skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ZFS is just a filesystem, it's usable on any storage format. It reserves some space for metadata but not much more than most filesystems.

You wouldn't need a bootloader like grub unless you're trying to boot from the floppy.
This isn't the full text. Against Method is a full book; it's rather interesting if you're interested in the philosophy of science.
Ask HN: I'm developing a new HN iOS app. What spl features you'd like to see?
I'm developing yet another HackerNews iOS app. I'd love to know what special features you'd like to see.
One problem I find in fortran is that subroutines quickly have a lot of arguments. In this example, glint have 30ish. I have seen fortran subroutines in the aerospace industry with more than 100 arguments.
Many Chinese in mainland China can speak Putonghua (probably just another name for Mandarin). Each place has its own dialect. The adoption of mandarin as a "unified dialect" should be the result of central government's policy. Some regions of China still keep their dialects as daily spoken languages. I did not read the article. Just provide some basic info here.
That was interesting.

Not the text, so much. But the experience of reading it while assuming the writer was contemporary.

At first I thought: this writing is weird. Was this even written by a human? Is this one of those generated articles written by programs that generate text for adword spamming?

Then I read more carefully (was curious not about the content, because there wasn't much meat to it, but about the writer) and noticed the "my father" part, and realized why it was so weird.

Which raises the question: would an ancient person, even assuming good translation, pass a Turing test?
Everyone here should download the ISO and give it a go in virtualbox. It's surprisingly painless and quick to boot, and has an interesting and helpful startup guide. Take the time to check it out, it is truly fascinating!
it did look familiar :)
This PBS Idea Channel video discusses some of Feyerabend's ideas in the context of pop culture (specifically "Is Rick from Rick & Morty The Ideal Scientist?") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLN1PN3L4I

It's a little hand-wavy for HN and the conclusions can be contrived, but Idea Channel overall is an interesting entry point to a lot of serious topics.
I have personally used Rails Composer (kickstarter http://kck.st/1KzZXVC) by Daniel and loved using it. Great thing is, if you think Rails Composer needs more added or run into a problem, he is very responsive.
I'm grateful for Daniel's work on Rails Composer. It's a great way to setup a new Rails project. Good luck!
It's really tempting to say "well I didn't have formal HS programming classes, and I turned out just fine" but it obscures the much larger demographic issue in Computer Science: studies show that when computer science is taught to all kids, those who take that teaching further are far more representative of the general population than if you leave it up to the kids to discover CS on their own.

Given the power that programmers wield in today's world (and the much greater power they're likely to have in tomorrow's) it's increasingly problematic that we're so predominantly male and ethnically-homogenous.
I think you misunderstand growth. It is not simple growth like a balloon grows as you inflate it. The economy is the act of economizing - the process of learning to do more with less. Growth is learning, to suggest we will stop learning or are capable of forcing ourselves to end learning is either ridiculous or horrific.
I'm not totally sure it's fair to bring up a version of a language that is twenty four years earlier than the one under discussion. (and for a thought to make some people feel old, 1966 is closer to 1990 than 1990 is to today).
Where Airplanes Go to Die
Inside the iPhone 6s
If is wasn't scrap, wouldn't it still be from tree farms, and not a problem?
StarCityGames.com – To My Someday Daughter
The looting in question was an acute episode resulting from the US invasion of Iraq and the rapid disintegration of public institutions and order that followed.
"Why are working class kids unlikely to get elite jobs?"

Because they don't have rich dads who'll get their rich friends to give them the jobs ..
And yet, running NoScript, here is how it looks:

http://postimg.org/image/i2blngyfv/

No social media buttons hovering over the page at all.
Thanks! Good to hear someone is making it work. I'm studying your reply (and that of citruspi) and am going to take a stab at this.
I'm excited for all the buzz going on around service discovery, it's often one of the most crucial design decisions for a SOA architecture. I'm really bummed, however, that so many of them rely on clients doing DNS lookups. I vastly prefer a system like airbnb/Yelp SmartStack, consul template, or really any system that reflects discovery state in real load balancers such as HAProxy, nginx, or even those new fangled service load balancers like vulcand.

Honestly just don't do DNS. Why?

1. Performance

Service discovery should not happen during the life of a HTTP request. The number of times that I've had to debug performance problem that ultimately ended up being DNS requests taking like 100ms (which for most internal applications is too damn long) is staggering to me. Yes you can mitigate this, but it is not easy because even local DNS has to miss the cache sometimes.

2. DNS propagation sucks.

This article talks about one side of the DNS propagation problem ("it's down" -> removed from DNS), but they seem to completely ignore the other side of the DNS propagation problem (removed from dns -> clients stop talking to it). At any kind of reasonable engineering scale one of your libraries (watch out for ones that cache DNS "for performance"), programming languages (java), or infra tools (nginx/haproxy) are going to not re-resolve DNS like you expect them to.

3. More Performance

Client side load balancing is legitimately hard, and if you're just doing round robin over DNS records you are likely screwing your high percentiles. HAProxy/nginx/vulcand/etc all support better load balancing strategies like least connection load balancing that really make a difference here. This can be the difference between a 500ms 99% and a 50ms 99%.
Thanks! Did not know about virtualenv, I'll try that. This is really good and detailed information; I appreciate it (and rgacote's too).
Amazon's Internet of Things Strategy
I've done it a few times, at the request of my girlfriend at the time. I was indifferent to it, personally. She was very much into dom/sub type relationships, so I expect most of the kink for her came from that.
The New SDK for LEIA 3D
There are two management portals -- classic and "preview". You would think that "preview" supersedes classic, but you'd be wrong -- you actually need to be comfortable using both (and the CLI tools) to get stuff done.

There's actually a Linux/OSX version of the Azure CLI tools, but it lags behind the Windows Powershell tooling and classic and "preview" which is pretty frustrating.

Then, there's the ASM environment and the new-hotness ARM environment. So, the web portals support some mishmash of ARM features, but still offer classic features. The Linux/CLI tools support some of the ARM features, but not all of them either.

If you're working from OSX, it's best to just stick with the ASM environment; otherwise, you're in for pain. Either way, you'll need to keep using both management portals.

The current score:

1. Classic Portal - deprecated, but not really; also incomplete
2. Preview Portal - official, but still beta, but has exclusive support for some features (ARM, Redis)
3. Linux/OSX xplat-cli - incomplete and clumsy
4. PowerShell - Windows-only, **maybe** a superset of the other tools
Don't study hard? So, that's how George Bush got his elite job.
People moving to SF specifically for support jobs? That sounds very unlikely to me. Support jobs in a region are filled by locals with limited employment options or by non-locals who have other reasons for moving to that region and just need a job, in my experience.
The U.S. is doing very little, as far as developing advanced reactors is concerned. We have a regulatory system that requires all reactors to meet specific requirements that in many cases are only appropriate for large light water reactors. Any company hoping to build a new type of reactor runs into a brick wall. And even the conventional reactors, we're not building much anymore.

Meanwhile, China is currently building 27 conventional reactors and, aside from Terrapower, is building prototypes for molten salt reactors with both liquid and solid fuels, another sodium-cooled fast reactor design, high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, and supercritical water-cooled reactors.

http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2014/11/25/chinas-nex...

I don't mean to suggest that the U.S. economic system is worse than China's in general, but our regulatory system for nuclear power is a problem for us.
Working class kids also benefit more from studying than high-SES kids, so as life advice this is kind of dubious. If working class kids don't study then they're still not going to get into college based on their grades/SATs/writing, whereas for wealthy kids they're already going to be fine even if they don't do a ton of work.

Also, given that the school system in part exists to screen out working class kids from elite jobs, if these kids actually started getting great grades and captaining the crew team or whatever then colleges and companies would just start selecting for other things.
The interesting question for me is how to buy those 9/10 failures more cheaply. Can we get our $1 billion failures for only $100m each? Or even $10 million? Then we can buy a lot more successes.

I think the main barrier there, though, is that funders have to be in favor of interesting failure. With the described mega-science funding project, there's a big incentive to come up with dramatic plans that are novel and promise certain success.

I think the tech industry isn't perfect at this; we can all name companies that spent way too much money for what they learned. But our FFF/seed/A/B funding model gets us a good discount on interesting failures.
"There is no such thing as a sentence, or a phrase, or a part of speech, or even a "word" — these are all pareidolic fantasies occasioned by glints of sunlight we see on reflected on the surface of the ocean of language; fantasies that we comfort ourselves with when faced with language’s infinite and unknowable variability."

This is a particularly beautiful articulation of the complexity of English (and language in general).
A more beautiful web
How to traffic, v2
Joe isn't about computers or networks; it's about everybody owning a monkey's paw[1]. The setting is a vaguely scifi, but the story would work as well with garden-variety genies or some such - wish-granting entities that aren't too concerned with the consequences of granting the wish, and wish-makers who can't think through the easiest and most effective way of granting a wish. (Try thinking about the usual three wishes, and try making them bullet-proof/idiot-proof/watertight and only beneficial.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey's_Paw
If you have adblock plus, go here: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/

and add "Fanboy's Annoyance List". That includes "Fanboy's Social Blocking List", which is also there.

I have not seen social media buttons on the internet in a long time and it is incredible.
Don't ask for support/upvotes on this submission on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rails_apps/status/648290452962152450
Looks like most of the blockers are unable to stop Adobe Analytics. Using that data I'm hoping to have some info by the end of next week detailing what the size of ad-block population.

I'd also say you'll need to wait for iOS9 adoption to pass 80% for any real numbers to show.
Google already has those users.
What achievement? Buying a clock from the 70s and putting it in a suit case to bring to school?
I fully agree with your notion but I'm note sure how that tweet "proves" it.
Marshall+Space+Flight+Center+|+NASA
Ask HN: Will being an engineer at a nonprofit reduce your longterm earnings?
Suppose you're a junior engineer at a large tech firm.

If you go to take a technical role at a nonprofit for several years with a much lower salary, then want to go back to a big tech firm, will your salary be reduced compared to what it would have been if you'd stayed in the big tech firm? If yes, by how much?

For the sake of argument, assume your skill development at the nonprofit is equally good. What I'm interested in is whether there's a loss of earnings due to bad signalling, or because if you have a low salary at the nonprofit it'll be harder to negotiate a high salary when you go back.
I'd be curious to see the ratio of people that will watch something considered "extreme" in porn and want to re-enact it vs. those that will watch it but have no interest in being personally involved.

I definitely fall in the latter - most of what I watch is pretty vanilla, but at times, I'll venture into things that are more risque. I'm not at all personally into bondage, for example, and I'm indifferent to anything more than just light roleplaying, but once or twice a month I might pull up a BDSM video and enjoy it.

I doubt that I'm alone in sometimes wanting to watch something I'd not enjoy personally doing.
The American Yawp: Online Collaboratively Built American History Textbook
ASK HN: Why are so many IP's text based?
Had never heard of the lambda calculus before. Very cool.

Does it have any practical applications? Or is it mostly a theoretical / conceptual tool?
have you heard of `ab`
As it stands, Facebook has a better privacy story than email. Facebook traffic is encrypted straight through to Facebook's servers, and I'm confident that my data is not leaving Facebook. (You can pay Facebook to show ads to specific demographics; you can't actually buy user data.)

Email, on the other hand, is plaintext for most of its journey and available in cleartext to dozens of shady actors (every ISP in the path, sender's provider, recipient's provider). The courts are clear that email is not considered private and not protected by law.

I'd like to see GPG+email become the new Facebook, but I'll take Facebook over email as it stands now easily.
They want to snoop on India citizens. PM Modi is selling the country to these corporations.
Bush's seemingly low culture is very much an act, one he learned in 1978 after getting stomped at a West Texas congressional election by Kent Hance, who successfully used rural populist rhetoric against the relatively yuppie Bush.
Ah yes, I meant that it "proves" the first part ("My job is to take the heat"). You're right, the "being fired" part is just a theory.
In the current era, technological advances are far more important to progress in the life sciences than ideas or analytical/computational methods. The cycle of innovation is quite fast. The human genome project is a classic example. Celera genomics came out with a a totally new DNA sequencing technology towards the end of the HGP, and managed to sequence the human genome in a fraction of the time. It so happens that the HGP had enough of a head start to release their data at the same time, and that their data and Celera's data were complementary in many ways. But imagine if the HGP started 5 years later, and Celera released their complete genome when HGP had only done 50%? It too would be considered a grand failure.

A grand project needs to be timed very carefully. Even the ones that actually work well will be obsolete by their completion unless they happen to occur in the right part of the technology cycle.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if you told me the trains in India are faster, more frequent, and more reliable as well. Even the Kazakhs would be ashamed of Caltrain. The only reason we put up with Caltrain is our collective hangover from the suburban car age.
Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities [video]
500 Lines or Less – A Template Engine
It has always surprised me that the scientific method begins only after a hypothesis is chosen. Forming a hypothesis is often based on inference, even instinct, that has little science behind it. The work of Barbara McClintock comes to mind.
Google already snoops on those users because almost all of us use gmail. They don't need to provide Wi-Fi.
I think the biggest barrier to people setting up personal/"open" websites is the exhaustion of the .com namespace. If your name is common or even remotely plausible, it's taken by a squatter. One of the key advantages of a closed, locked-down social networking environment is the ability to have multiple people identified by the same real name, and a relatively less crowded field for screen names (because squatting is less of an issue).
What do you mean by "text based IPs"?
Generally, when massive price oddities become commonplace, it's evidence of government distortions of free market operation. Trying to blame it on 'rogue' CEOs is an exercise in futility.
Well ok. I really did my best. Maybe you can work out how you'd like to note that this story is a direct link to a video of a guy who continually uses wildly racist language and then make that note the way of your choosing on such direct links to videos of such individuals? Maybe you'll get a different result.
I have this exact drive. Amazon says: "You purchased this item on December 2, 2014."
League of Legends – Centuries
You have some good thoughts here. I do not think that Google Contributor is the answer, though it's in the right ballpark.

The advantages of Google Contributor are reasonably clear. There is at least:

1. Works through Google's existing advertising systems, so easier for them to implement.

2. Minimal work for websites to sign up.

3. Advertisements disappear, while supporting websites.

4. Very little work for the end user to get started.

But the disadvantages to me seem quite strong. A few:

1. Advertisers (e.g., Google), can still track you. Those with privacy concerns won't have those concerns addressed.

2. Doesn't remove all ads (even if you pay the maximal amount, it only affects Google ads, as you say).

3. Effectively creates more competition for the ad spots, driving the prices up (good for Google).

4. Does not change content layout.

5. Google still controls the space, where it would be better for the website owner to be able to use that space themselves.

6. Pricing is not clear. What exactly am I getting for what I pay? As competition increases, price goes up. As an end user, I like to know how much I need to pay to get a particular service. I don't want to have to give it much thought.

I do think it's great that you're willing to support websites in removing ads. An Adblock Plus survey suggests that there are many users who would be willing to donate, so you're not alone.

Full disclosure: I run https://webpass.io, a service to give money back to the content creators in a way that completely bypasses the advertising industry, rather than working through it (thus protecting privacy). Gives the power to the website owner to control their content, not Google.
Dude! You did already all that hard work; make some $$, gain more freedom, while it's hot.

If the cost of making another example (parts, time, skill) can be made sufficiently below (say 30-50%) of a reasonable sale price, it may be business. The real "hacking" done by contract manufacturers is cutting corners to make something beautiful, functional and inexpensive to manufacture.

Challenge, should you choose to accept it, if not already:

Try to assemble a similar example with mostly scrap, for the least budget imaginable. (Penny wise & pound wise.)

Another possible path:

Patenting and licensing to boutique clock makers / electronics firms, which frees you from nearly all the headaches of dealing with advertising, manufacturing and distribution (after negotiations, assuming one would usually seek advice/assistance of trustworthy, relevant partners). Also, people may not like patents, but it's a double-edge sword necessary to create a survivable business... without that, the newbie wantrepreneur is often shoot themselves, in not just one foot, but reloads to see if that stops the fail. It's nice to broadly claim "patents are evil," but good luck making money sustainably in an environment where anything & everything is knocked off, without recourse (usually legal) of any measurable kind.
Seems like this technology is still pretty dangerous

http://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TravelingWaveR...
Before Ahmed’s fame: fantastic inventions and a fight with authority
> any handful of PhDs in the field could have told you was nonsense

The problem with groundbreaking work is often that any handful of experts can tell you that it's nonsense. E.g., look at the reception that Barry Marshall got when he proposed that stomach ulcers were caused by bacterial infection. [1] All the experts "knew" it was caused by "stress, spicy foods, and too much acid" in the stomach. Eventually he got the Nobel prize, but you have to wonder what else we're missing out because whoever discovered it wasn't as dogged or as lucky as Marshall.

[1] http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/mar1int-1
5.1 Benefits of Learning a New Language
That's kind of a cruel thing to do to people if there's no way to solve it other than brute force.
I do. Born elsewhere in NC and, went to college in Chapel Hill, and have lived and worked in the area for a bit after. Chapel Hill/Carrboro are nice, well-to-do college towns, Durham isn't too far down the road and the downtown (like many in the country) is experiencing a resurgence, Raleigh is the 'big' city in the area but I haven't really had a reason to do much there. Outside of downtown, it seems pretty surburban with people commuting in and out on the ring roads. Cary is very paint-by-numbers suburban with the tech companies already mentioned plus a lot of people from out of state (jokingly called "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees" by some). You're 3-4 hrs from the Appalachians 2.5-3+ from the beach (depending on where you're headed) and have pretty good connections at RDU, which is a relatively pleasant airport. I-95 will connect you up and down the eastern seaboard (about 4 hrs to DC, 4 hrs to Charleston, etc).
I've heard (and believe) this too but does anyone have any decent sources for it? I find the portrayal of Bush in the media interesting as while he played the fool regularly, there's no way he got to POTUS without being a smart operator.
We have someone working remotely through Hangouts. Unfortunately, he has to reconnect a few times a day because the call quality drops after a couple hours. Have you experienced similar?
That's really all it is. Me and a couple others were the only "outside" students to get internships at a big bank. Rest of the interns had parents working at the firm. They all went on cruises and to their multi million dollar cottages every weekend. It was like some weird sick incestuous extended corporate family.
My daughter, like many kids, has an allergy that requires us to have epipens on hand. There was a good article the other day about how the owner of epipen have raised the price of epipen from $57/pen in 2007 to over $400/two-pack of pens today. I don't think you can get just one pen, btw.

I think the difference is they didn't raise the price in one fell swoop. Frogs in boiling water, etc, etc.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-23/how-market...
You missed my point methods are just another idea that can be falsified. Ex: http://www.nature.com/news/first-results-from-psychology-s-l...

At it's core science is really 3 things. Experiment, book keeping, and continuing after the old guard dies off. That does not mean it's fast, but give it 500 years and phrenology looks like a poor joke.
text-based vs binary. So most of the characters used in the IP are between 0x20 (space) and 0x7E (~), opposed to transmitting binary over the connection.
Future of Coding Is Here, and It Threatens to Wipe Out Everything in Its Path
Now 100% free under the MIT license. Things change by the hour in spacy world, :-).