skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but the author's note about the Council of Elrond is extremely convincing. If Tolkien wanted to strike this plan as a possibility, he could easily have added 1-2 lines into the Council talks where they discuss (and refute) every plan they can think of. In the end there's nothing concrete in Tolkien's work that refutes the 'eagle plan' as viable. Suggesting fan-fiction and/or 'the unknown' as proof that it's not possible isn't in the spirit of the article, per this section:

> My question is not what fan-fiction we can add to the story to rule out the "eagles" plan; my question is what Tolkien has written which rules it out.

That being said, your thoughts about the Hobbits' stealthiness is agreeable, but again it's more of a matter of what can be proven by excerpts from the books, not what can be guessed/assumed.
Justifying a Larger iPhone
You're vastly overrating the size of the burble that HN sits in. On top of that, while this game is pretty, it's really not that unique.
If my first tar attempt fails for some reason, but it made a lot of progress, I switch to rsync. Best of both worlds. This hasn't come up often enough for me to script it.
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For me, the glob gets a lot of use.
Absolutely, if you could figure out a way to make that deal without Kim executing the 'traitors' first. Those plots, like valkyrie, are always exceptionally risky. There's no doubt plenty of the Hitler style demigod fear is present (not necessarily with the top of the junta, they know Kim is just a puppet, but everybody else).
In case you just can't get enough of the craziness, there is only one site that really matters for things like this: http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum.php
This works great. I am currently looking to get a small DB of related keywords and just beginning to think about how to get them. This is awesome. It needs two cells to get some context. One cell does not work and should be expected.

On a slightly related note, what do people usually do if they want a list of all say, manufacturers of Sunglasses? I usually am way behind the web server in C and recently dabbling into the JS and python world.
I understand, and I agree to some extent, but the truth is that it is too risky.

In my country at least, but I'm sure it is the same for most, researchers survive by putting their quota (fixed by the ministry of research) of publications in well renowned journals. The risk of having someone "steal" your idea (in the very loose definition) and beat you to the publication, for instance by having a bigger research team, thus putting you out of a job, is a real one.

In an ideal world your system would be perfect, putting the advancement of knowledge before everything else (as open source does with software), but researchers have to look out for themselves before all, considering how their performance is evaluated and how that affects their livelihood. Unlike open source software, there aren't a lot of ways to monetize scientific publications. I would enjoy seeing things change, but change is slow to come. Especially in an area as pachydermic and anchored in traditions as academia.

I really like Authorea and I will use it for non-published work, but I feel that limiting private publications so much is going to limit adoption. But then again what do I know, I guess we will see how it goes.
Young people should work at young companies
If I'm at a restaurant looking at the menu it's because I'm doing something out of the ordinary. Maybe I'm on holiday, or I'm treating myself (or someone else), or celebrating. In any case I don't really care about calories, I'm there to enjoy myself. I'm not going to not order the meal I want because it's a few hundred calories more than the celery salad.

The rest of the time I eat healthily enough that one night off probably isn't going to harm me.
Love is a subjective experience of consciousness. We must first have some clue about what consciousness is, then perhaps we will be able to scientifically explain what love is.
>What's missing is the setup.

In PHP you only have to do the copy part. The setup is done for you.

>Most shared hosting centers just preinstall a LAMP stack and call it a day.

Which is our point exactly. If and when "most shared hosting centers" also do the same for Node, RoR etc, then we can talk again.

Until them, PHP is vastly easier to deploy for most people.
if you find this sort of 'research' fun and/or you find this sort of stuff to be the norm rather than the exception ;), you should chk out https://www.appthority.com/careers
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Sorry to be competing with charliepark, above :-) I also just launched a remote job board at http://hirethere.com. I think we're pulling in some of the same posts, tho.
I find myself typing `sudo !!` on a daily basis. You'd think I'd eventually learn to remember to type sudo the first time, but nope.
Few silly questions:
1) I got the feeling from this discussion and some other sources that there are a couple of known Windows kernel vulnerabilities that are making these exploitation easier. What about Microsoft? They don't care or are they fixing those bugs?

2) How secure is let's say Firefox + Ubuntu/Fedora, latest updates, default settings. I haven't seen that many exploits for Linux in general. Is it because no one cares about linux or because it is harder and thus more valuable than windows exploits so no one share linux ones?
Very good idea. Clean execution as well.
I tried the iOS version on a friend's iPad. I had none of the problems I mentioned, and it was really nice on the big screen. I am only about halfway done with the free levels, and hoping there are more special tiles like the rainbow-swirl one. Do the level packs come with more special tile types?
Nice piece by Mark. As someone who is used to "version" I too am somewhat off put by the rolling release concept. My challenge is how to say what is true, for example this javascript will run in Chrome for all Chrome > build xyz? It was simpler (not saying better, just simpler) to V2.5 or later supports this.
Or in the case of many here, technical journal articles and blogs and the like.
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Nobody is suggestion controverting science established through tests, only questioning ideological presumptions.
There is a limited amount of workers you can run with 512mb of memory (max 3 for my application) and the random routing can overload one dyno while the others are doing nothing. Basically you have to scale and pay more when with Digital Ocean I can buy a 2gb machine and run 10 workers spending 20$ per month.
What computer science papers should everyone read?
I know this probably isn't meant for me since I don't seem to know what I'm doing. But how do you run this? An answer in a bit more detail than your github link would be useful. I have it on my server in a public folder and now I don't know what to do.
Marijn Haverbeke has a stellar track record of work in this area, so this should be taken more seriously than usual.
EwanToo I am the writer- those two guys just showed me the site. I used to blog on my company website (for like a month) but I quit because it never went anywhere- but when it gets posted here people talk about it- comment etc. made me want to write more.
>Seriously though, I don't understand how that is really any more work.

Obtuse on purpose? For one, what npm install? On most shared hosting services there is no Node environment at all. Heck, in most of them you cannot even install one IF you want it. We're not talking VPS here.

If you read the article, our topic is where the vast masses get to deploy: in shared hosting services. No VPSs, no AWS, no Heroku, no nothing.
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Could be, but Plato said the same thing more or less.
The Eagles seem very picky about when they help and who they're helping. I highly doubt they would do such a deed without Gandalf letting them in on the full story.
I actively don't want to see calories on the menu. It is just annoying. Sure, tell me if I ask, but don't push it in my face.

I don't want to see anything else on the menu. All I want to know is what the dish is called, what food it is, and how much it costs.
There's cryptcat if you need encryption.
"bar" is also a nice little program if you like to see an ETA (c.f. http://clpbar.sourceforge.net/ )
In my experience, I rely heavily on what I consider "Open Source Karma". There are a handful of projects that I use very frequently and my entire (geospatial) industry relies on. For every single one of those, I contribute something. examples are:

- I maintain an open window to the IRC channel, lurk, and help when possible ( I can go weeks without doing this, too)

- Contribute a single line patch to fix something minor

- Contribute a 1000+ lines of new functionality when I understand the internals.

- Subscribe to the mailing list and spend 3 seconds everyday scanning through that daily digest titles to see if there is something I can comment on that may be helpful.

- Do a presentation about that technology in conferences/meet ups/hackathons/whatever.

- Sometimes even volunteer to spend a few hours helping with a booth of that project in a local conference.

- Watch the Github repo and comment/help with bug reports submissions

- Submit bug reports

What do I get in return?

Putting aside the amazing conversations I have with people far smarter than I and the unusual/rewarding friendships/connections I have made, my Open Source Karma there is off the hook. I get a level of support that cannot be bought. It is the difference between intrinsic/extrinsic motivators.

In the past, I have run into issues that I have been trying to solve myself for days. Then I just went over to IRC to ask for help and in less than 10 minutes I had a patch with a fix/workaround from one of the core maintainers who personally debugged my problem and fixed it. There is no typical commercial paid support package that will get you that.

This is exactly why the project health of an open source component is measured in community size/involvement. If you do something minor to give back, you will get your bug fixed because there are real people behind those projects. Meanwhile, the douchebag that demands his bug gets fixed because there is some "implied responsibility to support your package because you are the father of that project" will get ignored.
I had a saying years ago that went like this...

"You can tell the condition of the economy by the quality of fast food employees."

> People don't hire teens when the economy is weak because they are less reliable than adults.

Incorrect: People don't hire teens when the economy is weak because they can hire a MBA, BS, etc for the same price because they desperately need a job.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21180371

Spain unemployment rate hit a record: youth rate at 55%
Peer-to-peer rental: The rise of the sharing economy
> There are substantial similarities between the two.

That's similarity, not copying. Copying is bit for bit or pixel for pixel identical.
4 days for approval? That's pretty fast.
Thanks very much! It was a good excuse to learn Twitter bootstrap, and put my own spin on it :-)
I turn that on when editing Git commits.

autocmd FileType gitcommit setlocal spell
They're both useful. tar over ssh is very fast for large amounts of data. rsync is only fast if most of the data already exists.
Interesting project. Looks lean and fast. No bells, just exactly what you need. Good job.
Bob can't feed himself or his kids on that, so I have to reach into my pocket (taxes) to help him out.
If I didn't do that, Bob and his kids would either slowly starve to death or move somewhere else. Either way, no more employee for you.

There is your subsidy.
To be clear the author of this IS the author of code mirror! That should be in large bold letters on that first page (it is on the crowd sourcing page). My first thought was "really? this is just code mirror with added cleverness, sort of lame to profit from it" - totally different story when it's the author adding value to something he has already contributed to the community. In that case this is the "premium" plan for code mirror.
Like murtza said, your question isn't specific enough. There are lists of 'Best Angels' that you find online, but its relative to the expertise, network, experience, etc that you are looking for. Ron is definitely towards the top of the list.
if you trust linux or theo for security, you're going to have a bad time.
Ok, I'm sorry, you got me, I cannot give an as detailed analysis as the article's author. I just didn't want the books to become irrelevant by making the journey pointless :'(
I have for many years speculated that Gandalf's plan could have been to get everyone to Gondor and allow Sauron to besiege the combined forces of "the west" and then fly the ring to mount doom at the last moment. If this had been Gandalf's plan from the start, and if there were some hint of this in the book, then the rescue from mount doom would not seem like such an egregious plot device.

As it is, the story makes no sense unless one assumes that Gandalf simply figured all this out and said nothing (after all Frodo's disappearance after Boromir's lapse rendered the plan obsolete, and Gandalf wasn't there anyway). Again, if such a plan existed, there's no evidence Gandalf confided it to Aragorn. Indeed, a simple hurried exchange between Gandalf and Aragorn before Gandalf confronts the balrog could have foreshadowed the eagles and solved LOTR's biggest plot hole.
I did not say that at all. There is a rapidly growing middle class in China.
Olark (YC S09) is hiring the best support team in the world (Ann Arbor, MI)
Don’t be ugly - The Rising Importance of Design at Google
Thanks for the response Jason, and for the docs.

That does answer my question. I guess for me, I see these documents and I am overwhelmed. But that's just probably because it's so foreign to me.

I actually was going to say, is there anyway to make these documents more concise like underscore.js? Then I opened up underscore.js in Textmate, hit print, and realized it would be 30 pages printed.

I guess I didn't realize how much the perceived length of something depends on the background of the reader. For me, underscore.js is small and concise, for a non programmer it probably looks like a tome. When I saw the Seed docs to me it was a tome, but to you it's probably a quick read.

I do wish legal docs were smaller. But I also wish code were smaller. And I don't really have an answer to how to make that so!
I was thinking more along the lines of Russia using short range nuclear weapons as a threat in Europe and Korea against both US forces and allies. Since Russia had the bomb in 1949, and was designing the R7 in 1953, I suspect they had the ability to put a nuke on top of a short or medium range missile before the end of the Korean war, and of course at the least deliver a nuke via bomber (not to the continental US necessarily, although there was the concept of using the pole as the route to do it via one way trip; I have no idea if the Soviet bombers had range for a one way trip in 1953).
Demanding that users are available to provide maintenance and feature improvement is a recipe for far fewer projects being released.
A flight of Eagles over the Ered Lithui would be pretty dang obvious to Sauron's forces. I imagine the Nazgul with their flying beasts could do some serious damage, and I would think that would put the ring at great risk of falling into the hands of the Nazgul.

Also, the Eagles didn't fly into Mordor until after the Ring had been destroyed, which means the Nazgul wouldn't have been a factor anymore.

The article's conjecture that Eagles could fly undetected over the Ered Lithui grossly underestimates the effectiveness of even a moderately skilled wilderness scout, which I must assume Sauron would have many.

I'm not sure if Tolkien had all this in mind, but considering that Tolkien fought in WWI, which was the first war where air power started to come into its own, I wouldn't be surprised if he took some of this into account.
I would still never be able to use a .co domain for my product, even though a neater domain could be created compared to what I can get with a .com. Much of my user base consists of the non tech savvy, most of which would interpret it as a spelling mistake and visit the .com site instead. Unless you can incorporate the ".co" into the name of your product ("o.co" and overstock.com comes to mind here), I just don't see a .co being viable.
I would venture that there were many possible alternate decisions at various points in the plot, and discussing all of them thoroughly was not necessarily a literary enhancement. The "eagles plan" itself is fan fiction, and refusing to accept more "fan fiction" in response to it is a bit disingenuous.
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Java, because its not ruby ;)
Crows.

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Crebain

If crows can be sent into the world to hunt for the ringbearer they can certainly patrol the skies around Mordor. Crows spy the eagles entering Mordor and forces are dispatched to counter them.
That's a clean design. I'd make the top part smaller though. Maybe trim down the logo size, move it to the left, move the search bar up top, and put the results closer to the top.

Also, since your listings are one liners, I'd put more listings per page.
Hah, Fortville is on the outskirts of Indianapolis, so we have a robust base of developers. Indiana's colleges produce a ton of IT students as well. We do also use remote developers, we are actually looking for a Python developer and a sys admin. Devs can be remote, the sys admin needs to be local.
http://www.sixfeetup.com/company/jobs

Also some of the big local companies like to use Python including Angie's List.
Hate to do the grammar nazi here, but since the company seems to offer grammar editing, reading phrases like

This new method helped us to raise a more money in less time then normal boring pledge drives.

doesn't lead to much trust in their skills...
This Is My Brain on Kickstarter
I mean that in situations where you have a possible type error, you can substitute compiler typechecking with your own typechecking by using something like (cond (= (type foo) bar)) or (cond (= (class foo) bar)). And you can decide how you want to handle it, instead of necessarily throwing a type error. Plus, polymorphic functions allow you to handle different types with the same function instead of having to overload it. And the test suite lets you run tests like (is (instance? Bar foo)) to help you catch type errors before you push to production.

So, what I mean is, although giving up the type-checking compiler opens up the possibility of introducing runtime type errors in production, it's far from a given that they are going to happen, because dynamic languages give you plenty of other tools to prevent them.

And Java's type system is onerous because it gives you all of the rigidity of static typing but none of the power of type inference. You really notice the difference when you switch to a language like ML or Scala that allows pattern-matching and polymorphic functions, unlike Java where you have to use overloading.
If you're worried about sitting all day, drink more. Water, tea, coffee, anything really. You'll have to go to the bathroom more, that WILL get you out of your chair.

Green Tea keeps me moving.
Could be the death of a website / community.
No, the U.S. Will Never, Ever Turn Into Greece
I still ask myself why Elrond didn't just push to the lava the human king when he refused to drop the ring. Knowing the pain, the evil of the matter, letting him go freely with the ring just made this story a bit silly.
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As both a parent and the husband of a teacher, this kind of comment annoys me

“How is it possible that I hand over a child for six hours every day, five days a week, and you give me back someone who is basically illiterate?

I know it's a hypothetical parent asking this question, but it is quite a common attitude.

Yes, schools clearly have a responsibility to teach childen to read, write, do maths etc.

But parents should take some responsibility for bringing up their children as well. And things like a an actual love of reading (as opposed to the basic mechanisms of understanding words) are far more likely to come from home life than from school.
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Tolkien used the eagles as his standard deus ex machina.

- Dwarves + Bilbo + Gandalf stuck in burning trees with enemies around? The eagles to the rescue!

- How to wrap up the Battle of the 5 armies when all is lost? The eagles are coming!

- How to rescue Gandalf from Sauruman! The eagles!

- How to rescue Gandalf from the top of a mountain after an epic battle with a balrog? The eagles!

- How to rescue Frodo and Sam from a volcano blowing up? You guessed it! The eagles!

If you read The Silmarillion and other related works, eagles show up several more times in deus ex machinas in the Gondolin stories.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_(Middle-earth) for more on eagles in his stories, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle_and_Child for a possible explanation of Tolkien's fondness for eagles.
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I've been debating about that. I want it to feel design-y, but if it's interfering with the experience, then it's not a good thing... :-) Thanks!
Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine
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I remember in a mathematical probability class, the professor writing down the three basic axioms. The first two are very simple...the third is just additivity:

P(A1 U A2 U ...) = P(A1) + P(A2) + ...

for disjoint Ai's.

He explained the intent, and asked us if we thought the axiom was reasonable. He seemed very disappointed when everyone nodded and smiled that it seemed okay, unobjectionable, even obvious. He re-emphasized that this was an infinite union. He said something to the effect of, you seem too complacent about this one, because the union is allowed to be infinite, and you can play all kinds of games with that.

It was only later that some of us came across the huge literature that alters these axioms (some by weakening the additivity axiom above), to see what more general systems come out.
Are there any widely-used languages that aren't robust? That seems like kind of shallow praise.
Contract labor for the win.

Sell the mowing job as a unit. I will pay you $X to mow lawn, you have one day to complete the task. You separate the speed in which the labor works from the value of the job. In most cases this leads the worker to complete as fast as possible for their own benefit, but does not harm you if the worker decides to take their time.
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Thanks for the update. I was concerned that Guido leaving Google meant more than just Guido leaving Google.
Most of it made sense until:

But if we want to get beyond being a platform for
hobbyists, we need to accelerate the work on Unity to
keep up with Android, Chrome, Windows and Apple. And
that’s more important than taking care of the needs of
those who don’t share our goal of a free software norm.

Who is he talking about there? Aren't many of the complaints coming from people who are thinking that Ubuntu's heading towards a less free(dom) direction?
"Models used in client server communication need to follow Java Bean spec which is like the exact antagonistic concept to immutability."

I agree, and believe the wide adoption of Java Beans marked the end of any real application of object oriented principles in common enterprise Java development.

Public access to all state through setters, and no encapsulation of state in your data model. This is utterly antithetical to object oriented programming principles.