skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then there’s the inane “sell merchandise” “solution”, as if a musician is just some merchant, and if one thing (selling music) doesn’t work, he’ll just pivot to selling some other stuff.

A musician is just some merchant. Pretending otherwise is not only foolish, but a recipe for pain.
ASCII Art as a Service
Although this looks like it works if / when completed correctly, many retro computer collectors have found that after a couple of years or so, the yellowing returns.

The retrobright solution only removes yellowing from the surface. Over time, the bromine resurfaces and the case gets yellowed again. The difference though is that now your plastic is slightly more brittle thanks to the retrobright process, so in fact you're worse off now than before.
Thanks for posting this. I was about to check out as this being a bit of philosophy I have no interest in. But, I can see where at least having a name for the phenomenon makes since in circumstances like this.
Complete with an ASCII-art of the Day twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/askyio
What Do You Know About United's Allegedly Creepy New App for Flight Attendants?
Thanks for that, now I'll sleep real soundly ;)
http://youarenotsosmart.com/ ,book and podcast, is also pretty great
I think Russ showed the translated code produces the same binaries as the Go 1.4 C variant. So this isn't very likely given he has the option to pipe roughly any Open Source Go project through the compiler.
What problem do you have with Hello? It doesn't do anything unless you use it anyway.
Thanks for the extended information! :-)
Yeah. I think Heroku is the best choice right now.
A web dyno and a worker dyno running 18h/day for free
> It may be your browser, but it is their content being served via their infrastructure. It costs them real money to create and host this content.

Then they shouldn't send me that content if they don't want me to do whatever I want with it. Because that's my goddamn right.

Frankly, if ad revenue is the way they're funding the development of their content, then I want them to stop. Just stop. Find another way to fund it, or don't send it to my computer in the first place.
Politics is about ethics? Yes, well, do you think an eight year old can look words up in the dictionary? Yes, of course you do. Well I argue that's all it takes, essentially, beyond that an eight year old needs some time, to answer some questions of their own, to be lectured at about the implications. But, an 8yo is perfectly capable of making the right choice, given context/access to information.

And, I'll additionally argue that technical merits can convince someone opposed on humanitarian grounds, the two are not incomparable, we do these sorts of comparisons just fine in the real world.

You are attempting to modularise the argument in a way I find unpalatable is all, our differences are likely surface deep.
http://no-smoke.org/document.php?id=333
Detect Android TV at Runtime – Unity
It does apply to all of human decision making, which is why we have different political parties, different schools of thought within a scientific field, different types of government etc. My point is that full disclosure vs. secrecy (and various points inbetween) is an instance of that type of dilemma, so that only a closed-minded person would insist their particular choice is the only position that is always right.

As an example of how "responsible disclosure" can fail, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug) . It was embargoed until a patch was ready, but the patch itself invited exploitation attempts and further scrutiny which revealed additional vulnerabilities. It was quite a mess, but IMO the only "best practices"-based way to avoid it would have been to never have introduced the vulnerability in the first place. Elsewhere in this thread, I cited an instance of Apple taking three years to fix a vulnerability responsibly disclosed. Would you say it was better to let that vulnerability sit for three years than to disclose it immediately so that it would get fixed within a few months? Obviously none of this proves we should jump to instant full disclosure, I just mean the existing approaches all have issues, so there is room for personal opinion and judgment. I don't even feel strongly about second-guessing this particular instance, because I'm betting the discloser knows more than we do. (And if you don't trust him, refer to my previous comments -- why trust Apple, when they have a record of being fairly slow?)

If I'm obfuscating by saying we can't know, you're making it deceptively simple by claiming you do know with broad statements like "the number of people who can protect themselves is miniscule compared to the number of people made vulnerable" (even though I've argued third parties can help secure unknowledgable users, if the issue is publicly disclosed before an Apple patch), "It's a matter of statistics", "the fact that the vulnerability wasn't publicly known" (how do you define "public" in a way that is both meaningful to your position and can be exhaustively searched to prove the "fact" that this wasn't known?).
I've watched the occasional bits and pieces of Ludum Dare streams (48h game design/programming competition). Games are something I don't have much experience with, so it was interesting to see how they approach it, how the tools and frameworks look like. I dislike video tutorials, but seeing someone work with it made more sense to me. But I didn't watch long segments, but kept the stream open and checked every now and then what they were doing and if it was interesting watched for a while.
Is it a container or an image ? it looks like some image for VM with some kind of bootstrapping for linux or something. And what is the license for a Windows Server Core ? Is it possible to find a ELI5 for how it is supposed to work ?
Great tip, thanks! I'm really enjoying watching these. Any other resources like this that you would recommend?
It is nice to see the bootstrap team creating themes, but it would have been nicer if they had supported the existing bootstrap theme community. Some of the sites like WrapBootstrap, Start Bootstrap, and Bootswatch are helpful additions to the Bootstrap community.
> "absolutely zero chance"

It seems very unlikely, but it could happen.

Humans haven't always been the dominant species, it's only our grasp of technology that keeps us where we are, a lot could happen in our future to shift the balance to another species (changing environment, animal evolution, virus evolution, etc...). Though we're more likely to kill ourselves off before that happens IMO, and not necessarily through war (we're living longer, and growing quite considerably as a species, I remember when I was a kid we used to say there were 6 billion people on the planet, and that was only back in the 80s/90s. We have to face up to population control at some point, despite it being political dynamite at the moment).

Besides that, I don't think humans are really 'superior', the main thing we're good at is being adaptable, but there are skills that other species have that we do not or that they are far better at. Also, the notion of dominance is misguided, as another commenter alluded to we're all interconnected.
We've started on one of the missing building blocks here: https://github.com/fanout/liveresource

It's a JS library and sync protocol between client and server. However, there is no official server implementation and as a result the library isn't tied to any particular database nor data model. We're hoping others will fill in the gaps on the server side.
Not at all. What I'm saying is that /bin/sh has idiosyncratic, incomplete language syntax and semantics (mostly for historical reasons). For example, variable comparison is not built in but rather is dependent upon the external [ (or test). It would be hard to call a language 'complete' when it doesn't even support variable equality testing.

Whatever you think of Windows/MS/etc, Powershell is a decently-well-designed, complete language with a number of useful, convenient constructs. For example, here is a native Powershell hashmap (that can be looped over, etc.):

$states = @{"Washington" = "Olympia"; "Oregon" = "Salem"; California = "Sacramento"}

Nice, no?
Almost looks promising... has anybody used it?
India reveals world’s first 100 percent solar-powered airport
I love watching other people code! As a viewer, you get to see the mistakes people make, their frustrations, and spur-of-the-moment thoughts. They are way more entertaining than video tutorials. The same people that don't like to watch Twitch streams, probably don't like watching others code.
I'm sure he has some good things to say, but that letter is way too long.

Not that Bezos would care. Isn't it the goal of every good manager to:

surround themselves with sycophants
and Yes Men stating that nothing is wrong
Isn't it supposed to work with Docker ? I thought Docker was *nix only ?
There are features on both sides which the other database doesn't have.

With this specific workload, I think MySQL will work pretty well. Two features in particular: innodb clustered index and compression.

(I work on the MySQL team.)
For me the most exciting thing about Skylake GPUs is its support of GVT-g which will allow the GPU to be shared with up to 4 VMs. This will avoid dealing altogether with nVidia shenanigans for PCI passthrough.

The disappointing thing is that they will require firmware binary blobs [1]. Although while it opens an attack surface, in principle it should be limited to the own hardware, so not much of a problem. (There are bigger problems like Intel ME).

But it's the drivers what matters the most. Which I hope they keep releasing as open source.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=intel-skl...
It's a container image (output from docker images).

see https://msdn.microsoft.com/virtualization/windowscontainers/...
OpenShift gives you free "gears" without the time limit.
I think this is missing the point: Watching people do a niche activity will only find a niche audience. However, the appeal may be exponentially increased by bringing in the human factor and antagonism. Good lessons could be learned from poker coverage on ESPN, once thought to be a ridiculous idea (who really knows that much poker, who really cares about people sitting around, etc.), now it's a huge hit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_on_television)
I'm guessing that has more to do with the novelty factor. Small children fall prey to those types of psychological tricks quite easily... I'd really think twice before letting a toddler on the internet.
Thanks for the write up. We're taking a similar approach at my startup to classify business reviews. The breakthrough for us came when we split the reviews into sentences and did N-gram analysis at the sentence level. The challenge is that the most significant N-grams (e.g. N > 2) have such low frequency that there isn't much data to train on. Our current approach is to try to coax patterns out of the N-grams (e.g. "salesman was rude" and "manager was mean" become "[employee]=[negative]"). I do like the top 5 approach, and I think I'll see if I can work that into our approach.
I'd argue that committing compiled binary instead of source is a minimal effort, something you learn the first 2 weeks on the job.
Nice work :) And the migration process (http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/migration/) doesn't look to be too hard, either.
I agree, but the thing is, I'm not sure adults are all that different.
Lightning Strikes Google Data Center, Disrupts Cloud Services
A year or two ago, I watched notch stream coding for a weekend game competition, and it was fascinating. It was on the front page of HN for a while. I ended up watching it for a couple of hours while I did some low-cognition tasks. I think the appealing aspects for me were:

* Seeing someone else's desktop and windowing habits
* Watching for new keyboard shortcuts
* Seeing workflows similar to mine in different IDEs and languages
* Seeing workflows in domains I'm unfamiliar with, like collision detection
* Finding someone's taste in music

Much of what I learned about programming was absorbing habits and handed-down knowledge from coworkers. Live streaming lets you get that without the necessity of making friends or getting hired somewhere. Sitting at someone's desk and working with them is an experience I have to describe as intimate.
That sounds like a 3yr old version of csgo crate opening, which is the expensive digital equivalent, yet often takes over the csgo stream section of twitch.
The project has been renamed to Dkron due to respect to Dillon's cron and to avoid confusion.
rounding errors, machine errors, so many possibilities for such a tiny discrepancy. Reminds me of the neutrino anomaly that supposedly disproved relativity, until it was later discovered faulty wiring was to blame.
Real Startup Book Update – Publishing an Open Source Book Every Two Weeks
I can think of two ways.

The first would be to create a mapping table as described. For a relation like "links to reddit", the cardinality is such that it would probably break their sharding scheme.

So the second approach is probably the one he mentions in the article: map reduce (more generally, separate computation). My guess is that for those sorts of "reports" they are using Hadoop. They could also be leveraging things like the HyperLogLog features of Redis.
A Course on Automata Theory
Wait, my use of an ad blocker costs the industry $11,000?! Maybe I should use 2...

And, frankly, I have no problem paying a reasonable price for content. And the New York Times sets that bar: $40/mo is a little to high. I think they'd make 10x as much with a $5 or $10 rate.
"chimpanzees have been using stone tools in the rainforests of Ivory Coast for at least 4300 years." So is this a news title from 2315BC? I would have expected the article to be written in hieroglyphics. Would have been a nice touch if "Breaking" or "This just in" were prepended to the article title.
Her head literally exploded at the idea his head actually exploded.
We updated Splice's CI to 1.5 and rolled out our code to prod. The total GC pause time improvement is quite drastic for us: https://twitter.com/mattetti/status/634114976362291200

Throughput hasn't changed and average performance is about the same for us (slightly faster actually)
Outside of SV, a significant portion of the world, including most enterprises, run Windows in at least some capacity.
The last time I looked at the PHP one, it compiled fine, but wasn't handling variables scopes in the same way of the JS one. This was a big deal for me.
I disagree that advertising itself is a broken model, but I like imagining that someone ruthlessly updates their excel spreadsheet of blacklisted companies every time they hear or see an advertisement for any company. You must only shop at flea markets!
Are content consumers obligated to buy a certain amount of advertised goods per year in order to continue to have access to the content? No, of course not. Are people who read magazines obligated to spend as much time looking at ads as the content? Are people who watch over the air TV obligated to stay in the room while ads come on instead of making a snack or going to the bathroom?

Of. Course. Not.

There's something very puritanical about the idea that there is and should be a contract between content makers and content consumers whereby people "pay" for their content through suffering through ads. Would we see things any different if every site supported themselves through obnoxious spam email campaigns?

Content creators have no right to my eyeballs or my attention, they cannot simply sell it away to advertisers as a way to make money.

I appreciate that advertising has often been the easiest source of revenue for content sites, but it's a broken system and I never bought anything from ads anyway. I'm not going to suffer just so you can keep a broken system propped up for longer.

I pay for content. I support people on patreon, I support kickstarters, I buy merch, I buy books, movies, albums, yadda yadda yadda. I've probably spent mid five figures on content in my lifetime. No, I'm not going to feel even a little bad by blocking shitty ads. I'm sorry you've monetized making my content consuming experience shittier, find a better way.
Apparently that person made 5 million dollars last year: http://fusion.net/story/38924/the-highest-youtube-earner-of-...
Science is about a preponderance of evidence and I will take this single specious report and raise you two more credible Cancer Societies that contradicts said report:

American Cancer Society reference:
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/seco...

Center for Disease Control reference:
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secon...
"At the dawn of the self-service banking age in 1985, for example, the United States had 60,000 automated teller machines and 485,000 bank tellers. In 2002, the United States had 352,000 ATMs—and 527,000 bank tellers."

- http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/06/te...

It hasn't kept track of population growth, so the % has gone down, but only by about 10%.

So bank tellers don't seem like a particularly good example.
Wow Monsanto opened a whole restaurant just to advertise quinoa.
That's good to know. 5.7 seems a bit new though. Before 5.7, what are the common practice to query into json?
"It's the Web 2.0 version of fuckedcompany.com!"
The US used to have Trenton, NJ, which still has a huge illuminated sign "Trenton Makes, The World Takes".[1] This is about as meaningful today as "South San Francisco, the Industrial City", which can be seen on US 101 northbound approaching SF.

The US has factories which look like Shentzen factories. Here's one.[2] It's run by Flextronics. More typical in the US are huge factories without many people doing direct labor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Trenton_Bridge
[2] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/06/jobs...
A lot of the latest thinking in (non-JS) CSS suggests that violating DRY is an excellent idea. Copy and pasting CSS rules is cheap, but maintaining and adapting a large complex CSS project that's blowing up in a team's face can be very expensive.
I could see something great coming out from OnHub once you start connecting other devices around the home thru thread mesh network http://threadgroup.org/
Please file bugs!
How about watching designers? I'd like watch some great mobile or web designers working through their process.
Precise Audio Control with Fedora
I don't see a typo, nor do I see mention of ASP.NET MVC anywhere. "Spring MVC" is an extremely popular web framework on the Java Virtual Machine: http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-r...
yeah as far as I know, at least 5 sites are testing it cuz I see many support tickets coming in. Give it a few more days and there should be live sites using it. The project was launched 10 days ago btw, so it's still figuring out the best approach.
(I've been contributing docs to the project)
J.S. Bach and a case of Hyperstretto
Bash isn't the end-all of Unix shells.
Is there any way to impose a "progressive taxation" system? Presumably the wealthy are willing to cough up $40 per month for the New York Times. But if it's the poor and oppressed we want to take care of, how do you convince the wealthy to pitch in? Most studies I'm aware of indicate the wealthy are the least likely to be interested in progressive taxation schemes, even though they have historically created tides that lift all boats (rather than the current trend of financial schemes, which create tides that lift all yachts)
Weirdly reminiscent of http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
"The Google Computer Engine (GCE) service allows..."

Did anyone else cringe?
In fairness to Heroku you're citing a security issue with the heroku.com webapp, not an issue with the platform they're selling.

Also: as long as traffic spikes remain a thing, autoscaling isn't wasteful... The alternatives are your site going down or buying bigger servers than you need in the first place...

(That's not to say I approve of heroku though, the foundation it supplies is horrible, and missing basic things like [gzip'd asset transfers](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12326191/any-way-to-serv...)...)
You're ascribing intentionality. Biases are measured on populations, from that we infer things about individuals. But the bias we measure itself is about populations. There need not be any overcoming or superiority going on. The very same individual over many observations may exhibit the 'right' or 'unbiased' behavior some of the time and the 'wrong' or 'biased' behavior at other times.

There is a study that was published that showed that young children who are taught that stories from the bible are veridical have less capacity to tell truth from fiction from other young children. That does not mean they have no capacity, but impaired capacity.

Our current societies are based on unquestionable truths and not entirely coherent constructs. It may be that biases are a way for a brain to cope with the manifold contradictions of our lives. Stressed brains take shortcuts.
Don’t worry. This is an early build and you’ll see things get smaller in future updates :).

*I work for Microsoft on these specifically.
looks like these workers will be jobless when the robots begin to replace them or the outsourcing hub moves to even a cheaper labor source, perhaps even Africa in the future.

I think if China could transform these very workers into consumers, it would be unstoppable.
This is one of those posts for which poe's law was written. (notsure)
Show HN: Tailfeather, pretty-printing for log files
The last time I went to a major game convention, board gaming was almost nonexistent. There were entire convention halls stuffed with people shuffling Magic: The Gathering cards, but if you wanted to play an old Avalon Hill war game you were SOL.
With an Eye on Fintech, Andreessen Horowitz Adds a New General Partner
@mdo Any plans of reviving Ratchet(http://goratchet.com) project?
It still is profound whatever one's definition of same. Pick a definition of same. Make it as precise as you want. It might be totally compatible with some of those definitions you come up with. For all others, The Ship Of Theseus still makes a powerful questioning tool that raises insights to question those "single, precise" definitions.

There's a naive (mostly anglosaxon/empiricist) idea that philosophy is just noise because of the conflicting definitions of things.

Whereas it's the total opposite: questioning and disecting the definitions we use (and what they presuppose), is the exact role of philosophy.

The Ship of Theseus (and countless others ideas and paradoxes) are tools in questioning those beliefs and "definitions".

Those examples don't stem because of our confusion about what is same -- they are tools to probe what we consider same, to poke holes in our idea of sameness.

And I call the objection to this naive, because having a "single objective definition" is not something possible (like science doesn't claim to know some ultimate "reality", just to make ever better models and approximations of it).

We have to live with various ideas about identity/sameness, and we need philosophy and arguments like The Ship, to question them and see their partial nature.
Theres more to it then that, like community, how to find/organize streams, and promotion. If it were just about pushing video there wouldn't be twitch.tv, it would be ustream or twitch's predecessor justin.tv.
A lens-based ST20 emulator
Uber Failed to Screen Out Criminals Including a Murderer, Regulators Say
I actually think all of that stuff is part of the default bootstrap theme. Remove it and try Flat UI instead, I think it looks excellent:

https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI
What kind of information can hackers get from phpinfo() ?
Samsung to appeal Apple patent loss to Supreme Court