skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got it, makes complete sense. Thanks for the direct answer.

A bit more info on the app I'm thinking of testing with Flynn: each instance has a single dedicated resource (actually a psuedo terminal sitting on top of a command line tool). Any given instance is incapable of handling requests concurrently, they queue up at the instance. So the app's concurrency model relies on smart load balancing at the router itself. I've got HAProxy playing this role, but have done a bit of a hack job juggling the containers which implement the various microservices.

I'll give Flynn a go to see if the simplicity it gives me in managing my deployment is worth the routing tradeoff for now, but I would definitely love to see Flynn's router adapted as you describe.
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"Doing so undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest."

(from google) Infrastructure : the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

In some countries, Facebook is viewed as "the internet" and the rest of us consider it to be just another social network (albeit one of the biggest) - and for all accounts, the internet is just as important if not more important then some utilities - a company can survive without water (technically) - some companies now a days can't survive without an internet connection - their 100% internet based.

Therefore - I'm an engineer - I build buildings (websites) that allow people to do things - be it educational or informational or to sell stuff.

... i completely understand the argument being made but it can be made across the board - Is a parent that home schools their kids a teacher? Is an employee at McDonalds a chef? Is a PHD a doctor? All titles have different meanings when used in different context.

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It seems unfair to jump from "it's a shoddy product" and "they introduced a security hole" to "they're not technically competent."

A lot of American and European companies have done, and consistently do, the same things. It seems like there's some hypercriticism due to underlying suspicions of intentionality – however well-founded those suspicions may be.
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Also Article I, Section 2, Paragraph 3 (the 3/5ths clause).
It's really easy to be agains't utilitarian trends in higher education when:

1) your parents have money

2) you are lucky/skilled enough to make a living off a Humanities degree

Most people are not like that and a Humanities degree is a terrible choice.

There's no self-discovery when your own survival is at stake.
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On my darker days I believe the hell I live in is my own mind. It's not really possible to escape it, though sometimes sleeping helps.

Luckily dark days are few and far between, and I get help. Medication helps, and when it occurs I tell myself it's not reality because, well, it isn't.
I don't think that's the real problem.
I have my doubts that "better quality products" is really a thing beyond a point. Most of people can't distinguish so subtle details and they really don't care. Just want "the better".

The problem we see, if it is a problem, is that regions with big demand buy the product to regions with worst brand and then sell it as their our.

A lot of the Italian olive oil comes from Spain.
A lot of wine get the grape from other regions.. things like that. Not really a problem, I suppose, just a lie.
So by this logic, MIT, Caltech, GaTech, Carnegie Mellon, as well as every community college that focuses on real world training is doing a fundamental disservice to our civil society.

I disagree, to say the least.

If everyone were an engineer, that probably would not be such a terrible thing, but if everyone were a novelist, that probably would.
Nice webpage style. What is it?
Aren't the "ghost cities" really investment properties for wealthier Chinese living in the cities? I seem to remember reading that there's a lack of diverse investment opportunities, so many invest in condos that they'll never use/inhabit.

Maybe this is the precursor to the next step of "seeding"?
Titles are much cheaper to pay with.
So, it's nice to think of civics and arts. I think these should be more heavily stressed in k-12. The great majority will go beyond secondary education, so we can "waste" more time on civics, art and morality.

On the other hand, people first and foremost want survival, they want to find a modicum of success in this new world economy. Liberal arts students know all too well how their prospects compare to those of others who chose CS, finance, statistics, etc. Just listen to the bitter kids on npr who rag on the new economy. They feel left out, and they are right, they are falling behind. Their professions of choice are not as prestigious any more.

She can make these claims being an exception at the top. Most people following her would probably feel disappointed at their achievement, if they were to follow.

Higher ed is not like it was 100 - 200 years ago where the idle children of the rich could explore their fancy ideas about civilization and humanity. Most people just want to be employable, that is all.
Yes, it would! ;-)
"faked by the command line"

"The command line" isn't really involved here - they're arguably GUIs rendered in the terminal. Another term is "Captive User Interface", although a text editor is one of the few places I don't mind it.
The pricing is minimum price per person. In addition, I've spoken with and met folks who plan events often in the city and they love the product, albeit, the more higher end ones already have their networks and contacts at venues. So they suggested that I market this to the non-pro event planner that needs a venue for their bridal shower, baby shower, wedding, etc... Struggling with finding a marketing solution to target this group because it's particularly broad market segment.
Of course, the exact opposite dynamic also exists in full bloom - when did you last see an advocate for government action invite falsification?

Mariana Mazzucato's work on The Entrepreneurial State makes frequent appearances in these parts, typically in the shape of references to internet startups not really being innovative, because the internet/GPS/touch screens/Siri have roots in government research programs.
It's more the latter, it doesn't actually capture the image like a camera would. Instead it captures and records every single light ray and reconstructs the environment based upon that.

That would then allow you to overlay computer generated images onto basically a heightmap that has 100% accuracy to the real world.

At least that's what I got from the video.
Since space is the standard argument separator in most shells, yes, obviously.
The problem can be worked around/handled in various ways, but it's still a problem, of course.
Dude, you cannot compare a country the size of Chile (8m in the '60s) with a country the size of Russia (120m in the '60s) or China (600m in the '60s).
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"Why can't Facebook keep its service free for consumers but charge organizations"

But that is exactly how Facebook works: they charge organizations money to reach relevant users. Users are never charged.
Legal code is logical. Very. You might not be able to read it, but that's because you haven't learned the language yet.

And like any code, real-world applications are much harder to read than textbook examples.
Interesting. The only proof of HMAC efficacy I had seen was one by contradiction, where a false HMAC that validates would imply a collision on the underlying hash. (I'm saying this from memory, which is widely known to be unreliable).
> So if 1990s Russia and Pinochet's Chile are examples of extreme free market experiments

You're confused. They're examples of free market experiments, however the Pinochet's deaths had nothing to do with the free market and all with his political power.

If you want to see deaths caused by free market, look at e.g. homeless people who freeze on the street during winter.
But it's not efficient. The author even explicitly says so at the beginning:

> (Disclaimer: It's not faster. It's not better. It's not production-quality code. It's just is and it was fun to make ;>)

It's a joke, a joke with some context, that you tell other people who know the context. Would you accuse people of intentionally obfuscating things when they riff on "the door is ajar" joke?
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> The hopes of private industry are that an entirely private corporation, in order to protect its brand's value, needs to avoid this sort of thing.

It's 2015, no-one believes this anymore.
tl;dr He got phished by an email from "google.docs@it-helpdesk.support"
This is the major difference between the US and EU. In the EU this isn't the "bank's customer data" this is the "customer's data." The customer actually has a legal right to see what data is held about them by the bank, and the bank has a legal obligation to make sure that data is accurate and up to date.
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Any chance you can point me to a good demo? I haven't seen a good single-scan loyalty/payment demo for ApplePay yet, and the SamsungPay demo seems to imply it but isn't very clear...
Thanks for your feedback. That does remind me my time in the eastern block. Just a bit harsher. This might very well be a distribution problem e.g. some sectors being prioritized, and the people being left to their own fate.
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That's not at all what is meant. I hope you don't mean money is what makes the engineer.
I've spoken with several event planning pros in person, and quickly learned that they're not our target. We built this because we wanted to making finding the perfect venue for your event simple as possible, with software that is easy to use and nice to look at. The users that we're targeting are non-event planning pros - or average joes/janes who are looking for a venue for their bridal shower, baby shower, wedding etc... and would like to consider and reach out to several venues at once to find the right one for them. With venuevortex.com we are accomplishing that. Albeit, because the market is so broad it's difficult to work out a marketing strategy. Perhaps we can target each segment e.g. people who are looking for venues for their bridal shower, then wedding etc... but where do we find these people?
But what about prior art? I understand newly created microorganisms being patentable, but how can you patent something that was already there?
No, on modern 64-bit processors it's definitely more efficient and faster than the loop variant. It's measurable. The author's disclaimer that it isn't faster is actually valid only for old or small processors.

See cnvogel's attempt to measure it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513767

I also haven't accused anybody anything here.
> scammers only counterfeit the best.

They counterfeit anything they can make money from, but "the best" is generally a go-to market for sure.
Very interesting. Do you have any source regarding their endeavours, or did you perhaps have any dealing with them?

What is the state of their biotech scene?
Folks today have it easier, not harder, than folks 100-200 years ago. There's something very wrong if we cannot afford more arts and civics today.

Also, I'm not ready to consign the bulk of the country to a life of labor. Instead of, for instance, exploring what makes us human. Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?
If the banks cared they would provide either token-based API like oAuth or at the very least, a read-only password for users to give these sites that aren't fully credentialed.

Customers will always want to extract their data.
Because the law isn't a machine, it's made from humans. And "verbal" (usually "natural" in this context) languages are how humans communicate.
The basis of sous vide is to cook the meat to the desired level of "doneness" (directly related to temperature of the inside of the steak) and then sear the outside. Searing the outside is mostly decoupled from the inside cooking because it happens fast and thus only on the very outside layer of the meat.

I mapped this strategy directly to eggs, but it probably would work poorly. With a steak, "sear the outside to your preference" is easy. With an egg, "cook the whites without overcooking the yoke" is likely to be difficult.

Your suggested method of using the bath to maintain the water temperature would probably work well and probably result in less "rubbery" whites, but probably is overkill compared to maintaining the water temperature at 212 degrees (trivial) and control cooking via time per the article (and tradition). Plus you would have to boil 3,000 eggs to scientifically establish the new cook times. ;-)
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Its only a pity that most scammers do a poor job. If someone made a better counterfeit, then the problem is much smaller. I'd be glad to pay less for better!
> Different stoves, different water starting temperature, different pots..these these will all affect how quickly you can cook the eggs.

No matter what model of stove or pot or starting temperature you have, water boils at 100C* . If the water is supposed to be boiling the whole time, the 5-minute cook time is completely repeatable.

You understand that it is physically impossible to have liquid water above 100C without applying pressure, yes?

* Depending on atmospheric pressure.
With lobbyists?
Enough with plotting some sort of opinion on a simplistic and inadequate two-dimemsional political axis! It's almost never helpful.
I agree that any OSS developer should recognize their toy projects will likely not go anywhere and keep a few projects in mind to work on. Keeps things in perspective, keeps one interested, and so on like author said. Doing 10 projects in parallel makes less sense to me. One can accomplish the same thing sequentially while focusing on only a few projects. Just bounce back and forth.

If I went with a rule, I think Google's 80/15/5 rule is worth further exploration. Many of the best projects start with a clear need to solve a problem. Picking one of them and making it happen should be 80% as others will appreciate the problem being solved. Especially true if author understands that domain. A significant step out of the domain or re-application of an effective concept to new domain might be a 15%. A 5% project might be a wild idea with potential but high risk and/or way outside author's domain expertise. The main energy will go into 1-2 80% projects while the 15% and 5% projects are a mental break from that.

This model seems more productive while still letting a person screw around on side projects that might be fun, good learning experiences, or time-wasters with a limit on the waste.
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The Guardian makes no secret of their bias so it's no surprise there's zero mention of the word "Republican", considering the source.

Their right-wing equivalents (WSJ/Breitbart/Daily Mail) do the same thing to Democrats.
First and most important: Great project! Writing an editor must be a whole lot of work! Especially when source code analysis is included. You said that you're using clang there. I've also been working with clang (for more than two years by now) and I've got to say that it's a great tool when it comes down to source code analysis. It's a little hard to get into, but it's totally worth the effort - especially when templates are involved. You wouldn't wanna analyze such code on your own ;)
So I think you don't regret using clang there, do you?

Now some feedback:
- I really like how your file search and the file tree interact!
- It would be nice to show the definitions of local variables (e.g. inside a function scope). Or even better: Highlight all usages that variable throughout the scope! That would really help keeping track of things.
Awesome work! very clean and simple UI. I'll have to checkout how it fairs in production, but it sounds leaner than ActiveAdmin and more naturally customizable.

My one complaint about thoughtbot is that they can be slow in responding to PR's and issues; So if you submit to the project, don't be surprised if you wait 9 months to hear back about it. It might just be dependent on who the project lead is, so YMMV.

Also, the demo doesn't render quite right in safari for me, but looks right in firefox. I'd look into fixing it, but, see above.

Still, i'm thankful these folks are still pumping out these projects; i use quite a bit of their toolkit now that I think about it.
Hate to pull an ad hominem attack, but do we expect any other opinion from someone so entrenched within the existing higher education world?

Robinson, who has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including her current position at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, identified a troubling trend in higher education today.

Acedemics and hackers alike tend to idealize their choices, and often turn a blind eye to those that don't fit their chosen educational or business model.

Also, "self-discovery" works only for those that have the luxury to explore without the pressures to support themselves or their immediate family.
I really don't understand what the companies involved with MCX are thinking. They build an app that is going in the opposite direction of where the market is heading and limit the amount of payments they accept.

I was in line at 7-11 at my university, where an girl was trying to use the currentc app. She was 2 people ahead of me, when I went up to pay she was still trying to pay with the app. At first her screen was to dim, and the scanner would not read the QR code. Eventually she was able to pay, but I was already long gone by that time. If you look on the google play store it has a rating of 1.1 starts.

This is straight from its website,"Merchant Customer Exchange is the only merchant-owned mobile commerce network built to streamline the customer shopping experience across all major retail verticals."

With an app that rates 1.1 stars and no improvement, I don't think it cares about the shopping experience, and people will see this eventually.
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I did not intend to say any such thing, do not believe that is true, and IMO, it takes a fairly tortured reading of my words to reach your conclusion.
what fun is advocacy if you can't use connotation to attack your opponents? it's even better when you can make clever puns and show off for your readers. they'll be tickled.
"...retail customer's money is on the line in the event of fraud..." is a good point that may just slide by. The fact that corporations have significantly moved to evading any kind of responsibility through various means from regulatory capture to force arbitration and market monopoly; it strikes me that the factor of risk to the retail consumer aspect will play a huge role. It is a huge competitive disadvantage, to both not develop something well and with vigilance towards security like Apple Pay is, while also then setting in place a framework for conveying to customers that "if there is fraud because of our poorly designed and developed system, we are going to duck and weave like champions".

Do you want to keep away customers, i.e., revenue, because that's how you keep away customers.
It's all well and good for Hacker News entrepreneurs to blather about egalitarianism, but the primary difference between an 'engineer' (a person with a Professional Engineering certification) and an 'engineer' (a person who touches a computer for money) is that one group is held responsible for their work, including explicit ethics standards, a governing body with certification-revocation powers, and a legal framework for enforcement of quality.

There has never, ever, ever, been a programmer who has been barred from programming for selling shitty code. There have absolutely been engineers barred from engineering for selling shitty designs.

The only way to make this (frankly uninteresting) argument end is to either hold programmers accountable for quality, or stop holding engineers accountable for quality. Until then, you're using one word to refer to two groups of people with wildly different work requirements, and there will always be people complaining about that.

Full disclosure: I have done both kinds of engineering for a living.
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No doubt there are good people in Baidu. This happens everywhere, including the now defuncting Nokia, however those people are not put in good use.

To turn the question around: what makes you think they are technical competent? Can you provide 2 examples instead?
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Two key features the Amiga lacked were virtual memory and memory protection. OS/2 offered both.
That's why I figure formalization should be relatively straightforward. The PDF someone linked to about a Prolog-based formalization of UK citizenship legislation is a perfect example.

Code should be executable, queryable, checkable, and so on. Legal code translated into a logical skeleton would obviously be more amenable to visualization and other interesting things. Then everyone wouldn't have to learn the language; we could develop tools for people to query the data at different levels of sophistication.
Cuts both ways: makes her an expert at her field, no? Can we now criticize and ignore experts because they're 'entrenched'?
Since copyright terms often exceed 150 years, I think we're better off with patents, which last for 20 years.
I was saying local to Tennessee but you maybe onto something haha. I've never toured the facility because it's a dry county and they just give you lemonade. The offices and distributors closer to where I lived were a different story. ;)
It's interesting to compare the investment amounts into Twitter vs Google. Very different trajectories in how things actually turned out.

(Boy would I love to see the 2011 Powerpoint deck shown to the Twitter investors in Round 7 & and Round 8 that convinced them to sink the additional $400 million & $300 million. It seems like there must have been some wildly optimistic projections in that presentation.)

Twitter Inc:

- +$1.0 billion from 8 rounds of funding pre-IPO [1]
- +$1.8 billion raised from IPO [2] (sold 13% of the company)
- ====
- +$2.8 billion total

- -$511 million loss[3] in first post-IPO quarterly report

Google Inc:

- +~$1 million from angel investors (including Andy Bechtolsheim's famous $100k check)
- + $25 million from Sequoia, KPCB
- + $1.9 billion raised from IPO (sold 8% of the company)

- +$66 million profit[4] in first post-IPO quarterly results (and would have been +$200 million if they didn't pay to settle Yahoo patents)
- +$$$ millions in growing profits in subsequent years as we all know now

[1] http://upstart.bizjournals.com/money/loot/2013/11/06/twitter...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-07/twitter-ra...

[3] https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=...

[4] https://investor.google.com/earnings/2004/Q3_google_earnings...
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Humans also communicate through formal systems, which is why the history of logic has always involved formalization.
As a native mobile developer... How is react-native (or something similar) not the future?
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