skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I agree with the other poster. You might have misunderstood. Namely, "... watching to see what's up the track and meeting it when it comes. That's gumption." seems to be at odds with your interpretation that "gumption is a lack of foresight and planning."

I definitely don't think the OP was advocating shotgun programming (although I don't think the OP was explicitly advocating against it either).
Which is why it's a good thing that virtually every car has a place to plug in your smartphone.
Hi Jared, dropped you an email.
There are no other digital cash system "secure" from manipulation by authorities (ie. none are decentralized). This includes Chaum's DigiCash.
> If you only have a minimum income, then monopoly/oligopoly providers will raise their prices to absorb the entire minimum income.

Uncompetitive markets are a different animal. Even if you had the government making the purchasing decisions, non-competing suppliers could still just charge monopoly prices that increase as additional dollars become available. The only real solution to that is to make the market more competitive, e.g. busting up the cartels and adopting policies that inhibit them from forming.

But you're almost onto something. The issue is that when your goal is to increase the number of transactions in a market (e.g. the number of people who can buy a home), increasing the demand by increasing the cash in peoples' pockets is only an indirect method to accomplish that. In order for more people to be able to own a home, there have to actually be more homes. If you give people money then they bid up housing prices, which causes new home construction to be more profitable and so more new homes are constructed. The trouble is that the large bulk of the money doesn't make it to the people constructing new homes, it goes primarily to the sellers of existing homes (who comprise the bulk of the market), and so only a small fraction of the tax dollars expended go toward promoting new home construction and therefore to increasing the number of people who can buy a home. Directly subsidizing supply is a much more effective way to accomplish specific goals like that, e.g. by providing money when a newly constructed home is purchased. Then the subsidy is distributed between the buyers (making the purchase more affordable) and the new home builders (increasing the incentive to build more new homes) and cuts the existing home owners you didn't intend to subsidize out of the subsidy.

This is basic supply side economics. The key is to recognize how this sort of thing has been corrupted into not accomplishing its goals in the past: If the market being subsidized is uncompetitive then the suppliers can fix prices so as to take most or all of the subsidy as profit and cause little or no increase in supply at all. In other words, you should never, ever subsidize a cartel. Subsidies for oil exploration come to mind as a good example of this sort of preposterous stupidity. But again, the solution in those cases is to make the market competitive. Either bust them up or, if you can't (e.g. because OPEC is outside your jurisdiction), promote new competition like alternative energy.

TL;DR: You don't have to have the government supply the services, you just have to have the government make sure the market stays competitive.
"Am I more productive?, look at the other side and ask, Am I happier? If the answer is no, then working from home probably isn’t for you. If the answer is yes, then think hard about how valuable productivity is versus your own happiness."

This is great advice if you're self employed or can pick and choose employers.

The other point of the article, that forcing people to come to the office is somehow morally wrong, is nonsense.
Fuck it, lets just call it 1.0
SRS started as one guy who would post lists of quotes from Reddit (iirc, upvoted comments in mainstream subs) and Stormfront, with the object being to guess which quote came from which. It was harder than most Redditors would like to admit. Eventually, he quit the site entirely.

At some point a bunch of SA goons took over the then-defunct subreddit, to use it as a platform to take down the highly active /r/jailbait. The effort continued to hold a mirror up to some of the more racist/misogynistic/etc comments of reddit.

A lot of the criticism of SRS comes from the fact that people don't like being called racist. Nearly everyone agrees that racists are bad people who deserve terrible punishments for their actions. No one wants to accept culpability for the fact that by upvoting a racist comment they are supporting racism.
I'd always been jealous of a friend's realtime gas metering on his BMW (up until the time I had to bring him gas at the side of the highway.)

I was intrigued, I hit the buy button. We'll see how well it actually works. I'd been meaning to get a code reader anyway. ;)
No, we have code reviews instead of pull requests, which as you point out is mostly terminology. But that terminology is indicative of assumptions that are baked into how the software operates. The assumptions and workflow of Kiln assumes you are using it inside of a business. I just gave one superficial example of a larger point I was trying to make about our intentions vs. people creating open source solutions and how that translates into defaults/workflows/usability of the software in different areas.
Hey Jared,

Great work thus far. I'm curious, do you have any paying customers yet?
I'm pretty unhappy with O'Reilly's trend towards tiny books as well. I realize that 80 page books are easier to iterate rapidly on and get out the door while they're still relevant, but they're so short that they feel like glorified (and expensive) blog posts. I read tech books instead of blog posts because I appreciate the overall structure and "big picture" views that they give, not because I have some kind of fetish for paying for information.

I've also found Manning to be a pretty good publisher. In particular, I really appreciate that their books tend to avoid "language reference syndrome", where half of the book walks you through the language syntax and the other half exhaustively details every function in the standard library. Books like that tend to be out-of-date as soon as they come off the (possibly virtual) printing press, and they just aren't as necessary as they were when online documentation didn't exist.
"The software is the central authority."

The collective "authority" decides how the bugs are to be addressed. Bitcoin is not fully autonomous and without social guidance.
Ouch: "Error establishing database connection"

Scramble to fix it before you drop off the front page!
"poor dear" isn't the worst she's been called w/r/t this bit of budgetary honesty coming to light. Nor has she read all that much of the commentary. She has read the pieces by Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, etc.

The most recent one on Al Jazeera really pissed her off though, because that person had written for cheap or for free for the Atlantic in the past. Which seems disingenuous at best.

Some of her writings for the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/sarah-kendzior/

Her article for Al Jazeera:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/20133111642...

I think Sarah is trying to make a point about wage stagnation, but it is lost in a mist of links and appeals to our better selves. If money wasn't being actively redistributed towards the super wealthy there would be more money for individuals to pay for good writing. I think we can all agree on that.

But in the mean time, you take what you can get and work with what you have.
Such a stupid statement. There should be world peace. The world population should be 300 million for a sustainable future.

There were many advanced distributed data systems on the Internet in the early 90's, the Web won to a big degree because of it's simplicity.
Building your first HTML5 app for Firefox OS in 5 mins
I'll have my web without "social janitorial work", thank you very much.
Given your response - I don't understand why you would then make the statement about Chaos Monkey. It also appears that your earlier statement appears to be false: "We do not waste any time "architecting for failure"". If you can pull the plug on a server and not lose service, you certainly have architected for failure.

Chaos Monkey does effectively exactly what you claim to be able to survive - it unplugs servers. The fact that it runs on AWS is inmaterial, it exists to make sure you really can survive a server disappearing. The underlying point is that many teams build their software to survive server failures and never test the fail-over till it occurs for real, that often goes very badly. Chaos Monkey tests fail-over on a regular basis so you find out about it before it costs you hours of downtime.
Thanks, we're excited about it! This is a list of many of the parameters that can be obtained: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs

There are many more manufacturer-specific parameters, but we don't currently deal with those.
Would love to be able to try it out without having to sign up. Guest account?
Did she know that? It sounds like Farhad was point on the get-a-guy-from-reddit thing, so she may have not known the details, just that "Alexis was asked, but he isn't coming".
I have published my own book, and know quite a bit about the industry. Self-publishing has many pluses, but it also has many disadvantages relative to working with a large publisher, the largest being (for an unknown): building demand in the absence of brand and network.

While O'Reilly may have made some mistakes in this case (I have no idea), the author is unnecessarily personalizing and complicating what appears to have been a normal business transaction, with bumps in the road for both sides.

You can't succeed in business by being this high maintenance.
Farhad didn't know what happened. All he knew is that Ohanian was supposed to at least be asked, and he supposedly wasn't even corresponded with, which could, by all accounts, not even be true. He was on the invite list, and decided against. I'm not sure what part doesn't correlate with "dropped out."
I recently did a research mini-project for a startup in Shanghai and I found this site useful: http://xyo.net. They have apps data by iOS/Android by category by country.

Agree with t0 that screen scrape will do in most case. Download free version from screen-scraper.com and go through their tutorial. I have no tech background by manage to scrape information I need.

Good luck.
Those tweets are infuriating. That having been said SRS has a shit ton of baggage and as long as Laurelai roams there I have no problem disparaging it. Laurelai's behavior, and the cover-up and apologetic behavior of the mods of /r/lgbt are a stain upon the feminist movement and I hate that they're the snapshot of feminism on reddit, because they're not.

Take the top post in SRS right now as an example, there are things in that subreddit that are very obviously misogynistic and then there are things that they simply "don't like" or are unwilling to even have a discussion about. The comments in that subreddit are just as insidious and redunctionary as the commentary they proclaim to be against. It's done in some sort of tongue-in-cheek irony style, but it's not, it's gross and annoying to read.

The mob mentality is bad either way, and the tweets are a gross depiction of the dark side of reddit. But for every post in SRS, I encounter dozens of trolls every day that are downvoted for homophobia, racism and misogyny.
Since the site is having problems:

Vimeo video: http://vimeo.com/54228044

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instabridg...

Blog (which seems to be working): http://blog.instabridge.com/

And text-only Google cache the above came from, which has a couple other links, but not much to show: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ins...
My apologies, this was greatly mislead information from me. Not sure why I had that note in there, but fixed it.
I find it interesting in the comments that most people are claiming that Canonical's time would be better spent contributing to existing projects, but isn't the nature of Open Source to be constantly forking, iterating, and contributing new code when you think the existing stuff isn't good enough?

Aren't these attitudes the basis of why many subsystems in Linux have been around for decades?

Others complain about fragmentation, which is another obtuse argument when you count the number Linux distributions available, the number of open source packages, and the entire nature of GitHub with their "please fork me" button. Open Source is by nature fragmented.

If they want to go run off and do their own thing, what's the problem? It's their time and money. If what they write is crap, no other distributions will use it. If it's awesome, it has a lot of potential, but the community should decide after it's released, not before.
Been using and enjoying this for the past few days. Looking forward to the future of the product!
I typically read 2-3 programming books per month on my Kindle. Some of them are traditionally published. Others are not.
One TBS game that solves this problem in an interesting way is Ultracorps [1] (very oldschool, browser based). Turns are simultaneous - you give commands, then when all players are done (or the timer expires) commands are executed simultaneously. When fleets clash, a battle happens which is resolved according to a fixed set of rules. The results of previous turns are accessible via logs.

For me, the downfall of that game was the excessive need to write down information outside the game, e.g. plausible enemy fleet positions based on where you last saw them.

[1]: http://ultracorps.sjgames.com/
Programming is terrible. Lessons learned from a life wasted
I like the idea of comparing fuel consumption to usage -- this could be useful to hypermilers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-efficient_driving
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Continuous Deployment in Five Easy Steps
I've been reading a lot about publishing and self-publishing, and the core themes around going the traditional route keep repeating themselves.

The negatives of traditional publishing:

1) Unless you're a known commodity/celebrity, you're basically writing for your advance, and that it.

2) There's not going to be a lot of marketing support for your book from anyone other than you.

3) You don't have as much control over the product as you think you do.

There are a lot of positives, too -- there's the ego aspect, as you have to get past a gatekeeper; if you're a writer, you don't have to worry about all the stuff that happens to go from manuscript to book; they handle distribution; etc. But this guy didn't really gain or care about those factors. And some factors which would be a positive for many writers (i.e. the design of the book itself) are a HUGE negative for him.

I'm really not surprised that his experience was negative.
Very cool. I'll probably buy one when it comes out for Android.
This is almost exactly what I've been designing in my head.
Ah, that's old documentation. We host Kiln on our servers now, so we don't sell on premise versions that you'd have to install which makes this a bit moot. But if we do start to do that again, you would be able to spin them up the same way you'd spin up GitHub enterprise, with a VM: https://enterprise.github.com/faq
The privacy policy implies that there might be a way to turn it off ("...If you use..."):

"If you use Crash Alert, in the event you are in a crash, we may share your location and personally identifiable information with emergency responders and your emergency contacts."[1]

[1] https://www.automatic.com/legal#privacy
For starters I'm not an Apple apologist. I use Apple products but I'm fairly critical of them. You don't have to be an apologist to have a specific opinion, and it's reductive to consistently frame counterpoints as "just another Apple apologist excuse". That's often what's bandied about, from both camps. So for the purpose of this discussion apologist, sheeple, iSheep, fandroids and so on should be verboten.

Second, if file management was a feature that people were crying out for in droves they'd either not be buying into iOS or they'd have created such a furore that Apple would have implemented it. Apple has responded to platform criticism by implementing the functionality as iOS has matured, they've just cherry picked what they're implementing to deliver the functionality that has a benefit to the most people. Aside from the obvious missteps like Newsstand or Passbook anyway.

If people want to manage files on a smartphone that's fantastic, there's a platform for them. Why is it a negative point that there's a platform that has a different opinion? It's not, there's a wealth of choice from smartphone players now.
You're right that I'm using reductio ad absurdum, but my goal is to call into question the idea that productivity is all that matters. If we're going to argue things based solely on productivity, then all sorts of absurd policies become viable (Adderall, not hiring pregnant women, not hiring people with disabilities)
Point me to someone else who does latency based routing (roughly equivalent to GeoDNS) with data centres around the world and I'm there.
If you're actually interested, Fleetio[1] already works with VHM hardware from Prova Systems for $5 per vehicle per month.

[1]: http://www.fleetio.com/
The Guardian on the conclave decision
I think you just spoiled the plot for After Earth
I normally expect trolls at certain events, especially cheaper ones. However, I'm utterly shocked at the behavior of some of these people at SXSW who are in all likelihood representing a company, and/or paid $1000+ for a badge. The comments that some of the attendees made at this were something I'd expect at a PAX or ROFLcon (due to the price and age of participants), not SXSW.

Also, its unfortunate to hear about how they tried to rope in Alexis.
Unfortunately, your conspiracy theory conveniently overlaps a condition where the panelists simply want to represent themselves and their side of the story.
Your first mistake was using Reddit. Your second was going to South by Southwest.

That might be backwards, I am undecided.
> My guess is that an unpowered car uses more than that by itself

I don't think most car batteries are dead after twenty days of not driving, and, as you said, most batteries aren't always fully topped up.
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I'm really looking forward to these posts - it seems like a lot of the problems you would have faced are specific examples of more generalized data integration issues. Accordingly, the approaches used may have more general applications, which would be cool to tease out from your implementations.
NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars
Interesting discussion. I've looked at Reddit off and on over the years and to an outsider like me it seems to have become less and less civil over time. I've wondered about that.

Clearly the Internet gives the broken and angry people a voice they didn't have before. Sometimes that helps them, but often it seems to result in just a bunch bile being spewed around.

At what point does the combination of IP address + bile start to become a corpus for focusing our efforts at community remediation? Is there a common good to be had by finding out if these are communities of angry people or are they just scattered about in the general population. Can we help them? Should we?
Only if you could call the ipod a clone of all previous mp3 players. Technology != Customer Experience.
I find that books help provide structure to your learning. Yes, all of the information is out there, but I need to know that it a) exists and b) what order is optimal for learning.
Would you mind indenting that 2 spaces on its own line so it doesn't stretch the page out? (I see all square boxes, sadly, and it's pretty wide)
I like it how Google Plus is being used as a micro-blogging platform
+1 from me. I don't like git but am getting forced to use it anyway.
Considering the context of this thread, which is about reasons to increase spending and the fact that this would never happen in a deadlocked legislature, the idea that people who refuse to cut spending would be to blame is sort of contradictory.
As far as I've been able to tell they're a legit subreddit, though mostly on the extreme side.

An interesting experiment would be to post Chris Rock or Dave Chapelle comedy routines to a reddit discussion and see how long it takes for SRS to flag the racist.
I'm with you. Pay $70 for an app that tells me how much money I spent on gas? If I cared that much about my money I wouldn't pay that much for an app when I have paper and pencil.

How about I just make an app that uses GPS to check your speed and flash "SLOW THE FUCK DOWN" on quick acceleration, repetitive deceleration or anything over 65mph? Do it over a weekend, charge $5. You'll make more with lots of fish than a handful of whales.
I'm a huge fan of IA Writer, there's a couple of areas where I think it could be improved though. Being online is one of them, the other being an option to show bold/italic/underline formatting (as opposed to just markdown syntax).

One difference that's immediately obvious using Draft is the home icon and mark draft button in the top right. Compared to IA writer it feels like unnecessary noise. It would be great if these faded out when you started typing and only came into view when you move the mouse.
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Not sure if you are talking about books in printed form or if you are including ebooks as a form of "online docs".

But there are a lot of books/ebooks that worth having as regular reading or just as reference.

Few examples: The art of computer programming, Effective C++, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, OnLisp, among others.

Yeah, you can find a few of them for free as a digital version, but they were written in a book fashion with the regular editorial process that is lacking in a lot of wikis and on-line docs.

I definitely see space for both if the material is good.
Where do you live that you get a bill for 911 calls?
I guess Opera is just really, really boring [0,1].

[0] http://imgur.com/joMTxLm

[1] http://imgur.com/TEmOTPo