skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never doubted it was meant as an attack on Michael Crowley, but Crichton wasn't the first storyteller to insult a real person. From over-the-top portrayals of whoever happened to be the US president when a book or movie was written (e.g., the "difficult president" referred to in Harry Potter), to more personal attacks, there's a long history of writers trying to prove the pen is mightier than the sword. Some of the attempts end up in Literature classe, like portions of Dante's Inferno.
Yeah, the war on drugs was a response to the rise in crime and perceived breakdown of civil norms.
I like twitter, but there is just no compelling use case for it. Basically, I use it as a news aggregator + pmarca monitor. But it's not super exciting.
I would like to add the Free Software Foundation, which covers Octave, gcc, Emacs, Mediagoblin, and the GNU Scientifc Library.
The alternative to a low quality bug report is usually no bug report. Démiurge is spot on.
I'm as big of a Crichton fan as they come, but I don't understand how someone can discover that he put this passage in his book (likely to take an underhanded shot at the critic, but if not, to what end?) and not have a lower opinion of him as a person. Either it was a really, really low insult or a pointless and gratuitous story of raping a toddler. I'm not even sure which is worse.

Amazing science fiction author, but possibly not a great person. Those can both be true.
There are three completely separate questions:

(a) Has the global mean temperature recently increased?

(b) Have human activities contributed to changes in climate?

(c) What are the likely effects (positive and negative) of a rise in global mean temperatures?

Only nutball cranks think (a) is false. This is our strawman: if you reject "climate change," you must be a crank. In addition, much debate centers on (b)—if climate change is "our fault," it should be up to us to fix it. But (b) is irrelevant except insofar as it affects our options if the answer to (c) turns out to be "We are facing a global catastrophe." If astronomers discovered an asteroid on collision course with Earth, no one would be persuaded to inaction by the argument that "the asteroid isn't our fault."

If you examine the political incentives producing the answers to (c), it's obvious that in the current climate (heh) negative consequences are favored over positive ones. In other words, an ambitious young climate scientist seeking to maximize her chances of tenure would be foolhardy to undertake a detailed investigation of the likely benefits of global warming.

What we're seeing in climate science is, I think, a close parallel of what happened in Russian biology under the Soviets—specifically, the work of Stalin's favorite biologist, Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko developed a theory of the heritability of acquired characteristics (complete with fabricated laboratory experiments), which had obvious adaptive value in a régime seeking to develop, via social engineering, the "new Soviet man." Similarly, predicting global catastrophe is adaptive in a régime where government-funded science must be solving Important Problems™, and where most members of the permanent government believe the majority of proposed anti–global warming measures (alternative energy, conservation, carbon taxes, etc.) are good ideas anyway.

So, do we really face global catastrophe as the result of climate change (human-induced or otherwise)? In an environment of Lysenkoist climate science, it's hard to say for sure. But you'll notice that the heritability of acquired characteristics didn't exactly pan out. And given that most climate simulations are currently "off model" [1]—i.e., their predictions don't match reality—we can reasonably guess the safe way to bet.

[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5747
For most of the people, dignity is being able to sleep under a roof, being able to eat at least once a day, being able to be seen by a doctor when they are ill and being able to give an education to their children.

We should be deeply ashamed by the fact that there is people in our rich developed countries who do not have access to that simple things.
> It's as if somebody was writing about python circa 1997.

Sorry about the lack of warning. I found the perspective really interesting as it's pretty much the impressions of a traveler that came from distant exotic lands about a tool I use daily.
This is obviously one hell of a blender, but none of my quadcopters are anything like as tough as an iPhone:

http://www.willitblend.com/videos/iphone-5s
You don't realize the problem with an essential component like D-Bus properly integrating only one service manager out of dozens instead of being generic, or even better - not having explicitly broken functionality to begin with?

(And no, systemd does not solve all the pain. Having to debug dependency loops, stuck job states, journal fragmentation, intertwining of system and service states, etc. isn't much fun for the benefits that I can just as easily get from something intensely more modular and sanely architected like nosh or s6.)
Geez, it's depressing what this stuff says about us. The definition of "art" becomes "anything produced by an Approved Artist," nothing less or more. If I showed up at the Frieze Gallery trying to sell them a piece of shit on a plate, they'd laugh in my face. If I produced documentation proving that the plate had in fact been shat upon by Andy Warhol, it would suddenly be Art and worth a fortune. If I revealed that I had faked the documentation, it would suddenly be worthless again--unless the whole routine had attracted enough attention for the art world to crown me a Designated Artist, in which case anything I smeared shit on henceforth would become, by fiat, Art.

There is literally no quality intrinsic to the work itself that contributes to its status as Art. Traditionally someone says "Hah, I could have made that," and someone else smiles smugly and says "Yes, but you didn't, did you?" The thing is, it wouldn't matter if I had. I'm not an Artist, so wouldn't be Art.

Art is reduced to nothing more than a subset of Celebrity.

Richard Prince could print out this post and sell it for $50,000.
A classic. I think I'll watch it again tonight...
> Somehow they manage to not kill most people.

Sure, but they're killing a lot more people than the docs getting sleep.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1705824/

"Interns working five or more extended-duration shifts per month reported more attentional failures during lectures, rounds, and clinical activities, including surgery and reported 300% more fatigue-related preventable adverse events resulting in a fatality."
Nice app, will definitely play with it soon!

By auto-generating flashcards, what are you doing about showing accurate definitions/meanings for the cards? I couldn't tell from your page alone - are you just pulling down the list of senses from JMDict or something? That's always been my hesitation with auto-generating cards, the "meaning" side of the card tends not to be helpful.
I've got the same problem with finding decent content in Aozora Bunko. For me, the main issue is how to find content which matches my level (actually being interesting being the other problem, but seemingly harder to solve).

I set up a really hacky "grader" algorithm and run it on a bunch of the Aozora Bunko books, then put them online [1]. The very "easiest" books are kinda boring, but it is certainly easier finding usable material in that list than looking in Aozora Bunko itself. The one I've found most interesting so far is 銀河鉄道の夜 [2]

[1] http://www.readyourgrade.com/

[2] http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081/files/43737_19215.html
It wasn't exactly a rewrite... the C code got passed through a tool that converted it from C to Go in a way that tried not to change anything. Now they have a bunch of non-idiomatic Go code that should do what the C code was doing before more or less. Judging from my use of Go 1.5 so far, it did a pretty good job but made the compiler noticably slower.
>It's not a historical spelling

If you don't accept online evidence, will you accept a picture of a dictionary from 1933 listing it as a valid spelling?
This map was designed to cause outrage, not to inform.
It seems self evident to me that someone on vacation for a weekend would be willing to pay more for a days worth of lodging than someone who lives there full time. Of course you're willing to splurge on a vacation. However, with the prevalence of AirBnB, permanent residents are now competing with vacationers and it appears to be contributing to the increase of rents unilaterally.

Of course, you can respond that that is the free market at work; however I'd reply that the free market doesn't always work out, and seeking a local maximum in daily rental prices is not in the long term best interests of the city. There are plenty of examples of cities which stopped being inhabitable when transformed into primarily tourist destinations, and that's not a plight I'd like to see for New York.

Basically, long term airbnb rentals are artificially inexpensive because of the negative externalities at play. I've lived in the same apartment building as airbnb rentals and it sucks; someone crashing for a weekend does not feel the same responsibility towards their neighbors as a full time tenant. The costs of these temporary dwellings are spread among uncompensated neighbors.

In agreement with the article, I agree that it's reasonable for someone to recoup some extra money when they go on vacation, and that's totally in spirit with the brand of AirBnB; the problem to me is when they become corporate ventures where someone is renting out an apartment full time, and not living there. At that point, it's an illegal hotel.
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I haven't, but I'd like to! I've been meaning to start a blog to discuss topics like that, but haven't found the time quite yet.
don't you think part of it is, startups that are not clearly hotshots that are going to raise a ton of cash quickly end up needing to focus on fundraising, and, as an investor, I would expect significant adverse selection on those startups that didn't land big time backers right away
Thanks for the response. I should note that my experience is with Hadoop, not Spark, which is part of why I was interested in your article.
Good thing you stopped. The ending is terrible.

It seems that Crichton always had a problem with endings. He always wrote 90% of a book and then vomited up the last two chapters.
also

https://alpha.app.net/hackernews/

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews

http://hackernews.demos.monkeylearn.com/

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
I have no idea if it's possible, but I could imagine maybe a multi-frequency light source where each frequency interacts with a unique color molecule in the resin to mix colors individually?
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80 out of 16K is bang on the half-of-one-percent benchmark I've always used for Unsubscribes. If it gets too close to 1%, you'd have cause for concern, and if it gets too close to 0% then you have a spam filter issue that stops a lot o delivery.
Part of the reason for that is legislatures have given them more options in that department. The money crimes that were created to give cops an oblique way to go after drug dealers apply to pretty much any crime, i.e. if you rob a bank it's likely they'll be able to charge with with money laundering, structuring, currency smuggling, wire fraud, or any of a dozen of those types of crime. Plus, conspiracy goes with just about everything.

Prosecutors don't have to take much to trial any more, since instead of charging you with just the crime people recognize (say, bank robbery or drug dealing), they can add up a bunch of lower level 3-5 crimes and have you looking at 300 years in jail unless you take the plea bargain. 98% of federal prosecutions never go to trial - we used to laugh at the commies for that sort of thing.
You'll be a little bit late to the party, but why not repurpose into a bitcoin exchange :) Everyone else seems to have done it.
Some ideas: make public commitments to better developer-related policies that they promise to not renege on, outreach, reopen formerly closed APIs, lower-cost API plans so that incentives with small and medium-sized developers/companies are better aligned (developers pay something so Twitter doesn't feel like all value is being sucked out of it for free, less likely to shut things down.)
Really simple question: do the privacy settings have any impact on the recruiting stuff? I would love for you guys to poke around my data, I trust you guys, and would love for you to be able to get my name, but I would otherwise prefer to be anonymous. Ideally it would be a privacy-orthogonal checkbox, maybe?
They totally could do the same thing. They can come up with their own outreach programs to start meeting lots of developers at scale on the Internet. They can invent systems that reveal programming aptitude that isn't on the resumes of people who have been stuck doing line-of-business J2EE apps at insurance companies, or QA for enterprise products. They can hire people that can competently talk to developers on the phone or in person and actually learn things about them.

Maybe, with companies like ours and TripleByte in the mix, that's what they'll start doing. Won't that be interesting?

We're a bootstrapped startup founded by 3 veteran consultants. Consultancies always compete for gigs; that's why we have to write proposals. This isn't a consultancy, but we've learned our lessons. We sincerely do not give a shit about what other incumbent recruiting companies do. Our approach will work or it won't, and if it works, we're going to grind on it and continuously improve on it, and if other people do the same thing, eventually we'll start having meetups and sharing beers with them.
By default, the backside of the card has the first "sense" from JMDict on it. This sense is supposed to represent the primary meaning of the word. You can also add/replace that with the other senses by editing the flashcard, or you can add your own notes to the back.

I've found using the first sense works pretty well. Having the whole definition on the back is way too much for your brain to process, but the first sense is usually only a few words that encapsulate the meaning of the word pretty well.
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It's a new coinage, after the ae ligature had fallen into disuse. Would you expect that "browser" should be spelled "browƒer"?
The word for computer "daemon" has an etymological connection to the daemon you are linking to here, it does not mean that it is the same word.
I imagine he rolled over a couple times at the new Jurassic Park
I get constant emails from twitter.com, I finally just marked them all as spam. I have a twitter account to get tweets, why do I need them to email me other tweets?
I suppose I gave him too much credit in assuming he would avoid this topic entirely.
Uh, that's a font choice, so yes you can do that.
Great point! I hadn't considered that since I'm not shy at all.
This looks cool. I started going through _Algorithms in C_[0] a while back and implementing things in Clojure to gain some experience. This book looks like it does something similar, but does it idiomatically from the get-go.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Computer-Science-Robert-Sed...
Define legacy system.
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systemd is a daemon manager that works on a limited number of linux (and only linux) systems. Sometimes you can't use systemd, sometimes you just don't want to. Most opensource software tries to be compatible with as much ecosystem as possible so that's not a problem. That doesn't seem to be the case for dbus/systemd.

Other systems which solve the same pain: upstart, nosh, daemontools, supervisord, ...
Or maybe this?

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/41c829f53777c4cdd41c
Just a reminder that Facebook can track people who don't even use Facebook.

Any big player in the data game can do the same - and by "can", I mean "does".
From a product standpoint, I feel like Twitter has barely changed in 5 years. There's been some polish and redesign, sure, but the main dynamics are almost exactly the same.

Facebook has features like intelligently improving the quality of your feed, being able to hide posts from certain people, prioritizing posts (not just stacking them based on their age), calendar/birthday stuff, events, chats, etc.

Twitter is just a never ending stream of information, not prioritized and always overflowing with too much content (at least IMO).

I think Facebook nailed it with realizing their engagement levels are directly related to the quality of the newsfeed, and because of this they put a great deal of effort into making it as relevant as possible to each user. They realize that if you friend (or follow) somebody, you're not necessarily interested in ALL of their content, but maybe only their most interesting or popular. They also realize that if you only log in 2 times per week, they should prioritize with the best recent content, not just the stuff that was posted 1 hour ago.
I was coming to comment the exact same thing. I actually stopped reading halfway through the article to check the published date because I thought it must be at least 10-15 years old!
I have ADD and was able to read it.
There were no operating system daemons in 1933. You are proving the wrong thing, namely that the ligature is a valid way to spell a mythological daemon.
This documentary glorifies the insane practice of working unreasonably long hours to meet a self-imposed deadline. What bad things would have happened if the Mozilla release date had just been pushed back? Probably nothing. And maybe the quality of that initial release would have been better, and the people working on it wouldn't be burnt out afterward.
I agree, but one point against that is that the web experience with Twitter is probably the worst - it's clunky. I hate using it.

I use the phone app (simple, OK) and the OS X app (neglected, but a great way to use Twitter IMO). In those two apps, there isn't a logged out front page. They could improve both to create a useful equivalent though.
This foundation is the best thing to have come out of GPLv3. Cos of it Apple had to support LLVM which has made compiler research and quality increase by leaps and bounds. Thanks to the authors of GPLv3!
YES. Reminder: most people who play with Starfighter CTFs will never be interested in a new job. We're designing this stuff for those players just as much as job seekers; we're competitive about CTFs, and trying to make a mark.

Look at the leaderboard on Microcorruption.com and notice how few real names are there. That's what CTFs are like. If you want to have a profile page, we'll give you one, if you want to link up your Twitter account, you can do that, but if you want to be secretsquirrel1235813, you can do that too. From experience with CTFs: I think a slight majority of people will be anonymous.

There is nothing we will do with your data that won't be opt-in.
When you take an existing word and add a trade-specific meaning, you are not creating a new word.
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That seems to be a common issue with novelists who have big ideas. Too many loose strings, brain stack overflow.

For example, I'm not terribly fond of the way Stephen King ends his stories, especially the longer ones. J.K. Rowling also always seems to hurry too much at the end of her books. And both are much better writers than Crichton.
I've concluded art = that which was made to be looked at.
I think that the Hadoop ecosystem has just expanded. Spark is now a key part of that ecosystem.

Hadoop's MapReduce implementation is arguably quickly becoming obsolete with so many more powerful platforms beating it on several dimensions (not just Spark).

That said, if your interest is machine learning specifically, I can't sell Spark hard enough. Functional programming is so critical for modern, large-scale machine learning. Spark is an absolute revelation for the machine learning developer. It's not the only stack; the PyData stack is totally worthy of study and use. But for big data machine learning, Spark is as perfect as anything has ever been.

If you're really interested in learning more about how Spark, Scala, and functional programming come together in a machine learning system, I'm writing a book on reactive machine learning: http://www.reactivemachinelearning.com/ In it, I'm trying to cover the how and why of different tools, with a focus on Scala, Spark, and Akka.
You can write bad code with a good stack, and you can write good code with a bad stack.

Put another way, a pro football player will be pretty good with whatever he uses, but even if I had the exact same gear, I'd never get picked for even a high school team.

It's about the person, not the tools.
It is not just a font choice, it is a different set of characters that share some connection.

The same way as you can't just spell any german word that contains digraphs for Umlauts with the actual Umlauts. I made the "Oehler"/"Öhler" example above. People who are named Oehler would probably be pretty annoyed at your insistence to spell their name wrong, just like people here are annoyed at your spelling of daemon.

I assume you do not come from a country which has an extended latin alphabet? In Germany for example, it is pretty common to clarify how to spell such names on the phone, like saying "Mueller with U-E". If that would be a font choice, this would not be an issue.
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I find it interesting you mention the improved feed, people I've talked to (obviously this is anecdotal but it is all I have to go on) HATE it, and especially the fact it always defaults to it instead of staying with most recent as they prefer.
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If that were the true, Etymology itself would be meaningless, because words coming from other words would be considered "the same".
At least you'd have the knowledge to make that decision intelligently and only have a few choices to make, rather than having the burden of learning an entirely new tech stack on the fly and likely make decisions that may not be the "right" way to do things with that stack.
Long s is the same character as short s. OE and Ö are not the same character.

æ is a ligature in some contexts, and its own letter in others.

None of which matters to the original question.
I know that "intelligently improving my feed" was the final straw for me leaving Facebook, and if Twitter forced it on me it would probably end my Twitter fetish as well.

AND I know that I'm likely not the ideal client for Facebook and their efforts probably enhance the experience for said clients. I'm not sure who Twitter's ideal client is...
Sum types allow a function to return either a result or an error. Not accounting for both possibilities is a compile time type error.

Go mimics this behavior, so it's not only a functional thing:
http://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go
I feel like facebook rather than stay stagnant has actually declined. By trying to be everything for everyone, it is a diluted, unorganized, mish mash of things and it's hard for me to even grasp what the core value is anymore. Is it a social network? a photo app? a news aggregator? a gaming platform? one thing is for sure by spreading out to multiple audiences it opens them up to be competed with. At least twitter has stayed true to it's original intent.
23:13 for a young Marc Andreessen writing down what presumably is Steve Jobs' number.
I don't think he really considers himself either at this point, to be honest.

He's just a member of the board of the foundation.