skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's arguable whether that's really trade then - it's a bit more like a mugging.

Well, historically large scale trade has been more like mugging. Perfect "free trade" only exists in dogma/ideology. Just consider the "East India Company", how the rich cities of the american South worked, etc. Also of so-called Banana Republics, Africa colonialism and post-colonialism, etc. (Not to miss the party, USSR also had a whole array of "socialist" countries to buy their production and "trade"). Of course, there are millions of examples of political pressure to "buy our stuff", "give our companies your resources at our terms", etc. A multinational is seldom cosmopolitan -- they go where the might is.

One of books I suggest is "Debt the first 5000 years" (here's a favorable review by Financial Times, no, less: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/04e44606-d9a0-11e0-b16a-00144feabd... )
I used to write lots of SQL a couple of years back in university, I even think I was quite good at it because I scored near the top of the class, but since that database class I haven't written many more lines of SQL. These days the ORM takes care of a lot of use cases... I think I still know what a left/right join but I am no longer confident in my knowledge.

I think a lot of people my age are similar. We aren't 30 year olds who have had 5 years of actual SQL experience before ORMs got popular. We've had maybe 1 year or so and then after that its all just ORM.
My local library is a hangout for the homeless who look at porn on the public computers and masturbate in the bathrooms. The library administration refuse to filter adult content as they consider it to be "censorship."
Well, you might be impressed.

Think about these massive Middle-Ages cathedrals done before we had Newton's Laws and modern notions of engineering. How did the architects do it? Well, they were hackers with a large budget. The architect usually had never built anything on this scale before and had no idea how their much-smaller-scale building experience would scale up. In particular, the fact that arches create sideways stresses which tend to bulge a large, open building outwards wasn't necessarily well-known by many of these architects.

So what did they do? They just tried it and saw what worked. They hacked it together. If it doesn't start buckling and collapsing in the first month, it could probably last for a couple hundred years, maybe more if the ground doesn't shift in unexpected ways. The walls started bowing out? Then we'll build structures to buttress them back in. There's a dangerous sagging happening between these two columns? Well, place a third column in there!

Of course, wood offers a lot of questions as a building material, since it's got a lot of energy in a bioactive form which lots of critters and cellular lifeforms might enjoy eating, and therefore needs to be treated in ways that might tend to prevent these critters from using it as a food source. Keeping it not-wet is an important first step which isn't discussed very well in the article.

But for what it's worth, this was the way you built houses before we had engineering. You just went for it and spent a bunch of the year working on it, and it better be successful because you've got to have a place to sleep this winter.
"Real Programmers aren't afraid to use GOTOs." He lost me there, I can not embody this philosophy.
ipad 3 is not launched yet, want to see the frenzy when it does
I can't express how happy I am to see this post. I made to decision to move all our database servers to Intel 510's 120gb months ago and it was difficult to find any data on long term use in an enterprise environment for any SSD's let alone consumer ones. Ordered several new 520's last week as spares and to replace the drives in our web servers, looks like it was a good choice after all.
I look forward to the day independent learning is respected, and education quality can be decoupled from expense.

I believe portfolios will become increasingly important in differentiatiing candidates in the future.

As I take these courses, my goal will be to build up a strong enough github profile, and project list to get past any online course discrimination.
IT Consumerisation: An Opportunity
sorry if I'm dumb and don't get the hint: what do you mean by "this are not really romanian, polish or hungarian" ?
The problem with the way how OS X keeps data cached in the inactive memory is based on the assumption that you are going to re-use the same app within reasonable amount of time. With the current behavior/performance response (without knowing exactly how Apple engineers implemented it), it really feels like a giant garbage collection system that takes age to free up its own memory with no real sense of concept that if you don't use certain apps for day, chances are, it is going to take a long while before I use them again.

I am one of the devs out there running a Macbook Pro with 8Gig of memory (I wish I could have more but I have a 2010 old model). For web development, I have at least Firefox/Chrome/PhpStorm/SmartGit/Mamp/Thunderbird/Terminal/Notational Velocity/Dropbox/Alfred/Sophos AntiVirus open at all times. Now, a long the way, I may open a few other apps that I use rarely, like Photoshop/CyberDuck/VMWare Fusion/iTune/iCal/iOS Simulator/Preview/LibreOffice/Skype. Now, pretty quickly 8Gig gets used up, and the system runs to the ground shortly after.

If I then have VMWare Fusion shutdown for awhile, and relaunch later, the system really just can't take it anymore. The last resort? purge&

At least, that's my day-to-day experience with OSX. Personally, I find the memory management really lousy, worse than other other OSes I used in the past (both Windows & Ubuntu/Fedora/Gentoo).

So why the heck I use Mac still? Because of the driver support is still far better than Linux. With Mac, you are less likely in need of blacklist of some drivers because of freeze up issues.

Either way, I am definitely not a happy camper with the current memory management system in OS X
When you are bragging about cheapness, but it takes nine months of your full time labor to do the work, is that really cheap?
The argument makes a lot of sense economically: patronage of banking vs resource reallocation.

This tells us, of course, that bankers didn't add (enough marginal) value. Which was probably true, given that they defaulted. Iceland profits from not calling with a shitty hand (i.e. bailing out stupid banks). No "bankers are evil" morality needed.
Here in the UK we have a show called Grand Designs on Channel 4. Its a show about self builders. One of the episodes featured a guy called Ben Law(S09E13). He is a woodsman who worked woodland in a strict conservation area. He wanted a home in his woods, and did a similar thing but on a bigger scale. For electricity, he had solar and wind power, feeding submarine batteries. He collected and purified water. Waste waster was, IIRC, fed in to a reed bed. He also had internet sorted out, cant remember how.

I cant find a decent site that shows the build, but for any one interested, it worth a google. Ben has a website, but there is not much detail there. There are also various vids on youtube.

For any one vaguely interested, this project is well worth look up.
With no firm science, sleep standards are slipping
>Closing unused applications.

That's not a solution, that's a workaround. I'm sitting here with a 4GB RAM machine running Arch Linux with XMonad. I usually run the following applications in day to day usage:

- Firefox Nightly with 50-100 tabs (largest memory hog,
the rest doesn't even come close)
- Thunderbird
- Pidgin
- XChat
- smplayer, which I usually keep open
- deluge
- mpd + ncmpcpp
- half to one dozen of terminator instances with zsh,
most running some text mode applications like vim,
htop or the aforementioned ncmpcpp

I reboot my PC once in a blue moon, usually after kernel updates. otherwise it's running 24/7. Right now, I sit at ~35% memory (and that should include memory used for disk caching), a bit less than half of which is Firefox with ~16% (65 tabs). I usually never go over 50% unless compiling heavy stuff (like QT level heavy). I don't really know what the fuck OS X does to eat all that RAM, but it apparently does something wrong.
There are lots of good examples here:

http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/shipping-con...

Like anything else, to do it well takes a good amount of effort.
I remember the very first UFC. Maybe it was pre-UFC, I can't be sure, but I remember that it was very, very early in the MMA days. There were fighters entering the ring citing their discipline as "Shaolin Tiger Kung-fu" and the like.

One-by-one, we watched the fights devolve in to a standing clinch, with many athletes sporting a confused look, glancing at the referee as if to ask "aren't you going to separate us?" The fact was that many of these fighters, althogh well respected in their individual arts, had absolutely no idea how to "fight".

We even saw a few self-defense specialists enter the ring. One guy had formed some self-defense art with "bear" in the name. I can't remember the specifics. He was refreshing. During the pre-fight interview, he was confident, but humble. His comments could be summarized as, "I feel pretty confident that what I've developed works, but we're about to find out for real."

It was a unique time with a lot of the layers of delusion being stripped away with the swipe a leg and a thud on the mat. Sometimes I wish we could turn the clock back, just to watch it all over again.
Show HN - Paymo server status & live activity map
Shipping containers are suggested because they tend to offer a great base for construction on the cheap. They're solid structurally (since they need to be stacked, full 4/5 high) and they're very portable for getting to a site fully built. I don't think anyone is suggesting living in a raw container. They're just a great starting point.

There's a lot of creative ways to turn these into a home.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Shipping+Container+Houses...

As to calling the result
Wrangling complexity: the service-oriented company
I'm skeptical about your little script (though I too have a lot of heavy apps open all the time and almost never reboot, and certainly have never, ever had any memory-related problems whatsoever).

My MBP has 8 GBs of RAM, and this is what Activity Monitor tells me:

Free: 2.19 GB
Wired: 1.01 GB
Active: 3.70 GB
Inactive: 1.08 GB
Used: 5.80 GB

but, you scripts gives me:

2598.480 MB

Why is that? Isn't Active kinda analogous to -o rss?
The announcement notes "The book can be purchased on Amazon."

Amazon notes "Only 17 left in stock--order soon (more on the way)." Such "free" courses will have a very interesting impact on book sales.

ETA: Now 15.
I wouldn't say the Linux support was horrible. It's a bit of a pain to get it installed to begin with, but that seemed an issue with how locked down macs are...

Once I had Ubuntu running, everything worked out of the box. The main issue was terrible trackpad support -- not that it didn't function, but that it didn't feel even close to right. And a few more complex gestures, like tapping with one finger and then dragging with a second, didn't work.
I believe it, but at a certain point you are just using the containers as a metal frame with sheet metal sides that you are cutting a lot of holes in, and at some point it would make more sense to just build a metal framed building in the first place.
Apple now at $500/share, $466B market cap
You are missing the point. The idea is not to determine exactly what's going on, because that doesn't matter. You mentioned the casual user before, but all these details are only important to specialists trying to debug an issue with a specific application.

When you run out of RAM, it is completely irrelevant which application is thrashing, because the problem is that you run out of RAM. It doesn't matter if the reason is that an app is accessing a memory mapped file or modifying a copy-on-write page, when underlying reason is that you ran out of RAM.

Activity Monitor is perfectly suitable to find out why you ran out of RAM. Oh, Mathematica is using 2GB of RAM? Maybe I try closing that. It doesn't matter if "Real Mem" actually counts some memory twice, it is still a useful measure.

EDIT: Yes, I assumed that the problem is memory pressure. Since this is a common reason for "The whole system becomes sluggish", it seemed reasonable to start testing for this.
As soon as edition #1 is live, I'll be publishing the archive.

Thanks!
Let's do the math on that. 60 hours is twelve hours a day, plus three more with your daughter. Add a couple of hours for showering and dressing, food prep, and general housework. That's seventeen hours a day, leaving seven for sleep plus zero for exercise, recreation, social life, career development, etc. Oh yeah, and interaction with your wife too. Maybe that's working out for you, but I know where it would lead for most people: physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion in only a few months. Even if that three hours a day with your daughter is merely being in the same place but doing other things, the weekends - which you claim you spend with her as well - wouldn't be enough to recharge.

Of course, that's the optimistic case where you have a spouse who does many of those things you apparently don't even think about, and who is willing to accept your devotion to company above family. In reality, that's not likely to last long and you'd be single in short order. Some would say that proves the point about startup/family incompatibility right there, but let's say you overcome the strong anti-male bias in our family-law system and become the custodial parent so you still have a family (sans wife). Now you'll need to spend even more time on food prep and housework, plus other tasks related to school or general care and feeding of a child. Also, many of those tasks will need to be done at particular times, not at leisure. Even if you slept a mere four hours a night, you'd be hard pressed to spend three hours a day of real time with your daughter.

In short, then, I just don't think your example proves your point very well at all. Maybe you're superman, the one in a million who could sustain such a schedule. That still says nothing about whether others can.
The problem is, even with how little I use the mouse (I use Vimperator back then) it's still annoying when I have to.
> Think about these massive Middle-Ages cathedrals done before we had Newton's Laws and modern notions of engineering. How did the architects do it? Well, they were hackers with a large budget. The architect usually had never built anything on this scale before and had no idea how their much-smaller-scale building experience would scale up. In particular, the fact that arches create sideways stresses which tend to bulge a large, open building outwards wasn't necessarily well-known by many of these architects.

That's a fascinating thought. I'd like to read more about this "hacking" aspect -- can you point me to any references / citations?
Red flags to avoid when talking about competitors
I switched to using DDG exclusively when I got fed up with the poor privacy practices Google was continually enacting. I haven't missed google at all since I switched. DDG provides great results, has lots of cool goodies and best of all doesn't track you at all.
I've used Rails for almost 5 years. I've implemented Stripe, KISSmetrics, and Bootstrap each on at least two different projects.

Even with my experience, I'd estimate that using a pre-packaged app like this would save me at least 3 hours of (relatively mundane) work. It's worth every penny.

I could easily see this taking a day or two for someone with less experience.
Ben-law.co.uk

this was such a wildly popular (for channel 4) programme that they did a follow up. He had built an extension for his new family (single originally, and let's face it the project was a form of therapy) and was / is now making a small income teaching others how to do it.

My concern, and only real defence of the construction industry, is there probably are not enough hillsides and trees to go round. But as one living opposite a building site, yes, the construction industry can stand to learn one or two sustainability lessons
Really? And here I was just reading a paper from the '60s.

Being less snarky: It matters very much _what_ you learn. If you spend time being buzzword compliant (and to some extent, you have to), yes, that'll expire soon-ish. If you learn the underlying principles, it'll stay with you for a long time. (I'd say probably your entire career unless you're living on the cutting edge of research)
Will the Real IT Security Researcher Please Stand Up?
What would that do to latency?
So it costs 2x more [than a 320], performs the same, but gets you up to an order of magnitude more endurance.

The question then is: when are you planning on replacing it. If you are going to replace it within the lifespan of a 320 (maybe for more capacity, or because new generations will be faster), you are better off sticking with a 320.
This makes sense. The models in rails do all the heavy lifting. Unfortunately all too often the developers aren't aware of the abuse they are putting the DB through.

Personally I use Django. When it comes time for me to perform a query that might require multiple inner joins, a group by, and aggregates I will often write the query by hand. This allows me to figure out the requirements of the query. From there I figure out how to accomplish that with the ORM.

I think more people should take this approach. It would help people understand what it is they are doing with the database.

EDIT: That being said, having an ORM do exactly what you want can be like pulling teeth sometimes. I must say, I'm not fully sold on the ORM.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview to debut new Windows logo? (rumor)
Given historical trends, the stock will probably take a dip when the iPad 3 fails to meet unsubstantiated expectations.
If I remember correctly, you can put the repeater on orbit around L2 and have it visible from Earth(it would look like it's circling the Moon). Latency may prove a bitch.

But first problems first - shouldn't we put a couple rovers on the near side of the Moon first to develop the technology before we think about (and spend money on) putting them on the other side and invent a couple other problems we really don't have yet (and may never actually have)? Just imagine rovers get brainy enough to be completely autonomous (something I classify as highly likely) - why would we need to have a couple humans on L2 to remote control them?

"Because it's cool" doesn't cut it.
"Of course, being a software dev, I ended up using the last alternative [compiling things manually] a lot."

Yeah, whatever.
> Gladwell's story is completely made up though

That seems to be a tautology these days ;)
> I probably will not be as organized

Fear not, as your reply is perfectly organized to me :-)

It is all the more interesting because it goes to the point I willfully chose not to make in my previous comments, namely that Mac OS X (in its current form at least) is unfit for most server roles. I think that there is a use case for SOHO and that even then it needs improvements to seriously tackle that area.

For developers and hackers by large it's more than adequate though.

> in response to OS running better on PC hardware than Linux

The exact phrasing would rather be "running better on my PC hardware" :-) as it's of course purely anecdotal evidence.

> I am hard pressed to buy that without more detail of your exact issues.

I started writing something, but it's really growing out of scope, so I will probably end up writing a full-blown post about it (which includes details about window managers)

PS: Awesome rocks and is one of my WM of choice, together with xmonad.
Fortran ignoramus here... is this true?: "...Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement..." How the heck did anyone loop until a condition was met?
Finally, and article that is not pure "Apple punditry and curmundgeontry"... Upvote!
How to make page numbering start on a certain page in OpenOffice.org
For houses featured in Dwell, shipping containers are merely a fetish incorporated into million dollar+ dwellings.

Shipping containers are uninsulated and have stressed skin construction - they require a lot of work to be used as a thermal envelop, or when incorporating fenestration (not to mention blowing out a whole side.

With the economic downturn, the glut of shipping containers is long gone and prices for used containers have risen significantly over the past several years.

A lot of those buildings which are featured in glossy architectural rags are actually built with custom modules, not actual containers because the dimensions of a standard shipping container are suitable for...well, shipping, not human habitation - 7'-10" inside height before interior ceiling and wall finishes are added (and that's if your insulation is exterior).
> I'm constantly turning mine off to cool down

use http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23049/smcfancontrol - when the thing gets hot, just increase the fan speed (to 5700 rpm or whatever you machine's max is) for a minute or two, and then everything gets back to normal.
St. Petersburg

The site is in Russian, but you can use Google translate

http://zonaspace.ru

Translated name of our project is 'Action Zone'
People also confuse "smart" with ability to memorise. I've had this when I read some history book and the topic comes up and you suddenly have loads of information on an obscure topic. People will say how smart you are. But IMO this has nothing to do with smart. My definition of smart is more a brains ability to ad insight to facts with thought, not just recall them by rote.
So you must swap distributions, or try recompiling the kernel.
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Dell Precision M6600 vs M6400 Hardware (Overview & Disassembly)
Labor doesn't have a dollar value unless you are paying or being paid for the work.
If your interested in cheap housing. Yurts are worth a look. They are used by half the population of Mongolia, and can be very warm. They make a great cabin retreat, but they are not quite as nice a normal american home without the added expense and convenience of plumbing, electrical, etc...

However, in there base form, they cost around $5000. See the link below for pricing:

http://www.yurts.com/products/default.aspx

(I am not affiliated with anyone selling any yurts, I just happen to like them).
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Hi am a Android developer of 4 years and I have been doing consulting for 6 years. My portfolio is on appmunki.com if anyone needs a mobile or web program i was trying to find a way to learn about start-ups anyway.
Digg Digg Gets A Facelift - The Buffer Boys Are On Board
I've used Play! with haml-js, rendering haml templates on client-side.
Wouldn't it be cheaper and better to develop the robots to be autonomous?
You may also like the book "Treasure Islands" interesting - it's about offshore finance.

http://treasureislands.org/

I'm reading it at the moment and, to be honest, I'm finding it utterly fascinating but also a bit depressing. If even half of what that book says is true then I really was very naive about how utterly corrupt the world is at a large scale.
Why I don't use DuckDuckGo:

Worse results than Google (and even Bing) for most of my everyday searching.

"But we're not Google!" is not a real selling point.
I agree. As some-one who has just finished with a large-ish project using bootstrap, I can say that one of the worst parts of it is its js api.
I have experienced OSX's "swappiness", having gone as far as disabling dynamic paging in an attempt to avoid it. Upgrading memory was the only real solution. A little bit of research would reveal a lot of other people have run into the same problem, you aren't alone at all in that.

I split my time between OSX/Linux and it's pretty obvious to me that Linux is vastly superior in terms of performance, in a wide-range of scenarios. I prefer to use Linux on older and/or memory-constrained systems.
If I were in the OP's position, I would just run my preferred Linux dev environment inside a VM.
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