skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess their costs are several steps above Wikipedia. Yes, Wikipedia is pretty much ubiquitous, but I know personally that I only visit Wikipedia occasionally (i.e. not every day) and I only visit a few pages. On the other hand, when I was an active redditor, I'd visit hundreds of reddit pages every day.

Tack on the part where bandwidth is more expensive than equivalent amounts of storage, and you've got yourself a reddit that costs a lot more than Wikipedia.
(Reply 2)Sorry, for double post, but the first post couldn't carry all of it.

As of right now, my opinion is that Full Spectrum is the frontrunner based on design, the trick to reduce cost and make it much more safer, is to promote, piece by piece assembly instead of cutting the designed in one piece. Miniature model making is a hobby that makes use of the mechanical engineer inside us, making the design at the push of a button is not only costly (because of larger overall machine) but also takes out all the fun. I would buy one, if it sold for around 700-800$, and still delivers the quality of full spectrum.
And you think you'll get your new language adopted by Chrome, Firefox, IE and mobile devices? It's not happening.

I don't really see this extra complexity. You might almost as well dismiss all software development that isn't done in raw machine code. Plus, JS these days is blisteringly fast — if it helps, think of it as the web's assembly language.
Yup. I have not found a better input device than a keyboard for general computing. Touch screen is nice, but when you have to do real work, it's worthless. I don't even want to imagine the repetitive stress syndrome injuries that are going to come from tablets and touch screens.

People think this industry is easy and simple, but they fail to see the injuries even an 8 hour a day computer job causes. And you can't put it on worker's comp either.

Fucked and fucked. That's why I prefer to move my fingers as little as possible (glued to keyboard) and when necessary use a trackball like the Logitech M570 and precursors. Without that, I'd be a garbageman with a bad arm.
And for real work, they are necessary.
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As a counterpoint: what if he's on the swim team and has to be up at 5:30 am to make a 6:00 am swim practice every day? A 7:30 pm cut-off on electronics so he's asleep by 8:30 pm wouldn't be unreasonable.
Invest in build quality and reliability, potentially at the cost of end-user repairability.

Have you used a ThinkPad? Reliability, quality and repairability.

Only apple have managed to destroy the concept of repairability. Even no brand Chinese clone junk is pretty repairable.

Apple are trying to force a disposable model on computing which is completely not justifiable based on their initial cost.
> In the middle of November, Little, Brown dropped the price from $9.99 to $2.99 for 24 hours — the digital equivalent of a one-day-only sale. "That sparks sales; it gets people talking about it," says Terry Adams, a publisher with Little, Brown. "You've just expanded the market."

Very similar to what Valve is doing.

Now that books are more flexible in their distribution channels like software, what other things could publishers do? Downloadable content for books in the form of new chapters? Embedded animated diagrams or quizes? Interactive content, like a printed version of Sleep No More (http://sleepnomorenyc.com/tickets.htm) ? Code environment simulators like we so often nowadays on websites that teach you how to program? DIY-Language books that harass you to read them if you slack off in reading them enough?
Yup. Might as well get a Mac, though these days the hardware only looks tough but is quite flimsy. Still better than the plastic shit everyone else puts out, but if I can mess up a fan by simply picking up the laptop ... damn consumer devices.
I fail to see your point about the threshold of replacement. Assuming that enterprise-class drives get replaced sooner because sysadmins monitor SMART, it is still widely acknowledged that SMART errors are a strong indicated that the drive will fail soon. For example the Google study on drive reliability showed this correlation on consumer-class drives [1] There is no reason to believe this correlation doesn't exist with enterprise-class drives (or else, what would be the point of SMART?). Therefore the replacement threshold is mostly irrelevant as the enterprise drive replaced due to SMART would have failed soon anyway.

I really don't understand this skewed perception of consumer- vs enterprise-grade harddrives. Do you believe that enterprise CPUs are more reliable than consumer CPUs? How about enterprise NICs vs consumer NICs?

Consumer-grade drives are sold in volumes so much larger than enterprise-grade drives, that vendors have strong incentives to make them as reliable as possible. I would even say they have incentives to make them more reliable than enterprise-grade drives. Because a single percentage point improvement in their reliability will drastically reduce the costs associated to warranty claims and repairs.

My own experience confirms the CMU study. I have worked at 2 companies selling each about 2-5 thousand drives as part of appliances, to customers across the world. One company was using SCSI drives, the other IDE/SATA. And the replacement rates were similar.

I can see your point about the usage being different which could invalidate the CMU findings about consumer vs enterprise drive reliability. But I don't personally believe it explains it. The CMU study + my annecdotal evidence one 2-5 thousand drives + the fact that no study has ever showed data suggesting enterprise drives are more reliable, makes me think that they are not.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
How is the conversion rate of your FB ads to get female members? Or what are your costs per female subscription?

Regarding your questions 1,2: Raising money for dating is quite hard. Still everyone believes online dating is broken and there must be something better but looking back at dating deals and exits (there are very few) I doubt that you are able to raise any money with dating
biggest factor for this: when you are lonely, you have little or no words to say, twitter encourages you with just the 140 letter limit, to put your feelings forwards.

small target seems achievable, and you talk it out, and you feel better. Happy new year mate!
I'm currently developing a social music discovery platform, Tune Patrol and I work on the front end(HTML,JS,CSS) predominantly. From my experience, I feel there isn't any specific book or instruction manual to follow. I've always felt that learning code is a simple three step process, no matter which the language.

1. Understand the logic of basic commands that you will be using, for example, in java script, event listeners is a pretty important concept.

2. After reading the core concept briefly, have a run through the syntax. Remember, you can always refer the syntax of a language, do not mug it up. The syntax will come to you after some practice.

3. Implement it practically. Make a personal website or simply start coding a few plug ins. This is where the actual learning happens.

I've always followed this paradigm and its worked out okay for me so long.

Although for a few initial concepts, http://www.w3schools.com is pretty good.

Also try reading Oreily books on Javascript, HTML5 and CSS. All their books are of a good standard.
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washingtons_Farewell_Address
"I have some skepticism of the viability of the ChromeOS"

Lol. Ya think? I give it a couple more years at best. Some things just can't be done as web apps. Well, at least until someone figures out not only how to make fiberoptic cables perform at the full speed of light, but beyond. Think audio/video latency, etc.
"Anecdotally, a typed version of JSON decoding is much nicer to work with."

How so? Considering that JSON isn't strongly typed.
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And this really has no bearing on a discussion of JSON, a data exchange format.
It's highly unlikely, but it's the path to pursue. JS is not the web's assembly language except to people who can't program in it. The added complexity is another (3rd, 4th++) language. If you can't see that, you're blind.
The authors also worked with Robbins - there are two paragraphs about this towards the end of the article.

I enjoyed reading Sleights of Mind, but never got round to watching the videos on their site, http://www.sleightsofmind.com/media/

I'll do that today. Happy New Year!
been using ovh for years and really enjoy their self-manage tools (though I actually work for a different provider).

fail2ban || denyhosts are also good ways of stopping ssh brute force :)
If net/http (or whatever http wrapper in whatever language) gives you enough batteries for a web application i am really happy for you.

Sadly me (and a lot of other people) need a lot more.

That is why the uWSGI project exists. Things like logging, clustering, statistics, multi protocol support, alarms, time events, request routing and blah blah are added to your app for free (and the funny thing is that you can tune lot of internals without rebuilding your app).

Obviously if not having windows support is a too much high price for you the discussion ends here :)
The first link is great, with a few rewinds you can see most of his misdirection and trickery even though it slips by the first few times (at least for me, in my post celebratory state of mind).
I hope your last sentence was a joke
I work from home too, but a scooter still makes way more sense than public transport for almost everything except where alcohol is involved.
Yeah, the fact that money bills have to originate in the House has nothing to do with an 800-year-old fundamental principle of the people having a vote in their own taxation. It's clearly an inconvenient constitutional loophole that Madison put in to let John Boehner obstruct Obama and the Democrats.

What a joke.
Yes, but it's my understanding that the Hindi concept is much deeper than that. I don't presume to be an expert on this topic (Hindi karma), however. Philosophical karma is a different thing and very simple.

What is attached to popular karma is an over-optimistic, unrealistic viewpoint of rewards based on action. The world doesn't work that way, but a lot of people, especially in the western world think it does and think this is a valid concept. It's not. It's a sequitur.

That is all that I was stating. I do not wish to attach anything more to the concept than has already been attached.
> As a country, we just seem to be too (lazy?) to [amend the Constitution]

The problem with passing Constitutional amendments right now is the highly partisan political climate of the last decade or two: The parties divide nearly fifty-fifty and often define themselves by their opposition to the other party. Many of the most commonly raised ideas for amendments -- getting rid of the death penalty, legalizing gay marriage, abolishing the Second Amendment -- are deeply divisive issues among the people. These factors make it very difficult for anyone to get the big majority necessary for a Constitutional amendment.

Changes in US party politics will ultimately be forced by demographics. Minorities are increasing due to higher birth rates and immigration. The baby boomers will eventually start dying. Society as a whole is becoming more secular, especially among the young.

Either the Republican party will redefine itself in order to steal some categories of currently Democratic voters, a new party will rise to prominence, or (IMHO the most likely scenario) when the Republican party ceases to be a threat to Democrats' political agendas in ~10-40 years, the Democrats will themselves collapse.

The fault lines are already there: Liberals like Obama favor massive spending on ambitious social programs. Civil libertarians -- there seem to be quite a few here on HN -- want a reduced government presence and an expansion of individual rights. Centrists like Bill Clinton aren't opposed to overseas military intervention and support balanced budgets and the reform of social programs. It's easy to see this coalition disintegrating without the pressure presented by their current common political foe, the Republican party.
There is software out there that specifically targets zero day attacks. It would be a conflict of interest for me to mention specifics, but a trivial matter for those interested to find out.
Netbooks are very useful devices. A lot of people around me have netbooks. Basically everyone who needs to produce (not just consume) on the go. Think students. I don't see how netbooks can be either bullshit or dead.
And they are fine qualitywise. You get what you pay for. They have awesome bang for the buck.
It's an opportunity similar to opening a steak house, because you managed to fry a really good steak.
I'm not big on the glaringly inefficient transpilers that Haskell has come up with. You can replicate a lot of Haskell's functionality in JavaScript very elegantly.

See for instance:

* https://github.com/clux/autonomy - prelude like thing

* https://github.com/clux/subset - basically Data.List

* https://github.com/clux/operators - currying helpers

* https://github.com/clux/interlude - a collection of the above 3

It has made my JavaScript development very enjoyable. JavaScript really doesn't suck have to suck. You can write very elegant code in it. It's just not as elegant as Haskell.
Interesting

Maybe I need to rephrase what I said: AWS instances are very bad at CPU, but the flexibility to add more instances and different instance types can compensate for that

Yes, maybe you can try Linode or Rackspace to compare their CPU performance
What people attach to it does matter: having shared meanings for sequences of letters/sounds is how language works, and the sequence of letters "karma" has meaning in modern English which is different to its Hindi meaning.
Yes, he can create the next great security product from jail. ;-)
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What worked well for me when going through SCIP: the header

#lang planet neil/sicp

at the start of my .rkt files, after installing the corresponding package. See this link: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/
Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers, researchers say
There are other "free" (if not FOSS) alternatives to the MS-Office UX that are not as clunky as Libre/Open Office...

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/software/kingsoft-office-freewa...

It is not 100% compatible with Office but does a very decent job. And the UI is Qt based, so it is quite sleek to work with

I must confess I ended up buying MS-Office during one of their special promotions for corporate employees because of all the interop issues.
Giving up on the Constitution right now would guarantee that the rethinking of the 1st, 4th and 5th amendment would be a lot worse than they currently are. I wouldn't risk that.
The mass adoption (and with it, the mass misunderstanding/misconfiguration) of Windows makes it a much easier target than UNIX based platforms like OSX, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, etc.

That along with the horrible architecture of Windows systems that just about invites malware. Vista failed miserably in both architecture and privileges and in an attempt to fix that in Windows 7, the privilege of accounts is nullified as it was in XP.

Speaking of XP, it's still the target of most malware and probably will be for some time as most Windows computers still run it (as opposed to 7/Vista/8).
Once there's a pdf or other ebook available it'll be pirated. How that doesn't damage sales I'll never understand.
The Lazarus (object pascal ide) book is only available in a physical book format for this reason.
What was it like to move to San Antonio and go through TechStars Cloud?
Predictive vs Reactive control
Enlightenment? Lol. If you are enlightened by this article, you really don't understand software.
That sounds like a lot. Shouldn't US have the Supreme Court verify laws for constitutionality as soon as they pass Congress, like it happens in other countries?
Banner and VersionAddendum. Defaults to "none" for both.

[Later] Actually, those two have no effect on my remote Debian 6 VPS. Possibly a Debian "fine-tuning".
Better software exists (for free). A little research will lead you to it.
hahah what a joke
$80 is FAR too expensive for 3 requests per second.

If you're paying that much, you've been taken for a ride. That's ridiculous.
There's anti-virus and then there are the programs that fill in the gap where the AV program lack. A simple google search will yield you the results.
Indeed JSON is not strongly typed. However, in practice, every API, every data exchange format I've ever seen or used has used JSON in a strongly typed fashion. i.e. they say "the returned object will have a key of 'foo' with a number as the value, and a key of 'bar' with an array of strings as the value.

Why is this nicer?

Let's say you are working with the Reddit API. You can, of course, do it the way you suggested, and just decode the result into an untyped object. However, I find this incredibly brittle. You end up with strings indexing into arrays all over the place.

On the other hand, when you decode into a Go struct, you use the regular dot syntax to access parameters. You can't misspell these or use the value inappropriately (trying to loop over a JSON number, for example). You can write comments on the fields to document what you expect various values to hold. It is nicer in the same sense that using classes is nicer than just using arrays for everything.

Another benefit is of course the improvement of performance. Accessing an string value in a JSON object by a key is the equivalent of a hash table lookup in Python or PHP. It is incrementing a pointer by a constant number in Go (assuming you use strongly typed decoding).

I'll say it again, Go's encoding/json can do what you want (the equivalent of json_decode). There are better alternatives available to users of that package, and the GP was discussing how to exploit one of those better alternatives without having to write the struct by hand (which I personally find a trivial one time cost).
I deal with a lot of no brand Chinese clone junk, and I can attest that one guy from Xinjiang with a soldering iron and a few screw drivers can fix any of it in the basement of one of the e-markets here (in China). It works for about a week, and degrades depending on how often it is repaired.

In contrast, when my Apple laptop breaks under warranty, I have to trek to the Apple store, they repair, it never breaks again. You never really get it until you own one on why this is so awesome.
Yup. Whenever someone says "OMG Macs are so much more expensive than PCs!" Then you look online for a comparable PC laptop, find it....and its more expensive...always. Apple just does so well on logistics the other OEMs are crying.

I have my eye on a Carbon right now for work, its only a few hundred dollars more than a 13" air but work won't by macs.
Which is odd, since I thought this discussion was about Go, not PHP.
Thanks, Doogie Howser.
Not at all. The disrespect comes from the stupidity of the title and people making it. Rockstar? Ninja? Evangelist?

Really?

How about Shaolin Monk JS? Hung Ga JS? Hung Fut JS?

Is the absurdity getting through your brain yet?

And if you're talking "Evangelist," where the fuck is your church?
Make anything editable with HTML5
Unmanned drone buzzes French police car
Precision medicine will work to prevent the effects of cosmic radiation and DNA sequencing will probably be used to select candidate that are less likely to develop Alzheimer's or cancer in high risk environments. Surely it's been already figured out but the article doesn't mention it.
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I doubt that happens any more. The whole unit will get swapped out instead. They are not repairable. Everything is glued in and not removable.

I've had a fair amount of apple kit - I've found it to be hideously unreliable, clunky and of dubious design. Detail things such as power isolation is not possible which bit me hard after I had an MBP catch fire just out of warranty.

I don't buy the whole quality argument. Its a perception - not a reality.
Absolutely. I hate JS as much as the next person, but I hated the for lack of a better word, fuckedupedness, of dozens of languages and yet I still programmed in them. coughPerlcough

Elegance is never the primary concern of code. Readability is. And they are not the same thing. Even Perl can be made readable.
It may well be pirated regardless:

http://www.themillions.com/2010/01/confessions-of-a-book-pir...

In another life I wrote technical books, which at the time were only available in physical formats. That didn't stop electronic versions of the more popular books from appearing on usenet.
My first Android app after a year
I had RSI a few years ago. Apart from paying attention to posture (I took up tai chi to help with that), I changed to a dvorak keyboard layout which helped a lot.
First someone who is affected by the law has to challenge it, then the challenge has to make its way through the appeals process until it reaches the level below the supreme court, and then finally the supreme court must decide to take up the case. It's a fairly involved process that only ever gets applied to a small fraction of laws. But the filtering process tends to select laws of questionable constitutionality, so it's fairly inevitable for something like the ACA to end up there. Though it helps to have a powerful interested party pushing a case through the process.
Has anyone tried the PaperTrail service? I'm tempted except for the tiny window for queries, only a week. I'd like, say, a month at least.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's Essay, The Simple Truth, as Free Audiobook
Better is arguable, but I really do recommend The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinery_of_Freedom) for an alternative. It's well thought out and very detailed.
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I noticed this a lot last night at a nightclub. It was 11:30pm and people were on their smart phones smiling, it was for extended periods of time and they werent typing so almost definitely wasnt SMS messages. Even in a packed pub/club people find solitude.
"More than ever, I just wanted to be alone. Alone with my thoughts, alone with my computer, alone with my hobbies."

That sounds neither sad nor crazy or anything else people might tell you. It's quite normal. You maybe an introvert. Which is not what most people think it is.

This maybe the best article on the subject and most popular Atlantic Monthly article ever in terms of reader response: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f...

If that rings true, Welcome! You are far from alone. But we'll leave you alone, because we're the same way most of the time.
wow this website can be used as a CPU stress test.
Indeed. Well put.
Running Gource on the Linux Kernel repos is the best thing, easily.
Roughly $10 gets a dozen per day, so lets say it's $1/female signup. I dont really care about males now as they seem to come "free" and I might need to close registration for them to maintain balance.

This is an after-thought but... I heard that dating is a billion dollar industry in the US alone, how come it can be hard to raise money for this kind of website?
thanks for your reply!
Do you find that you get more enjoyment out of these types of games rather than on or offline games where you pay up front without "pay-2-play"?