skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it can discourage someone, especially if it adds up. My point is that it doesn't really help anyone. You're not doing anyone any favors letting them know a couple months ahead of time their chances are slim. They'll find out themselves if they're the 1% or 99%.
A part of our core app at work pulls in data from a remote source and the other day the remote server was giving a 502. When I came to test it, everything was fine again but I fixed the problem and wanted to see how it reacted again to a 502. I thought it'd be nice to have something where I could specify a status code and get that code back.
How many people made money off defensive HN comments?
Laws are often inconsistent. For example, there exist laws which, if read literally, would state that having consentual sex with 13-year old would be punished more severely than raping said 13-year old.

There is another angle: old laws are more balanced - for worse crime there's more punishment. People could compare crimes back then.

Newer laws are hysterical: the crime severity does not readily correlates with punishment severity. This is because of lobbying by various forces and because people DEMAND BLOOD on some issues which were brought [by same or other groups] in order to distract them from other issues.
This is pretty much the conclusion and central tenet of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, and in it you can see the genesis of his next book, Republic, Lost, exploring the corrupting power of money in politics.

Free Culture is itself freely available online, highly recommended reading: http://manybooks.net/titles/lessiglother04free_culture.html
Want to work in a Google Ventures' portfolio company?
They provided it in an open format, it's not their fault if Safari doesn't support it.
I would have hoped that we would have a gene therapy to treat diabetes at this point in time. But alas, the medical industry has stagnated under the weight of bureaucracy and an overall decline of investment as investors demand the same kinds of ROIs as those seen in the dot-com sector.
As an entrepreneur (and engineer) who has built two healthcare companies, I believe we'll get to a point where the speed at which innovation moves in other sectors will start to take foot in healthcare. But like everything in the space, it takes time. Sometimes too much time.
While gorilla enjoying victory, if you press enter you will have three gorillas on next round. Tested with Chrome.

BTW it took me to my childhood.
I think the dichotomy here between PCs and Macs is harmful to the discussion. I don't think of Apple as a bad guy here any more than Microsoft, whose UEFI secure boot is just as hack-unfriendly. The point remains that there is value in being able to fix your own devices.
Philosophers, for the most part, don't answer questions, they ask them. Or so the cliché goes. More correctly, they propose theoretical approaches to certain questions. Modern science, for instance, may very well never have existed if it weren't for questions posed and theories established by Aristotle. During the Middle-Ages, the writings of Aristotle were taken as unquestionable truths, and so all modern Western thought, and by extension all scientific thought, is in some way rooted in reactions to Aristotle. Francis Bacon later formulated and popularized the idea of the society informed by a state-sponsored scientific institution. Bacon was read widely and directly inspired the founders of the Royal Society and equivalent scientific authorities in other countries as well as the European university system. Without their contributions, humanity very well may never had developed so explosively as it has the past 200 years.
Does anybody know if this prevents companies selling virtual items to players, or just players selling virtual items to each other?
It appears to work with iOS and low power bluetooth 4.0.
Well, being able to send incremental backups of ZFS tanks between systems is IMHO one of the best features of the system.
Also, snapshots are very handy.
Beauty And The Feast
This is a great idea ... Thanks for sharing your test rig. Obviously this can't really be ad supported so maybe a network of us could donate bandwidth if it becomes an issue.
Five nines of availability
Looks like google charts/visualization.

https://github.com/kumarnitin/RedisLive/blob/master/src/www/...
This is a very well articulated representation of the frustration I feel as a technically minded T1 diabetic. Thank you.
I dream of the day when both my meter and insulin pen transmit data in an open format over bluetooth. It is clear that any steps that can make the monitoring and analysis of diabetic care more transparent to users will genuinely save lives.

For anyone who is disinclined to get a pump, I highly recommend the Bayer Contour USB. I've had it for a week and it is _leagues_ better than anything else I've used. I was so thrilled when I discovered that with it I could simply access my readings as an SQLite DB rather than the hell of trying to communicate with and parse the data from anything from Lifescan over a bloody 3.5mm serial port.
The app will support multiple devices when we ship.
Absolutely disingenuous and/or dickish to call the preference for maintainability/extensibility/hackability/repairability “Luddite.” Not to mention, throwaway culture is short-term anti-environment thinking.
There was a period in 1920s during which alcohol was banned in US. It was based on morality of the time. This shows that authorities can decide to ban something based on morality of the time irrespective of how deep the association of the subject/object is with our culture.

In game economy is nascent but becoming more complex every day. It required Valve to hire an economist. It may have been a novelty. But for how long?

> Games cannot really go "underground" though.

I meant the economy will go underground to meet the demand of in game favors.
It would probably be a good business decision. Their costs for offering a Linux version would be very low if they choose their hardware well. The cost would be just testing and sending an additional image to a manufacturer.

They would get instant recognition and instant free press. Marketing is one of the highest costs for companies like these. For example, I am willing to bet that the article we are discussing now cost Vizio good money (probably paid through a PR firm).

But if they offer the only premium laptop with Linux on it, they would get free coverage in all Linux media and most tech media.

So yes, there is a good business case for it. The big wild card about the business case is Microsoft. Microsoft, will probably make their lives really hard if they do offer Linux. This would probably be anti-competitive behavior with doubtful legality but would likely happen nevertheless. But other than potential Microsoft meddling, I think there is a good business case for it.
Sure, I hear what you saying but even a crappy diabetic on shots live two decades. The tech hasn't kept me alive, diet and excercise has. Saying the current state of tech must be good because I'm alive doesn't hold, I'm afraid.

I'm concerned with quality of life and convenience. As the other commenter said, if it's something you are doing 10 times a day, thousands of times a year, you want it to be convenient.

Diabetes wears on you. It's the incessant nature of it that hurts.
#1

> South Korea

I like to point out we have no idea of what it is to mix government law with video games. Because we're ages behind in term of video game culture. If you go to korea you'll see show about videogames on TV, you'll see huge events everywhere, even cellphones advertise with videogames in the street. They've reach a point where law has to deal with it.

#2

> a “serious hindrance” to a “healthy gaming culture”.

Keeping in mind that S-K do have a problem with videogames and its youth. We can ask ourselves "is the trading of items a good healthy gaming culture?" What does it mean? A healthy gaming culture should not just get gamers addicted.

If you think about it, there is no fun behind the item trading system of diablo3, it's just to get people addicted to it. A bit like the "hat" system of TeamFortress 2. It adds a dimension that we don't need and that is harming the players more than anything.

#3

I'm not saying we should ban them, like S-K did, but I think we're far from them with our addicted people.
the problem is that the legitimate GPS signal is ridiculously weak, and generally speaking, to reliably jam, you need a significantly stronger signal. (well, and compared to a solar-powered transmitter on a satellite, it's pretty hard not to have a significantly stronger signal) I'm not a RF guy myself, but I hang out with a bunch of them. Guaranteeing that your jammer only had a range of a few feet sounds... difficult.

I personally know people that have had problems with their systems that have been traced back to truckers with GPS jammers.
Freezes when you hit enter without filling out a velocity (presumably also with a value of 0).
Super Typhoon Sets Aim at Japan
I would say that what makes it a novelty is that people are making significant money off of the act itself. Take your example of hula hoops. People make money off of selling hula hoops, and there are a very few people who make money off of the exhibition of their hula-hooping prowess. But nobody is really making a business model out of hula-hooping itself. You could swap rubik's cubes and yo-yos in to the previous sentence, and it would still hold true. Hula hoops are a novelty, but selling hula hoops is not.

But there are people out there making gobs of money off of the trade of virtual items and then manipulation of virtual economies, and not by enabling it (although that is also profitable) or by doing it as a parlor trick for others' amusement, but by the same means as any other economy is exploited.

In particular, what makes this not a novelty is that the attraction that these people have to it is not that it is a video game, or that the idea is new and interesting, but that it is simply an unexploited opportunity.
BitTorrent has overhead from control traffic (have messages etc.) that can theoretically be eliminated using rateless coding. The extra decoding makes it a wash IMO.
As someone who produced a local tv newscast for five years, I largely agree, though not completely. You do need enough larger scope news for people to feel informed and educated, but it's clearly a secondary concern, you're right.

If I had my way, we would have had subdomains on our site for both geographical and categorical reading. Local tv news will always have SOME appeal, but not because we're doing our job better than national networks, but because we're local. It's amazing how many don't get that. Yes, Fox and CNN are our competitors, but if local news wants a chance, we have to fight them on our strengths. And it's the exact same with our websites and the websites of any other news outlets.

... What a revolting development.
SQLIte? That's brilliant.
Seems like you could pick up another large pool of users for almost no cost, the on-the-phone software can't be hard and new Android devices have BT4 support.
Exactly right. The Cobra Tag uses traditional Bluetooth, so it has to be recharged every couple of days; we use Bluetooth low energy and a removable battery that lasts 6+ months. They don't support iPhone and we (currently) don't support Android.
> The clear message is that we need to improve instruction > in long division and fractions

I guess it's my turn to be the guy who says `correlation does not imply causation'. It's clear that something in math education is broken, but I feel like the more important point lies in the
next sentence:

> At present, many teachers lack this understanding [of rudimentary mathematics].

I feel like this is much more important than a renewed emphasis on fractions/long division.

Full quote for context:

> "The clear message is that we need to improve instruction in long division and fractions, which will require helping teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the concepts that underlie these mathematical operations. At present, many teachers lack this understanding. Because mastery of fractions, ratios and proportions is necessary in a high percentage of contemporary occupations, we need to start making these improvements now."
A friend of mine works for a small-town paper [0]. Between his articles in the paper and on the web, his facebook page, and his twitter feed, anyone interested in local sports is going to be pretty much up-to-the-minute. As far as I know, there are no alternative sources. Conversely, if you want to reach an audience in his small town, your options are either his paper or a big sign.

I'd say the solution is going to be a hybrid approach like they've taken. An aggregated "top stories" print solution, a web presence, and mobile presence all highly targeted at the local area.

[0] http://www.idahocountyfreepress.com/
You DO have to constantly calibrate the pump though. It's not a perfect solution.

I am astounded there is not a close loop system yet.
Ok. The one part I don't like in ES is being java and the trouble that usually goes with it (yeah, judging stuff like this is bad, I know :)

For logging searching is the major item at large sites IMO (talking terabytes at least), when you're looking for all occurrences of "item x" over..

"the past week", it may take 1H

"the past month", it may take 10-30H

"the past year", uh, no, you don't do that.

So you gotta use ranges, but it's often hard to guess and you end up missing many log entries just because you don't have the time to search through them.

(obviously loading gigabytes of indexed data takes a while "physically speaking" anyway. I'm guessing ES can distribute the load tho, much like a web search engine does)
define "life span"? a laptop only "used by four-year-old" is pretty dead laptop. can it fully replace your every-day development/whatever machine?
Still I don't understand why South Africa.

Most of world's countries are in sad state, especially africa.
South Africa was unique because it was both successful and messed up at the same time. It could go either up and down. I have the feeling they went down: more messed up than successful today. I don't exactly know what happens there, tho.

The question is: why "nuke" (economically and politically) this particular country and not any other?
Freezes when you hit enter without filling out a velocity (presumably also with a value of 0).

Someone mentioned a bug when you hit enter while enjoying victory. It makes me think that perhaps a mini state machine would be apropros. Perhaps overkill here, but it’s a great, clean, explicit way to think about and control states.
I'm trying to figure out how they're similar!

Your link describes a product that sounds an alarm if the widget gets too far separated from your phone, ensuring that you don't leave it behind somewhere. This widget lasts about a week on a battery charge and requires a monitoring app to always run on your phone (thus it can't work with iOS).

The Hone only alarms on demand (it will find your keys, but won't automatically alarm when you leave your keys), does not require an always-on monitoring app, and will last about half a year on a single battery.
What about sorting algorithms? Do you think it's a waist of time to teach them just because it is a solved problem?

I don't think so, I think reinventing the wheel is a great way to learn.
"We think a lot of our Ellington product and think it’s one of the tops in our industry"

Frankly, I don't think so, and that's probably the problem.

I could be wrong but most companies management that got a baked CMS think they got the most powerful, frikking awesome, and it general it's just a soup of unmanageable legacy code.

Of course there is a lot of other problems that could spring like a bad sales teams, but if the platform awesome ido not see why it should not be striving since it has been online for so long.
That depends on why you would want to switch to Delaware. Don't do it just because the "common wisdom" in the Valley is that you're supposed to. The common wisdom is usually wrong or seriously overgeneralized to the point of meaninglessness.

What would you get out of switching to Delaware? Corporate management (i.e, the rules governing how a corporation is structured and run) would be governed by Delaware law. But most of the remainder of your business would continue to be governed by the laws of the state (CA) in which you actually conduct your business operations. There are some areas where you can contract jurisdiction to Delaware, but many of the most important areas (i.e,. employment laws) cannot be contracted to a different jurisdiction.

Basically, you need to talk to a lawyer.
I think iFixit provided a useful commentary on how the new Apple products are made. If people still buy them after knowing they're not as expandable, serviceable and recyclable as they used to be then at least they knew what they were getting.

My biggest issues were the lack of a socket for RAM and the use of glue to bond the glass and aluminum.

As a side note, I have. PowerBook Wallstreet G3, a five year-old Compaq and a nine year-old Dell that are all still functional and in good shape. The Powerbook and the Compaq both have over 100k miles of travel on them and I'm convinced the biggest factor determining longevity of a laptop is the owner.

It's true that your batteries are somewhat beyond your control and there are some models with known issues (e.g. hinge problems), but how can I only person that's never had a laptop just up and die on them. I've also have had five or six other laptops assigned to me by the companies I've worked for over the last 15 years and I've generally turned them in to be upgraded (processor and RAM limitations).
I just don't think this is true. I think the majority of people that end up looking into the pickup stuff are normal guys, who are bad at talking to girls, and who want a relationship. Most people don't want to spend the time and money necessary to have some kind of clubbing 3-nights a week lifestyle.

The reason those books recommend going out multiple times a week, isn't to have that lifestyle per say, it's because that's the only way to accumulate enough hours at practicing these social interactions to internalize it. Once most people reach that point, they stop going to clubs and spending all that money. Then they use the skills they learned through trial-and-error on strangers to date people in their social circles.
I love how they used the celebrity sister. Why didn't he explain that further in the video or something?
Facebook is giving new meaning to the word "social scientist", and has perhaps the cleanest data set in the world for doing actual science.
The likelihood of these occurring in parallel is probably higher than you would expect. Backup systems are difficult to test fully since you can only do it via a full failover. Without running 100% of your systems via the backup distribution breaker, for example, you cannot verify that it can handle the load. You can only design for it. The full system was probably tested at initial install, but obviously more power was being consumed by live systems than by the original test. Entropy doesn't leave backup systems alone either, so over time they can fail even without use, and it is a surprise to everyone when the "working" backup systems fall over.
Personally I find treemaps hard to read, and for getting an idea of what's taking up space on a disk I much prefer pie charts like [1]. My favourite for Windows is Scanner by Steffen Gerlach[2]. I haven't found a good one for Mac yet.

[1] http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/scnshot.gif
[2] http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Well, it's quite nicely done, though I'm confused as to who it's for. It's in English, suggesting it's for foreigners; also, it explains who all the parties are. That's good for me, I know nothing about Greek politics.

But anyone who needs an explanation of who the parties are might also need an explanation of how the voting system works. From the map it looks like all constituencies were won by blue or purple, with the vast majority going to the blue. But the "distribution of seats" looks like a bunch of different parties are getting seats. On the third hand, it can't possibly just be a proportional representation thing either, because (for instance) the blue party got just over 30% of the vote but appears to be getting almost half the seats.

So am I right in guessing that the parliament is selected by some combination of first-past-the-post winners in constituencies and a bunch of other seats allocated by nationwide proportional representation?
Great output, but IMHO the data source should change to be just INFO and not MONITOR: with Redis 2.4 you can't show top-commands. With 2.6 INFO has enough data about this (see INFO commandstats).

About top-keys, no way to show this without MONITOR, but it's not the most important bit of the visualization IMHO.

So very cool but a tool like this should not try to capture the stream of the commands executed by instead rely on what the system can provide as already aggregated stats.
Using Google Charts.

For storing the data i have a sqlite implementation and a redis implementation. sqlite works out of the box by default, but i prefer the redis implementation, much faster.
https://github.com/kumarnitin/RedisLive/blob/master/src/data...
Either the author does not know the meaning of the word "Luddite", or is making presumptions on what people value in technology.

Kyle Wiens was clear: Apple was experimenting with two divergent strategies - small, portable and inflexible vs larger, modifiable and upgradeable. Neither is anti-technology or anti-progress, they're just different paths.

Instead, Nick first assumes that the first option represents progress and draws his inference from there. This allows him to look down his nose at Kyle's clearly superior knowledge of Apple's product history and strategy.

Of course, this is ass-backward.

EDIT: --

Well there you go. John Gruber, who snarkily wrote off Kyles well written analysis as a whine, has linked back to Nicks categorical imperative.

I'm sorry, but that is the worst sort of circle jerk.
SSL fixed now, thanks :D
What is a 2dimensional line? Who uses it?
I think laptops are becoming like smartphones in their design. After two or three years of use and when they break, you go out and buy a new one. It is much cheaper (opportunity cost speaking) for the user to get a new faster computer and the company to sell out new model than having companies pour a significant amount of time and money to have repairable components.
Thanks antirez! yes i've been tracking the changes coming to MONITOR command with 2.6 and i'll probably update it once 2.6 releases.

Can you connect with me on twitter @nkrode
Also http://httpbin.org/. It can handle more test cases and the source code is on github.
No problem, smoyer. I take it to first person because I thought that my personal experience could be a interesting answer.

Recommendations are great once you both have some favorites books in common. Because of that, I always check the Amazon's "Other people also bough" section.
I'm speaking out of ignorance here, but why couldn't you just use a quantitized time value (to account for transmission lag) as a part of the data that's hashed? It works great to prevent replay attacks with OAuth.
As developers we often have the mistaken belief that "anyone else could do what I can do, would rather do it themselves and won't pay for anyone else to do it for them".

This comes from a mindset that because I can do something, would rather than do it myself and wouldn't pay for someone else to do it for me means that no one else would either.

Just because you can solve a problem yourself, would take the time to do so and wouldn't pay someone else to do it instead doesn't mean the rest of the world thinks like that.

For most people, they can't do what you do and/or wouldn't take the time to do it and/or would rather pay someone else to do it for them. That's the rule to which you're an exception.