skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It supports too many apps/frameworks - It's too ambitious and not focused enough. Also, not all apps are the same when it comes to scalability - That's a false assumption which pretty much of all PaaS providers make.

There is more to scaling an app than just adding more machines - Services need to be scaled independently of each other based on usage; also, some services should run on their own dedicated hosts, some services require persistent storage also there are needs to be rules to define how services can talk to each other, recover from failures, etc...

Developers NEED some way to specify HOW their services should scale - It can't just be fully 'automatic' - That's not flexible enough.

If you look at typical Kubernetes config files, they are quite long/complex; this is because there are a LOT of factors/variables involved when it comes to running services inside distributed containers and you can't just abstract away from those details without seriously compromising flexibility.
> "Historically"? You mean symlinks are discouraged/deprecated nowadays?

I saw somewhere a comment from a distribution (it was Red Hat, I believe)
saying that some programs could have trouble with a symlink. I've never
encountered such a program and I could easily live with a symlink, but Debian
(my current main distro) went with a file copy, so I didn't bother.
California fire authorities arrest hobby drone operator [pdf]
DomTerm has its own version of imgcat - see: http://domterm.org/Applications.html
They should test how well if Tsimane people are able to differentiate between consonant harmony and dissonant harmony.

It's weird that if you go all the trouble travel into far away places to test things, but you don't test for that.
I think this article is onto something. I've recently switched over from Spotify to Apple Music subscription. While it's not perfect, I'm finding the user experience much better. Also, if a song is not listed in iTunes library, I can add the mp3's from my computer to playlist and it will automatically show up on my iPhone as well.

What I would really love to see if a single stream platform that has roughly 99.99% of all music available for streaming. None of this exclusive content nonsense.
That is quite a visual design. 'Cardinal' indeed.

Anyway, doesn't answer the fundamental question: if I am scared enough to spend $4010 (the cost of the preorder) for a drone prototype which can't fly more than 20 minutes and will probably be broken or obsolete in 10 years, why wouldn't I just install some surveillance cameras and get 24/7 coverage?
Yes, that is precisely what I mean by trivial; the things needed are builtin to the Ruby/Python/Perl languages + standard class library, which makes it very easy.

> Is it "cheating" to do it this way? Should the shell be responsible for ...

Depends on your goals. There is no absolute answer.

If you just want to get things done fast, use Ruby. If you want to understand what Bash does, and learn more about systems programming, then do it the long way.
My understanding is that Javascript Date objects only let you display dates in either the browser timezone or in UTC.

If you want to display dates in another timezone you need to use a library that does that for you or write a function that adds/subtracts hours/minutes based on the offset.

I'd recommend using a library.
This is really getting annoying. I submitted this same link 14 hours earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12103471). It was flagged as a dupe (even thought it wasn't at the time) and killed. (It has since been unflagged, but of course it's too late to save it now.)
> * Both OSX and Linux lack good file managers, unfortunately.*

I can't recall a single time when I said "man I really wish Finder wasn't missing [this or that feature], I could really use that right about now."
“Yin and Yang's Convergence”
Both of the experts in the video are physicists, and in my experience physicists play fast and loose with mathematics. I think this is often because the mathematics that makes their arguments rigorous comes long after the sloppy methods are entrenched in the physics literature.

In any case, I have talked to many physicists who have expressed to me their desire to better understand a topic like, say, differential geometry, but abhor the idea of actually reading a proof or studying a precise definition. In their words, "I only want an intuition for the subject." An understandable desire, but now my bar for believing a physicist when they make a mathematical claim is quite high. This video isn't helping them any.

To be sure, there is a right way to do it, a simple practice that the men in the video could have employed to appease everyone: when you do something egregiously false, mention that strictly speaking you're not allowed to do it, and that you're actually sweeping a lot of complexity under the rug, and then continue anyway. This is the opposite of the blind appeal to authority in the video, and maintains their integrity.
Technology looking for a problem.
OK, I'll update Npgsql. Not sure what you mean by Marten.
It's not. I'm not diabetic, but there's some interesting research on intranasal insulin and cognition, so I thought I might try it out. At my local east coast Walmart, I bought on March 13th 2016 a 10ml vial of Novolin R insulin for $24.88. (No prescription required.)
Finally, I've always wanted a terminal with particle effects!
It isn't free, it's more complex to set up and it uses some of its own terminology like 'Hosted Zones' that need to be understood. Just 3 ways in which it's not better.

It's probably better if you define the comparison in terms of flexibility/control etc etc, but simply stating it's 'better' doesn't really add anything to the conversation.
Similar to a gömböc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c
> My first measure for that is "is the documentation good enough so I can acquire all the materials for building it on the other side of the world".

> My second measure is "is the documentation good enough for getting me started without wasting a lot of money on trial and error".

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4SAAq6j3vXkUDU3OXh5cXk5OUk...

See for yourself, the first one seems to be covered, the second one is up to you.

> My third measure is "is the software or other important information still up to date".

It appears that yes, this is the case (since there is no software and what you consider 'important' might be a small inconsequential detail to me...).

So, can it be better? Yes, obviously, it is really fresh off the press by the looks of it.

Maybe one idea would be to put the documentation in Github as a markdown document, that way others could make pull requests if they have something useful to contribute.
https://developers.google.com/open-source/projects
Steve Gibson of GRC.com is a "health hobbyist" and has been experimenting with various Sleep Formulas, with some success, which you might find interesting: https://www.grc.com/health/sleep/healthy_sleep_formula.htm

He may be interested in hearing about your experiences in his forum
Even if it were lying outright (and it didn't claim "complete Open Street Maps" or anything akin), it still wouldn't be clickbait. If we want to kill clickbait, we shouldn't overload the term.

"Wikipedia in 5MB" = lie
"How small do you think this popular encyclopedia can become? The number will blow your mind" = clickbait
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant to say that if a date is associated with some location (such as on a travel site) then you need to make sure that that the date gets stored for the timezone of that location and that you keep track of what the timezone should be so you can use it when displaying it again.

For example, if you have a flight leaving SFO at July 16, 2016 4:00 PM PDT, you don't want to show it as July 16, 2016 1:00 PM if viewing it from New York.
The point being that the singling out ASCII is survivor bias.

^ ~ | @ # * are not characters to generally be found in handwriting and not just natural inclusions in a character set.
This is the library vuejs 2 virtual dom is based off of.
This is the sort of thing that gets written when well-meaning software engineers write about stuff they know little about.

Testing early drug candidates on living critters is already a thing, and has been a thing since forever. It's referred to in the industry as "phenotypic screening." In vitro testing emerged because it's expensive and possibly unethical to use huge numbers of mice/digs/people to test drugs in the pipeline. There's been a resurgence of phenotypic testing as the miracles promised of various screening technologies promised in the 1990s-2000s have failed to deliver.

Iterative refinement of drug structures has also been a thing since pretty much forever. Similar structures behave similarly. Changing stuff is somewhat predictable, and modifications are introduced at all stages of the pipeline. For example, a structure might first be tweaked for receptor binding, then for solubility, then for ease of.manufacture, etc.
I wonder if we're missing the point of Gladwell. Gladwell doesn't, as far as I know, pretend to be a world-class psychologist at the cutting edge of popular research. I'm not sure many university departments would take him all that seriously.

What he's an expert at doing is wrapping quite esoteric concepts up in a language that people can understand, relate to and discuss. For instance, he offers the Cliffnotes version of an answer to the question 'So how much work did I have to put in to become an expert at something' or 'How did containerization change world trade?.' He does this better than almost anyone, and his theories are tied to actual research (which sets him apart from the 'this sounds about right' of the likes of Seth Godin.)

If he doesn't offer enough precision and clarity for you, consider that his audiences are themselves well below the 10,000 hours threshold in the subjects he tends to opine on.
Yeah -- that does seem like promotional material to me, and I looked at a couple of other university pages, and I don't see the "mission" and "values" statements reproduced on them.

This policy may be helpful in getting some context around why the reverted edit seems acceptable to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
It can be stale or contain weird opinions, but the OSM wiki certainly serves as an adequate inventory (maybe not perfectly organized).

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software

To your specific question:

https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim#installation

with a viewbox:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Search
Captures intruder events during those quick trips to the market.
[This](https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/motor-rpm-155-mp...) does suggest that the RPM of 18.000 is quie different than the 2.500 mentioned for the Siemens.

I do think the figure of 32 kg for the Tesla motor includes the fixed gear though. So I don't so why that would be of any concern.

idk I still don't understand where the unique ability of the Siemens engine is. Obviously not the power to weight ratio. Not certification as it's still in development.

As for materials and power/torque I have no clue.
This is very interesting. This is actually an area that I spent great deal of time doing academic research in and I even looked into building something very similar to this. While it's possible in some sense, I'm not sure the technology is there yet for a full product to be delivered to consumers. I remain skeptical but am excited to follow this. I would like to see more details about a couple different pieces of the hardware & software they are using. I would also be interested in the people behind this, as there are several researchers work in this area that I would be significantly more inclined to have faith in.
I tried this for a while, but it was more confusing.

Logfiles would be written with UTC times, but the time showing on my terminal prompt, or if I ran `date`, was in my local time.

(Possibly more confusing to me, as I live in Western and Northern Europe, with +0000, +0100 and +0200, so it's easy not to notice the time is offset from UTC in a logfile.)
Passionately thrown absolute statement ("never ... innovate") indicates you have some personal problem with / hidden agenda against Apple - what was the issue that put you off so strongly?

Your implied definition of "innovation" means more less that most innovation comes from SF writers - the rest are just copy-cats.

You must have the same opinion regarding Elon Musk's Tesla - "they never truly innovate", right?
The OP sort of touched on this with the point about "some jobs going missing" at the transition points. It's roughly the same issue I guess. Anyway will certainly join in the chant of UTC, UTC, UTC. Not long ago I had to manage some boxes at different colo datacenters where I had some on pacific time, some on central. It's a huge pain figuring out when things actually happened.
All you have to do is read Gladwell to know he's basically a hack...this comes as no shock.
i think its more like north korea heading the UN commission on human rights.
I think what the author writes is true if you want to maintain absolute control over the project.

However, in this post (http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html) and the related HN discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417), we see that by empowering and trusting contributors we can often get surprising and unintuitive results. I've tentatively tried this and been pleasantly surprised in my own projects.
Response to Interpretation of React's “Design Principles” by React Team Members
dalke, I said "some parts of my business" because I run several different business of various types.

Since the book focuses on value pricing for consulting projects it's obviously not applicable to the SaaS that I run.

However it's been fantastic for my software development/architecture consulting.

I recently completed at project for a client where I used the value based approach from the beginning of the sales cycle and very early on identified the real goals that the client had in mind and was able to work with them to identify a dollar amount that they wanted to invest to fix the problem. We agreed on that amount and I went to work. After completing the project my effective hourly rate was around $600/hour, and the client was extremely happy with the results.

(I know you're not a fan of the term "effective hourly rate", but it's the best term I have to talk about that concept since I didn't agree to an actual hourly rate with the client.)

Had I gone with my old process of saying "this is my hourly rate and I'll track hours" it's doubtful that the client would have agreed to $600/hour and I would have made much less on that project.

I don't think Jonathan meant to use "laborer" as a slur of any kind. I think he's trying to get at the distinction between being "a pair of hands" on a project, who is told what to do and how to do it VS being "a brain" on the project who is operating at a higher level of abstraction to identify problems, propose possible solutions, determine which solution is best, etc...

Those are two very different things, and the advice in the book would be MUCH harder to apply if you are filling a "pair of hands" role.

Hope that makes sense and answers your questions.
Apple could just buy the entire music industry. Total US revenue for the music industry is $15 billion and dropping. (Revenue peaked in 1998 around $38 billion in current dollars.) Apple revenue is around $225 <strike>million</strike> billion.

Music can only be a side business for Apple. It's just not big enough.
Positions of power attract the power hungry. Positions of authority attract authoritarians. I think any sane citizen of any country would love to have top-level government positions such as these have decisions relegated directly to the citizens instead. There is no reason why, with our technology now, we couldnt facilitate direct-democracy for such critical positions that control the outcome of decisions that affect society.
Multirotor hobbyist here - are those props some sort of strange heavy lift configuration? I've never seen such a long chord length on such small props.

Anyway, unless those props are somehow very special, there's no way that thing flies for 20 minutes. Way too bulky, that body is blocking like 20% of each prop's thrust, and quads that size just can't carry a 3 axis gimbal for that long.
The screenshot is of a really old Gnome 2 Nautilus.
Thanks for the kinds words, Jacques, but I really do realize the documentation can be improved, and I'll make is so.

Instead of github, I think I'll use readme.io for the documentation, at the suggestion of Rory with FarmBot.
Also, focusing on ASCII often means implicitly focusing on English keyboards to the detriment of other languages.

The ^ and ~ characters are particularly hard to type on many European keyboards. My MacBook's Finnish/Swedish keyboard doesn't even show the tilde ~ character anywhere on the physical layout, and it requires three keypresses to type.
All of the arguments in this post supporting UTC could be applied to any timezone without daylight saving.

If your company is entirely located in California or some other Pacific Time location, consider putting your servers on Arizona time. There's no daylight saving, and for most of the year, the server time will match your wristwatch. In the winter, when California is on PST, the servers will only be off by an hour.

I find that much more tolerable than the hassles of UTC servers, where you can't instantly translate between server time and wall time in your head, and server midnight rolls over in the middle of the California day, and thus datestamped logfiles don't match up at all with your wall calendar.

Edit: If you're going to downvote, please post a comment explaining why, so that readers can learn something.
My bank, Skandiabanken,sends an ordinary SMS message so it works with any mobile phone including dumb phones. To compromise it someone would have to know my personnummer and steal my mobile. Skandiabanken also gives me a scratch card one time pad so that I can log in without the mobile, the web page asks for the n-th number from the card.
totally agree. Even if a good graph representation of code existed (trees diagrams of ASTs or S-Exprs) the keyboard would still be the most efficient way to navigate & edit them. Drag & drop is a rubbish system, too slow.
>>Cardinal Drone prevents you and the family in case of intrusion in your house

Prevents us from doing what?
How an Ancient Greek Awakened an Undergrad from Dogmatic Slumbers
Why does the Spotify graph look like the bottom of a sigmoid and the Apple graph look like the top of a sigmoid. Just a statistical quirk? Or does free + paid have a higher top line?

How does Spotify's ad-supported free play compare to FM/AM radio, back in the 70's? How much did the artists benefit from radio play, back then? Direct revenue or promotion?
I'm sorry but I gave the wrong impression.

Someone who is highly competent, is deserving of merit, never want to work for a firm that doesn't hire on the basis of merit. So those firms that don't hire on the basis of merit are turning these people away. There is a shortage of people with competence and merit in computing, so that person will find a job and with a firm who values that person for their abilities.

Just as the case with antisemitism, no need for diversity programs. Physics Nobelist Richard Feynman was turned away from Columbia University because of the Jewish Quota. He went to MIT instead. MIT wanted someone like him and didn't care whether he was Jewish or not. The fact that MIT accepted him and Columbia did not demonstrated that MIT was the better school.
crontab -e is the way to edit your cron. A similar command exists for editing the sudoers file which is visudo. This will ensure your configuration is a valid syntax as well as do an atomic swap of the file.

And there's "vipw" for the password file. Each of them with their own separate updating bugs.
Sandstorm is not a PaaS and is not intended to be an alternative to Kubernetes. It is not designed for running SaaS services intended to scale to millions of users. It is designed for running personal or internal employee-facing services, where there are anywhere between 1 up to maybe 10,000 users. The kind of scaling you describe simply isn't an issue in this domain.

Moreover, Sandstorm takes a completely different approach to scalability called fine-grained containerization. The problems and solutions are really completely different from a Kubernetes-like approach. Read about it here:

https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works
Likewise, though when I tried a couple of weeks ago my first attempt was on a CentOS 6 VM; now that was painful, little in the way of distro supplied packages, having to workaround outdated dependencies, etc.

CentOS 7 in comparison was much easier, and then, the easiest: upgrading my laptop to Fedora 24 -- tile server basically comes for free, sigh ;-)
A Technical Founder’s Review of APIs – JIRA
I don't care if it's oversimplified. The 10,000 hour rule is brilliant for getting people past the difficult stages of learning a new skill. Can't play guitar? It's not because you were born without musical talent...it's because you haven't put in your time yet. Get to work. People aren't born playing guitar. They learn to play guitar...through practice...lots and lots and lots of practice...10,000 hours of practice!

For me, this realization was life-changing. And yes, I learned to play the guitar at the age of 40 after reading Outliers because I then had faith that with enough hours of hard work that I could do it. And I did. And now playing music is one of my greatest pleasures in life.
> Golang's TLS stack is far less complex in comparison to other projects.

TLS is the definition of complex =)

> Golang's TLS stack is written in a "safe" language.

Not all bugs are memory corruption bugs.

> Golang's TLS stack is written by individuals with lots of experience in SSL/TLS (and its flaws!)
> Contributions to the project are held to very high standards

True, I would expect the code to be of high quality and the bugs to be sparse. But even knowing this, you always want to have other pair of eyes looking at your code. An audit done by other experts brings a lot to the table.

PS: also, I think an audit would cost a negligible cost to Google =)
"Cardinal flies itself in your home to capture strangers events in your home"

With that added to the other quotes in the comments, you have gotten all the entertainment value you're going to get from the site.

I guess some Blender renders + a bootstrap theme makes you a robotics company.
Saudi Arabia is chairing the United commission on human rights currently. Pretty crazy eh?
Where does human curation of the web live now? Is it all temporal (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, HN, etc), or is there somewhere central that humans organize it "for all time"? Would a modern Yahoo with the staff surfers replaced by the crowd provide value to the world? Could it possibly work without being horribly gamed? Are there good examples of having tried this idea?
meh, I tend to skip thinking about the rational numbers when I move onto this hardcore theory stuff :p

There are two ways of constructing a number line from -inf to +inf

The first, is that "nothing exists" to the left of -inf or to the right of +inf
The other, more useful, is that -inf=+inf+1 and +inf=-inf-1, (or -inf=+inf, never remember which is the more useful) and they form a loop.
Such as that constructed by a signed integer.
e.g.
e.g. with an 8 bit number
127+1 = -127

This has nothing to do with modulo afaik. (but all the basic construct stuff is related) and is more to do with every dimension being curved in another (meaning they always form such loops)