skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this and look forward to it, but I'd argue it's not anti-tech. Indeed, for it to come to pass you have to be very pro-tech. "Facebook" and "Google" aren't the archetypes of tech, it's important to remind ourselves, though marketing would have you believe they are. Tech is (or should be) about applying human ingenuity to solve real human problems in a way that expands our appreciation of existence and respects our individual autonomy.

Clever use of AJAX isn't interesting. A decentralized and open network of self-bootstrapped 3d-printers suited for everything from making electronics to replacement kidneys? That's a different story.
IOS is not restrictive per se (conclusion through a simple example)
ARGUS-IS: 1.8GP (giga pixel) sensor, 1MT (million terabytes) storage
Just adding a top-level post to point out something buried in one of the threads here that is an important point on what is happening here:

The "queue at the dyno level" is coming from the Rails stack -- it's not something that Heroku is doing to/for the dynos.

Thin and Unicorn (and others, I imagine) will queue requests as socket connections on their listener. Both default to 1024 backlog requests. If you lower that number, Heroku will (according to the implications in the documentation on H21 errors) try multiple other dynos first before giving up.

See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/error-codes#h21-backen...

For a single-threaded process to be willing to backlog a thousand requests is problematic when combined with random load balancing. Dropping this number down significantly will lead to more sane load-balancing behavior by the overall stack, as long as there are other dynos available to take up the slack.

Also, the time the request spends on the dyno, including the time in the dyno's own backlog, is available in the heroku router log. It's the "service" time that you'll see as something like "... wait=0ms connect=1ms service=383ms ...". Definitely wish New Relic was graphing that somewhere...
And even with the OEMs who do get Win8 certification - do we trust Microsoft to enforce their own rule? If they omit the switch, or it doesn't work, will Microsoft withhold certification?

Maybe they will. But I'm glad Linux has strategies that don't rely on that.
Skeuomorphic Factories
"The whole modern office building is pretty much just a skeuomorphic version of the industrial revolution factory."
...hm, now the www-link does the same so it's something else
I wasn't aware that portable VirtualBox was possible; I thought it required some kind of drivers to run at usable speeds, which would require administrative privileges and installing junk in the Windows directories. Or maybe I'm thinking of the "qemu accelerator" that existed a while ago.

Is there any chance of getting portableness into mainline?

IMHO every application should be self-contained in its own directory, i.e. "portable." Spewing stuff all over the registry, home directory, and Windows directory isn't good.

Linux is actually just as bad as Windows in regard to applications that put pieces of themselves everywhere. Part of the reason InstallShield(R) wizards and package managers exist is because people insist on complicating things like this.

My dpkg -L firefox says that the Firefox package has data in:

/usr/lib/firefox-addons
/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
/usr/share/man/man1/firefox.gz
/usr/share/doc/firefox
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/apport
/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox
/etc/firefox
$HOME/.mozilla

And that's not all, there are also the firefox-gnome-support and firefox-locale-en, AFAIK required for Firefox to function, which also probably spew things everywhere.

Is this really necessary? Is it too much to ask to just have everything you need in C:\FIREFOX or /opt/firefox?

I recently had a rant here on this subject which got downvoted, so I know I'm playing with fire by bringing this up.
Also unexplained, ignored, or deliberately misrepresented by Tesla is the state of the car when it was being towed. The towing company itself verified that the Model S was "completely dead" when it came to pick the car up, and moreover that the car couldn't easily be moved because the electrical emergency brake was stuck in place.

http://jalopnik.com/towing-company-the-nyt-tesla-model-s-was....
I know it's not supposed to be a functional map per se, but I find the typography really hard to interpret - which names are cities, which are states? Is Chicago the capital of Gary? Or is Chicago a state that is surrounded by Gary? What is up with Albequerque and Las Vegas? Are they square because they are large cities, or are they capitals, or what?

Of course this isn't a serious proposal, but I wonder how reorganizing this way would impact government and the current political system.

Redistricting would of course have even more enormous implications (would counties switch states every so often?)

Would Big States be the new Red States?

In this day and age would it be hard to administer an area the size of Shiprock?
That doesn't make any sense. You agreed to their terms of service and now you're complaining because it doesn't match your ideals. Disqus is a great service provided for free, what did you expect?
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If all the bad drivers start getting charged more for their insurance, they might stop driving altogether and take public transit or work to become better drivers, which could ultimately lower accidents, a good outcome for everyone.
That comment and the OP are the only worth reading too. The circlejerk is so bad in that thread it gives Jeff Nelson some (even if wrongly claimed the fact) credibility just out of scumbagness.
Method at the price they offer is a steal!
Then in this case the criminal wins. It's easy for a law abiding citizen to be pick-pocketed or robbed at gunpoint, and for the criminal to get away for long enough to cause havoc.
AMT
Are you serious with your comment or trying to be provocative intentionally?

Have you tried to do active research without access to a university journal subscription? I have to ssh into an on-campus box at least two three times per day to get a paper. I won't necessarily read the whole thing, but glancing at it certainly helps me see what it is about much more than a one paragraph summary.

If I didn't have that I would be much less productive.
Productivity - Fruits on the Desk
I agree with the sentiment that tax funded data should be free. But in practice it is more complicated. American Government data seems to either be free and open access or completely restricted for security reasons. In the EU publicly funded projects tend to require payment but have better data availability. This is particularly obvious with remote sensing satellites where the NASA/USGS budget for public-good projects is severely restricted. Payment at the right price is not always a bad thing if it makes projects viable. Especially when they wouldn't be viable without asking for payment from end users.
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True, but I think the bigger point is: why do you believe you have any right to demand anything? The service is free, you should be expected that the service you are not paying a dime for may do things you don't quite like once in a while.

I think the bigger issue here is the entitlement that seems to come with every service online now days. People seem to think they are entitled to demand whatever they like and how they like it for things they aren't even paying someone for. I think the best example of this was all of the whining about Craigslist suing Padmapper because it was ripping off Craigslist content and trying to piggyback off of the work CL has put into building their brand and infrastructure.
Don't the fancy arduino hydroponic setups have pretty exciting yield?

Admittedly, it's too expensive to set up to be used commercially for anything except... well, high-margin cash crops, let us say. But those costs should go down.
I think one might instead say that the military is trying to develop technology about two decades before it will actually see any use -- which means that stuff which is actually being used is nearly always using 10-20 years old technology.

The YF-22 development/demo contract was awarded in 1986. F-22s were deployed in war games in 2005 (19 years later), and saw combat in 2007 (21 years later). [1] So, there's about a 20 year lead between when we come up with a concept and finally work enough of the bugs out to have it deployed.

The F-35 is newer, and seems to be making progress. Its first planned deployment is 2017, and the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) development contract was awarded in 1996. Lockheed Martin's X-35 beat Boeing in 2001, as the X-35 had less risk [2]. So, the F-35 is likely to have a similar two decade span between prototype and initial concepts and deployment.

In that time, of course, there will be advancements in electronics, stealth technology, and weapons -- and the new craft will be testing them. (That's why we have Edwards AFB.) So not all of the tech on these planes is 20 years old -- but I still don't think we can call that "ahead of its time".

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_...
Yes. Really. Some people[1] spend their time writing lengthy and technical posts about specific technical issues. The rest of the world benefits from this. And the person writing the post benefits too, because trying to write something like that makes you smarter. Perhaps you should try it sometime.

[1] - I occasionally do this.
Thought experiment: let's say we could implement this tomorrow. What would be the effect on our politics? My theory is that it would somewhat rectify our inherent rural bias[1].

[1] http://teachingwithdata.blogspot.com/2011/06/elections-and-r...
Interesting, though I'd be surprised that humans have evolved much in 15 years.

I have worked in such an environment though and there were huge costs (and true a few benefits). What I found though was that the hard work got done from 9pm-12am over the VPN ... a recipe for eventual burnout.
My impression from what I've read is that Jeff did work on a linux fork which was known as Google OS internally (I think there were even public news about google working informally on a "Google OS" in 2006-07), but that never really catched on and was never turned into an actual product. Years later, the idea of a web-first Chrome OS appears, and either a) someone reused Jeff's work to build the core and nobody paid much attention to it or b) both things have absolutely no connection and Jeff is mistaken in assuming his work was turned into Chrome OS.
Inspired by Aaron: How to progress his ideals?
Following the sad news of Aaron Swartz´s death, I´ve been reading lots of biographies on his life and the ideals he stood for. I´ve been inspired by his work, so how best to help progress it? Any suggestions?
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It's a funny thought experiment. Some people want to only spend a few bucks. But whats the price not for the pixeling, but the time it took to learn color theory, illustration, composition, what makes a bad icon, etc.?
Having lived within miles of this plant for almost a decade; no one is surprised by this. The vast majority of jobs they offer pay a tiny bit better than the normal jobs around (which are much, much higher than the average of the country); but I don't see it as a huge loss, though a loss for sure.

This says quite a bit about VT as well, which is pretty anti-business, as much as I love Vermont. Personally, I am not surprised by this.. it has been talked about for years that there are less and less things going on at IBM in VT these days, and the end is nigh.
After a whole year of development: Graylog2 v0.10.0 has been released
Is LA it's own state, or is it part of Temecula?
It probably has to do with Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), which is calculated under different rules. It hit some of the Silicon Valley millionaires hard when they exercised their options before the dot-com bust, then held onto the shares for a year to get the lower capital-gains rate, and then the bottom dropped out of the market. Under AMT, those stocks represent millions in income even if they're now worthless.
Moving from a Drobo to a Synology NAS
This is really amusing to me because I was just thinking about this today. I was thinking about it in the context of humanism and how we seem to be living in a culture of antihumanism right now. Over the decades this pendulum swings back and forth. This lead me to think about how this current generations obsession with tech and being connected all of the time will eventually lead to a cultural shift in the next generation that isn't necessarily anti-tech, but much more grounded in the real world. This article makes me believe this even more.
I don't really know - I've never extensively programmed in functional way (beside studies) - but the point about overriding is that you do it post-hoc you get a library class and you change it. The original author does not need to imagine all the ways you'd like to modify it - and yet by doing some basic structural design and putting stuff into methods he gives you the opportunity to override. Also I imagine that this level of parametrizing - that is if every function in a package is a parameter to another function in that package then it gets messy, but with subclassing/overriding you can change any method and it changes for all other methods.
why would it be unreasonable to test that in a review?
We must have different definitions of DDoS protection; what exactly are you thinking they are protecting that isn't covered instead by their Level 3, 4, and 7 attack protections? Of course, a CDN is by nature a protector of non-malicious DDoS, but the spirit of the conversation shouldn't really have to state such facts.
There are three stages of AWS cost management. Which stage are you at?
Strong objection to any map that puts Chicago in the state of Gary.
Method is the best CRM, I came across
Between running a business, going to college, and being a D1 athlete, I have a lot to do in very little time. I've developed what I think is a simple and very effective system. If I want a high level view of deadlines, I click on a calendar button in my menu bar and see a red dot on every day something is due. I hover over it for details. I can also click a tasks button on my menubar which is google tasks synced with my iPhone. When I think of something to add to it, I can just type it into my phone and see it on the list later.

To set this up:

http://fluidapp.com/ for pinning webpages to the menubar (~$5 to buy the version that pins to the menubar). In this case, this is "https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig

GeeTasks app for iPhone.

Calendar app for Mac.
Bee Raw Honey
its fake advice.
why do u think that using asana will organize u like CEO?
its all in ur mind, u have to have confidence and tendency to be like CEO. a task management will not take u closer to CEO.
I did not expect to see myself recommending products and services that I would not ever think of recommending to others and I would not expect to see my site change from non-commercial to commercial and I did not expect to see ads masquerading as regular content.

Terms of service are a fig leaf, how you act is what matters and these actions are not acceptable, especially not for an opt-out that wasn't there when I signed up.
> States with small populations (which tend, of course, to be rural) are overrepresented in the Senate and Electoral College.

That's the whole point of the Senate: to give states equal weight, not citizens. For that, we have the House, where everybody does (in principle) have equal command of a representative. This is pointing to a feature and calling it a bug.
Coming from a designer's perspective you nailed it in the last paragraph. Anyone who disagrees only has a superficial grasp of both disciplines.
how about todoist?
Cringe. That's not a boundary layer: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/boundlay.html

If you're talking about a planetary boundary layer, then ground effect occurs within that because the PBL extends to the ground.
Sorry, I mis-spoke. SJVN corrected me: "I've never heard of an x86 OEM that doesn't allow secure boot to be turned off, Some do make it almost impossible to figure out how." (https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/302093489347375107)
Have a look at murder rates, poverty rates, heart disease rates, obesity rates
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How to get great support as a technical user
HipChat releases native app for Mac
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Seems clear to me; the state names are in all caps. So Chicago is a state, for instance, and so is New York. Also illustrating this, you can see that the city of Detroit is labeled, but the state of Detroit is also labeled in all caps, since there is room to do so in that case.

Edit: You can also see that the state capitals are underlined.
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Oh, that's an interesting argument. But that doesn't necessarily rule out socialized anxiety. The fairy tales were recorded and told in a time with writing, that is, civilization / society.
I demand nothing. I just exercise my right to terminate this relationship from my end and I exercise my right to write on my own blog whatever I want.
Hey Salem, thanks for the blunt feedback! I certainly appreciate it.

I wrote this more to focus specifically on how to organize one's work. I agree that delegation is important, but I would consider delegation another topic in itself (how to delegate, whom to delegate to, what to delegate, etc.)

This isn't about delegating, but some quick tips on how to organize the work that you need to do yourself.

Yes, I use two separate programs because I have two separate uses. I need much more detail for work than I do for personal use. Of course, a reader can pick and choose what works for them. :-)
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I worked as a software engineer for their CIO division for a little while and the "2015 Deadline" is something everyone was acutely aware of. In fact when I left my manager was most concerned that if he didn't fill the spot immediately he would lose the headcount forever.
>There is no magic in Rails, it's just Ruby code

In the context of dynamic languages, "magic" does not mean someone casting spells. Of course it is just ruby code. It is magic ruby code. Code which is executing a whole bunch of stuff behind the scenes without the user of that code (the web developer) being aware.

Pointing out that doing really bad things like this is bad is no more transparently self-serving that you claiming "oh rails is totally fine and doing stupid shit is cool because its not really magic". Yes, it is a systemic fundamental flaw in the framework. The entire framework is built from the ground up on the idea that doing this kind of nonsense is good.
The NY Times is not a PR outlet. It is a newspaper first, and moreover, is an investigative newspaper. If Tesla wanted a puff piece they should have gone with a blog.
> Force people to sign up in the hopes that they'll stick around.

Not just that. It's also done knowing that they default you into a half dozen different types of notification e-mail.
Mea maxima culpa. (See my other reply quoting SJVN's more nuanced opinion.)
The only thing that elevates lists above other data structures in Haskell syntax-wise is the "" and [] sugar for constructing them.
Haskell's type system allows you very easily to construct your own data types. For example, an unbalanced binary tree would be defined as

data Tree a = Leaf a | Branch a (Tree a) (Tree a) deriving (Eq, Show)

I admit that the easiest way to construct a hashmap, using fromList [(key,value),(otherkey,othervalue)], isn't as pretty as Clojure's syntax.
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If I had a Model S, I'd write a BlackBerry 10 app using this. Kudos to you for this work!
Actually, you are lucky. It looks like Chicago is its own state nestled within Gary.

More info here: http://fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/

I might end up living in the state of "Newark" under this proposal. Not happy.
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Um, I think you may not be a native english speaker, so just a semantic note here:

inhabit breaks the "in" prefix convention (or the "in" is not a prefix) in that the meaning of "inhabit" is "to live there". So an "inhabitable place" is on where people could live. If you mean "a place where people can't live", the correct term is "uninhabitable".

Note - the word "habitable" means the same thing as "inhabitable".

It is just one of those confusing English language things, where all rules are more "guidelines" than hard rules, and there are exceptions to the exceptions.

Another word that follows a similar pattern: flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Namely "easy to burn or start on fire".

So I think that to support the empty statement in your first sentence, your second sentence should read:

Japan - 4/5 of territory is uninhabitable. China - the same. Russia - Siberia is almost uninhabited.

edit - The statement "Siberia is almost inhabited" is also a funny/sarcastic way of saying "Siberia is almost uninhabited".
I see another comment here has already pointed out that this submission is blogspam, and has been discussed on HN before. Blogspam is disfavored here,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583307

as is mentioned in the site guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."

AFTER EDIT: The curators here have fixed the link, as pointed out in a reply to this comment.
I'm not sure with this library, but with other solutions you have a handshake endpoint on your server which creates a time-limited, single use token. The browser hits your server which then creates a key on S3 and sends it back to the client. The client can then use said key to upload on S3. Might be good to use SSL along with this.
Looks like Chicago's actually in its own eponymous state, with Gary surrounding it.
On first looks I'd say this is probably in violation of advertising regulations.

In both Europe and the US there is a requirement for any advertisements to be clearly marked as advertisements and separated from other content.

For the US see FTC 16 CFR Part 255 (Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising):

http://ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides.pdf

For the UK the ASA CAP rules:

http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/Display-Code.asp...
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This isn't anti-tech. It's sensible use of technology, and most significant of all, quite common amongst exactly those that understand technology best.

It's no coincidence that it's usually techies that protest stuff like voting-machines.
One reaction I get is a lack of fear of their nuclear tests. Rather, I welcome them as each time it might be enough to push larger countries to actually fix the situation.
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Donating time (my labor) and money to effective non-profit organizations that promote human rights. Endeavoring to improve myself so I can do more to help others. Encouraging others to get active.
"Rural bias" is a feature, not a bug. In allocating power in Congress and the Electoral College, the Founders wanted to give weight to geographic region as well as population. Obviously this benefits lower populated states. America was founded as a union of states, and a republic, and was not designed as a direct democracy. Rule of the urban majority mob would be a lot worse than the current structure.