skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now not much, just basic functionality.

But I have this vision in my mind of what a note platform is supposed to be and unfortunately I have not found it yet. My favorite note tool was emacs org-mode so a lot of the things that I working on now draw from that.

Mainly:

1. Full Markdown Support
2. Easy way to make TODOS (and track them across notes)
3. Easy way to take meeting nots from a calendar invite.
4. Native Clients that actually work and sync, you should be able to see, edit, and make notes anywhere you are.
5. Open Source :)

# 2 -- will be implemented soon.
# 3 -- will be implemented soon and should work with ANY calendar provider.

Right now Braindump is just a basic framework that I hope to use to accomplish all of those goals.
I wonder if you can even compare areas like that. There's enough of a difference between Sydney CBD and North Ryde that comparing them is difficult (even though hotel prices can be the same).
Just finished watching this video, it's closely related to what you're talking about, even mentions stealing stationary:

https://vimeo.com/49462153
The "Reactiflux" community sent enough messages as to make search on Slack's free plan effectively useless (since old messages would expire within minutes or hours). I understand that Discord plans to add search.
Huh - published by Seth Godin

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-The-Internet-White-Pages-1994/...
One word: docopt.
This still has the "list the options twice" wart though. Of course there's no way to avoid that for shell scripts, since getopt(1) has to explode the options before the rest of your script starts looking at them.
Oneline – WebSockets for real time web applications (http://getoneline.com/)
Oneline is a WebSockets project that enables writing websocket code through database use case scenarios. It provides a layer of modules that can be used in processing your data. Through this pipeline collectively refines the data and provides a rank for it. Once the data is refined the data is sorted by descending popularity, confidence rank and will be accessible by any WebSocket client.

more:
http://getoneline.com/
MIDI.js – Sequencing in JavaScript
Is "6 miles" a standard unit of length?
This looks very similar to the app I blogged about in a series of "Saturday morning hacks" posts. That app did notes, tags, to do lists, email reminders, and used sqlites full text search extension to provide high quality search. Also used markdown and oembed for rich media magic!

http://charlesleifer.com/blog/saturday-morning-hack-a-little...
you first need to make the link between toxic managers and psychopaths, rather than throw out this trope without a second thought.
you misspelled "test" as "tets" on the sign in page
This is fantastic. Please keep hacking on it. Please make it work with op source swift.
It's also kind of dark to learn the stories behind / life after these. It really ruins a lot people's lives.
Well not for completion anymore :-)
> As a ... fledgling "disrupter"

I don't think that is how disruption works either
I object to all current software patents, as I consider the whole process in which they are granted to be inacceptable.

So, yes, I can not legally use any project that uses patents and only this grant.
Tools don't mean shit. It's what you do with the tool that matters. The quality is in your idea and story, not the tool.
Sure, but again, that is a highly localized decision based on your judgement. There wasn't a formula that said you should give raises once market rates exceeded your payroll by x percent. I think tactical moves like the one you made are great.

On your other point about companies being inefficient, I think we should stop worrying about whether employers or companies in aggregate are being efficient. In fact, I want them to be inefficient. It gives people more opportunities to take advantage of inefficiencies.

I suspect we have some sort of bias in which we apply fairness rules that are good for individuals in a community and apply it to "the system" which is not just a scaled up version of individuals interacting which either. We like to think big companies operate as a unified entity, but really, there's a lot of shit going on under the hood that may lead to very weird "irrational" decisions, many of which an individual could take advantage of.

Generally, I just prefer people to be more opportunistic, rather than trying to make sense out of non-sensical systems.
You can do something similar using the show-mode-in-prompt option:

show-mode-in-prompt
If set to `on', add a character to the beginning of the prompt indicating
the editing mode: emacs (`@'), vi command (`:'), or vi insertion (`+').
The default value is `off'.

Unfortunately it's currently hardcoded to only use the '+' and ':' chars, and to only display at the beginning of the prompt.

Chet accepted a patch I submitted for custom indicators, and this will be coming in bash 4.4/readline 7.0:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/22580/fo...

I have patched versions of bash 4.3/readline 6.3 available on github (the bash page has gifs showing the functionality in action):
https://github.com/calid/bash
https://github.com/calid/readline

Note that the '\m' escape hasn't been accepted into the mainline yet, so as of now the custom indicators will still only display at the beginning of the prompt in the new versions.
Facebook's Open-Source Hg Extensions
It does look bad in the "reducing salary" aspect, but if you're asking someone to come to SF I sure hope there's a major premium so you can afford your half-an-appartment
Commenter on the story has an excellent point: "An even more absurd, but equally "market rate" scenario would be to pay Ann more because she wants to and has chosen to drive a luxury car, but to pay Sofia less because she chooses to take public transportation." - Philip Hallstrom
Show HN: Slack-srv: slack bot API as a go-micro RPC microservice
It's hard to have an extremely ranged limited RFID plate when only half the range is determined by the RFID chip itself -- a sufficiently large antenna on the receiver can increase the range. Granted a passport that's supposed to readable from centimeters away will probably never be read a couple hundred meters away, but a license plate that can be read from a few meters away could be made readable from a hundred meters away.

Though I guess a smarter RFID plate could use latency to decide if a reader was "close enough", but that would make reliable reads harder since it would require several round trips.
"People assume it must be like closing your eyes or being in a dark room, but it's not like that at all. It's a complete absence of light, it isn't black or any other colour I can describe.

"Instead my mind gives me things to look at. It shows me a shadowy representation of what it thinks I should see - like my hands holding a cup of tea. Since my mind is constrained only by my imagination, it rather charmingly overlays everything with millions of tiny sparkles of light, that vary in brightness and intensity depending on my emotional state."

Great article; very informative, about the physiological and emotional effects of advanced diabetic retinopathy. Really connected, for me, especially her description of the transition into blindness--from grief to eventual acceptance.
Because demand is much more elastic than building? Also they are building, it's not just going to help much. Because there is still money to be made in making inefficient households into efficient airbnb rentals and shared flats for young tech workers having to move to Seattle if they want kids. When the money stops flowing you'll see change like redevelopment.
Changing pay based on location seems to be creating a strong incentive for fraudulent behavior. I'll tell the company I'm living in San Francisco whilst living Buenos Aires. If they ever ask, I'll say that I'm traveling for a month. Cost of living adjustments makes a lot more sense when the employee must be physically present.
The opposite - it makes the most sense for life sciences; it would seem to dovetail well with their existing projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Life_Sciences
In particular, the contact lenses for glucose sensing, and the "disease-detecting nanoparticle platform," whatever that means. All of these have a flavor of less-invasive monitoring and diagnostics.
garbled link.
What’s a Tetrachromat? Meet a Person Who Sees 100M Colors
It's not really analogous because the rifles that are called M4s today aren't retrofitted versions of the same actual rifles that were previously AR-10s. This all has to do with rifles and airplanes being very different from each other in size, complexity, and cost, so there aren't many accurate analogies to be made.
Coconut water and children's juice seem to be the only drink that comes in a waxed cardboard "tetrapak" container, I wonder if they just can't handle carbonated beverages?
I know that, but the M4 is based on the M16A2 from the 80s.
All of the pieces are readily available online, all it takes is someone to put them together. And it's something that pretty much any high school kid with a credit card and interest in electronics could do.
Inside the Emperors' Clothes
Don't over think things.

Be kind and gentle. Don't be their best friend -- do be their best teacher.

If they discover you weren't right, then apologise to them just as you would in any other situation where you are wrong. What they learn off you is how to be a human, not how to be right 100% of the time.

[At the start, they only need cuddles, feeds and cleaning anyway so you have time to learn as you go]

Father of 3 preschoolers speaking. I'm sure there's more to come.
if 50% of laptop sales were chromebooks in $$, since chromebooks are cheaper that other laptops, that means chromebook numbers of units were above 50%
I've thought about this topic a lot recently. Many times I find myself working with API endpoints which return deeply nested JSON or XML "documents" which I have no real desire to learn their schema. (AWS and ElastiSearch)

I ended up creating a Python Library to perform key lookups on these deeply nested documents. For Example:

>>> from nested_lookup import nested_lookup

>>> document = [ { 'taco' : 42 } , { 'salsa' : [ { 'burrito' : { 'taco' : 69 } } ] } ]

>>> print(nested_lookup('taco', document))
[42, 69]

Check it out here:

* https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nested-lookup

* https://github.com/russellballestrini/nested-lookup
I would love to help improve descriptions of capability-based security, but I'm unsure if I can do much better than is there now. To me, the existing text seems clear and concise, but perhaps that's because I'm already deeply familiar with the topic. :/

This has been a constant problem for capability-based security researchers: finding the right way to explain the abstract concept such that people "get" it.
It's funny that the term "Market Rate" is used but, the actual market is never really mentioned.

Ann is paid $170,000 in the Bay Area because that what all the other developers of her caliber are willing to exchange their time and expertise for.

A company would pay Ann $50,000 if it could. They only hire people who they think they will eventually make more from their labor than they will pay the person.

If you are Google, you will make roughly $1M per employee currently. For Software Developers that number is even higher, for Sr. Software Developers that number is even higher. The fact that how you get paid and how much value you generate don't have much of an effect on each other is basic capitalism.

What's smart is to be Ann, get a $170k salary and move to Costa Rica and keep the $170k because at the end of the day, she wouldn't have been hired if she didn't make more than $170k of value for the company.
This is also related to Simpson's Paradox
It's fuzzy which branch FISC belongs to.

It's staffed with Article III federal judges who are appointed by the Chief Justice, which makes its construction about as far from the executive branch as you can get.

It oversees the NSA and CIA, which are controlled by the executive branch, and has no authority to hear cases. It hears only matters regarding foreign intelligence, which puts its subjects outside the protection of the Constitution, which protections are most of the point of Article III courts. It is in that sense so difference from Article III courts as to make it a little unclear whether it is one.

And it was created by Congress, as a way of delegating rulemaking about surveillance that was properly owed by Congress --- the FISA process was a way for the 1970s Congress to punt on the issue. Unlike other courts, Congress can abolish FISA tomorrow and replace it with a set of rules. It is in that sense entirely a creature of Congress.

The FISC is weird, is what I'm saying.
> 140,000 people died in the war.

OK, now you've gone off the deep end. Those 140,000 were killed by the various forces inside former Yugoslavia, in a number of campaigns of civil war and ethnic cleansing.

Per Wikipedia, somewhere about 500 civilians were killed in the NATO bombings, and about 1,000 belligerents. Those bombings effectively stopped the ethnic cleansing that'd been ongoing for almost a decade, and you're citing one case of saturation bombing of military forces as if it were at all comparable to Vietnam or WWII.
It would seem to me that if they didn't have fancy CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) and CAD packages to precisely calculate tollerances they would over-estimate and overbuild to be on the safe side. Perhaps as a positive side-effect is that those frame would last longer because of that.
Deep neural network written from scratch in Julia
Anyone who designs command-line interfaces for GNU/Linux should read this: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLin... and this: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Option-Table.ht...

If you are using C++, Boost.Program Options is a solid choice. It is one of the relatively few command line argument parsers in the world which supports close to a full set of (GNU-like) behaviors without custom workarounds. It also enables type safety in the sense of disallowing decimals where integers were expected.
No the parent you were asking, but my philosophy with my kids has always been to own up to my mistakes as quickly as possible and then make it as right as I can.

I've had to apologize to each of my kids more times than I can count. The benefit that I've seen is that they are all willing to apologize to me as well.

It seems to have worked well so far, but my oldest is just 18 and the sample size is small.
I think it'd be more effective against a class of vehicles... like if you have an agenda against Company XYZ, scope out their parking lot and build a database of their employees, then you can target those employees. Likewise, if you want to shut down the entire EMS system, build a database of police, fire, etc vehicles and target them and you can ground the entire EMS fleet.
Thank you for this feedback. I do believe actually retaining the data in a searchable format would require significant resources. I note Comodo wrote their own PostgreSQL extension for this purpose[0], something I'd imagine would not be done lightly.

However, I've found it surprisingly efficient for the type of service I'm running. It's currently running on a single Linode instance with 2G RAM. I've got load averages on the box of 0.05, so I think it's easily handling things. I have various parts of the service running in spawned threads, and I've tested that I can configure the timing to be more aggressive than it currently is it needed.

In terms of keeping up, I had the service shutdown for over 48 hours days whilst debugging a frustrating race condition in the PostgreSQL driver[1] and it managed to catch up in a few hours.

What has held up online registration is the place where load is in fact a significant issue - in testing, I set myself up monitoring *.cloudflaressl.com, which is known to rotate regularly. I nearly hit the Amazon SES free tier limit and gave myself an Office 365 inbox I can't open without crashing IE. Obviously I need to ensure users can't do the same.

[0] https://github.com/crtsh/libx509pq
[1] https://github.com/epgsql/epgsql/issues/80
I'm guessing it was originally 10 km. Someone probably added a scale bar in km and then was told to change the label to US customary units.
Sort of. About 30+ years ago the world was absolutely awash in Compuserve free/demo accounts, included in software boxes and probably magazines. Wish I could find an old 80micro magazine cover on archive.org to document this aspect of the past. People who lived thru it could verify that free compuserve accounts were the AOL floppy/CD of an older era.

Compuserve in say 1983 was a DEC service bureau moonlighting at night as a very expensive per hour super BBS system. Like $5/hr at 300 baud. And yes it was a network of PDP-10s as per the linked article (although I seem to remember KI processors not KL's)
ADB-B receiver + cheap drones with simple homing software = total shutdown of US air traffic. I think $20,000 is probably an overestimation of what it would take. There's a lot of asymmetric situations starting to "mature" and defense side is way behind since they're using them to exploit the populace. It's not just a "cyber" problem.
The A-10 is great, but there are a number of reasons why we aren't building more of them. Chief among them is that the teams and facilities that produced them have been gone for decades now. It's not a product you can simply re-order. Of the planes in inventory, it's efficient and useful in low intensity CAS, but if you were ordering new for those missions you'd likely focus on something that's less overkill and lower cost like the super tucano.
Yep, that's right. Andy Conrad, our CEO, says our goal is to build a medical tricorder.
That's only true so long as everyone else is only paying local market rate. Once a company starts offering people in Argentina SF-level pay... that company now will get every single qualified developer in that location that they want. So now other companies have to start offering similar wages, or they only get second tier devs. It's called competition.
And yet I can't think of many 8-bit systems that let you set any pixel any color like most of today's "8-bit" art. Most had tile based systems with various color limitations in each tile, to save memory. Graphics on different systems had a distinctive look because of this. Most of today's "pixel art" games look pretty samey.
I will add that astrophysics is the same way. I'm not aware of a single paper I've come across from the last 15 years that isn't on the arxiv.
That is such an unhelpful mantra to keep repeating.
It's phrased negatively and offers no enlightenment other than acknowledgement of your ignorance.

People qualify as worthy leaders by showing wisdom. Plenty of stuff is not super original (Facebook wasn't the first social network). Prior experience is a great teacher.

Good leaders make plans and manage their risks. Even if they are moving into a new field, they can draw on the skills and experiences of others. Then they prioritise what's important and allocate resources based off that.

As the plans get executed, they monitor progress and adapt accordingly.

There are always uncertainties. If they eventuate, the impact can be good or bad. Planning ahead means assessing the likelihoods and making appropriate contingencies.

Just acting confident is not showing leadership.
They already do. Warrentless access as well.
OK, I'll just report him to the police. Thanks
KeepKey – Bitcoin Physical Wallet
Hi again everyone. Today's the actual anniversary of the launch. As of 9:55pm EST, Dec 6, and until Dec 19th (when the mission ends), http://apollo17.org/?t=rt will drop you into the mission exactly 43 years ago to the second. The crew might be working, eating, walking on the moon, or even sleeping. At any time you can jump out of "real time" mode and explore the whole experience, or click to sync back up with today's date an time to continue along.

Hope you enjoy.
I think the formula makes more sense if you look at MRR from the perspective of workers in each market.

Salary may naturally vary by location, but wealth accumulation (in dollars, not goats) should be the same for equivalent contributors across the distributed organization.
If your servers are 'permanent', then give them a short hostname and put them in your .ssh/config and DNS (or hosts file). 'ssh cron' or 'ssh archive' and connecting directly is quicker than going through a dialogue, or using an index number and having to remember which is which (or worrying about the index number changing when you refresh).

This tool would be good for temporary or autoscaling instances, though.
I know, but it's not an excuse. The config file is pretty self-explainatory, it takes less than 3 minutes to read through the comments.
Why is it the worst? Also I don't have my question answered, which in other words is: Is it flood DOS resistant?
Wait, is it actually lawful to advertise salaries that vary with the size of employee families?

That seems like a really, really bad idea.
If you are a lifelong vegetarian how can you even anecdotally say you feel healthier?
The last time the "Meat Question" came around, we thought the solution was Hippos. http://brightergreen.org/2014/01/american-hippopotamus-the-m...
Actionable Daily/Weekly/Monthly Goals for Being a Good Product Manager
Well, if it ain't broke, as they say...

here's a page on the differences between Nchan and the Push Module: https://nchan.slact.net/upgrade . One important thing I forgot to add is that the Push Module suffered from memory fragmentation under high load, and with a fixed-size shared-memory chunk that could mean running out of usable shared memory for a long-running nginx process. If you're not experiencing that, and you don't need to scale up, or the new features don't appeal to you, don't upgrade -- certainly not yet.

Maybe in a month or two when nchan makes its way into the nginx-extras debian package (replacing the push module), then consider upgrading.
I wrote this post after reading Ben Horowitz's work. I'm really hoping to open this up into a wider discussion to continue to refine these ideas and see if resonates with fellow Product Managers out there. Would love feedback!
The comment I replied to said "If rent is only $300 instead of $3000 the pay should reflect that."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1blsZxXDCU
Similar ideas in Hivemind : http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/dnd-demo-clipp...

The basic idea being to visually compose applications and fill in the gap with code that glues things together. The benefit with such approach is that the tool does the architectural heavy lifting so that a moderately skilled programmer can implement sophisticated business applications with ease. Think excel for business software that isn't visual basic.
The infographic isn't super-clear, but since they have a % in price section lower, I get the general impression the market shipments percentage is in estimated units, not dollars.
Structural and Symmetry Analysis of Discrete Dynamical Systems (2010) [pdf]
Whether legal in the US or not, it is offensive that having four children gives more of a salary bump than increasing one's competency from "Advanced" to "Master." Seriously, you get an extra $10k for moving up the ladder of competency--what a trifle.
http://www.theandrewmeyer.com/

Thanks to Andrew, I discovered Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse :)
Yes, it is shooting you with a tiny bullet and sucking up the blood splash that results. The patent calls it a "micro-particle", 10µm to 250µm caliber. It can be "dart-shaped" or spherical. Muzzle velocity may be supersonic. The suggested material is gold particles held together with biodegradable glue, which is a neutral material for humans. Or maybe just a water droplet.

It seems they've tested this thing. On Google employees?