skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do not get it, the author abused an IP, or to put it in correct terms, he raped her and told us she likes it (then asked us to buy the book on how to rape). You must agree that rape is a highly upsetting subject and should not be supported in any form by anyone. Personally, I've been severely upset by recent examples of sexual violence like the one against Jane Austen, namely "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", for which its author would be hanged in any civilized nation, but in our happy-go-lucky country of rapist pirates, monsters like Seth Grahame-Smith are allowed not only to remain at large, but also to profit from their crimes.

IPs are fragile and special creatures and nobody but the original author can be said to know what an IP needs in order to thrive, because an IP is nothing less than a private part of the author's mind. Of course, sometimes the author themselves takes the IP in a direction that's completely counter to their original birth-concept (e.g. Dune, The Wheel of Time) - such cases of self-rape must be recognized by mental institutions as what they are - schizophrenia, and those people put away, preferably for life.

In conclusion, we need tougher, much tougher IP laws, in order to protect our minors from rape by pirates. Think of the children!
> Developers are smart and capable people, but boy, what spoiled brats we are.

For expecting providers to provide what they say they're providing?

The scoundrels.
I use Python for one-off data munging and don't know spreadsheets. Can someone shed some light on what I'm missing?
The Goodthopter [1], an offshoot of Travis Goodspeed's 'GoodFET' project, allows CAN access for about $35 all in. It's basically a MSP430 + a CAN controller.

Even 'simple' CAN protocols, like J1939 used in trucks/agri/marine, are purposely non-standard. It's rather annoying.

I'm curious as to what systems will emerge from Mercedes/VW/BMW (and I guess Google) as more high speed sources like LiDAR, active dampening, etc become the norm. The current BMW 5/7 series and Mercedes' S-class already have separate CAN-like systems for high speed buses.

[1] http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/hardware/goodthopter11/
You seem to have missed my broader point. Regardless, school resources are certainly finite and it only makes sense to prioritize efforts based on need.

Youths in today's world only need to "understand how computers work" in order to use them in an academic sense not unlike we need to "understand how the human body works" in order to maintain one. Get the basic mechanics of use down and you're good to go. In the case of a computer that could be "touch here to facebook", in the case of a body that could be "wear a condom, listen to your doctor, and a caloric deficit will drop the weight."
Leveraged real estate purchases.
Too insensitive...
If you're referring to the beginning, that actually looks like it was the trail left behind by an aircraft much earlier. I live near an airport, so I see these quite often after jets go by. Usually that type of contrail appears after 2-5 minutes after a jet flies by. Far too late to intercept a meteorite which can reach the surface in minutes-seconds.

If you mean the middle, that's most definitely the aftermath of the meteorite itself. You can see this in the other videos.
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if you love it put a ring it. first, get yourself a prenup. communal property laws can be.. interesting.
Well, good luck with a new job [I'm sure you will get a job for your GF :D)
Funny, I am often curious from the opposite tack and wonder why some people want to do serial project or freelance work and never join a firm.

Thinking up apps and launching prototypes is fun, sure -- but it's also the easy part if you're a little creative. The hard -- and valuable -- part is growing it into a business, successfully scaling it, building a company, and all that goes with those things.

I think if you looked on average at people who "just start startups and bolt" vs. people who help build startups beyond their first phases, the latter tend to participate more in the equity upside. I can't imagine the appeal of being the former.

To the OP -- you don't actually say why you don't like the idea of being tied down. Can you elaborate?
I'm not sure the meteor hit the zinc plant. Considering how loud the sonic booms were it's possible that they caused enough structural damage to an old brick building to result in a partial collapse.

I wish we had more information.

Edit: on second thought, it could easily be a fragment, we'll see.
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Doubtless there are more sophisticated ways to do this, but for a quick one-off, manual validation test on tabular data presented by a web page, I scrape it (highlight it) off the web page, hit ^C, paste to a text editor, do some reformatting, then paste to an empty sheet.

Then I do my checksums of the page's presentation in the sheet. Find a bug, go to the SQL in the back end, fix the cause, write a little (manually run) SQL validation test test for that case, then cycle through it all again until the bugs are out and a nice little suite of validation tests in SQL. Really nice to have Excel, where I can point-and-click to write sums.
That's plain cheap.
I would not be surprised if the DC metro area is underrepresented in the tally because of people in or near the Beltway who vote Maryland and Virginia.

- DC native living in California, former Seattle resident.
"It"? What is this "it"? If you think of your betrothed as an "it" I would suggest you're not ready to marry anyone.

(I know, this meme is out there, but you've given me an opportunity to protest it, so I am.)
A well known Creative Commons spanish book published in 2008: http://mundogeek.net/tutorial-python/
Ah I thought he referred to OP excelling at this kind of research ;-).
I've had success getting rid of the scientific notation by just widening the column. Maybe that doesn't work all the time, I don't know.
Is it just me, or is there always house/techno/trance playing in Russian dashboard videos?
Agree. Great points.
There is more: 4. Leave the country with her!
Comparing cancer to diabetes is a reach. The balancing of hormones in diabetes is difficult but nothing compared to the complexities of each individual patient's cancers.

Since here we're dealing with a non-targeted genetherapy with a relatively well understood metabolic pathway the extension to humans will be simpler. The actual vector of getting the genes in will be challenging to convert but once we have that, we can use it for many other gene therapies.
Yeah, it's interesting what sort of emergent properties come out of massively-scalable, massively-distributed systems. For example, when you write software in school or for single-machine deployment, you're taught to assume that when there's a bug it's your fault, a defect in your software. That's no longer the case when you get into massive (10K+ machine) clusters, where when your program fails, it might be your software, or it might be the hardware, or it might be a random event like a cosmic ray (seriously...in early Google history, there were several failed crawls that happened because cosmic rays caused random single-bit errors in the software).

And so all the defect-prevention approaches you learn for writing single-machine software - testing, assertions, invariants, static-typing, code reviews, linters, coding standards - need to be supplemented with architectural approaches. Retries, canaries, phased rollouts, supervisors, restarts, checksums, timeouts, distributed transactions, replicas, Paxos, quorums, recovery logic, etc. A typical C++ or Java programmer thinks of reliability in terms of "How many bugs are in my program?" The Erlang guys figured out a while ago that this is insufficient for reliability, because the hardware might (and will, in a sufficiently large system) fail, and so to build reliable systems you need at least two computers, and it's better to let errors kill the process and trigger a fallback than to try to never have errors.
Do meteorites really do this? I've never heard of another like this event before, and I always hear reports about meteors 'almost' hitting earth well in advance of the possible collision date.

I didn't think the sky could simply open up and rain down hellfire without anybody spotting it beforehand.
Very true. That effect is very pronounced with this one in particular. Would have been truly awesome to experience in person, if not for the possible hearing loss.
I wouldn't characterise it as lying. Broder constructed a narrative around his experience, and got a couple of the details wrong.
send your resume to work@anametrix.com and i will take a look at it.
He's quoting a song.
Sounds nice, but I'm not sure it's the only way -- that Heroku 'essentially needs to build all of that'. It'd be interesting to see whose routing-to-instance is faster in the non-contended case, between Heroku and GAE. Do you know of any benchmarks?
Maybe the sound that we heard traveled faster than the acoustic waves that broke the glass due to having different frequencies.
+1 there's lot's of great stuff happening all over the world, don't limit yourself =D
Russians love their house and trance music.
+0001
An asteroid the size of 2012-DA14 would hit with a force of nearly 3 megatons. This meteor, and it is enormously consistent with a meteor and nothing else, would likely only be around the size of a car or so, over a hundred times smaller in each dimension (and over 10,000x dimmer and harder to detect via telescope) than 2012-DA14.
As I recall from watching it he didn't even bring up the idea himself, he just agreed with someone else and said the idea made sense to him.

To get actual legislation going there needs to be public pressure. Not being an expert I don't know the best way of going about this, but I would think doing it at a local level would be more successful than trying to do it at a federal level. Then if it works well it would spread.
They wouldn't know what it was if they were inside. Few months ago in Tucson an F16 broke the sound barrier, some pilot did it while practicing for an air show. I was outside walking back towards my office and saw the jet fly overhead. Then "BOOM" and I knew what the boom came from. People indoors thought a truck crashed in to the office since the building shook and ceiling panels fell.

It's hard to know what caused the boom if they didn't see something first.
That is surreal. My jaw dropped as it came into perspective. Looks like it came straight out of Hollywood.
The same reason all kids suddenly need to know how to perform Newtonian physics experiments.
This is a horribly inadequate response. Prices for hardware have dropped 30% over the last 3 years and heroku is admitting their performance has degraded by many orders of magnitude. It's completely unacceptable to simply say, "yeah there's a problem, we'll give you some metrics to understand it better."

Sure, it's great they responded. The response should be "you're right, we are fixing it and issue credits" for revenue gained from fraudulent claims about the performance of their product and a credibility straining bait-and-switch.
I'd be amused to hear Mathias Rust's assessment of that report.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
Before you undertake the more significant time and cost of migrating platforms, you see what you can wring out of what you've got. It is possible that after improving their performance enough on Heroku (or hell, even without improving it), they can not justify the up-front money and resources to migrate platforms.

Or, for all we know, they could already be in the process of migrating away from Heroku, but that doesn't happen overnight and doesn't help their performance in the meantime.
Thanks, I'm finishing up a little project where I'm designing on top of developing front and backend, so I'll contact you within a few days when I have it up as it's coming together rather nicely and will serve as a latest work sample.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking...
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Why do you suppose there would be two contrails?
Regardless of how much warmer the weather is than when Broder drove the car. If Broder had charged the car completely instead of partially regardless of the obvious drop in capacity in colder weather he still would have made it. CNN have just proven the car is capable, cold weather aside nothing would be much different here.

Are we forgetting the data from the NYT review clearly showed Broder driving around in circles in a car park? The CNN reporter even said he got lost and yet still made it with miles to spare in the batteries. When you consider the amount of on-board power drawing computing functionality, sensors and logging equipment on the Tesla 200+ miles is impressive.

If you're buying an electric car for driving 200+ miles in one go, an electric car is certainly not for you. Tesla fills a niche of drivers who commute to and from work, occasionally to meetings and maybe the airport but don't expect luxury taxi service companies to start buying and driving Tesla electric cars any time soon...

Quite personally I am sick of hearing about this whole situation. It's like watching a primary school fight, lots of name calling and accusation slinging, but no violence.
GO HOME JOB ROBBERS.

TITLE 8, SECTION 1182 - INADMISSIBLE ALIENS says you are BOTH illegals and need to go home right now. We have smart US citizens living in tents and smart US citizen PhDs working at Staples.

GO HOME NOW

You people have destroyed 28 million US jobs since 1998 and now there are not enough jobs to go around, are there? In 1998 the USA had FULL EMPLOYMENT. That was before the dark times, before the poojoos. We were here first and built this place and we're citizens so it's you who have to leave.

You were only supposed to be here temporarily anyway and go home in 2002.

Why are you still here?

I hear there is great demand for someone in India to start toilet factories.
The Bitter End
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitter-end/
I also assume that there is a difference between "first video" and "first published movie". Those early quitters might never appear in any movie in the database. Maybe as a short advertising clip or something.
And as for all the startups founded by Aliens creating jobs and fueling the economy, including Google?
> Tesla fills a niche of drivers who commute to and from work, occasionally to meetings and maybe the airport

The niche is in the price, not the use case, because you're describing what about 80% of the population does with their cars 95% of the time.
If its something you have a personal stake in , then yes . But not at some faceless mega corp which dosent care for you.
After the initial boom there seem to be a bunch of secondary smaller pops. Anyone know what those are?
This is the expectation mismatch between journalism and its dwindling audience: the general public doesn't expect journalists to "construct a narrative".

Most people expect journalism to be about the cold hard facts, possibly biased in it's tone and interpretation, but not altering the facts in favor of a narrative. Manipulating quotes is another journalistic favorite, because hey, just because it's between quotation marks doesn't mean they literally said that...

In the real world, that is called "lying and deceiving", unless it's marked "fiction" (or "advertising").

Every time people find out the truth doesn't match the reports, journalism loses a little more respect, but for some insane reason journalists insist on maintaining this completely outdated practice that is no longer justifiable in today's world of video, audio and instant global communication. And of course, logs...
Why Mozilla Matters
Honestly, for people who work more than 40 hours a week, how many of them are actually working more than 40 hours a week? Sometimes it feels like half my day is spent reading HN and the like. If I could focus much more, I'm sure I wouldn't need to spend more than 40 hours a week to get my stuff done.
Interesting. But I think there might be porn even outside the U.S., who knew?
They could partition the routing, and maybe they do. But then (a) there's one extra hop mapping to the specialist routing group; and (b) it's still nice to have super-thin minimal-state routers, for example with just a list of up dynos updated once every few seconds, as opposed to live dyno load state updated thousands of times per second.

I too hope their full response givss more insight into their architecture... I have a couople of small projects at Herooku already and may use them. for several larger ones in the future.
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Quoting Phil Plait's very early speculation (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking...):

"It appears to split, so I’m guessing the main mass split there. That’s not surprising; it’s happened with previous falls (like Sikhote-Alin). That means they could have disintegrated at different times, so there may be multiple places where pieces could fall."
On ActionScript your first source of information should be on Flex's new Apache site http://flex.apache.org/

I have friends in that community and while they're all volunteers I've seen first hand how hard they try and help people.
Oh I don't know, I think there is some interesting information to be gleaned from that heatmap. Look at Florida compared to New York for instance.
Relevant observation: "hammer and nail" effect seems to be the same thing as pg's Blub paradox[0] or the phenomenon that when you start carrying Duct Tape with you, you'll suddenly find some use for it every other day.

Because of that I think we should learn not to dismiss things just because we can't imagine what we can do with them. The imagination will most likely come with use of the tool.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programme...
I'll repeat what I said before: there has been a net job loss of 28 million jobs since these people began arriving en masse in 1998. That's a net LOSS of 28 million jobs, not net creation. There are no net jobs being created by immigrants. USA is still losing jobs.
> It also tracks the profile of your application, and applies a scheduling algorithm based on what it has learned. For eg. the url /import may take 170MB and 800ms to run, on average, so it would schedule it with an instance that has more resources available.

That is very awesome technology, but it something like that available for non-google people?
Sounds like you're speaking from personal experience. My startup is working to solve this problem, and I'd love to chat with you. Drop me a line - lexsebro@stanford.edu
Musk's rebuttal is too wide reaching. It makes some accusations that the evidence supports, but does not prove. This leaves his rebuttal open to a counter rebuttal, when the whole issue revolves around one facet of the data:

The reviewer left Norwich with the car telling him he could travel 32 miles, when he needed to go 62 miles. If he hadn't done that, he would not have had an issue.

The atlanticwire article doesn't address this point at all, and how could it? The car said it would go 32 miles. It went more than that, but less than 62. Any reasonable person, needing to go 62 miles, would want the number the car says to be greater than 62, because what kind of idiot tries to go 62 miles with a car with 62 miles of range left? Now, what kind of full on retard tries that with 32 miles left?
This one uploaded shows the actual meteor, because it's from a dashcam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuKtVGdPESM
No joke. Most of the world is more open to immigrants these days. The US seems to have completely forgotten its roots.
Yes, that's what I meant: I couldn't see a missile trail either, only airplane trails and the one from the meteorite itself.
I think the amount of time and energy they've invested in studying Heroku's routing and queueing strategy counts as having to think about something.
I would reserve judgement on this response until we learn the truth. Whether or not a response is adequate depends on what they could have said and should have said, which obviously depends on the facts. So let's just wait for more information until we assign praise or blame.
> there's one extra hop mapping

I thought about mentioning this. Because 1 small hop is still less than random blowouts in response time.

You can even cheat by pushing the router IP into DNS. Hop eliminated.

> it's still nice to have super-thin minimal-state routers

I imagine Heroku's customers are not interested in what is nice for Heroku, they want Heroku to do the icky difficult stuff for them. That was the whole pitch.

Anyway, we're arguing about Star Wars vs Star Trek here because we have no earthly idea what they've tried.
USA has been losing and will continue to lose jobs regardless, extending now to middle wage jobs in the service sector, due to automation.
I foresee sex work (so, porn , prostitution , "cam whoring") being huge business over the coming years (ok, it's already huge, but I mean even huger) and losing a lot of it's stigma.

Here in the UK where prostitution is legal there already exists websites where people can basically browse online directories for various sexual services.

Combine high employment with women realising that they can make a solid 4 figures a week by working < 8 hours a day with the male tendency to "seek variety".

It's only a matter of time before some business manages to take advantage of this on a huge scale.
Theft in Germany sets off monster investigation
Literally 15 seconds of googling:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html

No, America did not have full employment in 1998. Closest was 1.5 unemployment in 1944 (which, to be fair, is really impressive.)

Not to mention the inherent xenophobia and nativism in your post. You should maybe look into labor economics and what Sacco and Vanzetti might have to say about your comments.
This is pure hateful rubbish. I'm shocked to see it on Hacker News. A sad, new low.
Duh.

Bill Gates and Elon Musk were/are building their own empires.

Why should I sweatshop away for an IT company where I don't get a dime more when we ship a few thousand units more? That's not to say you shouldn't do a good job when you're an employee...you've signed a contract where you agreed on applying your skills the very best you can.

Working weeks > 40 hours still occur in Holland too; when I was working for outplacement agencies ('detachering') I regularly clocked 60-70 hour weeks, but in general the pay was very good, not to mention the additional stuff. Travel time didn't help either; you're all over the place.
Eponysterical
Yes, that is a Meteor falling from space in Russia.
I don't think we have anything in orbit that would burn that bright, certainly not for that long.

In orbit satellites are relatively slow (10 km/s-ish) and light (10 tons is a lot. The ISS is way heavier, but too flimsy to make it down in one piece)

Speed, in particular, counts, as kinetic energy goes with the square of speed. At 70km/s (IIRC, the top speed a meteorite is expected to have relative to earth), a kg of meteorite has as much kinetic energy as 50-ish kg of in orbit mass.
You make very good points. But I think to be fair to Broder who operates within the context that he does, he was not out of line.

I do agree that the nature of news is changing as are readers expectations.
Probably hard to judge the exact relationship between 'the oncologist' (was it just one of many? the first? they said he 'couldn't survive it', not 'treatment A is palliative only'...) and Federico, but I guess the point is that your doctor isn't your friend and they have an obligation to tell you what you need to hear.

All up, it must be pretty tough being an oncologist.