skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure that it persists them to disk but the test suite keeps running at the same speed, so it must happen when it's less inconvenient. Buying enough RAM to cache there all the DB is a common recommendation even if it can need some careful configuration http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/18484/tuning-postgres...
Apple is in now way hostile to OSS.
It does actually work like that, for me. I'm in my mid thirties and have worked in financial software development for over a decade. Given the day rate I'm earning for Scala development, I will be able to retire comfortably long before Scala goes out of fashion.

Of course, I'll still be coding for fun after I've retired, so I'm looking forward to learning Swift in my spare time, alongside the other languages I code regularly in.
There's room for plenty of things that I don't care about. I don't care about open source software that is still controlled by Apple.
How Slack changed my life
From your link:
>I’m afraid I may be accused of political incorrectness here. I hasten to say that I myself practice (at minimum) demon worship and abominable rituals.

I'm afraid I can't believe this commentator at all, because it's committing No True Scotsman fallacies left and right about non-Abrahamic religions being "not a real religion" and conflating decentralized, non-textual religions with "demon-worship."

The underlying book that inspired the post [1] does look like a much more interesting connection between the Enlightenment and deist interpretations, but Buddhism with all its warts have existed in various forms for thousands of years. At best you can say that Buddhism has been dramatically impacted by interactions with Enlightenment philosophy, but its roots definitely stretch back further than the 1800's.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0058C6FGS/?tag=meaningness...
Taken in isolation, this is a laudable move. But shouldn't it be evaluated within the context of their own internet.org initiative?

For those unaware, internet.org does not support TLS/HTTPS for most connections. It is probably the single largest attempt in history to remove secure access from a population, just in the name of advertising instead of national security.
> So Ballmer is the ultimate PHB?

Yes, for values of "H" equal to "head". The first Ballmer Peak is the one his skull comes to.
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You're right, the comparison isn't as valid as I thought, rustfmt has improved impressively since I looked at it last. 'go fix' might be a better comparison, what's the Rust equivalent?
Federal elections occur every two years. You've already voted on it.
How to Thrive in Facebook’s Sandbox
Solving the Refugee Crisis One Algorithm at a Time
Swift#
It's also interesting that Lattner joined Github only in October.
Hurray for federalism!
Occupy GPL
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671356.
Jobs was the primordial Apple marketing guy. That's why he was so damn great (and hyped).
Mostly Python. It's a similar story to Dropbox, CloudFlare, etc.
What does a companies donation amount have to do with anything?
Such business would likely fail. Filtering by less significant factor is meaningless, when there are other factors that are way more important.

It's probably that one biological gender has an some tiny edge over another here - in statistically significant way - but in practice I think individual differences are likely to be order(s) of magnitude more important. Not like I have any researches to quote, though.

If a furniture assembly business has a giant candidate list (like, millions of applicants) they gender may start having some statistical significance and get useful as a metric. Huh, if they have countless myriads of candidates, then even something as silly as zodiac sign may become useful - if there are statistics about those, of course. But if they have, say, half a hundred applicants, they'd better look at something more relevant, like past experience (huh), individual physical shape or spatial intelligence.
People had been trying to make devices very much like the iPhone for decades before Jobs pushed through a mass-market-acceptable iteration. MS had a tablet and natural voice UI projects as major priorities around the turn of the century while Apple was working on the click-wheel of the original iPod.

It takes a lot of iteration before something becomes mass-marketable, and there's almost always a long, multi-competitor heritage in devices that seem to appear overnight, like the iPhone.
IKEA instructions are not quirky, they are actually quite good. Compare them to intructions provided by to some no-name brand or any other smaller furniture provider - those are quirky (and low quality, photocopied paper).
From the actual article:

"... but HGST's use of helium, which offers significantly less air resistance to the spinning platters, is probably the main one."
> In terms of construction scores (from 1 to 10 where 10 represents a perfectly built trolley), men averaged 8.9 with instructions, 7.6 without; the women averaged 7.5 with, and 5.7 without.

The women spent more time building and did a worse job, according to this study.
A machine learning startup should use their machine to answer this question.
Well I just issued 7 certs, so it's working.
Swift's first commits were in Jul 17, 2010
> (For those that don't remember: The JavaBean idea arose because early versions of Java had no way of performing introspection, something that software tools really, really need. JavaBeans broke object encapsulation by design. Many programmers had to write beans to take advantage of their tools, and learned a very bad habit.)

I have wondered what that was about. Thanks for clearing it up.

It is strange how the lack of a feature people really need (or want) can cause them to do weird things to work around that lack.
Historically they haven't been, and the page about planning for Swift 3.0 says it will introduce breaking changes. (It also mentions that Swift 2.2 will be released in the interim and its compiler will try to warn about things that will be broken in 3.0 so you can get your code ready early.)
Not at our house...
Lower air resistance/friction and lower turbulence for the heads.
Probably not Swift 3.0 according to current plans[1], but it sure looks like they want to have a native concurrency model at some point.

1. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution#out-of-scope
I love this one in particular:

https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny/
I'm not sure I understand the angle you are coming from given the following:

In terms of construction scores (from 1 to 10 where 10 represents a perfectly built trolley), men averaged 8.9 with instructions, 7.6 without; the women averaged 7.5 with, and 5.7 without.

So men without instructions do slightly better than women with instructions, and men with instructions do far better..
What caused me to write in the way I write?
Joint holders can also enforce copyright, though open source codebases work more like collective copyright. That said, non-exclusive Linux kernel copyright holders have performed enforcement activities (quietly or noisily)...
why don't you give caddy a try which has let's encrypt baked in.

https://caddyserver.com/
Do you use Privacy Badger or another blocker?

The markup loads images from seemingly local URLs:

http://data.simonschreibt.de/gat055/intro_comic.png

but redirects to images stored at SSL-ACCOUNT.COM:

https://ssl-account.com/data.simonschreibt.de/gat055/intro_comic.png

I reset Privacy Badger, and the assets loaded fine.
Redfin Launches Automated Home Price Estimates
One way to look at this is that Zuckerberg just robbed the treasury of $45B. Part of that would have come in through capital gains taxes and the rest through the estate tax.

What they do with that money is up to them, not the state. It's a pretty sweeping end run around the taxation system.

Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll use the money to good end like Gates is doing. And maybe not.

This is a heck of a tax code we've got, it's trickle down on a grand scale.
Ballmer also served during the toughest time in Microsoft's history. He took the reigns right before the final ruling in a massive antitrust lawsuit that literally almost broke the company apart[0]. The DOJ continued to have oversight over Microsoft until 2012[1]. I'm sure Microsoft would have loved to make much bolder decisions during that decade (particularly when it comes to hardware), but they were hardly in a position to do so legally[2].

A lot of the good things Microsoft has (deservedly) received praise for recently under Nadella were started under Ballmer's tenure. Yes, he is not personally responsible for everything that goes on at the company, but it's important to keep that in mind.

[0] While the decision was reversed on appeal, Microsoft was literally ordered by the courts to split itself into separate companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/04/depart...

[2] Incidentally, the Surface, which now appears to be Microsoft's attempt to clean up the wild west that OEMs have created, was announced right at the end of the DOJ's oversight. I cannot believe that this is a coincidence.
How well does that representation actually fulfill the wishes of their constituency as a whole, let alone any individual voter?

Yeah yeah yeah, being cynical about democracy is cool, blah blah blah.

I suppose you should, what, just burn the motherf*cker down and be done with it, then?

You know, in 50 years the GOP will be able to look back and point to one of their most brilliant victories of all time: actively sabotaging the activities of government, and then using the results of their very own actions to convince the electorate that government doesn't work and cannot represent them, despite the fact that they got themselves elected into the very system they claim to despise.

It's utterly brilliant. "Starve-the-beast" neocon tactics taken to a whole new level.
> It's like the Hacker News slogan or manifesto or something

I know you mean this in good humor but I have to protest. Snark is an invasive species, and part of keeping it under control is not to forget that or identify with it.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671199 and marked it off-topic.
I doubt patrons ever agreed, even implicitly, that should they ever become famous their reading habits would become a matter of public record, and maybe given to the newspapers. These records were never meant to be preserved in perpetuity for scholars and historians to pick through, so of course they aren't. Should the stores where Haruki Murakami shopped also save all of his receipts so we can know his dietary habits as well?
Contrary to many people I agree with you. The influence is hard to ignore.
"In early 1943, Ulam asked von Neumann to find him a war job. In October, he received an invitation to join an unidentified project near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The letter was signed by Hans Bethe, who had been appointed as leader of the theoretical division of Los Alamos National Laboratory by Robert Oppenheimer, its scientific director. Knowing nothing of the area, he borrowed a New Mexico guide book. On the checkout card, he found the names of his Wisconsin colleagues, Joan Hinton, David Frisch, and Joseph McKibben, all of whom had mysteriously disappeared. This was Ulam's introduction to the Manhattan Project, which was America's wartime effort to create the atomic bomb."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam
No mention of fractals, probably because they are a relatively recent mathematical discovery (or formalism); although they have been used in art dating back to the Ancient Egyptians[1].

[1] http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A4049/data...
Why use this over Todo.txt? That has iOS, Android, and desktop clients.

http://todotxt.com
Maybe there's an internal policy at which $199,999 is a cut-off, i.e. at a certain point, the sponsorship decision is moved to a higher-level of bureaucracy and approval. Which is completely the sensible thing to do: there's no reason why President Obama has to be the one who personally signs off on million-dollar toilets in Iraq (even if the buck stops with the President), and neither should every sponsorship decision be put on the desk of Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg...and an efficient way to do that is to set off a discrete cut-offs, so that you don't have a middle manager thinking they have the discretion to do the exact same moral reasoning as you suggest, "Oh why just give the Palo Alto Elementary Science Fair $10,000 when we could give it $100,000 and no one would even notice?"

Besides internal order, I imagine there's additional concerns and contractual obligations that relate to a public company's stakeholders, e.g. the shareholders who invest with a guarantee that a company has consistent policies in place to manage its spending, whether operational or charitable.
Potentially mired in rights issues (since they originally acquired it from Macromedia, who may have not owned 100% of the codebase), or written so badly that vulnerabilities will be made very obvious by its open-sourcing.
Movie DB Combining RT, IMDb, Letterboxed, Metacritic Scores
I installed some custom roots onto 4.4.2 the other night to MiTM some apps. I saw no obvious warnings at all.
I often wonder whether the relationships between brand-less factions in (and across) organizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves made under the institutional brand.

Take, for example, the changes that have happened at Microsoft since Ballmer's departure. I have a hard time imagining the branching GitHub's Atom to make an open source "light IDE", deprecating IE, and Google's using TypeScript for Angular2 happening while Ballmer's faction was in power. Microsoft has the same name, but it's acting like a very different beast.

I'm not sure how one could observe these factions cut across institutions, but I'd be interested if anyone has any suggested readings.
"Mean maximal hand-grip strength showed the expected clear difference between men (541 N) and women (329 N). Less expected was the gender related distribution of hand-grip strength: 90% of females produced less force than 95% of males. Though female athletes were significantly stronger (444 N) than their untrained female counterparts, this value corresponded to only the 25th percentile of the male subjects."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17186303
There are a few things that could happen:

a) Certainly if a site is distributing malware/virus/trojans it needs to be flagged as such -- whether it is intentional or not.

b) Sourceforge's policies indicate it they are no longer a trusted source for official files and is probably being ranked far too highly on Google and other search engines.

c) If Dice fails to promptly and adequately address the distribution of malicious files for profit the appropriate government agencies should become involved.
Weather models work very well, for a few days. After that, not so much. A "Climate" model has to be correct for many years to acquire a measure of credibility. None of them have been correct even in the very short term.

Instead of pretending you know what a partial differential equation is, changing the subject, and hurling abuse, how about you stay on topic and back up anything you've said to contradict me, bloviator?
Elon Musk's thinking bigger than cars, rockets
"Joint holders can also enforce copyright, though open source codebases work more like collective copyright."

Joint copyright is basically non-existent in the US. For example, you must intend to create a joint work at the time of creation. You can't make it joint later on by signing a document saying it's joint with someone. There are other issues too.

This is deliberate, as joint owners each own a 100% enforceable set of rights, and the law doesn't really want tons of people running around claiming to own the same work.

"That said, non-exclusive Linux kernel copyright holders have performed enforcement activities (quietly or noisily)..."

Not in the US. It's not possible in the US. It'll get dismissed immediately.
Authors Guild Amicus Brief in Support of Apple
You do realize that Ai Wei Wei actually had a significant exhibit on Alcatraz, where there were significant Native American protests, right?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-ai-weiwei-bre...
> Also, including time without instructions is almost pointless in the real world as Ikea ships instructions.

Not pointless, they were testing consistency with past results on differences in gender-based spatial reasoning.
If you single-handedly list Python and C++ together, Matlab should have some ridiculously low entry barrier. I can remember a few other horrible tools that saw widespread use exactly because of that, e.g. Basic and PHP3/4.

Corollary: if you are offered a tool highly praised for its being exceptionally easy for beginners, think about the price the tool had to pay in other departments, and how will it affect you in 6-12 months of use.
Why Study Humanities?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10670577 and marked it off-topic.
Web's Design Flaw: Conversation
Are we still using FTP?
Cardboard Camera – Free App to Create 3D Virtual Reality Photos by Google
I went to an event on new cloud computing technology in San Francisco. Half the presentations on containers were given by VCs who had some big stake in either CoreOS, Mesosphere, or Docker. Seems like a lot of the momentum behind containers is driven by the Silicon Valley investment community.
Drop the Mic: Why We're Quitting the Startup Events Bandwagon
The results showed that men were rated higher for construction quality.

But I think it's interesting that it takes around 25 minutes to put a trolley together, and it's hard to get a perfect score for construction quality.

The design of the product has a lot more influence on time/quality than gender. And it looks like the design could be improved.

I always assumed that flat pack furniture was similar to cheap commercial furniture without the construction costs, and with lower shipping costs. But it's assembled using the same standard techniques.

Is it possible to design good furniture with much simpler/quicker assembly techniques? Maybe not. But if it is, perhaps there's a commercial opportunity there.
A Sysdig and Kubernetes Adventure, Part 2: Troubleshooting Kubernetes Services
I've never written a line of Julia in my life, and I'm usually somewhat adept at figuring out what is going on when I read the source of unfamiliar languages. But I'm am having one helluva time trying to differentiate comments and code.

EDIT: downvotes? wtf?
How does federalism solve the problem?
I wouldn't want to work for a company that cannot take a joke. The PR was sent around apple software engineering today and they got a kick out of it.
You claim this donation was made in "tight collaboration with the school system," yet, CNBC and The New Yorker say that "One of the criticisms of Newark's school reform has been the lack of input from the community." [0]

These seem to be opposite view points. Do you have a source for that claim? Or perhaps you were saying something else?

[0]: http://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/23/where-zuckerbergs-100-million...
This looks pretty cool, it doesn't explain how to use Let's Encrypt as far as I can find in the docs, have an example?

EDIT: Looks like it's available in the latest prerelease. https://github.com/mholt/caddy/releases
I love this! I got say, that I've been a fan of Swift since the day Apple announced it. It's a such a beautiful language, with so many new paradigms implemented, safe and easy to learn.

I really hope this boosts the widespread of Swift. I'd love to use it for back-end dev for instance.
Internet.org does not support TLS/HTTPS for most connections

Source, please?

EDIT: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/internetorg-not-neutra...

EDIT2: this is from May. I wonder if anything has changed since.
It was the late 20th century. Xbox and Surface did not exist then.

Well... Microsoft helped destroy Sega with the Dreamcast...
> Well Obama has had 6 years to fix it.

In the world where Obama was a dictator and could unilaterally rewrites statutes, sure.

In the real world, Obama had just under two years (because Congressional terms start earlier than Presidential terms) with Democratic majorities in Congress.
Yeah I still can't believe how scummy sourceforge is. I wonder how new oss projects can protect themselves against this type of behavior. Anyone know if any oss licenses include a restriction against this kind of repackaging or any kind of malicious use clause?
I haven't either, but they just start with a #, right? What's the problem?

EDIT: Oh, I see there are multiline comments.
Why. Why does this even exist? It's bad enough that we aren't using hex-head but to have two different ones that look so similar an average person can't tell them apart without instructions, AND which not only fit in each other's sockets but wreck them?
Well, depending on whether you consider the fief or the fealty pledge as the defining characteristic of feudalism, it's not a bad analogy. I get more annoyed when people conflate manorialism with feudalism. One is how the people survive, the other is how the lords of the manor (or city) are beholden to a higher power.
* Don't unreliable tools impede research?

* Isn't it a good idea to publish code used to produce the results so as to help fellow scientists verify the results and methods?
N2 has no net effect. That's why it's not considered a greenhouse gas. Stick with the accepted definitions (and get them right) and you'll eventually make a useful contribution. hint: pretending you know how to make a working climate model is not one.
These are the same case-uses as Excel and Access, and these also end up bloating in size and becoming unmanageable. The problem is that the selection criteria that lead to using Matlab in the first place also lead to never paying down technical debt.
Being risk-averse is typically a good way to keep your job. If he was riskier, there's a greater chance he'd have been fired faster or reduced his earnings.
true i guess. its easy to forget this...
Economic Cost of Destroying the Death Star
Very beautiful decoration of ceramic plates
I hope this makes Slack realize how, even if they deny, it's a great tool for communities.
> Go to the mirror and practice these faces.

Great piece. This article is worth a click for that lead image alone. I really wonder what the context was for such an expression.
How well have the first generations of helium drives lasted?

I'm wary of trusting my data to something that relies on incredibly good gas seals. But if there are no observed reliability issues, it seems that problem has been solved.