skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was first published in 1976 and perhaps updated when re-published in 1986 so perhaps the curves have changed a bit due to technology changes.
The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community
It's incredibly easy to get the VIN of a car. For example, most (UK) DVLA APIs include the VIN when you put a registration plate in.
I actually looked at the git repo and found the comments are written in a similar style. All lower case and with a slightly rambling feel.

https://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systembsd.git...

I find it a little hard to understand too. I am going to chalk this up to me starting to be an old man and complaining about not understanding the youths.
There's a lot of knowledge required to make a good painting besides just knowledge of other good paintings. I think it would take a long time and a huge neural net to encode those principals without human level intelligence.
Java gets you ruby via JRuby and Python via Jython... (Not sure how current they are these days). So missing C and Rust type stuff I guess?
Many insurers will increase your pricing for older cars. Just something to be aware of.
Agreed on the tone, that's unnecessary. Even my own post is borderline... I'll edit it to fix that.

But this guy is ostensibly a professional. His CV lists a host of industry experience over the years.

And yet it seems he doesn't understand recursion? That's... Remarkable.
Fair enough, what I mean are junior devs, which by and large tend to be younger.
Not a bad rant, but too many ellipses, and went off the rails when you started talking about Hitler's nuts.
That kind of server sharing is exactly what all cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS,etc.), as opposed to dedicated servers, are about.

And that without having to set up virtual servers on an IaaS like EC2 isn't new, lies of people, big and small, were doing PaaS offerings long before Lambda.
Saying Goodbye to Google Services
I'm sure she could get enough subscribers

That's making it about acquiring readers, though. She always had those...the problem is how to make blogging pay. And if you have subscribers, then you're producing content for them which kills the point of a blog for some people (i.e, "monetizing parenthood").
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
There's another good article on this at the Keck Observatory site [1] and it has a great graphic [2].

The site of the "Astrophysical Journal Letters" journal (iop.org) has a public abstract/article for mentioned paper, "Lyα EMISSION FROM A LUMINOUS z = 8.68 GALAXY: IMPLICATIONS FOR GALAXIES AS TRACERS OF COSMIC REIONIZATION" [3], but the paper itself seems to be paywalled [4].

[1]
http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/entry/new_record_keck_...

[2]
http://www.keckobservatory.org/images/press_images/Adi3.001....

[3]
http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/810/1/L12/article

[4]
http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/810/1/L12/pdf/2041-8205_...
I do, prior to using the 4000's I was using mechanicals for a significant period of time (back to Model M's).

Yeah the key-feel on the 4000 isn't as good as a MX Blue or equiv but it's not significant enough to actually matter and in every other way they are a more comfortable experience.

The ErgoDox costs at least 5 times what a 4000 does so I'm not sure that's a fair comparison you are comparing a VW Polo to a Audi A7.
I was wondering if the robots have to really carry the whole shelf ?

The shelves could be modified to be like automatic wending machines. The robots could just go to the shelf and the shelf will dispose the correct item to that robot. Then the robot goes to the next shelf for that order and collect all the items required for the order from different shelves and return to the packer.

The packer need to only arrange the items in the final box.
read the essay
NTT Internet BGP Visualization
Unfortunately I don't have a direct answer for you on this. However, what does jump out at me from your description is that you describe a utopia environment where developers are guided on a path to their future, own their code, and are recognized for their achievements. Yet, in the next paragraph you state that one of the reasons they state for leaving is "stress of my workplace".

I don't know you, the company, or how you manage, but could the attention you are placing on "career development" and recognition of accomplishments be causing added stress or unwanted attention in the workplace? Maybe they want to come to work, do their job, and go home without this feeling that they are being forced into a specific career path or having to meet certain career development goals.

Anyway, just a thought. It was something that stood out from your description. On the other hand, unfortunately without being able offer competitive pay or technology, many developers may just use your company as a stepping stone. You could try talking to upper management or HR and throw the burden on them. It costs a company a lot more to continuously hire rather than just paying a competitive salary to begin with. Show management how competing more on salary could save on hiring costs.
In this visualization, you can navigate through all BGP adjacencies as observed from NTT Communications' network. Each star in this galaxy represents an Autonomous System, the edges between stars are derived from all AS_PATHs in the Default-free zone as seen from AS2914.
The parent comment was in regard to Inter-Library Loans. But even if loans weren't available in the country I wouldn't assume all books would be purchased by individuals. For example donations, etc. According to the article the academic who writes the books doesn't have a say as to how many are printed or where they get distributed.

And can't purchase extras if they wanted to give some away to people who they might want to collaborate with, etc.
The struggles of the Nigerian Developer
Ask HN: What Should I Including on My Company Report Card?
I'm about to have my yearly review at the small software shop I work at in Denver. It's a pretty good gig for the most part but the owner has a funny way of quantifying what a 'great place to work it is'. Some of the things he pulled out last year at my review were giving away break-fast bars, and having fruit delivered as 'major perks'. He actually pulled out a card with those items listed, along with some other dubious 'major perks'. He is also big on creating unnecessary busy work for us and using that as another item to 'grade' us on during these reviews.

I'll spare the details but that shit doesn't float with me and I basically dismissed it all as not serious. I know he'll pull something similar this year, and given that last year nobody got raises because a lot of the companies many spent on remodeling our office - his idea - instead of giving raises, this year a lot is expected in return.

So I'm trying to put together a report card that I can use to similarly grade the company and I haven't found anything suitable online.

So far I have the following gradable attribute, I'm looking for feedback on anything I'm missing.

- Working Environment & Culture

- Project Work Enjoyment

- Raises/Salary

- Retirement Fund

- Vacation/PTO

- 'Working with Stan' (our CTO can be very difficult to work directly with and has driven several developer from this company).

I'm also toying with making this a poll and sending it to all the employee's to get numbers that show my ratings + the overall company rating.

Maybe this should be it's own little online app? Would be a fun quickie to throw together in something like Meteor.

Thanks!
Modern cars with high security have a wide array of sensors that pay attention to everything that goes on around the car and warn you or take actions to avoid dangerous situations. They also pay attention to your driving pattern and can warn you when you are starting to get tired or start dosing off.
Where's the science? I've collected lots of links to articles on RSI. There are anecdotes but I have never read any science.

http://thespanishsite.com/public_html/org/ergo/rsi.html
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Autism’s Genetic Roots
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Boeing Names Its New Apollo-Style Spacecraft the Starliner
To me, it's turtles all the way down. A three letter state agency isn't going to be stopped by the tamper resistant packaging on a Tylenol bottle and it's probably easier for a criminal or a military to just shoot their victim [at least in the US]. Disabling the victim's vehicle with software is a bit Rube-Goldbergian and a psychopath doing it on a mass scale just for the lol's could just as well poison a water system.

Industries at the scale of the automobile industry are always making actuarial bets on fatality rates. Software or hardware or mechanical or digital is irrelevant, e.g. GM cheapening ignition switches without changing part numbers. Anyway, brakes have been digitally controlled for many many years. Avoiding that means no traction and stability control systems and the ordinary hazards [e.g. hydroplaning] that those mitigate are orders of magnitude more likely than my car getting hacked.
I think you're misusing the term "herd immunity". Herd immunity implies that the risk of an non-immunized individual contracting a disease is reduced because his chances of bumping into a sick individual is low.

I don't think this applies here, insofar as we're not talking about an infectious disease.
There is one born every minute.
I personally have an old-school ops background, so for me managing servers is fine. However, I just had to drag some of my colleagues through an explanation of the infrastructure I set up earlier this year. For them, it was about 80% irrelevant ops-ish details versus 20% stuff they actually cared about. And I get it. They shouldn't have to care.

The whole notion of a "virtual server" is basically like saying, "radio with pictures" or "horseless carriage". It only makes sense in a specific historical context. We're still figuring out what comes next, but I think it's safe to say that 20 years from now the main building block will be something different than the simulation of a 1970s university department minicomputer that we're all using now.
Now you're thinking with por- ... I mean... magnets!
Or you could walk through a parking lot and look at the corner of the windshield...
Operating a vehicle with that level of maintenance would seem to pose a substantially more proximate risk than the unrealized potential risk posed by hackers.
If you're still using a straight keyboard (like the tiny Apple keyboard you see in this picture), you absolutely need to get an ergonomic keyboard now. Carpal tunnel syndrome will catch up with you eventually, in a minor or major way, but either way, once it hits, typing on a keyboard will hurt for the rest of your life.

You don't need to go with an expensive keyboard but at least, spend $30 and get yourself a Microsoft Natural keyboard, which is awesome and dirt cheap.

Your wrists will thank you.
None of those groups were brought to the US as slaves, either.
But the name is terrible. It is like saying, going from A to B without a car by using a Taxi.
I enjoyed the research you did for the followup. I must be another one of those old folks. :)

For what it's worth, I was a horrible writer when I was an undergraduate, and this was a GSOC project, so I'm willing to cut some slack. Might be because I'm a slacker.
Location: Tehran, Iran

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Please check out my Github projects:
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The AWS Lambda team wrote a blog post about how to use Python - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-python-in-an-aws-...

You can also call native binaries so you therefore you can use languages like Go or C or anything else that statically compiles.
Fair enough, 49 countries of the almost 200 on the planet have Inter-Library loans. Seems it may be about on-par with how many countries / populations are without internet access. However, if we were to measure how much of the 49 countries' population truly had reasonable access to a library (within reasonable distance of their home) versus the total population who has access to the internet, I think we'd probably see that the internet is a far more sustainable, cheaper medium through which to transfer information.

I may be mistaken on the above, but Google and Facebook (among others) have initiated large projects to bring internet access to all humans on the planet. I have not heard of similar projects (on similar scale) to bring more libraries to the world's population. (maybe I've missed this).

I agree it's with the best of intentions that Inter Library Loans exist, but it seems quite dated in its thinking and really I see no reason to perpetuate this model. There are plenty of technologies out there these days which would allow digitization of media without consequences of rampant piracy.
> because he has different social class

That's just classism, which is as bad as racism or xenophobia.

> different culture|religion|sexuality

Also inexcusable

> lower level of education

Which typically happens as a result of racism

> unpleasant behavior or physical appearance

Caused by poverty, which was caused by racism
The preprint can be found here [1]. It should more or less be identical to the journal article.

[1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02679
Landing Pages: How to Create High Converting Landers
I can't edit my original comment, but I eventually figured it out. here's a link: https://mega.nz/#!51V1zBIJ!u4Ewgv-yOJR-fsRTUKSVov4lzDqM9iuyj...
Lambda functions are just Docker containers.

API Gateway could be replaced by something like Open Resty.

S3 can be replaced by any other file storage solution.
Mhm. Fascism is very corporatist, and the elites loved it. Hitler could help them. He could crush their workers' revolts. He could ensure the communists would not gain power. He would provide them with ample slave labour.
An idiosyncratic library squirreled away in SoMa
3 Things Weekly: Clocky, Road Work, Two Kinds of People
As a commenter beneath the article pointed out, it also rather clashes the Guardian's own one day seminars on "How to Write an Academic Paper and Get It Published", a snip at £249 per person...
Ask HN: How to prepare for Tech Interviews?
Hello HN, I'm a CS Major. TBH I'm not comfortable with Algorithms and Data Structures, I looking to the refresh my knowledge. Any recommendations for Books or Websites where I can refresh CS concepts?
These two articles are probably relevant and come from the same person:

1. http://cturt.github.io/ps4.html

2. http://cturt.github.io/ps4-2.html

They cover pretty much every question about the WebKit exploit and this open-source SDK.
Exactly. What if amazon decides to close your account, because you know.. they can. Now you're pretty much screwed.

With traditional VPS you just point ansible/salt/puppet to new servers and you're good to go.
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This is another good example of the complete and pervasive misunderstanding of what free speech is. Unfortunately law, ethics and morality cannot be reduced to a bumper sticker.

Churchill high school kids come from one of the richest school districts in the country practically defining the term 'privileged'. He undoubtedly could have found a more productive and healthier hobby.
Note in parent comment the phrase "it fails to mention how exactly philosophy of science has been or is to be useful to scientists". You are arguing for some kind of general usefulness of philosophy to scientists, but the parent comment was much more narrow and specific than that: it was about usefulness of philosophy of science to the practice of science.

> We're supposed to read that and think 'Hah, yeah - birds don't know and can't know anything about ornithology, how can it be useful to them?!'

I think you misunderstood the quote. Birds will not fly any differently whether ornithologists study them or not. That is what it means that ornithology is not useful to birds: the birds will not use ornithology to make decisions about flying. Feynman, as a practicing scientist, was well-placed to say whether philosophy of science informed his practice of science, so his comment absolutely does not reflect his ignorance.

> but philosophy (and other non-scientific disciplines) support and inform every aspect of life around her job.

The things that you listed won't inform how a scientist does science, so they don't really address the core of the question.
Lua uses a concept called "upvalues" to refer to variables from enclosing scopes. The main observation here seems to be that you can statically determine a unique index for all local variables in any enclosing scope. I'm not sure exactly how the details work in cases where there are sibling scopes, but anyway it seems like a useful concept and i am surprised the concept/terminology is not more common.
Don't listen to that man.

Go and try one of those first. I have been touch-typing for years, and the only thing I really, really like in a keyboard in the end is 1) knowing when I pushed a key or not, 2) flat fucking keys with distances between them and short travel.

So you might not like those curvy keyboards at all. I know I don't.
The Fujitsu KBPC E is a similar USB keyboard. Quality is adequate -- no mechanical keys etc -- but it's pretty flexible and you can sometimes get new ones for low prices on eBay.

Since the split is adjustable, you can experiment with the separation. That should help you decide whether you want to go for a more dramatic ergonomic model.

http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/peripheral/acc...
Ironically this happened to me due to a card expiry fuck up.
You can't equate a ratings site with an obvious satirical (at best) and potentially malicious outlet for angry students.
MVP Online for Fuller Villa = Tesla Roadster of Buildings
I would wager that the cost of printing is not what is setting the high prices for these books. Short-run publishing is quite economical these days. It's the overhead cost of running these organizations -- sales forces to sell to libraries, editors, proofreaders, marketing folks, etc.

Switching to e-book will save very little of that money.

Sure, it allows for self-publishing, but a self-published Ebook is not going to look great on your CV, and the royalties are not going to matter much if only a few hundred people are interested in the topic.
I knew about these guys just because they were mentioned somewhere as big users of Erlang :)
My girlfriend's sister is a grad student in the dairy nutrition program at the nearby university, and she gave me a tour of the farm where I saw a few cows with these. Like the article says, the device allows direct access to one of the cow's stomachs essentially. This lets the researchers take more direct samples of the stomach contents when testing different kinds of feed.
Yes, you can self-publish and get an ISBN number.
Talking about downvotes is also frowned upon, so please don't do that either. Thank you.
I guess nature landed on the periodic pump action as it is basically a muscle flexing.
None of what you say invalidates what I said. You like typing on regular keyboards, fine. But you're killing your wrists and tendons one day at a time.

There are plenty of varieties of ergonomic keyboards, pretty sure you will eventually find one you'll like, especially if you give yourself some time to adjust.
Very much appreciate the response! Thank you, very useful.

Once last thing to annoy you with, I have 6 months until I begin the course and I'd like to be as prepared as possible. Do you have any suggestions?
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Why did he have Lysol in an IV though?! Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannulated_cow
Germany claims success for elite universities drive
If you're a single developer/small team with a very small product, managing servers is a chore that won't add any value to the product you're building.

So you either spend very little time on it and build servers adhoc ("snowflake" style - SSH in, install some stuff, etc), or you spend precious time doing "the right thing" - which right now is a huge universe of options (Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Docker/other containers/no containers, etc).

If you're part of a larger team, not having a properly structured infrastructure is a nightmare - specially when it comes to scaling or dealing with failures of all kinds.

TLDR; - yes, I'd say it's somewhat hard...
The General Sholium[0] was an addendum, not a set of corrections to The Principia. And what book doesn't have some corrections between the first and second edition?

> There are sociological reasons why students of science are not encouraged to read Newton for themselves.

Like what? Do you think physics teachers are afraid their students will find out Newton believed in God and then they won't be atheists? Do you think they're pushing materialism or "scientism" and rewriting history to that end? This is close to a conspiracy theory. I think you're ascribing malice or ill intent to what are almost purely pragmatic choices.

Here's the text of The Principia[1], read a few pages and imagine a physics student trying to make sense of it. When I finally opened it I found exactly what I had always been told I would find: something interesting but hard to read and not the best place to learn physics. I don't think there are any physics books today that prove the fundamentals of calculus in the middle of their discussion of physics. That's a pedagogical nightmare. Today you learn calculus and then you do physics with it, but Newton developed calculus to do physics so there were no calculus books he could assume his audience was already familiar with.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Scholium
[1] - http://www.archive.org/stream/newtonspmathema00newtrich/newt...
Datahand palm rests detach really easily and come out of the dishwasher super clean.
I think Leanpub has a ways to go before it can be useful for academic writing in my field (mathematics and theoretical computer science).

My personal experience: I've tried using Leanpub and found issues with the way it handles mathematics. For example, the last time I checked (maybe around June) the TeX support in their Markdown was not developed enough to handle aligned equations, which is a big sticking point for me and I think for most mathematicians.

The standard process for academic writers is to typeset an entire book themselves in LaTeX regardless of the publisher (they tend not to publish-as-they-write, though that could conceivably change). Leanpub is unlikely to convince book authors in math by forcing them to convert to Markdown, especially for book writing when cross-chapter labels for theorems and exercises are common. If Leanpub wants to attract academic writers in math they need a sturdy tool that converts a LaTeX book to the Markdown flavor that Leanpub needs. But that's a crap-ton of work (especially considering third-party libraries like tikz) with an unclear contribution to Leanpub's bottom line.

Of course, the alternative is to post only a pdf format, but that kind of defeats the point of Leanpub which is that they generate multiple formats. A service like gumroad would be cheaper per transaction.