skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paging is honestly easier for me than smooth scrolling when reading text.

When smooth scrolling, you lose a lot of time following the animation and waiting for motion to stop.

For some use cases, this would be ideal. For others, not so much.

Can you speedily grayscale into black-and-white? That is, type a letter, putting black/gray into a previously white space (or vice versa, if using a dark color scheme), clearing a single-pixel-wide cursor and installing a new one to the right of the added letter. I don't need the letter to be fully black instantly, I just need to see that I have typed something.
Yeah, obviously you shouldn't omit a word if it's needed.
Name Idea:

Pipesole, Pipe your console output to other devices, would require more apps for it tho e.g. phones, tablets and 2 in 1's
um, LICENSE? am I missing something

https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/bdr
There is no way I would trust someone to mind a child if they are being forced to do it.
One solution:

function(c=1){return function(){return c++}}

44 characters
I conceed. For some databases, any adjustment is clearly a major decision with potential consequences. My comment was needlessly inflammatory.
My XPS 13 Developer Edition has the Broadcom card, which makes it annoying to install distros. The proprietary driver has worked without problem as far as I can tell, but I'd really prefer a free driver.

(I do think it's fair to call out Dell for selling a Linux developer machine that can't even connect to the internet without proprietary drivers. There's no Ethernet port either.)

On the plus side, the retina touch screen works great. Even on my custom NixOS setup it gives me smooth scrolling and even pinch-to-zoom in Chromium Google Maps. Pretty cool.
This is an incredible graph, an excellent example of nonobviousness of how to properly do trend extrapolation. Thanks for sharing.
(x=0)=>()=>++x
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274224
I didn't go this year.
Were only 17 lectures recorded ?
So, how long till the adblockers get past Facebook's new work around and it all repeats again?

This sort of cat and mouse game is going to accomplish nothing in the long run.
Title is garbage, seemingly typical of the decline of science journalism.

The researchers orbited a muon around a deuterium nucleus, not an atom. And physics isn't broken, but this experiment adds to to recent evidence that the Standard Model (and supersymmetry) are showing serious flaws.
Interesting. Doesn't argue against dropping the "always", though.
FB shouldn't even bother, it's their company vs millions of extremely motivated people who hate their ads. My bet is on the adblockers
India has lower income inequality than the US. Your hypothesis seems falsified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Holy crap, that's what I call refactoring !
I'm working on some mechanical engineering software that produces a report that is heavy in tables and equations. Today we are generating html for display and have an option to output the same report in pdf form. We use htmldoc to do the html->pdf conversion. htmldoc is unbelievably fast, it's also quite limited. It doesn't know about Unicode or CSS.

We've tried other more capable converters but they are an order of magnitude slower than htmldoc. I guess Unicode and CSS support is expensive. htmldoc is also better than anything else we've tried at not putting page breaks in the middle of a table.

Would you say this type of report generation is something than Pandoc would be suited for?
I don't know if you can hit that price point, but looking at trade pubs I see there is little on the market for the equestrian market.

I think there are several uncanny valleys that make the market hard to serve:

* many horse paddocks are only a modest multiple of the gps uncertainty for typical hardware
* you can't count on cell service in rural areas
* no unlicensed wireless technology has a range that is (consistently) a large multiple of the gps uncertainty, so if your horse is ranging in a large area you can't get the signal back
* anything you interact with while riding is a no-no because misattention will have you on your ass in no time
As a Kindle DX owner, I would strongly recommend against purchasing one. They do show up on Amazon Warehouse as refurbs, but even still, you're not going to get any software upgrades, display of PDFs is awful, and it wasn't particularly fast even when new.
This is always a good reminder. Then again, had I not done that investment or cashed out earlier, that 20k€ would be nowhere near 1M€. There simply doesn't exist many ways to achieve 50x ROI in <5 years. Seems like majority of people are happy with lower yield plans, but I personally would have not achieved my goals without some aggressive increase in wealth.

Hard to say what I would be saying had I lost everything though. It's easy for me to rationalise the decision now that it paid off. And yes, we have to remember to look at the graveyard too.

The non-linear utility of money puts an interesting twist on things though. The effort and risk one should take to achieve additional wealth seems to reduce logarithmically after a certain point. I guess that point seems to be further for me than most people, but I feel it's close now.
Also try Old Bear And Friends, a favourite from my own childhood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l683Fyr2RZc - lots of sweet little stories told in an endearing way.
The supercomputer Cray/SGI business was the only surviving bit and basically DoD and other TLAs are the only buyers.

I suspect it's mostly the Cray networking topologies (T3D/T3E double-taurus with 2048+ cpus) that kept them relevant. The processors were just plain alphas and later Xeons I think.
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Sure, if you don't mind diligently saving all documents on shutdown, or your browser loading every single tab anew after starting, …

Applications are stateful. Sleeping keeps all that state.
I agree. The price seems very low to me also, especially since they can't use a cloud provider. I'm assuming they are running this in some already established data center that they own and control.

Having to be in a DC alone makes them much more vulnerable to a DDoS (I remember our provider would just cut us off first and then ask questions later is they spotted bad traffic).
I'd wager there were other complexities purely from the govt side. When healthcare.gov launched and crashed, it was uncovered that the final definition of the laws and rules were still coming weeks before the launch and had changed dozens of times throughout.

From a purely technical perspective, there's no way to know if something "works" if it hasn't been defined or - worse! - is constantly being redefined on the fly.
That explains a lot. Source for others that are interested: https://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_J...
Haha sorry about that, I'll get that fixed when I have time :)
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The link at the top of the repo goes to the product page, which says:

>Postgres-BDR, an extension to PostgreSQL is free and open source licensed under the [same terms] as PostgreSQL.

So it's under the PostgreSQL license, which is similar to MIT.
Those were likely former Rackable Systems clusters, which bought and renamed itself SGI. Sadly, I think that all that's left of the old SGI is the name. Even the HPC magic they had I believe originally came from Cray -- another name from a bygone era.
I had the same experience as a django novice until I started understanding how django works. Its actually a lot easier once you know some of the pieces eg. dj-database-url. I realized I had issues because I didn't understand how all the pieces fit together.
ALso.. they have a template that you can download which essentially solves all the issues. Nowadays I always start with their template. or even if I have the app written, I will download django template from heroku, and plug in my apps to it.
I'll be honest I've not scoured your entire site but I'm just not seeing that description (and didn't at all earlier, I've since looked further).

From what I gathered you want to be the email of chat protocols. The only mention of wanting to bridge other protocols is a quick mention half way down your FAQ page.
Cheap and readily available finance lures consumers into spending more than they need. Bigger newer houses, more medical tests than necessary, more expensive university, graduate degrees, etc. And then others want to keep up with peers so they get lured in too.

If you go outside the US cars will be noticeably older, even rich countries, but still serving their purpose just fine.
> I'm not convinced that kids learn lessons like these better when it's spelled out for them.

I'm no child psychologist, but I'd even tentatively argue it could be damaging.

I remember being a kid and seeing both: shows that tried to teach me, and shows that were entertaining. I remember even young-me rolling my eyes at "educational" shows. Sure, some were great, but most of the time, I'd rather watch the entertaining ones, because I didn't feel like they were pushing something onto me.

Once I got into school, I realized "oh, it's more of this educational crap". I clearly remember being skeptical of whatever they taught me, because, once again, it felt like they were pushing something onto me.

The same thing with games (video and non). I hated games that tried to teach me things. There was a clear contrast of quality between entertainment games, and learning games.
Apple has competently filled in SGI's spot in the workstation market: the Mac Pro is a $5000 computer with outdated 3-year-old components and a very stylish case.
Keeps some developers employed, though :)
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>Otherwise, to minimize resource usage, let's all give up on civilization and go back to caves.

We can't go back, unless we are willing to kill off most of the population. If we give up just one hundred years of technology we have to destroy every forest in an attempt to grow enough food. All seven billion humans giving up on society and going back to a hunter/gathered society would lead to an immediate collapse of most ecosystems.

We are certainly consuming too much to be substainable right now, but at the same time the amazing efficiency improvements that civilization has brought us are the only thing that make it even possible to live on this planet with seven billion other humans.
Thanks for the link! I've seen this before but couldn't remember where!
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I got 'Sorry for the delay.'
Sounds like SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc) went bankrupt April 2009. The name and assets were then bought by Rackable, who then adopted the name SGI (Silicon Graphics International).
And so the cat and mouse game begins. Users of Facebook are using the service free of charge(unless you're advertising or paying for something). I think if fb can detect that a user is a paying customer they should disable ads but for the majority of users this isn't the case.

Couldn't one just add fb ad server dns entries to their host file as 127.0.0.1? What could facebook do in that case besides bring up ad servers on new domains?

Could we set up an ad blocking DNS service? (Again..another game of cat and mouse.)

In either case, you are playing a losing game on a ball court owned by Facebook. If you don't like the ads, don't use the service?
That's the problem. I'm aiming for a 17".

That's where System76 comes in for me.
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Thanks for pointing out pglogical. I've never heard of it before, and it's exactly what we need to support online upgrade.
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So I think there's an important lesson in here for software engineers.

How do you design your API so that it is as difficult as possible for your clients to misinterpret?

The "always return a center & accuracy" API is very simple and elegant, but with the benefit of hindsight, you can assume that a significant fraction of your users are just going to ignore that accuracy number and treat the center as precise. As was pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the default point isn't the only problem -- any town, city, or state will generate similar problems.

One option would be to return a richer result type:
(COUNTRY, "United States")
(CITY, "Portland, OR, USA")
(REGION, latlng-a, latlng-b)
(POINT, latlng, accuracy)

Now it becomes more difficult for a client to pretend most of those are precise points.

The best API is sometimes not the one that is easiest to use but most difficult to misuse.
Why didn't you buy the developer edition?
that's ascii art, not code
Does "coldpie's" mean "coldpie is" or "belonging to coldpie"?
PaaS vendors will optimize the hell out of their higher-value services, with dedicated and possibly customized hardware and networking.
The JVM is very fast.
It would be nice to have the option of something in the Chromebook or HP Stream price range built for Debian/Redhat/Arch to run.
I'm the same way as you. There is something about having a desktop set up the way you like it, and having a Laptop set up the way you like it because my mobile work style and desktop work style are completely different.

So, back to your question. Yes. I tried it, and hated it. It was fun at first, but like everyone says, anytime there is a problem (And oh, there will be problems) You're sorta screwed. If it is a Hobbiest machine, and not a primary work machine, then sure give it a whirl.. Just don't over invest in hardware that you can't return or reuse on something else.

What I ultimately ended up going with was a MacMini. I got a late 2012 Core i7, which is one of the last Mini's that you can upgrade ram and HDD. Maxxed out the ram, and put in a speedy SSD and it ran me about $700. This lil guy is still a beast -- with it's biggest limitation is the shitty video card.

What sucks now, is this same Mac Mini setup will run you $1400. That is bonkers.

Honestly, If you can, try waiting to see what Apple releases in the next few months. The Mini is due to be refreshed or Killed. My guess is it'll be refreshed and be given beefier video options, especially if apple releases a new cinema display.

Good luck!
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I doubt that $700 counts as cheap to most people
We recently started 'Barbie - Life in the dreamhouse' on netflix for giggles and found it to be an actually decent show. The plot is what happens if you give the barbie dolls and merch to a bunch of nerds and give them free reign.

You get Glados running the automated closet and plotting for world fashion domination, only to be stopped by the evil switch being turned off again, a large part of the first episode is modelled on an Indiana Jones temple exploration, they often handle things like batteries and glitter in the real size form (so the battery is about half the size of the people).. it's surprisingly funny.
Facebook response is incredibly stupid:

"We’re disappointed that ad blocking companies are punishing people on Facebook as these new attempts don’t just block ads but also posts from friends and Pages. This isn’t a good experience for people and we plan to address the issue.".

Ad-blocker can be easily uninstalled so how can they "punish" anyone. Facebook should just silently block ad-blockers and not act as if they are working in their user's interest.
Money. Money as motivator.

Was building hardware devices for musical pursuits (guitar effects) and my 1st degree was in EE. You can graduate with an EE degree, having taken a course or two or three in basic programming but it falls out of use and the depth was never really there anyway, more of a "here's programming" intro.

When I tried to change jobs as a 'hardware guy' I had limited options, unlike my software engineer friends who had a gazillion options it seemed. Makes sense, hardware is built once, but a piece of hardware can have an infinite number of programs written for it; thus one hardware engineer and an infinite number of software engineers for one piece of hardware.

They (my software engineer chums) also made A LOT MORE MONEY than me.

Went back to school, focused solely on software. Best decision I ever made.

Money as a motivator to learn to code is questionable but I got lucky as I learned to love it after becoming engrossed in it.

EDIT: Point being -- if you have a big enough "Why" you simply will learn to code. If you can't make money or have an enjoyable hobby doing coding, your motivation will be to do something else more enjoyable. Everyone saying "I couldn't figure it out so I quit" -- BALONEY. You can figure anything out, really.
Yeah I'm obsessed with my dual boot Windows 10 / Yosemite hackintosh. As others have said, it requires the right components and time, but the reward in the end pays off. I'd recommend it!
My kids are learning english from youtube. My 7 yo son like watching Sonic Adventure easteregg videos and try to replicate them on my Dreamcast. He is getting good.
You don't have to get old laptops, most higher-end lenovo and asus laptops, like the ultrabooks, work quite well, you can even run on any of the recent macbooks with no issues. The fact that most laptops are sold with windows pre-installed is not a linux issue, but a product of miscrosoft's imperialism.
> The pervasive hyperlinkng you mention seems to have a (large) niche in Wikipedia.

True enough, but back when the Web was young everyone linked pervasively. My impression back then is that that was what the Web was for.
A rouge developer eh. those reds under the beds!

Why this nonsense ?

$ tree node_modules/ | count
zsh: command not found: count
$ tree node_modules/ | lines
zsh: command not found: lines
$ tree node_modules/ | wc -lines
wc: illegal option — i
usage: wc [-clmw] [file …]
$ tree node_modules/ | wc -countlines
wc: illegal option — o
usage: wc [-clmw] [file …]
$ man wc

for just this

$ tree node_modules/ | wc -l
292

> Imagine if ... the car you drove to work had 291 parts

I would be very worried where the other 000s had gone!

http://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2014-07/auto-components_625x300_51405...
"Heroku is useful for prototyping, not scale"

Can you clarify more on this.
While this is indeed a great news, Are just two people enough for the wide range of laptop and devices out there in the wild ?

What i would really love to see is a cross distribution effort in the same direction : People from the main distribution coming together, identifying the main experience pain point a fixing them upstream.

I really think there is an under served (from both hardware manufacturer and distros) market of people who wants a better linux desktop/laptop experience. But until someone figure out a way to monetized that (like linux is on the server side), it will be hard to build on the desktop side the same kind of momentum that linux is enjoy on servers.
Another huge perk on Amazon is there's tons of decent kids games for free on their Underground app store. Kids games are really expensive ... it still burns I paid $10 to unlock all the utensils in a Strawberry Shortcake cooking game!
Wait, wait...

""If you think about something like what goes on in Nauru, if a child is injured it's not the government that's responsible, it's Serco, Transfield or whoever else," she said, referring to the private contractors that run Australia's offshore detention centres."

Private offshore detention centers for children?

What's going on down there?
I was proud of him for stating his beliefs in a context where that would have been difficult to do. The fact that his own beliefs happened to coincide with my own even though I'd never explicitly communicated them to him was a secondary thing.
There has actually been quite a bit of discussion around this. Here's one article discussing it [1]. It's a combination of factors including low pay for the number of hours worked, social stigma/low respect, huge amount of time away from home/fun activities, and the fact that driving just kind of sucks. Also, as another commenter mentioned, trucking companies have not made it all that easy to get started from zero skill/certification recently.

[1] http://www.overdriveonline.com/trucking-or-not-with-the-twen...
Obligatory link to ERE Journals : http://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewforum.php?f=9&si...

You can read tens of life stories centered around early retirement/ financial independence there.
You can't get around page fault blocking with user-space M:N threading. It will be approximate until there is a way to do that.
I'm by no means authoritative, but XL lets you distributed postgresql and keep the transactionality. That's great if you're a bank but necessarily slow and not Available, so running it over a wan might be a bad idea.

BDR lets you distribute your database but throws transactionality out of the window. You have two independent databases which stream changes to each other. A lot faster, and well suited for wans, but not Consistent.
I'm using it as a main development machine. Also, I'm using MacBookPro when traveling and for some sort of a backup if main machine fails.

So far (and I'm using it for a last two years) I'm very happy. Yosemite upgrades were somewhat painful as it took me couple of hours to upgrade each time but I couldn't be happier with El Capitan - since tonymacx86 switched over to Clover bootloader every update goes like this:

1. upgrade through AppStore to the latest OX X version

2. install new version of Nvidia drivers (OS X must be booted with disabled Nvidia GPU nv_disable=1)

I also had to apply fix for sound card but that was one-time endeavor.

So, excluding time needed for a regular OS X update, in a last year I spent maybe 3-4 hours extra on keeping Hackintosh in working state.
I'm prone to saying my job is to build robots to do my job for me. Any time I can replace my own labor with a robot (script/program), I do so. I won't ever run out of work, because software is inherently creative. It's the uncreative jobs that rely on humans as muscle or control mechanisms that are in danger.

It's not like humanity has never gone through this before, either. Two centuries ago, 98% of people were employed in farming. Today, it's more like 3% and falling. But it took generations for the robots (farm machinery) to take over. It wasn't as rapid as, say, the rise of self-driving trucks will be.
A few years ago I worked on a project where my company was contracted to build a small piece of a much larger system by IBM. IBM was managing many different contractors. We needed a way to "securely" show a picture, aka not using the pre-installed image showing app. So IBM spent tens of thousands of dollars to build a new Android app that displayed a picture passed to it via an intent. I told our product guy that I could build it in an hour for free, but he said it wasn't our problem. In our twice-weekly status calls, we would ask about when the "image showing app" would arrive, and we heard all about the minutiae of building that app, from getting a PM, to finding a partner in India, to QA, to issues with the app, back to the contractor, and finally to us, where it was buggy as hell and never worked right. Completely mind boggling, and very enlightening about how IBM (and I'm sure other big vendors) operate.
I also wonder how many Law enforcement officials are turning up at 39.8333333,-98.585522 because they're using a different geoip provider.