skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty much what we do at our company (albeit with Riak and it's not mongrel2) - we have x servers with shared config and they all need to get that config on startup. I shudder to remember the early days of running sed on multiple configuration files on multiple servers using parallel-ssh.
I noticed when doing a fresh install of 10.10rc (previously using 10.04LTS) that my laptop fan actually changes speed and keeps the laptop significantly cooler temps than 10.04LTS. Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite. I believe 10.10 is also more effecient when viewing system with Powertop. I am happy that I switched to the 10.10 rc. Is there a great difference between the rc and the final version? I noticed the rc version is slightly larger in size.
If this being is omnipotent, it should be able to prove anything. Otherwise it is not really omnipotent (for it can't do this one thing).

BTW - talking about omnipotence using logic is useless - omnipotence can't be described by logic, because it leads to paradox (can omnipotent being do something, that omnipotent being can't do?).

Anyway - interesting questions.
This GPS fix worked for me on the Vibrant: http://www.androidcentral.com/quick-fix-gps-issues-your-new-...
Entrepreneurs Will Save America
I don't think the government is interfering as much as you think it is. EVs have been in the pipe for a while now, and the tax credits for them (at least in the US) are only a couple years old.

If there were some other promising type of alternative vehicle coming out, I'm sure there would be tax credits for them as well, but right now there aren't really any other practical alternatives to EVs.
Political Essay Topic Selection – An Overview
A political essay is a tough assignment to write. It will discuss political issues and ideologies and will use past records to back the theories used. Political essays are written by students studying law, history or philosophy etc. If the right topic is selected this project will be an easy task.
Whenever someone wants to shoot down a new system that is weird, they pull out djb. "DJB did this thing with qmail and everyone hated it, but he wanted it his way and that's why nobody uses qmail."

It's another fear buzzword for sysadmins. It's effectively saying, "If you use Mongrel2 then it'll be like qmail. BEWARE!"
I believe that is not the case for amounts below $13k. See http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-30095.html

A less comprehensible explanation is available from the IRS here: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=108139,00....
M2s zero mq awesomeness, for me, is balanced out by the need to recreate init scripts, config files, and other things that all my other apps use. I'm not opposed to zed replacing these, its just that I think this non web server related work belongs in separate projects. Having all these new things to learn and understand makes setting up m2 way more complicated than it needs to be.
Ford wants to work with wireless companies to create safe car apps
Usually i use shiki themes and elementary from time to time. They all have the same issue. I think that's metacity perk and not theme related. Recently I became switched to LXDE (try it on High Performance PC - Mind blown) and i don't have that problem as openbox has nice borders and handles.
Even still, let's imagine they're performing using a pseudo-random number generator, and let's imagine they're using a trained neural network at some part of the program. The training (genetic or back-propagation based) didn't account for a very specific scenario, and the tool mis-classifies it, telling the computer to do the wrong thing.

If you're suggesting that we know what a computer will do on every single given input, we don't. That's in a class of unsolvable problems, as it requires the halting problem to be solved.

[Added the following section after being down-voted]

A "shock", in the deterministic computer world, could be an incorrect classification resulting in an incorrect action. The results are similar to when a human is shocked and doesn't act correctly.

Is the scenario I've painted limited to neural nets? No, any trained classifier, even any program at all may have "minor" slips like this. (When dealing with an analogue world, there's a ridiculously large number of situations that may exist). But you know what? Humans don't perform perfectly; and a computer that's been shown to perform the correct final* response 100% of the experimental time, and 99.9997% of the real time is competent at the activity, and trustworthy.

Disclaimer: I love machine learning, I love neural networks, and I see great usefulness for them in this world; however, I also believe that the perfect combination of variables could yield unusual results. Is it unlikely? Incredibly. Possible? yes.

* Consider a situation where a child is playing with a ball. The computer may not recognize that anomaly on the side of the road as the child and the ball, or even as something to be avoided. If the computer recognizes the anomaly as something that needs more information; then tells the car to slow down until it can acquire that information, then recognizes it as something that needs to be avoided and does so, successfully, safely, and with sufficient space for the conceivable outcomes that may have resulted with this child; then, while the computer couldn't discern the object at first, it did in the end and adapted to the situation appropriately. The "final response" was correct.

[edit: rather than simply down-vote me, please tell me where I'm wrong so I can learn.]
What I don't like about Mankiw's logic is that he's only looking at part of the picture. He talks about being ble to save $1,000 without taxes vs $523 with taxes. Fine, let's look at the $1,000 - now how much of that $1,000 will he have to spend to fix damage to his car's suspension system caused by crumbling roads? How much will he have to pay for private schools because the public schools suck? How much will he have to pay for home security monitoring because the police and fire fighting services have had cutbacks? How much will he have to pay to repair the water damaged caused when a nearby 50 year-old water main broke and flooded his house?

We can go on and on - there is certainly a cost in paying taxes but there is also a cost in not paying taxes. People seem to forget that an interstate bridge collapsed a few years ago.
You misunderstood my point (maybe my post was too short). I wasn't complaining that the INI format was too old. I just found it odd that Zed's post began by making broad jokes about fads and "the future" and then went on to talk about INI files. I didn't think INI-style configuration was a current fad - though now I wonder if it is among Python devs.
You keep using the logic phrases that you seem to not understand. It's not a false dichotomy, it's a generalization that has no external validity. It has internal validity though.
Yes, there's an exemption. I'm talking about a marginal dollar, as he is.
Spending on SSDI and all forms of welfare is dwarfed by retiree payments.

We likely agree on ratcheting up the retirement age.

This argument plays out like a chess endgame. Can we cut to the chase and acknowledge the tradeoff that's being made? At some level, we as a society are trading units of Mankiw happiness for units of peace of mind about retirement.

We certainly do it inefficiently, and, in particular, we drag alone a whole class of free riders who create a drag on the operation of our local and state governments. But even if we optimized all that away, the same fundamental response would apply to Mankiw's argument.

I am not simply pointing out that "taxes buy stuff" --- though that is also a valid point to make. I am saying that Mankiw ignores an offsetting form of incentive to work and (particularly) take risks: the well-being of our close relatives.
An idea for reddit chatrooms, come chat lol
It's really hard to load those in C and keep the dependencies and bloat down.
I'm in the same boat with similar skill set. Do you want to get-together on IM for some brainstorming? May be we can work together on something. Contact is in the profile, if you are interested.
This is also a follow-up article, doesn't really make as many assertions to argue about.
No, but it is dismal compared to America's, which is what I said. And you said "academics like Mankiw", not "economists like Mankiw." Also, stipulating "by impact factor" seems like a sneaky way of suggesting that that's not a legitimate way to rank. That's fine; it's still true when you rank by "quality of output factor."
Hydrogen cars are just electric cars with a fuel cell instead of a battery. (Unless you're talking hydrogen internal combustion, but that's not the major drive in hydrogen powered vehicles.)

The problem with taking a hands-off approach to competing technologies is that it's not a level playing field with the entrenched technologies at all. There are subsidies and externalized costs all the way along the hydrocarbon supply chain.
i don't think that the case. The first number is the year and the second is the month.
I know I'm not the one who said that.
Hey, you live in SF? Can I pick your brain sometime?
why? Have you seen lidar work? It's pretty effective. I understand lidar wouldn't be used, as it's dangerous (laser, yay!), but I imagine other radar is similarly effective
> When you pick one technology and give it all of the advantages, it makes it all that much harder for competing technologies to succeed. A level playing field is best.

Haha, that is exactly what I was thinking - we've already picked combustion engines, the infrastructure for which is now solidly entrenched. This status-quo is very unlikely to be broken without additional incentives, so subsidies seem to me a good way of getting out of a local optimum.
Why we choke under pressure, and what we can do about it
Assuming "romantic comedy" was just an arbitrary dichotomy to serve as linkbait, I think you can find other genres that penetrate just as deeply as sci-fi that might make the point more clear.

If you look at jane austin, I think you'll find her influence on the generic female psyche is at least on par, but probably far stronger than the impact of lucas on the generic geek psyche.

The difference is the geeks make it visible so that they can share in the "mythology of exploration" together, whereas the femmes just make it implicit as a more natural "understanding of how the world should be". (I acknowledge i'm making some grand assumptions here, this is a sunday morning thought experiment)

Now, obviously its far easier to believe that "you'll find a perfect man who'll do everything for you" than it is to believe that "you'll run around in spaceships blowing up deathstars", simply as a consequence of the latter being a very explicit detachment from reality (and while the former is much more implicit, at the same time, I might add, it may quite possibly be just as detached and with its own set of moral consequences, but I digress). But I think that's where the real difference is: science-fiction is an explicitly unrealistic escape from the way things are, whereas most other genres are intended to blend in with out existing perceptions of the world around us to convince us of the realistic possibilities of an achievable fantasy.

Space in particular is coded very deeply in our cultural sense of the unknown and journey, and its often frightening to make journeys alone. So we bring companions: we build subcultures.
It previously used randomized urls with no registration required and the #1 request by a huge margin was that people wanted to feel more secure before beginning to type in their biz model and that registering would achieve that.

We live in a world of trade-offs.
Can we please stop bringing police, fire, roads, and schools into every single discussion on taxes?

We all know that's not all governments spend money on. We all know there's a good deal that could be cut before these basic services are cut. We know that, so why do we insist on pretending otherwise?
You seem to think that $10 out of $10 in taxes goes directly towards roads, schools, or whatever. In reality, about $2 out of the $10 is actually spent for the those purposes.

$6 out of the $10 is a dead weight loss... completely consumed by government waste and inefficiency. The remaining $2 of the $10 is effectively transferred to bank accounts of politicians & friends via bribes, political donations, and outright theft.
I chose impact factor because it's easy to look up. I suspect any other reasonable metric will produce similar results. I object only to the emotional word "dismal" here. Europe simply isn't a wasteland of academic economic thought.
Use "SQLite Database Browser" (http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/) (free) or the Firefox Add-On "SQLite Manager" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817/) (also free) to open sqlite3 files.
Parasite marketing for maximum exposure at a minimum cost
Dear Mr Mankiw,

You may be a Harvard economist, I'm glad you're not my accountant! You've gone out of your way to maximize the tax penalties you'll incur in your goal of paying for your children's education. Perhaps you should take that 1000$ and find a decent financial planner. As a starting point, how about just investing in an index fund, taking long-term capital gains, and writing a check to pay for your kids' college?
What can Diaspora learn about security from Microsoft? (REVISED)
So far over the last 5 years I've never had a USB stick drive fail.
European Antritrust Deal With Microsoft Barely Affects Browser Market
i had posted an earlier version of this here and got some great feedback at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1768417 … this is the latest revision. feedback still welcome!

summary of recommendations:

reach out to the security community, add at least one security expert to the team, review the code, do threat modeling, train the developers, use the tools, include security in the software engineering process, create a security and privacy advisory board, and think about security up front.
Creating a Quadrotor autopilot with Clojure & Flight Simulator
good point, but that's gonna be hard for recurring popular topics. It's gonna be difficult to tell the difference between "iPhone kills Android" vs "Android kills iPhone"
I am surprised at how well their servers are handling this. I am using the standard method of updating from the update manager and I am getting over 1 Mbit/s speeds.

So if you were waiting for the crowd to clear, no need to wait.
My Interpretation of the Helvetica Gap Logo Design
If Mongrel2 was like qmail, it would in fact be very likely that I would use it. If you think I'm making up my admiration for Bernstein's work for the sake of argument, here's what 1 minute of Google searching turns up:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890613
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890558

(These are a year old).

Not myself being a sysadmin, I couldn't tell you what the fear buttons are. I had that job in '96-'97 (the same time period where I read qmail, which I deployed in early beta versions at the rather popular ISP that employed me, because I love qmail), became a developer, and never looked back.
I'm afraid not - London. But go ahead.
I responded to this comment here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777507
Thanks Edan, I'm looking to see how I can implement this just for HN, for the 1st MVP.

To accomplish this, I need a way to test if a URL has already has been posted to HN or not, which is kinda tricky http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1776654
Free programming E-books
I don't believe so, and if even so you're free to create another account.

This service looks to be just to get people into trying it out- the downloads are entirely free, too.
None.
It is not necessary to fail to succeed.

If you think, the idea is good, give it a shot.
See what's the response. If it works, continue else quit.

Key thing is to know when to quit.
Loose coupling.

If we make the electric vehicle part work, then we can drop in whatever kind of electricity we want behind it. Which is likely to be increasingly non-coal going forwards.
I've never had one fail. I've even sent one through the washer and dryer. Its casing fell off, but wedging the bare circuit board into the USB port still worked.
Investing in your own idea is very different to working for someone else.
I disagree with the idea that "the second and third functions are no longer relevant".

"The second function is to explain the phenomenon like the seasons and functioning of the cosmos. The third function is to ordain and maintain some kind of sociological order."

The second function is constantly being refined as we discover more and challenge existing ideas. The third function is the basis for any civilization. One might be tempted to mark the end of Western Civilization in the 20th century. Hence, the third function must, once again, function.
ASK HN: Review my app - Foursquare Client
I would appreciate some feedback for a Foursquare client I just released in the App Store. The goal is to improve on the UI/performance and add some useful features such as multiple accounts.

Promo codes are available, contact me on twitter: @fouritapp
Having 100% test coverage for a product that nobody wants is a waste of time, while having 0% test coverage for a product that many people are using is dangerous.

The challenge for a startup is finding the right balance between the two.
A bit off track but just curious to know if sending out emails, introducing yourself and your product, played major role in marketing.

I mean, do people take it seriously? I usually mark it as spam. may be it's just me.

Did you use any other methods for marketing your product?
http://codepad.org/rdSirAkD -- Solution to third problem in 26 lines of ruby _without_ using combinations. It's pretty fast too, gives the answer in 0.020s.
Vocabulary really seems to be tripping us up today. Let's just cite the Nizkor list when critiquing arguments. For reference, I'm invoking #24, "False Dilemma":

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/false-dilemma.html

Specifically:

Bill: "We'll have to keep our configurations in a database and avoid flat text files."
Jill: "Why?"
Bill: "Because otherwise we'll be stuck with incomprehensible text files with bizarre asses."
Voyager and Enterprise got (and deserve) a lot of criticism, but DS9, at least while it was airing, was very widely respected as possibly the best Star Trek series ever produced. And that's because the writers realized that, at the time, the premise of space travel to strange alien worlds was not fantastic enough to hold viewer attention. Where TNG and especially TOS featured some new, strange thing each week (be it a fantastically powerful noncorporeal entity or a planet killer or a Dyson sphere), DS9 mostly took its world as a given and built a compelling, continuous drama out of those elements. It's quite similar to how the new Battlestar Galactica was constructed, and BSG developed a small, passionate fanbase during its run. (Not coincidentally, BSG had a number of DS9 writers on its staff.)

I also disagree that it's too late for a reboot. The reboot was the single most successful Star Trek movie ever produced.
Unfortunately no matter what anyone attempts in a treatment of the logo, people will complain and say that they could do better. The internet has turned everyone with a copy of Photoshop into a self-believed design expert, while Gap as a clothing chain rightfully cares more about keeping 130,000 employees and $800+ Million in sales operating.

As usual, a lot of noise on the internet, little-to-no reaction in the real world.
It's a bit dated now but Startup.com:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/
Pretty good documentary on what it was like to be inside a high flying late nineties venture funded startup before the balloon burst
There's more than one way to skin a cat. The only time I get in charge trouble with my iPhone is on transoceanic travel days, and for those there is this: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/
I would appreciate some feedback for a Foursquare client I just released in the App Store. The goal is to improve on the UI/performance and add some useful features such as multiple accounts.

Promo codes are available, contact me on twitter: @fouritapp
Programming books are by and large read by programmers. Complaining that the foreword doesn't sell programming well enough is like complaining that Hawking's papers don't contain enough cheerleading for first-grade science students.
Short, but potentially interesting. I hope he follows up.
Is "educate your boss" no longer an option these days?

What if someone edits the sqlite file via sqlite rather than the config file?

Think of the sqlite database as a "deployed" configuration, not the configuration that you work with. Put together some process documentation for deployment procedures, you'll need it anyway.

What if sqlite3 goes out of business? How will we edit the config files? Where can we purchase sqlite3 support?

sqlite is public domain. And if the support issue can kill your proposal, you should be worrying about where to get mongrel2 support, in case Zed falls off a bike.

So now we can't even invoke the server, we need to invoke some complicated shell script? Sounds like a maintenance nightmare.

Congratulations, you've just introduced a fraction of the complexity in apachectl. Have a cookie.

Mongrel2 makes me feel fear, uncertainty and doubt! These are negative feelings!

I don't know about your manager, but mine would definitely cringe with fear, uncertainty, and doubt upon seeing some scary temporary hexadecimal filename.

Oh, and since we're bikeshedding, might as well point out that Step 3 has a useless use of cat. Grumble, grumble.
If by "he," you mean Mankiw, I agree.

But I think you probably mean mikeryan. I don't think he was talking about a marginal dollar. His point was that the first $12k ($13k in 2010) gifted are taxed differently than dollars beyond that threshold.

I suppose the real question is the relative importance of the behavior at the margin versus the behavior for the first dollar. For the ultra-rich, $13k is obviously irrelevant, but for someone near the $250k annual income threshold like Mankiw, I don't think it is. The present value of $12k per year given every year for 30 years is substantially larger than the same amount invested and then hit by estate tax at year 30.
No, you're seeing it correctly. I was of the (apparently minority) opinion that they had really dropped the ball with the new theme introduced in 10.04.

That one release later still suffers from blatant UI screwups like that is really disappointing.
Talk to people about what sucks about their job. Pick the problem with the most whines per lines of codeit will take to fix. Fair warning: $200 a month projects get drastically bigger if you figure out marketing.
Is that before or after Apple's cut?
I'm stupid, I guess. I saw the last slide ("there is no problem as the system is still running" (and chmod can therefore still be executed)) and thought that was the solution.

Once again I've learned that for every problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and wrong (and that I myself am quite likely to hit upon this solution).

If you try it, you'll find that it doesn't, in fact, work. Apparently the shell performs a lookup of the access rights of the program you're trying to execute, meaning once you've done "chmod -x chmod", you really have created yourself a problem.

I'd now say the solution is something like this:

cp -pr /bin/chown /bin/chown.safe

cp /bin/chmod /bin/chown

chown 755/bin/chmod

cp /bin/chown.safe /bin/chown

[edit: formatting]