skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the data storage seems similar to Rich Hickey's Datomic: "data is versioned, and each version is automatically timestamped with its commit time; old versions of data are subject to conﬁgurable garbage-collection policies; and applications can read data at old timestamps."
I tried red hat in 2002. The experience was very uncomfortable and I quickly went back to windows. I tried linux again in 2008 and everything was great and i moved onto it immediately. Also installed it for my mom...

What happened? Debian apt-get and Ubuntu.
So did the people that Team America superficially appeared to make fun of refrain from violence because they picked up on the subtly of the movie?

I think that gives those people too little credit. I think they would have refrained from physical violence even if such subtly was absent.
Don't get me wrong, HN is my go-to source for interesting stuff to read. But it turns out the best ones link to "mainstream news sites".
In case anyone is interested in reading other accounts and the HN discussions that accompany them, here are a few previous submissions of other articles:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213056 <- Some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419166 <- Some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=573912

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=896092 <- Some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599635

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332793 <- Some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115168 <- Some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3259199
Tell it to the pharmaceutical companies. Patent protection is what, essentially, allows this industry to exist.
Just because it doesn't deal with directly showing content doesn't mean it has nothing to do with content.

Let's say Google used predictive algorithms based on what you've clicked/hovered on/looked at on the search page to generate your next query. That doesn't deal with loading and displaying content, but it is directly related to DECIDING which content is going to be shown. And if content is king, that's the most important thing of all.
My conclusions are unchanged. Some replies to confirm my position on the matter:

1. People are the weak point. Yes. Anticipating their actions and protecting against them is the task at hand. This is not security theatre - it's simply sensible considering human nature. People will not get at our production database if they try (we get regular attempts but our properly designed tiered security architecture and mandatory access control system prevent it every time and will as we adapt and re-evaluate regularly).

2. Losing laptops. Not a problem. We've lost a couple. We plan for that. They are fully encrypted TPM equipped laptops and there is no data on them anyway as our methods from (1) are applied. If someone got one, cracked the encryption or decapped the TPM chip and got in, they'd get nothing of value. We actually paid a rather well known ex-black hat a lot of money to steal one from one of our staff and try and get in and they couldn't.

3. I'm a professional programmer (red brick MEng, EE for 6 years embedded and VLSI, 15 years programming and architecure). So are my colleagues. We don't employ run of the mill guys. We start at the high end and have qualification requirements that would scare the shit out of a Google candidate. We don't employ the sort of people who can't tell arse from elbow. We know they exist but the agents don't dare send us their CVs. We're not interested in rock stars or ninjas or any of that crap - just people who know what they are doing.

4. I've worked for asshats too. In the corporate world, these aren't actually that common these days. I deal with a lot of large corporate financial customers for our product (FTSE100 types) and they know what they are doing.

5. I worked for the NHS for 3 years. No-one in the NHS needs to know what or who the hell Github or Hanselman or Gu are. It has precisely no bearing on the NHS. Does celebrity tech culture really matter there? No. That just undermines your entire argument.

6. As for quackery: it's easy to separate wheat from chaff, unless you are chaff.

There are very few people on HN who live in the "real world" i.e. outside startup culture. There is a consensus of opinion, but it's not all right. In fact a lot of it is plain wrong and driven purely by irrational worship rather than realistic well-thought-out and tested arguments (37signals, Elon Musk, JGC, Atwood, Spolsky to name a few)

As for the froodyness of FF or Chrome, froodyness is IE and Group Policy for the foreseeable future (not Chrome's piss poor implementation and unpredictable support lifecycle).

The fact you mention n00b implies that you still suffer from a childish mentality as well, therefore backing up my points again.

As for the time here - I've lurked in HN through many fads, phases etc for about 4 years. I decided recently to exercise my opinion a bit as there are some seriously bad ideas being promoted and I do not want the next generation of people to be terribly influenced by them.
Ask HN: What are some good free CRM tools?
I'm just ramping up my sales for our digital magazine and I'm looking for ways to keep track of potential and actual customers, who I've contacted and then (hopefully), track invoices and sales. Any good free tools out there I should be aware of? Right now I used Xobni for email and an Excel spreadsheet to track names and potential customers.
Likewise. Sorry too and I am now, so sorry for the current argument :)

(this is not personal and never is).
That's kind of my question. Is there a logically consistent concept of an infinite ring where the "first" room is moved into by the "last" occupant, therefore making the problem dependent on the configuration of the rooms? Or is such a thing inherently finite?
This might be relevant as a counter-point:

http://world.time.com/2011/08/15/how-a-late-bollywood-icon-s...
The Android jni documentation shows how to call C++ and is the only doc I have glanced through. If you stick to passing ints,doubles and strings through it it is really easy. For iOS is way simpler, since your wrapper is just a file that ends with ".mm". Google it. If there is enough interest I can create a small article describing the process and post a starter project on github.
You certainly can't have infinite hotels in physics, but it would be incorrect to assert that we have any good reason to believe that infinite quantities can't exist in nature. For instance, the model of the universe most widely accepted by cosmologists today implies an infinite universe, assuming that our measurements of the curvature of space are correct. And these cosmologists don't believe that these infinities are just a mathematical artifact. Rather, they believe that the universe is likely to be infinitely large, in actuality.
They just need to stop trying to push the limits of mobile devices and aim for a middle ground, not everyone has a top of the line smart phone and these sorts of issues are to be expected. I see plenty of opportunity in creating lightweight browser based web apps using an all javascript solution (node js backend, backbone or something front-end) and keeping things lighweight
SalesForce is probably by far one of the best ones out there. Of course it's not free, but the pricing starts as low as $5/month that should still help serve your needs.
For the majority of the world it's actually: If you won't use the tools which were prescribed in your contract, there are plenty of people who are willing to replace you.
It's a scanned copy with notes on it. Looks like the leak was not of a cyber variety.
they should abandon this concept altogether of pushing this burden onto the client-side (smartphone), they should be able to move any tracking logic server-side to get what they need from a mobile device, really I don't think companies should ever offload this burden onto a client-device, what are they tracking client-side (mousovers? keystrokes?) isn't this a bit invasive to the user?
And we've not killed it yet.

I used to rather like X back in the early 90's but I think we've moved on a bit since. The introduction of hardware accelerated graphics and the decline of the old "network application" model have pretty much killed the model it was built on.

I'd like to see things such as Wayland succeed in the future.
I spend probably $350 a month commuting in the SF Bay Area on public transit, its ridiculous but its my only option since traffic is bad and parking expensive enough to make public transit the better option by far
Falling oil prices made the giant on feet of clay fall. But how it got feet of clay in the first place?

First, it failed to be self-sufficient. USSR failed to make an independent economic ecosystem, it had to export oil and import numerous things it could not make inside (nor buy from other "communist" countries).

But second, communism failed to deliver the quality of life that first world boasted. Quality of life which of course included rock music, movies with violence and sex, and freedom of expression, but also good clothing, abundant tasty food and friendly service sector.

(I think that importance of Beatles is greatly exaggerated in the article, but I was born in 85 so I'm no expert on the exacts)
I myself feel the same way, that the pop-up is quite unnecessary. I actually learn it from Instagram app because i don't want unregistered people can post questions and answers because it will be quite spammy. I'm working on the solution that people can still browse the questions . The pop-up will only appear when they post questions or answers.
The one thing every faction in government agrees on is that there needs to be public/private threat sharing. Also, that's just not how the "budget" works.
"because private schools don't have to"

Exactly.

I always find it interesting (and this isn't a critique of the parent) just an observation that when people use an example such as "In <insert country> <insert thing> costs <insert percentage> less than in the US therefore...". This is always tossed around with healthcare for example.) Things are never equal and can't be. It's like comparing heating costs in San Francisco vs. Montana w/o considering the temperature. Details matter and rarely in a casual observation of the on the surface facts can you account for why something might be possible in one circumstance but not another.

Private school teachers, at least in one case that I am familiar with, got paid less than the public school teachers in the same district. They were of a younger age group and were only doing it for a short period of time before moving on to bigger things. Also the fact that they had much smaller classes and a different student population made the job less stressful. And a host of other factors that would be difficult if not impossible to scale to a public environment.
The method I described gives nonzero probability to every positive integer. The method you describe a) will never terminate and thus b) gives zero probability to every positive integer (since there's no stopping condition, even if you ever get to a particular integer you're always going to generate another digit and move on past it).

The essential issue is that probabilities have to sum to 1, but you can't just give the same probability to an infinite number of things because there's no number for which p*infinity = 1. So the only way to get an infinite sum to equal 1 is if the probabilities are unequal, and in particular the probabilities have to go to zero in the limit (e.g. 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1).
That's exactly like BigTable[1]. It makes sense that they built on top of that.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
"Leaked"? It's been shown verbatim to reporters.
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"Infinity" may not be a number, but omega is a number, and it is transfinite. Omega is the first transfinite ordinal.

You are certainly correct, however, that Cantor's hotel does not need to have any rooms with transfinite room numbers.
"Yeah, I think it’s very dangerous territory. In the case of EA and Zynga, those games are deceivingly similar. It looks like they’re trying to almost trick the customer into thinking it’s the same game. That’s when I think you should be able to stop people. I don’t want them to be able to trick people into thinking it’s the same game. If it’s the same idea, fine, but if you’re trying to move into the concept space of what Minecraft is, for example… It’s hard to express the exact difference. But trademarks fine, patents bad. That’s kind of the short summary."

I don't see anything dangerous because it works pretty much exactly how he hopes it does. Games are one area where the patent system actually works well. You can more or less clone a game legally. You cannot, however, copy their trade dress, in much the same way you can make ketchup that tastes like Heinz but can't call it Shmeinz and package it similarly.

My company (YC S07) did exactly this. We saw a game (Ogame) that had great mechanics, but poor art and execution on many levels. We made it social and built what might have been the first hardcore Facebook game (Starfleet Commander). We took a game that appealed mainly to Germans and tweaked it to appeal to Americans and other cultures where aesthetics and ease of use are valued as much as raw functionality. Everyone benefited, even the original game which probably got more new customers from people who found out about it through our game than they lost to us. Even though ours rapidly eclipsed theirs, I suspect they made more as a result.
Exception that proves the rule is google search. nobody wants to trade performance so they can be analyzed and ad-tracked "more better" for basic info...Example: 9x [!] do not track blocks @ http://www.independent.co.uk/
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Isn't non-uniformity critical? Without it, there's no reason to go anywhere.
If that were to happen, then it's great as all the business customers win.

But I think you are underestimating how much effort it is to build something which businesses want and for them, ROC is more important then what a particular software/service costs. A business will happily pay a million dollar for an extremely simple software if that software can either save them 2 million dollar OR increase their revenue by 2 million dollars.
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Force the private schools to have to deal with those students, and chances are those costs will increase.

It would also prevent private schools from specializing, which is hardly a good thing.

A better way would simply be to pay a different price for different children - i.e., $7k for a normal child, $13k for juvenile delinquents, $16k for retards, etc. Different schools (both public and private) could specialize and cater to different varieties of children.

One size fits all is generally a dumb idea.
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I would too, but in terms of immediate impact Tesla will have a greater social and economic significance for the planet than the Mars mission, and the company is really only getting started. I would hate to see Musk get bored with it and move on to a new toy while Tesla fails for lack of leadership.
I'm pretty sure power scales quadratically not exponentially with voltage, right?
It's very much a case of "it depends".

Firstly, the whole point of the hotel story is to talk about addition of cardinals. You are moving off topic and to some extent "bike-shedding" - discussing something other than the real point.

In particular, if there are infinitely many rooms then you must be able to create an embedding of the counting numbers into it. Regardless of whether or not that accounts for all the rooms, you then have an infinite chain, one without a concept of a "last room".

It is possible to have infinitely many cycles, and in those cycles the "last room" is followed by the first room, but there are infinitely many of these cycles, so we can order them in a different way, and we get back again the infinite chain with no "last room".

And this matters. We say that two sets are the same size if we can create a matching between them, and we say they are of different sizes of there is no matching. Be careful. Just because your first attempt at a matching doesn't work, that doesn't mean there isn't one. So in this case of the infinite number of rooms, just because one arrangement seems not to work, that doesn't mean that no arrangement will work.

And indeed, the very definition of the number of rooms being infinite means there is a way to arrange the movements of the existing guests to ensure that there are no "last room" problems.
>DC over 1500 V isn't really possible/efficient

High-voltage DC uses voltages in the hundreds of kV. It is also the most efficient way of sending serious amounts of power over long distances (even before superconductors). Just as required cable thickness decreases with AC voltage, it has to increase with current. HVDC gives allows for smaller cabling.
That way you put yourself in a bubble, I found reddit to be much more interesting when I installed RES http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ and used the filter to hide all the crappy or uninteresting subreddits and browse r/all. Some new, small communities are absolutely spectacular, see http://www.reddit.com/r/standupshots for example.
No it cannot. What you are linking is a video of using multiple shipping-container generators to form a single power plant. If you explore a bit you will see the brochure(0) for those container based diesel generators and it shows that each one of them produces from .6 to 1.7 MW depending on engine choice.

So you will need around 12-30 of those depending on engine choice(1). You will also need fuel tanks, pipes, fire suppression equipment, electrical equipment access roads etc. Also you will need to space everything apart for fire safety, to prevent overheating and to prevent those diesels from breathing in each other's exhaust.

So by the time you are done I would not be surprised if you require about as much space as the solar plant. And of course you will have a bunch diesel exhaust and a lot of noise, so even if you do get a smaller footprint, the land you save will be of very limited use.

Solar plants have much better footprint than it seems, because they do not really impact the land around them. Most other types of power plants will have very significant impact on the land around them and therefore they effectively take up much more space than it seems.

(0)- http://pdf.directindustry.com/pdf/hyundai-heavy-industries-d...

(1) I know the video shows around five of them only, it seems the video has been cut off in the middle.
Yeah, achieving many of the scrolling effects they want often requires sites to do scrolling entirely "by hand", which degrades the quality of scrolling.
Perhaps more acutely, the web browser and increased network performance killed it. When you think of the X11 model of separating server side processing with GUI, that's more or less what web applications do nowadays. Nowadays there's very little advantage (if any) to using X11.
This. So much this

And see this, XCB has been around at least since 2006 (when I first heard about it)

The X model was good, but now it's a hinderance. A really big one.

Give the developers a smart framebuffer (I'm not sure linux fb has any hw acceleration features, but IIRC it doesn't) or just give a "Pure" OpenGL API to the developers. And build from that

Oh and by the way, try OSX, it's weird at first but I haven't looked back.
I don't always code Python, but when I do I don't complain much about these issues :-).

I think everything you've mentioned is pretty defensible, particularly the readability bit. Honestly if a language does everything reasonably well, I think that's pretty awesome. I'm also curious what magical dynamically-typed interpreted language you prefer. The only mainstream general-purpose alternatives I can think of are Ruby (which is basically alternate-universe python) and Perl (which seems strictly worse), or are you into JavaScript or APL-derivatives? It's all a matter of taste of course, but I could probably write a much more vicious rant against any of those.
How can you make the jump from

1. copyright infringment, mainly a civil offense, that addresses speculatve monetary losses to

2. conspiracy to commit murder, a criminal offense with a history hundreds of years older than the notion of "copyright", that is aimed at preserving a human life?

How do you do that? That is an enormous leap. Is it some sort of mental gymnastics?

Is a human life more important than your "copyrighted work"?
Really bizarre thinking, or maybe it's just me.
I'm very interested in energy generation and distribution.

In 2010 I visited South Africa and went to Jozi Power, a company that delivers modular mobile power on demand using shipping containers to various sites across Africa. I wrote about it here: http://joubert.posterous.com/modular-mobile-power
There are so many laws, I don't know how you could possibly say in an informed manner that you agree with most of them.

Making ethical decisions is easy for the majority of us, but our knowledge of the law is universally poor. I don't see why we should factor the law into discussions of ethics; it doesn't do anything to simplify the discussion.
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Under which distro did your GRUB break?

Anyway, Ubuntu has become the norm in my parents household. Yes, a new laptop or computer will come with Windows pre-installed, but what happens when you need to reinstall windows? This happens more than one may think. You have to worry about installing those darn drivers off the DVD that laptop came with (sometimes, it won't even come with a Windows DVD).

For my Mother this is not going to go over too well. In fact this happened and she spent an afternoon trying to install her new system. Enter Ubuntu -> Stuck in the USB key, filled in user info, clicked on what timezone to use and everything else was smooth as butter. No driver install disks. Everything just worked.

Sure, mileage may vary among the newest and greatest hardware. I'll grant that. However, those same new systems come with driver CD's coupled with a lot of useless software that just so happens to be checked for install by default.
I stopped following the TV news years ago and almost never browse news websites. I use my social feeds (Twitter, HN, Facebook) and the Reddit frontpage as a high-pass filter for what news events I might care about digging more into. This cuts out almost all "X is bad for you!" scaremongering and celebrity nonsense (which I have almost a separate filter for mentally). When something like the recent anti-Islam movie fiasco happens I hear about it and dig in more. It's very freeing not to have to hear distorted stories about how everything's going to hell.

Right now the local mayoral election has made me pay more attention to the local news and I almost always regret that additional noise, even though the local organization I use (The Voice of San Diego) is about as good at journalism as I've seen.
I don't think mere MVC(in the general sense) implementation will do the trick. The problem with Native App Development is threefold:
1. Is not Cross-Platform: Web Developers are comfortable with their code running everywhere without even thinking about it.
2. Has limited access to hardware libraries: Same as above, the developers doesn't need to worry about the hardware.
3. Uses statically Typed Languages: Web Developers who would rather code in PHP, PYTHON, ROR, JS are forced into the intricate worlds of Objective C, Java & C/C++.

The problems with HTML5 are more real. The necessary tools are just not there.
Do you use it? What do you use it most for if you do?
Consider the possibility that US unions and European unions may be different.
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