skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
n here is the number of different elements you can choose from. If there was a third alternative, you'd have to add another if statement.
I think the use of Comic Sans is actually one of the lesser crimes on that site.
StartitUp is a step-by-step startup guide that helps startups get from idea
Startup AnsibleWorks pitches open-source IT configuration, deployment tool
(tried to post this on his site, but it is awaiting moderation)

I guess it always hurts to find out the going rate for your writing is $0. How much did the venerable NK News pay him I wonder.

A 6 figure offer a few years ago? Sadly 2003 (when that Atlantic editor died) is not a few years back, it’s a decade ago. Journalism has changed and the freely accessible article on NK News would’ve gained slightly more traction on the Atlantic with less typing than he spent on this blog post.
I think, after a bit of a google, that you're referring to this:

* https://github.com/krimdomu/Rex

I've not sure there's too much overlap, as my initial understanding makes me think that rex carries out scripts over SSH, in a similar fashion to fabric.

I assume that slaughter will be scheduled and will revert changes made manually, for example, it looks like rex will just do its magic at the single point in time you run the script(s).

I'll dig deeper to see if I've misunderstood.
are we supposed to buy new phones every five years now?

No. Every two.
One could picture it like Escher's Waterfall, you just keep going around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Escher_Waterfall.jpg
All major distributions get new artwork every release AFAIK. I hope you are teasing. The artwork took a fraction of the time to make.
Most of my entire professional career has been in traditional journalism. However, I'm new/young enough that I've almost taken it for granted that money-for-services is ancillary to exposure. Recently, a large media company asked if they could use one of my photos for a commercial campaign...and I almost said, "Sure, just take it" because it was a photo I've listed as Creative Commons. But then I thought, well, they're big media and asked to see their rate sheet...I about jumped when I saw they'd offer $1,000 for just a year's usage...for a photo that I took years ago and that I've been sharing online for free
Ug, somewhere I have a failed SSD with 10 of them on it.
The Art of Unpacking
Let's all give up Comic Sans for Lent.
willholloway:

Hoarding does not make us all poorer. Your blanket statement is false.

If you're living in a country with a gold standard, and that currency appreciates, it means you can purchase more real goods, not less.

China's economy has seen its currency appreciate for the last decade, while they simultaneously get far richer. The same principle was demonstrated by the last manufacturing powerhouse: the USA.

If I hoard dollars under my mattress, which reduces circulation, then all the other dollars gain purchasing power in direct proportion to my hoarding: ie I make everybody else richer while I hoard. The exact same thing is true about gold: any currency backed by gold gains real purchasing power.
I think he is high, all those recent drug related posts ya know...
The use of Comic Sans really makes the tribute look like an amateur's first try at a home-made photo book. It's already featured on http://bancomicsans.com/
For one-off, transport xml it's not much more. It's proper escaping, declaration with character set and not using features you do not know how to use. First two are solved by using proper library, third - by common sense
Ask HN: How do VPS providers handle and verify abuse complaints?
Last night, I received an email from a VPS provider stating that an abuse complaint had been received for a virtual server I have hosted there. As a result, the specific virtual server was powered off and my account was locked, subject to further review.

I asked my provider to explain the process they take to verify abuse complaints. In the meantime, I thought I would reach out to the HN community to see what other providers (and users) thought about the process of dealing with abuse complaints.
Actually Mars has a considerably smaller gravitational pull than the Earth owing to its lower mass (5.972E24KG -vs- 6.39E23kg).
I think we need an asteroid in orbit (or several). Then adjust their orbits as needed to absorb the impact.
The proposed mission website is at http://inspirationmars.org/
If you're still having trouble accessing it, here are direct links to the mirrors:

http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.pdf

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/AeqB.pdf

http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/aeqb/AeqB.pdf

The license agreement is (copied and pasted from the download page):

Copyright 1996 by A K Peters, Ltd.

Reproduction of the downloaded version is permitted for any valid
educational purpose of an institution of learning, in which case only
the reasonable costs of reproduction may be charged. Reproduction for
profit or for any commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
> This is a despicable trend.

> These practices are worse than those of textile sweatshops.

I think this is a pretty harmful way of portraying the issue. Don't use up all your shocking words on something like this. Sweatshop practices and child labor are truly despicable and deserve more attention. People being less willing to pay a premium for a certain product or skill in a free market? Not so much. If it is actually a product or skill that merits the money in a changing market, and if the specific one being offered is of good quality, in the long run it will harm the one unwilling to pay. If it is not, it will harm the one offering the product or skill. There is nothing evil happening on either end of this.
It's interesting how many people in this thread apparently have authoritative knowledge of what others should use OpenBSD for. You are utterly wrong.

I want KMS, I want to be able to install Gnome and see what they are up to. Not that I care about Gnome, but it should work if at all possible. There are a lot of users and developers who want a well working modern desktop running OpenBSD.
Does Wayland support sending only buffers of the particular window I want to see on my desktop?

As I understand it, it's going to only support forwarding of the whole desktop (like VNC). And this would be a huge functionality regression.
Imagine having eyes on the ground for such a stupendous event! It would be a once-in-a-civilization opportunity. Fingers crossed.
KDE Software Compilation 4.10.1 Released
Wasn't this debated to death a few years ago regarding the Huffington Post?
I don't believe it's bad, it actually makes you test your assumptions all the time and eventually make them better. Even successful entrepreneurs has doubts every day. I think as soon as you stop to have doubts you cannot improve anymore.

Recommended read on this topic: http://pandodaily.com/2013/02/05/living-with-doubt/
In other words: you are not willing to put your money on anything; you just want to post baseless predictions so you can gloat later on the off-chance that you're right.

If you actually believed the Bitcoin market will crash in June, you would be buying futures or put options right now.
Looks like it's been changed to Times New Roman already

edit: Or actually I guess I don't have comic sans on my system
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I would guess it's because the moment you do that you push down the problem to the library/application programmers. They will still have to support old systems and suddenly it's no longer a handful X developers who have to maintain backward compatibility but thousands of application developers all over the world which have this task. And certainly not all application programmers will care so the problem will be pushed on further and hit some users.

The problem with downward compatibility never completely goes away. But the closer it is handled to the base the less people have to care about it.

Now there is on the other hand a point where you could say every application programmer has to do so much extra work because the protocols are outdated and overly complicated that breaking downward compatibility will make the life of the average application developer easier. Not an exactly defined point in time - definitely way less obvious than the moment where compatibility is broken. But I guess that's when the break should (have) happen(ed).
There's a third thing to consider: how to recover from the error. In many cases, the recovery is something the software has to do itself: e.g., server down, switch to alternate server.

My preference is to consider error reporting as something completely separate from error handling. This is even more the case if you have different classes of users.
Yes it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
I actually have a number of revisions built into the contract that they sign. Once those revisions are used up that means the work is complete and further changes cost more. Obviously you have to use your own judgement sometimes but this usually prevents frivolity.
The post has his point, but you can't compare experience from stock market with software development. They are complete different things.
Your experience doesn't help much in the stock market because its random nature.
In software development you really can accumulate knowledge and experience. You may not remember all things you read and do, but at least you will know where to look - and this is the key in this world jammed of information.
Here's What Happens When Social Media and Russian Project Housing Collide
Assuming this was supposed to be a reply to me, I can't tell if you missed the part with the timer and the multiple attempts to get it right, or if you just don't think it's relevant, or what.
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Oh, I agree, sometimes it's too generic =)

Especially if you don't know the names used in the description.

The problem is that I can't stand explanations that would go like this if it was explaining Math:

"So, we have a natural number, that is 2, 7, or 34232345 and by the way they're all integer numbers as well, also they are rational numbers as well, oh and there's equation you can do with them, but ok, so you can sum those numbers, etc"

I'd rather go with

"This turns the natural numbers (N, +) into a commutative monoid with identity element 0,"
At some level manned missions to Mars feel like a complete waste of resources to me. Money would be far better spent on enhanced robotic missions. You don't have to provide life support, radiation will not threaten anyone's life, they don't need to be returned to Earth, etc. Besides that, investing serious money on advancing artificial intelligence and robotics would potentially have significant real revenue potential on Earth --probably far greater long term than media rights to watch a middle-aged husband and wife fight for two years while traveling to Mars.

What I think might be worthwhile would be the construction of what I am going to call "Enterprise One". This would be a large spaceship (crew of 20 or more) built in orbit. Enterprise One would never be capable of re-entry. That would be the domain of smaller (two or three occupant) capsules built for that purpose.

Ideally, Enterprise One would be an international effort.

The goal would be to construct something far more substantial (and safer) than one could launch from Earth at one time. If it takes ten years to build, so be it.

Once completed Enterprise One could start regular runs to the Moon and back. It would carry Lunar lander modules that would take people to the surface and back. We can learn a lot by having such a spacecraft conduct near-space manned missions with regularity. We could certainly use it to test all manner of technologies, including more advanced robotics.

While perhaps not as sexy as going to Mars, I would do this way before even considering manned missions to Mars. Humanity could benefit from Enterprise One in many ways. I see little benefits from sending a married couple for a Mars fly-by.
If I recall correctly, tulip bulbs are a useful technology that allow you to create beautiful flower gardens.
As a journalist, I may be biased, but I disagree.

There is a glut of low quality journalism, but high quality journalism is still expensive and time consuming to produce. Doing research, finding new angles, interviewing people -- these are what take time, not simply putting words on paper (though doing that well still takes time and more expertise than most people realize).

This trend towards free journalism is driving down standards to the point where 'journalism' is often now just re-hashing work with little fact checking. This could lead to real problems as it's been the journalism industry that traditionally has been the watchdog for the people. They've investigated and exposed nefarious activity in just about every sphere.

More and more, I see skilled journalists leaving the profession to work in PR. The people who were checking up on businesses and politicians are now being paid by them to stop new amateur journalists finding out what's going on.
I don't know if it is a valid argument or not, but according to Bazaar docs it's one of Bazaar's strong points.

AFAIK the official Lanuchpad FAQ says Bazaar is the best VCS for the project:

https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/37

And apparently they can (or want to) support only one. Fair enough.
Vote with your clicks; don't visit sites like The Atlantic and Huffington Post.
This is being bankrolled by a man who will likely have some control over things despite not having training

What the hell do you mean? He's a former JPL aerospace engineer!
>99.9% of people see comic sans as a nice-looking, casual font.

<0.1% of people hate it and feel better about themselves for that.
Oh dear. How many times have we heard similar about various technologies over the years?
The Vatican revealed to read HN?
Japanese carrier debuts 'the world's smallest and lightest phone'
In your opinion as a journalist, what do you consider to be sources for high quality journalism?
Exactly. Ad revenue of newspapers slipped over 50% during that time. The whole market got eaten up and destroyed, worse than the music industry could've ever dreamed.

There is still a great bunch of journalism out there, like Vice (who actually did the original reporting) and then there are folks like this guy who wishes for days of yore. The Atlantic puts out plenty of great content from great writers who get little cash for their efforts.

The market changed drastically on this guy and he hopes he can get more PR from this free blog post than a free byline on theatlantic.com

Good luck to him.
You mean you have the good taste to not actually have Comic Sans on your system. That, my good sire, is something to be proud of. :)
God recommends using Comic Sans. Both the discovery of the "God particle" and the tribute to his official spokesman are published in it. Do not ignore this and use it for everything from now on!
>I am a "pythonista/rubyist/haskeller" encourages tribal thinking. Them vs Us. I find this also explains much about flamewars.

PG talks about exactly this point in Keep Your Identity Small [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
But the whole point of this mission is "inspiration".
Can someone please explain what are the benefits of using Phusion passenger over Unicorn? Just (genuinely) curious..
Am I the only one who thinks that a world-wide presence like the Vatican needs a new website?...
> yet they didn't have the bank runs and depressions that the US had.

Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression
I've actually had a project in mind for a while now that this is perfect for. Cool beans.
I'd be interested in hearing more shareware stories. Did anyone else here have success selling shareware in the 80's and 90's?
I'm not sure you actually disagreed with the parent.

The parent said something like "there's not enough demand, and too much supply". You said something like "it's very expensive to produce good journalism". The two statements are not contradictory.

I do agree with you that there is a definite problem with the current situation, by the way.
I wouldn't call it a failure, but it's not really a success either. At least not yet.

I don't know anyone who uses it, nor do I really hear about it apart from the people developing it. Sometimes, people mention it, in a "Maybe you should try PC-BSD, I've heard it's good" kind of way, but that's as far as it goes.
While the story is lovely, it's also quaint to think of the days when a young kid put his home address on the internet and bad things didn't happen.

Also, this is another "right time right place" story - his code wasn't just good, it was one of the few solutions at the time. Had he tried to do it a few years after that, I doubt the results would have been the same.
A computer in every home? Doesn't sound likely.
If you already have something to promote, like a self-published ebook on North Korea, and they let you put a few lines and an Amazon link at the end, then it might be worth it.

Assuming:
30,000 page views, 2-5% conversion rate, $4.99 price (Amazon takes 30%, so $3.49 profit)

You could make $2095 - $5239.
Couldn't force myself to keep reading this after "experience has absolutely no correlation with efficacy"
Text boxes don't look like text boxes. Buttons don't look like buttons. Checked toggles might be easily confused with unchecked. Toggles also look like something you should drag, but do nothing unless you click them. Unchecked check-boxes look like oversized bullets from a bullet list.

Moreover, most controls are not semantic and simply stop working if you disable JavaScript. (And no, I don't care whether you consider this issue relevant or not. Users of text browsers, screen-readers, some mobile browsers and people with JS blockers will consider it relevant.)

Moreover #2, these controls don't blend in with text at all. They will distract users from actual website content.
Really? Link please
The creator of pandas wrote a book, Python on Data Analysis, which covers NumPy and Pandas. I found it an excellent primer.

http://oreilly.com/shop/product/0636920023784.html
I'm pretty sure OS X or Android (4.2.2 in my case) doesn't include Comic Sans? Correct me if I'm wrong.
> Personally, I think we'll come to accept the idea that, for the most part, writing is a leisure activity and not a profession.

As a member of the growing self ebook publishing industry I have to disagree. Now is the best time to write something of value. Anything really.

People are out there and they want to buy your content [if it is of good quality, interesting etc. etc.]
"Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of Comic Sans, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed"
The best book for this is "Elements of Computing System" by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken. It starts from basic gates and then higher to build more complex parts. The book website provides all the necessary emulators and programming tools that help you to build a emulated computer and then build OS and application softwares on top of it. I have not really gone through the whole book and practiced what it wants to teach us because of my busy academic schedules but hope to complete it someday soon.
I got a similar offer from "hackin9".
One small difference: the contact already had the article that i should have written planned for the next issue even before she answered my e-mail in which i explained that my landlord sadly doesn't want to be paid in "exposure". Contact ended abruptly
That offer was a decade ago, not a few years ago.

You could just not renew your subscription I suppose.
It doesn't matter if the fix takes 5 minutes or 5 weeks, it's not Top Gear's, nor any other journalist's, job to play mechanic with a test drive vehicle.
Dan Cohen Named Founding Director of the Digital Public Library of America
Sometimes I think the only growth industry and reliable money for some types of creative work is teaching, for example journalism school.

Another example, a friend of a friend worked for a couple of years as a cameraman for a Canadian sports network then got laid off. He spent some time trying to get another job in the industry, failed and then ended up at a teaching job teaching the same thing to high school students.
no comic sans here on Ubuntu I guess, I saw Times New Roman
This article lost me at "laydeez"
Always check the sauce:

#book .page{
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
font-size:12px;
line-height:1.5;
}
You have quite a few players that do this, challenging traditional "corporate business intelligence" solutions with more affordable, innovative and powerful alternatives.

Some serious ones are:

- Good Data http://www.gooddata.com/

- BiMe http://www.bimeanalytics.com/

- Tableau software http://www.tableausoftware.com/

- QlikView http://www.qlikview.com/ (not sure it still fits in this category though)

(edit: post formatting)
Of course not getting better at your craft.

Just staying on top of new ways to practice that craft.
I think his study is biased if you check out his personal website: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html
He is a longtime anti-h1b activist.
Yes, the nonstandard link structure (page numbers for navigation, with no ability to use a URL for a link to a specific page) is at least as bad a crime against Web standards as the Comic Sans font on the site. And the copy (text) on the site reads like a Sunday school lesson for little children much more than like a communication for adults about the leader of a multinational organization.
I already stopped subscribing. About three years ago. Probably around the time they started paying $100 an article.
An excellent writeup on different techniques to do this: http://www.keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-coins/
Whilst you are unavoidably picking up points on your CV with every project you complete and every line of code you write, you may not, and indeed probably are not actually getting any better.

I think I understand the gist of what he's trying to say: you can only
know you've improved if you know what you're trying to achieve and
measure what you do. By that measure doing arbitrary things "to get
better" won't lead to improvement.

I think he's wrong in two ways.

First, he ignores a situation I've experienced many times - getting
"stuck" in a point of stable local maxima after finding a less than
perfect solution to a problem. Playing around with new and unrelated
stuff occasionally helped me identify something I initially overlooked
in my initial problem and lead me to something better.

Second, and perhaps more important, I believe the simple unconscious
act of learning and sharing new things can lead many to live longer,
happier and arguably better lives.
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Ya, the middle man is getting cut out, but when a site like the Atlantic can publish your content, give you a byline, and a wider audience, you can do a lot with that exposure.

Or you can write a bitchy blog post and keep writing for nknews.com