skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How in the world is this considered something new? It was in fact the default mode of operation for small to midscale webhosting that rendered pages dynamically in the dotcom bubble burst era (late 1990-ies).

You'd upload your HTTP attached executables to cgi-bin or similar, register other stuff in crontab and usually also got access to a MySQL or PostgreSQL. Some hosters were actually fancy and deploy your stuff on a MOSIX cluster; but simply load balancing toward the httpd machines and your application talking to a dedicated DB machine worked as well.
Yea, sounds truly awful. Let me get the violins out.
Is Gmvault as complete as doing a Gmail dump from Google Takeout?
I really think they've missed their time. Dropbox is an incredible product, definitely the best option out there for most people.

However, they're just not making enough $ or have enough future growth to be worth it. If they rejected an offer a few years ago, they really are going to be sad when they get an offer for half or one quarter that in a year or two.
But Nexflix were split into a DVD and a streaming company some time ago, so that may be for a different company.
For those on OSX, using Homebrew to install go is a far nicer experience, in addition to making it easier to keep things up-to-date. http://brew.sh then `brew install go` will move you past step 0, although I somehow thought one had to specify a `GOPATH` in order to use `go get`:

$ go get -u github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/cmd/thyme
package github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/cmd/thyme: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

meaning there is a step 0.5 of `export GOPATH=/some/place/with/a/lot/of/disk/space` and (again, as I understand it) you'll want `$GOPATH/bin` in your `$PATH` or step 2 will not behave as expected.
An option for this is offlineimap.
For lack of a better term, this is an 'emerging' field, so I don't know if best practices (in terms of architecture) apply (yet).

In addition to Diaspora, have a look at GitTorrent [1], which uses the BitTorrent DHT for data storage, git as a data interface, and the bitcoin blockchain for verified identities. You can also draw inspiration from IFPS [2]. There is also a curated list [3] of resources or technologies useable to build p2p systems, including these and many other projects and libraries.

[1] https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent

[2] https://ipfs.io/

[3] https://github.com/kgryte/awesome-peer-to-peer
He's not even talking about an end, just a reduction in spending. When you look at how much mayhem is going in in Syria, it's hard to believe that you need to spend trillions just to massacre people.
Ford to mass-produce a completely self-driving car within five years
1979 lyrics fed to algorithm
I used a simpler analogy in a c++ class I used to teach.

Some people might argue that setting a variable to 0 or something is pointless if you now your about to use it. But while technically it could add overhead. The chance of bugs forming from a future refactor is decreased. And those who track down sporadic uninitialized value bugs should know why it's almost always better to just initialize values. And not implicitly always trust the compiler will catch complain and or a future less knowledged developer won't accidentally do something silly.

Many habits in programming are formed from habits and we're told to not do thibgs(1 entry and 1 exit. No goto. Etc..) but few can back it up with why and when it might be a worthy edge case
> Certainly, an unbiased symmetrical appraisal should be the goal?

I have not read Seligman's work, but I can see at least one way in which the asymmetry in response to positive vs. negative can be justified.

If someone is doing something positive, you want them to keep doing it--so you want it to be permanent. And you want them to internalize whatever it is that makes them do that thing, make it part of themselves--so you want it to be personal. And you want them to expand whatever that positive factor is to other domains--so you want it to be general.

If someone is doing something negative, you want them to stop doing it--so you want it to be temporary. And you want them to not make it part of themselves--so you want it to be impersonal. And you want them to keep it confined and not let it affect other domains--so you want it to be specific.

In other words, the "optimistic bias" is an asymmetric strategy to achieve an asymmetric goal--maintain positives, but change negatives.
And by "nearly pure soy" you mean, of course, "20% soy content".

But close enough, right?
This article is really thought provoking.

One thing I wonder, though, is how they can ever adjust for the strong possibility older adults just can't care about a make-believe test the way younger people might.

My observation, as I age, is I have a harder and harder time getting interested in hypothetical scenarios, or taking on someone else's agenda as being super important.

So I really wonder if older adults just test worse than younger people, simply because they care less about the test.

If that's true, it wouldn't hold in the real world. Except that older people can seem less smart, when in reality they think whatever you're trying to get them to learn is not important in the grand scheme of things.
I'd blame that squarely on overprotective parents. If it was the cars fault "uphill both ways in the snow" stories would have died off about two generations ago. It's no longer socially acceptable for a parent to allow their kid(s) much freedom of movement ("no you can't ride your bike to your friend's house because crossing the street is too dangerous") and social media steps in to fill the void.
I'm aware. I've already paid taxes on options that are underwater. I just use my paycheck to purchase the options.
> Apple's real innovation was the App Store

The app store only launched in July 2008, same time when iPhone 3G launched.

It was more than 1 year after the original iPhone launch.

The original iPhone was a marketing success even being merely a feature phone by today’s standards: no app store and no user-installable apps at all.

> other problem was that the CE UI was not adapted for mobile

HTC launched its first touch-oriented windows mobile phone almost 1 month before the first iPhone. They called it HTC Touch and included custom touch-optimized WinCE shell. Nobody cared, and people just bought iPhones instead, the sales figures for that year was 2M devices HTC, 6M Apple.

Because better and touch optimized browser, and also because unlimited data plan. Back in 2007-2008, you couldn’t buy unlimited mobile data for any other phone.
Not always. I've stopped listening to Marc Maron's podcast because the last one I listened to started off with a 20 minute monologue about his cat. 99% Invisible used to always end the podcast with a quote from his kid about something; maybe it still does, but once the "main show" is over, I just skip to the end and mark it as read.
I'll prepare two bottles with (total) 1.2L water and about 500kcal worth of maltodextrin. That carries me for 100k easily but I'll take some bars or gels along for longer rides.
Beginning with "What" and "How" is not an effective methodology

- I recommend Simon Sinek's philosophy https://www.startwithwhy.com

- Here's Steve Jobs on marketing Apple's core values https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCwRdbwNQY

It's your beliefs/values that connect and inspire people. Perhaps, pitching is an exception... but, until I learn differently, I respectfully disagree with the advice in the post.
That's pretty slick looking. I realy like the interface.

I find it hard to believe a Pi can handle thousands of concurrent users though. How does it handle that?
Ha. Maybe slightly.
Deploying the Go Present Tool on Cloud Foundry
Yeah, I'd really like to see more specialized options for other diets. I'd like to have a ketogenic option.
It has nothing to do with that. It's still a mass-release into the blood stream, just like you would do with the molecules in a drug. It gets distributed everywhere. It can't go to a specific target, there are not road signs in arteries and capillaries and there is no active propulsion. What makes it "targeted" is that only those nano-containers release the drug that happen to find specific conditions of the targeted tissue. Normal targeting with small molecules (of drugs) is done by "3D pattern matching" - the molecules of the drug fit into or onto target molecules. Doesn't work if you don't have specific target molecules. So in this case instead of targeting molecules they target something else, which you can't do with a normal drug since then the only targeting you have is the 3D shape of the drug molecule.

Here is a visualization of a small molecule binding to a protein (also a small one here, they often are much larger and incredibly complex - but predictablly so, since their chemical structure detemines how they fold): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Zj23pipuY

It's not a drug molecule but the exact same principle.

Here is an animation for a drug encapsulated in a nano shell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emEua2eJp1U

The problem of normal drugs is that their shape and structure cannot be solely determined by the function they have to perform at the target. As a drug designer you have to design them that

a) They are delivered at all, which includes a lot of difficulties on its own, like oral drugs having to pass through the very active liver, or that it has to be hydrophilic to be transported in blood but hydrophobic to get through cell membranes into cells.

b) Since you cannot control where they end up they get everywhere, and they meet a zillion molecules on their way. If they bind anywhere else but in their target site, which is likely given that drugs are small molecules and the number of potential binding sites is huge, it's what you get to hear about as "side effects" of the drug.

So by putting the drug molecule into a container you now have the advantage that you separate transport and target selection from the drug action, and the drug designer can concentrate on the effect on the target without having to worry about how it gets there and undesirable interactions everywhere else.

The nano containers are still distributed throughout the whole body though, they just won't open at non-target sites.

Source: I took "Medicinal Chemistry: The Molecular Basis of Drug Discovery" when it was first offered on edX. I highly recommend it, the teacher, Prof. Erland Stevens, is great! Course: https://www.edx.org/course/medicinal-chemistry-molecular-bas...
Soft-deletes, wikipedia article versioning
Oh, yes, those shelf stable bananas....

Or I could take one scoop soylent, two scoops water, mix.

Se how much less shopping was involved in my list?
Looks neat, I see a few issues with the demo's and the docs. Should I just report them on GitHub?
I believe the places I work are going to be successful, otherwise I wouldn't work there. Yes there's a lot of luck involved, but it's not just picking numbers at random.
I think you misread the parent's post.

>and the surface area to volume scaling means for a given amount of finished product your compost pile will have maybe half the compost

He means that the big apples have half the waste compared to small apples.
Show HN: Property-based C# dependency injection
Ok, maybe someday Dropbox will link you to a public LinkedIn page, figure out that you are unlikely to run a business, and stop advertising that product to you. But until they have that capability, they seem to have come to the conclusion that marketting to everyone in the hopes that you are part of the highly profitable few % is worthwhile.
Not an expert, but #2 you bring up is pretty valid. Aside from directly administering a drug or agent, there is a reliance on the circulatory system to carry drugs to their targets. As for risks, any time you introduce a bunch of little things into the blood, that are likely (or possibly might) gather together, you have a potential risk of a stroke.
Which parts are Go and which parts are Node?
Serverless Solutions and the Constant Debate
No, the :US total spending is just as I listed:

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_budget_pie_chart

Showing that abbreviated 'discretionary spending' subset of the budget is uninformative at best; dishonest at worst.
But it's too expensive for the calorie intake of the average overweight American.
I think testing has inherent benefits regardless of understanding.
That same argument can be used against Google, Amazon, or just about any company that builds a platform.
AWS Lambda is really cool, but there are a few quirks to keep in mind that make it not a general replacement for something like a box running nginx + uWSGI, etc.

There was a nice 45-minute talk given at PyOhio this year by Matt Land that covers most of the tradeoffs around running Lambda in prod.

AWS Lambda: From Curiosity to Production

Abstract - http://pyohio.org/schedule/presentation/246/

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoMhFsH9k8Q
"Bags of apples have a very high percent mass loss when peeled and rotted parts cut off"
Why do you define containers as better? Server-less even more so?
I meant in terms of protein content of the product, which is where the negative and beneficial effects of soy come from. If you eat Soylent for every meal nearly all the protein you are consuming is in the form of soy protein.
"The part that was painful wasn't turning down the offer, it was the fact that after that, huge amounts of the company quit because they didn't believe in what we were doing...the whole management team was gone in about a year after that."
Show HN: Candidate Opinions Parsed from Key Words – HillarySays Extension
> In the US, the average student could benefit from learning Spanish

That's very true today. It wasn't true just 20 and 30 years ago. The Spanish speaking population in the US has skyrocketed in that time. In 1980 for example, the US was about 82% white and almost exclusively English speaking. That's a very rapid cultural change, shifting from a few percent Spanish speaking to 1/4 in just three decades. I'd suggest that over the next 20 years it will be very beneficial for children to be taught Spanish (and they likely will be), however the near-past value of it was not remotely as high as it is now and will become. The point being, it takes time for a nation to adjust to such a rapid change, you're not going to get hundreds of millions of people - across very diverse (in every sense) education zones - to shift to all knowing Spanish in 10 or 15 years.
I'm sure the hardest part was backstabbing all his partners.
That's quite good observation, I did not even thought about it. It's another marketing hype of just repackaging old solution with a cooler name.
There's also a shortage of professional daycare providers in the Bay Area.

Two of my co-workers hired a nanny because of the >1 year waitlists for infant daycare around here. It's really tough to find a daycare if you don't sign up in the first trimester.
11 parking garages AND an enormous cyberbrain?!
Not disagreeing with you, but would like to offer a counter story. I personality live in what used to be an Olympic villag. Or, more accurately, was supposed to be the Olympic village in the bid for Stockholm as the host city of the 2004 summer olympics. Interestingly, just like the Rio olympics the theme was environmental sustainability. The bid failed, but they went ahead with the plans anyway, and now it's lauded as a major success in urban redevelopment, taking what used to be a run down harbor and factory area which had mostly turned into a really shady part of town, and making it a great place for people to live and work. An old waste dump is now repurposed as a ski slope, and even hosted the Ski World Cup is past winter.

While not technically an Olympic development, the idea was always to build a village that could then serve as a new residential area, and goes to show that the olympics can very much be the necessary catalyst in getting major developments off the ground. If IOC wanted to, they could absolutely push for all sorts of change by forming host requirements thereafter. They may want to claim they're non-political, but I don't think that's even possible on the kind of scale they operate.
Namecheap is down
I don't have a source off hand but I remember the heart-healthy effects of soy being quite small in magnitude. Personally I try to avoid anything that has the potential to be a strong endocrine or hormone disruptor like soy and plastic products. That is nearly impossible these days, but it makes me feel better :)
You should try hosting your own photos with GNU Mediagoblin.
Chrome 50 backspace backlash, or “listen to your damn users”
At https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608016 lots of users are raising bug reports on Chrome after they removed the backspace-to-navigate-backwards functionality, so much so that they've relented somewhat and published an official extension to restore this capability. https://goo.gl/L30YZ7

"Feel free to point other people at this." they say, well feel free to revert your hasty "fix".
Well, as he clarified, the hard part was the management team quitting.

But I think it's hard to be vulnerable when you reach that level of prominence... anything he says will be scrutinized and potentially be quoted for years to come, and will affect not only himself but everyone who works at Facebook. Even if you want to be authentic, there are powerful social forces which make you careful in what you say.
It sounds like the wrong question or a solution looking for a problem. Are you already hitting traffic that can't be handled by big servers? Do you actually have a problem?
Wifi LAN Performance Test comparing 3 routers and 6 computers
> this future would be even less evenly distributed than the one which exists now

I see a pattern:

- Windows desktop monopoly -> MS makes billions while other software companies get crumbs

- FB social networking monopoly -> ad money collects to FB while regular businesses struggle to make advertising pay

- Apple store -> millions of app devs lose money while Apple becomes the most valuable company on back of their apps

- Recording labels have huge market share -> artists are poor and lose the rights to their own creations by signing unfair contracts

- Middle east oil money in the hands of a few arabs -> massive unrest in the region, state sponsored religion indoctrination, culminating in wars and terrorism

It so happens that accumulating massive wealth and power in the hands of a few leaves the rest of the population high an dry, frustrated and with lots of issues.
I actually added some of your alternative solutions to the bottom of the article, thanks for commenting :)
Here's what I learned living like a caveman for a month [pdf]
I actually prefer the nothing-above-the-fold design. Bandwidth usage isn't really an issue for me on desktop, and it provides a nice characterization of the article without having to read more than the headline. It helps me decide whether I want to invest in reading more.
Apple Is Looking for 'Lyrics Curation Manager'
Feel free to revisit Comey's interactions with George Bush re: nsa wiretapping to see if Obama could intimidate him. If he said Obama didn't interfere, we should take him at his word.
I would post the quote from Vladimir Arnold where he said he taught sixth graders group theory but that would probably be depressing.
Validation text messages can be useful and as long as you think about the message (Ie. I can pull the notification banner down and see the numbers rather than have to exit the application I am in), it shouldn't impact the process too much.

On Android you can even read the message yourself. It seems iOS can do this too but for now it seems on Apple can read verification messages.
`stack`, local serverless multi-language streaming microservices
Within a narrow sphere, but the Hacker news audience is limited in diversity - and because of this so are the range of debates that go on here.

Generally speaking Hacker News focuses on upper middle class American issues. When we talk about the less well off its generally from the top looking down. Watch next time for the comments of the form "I'd gladly pay more taxes so XYZ wouldn't have to go through this". Few commenters ever truly see themselves personally getting into one of these situations.

In terms of politics this site is heavily westernized. Communism and the Chinese system does have some nice features (along with the bad), but its rare to see threads here explore the benefits.

None of this is necessarily bad, and I'd argue this site gives you a broader view of the world than reading traditional news. However its far from a zeitgeist of what's "really happening" in the world.
Actually Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel has extremely similar body language and facial expressions.
And if you want to work on cBioPortal and make it your job consider joining us at The Hyve (thehyve.nl) (or one of the other institutions if you're not in the Netherlands)
>Depression is not simply being sad.

Thats such a strange and convoluted distinction. Even the author of the post equates depression with sadness. He equates not depressed with ' happier and more productive'/'happiness and success', which is simply being not sad.

>This isn't a perfect test

But, don't you think we need clear definition of problem before we go about finding solutions for it ? Just feels a little odd to talk about overly elaborate solutions for a poorly defined problem.
> It sounds like the problem isn't venture capital returns as a whole, but that Calpers can't get into the best funds for structural reasons related to the need to publicly disclose fund returns. Not surprising it underperforms if it can't get into the best funds. This data point isn't therefore very valuable for assessing Venture Capital returns as a whole which is what the headline implies.

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> Calpers, which manages about $303 billion, has pared back investments in VC funds to represent 5 percent of its private-equity portfolio. Calpers has been working toward reducing its VC assets to 1 percent of its total because it’s been rejected by many top firms it wants to invest in. In 2012 when VC holdings were 7 percent of the portfolio, a Calpers executive said VC firms often prefer to keep out investors that are required by law to publicly disclose details about fund performance.

If you are scared about your fund performance being public, its likely the opposite of your conclusion. Funds with above market performance tout it publicly and loudly precisely because it brings in more money for them to manage.

Similarly, Calpers looked into them based on the fact they were "top firms" however without verifiable returns that can be discussed publicly...no one (even Calpers) can be certain these are in fact "top firms" in terms of actual return for the institutional investor.

YCombinator and many VCs make investments that are public knowledge in startups and these reports are circulated in the media. There is no competitive advantage to be found in keeping investments secret long after the fact, unless you might scare off potential customers who believe you are a "top firm" when from a RoI standpoint you are not.

Markets need to be transparent and competitive to function fairly for everyone.

People that oppose that always are looking to screw you.
"Imagine (...) if the car you drove to work had 291 parts."

I'm willing to bet a current car has an order of magnitude more - this is not your great-grandfather's Model T. Moreover, I am worried: only a handful of those parts are user-serviceable, not to mention those parts that are but a blackbox for proprietary firmware. The situation is quite similar here.
It isn't often that you click on a link to the book referred to and it is the pdf, sweet!
It was helpful for Georgia State moving beyond being a commuter school.
Yeah I'd totally follow this writer's stuff. Too bad...
It's somewhat comforting to know that Facebook relies on the learn startup framework to constantly experiment and innovate.