skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm Steve and I run product at Opsee. There are a few important differences:
1. The rich assertion language in Opsee means we're checking for more than availability - we're looking for correct responses too. This makes us more useful for checking APIs, since services can fail and still return a 200
2. We're measuring round-trip time for every check - Pingdom charges a lot more for this than their standard checks
3. Usability. Our integrations with Slack and Pagerduty are really simple to set up, our UI is responsive and well...better
4. We can also health check inside your AWS environment when you add our EC2 Instance, giving you more complete coverage. We actually do a lot of cool stuff inside AWS.
The Marching Band that blew Sia’s mind about their collaboration with a startup
http://oli.me.uk/2015/09/09/d3-within-react-the-right-way/

https://github.com/Olical/react-faux-dom
Even a few years ago, the "obvious answer" in the infosec space was that you should compress first.
And there's no telling whether the enemy will do something batshit crazy that you could have never predicted.

If Herodotus is to believed, a Persian siege against Babylon was met with the Babylonians strangling all the women except for a few to make bread as to stretch fighting resources as long as possible.

During the Sono-Soviet border conflict of the late 1960s, Mao threatened to overwhelm the Russian border with millions of Chinese as a part of his "man over weapons" strategy. Even with nuclear weapons, the Soviets were terrified of the sheer number of people that China could throw at them.

How do you predict that? How do you put a number to it?
A "check if your name/email is on the list" style site with rate-limiting might be a better option, rather than a full public dump. That way it answers a key question for interested people without exposing some of the people who are rightfully on the list. So it doesn't get indexed on google/public search engines or provide the means to auto-notify people, for example.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of people who think information should all be free and accessible, and could potentially exploit that type of system to get all the names.
>but what are some possible evolutionary reasons for this connection?

Maybe you should be asking the opposite question like why should evolution reward sedentary life? Human history involves daily exercise in some form that is more strenuous than a long walk and that's clearly connected to our general health and well-being both mentally and physically (why should these be separate to evolution?). What we're doing today is the exception, we shouldn't expect everything to work out as before.

I imagine we're in a temporary lull. Either modern society will collapse and we'll go back to farming or hunting and gathering, or we'll invent a exercise pill. There is effort in this direction:

http://qz.com/516757/scientists-are-working-on-an-exercise-p...
Even with that it still won't load for me; it's been slashdotted to hell.

Someone gave an Internet Archive link elsewhere in the thread:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160625124824/http://cacm.acm.o...
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YOU CAN BUY ANYTHING ON THE DEEP WEB, EVEN SUBMARINES
I would do more things in Ceylon if it wasn't plagued by performance problems. So far the only way I've found is to avoid any of the few libraries written in Ceylon and just use Java libraries but if you're going to do that then Kotlin's interop is far more appealing.
By putting quotation marks around it I think we can eliminate the misleading bit.
Toughbooks - they used to be quite expensive - anyway, a Toughbook would be an overkill (as I don't plan on going Desert Storming or something).

Thinkpads: a 14" i3 with 4GB of RAM is $829.99 in my neck of the woods (yeah, the joys of buying computers in Canada...) Way too expensive.
Let's assume that every single entry on the list is accurate.

Why is Thomson Reuters maintaining a list like this?

Why would payment to Thomson Reuters be the only filter to access a list like this?
Your arrogance is truly stagering. The EU is large institution and their are many reasons to be against it.

I would wager that I am far more pro-immigration the you are and I would have voted leave.
It's not about whether the achievement is groundbreaking in a technological sense, but whether this is a reasonable, defensible, sane, or even merely legal, program.
This is pretty much exactly the argument made by The Lisp Curse:

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

That basically every program written in a Lisp becomes its own programming language. It has mechanisms which are vaguely-familiar-but-different from all the other programs. The mechanisms are 80% of a complete solution, but a different 80% each time, depending on the needs of the program.
What if you compress and then only send data at regular periods and regular packet sizes? That way no information can be gleaned. E.g. after compressing you pad the data if it is unusually short, or you include other compressed data too, or you only use constant bit-rate compression algorithm.
Interestingly, exercise itself actually helps get an energetically favorable type of energy to the brain in the first place: lactate.[1] Moreover, lactate in the brain triggers the release of BDNF, which causes neurogenesis.[2]

I recorded a video conversation with the pioneer of the lactate shuttle theory behind this mechanism which may interest you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lThFQM503EU

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactate_shuttle_hypothesis

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21094220
Yeah --no. Explain how those two would fix the disarray in bay area government.
That was a fun read. Do I detect a nod to tptacek's "If You’re Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code You’re Doing It Wrong"?

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
Omnigraffle is the software that originally convinced me to switch from windows to mac. I love it so much. Great features, simple UI that doesn't fiddle too much version to version and it basically never crashes on me.
Yes, agreed. No need to incorporate just to get together and hack on a project. That said, I would certainly consider (at the very least) signing an agreement with your hacking buddy before launching anything that might generate revenue.

I've seen and heard multiple co-founder friendships fall apart once things started to get "real". Good luck!
Is the fire hose a description of the number of pop-up boxes on that site?
Show HN: Binocs – a personal search engine for all your cloud services
Hey HN!

The beta signup for Binocs just launched this morning at:
https://www.getbinocs.com

Have you ever had trouble finding one of your files—trying to remember the name or where you saved it?

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Also the monthly fee, often from a separate carrier, just for being able to use long distance dialing. Back then you'd pay for local service, long distance service, long distance rates, and potentially ISP access; all this compounded by nebulous scale rates depending on when you used long distance.

It was also further complicated by the lack of local numbers for dial-in internet access, or local exchanges for BBS's. I remember having a schedule for when I could connect for cost efficacy. It's also one of the reasons I got into local war dialing. It wasn't only out of curiosity, but a potential way to gain access to a network for cheaper.

Imagine paying 40 cents per minute to dial-in to a location you could drive to in 20 minutes. God I'm old.
Thanks, I hadn't considered that. Are those open-box computers or ex-lease ones? (big difference when it comes to wear and tear!)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11990451
The cracks continue to show in the media blitz, which is actually a media meltdown reflecting the meltdown of the elites, against Brexit. First, the petition for a second referendum was revealed to be a fraud. Now, the story that Brits somehow didn't know the implications of Brexit and, worse, somehow didn't even know what the EU was, is revealed to be greatly exaggerated.

The author put it very well:

>I’ve never seen such snobbery in my life. The post-Brexit condescension has been nauseating.
I recently discovered a new game recording software called "Loilo Game Recorder". It skimps on features, but it records games with really good quality and, so far, without any noticeable performance loss. Does exactly what it sets out to do.
Hope this doesn't sound nitpicky, but I'm curious about the implication that 'Yelp customer service' would be considered 'middle class'. Were you specifically meaning that, or was it just co-incidence? I'm curious because I find that the issue of 'the hollowing out of the middle class' hinges on the definition of 'middle class', so I'd like to know how this might help inform the definition. thanks.
Also check out https://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/
> but what are some possible evolutionary reasons for this connection?

With long term phenotypes like brain health, there probably isn't enough selective pressure to create or maintain this relationship.

Rather this result is likely the result of coincidence, and that coincidence was not deleterious enough to be removed by selection. Ex :

Exercise stimulates repair enzymes > Excess Repair Enzymes Filter Into Blood Stream > Excess Repair Enzymes Also Fix Brain Cells.
Beyond Compare. An amazing/cheap file comparison tool. - http://www.scootersoftware.com
Serverless Framework V.1 Alpha 1:  AWS Lambda and Common Events
"So I can't exactly say I'm eager for even more population density. Some of the problems above could possibly be mitigated (e.g. better sound isolation), but the broader issues of how much personal space is really necessary just seems like it's not on people's radars. Is this just not an issue for other people? Am I crazy?"

A village is a different thing than a city. A village solves different problems and provides different things.

You're not crazy for preferring a village.

VIHKAL: Aspen, Colorado ... Coronado Island, California ... Calistoga, California ... Davos, CH ... Salares, Andalucia ...
Come on, nobody is going anywhere there's no tech investors.

There are many states, that pay a lot less taxes (some only Sales and Property tax) and the SF Tech community always ignores because SF is so cool (there's no tech investors).

You guys are staying, tax or no tax, stop whining.
Just forwarded this off to my EE colleagues.

I'm for approaches that may be superior overall.
Google’s Amazing New Satellite Imagery Will Help Researchers, Too
I've pretty satisfied with the Clevo laptop I got from Mythlogic--it's a pretty solid build. Not lightweight and flimsy. Survived a fall from the back of my bike onto the pavement (in a bit of padded slipcase). Of course, not being cheaply made means not being especially cheap to buy, either. I got mine a couple of years ago--not sure what the current offerings are.
LINQPad.

Don't know how I'd get by without this for ad hoc / exploratory .NET work. Love it.
Keep in mind that these were at distances of around a billion light-years. How many galaxies are there within a billion light-years of Earth? A lot. Millions in fact. Millions of galaxies all with hundreds of billions of stars in them, adding up to hundreds of quadrillions of stars in that volume.
Doesn't Spring Boot support Kotlin?

https://start.spring.io
I have no idea where the taxes go

I'd wager a good chunk of it goes to ensuring the money is being spent correctly.

When I was an undergrad my boss was the grant writer. Half the money (and a lot of time) went into compliance and accounting.

Another example is the joke about construction projects; 1 guy digs the hole, another guy supervises the guy digging the hole, a union rep watches over the guy digging the whole, government rep makes sure the guy digging the whole is to spec, environmental guy makes sure the guy digging the whole isn't causing environmental damage. Individually, all these people are necessary, but as you add more requirements and more compliance it takes up a lot of money.

And that's what happens when people say I don't know where the tax money goes. Another committee gets formed, more forms to fill in are created.
You've surely seen this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-45

Very stealthy (no bucket/glass where the pilot has to sit). Huge amounts of lift available for high G maneuvers. Infinite air-time given a re-supply tanker is in the area.
First, it's not legend. The course you are suggesting is causing severe inflation, right now, in Venezuela.

Second, "it can't happen" - until it does. That is, you adopt this course, and there's not inflation because there's excess capacity. But the new money lets people start buying more things, and eats into the excess capacity. That's good, you say? Yes, so far. But what happens when we run out of capacity? Do we stop UBI? That's going to be politically impossible. Do we raise taxes to cover it? "We'd kill the recovery!" people scream. So it keeps being funded by new money - and now that money turns into inflation, because there's not excess capacity any longer.
Lyft had record May, providing 12.7M rides that month
Yeah, but this ignores the fact that the CA budget, and CA taxes, alone are enormous. This is the delta spending by SF, on top of CA.
I'd imagine they come from various sources, most ex-corporate, but some ex-personal. I'd expect them to be too old for true 'open box'.
EU websites are protesting net neutrality loopholes, with 'EU Slowdown' campaign
Show HN: 2D Liquid Simulation in WebGL
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11996105 and marked it off-topic.
Checklist author here...

Thanks! Glad you liked it. This checklist is what I've been going through for the past many months with my startup. Creating the list was a cathartic process and my original audience was meant to be friends who are building their own businesses. Glad to see it's getting more attention now.

I'd be fine with it getting added elsewhere as a more usable checklist as long as there's a link back to the github repo. I plan to update the checklist as I learn about new requirements and/or get pull requests.
Some final thoughts on Boston
Javascript with proprietary API at work (not NodeJS)

Java for not work (I want to move away from Java so I won't get sued by Oracle)
>Maybe you should be asking the opposite question like why should evolution reward sedentary life?

If you can live a sedentary lifestyle and still produce children, then evolution doesn't care. In fact, an indoors lifestyle is much more fit in the longterm than a life of hard labor.

Evolution isn't trying to create the Platonic Ideal of a human. It just is a thoughtless mechanism to efficiently reproduce DNA.
Polysemy
Or further perspective, Los Angeles is 8.7 Billion. (http://cao.lacity.org/budget15-16/2015-16Proposed_Budget.pdf)
Sublime Text

Files auto save, so a crash, or even accidental close will not cause you to lose anything. Also handles massive files, which is nice. On top of being a nice, very configurable code editor,
I bet even at 10 times you are fine. At 100 times maybe...
Just as a dumb spectator: that sounds a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Estab..., but below the application layer. Neat!
For an ecosystem overview: http://www.arewewebyet.org/

Still is early days, but there's a lot of stuff too. Excited to see it develop further.
Constraint layout systems are O(n^2) algorithms, while a procedural layout algo can be O(1) or O(n). I think out of practicality it wasn't adopted. It would be better if both were available, but such is life.

http://floriankugler.com/2013/04/22/auto-layout-performance-...
surprisingly not

http://vixra.org/pdf/1107.0031v1.pdf

But yes I know, a crackpots physical model... how bad it fits so well.
Maximize order. Order is the lubricant for information. And if you back your reasons with guiding principles (aka philosophy) the specifics will remain obvious as well as sort themselves.

These are the only ways to reduce cognitive load and they apply to any situation where one needs to understand something. After all, code is about understanding.

Anecdotally, the specific methods mentioned in the article that seem most valid stem from the guiding principle of maximizing order, which drastically reduces the cognitive load of the contents of the article.
Agreed - seems like more of an effort to get more businesses to move to the downtown corridor, which wasn't doing too well.
Northeast.
Why do you think they've stopped using NOSA? The page claims to show 253 projects and in the same time contains 239 occurrences of "NASA Open Source 3.0" which, for some reason, is the name of links to https://opensource.org/licenses/NASA-1.3
True. It depends if the emphasis is on the mathematical number or not..

A number less than one thousand represents the number of Brits who queried...
your heart is a pump, when you exercise your heart pumps harder and faster, your legs create a flowing motion that helps the blood make it back to the heart.

during all this the brain experiences a surge in blood levels, oxygen, metabolic exchanges happen faster and so your brain is more effective.

add into that, the body breaks down fats to power you, those fats have omega fatty acids that are released into the blood stream and go to the brain to provide nutrients.

this is why drinking coffee wakes you up.

what I really want is a pair of those leg pumps that assist the heart, so I can sit on my ass longer and code whilst getting the benefits of exercise on my brain :)
Thank you!
I hate scroll jacking too. It wasn't doing it in safari and I should have checked her browsers. I removed the js that was doing that, should be normal now. Thanks for pointing it out!
I've had several occasions it took action in production that weren't in the plan when we applied. Terraform has not made it to my warm and fuzzy list yet.
California Hits the Brakes on High-Speed Rail
it has plenty of warts, it's great but I wouldn't say it's reliable.
Additionally, doesn't this mean that the code is very sensitive. If the opponent were to get their hands on the code it would be easy to predict what these things are going to do.
I'm absolutely amazed I haven't seen Photoshop on the list yet.

Incredibly powerful, very reliable, thoroughly worth the pricetag - and I don't love subscription software.

It's generally a joy to use. And I can't think of another piece of powerful visual creation software that is.
From the desktop, most of my development toolkit: bash, vim, git, etc.

On the server side of things: nginx, haproxy, redis, memcached, cron, logrotate, Linux

And controversially (probably since I've learned their quirks): MySQL, Nagios.

They all just... work. I use these tools to set up a server, and after configured, the VM usually goes down before they do.

On the flip side of things, tools I have to use and highly resent their lack of reliability: collectd, Docker, Safari/IE/Firefox/Chrome, OSX.
That'd be a great list! I guess this depends on multiple factors like how many employees you have, how many investors, etc.

I've heard that for pre-funded DE corporations you can basically ask your registered agent to formally "resign" as your agent and then the corporation is orphaned. The proper way involves filing paperwork to dissolve the entity along with paying some filing fees.
The details about being able to dial 0XX on some switches sounds scary. If I recall correctly, numbers starting with NPA-0XX and NPA-1XX were reserved for what essentially became network administrator functionality. These were ways to reach special telco operators, as well as testing equipment, either locally or across the long distance network.

Being able to reach this stuff is akin to bring able to talk to your ISP's internal IP network. Given the continued restriction of this special prefix (your telephone number still cannot start with a 0 or a 1 after the area code) and the persistence of legacy systems on the PSTN, I would not be surprised at all if these codes were still in use.
True, but this does smell an awful lot like a control signal (in the sense of a control system).
I'm curious, are you a native English speaker? When you read my comment, do you genuinely believe I'm suggesting killing people (despite my explicitly saying in the previous comment that I oppose the death penalty for people)?

I don't think you're alone in interpreting my comment that way, but I'm not sure I understand why it's been so misinterpreted. I'd like to do better in the future (without giving up entirely on humor, though perhaps I shouldn't quit my day job).
Tcl. Everything about it is reference-grade.
I'm not claiming that anyone is entitled to anything; I'm simply pointing out that the labor market is a shit sandwich for a very large class of workers. The OP frames nonparticipation in the "gig economy" as a failure of moral rectitude on the part of those who lack "the desire to better themselves."

Economics concerns the simple exchange of resources, and is unconcerned about whether it is "fair" for a drought to cause famine and death. But we humans live in societies that require a high level of trust, social cooperation, and an expectation of fairness. Those who would tear up the social contract ought well consider what wind they would sow.
I noticed a bunch of DMCA takedowns coming from UCSD's CSE131 class in the DMCA repo: https://github.com/github/dmca

If you search for cse131 you'll find a bunch of repos still up.

This kind of whack-a-mole is typical of DMCA and requires a lot of resources to manage.
San Francisco should not do this. Instead, they should enact a city tax, much like New York City. Anyone that lives within the city should pay an extra tax. Now, this assumes they have to do this in the first place. The easiser / cheaper thing to do would be to elimiate the social safety net that lets the problem fester.
> You brought up Office's ribbon. Sure, it was a "look&feel benefit", but it also significantly hurt discoverability

That is simply not true.

In fact, the major impetus for creating the Ribbon was the Office team dealing with the constant feature requests for features they'd already implemented, but users couldn't find how to activate/use.

> and reduced the number of features available.

Also untrue, unless you're going to say things like "being able to drag a menu off the menu bar and hover around like a toolbar" are a "feature".

Or put another way, it did reduce configurability, but the number of actual useful features was not reduced.

> Is it just a discoverability problem, or did Microsoft go with that stupid new trend of dumbing down software to the lowest common denominator?

You should know I mentally translate the phrase "dumb down" to, "I don't like this because of a knee-jerk but I've never bothered to think about it long enough to express why".

> The less you demand from your users, the dumber they get.

Seriously?

How about: the fewer obstacles you put in front of your users, the more useful work they can get done.
> The Google codebase includes approximately one billion files

> approximately two billion lines of code in nine million unique source files

So what are the other ~991 million files? I don't doubt that there's a lot of binary files, but what else? Also what does "unique" source files mean?
>A country's leadership is responsible to its own people first.

That's the kind of thinking that leads to genocide and war crimes.

>However your comments read like you've adopted the opposite bias rather than less bias.

Well, not much bias. This is pretty much how big powers always operated. Read a few now US historians on WWII -- or somebody closer to Howard Zinn than some "celebrated establishment academic".