skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this encouraged me to archive all my emails. Easy, but I needed the reminder.

I've unfollowed a lot of my friends on facebook, but the author's scheme goes beyond mine. If you unfollow all friends, but turn on notifications for the people you do want to keep tabs on, then you know when you're done.

I just went through it for my ~330 friends. Took about 20 minutes. I admit that in the middle I thought it wouldn't end, but that's because it's an infinitely-refreshing page, so you can't see your progress!

I haven't yet reaped rewards of fixing my facebook, but I'm looking forward to it. [edit]: Ok, it's been 20 minutes and not a single new thing-to-look-at on facebook. This feels good.

Thanks for posting this list. It's motivating to have unifying theme for zero-inbox, a clean house, and less social media.
I've been using them for at least 10 years as the sealed top is a very convenient way to carry a drink in a lunch bag. I was a bit self-conscious about it, but now I find that I was a hipster all along!
Yeah, I've noticed that ever since I've got Kindle my collection increased enormously, and there's still a stack of around 300 ebooks I haven't found time to read.
In case anyone is interested, Michael Bader has a book called "Space-Filling Curves: An Introduction with Applications in Scientific Computing" that talks about this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=zmMBMFbia-0C
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Mason jars are used by some people as glasses because those people have a bunch of mason jars handy.

"Hipsters" appropriate that for purely image purposes. A mason jar is in most ways worse than an actual glass. And a cocktail bar in east London doesn't happen to have a bunch of mason jars for preserving home grown produce. They buy them in.

It's annoying to see rich people play-acting like poor people for fun. Jarvis Cocker sings about it in Common People. Wayne Hemmingway has spoken about his dislike of people who collect kitsch for irony.

Last decade it was trucker hats.
How to get rid of a stuffy nose
Missing Roots on that list http://roots.cx/
imagine spending 40k/year on your kid to go to school and write papers on "huh"
Word for online courses you bought but never learned?
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED), an analog video disc playback system
Well, how are they doing?
No I dont want to capture anything, I just want to match a string that contains Tarzan but not "Tarzan". Your example seems to match both
both. Is that too much to ask?
I still don't know what it is from the website...
Since I am assuming readers will look at this page, can someone explain to me how to hold a book without pain? I didn't read too much as a kid and I wonder if I just didn't build up the right muscles, but now, I like to read big books, but my forearm and fingers start to hurt from holding it. I have looked up different ways to hold books, but I haven't found anything yet that I like.

This is what I like the ipad for. I don't like the idea of the ipad, but reading in the dark and pain free in hard to beat.
sorry about that! enjoy.
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Yes, my answer would have been "kindle", but iPad works as well.
Interesting, and familiar.

I had this idea a while back and made a puzzlegame for Android and iOs that does basically this.

The idea is to create puzzles on ANY subject that contain words relating to that subject.

- let user type, search wikipedia for articles starting with that text

- grab selected article, find out words in it that are links to other articles (they are probably related)

- generate a puzzle

I also do random placement, but I also add a score to the final puzzle, taking into account spread in vertical/horizontal/diagonal words. Then I just create as many random puzzles as I can in 4 seconds and take 'the best'.

More detailed writeup here: http://miscellany.codestare.com/WordsearchPlus/

Finished products:
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/word-search-plus-word-puzzle...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codestare....
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What kind of hosting solutions your clients had picked?

For their lower products OVH's support is pretty terrible. But for their professional solutions the support is good and reactive, but you need to get a premium support contract.

It's an option that you have to select when you choose the product and that the reason why they are able to offer such low costs for naked hosting solution (like super cheaps dedicated servers).
Yes, but as-is the post is pure hand-waving. At least some measurement could confirm the theories being stated. Did someone actually try taking one use case where they had memcached and replace it with Redis? What actually happened?
Humbunds?

(99% of these games are being acquired via HumbleBundle...).
> The newspaper article is really exaggerating this report.

You should also note the author of that washington post article is a chronic SJW. I was suspicious when I saw the articles under "Liked that? Try these" all fitted the same narrative. Then I discovered they were all written by Caitlin Dewey. That probably explains the over exaggeration.

Also this is relevant http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259402/why-washington-post...

I think most SJW journalists are motivated simply by clicks. The more they complain about injustices the more trolls will say hurtful things on purpose, eg the wanting to rape women on twitter comments in the other article she wrote.

People need to remember the age old "don't feed the trolls". Grow a spine, without it you're going to live an awfully offended life.
Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO
$500 is close to $6.5K inflation adjusted. Although it makes sense to frame it.
Did you bet the farm on Amazon's cloud? Time to wean yourself off
Notes on a Suffix for 'Scandal'
This was a great interview. I should plug this podcast. It's well produced, informative and entertaining. Recommended.

I found many of the observations relevant and lucid. I sure wish there was a bit more information on the "non billions" of potential buyers type, B2B hardware startup.

Lots to think about in this one, IMHO
All of this is spot on. Go could benefit from a higher-level SQL layer, however.

As an example which has been annoying me the last few days, "database/sql" doesn't automatically prepare statements; so preparing is a separate step, and if you want to use a prepared statement in a transaction, it's yet another step to convert the prepared statement to one that will work with the transaction. I have convenience wrappers around this stuff to make my SQL calls less boilerplated and more readable.

It also doesn't offer high-level convenience functions for things like getting all rows mapped to structs in one go, and so on. And if you're going to support variable expansion in SQL queries, why not support named variables looked up through a map[string]interface{}?

What ActiveRecord gets right, and other ORMs (Hibernate, TopLink) don't, is that you don't want to abstract away SQL. You just want to map the data from/to your native (in this case) structs, because it's convenient.
Free labor? Slavery?
I really enjoyed learning OMeta, and I'd recommend playing with it to others. However, the performance of the JavaScript implementation is really bad. It uses exceptions as a primary mechanism for control flow, which is not generally well optimized in JS. I observed a toy calculator grammar parsing a string about 20 characters long throw and catch hundreds of exceptions.

I've had good success with Jison as a JS parser generator that is performant enough to feel good about using in production.
I realize this is probably supposed to be funny, but it's worth pointing out that the authors of this paper were educated for the most part in civilized countries where people can get an education without taking on crippling amounts of debt.
Or, humans use electronics and motors because it actually is more efficient than getting a human to do the work.
If you love reading books (not tech references) then I would also advice to get a kindle E-Reader (paperwhite).
Newsletter is not connecting your subscribers together - add that and you have good old mailing list. One of my friends created such a mailing list for our circle of friends some time ago but it didn't win with the Facebook.
"It is 30 times less expensive than conventional motorized solar panel rotators" if you ignore the fact that getting a human to do something is super expensive.
> I find it astonishing that you couldn't think of examples of businesses that have had a bigger impact on humanity than Twitter and Facebook.

I never said I couldn't think of businesses with more (current) impact than Twitter and Facebook! I think my work history amply illustrates that (Google[x], Google Life Sciences, etc).

I was simply saying: A lot of really great, impactful businesses started off with more-modest beginnings; chiding existing upstarts for not being sufficiently ambitious borders on hubris.
Yeah, ethernet is nice for a bit of reliability but it's not that important.

But I was focusing more on the 'gigabit' part, and what you listed generally doesn't need it.
An extended quote:

---

During an American election cycle you will see a lot of “opinions” that looks like this:

“The Constitution clearly gives us the right to do X. Therefore, that’s the way it should be.”

That sounds like an opinion, right?

But it really isn’t.

Here’s why.

The Founders wisely made it hard to change the Constitution, but they did give us the tools to do it. And we have changed it in the past, e.g. slavery.

So it is stupid to hold the opinion that we should do what the Constitution says, no matter what, when the authors of the document had no such intention.

---

I don't think he answered his question (That sounds like an opinion, right?). Say it isn't an opinion, then what is it? If an opinion can't be right or wrong, then an interpretation can be. "the Constitution clearly gives us the right to do X," is an interpretation that needs to be supported by evidence if I'm to be convinced of it.

The author showed that the proposition "The Constitution clearly gives us the right to do X" is a stupidity and not an opinion. I think that's tangential to the more general point: interpretations need examinable evidence.
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The group behind Arrakis did some testing by bypassing the kernel through NIC's and the results were pretty amazing. They also made modifications to memcached and got similarly great results FWIW.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...
Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" had a huge impact on the world, but was an epic failure for his business. Xerox never capitalized on his innovation... so by that measure (since I asked you to name companies), it was a failure. ;)
Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
I wish they make a Kindle Paperwhite in the DX format also. It's a pain to read technical books, with diagrams and code snippets, in the smaller formats.

Yes, there is the iPad, but I like the longer battery life of the Kindle, especially when traveling.
I've always called it the backlog. Don't think we need a loanword for it.
Unless it was some very limiting case, I doubt there was much of a difference -- for simple operations e.g. REDIS (GET/SET) the IPC/network stack will contribute more the to the runtime than the difference between the choice of caching programs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10277682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10274313
Right. Interesting that XMPP in many ways reimplemented some of the problems of both IRC and USENET wrt. federation.

> Retrofitting modern features onto H.323 does not seem like fun. Because if SIP suffers from being too general, H.323 suffers from being way too specific in its architecture and technology requirements -- read through some of the associated specs, eg H.245, and it's not hard to see why SIP won. For the longest time, there was not even the notion of URI addressing...

Sorry to hear that. My general thought was that for a personal system, it would be way lower barrier to use existing h.323 server/clients, than to make a whole new protocol -- and that's probably true.

But if it has been effectively abandoned for a while, SIP might be better -- even if what one might effectively end up with is "proprietary" SIP, as one picks a subset that works for a particular use-case.

Personally I have to complementary goals: The first, and most important, is to build something that allows group chat with archiving, hopefully integrated with optional audio/video and some kind of media sharing (be that wiki, or something more traditional like straight up sharing of files/documents) [But it it should be obvious that by uploading to a wiki with shared authentication/authorization, one would only need to share an url over chat].

The second goal would be to enable federation, at least among those with the know-how/interest in running their own nodes.

Oh, and goal zero would be to retain control, so self-host (although option to get it "on tap" as a service would be nice), and Free/Open software/protocols.

In the end, perhaps XMPP along with just video/audio via WebRTC turns out to be the least worst option. I'm a little worried that the "web-centric" solutions like Mozilla Hello/together.js etc is difficult to pair up with command line clients, bots and/or make accessible for those that need it (eg: braille terminals). I guess audio might be preferred to braille in the general case, even for asynchronous messages, but text is very flexible (eg: text-to-speech system exists).
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I understand, but the risk is that the sarcasm you used is in fact used online in a hurtful way. It can mean either what you did, or be used to intentionally ridicule people.
The idea of a dynamic system is to have a static set of binaries and auto adjusting configs. There are lots of areas where file based IDS works. In fact config management tends to pivot off of file changes.

Pretending its too complex to be secure is a logical fallacy.
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The best part of the Kindle, is the ability to buy collections of the classics for $0.99, which would otherwise have been massive tomes in the physical world.

Now taking the time to read them is another matter...
Or self driving cars that pick you up and let you try on pre selected shoes for you while driving you around. Or an eye exam, take the one filled with devices that can remotely take a look. The cars will be free for the customer. But the "Seller" has to outbid everyone else.
Have you looked at https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx It's a nice little wrapper around database/sql that offers some of the things you talk about.
It would perhaps help those of us who know little of machine learning, if you could give specific examples of silly things stated in the article.
Yes, it's much better to have a list of things you want to learn than a list of things you learned in the past.
Some scientists are worried about a cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic
Sorry if this comes across the wrong way, but have you tried building your grip/forearm strength up? It's an easy muscle group to activate.

However I'm not sure many muscles are good at being tensed for extended periods. I've always just shifted around the way I hold the book every few minutes.
It's 'baud', not BAUD/S.

Your signal timing is 20 microseconds which equals a signal rate of 50000 baud, or 50 kBd.

There are 12 signals in each frame holding one byte. So the byte rate is 50000/12 = 4.2kB/s.
I like reading flat on a table. Works best with hardcover books though. Also there is this little gizmo that you wear on your thumb to keep the book open that is pretty useful for one handed reading (http://www.amazon.com/Thumb-Thing-Holder-Bookmark-TPG-TT3/dp...)
Wow. Good luck installing this. I'm not touching it. It needs to do all sorts of hokey things to work. It needs puppet and git to work? You can't just install python packages, it installs them from a ppa. Deployment is a huge mess. It doesn't have to be this hard.
Agreed.

I ultimately ended up modifying modelq (a tool that populates a Go text template with your DB schema as the context), and used that to generate CRUD code for my tables instead of dealing with reflection.

Turned out really nice.

Beego does something similar, but only for the initial setup, and then plugs the schema into their own orm, I was not that keen on. But using a template to roll my own has been great.
This definitely the clock that would sit on Rorschach's desk.
Nix Build of GHC to Run Haskell on Android
It's still amazing to me that in May we had a fuzzy blob of pixels and today we have this detailed image.

https://twitter.com/tothur/status/620601134651166720/photo/1

It's a bit surprising that we don't have the billionaires sponsoring similar style missions. New Horizons was so cheap. We still have Eris and Makemake.
Reddit comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3memrm/nix_build_o...
How long did the process of making the video take? Since this is mostly an art project, was filming done gradually over the year along with R&D, or only after the clock was finished?

Was this funded by a grant, or is it a personal investment in hopes of selling completed versions of the clock?
I'm choosing to believe that our notions of "belief" differ.
Thanks, these all look interesting but weren't the original source I was looking for. I'm adding them to my reading list regardless

u/brettkromkamp found it. Always bet on text!
Try Clojure and ClojureScript, there a few people who went from Ruby to Clojure, it seems to attract Rubyist. "Clojure Programming" book is very good and compares Clojure to Ruby/Python a lot so it's easier to understand. David Nolan's talk about Om (React wrapper) is pretty awesome and shows the power of Clojure/CLScript. In fact Om is faster than React.js! You can write server and client side apps in Clojure and utilize JVM libraries. Plus it's a very small language but powerful, it's a LISP with no nonsense and production ready. Anyway, check it out. Clojure and Ruby are two of my favorite languages and I actually understand Ruby much better now after playing with Clojure.
No, I'm saying that the people who get to live there should be the people who can afford to pay the ridiculous prices, and people who can't afford to get in should quit whining.

I'd like to live in Blenheim Palace. But I can't afford to buy it and I don't think the Earl of Marlborough is selling. You don't catch me whining about it.
Yes!! Love ya. Seriously, thanks.
Where do you normally read, and how do you sit/lie when you do so?
If you don't mind bending your neck a little, you can always use these comfortable laptop cushioned desks like the one below:

http://www.amazon.com/LapGear-Classic-Original-Lapdesk-45364...
The locks are becoming more fine-grained in memcached [1], so that should be less of a problem now.

It is possible to remove lock contention on the read path [2] if a concurrent hash table is used. This can be done while using an O(1) eviction policy that outperforms LRU [3].

[1] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/97
[2] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Design
[3] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Efficiency
I think the difference is subtle, but a little different. Status updates on Twitter, Facebook, etc. feel like a part of the service - something that exists on Facebook. By checking your timeline you're only looking at events that exist elsewhere. On the other hand, receiving a mail feels like it came to you. It does not exist as an entity somewhere in the world, it's a message that came to your inbox (and possibly to others in the CC/BCC field).

It's sort of like receiving a letter vs. reading something on a pubic notice board. The former is yours, the latter is in public space.
Still, you're not a customer. Did you have any bad experiences while a customer?
I'll try again. I'm not concerned about the arbitrariness of the term 'supermoon'. I dislike the meaningless of it. A good term has meaning behind it. The choice of the new year is arbitrary, and has changed over the centuries. We can examine why there is a calendar system, and compare sun-based to moon-based calendar systems. We can understand that the turnover point of the Gregorian or Mayan calendar is arbitrary, and for the more recent calendar systems we know some of the reasons for why they exist.

Similarly, there's an intrinsic difference between a 'nova' and a 'supernova'.

But if you look at 'supermoon', all you get is a number pulled out of a hat.

> I think that's in the same category as choosing to look at the moon together and feel a sense of awe.

Does the awe really come from someone telling you the moon is near perigee? Or from other aspects?

It's a temporal coincidence that the perigee moon now is near the full moon. In another decade, the perigee moon will be around the new moon. Will we be having the same coverage of the topic then? I doubt it.

Perhaps an analogy might help. People choose to believe in a 'Saturn return'. But 'Saturn return' for arbitrary reasons includes the time +/- a couple of Earth years around a full Saturn year. I can still express my dislike for the term and concept even if you are in awe to know that you are one, or two, or even three Saturn years old.
Beautiful object!

What was an unexpected problem you had? And how do you solve it?

There's a bunch of mechanical stuff going on. How much training did you have in that before you started?

What one thing will you remember for your next project?
This Bitcoin chip is supposed to be the future of micropayments. I'm skeptical
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Hey, thanks for the kind words! We're a very niche podcast but we talk about what we like :-D
If you liked this, you'll probably also like Ferrolic: http://www.ferrolic.com/

Super mesmerizing to watch the ferro fluid making its way through the display.

Edit: I remember reading that the ferro fluid used in Ferrolic would begin to lose its magnetic properties a few months in -

Ferrofluids are fundamentally unstable. They're colloidal suspensions that rely on surfactants to keep the particles apart, and as the surfactants degrade, the particles start clumping together and falling out of suspension. - jpatokal [1]

Is the Rhei somehow designed to last longer? If so I would be really interested in purchasing one if you ever decide to get them into production.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053251
Does anyone "own" any aspect of any culture? While I agree there is a degree of image projection and wanting to look a certain way, does it really matter? Am I appropriating middle class by wearing matching clothing? Am I appropriating upward mobility by attending university? Really, I'm of the mind that none of the cultural signifiers are owned and thus there is no appropriation.

People are free to either follow trends or not follow them and I really don't care. Let people do as they like. You grew up in housing estates and enjoy classical music, great. You came from a middle class family and inject east London lexicon into your speech, great, enjoy it.

Everyone is a unit onto themselves and owe no one any apology for wanting to express themselves the way they want. crying appropriation is insular and is ironic in a sense. Yes. We are part of a society but it will turn on you in an instant, so, no, we don't owe it any deference.
If you thought this was cool, the new Esquire Classic just launched (http://classic.esquire.com/), and Nieman wrote a new, more current article on it (http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/how-esquire-built-esquire-c...).

Disclosure: Helped work on the new Classic site. (http://cantilever.co/)