skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Countless amateur photographers spend their time discussing hardware, rather than techniques and other aspects that would benefit their craft to a much greater extent.

You see the same thing among firearms enthusiasts. It's fairly common to find people that spend (tens of) thousands of dollars chasing the best gear, but won't spend $2-400 on training from a reputable instructor.
After all, not everybody can afford a linux box for their dev :p
If history is any indicator, there have been events that wiped out most or all of a species. Even in our times, nature has swayed at her discretion; look at the earthquakes and tsunamis and the destruction to human life and property.

Such events are likely to re-occur.
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Why does the answer have to forgo everything that facilitates optimal modern high-tech food production?

Gladwell's "Outliers" spent a lot of time on farming technologies thru the ages (and subsequent impact on cultural success). Japanese rice farming amounts to a sustainable long-term high-tech process making heavy use of artificial irrigation and any other suitable tech, maximizing production with limited space and growing seasons.

For starters, one could compute an outer limit of calories per square meter and match that to basic caloric needs per person: given an average solar energy concentration there is no way (unless you want to turn geothermal & fossil fuel) to produce more food (whatever manifestation) in caloric terms than sunlight provides. From there the answer requires providing assorted limiters, reducing the potential caloric output to more realistic levels based on viable technologies.

Computing from a different angle:

149M sq km total land, 15M sq km farmland, 7000M people

Dividing current farmland by population and rounding the result up a bit, each person gets a plot 47x47m for 603 sq ft for living and the rest for farmland. Assuming half the land is rank (unusable) wilderness, that roughs out to an optimistic carrying capacity of 33000M people.
I think you misunderstand how this works. Poor geo-targeting results in increased latency which is directly correlated with throughput and it increases congestion.

Fixing that has tremendous benefits.
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Awesome collection! Cant wait to go through all of them!
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You would hope that to be the case, but it is not generally true.
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Obsessive Compulsive (Dis?)order.

Am I the only one who is worried about this Tim guy?
I'm really fairly confused: does Google, or any of the partner manufacturers, actually think these will sell at this price?

Or maybe this is a bid for the enterprise? I'd imagine they're the only group for whom a completely managed laptop is worth such a price premium.
"The first three octets provide more than enough data to divine the country you are surfing from,"

divine???
"This is space that you are not using anyway, so what is the problem?"

It's space your not using now. What if the user has no idea Spotify is caching that heavily, then checks their Free Disk Space (maybe they are about to transfer lots of data)? Nasty surprise ...
I think this is pretty gimmicky, although that might be good enough for a certain subset of casual bar food kinds of restaurants.

If you want a more efficient restaurant, this is certainly not the best way to get it. Put the menu up on a big board like McDonalds, Chipotle, Panera, or other already high volume eateries like street vendors. Want to be even faster? Cut down the menu complexity. Fewer menu items means less customer analysis paralysis and a more streamlined kitchen. Anyone in the restaurant business already does at least some data analysis on every sale and have regional and store by store A/B testing. I mean, they have to know what's selling when they do inventory and order more food.

What doesn't make you more efficient (i.e. turn orders and tables faster)? Giving just one menu to a table full of people then include a bunch of games and surveys on it. But if you want to have a table gimmick to keep people around ordering more appetizers and rounds of beer, this might be the ticket.
Well damn, you're right. Looks like they were Hacker News'd. Fortunately Xeround's database servers are still up, but this is a bit disconcerting.
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For an alternative method, I do a similar thing but put them all on Github and have a quick script to symlink them to the right place. Easy to set up a new machine in minutes, and I maintain history indefinitely.

https://github.com/mdwrigh2/dotfiles
I like this but thinking where retail automation is going makes me a little sad.. Store cashier and waitress jobs are the only ones remaining for women with no degree or marketable skills... In 10-20 years i think we will see less of them!
divine v. [trans.]:
to discover or locate (as water or minerals underground) usually by means of a divining rod.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine
It's actually a hybrid. The most frequently played songs are on Spotify's caching servers, and the first ~15s of those songs are streamed from them. The rest of the song is streamed via P2P, as are the entirety of the less frequently played ones. I seem to recall also that Spotify will locally cache songs you play frequently as well.
You need elastic load balancing for iPhone Apps, do they call your web servers that often? How many users are you dealing with currently? Wondering if my single server in my house will be enough to launch a new web service shortly..the server is currently a quad core dedicated Ubuntu LAMP Server with 2gigs of ram that I built a little over a year ago, currently hosted off of residential cable

P.S. That's a nice looking backend
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> The generalized data would still be useful, but it would be lacking in resolution and reliability compared to GeoIP on the full four octet IP address.

How is that? ARIN doesn't delegate IP address space to users or ISPs in smaller segments than 1024K IP addresses. So it seems that 3 octets is enough to map to a physical location. How does the additional octet give you additional geolocational abilities?
"Is the birth rate of China and India combined more than that of the rest of the world? If so, then it's more likely that it will occur there than anywhere else."

I'm asking two questions. The second, quoted here, is saying the same thing as the OP.
Although they only let you create one database per plan, you can use schemas to emulate multiple databases.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/ddl-schemas.html
If you're looking for something similar but in GUI form, I made http://trimage.org for that, installable in Ubuntu via apt-get install trimage.
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Vaclav Smil worked out the specific numbers and they can be found here:

http://www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii/bgc/Smil_SciAm_N2cycle.pdf

The tipping point was around 1915 when the world had slightly less than 2 billion people, with the introduction of the Haber-Bosch process. After that the population growth is virtually dependent upon artificial nitrogen fixing fertilizers.

Naturally-produced fertilizers can provide approximately 200 kg. of nitrogen per hectare annually; this allows for the production of between 200 and 250 kg. of plant proteins. This places a theoretical limit on the number of people that each hectare of land could sustain. Under ideal conditions this would amount to around 15 people per hectare; in practice, the historical limit has been about 5 people per hectare.

In this paper he shows - dramatically - that there is a hard limit to the number of people that can be supported by natural nitrogen fixation. The population could have continued to grow through more drastic conversion of land to agriculture and better use of natural mechanisms, but at the end of the day, as he puts it:

"... at least two billion people are alive because the proteins in their bodies are built with nitrogen that came from a factory using [the Haber-Bosch] process."
These have been on sale for weeks?
How popular is the Iphone among other Apple devices?
I'm generally an Asus person, but the Sony Z series is just amazing. 16 hours of battery life with an additional sheet battery, 2.5lbs, a nice processor and an option for a 1920x1080 display. Looks pretty good too, but it's the portability and battery life that really gets me. Sadly, the basic model with a sheet battery is about $2060, and configuring it to be really shiny would bring the price up to a bit under $3000, which, being a college student, is rather out of my budget.
I just did. I hadn't thought of doing that.
You're right, I mis-read this line. Still, it deserves more than a sentence. The NIH does require all NIH-funded research to be made publicly available. What more should/could they do?
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It's not about people knowing a lot of things, it about people with a lot of things knowing. The fundamentals are what's lacking, the basic lies. "... ALL MEN are created equal" , lie from the very foundation, and why, why ,why can't they grasp "do until others as you would have them do unto you", the very heart of what they claim as their religion and proof of their legitimate claim to power ? It's only about holding key truths, not about vast sums of knowledge. People can do anything together, all the answers exist. It's the lack of power holding key truths that skews everything to the lack of progress,the lack of agreement and ability to find solutions. In short, we can fix it very quickly, the answers are actually simple and abundant, the people are deep and strong. BUT THEY WON'T LET US.
And you explicitly called out good developers.

"A good developer can work with crappy tools and make great things."

So what exactly is your point here?
Customers don't care what you code in.

Or what your backend is like as long as it works.

They just want their lives to be easier.

Use what you know, use it well, and make a difference.

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Most techies who have a negative opinion about any technology do it with hearsay and not first hand experience.

For examples, all web languages pretty much do the same stuff, and you'll rarely come across a web app that uses a language in a novel way that actually makes a difference which language you use. They all have their pros and cons, it just depends on what you want to coo / boo over.

To be fair many haven't accessed the tools that may require money to use. Alternatively others might not have had the luxury of free time to learn something on their own. It's not better, or worse, just different. Sadly a lot of devs build wizardry to make their own lives easier and avoid tackling making their users lives easier, and that shouldn't happen in any language.

All that matters is can you deliver a result that works well. If techies spent as much time obsessing over improving their skills and finding way to build valuable solutions than which tools to use, they'd know this.

For those who hold a holier than thou attitude in believing the only way one can correctly create and innovate with a computer (software included) need to be from narrow list of tools/education fields, they forget that smart people can often learn to be great at more than one thing:

"I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money."
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Get building.
git svn is the best svn client in the world:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html

You still get to use git, except you push to a svn server (couple of the push pull commands are different but it works wonderfully).
>Is the birth rate of China and India combined more than that of the rest of the world?

No, partially due to the one-child policy.
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I was referring to Twilight explicitly. Agree with your point entirely.
"Forget daily backups, Continuous Protection redundantly archives data to high-durability storage as it is written, ensuring that it is safe no matter what."

I'm sorry, but daily backups are not only for high availability, but also for point in time recovery.

What if $dev drops the user table by mistake ? Do they provide backup for that ?
I doubt enterprise will touch these. They have even harsher application dependencies than consumers. Even in the niches where it would work (ie. travelling salesmen), enterprises buy hardware in bulk so they'd probably just keep buying what they buy for everybody else.
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You'd think that, but git-svn is far far easier than working in just svn.
I think Tim Cook would notice an AMG with no plates parked outside of his house: http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/28/steve-jobs-car-has-no-license...
Interesting article, though the title is a bit misleading. I'd say a better one would be "Design Patterns of Functional Languages" as the author is comparing common functional design patterns (monads, functors) to GoF OO design patterns. I think to explain to non-functional programmers the benefits of functional, you have to go beyond design patterns or showing them how you can make a compact loop with a single application of a "map" function. You gotta show them how treacherous side-effects are (especially as code size grows) and how the declarative nature of FP inherently creates highly modular code and flexible code!
Show HN: Test your Android apps on real devices over the cloud
This is something that will hopefully be helpful to Android developers out there battling with fragmentation. As an Android developer myself, I know fixing device-specific bugs are a pain.

Right now, I only have 10 phones hooked up to the cloud, running from my bedroom. I'm hoping to get more soon and possibly co-locate where there is faster and more reliable internet.
I've never seen a significant difference in throughput on a home connection due to a US/EU mistargeting, at least, certainly not on the level of Mbits being reduced to Kbits. I just tested now, and downloading from a California mirror is able to max out my DSL quite easily (I'm in Denmark). I do get lower latency from European mirrors, but not higher throughput, because both can saturate the link.
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Or use an object database like db4o if you want to eliminate the mismatch :)
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At what level of theory? Is the planet still a solid ball with 99.9% of its mass unused in its depths? Are humans still 50-100 kg masses of biological metabolism, and not, say, programs being simulated on small computers? Not trying to be pretentious, but I think the question needs to be more specific.

Here's two soft limits.

The solar power incident on the earth is on the order of 10^17 watts -- harnessing more than this means creating structures much larger than the earth, at which point it's not really "the same planet" (most of the surface area would have to be non-planet). Humans metabolize on the order of 10^2 watts, just like desktop computers. So, 10^17/10^2 = 10^15 humans, one quadrillion,

Suppose instead the earth uses an energy source much more powerful than its surface solar power (e.g. fusion power). Then one limit is how much heat can be produced without temperature reaching impossible levels. Basically, heat rejection is by thermal radiation into space (no conduction); the power goes as T^4 [1]. Right now we're rejecting on the order of 10^17 W (same as the solar input -- it's balanced), at about 300 Kelvin. So without changing the surface environment drastically, we can't really go above 10^17 W. But if we're willing to do drastic terraforming -- living in underground air-conditioned chambers with Herculean heat pumps everywhere, leading to an uninhabited surface hotter than molten iron (the Great Radiator), you could push the limit above that. At a surface temperature of 3000 Kelvin (~2700 C), that's 10 times what it is now, so the thermal radiation would be 10^4 times = 10,000 times larger. We could reject 10^21 W, enough to power 10^19 humans. (Which would comprise 0.01% of the earth's entire mass! Bit like Hong Kong really.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law
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What happens when, as the article suggestions, you cover "1/4 the area of Alaska" with wind turbines?
That's what I would have thought.

Which leaves the question: what consumers do they think want these?
It's not just the emphasis on tools. Context matters too. I know that pud was trying to make a narrow point, but it's interesting to note that the blog doesn't mention the problem he uses the tools for or the rest of the context. There's a lot of that in the industry as well.
The generic term is usually 'file manager'. There are at least of half dozen of them in the Linux world.
The only piece that made me cringe was CFML. I promise that a better life awaits you if you have the courage to break free.
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So which drive should I pick if I want to stay away from the ones that "cheat"?
That definition is not there (merriam-webster.com).

Even more - when I Google for "divine v. [trans.]: to discover or locate" -- the only link is to your comment on hackerstream.
What do you mean? Selling bandwidth how? I really am curious here.
This is something that will hopefully be helpful to Android developers out there battling with fragmentation. As an Android developer myself, I know fixing device-specific bugs are a pain.

Right now, I only have 10 phones hooked up to the cloud, running from my bedroom. I'm hoping to get more soon and possibly co-locate where there is faster and more reliable internet.
Good idea, I put my name on the more detailed spreadsheet. I wouldn't mind being emailed at the address I entered there, if there's any need.

Not sure yet if I'll have time for the DB and ML classes, but I'll try.
The LLL algorithm seems pretty straight-forward looking at it on Wikipedia. It’s possible that proving things about it is tricky, but understanding the steps is pretty “first-course”.
Just a little usability nit, is the pricing per month, per year, lifetime?

It's not clear from the pricing page, and I'm assuming it's per month, in which case it's reasonable, especially given the value added services being offered, especially the ability to fork the database and the automated creation of read slaves.

It looks like a solid offering. It's probably not right for companies that are subject to HIPAA or PCI compliance requirements, and there's no information on the use of compiled extensions in the db which may limit it's utility if you're wanting to use PostGIS or other specialist datatypes.
I think the Fugu plan is a typo, if you're reading this Heroku guys...
This is really exciting - the team behind this really cares about developers and their experience. They see a way things could be better, and regardless of technical difficulty, say, "why not?" Forking a db? Brilliant. Offload expensive task to passive followers? Obvious (in hindsight). Instant, brain-dead db provisioning? Of course.

Personally, the only terrifying thing about this is that when Heroku releases something, it's been in the works for a good long while, and they usually have a stream of incredible releases waiting right behind it. The mind boggles at what they're going to be doing next.

But we'll be first in line for it :)
Entirely possible - I just received the email from chromebook team today.

"You asked to be notified when Chromebooks became available. We're pleased to inform you that the Samsung Chromebook Series 5 is here: a fast, simple, and secure way to get online."
And snowboarders. People spend probably minimum $1k for clothes, boots, board and bindings; plus $70+/day for a lift ticket; but won't spend $50 to go to a group class and actually learn how to do it. And they're dangerous to everyone around them because they can't dismount a goddamn lift without falling down and probably knocking down their neighbors.
Pakistan bans VPNs
[..] Instead of going to university [..]
He rose to become principal scientific
officer of the intelligence agency [..]

quite a career it is.
depends on the atmosphere. Ambiance matters for many places, and that includes attentive staff that make you feel important. But it you're at a busy lunch spot or happy hour spot, this can be great.
An oil pipeline across Alaska? Eeeeevil. Clearing out hundreds of thousands of square miles and covering them in turbines? The future!
No they have not been clear about that.
'has' a typo, you mean.
Good advice, I read the discussion you posted and there was a lot of insightful tips as well, which I've kind of worked out along the way. In terms of legality, this service will be scraping on behalf of the user, meaning they provide their login credentials and are granting permission to the server to perform the scrape..We'll eventually need to have a Terms and Privacy section which covers the possible legal issues, this is still in the prototyping phase but it's good to know before launch what is allowed and what isn't by each website
Agreed - do you have any anecdotal evidence of how it performs comparatively to say, Erlang or node?
Has the daily deal market peaked?
You can make snapshots of the data.
You can set up Point In Time Recovery (PITR), and replay recovery logs. It's not clear from Heroku's pages whether their solution is set up that way.
Also found this via the reddit, a study group for Cambridge (UK):
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/stanford-online-clas...
Somehow the overall appearance of the page at http://pud.com corresponds with the back end :-)
I always have to laugh when wind advocates are forced to get to the point and explain how many wind turbines they're actually going to need. Yes, a 200k square mile patch of land with 3 million wind turbines isn't an indication that perhaps this isn't quite the right approach to solving our energy needs. It's just plain absurd.