skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's what in Debian Jesse
There's several things to disagree with here.

I see a trend where people want smaller phones. The current phone are getting too big and people are getting fed up.

Secondly, I bought my wife a tablet 6 months ago, and she haven't used the laptop since.

Tablets have clearly peaked, but I don't think they will be going away anytime soon.
The result of using webix ui library for building ganttpro interface
ToroDB: A MongoDB-compatible, document-oriented database on top of PostgreSQL
It doesn't appear your [1] MMO Asteroids link is correct. It's a comment about doing Cocoa dev for 10 years
Well, as someone who lives in Baltimore, I can say that this is exactly what has been happening for the overwhelming majority of people. Just last night, thousands of people poured into the streets in peaceful marches through town and to city hall. It also happened last weekend.

I'm not excusing violence or suggesting that it is productive...but I get it. Human beings have tipping points. It's different for every individual but when pressure builds and crowds start moving, brawls and riots aren't uncommon to see. This happens even when people are happy about something (like a home team winning a championship game).

So you can imagine that when the media starts freaking out and spreading some viral "meme" about planned riots and sends in a couple hundred riot cops (and a tank!) to corral a couple hundred high school kids at their bus stop, preventing them from going home, there might just be some of those people who are a little more pissed off than the rest and have a little less impulse control and decide to start throwing water bottles and rocks.

And once shit starts rolling that way and the situation escalates, you can see why some people who might have been shit on and beaten up by cops all their life might just see this as a chance to hit back.

So you get a few hundred cops fighting with a few hundred pissed off citizens and the broken cars and windows we all saw on TV.

But those few hundred people who went the violent route are still a few hundred out of tens of thousands who live here. The vast majority of us (many of which have had it MUCH better than the people in West Baltimore) haven't been angry or frustrated enough to resort to violence. Thousands of us have marched and petitioned and protested. But it doesn't surprise me in the least that for a few hundred of us, a bat to the cop car seemed like a bit of payback for generations of a boot to the throat.
I wonder if they remember all the details or if they are able to recreate them to a very similar degree of detail with good accuracy without needing to actually remember them because they also created the original information.
i've interviewed many guys from big firms like Microsoft or Yahoo! with 15+ yrs of experiences but couldn't even finish simplest coding questions, nor answer design questions well. i'm afraid their experiences are just "1 X years".

It's not only about length, but also depth. if you work as a developer at one place for 5 yrs or so but cannot move up, your market value drops.
Absolutely, I'm still waiting for my bank to let me modify the money in my account client-side, that way they'll have to do a lot less computing!

I swear I'll never send the server anything dishonest, like say owning a billion dollars. :)
It's a smaller market, but I'd consider 3D Robotics to be another RedHat. Arguably the most complex component in the drones is the flight controller, and both the hard and software that 3DR uses for their FC is open-sourced.
> Yeah, good luck with that. OO is great but I'm not sure major redesigns are any easier in OO compared to any other arch.

It depends on what they mean by OO. I can't find a source at the moment, but I've heard of Smalltalk applications that have been running the "same" incrementally modified image[1] since the 1970s or 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persisten...
I don't know if it's only a French thing, but the problem is not unknown as the author seems to think : this is called "bovarysme" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovarysme
You are perhaps trolling/satiring but there are certainly people who feel this way, even if they don't state it in such up-front absurd ways.

Our founders responded to taxes they didn't like by seizing the contents of cargo ships and dumping them into Boston Harbor. If we described that in the same terms as many are talking about Baltimore, the headline would read, "rioters loot ships, smash cargo".

Compare the circumstances: "the government is taxing us and we don't like it" vs. "the government is killing us with impunity."

America was founded on a fundamental distrust of government, and certainly not on the idea that law and order is of higher importance than justice and liberty. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," is what America is about. When agents of government are systematically brutalizing and killing people, America is not a "sit back and ask nicely for it to stop" kind of country. America has always been about taking it to the streets

It's white hypocrisy alone that lets us pretend that if the situation were reversed and whites were the victims of this kind of pervasive government brutality, we would be just sitting at home and drinking tea while writing letters to the editor and blanching at the thought of doing anything violent. Bullshit! We used to do this all the time, until we set up minorities to take the abuse for us.
I think Sonatype's doing for Java what Red Hat did for Linux.
> Its hard to get excited by technology when every price point is four hundred and up.

Apple products have always been obscenely overpriced, this it a bit easier to digest when you move outside of the Apple ecosphere and new technologies do not have such a financial impact.
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New Google Chrome Extension Will Save You from Phishing Attacks
It took a while, but he got there (emphasis mine):

>This is an advantage for MS SQL Server whenever you're running a query which is CPU-bound and not IO-bound. In real-life data analytics this happens approximately once every three blue moons. On those very rare, very specific occasions when CPU power is truly the bottleneck, you almost certainly should be using something other than an RDBMS. RDBMSes are not for number crunching.

As a data analyst, the tools to be comparing shouldn't be RDBMSs.

>As I said in the banner and the intro, I am comparing these databases from the point of view of a data analyst, because I'm a data analyst and I use them for data analysis. I know about SSRS, SSAS, in-memory column stores and so on, but I haven't mentioned them because I don't use them (or equivalent features). Yes, this means this is not a comprehensive comparison of the two databases, and I never said it would be. It also means that if you care mostly about OLTP or data warehousing, you might not find this document very helpful.

As for this part, data warehousing, OLAP services, and reporting services (lower case on purpose here) are a very large sub-domain within data analytics. I am not saying that these are everything in analytics, but especially from an enterprise standpoint, these make up the bulk of it. From a tooling and full-stack standpoint, Microsoft is quite strong in this segment.
I found your inclusion of Bootstrap to be mildly amusing :)
Surely you're joking.

> America was founded on the rule of law and respect for authority.

Are we talking about the same nation that was formed in an armed rebellion against a monarchy?

> These people in Baltimore...

Which people, exactly? As in, how many mistakes are you willing to tolerate as the authorities attempt to positively identify and subdue just the rioters?

> ...should be met with overwhelming (and lethal if necessary) force by the government.

So your solution to a problem that started when authorities allowed a citizen to die in their custody is to double down and wield more violence against those citizens -- and then to raise the stakes by dropping all pretext of justice and simply killing everyone involved in order to bring them back in line?

I honestly hope you're trolling -- the alternative is terrifying.
That's one of those fortresses for Microsoft and Sharepoint.
Honestly I don't know where he got the idea, but as someone who worked for five years as a SQL Server database admin/developer, I for some reason also thought you could only do OUTPUT Inserted.field1, ... INTO @TableVar

But I just tested what you claimed here and it definitely works exactly the way the RETURNING clause would.

Weird.
What It’s Like Going Up Against Goliath (And Why You Should Do It Anyway)
How many different 'servers' or relms are there? Care to comment on how many concurrents any one can handle?
I thought for a second it said sneezed out
iPhone six
If your brand is doing this, you are throwing away money
a long time ago, like, in the early years of google maps, I used some perl code someone published to pull down the tiles necessary to print off a 16 page map that I could tape together and put on the wall. I think the code was taken down shortly after because of a legal claim. Google obviously doesn't want their service/tiles being used for that....data/imagery owned by them and whatever map data company... Whether you can easily download the tiles or not due to browser caching, doesn't make it legal to use in stuff.

But all in all, hats off, fun project/good results
I'd have to say Python; while its not always the best choice to use, its a great language to learn, because its used in lots of domains and because it a very good place to learn the basics of lots of different aspects of programming, and it has great learning material available for both general programming and many specific application domains and platforms, so it supports lots of approaches. If you decide to continue with it, its easy to keep learning with it; and if you decide to switch languages, its easy to take the lessons learned in Python to lots of other languages.
The size and growth of the Jupyter / IPython ecosystem is its biggest draw for me. For example, there are roughly 125,000 IPython notebooks on GitHub as of today from which I can learn.

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/parente/facb555dfbae28e817e...
Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Takes Flight
What's a trend? It'd be awesome if the market shifted this way but I think it's going to take a few product cycles to really happen. Have you seen any market research that's pointing to it happening sooner? To my eye, it looks like the manufacturer answer is to have large phones plus an additional "smart watch".

Personally, I would love a revamped "Droid 1". I'm really craving the rugged metal chassis, h/w slide keyboard, and small size. Unfortunately, each of those is exactly what drives up cost. Premium materials, moving parts, and miniaturization/layout are where the money goes.
At the very least, I feel like not throwing someone in jail for being a drug addict or smalltime dealer would be a good start. Too many people resort to drugs to escape despair (if only temporarily) or poverty (through working the only business that seems to be "hiring" in your town). Addressing the root causes of this is indeed difficult, but you exacerbate the problem when those same people who need solutions are saddled with criminal records for life.
Yes, people would still save out of necessity.

And maybe people wouldn't take equity over dollars, or maybe they would, but it would be done for reasons other than tax policy. The market would have to work harder to prove that it's a good investment.

Income vs capital gains taxation: again, the market would have to work harder to prove that it's a good investment.

Or to put it another way: "there is NO incentive to invest in equity [without preferential tax treatment]." Then maybe investment in equity isn't actually a good investment in and of itself.
Network security metadata – bad networks trusted most – Telecom Asia
> Contrarily I would expect a clause prohibiting unconstitutional laws in pretty much every single constitution ever written.

That would be very strange. Not even the US constitution has that because it would be legally redundant. Of course a law that is inconsistent with the constitution is invalid. There's no need to state that.

What the US constitution does is in itself unusual when it specifically calls out what types of laws Congress can't pass rather than setting out principles that would render these laws invalid because they'd conflict.

E.g. Norway's constitution used to have a clause that states a "right to work" rather than stating that parliament can not pass laws that have the effect of restricting peoples right to work. The effect is the same, and the former approach is to my knowledge far more common in constitutional law.

> In passing a law that knowingly violates the constitution, the politicians are acting to _enable_ crimes, or rather, actions considered crimes under existing legislation.

A major part of a parliaments function is to alter what is considered crimes under existing legislation. If they can not do this without fear of criminal prosecution if one of these laws are found to conflict with the constitution... Well, that constitution would be amended very quickly after it becomes obvious no laws gets passed anymore once politicians fear the whims of a constitutional court which can change with every new appointment.
Tesla Could Be Changing the Dynamics of Global Energy
Sets aside money when you make more than your average paycheck, uses the money that was set aside when you make less than your average paycheck
The state of the art of web devlopment is a free chess server
Envato Layers – A new WordPress site builder
Yes you can use IPython with Spark for Pyspark. Spark-notebook and Zeppelin, gives let's you use Scala with Spark,and support all of the other spark libraries.
There are other projects like spark-kernel https://github.com/ibm-et/spark-kernel that let's you use IPython (Jupyter ) I guess, supporting spark's scala API.
> No view update support

9.3

> No partitioned view support

Inheritance (ish)

> No sane backup/restore process

wat

> doesn't support backing up and restoring the database in binary format

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/app-pgbasebackup.h... is half of what you want, but I expect you're wanting something I don't expect.
Circle Internet Financial Raises $50M Investment
Play MSDOS games in browser
Dev here.

There are at least 12 servers at the moment, but they're divided between several regions so you're probably only seeing the IPs of the servers in your region. Each server also has several instances of the game, it creates more as demand rises. The most used resource on the servers is CPU.
Keeping Your Large Development Team Efficient
That sidebar of books being advertised suggests a mindset heavily invested in inevitable decline.
Point being? I fail to see the relevance.
JavaScript is running on drones?
Yes, you have to test in multiple versions of browsers. My point here is that they are adding one new browser.

If they were making a new IE 12 instead of making Edge, you'd be in exactly the same boat of having to test one new browser from Microsoft.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'll be surprised if the version of IE that they ship for enterprise users is practically different from the current version in Windows 8.
Python generators and iterators explained [pdf]
To quote what another poster in this thread said:

> I've noticed there's a bizarre phenomenon surrounding Krugman where people just refuse to read what he says and instead put all kinds of nonsense into his mouth. It happens to all public figures to some extent, but it just seems really next-level with Krugman (and these particular claims are pretty tame compared with the wild accusations you often see.)

I've better things to do than argue with a misinformed hater, educate yourself and stop listening to austrian charlatans.
> and will it be publicly available?

Yes, though I do not know where/how, yet.

It's worth noting that data from existing radio telescopes are freely available. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US operates an archive for their telescopes[0] as does the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array[1], the Australia Telescope Compact Array[2], the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope[3], and many others. Note however that much/most of this data is not the final data products but is raw and/or semi-calibrated.

[0] http://archive.nrao.edu/

[1] https://almascience.nrao.edu/alma-data/archive

[2] http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/observing/archive_requests...

[3] https://www.astron.nl/wsrt-archive/php/
Amazon Brings HD and Cellular Streaming to the iOS Instant Video App
US-MD Legislator Discusses Taking Food Stamps from Parents of Protesting Youth
Thank you for the detailed reply! A number of comments here favor Python for ease of entry and utility.

Do I understand correctly that Java is important, but with a much steeper learning curve?
Without doubt. SKA can't be bigger than Roots.
The booster couldn't make a soft landing due to a failure in the hydraulics system.

> “Of course one of our goals is reusability, and unfortunately we didn’t get to recover the propulsion module because we lost pressure in our hydraulic system on descent,” Jeff Bezos wrote in a blog post. “Fortunately, we’ve already been in work for some time on an improved hydraulic system. Also, assembly of propulsion module serial numbers 2 and 3 is already underway – we’ll be ready to fly again soon.”

From:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2015/04/30/jeff-bezos-...

And here's the aforementioned blog post, from Blue Origin's own website. It presents a little more information about the flight:

https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blog/first-developmental-tes...
Dosbox does CPU emulation and all full-machine virtualization solutions have to do the same for real mode code. Original dosemu on the other hand works in mostly same way as DOS window/NTVDM in Windows/Windows NT.

i386 has support for essentially transparent switches between 16/32bit protected modes and special mode in which it runs plain real mode code but paging is active and privileged operations cause traps into kernel/hypervisor (then usually called "VM manager" or such) these two features are designed to support exactly this kind of backward-compatibility layers and were used both for multitasking of DOS software (Windows, OS/2, DESQview, ...) as well as to extend capabilities of DOS itself (various mechanisms for accessing more than 640KB RAM from real mode, DOS extenders, DPMI servers, hardware compatibility layers (which did not work so well)). Most DOS software does not do anything that cannot be emulated by combination of these two mechanisms and programs that do such things are almost universally DOS based loaders for another operating systems.

Problem with this whole thing is that this does not work on x86_64 with 64bit kernel. (another thing is that any implementation of this mechanism is invariably one big colossal mess of edge cases and ugly hacks, but it does work and surprisingly reliably)
> Something needs to happen to break it free, but what that is, I don’t know. It has to take advantage of the form factor in a way that cannot be replicated on the smartphone, and do it better than a small, ultra-light laptop.

This is where "perceptual computing" and in particular 3D sensing comes in. Both smartphones (too small for a decent sensor, battery life and screen issues) and laptops (too bulky to handle) have sub-optimal form factors for this but tablets are perfect.

Take a look at Google Tango [1] for instance or -- shameless plug -- my own company DotProduct [2]. We have been doing this for a while and have tried many different platforms for 3D capture and what we found is that tablets just feel by far the most natural in this environment.

[1] https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/
[2] http://dotproduct3d.com/
I'd prefer Jockey Wilson.
It would be great, but in most computer fraud cases, actual damage is almost impossible to quantify. (or you end up with stupidity like "$5 per song, so damages sum up to 2 millions"..)
Chat is a feature that would be really good.
Given that the person you were replying to said, "I apply category theory and type theory all the time, and I'm sure the time I've put into studying algebraic topology and abstract algebra has shaped how I think about problems[,]" I don't think it's clear at all that they meant to express "web engineer, therefore not mathematician."
That's really just for setting up replication IME (and even then, that's pretty complex compared to MSSQL).

What if I fat finger a table drop for Client A? With pgbasebackup the best I could do is set up an entirely new server and jump through some hoops. With MSSQL I could just restore the single client database to a new database, very quickly, and SELECT INTO the missing data from clientdb_a_backup to clientdb_a.

It's just a lot simpler, a lot quicker, and a lot more flexible.
In my experience, the people I know with the most assets are also the most careless people I know when it comes to security (passwords includes initials + birth date, name of children, name of the family dog and similar...)

That includes several quite wealthy tech founders...
> PostgreSQL has -no- materialized views (I stand corrected! Introduced in v9.3). No view update support.

Like materialized views, automatic update support for simple views was introduced in 9.3.
Well, the poster is in Germany, so German laws apply and section 53 of the copyright law (which is referred to in the post) clearly states that this is allowed use:

> It shall be permissible for a natural person to make single copies of a work for private use on any medium, insofar as they neither directly nor indirectly serve commercial purposes, as long as no obviously unlawfully-produced model or a model which has been unlawfully made available to the public is used for copying. A person authorised to make copies may also cause such copies to be made by another person if no payment is received therefore, or if it involves copies on paper or a similar medium which have been effected by the use of any kind of photomechanical technique or by some other process having similar effects.

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_urh...
Yes, it reminds me of watching Jimmy White in the 80s. Although he didn't win many tournaments (and never the world title) his talent was so obvious and compelling.
Fighting feature creep as a tech startup
I've had the same thought myself. However, I'm willing to take the risk. Besides, one thing leads to another.
The trick to that is make yourself "qualified", if you want to work one.

Holes in employment, sketchy details, questionable descriptions.

Or you could go the complete opposite route, and blatantly lie on your resume. As long as you actually know the skills, lie and say you have them. What's the worst they do to you? Fire you?

Just don't do that with a professional degree. Pissing off gov't is a bad idea.
can you be more specific with the "just statement generation" allegation? it looks like you're talking about `pg_dump --format=plain`, which is the default but far from the only option.
It's very open, so you can run any Linux distro.

AFAIK, a cellular radio will be optional. So you might be able to replace a phone / tablet in some use cases. Such a thing, running Debian, Arch, etc. would be awesome.
I was going to suggest him, but he has the disadvantage of being dead.
Chiming in to agree with slower update cycles.

I use my iPad all the time, but primarily for reading and watching movies and TV shows. My three-year-old iPad does these things great and there's simply no reason to upgrade.
Wouldn't the OCaml example be much faster if it used arrays instead of lists? Doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
Realy? I think the opposite is the case...

Smartphones are getting bigger and tablets are getting obsolete.

I have a 6.1" Smartphone and stopped using my tablet with this. Before that I had a tiny phone and a tablet.