skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if I know you now...

Anyways, yes, it's very powerful and an excellent tool but I always have to describe it as awfulsome. SSISDB has made great improvements to the setup and promotion of objects which previously could be a pretty big headache (especially when you're not the one deploying etc). Functions for the various tasks/settings can be hidden and it can take a while to convince newcomers that the options are available, you just have to...poke around a bit. It comes with a substantial amount of controls.

The metadata/conversion of data can be frustrating but automation greater improves this with a quick controlling framework and the sys tables, it also makes moving data across hundreds of tables a breeze. It is very fast and very stable and I'm glad it's getting improvements and having focused development.
Without a full description of rules and options this is incredibly frustrating and unfair to new players.

Also it freezes a lot for me. Locking the mouse would be nice.
SUSE is doing well and while not as large as Red Hat, continues to make valuable contributions to OSS across the board.
Paranoia Text Encryption (Aes)
Paranoia Text Encryption keeps SMS, mails, messages from social networks, notes and any other text safe from thieves, hackers and snoopers.

Simply paste text copied from any application, or save it in a file, use it more later
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aesparanoia/

Paranoia Text Encryption mantiene SMS, correos, mensajes de redes sociales, notas y cualquier otro texto a salvo de ladrones, hackers y fisgones.

Basta con pegar texto copiado desde cualquier aplicación, o guardarlo en un archivo para usarlo más adelante
220 volts – Trouvez du courant près de chez vous avec 220 volts
FYI, this particular cute little rocket is aimed at space tourism. Sub-orbital flights only, to just above the Kármán line.
My point was that I think the primary gives the parties much of their power (and that this has undesirable effects).

A simple alternative would be to only allow people to publicly attest that they believe someone to be a worthwhile candidate (that is, sign a ballot petition, with no limitation on the number of such signatures). There is probably some problem there with minority views getting representation on the ballots, but I guess in the cases where that problem would be egregious the minority representation on the ballot would tend to anyway be irrelevant.

A first pass at the rules for picking from many petitions would be to always take 3, and then to also always take all the petitions that had "similar" numbers of signatures (I haven't thought about what a good test for similarity would be, but it would be something like taking the number of signatures collected by the #3 petitioner and taking all the ballots that were above some floor function of that value (like, nearest multiple of 10, or 1/2 that value, or...).

That way the inside baseball of the majority party doesn't end up being the thing that actually decides the election. Which overlaps with your statement about multiple credible candidates up for election, I'm expanding my thoughts here because it isn't clear to me how your reply relates to what I said (I don't mean that as a slight, just that I don't see the connection clearly).
New York joins growing number of cities opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The article opens with the story of Heather Jacobs, a masseuse whose income is volatile, and it implies that she's a prototypical Even user. But she actually seems to be an undesirable user, from the company's point of view.

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 necessarily faulting the woman for not being able to make enough; I'm just saying that Even's ideal user should be someone who, over time, earns enough to cover their expenses, but either has trouble sticking to a budget or would prefer the convenience of an app to handle budgeting for them.

For instance, my parents (one a teacher, who got paychecks from September to May, and the other a landscape, who earned little during the winter months) could have used an app like this when I was growing up. Between the two of them, they made ends meet, but they struggled to figure out how much to save so they'd have a reserve during the months when their incomes dipped.

One thing I am curious about, which the article doesn't touch on: What happens if I have a surplus in my Even account (which the article says is kept in a savings account), and I run into a huge unexpected expense? What are my options for tapping into that surplus?

If I have the same access to it as a regular savings account, does that kind of defeat the point of the app (to prevent people with poor willpower from spending their surplus instead of saving it)? Or is it treated like a withdrawal from a 401(k), with penalties for taking the money out earlier than scheduled?
Remember how the tablet was going to totally destroy desktop computing?

That said, tablets are a little bit better for reading, or for "computing in bed" and those sorts of things.
I've never owned (or even so much as seen in person) a Pandora. I've been paying attention to the development of the Pyra, however, and have sort of been considering getting one. What are some of the things that the original Pandora did that make you so excited for the new Pyra? Considering the cost breakdown in their forum saying it will probably be ~500 euros, what would be the reason for getting one instead of, say, a Surface 3 [or Pro version] or even a cheap laptop that could be dedicated to a Linux distribution? I'm honestly asking this, by the way. I'm curious about what aspects of the Pandora were so attractive to you and make you want the new Pyra. It's a decent chunk of change, so I wouldn't want to buy one as an impulse buy or something.
There are probably hundreds crazy stories like that.

My mom and father had to run during the fall. Grandfather was part of the South Army and got killed by friendly fire from the American. Family burned all the medal from my grand father to hide his involvement from the war. Then my father family gave my parent golds before they ran away. I think they went to Laos then Thailand. Between Vietnam to Lao, the Vietcong caught my father in some field, a gun to his head. Suddenly they hear other people running so they left him to chase the other people.

We ended up in Laos and then they decided to grab a boat to Thailand. They missed the first boat cause they slept late. Later they found out the boat they missed was pirated and all of the people on the boat died. Anyway second boat got to thailand. Somewhere in there I was born in Cambodia and they decided to tell me when I was a teenager...

Dad decided to spend the money to build a farm there. It didn't work out so they move to Philippine or something before America. It's a bit vague but there other weird stuff in that story too. I don't recall how he became some priest, he's not one now btw.

I had a buddy that was the head of the dorm. We ended up having a crazy story time try to out do each other. Some viet girl basically told us her father was a Viet Cong spy, he spied on the US. >___>
Making something "searchable" and graph analysis is what Google is designed for.
I'm a skeptic for the most part.

However, this worked for me. Thank you.

Sometimes problems seem so big until you consider how small they really are.
One critical issue in this (apart from the proprietary approach) might be the mapping of adresses between languages, since a random Indian or Chinese person will probably not benefit from English words.

Can you identify subsets consisting of 10,000s of words in different languages that have one-to-one maps to any other global language subset for w3w? (i.e. without multiple words being suitable for a translation of the word)
Both databases have a bunch advantages over each other. There is no obvious winner.

PostgreSQL has better performance for some loads (as far as I know there is no clear winner in performance), better GIS support, writable CTEs, excellent built-in JSON and array support, an amazing CLI, and personally I think PostgreSQL has nicer built-in types and functions.
One of the major attractions of MS SQL Server 2014 is memory optimized tables (Hekaton engine) which removes locks completely from the database through snapshot versioning of rows. Does postgresql has anything similar to that?
Having a quick scan of your Github profile it looks like a lot of lists or collections of things or forks. I think you may be suffering from information overload as I was unable to find a decent example of code within 30 or so seconds
Doesn't work for me. Is there a threshold for dividing? OTOH, the game is choppy as hell for me, maybe that's the reason.
The write performance comes down to lack of clustered indexes on PostgreSQL.

So yeah, it'll have better INSERT performance, but the queries will be slower. There's really no way around that. A large data set on disk that's out of order will always be slower than the one that's in-order.

IMO MSSQL makes the right call for the vast majority of use-cases.

PostgreSQL has -no- materialized views (I stand corrected! Introduced in v9.3). No view update support. No partitioned view support. No sane backup/restore process. It's a great database if your primary concern is licensing cost. But if your primary concern is operational cost and even just multi-gigabyte data sets it's really frustratingly rudimentary compared to what MSSQL delivered over a decade ago.

But that's just me. It's free. And I'm thankful for that. I just find it really frustrating that PostgreSQL supports querying on JSON, but doesn't support backing up and restoring the database in binary format.
To call what Google does "trivial" kind of ends this thread.
He says upfront that he's comparing PostgreSQL 9.3 and MS SQL Server 2014
I honestly think that Apple will be able to reinvigorate iPad sales when they offer some new capability. The iPhone has (almost) always had a compelling reason to upgrade. My wife's iPad 3 Retina doesn't seem to perform better than my non-retina iPad 2. While I'm itching to replace the iPad (it's getting slow, app crashing, etc.) I'll be moving to a Surface Pro 4 (or 3 if I can't wait that long) or a $200-300 Android tablet depending on how I see my use cases playing out. I really like the idea of a 4-5" Android phone + an i5/i7 surface eliminating the need for a tablet and a desktop.

If there was a compelling new iPad coming out, we'd be on the hook for at least 1, and I imagine that many of the 250m iPad users would be ready to upgrade ASAP.

Then the question becomes, what would be compelling enough to upgrade?

- Possibly size, but probably not. A $600+ iPad in 10-12" would be hard to justify over a Surface.
- New sensors? Adding the PrimeSense 3d sensor (maker of the original Kinect, now owned by Apple) would enable a TON of new use cases.
- Multitasking?
- Ability to run OSX software?
A tablet is the best way to consume digital comics. That's the only area where I think it's better than alternatives. Niche market though.
So people hate maths? Here’s my plan to make it work for them
I use a tablet to do all my reading, 95% of my media consuming, and it's an integral part of my music studio.

I may be an anomaly, I do not like having a smartphone, and am looking forward to the day when my device set will be watch, tablet & desktop.
Yes, absolutely! The Mercator projection isn't the only conformal projection, but it is the only one for which north-south maps to the vertical axis, and east-west to the horizontal axis. That means that it maps the whole world onto a rectangle, which works well both for computers and interior decorating.

As for other rectangular projections, the most common is the equirectangular (or plate carrée), which simply maps (longitude, latitude) to (x, y). This is a pretty common representation for gridded global data.
Tables are great for consuming content. Think eReader for websites and YouTube. There also nice for phone games at home on a couch etc. The built in keyboards are good enough for a short HN comment, but not a novel. IMO, if you’re doing serious work then you want a laptop/desktop with a real keyboard not an Ultrabook.

What's important to remember is they don't really have moving parts and are unlikely to be dropped. So, they probably have fairly long update cycles after their 'good enough'. For example, I use my 2 or 3 year old iPad every day and other than wishing it was lighter I really see no need for an upgrade.
The tickets are for the meal. Meal runs like $300 per person or so... I'll find out later this year, when I plan to buy tickets for my daughter and myself. She's a budding chef, and we should eat at the most powerful restaurant we can one of these days!
> If you have no money saved, Even will boost your pay with interest-free credit. You'll automatically pay the credit back the next time you earn more than your average pay.

... then later

> ... Even is not a lender and Even does not provide loans.

I'm guessing this is to stay on the right side of lender regulations, but talk about being slippery with semantics!
Tattoo snafu irks inked Apple Watch wearers
I have found DbVisualizer [1] to be a superior tool and it supports almost every database in existence, Postgres and SQL Server included.

Plus it's completely cross-platform and runs on Linux, Windows and OS X.

[1]: http://www.dbvis.com
Lessons Learnt Translating 25k line of C# into Java
I work in the Windows sphere at work and I really like Powershell. It has a ton of great features out of the box (especially for parallelism) as well as solid bread and butter operations. Although it's a bit verbose and not as mature as Bash it's essential to know for any Windows developer.
That's not how people work.
Oxford chaps solve problem in 1982 Sinclair Spectrum manual
Actually he says in the first line of the third paragraph:

> Unless otherwise stated I am referring to PostgreSQL 9.3 and MS SQL Server 2014

Which makes his opinions timeless and gives context. A date on it would be welcome, but just from the software version you can figure out if it applies to you or your scenario.
How to use Shopify to quit being a wantrepreneur. My advice after $600k in sales
Looks like a relatively straightforward system.
Many of the original X-Prize contenders were pondering something like this more than ten years ago.

What happened to the booster?
Yes, there are lot of work places where code reviews are must. I think, you should suggest your team/manager to start using code review boards like https://www.reviewboard.org that should solve most of your problem.
The question is quite unclear here. Are we talking about temporary houses to live or the kind of houses which are supposed to be sustainable and residential. Better house construction techniques are sure to help and earthquake resistant building techniques are known and applied during current construction of houses in Nepal, I suppose.
I am not the authority here though. Just clearing the confusion in the question.

P.S. I am also from Nepal.
PostgreSQL has bad C# drivers, other than that I would choose it over MSSQL.
Me too, I agree with everything there. Bought an ipad mini in 2013, kids use it now for games (good for them ;) and I never use. Phone (that barely fits in my pocket) and laptop are enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6sL_5Wgvrg

I believe they had a live demo for it too.
Here are my best 30 tips for all web designers
Anonymous messaging Secret app 'worth $100m' shut down
So its a very basic personal economy management tool that automatically takes loan and restrict withdraws. Sound risky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdbserver

Visual Studio misses features like Python scripting, which for instance in gdb allows you to define pretty printers for your objects, which is immensely useful for complex data structures. The VS debugger also does not have a proper MI, at least I never heard of one. The only thing I miss from gdb is "edit and continue", which I admit is pretty cool.
Understanding Linux CPU Load
re: Materialized Views: I stand corrected! Thanks. (CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW was introduced in v9.3)

The backup/restore procedure in PostgreSQL (last I looked, latest I've used is 9.2) is just statement generation. It's not a binary backup. So it's bound by INSERT performance.

Which is rage inducing when you have even just tens of millions of rows.

MSSQL'97 could do a backup/restore in a small fraction of the time. And if you just wanted to move data from Server A to Server B? You could link servers and just SELECT INTO.
Secret fails fast – but did Silicon Valley fail too?
Thinking about device types is backwards. The choice should be what cloud services from Google, Microsoft, Github, Bitbucket, etc. that we need to use and make sure that access to our working and entertainment data assets is simple on all device types.

As much as I like my iPad for web browsing, my Note 4 phone is much more part of my digital life because it can access my data assets and is almost always with me.

Microsoft seems to have hit a sweet spot with the Surface 3's and I wonder if Apple would ever offer an iPad with the same kind of cover/keyboard when you need it.
There were some really fun competitive plays I saw. This is a lot of fun. In the end it was lag that killed me - high levels of interactions lead to screen freezing and then being dead after.
As others have mentioned, they are similar but there are some gotchas. An example is hierarchical data: pgsql lacks start with/connect by. This means you have to write recursive queries using Common Table Expressions (with...as). Not a dealbreaker but it does mean some extra work.
There's no point in only learning one language. If you can only program in one language, you literally can't program.
Cloudera, Hortonworks, and Pivotal are shaping up to be possible contenders and most of the large players are pretty openly announcing that they're planning IPOs. Big Data platforms are a lot like OSes in how they'll schedule jobs and allocate resources for you across nodes. What's bothered me a lot about these stacks is how significant the overhead is and how little really technical work has gone into them like we had developing kernels from the 70s to even today. Most Big Data articles are... not exactly meant for developers while mostly engineers cared about OS design back even to the early 90s as Windows v. Macs v. OS/2 wars still were argued.
Since I got an iPhone six I find myself using my iPad far less for anything but drawing.

I bought it entirely to do drawing during skype tutoring sessions. Now I'm also using it with Astropad to make drawings for screencasts.

When I had an iPhone 4, I started doing a few other tasks on the iPad as well. But now that I have a larger, faster phone, I have no desire to be on the iPad apart from the things I can only do on the iPad.
Building a Developers Index. Looking for Beta Users
Last I tried Navicat it didn't offer much over pgAdmin. The UI was more streamlined but that wasn't reason enough to switch to it. What features in navicat are must have and not found in pgAdmin3?
There was ample breakdown of the article and lots of credible resources pointing towards places he was wrong.
Hello, been posting about building a index of developers. I keep reiterating over and over, with the main objectives being:

* Raising awareness of the devs in a certain area.
* Provide information related to open source contributions to potential employers.

I'm a developer myself (http://github.com/guiman), and I'm tired of getting emails on technologies I had stopped using and no longer intersted. Also, having to keep my profile up to date is time consuming and having to replicate that in every job posting site become annoying.

I'm looking for some feedback and please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions regarding the site alvaro@dev-hub.io. Here is a small example of how beta users can use the site https://youtu.be/Aqs-sfEg7j4
Typical anti-Antarctican sentiment! Rise up, ice crystals!
Have you looked at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/app-pgbasebackup.h...?
There is already a LOC Resource Record type defined by RFC 1876[1] that can be used to represent location data.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1876
Citation needed? I don't believe that was ever the "primary" case. They do have a lot of financial industry customers.
It seems that many original compilers are written in OCaml.
I'd like a minimap where you can see resources but not other players.
Ouch, I guess that "wog" does not have the same racist meaning in the US as it does in the UK :-(
THIS! Who is paying these jackanapes to spew absurdities? The same people making money spouting prophecies of "tablets will kill desktop computing" are now being paid to spew prophecies of "tablets are dead".

The original author is a bit of a fool to discount the tablet upgrade cycle, IMO. Why tech forecasters always ignore the facts is beyond me. But then again, very few economist-marketing types have any idea what an externality is.

Here is a hint: "desktop sales are declining" is a natural consequence of "tablet sales are increasing", just as "stagnating tablet sales" is a natural consequence of "current generation tablet saturation".
Paranoia Text Encryption (Aes)
GO creates a lot of headaches actually. If you are trying to do something in a transaction it breaks it
Sorry, but I think you have a slightly too naive perspective. I think the criticism of him and Facebook is valid front to back. Sure, some people move towards the rage range of the spectrum, but it is also warranted towards someone who openly said that he wants to replace the open internet and that privacy is dead.
Ask HN: Is HTML broken as it is, so why Jade?
Just to get something clear, i am a self taught web developer and i love learning new USEFULL technologies, recently i have been assigned to work on a project and it uses Jade, its a MEAN stack project and since i started using Jade, it just sucks for me, so my question is why Jade, what is worng with HTML as it is? if its not broken then why try to fix it? I feel like learning the shity Jade is like a waste of time and mental effort.
It's especially important to realize that Cloudflare offering free TLS for everyone isn't enough to prevent javascript-based DDOS, if you don't make sure that third-party resources are also behind TLS.
Ask HN: Can you please fix the list of unsolved problems in computer science?
I think there is a great opportunity for knowledgable hackers to update this Wikipedia page to not only be up-to-date, but also to be more immediately informative on the root page such as to act as a TODO for interested computer scientists who want to tackle an important problem as a project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science

There has already been some discussion at length regarding partial solutions and information regarding the list here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science
There's such a low barrier barrier to each 'game', and zero penalty for restarting.

I like it this way. It's a nice sense of satisfaction when you figure it out how to play and the tricks.
Incase anyone really does want to do this: http://www.gdal.org/gdalwarp.html is awesome.
I love all the new things the mercurial developers are willing to experiment with and try out. It seems the (sometimes maligned) plugin system that mercurial uses makes this easy. It's been really interesting to see how our (mercurial developers' and users') ideas about how distributed version control can and should be used have morphed and changed over the years. I remember when mercurial's branching recommendation was to have a clone per branch and when we all hated the idea of modifying our history. Now mercurial supports 4 different branching models and has excellent history editing support with commit --amend, rebase, histedit, and changeset evolution. I'm excited to play with the other new features that are coming.