skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look in the right places you'll actually find the original 5 year outline from the extra volume of the B5 script books. There were bigger changes than anything on that page. Notably that B5 would have ended on the brink of the Shadow War, not after the end of it. WWE might have even been essentially the series finale.
> you end up with more head movement, and it can get tiring.

They we ditch full-screen and go back to windows separating the contexts you are working with.

Most of the time, I'm with two screens side by side, 22" and laptop, separating my contexts, and keep the 22" with a text editor full-screen with a vertical split and two buffers, further minimizing head movement.

A 31" screen seems like a very workable solution.
I would actually guess that the timing is mostly driven by the vesting schedule from the Salesforce acquisition. They announced the acquisition in December 2010, and it closed fairly quickly thereafter. I think 2 years is a standard vesting period after an acquisition, so now is a good time to leave unless he wants to make a career of it at Salesforce.

You see stories all the time like "Founder X leaves ____ 2 years after acquisition by ____." There's one just from today about a Tweetdeck founder: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/31/iain-dodsworth-leaves-twitt... .
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons...

"But it wasn't until I started posting on Hacker News that I truly realized man's inhumanity to man..."
If you live in the future, rockets are fully reusable.

If you live in the future, Launch Loops are in operation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop

If you live in the future, there are permanent residents on Mars and the Moon.
I'm explaining someone else's post. Go ask him.
Vaccines usually don't cause problems, but when they do it is very hard to get those statistics collected. I do have a coworker who lost her hearing due to a bad vaccine. My daughter did have a minor side effect from the measle/chicken pox vaccine. The side typical side effects from each of those vaccines are similar, but since it was a combination vaccine, I'll never know which one/both my daughter had a reaction to. The pediatricians did not care and said it's hard to get the CDC to collect feedback like this. I would argue for singular vaccines and blood test for pre-disposed reactions. In my opinion it's hard to push good science to the medical community, so approaches like this seem to go nowhere.
yeah, there's a long line for any job in the game industry, and a long line for people trying to get out.
This isn't that interesting or surprising. 100-200 microseconds is the latency of all ethernet that I have ever seen. Infiniband or other high performance networks can achieve about 10-100x lower latency, but are very expensive. Infiniband switches and cards can be double the cost of a cluster.
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Right. I've been working on an RPC client for iPhone.
> Imagine if the wealth of data collected about you all went to one place, and, most importantly, was controlled by you. Imagine if Company X had to pay you to know about your Amazon spending habits instead of paying Amazon.

Even more than Project VRM linked above, this is precisely the eventual goal of Tent: https://tent.io/

That said, I'm skeptical of these projects', or anyone's, ability to achieve this utopia. Why would Amazon or Google adopt such a system? Your shopping/searching history is valuable data that gives them a business advantage.

Also, while a personal data store that you control may be a geek's wet dream, for an average nontechnical person, it would likely be difficult to use, insecure and offer no clear benefits. And if it ends up just a toy for geeks, the lack of scale would make it even harder to do anything interesting with it or get any companies of significant size to play ball.

I do hope ideas like this surface in some form, but I'm skeptical of the personal data store ever really becoming a thing.
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This is only acceptable, if vaccinations itself are guaranteed to be 100% safe. Of course then someone should be liable for any damage caused by vaccination.
That level of tolerance has traditionally been given, but it has recently begun to be abused. A few fringe religious nuts who want to abstain from modern medicine are fine; they don't threaten herd immunity. However as soon as not vaccinating your children becomes the trendy thing for young parents to do, it can become necessary to take a hardline stance in order to protect those who do not have the luxury of choosing to be vaccinated.
I'd thought the Penny Arcade Report a worthwhile read, but this just forced me to reevaluate that.

Pushing this lousy ad-hominem attack when this is absolutely not the first article complaining about poor treatment in the games industry?

I thought the Penny Arcade report was better than that.

Guess not.
They are not militant lesbians or Eco-terrorists, they are Muslim fascists who will be killed at our discretion, regardless of any weaker groups consternations.
If 13 years of futility still leave you optimistic, your mind is far more open than mine.
When I first read 'GitHub-maintained client libraries' I initially thought they meant built in libraries or templated stub functions, sort of like what they offer for .gitignore for various programming environments and languages. I was a little disappointed when I saw it was just for the Github API, although I expect this to still be useful.

I feel like this is something they could offer in the future though as many IDEs automatically build your environment when a new project is initialized. Assuming you use github as your IDE (i.e. not really using any IDE) project initialization might make sense.
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Dumb? Take away all the Silicon Valley celebrities and then show me how popular Medium is.
One of the things that Google is also working on is PCIe switching, and using that to get rid of having to the ethernet encapsulation and conversion. This allows for significantly lower latencies <5 μs.
"Prison is not a rehabilitation center" is textbook example of a 'begging the question' logical fallacy. It's not even remotely a 'fair point'.
Either I'm missing something (or just struck upon a brilliant idea), but the important point of sending you an empty box isn't that they save you a trip to the postal office (although this is a nice side effect), but that the empty box psychologicaly induces you to sell your items, and Sold takes a cut on the sale. Just as charities figured out long ago, if you send someone a dollar or even a quarter they'll donate, same goes with an empty box. It is just too easy to sell something, and besides, they sent you this nice box! I think the psychology of this strategy is genius.
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Nothing is guaranteed to be 100% safe.

I can however guarantee you that a population losing herd immunity will put more lives at risk. Can those who abstain from vaccines be held liable when those who actually cannot get vaccinated fall ill? That seems like a fair compromise; tax anyone who chooses not to vaccinate and use the proceeds to help those who are harmed by their decision. We wouldn't be jailing them, merely holding them accountable for their actions.

Throwing salt onto the icy sidewalk in front of your business can be dangerous, but if you don't do it and somebody gets hurt, you can be sued.
Oh my God, this is amazing. I envy people like you Brian, this is insanely clever. I wish I were as masterful with CSS to even think of being able to do what you've done here. Would love to know what the process was like, did you have the shapes and positions in mind and knew what you wanted to add to what, or was it more trial and error?
AWS is still using ethernet (10 Gigabit on the highest end) and can achieve ~2x better performance
You have a lot of talent Brian. You should crack that out every time you have a job interview.
Interesting piece, and reinforces my belief that "branding is everything". That includes the company name, the design of the product (and overall design language) and the kind of marketing that you do.

One thing I disagree on is the name choice in the case of August. Customers face so much input and distractions that I wouldn't advise anyone to name their company in a mysterious way that will provoke any kind of curiosity in the customer. Most will just skip your product. This one time it works because of the guy behind the company and the coverage he's getting, but I wouldn't count on this branding working outside of the tech circle and the early adopters which constituted the 10k of orders. The design is very good though, while Lockitron's is the definition of lazy design (just copy an Apple design and be done).

I particularly liked the author's comparison between GoPro and Contour. I admire GoPro's branding. The name is perfect (it creates the association between buying the product and becoming a pro, which is brilliant), the marketing is perfect and even the product packaging and store display is perfect. This is executed on an Apple level. Very few companies are this good on their branding. It all comes together to a "feel good product".
Remaking images in CSS only is not a new experiment (and is often frowned upon) but this implementation adds 2 interesting features: hovering an element reveals all the sub-elements it's made of, and hovering a block superimposes both the image and its pure css implementation.
I missed it entirely. I tried using ctrl + f, but I found nothing because it's an image.
Its frustrating that they do this while also stealthily changing the price structure for new users (and who knows when for legacy)
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From what I remember from my childhood (age 4-5) it was a lot easier to understand workings of analog components, particularly ones with some physical (or visual) interface that you could actually see. Like relay with visible moving parts, or voltmeter with moving coil/pointer, or oscilloscope, or a resistor that heats up and that you can touch, or a capacitor that makes a noisy spark when discharged. And on the opposite, digital components that were not giving any direct visual/sensory clues were a lot more difficult to understand (like 555).

So, I guess, these extra visualizations can be really helpful at early stages.

With more abstract concepts, like modulated wave, detector radio, etc (which BTW can be understood at 5 as well) I don't think that visualizations like these can help. In my opinion later stages really depend on abstract thinking and there is no way avoiding it.
What's wrong with SVG? Use the right tool for the job.
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This doesn't actually have anything to do with QA, it's about abusing the definition of "contractor" so you can lower costs, deny benefits, and lure them to this jobs with promises of getting their foot in the door. This is really common, and it's bad behavior. Most companies do this with no intention to hire full-time. Also known as "permatemps".
compare to other anglo-centric melting-pot countries

There are no comparable countries. The US is the absolute worst in the West. But just you watch. The UK and Sweden and Norway are importing diversity at an alarming rate. Eventually, their prisons will turn hard, but not through policy. Policy follows reality.

California's excessive solitary confinement policies strongly belie its left-leaning government. Get a steady dose of murder/rape/robbery and that's what happens.

And prisons aren't punishment. Only victims want to punish criminals. Everyone else just wants kept far away from criminals, and if that means putting rotten people in cages, fine. You can see the effect here:

http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/images/cjsc/recent-s...

(That said, I think solitary confinement should be time-limited. No point in driving people crazy.)
F*cked Company was really a child of the end of the dot.com era — I think to really get the spirit of that time you'd have to have a real bubble burst again. I'm not saying that we won't get there at some point, but we aren't there yet.
Giter8 (https://github.com/n8han/giter8) sounds like what you’re looking for. “Giter8 is a command line tool to generate files and directories from templates published on github or any other git repository.”
To me this is where the "software defined networking" type of virtualization can really make an impact.

The network performance of a known cluster of virtualized instances could be extremely quick if you just lie, and say your packet went through a network, when really you just pass a pointer in the hypervisor..

I assume this has already been done, but at almost 200 microseconds, you know it hasn't been done in these experiments.
On HN, a downvote doesn't mean "I disagree"

Actually, it does. pg has said that it is fine to use this way.

I think it's stupid, and you'll see in my profile a screed against the braindead moderation style of HN and why I think it's bad. I don't particularly care anymore though - there is no interest from the admins in changing it, so it's pointless to try.
| damage from vaccination seems, to say the
| least, controversial

Vaccines aren't 100% side-effect free. Combine the fact that the government shields manufacturers from liability for vaccines, and the fact that no one cares to collect statistics on side-effects from the vaccines, it's clear that no one wants to really evaluate the risks objectively. Presumably the side-effects are out-weighed by the benefits, but is there data to back this up? Not really.
I may have read it differently, but I don't think the big pain point was literally the box, but that it was just a stand in for all of the uncertainty that comes with selling something. As someone who doesn't sell stuff online, I'd definitely love to have a service where I knew the effort, time, cost, etc was bounded at ~10 minutes total.
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That's awesome, I've been working on a native Cocoa one for OS X.
I wish there was an easy way to pay for a CSS version of a logo.

Could OP turn his skills into a business?
Even so, it's not like most of those incarcerated (or even a significant minority) share this guy's story.
I'd love if the high-level APIs dealt with physical dimensions rather than pixel counts, scaled or not...

How hard would it be to just ignore the physical properties of the display?
Much popular misinformation notwithstanding, the balance of risk between vaccination and not vaccinating is extremely lopsided. No, vaccination is not perfectly safe. But it is safer than getting sick. And for anyone who is immune compromised (the very young, the very old, people receiving chemotherapy, those with AIDS, etc) their only protection is to have everyone else vaccinated.

The question is at what point your acting on your fringe beliefs are allowed to kill other people, and what liability you should have for it.

And no, this is not a hypothetical point. We have concrete cases of dead babies and known infection vectors. We really can say, "Your decision to not vaccinate killed that baby." In that case why shouldn't you be liable for criminally negligent manslaughter?
I was under the impression that SVGs could contain javascript and pose possible XSS or code execution risks.

Granted, probably not a very high risk if you're using files you, yourself, trust.
There's also HireFire, which has support for scaling all your Heroku process types, not just your web processes: http://hirefire.io/ .

I've used them for a few projects which honestly have never actually needed auto-scaling, but they're very easy to use overall and at $10/month are way underpriced. They do have a slower polling frequency (1 minute instead of 15 seconds) though.
Way ahead of you:

http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html
For those who aren't too behind the "JSON as a Serialization of Haskell Types" pattern in Aeson, there's also the generic Value type which represents any JSON object allowing access much more similarly to Python/Ruby/Javascript's recursive Object style member access.
Really? I don't know of any bitcoin wallets that are really great to use.

I hope that this app or another one can do to Bitcoin what Transmit did to FTP (http://panic.com/transmit/) or the Github native app did to Git (http://mac.github.com/).
I have no experience with 10 gigabit ethernet. However, it seems that there are some lower latency (down to sub millisecond) switching fabrics.
I scrolled down to see if someone mentioned what I was thinking. Unearthing electronics made 30+ years ago is not a good idea unless kids in the area have an unusually high rate of birth defects.

I can't imagine the insurance cost for this documentary, if their underwriter even knows what they're doing.

"E.T. Comes Home, Or How We Created A Superfund Site"
I agree with you that most bitcoin wallets are either look ugly or are hackable online wallets maintained by third party.

Among all I tried I like Electrum the most for it's speed and it's deterministic nature, i.e. the whole wallet can be fully recovered from passphrase, instead of regular backups.
Yes, I have encountered the problem before that OS X crashes on incorrect stack alignment even where other platforms tolerate it.

Good point about the stall -- I always thought that partial register stall happened at the point that you do the partial write, since the logical contents of the register now depend on its previous contents. I didn't realize that the dependency logic was sophisticated enough to allow the partial read without depending on the entire register's value.
It certainly was not the article I was hoping for, which would say things like:

-- Define and publish a formal syntax for your language. Do not get too clever with the syntax -- if you can't express some feature cleanly in BNF, don't do it that way.

-- Equality must be an equivalence relation: symmetric, reflexive, and transitive. If you don't know what that means, you have no business designing a language. [Equality is not transitive in either JavaScript or PHP.]

-- Comparison operators ('<' etc.) must be transitive. [Violated in PHP.]

-- Transformations that people expect to work must work. For example, 'if (p) a else b' must be equivalent in all cases to 'if (!p) b else a' [Visual Basic violates this].

-- The scope rules must be clear and straightforward, and not cause maintainability nightmares. [JavaScript fails.]
That sounds awesome. Do you have any links to describe this research? I would be interested in the technology if it stands to lower the cost of low latency networks.
Yes, An s-expression is a tree. Imagine that you want to know the average score of a list of films like: (average listOfFilms) and someone else like the same average for the same list. You will end up with two trees that indeed are the same and can be calculated only once. A DAG is a way to represent dependencies, so if two cells are linked to the same cell (average listOfFilm).
Yeah I'm not a big fan of this particular design, but putting together a polished and featureful alternative that uses the real bitcoind behind the scenes is definitely an opportunity.
Typhoid Mary got quarantined against her will for spreading the disease, so this idea is quite similar (but not as extreme). Basically if you're harming others you're liable. There's an interesting text on old cases of healthy carriers at http://cythereabast.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-board-of-he...
It's like they forgot that mint was invented to sell people new credit cards and bank accounts. Probably half of these other concepts have no ultimate purpose that produces revenues.
Im glad we are on the same page. Ideally I would love to build a full suite where you can see and control everything from one app. Iterations from the basic wallet are pretty much unlimited.
Contradicciones.
That is only the case for networking inside of a single physical machine. Most HPC MPI use cases span many machines, for which this is typical latency of ethernet.
Comparing Haskell and Erlang syntax isn't even fair. Haskell threw homoiconicity and homogeneity way out the window in exchange for some very nice, mathematical notation.
Azure is $0.06 per instance hour too for their small (1.75GB).
This is great. Mostly the creativity to come up with those shapes. sometimes limitations can give you a different perspective to designing.
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
A ship for free option where the proceeds go to charity could be a big win, but abuse could sink it.
Wouldn't these guys be acting as an escrow service anyways? If they bother with the minimal process of photoing and tracking packages, it seems it would be much harder to claim fraud against them.
If you do decide to build this app, I would highly recommend making it open-source. Properly building a custom-skinned OS X app is not easy. Compared to UIKit on iOS, which was built from the ground up to support animation and appearance customization, AppKit is a dinosaur.

When subclassing controls, you'll encounter AppKit bugs, things that can't be skinned without overriding private methods, and inconsistencies between OS versions. The animation APIs are woefully inadequate, especially if you need to support 10.7 or 10.6. (over two-thirds of the install base as of January, according to [1])

If done well, the source code would be a valuable resource to the Mac developer community. Custom-styled desktop experiences are becoming the new norm, yet building them remains somewhat of a black art.

[1] http://www.cultofmac.com/208455/os-x-mountain-lion-now-accou...
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How about Elastic Beanstalk? It seems like that's still cheaper than Heroku, especially when you start to scale up the dynos.
> In that case why shouldn't you be liable for criminally negligent manslaughter?

Because causing death through actions which demonstrate depraved indifference to the risk to human life is murder [1], not manslaughter.

[1] http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/second-degree-m...
Graphene photo-sensor ready to be commercialized
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If you do get books, you'll get them from the prison library, which isn't going to be well-stocked and up-to-date. I've known a few ardent readers in my time and live with one - she reads with breakfast, when commuting to and fro, before dinner, after dinner, in bed... but even she couldn't consider a life that was nothing but reading books (particularly from a highly-limited library). And she loves reading. Not everyone does.

And for those who don't have an expansive vocabulary, what do you do when you read a word you don't understand in one of these books?
Easily... but I'm sure his time is worth more than simply making CSS logos.

Average user doesn't care. It's just cool and shows mastery of a skill.
One of the most annoying bugs in Firefox since the whole purpose of SVG is that it's resolution independent. I hope more people voice their interest in it being fixed.
There's also no way that anyone from the Bitcoin community would want to use a closed-source wallet.
Do people really prefer graphical git over the command line? I'm honestly curious. FTP with a GUI I get, but it doesn't seem like git lends itself as well to such a UI.
yeah, sure.

but how to process this kind of input anyway?

how to translate into :

1) who

2) where

3) why

and so on ?

not bad anyway.
Curious to see how this will affect (eg) the Moodle community.
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