skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found that fan will run like crazy even with htop showing low CPU usage. It is something about Thunderbolt that seems to produce substantial waste heat, even when it's just a single terminal watching htop.

Driving one or two displays doesn't have a perceptible difference for me; I wouldn't want to play a Steam game that way, but watching Hulu or Netflix on one screen while I code on the other doesn't impact Sublime Text's performance. :)
I've only skimmed very briefly each chapter, but I'm a pretty big fan of PyMC and am extremely impressed from what I saw regarding its use and how to think about optimization problems from a Bayesian framework. Chapter 5 and the Dark World example were particularly interesting.
Yeah, we're not really moving away from that. And even if we were, it's hard to see why you'd be glad, unless you hate freedom.

Almost none of the money that online distributors pull in (music, video, content vendors) makes it back to the actual content producers. So I can't say I'm sad to see this particular iteration of the industry crashing and burning.
It is not an experiment, it is a mechanism to make gobs of money, and it worked.

Facebook is now being destroyed by its overwhelming success. Since people feel locked in (because, hey, that's where all my friends are...) facebook can keep cranking up the heat, making the experience more and more unpleasant for users, and they will still stick around and give their eyeballs to it.

From talking to many people on and offline, it seems that facebook is almost universally hated now, but we have no choice, since everyone else is on facebook.

This will probably keep working for some time, but eventually, and very suddenly, there will be a tipping point where many people suddenly can't stand it any more. Once facebook loses that first big chunk, then not everyone will be on facebook anymore, and all the others who despised it for years but hung on because everyone else did will not have to put up with it anymore.

Facebook will suddenly go from universal necessity to irrelevant, and it will happen overnight.
One question, is this a bug? When I started playing, the blocks I created were large, and I couldn't mine, but after hitting esc, then resuming again, the blocks I created were 16th the original size and I could mine small blocks.

The brown block in the foreground here is the first size I could create:
http://imgur.com/R3ywZ6T
"- I hate how Minecraft didn't explain anything in-game. I shouldn't have to rely on an external source to understand a game. Call me stupid but I think this is terrible user experience and is just taking us back to the days of games that required strategy guides or online faqs to beat."

The XBLA version of Minecraft has an in game guide, and many people prefer that version because of it. I think there is an assumption that on the PC and mobile versions of Minecraft players will always have easy access to a browser, but that there would be too much friction to look up info in a browser on a console (requiring you to quit the game or look it up on an external device).
I wonder, with the amount of experience he has now, if he still thinks that's a good strategy. What I learned in the last 10 years is that employees don't value equity rationally; you pay a premium, beyond the time value of money, to pay engineers in equity; moreover, it's somewhat stigmatized. It probably depends on the company, though.
Scaling Big Data Mining Infrastructure - Twitter Experience
The MOOC "Retention Problem"
Ask HN: Would you hire someone self trained from a MOOC?
MOOC's are prevalent in today's media and certainly offer significant volume of quality content in certain fields (some computer science disciplines). As an employer / manager, would you hire someone who was self taught using courses available through a MOOC?

If your answer is no, what is the main reason you would not be willing to hire them over a comparable person with a traditional bachelors degree?
Sierra Planet ~ Roberta Williams fan site
very nice, pretty expensive for a work in progress project though
$720/mo is solely for the instance. Add in the cost of traffic (Softlayer appears to give you 5TB, so let's use that) and you're up to $1463/mo.
What things about lisp in particular? I want to say no but I'm not sure I'm clear on what you're asking.
They should do this in the UK. From observing the locals, the maternity grant (until yanked by the government) was used to buy designer gear for the mother, cigarettes and some expensive fashionable buggy for the baby (usually topped up by the baby's grandparents).

Unfortunately essential stuff was forgotten.

This solves those problems.
"don't actually produce anything themselves. They're just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea to see if they can extort some money out of them."

Silly patent trolls, don't they know that is the job of the politician?
You should probably not use softlayer cloud; a very bright ops guy at scribd had a horrific time doing so.

http://kovyrin.net/2011/05/02/cloudlayer-bad-story/
Fantastic, just what I was looking for. Thank you.
Probably not the best analogy as there are in fact McDonald's restaurants in Hiroshima (and I would imagine Nagasaki). There's one not far from the Peace Park towards Hiroshima Castle.

It's fair to be somewhat puzzled over it though; as mentioned in the article even today there is still quite a lot of animosity towards Japan in North Korea. I suppose it just goes to show that either the top Korean officials don't totally buy their own propaganda or that people are capable of amicably interacting with other people on a personal level even when they are at odds in the greater scheme of things - or some combination thereof.
seems to be working fine for me as of 22:53 PST
Micros are really a completely different class from smalls and larges, because they offer "burst" performance. You shouldn't run anything in production on a micro, unless it's non-critical and not public-facing. Perhaps a 100% static web site, although even that I'm not sure about.
Those compromises helped this story get written:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/slideshow/Mark-Pincus-039-16M-Pac...
Here is another obituary to the legendary hero by the co-founder of HasGeek and one who knew Atul Chitnis for a very long time http://www.nextbigwhat.com/atul-chitnis-obituary-297/
Mirror: http://updatednews.ca/2013/06/03/why-finnish-babies-moslty-s...
Can you limit your feed to default to only certain lists?

Can you remove all the promoted content (aka crap)?

Is it easy to see who you are really sharing with even after creating list?

Can you prevent one list from knowing what you liked or commented on other lists?

You most likely haven't used G+ to really know the difference. FB lists are anything but G+ Circles.
Forget overnight shipping, Google is here to save the day again
Maybe a hero is the wrong word, and I personally don't consider him that, but I left that possibility as I can see how others can see him that way. Maybe in the same category as having someone wanting to climb the Everest and then almost dying up there. They didn't have to do it, but they did it, put their lives at risk, seemingly for the sense of accomplishment / fame, even though at home they might have their friends and loved ones waiting for them.
Not working for me either at the moment, but it's in the search index :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=finnish%20babies

Edit: Had the archive url here. Google cache instead :

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
This is because their JS implementation is a wrapper around WinRT rather than anything close to what anyone else is doing. It also isn't very JavaScripty. WinRT is a particularly odd creation.

Plus Windows 8 RT isn't selling.
It's also 2 years old, so a lot might've changed.
People wanted GIFs with sound, they got GIFs with sound.
The trouble with HIPAA requirements is that they're not clearly defined and are open to a variety of interpretations.

Our experts advise a safe, CYA approach and mandate a BAA agreement is in place with every partner touching sensitive patient data, even if encrypted and protected on multiple levels. Thus far Amazon is not accommodating to such a request.

Other's have their own opinions and, in the end, we all weigh the risks vs rewards (including Amazon itself - I'm sure they've plenty of reasons of operating in their present gray area).
start with distutils which is in stdlib and if it doesn't provide enough features; use setuptools (distribute and setuptools are merged) that extends distutils functionality.
I think a lot of cloud developers have lost touch about what a modern dedicated server is capable of.

In February our website was top 3,000 on Alexa. 150 requests a second on average looking over that month. Those are dynamically generated pages, since all the static assets are served by CDN.

What handles all that?

3 servers running a PHP application. Oh, and the Postgres database is sitting on one of those servers and replicates to one of the others.

We can do it with 2, but we have 3 so that if some of them dies we don't have to worry.

These are the cheapest servers that Softlayer offers and they run at a low load average.
I traveled to India to speak at foss.in years ago. It was a great experience. And I got to visit his house for a party with many of the people that helped make the conference happen--all fond memories.

It was clear from seeing people interact with Atul that people really respected him.
It's little video snippets, 7s max. They don't always click, but when they do, it feels like you're catching flashes of someone else's memory.

One advantage is your friends will not watch another one of your uncut boring vacation videos. But they might still watch your vines, since they're so short.
I don't see the grouping at all whatsoever.

What you're saying is that anyone who compares anything to the wumao party is incapable of telling the difference between the two. That drawing parallels between it and something else is automatically racist.

I do not see any evidence to suggest that seanmcdirmid can't tell the difference between Singaporean and Chinese. My parsing of the post reads that he's comparing the behavior of Singapore-apologists to that of the wumao party. This seems uncharitable for sure, but racist is a stretch.

Honestly, it seems like you're jumping at shadows here. As an Asian, who cannot speak for any other Asian except myself, who has been subject to a hell of a lot of racism in my life, I simply don't see it here, and I see unsubstantiated accusations of racism as having a chilling effect on the conversation and making reasonable (if somewhat unkind) commentary verboten.
There are very few tech products without something Foxconn in them.

Even my old Lenovo T61 had most of the parts stamped Foxconn.
Allow me to correct you, everyone wants to design for smart, advanced users who have the latest browsers that allow us to do cool stuff while we hope that the masses will get with the program / super users will tout our product so well the masses feel they must adopt it.

Obviously that's an overgeneralization but I don't know very many people who actually want to design for the masses. Converting the masses is only something we value because we know it's necessary to make a lot of money, not because we believe reaching the masses by itself is a sign of great design or innovative work. For example most developers and almost all designers I know use macs and design for macs (e.g. web typography that looks fantastic next to Mac OS UI elements and out of place next to windows UI elements) even though many of their users may be using windows.
Turkey's Erdogan says protesters are "arm-in-arm with terrorism"
IMHO it's not about just putting in hours. It's about believing in what you strive to acomplish, so that you can make concious choices about which tasks are useful or not. Once you have a clear goal, go ahead and put in the hours if you want, but never continue when the goal gets fuzzy. I guess I'm saying that you primarily have to work conciously and goal-directed. The really hard work part is secondary, but also probably quite necessary given the size and complexity of most projects.
I believe it was considered and rejected because CPython wants to be simple, understandable code (there's a general policy of rejecting performance-improvement patches if they complicate the code too much). Other implementations exist without a GIL (e.g. IronPython).
the same amount of attention paid to media licensing reduces more costs than the operational costs in hardware?
what on earth does this have to do with technology or computer science?
Same as Australia in most cases unfortunately.. They have now removed the "Baby Bonus".
This is seriously misleading. The OP doesn't even mention William Lehey, let alone include a howler about him. And you accuse other people of red herrings!

Surely if you had found even the tiniest flaw in the OP, you'd have shared it with us by now. Instead your comments are positively incontinent with innuendos and slurs: "UFO stories", "pseudo-science", "revisionists", "9-11 guys", "cherry picking", "selectively arranging facts", "pump up", "add authority", "rewriting history to suit current fashion", "emotional reasoning" (since deleted, unless my memory is playing tricks), and my favorite: "From the author's comments, and those on this board"—as if the two were colluding instead of obviously having nothing whatever to do with each other.

I don't have an opinion about why Japan surrendered in WWII, but when an apparently well-reasoned case provokes this kind of thing, it seems likely that there is something to it.
What is Quantum Computing? An interactive explainer
Whenever someone says $CLOUD costs less than EC2 it's always a very limited cloud with a small number of customers with a tiny fraction of a fraction of the features of AWS. It's never an Azure or a Rackspace.
> I believe other HNers might admire Singapore for its excellent math/science education system.

>> They definitely test well but creativity is lacking.

I should add that many Singaporeans are still stuck in the "school > big MNC job > build connections > (possibly) venture out and do business" mentality. It doesn't help that mandatory military service conditions Singapore citizens to take orders from higher-ranked authority figures without questioning them.
Never mind Zynga: Facebook claims its last 3 months of game revenue are a record
There's a huge North Korean community in Japan, which are a major source of funds to North Korea. Until North Korea confessed to abducting Japanese citizens c. 2002, there was even a ferry that traveled regularly between the two.

The main catch is that Japan's "North Koreans" may be internally registered as such, but they're actually descended from people who were in Japan before 1948 and for most part have never even been to North Korea. This is all further complicated by the fact that Japan doesn't actually recognize North Korea as a state and holds on to the fiction that South Korea is the sole legitimate country on the entire peninsula. Wikipedia has a capsule summary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongryon
I don't know what options US high command were favouring in case the bombs failed for some reason, but if their strategic goal was "unconditional surrender", it is reasonable to expect them to plan an invasion of Japan, considering that firebombing was failing to do the trick.
The last time I've looked there were a lot of C code needed to be compiled with C to build Go, and definitely it was not for the bootstrapping purposes as the part of standard libraries were written in C. Is it still the case?
Credibility is Sacrosanct
I would caution against using a service like Google Groups for this, actually. There's been too many changes to corporate-backed services like this (Yahoo! Groups' 2010 mess, remember Google Groups was originally a usenet reader to begin with) and moving a community is a pain. Host it somewhere that won't pivot.
It's actually in the game, there just isn't any GUI for it yet, so the only way to trigger it is to press F4 :)
I blame the Gregorian calendar.
Atul Chitnis, Ahead of His Time Once More
Why Learn Go? - Rob Pike
EC2 specifically, AWS generally. The learning curve is a bit steep but ultimately you will have a huge amount of power to do exactly what you want.
Thank you for opening my eyes. I just realized I hated freedom all this time. At first I though maybe I liked people getting paid for the things they made. I guess the millions of people selling their music/art/movies/games/scripts on codecanyon/steam/kickstarter/amazonmp3/bandcamp/gumroad are not getting paid at all. They're all being tricked. What suckers... Everyone should just live like you, a collage student without a job or bills yet who values the "free" in freedom and the ability to share and consume whatever you want without those evil corporate snobby rich people getting tons of free money.
> What confuses me about this debate is what purpose is serves.

To find out what motivated Japan to surrender? Whatever conclusion you draw from their actual motivation is up to you.
Find out which Instagram filters you used the most
@indiecore - All of your posts are dead. Looks like you've been hellbanned. I've seen folks have success restoring their account after emailing the HN admins. Good luck!
I've run the numbers for our PCI-compliant setup about 1.5 years ago and Amazon was about 3-4x more expensive than the average bid for my RFP for several smaller hosting providers for a mix of dedicated and virtual servers. Another thing I've discovered with AWS (again, it was 1.5 years ago) is a horrible network latencies even inside the same data center on the same VPC: on a "normal" gigabit switch in a dedicated setup I would expect stable ping < 0.5msec with spikes to 1-2 msec on a loaded network. With Amazon, the pings were rarely below 10-20msec inside the same data center in the same VPC. It is easy to explain since Amazon probably doesn't allocate virtual servers "together" on the same router thus you have extra delays on going between multiple busy routers. In the same time it is pretty bad for many things (e.g. MySQL Galera Cluster that we use).

So, my take on Amazon EC2: you want to use it when you are small (i.e. don't really care about performance) or when you are really big (when you can get "special" deal from Amazon and dedicate a lot of internal resources to make it work). In other cases a better option might be a mix of dedicated hardware (servers and networking stuff) and virtual servers at a managed hosting provider that would allow you to create the setup that works best for your project.
Given the screenshots, I don't think the player is actually in a car at the moment, but rather on foot. But in a sense, yes.
Yes, it's amazing the processing power that can be tossed into something like a charger these days. (The address space doesn't scale like that, though, and the 6502 had a 16-bit address bus.)

The charger microcontroller is in the TI MSP430 family; it's custom so I don't know it's exact properties. It probably has just 1 or 2K of flash and 256 bytes of RAM. But it's much faster, with a 16MHz processor, compared to 1MHz in the Apple II. This chip monitors the output voltage and current to handle power up and fault shutdown. It doesn't do the actual switching power supply control; there's a separate SMPS controller chip for that. And the 85W charger has another controller chip for power factor correction. It all seems a bit over-engineered to me.
Having ioloop in the stdlib could make the cooperation between different async libraries easier.
Yes, much, much less reliable; this is like comparing blood chemical tests to phrenology.
The problem with Facebook's mechanism for "hiding people" is that until you go through immense effort, your experience sucks. The "Acquaintances" list (which I might add was a knee-jerk reaction to the launch of Google+) only serves to take certain people out of your stream, while plugging in other friends that you don't care about. Until you go through this cycle (which is actually phenomenal social engineering as it is self-reinforcing - once you start you have to continue otherwise it's worse) repeatedly to prune out ALL your non-close contacts, your experience sucks.

The fact that Google+ prioritizes and emphasizes splitting friends into these circles as a PRIMARY means of organizing your friends is a huge difference. Although it is cumbersome, it is a much more realistic representation of human interaction, making friends and having different groups of friends.
Whoah, you're back. Come down to MTV this week to see me and Patrick (and whoever else shows up).

Good to see you here again.

(Apologies for off-topic comment).
At the risk of being flamed into oblivion, I support Mark Pincus' letter.

I don't think there's an easy way to write a letter like this. It's gruesome but necessary for the press - saying nothing is bad press, saying too much opens you up for attack. Similar to how receiving feedback explaining why you didn't pass an interview opens up liability for the company, being too candid and casual with a letter like this is a liability.

This is a shitty part of the business. I'm aware Pincus has made some questionable decisions in the past, and a vocal majority of Hacker News users openly despise him. I'm not going to speak to that - it's irrelevant to this specific letter. But in this particular instance, I think we should reserve judgement.

When Andrew Mason stepped down from Groupon, he didn't have much to lose by making a fully transparent letter of resignation. He was widely praised - and rightly so - but Pincus still has to work at and spearhead Zynga. He can't be entirely self-deprecating and down to earth and "mortal" - he is still CEO, and must be a larger than life public figure who is a businessman first, and observer second.

That said, I don't think this letter is perfect. It's not, and that's not my point. My point is writing a letter like this is hard - these are always formulaic for a reason.

I do not condone his laying off 18% of his workforce, but neither do I condemn it. I don't have the business savvy or inside information to know what would be a best practice for Zynga in this case, but I feel sympathetic to the workers. It sucks to get the news you'll be jobless soon.

I guess the takeaway I'm trying to deliver here is - he might have done shitty things in the past (and I'm not absolving him of those things), but I can't see a way this letter deserves to be torn to pieces as though most CEOs could have done a better job. It's a hard letter to write, and I can't imagine he was thrilled to do it. He struggled to convey a message of disappointment and sympathy while maintaining (apparent) solidarity and corporate strength for investors and publicity. It's a very hard line to walk.
Coming very soon! :)
This same exact thing happened to me. Literally on my last day, first thing in the morning was a company wide meeting announcing a 10% layoff, my whole team included. Hard to imagine a more depressing last day. No severance for me, but at least I had a job to go to next.
Update: there is now a pod spec in the Cocoapods Specs repo for Reveal. Head to http://support.revealapp.com/ if you have any issues.
Just curious why you feel AWS has a better network than providers such as Equinix, Internap or Level3?
I'd agree with that, and also - an intense dislike of unnecessary repetition / work is definitely a good thing. I'm not sure using Vim causes that, but it definitely reinforces it.

For those that are interested, I would recommend "Practical Vim", and it includes many examples (including the above one) which really accelerate the learning process:

http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim

There are definitely cheaper alternatives (including free ones), but this book really laid the concepts out very clearly for me.
I'm willing to give the HN commenter above the benefit of the doubt that he/she might just be parroting something picked up on campus, but I agree with you that this claim has been part of leftist propaganda for decades.