skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe let existing users continue like today and charge only for new users?

Personally I think twitters problem is much simpler: it is just a media/subset of biz/subset of tech thing.

The only thing twitter has over other services is brand recognition and a certain community.

On all other areas they are owned by both Facebook and even Google+

I remember being exited about twitter years ago: I saw lots of possibilities like "event streams" for automated processing, I thought they'd come up with a way to mark certain messages as mostly relevant for certain groups of followers etc.

What they did instead was focusing on painting themselves into the 140 revolutionary characters corner and keeping the paint wet from time to time by messing with the API etc.
Python's matplotlib was apparently good enough for the Gravitational Wave paper.

I think both this post and the post it is arguing against are actually arguing the same thing... You have to think about what you are communicating and not just plot out things and say you're done.
GTA, populous, civilization, space invaders, street fighter II have so much echoed every where, even in museum through plastic art, dance, movies and street art, that is is ridiculous to ask ourself if it is art. It is.

But clearly, museum, artists and institution once more prove by the example how late they lag behind the popular culture and how much they crave for legitimacy.

Every time I see an artist in a museum I feel like visiting a tomb of a now fallen comrade that tried to escape institutions and finally got revered by it. Like the biggest sign of failure possible for any arts : being revered numbly by the idiots you tried to shake.

Any artists craving for oscar, medals, title, social recognition is aiming at failing to bear any disruptive messages towards our society, hence culture. Heralding loud to aim at no disruptions about our times is called plain propaganda.

Art has misplaced the debate over proficiencies required to bear a message and its technicality while the biographies of the artists seem to point out they cared more about expressing themselves.

Art is the very art to study the envelop instead of a message and to contradict by the very same study the nature of the message. Art as an academic study should be considered very close to a religion.

EDIT: And I consider that there should be no religions taught in universities or education systems. (Yes, psychology if it persevere in failing at having reproducible results should be considered from being banned to be taught, like some economic theories, or intelligent design).
for heatmaps with dendrograms there is ggdendro: https://plot.ly/ggplot2/ggdendro-dendrograms/

but it's definitely not a streamlined experience.. most of the time I just use pheatmap: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pheatmap/index.html
After e10s is released, they should probably make a "low memory" build of Firefox available with this flag flipped.
Because you have to prove damages from your data loss or web tampering. So, you got redirected to a different site. Maybe your credit card number got sold and bought a few dozen times until some time 2 years later, someone started charging it, so your bank cancelled it and reissued. There's a lot of maybes and tenuous connections.

Nobody would take that case.

There's a problem with our privacy protections in the law.
I'm not defending the customers, I'm pointing out that "don't do things people won't want" doesn't really work unless you first establish that they won't want them, and it doesn't work at all when it becomes "don't try to gauge if someone wants X unless you know they want X".
I didn't realize that GitLab had a central hosted option! I thought it was just a download-and-maintain-yourself type of thing.
That's one of the definitions of critical mass. Reputation is built up over time and usage. Gitlab's uptime reliability isn't particularly known or unknown, mostly because, compared to Github, it's not used enough for those issues to come up.

Try talking to a dev, ask them why they use Github instead of Gitlab. Are they going to tell you "Oh I absolutely would use Gitlab but their uptime is such a problem"? Or are they going to tell you their stuff's already on Github? Their friends/coworkers are on Github? Their employers look for their Github profile?

As a sidenote I would totally use MySpace instead of Facebook if not for their notable history of extended downtime...
What's being asked for here isn't exactly onerous, you know.

It's not unreasonable to expect a response to an open letter, signed by some very nontrivial names, in less than a month.

It's not unreasonable to expect something other than bullshit hand-wavy corpspeak.

It's not unreasonable to address the letter, point by point, and lay out why they're doing or not doing something.

If the organization has grown so bureaucratic that they can't manage these simple few things in a timely manner, that's another huge point against them.
I'm sorry. I'm logged in on different devices. Messed up at the beginning when I first joined. Can't remember password for prjseal one. I'm signed to that automatically at work. I will continue with this piess account and won't repost links. Am I allowed to share new posts from my blog that I think you will find interesting? Please help as I'm new. I'm not a spammer, intentionally.
The first case only works if you already know the name of the program you want. Otherwise you're funneling straight down the google rabbit hole.
Try to take apart a box where you have half-empty yoghurt cups and newspapers.

And now imagine having them separately.

Separation by the consumer is far easier, because they can make sure in the paper container is purely paper, and it can just be dissolved, cleaned, and recast into paper. And in the plastic container is just plastic, metal and organic stuff, so you can clean it with water, and are left with plastic and metal, and can separate magnetically.
This is a nice example of why you don't need a parser framework!
Climate change helps slow, not quicken, rising sea levels
Oh, definitely, but it's still not something to wish on someone. Then again, I guess the colleague was just laughing at the irony, so we aren't all arguing the same point here.
Ask HN: Web based alternative for Camscanner with batch processing?
Thanks! We decided to not pick a too specific name (like something with "contributing"), since in the future we want to provide services that automates other types of tasks related to working with git. Hence the "GitMagic" name :)
Unicorn: C++ Unicode string library
If I remember correctly, 2006 was before the "news feed" switch. That was a huge shift that changed how people interacted with Facebook, and communicated with each other on it.
Who uses oil to generate electricity?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plant...
I use it semi-frequently and have never had a problem.
They would have to raise advertised prices in order to do that, since those prices are pre-tax.
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Why? If you're so easily distracted, perhaps the thing you're working on isn't very interesting to you. There is zero value in finishing something just so you can say "I finished it."

IOW: quitting is underrated.
Yes, with some caveats: Lots of configurations that use veths use NAT to share the IP address of the host. For example, this is Docker's default configuration. In this case, the host kernel checks the TCP checksum no matter what, so this issue doesn't apply.

This problem only happens when the packets are routed from the host to the container. This happens in Kubernetes, which assigns each container its own IP address, Docker's IPv6 configuration (same), and Mesos, which using Linux Traffic Control rules to share a range of ports with each container.
There's a story on the frontpage of HN right now:

"Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions"

This story about Pee-Wee is here for the same reason that one is. From the HN guidelines:

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."
1. Now-defunct Canadian Immigrant Investor program allowed you to buy permanent resident status in Canada, thus avoiding any potential future tax discrimination against foreigners. Unlike the US Green Card, Canadian PR status is permanent, affords all the privileges of citizenship except voting, and can never be revoked, even if you join a foreign army to fight Canada. A similar incarnation of this program still exists in Quebec (and allows you to move to Vancouver on day 1).

So not only can you buy property in Vancouver, but you can send your family over without worrying about any immigration troubles and always know you will be able to come live here if you desire.

2. Canada allows unlimited cash to be brought into the country tax-free as a gift to a relative.

3. Any gains from property speculation will be tax-free if a spouse or child claims the property is their residence. See (1) about ease of getting immigration status for your family.
These are two vastly different types of scales that cannot be compared so easily. Namely, IQ doesn't convert to power like money does.
> mixed glass recycling tub.

That’s why in some countries glass recycling is separated by color.
I keep wondering how much traction systemd would have gotten without having a long standing project like udev latched onto it (never mind the consolekit replacement logind).

I'm just waiting for some project to be wholly dependent on the existence of networkd or some such...
Rabbit Brain Preserved Successfully using Cryopreservation
It'll be interesting to see how many upgrade. I still see people using 2, with no plans to move on to 3 any time soon.
This might be because she's a model; a job where intellect isn't a huge factor (smart people can be models too, but there's no requirement). People are dicks, but taking advice from a model is probably a bad idea.

Male models tend to get less attention, but I imagine it wouldn't be much different.
There are.
I see it like those grammar errors in scam emails - making people self-select themselves for qualities you want.

Even at crazy low success rate, it's still only a matter of time.
Don’t Set Your iPhone Back to 1970
like Google Reader, this was probably not a core part of their business.
I've been wondering about that. I use Sublime 2, and didn't want to upgrade to 3 until it was out of beta. I wonder what's taking so long?
New cryopreservation procedure wins Brain Preservation Prize
For those interested, please find here [1] the recordings of Juju sessions (day 2 & 3 only) at Config Management Camp. Mark Shuttleworth's keynote is also recorded [2]. Recording of James Page's presentation [3] "Building a private cloud with the OpenStack charms" (day 1) might be available on the Ubuntu youtube channel [4] next month.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzSGDpUWtiotngRgVqpa8...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp_Re8Mx9xk#t=1h8m15s

[3] http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/schedule/speakers/JamesPage.html

[4] https://www.youtube.com/user/celebrateubuntu
Great idea! I created an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13401
Frozen brain brought back in ‘near perfect’ condition in cryonics breakthrough
You can't buy a UK or US passport. You can buy a Canadian one.

http://www.immigration.ca/en/immigration-wiki2/151-updates/7...
It might. I don't know enough about them. Anything that routes packets without NAT to a veth device is affected.
What outsiders don't seem to understand is the people shouting "Bitcoin is or should be a democracy" the loudest are the ones who stand to benefit the most from seizing power from the current core developers.

As if those people have any intention whatsoever to listen to the opinions of billions of poor people when making technical protocol decisions. They don't want real democracy - they want their democracy where they're in control. And for anyone wondering what that control looks like, here are some direct quotes from the "democracy" crew:

Gavin Andresen: "there will be big companies spending lots of engineering dollars on their own highly optimized versions of bitcoin. I bet there will be alternative, secure-and-trusted, very-high-speed network connections between major bitcoin transaction processors. Maybe it will just be bitcoin transactions flying across the existing Visa/MasterCard/etc networks" [1]

Gavin Andresen: "I think long-term the chain will not be secured purely by proof-of-work. I think when the Bitcoin network was tiny running solely on people's home computers proof-of-work was the right way to secure the chain" [2]

Gavin Andresen: "bitcoin is already more decentralised than it needs to be" [3]

Mike Hearn: "probably 2 or 3 racks of machines" [4]

Gavin Andresen: No, it's completely distributed at the moment. That will begin to change as we scale up. I don't want to oversell BitCoin. As we scale up there will be bumps along the way. I'm confident of it. Why? For example, as the volume of transactions come up--right now, I can run BitCoin on my personal computer and communicate over my DSL line; and I get every single transaction that's happening everywhere in the world. As we scale up, that won't be possible any more. If there are millions of bitcoin transactions happening every second, that will be a great problem for BitCoin to have--means it is very popular, very trusted--but obviously I won't be able to run it on my own personal computer. It will take dedicated fleets of computers with high-speed network interfaces, and that kind of big iron to actually do all that transaction processing. I'm confident that will happen and that will evolve. But right now all the people trying to generate bitcoins on their own computers and who like the fact that they can be a self-contained unit, I think they may not be so happy if BitCoin gets really big and they can no longer do that.

[1]: https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3118.0

[2]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015...

[3]: http://www.bitcoin.kn/2015/09/adam-back-gavin-andresen-block...

[4]: https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Scalability&oldid=35...

IOW, the goal of their democracy is to usurp control of full nodes from individual hands and make that into a Corporate-dominated service. It would basically turn Bitcoin into an enterprise database that most people are stuck accessing as a proprietary SaaS.
I see that as a worldwide problem, as interest rates tend to zero.

In Brazil, real estate prices are completely out of touch with median income (at least, the rents are still affordable, because the typical landlord owns only one or two places and simply needs to rent to cover taxes and maintenance, he cannot sit on them).

Economists and governments paid too much attention to the inflation of the Big Mac and forgot real estate and other hard assets. Also, govts have a huge incentive to allow real estate bubbles: tax revenue, abundance of blue-collar jobs while the construction frenzy lasts, illusion of prosperity for whoever already owns the home, etc.

Yet another possibility is that too many people need to put dirty or excess money in a 'safe' investment. I hear that Chinese buy a lot of real estate in London, Vancouver, etc. At least here in Brazil, the money you have in a bank can be frozen in a milissecond if you are suspect of a crime, but controls over real state are very lax, so a lot of corruption money goes into real estate, which fuels the bubble.
The economic activity driving the purchases is not tied to Vancouver in any way, it would continue if nobody lived in Vancouver whatsoever. Its a place for rich mainland Chinese to dump their wealth away from the clutches of the CCP.
Please! Maybe I'm weird but sometimes I simply want to reposition text on my screen. Just a slight adjustment, think eye level, so it's a bit easier to read and sites like this don't allow me to do so.
Bunch of system tools almost for free
Would that actually solve the problem? Is there anywhere in America where steel frame construction + concrete walls + elevators is affordable to regular people? Is there even one example of this happening in the real world?

I haven't found any examples, except in already hyper-wealthy neighborhoods, or in 40+ yr old buildings in cities that became significantly less desirable, due to very high crime/poverty/etc. (Detroit, parts of Chicago, etc)

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> (From the Slate.com article you linked to) What should be happening in Silicon Valley is an enormous construction boom. There should be oodles of blue-collar jobs knocking down suburban-style single-family detached homes and replacing them with attached townhouses. Right by Caltrain stations, there should be huge apartment towers going up. Some people might get dispaced out of the individual house they live in, but generally should be able to afford to stay in the area

Is that a thing that has ever actually happened -- even just once? It sounds like a false narrative.

In the real world, the creation of the Highrise adds more units (increases supply) but does not reduce demand -- because the presence of the new building makes the neighborhood more attractive, so demand rises even more than the supply was increased, driving prices even higher. If a hypothetical high rise has 20 units, the act of constructing it increases demand by 40 units (20 of which the building absorbs, 20 of which are dumped back into the already-high-demand neighborhood.

I'm in the "low cost of living" Midwest, and even here this occurs. A developer pays $150k for a single family 4bed home. Tears it down, and builds 3 condos on the site, each condo lists for $250k - $300k and is only 2bed each. The previous occupants are guaranteed to be displaced -- even if they could downsize their space needs, they can't afford to double their housing costs.

Where is this hypothetical place where these brand new condos cost equal-or-less than the old single family house that was just torn down?
Even if you named the functions differently (clz8/16/32/64), you still needed to match them to the appropriate __builtin_clz version.
Packaging is the problem. We should only use goods that can be recharged or refilled. Otherwise, the problem goes on and on.
I've been trying to get Docker to include this workaround when it creates containers to ensure people don't run into it, but this has not gotten any attention: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/18776

Mesos has a workaround like this in it now.
It especially bugs me because he was caught in a raid of a porno theater. People act like he was caught in an ordinary movie theater, because the zeitgeist has no room for details.
Because Paul Reubens hacked his own own reality and made it something interesting and amazing to behold.
This is all speculation. At this pace, version 4 will be out in 2020.
Please don't. SSH client was never a tool intended for unsupervised running
(i.e. running as a daemon/service). Deploying it in any non-trivial scale
gives awful lot of problems, including managing host keys, user keys, user
accounts to log for port forwarding, and ensuring that user key for port
forwarding actually allows for nothing more.

You can tell how well suited it was for the task from just the list of options
and redirections in /etc/inittab entry from the article, and it still misses
several important options (e.g. setting ExitOnForwardFailure or
StrictHostKeyChecking). How can you be sure you covered all the necessary
options?

And all that while there is a well-known tool called stunnel. Really,
I wouldn't trust the training on sysadmin's tasks that recommends using SSH
for such things.
> "However, high power individuals...

I think that's best read as an aside. Low coordination to me reads as not really a group task, or less so.

Take someone used to being "high-power" let them work alone, magic happens. Put a bunch of high-power loners together and your in for a bad time.

A governor being the most "powerful" person in a state can be very effectual, but a group of them together in some sort coordinated task may be a disaster fit for tv.
So, I'll admit that I don't understand the details of how vanguard is paying employees or the external people that actually manage the money, but presumably, they pay a fixed fee to someone to manage the money, and that fee is significant (but not a significant fraction of the money under investment). The fact that "normal" in investment funds is percentage of money under investment plus percentage of the profit shouldn't matter since they've found a way to run a company that doesn't need to pay those fees to get the money invested.

edit: I should add, that I'm fairly certain that the employees at vanguard are in fact getting paid.

edit2: So the question is should we look at whether the employees/contractors at vanguard are getting paid market rate, or whether vanguard as a whole is charging market rate to the investors. My comparison to the hospital co-op was that it's unfair to compare apples-to-orangutans.
> What do you do when you don't have a spec and when you ask the senior engineer you are working with questions, they don't respond or push back against having a spec or a plan longer than the very next feature?

What I would suggest is that you should learn the practices of wherever you are working, and not spend much effort trying to change them. Your first couple of jobs, you'll hopefully be exposed to several different methodologies, and only then will you have the experience to advocate for best practices, as well as being able then to speak to evidence of it working at a past job.

> What do you do if asked to estimate how long something will take to debug? What if you just started on a project and the error message you are trying to debug doesn't make sense?

If you can't accurately estimate debugging, instead explain what you understand, what you don't understand, what you've learned so far, and what you're planning on trying next.
Lawyers Speak Out About Massive Hack of Prisoners’ Phone Records
repair falls into reuse in my mental model
You could say the same of nearly any fad that resonates with teenagers. My point was plenty of people I know, across various ages, use Snapchat as a replacement for MMS. I would hardly classify that as an obvious misdirection of human attention.
I'm tired of these shutter-downers! They broke a gazillion URLs! At the same time they penalize you if you do similarly!
A lot of people who used Google Blogger hosted images for the blog in Picasa. If the URL's break a lot of old blogs will lose content.
We're not there yet but uptime is a lot better than two months ago (we can deal with Azure now, PostgreSQL and Redis are HA). But file storage is still a single point of failure, we're looking into moving to Ceph https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1

We're focussed right now on making GitLab.com faster. Issues got 3 times faster yesterday https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42#note_3670...
If you asked me a few years ago if I would pay for sublime, I would have said yes. But with the release of Visual Studio Code and Atom, the $70 USD price tag + upgrade fee is making me weigh those other options a bit more closely.
Macros were available in S-Expression free languages long before Julia.
Echo – Convert HTML Tables to JSON/CSV Files
Any plans to have a tie-in for GitLab repos, as well?