skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can email documents to a specific email address tied to your kindle account and they will be converted.
Docker is not a package management tool
Coconuts in Colombia kill pedestrians: http://archive.mid-day.com/news/2010/aug/280810-falling-coco...
I'm really curious, could you say how does 4chan recruit moderators? Normally in online communities you'd have get some frequent users invested in the forum and upgrade them in status. This of course fails for 4chan where you can't see who's a regular, or who has a good history. So how does it work? Are mods usually moot's friends from real world, or some other community?
Really? Horrible things happened to you because of 4chan? It's honestly laughable.
There are over 700,000 HP hp fanfiction works out there chances are most people who liked the series could find 10 that they liked without reading most of them. Traditional publishing's has kept a lid on things easily stopping the bottom 95%, but there are plenty of terrible books out there so you still need a way to find the good ones.

Minimally biased raiting systems seem like an effective way to seperate the dreck. Yet, paid content has huge incentives to game the system, but with unpaid content that's far less of an issue.
My Pebble Steel lets me flick my wrist to enable the backlight. Does the Time not do that?
Does it read all the formats that Calibre supports and convert between them? That's the use case for Calibre - and where most alternatives fall down.
Yes we ride our kids to school often. They love it. The school recently also built a skateboard/scooter shelter for those who ride them to school.

I rode to school for most of my childhood, up until graduation. At the time it involved riding on the main road through town, which I odd for about ten years. All without a helmet as well. There were three major crashes in that time, and perhaps a couple of minor ones I have forgotten.

People these days are far too risk averse but forget the risks of growing up as a candy-ass softie who is afraid of putting in a little exertion. The difference is that, if you refuse to walk or ride anywhere, you're pretty much guaranteeing that you'll end up with obesity/heart/diabetes problems later in life.
Because even using TDD there are some things that just don't warrant a test.
Depends on the design. You have to plan for that stuff ahead of time. I'm not going to claim that's easy. It's just very helpful and there's companies that specialize in helping with it. Most common method was decomposing the app while running it on a cluster so parts of the app or nodes can be taken down. There's strategies for mainframes, too, but my experience was clusters.

Basic strategy was putting something in front of them that can redirect to the new system upon a trigger. Let's assume its functionality + tons of data. The new system first gets the data moved to it in batch form for efficiency reasons. Once it catches up enough, it starts syncing in a more online fashion until it gets to point that it's syncing in real-time. All kinds of tests are performed on that system throughout this process. Eventually, a change-over happens that should be barely perceptible. The inability to do this is usually due to fragile architecture or tightly-coupled implementations which are unfortunately all too common in enterprises.

Note: It can also help if your app was written in something like Common LISP or Erlang that supports live updates. That with the delta approach (version A->A/B->B) equals upgrades with no downtime. ;) Combining it with clustering approach is quite powerful but clustering approach is more applicable to tools majority uses.
Procrastination is a form of anxiety. There is no single thing you can do to will yourself away from procrastinating. If you can afford it or it's available to you, work with a mental health professional to figure out a program that works for you.
Utility is a well-known concept in economics. It's strange at first to the outsider, but it's easy to understand with a little reading.
Having to cough up is, I agree, excessive. But having a CEO's compensation tied to performance is the same as all the schmucks under him have to deal with. Only, while they're on the hook for delivering, he's on the hook for providing vision. So making it take 5 years to vest or similar, so the effects of his decisions can be seen, and he has to plan long term, seems sensible. In the same way that tying a worker bee's bonuses to the delivery of a project seems sensible.
I confess I am ignorant, so I don't know what you are talking about.

But, I do not see that many more hard assets (I mean physical... I am sure finance has a technical definition that has nothing to do with what the intuition of lay people like myself would think) created. It does not matter if there are trillions, quadrillions or quintillions of dollars; if they had to spend it all, they would end up owning the whole planet and still not run out of money.

So, it is just a matter of stroking egos and playing con games with using K-9 level math, but with much higher numbers. Ultimately, the only thing that much money is worth is to show that you have much more of it than the next person. It is all about social posturing (or if you are cynical, about manipulating other people by triggering emotional responses to the huge numbers involved).
"I doubt that corporate executives make up a significant percentage of the super-wealthy, despite the attention the media pays to them. "

I'm afraid you're wrong on this point.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/one-percent-income-i...

Corporate executives account for almost 3rd of the top 1%, even if you exclude bankers. Throwing in bankers, and it's almost half.

I agree with you on that technology and automation are the main driver in increased leverage against workers. And sadly, government and regulations failed to counteract this leverage.
>90% of their residential network

I'd like to see where that number is coming from. I've been a TWC subscriber for 9 years, I currently subscribe to their fastest residential offering in my region as well as one of their commercial offerings in the same region.

Both modems are DOCSIS 3 and IPv6 capable, neither receive IPv6 addresses. I have an AICCU tunnel setup on my residential, though it only gets a fraction of the potential performance. (Rather annoyingly the tunnel's routing is also far from perfect: for e.g I can't reach Netflix via IPv6; but because the DNS resolves it doesn't attempt to downgrade to IPv4.)

Considering I'm only 2 hops from their Chicago POP I sincerely doubt they have anything approaching 90% IPv6 rollout.
Yes, assuming the country was a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights which all member states are required to be. In particular "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence" with Rotaru v. Romania (2000) being the appropriate case law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...
Jeb Bush Proudly Promises to Axe Net Neutrality If Elected
Those are good examples. I'm not sure what the actual split is. Don't forget, though, where the real majority of innovation is: academic (mainly) and corporate labs. I went into detail a little while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10269245
> The battery life has never been a problem for me. I put the watch on it's charger when I get in bed, and take it off when I wake up. I don't think I've ever hit < 40% battery at the end of the day.

Compare that with my use case, where I wear my watch all the time and use it for sleep tracking, yet still I only need to charge it once every five days.

As for always-on, it makes the watch low profile. Depending on watch face it can actually fool people that it is a normal watch. I had a co-worker noticing after a month despite wearing it every day (when I received a message) that it is a smart watch.

P.S. Apologies but your comment about the pulse reminded me this: https://youtu.be/00V7NW2_nSg
Proud that the jury followed the evidence, and not the knee jerk mob justice.
It's a standard cop-out. "'Merica; leave if you don't like it". Imagine if activists in the 60's had taken that advice.

You realize the IRS != US? We got along financially just fine (some would say better) before it.
To be fair, most of the major internet companies intend to monetize your data. This doesn't sound much worse, even if these allegations are true.
Means of production, right? I agree the resemblance is more than skin deep.
You believe you found a problem, but your objection was addressed and dismissed in an evidence-based fashion in TFA:

"The idea that high CEO pay is ultimately due to poor corporate governance is a commonplace [...] Yet as an explanation for why CEOs get paid so much more today than they once did, Stiglitz’s argument is unsatisfying. After all, back in the 1960s and 1970s, when CEOs were paid much less, corporate governance was, by any measure, considerably worse than it is today [...]

"Shareholders, meanwhile, had fewer rights and were less active. Since then, we’ve seen a host of reforms that have given shareholders more power and made boards more diverse and independent. If CEO compensation were primarily the result of bad corporate governance, these changes should have had at least some effect. They haven’t. In fact, CEO pay has continued to rise at a brisk rate."
back to normality.
The Pebble Time Steel definitely does. I assume the regular Time is the same.
"... the policies that shaped the US in the postwar era: high marginal tax rates on the rich and meaningful investment in public infrastructure, education, and technology."

This is interesting in the context of the current GOP race in the States, where the candidates continually speak about how America has become weak compared to what it was in the past. It seems these kinds of policies contributed to making it strong. But these kinds of policies are anathema in GOP circles now. Ironic.
> one process per core, each locked to a single core; use locked local RAM only (effectively limiting NUMA); direct dedicated network queue (bypass kernel); direct storage I/O (bypass kernel)

I have no idea how to do any of these things. What are the system/api calls to lock a process to a kernel? How do you bypass kernel IO?
You don't need a fancy analysis. Just pick New Zealand every time and you will do fine.
I am agonized to know that an organization with 70 percent of its budget funded by US tax dollars is still pumping out puff pieces for a suicidal Stalinist spy.
It's true, you can do a lot without a server! And I think where we're headed there's a lot happening in-browser. But there are still parts of most workflows where a little server work makes sense, and that's the bottleneck.

We can't have an open source web app workflow until the entire develop/deploy workflow can be forked with a couple button presses. As long as there's one single part of that chain that needs to be done by hand, we won't have a rich pool of open source web software users.

You're right though that if you're willing to use Desktop software there's still a bunch of good software out there. I'm just not interested in desktop software anymore.
Not at all. I grew up in a classic 1960-style neighborhood (long meandering main road loop with a lot of cul-de-sac and a few connector streets, all most all the the houses were one of a handful of basic designs, no businesses and no sidewalks. We biked all over the place, walked to friends houses (mostly cutting through other peoples yards), played impromptu games in vacant lots that hadn't been built yet, explored the wooded areas at the edges of the neighborhood. We were away from home for hours at a time, organizing what we did all on our own. No cell phones either, but we naturally gravitated back home at around sunset.
Wrapsew
Despite the name, DynamoDB is not actually an implementation of the Dynamo paper. It's influenced by those ideas, as well as the issues with scaling SimpleDB, but other than that is a from-scratch implementation.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01/amazon-dynamodb....
mashape kong
It's market demand for efficient yet sporty cars. They saw a market and made their cars dominate that market. To that end they were wildly successful, so if you set aside any ideological barriers that would speak against creating more pollution than is allowed, it's a fairly logical decision.
How does ComScore collect this data?
No, money is only numbers.

If you cut down a tree, cut it in boards, cut the boards and nail the pieces into a bunch of chairs, that is value added. It did create wealth.

Same, if you write a bunch of code that did not exist before, and the code is compiled and linked into a program that allows users to do stuff they could not do before (or could, but much more slowly) then there is value added. Wealth was created, even if there is no physical representation of that wealth... but it has real effects on the real world.

But when people just place bets, and double-down bets, and triple-dare-you bets on whether or not some random guy is going to write a program that might or might not go viral and get a billion or eyeballs... that's not wealth creation. That is just toying with numbers. You just produce noise in the economy so that the real prices of real stuff cannot be discovered anymore.
I couldn't understand the english. Can someone explain in plkain english please?

My understanding: the firm paid Pao's lawyer bill and she droped her case.
She did not take any more money to keep her freedom to speak publicly about the issue.

Is that right?
>But you must realize that during such a war, the maximum economy possible in the US would be whatever can work without international trade, which would be comparable to 1900 or so.

So every country except the US is involved in this hypothetical war? Really?

If China attacks Japan, even assuming that drags in Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea, and Indonesia that still leaves a whole lot of countries for us to trade with. The idea the S&P would drop by 99% is just daft.

Beyond that it's not like we can't get involved in a war once it starts if we decide it's in our interest to do so. War isn't like a comedy club where they shut the door once the act starts.
I know what utility is in economics, my problem is that you can always just say that the reason why people do X is because they are rational and X maximizes their utility. It doesn't tell you why that is their preference and why X satisfies their preference. It is not like the action or hamiltonian in physics which come with equations of motions that can be checked against experiment.

Why is open source good for everyone? You didn't explain it, you just cast it in certain terms, which is useful for distilling the problem, but certainly not for solving it. You gave your guess why it improves the contributors' utility, but you haven't really proved it. It's just a guess. I can guess, too.

My guess is that open source software reduces the transaction costs of acquiring and fixing software for corporations, but I could not explain to you with neoclassical economics why developers work on it without being compensated. It should be a tragedy of the commons, but it isn't. Open source software is developed at the fraction of the cost of closed source software and either competes or completely dominates it.

I don't believe in Liberal organizations of economy though, so it's not a big deal for me.
Their prediction numbers seem a little off to someone with a passing knowledge of rugby but not enough statistics knowledge to understand the analysis.

eg NZ having a higher probability of beating Argentina, than NZ has of beating Namibia (or Georgia and Tonga too). Argentina is a much better team with a higher world ranking than Namibia.

The numbers were probably skewed by NZ not playing against Namibia very often (or even at all?), but they've played Argentina relatively often in the past.
As proposed by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the 21st Century, when "r > g" (where r = return on capital and g = rate of economic growth) the rich (those with capital) get richer.

Apart from between 1930 and 1975 (which Piketty suggests were unique circumstances due to WW2) r has generally been greater than g.
I haven't been able to write this without sounding critical of mithiril, and I don't want to do that. I suspect it all comes down to use case, and the line of work I'm in, it's not a wise choice.
Wow, it's like app use follows a power-law, like almost every other phenomenon in recorded history...
No. Pao lost.

1) Pao lost the case and as a result was found to owe (part) of KP's legal bills.
2) KP has filled something with the court indicating that they don't need enforcement of that any more.
Indicating either Pao paid them, or they came to an agreement to not get paid in full in exchange for Pao not appealing or related things like agreeing to not discuss them further publicly.

All the court filings really indicate is that KP considers the matter closed.
> The Apple Watch display turns on when I raise my wrist to look at it

This is one of those features that has to be 100% perfect for it to work in this form factor, and based on my colleagues Apple Watch (base model), that is not the case. In addition, I don't always turn my wrist to see my Pebble -- I don't need to. This is a small feature but saying its not actually useful is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion.
What's wrong with epub for technical docs? I don't really have a reader that is suitable for technical books (I'm not sure anyone has, passive, high-contrast, 300+dpi and a screen size at minimum the size of an A4 page) -- but if I did, I'm not sure I'd have any problems with docs being in epub. Or just html (not a big difference there, really).

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm not sure I understand what you think needs improvement wrt epub? (Now, how those epubs are made, that might be a different matter all together, like a lot of html renderings technical manuals leaves a lot to be desired -- old-school javadoc comes to mind).
Listen to an old man that has gotten his feet wet with Allegro Common Lisp back in the day:

Avoid macros if at all possible. Use functions if you can.

Special forms that don't follow the standard evaluation rules are putting additional mental load on the readers of your code.
If you go overboard with macro use, good luck having other people understand your code.

If you are a lone coder, feel free to go happy-crazy with macros.
If you are a team, just stay with standard lisp as long as you can.
I give it about five minutes before The Guardian publishes an editorial entitled: "Ellen Pao lawsuit ends but will not slow fight for gender equality in Silicon Valley."
You may not see it that way, but the negative experiences of your life have probably taught you more, influenced the core of your personality, and made you grow more than the positive ones.
The US/China relationship going significantly south would have, umm, interesting consequences. Would Wal-Mart survive? How much better would the US financial position be if all of the Chinese holdings are abrogated? What is China's political stability if the flow of money was interrupted? How can the west resurrect a tech manufacturing sector (or any manufacturing sector)?...

It goes on and on. Given the inter-connectedness of the world vs. the isolationism/autarky of the 30's the impact of conflict is magnified. Yes, countries could recreate the various "changes" of the 20th century, but that's not a quick process. And Paul Kennedy would (has?) argue that the US today and Britain in 1900 are quite similar.

Edit/addition: The US political system is currently broken. However, it has shown amazing resiliency when faced with an external threat. I would be willing to bet that few will care what a Kentucky clerk says if it's Sputnik all over again. And there's several strong military traditions in Europe which bear remembering.
The idea behind stock option grants was to tie CEO's pay to the company's performance.Good idea, but It is not quite working out because CEOs are primarily interested in pumping up the stock price short-term, rather than in long-term health of the company.

The vesting period should be spread over 5 years or so. I would also grade company's performance relative to its peers/competitors/industry, not on just the stock price growth, which may be caused by other factors (like the Fed inflating markets through ZIRP).
Or selling out their users to advertisers for hefty profits while open-sourcing software they use to do it efficiently. ;)
Firefox 41 integrates WebRTC messaging app as it fights for relevance
Thanks, i got confused with the direction that the term "awarded" implied.
A confounding factor with using 2015 data will be the nature of games played relatively close to the RWC. Many teams will not play their top lineup, and will not use their best/newest tactics. Indeed, they may approach the match as much as a training exercise as a contest.
Mods are promoted from the janitor team, who apply for the job themselves.
The irony is not lost on me that I'm reading this while I procrastinate on doing something I've needed to get to for some time. I forgive me.
How does the report compare to the one generated by Promethease[1]? Promethease itself uses data from SNPedia[2]

[1] https://promethease.com/

[2] http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease
I'm amused by the timing, since the story above this is that ARIN has now run out of IPv4 addresses.
Patent US8762879 – Tab management in a browser
Pyra (Portable Linux Handheld): Full Prototypes Soon
Pleasantly surprised that this bit of frivolity didn't swing towards the direction the PC mob would have liked.
I wouldn't mind all cities doing that. And, more sidewalks! It's horrible that some places almost don't have them at all.
HelloSign (YC W11) Is Hiring a Senior Platform Engineer
At my "generic" workplace, core hours are 9-4. Everyone is responsible for getting 8 hours in a day, so a lot of people take advantage of the spread by coming in at 7 and leaving at 4 (w/ hour lunch break).
I thought in some places (France?) software patents were unenforceable/not legal/not a thing
I think you're right for computer related stuff, like networking, databases, operating systems, etc.

And it may even be technically true for the examples I mentioned. But in those areas, for all practical purposes, research from academic and corporate research doesn't actually get used until it's implemented in closed source software. At the annual Siggraph conference a good portion of the papers come from companies like Pixar and Autodesk, and get implemented in their products. Outside of that, it's pretty rare for the academic stuff to go much beyond a cool demo, unless one of the big graphics companies thinks they can use it, at which time they buy up the rights to it.
I considered it briefly in the past but decided against that paper. The reason is that most projects have a few core contributors that maintain control of it and use copyright law to underpin their efforts. Many also have corporate sponsors, which is a different dynamic. Others were built with proprietary process and open-sourced later. Not the emergence of software from voluntary actions of many that I pictured back then.

There could be a comparison to communism with the few that have a foundation, community-driven development, and maybe community voting on what happens with it. Closest to how people would picture it. So, which major FOSS projects are done like that?
That's a good point, Lua is smaller than JS. It does have that going for it.
wow, what a great (no sarcasm) recommendation for window management. Thanks!!!
I'm mildly frustrated that this will be seen as a win by the MRA's. Yes, there was not sufficient evidence to back Pao's claims but anyone that has worked in an office environment with women present can attest to the fact that women still are not in equal standing with their male peers. There is a lot of work to be done in our society. I would love to live in a world where gender becomes insignificant to the point that it isn't discussed.