skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the second "Cloud Database" company IBM has acquired recently. They also acquired Cloudant, a CouchDB based "Cloud Database."

Side-thought: Did Compose refer to itself as a Cloud Database before IBM acquired it? That seems like a very IBM marketing oriented term.
Yes, it has to be a normalized orthogonal basis to maintain those properties :)
AFAIK as long as you're only carrying a couple of 230V lines (3x1.5qmm NYM-J and friends) you're fine to use plastic tubes or tack them onto the walls, but as soon as you're mixing in non-power wiring you're required to lay them in separate tubes.
Are there any tools out there that can create something akin to a LinkedIn profile for static hosting? Something like Jekyll?
Airports are shared infrastructure, just like roads. As such they are serving a common purpose, and don't have to make money by themselves (rather indirectly through enabling business). That's exactly where the government should be involved in. E.g. It makes more sense to have a single airport rather than several competing ones, airports shouldn't go bancrupt and be closed, and building them might require changing laws or evicting/relocating 1000s of people. These are all in the sphere of public responsibility.
No, Mixpanel does not auto-capture user interactions. Heap does. (Disclaimer: I build Heap.)

The Heap approach (i.e. auto-capturing events) lets you run retroactive/on-the-fly analytics. Without it, this feature is closer to a mobile equivalent of Google Tag Manager's click listener tag (https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/3415369?hl=en#C...) or KISSMetrics' click tracker (http://support.kissmetrics.com/tutorial/event-library-tutori...).

Happy that Mixpanel is making their event-tracking easier, though. It's a major pain-point, especially for mobile apps.
with another nuclear submarine?
What percentage of units on Airbnb do you think are actually illegal sublets?
It seems to me as though the authors are unfamiliar with bioinformatics standard practice - it's not like this is an unsolved problem, and the existing solutions are faster, more computationally elegant, and more flexible. Actually computing and searching for all strings with an edit distance of X away from the query is an incredibly poor way (Guess how long their strategy takes when you increase the edit distance to 5?) of of solving the alignment problem that throws out 40+ years of research on the problem of sequence alignment. The actual solutions to this problem solve it in tenths of a second in vastly superior ways.

BLAT[0] is the most obvious and preferred solution designed for alignment against a reference sequence- a 20 BP search against the human genome should essentially be instantaneous. BLAST [1] is more versatile and a bit slower than BLAT, but would also align these sequence sizes against the human genome in ~1-2 seconds, and is a traditional solution to the alignment problem, and has no license restrictions. BWA [2] and Bowtie [3] default settings could also be modified for the task (they're optimized for performing this task with larger strings on the order of thousands of times per second).

More generally, it would not be difficult to re-implement any of the algorithms behind these software implementations if the authors really wanted to. It's weird, this is the second post I've seen recently when software folks who are now working in the bioinformatics space have seemed completely unaware of both the basic algorithms we use in computational biology and their common implementations, like Smith-Waterman and Burrows–Wheeler. These are complicated problems with 40+ years of research behind them, and the actual solutions are elegant and fast algorithms which solve the problem in a far superior way within reasonable computational time.

[0] http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgBlat

[1] http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

[2] http://bio-bwa.sourceforge.net/

[3] http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
Thanks so much for writing smugline. :)

FWIW, we stopped rotating your Originals (which we did in a lossless fashion back in the day) awhile back, and now preserve them exactly as you uploaded them. Your MD5 hashes and byte counts match, and of course, people can get them back whenever they'd like.
I lived a year in Hanoi and left in May this year.

I can't speak for HCMC, but what i experienced wasn't much different from how you describe Saigon - it's full of loud and disrespectful foreigners (backpackers, many English teachers) living in their own little bubble of cheap booze, pot and western restaurants.

That being said, I can only recommend my experience, it's an amazing place to immerse yourself (even if you live in a relatively western area like Tay Ho), amazing food and the extremely low costs allow you to pursue ventures for much longer than you'd be able in the west (if at all).
How cool would that be? The use case for me for Snapchat is stupid easy video and image sharing to directed parties. What if you could interface with companies that way? Usually when I see a job I'm interested in I have to go spruce up my resume and then have a bunch of formal conversations with the company in question yet I never get to see a true picture of the job because of that.

Some instant low-friction point-to-point type of communication could make job hunting interesting and fun. It would be nice to send a quick video message with low-pressure to ask about a job. Maybe it could keep you in the mind of the company for jobs that aren't available now but will be coming up in the future.
Please roll back to the font family, size and color of the existing version. Small, thin, light grey on a white background is not even a little bit readable. It's roughly equivalent to the "dead", greyed out comments here on HN proper in terms of pain.

Given that you probably intend for people to want to read the text you present, I bet that's not the experience you're going for.
I recently started the effort to learning Ed. I kind of like it but I found myself wishing that it had been compiled against Readline (I like Bash's command line editing and the ability to CRTL-L to clear the screen).
You seem to be assuming a notion of continual human progress. In a few hundred years, we'll probably be in another Dark Age, judging by current trends. We're like the Roman Empire in 200 AD.

Progress is the exception, not the rule, so far in human history.
As in high frequency trading, additional liquidity also equates to addition volatility. That can be good or bad, but a market needs to have enormous "stickiness" for additional liquidity to be an unalloyed benefit. Labor markets are a good example, with search costs high on both sides of the table, so maybe we grant that point.

But there's relatively little evidence that recruiters actually reduce search costs, rather than shifting them around on balance sheets.
Sure, but that requires you to either already have an admin password, or be able to reboot the machine into recovery mode and retain control of it (which typically implies actual physical access).

The privilege escalation exploit mentioned in the OP, while technically not remotely exploitable, can be used by malware with lower privileges (i.e. malware running as an unprivileged user, which got onto the machine either through a remote exploit or some sort of drive-by download) to silently elevate itself to root. That's something that shouldn't be possible.
Ah! I was wondering how you did that (and what Firefox supported).

The Chrome page actions are a little buggy in UX -- when you click the icon, sometimes the URL autocomplete comes down. Maybe it is supposed to and you can put something there programmatically but I don't like it when it drops down. So a fixed icon might not be so bad.
Yes. If you have a "parabola" with 3 colinear points, your parabola is a straight line.
Jet.com did their big launch this week. They use F# http://fsharpshow.com/3-jet-revolutionizing-ecommerce-using-...

According to the podcast, they started out with two solutions. One in C# and the other in F#, and F# won out in the end.

Here's some info on the company: http://recode.net/2015/07/21/jet-com-will-launch-with-amazon...
Agreed... this hasn't happened to me, but I've had a number of friends who have had drives fail while rebuilding a RAID-5 array. RAID-6, RAID-1, or ZFS are my preferred choices.
Will this change the platforms you target?

I'd love to see your services running on Google Cloud Platform, for example, so that they could be used with co-located customer services.
And kungfury.actor
I dislike receiving emails from recruiters, especially when they're multiple times per day when I've never indicated to anyone in anyway that I'm looking for work. The fastest and easiest way I have reduced recruiter email was by just deleting my LinkedIn account. I got them down to like once or twice a week that way. Now I don't get any because any of the ones that continued to email I've asked them to stop.
The American rail network is optimized for freight. Outside of a few lines in the Northeast it's not really an option for intercity travel. If you want to take a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco (a 6-7 hour drive) there's only one train per day, it's expensive, and it takes twelve hours to make the trip. It's more of an amusement park ride than a way to get somewhere.

But if you want to get something shipped rail is cheap and reliable (if not particularly fast).
Still, when you shot film you rarely shot 20 frame bursts of the same baby-posing-with-toy that we do today with dSLRs. Simply because it was expensive and you were pretty likely to miss something important while you changed rolls.

If a photographer today has several thousands of pics from a day it's likely because there were lots of burst shots, and the culling should be pretty simple: take the best frame from a burst and delete the rest immediately.

On a side note it would be an interesting data compression challenge to compress bursts of raw frames using video compression techniques.
Have you people ever listened to yourselves, all "disrupt" this and "disrupt" that? Honestly, you sound like a complete twat.
Maybe something like h-resume? http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume
Time to abandon ship!
Basically if we would look at the wave function of the whole universe it would always behave in a Unitarian way. Non-unitarian behavior (such as qubit readouts) are the result of coupling our -initially isolated- quantum system with an external system that has many degrees of freedom and causes decoherence in the individual components of the original system's wave function. A measurement operation in that sense is an entanglement of the original system with an external quantum system, followed by decoherence of the wavefunction due to the coupling of the external system to another one with a large number of degrees of freedom (which destroys the interference in the components of the wave function and thus turns a quantum state into a "classical" state). The role of decoherence and entanglemenr was not well understood for a long time and led to many of the seeming paradoxes of quantum mechanics, but today the theory of "open quantum systems" explains that behavior quite well and one can even simulate such systems using e.g. a so-called "Master equation" approach. What's important to remember here is that the whole system (so initial quantum system + environment) is always behaving in a Unitarian way, but this must not be true when looking at individual parts of the wave function in isolation.
s/server-side OSS/server-side software
Of course all reuse is somewhat similar, but dividing things into separate categories (class, instance, metaclass) and enforcing rules on how they relate isn't a 'just', that's what class based inheritance is.

The issue of abstraction is that, you don't implement prototypal inheritance with copying. No language does. That's why delegation is such a core part of any prototypal inheritance. There are different points and ways that happen. But all inheritance is delegation, in practice.

Can you give an example of when a piece of code (i.e. not data) would be different if it were delegated vs copied?
The "best" feature they have is automatically sending notifications to all your peers (and through email) when you change one little thing in your profile. And they show specifically what you edited. You can disable it of course in settings, but you have to know about that. I've seen enough awkward situations come out of this. How is it even possible that they think it is okay?
The OP says several time that Saigon has lots of startups, but doesn't mention any. What are they?

Also, he says the Vietnamese use the English alphabet. That's not quite right, because the Vietnamese words tend to have many accentuated characters.
I dunno, something like "Make sure you have nice pictures" for a business where visual things (where you're going to sleep) is quite important doesn't seem that groundbreaking of advice.
And Blue Box (https://www.blueboxcloud.com/) a month and a half ago. Looks like they're investing in or acquiring cloud platform software companies like gangbusters at the moment.
Estimote founder here.
Few days ago Google released their new, open beacon format - eddystone and today just updated Chrome for iOS that can scan for beacons broadcasting Eddystone URLs.
You can read more on our blog how to start broadcasting URL using beacons and how to test it on Chrome for iOS.
But as in software development, better tools just ends up meaning that clients demand things faster and cheaper, rather than better.

Exact same thing in the arts field - not all clients of course, and I can't think of a recent equivalent to a fiasco of this scale, but the general trend is that clients feel when the cost of technology goes down so should other costs.
The use of 'MVC - MVC4' seems to me to be an acknowledgement that it is no longer a Rails clone.
> "Imagine a phone call with a family member halfway across the country, and seeing them right there in the room with you. Not on a screen, but sitting right across from you."

I feel like an often overlooked part of VR videochat is that everyone has a giant box attached to their face so how do you do it well? I guess you could have an avatar and some clever ability to detect facial expressions of the person wearing the box, but that's hardly better than actually seeing them.

That said I have a DK2 and the presence you get is impressive. Especially the ability to lean into the environment because of head tracking.

This game really impressed me: https://share.oculus.com/app/i-expect-you-to-die

[Edit] For those looking towards AR, hard AR is pretty hard. Notably the ability to draw black. Michael Abrash has a really good blog post about this problem and others: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
I'd recommend it, though only if you are up for some adventure and culture shocks and not just to work.

It does come with some catches:

- Rougher manners and culture than Thailand/Cambodia/Laos (casual encounters are usually very manner-of-fact)

- Much more polluted than most other countries in the area (safe for the usual suspects in china)

- Lot less developed than Taiwan, Korea, Japan (which are basically first world countries at this point) and still a lot behind China. So get used to more dirt, poverty and worse infrastructure

- The climate in the north isn't very friendly (boiling in summer, moist and cold in winter - everything gets moldy). I heard the south is nicer in this regard.
Totally agree. We just shot some 360 footage of the Winnipeg Folk Festival (http://www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca) and I'm sure people are going to love this way of experiencing concerts, sports, you name it.

We also just backed the Sphericam kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1996234044/sphericam-2-...), so I look forward to a much more streamlined process and the ability to play with more theatrical ideas. Lots of film makers around here who I'm sure could do some amazing things with this tech!
I'm the author.

I'm hoping to go public with the MySQL version before the end of this month. So a week or so. :)
The reason for this isn't security-related, if you've followed the steps above and have applied them to root. The reason to not allow root login is so that each of multiple administrators must login using their username and then become root or use sudo. That way if you look to see who did what, you get a username rather than "root did that". Which, of course, you usually need root to do things that end up being checked into.
Good to hear that the pirate party member Martin Delius is the head of the parliamentary committee leading the investigation. I'm wondering if we would be that informed if a member of another political party would be in charge, because one of the main programmatic points of the pirate party is transparency.
Actually no! Estimates I found are of around 10^23 stars in the universe. There are over 10^38 IPv6 addresses, so even if there were tens of inhabitable worlds per star and billions or even trillions of addresses per world, we'd have enough! (Although it is possible that stars number is a significant underestimate.)
A recent Consumer Reports article says:

You may be able to cut your exposure to inorganic arsenic in any type of rice by rinsing raw rice thoroughly before cooking, using a ratio of 6 cups water to 1 cup rice, and draining the excess water afterward. That is a traditional method of cooking rice in Asia. The modern technique of cooking rice in water that is entirely absorbed by the grains has been promoted because it allows rice to retain more of its vitamins and other nutrients. But even though you may sacrifice some of rice's nutritional value, research has shown that rinsing and using more water removes about 30 percent of the rice's inorganic arsenic content.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much...
Help the Crystal language become production-ready
Linked in is the king of dark patterns and practices. I was foolish enough to sign up for a free 30 trial period (of course handing over credit card details with the expectation they wont just automatically charging me and seek my permission before charging). I didn’t check my cc statements for a few months and there you have it ...linked in charged me every month after the trail period ended.
Lots, but RCE is never a feature that will be set in stone.
http://nypost.com/2014/04/21/two-thirds-of-citys-airbnb-rent...

> Nearly two-thirds of the city apartments recently listed on Airbnb were being offered in violation of the law, an analysis by state authorities has found.

> The study of data from the subletting service’s own Web site showed 64 percent of its 19,500-plus offerings for Jan. 31 covered an “entire apartment,” says an affidavit from the state Attorney General’s Office.

There is no way to really know without being AirBnb + knowing which apartment complexes sublet illegally.

But...at least in NYC, 64%.
I'm sorry, but you may think this is the way it goes, but I suspect you'll find it isn't so. My prediction is that you will be booted as CEO within a year, not because you aren't awesome but because you are a big part of Compose and IBM will go directions you won't like.

Hope I'm wrong, but I can't see how this will be anything but disastrous. Your key company abilities were you controlled your own destiny to a degree, and you could react quickly. Now you are part of a larger group within IBM, I doubt this will be possible.

I do wish you the best though, and that my dire prediction is completely wrong. I've just seen what happens when a smaller company is bought by a massive one.
How does it work? Is there anything to be installed? Is it a plugin into something else? The landing page lacks that important information.
SELA – Simple Lossless Audio
Totally agree with you. There are so many possibilities of evolution besides building high tech spaceships and conquering planets and stuff.

Imagine how much more wisdom (besides technological advancement) the average humans will posses in just 200 years (provided things evolve like they have been evolving during the last century minus the wars ).

What wisdom and knowledge will we have in 1000, 2000, 50000 years (again, provided we are still alive) ?

Maybe there is no need to physically travel through light years of space, maybe the 'truth' is much closer - right inside our own minds.

In just a couple of decades we'll be able to build simulations which simulate all our senses and are just as real as our 'current' Universe - enter there and take a pill which makes you 'forget' about this reality and you can basically live another life without knowing about your current one.

What if our current life is the result of such a 'game' which we entered and forgot about the 'outer' life. What if we're level 64 deep in such a simulation within simulation ? :)

So many possibilities, but hopefully we'll somehow figure them out ..
Here's my take on it, both short- and long-term:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9938332
Most industries are not self-regulating. If they were we wouldn't need the equivalents of the EPA and OSHA. Or the car regulations that force a minimum standard of safety. And so on and so forth.
> We're still having hard times figuring how to get squishy meat sacks to Mars without being irradiated to death or creating a launch vehicle made of lead.

But we've only been working on that for a few decades. 2 billion years is a lot longer. If there is a civilization there at all, it's extremely improbable that it hasn't figured out how to do exploration on a scale of thousands of light-years.
Toss Productivity Out
I think the worst thing they do is ask you to connect with your email account and then they continually spam your contacts to join LinkedIn. It's bad, but they're not the only ones doing that.

Interface-wise it's not that bad, but I don't use all the features (free user) and don't spend much time on there.
I like the idea. It lacks some important functionality e.g. \x does not work. This is a feature I use regularly in the psql command line tool.

Also, I'm not sure if it's a bug, but with Smart Completion set to off, it still auto completes as you are typing. This can get annoying after a while. Lastly, if you type ';' followed by enter, the program crashes.
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If they can do that, then they have found a magic bullet for one of the biggest problems in software development. I have a suspicion that's the real problem they're trying to solve, so they're "doing things that don't scale" to try to engineer a platform that solves for that problem. That's the only way VCs would throw money at a business model like this.

I wish them luck, but I just think there are too many variables that getting a large enough sample size would bankrupt them before they approach a workable solution.
And there is also this strange line of R code.

colnames(existing_df) &lt;- new_col_names

The author probably wanted to say instead:

colnames(existing_df) <- new_col_names;
This doesn't actually solve the problems.

Businesses have used real-time data for decades to optimize their processes, and that's all we're seeing referenced in this post. Setting aside the question of whether Uber drivers are "employees," they are certainly inside the business model, and so is the data about their performance.

But the reasons we have regulations is that business optimizations can be counter to social goals. And knowing about a bad thing doesn't allow one to go back in time and fix it.