skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two reasons that I can think of that I have experienced. First, IPython simply doesn't behave like standard Python; you can have very obscure corner-case bugs in otherwise-normal code because of its magic. Second, if you're using PyPy, you don't get to use IPython.

Edit: I meant that PyPy isn't compatible with most of the things people use IPython for, like Numpy and Scipy, not that IPython's shell doesn't work on PyPy. Sorry.
The metadata server has never been a single point of failure in Ceph.
For small projects, try Meteor.

Everything is in JavaScript, and you don't have to concern yourself with such trivialities as database or talking to the server. The recent releases (0.6 onwards) have really easy authentication, and lots of extra packages via Meteorite.
I think you are missing the point here , instead of 3 cheaters three honest coders could have qualified to the next round , which would in turn give them the chance for competing in round 2 and round 3.
> the drug dealers that the Cadillac was designed for

Um.

This article seems more about rich geeks' love of sports cars, and telling themselves that their ostentatious toys are a reflection of refined sense and not of being nouveaux riche.

Porsche seems rather impractical for a family of 4 with luggage in the trunk.
So we are going to ban facts now?

The problem is that it does seem to be cultural. In every one of my computer science classes, students from India almost always shared answers on the test, copied each others' homework, and felt there was no problem with it.
Modern Times at HP Software
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The biggest risk to Bitcoin is that it will become the Myspace of currencies as its many future competitors come along.
They are from the country named India. Thus Indian coders. Color has nothing to do with it. If they were from America the title would not have been white coders but American coders.
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Often times, due to Microsoft co-marketing funds, "desktop real-estate" (trial-ware installs), and some other things - that end up offsetting the OEM's costs - you're actually paying less for a system with Windows installed then you are for a system without an OS installed. So the cost issue is mostly a non-issue, as to maintain the same profit margins the OEM will sell the non-OS system at a higher price.

This is especially true for "basic" systems, were they sell them at almost cost price... As OEMs make all their profits on upgrades and higher spec systems that they can sell at a markup.
Basically it was, though it never meant to be only for static pages. Instead of offering only products/services pages, I decided on adding contacts and events, with more types to come.
Manufacturers MUST ship with SB turned on

Yes, Win 8 won't boot without it. You can disable the feature in the BIOS if you are going to install a different OS.
Actually 1and1 is running 5.2. Some web software does meanwhile requires 5.3. After all software will break even when there is no upgrade at all.

Anyway, i fully agree: providing hosting is a hard business. Imaging what 1and1 needs to do for this huge server farm... wow. It's ok for a lot of low traffic sites without much functionality, but in my case I needed more at one point. Now I have the choice between 5.3 and 5.4. Thats neat.
They are anonymized after 18 months, unless you have Web History enabled.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google...
Interesting point:

"And for those who wish to avoid both inflation and deflation, what about a digital currency programmed to maintain stable prices, avoiding mischief by central bankers as well as the possibility of deflation?"

My gut is that this is not possible. Enforcing stable prices requires constant data about price levels, and with decentralized markets there doesn't seem to be an accurate way to get that data.
Platform support (http://ceph.com/docs/master/install/os-recommendations/#plat...) and deployment tools have come a long way. In the past setup has been complicated (Ceph is inherently more complex than other systems), but it is getting much easier. There is also extensive documentation at http//ceph.com/docs, as well as very active IRC channel and mailing lists for support.

Ceph is much larger than just the file system (as the article points out). And while many Ceph products/subsystems are used extensively in production environments (RBD block store, RGW, and RADOS), CephFS isn't officially supported as production-ready.

Despite that, we run Hadoop on top of CephFS, and can deal with the occasional metadata server problem. CephFS is actively being hardened.
Perhaps an illustration of a transaction occurring simply, directly, rapidly, and with a tiny fee compared to one requiring trips to the bank at both ends, forms to fill out, taking several days, passing through several intermediary financial organizations, and costing several expensive fees along the way. Cruft-free transactions are one of primary distinguishing characteristics of Bitcoin, right?

But then when addressing the negatives, follow that up with an illustration of the current process to obtain Bitcoins.
Ask HN : How do you accept -ve criticisms +vely?
I've done this a few times. It's also a good idea to hide which product is yours, so you get less biased feedback.
You can provide your own keys, at least on some motherboards. Here is the screenshot from my motherboard's bios:

http://i.imgur.com/XkJ11If.png
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IPython seems to be "too heavy" for me compared to Bpython :)

Bpython is perfect for me.
Wow, kids. In my day it was QBasic or GWBasic.
"hey, let's meet for coffee soooooooon! your shout? :-)"

Dear Google, please don't feel you need to give me permission to write the above. And definitely don't remove or change handy features to achieve such an objective. It's my business how I compose email, and my responsibility for justifying the occasions where a formal style is needed vs casual. Just make the interface useful and stop trying to turn email into something it's not.
While I don't see myself switching any time soon, I think this kind of example is excellent for anyone looking to get a feel for how an unfamiliar language would actually be used in a semi-realistic situation (without having to dig through massive real-world projects with complexity that's normal for experienced devs but unintelligible to the uninitiated).
Being a startup doesn’t give you the right to spam users
The command line IPython does work with the PyPy interpreter.
Not a specific answer to your question, but in case you missed it and have interest in the resulting application being quick even on small hardware: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

The associated Github repository is an example of sorts for each framework's code style.
Unfortunately, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" does not apply if the product is useful enough. Look at Facebook.
Is there anything that would prevent this from being backported to 2.x.x ?
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Please note Flask isn't only for very small projects/web services.

Seriously, Flask can be used for huge projects too.
No, the site fails on Android. Layout is broken and rendering is choppy.
Flask is awesome for sure.
Since you clearly claim moral equivalence, I seem to have missed your explanation about why the demolition of a building and beating a few girls in a bar is the same thing as committing genocide against millions of people, decades long.

The point I was making with the drunks was not that those Hindus were drunk or not, the point was that their behavior was no worse than what can reasonably be expected to happen (not too often, and other caveats apply of course) where drunk people go out. Muslims would have slowly stoned them to death (and do this regularly), so again it just does not compare :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRaLcbxpIsw

> I am not sure what you mean by " Therefore group attacks, and group retaliation are a necessity, and they will exist regardless...", so I'm curious why you are singling out Islam, when group violence has been inevitable across all races, religions and cultures.

I am not singling out islam. I do not think islam is the only group that exhibits completely unacceptable violent and self-destructive behavior patterns, and I know of a lot of (small) groups that are attacked by the police/"the system", as a group, because of such behavior. Visit western Europe once, where you will find every country has it's political party "the system" attacks (ie. police, army, ... are used against that group). And frankly, they're right to do that in most cases.

Islam is the only really sizable such unacceptable group, and the only one that is a threat to world peace, not because of anything individual members do, but because of the behavior of the group as a whole, and the consequences thereof.

Once the violence grows beyond a certain threshold, the only possible reaction is retaliation against the group. You can call this tragedy of the commons, it's very similar to that. I think you may simply not have considered that such a threshold exist, and what it might be. Visit Delhi and talk to a few people there, and you will know what I mean and that India is not far removed from that threshold.

> I am not a fan of Islam. I have openly said that their book is not just stupid, but insane. I would be stoned to death too. My only point was that there is no reason to claim that Hindus and Christians are immune from becoming terrorists.

And I don't claim that any group is immune from producing a terrorists/criminals. I only claim that, with a few small exceptions, no other religion explicitly causes terrorism, genocide and worse as a matter of general policy, and celebrates it like they do. I claim that there is no choice, and a lot of lives and damage would be spared by attacking islam itself now, before they succeed at creating yet another mass-genocide. Before they cross the threshold.
Probably because that's the demographic the site was created to serve: NextBigWhat is an Indian tech blog, focusing on Indian startups and the Indian tech ecosystem. Their "About" page has a few quotes calling themselves the "Techcrunch of India."
Here is the major problem with UEFI Secure Boot. Microsoft only changed the reqirement that secure boot must be possible to disable after there was a public outcry, and are free to change it again any time.

They can either change a requirement to have the ability to disable it be optional, or make the inability to disable it mandatory, like on surface systems.

Thats the real issue. In very real way, Microsoft now hold the keys to the future of the x86 PC archecture, and I question why people are so ready to trust them considering their history.

The problem with supporting secure boot is it legitimizes microsoft's role as the gatekeeper to computing. Now with a straight face they can say to regulatory bodies "look at how many free and open source operating systems support secure boot, there is no monopolization here". They are then free to turn the screws, and make disabling secure boot impossible.

Not to mention distributions like fedora are making massive changes to restrict access to users of their os when it is booted via secure boot, to prevent windows from being "compromised". This is part of the agreement they signed to get keys signed by Microsoft. These signed keys can also be revoked by mictosoft at any time.[1]

I seriously do not understand why everybody has rolled over so hard on this issue.

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
Real-time thought process while I launched my website on HN
>That all of this occured randomly

This is wrong. This isn't just an oversimplification of the process, its a complete misunderstanding. Randomness is a component of evolution, but it is only one factor, and not even the most important one.
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Would love get my hands on your sample app :)
Or it is twice a year company wide review and financial planning, not major product decisions driven by temporary employees.

I love how people say Google is awful because it is a corporate hell where engineers have no autonomy, and then claim that most products are launched and run by rogue indivuals.
Can anyone recommend an equally good opposite (HTML to PDF)?

wkhtmltopdf [0] is probably the most popular, but it's also ridiculously buggy.

0: https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
From what my friends have told me, corruption and cheating is much more culturally accepted in India. So although race has no place being in a conversation, culture is relevant to the discussion. Also, white is not a culture, race, or country of origin, why would you put that in the title anyway?
Why should they go above and beyond for free?
> (Not pictured: other things based in "faith", like civil oversight over the military, the Constitution, the enforcement of laws, the concept of credit itself, the currently overpriced exchange value of gold... basically anything that isn't enforced by AK-47's, except of course those enforced by the promise of AK-47's)

You know, you failed to specifically pick out the most relevant thing that is also based on faith: bitcoin.

Like any currency, its value in exchange for anything else is dependent on faith that people will accept in the future.
Android malware scores nine million downloads with fake ad network SDK
Out of interest - what made you go with Arch?
Given all the anecdotes around here offering the same experience, I'm interested in this too. If it is a cultural thing, I'd say two things:

1. It makes sense. A lot of sense. In the real world, it's far more useful to be able to collaborate effectively than to always adopt an adversarial or competitive attitude.

2. It should be addressed openly. Personally, I think a more collaborative environment would help a lot of us in a lot of ways, but sometimes that's just not how things are supposed to be done (e.g. assignments and tests in most US schools); in that case, everyone might be a little more aware and happy if it were clear up front -- in very multi-cultural situations -- what the expectations are regarding individual work.

Of course, that won't stop everyone, and it doesn't address every problem, but making everyone aware of the differences could stop a lot of misunderstanding and, potentially, what's technically cheating even though that may not be the intent.

[edit: Of course, some people do just plain cheat, knowingly and willfully; this is not intended to excuse that behavior, which is crap and should be punished.]
From my own experience as an Indian student. We colluded a lot. In assignments and even in examinations. I went to a pretty elite Indian institution( hint: Its near the banks of a very holy river.)
I think that many Indians try to take advantage of the 'system' wherever they can and do not see it as wrong. I see it as wrong now in hindsight, but back then it seemed like a mildly wrong thing to do.
I'm using a mix between unstable and Mint for a Steam box (games, music, movies, web) and found out the label must be mistaken. It's a minimal installation, but everything from ATI drivers to multi-arch support worked perfectly out of the box. It already went through several dist-upgrades without any manual intervention (except maybe a couple of "yes/no" questions).
One important takeaway from this piece is that putting employers in charge of providing health insurance is a terrible idea. Paul Carr shouldn't need to _make an effort_ to make sure his employees have basic health protections - that should be a solved problem.
The Play framework works quite well in Java as well. Although some knowledge of Scala is useful for the template engine, as well as some spots where the Java API abstraction leaks a bit.
Yes, in my experience as a born and raised Indian: collusion, and grovelling for 'help' amounting to spoon-feeding
is all fair game.

For shame, fellow countrymen.
The enterprise java programmers?
CompoundJS for Node.js — it is very streamlined, and is in active development, although some of the docs are not yet updated.
I would love to have a higher-level-than-C language to work with on embedded systems, and Clojure seems good.

However my applications run on systems with very limited resources (and a Harvard-ish architecture, e.g separate data/program memories) and I wonder how far tools like ClojureC could go with regard to these constraints.
Tips for Balancing a Heavy Freelance Workflow
> There are technologies that people decide to use. Then there are technologies that people decide to make other people use. Design quality is much higher in the first category (badly-conceived ones die out) than in the second.

That's it: it's all in the selection process. If you select for the wrong reasons (such as "please the manager"), you'll get sub-par results.

Now, if we could tell for a fact that many technologies are selected for the wrong reasons, it would probably explain a good deal of the huge gap there is between "real world" IT and the state of the art. Think of it for a minute: in the 70s, we had Smaltalk, Scheme, and ML¹. Twenty freaking years later, the best mainstream IT can come up with is Java. Which only makes sense when you remember that Java has the highly familiar C syntax.

Apparently, backward compatibility warts aren't just for processor architectures.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag...
If someone barely missed passing through 1st round, chance for him to make it through any of the following rounds is practically non-existant. Exception being if he's experienced competitor who fell short for some reason.
Metal bitcoins are real.

https://www.casascius.com/
Google Glass' awkward interactions parodied on 'Saturday Night Live'
How Van Halen Explains Obamacare
You can always install it directly, and not in a virtualenv. Am I missing something?
Ok, added. Thanks for the feedback!
Maybe it’s because I’m a Brit, and we have the national health service. Every man, woman and child in the UK is entitled to free healthcare from cradle to grave. [...] America is a bigger country so free healthcare is off the table. I get that.

I don't understand this argument at all. The NHS in the UK doesn't appear magically free from the sky because we've only got 60 million people. We pay for it through general taxation. This year it will cost about £110B.

Is it really the case that there's an argument that this can't work in the US because there are more people?
AMD FX-8350 is faster than i7 for compilations and costs 30% less
Regarding your point about the lending vs borrowing:

The use of the word "encouraged" makes sense to me. If people are "encouraged" to lend vs borrow, that means they will have more desire to lend vs borrow. This has an important effect on the supply vs. demand equation. Supply of loans, ie. people willing to borrow, goes down and the demand, ie. people willing to pay money now for interest later, goes up, causing prices (interest rates) of loans to go up (down).

In other words even though every dollar lent must be a dollar loaned, people's willingness to lend affects supply and demand.
Are you from IT-BHU?

I went there as well. Class of 2008. I can understand what you're saying man. No wonder!!
It's interesting to see articles like these and the comments to them focusing entirely on the "software eating the world" and never discuss in as much detail that people make the machines/software.

Reminds me of the debate between Thiel and Andreessen posted on here recently…
The End of Full-Time Work in the American Retail Service Sector
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

The federal government can't control healthcare because of this. It would probably work better on a state level (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refor...).

On top of that I don't think the U.S. economy can handle another massive government program on top of existing ones. I am mostly referring to the wars over seas. No other country spends so much on military. The U.S. spends a ton of money on military (and locking people up for drugs).

If the U.S. stopped those two things I think healthcare will be fine, but it won't. So more shit is just being added to an already inefficient and corrupt government.

Then there is the problem of people deciding that since they pay for your healthcare, they should be telling you how to live. There will be more bands on sugary drinks like in New York (though that was struck down). Or what extreme sports you can play, etc. That really bothers me because it will mean more shit that people aren't allowed to do that only harms themselves.
And that 5% puts Wal-Mart back in competitive range without the stigma of being too poor for a membership.
I actually think it's a mediocre medium of exchange, due to the fact that transactions are not immediate, but rather can take as long as an hour or more for a reasonable level of confidence in the integrity of a transaction. There are competing cryptocurrencies being developed now that are much better media of exchange since transactions are both secure and immediate.

I think Bitcoin's real promise is as a store of value. Yes, it's extremely volatile now, and people are getting used to the fact that if you lose your Bitcoins, they're gone for good. But compare Bitcoins to cash (tends to lose its value over time) and gold (expensive to store, hard to exchange). It's also incredibly easy to exchange Bitcoins for other digital currencies, like the ones I refer to above.

I think that once Bitcoin reaches a large market cap, like the size of gold, it will be much less volatile, and less risky. At that point, all the advantages above will become apparent. So Bitcoin's future may well be as a digital reserve currency.
No. Of course not. We have one person here per capita, just like the UK. If anything we'd get more economies of scale. But it would be socialism, and therefore inherently antithetical to the desires of every right-thinking American.
I was under the impression that it is against their policy to do that.
Well, it also packages tar and I can untar and install any package from source.
FLOSS Weekly recently interviewed the Ceph project. Link to the show: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/250
The problem with the states on health insurance is that unless you are part of the 1%, you need it. Healthcare industries are huge corporations that are in it for the almighty dollar. If you go to the emergency room and do not have health insurance, you can bet you will have a bill that will run a couple grand minimum. I wish we were like other countries where we can have a national healthcare system. This is one of the most basic human needs that should be available to everyone. I am very thankful that my company offers an excellent healthcare plan, and I think everyone should have access to a healthcare plan.
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Why not wordpress.com which would scale to better than almost anything else?

For anything more involved, get dedicated servers starting from 15 Euro/month from Hetzner or OVH.
True, but a security update means both better and more stable.
I don't understand why he's playing himself up so much for providing healthcare to employees. Of the 3 startups I've worked at, 2 provided healthcare and 1 provided a healthy allowance toward private coverage. All of them I suspect were smaller than NSFWCORP.

I thought this was the default, even for startups. If it's not, it should be.
Seems more like a Doodle (homage to OS X and its dock) then a product that lived for one day.

Although the March 15 2005 date was a bit off any OS X anniversary I knowm