skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemfire (on which geode is based) has a fully featured c, c++, c# client which has feature parity with the Java client. I don't know if pivotal is going to open source these clients too.

There however is a REST api and a python client https://github.com/gemfire/py-gemfire-rest
Rents would stay the same. The supply of housing will not have changed and neither will the demand.

House prices would go down though - a house with a high recurring tax is much a less attractive investment.
We are looking for hardcore software engineers for Autopilot - Elon Musk
I'll let Job's ghost know about the results. It will change everything.
theme forest is great, keep up the good work!
They don't work well in most cases. You can point to some very specific niche markets where donations and pay per articles work. Just look at Patreon, its a great service and I use it to support a few things. But its not going to support most businesses.

For most business its going to be either a paywall or ads and ads allow for content to be access by people without means to pay for it.
Ask HN: Any advice for a “wordpress developer” interview?
I was referring to all usage of Rust by clients across the world versus a single compiler and reference standard library. Many of these clients will need "unsafe" blocks, and the combined length of these "unsafe" blocks will exceed that of the standard library and compiler assuming Rust adoption is high.

This is what concerns me: I wished Rust's "unsafe" blocks could have been exclusively confined to some things in the reference language compiler and standard library. Unfortunately, it seems like many reasonable systems applications still need access to unsafe blocks for reasons of performance, low level access, etc and such needs are not uncommon given the target systems audience.
Suspending belief?
Uh, It sounds like we're in violent agreement? What I'm saying is that if you code it wrong it's completely wrong, even if it's only off by one keystroke. There's no guessing. Computers aren't flexible in interpreting what you're writing. I don't think this requires a citation from Torvalds. It's just a fact.
> I don't know what is the impact on jobs for a firmware engineer.

Moore's Law slowing down is good for firmware people. Optimizing, by hand, for 10% matters when you can't just get a factor of 2 automatically every 18 months.

> I don't see anything new coming soon in the embedded space and IoT looks like more of a hype than anything else.

The embedded space is power and cost constrained. Power constrained because of batteries and their inability to deal with RF. Cost constrained because memory now makes up 75% plus of chip area which defines the cost.

IoT is a lot of hype. The problem is that IoT is LOW VOLUME, and nobody wants to deal with that. So, everybody wants you to adopt their "highly scalable" (har har) backend and extract rent from the people doing the real work who are creating and marketing the application device. And, everybody decent at producing devices is also smart enough to realize that the money is in the backend so they refuse to play along.

The company that is willing to slog through the swamp of low volume will be the one who stumbles into the high volume application. Think Qualcomm getting started by tracking trucks and stumbling into cellular phones.
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>I think that this is just a bias that is blinding people to the inherent contradiction. The reason that shithole apartments become so expensive is because there are people with the money to spend who "need" (i.e. work in the area) that apartment. It has nothing to do with construction or maintenance costs, just demand.

It is certainly demand but it's not demand coming from the people working and living there. It's demand coming from millionaire investors buying up high end property as an investment.

Google for dark condos.
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An MIT degree to find the obvious?
(go ahead downvote me)
When did exactly "programmers" become "coders" and why?
It's pretty sad that a Forbes editor can't spell a Fortune 50 (#32) corporation name right.

"What Proctor (sic) & Gamble Can Teach the Health Care Industry: Assume Nothing About Patients"
Hacker News 2 is really good: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...

Clean and readable UI. It's also open source: https://github.com/bishopmatthew/HackerNews
I noticed that Envato hosted an Elixir meetup. Have you guys been using it in production? If so how has it worked for you guys?
basically a marketplace for developers to sell products. I think they started with themeforest which basically website templates/wordpress themes, now they have tons of other sites which include things like sound effects, stock video, etc.
Elon Musk hiring team to make Teslas fully autonomous
And yet Detroit has pretty much the perfect weather for growing apples. I'd imagine there have to be old trees all throughout the city from back when there was money, given that they can easily produce fruit for 100+ years and can go decades with little to no maintenance.
Tangentially related. What caused cable-stayed bridges to so increase in prominence over the past few decades? I did some reading and they've become a popular choice for bridges and have advantages (e.g. not requiring really solid anchoring for the ends of the cable) but I haven't run across a good explanation about what made the design popular where it hadn't been before.
I should go further. There is a significant amount of data that doesn't work well with their conclusions. I also find the example of "impolite" comments hilarious. It seems to be detecting the imperative vs. detecting impoliteness.
Agreed, but it needs a designation besides Enterprise. My mind is drawing a blank, though.
It's sad what happened to the author's son, but historically laws allowing the state to 'interfere' with a person's psychiatric care choices have had some not insignificant amount of abuse. The author seems to want to expand "threat to themselves or others" from the current interpretation of physical violence / suicide to simply acting against their own best-interests, and while I understand how they came to that position, it's far too nebulous a test to guarantee perfectly sane, rational people won't be medicated or locked up simply for acting counter to common expectations.
29% of incoming Harvard freshman (class of 2017) reported family incomes of more than $250,000 / year.

- http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/9/4/freshman-survey-a...

less than 2% of families earn more than $250,000 / year.

- http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/apr/10/bar...
You mean maybe store the results?
FSCQ: A formally verified crash-proof filesystem [pdf]
PearlDB doesn't manage replication yet. There are plans to use Raft to get a cluster that is linearisable.

Right now you can put multiple Varnish nodes in front of one PearlDB node, and you'll get an eventually consistent database, ie. when the cache lease runs out it'll fetch the value from PearlDB.
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I did read it. But maybe I'm misinterpreting.

The same pattern is present among all Latino origin groups, though for three—Ecuadorians, Mexicans and Nicaraguans—the number of immigrants has declined since 2010 (for details, see Appendix Table A2).

The foreign-born share of Salvadorans, for example, fell from 76% in 2000 to 59% in 2013—the largest percentage point decline of any of the six largest Hispanic origin groups. Similarly, Dominicans, Guatemalans, and Colombians all had decreases of over 13 percentage points in their foreign-born shares over the same period. Mexicans, the nation’s largest Hispanic origin group, also saw a decline, though it was only 8 percentage points since 2000.
I love the idea.

Few feedback points.

1. The examples are too small, I would expect to see a bigger image on click.

2. It's really unclear what's the level of control I get for my website if I but it from you.
Do you host it? Do I? Can I change the code?

3. You go out of business tomorrow (god forbid), is my business dead because of that?

Some of these questions are critical for me as someone who's looking into doing something like that.

I would make the homepage answer some of these.

Good luck with your business, Kudos for jumping in!
I am in my early twenties. I exercise regularly, I don't drink to excess, I don't smoke, I eat well, and I don't do any dangerous activities. That means I probably won't break my leg or die of obesity-related conditions.

However, it damn well could be that I could get a disease or condition that no one can prevent. No one has any business pretending otherwise.
Considering that almost half of Harvard students come from families in the top 4% by income, I'd say the rich have a pretty big advantage.

Harvard is basically free for low income students, yet they make up a very small percentage of total students.

One thing they could do is to increase their outreach to lower income students. When I was in high school, I had no idea that Harvard was affordable for me. Looking back, I probably had the SAT scores and grades to get in, but I never even considered it as a possibility.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/1/26/diversity-lack-f...
I created a xxxxFactoryFactory in a recent project. Partly for practical reasons and partly for satire.
FSCQ is a certified filesystem written and proven correct in Coq. It's the first filesystem with a machine-checkable proof that it's implementation meets its specification and whose specification includes crashes.

The full source code of FSCQ is available online: https://github.com/mit-pdos/fscq-impl
"Americans don’t build real bridges anymore, or maintain the ones that we have"

I can't speak for all bridges in general, but since the author takes the Golden Gate bridge as an example, I can tell you it's maintained. Many pieces have been replaced over the (past) 4 years I've crossed it, including structural pieces. Heck they even document some of it / how its done on the bridge itself...

They also re-built half the Bay bridge from scratch (other side of San Franciso). Granted, for this one the work-force was mainly Chinese (but a large part of it was still American).

So yeah, don't start off with false facts, specially if you have valid points afterwards, since I'd generally just stop reading at this point and figure you're just full of yourself throw stuff you think sound cool and can't be verified.

Also here's some REAL suspension bridge collapses... it's not so far off in some (obviously not all) movies...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mclp9QmCGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWtYfHS-UL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvLzExOsmA
oh hmmmmm
So strange. this guy housed me for admitted-student-college-visit-weekend about 6 or 7 years ago. really nice guy who had the complete genius vibe.

he told me that in high school he didn't care about anything, and then around junior year he realized that he should give a shit, and self-studied for 22 AP courses and got 5s on all of them. he also had research papers lying around everywhere in his room and had also made a ton of money working at Jane Street and said it was fun but not for him.
The submission agreement would be worth reading: https://studios.amazon.com/help/submission-agreement

9. Compensation. You will have no right to compensation in connection with the exploitation of rights you grant under this Agreement.

The bullet above is puzzling. And no, I'm not taking it out-of-context: that's the entire paragraph.

Are you waiving your right to actually be compensated if Amazon decides to accept your script?
Thank you, that was informative. But something seems very wrong to my uneducated understanding. Quoting the Vox writer,

>The issue here is depreciation. When a firm buys a computer, the value of that purchase erodes with time. A $2,000 computer bought in 2012 is not worth $2,000 in 2014. When you take that into account, business profits look less impressive.

That the resale (or "book" or "scrap") value of a $2K laptop is small after two years' use means nothing in practical terms. It's a significant item in the asset-accounting for the business, sure. But the damn laptop is still working, still being used, still grinding out Excel spreadsheets under Windows XP, two, five, even seven years after it was bought. The department that bought it for $2K in 2012 is, bitter employee experience proves, NOT going to get authorization to replace it with a shiny new one in 2014, nor 2015 either. So although the $2K capital cost of the laptop might evaporate from the company's books, the UTILITY of the laptop remains and it replacement cost is NOT incurred.

This I think would apply with even more force to something like an assembly-line robot. At least my impression from seeing videos of car and motorcycle assembly lines is that the robots and other high-tech tools are quite well built -- better built than the average laptop fer sure -- and although they might depreciate, they won't stop working. In fact don't they become MORE valuable and profitable as their book value drops while their productivity contribution remains steady?
If It's one cross site scripting attack away, what's the difference if it's external?
Sure thing.

The $8,000 figure for the Levitt & Sons housing can be seen on this ad: http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=1-2-16F7

The $80,000 figure was from http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=80... . I can't vouch for its accuracy, though.

Current prices for ranch-style homes in Levittown, PA: http://www.trulia.com/PA/Levittown/

67,000 mortgages insured, fewer than 100 to non-whites: A book citation from Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I....

I didn't really explain why this figure is so astonishing, though. According to http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/AfrAmer.html black people comprised around 8-9% of the US military. With that figure in mind, an expected number of G.I. Bill insured loans to black veterans should be around 5,300, not under 100.

Someone's master's thesis on how the Post-WWII G.I. Bill has shaped modern homeownership: http://www.academia.edu/8352751/The_Homeownership_Gap_How_th...
He's not a bear, he's a person, and should be expected to act accordingly. I have coworkers I argue with on a regular basis and yes, things get spirited, that doesn't give you license to be an asshole.
Thanks for actually reading the paper and summarizing it properly. Now, I'm willing to go read it as well.
This should be posted as a 'Show HN',not an 'Ask HN'. For future reference, posts submitted without a link are posted as an 'Ask HN'. To submit it as a 'Show HN', prepend your article with 'Show HN: '. So your title should be 'Show HN: AwesomeTableJs is an JSON....'
What about Komen? There's definitely a blurry line in there with some nonprofits, especially if you count political and lobbying efforts.
How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World
Taxation affects usage. The increased price due to the taxation reduces people's will to buy alcohol.
How much data? 10 TB will "only" cost $900. Alternatively there's the "ship us hard drives" option. Failing that, if you're at a crazy scale, we did announce a switch-and-save program as part of Nearline (https://cloud.google.com/storage-nearline/).

Depending on how much you're storing, the one time hit to move may make sense given our ~25% lower cost per byte (and as you mention way better GCE pricing).
Some people like to use blue LEDs. I have 36 1W blue LEDs (0.2W each of actual light output) shining up at my white ceiling and it seems to work just fine.

My target brightness was 0.2W per square metre. That's based on a classic melatonin suppression study. More energy did not cause a significant amount of extra melatonin suppression. Unfortunately my brightness distribution is rather poor.

The blue light is on for 12 minutes every 2 hours during the day.
I've never once questioned his competence, he's clearly great at what he does. But you could be the best software dev on the planet, you act like that toward me, there isn't enough money on the planet to make me work with you. I'd sooner change careers.
Even John McCain's people should know this is true. https://www.eff.org/files/mccain_youtube_copyright_letter_10...

Although their request for special treatment shows they just want YouTube to expedite cases that they care about.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/15/john-mccain-you...

> "But we believe it would consume few resources - and provide enormous benefit - for YouTube to commit to a full legal review of all takedown notices on videos posted from accounts controlled by (at least) political candidates and campaigns."
I'm curious if there are any solid solutions for solving this problem. i.e. how can you provide free housing that people take pride in and care for?
yes. and i suspect that one must pay more today for meat from animals that are comparable to those in Victorian times.

our cows, pigs and chickens are fed differently than they were back then. and it's not just a matter of feed quality. it's a matter of new ingredients (e.g. some chickens are fed small amounts of arsenic to change their flesh color and as an antibiotic for certain diseases. and who knows what the hell goes into farmed fresh water fish - it's literally animal sewage and garbage on some farms in certain parts of the world.)
I'm curious, are there any studies that show antipsychotics not being harmful vs no medication in the long term (5-10yrs)?
>Anyone can learn to code, it isn't hard what we do. Granted some do push the boundaries, but that is a tiny % of what actual programmers do

Anyone?

I attended a selective prep school. Something like 99% of people there went on to university.

Certain students, who'd later finish say, medical school, and go on and be doctors, were completely unable to 'get' coding. Really basic stuff, some Pascal. Mostly women.

They treated it as 'magic'. Couldn't do anything on their own really, even though both teachers and boys tried to explain.

And here it was students at a selective preparatory school. Above average intelligence mostly, in a genetically privileged region(eastern Europe).

"Anyone"...

..sigh.
> gives anti-depression advice

> "You should never get your hopes up"

/facepalm
Veering off-topic, if you fly Air New Zealand on that route, you can often use their name-your-own-price auction system to get an upgrade to premium economy for a few hundred dollars.

I'm picturing you on that A380 cursing as you try to blow-dry your hair. What were you doing that pulled more than 75W?
Poor kids don't make it to top tier schools. It's hard to have good "intangibles" when you have to work while going to high school to pay for your own room and board. Maybe you can get a 4.0 and good SAT scores, but so can a 50,000 other teenagers.
HIPAA isn't even good at protecting the data it's intended to protect. The Privacy Rule is decent, but the Security Rule is a pain in the butt, vague, and lacks any decent official guidance.
There was a terror plot against the Brooklyn Bridge in 2002.[1] It didn't get that far, but the plan was feasible - to get inside the anchorage where the cable strands fan out to be individually anchored into concrete, and cut them one at a time, using gasoline-powered saws, until the cable failed.

Security had been tightened up, though. From 1985 to 2001, the anchorage was used for art exhibits, but that stopped after 9/11. The plotters gave up on that plan, since they would have needed hours or days of uninterrupted access.

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/pr/plots_targeting_nyc.sht...
>Something like 95%+ of people that get into elite schools graduate.

>It's not hard to graduate, it's just hard to get in,

These two things are related
It's still about the same amount of money, if not less, than they probably spend on e.g. cigarettes, cable television, etc.
Having done both, my opinion is that you should incorporate as an LLC. There's little to no regulatory headache compared to a C-Corp and it's much easier to deal with taxes. If you do need to convert to a C-corp in order to take on outside investment, it can be done easily and quickly (although there can be tax repercussions).
Haha, those words mean the exact opposite.
Last I heard, GoGo (previously Aircell) used an MPLS network to shuttle traffic between a few hundred AT&T cell sites they were using for their equipment, but that was years ago.
For context, some Envato data from last year: http://www.envato.com/2014
Eating Heavily: Men Eat More in the Company of Women
It's easy to take nothing from the thoughts of another when you yourself have nothing to give.
I'm kind of glad this is a limiting factor on techies in the wilderness.
What's worse is that RTR was earning a solid amount of revenue. My wife is a very happy customer of theirs.

But when it's all about growth, not just plain boring 5% growth but hockey stick growth, then everyone comes out the loser.
The Secret History of async/await from Midori
Right I get that you can have multiple faux read nodes but I meant more like a active/standby or even active/active write nodes.
You may know me as the founder of Aviato, from the hit TV show 'Silicon Valley'.
Can archive.org stream videos, or is file download required? Do they have an HTML5 player which can be embedded in other sites?
In Latin America 'fast food' like hotdogs and hamburgers is usually the slowest to get to the plate.

I can sit in a restaurant chair and be taking my soup within 60 seconds of sitting, in lots of places.

And it is usually (but not always) healthier than 'fast food'.
Yeah, let's disturb the sea floor, what could possibly go wrong?
If this differentiation is actually being made, then why is Linus making comments saying "he's surprised [this developer] is still alive, because they are too stupid to find food", or "should be retroactively aborted".

These comments, hyperbole or not, definitely give the impression that there is no real distinction being made.
Two thousand seven was picked because the US economy had the beginning of a steep downward plunge starting then while Mexico's economy was steady. It's also the year op identifies for the immigration turnaround.
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Duties:

Develop configuration management and continuous integration tools while maintaining version control, reporting and scheduled release delivery
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