skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think that format is typical for public (or semi-public) meetings where anyone who wants to is allowed to present to the group.

Yes. and?

Calling such a remark a "tidbit about himself" sounds like a tolerance for sexism on the side I don't have. For all you know, the part he "really wanted to talk" about could just be a pretext to drop that particular turd err I mean tidbit into her lap.
Computer literacy doesn't care about linguistic literacy. Every profession has their jargon.

Passwd = "password"
/usr = "slash user"

If someone doesn't understand you, then you explain and move on. But the industry has based around this jargon and removing/redefining it just creates separate standards.
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Thanks both. Fine in Linux - but will make some changes for those on lesser OSes :-)
> If I am paying so much money for our awesome military industrial complex, I would AT LEAST expect them to know how to stage the house to make it look like a robbery. Or copy the hard drive and then bug the machine & router to intercept all future communications.

You forget the fact that the majority of operative work abroad is done by minimum wage hired thugs who don't give a single fuck about the intricacies of the execution of the task at hand; they probably even like the fact that they can help make the US look like a bunch of morons.
"Like any good woman in power [...] she looks like a woman but acts like a man."

Rebecca Greenfield was _so close_ to praising Mayer on her career without completely debasing all female leaders in the world.
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At first glance, I read it "Goodbye node forever, Hello PM2". Turns out PM2 is a replacement for "node-forever" and not node itself.
I think chii was referring to a much more sophisticated REPL experience which doesn't require blowing away application state. This is possible in truly live environments like Smalltalk (checkout Squeak) or a competent Lisp environment. You can incrementally update your program from your editor and keep going all without reloading. This is how ClojureScript developers interact via the browser REPL for example.
And Wikipedia is missing what is, to me, his best known book from 1991: Rapid Application Development. You can get it on Amazon, though.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/the_power_law_...
I didn't actually know this existed, but even looking at this page yields a dissatisfying result. The feeds look like they don't provide nearly as much information and the confusing and archaic feed formats as well. What is wrong with a straight up JSON api?
It depends on the context. Questions like that can be used to remind people that they don't have the same background as the other people in the group. For example, a group full of rich people might as someone from a low-income background: "where do you summer?" If you don't think that kind of signaling takes place in the board room, I suggest you read this article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-13/the-ironman-....

That said, I don't think that particular question is sexist. Football (particularly in the midwest where Mayer hails from), is pretty broadly popular across gender lines to the point where it's not uncommon enough for women to like football that it would be effective in exclusion signaling.
"I wish mainstream journalists would start doing this".

Spin it however you want, fewer and fewer mainstream journalists are able to focus on this. I work with a dozen or so newsrooms a year on FOIA, CAR, and other investigative reporting training, and in most newsrooms only 1 or 2 hands go up when I ask who has filed a public records request in the past year.

MuckRock was built to change that: To make it easier to add document-requesting and analysis to the daily news cycle, to help non-journalists get interested, excited, and able to request and share documents, and to enable large scale-FOIA projects like request BAH files from dozens of agencies.

And we've found that lots of people do care about it at the state/local level, but news organizations are a) terrible about marketing their work. b) assume readers aren't interested in the nuts and bolts. c) let that work die in obscurity, content to try to win awards with it rather than to truly engage the public.

So yes, this is a flashy dump of documents, but we've helped hundreds of others do meaningful, smaller scale stories, and whatever way you cut it, I don't think there's enough groups doing that.

I also keep my own list of interesting, public-records driven stories:

http://pinboard.in/u:morisy/t:to_foi/

Encourage anyone who is interested to reverse engineer them and try those requests in their city, state, and country.
He can't program? Or he can't do interviews?

Two completely different things. You can be the best programmer in the world and not pass interviews via scaring your interviewer or being awkward.
Which are the problems in your opinion? You mention Dart and TypeScrypt. Does that mean that typing is an issue for you? I actually like dynamic languages, that's why Coffee solved my problem.
Yes. Higher education is the only industry to give medicine a run for its money in cost inflation.

Some blame Baumol's cost disease[1], and that's probably an element of it, but so too are the multiplication of deanlets and deanlings[2], the cancerous growth of the physical facilities a of every school, spending per student being used as a proxy for quality by the USN&WR, the rise of bidding wars for celebraty faculty, ect.

Much or all these effects are enabled by incentives for those that run universities in which holding costs down play little to no role. That's partially a function of the student loan system and partially a function of lax oversight of "charitable" organizations in general.

[1]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol's_cost_disease
[2]http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2...
It is hugely annoying when clicking on whitespace on a web page opens ads in a new tab.
The other half of the story is that even back in the 80's a summer job typically couldn't cover the cost of a school year. I started school in the fall of '82. Tuition was dirt cheap compared to today, but the cost of housing, food, etc. was still high enough that very few students I knew were able to pay for college via summer jobs alone.
Well Done! As with most elegant solutions, yours is so simple that I can't believe I didn't see it earlier!

The minimum scores are from the simplest solutions I came up with during development, I was waiting for someone to best me.
We'll be using AWS BeanStalk to start with, but i want an alternative if it gets too pricey.

It's to host an API for a mobile app. Probably in Python or PHP.
That's a recent change that occurred only after many demonstrated cases of abuse by TSA staff, and lots of whining about it.
Governments can just run a "Real CA" trusted by most common web browsers, then that government run CA could occasionally emit new certificates of sites that the government wants to me man in the middle for. Then government does not have to decrypt the information as they are already man in the middle. Some users get the sites original certificate, others get the MITM certificate and interception.

Thus trusting central CA is somehow broken from a security point of view. How many end users really check the certificates is coming from the right CA and has correct fingerprint?

Then you do not need to decrypt the SSL traffic. Much easier.
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Don Draper as the perfect entrepreneur?
I have visited the article in hopes of finding two data points:

- How big is the Japan smartphone market broken down to person and in total units and value?

- What's the difference of India/Japan per person?

ps. Found none, just relative percentages that I can't make much sense of without knowing the volumes :(
I may have jumped the gun. I was assuming PXE to boot an imaging environment, which copies the system image to local media so you don't have a runtime dependency on the boot infrastructure. In that case, speed-wise, you've not gained anything because you've got two boot cycles and a system copy before your new server is ready.

If you're not copying the system image and simply network booting a remote image, then that doesn't apply, and yes, that can be fast.
Yes. and?

I would dispute the "pointing out they have power/money" part. Both because he doesn't, and because I would assume that information is expected from anyone who talks.

Calling such a remark a "tidbit about himself" sounds like a tolerance for sexism on the side I don't have.

And I assume calling it "inappropriate" does as well?
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"Argument dismantling the aforementioned" should be required for any long post on HN. Would save lots of endless back-and-forth threads.
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> it's almost like everyone is actively trying to find reasons to hate everything. How is that productive?

Just helping natural selection along.
Does anyone know why the cost of the universities have skyrocketed? Do they offer a better staff/student relation, better equipment, better buildings, do they pay their staff better...? I honestly don't know but since a lot of the universities are non profits the money is not going to their shareholder's and if I understand the article correctly the (inflation adjusted) amount of money the government provides also has not decreased.
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But the JavaScript development tools today really aren't that much different, never mind better, than what we had 10 or 15 or even 20 years ago when using C, or C++, or Java, or even Turbo Pascal and Delphi.

The basic principles and functionality has remain essentially unchanged the entire time. We're still mainly setting breakpoints, stepping through code, inspecting variables, and so forth.

Those of us who have been in industry a long time have seen much greater gains from the use of strong, static typing and unit testing, for instance. The best way to use a debugger is to not use it at all, because many of the bugs have been prevented outright by the nature of the language used, or at worst caught immediately by the compiler or automated tests.
Oh no. You guys are implementing the same system that was launched in Holland (from the looks of the scanner).

It does not get better...
OK, at this point our disagreement is purely semantic. If you or I were to s/rational/just/g, then we would agree on everything.

I do not agree that the law could never attain rationality/justness. I believe that it can, but it can only ever stay there temporarily. Eventually society will change and make the laws irrational again. Which is why my focus would be on the tuning the machinery of state rather than each individual law. With enough work, we could build a system that anticipates societal changes rather than simply reacts to it.

> OTOH, using a continuous scale, even the most just law possible is going to occasionally prohibit some acts with social utility.

In this case a jury can exercise discretion and refuse to convict someone even when the law and evidence would demand it.
Kinect-guided cockroaches could map disaster zones
The weather service here in Hong Kong offers an amazing array of data from ambient gamma radiation levels in various locations by the hour:

http://www.weather.gov.hk/radiation/rmn_hourly_e.htm

to real-time lightning stike mapping:

http://www.weather.gov.hk/wxinfo/llis/gm_index.htm

Despite the horrendous design, the functionality is quite impressive. They even host a separate site for senior citizens complete with super-sized fonts, simpler data presentation, and a magnifying glass.

http://elderly.weather.gov.hk/socare.htm
https://www.couchsurfing.org/ should work well.
Tuition has skyrocketed, but have universities changed that much? They act like they never have enough money, but yet... they have more than ever. What are the offering now for their 10x increase in tuition in 30 years?
To be fair, exactly this happened to a friend of mine living in Fulham, London. His laptop (a very pricey MacBook) was visible through the window from the street. Someone was in through the (old, poorly-secured) window and back out with the laptop within a couple of minutes whilst my friend was in the shop across the street. Didn't check the bedroom for jewelry, didn't take his expensive decks or TV - just grabbed the laptop and left. It seems some thieves do specialise - either that, or my mate is into some other stuff I don't know about and had just been told he was going to receive an encrypted file...hmmm.
> It locks up oddly sometimes under heavy load.

???
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I also paid for my college largely with high school jobs (I was fortunate enough to have had a home, clothes, food, etc. while I was earning that money). So kids, it is all true.

I work at a college and I am also just finishing putting my two children through college, so I am very interested in the topic. I find the report at http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Documents/Anatomy-of-College... informative. In particular, on page 2 you can see that the steady increases in the cost of college fits with the fact that college is a service industry (or at least it has been up to now).

On page 10 you see in a graph the point that the Seattle Times's article made with an anecdote, that state and local governments have reduced support and families have had to make good the difference. In my mind, just as we as a society pool our resources to build bridges, we also need to produce people who will lead tomorrow (but then, as I say, I work at a college).
I remember having lots of fun with a Windows program that doesn't seem to be available anymore... just to give you an idea (not that I ever had anything this cool in my zoo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-qOBi2tAnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXc6mckGLE

That program was really awesome, the things could even have sensors that made muscles move on ground contact; and I so hoped for "underwater movement" to be implemented fully, but it never came to that :(

We now have WebGL, we have local storage... Anyone? I think it's beyond my ken, but for those who know this stuff, the question basically is if you have free time and want to be a superhero. If 2D cars on a canvas can be this fun, imagine sharing 3D virtual creatures with just a link, or even better, having them cooperate or fight each other ^^
>ASM is only 2x slower than native

Only in wilfully misleading benchmarks. Allow use of SIMD and multithreading and asm.js can be as much as 50 times slower:

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/native...

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/classi...
Reminds me of the time the house I was renting with a bunch of other international students was broken into and obviously searched, but nothing was taken, not even cash.
I wouldn't choose to use requirejs on a project where I was making choices about the architecture for reasons mentioned here [1], but the current project I'm on was setup similarly and loads over 350 .js and .tpl files via AJAX in development mode pushing the DOMReady to a staggering 7.5s. (This is inside of Rails 3.2 using the requirejs gem).

Every time I've encountered requirejs in an application this has been representative of my experience with the tool and the pain of having to wait that long every time I reload a page simply doesn't seem worth it to me. There's also somewhat of a mismatch between async loading assets in development and sync loading them in production which I've seen responsible for bugs that show up in one environment but not the other, and/or vice versa.

A couple of questions for you: do you think the r.js optimizer taking 2.5s to compile is related to the complexity of the dependency tree in your application or just the number of files being loaded? Also, considering the previously mentioned mismatch between dev/prod and async loading, do you think it is appropriate to use something like SPDY to obviate the pain of a lengthy DOMReady event in development?

[1] - http://searls.testdouble.com/posts/2013-06-16-unrequired-lov...
Unfortunately this is obsolete in many modern distros, including Fedora and Archlinux, because of the /usr merge:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove

Also it doesn't take /run into account (for which many distros had a hack before settling on /run).
The fault is shared between both parties: employers demand degrees because it's so much easier to recruit that way, and youngsters don't fight and just go to college.

In my opinion we need way (WAY) more smart dropouts, people who realize they don't belong in school but stay by fear are just as much at fault.

There's no fear or shame to have, I've been through it and it just disabled poor professionnals from hiring me, which is more of a blessing than anything else.

And of course, it's all debt-free from there on (except I bought a place in Paris before my friends even moved out of their parents').
Wage stagnation is probably a bigger factor.

Minimum wage, 1951: $0.75/hr
Minimum wage, 1981: $3.25/hr
Minimum wage, 2011: $7.25/hr
So spending 10% of your budget on public policy is okay, but 49% is too much? You have to draw the line somewhere, they've chosen 49%. You can't just have IRS agents going "oh that sounds too political." You need actual enforceable rules.
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I'm looking forward to trying this because it's a simple UI (maybe I drank the cool aid). I tried Newsblur but found the UI way too busy and some of the functionality confusing.
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Ofcourse they can. Saying anything else is just corporate double-speak and should earn them nothing but further distrust.
The way this has played out through social media has been amazing. The biggest thing I can think of is that someone falsified documents to make it look like the vote was taken before the 12:00 AM deadline, when it in fact took place several minutes after the deadline. Enough people on the Internet had the foresight to take screenshots and print hard copies of the original record, so that when the falsified document started circulating they could call the politicians on their fraudulence. I assume this information made its way up to the Democrats arguing against the bill.

https://twitter.com/becca_aa/status/349772548269027328/photo...
Just public profiles.
I played with this a few weeks ago and made a little python thingy, that prints the weather based on geoip: https://github.com/fs111/geoip-weather
What did you expect it to print, and why, if I may ask?
It describes a situation where read latency is a factor, which is any situation where you cannot guarantee a single observer. This is true if you have multiple threads, but also true if you're accessing a shared I/O resource, such as a filesystem.

Mutable OOP presents the fiction that you can retrieve the current value of a property or object, but we know this isn't true. In reality, all we can do is to find a past value of a property, because there's always some latency involved in reading. If it's a single value, maybe the latency is only a few nanoseconds. If it's a lookup against a hashtable, perhaps we're talking microseconds. If we need to access I/O, our latency increases to milliseconds or higher.

The more concurrency and latency in a system, the harder it is to maintain the fiction that latency does not exist. It's worth asking whether a model that falls apart so quickly (which it does whenever you need a synchronized method or data structure) is actually useful to have in the first place.

Java does allow variables to be marked as being immutable using the final keyword, but it doesn't have very good tools for dealing with immutable data. It doesn't have efficient immutable data structures in its core language and it has no tail call optimisation, or even a pseudo-TCO structure like Clojure's loop/recur. In short, it's much more difficult to use immutable data in Java than it is in a functional language like Clojure.
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Bigger, newer buildings. Lots more administrators paid much higher salaries. Tuitions subsidizing very expensive football teams. Gourmet food and single rooms for students (so they can attract the best and brightest!) rather than hash-slinging cafeterias and dormitories. Fancy gyms for the same reason.

Faculty salaries, however, are much lower since a large percentage now are part time temps with PhDs.
Apology accepted.

I am just not a fan of fishing. The "I noticed you're petty active in the online CocoaPods community." and how my real name came in on my gmail account means that some other company sold you the address/info. Grr, I am more angry with them than you. My ex's profession was marketing and we use to have some heated debates about certain practices.

Anyway, hope your product does well!
Imagine you're the CEO of a tech startup, in a meeting with some Wall Street people. You look like Mark Zuckerberg, they're the "captain of the crew team" type Wall Street likes to hire. They ask you: so, what sport did you play in college?

Sometimes questions like that are an attempt at signaling exclusion. The purpose is to remind you that you're different from the group. It's really irrelevant to the quality of the question whether you were actually the school's star track athlete, or instead spent all your time hacking on your computer. It's even irrelevant whether the stereotype is actually true (I don't know if people at tech startups are less likely to have played sports in college than people at investment banks). All that needs to exist is a clear stereotype and for both sides to be aware of the appeal to that stereotype.
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False because of the following:

* compression

* symbol substitution

* levels of abstraction
I expected it to print "B", because D is visually closer to B so it would make more sense to me for it to be biased in that direction. (I was quite conscious that I was guessing, and wouldn't have written code depending on my assumption without testing it first)
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Between browserify and requirejs I've definitely had a more positive experience with the former but my experience is that both seem to be subject to scaling problems with even a trivial number of dependencies in play; I wish there was a really good sample project setup that would allow accurate comparisons between the tools at the scale they are frequently used at, but for now I choose to use simple concatenation and a simple namespacing tool [1] to avoid lengthy watch-time issues during development.

grunt-contrib-watch is a pretty vital part of my workflow, but I don't use the livereload options because I can't afford to lose that state in the browser.

[1] - https://github.com/searls/extend.js
Don't beat yourself up over it too much. The structure of narrative form is something Clojure inherits from the Lisp tradition.

All essays about Clojure must either be a narrative in which "a man goes on a journey" or one in which "a stranger comes to town." [1] Yours, being the first type is just an old-fashioned love song to Lisp. [2] The other narrative form produces rants about s-expression syntax - though now that we have Python, praise of the semicolon is no longer a given.[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1213770

[2] e.g. RPG's www.dreamsongs.com

[3] Such essays, lacking condescension, may be said to fail to comprehend the essence of Lisp.