skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that (as of 2016) Black People don't even exist any more. Everyone who previously was "Black" is now "of Color".

A Black Technologist is an expert in Black (=incomprehensible to laypeople) Technology. Since we're talking about search engines, I figure that's accurate enough.
Also available for After Dark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0Q3NvUA9Y
CEO of Jungle Disk here, we spun out in Jan of 2016 from Rackspace. Reason they sold Jungle Disk is they're focusing on data center based apps sold to mid-market and enterprise buyers. Jungle Disk was a SMB data backup and online storage service for laptops, desktops, and servers (either on premise or cloud). Not a fit in the core sales and marketing machine inside Rackspace.

My 2 cents on why for Mailgun? It is a developer focused service and while Mailgun may have customer overlap with Rackspace's overall base it is a different decision maker / buyer inside the company than the person who's choosing where to host the IT system or website, etc. So while you may have customer overlap you don't have sales and marketing buyer overlap.
Is this a controversial story? FFS it's about the first internet search engine. It is pretty on topic if anything on HN is.

You might be making a meta statement regarding other stories. Still this is pretty benign stuff.
> Actually, this sounds exactly like working for free. You do some spec work and if they like it maybe they'll hire you.

Except the difference is that the with your doing is also applicable to you (presumably that's the reason you decided to hack on it). I got my job at SUSE in a similar fashion, but I never assumed I would get a job out of my contributions -- I was just a high school student at the time, playing with container runtimes.

All of that being said, hiring people solely based on their online profile is a shitty idea. It might be useful to get leads that way, but if you have an applicant who has no online profile you should consider it an opportunity to convert them to a free software developer (not as a candidate who doesn't want to work in the open).
Another interpretation is that the choice was made for him.
I've always wanted to trick someone into sending this to the printer:

%!
initgraphics clippath fill
{ copypage } loop

Please don't do this! It'll run you out of toner and paper as fast as possible.

I'm just surprised I haven't seen more things like this, especially back in the days when postscript was popular.
Anything someone doesn't like can be considered "fake news".
First off, thanks for creating this. I definitely appreciate that this was created as a native app instead of trying to do it as a web app (which, from personal experience with WebGL, I imagine would have had terrible performance).

I doubt this is the best channel for bug reports, but I thought I'd mention the launcher does not work for me on Windows 7. I had to run explorer-win64.exe directly.
Reading "black technologist" my first thoughts goes to some malicious figure in a science-fantasy novel, not the color of ones skin. What is next, "the yellow programmer"?

I'm so glad I don't define who I am based on my skin color. Is the color of your skin of any importance when we are talking about your achievements? If he was white, would making the first search engine be less remarkable?
Fantastic Read!

But I am still looking for some books on good API-Design, anybody has any recommendations?
Seems interesting. Similar to bump (I wonder what Google did with it - it was a great tool)
ANSI Safety Code and Requirements for Dry Martinis [pdf]
I think he meant "iconic".
This is really great. For info: It's a series of interview with Bryan Cantrill.
That's because you're doing it wrong. Don't evaluate their performance. Consider the tip a "variable buyer price-sensitivity upcharge". You're comfortable paying 20%. Me too. So: just always pay 20%, without thinking about it.

That's in fact the actual economic purpose of the tip anyways. People think it's to encourage good service, but in fact, in jobs where you can make significant money tipping, there's already competition for slots. And, either way, insurance of good service is the job of the business owner. Any way you slice it, a tip is simply a cost sharing mechanism.

Amazon Prime Now and Grubhub both ask you to "tip" their drivers before they even do the run. You can't possibly be asked to evaluate performance in those cases. I'm fine with that, too! I'm not sensitive to the amount of money we're talking about, but across all their jobs, those tips probably make a pretty significant difference.

What's not OK is transforming a "tip" to a "service charge" that is then split with other elements of the business.
Es6 modules suck because they will litter the global scope, while commonjs/nodejs modules can be required locally.
I was making a comment about HN being a "progressive wing", not about this article.
Have been using https://www.hnwatcher.com/ for more than 3 years. Love it.
A text file, yes, "simple", well, no, I wouldn't say so. It's not i3's fault; I'd say that comes pretty close to exposing the essential complexity without much accidental complexity. (Translating back out of architecture-astronaut-speak, that's pretty high praise.) But there's a lot of essential complexity. If I plot the complexity of a non-Haskell expert's .xmonad file, an i3 file, and just using stock Ubuntu Gnome, .xmonad and i3 end up pretty much next to each other from the perspective of the Gnome user.
The slide is taken very hard out of context, which is easy to see if you scroll one slide to the left. It's a commentary on how the software industry as changed as a whole since the suit and tie era.

The rest of the deck, however, creeps me the fuck out.
More propaganda.
Wow, who uses 256-bit floats?
So you think the articles were right? Be careful with over generalization ...
What about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318980 ?
Thanks @ j_s for finding the article.

Read the HN comments and then read
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20266-how-josef-oehme...
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/15/josef_oehmen_nuclear_not_wor...

;)
"I saw the best minds of my generation... writing spam filters." — Neal Stephenson
The article is both very true and not yet completely true. Some developers still believe having a large community or online social media presence is important. It might very well be, but it has no bearing on code.

Code is objective. It solves problems, passes tests, does something new, and performs better.... or it doesn't. Social media presence has no bearing on this at all. Yet, each impart a type of online trust. One is capabilities (competence) trust and the other is marketing or branding trust.

For people who don't know the difference or don't understand the value in the code marketing/branding trust is the only thing that exists. For everybody else trust in branding loses value quickly and must struggle to compete with the other more objective trust factor. It should be noted this "everybody else" category is the minority but is more influential on things get built of prioritized.
This is great! I've not looked at the code, but Java PQ didn't do O(1) find either. What were the trade-offs to get O(1) finds?
Thiel is not the only one to make that observation.
Alan Kay has said something along those lines -- that there have been virtually no compelling inventions in computing for a while now [0][1].

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/q/432922/177696

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941827
i've used mailgun for several high-volume clients and overall it works - but the feeling I got when working with their API, their docs, their UI and their support is a product in maintenance mode. There is a lack of polish, a lack of effort, and a lack of overall robustness. But, it works.

I hope the spin off lets them focus on improving the service and the surrounding experience - I definitely would rather they succeed than go belly up. As it stands if someone pops up with similar offerings, I'd definitely check them out. But mailgun isn't impossibly far off from creating an exceptional product. The question is: with this change, will they?
I don't think any one organization will fairly report without bias, though I do appreciate visiting realclearpolitics.com from time to time to get a list of links that appears to be from both sides of the aisle.

I would love to hear how others are tackling the difficult job of being informed in this particularly contentious time
With respect - that's not what the OP is referring too. I'm sure if someone was being overtly racist they would be called out and banned. Most racists are smart enough to know that you're not going to get away with using a racial slur.

But power can be exercised in more subtle ways, including limiting what gets discussed in the first place or leaving comments like 'Thanks for not making it political' on threads about Haskell.

The flagging and downvoting of what I would call progressive but others would call 'political' themes falls under that category.
in 'goto fail', the problem looked like:

if (foo() != 0)
goto fail;
goto fail;

That extra line of code could just as likely have been a return statement or anything else. The problem was not with the goto statement itself.

Edited to add: 'goto fail' is a valid construct and can be used to handle finalization in C functions. Consider:

int
foo(char *bar, int baz) {
sometype_t *obj = NULL;
int fd = -1;

if ((obj = sometype_new(bar, baz)) == NULL) {
goto fail;
}
if ((fd = open(sometype_path(obj), O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
goto fail;
}
/* ... */
return 0;
fail:
if (fd < 0) {
close(fd);
}
if (obj != NULL) {
sometype_free(obj);
}
return -1;
}

There's nothing inherently wrong about that.
I would like to add Microsoft's API Guidelines [1] here, which is also a well written document and can be helpful to anyone designing an API.

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/master/Guid...
Most if not all of them because they were all friendly deals and the acquired wanted the deal to happen. (In other words, the acquired's owners wanted BigCo's money more than they wanted to remain independent.)

Most of the targeted businesses were privately owned which means that the big acquirer cannot execute a hostile takeover and buy the company against the Board of Director's wishes. Amazon's acquisitions of Zappos shoes, dpreview camera website, etc were all friendly deals. Same situation with Facebook acquisitions of Whatsapp and Instagram.
Yeah, we don't want a repeat of this: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/multimedia/progress-collisi...
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That is the default in Docker.
This is great news and puts my Mailgun-related fears about the Rackspace acquisition to rest. I look forward to actually paying for Mailgun's service soon.
> Or even in this case, that we shouldn't recognize his blackness.

What?! He isn't black!! Dammit, look at him, he isn't even brown, never mind black! There is no blackness to acknowledge.

> would you go and tell him he wasn't black to his face because his skin wasn't dark enough?

Yes, for fuck's sake, because that is what black means: very dark skin. Not having black ancestors, not being a citizen of a black country, not having a black passport, but HAVING (almost) BLACK SKIN. He isn't black.

Just to drive the point home in case you're a bit slow: black is a color. It is not a race. It is, has always been, and will always be a color. A color this guys skin doesn't have, not even approximately.

> people that look like them

Black people don't look like him. That's the whole point. He doesn't look black.

> two BAME people

I have no idea what that means, and I don't think it should mean anything. Seriously, get a life.
> Why are we taught by people to tip some personell and not to tip others?

> Because corporations cannot be trusted to treat their people nicely. That's why.

No, it's noblesse oblige: I am well off, and therefor it is my duty to show my appreciation to those who perform services for me.
Cool. Is there a blog post somewhere that shows how it works internally? I'm curious if there's some formal named entity recognition, or more basic string matching. Would it work well, for example, if you had a brand name that was also a common term?
You don't even know if this is "me-too" — you just "bet" it is, and then hedge the description with "incremental," which allows that it might actually add something. There is literally no factual substance to the complaint. Your objection here is so shallow that the word "shallow" implies more depth than it actually has.
It's not emitting infrared like expected from a Dyson sphere. It's also not completely blacked out its star. Maybe it's one under construction?
As someone outside of the valley, the comparison is helpful.
Author here. This is my new blog, the idea is to write a rather technical and math heavy blog, on the programming side I am aiming for a similar level of detail as Eli Bendersky's blog[1] and similar for mathematics.

The blog uses Pelican[2] as backend, with mathJax for LaTeX formulas.

If someone has suggestions for a comment system on what is supposed to be a static blog (I know...), or general feedback on the web design side of things, please comment.

[1] http://eli.thegreenplace.net/

[2] https://blog.getpelican.com/
(IAN a physics major) But to elaborate per my understanding, there are 2 important variables you're playing with in rocket engines:

- Specific impulse / Isp (aka how much thrust you get for a given amount of propellant)

- Maximum Thrust

Due to the rocket equation [1], adding more propellant increases the weight of your vehicle, making it harder to move, requiring more propellant, etc etc. So being efficient with your propellant is very good.

That said, given a requirement against a gravity well (e.g. a planet), there's usually a minimum total thrust required for a given maneuver to be successful (low total thrust = maneuver takes longer = more time for gravity to pull you = more propellant required).

Thus far, we generally have two types of engines. (1) High maximum thrust, lower Isp (chemical rockets) & (2) high Isp, low maximum thrust (ion/electric engines). The two are currently very far apart [2, sort by Specific Impulse decreasing, then look at the Thrust column].

As examples (Isp Vacuum / Thrust Vacuum): NEXT ion thruster 4,100s/0.236N @ 6.9 kW, VASIMR 5,000s/5.7N @ 200 kW, Space Shuttle SRBs 268s/14MN.

The hope with VASIMR is that it provides a middle ground where high Isp is available with enough total thrust to actually be useful for something other than slow orbital adjustments. An example of "something useful" would generally be anything beyond Earth orbit that covers large distances, e.g. flying to Mars.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_rocket_e...
That's not quite what I'm looking for - I need an API. I need to maintain client branding on site without mentioning the search service provider - and I would expect to be billed for that.

The conversion here at HN on this topic has been useful in pointing out such services that I didn't know about, for which I am thankful!
A look at the new Oracle Linux 7-Slim docker image and why slimmer matters
Curious how was the long term maintenance of a Wordpress site? Like applying security fixes, etc.
There were articles like that before the Rio games.

The Beijing facilities, which were in a city that could use big sports facilities, are now mostly abandoned.[1] The big "birds nest" stadium now has an ice rink in it, but the huge grandstands are unused. London is doing OK with their leftover facilities.[2] The ones that aren't near a large city, such as Sochi, are abandoned.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/ghosts-of-olympics-past?...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/davehillblog/2015/jul/23/...
I'm a Mailgun customer and CEO of Jungle Disk (that I bought from Rackspace a year ago). As a Mailgun customer I'm really excited about this. For comparison at Jungle Disk we've already doubled the R&D investment in our first year and will continue to grow it over time. I believe the Mailgun team will be able to really accelerate what they're able to do too. Secondly, I'm happy to have more neighbors moving to our area of town!
There's basically four inputs to electric propulsion: power source mass efficiency (W/kg), required delta vee (m/s), required acceleration (m/s/s), and exhaust velocity (m/s). (Well there's efficiency too.)

You can approximately minimize total mass with this info. Turns out, your spacecraft will in total be heavier, if you go to higher exhaust velocities. You save on propellant but you need bigger solar arrays. Not worth it.

All this talk about "Mars in x days" assumes a fantastic power plant. It's a little bit like you're starting a car company and showing wheels and saying "my car company enables range and acceleration three times that of Tesla" while you don't have any kind of battery or motor yet.
I only lacked a few things: a good idea, a workable skillset, a funding source, anything remotely construable as personal initiative...
"The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
Quite a fancy labor camp, isn't it?
As an example: I wish so dearly I could have more than a few physical photos of the summer I spent in England 12 years ago. Of the friends I made, the things we did, and the places we visited.

As you say, I barely look at my pictures from 1 or 2 years ago (except for the "this day X years ago" feature, which is awesome). But I'm positive that 10 years from now I'll be glad to have them, for the nostalgia trips.
Guessing "How To Disappear Completely" before I read it
Again, that's what realclearpolitics.com appears to be doing... listing articles from both sides of the isle, twice daily.

I don't work for them, I've just found their published lists useful.
Please drop fixed headers from web pages. If you want easy access to the top of the page use anchor links instead. On a laptop headers often take a big chunk of available screen. It just pisses me off every time I see a page with a fixed header. All your reader aren't using imacs...
Thanks... may have to take the time to have a couple different webpack configs so I can target the latest chrome (and edge 15, safari 10.1, etc), separately from the es2015 builds.

It's been coming for a while, but finally getting browsers that don't need nearly as much fluffy goodness from babel, which I'm happy to see.
With respect, I disagree. Derogatory terms like "anchor babies" describe people who are, after all, US citizens of immigrant descent. Similarly, the rancor directed at the judge in the Trump university case had nothing to do with legal citizenship and everything to do with Hispanic ancestry. And obviously refugees are legal immigrants granted that status by the US State Department. But this doesn't prevent them from being the subjects of a great deal of both fear and fury.

These controversies, taken individually, could be viewed as legitimate questions about the ethical grounds for birthright citizenship, or the appropriate scope for recusal, or the balance between mercy and safety. But in aggregate it's clear they aren't any of those things. They're expressions of a xenophobic insistence that immigrants, particularly non-white immigrants, are "the other". That they are cheaters, that they can't be trusted, that they are /dangerous/. That's xenophobia and racism, and it has nothing to do with the rule of law.
This is really exciting, as I have been waiting to build a new system with the new AMD gear. Lots of people also don't hear about it, but I am super-excited to see the new server class CPU's. I built a quad opteron 6380 system and have been in love with them ever since, but they weren't perfect and had some issues I hope are fixed with this new line.
I think you may find this interesting: https://meaningness.com/countercultures

The entire site is pretty fascinating, but your comments specifically reminded me of this subsection
Dataloss/lockout is a great concern of mine and I am somewhat exposed. For DSLR photos, I persist them on disk, then upload to Google Photos. For smartphone, I periodically copy the new ones to disk. Then that disk is remotely backed up. However, I am exposed to losing all of my GPhotos meta data (primarily albums and captions) as well was the smartphone photos since my last manual backup.

I have accepted this tradeoff. It would be pretty devastating to loose all that organization, but its recreatable and the value I get out of Google Photos trumps that risk.
and...not on the list. Exit Music and Let Down are pretty glum though

Ingo Mierswa (of RapidMiner) wrote some papers on analyzing audio data, like

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10994-005-5824-7

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1150523
The difference is 'momentum gained per gram of propellant'.

Traditional engines burn fuel, and the expanding, hot fuel pushes itself out the back of the engine at high speed, pushing the rest of the spacecraft forward. The fuel containing the energy is also the propellant.

Ion engines are the opposite in almost every way. You spend a lot of electrical energy (solar, nuclear, whatever) speeding up a tiny amount of propellant (which is usually something non-reactive like argon). You shoot a little bit of fuel at insanely high speeds out of the engine, and it pushes the spacecraft forward a little bit- so you do it for a very long time.

Yes, ion engines still need propellant, but they need a whole lot less of it.
yeah i have adhd. It's not that I forget things, it's that I wasn't really paying attention to begin with.
And why does anybody think that a state run police is the best? It is like anything else:

- transportation

- health care

- financial system

Run by government guarantees that we get the lowest quality most expensive shittiest solution you ever dream of.
Voysis raises $8M to help it become the Twillio of voice AI
Side note: hats off to anyone working with high energy plasma.

If I make a mistake in my code, it generally doesn't escape magnetic confinement and instantly vaporize other portions of my system with the fury of the sun.
Free product idea: Same general concept but applied to the content of sites that make the front page.

In your Bitcoin example, one would be notified if the displayed content of an article on the front page (or say top N, or greater than M points, ...) includes the word "Bitcoin".

Bonus points if you can do complex or negative matches. Ex: +database -mongodb
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We've been doing a lot of work on this, partially driven by Firefox. It's also a major focus of the upcoming year. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/12
It doesn't handle 256-bit floats, in this context 256-bit means it can operate on eight 32-bit floats or four 64-bit floats at the same time.
If I can nitpick a bit about your presentation here:

http://rcharlie.com/htmlwidgets/fitterhappier/album_chart.ht...

If you're going put each album on its own point in the X-axis, could you not just label those axis instead of using colour-coding and requiring us to look up the corresponding colour in a legend (that's not ordered in the same way).
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