skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's organization debt or the difficulty of getting such a large organization to gather enough inertia to make a move.
Postgres 9.4 even has `jsonb` and GIN indexes, which in a lot of ways provides nicer schemaless storage than some of the NoSQL databases provide. You're also free to mix in traditional relational tables (since `jsonb` is a data type like any other), or even efficiently join two tables based on a JSON containment operator. I haven't looked in to it _too_deeply, but what I've seen so far looks really neat.
What a quality Hacker News post.
there are 16 different sign in pages for consumer products alone.
"According to two new papers, the crucial variable that separates relatively harmless frenzies from disastrous ones is debt."

Also according to, like, Irving Fisher in 1933: https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/fisdeb33.pdf

"I venture the opinion, subject to correction on submission of future evidence, that, in the great booms and depressions, each of the above-named factors has played a subordinate rôle as compared with two dominant factors, namely over-indebtedness to start with and deflation following soon after; also that where any of the other factors do become conspicuous, they are often merely effects or symptoms of these two. In short, the big bad actors are debt disturbances and price-level disturbances."
You realize people take jobs at companies they don't want to work for all the time, right? So your statement is the one that doesn't make any sense.
Possibly because they will figure out a way to bypass any safety requirements and maybe hurt themselves which usually happens with most technology. People will attempt to dive into rushing water when they lose their phones.
Expii uses voting (like Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow, etc) to identify the best content. After that, since we have the luxury of focusing only on the "heavy-hitter" topics which at least 100 million people need to know, there really aren't that many topics. When we do reach the size at which quality is an issue, we can simply moderate the topics in-house.

Wikipedia cannot do this because their objective is to cover 100 million topics (breadth), and so in-house moderation doesn't scale. Our objective is depth: we ultimately want to provide the absolute best free interactive lessons on every heavy-hitter topic in the world. :)

Thanks for your well-wishes!
And therefore...?
How I Ranked a BRAND NEW Website #5 After 3 Weeks
Other than a few top posts, our bureaucracy is non-partisan and doesn't change with the whims of the White House.
Yes, because of the Lorenz contraction.
Thanks for this!

The quality of the front page was either much better back then or that was just a lucky day!
I don't know how you guys think of this, but putting personal stuff into the cloud, aka others' computer, without encryption is not looking so personal to me.
It's not really an FAQ, just another article.
I don't even think it's bad engineering practice. It seems like rather reasonable and efficient UI.
If you click "Sign In" for Canadian Credit Cards... https://www.capitalone.ca/sign-in/

It's turtles all the way down!
That is, apparently, eventually, on the way, as is a mobile-friendly layout.

The staff are probably not looking forward to the day they deploy it and half the users lose their minds with impotent rage because the shibboleth of awkward UX is no longer there to drive away the casuals. Heaven help us if they implement thread folding in javascript...
Yeah, but a technique like this just isn't useful there. The host language handles when function application occurs.
> and other commenters seem to confirm it isn't

Color isn't in the eyes, it's in the brain. Since these glasses help the brain receive the right balance of RGB, I see no reason to believe he isn't seeing purple. I'm colorblind and trying these on was a mind-blowing trip.
> I wanted complete control, so Medium and Svbtle were out.

You could easily argue those other services don't give "complete" control either.
Also worth noting, Capital One recently bought the powerhouse design shop, Adaptive Path. I think they recognize the need for for better UX
You may be interested in http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/. It's essentially a code golf game with many different metrics to optimize including number of instructions.
Definitely, please send us your contact information: hello@faqt.co
because stuff that seems to enlighten people to injustice disappears damn quick round here. its fishy. i suspect tampering to remove more politically difficult subjects. there seem to be a lot of real dumb money driven programmers on here. lowest common denominator americans spewing their trained lines, which surprised me at first, because i assumed the hacker community would be more intelligent. as a result i am questioning whether i should bother continuing here.
The word 'loss' does not appear on that page. There's a world of difference IMO between a rejected operation (which is what I would assume from that description – that the address space exhaustion would be detected and the database would stop accepting writes) and irreversible data loss.
Let me expand.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

It's unethical for me to put my own standard of perfection ahead of delivering business value and soundly engineered software.

My peers have opinions, formed validly, from their experiences. I have my own. Sometimes they differ. Sometimes I just need to suck that up and get on with the job.
This is at least partially due to it being a bunch of different legacy systems from different companies. I have two completely separate accounts with Capital One (one from ING before they were bought out, and one for my Capital One credit card), with the same user name. I would hope that they're working on integrating the systems, but I can't imagine it being a simple task.
Not everyone needs to do all of those things. In fact, I'd argue that very few people need to do all of them. So, yeah, it's a fraction of the machine the (not maxed out) 13" rMBP I'm typing at right now is. So? If "freedom" (as the term is used by the FSF and folks of similar ideologies) is your priority, you make some compromises. If not, some would argue, that's a compromise you're making, right there.

The x200 also unofficially supports 8GB of system RAM. Since the machine is under no warranty coverage whatsoever, running an unsupported configuration will, at worst, cost you the price of a couple of 4GB SO-DIMMs or return shipping on an RMA.

Please don't judge a thing that doesn't satisfy your priorities as being somehow objectively "bad" or "wrong". It just doesn't meet your needs. Go find a machine that does, then, and let the people whose needs and priorities are met by a Gluglug x200 satisfy theirs with this.
So is the US in a bubble or not? If we are, why? If we aren't why not?
Lines of code is a poor representation, but non-whitespace characters is a somewhat better one. Perl golf and vim golf both use that.
Is there a reason why? I find vnstat to use zero noticeable resources even under high traffic load (1Gb)
It's worse than that. I have a Capital One credit card and a Capital One 360 (nee ING) savings account. They have seemingly completely separate logins, but changing the password for one changes the password for the other.
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Don't get all upset. You said stripe disks in your first comment, not mirror volumes.

In a big system I am usually more concerned with avoiding any SPOF (that will cause downtime), then adding redundancy for the most likely failures.

Individual mirrored pairs on split chassis will mitigate against long rebuild times for a single disk failure but it requires an all software architecture as the individual HBA can't do hot spare rebuild. It also reduces the benefit of the HBA cache. So intra chassis, striped mirrors; inter chassis, mirrored stripes. Of course, mirroring across striped mirrors would be better, but the cost to peak write and capacity might rule that out.

Also, yes I believe you, EMC sucks. But they do have some good engineers.
That's a consequence of their unacknowledged writes default - any write which failed for any reason wouldn't result in a rejection as far as the client is concerned (because the default was to shove the write request into the pipe and then continue without waiting for acknowledgement). As I mentioned earlier, most everyone acknowledges (heh) that as a bad default.

If you were checking getLastError on your writes, you would see the write fail when you ran out of address space.
I know. I'm just trying to say what I think people in general think about MongoDB.
Do you have any idea whether there's a model with more RAM? I'm sick of my X1 Carbon but 4GB of RAM hasn't been enough.

Edit: The Chromebook Pixel might do but it's not particularly Free.
Right, I know that, but thank you for listing.
I wasn't aware of that rule and I've been on here for many years, it should perhaps be made more prominent. I also genuinely think it's wrong, people should be able to flag things which are inaccessible for them.

To expand on that, what's the point in sharing a link where you have to pay or sign up to get access on a public link sharing site? As you can see from my other reply all I get is a sales pitch from the Economist. If someone shares an article I will read it and maybe upvote it. If someone shares what seems to be an article which isn't, it's actually a sales pitch for the Economist under another headline, then it's worse than blogspam, in my book at least.

I run a news aggregator and I know for a fact there are a great many free alternatives to "NYT, New Yorker, Economist, WSJ" for both news and opinion, and that's just for the USA let alone the huge number of non-US sources. I don't particularly see why they should get a free pass when a smaller site would get blasted for having a paywall.

I also have university access to academic journals that aren't public. They frequently contain very interesting things but I wouldn't post anything from them here because a large number of people would just get a paywall asking them for $30 to download the pdf. Thankfully more and more academic publications are going open, but a great many remain closed and they wouldn't be appropriate to share.

But, if that doesn't persuade you, I will not flag paywalled sites now I've been informed of the rules (rules published in a comment 34 days ago).
You're talking nonsense.

Most enterprise systems e.g. Hadoop listen on all interfaces as well as we are routing traffic over multiple cards e.g. Infiniband. Does that mean we should be reconsidering those choices as well ?

And it's not a gaping security hole. It's a poorly chosen default. And most normal people read and understand the configuration files before they deploy anything into production.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
Creator of Internet Privacy Device Silenced: We Are Halting Further Development
I'm in the same boat but my accounts are all integrated now. My car loan, credit card, 360 checking, and 360 savings.
It actually affects a tonne of products, period.

It's quite popular in enterprise software to listen on all interfaces.
As Beijing Becomes a Supercity, the Rapid Growth Brings Pains
Serious question: Do people treat privacy policies any different than EULA's? (To wit: Abstruse legalese that doesn't really tell anyone anything?)

I can summarize 95% of privacy policies right here:

* We won't sell your info (directly)
* We "may" provide your info to third parties based on ill-defined criterion
* We can change this at any time without telling you first
* If we get bought (which is likely), this is all rendered invalid
* If we break our word here, your recourse is precisely jack
it bothers the minimalists
really bad UX?
> Docker is a management tool for the underlying jail-like features implemented by the kernel...

ezjail[1] manages FreeBSD jails quite nicely too. Paired with ZFS, the GP makes a solid case IMHO.

1 - https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-ezjail.html
You are welcome, and thank you!
Capitalism unfettered by what?

Capitalism, in pure form, is a political system (this is not a typo - I did not mean to write "economic") in which a strong central government protects the individual rights of each of its citizens (mainly by going after people who murder, theft, fraud). A capitalist government does not regulate industry.

Despite what you say above, what we have today is not capitalism. In healthcare in the US today, it's 80% state control, 20% private (if not 90/10).

I'm not going to comment on the rest of what you've written because the above is a more fundamental point, and we clearly don't agree on it.
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I thought it already did that.
Getting Started with Meteor: Why You Should, or Shouldn't, Jump Right In
Very hard to have sustained deflation when you are using a fiat currency. The only example in history has been Japan and this only occurred because of a political decision.

We really should stop looking to the GD as a lesson for today’s problems. We don’t use the 30 Years War as means of explaining religious conflict or the Crusades to explain the state of the middle east.
I listened to Bernanke talk about this once. The academic view seems that things weren't that awful until 1931, when a large Austrian bank failed (Google Creditanstalt), which triggered a wave of global bank failures [1]. The resulting lack of credit was the cause that made the depression Great. When Creditanstalt went down, Dow was off ~50% from its 1929 high, which still happens every now and then. We went through a similar decline during the 2007-08 financial crisis and came out all right thanks to aggressive and globally organized central bank activity. Unfortunately such an organized response didn't happen in the 1930s so the economies kept contracting, and the Dow eventually ended up losing 90%. Check out the charts in that period, it is fascinating.

[1] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/bermac95.pdf
I get it, this link is important because it's really bad user experience to have so many sign-ins for a single bank. They need to unify this stuff, obviously.

Also: great title.
its debt cycles that one should really watch...check out Ray Dalio's "How The Economic Machine Works"...there's a video and a paper...the paper is much more informative.
The template is kinda disrespectful to the reader. http://imgur.com/NxgBh68
This is so, so very wrong - Capital One is crawling with software engineers, they're considered way ahead of most other FIs with what they're doing. The history of Capital One is why this happened - it has acquired so many things and grown horizontally so quickly that they're struggling to catch up.
To be fair, aphyr analyzed Mongo's clustering behavior and found a lot of problems. Which has been a consistent refrain in the series - apparently clustering a datastore is hard. ElasticSearch and RabbitMQ fair poorly as well.

Also, it's not like Postgres even tries to offer clustering. So what are you comparing Mongo to? There's no reason to believe that a single-node Mongo instance will be any less reliable than a single-node MySQL or Postgres. At least, nobody has presented that argument.
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What exactly are you talking about ?

Why would I care about having my database broken into or even my data being corrupted for hacks/spikes. The very definition of these is that they are throwaway designed to test an idea before rebuilding in something more suitable.

And yes MongoDB is schemaless. That doesn't mean your data is going to automatically corrupt itself. You can just define your schema in some shared library. I can just as easily corrupt PostgreSQL if I change data types without updating the ORM.
Beautiful is way overused. I hate it. Whenever some new website/app uses it to describe their UI, I feel rage!
I was unable to find anything that suggests this. Are you speculating?
Thanks for the links.

It will be good to run some tests against the Purism 15 motherboard, at least to evaluate the dormancy/presence of the Intel ME via publicly known interfaces.

It's still a step in the right direction to be able to buy a laptop with a CPU that "does not support" the Intel ME, because it will permit some testing of the Intel claim. It also helps that Purism is using non-Intel components for wired and wifi networks, since Intel ME/AMT/vPro requires Intel networking.
Found from the login URLs - Unrestricted redirect vulnerability:

https://www.capitalone.com/redirect/?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fgoog...

Makes phishing links seems authentic.

Who wants to report it to them?
I've heard this before- that magnetism is a consequence of moving electric charges when special relativity is taken into account. But doesn't this on its own rule out magnetic monopoles?
Hah, I remember spending hours on this during work hours when I was interning last year. I used to come up with very clever and short solutions only then to find out I wasn't even top 10 :(
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" Next I’m going to move everything to org-mode and work on ways to publish my notes with LaTeX markup on the intranet and to include pictures more easily."

Unless you're intending to put pdf's on your intranet, seems like org-mode's export to html would be better suited to what you want. You may also want to check the org-mode support for Jekyll, the ruby-based static-html blog engine.
Do we need browsers?
I've built real-world products with both ES and Mongo as primary datastores. ES is a hundred times more complicated, with a really awkward query syntax and a lot of unintuitive behavior. And, from the Call Me Maybe series, ES is no more reliable than MongoDB in a cluster.

ES is amazing for what it does, but its use cases don't overlap heavily with Mongo (or RDBMSes).
I suspect that the 2016 presidential election will come down to sanders vs trump, and Wall St will not like that choice....one of those candidates threatens their cheap labor, and the other one threatens to tax them and regulate them more....

Heh heh....seeing wall st and the corporate media sweat is gonna make 2016 the best election ever....
I'm confused with the statement, "e last 4 years I'm working full time for company A and was winning good money and able to pay myself a salary of 1500€/month and having a car/phone/... on the company."

I understand english isn't your first language, but just want to clarify the phrase "able to pay myself" a salary. I'm assuming that was a slip-up and you weren't a partner in company A..you were just an employee.

I'd bail out the entire situation. I know different parts of europe have different standard of living with regards to the Euro, but I don't know how most folks in the euro can survive on 500Euro/mos...especially with girlfriend and a kid on the way.

My advice is go back to freelancing.

I have a very good salary as a developer in the midwest and do some freelancing on the side.

The way I look at it, I have to be able to afford to lose a couple clients and keep on chugging before I strike out on my own.
I would think that power vs battery life would be pretty high on the list of priorities for technically inclined users. I current-gen core i3 (like the 5010U) packs quite a bit of performance vs. the power it requires.

For me, first and foremost are the parts that I interact with... namely the screen, keyboard and mouse. TBH, I have yet to try a laptop keyboard I like... I use a model-m style keyboard from Unicomp (103-key US), and all laptops and most other keyboards feel like sponges. I've yet to use a touchpad that's nearly as good as a macbook pro's, and their keyboard is better than most. The rMBP screen is pretty nice too. That said, there's certainly a price tag attached.

As to the software, I could care less mostly. I survive in windows, linux and osx on a daily basis, if I have a command prompt (bash) and most of the same tooling available (thankful for git extensions for windows bringing all the gfw/git/bash/ssh tools with it), I'm pretty happy. I have also started using an natural scrolling everywhere.

All of that said, it's nice to see open options that start under $1k in price, even if slightly older hardware. I'm not sure how good/easy Trisquel is to use, I know it's based with dpkg, but without apt/aptitude on top of it, may be difficult for most people to use in practice (I couldn't find reference to this, just a cursory look).
Thank you for this. I still feel like the Material Design implementation within Polymer is rough around the edges. Having issues with Firefox, for example, in terms of optimization and documentation is still very incomplete. Looking forward to working with both libraries, though!
No, the metadata means the URL (not hashed). The protocol is linked from the page you posted. It's clear as day, and the only person who would be misled is somebody who didn't read the page at all and claimed it said things it doesn't say.
Perhaps! At the same time, it's great that there are more options for those who need help with design! ;)
For me, the larger fallback would be the largest SSD options seems to be 120GB, if this is a SATA2/3 interface, which I would presume it would be nice to see a 250/500GB option for SSDs which are generally more of a boost for me than going above 8GB ram.
It's DRM-ed, sadly.
So I'm not allowed to discuss what these people are giving up in the name of "freedom"? That the fact that this is a refurbished machine from seven years ago shouldn't be brought up? That functionality was removed in order to, through some bizarre twist of logic, make the machine "more free"? Given that this is a machine that is built in the name of ideology, I would argue that questioning aspects of that ideology, and what is demanded to acheive their idea of purity, is more than fair game.
My current Dell Inspiron 3437 came pre-installed with Ubuntu and only cost 250+ USD.

It is true that I do not trust Canonical or Dell, but why would I trust Purism instead? What proof of trustworthiness do they provide?

My Dell's very low spec is good enough for what most developers typically do: use a text editor to deal with source files and use the shell to ssh into a remote machine. The most taxing program that I use is firefox. The browser consumes more CPU cycles and memory than all other programs taken together.

The short story: I do not need a laptop that costs 1600+ USD, just for its nebulous, unproven claims of privacy, when I am perfectly happy with one that costs 250+ USD.
> Why would I care about having my database broken into or even my data being corrupted for hacks/spikes. The very definition of these is that they are throwaway designed to test an idea before rebuilding in something more suitable.

No. There's no rule that says a prototype must be thrown away - often, it can be built upon further. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913563

> And yes MongoDB is schemaless. That doesn't mean your data is going to automatically corrupt itself. You can just define your schema in some shared library.

This doesn't work if there is no shared library, for example if you have two separate components in different languages both using the database. And at that point you're (poorly) reinventing a schemaful database anyway.

> I can just as easily corrupt PostgreSQL if I change data types without updating the ORM.

A good ORM will abide by your database schema - and no, you can't "corrupt PostgreSQl" by "not updating your ORM". It will, at most, error out because you're trying to work with non-existent columns.

In a schemaless database, there's no such thing as "non-existent columns", thus you can quietly corrupt data without realizing it.