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Yes! Python-prompt-toolkit has made it tremendously easy to write programs like mycli and pgcli.

The author has done an excellent job of keeping the APIs simple and intuitive.

It also helps that he's a good OSS maintainer (responsive and courteous). :)
And the UK government is actively encouraging challenger banks.
awesome work, would love to see runkeeper integration
@gpaumier

Your response to this guy is [dead] so you might be shadow-banned, or some funny business about your account being too new. Nobody can read your comments unless they have enabled their account to read [dead] comments.

Nice article and welcome to HN!
> Any instances of Clarkson making offensive comments about white people?

The whole mainstream media makes offensive comments about white people, how they are responsible for slavery, how they are all racists, how they are incompetent husbands, aloof fathers, conspiracy theorists, the list goes on.

But god forbid white people are allowed to watch another white guy crack a few jokes at other races.

> that's obviously a different dynamic to a white British person making fun of people lower down the social pecking order.

That's racist. Wow. True racism right here. Excuse me? So you really think there are groups of people, I assume ethnic groups, who are "lower down the social pecking order"? That is unadultered racism - the belief that another ethnic group is inferior to your ethnic group in anyway.

I have no problem with any word being used by any comedian, but if they ever said "I think black people are lower down in the social pecking order" then that would be a truly unambiguous racist statement.
too desperate for imaginary points you couldn't wait more than 2 days?
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Except that's exactly what we were talking about here: Saying that people are "irrational" for not buying the same thing the poster did, in this case, Apple products. And I believe that if you care that much about what other people are using to the point where you would have to question their rationality, then you're a class-A jerk.
Why wouldn't it be an ad? They didn't spend a bunch of money developing a native app for no reason. They did it because it provides some sort of advantage for them. One advantage is that it lets them get on your home screen rather than just being another web site you visit, which probably increases the chances that you'll return.

You might disagree, which is fine. Whether something is an "ad" is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. Which is why this stuff ought to be configurable.
Of course it is gender related. There are hundreds of male startup CTOs in their early 20s with all kinds of partially done degrees in various subjects and they are far less likely to see a comment like this.
A post on HN a few weeks ago showed that Windows 10 preview was smoother than OS X on a MacBook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555628
The rule is to use the original title except when it's misleading or linkbait. The latter two are common, so often we don't want the original title. So not all title changes are bad, just editorializing ones (putting an interpretation or spin on the story).

Besides that, though, the data is too messy to easily be processed algorithmically. For example, it often includes the domain of the site or other branding that we don't want in HN titles.
What's law enforcement going to do about a photo of an unmarked drone? This is only useful when the drone can be traced to its owner.
Are we producing synthetic nicotine for e-cigs?

I am of the understanding that we currently produce liquid nicotine from tobacco leaves, and use the liquid nicotine for electronic cigarettes.

We certainly can already produce caffeine independently of producing coffee, and while that may be a major reason for coffee production, i doubt many coffee drinkers would be satiated with a caffeine pill every morning instead of their cup of coffee.

Kind of akin to seeing the wine grapes are going away and saying, well we can produce alcohol independently of wine - its true, but it wont satisfy wine lovers.
I know about the s// substitution, but it just isn't very useful. Sometimes I'll have sent a couple messages before I notice a typo. Also, it's very limited in the type of edits it can make. Last time I tried to use it I realized I had typed "it's" instead of "its", but it turns out I had already using "it's" earlier in the message. I ended up making both "it's" wrong instead of correcting the one I wanted to.

Slack added @here a few weeks ago. Otherwise that would have been on my list of Hipchat pluses.

Being able to rearrange channels would be nice, but it isn't a big deal to me. I mostly use the "Jump to next unread message" hotkey in Slack to switch between channels.
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Whenever the word "white" is used in a scientific or quasi-scientific context, it should probably be specified whether the speaker means "perceived by the human eye to be white", or "emitting a continuous spectrum across all frequencies of visible light", or something in between.

A tricolor LED and a white (phosphor-based) LED can both emit light perceived by a human to be white when viewed directly. But the former is actually only trichromatic, and will have different color rendering properties when reflecting from nearby objects.

An R+G+B laser is not a white laser.
> Now all Amazon needs to do is make Aurora HIPAA compliant/offer to sign a BAA and the dump trucks full of money will be backing up in no time. Can I dream?

Amazon already signs BAAs that cover EC2 dedicated instances and S3. Or do you mean BAAs that cover Aurora specifically?

FWIW, unless you're already a rather large company with excess capacity in both the engineering and legal teams, I'd recommend skipping AWS entirely and using a company like Aptible (YC S'14) to handle hosting and compliance[0]. It's more or less like using Heroku, except you have all of the compliance requirements (including legal documentation) managed for you. Having tried both approaches myself, I can testify that the latter is by far the preferable alternative (and honestly cheaper in the long run).

[0] Like Heroku, Aptible uses AWS under the hood, so it's not really "skipping" AWS, but you never have to deal with it directly (and that's a good thing).
dang: can this get merged into the old thread ceejayoz mentions?

Not sure if HN has the logic to be able to detect identical posts and reject or merge automagically.
It makes sense given what's going on, but I think that flags which affect global process behavior when you merely use them in a library ought to be called out much more heavily. The default ought to be to either leave these global flags alone, or save/restore them at the library entry points. If you really want to change the whole global state, it ought to be described as something beyond merely "unsafe" in my opinion.
I was referring to Aurora (or any RDS product for that matter) specifically.
A thought experiment for the "there's nothing wrong with AdBlock" set:

Imagine a blog with quality original content that is relevant to your interests.

Imagine that, the first time you go to that site, you see the following text:

"This site and it's content are supported by advertisement. If you would like to read our content the only thing we ask is that you do not use an ad blocker on our pages.

If this arrangement is unacceptable to you, we understand and there are no hard feelings, we simply ask that you refrain from accessing the site.

There is no enforcement mechanism-- this agreement is based on the honor system."

Would you still block ads on the site?

If you answered no, a follow up question:

Are all ad-supported sites saying this implicitly?
I started to notice a trend amongst VC partners. They talk a big talk, but most of them are pretty risk averse and will only invest if someone else jumps the gun first. A lot of times, there will be multiple VCs interested in a company but they will bullshit the founders about wanting to invest, and just sit around waiting for someone else to invest so they can jump on the bandwagon.

What I find different about AH is that they invest when they want to invest, and don't care if other VCs are interested. Social proof isn't that important to them. And it's pretty crazy...they'll invest in a company that nobody else has been talking about and then out of nowhere the entire VC industry is throwing money at them.
I can agree only partially. That's basically similar to the problem that imageposts are vastly more popular than anything else on reddit etc. But HN does have a huge focus on quality posts and takes big measures to ensure that. Also the notebooks were with many colorful pictures (and even videos!), and that even applies only to the two least relevant submissions.
As much as anything, I linked to it because it was a nice bit of writing.
It depends, I meant broken if you plan to compute other types of problems.
For instance some big graph problem instead of involving linear algebra. Then you would favor the benchmarks from http://www.graph500.org/.

But what if you want to optimize for programs that are communication intensive, or memory intensive?

Should the FLOPS of a very specific linear algebra suite be used as the metric of best computers?
Also multicore memory hierarchies are very different on ARM -- e.g. atomics are much more expensive there in my experience.
In accordance with Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1] the answer is no.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

I don't know how people do links and stuff on hacker news
> I guess if you won't have many blobs, it may be worthwhile to save yourself engineering time of supporting both S3 and Aurora. In an ideal world, there'd just be one permanent data store with a built-in caching layer, for databases, blobs, and log files.

We're getting close to that. Write once your data to S3 for persistent storage, then load into Elastic Search. Mostly there.
I totally get that. It's just a lot easier to reason with someone averse to this technology when you start them off slowly. Thanks for the list, though!
That font-compare tool is pretty cool...you should definitely resubmit in a few days. Thanks for pointing it out (and making it).
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Building and linking your own sqlite.c is completely feasible. (We do it).
sqlite.org's documentation for the C api [1] and its explanation of what kind of SQL it supports [2] are both very good.

[1] http://sqlite.org/cintro.html

[2] http://sqlite.org/lang.html
People wanting to rebalance their portfolio isn't really a warning. Someone selling out completely perhaps is; but people need money for things.
maybe it needs to clean up more aggressively then? or have that be a configurable setting? I was seeing what looked like hundreds of previous circles on my screen.
I am now on my third startup and have never seen a dollar from my option grants, but I am forever optimistic. I would hate to be in a job where I didn't have at least some component of equity comp. I wonder if that's rational of me? Would love to have the data to show whether or not it's an economically rational decision in aggregate to prefer equity-based comp for startup employees vs. just asking for cash.
I would either buy an already-profitable app on Fliptopia & work on upgrading & maintaining it.

-or-

I'd invest in Real Estate- flipping houses with a builder I know.

If all goes well, I might be able to do both, depending on the Fliptopia market at the moment. I find many apps there seem overvalued.
That's true for me as well. I try and follow a policy that if the title is curious enough to get me to click it (which only works because people are good here about not posting clickbait), I will give it an upvote as long as the article isn't complete trash.
In crowded markets, the materials cost is rarely significant compared to the real estate it sits on - living in a tent is still prohibitively expensive if you have to lease the square footage it is pitched on. This article is more about breaking zoning laws to save money than it is about shipping containers vs traditional construction.
Maybe. Part of the reason that he contested it for so long was that although he had doped he had not actually taken anything that would produce the reported result.
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Ah darn, I thought this was an iOS version of Timely. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.bitspin.tim...
This is a rather minor nitpick, but I think the documentation and TauCharts website as a whole could use some editing by a native English speaker.

That said, the content and goals for the project really are quite cool! I'm looking forward to where TauCharts can go in the future.
I think we know what a post-ad (or "blocked") landscape looks like ... just look to NPR and boingboing.

At NPR: major movies, product launches, etc., are framed as stories and are given decent editorial treatment. But it's just part of the PR Blitz package that the advertiser is taking out into the marketplace. There's a TV commercial, a magazine ad, a Charlie Rose booking, a Terry Gross segment ... and a pre-written 80 second slot for "Here and Now". It's just part of the blitz and it's just pacakged slightly differently when it plays on NPR. But make no mistake that Terry Gross interview with Mr. Phoenix as "Her" was moving into theaters was not a coincidence.[1]

at boingboing: constant, never-ending "stories" that are nothing but frames of words for amazon affiliate links. They've gotten very brazen about it[2], but other outfits could be more subtle and I think you'll see it.

[1] Highly recommended. Hilarious interview. At one point, Phoenix forgets what her name is and at no point does he even know what show he's on. Classic.

[2] Regular postings along the lines of "remember that one movie ... man that was great ... two more lines of content ... affiliate link to the DVD".
Er...what would a meritocracy even be in this situation? The world of interesting posts is not so simple that there is one true, obvious metric for one makes one post better than another.
When I was tinkering with http://thredis.org I spent a lot of time looking into SQLite internals, and it is by far the most polished, comment-rich code base that I have ever seen, it reads like a fun book. Especially if you're interested in low-lever relational db stuff - how SQL statements are processed, data is stored, B-Trees, etc. It's better than any book out there (and such books tend to be very expensive).
It does seem like the article may have conveniently evaded that news. However, that doesn't mean there isn't a looming threat to the coffee supply.

The fact that Brazil may have an exceptionally good year, only means that it is likely to have a less-exceptional year after that, due to regression to the mean.
If the climate does start to negatively impact the more tertiary coffee growing regions, Brazil will not be able to bolster the entire coffee demand.

Also: I can only assume that growing overall population = higher demand for coffee
RAX only offers support for Azure, not AWS...
Is it allowed in India to earn an extra money online while working in a company?
I am working with a reputed MNC, Currently I am running a website and want to monetize my site using adsense. Is it allowed in India to earn an extra money online while working in a company?
It seems that Microsoft had removed this sentence from their Privacy Statement - at least I'm unable to find the quoted text now.
GS and worthy oversight would have nipped most of this in the bud.

Again, please explain how - i.e., concrete mechanisms, not vague "if we passed this law that didn't really change anything, maybe culture would have been different".

Just look at what these banks had on their balance sheets at the time...

Please be specific. Which banks are you referring to, and how would GS have significantly affected things? As far as I'm aware, the main banks which significantly mixed IB and S&L activity were JPM and Citi, hardly the epicenters of the crisis.

Also, it's odd how the S&L crisis happened before GS was repealed - why didn't the magical culture change of GS cause regulators to magically crank regulation up to 11 and prevent it?
Flash was not slow, it's just that flash ads were ahead of their time in abusing the system's resources. The supposed slowness of flash relative to browser api's was a myth, although flash content was bloated, in much the same way that modern web pages are bloated. When flash was killed by Jobs I knew it was just a matter of time until people did the same bad things with JavaScript and CSS as they did with flash, and lo it came to pass.
You could use pex which bundles up python requirements into an executable zip. I ran

$ virtualenv PEX
(PEX) $ pip install pex
(PEX) $ pex mycli -e mycli.main:cli -o mycli.pex
(PEX) $ deactivate
$ chmod +x mycli.pex
$ ./mycli.pex
Version: 1.0.1
Chat: https://gitter.im/dbcli/mycli
Mail: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mycli-users
Home: http://mycli.net
Thanks to the contributor - jweiland.net
mysql user@localhost:(none)>

You could scp the .pex to another host that also has python installed and it should run. You can also unzip it to inspect its contents...
I agree. One place I had seen this approach before was Russ Cox's "A Tour of the Acme Editor" video[1]. He fixes an issue in a go library towards the end of the video as a workflow demonstration.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
There may be a better solution. Just because no one has found it doesn't mean we can't do better. However, I'm not one for cursing the darkness. Light a small candle and lead the way.
Relevant: we're evaluating Aurora as a storage mechanism for our software. Currently we're MariaDB.

Quick thoughts: speedy, nice throughput, good read/write speeds generally, but the query optimiser still needs some work.

More detail...

So, it's a pretty nice engine. Scales well, seems fairly bullet proof. You can alter instances and they go up and down in size nicely, reboots are handled gracefully (although it doesn't seem to give estimated timings, which is a mild irritation).

The optimiser seems to get a bit stuck on understanding what indexes to use for queries that involve multiple joins or more complex data structures. My guess is that this is because under it (from what I understand), it's basically DynamoDB with clever bells and whistles (if someone knows more or that that's incorrect, please feel free to jump in). Mostly though, it's quicker for the majority of queries.

Backup management is lovely, caching system seems pretty performant from current benchmarking.

The metrics panel is also pretty sweet for monitoring the things that you're going to care about in DB-land.

I'd say if you're running something sensible sized, and your data is relational but not massively complex, it's a pretty solid solution which I'm sure will only improve over time. That said, there are a few edge cases where you're going to have to do some work on your queries to make sure they still behave in a timely manner. Mostly, if you're using an ORM, this is where I suspect you're going to get some pain.

Any questions on specifics, feel free to fire away and I'll elaborate where I can.
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Honestly, this is adding to the problem. We need to be concentrating on hiring the best person for the job. If this ends up being mostly men, non-minorities, etc, then there are other problems that need to be fixed.

Ie: why don't they have the skill sets to get the job?

This reminds me of what many police and fire have been doing to bring in more women: reduce the standards on the physical tests...which just increases the danger for everyone.
Welcome to the club.

It's a lottery. You submit an article -- an if enough people in a narrow niche are online at that exact time, read the article, and come back and vote? You're in the game.

It's not a meritocracy. Not even close. If you like submitting, keep it up! I do. But don't expect any feedback, positive or negative, unfortunately.
Gitboard as a whole uses jQuery, but not the component. I will have to clean up the code a bit it seems, will do that in the coming days and publish the component.
Thanks for the link, haha. Sensationalist title.
Thank you for reporting the missing keys. I had them as <C-r> and <F3> but it was misinterpreted as html tags.

It is fixed now.

I'm not sure what you mean by view the results without re-running the query. Does scrolling not work? or do you mean if you launch a new session and want to see the results?

If you want to keep the results you can use audit logging feature (http://mycli.net/logging) which records every query and it's output into a file.
Researchers develop Web-based attack on a computer's DRAM
Perhaps there are enough of us using Reddit that we don't bother reading the same content here? What happens if you submit here first (and Reddit later)?
how about http://tiddlywiki.com/ ?
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I upvoted you because Apple's drivers for Windows are notoriously bad, but the major impact is on user input (trackpad, for example) rather than on performance (in fact, Windows tends to perform better than OS X on a number of tasks on a given hardware configuration) so I think it would still make sense to run the test on Windows on identical hardware.
Ironically, we did not use Amplify for Amplify :)

We had a last-minute standoff with Facebook over some permissions issues. That delay meant that we weren't able to start asking our customers far enough in advance, and we could not delay our launch of Amplify because it was tied to announcing our Segment.com integration.

However, towards the bottom of the landing page, you can see how we were able to use the technique to trend on LinkedIn back when we launched our core product a couple months ago. Unfortunately, in that campaign, we were not tracking clicks correctly, so we can't share any hard data. Anecdotally, several companies told us they came across Ramen through that campaign, which is why we were confident that building and launching Amplify was the right move.

I look forward to a day when we can provide a great case study backed by data :)

EDIT: Forgot "announcing" before "our Segment.com..."
I wouldn't be surprised if it were the case, though. IE is tailored to Windows, Windows is tailored to IE, so they can optimise for the best power consumption. Like what Apple does with Safari.
That is a significant problem. However, the corruption problem remains on top of the list. Just look at the description of the New York system. That's a racket and worse than many I've read about. Didn't happen accidentally.

So, you have the corruption-driven blockades at federal and state-levels along with the natural regulation that will exist at either level. Quite a pain to deal with.
Is prime streaming even available outside the U.S.? I always thought top gear was one of those international successes that were big everywhere but the U.S.
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Great part from the docs:

"SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen()."
> It's basically a grand victory for the fields of AI and Machine Learning that still tells us basically nothing about how an actually existing, embodied mind has to function

Special relativity tells us basically nothing about how an actually existing, physical spaceship has to function; but it does constrain our speculation about space travel (ie. no FTL, the fact that accelerating massive objects requires more and more energy, etc.).

It also provides some handy little suggestions that we may not have anticipated; eg. that mass can be converted into energy, which is certainly useful when trying to come up with practical designs.
It was always HN first
Did you think this through?

I can see a lot of potential for abuse here, such as using your 'service' as a way to send dick pictures anonymously to women by handing out a ton of business cards with this number on it.