skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. So if I wanted to do it, how would I do it?

a) Adopt NICs / order servers with proper chipset to support it: http://www.oreganosystems.at/?page_id=71

b) Broadcom has IEEE 1588 support in their reference designs so it wouldn't be too hard to bake into custom switches & server mobos: http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s535919
Interesting thing about that press release is in 2010 they mention uses as "service provider, data center and smart grid power control networks". Service provider & smart grid are the usual suspects as far as users of timing go. Who other than Google would need that kind of timing setup in a datacenter? Financial trading?
Not sure about Seattle, but I would bet that there would be more users of the app in SF and NY than DC which is probably why the devs chose to prioritize these cities.
Ask pg: Why MUST good startup ideas look like bad ideas initially?
You have said many times that "good startup ideas have to look like bad ideas initially."

The reason that you suggest in your essays that the idea MUST look like a bad idea is because if it didn't then other people would do it. What leads me to doubt whether this is true is the idea that it ignores innovation. Therefore, what if the reason that other people dont do it is simply because they don't know how?

For example, if a startup were able to create a piece of software that could take a block of text and produce a summary (not keywords and such, but a real summary that a human would write if asked). I would think that that seems like (and IMO is) a good idea. Here, the problem is how do I do this rather than should I do this.

A historic example rather than a theoretical one could be Googles' basic concept of page-rank. It seems like a good idea (this is not just hindsight, IIRC there are even stories about Larry Paige explaining the concept at the time and people thinking that it was genius). Just, how many people at that time thought of it? Even if people did think of it, it still is a technically difficult algorithm when you take into account the sheer amount of data that it must process. So again, the problem is not should I, but rather, how do I.

Do you see any error in my logic?
If Paul Krugman and Thomas Sowell agree then it's probably true. I'm not certain if it is still true but apparently Sweden saw great successes with removing rent control, Sowell mentions it in his intro to econ.
Maybe they felt that the data wasn't sufficiently better and that they wouldn't have enough control to make that data better over time. Maybe Bing is profited from licensing the data in a way that would accomplish what Apple wants to accomplish (like the rumored ban on turn-by-turn that caused Google to drop telenav in favor of creating their own dataset).

There are few times that I wish I could have been a fly on the wall in Cupertino. This is one time I wish I could have. The discussions and reasoning that went into this decision must have been fascinating because there is no way Apple was thinking, "Maybe they just won't notice". There were undoubtably a lot of tactical and strategic decisions that went into what we see, and being party to that would have given a lot of insight into Apple as a company.
Technocratic vs. humanities is orthogonal to military vs. civilian, so it depends entirely on what they're teaching.

In any case, these changes in military education are simply mirroring society as a whole, as peter_l_downs pointed out. Lang observed that it has consequences for the military, and for the relationship of the military to society, that are not obvious at first.
Anticipate or Prevent - what is your style?
We Are Legion - The Story of the Hacktivists - Documentary [video]
I think this is a slight update of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035748 where a lot of the obvious questions (JTAG? Over the Internet? Is it a maliious backdoor or engineering/debugging leftovers?...) have already been discussed.
In that respect, I think I'm fortunate to not have ever built up a collection of physical media in the first place. Once you start collecting, it's very hard to let go.
http://www.awlr.org/1/post/2012/09/response-to-dean-ornishs-...

Fascinating response piece highlighting many of the issues in the linked op-ed. Definitely worth reading.
Apple is an incredibly secretive company. There were no indications the iPhone and iPad were on their way, either. Apple could have a dozen more products like that behind closed doors and we'd never know (until they start planting vague, conflicting rumors 6 months before release to start the anticipation media storm).
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That same emotion drives passion that results in amazing products. I'm not sure you can separate the two.
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That is India for you!
I totally agree, but what really sets this apart is not only the quantifiable goals. The key, in my opinion, is to have a practical goal. If your goal is to learn C# and be able to write it fluently, then that is kind of quantifiable. But if you set out to learn C# to program a specific game/applikation etc. then in my opinion, you would learn much more along the way.
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Nuance: Even Sleeping Smartphones Could Soon Hear Spoken Commands
Same goes for Sweden with their totally non-corrupt investigator who just happen to get a high paying job from one of the parties days after the case.
Haskell (IMHO) won't ever be mainstream for much the same reasons Lisp never was (or will be?): it has an incredibly high learning curve (eg [1]).

Bingo. Anybody that thinks Haskell will ever escape its niche has not spent enough time working with rank & file programmers. That doesn't mean you shouldn't consider it or that it can't find a large enough niche to sustain itself but it does mean that it's unlikely to ever overcome what Carmack refers to as "externalities" for a lot of prospective users.
I found the John Campbell interview the hardest to watch. after most of his interview he hits him with "...are you a very a naughty man?"
> Apple have massively damaged their reputation through this.

No, they haven't. Stop it. It's one app, and Google Maps is still browser-accessible. Seriously, just stop.
How to be a Productive Developer
Vim within tmux/GNU Screen.
Snipmate (or Ulti-snips) are great.
Great set of plugins, try pathogen (for bundle management).
So which is it?: are you lucky enough to live in a state without sales tax, or do you pay your state's use taxes promptly when you buy stuff online?
Upvoted, if only for the "infographic" on Google vs Apple Maps. LOL!
When they did this in Australia, they had quite a lot of foreign and otherwise less-common names included. There was also things like "Share a coke with your Mate", "Share a coke with your Bro", "Share a coke with your Boss", etc.
You're misrepresenting the socialist and communist positions here. They aim to provide all education (up to university level) on a meritocratic basis. Since they're committed to providing for everybody, their idea is to get everyone to do something useful (the "from everybody according to their ability" part).

If someone can't become skilled through training and education, they should be given work that doesn't
require education (say, a janitor). Makes that person feel more useful vs just giving them unemployment checks for staying home.
> Really, there are a lot of things you might want from a queueing system that Redis doesn't easily give you. What do you do when a worker crashes, or takes too long? What do you do to a queue item which reliably crashes a worker, or causes it to hang?

Our queue items are plain id values, which trigger a set of actions from the database to the internet. If there's a database failure or the process itself crashes it is very nice to know our reserved work items will not be gone but released back to other workers to process.

> And then there's all the front-end goodness for debugging: you could easily want things like graphs for flow and queue lengths.

I have lots of graphs from the system in Graphite. Works perfectly.

> And how about master-slave replication, failover, sharding, and so on?

Sharding is easy to do, just specify an array of servers in the clients and the clients will shard.

Replication is a bit different problem. The server will write a binlog file to the disk, which is then backed up. We have beanstalkd servers waiting in another machine pointing to the same binlogs. On an error situation we just switch them on and set our routes differently.

Yeah, the biggest problem with Beanstalkd is the missing replication, but we can live without it.

> We're using Redis for our big document processing-and-indexing pipeline at Cue, and it's great software, but it's not a ready-made queueing system.

We're not doing so heavy processing, but we're relying on many third party services, which can fail randomly. The retrying system is a must and of course we cannot miss our work items so often, so the deadlines help.
SJ was certainly right about one thing: if you don't like the asymmetry of the look of the phone from the side, you are looking at it wrong.
In Australia they did this a year ago - predictably using common names with a scattering of rare names. Then they did "relationship" ones - sister, boss, mother, etc.

At one stage I saw a coke event of some sort in a mall that looked like you could line up and get a bottle custom printed with any name on it.

It was definitely successful increasing the amount of people talking about coke, even if only to lament that they'd never be able to find their name.
It's always cool to see how multifaceted everyone is! Ok mine are playing Celtic fiddle and everything foodie-related.
In France, certainly.
Maybe now that's very different from what Westerners are familiar with, but during the West's Industrial Revolution the demographic story of factory labor was also about the rural-to-urban migration of that "second generation".
Yep, that is true, but there is no crime of enabling copyright infringement for profit in either the US or New Zealand, as far as I am aware.
What is smart stay?
What is the use in reality for NFC beyond those smart ads on train stations?

Honest questions no trolling
Gource doesn't tell you a lot about history, but on larger projects with many people I could see how it could aid in coming up to speed with team dynamics. Maybe you could see that Module A gets updated by the newest hire once every 6 months, and that explains why it is a mix of many different coding styles. Or Module B has been maintained solely by Bob for the last 3 years, so if you have any questions about it he's probably the one to ask.
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It is an accurate fact.
The Nook Tablet's included micro-USB charger is 2.0A, and the Nexus 7 also includes a 2.0A charger. Both also charge (slower) on standard lower amperage micro-USB chargers.
The Gen Ys that didn't overshare will make it up the ladder. The highest ones and those seeking office will pay to have their online records expunged, hoping they can avoid blackmail. The oversharers will be ruthlessly exploited.
> I can't help but wonder if there would be more housing supply and therefore lower rents if the city was more friendly towards landlords.

Though experiment: If you were tasked to invest a sum of money in residential property, all other things being equal, would you choose to become a SF landlord over being a landlord in another city?
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Then according to famous mobile lawsuit war chart — everybody is doomed.
It's pretty straightforward. Mostly we have custom data not related to Beanstalkd to monitor, but basically there's two scenarios:

1. When doing something, increment a counter in Statsd, which will aggregate the values to Graphite. Works well for custom stuff.

2. Write a rake task to poll Beanstalkd with `stats` command, reduce the data and send it straight to Graphite.

I'm really planning to open source the queuing system we're using because it's so simple. It might need a prettier admin view and some nice way of plugging in more monitoring systems before I put it to public.
I was in a similar situation to yours, until I took MSM (review: http://www.vitaflex.com/res_msmreva.php). It's a little-known, little-researched substance (my link only contains refs to veterinary studies), but reportedly contained in raw meat and vegetables. Once I began taking 3-5g a day (powder form), I have been almost unable to put on bodyfat, and already lost a good deal of it. People say it changes carbohydrate metabolism, but I suspect it's also got to do with detoxification (bodyfat stores toxines - can't find studies for that) and the fact that it does away with candida.
I agree with your premise, but not your conclusion. Counter-example: Look at pro sports. Those guys/gals live off emotion. They train themselves to be passionate, but incredibly focused. When they mess up, they distinguish physical mistake from "mental error". The latter is lack of focus. Wrong thing at the wrong place and the wrong time... Its not lack of motivation, passion, skill, or dedication.
As Sir Humphrey Appleby says, never hold an inquiry unless you know what its outcome will be.
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I can't help but wonder if there would be more housing supply and therefore lower rents if the city was more friendly towards landlords."

I don't lose any sleep over it. San Francisco is a postage stamp of a city. It's not as if there are vast tracts of persistently unbuilt land, or apartments sitting vacant for months (indeed, there are usually bidding wars and half-hour showings of new rentals). And new construction (since it isn't covered by rent control), tends to cost more per square foot than the older stuff. All evidence suggests that rent control caps prices in the city.

You can argue that without rent control, landlords would be free to expel the fabled rent-controlled "freeloaders" who have been living in Pac Heights apartments since 1953. Okay. So rent on those units goes up to market rate, the supply of market-rate housing goes up by a few units, and an equal number of tenants are now homeless, competing for market-rate housing. Not a recipe for lower rents.

Another argument is that rent control reduces the economic incentives for landlords to build new units. That's fine, except again, new construction isn't covered by rent control laws. So it's actually in a landlord's interest to rebuild. And it happens -- right now, there are a number of projects underway all over the city.

I don't think rent control has much to do with the rents here. The city is 47 miles square, and is the second most densely populated city in the US. Meanwhile, 3/4 of the land area is plastered with low-density bungalows and low-rise apartment buildings -- and that's never going to change. San Francisco is zoned like a beachside village. It's the source of the city's charm, and the reason that it will never have the high-density housing that might actually lower rents. Rent control is probably incidental.
Climbing mountains. I like to scare myself once in a while in the mountains, so the next time I am sitting at my computer I am very happy to be in such a safe place, doing such a safe thing. When I lose focus, I go back to the mountains until all I want to do is code again.
Google is older than it feels
The only people advocating G+ are tech journalists that have a strong following and like to market their websites on it. It just doesn't have a lot of utility for the average folk who primarily want to engage with their friends and family.
How easily we are amused. How quickly we classify things as genius.
Apple's connector isn't going to automatically support any signaling they decide to add in the future either. It has to have the proper transceiver in the device as well. If they do decide to add new signaling formats, they'll end up with the issue of newer devices supporting them and older ones not supporting them, which will be rather confusing. The same problem currently exists with HDMI/DP signaling over MicroUSB, though.

The bottom line is that they could have done this just the same with a USB port. In my opinion, all they really got out of designing their own connector was: a) something they can license, control, and collect royalties on; b) a connector that's slightly easier to use (the ability to plug the cable in either way, etc.).
Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders
Math and my toy OS. A little lame for a programmer, but you do what you love, right?
So if I understand this correctly, this system uses a male connector as a power OUTput? Does that mean every charger must be intelligent enough to properly detect shorting if someone touches the lightning tip to a steel table? Is that when the lightning happens? What about the immense market for poorly made non-intelligent third party devices without proper safety circutry.. doesn't an exposed male power output open up a huge danger door?
It looks like this app is using Foursquare's geocoder.

Using Foursquare makes no sense to me. It should use Google's geocoder instead.
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Agree that it should be using Google's geocoder. Disagree that it shouldn't be advertised as integrating closely with iOS 6 Maps--this app wants to position itself as a viable replacement for Maps.app's missing transit data.
Okay, Now that's a story that makes me understand what this is about, thanks!

How about a more clear description like above on your page with some readups into macro's, and some more complicated examples that tell me as a programmer: "Yes, I dó need macro's!" and I can use them for these and these cases?

Also, don't underestimate how smart your audience is going to be by giving them just 3-line examples. I always find it more clear when there's some actual use cases on the wiki pages. How about a proper class, or a todoMVC style demo, so that people can actually imagine what kind of possibilities this would unlock?
It wouldn't surprise me if this benefits Coke by making consumers more interested, but hurts Coke by pissing off store owners. Most stores that sell soda are set up for the consumer to take the soda from the front of a long row, and then the row slides up in the display. I'd guess that some customers would create a mess trying to find their name and not bother to clean it up (if they can - many soda refrigerators can only be easily loaded from the back).

If my speculation is true, that probably gives store owners an incentive to de-emphasize the placement of the Coke so that random browsers will be less likely to create a huge mess. Obviously store owners have to sell Coca-Cola because some customers are specifically looking for it, but they don't have to give it prime real estate.
A lot more information on this can be found in the NZ Herald (Major newspaper) here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
I'm in New Zealand myself, and I really hate this. I drink Coke as a guilty pleasure, but when they bought this in I got really turned off.

I'm not going to drink Coke that's for "Callum", "Katherine" or <random name that's not mine nor my wifes>.

Major turn off. I would really like to see if this promotion actually works.
Yes, when it became clear Apple was going to continue to rely on patent warfare as a business strategy, they secured patents.
Microsoft wasted 'millions of watts of electricity' to evade power usage penalty
Yep. Grains is proven to be suboptimal, causing inflammation in the intestines and the rest of the body (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821887/). And soy acts like estrogen in one's body, not exactly what I would like - it might even be that this is the reason for less prostate cancers (prostate cancer patients are even given estrogen as treatment).

I do agree though that low-carb diets don't cut it health-wise, omitting fruit entirely just does not seem right, considering humans have always eaten them. Also, eating immense amounts of red meat seems to be related to all sorts of illnesses. I have adapted another view: If it's fresh and organic, it can't be wrong, and the occasional rice bowl or apple is cool. Junk food or processed food containing transfats or shredded soy should be restricted (like, one day per week).

UPDATE: Processed food is literally everywhere if you don't cook yourself - most restaurants use ready-made "components" to achieve speedier meal preparation. I think it's hard (or expensive) for people eating out to get a healthy meal, especially in the US.
With an Ivy League PhD in physics, I'm a big fan of science.

I have not observed a scientific approach to diet effective in promoting health.

In my albeit limited observation, I observe no correlation between knowing a lot about food, digestion, etc and fitness or healthiness. In particular, American culture appears to approach diet most scientifically, yet has probably the least healthy population. Meanwhile, many illiterate cultures appear to have healthy diets (implying thousands of years of trial and error, admittedly a form of science, works).

My observations are anecdotal, not data, so feel free to dismiss them as such. I just suggest all scientific results so far, compared to what we'd need to meaningfully predict healthiness in a diet, negligibly less anecdotal.

The body is incredibly complex and diet involves multiple internal systems -- digestive, motivational, cardio-vascular, etc -- interacting with huge varieties of foods -- themselves sets of incredibly complex systems. Looking at parts of these systems doesn't seem effective in helping people get healthy, at least not at the level science is at today.

Generations from now science may be able to grasp this complexity and predict healthy diets at the individual level. For now, I appreciate people researching it, but I found all of their predictions for what makes healthy food based on so many untested assumptions and other logical jumps as to be worthless for anything but displaying the pre-conceived notions of the experimenters.
we can see the websites?
Where started your startup?
This idea is eerily similar to the way that the new North Korean leader Kim Jung Un wasn't able to countermand the order to perform a long range rocket test, because the order was given by his late father Kim Jong Il.
Also, Will Anderson (from Gruen Planet) found you couldn't order ones labeled "Pepsi" or "Urine", but you could order one for "Dia" and another for "Betes".
'Old' (solderable) electronics / 80s computers, beer brewing, walking (a lot) (in nature/mountains), wearables (my biggest annoyance in life is that I cannot code while walking in nature; I do not like sitting (or walking behind) my computer), reading (as well, would rather do that walking and often do, but very constrained => in places I know well and where I will probably not run into other people / dogs etc).

Edit: Most of my work is my hobby as well; coding, starting companies, convincing great people, working with great people. When all is running smooth it's like a hobby. And for a while the hard times are fun as well to get sharp again.
So, how many of the single character short urls are to this link?
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human rights violations and deregulating the hotel industry by lowering standards are on two entirely different levels.
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> No other approach to error handling is less fraught.

The thing that kills me about Go's error handling is you return error AND value all the time. It's like an Either that always has Left and Right. I think it's a bummer, especially coming from a group that has developed languages in the past.
'Google Doodle' by Mana Neyestani in response to blocking google

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Funnily enough, I was reading just the other day about Edward Teller. One of the weapons on his drawing board was a 10 gigaton bomb, for which the delivery method was "BACKYARD" - as in, it's much too heavy to move it anywhere, so it's employed by blowing it up in your own backyard.