skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about all that, but my math background does nudge me to point out one thing:

The fibonacci sequence is such that a[n+2] = a[n+1] + a[n], and as a result, we have

a[n+1] / a[n] -> a[n+2] / a[n+1]

that is to say, the sequence of ratios a[n+1] / a[n] tends to a limit, and this limit is Phi

here is the cool thing: in spirals, there is a certain scale invariance going on when it comes to fibonacci numbers. Consider a rectangle where its larger side is Phi * its smaller side. If whatever process made the rectangle uneven now operates with the larger side, it will make a rectangle whose larger side is Phi * its smaller side (assuming the process is scale invariant). Of course, in reality this would be much more of a continuous process. Put another way, if a process has the following properties:

1) it is scale invariant
2) it is rotation invariant
3) its operation on the larger structure overpowers its operation on the smaller structure

then this process would produce something akin to a golden ratio spiral. So I would expect at least some things in nature to be like this, at least theoretically.

EDIT: that said, passing the golden ratio thing off as fact when it's just a coincidence is doing a big disservice to science, especially when done by science teachers.
Whichever way they want to go about it, they should just merge already. Yes, they are different options in the same space with different ideas, but now is when the codebase is the closest it will likely ever be to being the same.
Thanks for the link, but not very convincing. The site itself is a forum for the metal finishing industry; like chrome and silver plating, not something I'd hold up as expert in human health and diet.

Most of the discussion oscillates between "Yes it's harmful. If you want to consume DI water that does x, do so at your peril." and "No it's not harmful. Why are you afraid of something we already use for x?"
Why are you blogging
So we agree on the definition of what a sysadmin, systems engineers, devops or whatever people want to call it should be. A sysadmin must program, that's a given. When did we forget that exactly ?

But why are so many devs shooting at the sysadmins these days ? I never read anything from sysadmins complaining about the astonishingly low level of knowledge of a lot of devs. And they are numerous, willingly ignoring even the most basic performance issues and vomiting thousands of lines of codes, hundreds of tons of libraries, to simple problems.

It seems that devs are frustrated to not be able to push their random app to the web in 5 minutes, and throw their love to PaaS like an apple geek discovering the new iphone, blaming the sysadmins for not providing the same thing at their own company without even understanding (or trying to understand) how operating systems work, and how their own code should be built.

The real issue here is that when devs and sysadmins DON'T work together, and ignore each others problems, constantly blaming each other, then the result sucks. When the sysadmins are 20% devs, and the devs 20% sysadmins, and they drink their coffees together in the morning, you don't see that kind of problem. They built good, reliable, scalable infrastructure, whether it's in the cloud or in the basement of their house.
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Depends on where you stand. Fox, for example, takes the alternate view.

Still, at Occupy Phoenix yesterday there were a number of signs that were downright embarrassing, either by virtue of misspellings or because of a vitriolic message. Or both.

The presence of 9/11 Truthers didn't help either.

These are exactly the kinds of things that some people like to point out about Tea Party rallies. I say, great, call out ignorance and venom when you see it, but do it for everybody. And don't paint everybody with the same brush.

Anyways, while I'm certainly not in agreement with everything everyone at every Occupy event believes I find at least enough common ground to want to stay informed so this app is quite useful.
I don't know. Githaven doesn't have a good enough graphical design for me. Ask people who use githaven.

GPL2 is the standard trusted license. If you want less restrictions, you can use mit/bsd.

Read up on the OSI licenses. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category
If you can risk the money then buy stocks. Take a look at Apple in particular.
Siri is from the future
So what do you call a sysadmin exactly ?
Who runs the systems at the cloud provider / github or you outsourced DNS/SMTP+IMAP?
Demand is what's holding back encrypted email. Nobody cares about it.

I think it's actually a chicken-and-egg problem. The people who care a lot about it can't have it because they need to communicate with everyone else, the people who care a little don't want to bother with using encryption for some contacts and no encryption for others, and the people who don't know and/or don't care don't get any of the benefits.

I think two things would make a big difference: 1. marketing end-to-end e-mail encryption as an anti-spam measure, and 2. someone who cares a lot about it implementing an end-to-end, non-government-controllable system that's undeniably easy to use, then releases it for free and gets all the major e-mail platforms to adopt it (obviously much easier said than done).
While I disagree with esr on Unity (I kind of like it), he raises a very serious point about configuration being kept in binary blobs. I cringe when I see it in XML - blobs are an even worse idea.
Three years is a considerable short term investment period, for which I would target low-risk assets. How much money are we talking about?

Without knowing more, I would say a 3-year Certificate of Deposit (CD) or bond funds are your best bet.
I like your point about gamers being the worst customers on the face of the earth - much as I'm a gamer myself and love the community, as an ISP employee, I can only testify to the truth of that statement.

To the first, however, as a qualified software engineer and just general computer user - any dev worth his chops should absolutely be running backups more resilient than copying between two boxes in the same residence (with the likes of CrashPlan, it's so easy!), and at the very least using some form of off-site VCS.

$20,000 easily covers a (decent) yearly github subscription, for instance, which would absolutely cover this instance.
No, lipids are metabolized directly as lipids (via lipolysis). In the absence of sufficient dietary carbohydrate, some lipids may be transformed into ketone bodies via a process called ketosis, to provide an alternate fuel for the brain. This is what the Atkins and other very low carbohydrate (<~50-100g/day) diets seek to accomplish.

Dietary carbohydrate (other than fructose) is directly metabolized by cells as glycogen. Two tissue types (brain and red blood cell) prefer glycogen, red blood cells require it. Your body can store about 200g of glycogen split between the liver (~100g) and skeletal muscle. Liver reserves can fuel any body function, muscle stores fuel just that muscle. Excess carbs are converted (by the liver) into fats, and stored as same via the insulin/glucagon endocrine balance. Look up the Krebs Cycle for more information.

Dietary fats serve as long-term, low-rate fuel for skeletal muscle and organs (other than the brain and red blood cells), and is either metabolized directly or stored as adipose tissue.

Dietary protein isn't metabolized directly. It's used for structural processes as its component amino acids, some of which can be synthesized by the body, but some (essential amino acids) cannot be, others are rate-limited to a degree that dietary supplementation is occasionally recommended. Protein (dietary or from body tissues) can be converted to glycogen through a process called gluconeogenesis. This occurs both in low-carb diets and during starvation.
> "MRSP $329, Craigslist price? $100, new in the box."

Have you considered that those goods are probably hot? Perfectly good, brand new, item on CL for 70% off?!
RescueTime - Don't fool yourself in time management
Unnecessary jabs at PHP are in fact part of the HTML5 draft standard.
I was under the assumption that they didn't have many timers... I just looked again and maybe they added models with more than one timer but now they have some that are up to 4 timers and still only 1.50USD. That makes things more useful.

It should also be noted that the msp starter kit is only ~4 bucks and has a full usb starter board with i/o breakouts. pretty cool stuff.
I remember people running Android on Intel on some Ubuntu summit. I wonder what happened with that.
This article almost got me upset. The writer argues that young people should know better than to try to make it on their own and instead go work at any of the old institutions that make hundreds of millions off of their employees. Maybe there is a reason why talented people don't want to work for them. Growth does not need to happen in terms of company size, it can also happen in terms of number of companies.

Huge companies exist because historically communication inside an organization was cheap while communication between organizations expensive. Guess what, with the Internet that doesn't apply anymore. Many small companies can innovate faster than one big, and contribute to faster growth. It's the big companies that are overdue with the reality check.

They are dinosaurs dying in a climate more fit for leaner creatures.

(Oh, if there is such a need for talent, why doesn't the bigger companies scoop up some talent by doing acquisitions? Valuations shouldn't be to steep in early phases. And it wouldn't take long for the entrepreneurs to get lobotomized, sorry I meant institutionalized, and be happy cogs in the big machine)

</rant> ...sorry.
This has been coming for a while, and the end of empire is an accelerating process:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/02/the-decline-is-al...

"Freedom and other necessities for prosperity (such as the rule of law, absence of taxation, and so forth) have been in decline in the US over the past decade. The specific proximate causes for the legislation and social changes that brought this decline don't really matter all that much - there is always some sequence of events that politicians and populace can use as justification and cover to further destroy all the qualities that once made their society great."

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/10/the-prospects-for...

"It's no great secret that the US is decaying; this is history unfolding as a procedural. The US is ever more rapidly becoming just another Europe, Japan, or pick your dysfunctional fascist-leaning (per the dictionary definition) economy of choice. The ending of empires that centralize economic and legislative power, develop a ruling class, grow their military, and debase their currency is pretty much written in stone - it's the details of the move from wealth enjoyed in freedom to authoritarian poverty that will surprise people in their nature and timing."
Is ~50k/yr a typical founder salary? How much does it vary from this kind of number?
The Future of Google Android Cellphone
IMHO, that is like saying I wish I became a painter before becoming an art lover (from a consumer POV). I think you're being too hard on yourself here.
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I always wanted to try out awesome but never had the motivation. Yesterday gnome3 packages started popping up in unstable so I gave it a whirl on an old machine. The only good thing I can say about gnome3 is that it finally gave me the incentive to make the leap to awesome...its truly awesome.
* Why not use transactions? (freebsd jails, linux namespaces) and allow integration testing for the applications in a given environment? Think rspec for integration testing applications and rolling back on failure.

* Why not modularize chef, right now it's a nightmare to get working, emerge makes a graph about 200 nodes long...

I plan on sometime making a puppet / chef alternative because they both seem lacking
Why do entrepreneurs deserve a kiss?
They were just fibbing.
Welcome to the Startup Weekend effect.

Don't get me wrong, I love the concept of the events, and have had good experiences at some I've attended. But there is often a huge inequality between the number of devs and the number of business guys- if you're not careful you end up in a group full of business, but with little ability to execute over the space of a weekend.

So you end up with a weekend spent arguing over a domain name, setting up a LaunchRock page and sending out Google Spreadsheet surveys.
Cloud Out Loud Podcast - Interview talking about UX strategy in startups
The unions, in the words of BBC economics editor Paul Mason, 'find themselves a "stage army" to be marched on and off the scene of history.'

They're useful for their numbers, but I don't think the majority of people in these modern movements find them totally credible.
+1 - you can automate deployment all you want, but when something goes wrong with your production site (and it inevitably will), do you want to pull your top developers off of whatever new features they are working on and ask them to troubleshoot and fix production?

Sysadmins will always be a necessary evil when you are dealing with hundreds of servers, physical, virtual, or cloud. The tools and process will change. We have gone from physical Unix boxes (Sun, HP, etc) to virtual Linux boxes, to cloud servers, but sysadmins are still doing the heavy lifting of designing and building highly scalable systems.

I would say that sysadmins should look at moving into systems architecture roles, since one sysadmin will be able to manage hundreds of systems rather than a few dozen in the future. You really need architecture, networking, and performance tuning experience in order to succeed when you are managing more than a handful of systems.
After a week-long visual deprivation experiment, Nikhil removes the blindfold
I'm not sure about the feeling of entitlement. I think it's actually the opposite. Until very recently, the video gaming scene was a game was done, gold pressed, shipped and never touched again. No feedback, no updates, no changes, so gamers would quite prominently voice their opinions. This had no chance at all of affecting the current game but provided feedback on how to do the NEXT game. This same method of voicing opinions has been carried over into an environment where you can react to them and improve the game without a change in tone. It also strongly falls into the fact that if people are complaining about it, it means they care and you have customers.
And as bad as it is, that post is more than a year old, apparently without any effects on the dashboard. Alas.
Ok, now I'm done

matches :: String -> String -> Bool
matches ('^':rs) = dm rs where
cm r c = r == '.' || r == c
dm (r:'*':rs) (c:cs) = (dm rs (c:cs)) || ((cm r c) && (dm (r:'*':rs) cs))
dm (_:'*':"") "" = True
dm (r:rs) (c:cs) = cm r c && dm rs cs
dm "" _ = True
dm "$" "" = True
dm _ _ = False
matches rs = matches ("^.*" ++ rs)
Just to clarify the details of the paintballing example...

Land is a serious problem except once it's no problem at all. If you don't know anyone who has land that they'll let you use, how do you find someone? Everyone I've met that plays paintball cheaply just plays illegally on land that they do not own, which may or may not seem unethical to other people. In my opinion, access to legal land actually is a significant hurdle for many people.

Now, in practice, paint is the main cost. Perfectly good paint costs less than $0.05/ball (maybe $0.03 is a bit low-end), which is usually marked up 100% or more if you're playing on a paid field (this is their main revenue). The problem is, many players are accustomed to a play-style where they burn thousands of rounds ($50+) a day. If everyone agrees to use pump-action guns (cheaper!), you can have nearly the same experience at 1/20 the paint cost. If everyone around you is using semi-auto and burning paint, it's a lot harder to go pump (some people like the asymmetric challenge, but most do not).
My feedback is, please stop doing junk like this and go pursue some idea that has some kind of social value.
the msp430 launchpad board is the cheap one, and I think if someone wanted to get into programming a MCU in C/C++, it is probably the cheapest and simplest way to do so (open tools, including GCC, are available, too)

the big advantage of the arduino is the software and the community.
A better tutorial: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-image-styles
Self-awareness, financial intelligence, and confidence in doing the things you enjoy will always get you far.

Aside from that, I'd love to be further ahead with geospatial python and statistics than where I am now.
Investing is easy. I follow two simple rules. They are all you need to follow:

1. Buy when people are desperately selling (Get in when people are getting out).

2. Sell when people are desperately buying (Get out when everyone is rushing to get in).

That has always made money for me.
Try making a simple spreadsheet for a startup, for example for 18-36 months. Before I ever did that, I always underestimated how far the money would go. Most will be people. The examples you name have hundreds of people working for them. That really ads up.
It's too easy to lose yourself in gaming/browsing. I was aware that I was passionate about the web long before I decided to 'learn' it.
Binary blobs for configuration should be considered evil.

I'm all for sane defaults and making design decisions and keeping options away from the users - not having huge preference panes. But keep a hand-editable text configuration file.

I spent some time using IceWM (shipped with EEEpc 701) and the jwm. So I guess I'd be using jwm again.
I find that almost all non-technical users have absolutely no idea what it takes to make software, but that gamers really take it personally and are incredibly vocal about it. For this, you get the shortest attention span - games don't live long in general, and a lot of whining about price, which has some merit as a consumer - if your office software was only useful for 6-15 hours, you wouldn't want to pay much to keep repurchasing it either. But yeah, I've never seen such a self-entitled client base as computer gamers.
Sorry, my bad. I meant to say "recipes".
The only real way out is to abandon conventional capitalism. Corporations are getting TOO good at extracting wealth out of citizens and leaving them with less and less ability to gain wealth of their own. The slip knots are getting tighter and stronger with time because the system is designed by those most likely to benefit from this socio-economic structure.
I'm curious what you think has some kind of social value. Would you mind expounding on that?

Thanks.
You've just echoed my experience with chef but I'm still on the fence as to whether I think it was a success or not and whether I'd use it again. We were able to achieve everything we wanted but to say it took a metric fuckton of time would be a grave understatement. Even what are ordinarily trivial things took a lot longer than I expected. Some things I just found to be oddly designed and surprisingly inflexible, especially the recipe construct. I still to this day see no point of having a folder with 2 subfolders with 3 files combined for what amounts to "apt get install somepackage". And having to learn a DSL to replace the already very effective bash is in my opinion not a very enticing trade.

Although it's very new, I think I'll try out juju.ubuntu.com for my next large deployment instead of sticking with chef or puppet, if only for the flexibility of the hooks-in-any-language thing and a chance to feed my bash fetish.
Irish Data Protection Commissioner to audit Facebook
Text-only Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C82PuK6...
The site says it's bringing back the 'arcade model', so I'm guessing the way they'll monetize users is... to make them pay for your game??

At the same time, their video looks like it's the same premium currency model as every other game microtransaction service out there.

It would really help if they could show something more, or at least write more about their service.
It is nice when someone points these things out. Good article.

However, it should be noted that not all appearances of the Fibonacci sequence are the result of misunderstandings & fakery. This is noted in the article:

> Phylotaxis. .... This is one part of nature where the fibonacci sequence and related sequences seem to show up uncommonly often, and it's legitimate to inquire why. The interesting cases are seedheads in plants such as sunflowers, and the bract patterns of pinecones and pineapples.
If you look at it from the point of view of creating a new company that is based online, chances are that you can design the system from the ground up to be entirely hosted in the cloud. Even better than AWS is if you can host your site on a PaaS solution such as Google AppEngine. GAE negates the need for a DBA, netadmin and a sysadmin.

I'm building a web based company right now with a good friend of mine and we've gladly chosen GAE because of this single attribute. Both of us are 15+ year sysadmins as well as software engineers. That said, instead of worrying about how we are going to scale and run everything, we are able to focus entirely on the development of features and building the company. As a result, we hope to never have to hire any IT positions.

In the end, I don't think the roles will go away since someone still needs to run Google. ;-) I just think that the roles will eventually morph a bit for the companies that can take advantage of PaaS solutions.
It's like pornography...
It's really interesting to see the people and their associated projects, companies, and institutions that contribute to the hn commentary. For a lot of the power users, I recognized their usernames and always sort of connected that to who they were professionally, but this really makes it clear.

I'm not sure if this is planned, but I'd guess some of the users wouldn't want the information collected and displayed like that, you might want to add the ability to remove yourself from that listing (so users aren't forced to censor or even delete their profiles).

On a side-note, I was having trouble with the gray on gray text, so I made up a quick alternate design for the site here, if anyone is interested: http://stylebot.me/styles/752
How is actually the comment "ownership" on Hackernews?
Do I still hold the rights on my own words or are they already owned by ycombinator or gone down the creative commons?
Formal logic, probability, statistics, Microeconomics, information theory, game theory, artificial intelligence, databases, web-programming, math, more math and math.
Some of you may know me from the old Themes.org days as "OctobrX". We had a common place where people could help and work on desktop themes for X.

One of the things that drew me to Linux, was the ability to configure and tweak and change things to suit ones personal tastes. This has always been a hallmark, a calling card of the Open Source community.

With Gnome 3.0 and Unity, they have taken a giant leap towards the dark side. I can't believe this has happened.

I wish I could put all my feelings into words as aptly as this author has. I wish I could describe how betrayed, how abandoned and utterly dismayed I am by what I've seen in these latest offerings, but I can't.

Where can you change the fonts? Where can you set keyboard preferences? Where can you set it up so you can move the bar at the bottom of Unity? So many issues, so little time.

All of these things are set-backs and not leaps forwards.

Canonical should hire me and I would guide this ship back to its former glory as well as bringing a vision for desktop dominance in the future.
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I was originally thinking the same, but I think it's because I was considering everything to be body text in a paragraph. If you think of them as potentially word marks, it seems valid to use tight OR wide overall spacing, really more of a stylistic choice.

Also, scored 93. Woo!