skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This certainly seems promising and one can also probably piggyback on 3D printing by offering FEA services before printing. Prediction of failure loads and stress points, auto-optimisation to an extent, etc.
Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics
> Favorite counts are posted publicly, which at least theoretically adds to the user's credibility.

Yes, but that's exactly the reason why OP's behavior can be labeled as spamming. You "theoretically" adds to the user's credibility, but by automated means, so the added credibility is actually artificial, which then diminish the value of "credibility by the number of favorites" for everyone.
The first video is amazing. The structure to the explosion is so beautiful, but at the same time, I feel like I'm looking at the face of death.
Perhaps. Also the economic momentum has made people more driven and those who are not that driven, would still get to work due to peer pressure. We need a 'slowdown movement' of our own!
Yeah, they ganged up on the Swiss (U of Zurich) guy in the group, I guess (the guy that worked on the JIT at Sun who also worked on Go).

God I wish K&R layout would just up and die already, at least in terms of having function headers that span multiple screen widths. Personally, I like having "end" keywords, and a bit more freedom in the layout. (mostly, I like to be able to write one formal parameter per line in a function heading, and to use "Whitesmiths" layout vs K&R)

Go feels much more like Pascal semantically than it does like C. I wonder if there is any research to back up the decision to make Go look sorta, kinda, like C, or if it was all ego and/or inertia.
Having an account is not the same as using it. I mean, I have a facebook account, and I don't even know what facebook looks like.
One of my first languages was C++. I cut my teeth on Bjarne's book.

These days, I'd much prefer seeing C fill such a perf-specific role. I can't stand C++, and I've read through some massive, and what most people would call "well written" code bases in C++. Every one is its own world of WTFs with abuse of templates and operator overloading and weird RAII and scoping strategies. I can never read code in C++ and really understand what's going on until I've made a cursory pass, identified everything that semantically changes the meaning of the code and internalized that. That's incredibly frustrating considering readability is paramount in really any project, but especially when the code base is tens of thousands of lines. And given that I've never seen a real world example where these features have actually provided any benefit other than terseness, I can't understand why anyone would ever use them.

Outside of the IOCCC, I haven't had trouble reading C except things that abuse the preprocessor, and that's frowned upon. So why not C?
Regardless of Facebook's future, I can say with a certainty that human beings, as a social species, are very unlikely to stop being so at any point in the near or distant future.
Even trying to get someone there to go through the hiring process is nearly impossible. Getting their campus recruiter to respond (even though he was the one who reached out to us) was a pain for everyone I know who has tried. After receiving the response of "Yeah, we will interview you!" I had to email him around 5 times before he finally responded with the "give me some interview availability" email. And after the first phone interview, despite the interviewer being super excited and telling me I'd have another round, all I got from the recruiter was silence.

One of my friends who applied, was told he had to email the recruiter daily in order to expect a response. And then ended up being called in the middle of class, because the recruiter never bothered to tell him he had scheduled an interview for him.
I gave a similar presentation at GDC this year. Same conclusion, slightly different supporting details. If you're interested: http://www.slideshare.net/chadaustin/multiplatform-c-on-the-...
You know what industry is truly obsolete? The film industry. I mean the actual film-itself industry. Why? Because producers, studios, and exhibitors have nearly completed the move to all-digital pipelines. The product formerly made by Kodak and Fuji and processed by companies like Technicolor and Deluxe no longer has a market (or at least not one of any appreciably size). Thanks to digital media, the industry that produced and developed celluloid media has been rendered obsolete.

Does this strike you as being even remotely analogous to the situation faced by the people who make television, movies, books, and music?
Paper: Making Reliable Distributed Systems In The Presence Of Software Errors
>Fingers crossed some of the Parse approach to product and developer service rubs off on facebook

That'd be like boiling the ocean.
What you're looking for has a precise definition in economics, and it's called "rivalrous" vs "non rivalrous" goods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_%28economics%29

Many things are in this category, not just IP. Paying for them can be kind of tricky, because who wants to spend a year, say, writing a book when someone decides they can just go ahead and copy it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Possible_solutions

IP has been a pretty good, if imperfect solution to the problem. Those wishing to be rid of it ought to either try and suggest another way of producing information goods, or be honest enough to say they have no idea and that information goods that require substantial time and effort may not be produced in large quantities in their imagined future.
He says NaCl is 30% slower than _c++_, asm.js is 90% slower than _c++_ which is correct.
Maresca found the color data for the webcolourdata.com page, then found the color data for that color data page, etc, etc.

Take a look at the thumbnail and you'll notice it's an image inside an image inside an image...
Yes, yes, yes! C was a HUGE step backward. And also how I paid the rent in the 90s. ANSI C had the advantage of being portable, though. Even if C, and especially C++, tended to be somewhat deadly.

Turbo Pascal was about 90% of the speed of C with 30 to 50% of the bugs. And yes, I could use pointers and pointer arithmetic in TP if I wanted to bypass array bounds checking, but I had the choice when I needed to do so. Memory management is a lot easier with Pascal functions (and I assume Module/Oberon) than C as well, since the caller allocates the return value. Alternately, you can pass (always non null) values by reference instead of having to use (maybe null) pointers.
Well, at least Antonio Meucci's Globe Telephone Company was sued by the Bell Telephone Company for patent infringement. It was really a messy law suit where one question was whether Meucci had invented the electromagnetic telephone or "just" an acoustic one.
Not usually. Usually the idea is to wait until all the publicity dies down and then quietly slip it through when nobody's looking.
The center hole is too small or at least its proportions don't match up with a CD.

But in any case, how would you design a recording device? The text says there were mostly cylinders and discs, which makes sense because you can put a spiral track on those. In the disc case you would have to rotate them around their Z axis which pretty much requires a hole in the center. So I guess it's not that surprising that Bell's cardboard-and-wax disc, vinyl records, laserdiscs and CDs all look pretty similar.
> Maven assumes there is one right way to build for everyone

A lot of people have this opinion (and prefer Ant, Gradle or something else as a result). I do not share this view. I like that Maven is opinionated about things like project structure.

Well his opinion is perfectly true - Maven does assume there is one right way to build for everyone. You're disagreeing about whether it's a bad thing.

And here's the deal - for the 95% (or more) of projects where "The Maven Way" works, it's a good thing, for all the reasons you've stated.

But not every project fits into that, and one of Maven's limitations is that once you start to push at its boundaries, it falls apart. It doesn't provide enough flexibility to be able to stretch it into places it wasn't intended to go. And so, once your project his that point you either need to fight the tool, or throw it out and use something else. Neither is particularly desirable.

Maven is one of many tools that isn't cool but is certainly good enough.

For most cases, yes, but not always. No matter who you are, your experience is not universal enough to draw those conclusions for other people's projects.

How much time do you spend editing build files anyway?

Personally? Enough to have run into all sorts of limitations in Maven.

Not everyone is working on "Maven WAR project". There are projects with full time build engineers. Even on small projects (in terms of lines of code) if the artifacts you're producing are non-standard, then you can spend days (or even weeks) wrestling with maven to get the project under control.

Maven makes the easy things trivial, the average things easy, but it also makes the hard things nearly impossible. For the 95% that's a fine trade-off, but if you're not in that group then Maven is not going to be your friend.
At Pogoapp we're basically building a Heroku-compatible platform (buildpacks + S3/API-compatible) on our own hardware, with support for storing data on the local filesystem (to run your own databases, etc).

We're also really happy about Dotcloud open-sourcing hipache and docker, and it seems like at least some sort of quasi-standardized PaaS-stack is in the near future, in the same way that you can shop around for LAMP hosts.

http://www.pogoapp.com/
I am American and have always pronounced it and heard it pronounced with two syllables. Maybe not as deliberately as the recording. I wonder if he is talking slowly as he is because it's so new to him, or maybe we're not hearing it at the right rate, or some combination thereof.

Also, where's the thick Scottish accent?
GetViable attracts over 400 entrepreneurs in first 20 days since launch.
But why would Twitter want to partner with him?
Is it ignore background-colors? Firefox is primarily green on this but of course the large button is there but the overall theme of the site seems to be that shade of blue

http://webcolourdata.com/profile/4
This is similar to the {+ } and {- } blocks offered by Borland Pascal dialect and other systems programming languages in the Pascal family.
Actually this is not cheating. Cheating means copying somebody's content with or without his permission in an exam where this kind of information sharing is forbidden.

In here, the lecturer specifies that information sharing is not forbidden. Therefore technically this is not "cheating". But it is wonderful to see when you remove the outside limiting factors and let the phenomena occurs in its own volition. Probably this will be one of the courses the participant students will never forget, instead of courses where you "memorize" everything until the last exam.

Kudos to Mr. Nonacs.
I think yours is a fair position (probably because it's close to my own:-). You are not rejecting the idea of IP as a compromise to encourage the production of goods that otherwise might not be created, you're just in favor of reining things in a lot.
You mean like this? https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/432

:)
I'm not sure I prefer 'in' over semicolon in declarations. I mean:

let x = ref 0 in
(* something *)

in Ocaml is not much worse/better than

let mut x = 0;
// something

in Rust. As I said above, that's really a minor, stylistic issue, one probably would write "let x = mut 0 in" for a week or so (coming from OCaml) and that's it, after a week it becomes as natural to write semicolon as it is to write 'in'.
Banking. This is already happening. Paypal has already forced banks (at least in the UK) to stop holding onto people's money for 3 days during account-to-account transfers; zopa.com is disintermediating the banks with a peer-to-peer lending model (as is prosper in the US I think?); fundingcircle.com is doing that for commercial loans; currencyfair.com is doing the same thing with FX transactions; kickstarter.com is making it possible for companies to raise money without going to the capital markets. To cap it all, bitcoin is challenging the traditional role of banking in controlling the money supply in the first place! In short, almost every aspect of banking is under attack from startups everywhere. To date I haven't seen much of a response from the incumbents. Maybe the effect is too small at the moment but it is exciting to watch how it unfolds :)
> His service doesn't destroy the usefulness of favoriting itself.

On the contrary - it does. Because the point of "favoriting" is that when my tweet is favorited, I expect that the other party liked it. Now that's not true anymore, since it could have just been a bot who performed that action based on keyword-targeting me, not by judging that the tweet has a value to be favorited.
I doubt it's the polarization. More likely it's that the incandescents are point, or line sources (non-frosted bulbs), but the LED's are much wider - so you are still getting colors, but since you have multiple color in multiple spots they overlap, mix, and are back to being white again.

Try to get LEDs that have no diffuser lens in front, since the LED itself is a point source.
Wait, how is this one of the US's greatest foreign policy disasters? It was definitely a significant loss for the U.S. diplomatic corps, and one of only a handful of times where an ambassador has been killed, but despite that, Chris Stevens's death did not materially change the facts on the ground in Libya, or in the arabic speaking world in general.

In terms of geopolitics, as tragic as the attack in Benghazi was, it hasn't amounted to much. If nothing else, the drone wars in Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan are considerably more consequential.
Nature has solved this for us long ago. Buy a handful of vegetables, vary them every week; slice them up, cook/grill/stir fry and eat them. Add meat once in a while.

This will take you 20 minutes/day, maybe less if you make food in batches and freeze it, and it's been tested for the past few thousand years with pretty good results.
We're seriously looking into btrfs/zfs/qcow etc. Not 100% sure how to get multi-layered mounts and easy export of changes as tarballs.. Hard to beat aufs on those fronts. But we need to make it easier to install on redhat-land, one way or the other.

I encourage you to +1 the relevant issues so we can prioritize!
Countless people and companies do emailing others to send them something. If you automate and monetize it, it is a spamming.
Correct! In fact there is interest in porting docker to freebsd jails. Ping me if you're interested!
Skyrim is a terrible example of good level design. We should be studying the level designers of games like Dark Souls.
I'm in the same boat - was planning on using Parse and no longer think I will. Core issue: complete lack of trust that Facebook won't screw things up as they have so many times in the past (frequent breaking changes to their API, etc.).

Also, complete lack of trust in Facebook due to their lack of understanding of the need for privacy as opposed to pseudo-social ... "stuff".
The Trinity site is open twice a year to visitors. When I went 10 years ago there were still bits of the blueish-green glass mixed in with the grass and sandy soil. A small section was preserved and coverered with a low windowed box. The ground inside was entirely covered with the strange material.

http://www.wsmr.army.mil/PAO/Trinity/Pages/HowtoGetThereDire...
> Really really slow.

If the goal is simulate n-body problems and solve one instance of sudoku it is not the right tool. If one needs a fault tolerant system to maintain 2M concurrent connections to clients then it is the best tool for the job.

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2...

Think about Erlang as a tank. A cool hipster comes to you says "LOL, my fixie bicycle is sooo much faster than your tank" and he's right because in some cases you just want to go to the nearest coffee shop to pick up an espresso. However a time comes when you need to go into battle and putting a turret and shields on the bike only works so far, then it is time for a serious tool for the job.

> performance is awful

I don't know I wouldn't call something that can handle millions of concurrent connections slow. It is slow if you all you need to do is handle a single connection at a time.

Fault tolerance is actually the main feature of Erlang everything else flows from it. You don't always need it but when you do need it there is nothing like it. Fault tolerance mean paying some performance penalty.

> syntax is abhorrent (commas and periods instead of semicolons!),

Don't those make more sense though? How does a semicolon ending a statement make more sense than a period. And if there are 3 things that are executed then comma seems quite natural as well. On the other hand few languages rival Erlang's pattern matching.

> no structs

Frames/Maps are coming next year as part of R17
> giving you more control over your instances and the ability to SSH into them.

FWIW you can do:

heroku run bash

Which let's you mess around on a new dyno (not an existing one).
Technical Discrepancies In The Movie Oblivion (Spoiler Alert)
>A way to ask a question and let people answer it. Results could be ranked in term of "top mentor", or other people could vote on it.

Right now, we are using the advice requests to encourage 1-1 interaction. A public discourse, with voting could be interesting but we erred on the side of assuming that many won't be comfortable with having their career questions publicly discussed. We will revisit this assumption.

Re: karma

Mentor karma is coming soon. Interesting possibilities there.

Thanks for the wonderful feedback, emailing you for more 1-1 time.
Facebook,ebay's data centers now more transparent (for power usage).
if you put a backslash on every line in Python, check your code, variable names. I rely more on splitting on tuples or dictionary items. So you can actually write like this:

(forces,
you,
to,
...
)
I guess the difference is that this guy is making the recipe available so you can tweak it to your requirements.

Ensure or other prepackaged products are a predefined set ratio, which may not be optimal for all consumers.

For example, highly active people will probably require a higher ratio of carbohydrates than less active people. Similarly, some people will be genetically predisposed to have higher/lower uptake of some nutrients/vitamins.

Ultimately, for any one person to succeed with a Soylent style approach, they will need to monitor their blood levels of a range of elements and compounds.

To my mind, developing a rapid, cheap, broad spectrum blood analysis to allow people to monitor their diet (soylent or not) is what should be focused on.

Your mileage and diet may vary...
Haven't seen AWS OpsWorks mentioned yet. Its lower level but it's been pretty great so far. (And it's way cheaper)
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INDIVIDUALS DON'T WIN,SYSTEMS DO~Welcome to H connect.
Mars One opens applications for one-way ticket to Mars
I wondered that is what google would want, but I dont see how they can make G+ mandatory for their search customers. This would mean you would have to be signed into to google to search.
And it is just not that G+ is not actively used , Facebook has been adding real users and is growing. Forget the fact I won't move to G+ until 50 of my 150 friends move to g+( which is a very low # among my friends, most of them have atleast few hundered ). you will have to export your pictures and some other personalized content to another site. IMO, the best time for a new social venture to gain traction is when it is new on the block. and google has failed. honcho's at google will admit the failure and move on from the social networking space, if their compensations are not tied to g+.
Lol that's a lot of money to pay for a mongodb instance
And to add to this .. We have some karma already in place and its called "Respect". Users can go to profile of others and give them Respect (by clicking on the Respect button) which helps in bubbling up engaged mentors in the community.
looks amazing, this can inspire kids to make and play games and the side effect they learn programming
We export password hashes right now, as far as I know. Is that not the case?
Sometimes I still argue the side of the copyright abolitionists. This is for two reasons: first, it's nice to have extremists to expand the space that is considered "normal", and second, I'd rather have zero copyright than effectively perpetual copyright with outrageous penalties for personal infringement.
Are you using btrfs, by any chance? Docker currently doesn't support it: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/339
hahaha, that's funny. "Quits Reddit" - HAHA.
How To Create an Ownership Mentality on Your Team
I apprehend it and it's an important issue to address. So, I'm addressing it.
We're staying.
Property-based testing: what is it?
I've had a good time working with Blue Box Group (https://bluebox.net/). I've been using them as a backup for an uptime-critical festival application that runs on Heroku.

They helped me by setting up a Capistrano script for me that I run alongside my Heroku pushes. They set up the entire stack according to a specification I talked them through. And they helped me write a script to keep my backup DB in line with my production DB (Heroku Postgres). It's not nearly as quick as provisioning a Heroku app yourself, but if you can spare the week it took to get all that put together with just a little hands-on work, it's not bad.

Overall good experience, good support, if a little slow to respond, but I think mainly because they had one engineer working my case for the entire process, who I'm sure was also working with other customers. But having that 1:1 relationship is good, too. Tradeoffs.
Why Turkey is hot
20 minutes/day? 6.7 minutes per meal? I doubt it. Plus you forgot the time to buy groceries, wash dishes, eat (drinking something like soylent is 5x faster than chewing food), etc. The average adult probably spends 45min-1h per day doing something necessary for preparing food. The guy has a point: Soylent does save time:

"I used to spend about 2 hours per day on food. Typically I would cook eggs for breakfast, eat out for lunch, and cook a quesadilla, pasta, or a burger for dinner. For every meal at home I would then have to clean and dry the dishes. This does not include trips to the grocery store. Now I spend about 5 minutes in the evening preparing for the next day, and every meal takes a few seconds. I love order of magnitude improvements, and I certainly don't miss doing dishes. In fact I could get rid of the kitchen entirely, no fridge sucking down power, no constant cleaning or worrying about pests, and more living space. I just need a water source." Source: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=298
Very good article, it is very rarely, very rarely I got disgust for a second or two reading article glorifying some random dude.

Meanwhile I like killing children, but they are not worthy to be mentioned.