skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great to see KA getting involved in teaching SQL - I really think there's too little SQL literacy out there amongst devs in general.

I created http://pgexercises.com a while back, which goes up to some relatively tougher exercises. I'd be very happy to help out with KA's effort if it would be useful. Email is in my profile.
Jespere the Great – Night Takes Us (Robot EDM Star)
Still, it's interesting that 80% of women and only 20% of men are most happy working part time. Why such large discrepancy?
Between this an fn.py (https://github.com/kachayev/fn.py), functional programming in Python has really good library support beyond the standard library.
Aftershocks felt, there were at least 2. I ll call them major ones. I was sitting on 4th floor. It felt very strong.
Korean here. I know you are generalising but there are a lot of Koreans who hate Samsung. They are above the law, the Lee family is like the aristocrats before the French revolution, wield monopolistic powers and are a big bully.

Problem is, Koreans don't have a lot of choices when it comes to phones. You could either buy a Samsung phone, which are extremely cheap, have a big screen, nice colours and are overall good phones, or you could buy an LG which is seen to be inferior in every aspect. Then you have Apple and honestly, a lot of people do choose Apple but the price of a typical Samsung is so much cheaper.

So I guess a lot of Koreans buy Samsung because they don't really have another choice.

Re your comment about Koreans being image conscious and materialistic, I could not agree with you anymore. We are the most materialistic race on the planet probably. Not to mention proud.

So it's like: fuck you Samsung but thanks for making Korean a little bit more relevant in the tech industry.
> The vision Marc presents for blue-collar workers (work a lot and be poor or work when you feel like it and be very poor)

Where does he present that? I don't think he did.

I really don't think that the article is a PR piece. It has to be one of the most substantial articles about VC investing to have appeared in the non-technical press for years, and it's a complex profile. It may not be accurate (I wouldn't know), but is far from all sugar, and dismissing it with an offhand swipe seems unproductive.
Speaking as a friend of Aral (living abroad) here; Indie Cloud _is_ planned to have a completely decentralized storage infrastructure, which makes it impervious to snooping. However, if Aral remains in the UK there's a pretty big, let's say 100%, chance that the Cameron government will force him or anyone else working on Indie in the UK to either place backdoors in the code or the completely optional hosting services (which can be used while you, as the customer, are still in possession and control of your own data). That's why he's leaving -- if he stays he simply cannot build a organization and service portfolio based on the principles Indie has.
People like PC World in the UK, as its the closest they have top a normal shopping experience.

I always told friends to go to the small independent shop over the road where they will get a better deal. But then they have to speak to someone who will baffle them with jargon. Its far easier to see the 40% discount offer (from the initially high prices) as some sort of bargain. I have wasted hours uninstalling crap from PC World machines. One came with 3 firewalls and it wouldn't connect to the internet.
Also see https://github.com/bashrc/libdeep-python
An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks [pdf]
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Europe.
Yeah, and don't forget that the car has people in it too :-)

While you can instantaneously stop a saw blade to save a finger, stopping a car 'quickly' will likely move the potential problem to one of ensuring the safety of the passengers...
Even if it's perfect it still takes up branch prediction overhead in the processor, and hurts the performance of other branches. Also, getting the first or last iteration wrong is pretty bad for a ton of for loops out there.
Google is on the forefront of bundling crapware. Why do I need freaking Cloud Print, Google Docs and other crap I did not ask for explicitly? I did not ask for it. Only expect two things by default: the store app and Chrome.
Brilliant. Oh the irony... I had to receive a code via SMS just to be able to sign in and leave a comment on that blog.
> https://github.com/gilt/ionroller

This does (currently) return a 404.
A nice thing to see my post up here again, here's a link to the comments on the last submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8662449
> full of tax fraud

How much is the total tax burden in Greece? That may have a strong impact on the fraud...

In my country (France), compound tax/cost of running a business is about 68% in money and 15% of employee time. It is broken down as followes: 20% VAT, 46% various compulsory insurances and pensions (which may or may not cover your situation, hence the regular strikes), 15% income tax, 3% housing tax, and a myriad of compulsory accountants and administrative burden. I simply don't figure why there isn't more fraud.
The X in Xubuntu has a dedicated meaning.
I don't know, but I can't say the Netherlands is that much more progressive when it comes to privacy.

The data retention law has been put on hold, but the ruling VVD is looking for ways to get it back.

Bits for Freedom is an organisation worth checking out; https://www.bof.nl/category/english/
We're doing RTB with Google DoubleClick AdX, and our bidder (written in Go) can easily handle 4000 QPS per server with only a 0.3 % error rate.
Its a problem for society when that company has the resources to make sure its products are the only ones sold for 50 miles.
Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals
When people said it, it was true. Even now Samsung make the majority of money in the Android world.
Thinkpads weren't affected by SuperFish.
I'm a math major and most of the expert data scientists I would recommend are social science graduates.

They have a lot more experience with real-world data and a lot more knowledge about what statistical techniques and assumptions correctly apply in real situations - quantitatively and qualitatively. You simply don't get this knowledge and experience from a maths-led statistics course.

I would be happy to recommend you a history major.
Even better buy laptop at the location, use livecd to access your home machine.
Additional question: Amazon instructs you to engineer for failure, and to expect any individual instance to fail at any moment.

How is DO in this regard? Do they randomly drop droplets or are they, for lack of a better word, persistent?
Yes, 5.6 and 6.3 after 7.4.

Source: https://twitter.com/USGSBigQuakes
I bet something along the lines of "Like ..., but for game developers!"
I thought the kinderopvangtoeslag (childcare benefit) [1] was quite generous if your income wasn't too high?

You do have to be very careful your income doesn't change while claiming it, but it is quite a big subsidy, right?

(We don't currently claim it and have 1 child in childcare. You're right that it's freaking pricy!)

[1] http://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/b...
That's hardly unique to the Netherlands though. Childcare is even more expensive in the UK: in London I pay £1200 for one child, and a colleague pays £1700.

But the UK doesn't have the same rat of part-time working.
It goes both ways.

Swedes really liked Ericsson phones. They also really liked Nokia phones.

Finns really liked Nokia phones. They also really like iPhones.

Americans really like iPhones. They also really like Samsung Galaxies.

Etc.
> If you're not going to tolerate partitions, what does it mean to be available?

It means you're not running a partitioned and distributed system, but a regular non-partitioned system.

Yes I know distributed cloud object-graph databases on selective-persist elastic firesprout-nodes are very popular and trendy these days, but lots of people just run regular, old-fashioned unpartitioned databases, like pgsql/mysql and they work just fine.

I know. Like whoah, eh?
I'm with you on the cartel bit but I think you're confused about what racketeering is.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilIsCool
4 Signs Your Relationship Isn’t Working and You’re Wasting Your Time
Yup. Professional child care is more expensive than renting an apartment in an average priced area.
Great, thanks Steve.
Looking at the discussion here in this thread, among these fine "experts", it seems a majority believe there are "CAP capable" systems out there.

Well I'm certainly impressed.
The problem is that prototypes hardly ever remain prototypes and get hacked and hacked until they are a true nightmare.
The Thinkpad comment was in reference to the GP comment about hardware issues.
Are you referring to misinterpreted cherry picked notions promulgated briefly by fox news and a congressman from Oklahoma?

Because decades of research by countless independent teams has not been invalidated by data and methods so poor they aren't extensively acknowledged in peer reviewed journals.

If you think that process is corrupt, have you ever looked at the actual data and methods yourself? If we are dismissing peer review then show us that data and how you came to your conclusions.

The story you refer to was created by those philosophically upset by climate change and is in the form "we can't tell if it warmer in this cherry picked area therefore climate change is false" then cloaked that story in jargon. It is identical to the argument used by less bright conservatives "there was snow on tv in Peoria therefore climate change is fake"

The disappointing thing here is that people who could genuinely to look into climate change if they were honestly interested don't and instead choose to convince themselves of blatantly false views from biased media outlets for ideologically reasons. If there were knowledgeable people here, this has certainly chased them off in the same way there are no evolutionary biologists chatting on fundamentalists websites.
How is that a mistake? His companies both had periods where they barely survived, and now they are driving forces in solar power, electric cars, and private space operations. Had the people there not been as dedicated as they were, some or all of them might not still be here.
Python's Hardest Problem, Revisited (2013)
If you're in the west, KGB backdoors are less of a risk to you.

Say you're in the west. NSA has backdoors into your US-designed hardware and your US-designed OS. NSA also, probably, has access to your ISP's routers and
US net/web corporations like Google. As a result, NSA may hide C&C channels where KGB use of a backdoor to your hardware would still show detectable illegitimate network traffic.

Lower risk of detection translates to higher probability of use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohmte
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Space_in_Bohmte

Some time ago I drove through that town without knowing anything about it. I didn't realize that they had such a concept, it just felt really stressful, because your normal expectations and intuitions don't apply.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is 2.511 times bigger than a magnitude 7.4 earthquake on a seismogram, but is 3.981 times stronger (energy release).

via http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/calculator.php
China and South Korea are actually in their best relationship because of Japan's Abe government.

I don't like the conspiracy theory behind it. Apparently, China and US are not getting along recently on a list of issues, like Russia and Internet dispute, while at the same time, Apple has reached its peak in terms of popularity in this market. Galaxy S5/Note 4 is a universal flop for Samsung in various of markets, in China, it faces even stronger competition from local players like Xiaomi and Huawei, whose products are cheaper and comparable in feature. Just that simple.
http://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html
I'm jurist cum developer in Belgium, I spent a decade in this niche:

* Jurists are used to face extraordinary difficulties when researching things. Throw them a monstrous contractor-built Adobe Flex application as a search engine, and they'll be all the happier: still better than hundreds of paper volumes. The erudite knowledge of where and how to search is part of their expertise.

* In their mind, it's the content that matters. The form may be prettier and easier to use, they will hardly notice. As a law student, we had to read and print things presented like this (and this is a extremely gentle example): http://goo.gl/6Uz48Q Years later, I built my own app, where the same content is presented like this (see print preview to see what a little interest in the subject can produce) : http://www.etaamb.be/fr/2015201838.html It doesn't get noticed a lot, although it attracts a lot of visits.

* The sector is cornered with not too innovative academics and conservative publisher companies with vested interests, even more conservative public institutions and associations (lawyers, notaries,... ) and extremely conservative laws. Kickstarting something like an internet app for last wills and testaments without the support of most of them is impossible (been there, done that): there is no place for disruption without institutional support.

* Speaking of institutional support: I only managed to implement an electronic proceedings platform in Belgium (still the only one) because I happen to work at a federal institution. It's been instituted by way of Royal Decree: not really the same as the apple store. It was a fortuitous meeting of ambition and competence: in other settings contractors have to be engaged, of which only the cheapest get selected, resulting in utter crap and millions of wasted taxpayer's money.

* It's very country-specific. Laws and customs stop at national borders, not even speaking of fragmented federal states and small legal districts. You could write a successful app in your country, but other countries have their own hurdles, not event speaking of the not-invented-here bias (As far as I know, technological exchanges are virtually non-existent, even between countries who share a common judicial structure).

Plenty of other stuff in my mind, but still, the sector is ripe for improvement; the internet revolution has just started reaching the outskirts of the legal world. The ways laws are voted, how proceedings and courts work, how doctrinal knowledge is made available and legal professionals joinable, there's plenty of low-hanging fruit. Fruit regulated by state law and pretty tenacious customs ;)
> So I imagine the average Korean must be quite in conflict when buying a smartphone - the recognized international symbol of smartphone prestige and luxury (the iPhone) vs the nationalistic Galaxy.

I think you mean the one flavour of international symbol of smartphone prestige (Samsung Galaxy) vs another flavour of international symbol of smartphone prestige (iPhone).

Outside silicon valley, Android is actually quite well perceived and you're not looked at as an hobo or weirdo for using anything not an iPhone.

It may be hard to believe, but try to think differently every once in a while ;)
The miners didn't go on strike due to terrible conditions… the miners went on strike to try to prevent the closure of their pits which were unprofitable at the time.

The miners strike is always blamed on Thatcher but Scargill has a lot to answer for - previous strike ballots had rejected strike action so the union decided to call a strike without a ballot.

I think Thatcher took the wrong approach but given with the way the unions in the 70's had tried to bring down governments I don't think she had much choice but to face them down.

Thatcher's government failure was to repair the communities after pit closures but encourage new business etc to set up there.

Scargill's hubris and ego led the miners on a journey of suffering, remember this is the man who was still claiming the union had an obligation to house him long after he had retired.

Also don't forget the striking miners killed a man by throwing a concrete block through the windscreen of the truck(?) he was driving.

The miners strike has become a popular myth of how Thatcher destroyed the workers but the NUM has a lot to answer for.
Because working part-time you can't really advance very far in your career, and that is expected from men. From women, less so.
It would be worse to happen in a few years when the relief teams have left the country and there's been significant rebuilding.
At 'the bunglers'? Yes, that's correct.
Does that only hold for US citizens and are we as foreigners still treated like cattle from some kind of Patriot/equivalent act?
Wouldn't you say lisp was the opposite of a fad at the time when PG wrote that article?

It's been a long time since I read it, but in Microserfs, the classic "VC" or "Money" guy describes how you can drive around the Valley on a Sunday and predict the success of companies by how many cars there are in the parking lots.

Most conventional wisdom these days is that if you have to work 80-90+ hour mega weeks you're doing it wrong, but I think that the analogy might be that if the team is using an interesting technology stack, there's a higher chance the engineers there are of higher caliber (as they're interested in pushing themselves to use a newer technology.)

Thoughts?
Resume keyword examples for photographers
Gezond eten en bewegen en niet afvallen:probeer het mentale dieet plan
Adria Richards Running for Python Software Foundation
I did not quite understand "3.981 times stronger (energy release)", but god bless everyone.
> crappy apps like hangouts.

What's wrong with Hangouts? I quite like having an all-in-one text message + internet message + phone and video call app that I can use from my phone and computer web browser seamlessly...
It seems as though there is precedence, especially in Nepal, as earthquakes tend to shift stress along the fault lines[0].

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32472310
That's assuming that a "full pointer" (i.e. an unpredictable address to an arbitrary point in heap memory) is the only way to get a reference to an object. What about if you want to stick a bunch of objects in a vector, and iterate over them linearly? In the C++ approach, the data will have a nice linear cache access pattern. In the Rust approach (unless I'm missing something) you'd be storing a vector of (double sized) pointers, to god knows where in heap memory... suffering a cache miss on every access, on average.
North koreans prefer the iPhone because the logo resembles something edible
If that is true, the message on this page is hilarious:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

I quote: "Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 703MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine."

I guess it's not a high-priority bug then :)
> Whether or not the designers of pedestrian crossing technology took an interest in our psyches is unclear, as no-one seems able to confirm when the buttons were first made intermittently ineffective, at least in the UK.

I would be very surprised if these buttons were originally devised as placebos, then eventually connected up when someone decided that when someone uses a button that purports to indicate their desire to cross, it might be desirable for it to have an effect on the signals on that crossing.
honestly, I am underwhelmed by android chrome, switched to mobile firefox (with adblock plus) and removed chrome icon. On desktops, I don't get the appeal of chrome at all... too resource-hungry for my taste.

The more somebody thinks he know whats better for me than myself, and pushes stuff down my throat, the more I resist, regardless of added value. same for school, same for these things
I believe this works when you do it for a limited number of places. If you do it everywhere people will adjust and it will get less safe.
If you're a space-travelling human-like species, Ceres is pretty hospitable. Lots of water, lots of rock, enough gravity to keep things down while still being easy to get off of, a manageable temperature, and it's in the asteroid belt so there's plenty of nearby materiel for development (not to mention Jupiter not far away, energetically).

Earth's too hot, too far away from anywhere, and at the bottom of a great big hole. The only reason we like it is because we've adapted to its environment. It's not very good real estate. Plus, it's contaminated with life, which means lots of big, complex, wriggly molecules that get everywhere and fiddle with things. Get those in your life system and the alien equivalent of anaphylactic shock is probably getting off lightly.
Functional as in Functional programming, the counterpart of Object Oriented programming.
In that regard I would love it if Apple would announce OS11 at dubdub. That would be too funny seeing MS standing there with their Win10 which they said would be the last Windows version.
Yes but the bailout of Greece wasn't a bailout of Greece but a bailout of German, French etc. banks so German money was just recycled into it's own banks
Reflection Removal Using Ghosting Cues [pdf]
Aral uses hyperbole quite a lot, some may agree with his view some may not
The article paints this as pretty positive, as such Britain looks good coming in 5th on the graph. In reality many of the jobs created over the last few years in the UK have been low paid zero hours contracts, not because people want the flexibility, but because employers want top pay as little as possible.
Sieve (http://sieve.info/) could get you pretty far for anything IMAP related scripting. I believe Pigeonhole (http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/), the implementation for Dovecot, also allows external applications to be run for advanced scenarios.
No, Google employs people to verify the data.
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Writing this from Kolkata (India). We were asked to evacuate the office building, as it was shaking. Just got an all clear to get back in.

God bless everyone.
Oh, nice! I'll add that to our final article in the course, for folks that want to learn PostGres. I'm hoping this course is a starting off point for people, and they can get more advanced with non-KA resources.
Freebie PSD Landing Page ‘WOWStream’
Newton's laws of motion ≫ Traffic law
Building a platform to assist in marketing some vacant office space we are buying in Atlanta. Will then try to take on CoStar.
I just think that mixing different modes of transport create unnecessary conflicts. Yes a person cycling can mix with people walking, but at walking pace. That isn't the desire of the person cycling and the people walking have to deal with "inconsiderate" people cycling. The blame is never placed on the urban designers who live in this idealised world where different modes of transport can mix harmoniously.
"hacks"
I was guessing.

The only user number I can find for Map Maker is 25000 in 2013, but there's no reference and it's not clear how many of those are active.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-map-maker-vs-o...

OSM currently has 1% active and 2 million registered users:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats

So at least in relative numbers, OSM should have more contributors.
damn this sounds amazing! working 3 days a week for example, doing adventures & social life in rest (social life = family life). But first let me earn some dough for later...
I think the iphone 6+ is about the size limit for fitting into pockets and holding it to your ear and taking pictures non awkwardly. Theyll need to figure out a way to physically expand and compact the screen to make a true universal device.
Perhaps pay and lifestyle are already very good, why bother risking that for a startup that might fail or will, at the very least, cost a lot of time.

That and the probably rather conservative nature of people in this profession are probably some of the reasons.