skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I've heard of Spreedly. I'm not 100% sure what it is, but it sounds interesting. At the moment we are looking to move from one payment gateway to another (both supported by Spreedly), am I correct in saying that if we were using Spreedly we could do so without changing our application?
Science is already funded, in very large part, by the federal government (in the US). The research is already subject to political pressures, here we're just talking about the (much smaller) amount that goes towards publications. Federal grants are going to fund research, the results of which are locked up behind the paywalls of proprietary journals (grant dollars even pay for the privilege of publishing in some journals). Publications by federal employees are already required by law to be in the public domain. It's time we look at doing the same for the results of federally funded research.
A good start would be increased quality of interfaces and abilities to find and connect similar sources; that's all I'm really asking for. There is a huge amount of research published within the Gale-Wilson-ElSevier-JSTOR-Ebsco-Taylor&Francis vaults, properties of immense academic and economic value, yet the tools they charge to access them aren't much more advanced than Yahoo circa '99. Don't even get me started on the transition from physical-copy journal publishing where you always 'own' the copy to a model of journals-as-a-service (the ultimate DRM; they host it) that cost well into the five figure range per year where you lose all access once you let the subscriptions expire.

Meanwhile, 'search' as we know it rules the world and is the driving force enabling the entire tech industry. It wouldn't be hard to throw a little effort in building out their platforms, but there's no competition to force further development in their products.
Have you tried explaining to a developer (or anyone, for that matter) that they are objectively worth less in Missouri than they are in San Francisco?

Everyone loves it when they move from the midwest or southeast to the Valley because they can add a zero to their salary. Nobody moves out of the Valley precisely because you're subtracting a zero from their salary. It seems folks are all about factoring in cost of living when it gets them an extra $40k/year. When it means they should earn less, they just ignore it and refuse to take a pay cut on principle. That's been my experience, at least.
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Might also bring the benefit of looking at things far away too...
Conspicuous Consumption
that's a pretty good pamphlet, thanks for sharing. but unfortunately, age of discovery seafaring ventures and whaling ventures were very different indeed. the former where driven by discovery and intensely entrepreneurial. the latter were driven my mercantilism and commercial routines and more industrial i.e., less entrepreneurial. you'll learn far more about the implicitly human dynamics of coordinated upward defiance (mutiny) and entrepreneurial action studying the age of discovery. that's what mutiny and its bounty does. whaling wasn't part of the age of discovery, as you imply (btw it belies your point that the age of discovery was intensely studied). whaling came later, with england, which was about 100 years behind spain and 200 years behind portugal with regard to seafaring. that being said, english mercantilism and its traditions generated the largest empire in world history. but large bureaucratic empires are not really what we're talking about here; we're talking about agile entrepreneurial ventures.
Think of the cache pyramid.[0] Latency may be higher, but if there is enough work / data then it's still efficient to do work remotely / put data farther away.

From what I understand, the article is about two things:

1. Hot swappable components.

Oversimplified, but imagine being able to add / remove CPU and RAM to your server like you can with disk space and USB thumb drives.

2. Shareable resources / load balancing.

If one server is using all its CPU and another is using all its RAM, they can now use each other's resources.

You know how AWS is on-demand, scalable computing? This is the same thing but at a hardware level with CPU, RAM, disk, and network resources.

[0]: http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/computer-memory-pyramid.gif
WellTok is hiring. We're located in lower downtown Denver, just a few blocks from Coors field. We'll do relocation if you're not living around here. If you're interested in helping to solve some pretty important problems that can make you feel really good about the work you're doing, like helping folks get healthier or managing their chronic conditions, in a HUGE space (15% of the US GDP!), we would probably be a good fit.

Rails - We're looking for a seasoned full-stack engineer with experience building distributed systems and has spent some time with Rails. This person will be our seed engineer for this new chapter of growth that Welltok is starting - be our core systems team's coefficient!

JS - We're looking for someone who has a real interest in javascript in the browser. You should have some full-stack experience, but you've narrowed your focus a little bit towards the top of the stack. You should be familiar with the frameworks that bring structure and organization to applications (backbone.js, angularjs, ember, etc). You'll be using our Rails apps for your data needs so you should have familiarity with Rails.

Feel free to contact me directly with questions.
Writing High Quality Code in C#
Did you use emacs starter kit? Because that binds fullscreen to F11.

It is unbound on linux as well (emacs24)
'Middle of nowhere' is sometimes 2 miles from a town (with cable) or a mile from a regional airport.

We finally got 3MB DSL last year.
> I also question to what extent people are willing to develop software that is not fun for free.

Pay them to develop the features you want rather than pay the cost of using proprietary software or closed systems.

Everyone wins.
This. This makes me smile. For the name, tagline and the application.
I can't speak for anybody else, but all Gawker sites are in my killfile. Does a feminist _tabloid_ count? I don't know.
"Bitcoin is based on math and deep computer science."

The tech certainly is, but the value is not. The value is based on simple supply and demand. Currently, because the price is rocketing, there's huge demand. That will end when people get scared of the bubble bursting. Then the price will tumble. This is Economics 101 stuff.

The difficulty in creating an economy is not tech. That's relatively easy. The hard bit is creating a system that people can trust in the long term. That's not something anyone is going to crack overnight.
It's basically a computer with specialized hardware whose sole purpose is to mine Bitcoins, see http://www.butterflylabs.com/ for an example
What do you mean right? You said this is different, I pointed out that it is literally exactly the same. That is not agreement.

The rest of your post is simply factually incorrect. People did not stop doing that, such systems continued to exist through the 90s and 2000s. They still exist right now. They became less common, but that had nothing to do with "the interconnect just wasn't fast enough". It was because intel CPUs became the fastest available, and racks full of small intel based systems were (and are) massively cheaper and entirely sufficient for the vast majority of uses. The speed of interconnect fabric kept up just fine.
An ASIC is an application-specific integrated circuit. Basically, dedicated hardware like this: http://www.butterflylabs.com/
That's not really "new evidence."
Scarcity is not sufficient to make something valuable. Something must be both scarce and useful to have value.

I would argue that even when gold and silver were used as money, it was because of human laws -- taxes, debt laws, torts, etc. Even wampum's use as currency was connected to authority: tribal laws and religion. Even prison cigarette trade is government by a complex code that involves gangs, guards, etc.
I flagged all the submissions by an obvious spam-bot once, and had my IP banned from accessing HN for a couple of hours, IIRC.
Application Specific Integrated Circuit

in the bitcoin context they chips created for the specific purpose of hashing, allowing you to mine for bitcoins quickly and effficiently.
No, but with gradual attrition due to fundamental disagreements with the new management, I imagine the character of the company will change significantly within the year, if not sooner.
It's actually surprisingly difficult to capture the heat energy.

The energy is released as neutrons, neutrinos and gamma rays, all of which tend to escape rather than heat the surrounding area.

But all of them are magnetically neutral, so I wonder how they propose to capture their momentum.
What's in a name...

99% of what is called Computer Science is more engineering based on the 1% actually expanding the knowledge and making Elsevier richer.... (or not based on science and just reinventing the wheel over and over again as aptly noted by fogus).

I personally like the title "IT guy" as it pretty sums up what the rest of the world thinks of it all.
Countries with the word 'democratic' in them:

- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria

- Congo, Democratic Republic of the

- East Timor – Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste

- Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

- Korea, North – Democratic People's Republic of Korea

- Laos – Lao People's Democratic Republic

- Nepal – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

- São Tomé and Príncipe – Democratic Republic of São Tomé and
Príncipe

- Sri Lanka – Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

I don't know the details of the political situation in those countries, but my hunch is that they are less likely to be democratic than your average country.

Is there a name for this phenomena?
No, they're leaving: http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/47527556151/my-thoughts-o...

Choice quote: "For that reason then I co-founded PeerJ, an Open Access journal, with one aim of never being in the position to take shit ever again from a closed publisher."
ETA Programming Language (1999)
I've worked in roles which were titled "technologist". I think it was the most correct position name I've had.
You are a customer for the hardware, but not the software or services, where you are again the product.
Golang and Rust aren't made to solve the same problems. Go competes with Java and Python, Rust with C++. (Not with C, not really.)

I don't really know why people keep comparing the two.

Go - networked services, cmd-line utilities (writing unixy tools in Go is a joy), scalable scripts.

Rust - fast (bleeding edge) client software, anything that needs stricter control of memory allocation semantics than most GC'd languages without going whole-hog. I'd be curious to see a write-up on what making a game engine in Rust would be like.

Another key aspect of Go that Rust wasn't made for, is that Go is MUCH more focused on "developer experience" and project scalability. Everything is standardized, compiles damn near instantly, etc.

Go solves Google problems (maintaining and developing on slow-compiling C++/Java projects just to make a network service when Python is insufficient)

Rust solves Mozilla problems (complexity/performance/concurrency ramp up in large C++ projects, usually client software that has to be maximally performant)
"a complete guide"

and then in the first step u already using .rbenv without really mention it before (i also read ur other article where u saying that u using it)

maybe you can add a link to a good rbenv install faq or something like that. makes it easier for some people who might hit ur guide without rbenv.

but all in all a very good read. i will give it a try on the weekend in one of my apps.
check out quicka (spelled qiqqa) http://www.qiqqa.com

I chose it a few months ago over mendeley because it allowed me to search in the PDF annotations, which isn't possible with mendeley. I recall mendeley could search notes added to a PDF file (one text area for the whole file), but not within sticky notes attached to specific pages, so it was impossible to search the annotations I made and also have those annotations appear on the relevant part of the PDF.

The other thing I like about qiqqa is that it allows us to have a shared library on our local server, instead of having to send all our data to the cloud.

Both are great desktop tools for full text search across many PDF files, even those that need OCR. Before I was using google desktop for this function, and qiqqa is definitely a step up.
Exactly. It doesn't matter if it was based on puppies and rainbows, the valuation of it is entirely based on speculation. There's zero intrinsic value to a Bitcoin.

The "math and deep computer science" part is mostly an anti-cheating mechanism. If it was too easy to produce Bitcoins, they'd be worthless. If it was too hard, nobody would care. The mining process is an attempt to balance between these two concerns.

In any event, even debased fiat paper money can be burned to heat your house. What exactly can you do with a mostly random string of data, anyway?
Panic are an old school Apple developer, even before OS X. Even coded one of the first MP3 players on MacOS.
1. This is never going to be popular enough for that scenario to really play out

2. "Highly Educated" and "Decent, intelligent human being" are different things. It's nice when they collide, but they don't always.

3. Not all education leads to idiotic opinions like these.

Other than that, obviously everything you've said there is totally true, in that I think that covers everything you've said there.
You don't really get fallout in the space.

The fallout is from neutron radiation of the ground, which doesn't happen in space. The amount of direct radiation from the uranium that is used is actually quite small.

And it would be trivial to point the exhaust away from earth. Space is full of radiation anyway, from the sun.
I built twitteraudit.com for fun to find out if people purchased followers.

Like the article says, these tools work best for people with less than about 500k followers... because once you cross that threshold, you get closer to the actual ratio of real/fake users on all of Twitter.

It's not hard to see who is likeley to have bought a ton of fake followers:
http://www.twitteraudit.com/michaelgonline
http://www.twitteraudit.com/FidelHerrera
http://www.twitteraudit.com/hackmurphy
great comment. mutiny was viewed extremely differently in the age of discovery, even positively. seafarers were extremely clever about it and so were leaders. it is possible to depose authority in a setting like you describe but not via the current dominant view or what it means to depose authority. a mutiny, done very strategically, can be constructive. but it needs to flow from the culture of the organization in which it occurs.
Since the speed-of-light delay for 100 feet is 100 ns, and SSD latencies are on the order of 10-100 us, this shouldn't be a fundamental issue. Maybe it's caused by the latency to the disk cache (DRAM)? In which case perhaps you could separate that from the disk, and move it closer to the CPU.
On a related note, I was thrilled when Craigstlist opened up an "Internet Engineers" job section. I think that is a great title.
An App for Names
After re-reading, I freely admit that parts of this make me sound really angry, and to some extent I am. I'm finding the Google Mail interface, and Google products in general, just get in the way, and stop me from working. I have to change to work the way they want, and many times that removes from me facilities that I depend on. So just to let you know that I'm having a bad day, and I apologise in advance for some ranting.

And so, to reply to your point.

I'm no longer on the machine I was using, and I was using Firefox on Ubuntu, not Chrome. I won't be able to test your sequence on the original configuration until Friday at the earliest.

Plus, in trying to log in on the appropriate account, I'm told I'm already logged in with a different one, and do I want to link the accounts?

No.

How can I proceed? It appears I can't. I either have to log out the other account, which would be a pain, or link the accounts, which I can't do because of separation of concerns.

There are times I really, really hate Google. There's no link that says - no, just log me in, dammit.

So I reload the page and oh look! I'm logged in! That's obvious ...

So, now to proceed with what you say ... and yes, what you say has exactly the effect you describe, which is exactly the effect I expected.

Earlier today, however, on a different machine, with Firefox, I clicked Compose, clicked in the recipient box and type the address, clicked in the subject box and completed the subject, clicked in the text box and started composing. Part way through I was generating a plain-text style bullet list and hit return, then TAB.

The message was then sent, despite my expectation. That's as far as I can recall, but I did it a second time and it did the same thing. I'm pretty sure I didn't hit space or enter after hitting TAB, although I can't guarantee that now, several hours, much typing, and several tasks later.

So here's the point for other designers of user interfaces. When your use is in a text box, TAB might take them out without them realizing, and then hitting ENTER or SPACE might perform an action they really aren't expecting, and didn't want. perhaps you should design the interface so that the button they get to after the text box does not perform an irreversible action.
Yes, I agree. My point was that you cannot do substantially better than ion engines without having energy gain and, in fact, you are probably going to do much worse due to the weight of the "fusion hardware".

I'm quite optimistic about magnetized inertial fusion. But the idea of doing the job much better than the Z-machine, with something lightweight enough to carry into space and in less than 10 years seems to me... unlikely, to put it mildly.
No, not really, why in the hell would I want to know what other people think about her? They obviously didn't get on perfectly because they're not still dating - QED.

And if my 'buddy' said that he'd get a polite "fuck off".
and they want to run an app against your twitter account that can post and change your profile
Yes, it's really complicated

My personal benchmark is "take home money" which is net salary - rent

Of course some other things help: commuting time, general costs, but also city opportunities, cultural life, schools, etc

So maybe you can't win them for Missouri, but maybe to Boston area, Seattle, or some other area (New Orleans or Florida or Texas even maybe)
There's a difference between a for-profit company with a government-backed monopoly, and a not-for-profit organisation with government support (of which there are already many examples).

I don't think anyone here blames companies for putting up a paywall or doing something else to maximise their profits; it's why they exist. However, we do recognise that this is not always an ideal state of affairs. A public sector body is one way to remove the profit requirement; private-sector not-for-profit organisations are also a possibility (but have to worry more about where their funding comes from).
indoor rock climbing/bouldering has been a solid exercise for my wrists/shoulder rsi (and it isn't terribly boring like lifting weights/weight machines can be).
It's still exposed in clear text to the mail provider.
No, in recent years speed gains are found by adding more processors. I don't have the chart on hand, but a couple years ago the growth rate of speed of a single chip got much lower.
Sounds really good. Could you link me to some material about this?
The thing about a fusion rocket engine is that the energy is used to throw stuff out the back. In a fusion generator this would not be considered a feature - if you want a stationary generator that doesn't melt your city you have to contain that plasma, which is very, very energy-intensive.
As someone who has just moved to the US and been through the "joy" of looking for work; me.

I'm a server admin, I have come to realize that what I do can be titled many different things. System admin / engineer, network admin / engineer, server admin / engineer, windows / linux admin / engineer..... and more.

I dearly wish there was just one title for my job.
That actually makes some sense. I feel like they could at least say something like "We are enterprise only product. Pricing varies, but starts at $XXX" Of course I just assume that if there's no price tag, it's going to be high, but still.
just to be reminded that linode is unmanaged host.
This could be an interesting companion to Helium. Helium-css can be used on live sites to find unused CSS. Combine with this project to remove duplicates too. https://github.com/geuis/helium-css
Computer Science is an example of a formal science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science

Or, in parts, an applied science:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_science
How about Computer Plumber, Network Plumber, System Plumber, Data Plumber?
This violates Kickstarter rules.

See the $50 pledge:
The price will jump to $100 after the Kickstarter, so sign up now!"

Kickstarter project guidelines:
Kickstarter cannot be used to fund e-commerce, business, and social networking websites or apps.
(http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines#prohibited)

No matter if you throw the "education" label on it, it's still a paid membership site. A business website.

Even if it were allowed, it's miscategorized. The "Open Software" category is to fund open source projects, not education efforts about open source software. I don't see that any of the software that would come out of this project would be released as open source.
New startup looks to kill off patent trolls
They do. See the comment on this answer on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/a/553455
My PT seconds your recommendation of rock climbing, particularly for upper back muscular pain.

Climbing twice per week kept my back pain-free for years.
In my company there was recently a successful case of mutiny where an incompetent project manager was removed from a project and subsequently made to leave the company.

Long story short, the guy was making stupid technical decisions (some of which were incredibly harmful to the project), he was unable to complete his tasks within a reasonable timespan, he was dictatorial and argumentative with other developers despite lacking technical expertise and a plethora of other issues. A few developers got together, went to his boss, told him about the situation (basically what I wrote above, though in a more tactful way), managed to convince the boss that the guy is a major liability and a risk to the project and succeeded in removing him from the project. The project is now successful once again.

It was an incredibly risky move in my opinion but it succeeded because the devs were organized, disciplined and tactful and presented their case to the higher ups in a rational and reasonable manner. If you're dealing with a situation like this, it helps to stay calm and try to not come off as a moaner/potential power grabber or something worse. It's risky but it can be done.
That is a very subjective measure. Would be interesting to see a study about whether women actually correlate social awkwardness with inappropriate behavior or unwanted behavior. If the guy is super charming and does the same thing, do they still consider it inappropriate?

I've known a number of women that tend to avoid the socially smooth guy because they see it as a mask for other sexual behaviors. I'm sure much of these types of judgments come from personal past interactions regardless of which direction they tend. Yay for anecdotal evidence!