skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for clearing that up. I'm a little fuzzy on where that can be done - ie on github, if you set it to the MIT license, can you define the additional rules within the license section? does putting the "educational use only" anywhere on the page apply? I'm not a coder, and this normally would not apply to the work I do, but it is interesting seeing how these things play out.
I feel like you don't understand what a community is...

Hacker News is an online community. It has a pretty open membership policy, which is that, if you show up here over a period of time, and manage to not get hell-banned, you're a part of the community. Congrats!

Part of being in a community is that it's pretty common to have a kinship with other people in that community. This place isn't a real-life place, so naturally, that kinship might not develop as quickly, or spread as deeply as one might in person. But you'd be surprised that it can still develop.

So, "the vast majority of HN users" might not actually know who raganwald is, but I'd bet they've probably seen at least a few of his comments, at least if they've spent any amount of time here. However, "the vast majority of HN users" aren't actually the community. There's nothing stopping them from being part of it, they just aren't. Which is fine (I don't consider myself to be, for what it's worth).

But when someone who is a part of the community has something good happen to them that's of interest to the community, people share it.

The fact that this story is popular is a triumph of community, not a shitty side-effect of this place not operating the way you wish it did. I hope it continues to feel this way, lest it really turn into a shitty link aggregator that you so wish it were.
I have excellent vision, and I can't see the pixels on the 720p Nexus 4, nevermind the S4. I'm so sick of people in this thread claiming the S4 pentile 1080p S4 is better than a 720p display. When you double the resolution, you quadruple the number of pixels that must be rendered. This means that given the same CPU, your 1080p phone is going to be 50% slower in games and draw more battery power.

Give me longer battery life and better gaming performance over a meaningless spec. sheet number.
I grew up in the 80s in the Soviet Union. And the thing is, we never believed their propaganda because it was too ridiculous. Everyone was laughing at the bullshit they heard on the radio and TV. True believers have disappeared probably the the mid 60s or so. Even defecting spies had stopped using "ideology" as the reason for their defection it was too unbelievable.

Likewise might happen in US. It seems two things has happened already. They stretched propaganda vs reality difference too thin. And the Internet.

It becomes harder to keep a straight face telling others about freedom, privacy, free market, human rights in light of news about torture, drones, spying etc. Also, without an ability to get access to alternative media and if Fox was the only channel available many would still thing this country was God's gift to humanity. It is just the pesky Internets that lets "domestic terrorists" like Occupy organize and share idea. Pesky little extremists forums like /r/news lets people discuss issues outside the mainstream media.

On another note. There was an old joke from back in the 90's. "When Soviet Union fell, we found out everything they told us about Communism was a lie. And everything they told us about America was true".

Good counter-propaganda after all, is often not telling lies just telling the dark truth the other side is trying to hide. In other words I doubt the Marshall Plan America is a good ol America or is it the America that still believed in segregation, raping South American countries for profit, installing brutal dictators in South East Asia and so on.
…that's disquieting and disturbing to read. I had not realized that the Harper government had been that bad to immigration and citizenship. (I assumed it was bad because it's Harper, but I didn't know it was that bad.)

I got my citizenship about ten years ago (I only know because I'm on my third passport), about six months after applying and taking the test. I had been resident for just under four years at the time.
It's called an echo chamber.

Yes, Hacker News is an echo chamber.
Funny, I recognized his handle over his full name. Shout out for the homoiconic. Amazing articles, like the one on lexical scopes was a great help to me.
Definitely: the french for plaintext would be "en clair"
I think this is a preview of things to come on other mobile OSs in the same way the openMoko open source phone was a harbinger of the first iPhone.

This Ubuntu prototype phone shows that the technology is ready for good phone/desktop integration. You can be sure Google and Apple are working on their own version of this and probably doing it with much more resources. Microsoft's attempt at convergence was premature and resulted in two OSs that superficially look the same but aren't really integrated.

I do think Ubuntu has much more chances of succeeding than openMoko ever had.

This indiegogo approach is a smart and bold strategy that could bring higher level of development resources than open source projects are usually able to get. Open source is good for getting a great community and great ideas together but often the thin margins and low barrier for competitors means we don't get the level of investment necessary to bring the polish, documentation and support necessary for mass appeal. A kickstarter/indiegogo approach could help with this under-investment issue.

Will it be enough? As a longtime Ubuntu desktop user, I can only hope.
You're highlighting the immaturity of software construction.

Anecdote-Driven-Development will justify almost any approach, especially to vague problems.
The real barrier to entry is the point between "cheap" and "free"--especially when first learning. For me, that was when I was 10/11. No chance of getting hold of a credit card to get a "cheap web host or VPS." I could only experiment with what my computer was willing to do on its own.

Heroku's almost the right thing for this, I think, though it still requires a credit card to sign up fully (it doesn't technically, but it does to enable free add-ons, so without a credit card you don't get, say, database persistence.) Obviously, Heroku is geared for adult developers--or, more specifically, to start-ups that Heroku hopes will become monsters dependent on Heroku's stack.

What would be perfect is a service like Heroku, but specifically for people learning to code; maybe something joined-at-the-hip with an online coding-school website. When you attend a real CS program, you get access to the labs and mainframes to test your programs on--where's the online version of that?

So, anything like this already exist? Or should I build it?
You are absolutely correct. In the same way, in 2012, half of IBM's profits were from the sales and servicing of mainframes[1]. IBM is not dead, it's just irrelevant. And that's where Microsoft is apparently unstoppably heading.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/09/ibms-mainf...
It's not a tone argument.

An argument from a legal department is a threat. And if it's not actually a threat, it's certainly a very significant perceived threat.

And lawyers and society definitely understand that.

The letter itself wasn't terrible, but it definitely contained a threat, and claiming it is a tone argument denies that.

Also, do you have a reference to PG's "hierarchy of disagreement"? Sounds interesting.
Did you make your account for HN karma?

I would imagine most people did it to submit comments/links.
Computer-Generated TCP for Network Connections That are Twice as Fast
For what it's worth, when I mentioned Ottawa it wasn't because it's a startup hub, though there is an increasing startup scene there of which Shopify is a part. OP asked about tech cities, not startup cities, and Ottawa definitely makes the cut in that respect.

Much of tech in Ottawa is mid- to large-size IT/gov't contracting and telecoms. As for smaller firms, not many are setting out to build the Next Big Turnkey Ruby App. But there are tons of companies aiming to fill niche enterprise/government needs, e.g. [1], [2], many many more.

[1] - http://www.trademerit.com/

[2] - http://www.truenorthavionics.com/
I agree that nginx needs supervision less than most processes because it reinvents many wheels. However, supervision is still nice, e.g. your 'service nginx' example that uses Ubuntu's supervisor Upstart.

I agree it's not worth straining to make nginx's binary upgrade work with arbitrary supervision. However, if someone created a supervisor that solves this problem (systemd), I might give it a try.
A high-end "hardware firewall" is now an x86 server (usually previous-generation) running some fairly expensive proprietary software. For a company like CloudFlare that has good scale and security as a core competency, I think doing it themselves makes sense.
Think of it as four powerpoint slides with one "source" each.
Interesting read. You're scale and capacity concerns are a problem I'm hoping to have. We're still in an entry level stage where we're purchasing refurbished gear and slowly scaling horizontally across facilities. No need to have someone build us equipment just for us yet but your ssd selections and processor selections are pretty interesting and we'll probably build similar Supermicro boxes based on your experiences. Thanks again for the write-up. Happy CloudFlare Pro customer here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0
The graphic you linked is absolutely gorgeous. I had(sadly) forgotten about it and I appreciate you linking it again :)

As a long time Nate follower, he is very good at posting basic graphs alongside very strong explanations of said graphs. However, he has very little skill when it comes to more creative, targeted, unique graphs like the one that you linked.

However, he's a smart dude and ESPN has plenty of resources. I'm sure he'll be fine.
Maybe pedantic, but Quebec is a province, not a state. A lot of game development happens in Montreal especially.
This is a nice point to think about, thanks - I'll have to do some noodling on this.
...and this is one of those times where you feel dumb. Thanks for the link. It's a good metaphor.

edit: I even really like resees. Goodness.
Not only is it painful to watch this, it's even more painful to think about how far we've fallen, and how quickly. It wasn't that long ago where most mainstream US media sources could be trusted to provide insightful, fact-checked journalism.
> What she does have in terms of power is getting to say whatever she wants, about anyone at the Times, without fear of being fired.

Do you really think a corporation would allow serious injury to come to its reputation especially when its reputation is critical to its business?

Do you think if the public editor starting leveling serious critique at the NYT in the vein of FAIR, Media Lens or Chomsky they would retain their position? Do you think the NYT would ever appoint members of those organizations as public editors?
Do you know what mass surveillance and analysis is good at? Chilling political movements and spotting rising leaderships.

I bet NSA is not blind to that. Actually, they're not blind at all.
I've always been a huge fan of OVH in my previous company. I had never seen this article. I was planning on moving my company's infrastructure from Rackspace to OVH. Reading this article makes me reconsider my decision.

Note to future CEOs: your opinions matter when it comes to getting/keeping customers. Customers not sharing your opinions are likely to leave, if they can, or not subscribe to your services if they're not already subscribed. Bashing github is certainly the best way to alienate the developer community from OVH. Moreover, stating that the reason was because one of their developer got hired by another company makes me wonder what must be the working conditions at OVH. I had thought one day applying there, I won't think about it anymore.
Classic 1980s tv commercial for reese's peanut butter cups: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLDF6qZUX0
The Contingent Value of an Undergrad Degree
The scientific method is the closest to perfection among implemented plans for mining new truth devised to date by the ingenuity of humans. All of the proposed better plans that I know of basically involve ways of running the scientific method faster (e.g. strong AI).

The utility of the scientific method is that it works even when run by self-interested, flawed, irrational humans. Technology moves ahead. People live rather than die, and become far wealthier than their ancestors. That this process kicked into high gear sometime around the time and place that the scientific method was finally formalized and that formalism successfully popularized, after thousands of years of ragged, slow, and erratic progress, does not seem to me to be a coincidence.
Fivethirtyeight has its origins on the very-political DailyKos, where he wrote political statistical analysis under the name "poblano".
> But by that same token, hundreds of PSDs are posted on Dribbble every day. As Allan, the designer for Designer News and Layervault, said when I asked him if he wanted me to take the resources down, he said 'Why? It's wonderful'.

That is Allan's right, and Heroku's right. But Allan can only speak for himself, Heroku can only speak for Heroku. So while it's good that you've asked them for their opinion, they have no agency and confer no expectations as to what MailChimp does or does not do.

You're not really giving people a choice if you expect only one answer when you ask them for permission, you know. ;)
https://github.com/caldwell/daemon-manager

I've been dogfooding it in a production environment for a couple years and it's been pretty solid.
Make sure to add the following in AndroidManifest.xml:

<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:xlargeScreens="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true" />
The military does not give trials to the people it kills. Drone strikes are a military action.
The Marshall Plan came at a cost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
If you're a Rails developer, I would really take the time to do this. I've wasted so much time in the past just copy and pasting code from old projects, and now that I have everything I need in one `rails new ...` call, I'm happy knowing I have all my favorite libraries ready-to-use.
Great question. Space is just doubling down on the good parts of XML, JSON, and YAML; while stripping out anything that isn't absolutely necessary. It turns out, almost every feature in those encodings is unnecessary.

Space is a total accidental discovery. We were just using a few ways to store objects (JSON, HAML, some others). We kept having to simplify the rules because we needed formats that worked with a variety of languages and eventually we had a very simple YAML like language. But even that was too complicated to support across languages, and so we kept cutting features and rules.

Pretty soon we were down to no punctation. Just the space character and newline character to give structure to your objects. I was very surprised to discover that this was all you needed no matter what domain you were working in.
SaaS is outside of Apple's expertise so it'll be interesting to see how this goes. I've tested the beta and it's very impressive, but where Apple has trouble is scaling its internet services.
It is annoying but the cost of having someone sit there and click renew for 4 hours once a month is still less than the $35k extra we would have to pay to host elsewhere.
For anyone interested in copper vs fiber, take some time to read Chapter 1 of Nathan Farrington's dissertation: bnathanfarrington.com/papers/dissertation.pdf

As 10Gbps, and even 40G/100G, gain traction, you start running into cable length issues:

Attenuation and maximum length of AWG 7 copper wire:

Bit Rate (Gb/s), dB/m, Loss/m, Max length (m)

1, 0.721, 15.3%, 106

10, 2.28, 40.8%, 33.5

40, 4.56, 65.0%, 16

100, 7.21, 81.0%, 10.6
My understanding was that you don't need that as long as your target sdk is new enough - it assumes you support all screen sizes unless you say otherwise.
Don't feel dumb, you're one of the 10,000...

http://xkcd.com/1053/
Type 1, type 2, type S, and type M errors
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They make more off of Android devices than Google does.

People keep saying this, though I suppose someone at Microsoft must be embezzling huge sums of money because this purported big Android windfall still fails to appear on any Microsoft quarterly report. Dear NSA: the FBI or someone should look into this.

This myth is founded on Microsoft continually getting agreements with manufacturers to give them patent immunity, never with actual dollar amounts announced. Instead the press just starts inventing numbers, becoming ever more zealous with the incredible sums Microsoft is making off of Android (again, apparently completely off the books...).

Given the actual reality that these dollar amounts don't exist, the next time you hear about Microsoft making enormous sums from some sucker company, realize that they probably aren't making anything, but instead are getting various cooperation agreements, where the payments are more likely fictional movements of non-money and continued involvement in Microsoft's efforts (e.g pretty please make a Windows Phone device)
In the video Mark says that they're not making it for consumers and saying that they want other companies to do it and they will show them kind of thing.

It doesn't sound to inspiring in the long term though.
There is no state law limiting retention to 48 hours. The Minnesota State Patrol -- one single statewide agency -- has voluntarily chosen to limit to 48 hours. Any local police department or county sheriff's department can retain for whatever they want under state law. Or the State Patrol could be lying.
I use daemontools to manage all the servers for SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com). Trivial to install and configure. Most of my run scripts are one liners, and of course like anything written by DJB daemontools just runs and runs. (Naturally I'm also using tinydns on the SlickDNS name servers.)
tl;dr - it's just one long bash fest combined with patting themselves on the back for earlier bashing that they incorrectly claim was unique insight.

A terribly non-constructive article. It really is just one long angry bash fest. I had to stop reading at "Windows 8 is just awful" - I've been using it for some time, and it's a perfectly fine operating system: fast, secure, stable, and requires no more resources than Vista did six years prior. I haven't had a single problem with it; the sole thing I dislike about it - the start screen - I practically disable by booting directly to the desktop and blocking charms for it.
A part of drone strikes are done by CIA pilots at Langley. I think you are being generous with "military, does this and thus it is ok".

But no matter how generous you are, stretching "military" for CIA agents at Langely who kill kids herding goats by day and pick up their kids for soccer practice in the evening is a little too silly for my taste.
How many of those are actually derivatives of daemontools?
indiscriminant killing of civilians is a war crime, not a military action.
Have you considered/tried using a decent HTTP client + HAProxy?
Some points of note:

1. daemontools and runit are practically identical. I do prefer runit somewhat, as svlogd has a few more features than multilog (syslog forwarding, more timestamp options), and sv has a few more options than svc (it can issue more signals to the supervised process).

2. Among the criteria I look for in a process manager are: (1) the ability to issue any signal to a process (not just the limited set of TERM and HUP), and (2) the ability to run some kind of test as a predicate for restarting or reloading a service. The latter is especially useful to help avoid automating yourself into an outage. As far as I'm aware, none of the above process supervisors can do that, so I tend to eschew them in favor of initscripts and prefer server implementations that are reliable enough not to need supervision.
I feel like we followed a different 538...

Silver basically said "here are the exact probabilities we have calculated for these races and here is the gist of our methodology [1]". If that doesn't cut through the rhetoric, opinion, and 'expert analysis' that plagues MSM political coverage, I don't know what else possibly could.

[1] - http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/methodology/
Agreed. For me, the most depressing part is that I, as a Republican [not a retard "movement" conservative, but a non-Progressive [yes, I believe in Climate Change]], voted for Obama and his message of transparency. I shouldn't have "believed" in a politician, but I did.

Crazy time: liberal friends are now defending the NSA's actions... Cats and dogs are living together in peace. WTF?
there are a lot of these assumptions on MS everyday and all i see are people trying to predict the downfall of MS in order to get famous. tablet that, PC this, yada yada...

if MS is really going down the cliff why is it that they are still making billions NOW?! nobody's going to use a tablet in the office typing their 10 page report...
No screenshot of iWork on Chrome. Only IE and Safari : )
This is just an anecdote, but I consistently see the same effect when doing A/B testing. The initial hypothesis always does fantastic for the first week or so. But if I let it run long enough, it always drops to zero. Been scratching my head about it for a few years.
Sorry, not yet, but I will. I got you bookmarked because I noticed the brouhaha earlier with that other search site. It sounds interesting, though.

It's been almost an hour and you only have my 1 upvote, so to be honest your submission really doesn't look like it's going anywhere.

I'd resubmit tomorrow at around 7:30 to 8:30am EST, and I'd do it as a "Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers", but don't put put your url in the "url" field - put it in the "text" box, along with your "Hey HackerNews!..." copy. Posts submitted that way will be much more likely to get upvotes, and you'll linger in the "Ask" section (see the link at the top nav. bar) for about a week or so.

Update: I was recommending that you kill this submission, but scratch that. You're on the home page now, so maybe it'll take off. If not, just resubmit next week the way I mention above.
service(8) is supposed to be supervisor-independent. If it's not, that's a problem.
So they are in the "cash cow" phase of their life, heading towards the "dog" quarter.

http://www.netmba.com/strategy/matrix/bcg/
Anyone with any experience using Angel (https://github.com/MichaelXavier/Angel)?
IBM is irrelevant. Extreme exaggeration at its finest.

Irrelevant in what? According to whom? Very important questions.

The only way I'm able to fathom someone being able to claim that IBM is "irrelevant," is if said person has never done any level of enterprise or government IT business anywhere on earth. Must be nice to have an irrelevant $100b sales business with $16b in profit and 434,000 employees.

Well let's see here. By that measure, the following companies are apparently irrelevant too: Oracle, HP, Dell, Cisco, Intel, SAP, Microsoft, EMC - they only tally a cool $450 billion or so in sales. They must not do anything useful at all to earn that.

Irrelevant must mean: not hip or fashionable, and not dominate in consumer smart phones or tablets.
Whoops, ignore my comment to delete this submission. You're at 5 points and on the home page. If you don't get any more pickup than this, consider resubmitting next week the way I recommended.
They are foreigners though, so it doesn't matter that much