skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of something I read a few weeks ago:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/20/oliver-b...

"For us list addicts, Forster proposes a minimalist alternative system. On a piece of paper, write down only the five most important tasks you can think of. Then do them, in order, crossing them off as you go. (If you stop before completing one, add it again at the end.) Once the list is only two items long, add three more, to bring the total back to five. Then repeat.

"The point of this austere approach is that you’re regularly required to ask what really needs doing, since there are only five slots. With a conventional list, there are unlimited slots – and it’s hugely tempting to plough through inessential tasks, just to cross them off. But what if you forget crucial things, using Forster’s method, because you didn’t write them down? His response: they probably didn’t matter to begin with."
Surely using the Pomodoro technique for creative work will break flow?
I don't generally like to think of my TODO list as a scheduling tool, but I do like giving larger tasks greater representation on the TODO list. So even if all I had to do was "fill this entire notebook with hand-drawn squiggles", written as a single task doesn't convey the full weight of the task. So I will explicitly repeat the task on the page several times, until the "weight" of it feels more appropriate.

It's not explicitly scheduling the tasks, but it is at least giving a better representation of its relationship to the other tasks going on in my life. I can't say "I'll make lunch after I'm done with <this big task>" if the task will take more than a day to complete. But I can if I chunk it out in this way.
I remember trying the Line Browser via terminals in UF's education library several times in 1994. I was completely unimpressed by the web. I was an early non-adopter. The rest is history.
About those lava lamps
>>> it may contribute greatly in making this an Olympic sport

This alone does changes surfing; surfing as an industry I mean.
Stop ripping people off with Eastern European wine?

Really? That's what they did?
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762929
We earned $50 000 on programming books in 2015 and so can you
So what would the inverted classroom look like in this case?
I would also assume you could do a blockchain-type log -- ie the hash of an entry includes the hash of the previous entry so that if one entry is removed, the whole thing is tamper-evident.

Of course, then you need to ensure the integrity of the latest hash (if you can change one log, you can change them all). If the centralized logging server(s) are protected with the same rooted ssh, then it's just an additional step for our sophisticated state-sponsored boogeyman.
On your homepage seanmcbeth.com the javascript (or whatever does the animation) is totally choking my Firefox (latest) running on a Mac Pro Desktop (latest). Infact when I tried to write this comment it was literally like 300 baud until I closed your website page.

(All of this is to your point and ironically..)

Btw it looks cool but if I can't easily scroll your homepage you have lost me as a potential client.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765688
>>Literature has been shown to increase empathy

Link?
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I buy physical books because I then have full control over it (it's in my hands). With ebooks, Amazon or others have the control (and the data about my reading habits).
The solution is to leave it to a convenience store nearby for a fee, the delivery company UPS or else should cut a deal with all the 7/11s nearby for temporary parcel holding.

Amazon locker is a good starting point, but moe Uber style convenience store joint venture would be a practical solution. There, a startup idea for anyone who care to try.

Last week, a $100 worth package was picked by a guy on cheap bike from my front door 20 minutes after the delivery. Though entirely captured on camera, there is nothing the police could do about it. Amazon might just refund the loss, what if this is eBay or newegg, surely troubling.
This is an interesting thought. However, the fact that you were able to give up the ownership of your paper books doesn't mean that you owned them any less than your ebooks. The opposite is true because it's an integral part of ownership that you can give it up or lose it. Ebooks may be more convenient in some situation but that doesn't mean that we have to redefine the meaning of ownership. Further, I suspect that even Amazon would agree that you technically do not own the ebooks that you "bought" from them.
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By control them, I hope you mean impound them, fine the owners tens of thousands of dollars ($1 for every ear they've assaulted should be enough), and permanently revoke their motorcycle license.

Those exhausts are already illegal, but the punishments are a joke and the enforcement is non-existent.
So I try to buy an ebook but chances are it will turn out to be part of some DRM scam. So I am supposed to buy it anyway and then hope to break the DRM. That's if I can get it at all using a particular DRM system. I might have the wrong operating system or something.

...or...

I can buy a block of paper at at actual store where I can browse the shelves. Bulky, but for sure I will be able to start reading it on the way home on the bus.

...or...

I can get an entire library using bittorrent.
Discard operations only tell the drive that a LBA is eligible for GC. It's basically a delete operation that explicitly can be deferred. It does not give the OS any input into when or how GC is done, and it doesn't give the OS any way to observe any details about the GC process.

I think the recommendations for periodic fstrim of free space is due to filesystems usually not taking the time to issue a large number of discard operations when you delete a bunch of data. Even though discards should be faster than a synchronous erase command, not issuing any command to the drive is faster still.
You can do both. Each approach has its own pros and cons both in the sound and modulation options. Eurorack is all kinds of awesome for many reasons.
This was way less interesting than I thought it was going to be. To anyone who reads the comments before the article, he just made an art project that copies a piece of music then drops it into /dev/null
Note that this is different than the YC library:

https://www.ycombinator.com/resources/

The YC library keeps a good list of perennial favorites....
Uhh, what if I told you that like most people with common sense and who realize that the initial conditions of a tournament are fixed in advance and that the ranking at the end only applies for that tournament and there are many other factors that influence who wins and loses in each match, I take tennis rankings with a grain of salt?

Hell I can even accept that player A > B > C > A if each has different skills and specialities that they bring to the table, without trapping myself and others into declaring it's some "paradoxical nonsense". Do we say rock < paper < scissors < rock and declare it's the end of mathematics?
The trim is kind of like the free counterpart to malloc. When the drive has been fully written, there is a lot less free space which constraints the GC and makes it works much harder. The trim tells the drive to free up space allowing for less GC work.

A big difference between client and enterprise drives is the amount of over-provisioning. A simple trick if you can't use trim is to leave 5-10% of the drive unused to improve the effective over-provisioning and improve worst case performance.

The question of using trim in data centers might be due to interaction between trim and raid configurations because sometimes trim is implemented as nondeterministic (as a hint to the drive; persistant trim can cause performance drops unless you are willing to through in extra hardware to optimize it well) which causes parity calculation issues when recovering from a failed drive.
And while it's ridiculous that you can't buy cold beer stronger than 3.5% by volume, and can't do it on a Sunday, I still wouldn't switch to any of the system in any country I have lived in (E.g. Australia, UK). I wouldn't mind the prices of beer in a bar to be more reasonable but what can you do.

What's expensive in .se is the alcohol, not the alcholic products. That makes the price of some cheap products very high, most notably gin/vodka etc, which carry a price that may be 3x higher than elsewhere (Worth noting of course is that even at these prices they aren't nearly paying their own damages). That is only half the story though, products like decent wine and single malt whisky is actually very well priced, and often cheaper than in their respecive countries of origin. In the uk a crap bottle of wine is £3, in sweden twice that. A good bootle of wine in the uk is £20 and can be half that in Sweden. Prices are very compressed, which makes it an excellent place to be drinking decent stuff.

I know you were likely sort of tounge-in-cheek about the alcohol issue, but really there are lots of aspects that are way worse.
Just take the fact that the day (if you can even call it that) in Sweden today was 5 hours long... That will drive you nuts no matter what the cost of booze is :D
This probably has nothing to do with chromacy, but is related to finding berries and other odd things. My sister is gifted with finding four leaf clovers. She walks in a field and seems to just see them. Every time she picks one, it's a four leaf. Her record find is a 7 leaf clover.

I always wondered how that's possible.
> Trying to "get my money worth" shouldn't impact your decision

Why not?

By purchasing the e-book version a customer is surrendering potential future revenue ( resale of physical book or trade-in against another ), but is not being offered much or any compensation for this loss.

If the Kindle edition is £66.50 and the hardback is £70.00 [0] I'll laugh at the publisher's e-avarice and buy the physical copy; I'll likely make about £45 back when I resell it. So really the price of the e-book edition should be about £25.

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000WDP5DW?keywords=the first helicopter war&qid=1450638593
I've had them a little over a month and show no signs of breaking down.
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Yeah. I mean, loving to do one aspect of the business is a huge advantage when running that business... but it's not the whole of the business. there's still all that other bullshit.

And... my experience? when you are small, if you are really good at that one thing you do, it's mostly okay that you suck at the other aspects of the business. As you scale, this becomes less and less true, you need someone at least minimally competent in the other business stuff, and "just hiring someone" is a lot harder than it sounds, when you are hiring for a skillset that you don't have. Scaling is hard to the point where it sometimes make sense to set a limit and try not to scale above a certain point.
It depends a lot more on her strengths and background than anything else.

If she's the right kind of thinker, parlaying a polisci background into infosec isn't that hard -- there's a LOT of activity around the infosec policy specialties right now. I'm a hacker by trade, but one of the two coworkers I work most closely with is an attourney. Having the "dynamic duo" of technologically-literate lawyer and legally-literate technologist on hand can be extremely useful.

OTOH, if she actually wants to go into technology rather than policy-around-technology, the fast track is to build things, work with experienced teams, and read a lot. I don't have or particularly feel I need a degree. The only place that not having one has ever caused me problems is academia, and even there it is just a political problem.

I've spent my life building, learning, and working with bright people. Some strategy highlights:

* Don't confine yourself to teams of fellow newbies. It may feel safer for your ego, but you won't learn as fast.

* Be willing to do scut work -- i.e. boring, repetitive tasks -- to endear yourself to projects you want to learn on. Showing you will do work is the best way to demonstrate to others that it's worth it to them to teach you. Show up and start cleaning up documentation. Give support on IRC. Do issue queue triage. Fix small bugs, then work your way up.

* Read. Constantly. Ask hackers you respect what they are reading.

* Try many things and figure out what your strengths are, then build on those strengths, rather than just trying for what others say is easy.

* If you are serious about programming, don't just learn one programming language. There's a skill ceiling that (as far as I can tell) cannot be broken until one has worked in several programming languages built on different paradigms.

* If you are serious about infosec, don't just spend your time around people who've learned to go through checklists or use tools by rote. Find people building and analyzing from first principles, and get in with them.

* Find a project that needs a volunteer to do the things you want to ultimately do for pay, then volunteer. Do an amazing job. You'll learn a lot (often scrambling to learn on the job), and you'll end up with some work to show up and some good references.

* Spend time networking (the social kind) and use it. Nobody knows everything. But, if you know enough people, you probably know how to find out just about anything. Be helpful to others and you'll always have people ready to help you when you need it.

* If your urge to get into the industry really outweighs other concerns, consider low-barrier jobs like NOC Monkey (sit at a datacenter during off-hours, stare at screens, call admins if there's an emergency) or Hell Desk (aka Help Desk or Tech Support) just to get into companies and see how they work, then work your way up or job hop. These jobs don't usually pay much, but they do give a lot of insight and usually aren't demanding enough that you can't also work the other strategies while you have them.
Formatting output for specific presentation devices (78 char wide screens) requiring a Chrome extension or a PDF for readability isn't my personal idea of 'nice'.
I love how well the other two replies to this comment compliment each other!
> the median SaaS company spends between 50-100% of their annual revenue of sales and marketing

The fact that we're considering companies that spend 100% of revenue on sales and marketing makes it pretty clear why Atlassian's costs are so low - the comparison is nonsense. No company except a VC funded startup can spend 100% of revenue on any one (or two) things, because then there's no money left. And calculating anything as a percentage of revenue makes no sense when you're spending many multiples of revenue because you're running on a VC runway, rather than like a normal company. This would _maybe_ make sense if we were looking at percentage of total costs rather than of revenue.

Maybe their sales/marketing costs really are low, but show that by comparing them to something that makes a little bit of sense. 20% does not sound unreasonable at all to me.
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SATA drives until recently didn't have queued trims so if you did an occasional trim between read/writes you would have to flush the queue. Queued trims were added later on but have been slow to be adopted because it can be difficult to get it working fast, efficient and correct when intermingled with reads and writes. I know atleast one recent drive with queued trim had some bugs in the implementation.
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Had you just reinforced the wall, or windows, too? If anyone has advice for sound-proofing street-facing glass, I would be obliged.
Not even true in that case, because races often come down to luck with pit stops and how aggressive other drivers are in protecting their space. If you can't pass the dude without rear ending him, you're not going to pass him, doesn't matter how better your "single-racer" driving skills or faster your car is on paper.

Even in footraces, the competitors still have influence on each other with drafting and late starting and whatnot.
Anecdote: I switched back from a kindle after 2 years. My kindle broke in the middle of a thrilling novel (The Magicians by Lev Grossman, highly recommended), and I decided to buy it hardback. Soon enough, I decided to not bother getting my kindle fixed -- paper books felt so much more focused, more visceral, and more engrossing.

I'm not sure it's inherent. This may be a generational thing -- I grew up on paper books. Still, one data point.
My thoughts exactly. The article is quite inflammatory and tosses out some bold statements without really deep diving into them. My favorite:

"Finally, the unpredictable latency of SSD-based arrays - often called all-flash arrays - is gaining mind share. The problem: if there are too many writes for an SSD to keep up with, reads have to wait for writes to complete - which can be many milliseconds. Reads taking as long as writes? That's not the performance customers think they are buying."

This is completely false in a properly designed server system. Use the deadline scheduler with SSD's so that reads aren't starved from bulk I/O operations. This is fairly common knowledge. Also, if you're throwing too much I/O load at any storage system, things are going to slow down. This should not be a surprise. SSD's are sorta magical (Artur), but they're not pure magic. They can't fix everything.

While Facebook started out with Fusion-io, they very quickly transitioned to their own home-designed and home-grown flash storage. I'd be wary of using any of their facts or findings and applying them to all flash storage. In short, these things could just be Facebook problems because they decided to go build their own.

He also talks about the "unpredictability of all flash arrays" like the fault is 100% due to the flash. In my experience, it's usually the RAID/proprietary controller doing something unpredictable and wonky. Sometimes the drive and controller do something dumb in concert, but it's usually the controller.

EDIT: It was 2-3 years ago that flash controller designers started to focus on uniform latency and performance rather than concentrating on peak performance. You can see this in the maturation of I/O latency graphs from the various Anandtech reviews.
Aren't you just saying that the field of tenured professors is saturated? That is, there are more people looking for such jobs than there are available.
If my only criterion in choosing a programming language was to make myself smarter, I would probably choose Prolog or a similar language. I find that when I'm writing Prolog I am forced to think precisely about the problem at hand. The reason for this is that the programs one is writing are basically just specifications of the truth conditions that constitute a solution to the problem.

Other languages (especially those with flexible syntaxes) make me feel more mentally limber due to the amount of creativity they encourage. But Prolog is the only language I've ever written that makes me feel like I might actually tack on an IQ point.
I recently noticed that a lot of large sites have comments hidden by default, needing the user to click on a button for them to appear. Is there any reason for that other than mobile friendliness? Feels bad for SEO to me.
Try to compare performance of their Linux VMs against Amazon and Google, then come back and tell me if it's first class or not.
Definitely not for the apartment, but I did happen to check out and stay in a rent-able nap pod (10-15€/hr) while passing through MUC. It was a surprisingly pleasant experience - http://www.napcabs.com/
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Funny coincidence -- I just received an email with a countdown like that today and was very curious. In my case, the email was using: https://www.realtime.email/
Juniper acquired NetScreen in 2004, with NetScreen itself only just acquiring Neoteris. I'd love to know just how far back this issue goes!
Restaurants are hard enough without being compared to restaurants that opened with $10 million and 50+ staff...

$50k means you're a neighborhood restaurant, most dive bars and sandwich shops cost more to open...
I'd hope that people would post example flows (of different screens) or interaction details for an interface idea. They may be wireframes or sketches. They don't have to be polished mock-ups.

The only way to get people to post these is of course to have examples that encourage readers to post more of the same. But getting to that point is of course difficult when starting a messageboard community :-)
As Industry I agree, people in Oklahoma, Kentucky, New Delhi or Serbia can all be surfers now. I would pay $200 an hour for that wave!
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uh, this shouldn't be voted down. Now, I don't use RAID for performance, I use raid for reliability, like parent said, and I've never actually been in a position where it would make sense, but people do use raid0 to increase performance. It happens, even if it's not nearly as common as using raid to prevent data loss.
My strategy: shine a bright flashlight and don't say a word until they leave.
Given your background in physics, why do you want a job programming? Most of your self-evaluation failings seem to be related to the mechanics of programming, coding, and can be learned in an afternoon with the manual. As a physicist, you should be seeing the computer and programs for what they are, tools for exploration.
Trust, privacy, and convenience (someone assists the touring) are the main problems much more than liability, legal or financing process.

In US, the MLS controls the majority of house listing market, Zillow a pioneer in online house listing has been in constant battle with MLS.

Rental market however could be different as most are younger and apartment.
I for one prefer well executed email confirmations above overzealous validation, making me type my email twice, etc.
As long as I don't have to wait for the mail to arrive, it's fine with me.

Regarding their sales strategy, I'm surprised the article didn't mention product-integration. There's a great deal of integration going on between their products and that – if I had to guess – translates to a market of existing customers that are vastly more likely to buy (/rent) another of their products. Anecdotal evidence: after some people at our company successfully politicked for Jira, now they've got their Crucible license and are already evaluating Confluence and HipChat. Well played, Atlassian.

Also: personally, I don't agree with the article that Jira is simple, but our managers seem to love it.

Edit: typos/grammar
The only correct item here is about Systembolaget -- the state-run liquor store. Everything else is outright wrong. Prices are more, but not 2x or 3x more. And on many mid-priced wines the prices are lower due to buying power.

The major chains are either private, partnerships, or Franchise models -- ICA, Lidl (German-owned), Hemkop (Owned by AxFoods), Willys, etc.

Also, though grocery stores are not 24/7, most are open 7 days a week up to 10 or 11pm.
Eh, there are wines that go better with certain dishes than others. If you order a wine on your own and it doesn't go with the food, it's your own damn fault, but on a tasting menu with wine pairings it's 100% understood by the customers that the sommelier has spent some time identifying and selecting good matches for each course.

I can't tell from the grandparent comment whether he's grousing about a bad choice he made personally or some botched tasting menu pairings - but if he got the tasting menu with the wine pairings and the wine didn't match, then yeah, he absolutely got ripped off. Expecting two things the restaurant recommends together to actually go well together isn't an 'outlandish expectation' at all.
RAID 0 does not have any level of redundancy, so you might as well remove the 'R' in RAID and replace it by 'S' for striping or something. However, people would probably get confused if you start calling it SAID.