects dust now.
nice!!

I like how being huge vs the split strategy relates to the innovator problem
Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Release Candidate Now Available
"Microsoft’s most recent growth in hostnames since mid-2013 has, for the most part, been caused by a large number of Chinese linkfarms (泛站群). The sites in question provide advertising for gambling sites, online product listings, and normally make use of affiliate schemes. Yet they are hosted in the USA, on generic TLDs such as .com and .net to bypass China’s TLD and internet content provider (ICP) license requirements. Unusually, each linkfarm makes use of a reasonably large number of domains and IP addresses, presumably making them harder for search engines to evade. This would normally be cost prohibitive for this kind of activity, however hosting and domain packages can be found advertised on auction sites specifically for this purpose, with packages of (random/unspecified) .com domains available for as little as ¥17 (~ £2 / $3) each, guaranteed to remain yours for at least a month. It is not clear why IIS has been chosen for these sites, however it does have a considerably higher market share (for all of our metrics) in China compared to worldwide - for example 59% of domains hosted in China use IIS compared to just 29% worldwide."

source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/07/31/july-2014-web-s...
I agree. A lot of people have adopted it and there's a large community. Perfect for someone starting out. You will be googling/stack overflowing a lot so its good to know there are a lot of resources behind it. Plus you know th
e language is growing not dying.
> Although Google Chrome is installed on all Android 4.3+ devices

Is this correct? My phone (Galaxy S3) is running Android 4.4.2 and Play Store tells me I don't have Chrome installed.
Well it's pocket-sized so it beats all the stuff you mentioned in terms of how small it is. On top of that, it has multiple expansion ports (HDMI, USB hosts) that you usually don't find on tablets or phones. It's open, you can install about any distro on it (and even Android). It has an included keyboard and gaming controls, making it a very versatile computer as well as a proper gaming console on the go (you won't get that many exclusives on it, but for emulation it's great).

ANd the community is just FUN.
Ops. I reused some code from another game, I forgot I had bootstrap only for that one button, lol.
Can you describe server side technology?
How many servers are there?
How many players do you handle per server?
No, but I went to a state university in my home state (so very cheap tuition)---so I'd say in this regard I was in the same boat as many just plain middle class people.
Scribbling the Right Notes ! Literally Notable
The 12-13" iPad Pro could be a big deal, assuming it comes with a real multitasking interface in the OS. We've amply covered the market with portable 7-10" tablets, but I think there's space for a device that stays at home or in the office and does more.

Personally, I just want a bigger screen for reading large-format books. Tilting a laptop sideways is not a good solution for that.
Great game! Feature request: please add chat
I think the fact that her pay fluctuated from between $90 and $700 is what makes her the "prototypical" user. I'm sure if she had a few high paying weeks, she wouldn't be desperate at the end of the month.

Also, I checked out their website and it seems that you can withdraw all of the money that you have in Even if you need it immediately. And they put a pretty big emphasis on the fact that when you start, you get hooked up with an Even employee to help guide you through your finances and using the app. It isn't just a download and go setup. It seems to me that there is a lot of human interaction involved with actually using it.
I also have stuff like this lying around. Please don't tell Github because I seem to remember it is against their policy.

:)
Protecting against Google phishing in Chrome
Why 'innovation' needs to take a step back
Am I correct in assuming that this is a rhetorical question intended to make a point along the lines of, "If you didn't have to work hard to pay for your schooling, you don't know what true stress is"?

If so, I strenuously disagree. Stress is all relative, and the difficulty of adjusting to adulthood comes from the change, not the absolute situation you're in.

I won't deny that working to put yourself through school is going to be extremely difficult. But if you've been holding down jobs since the age of 14 to help your family eat, it's just more of the same. It's difficult, but there's not much adjustment to be made.

On the other hand, if you lived a nice stress-free life with your wealthy parents helping you out at every turn, and then suddenly you're 18 and on your own and you're starting to realize that your professors don't care who your parents are and you have to buy food yourself and you might actually need to look for a job at some point because mom and dad won't support you forever, that's a big adjustment. The poor guy might kill to be in your shoes, but that doesn't mean it can't be just as stressful, or more, for the rich guy.

You can certainly argue that it shouldn't be stressful, that the rich guy should take a moment to reflect on how fortunate he is, and be happy. But that's not what happens.
Nitpick, but ran into this again today: I wish "Ord k => Monoid (Map k v)" was "(Ord k, Semigroup v) => Monoid (Map k v)", and would combine values (on key collision) using whatever semigroup instance was available for v rather than an implicit Last.
I get rendering problems with my font (BDF UM+ Outline), and find it has broken mouse reporting. e.g. in tmux, vertical splits aren't rendered, and clicks result in spam being written to the shell.

Also couldn't feel more clunky if it tried, impressive as its feature set is.
>The write performance comes down to lack of clustered indexes on PostgreSQL.

Well, you could just leave everything as a heap in MsSQL, someone might throw things at you, but you could do it.

Or you can pad the index to allow for inserts (or do some partitioning), and schedule some rebuilds to augment the fragmentation.
Incremental Design – Part 2
:( It saddens me that such an obvious joke gets downvoted. It would be nice if people could reply when they downvote. Was the joke not received as such, what is not funny or does the community hate jokes?
"As a retroazimuthal projection, azimuths (directions) are correct from any point to the designated center point." (-- Wikipedia, which knows everything and is never wrong.)

It looks like one retroazimuthal variant (the Craig retroazimuthal) is sometimes called the "Mecca projection", so you know which way to kneel at sundown if you're into that sort of thing.
I can relate.
I got ADHD as well and while the medication helps me focus when I am working, it doesn't help with staying on task or even beginning.

It doesn't help not wasting an entire day just day dreaming about stupid action-packed shit either :-/.

Let me know if you ever find a medication or solution that works. My only trigger is music, nothing else.
I noticed the author wrote Fluvoxamine worked, I will see if my doctor would prescribe it.

ALSO WOW.... I thought I was alone. It never occurred to me that I should google this, I just naturally assumed i was alone in this. This is some crazy shit.
There are 12 "servers" at the moment (divided among some regions, I think 6 for europe). But each server can host several realms, so I'm not quite sure how many realms are there, but at the very least 12 (probably 30 or more, though). A server can handle up to around 200 players (I don't know the exact number, the CPU is the limit).
I want to be able to say: BACKUP clientdb_a, get a clientdb_a.bak file, and be able to restore it without statement generation.

Which seems like a reasonable baseline expectation if you were to ask a lay-person what they'd imagine a database backup to be. pgbasebackup can't do that without some serious constraints (like, you only have a single database in your PGDATA).
I seem to recall WalMart looking into the idea of having customers deliver goods to others "on their way home." Don't know if that was successful anywhere.
In case someone reads the cached version, I added a note about my point about Wifi after it was brought up that the attacker could be the Wifi provider itself so refresh the page.
Whenever this topic comes up, I'm reminded of a line from the BBC drama "Micro Men", referring to a slump in sales of home computers:

"In December 1983, every child wanted one for Christmas; By December 1984, every child who wanted one had one."

PC sales have been steadily declining for years, because there are few new users and existing users see little reason to upgrade. Tablets have reached a similar point of market saturation and sales are starting to stall. Smartphones are the exception, because of natural churn - smartphones are far more likely to be lost or damaged, and they are "free" at the point of purchase.
While I hate actually using it for production tasks, I have to admit that Python is the best language ever to learn. Its syntax doesn't really get in the way at all and it is extremely understandable. It's also widespread.
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What are other small form-factor "palmtop" computers with a hardware keyboard and good Linux (or other open-source Unix) compatibility?

One of the important points for me would be the ability to hold the screen reliably at a convenient angle; what I've seen for Surface or Android tablets is flimsy and only works for a very narrow range of angles. Maybe it would be wiser to invest in a phablet + a BT keyboard + a custom adjustable holder for both.

For other people the joysticks and the whole portable game machine look might be the selling point.

Also, I suppose the machine will be built with Linux compatibility in mind. I can imagine (but failed to find a mention on the website) that the hardware schematics and CAD drawings are also (going to be) open. This is also important: if I e.g. took a 5" phone and tried to find a Debian-based distro for it, what phone and what distro would I pick? Ubuntu seems to run on certain tablets, it seems; hopefully phones are also workable.
Do you guys know you're actually describing the Surface 3 in detail? ;)
It takes 10 seconds to restart Windows these days, so it's almost analagous.
Same here, I can't finish my stuff if I am alone with music playing.
> politically convenient

I am involved in local politics and currently running for School Board in my city (We have 14 people running for 5 seats)

Political convenient = how things work locally. If you make a proposal you have to see it to 4 other people to get it past. If they know their email or Facebook or Twitter would explode they won't budge. If you show that it is idea is convenient to them specifically you are a genius.
Using DNS as a cheap failover and load-balancer
I strongly suspect you can't do much better than O(n) on the actual redraw of the DOM, so having an O(n) diff acting before isn't making the asymptotic behaviour any worse.
Yes, the printing was the easy part. In a few years, when the ink fades, he can print it again and remount on the same surface.
"Man Bag" sales are going up. People are changing their lifestyle to incorporate bigger phones. Phones won't be getting smaller.
why would you submit and terminate a batch halfway through a transaction? that doesnt really make a whole lot of sense so i cant really take this criticism seriously.
The server is written in C++ with libuv to abstract networking (since I test it on windows but the servers run on linux).

See my reply to madeofpalk for the other 2 answers.
Microsoft cracks down on misleading (and frequently malicious) advertisements
I use iPad Air to read tons of technical papers, books, and magazines - and no - phone - just will not do for it, let alone lugging stacks of paper. I occasionally read fiction on an iPhone 6, but anything that has charts, formulae, source code, or good typography and photos (as in magazine articles) is a pain to read on a phone.

I also watch TV shows, videos and movies on iPad when I feel like doing it on a couch, as laptop is a bit too heavy and bulky and I just do not bother buying a TV set.
I really appreciate the feedback. JavaScript is supposed to be complicated. Let's say I study 20 hours a week for three months. Can I get off the ground with it?
I think tablets are appropriately prices for what they do. A $399 iPad is a much better device than a $299 or $399 laptop. Better screen, longer battery life, doesn't get viruses, easier to use...

Plus, an iPad is 1/2 to 1/3rd the cost of an Apple laptop.
Apple partners with IBM and Japan Post to support ageing populations
Neither - it changes the program counter, ready for the next operation. It's not terribly cunning, but it's sometimes useful.
Maybe madaxe_again told it "to illuminate that the guy's a human being, and an entertaining one at that."
Their website says that they employ solid landing rockets just before touchdown, similar to the Soyuz. The 'big whumph' is probably just dust kicked up by these rockets.
Why do you hate using Python for production tasks?
What is the risk you are referring to? On the surface it sounds like a decent app for someone who lacks financial skills.
On openness, give them time. I think Blue Origin's focus is on delivering a quality result in minimum time. Right now their customer is Bezos, and nobody else. I suspect you'll hear a lot more as they move toward flying paying customers.

http://blueorigin.com/astronaut-experience
Also they seemed to have avoided the corruption that is rampant in social services. My town tried something very similar to this, starting off with a new apartment building for the "chronically homeless" which very curiously was constructed at a per-square-foot cost about 4x market averages.
Is prostitution perfectly fine?
Love seeing that American flag on the side of American spacecraft. This is truly a land of freedom, technological innovation, and unprecedented human happiness.

A few people alive today have forgotten that, but most people alive today have never known it.

edit: HN, I just typed a long response to a comment below but can't post it becuase I'm "submitting too fast." Cut the crap and tell me about that before I write a long comment.
Personally, I prefer HTML too. That’s the reason I enjoy Angular so much. It essentially allows you to use an enhanced version of HTML, so you keep the strengths of a DSL without the limitations of basic HTML.

But in pure HTML, how do you do something like ng-repeat?[1] You can’t. You have to either use a template language or you have to construct the HTML in the code. Both have goods and others. A template language allows you to keep an HTML like format that non-programmer’s can possibly understand and contribute to, and that can help separate the view from the business logic, but it comes at the cost of having to learn a new language / framework and the hurdles that abstractions sometimes create.

Similar question on Quora. [2]

[1] https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngRepeat
[2] http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-t...
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Mojang Adds Female Character to Minecraft
I don't think I could live without my iPad Mini. Couch surfing, YouTube, games...barely use my laptop much anymore
For once I wished I came to the comments before reading. It was an interesting article, but it is definitely full of fluff
Is it still happening?
@jjgreen, what's WOG in the UK means?
Overall, they only have changed BRO to WO and connect it with -grammer, came from (pro-grammer).
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Please don't. It will be filled with rage. ;-)
I'm using that for short-hand yea. But it was my experience pg_restore is no faster outside of basic parallelization.
Hello Mr NSA.

> First of all encryption cannot stand on it's own, it needs the concept of trust.

Wrong. Passive eavesdroppers. Pay attention.

> There is another cost and that's the actual cost in CPU cycles. SSL is bloody expensive compared to not doing it.

Wrong. AES-NI and the fact that Google uses it should be proof enough. This used to be true, but isn't anymore.

> Until fairly recently there was no real way to scale SSL without handing over your private keys to a your frontend SSL machines.

I'm pretty sure Cloudflare did not invent this.

> forcing SSL on people out of principle should consider that

I'm sorry I don't hate freedom like you.

> A big cost of encryption however is lawful interception.

If this is your problem then just give them the keys. Problem solved.

> [antivirus] started to destroy SSL traffic

I would assume that the MITM proxy running on localhost also checks CAs, so what's the problem? (besides breaking cert pinning)

> I'm firmly of the opinion that none of [SSL MITM] would have happened if SSL traffic was less common.

OF COURSE not. They would just MITM it without crypto stuff. So… it would just be worse.

> There will be the point in a year or two when the first websites that got forgotten and had SSL configured

What's so special about a year or two from now?
Okay, hipster. Transverse Mercator, south-oriented. https://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/TMSO
Why the decision to use C++ instead of NodeJS?
TOAD DBA Suite for SQL Server is nice too, very expensive though
I haven't done more than play with one but from what I've seen Microsoft has definitely done the best job of a (re)converged device today. Bu, for whatever reason, I think it would be hard to call it a really successful device so far.
>> I have a 2nd or 3rd gen iPad and I have absolutely zero reason to upgrade at this point.

The 2nd gen (non-Retina) iPads make my eyes bleed. They are terrible devices.

I had a 3rd gen and after a year, websites became more complicated and it just felt 'slow', so I sold it and got the Retina Mini.
I have debugged a C# application in VS and a Java application in IntelliJ and in Eclipse. I did not see any debugging features in VS that can claim its superiority over the others. May be I have not used all the features that were available.

Are there any features in VS debugger that are better or non-existent in Java IDEs?
While being done in the standard library, several big libraries alternative (Core, Batteries...) prefer wrapping everything in an `option` type instead of raising an exception. Wrapping in an option avoids forgetting about catching the exception.
Albeit a minimum wage hike or a government handout, somebody is having to come up with the money to support those full time workers on minimum wage. Take Wallmart as an example:

Walmart workers at a single 300-person Supercenter store rely on anywhere from $904,542 to $1,744,590 in public benefits per year"

http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edwor...

The Forbes author applauds the Earned income tax credit as a subsidy but this again is the government having to co-pay Wallmart's employees with tax dollars.
The life expectancy of an email
Ask HN: How do I start freelancing?
I'm graduating soon and want to spend a few months doing some freelance/contract development. I'm interested in web dev especially.

How do I get started?

How do I find my first contract?
Sub-orbital flights only, to just above the Kármán line.

This seems to be ideal for transport as well? That is, if we're trying to get from Tokyo to NYC quickly, we never want to actually go into orbit, do we?
> Problem with this whole thing is that this does not work on x86_64 with 64bit kernel.

Shit!
This is why I prefer postgres. Jumping into the CLI is easy and much quicker than mousing around some clustered up feature overloaded GUI.
- competitors (aka normal delivery companies) pay benefits to their employees, so Uber has an unfair advantage because they don't.

- because of pooling it is more efficient overall to force companies or governments to pay benefits than it is to have individuals self-insure