skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mainly work on the smaller side of servers, so you would be looking at Intel Xeon or i7 2.8-3.2 GHz (4-8 cores), 16-32 GB RAM, Windows Server 2008, a 100+ GB SSDs in RAID, 1 TB HDD, with nightly backups. Interestingly, management analytics applications can handle longer downtime than operational systems, so a full system restore from the nightly backup is an acceptable process. Data can recovery can just be performed without downtime, with background processes and zero-downtime database updates.
> 1. No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory.

Could it affect the international enforceability of open source licenses?
Best Place to Work requires lodging an application and demonstrating your efforts. It's only valuable for medium-to-big-size companies for the PR fallout. Most companies don't bother applying.
I did them by hand with CSS.
This article is purestrain Eric Raymond at his Eric Raymondest.
They'll be accepting reservations in March of 2016.
Big Iron exists to do tons of high-reliability (as in, "fire some buckshot at the server, swap some parts, zero downtime") transaction processing.

Little known fact: the original high-throughput NoSQL document database was written by IBM and is still around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_Sys...
Investors Not Barking
Yes, the expertise brought back is invaluable, indeed.
Hey Alex, thanks for trying Snapp!

> I noticed that it doesn't want to maximize the window when I have an external display set up to be stacked above my laptop display.

Do I understand correctly that you are trying to maximize the window on your laptop display? If so, I just tried this myself: the mouse has to be dragged into the topmost row of pixels of the display, which is not very practical if the mouse can move further up onto your external display...

Maybe it would be better if the window was maximized when the mouse is dragged into the upper half of the menubar, not just the topmost row of pixels?
Maintaining food quality from right after preparation to time of consumption is a non-trivial problem. Re-heated food is just not as good.
If you have 24 GB of RAM, then you are certainly a rare breed. Curious, what motivated you to install so much?
Just me the domain owner.

Not sure why people re-posting it.
As a user, I would tend to agree; but as a developer, thinking about "what if the browser decides to kill this one script request but run the rest of the scripts?" is the last thing on my mind. I don't know, maybe I'm a lazy dev[0], but when you consider it's essentially the browser's selective compliance to the standards, how far down that rabbit hole do you want to go?

Now, you could argue that requests can legitimately fail at any time, and it's best to handle it. OK, as a lazy/efficient dev willing to entertain that, I'll design my page to put up a modal alert saying "There was an error loading this page. Click OK to refresh." if anything fails to load. Now my error-handling job is done, but privacy-conscious users will still be mad at me, demanding that I gracefully degrade for every combination of request-blocking (or in GP's case, request-tampering!) they can dream up.

Again, I'm sympathetic as a user, and I've even experienced broken pages due to Ghostery, but as a developer it's hard to blame them.

[0] And AFAIK have no hard dependencies on third-party scripts like GA.
How Mars lost its atmosphere and became a cold, dry world
'Kamikaze drones' begin use in israel
> I mean, show me one non-collectivist philosophy according to which is OK to kill human (except in unavoidable self-defense).

Individualistic (as opposed to ethical or utilitarian) hedonism: if it brings the holder of that philosophy net pleasure to do a thing, it is right to do it.

Pretty much the most anti-collectivist philosophy possible.
What We Owe the MythBusters
FYI, if you use YNAB with Chase you might find that QFX payee/memo information is garbled. If so, here's a little script that can repair the file by cross-referencing your transactions against the CSV-copy.

https://github.com/DHager/chase_fixer
> ...corporations having legally-enforceable fiduciary duties to shareholders.

This depends upon the state. In Delaware corporations, directors and officers owe fiduciary duties to the corporation and shareholders. See Buttonwood Tree Value Partners LP v. R.L. Polk & Co., C.A. No. 9250-VCL. The difference might seem moot to laypeople, but is incredibly important for those real people acting as officers and directors who are directly involved in corporate governance activities.
I agree the site looks nice. One thing though, the cosplay guy in the illustrations on the page had me immediately thinking of Beastie which I found surprising seeing as GNU has a bit of a different ideology from BSD. GNU has long been using a gnu as their mascot so I guess the suit might be supposed to resemble a gnu calf.

Edit: Specifically I think it is the cover artwork of Kong's 2007 book Designing BSD Rootkits published by No Starch Press [1] combined with the FreeBSD logo [2] that caused me to think of Beastie when I visited the new Guile site.

[1]: https://www.nostarch.com/rootkits.htm

[2]: http://www.FreeBSD.org/logo.html
Is slow-cooked meat which is refrigerated and later re-heated just-as or almost-as good? I hate dry reheated chicken.
The area where people live (closer to 45th, on the other side of the UW campus) has quite a few Amazon Lockers.
Markdown, Strikethrough, and Slack
solarsprint.com - $500 (although i'll likely donate it to organization teaching kids to build solar cars)

conferencecalljournal.com - $100
I don't care about wireless interconnection, but wired interconnection.
Has anyone tried any automated vegetable/meat choppers they've liked? Chopping is my least favourite part of cooking.
But is that ethic and morality something that is impossible for other cultures to emulate or adopt? If so, why? I think "culture" is a dynamic thing, it's changeable. I think the evidence of this is abundant & widespread (See: most countries adopting western/hollywood culture since the 1920s).

I often see a similar argument from gun nuts. You show them that Japan has a ban on guns and that they have zero hand-gun related deaths annually, show them that they have among the lowest crime rate in the world, and they use the excuse of "Oh, it's a different culture. It's not comparable". That's nonsense logic to me. All it means is we also need to change our culture too, then. Sure, it's another factor to consider, but that's all. It's not a roadblock.
Energy density of batteries increases by about 7% per year. So within a decade battery range should match the average passenger car range. At that point, continuous driving is the last challenge. Fast chargers would need to scale with battery capacity for a roadtrip use case of say 5 hours of driving between stopping for meals and charging.
One reason big machines might make a comeback is the increasing capability putting off the super-linear cost growth into the realm of > 100GB in-memory or > 10TB on disk. CPU hasn't kept pace unless you consider GPGPU or Phi parts.

Super-linear disk cost back when disks were already atrociously slow compared to the rest of the machine have largely gone away with SSD's hitting huge capacities and tech like NVMe, solid state RAM modules, and Intel's upcoming Optane tech ensuring that more than ever, scaling horizontally can be put off way more than used to be possible.

If you look at scale-out vs scale-up for any applications that were disk limited, disk performance is now ridiculous - > 1GB/s and IOP's measured in 100's of thousands. I'm expecting a bit of a comeback for HA over HP. More than likely, your app can be served well by a single big machine that is well within the linear scaling regime, and you need several for durability and geo-availability.
Interesting. Especially them doing a nightly restore. Many forget to ensure the restore process will work as well as the backup. That company will probably have no problem there. :)
But if I work a 2400 Euro job for 1200 Euro, that is quite a difference. The employer pockets the difference, all I spend in my guest country is a bit on food and living.

The supply of jobs is finite imo - a warehouse needs 20 unskilled workers, they'll get 20 workers working for 1200 Euro instead of 20 working for twice the wage, so 20 local people in a town are left with nothing...
Honestly I think that the "vintage" GNU site looks better than that one. Clean typography, sensible colors, it's even flat-design and it's not even trying!

It's honest about what it is. Designers aren't going to be downloading Guix or probably GNU Screen. The older page is much more aligned with the FSF's brand, which is utilitarian and emphasizes freedom above all else. Guix's site looks very corporate, like a dead startup from the late aughts.
Does the Guix team have any interest in adding documentation to the Nix source code? Presumably you guys know a lot more about it than the average developer. I haven't spent a huge amount of time looking through the Nix source, but the times when I've had, I've found the documentation to be very anemic.
http://c.gg - see front page
I've got 32GB in my three year old workstation and 16GB in my laptop. Memory is cheap, so why not?
Isn't it really rather pointless to show distro-specific installation instructions. Someone who can program in scheme or octave really doesn't need help on using apt-get. There's many options if you want to cover a good range of distributions. Someone that clueless will probably not realise the commands need running as root, either. It only makes sense for Windows and OS X.
I've got 64GB, and will double it when I get the other CPU socket populated (bloody expensive Xeons!) This is because I work with giant data sets, in this case, digital video, specifically cinema-quality stuff spit out of a RED camera. I'd do the same with any other large data sets, databases, analytics, etc. RAM is inexpensive compared to the time saved by having data rapidly accessible. Even arguable for web surfing and other light desktop stuff. We can never get more time, but we can make the machines quicker and piles of RAM are a good way to do it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388815
I've always wondered about this. Is it really just the brand that has made Y Combinator the #1 accelerator for so long?
What causes autism? Environmental risks are hard to identify
I've been there. Here's what worked for me:

1. Answer emails very quickly. (Within a few minutes)

2. Return phone calls very slowly. (Never pick up, call back many hours later).

Eventually, any "rational actor" who is trying to reach you will email instead.
Besides, its down the hill from that. Not a great place to be lugging packages up high grade side streets.
i often find myself using a number of virtual machines at the same time.

also, chrome tabs ain't cheap.
> 100,000 albums being released every year, which means in our lifetime we'll hit 1 billion+

Even assuming a lifetime is 100 years, that would be only 10 million albums. There would have to be 10 million albums released per year to get to a billion in a lifetime.

I think a lot of albums don't take much effort to produce, EPs from garage bands and bedroom turntablists probably require less effort than even a trashy novel. Of course a decent number of those 300,000 new books are very low-effort affairs as well.
I can't help but feel that the entire article is filled to the brim with bitterness. There's no objectivity to it and, instead of coming away with some negative opinion of Amazon's new store, I feel like I'm coming away with a negative view of the author and a willingness to give Amazon's store a shot.
"Here's a 0.5 star review on my 2.5 star trip to Amazon's New Bookstore"
A linguistic aside...

I always thought it was 'big iron' as in something big and made of 'iron'. The idea of 'Big Irons' makes me think of ironing shirts with some super-sized, barely lift-able iron rather than something the size of my Philips iron. I imagine the steam from a 'big iron' could be quite fearsome.

Having made the link I now have a sensible name for the server room where I work. We didn't put a sign on that door because it would be helpful for thieves. 'Ironing Room' as in what hotels have might be more befitting even though a server and a firewall does not make 'big iron'.

Either way 'big irons' is now added to my lexicon to go along with other deliberate misspellings including 'nucular' and 'skelington'.
> I wish Nintendo and similar companies would release the specs of their old platforms under an open license.

It wouldn't really matter at this point. By now, the NES [1] and SNES [2] are already some of the best-publicly-documented systems in the world.

[1]: http://wiki.nesdev.com/

[2]: http://wiki.superfamicom.org/
Maybe the rest of the $3.99 is for the seller to spend on shipping and handling.
No, it looks much better. The drop-shadows are a bit cringey but again, the colors make sense and for what it's worth it's an honest design. This is clearly the homepage of a free software project.
Ask HN: Do you think about leaving your job more than once a day?
I certainly do.

If I did not need to be saving money currently I think I would have left already. I honestly struggle through each day for the past one or two months or so. The work that has been given to be is a combination of tedious, non-challenging, and unrelated to what I initially hired to do. There was a time where I did some interesting things, but that was at least 6 months ago.

How do you change the situation? Or how do you cope with terrible work for an extended period of time?
I would like to have an estimation of total hydrogen leaks we could have if everybody used this technology everywhere. Hydrogen is so light that it's going into space when it's released in atmosphere.

If the computation shows that we will send 1% of earth's hydrogen into space every 5 billion years, no problem.

If we will send 1% of earth's hydrogen every 1000 years or less, I will prefer not to use this technology.
Top Shipment Is Giving Equity for Part Time Front End Developer
Nah, the implication is just that once the shooting starts, there's no reason not to exploit whatever security holes you've found at the cost of being "provocative".
There was a company in Americus, GA that was exporting millions of chopsticks to China, but it bounced a $1M+ check and went into receivership. I've not seen anything about it recently: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138761682/georgia-company-expo...
not the parent, but for me it's not having to think about what I run concurrently. A browser instance with many tabs, VMs running and editing large files in e.g. Photoshop and you'll easily go over 16 GB. If you regularly compile large projects or develop memory intensive apps you might want more. A few people I know were very happy about new Intel desktop CPUs supporting 64 GB instead of only 32 (and get annoyed every time they try to buy a new laptop and discover that 32 GB still is hard to get)
The RIM Confederacy: Pirates Video
The business model of airlines is to shove as many people as possible into a giant tin can and deliver them from one hub to another. Despite the number of people and high cost of tickets, this alone is not enough to turn a profit, so the hubs are turned into high-priced shopping traps. When fuel prices are low enough, it is enough to keep the airships afloat. But it is a completely backward system of travel, where the actual travel becomes almost a secondary matter. It's all the fanfare and bazaar around it that drives the wasteful economics, and likewise the hate of it.

An efficient and beloved system would turn to smaller planes and point-to-point trips. Smaller planes would allow automobile-like scaling of plane manufacture and point-to-point trips would provide a reduction in fuel costs. But we will never see it, b/c as it turns out, Capitalism is not about efficiency or catering to the common customer. Rather it is about moving around as many bits of currency as fast as possible. The airline industry is one the great examples of this.
would you like to share your story of how you did it?
This is the purpose of the "web" link you can find at the top of the page; it works for any paywall that allows traffic from Google searches.
Word	Occurrences	Frequency	Rank

you	196	4.2%	1

your	74	1.6%	2

company	60	1.3%	3

it's	59	1.3%	3

great	56	1.2%	4

product	52	1.1%	5

people	51	1.1%	5

get	44	0.9%	6

founders	42	0.9%	6

good	40	0.9%	6
Before Codd, all the DBMSes were "NoSQL".
>There are hundreds of other “accelerators” worldwide that have replicated YC’s ...

Nonsense. The article authors are so very wrong. There will be literally zero replicators of YC until someone replicates the most influential open tech community/media that is HN. A competitive advantage that is truly hard to copy. That's like a basic fact from real world startups 101.
In fairness, what amounts to a hyperlink is not "bloat". I wish it wasn't there because it's a thing nobody is ever going to use in the age of Hangouts and Skype, but it's not like impacts the rest of the browser in any way
But you literally discounted his post about NPM because of his other posts and what he has in his bio.

The other stuff might annoy you, but it doesn't take away from the fact that he is a thought leader on NPM. When he says something about NPM desktop usage, it is probably worth listening to, even if he happens to put his preferred pronoun in his bio.

You can have other opinions and still be a thought leader in tech. The HN cliche I was referring to is: All that matters is the code, all we should care or talk about is compilers and startups, and we should ignore anything else involving society (but at the same time preach about "DISRUPTING EVERYTHING.")

That's what you did. Hence, cliche.
Amazon mandates that they charge exactly $3.99 for S+H, because previously when everyone set their own charges for S+H, it was difficult for the consumer to compare prices from different vendors, and the vendors were incentivized to inflate S+H so that their books would look cheaper than they were.

Of course it would be more logical for Amazon to mandate S+H of $0 so that what you see is what you pay, but I think the current system is a reasonable compromise.
Innovating on Gun Safety
there is more arbitrary web-tool

it is possible to organize information into folders, properties and relations. so you may implement arbitrary classification and efficiently search through it. it is possible to make annotations. it is possible to share your information to other people.

it is free.

however it requires google login and no file uploading - you may use your google drive and post links.

http://project-identity.com

I have started entering my own worth to read book list, if you can read russian you may enter search request to get it:
name: тема
value: книги которые стоит почитать

or browse user Dmitry.Bryliuk@ directly
only 40 participants took part in this study
That's...bizarre. Three reposts.

Two are from a brand new account.

Maybe some kind of bot?
I go to a liberal arts college with a Computer Science (B.S.) program. I have definitely been taught literature, history (by far my favorite class in college), and art very well. Unfortunately I have not been taught Computer Science well at all.

That said, I agree with you. When I took my liberal arts courses, I felt like I was learning something or using a part of my brain that I didn't in my Computer Science courses. I could never really tell what it is, unfortunately, but I liked it.
That is just shoddy programming... the string "null" should never be equal to the type null...
Electric car startup founded by former Tesla employees plans $1B factory
I'll be unambiguous when you make the rules unambiguous.

I'm being ambiguous because you're forcing me to.

I've told you what I'm unsure about. I've linked to write-ups of what I've done. I've pointed to parts in other programs that seem not to clearly match against the rules.

Yet you, who knows the rules, have opted not to make one clarification about this. Not a single "yes, that technique is legal" or "no, this is against the rules". If you did this, I would happily give a clearer response. If my programs do break the rules, I would happily retract them until they don't, and point out which other submitted programs should also be retracted. This would not bother me.

Instead, you're demanding me to make definitive statements on information you're keeping hidden from me.

This is not making me feel pleasant, and this does bother me.
You could make the wristband hard to accidentally remove, but if it is made out of a decent metal and engraved then it would not be hard to ensure that it survived.

Something like this needs to be voluntary - we really don’t want to be forcing vulnerable people to start wearing something they don’t want to.
1990 Computer Trivia with Bill Gates, John Doerr, Stewart Alsop, and More
It's arguably true that we set out to build some of the more complicated pieces of the client first, when we could have tried with simpler versions that simply ignored important parts of the HTTPS deployment task.

But the traditional UNIX philosophy has not been working well for TLS to date, and certificates are hard to do right in a simple way. If every web developer and sys admin needs to know about the following things:

- how to get a cert from us
- how to bind a privileged port (:80 or :443) or reconfigure a webserver to prove domain control
- the difference between end-entity certificates, CA certificate chains, "combined" end-entity and CA chains, and the weird heisenbugs you can get by getting them mixed up
- how to handle the need to renew certificates periodically
- the HTTP secure cookie flag
- the HSTS header
- redirects from HTTP to HTTPS
- the Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests directive
- OCSP stapling
- the tradeoffs involved in ciphersuite tuning

Then we are never going to have a universally encrypted and secure Web.

So we set out to build a client that will, as it matures, get all of those things right for you. Meanwhile, the Python client does support console-only (-t) or non-interactive (pass in flags to avoid all questions) modes of operation.

As we get to a 1.0 release, we expect those modes will be more robust and documented / discoverable for those who want them. But we think that many web developers will be happier to not have to know the difference between a cert, a cert chain, and a full chain.
There are other advantages that typically come with a Big Iron type setup. They tend to have a combination of hot-swap RAM, CPUs, and IO cards, as well as more extensive circuitry to detect when a piece of hardware has failed, such as having CPUs and/or RAM operate in lockstep. With real big iron, they'll have hot spare processors that will automatically activate, plus make a service call to the hardware vendor to tell them to come and swap out the bad module. That SQL appliance will work come hell or high water, which is something that horizontal systems still have trouble with from time to time.
Get Your $# together
Here's the version I played (ported to the less-capable 2600) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wh8Gb9J1nE

It came with a multi-button controller with replaceable overlays, which presaged the Atari Jaguar's controllers.
I think this is a good idea.

I will add as a side note, if you can't maintain something anymore, put a big heading on the README.md saying so. If it's popular, point people to a maintained fork.

(Nothing I write is extremely popular but I'm going to go through and "deprecate" a few things of mine tonight)
Yeah, that's Sannenzaka slope near Kiyomizudera. The reason your buddy took the picture and I can tell exactly where it came from is because that's just about the only place in Kyoto that looks like that. (Plus a few flatter bits around Gion/Pontocho that have been tarted up for tourists.)