skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi. Thanks! My personal take on where Docker is heading to? There are so many things people can do with this, it's hard to summarize.

What I personally care most about? As a designer ex-entrepreneur and front-end developer, the thing that gets me going most is the idea that I'm able to "just run" an application. No more difficult than from the Mac store. For example Trac (a wiki system), Wordpress, Django apps, Mailservers, torrent-servers. Basic stuff which just makes it easier for me to deploy my creations, and those of others.
>demanding an end to the unconstitutional NSA spying.

Spying on on Europeans, Australians etc. is clearly constitutional. So where does that leave us? Other nations hating America because their own governments want access to the data but can pawn off the blame. Brilliant.
Yeah I agree, too much technology can get in the way of keeping things secret now. On the other hand, it's very easy to track leakers now too.
I'm not gonna lie, although I love the convergence the iPhone provides, I still miss T9 and have many fond memories texting directly from my pocket to other classmates in high school. Once you mapped the alphabet to the number keys in your mental model, communication was a breeze -- until it came time to actually read a response, of course.
For sure, it has potential to work, it is similar to Fab.com's business model. They find local designers (in our case they sold our t-shirts), and they give exposure to the brand, in exchange for discounting merch. Nastygal.com is another great example, although they go for the 1 off/thrift store finds.
How do I gauge interest in my startup concept?
I'm trying to rev up a startup with a couple of friends. We're all devs and we're just sort of throwing up code and ideas towards an MVP. We're doing a B2B SaaS thing that already has a pretty big market. We're just trying to iterate on existing products and beat them on price and style. We really know nothing about running a business or getting customers. Obviously we can't predict the future, but should we keep hacking at our MVP, or should try to find early adopters to help guide our features?
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In my case, I had a bad semester where life crashed around me right before finals, which included two of the classes I needed to have a minimum GPA for admittance into the CS program. I had the option of losing a semester and retaking everything again, of course, but at the same time I had been involved with speech and debate during high school and loved the communications classes I was taking.

It worked out for me. If I hadn't had the option, I could have retaken a few math classes and been fine. I could have made it, but I return to the question: what happens when people aren't cut out for STEM? Do you charge 20k and say "thanks for trying,?"
What's the lender's incentive to do that? Their goal is to extract as much profit as possible from the borrower (even when we're talking about the government as lender).
OT: I love this article just for including the "west wing" video.
Doesn't that place a pretty large assumption on good data coverage? I live in Denver, which generally has good coverage, but my last place was in a total dead zone and I had to get a microcell device to be able to use the phone indoors. SMS almost always got through, OTOH.
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The problem isn't that there are student loans - people take loans out for many other things and have no problem with those. The problem is that the repayments are killing the spending power of the middle-class.

Where does paying back a loan or paying back a fixed amount of income differ? Do you honestly think that the gov't is going to curb the costs of education? More than likely the gov't will just jack the repayment % on future students.

So, like I said, it just kicks the can down the road. No where in the Oregon plan is an outline of how to bringing state college costs back down to a reasonable level that doesn't require loans except in extreme cases (where it was in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s).
I was going to say that it didn't look to offer much more than what DBIC does for perl (in how it composes queries), but the operator overloading to do conditionals is really pretty slick.
With a cooperative scheduler, you will, sooner or later, experience some form of starvation. The most obvious is the process that just infinitely loops, but less obvious situations will end up popping up too; calls that you thought were handled by the event loop but turn out to be blocking and add up when you start calling them at scale, strange behavior when you have a set of processes that turn out to yield far less often than you thought and the system starts behaving with much higher latency than it should if you get too many of them, and all kinds of such manifestations. There's also the inability to create things that watch other things; if something does go spinning off into infinity, nothing else gets to run to kill it.

You can hack around many of them, but you eventually hit a wall, and the effort of the hack increases rapidly.

Note I didn't really use gevent in this reply, this is just about cooperative scheduling. There's a reason why we've all but completely abandoned it at the OS level for things we'd call "computers" (as opposed to "embedded systems" or "microcontrollers", etc). I tend to consider cooperative scheduling an enormous red flag in any system that uses it... and yes, that completely and fully includes the currently-popular runtimes that use it.
More people know about things like this than you realize. When you end up passing it everyday you become immune to what's really going on. It turns into, "Oh they build planes over there" when someone from our of the environment notices.
The most impressive sentence:

We have previously said that the violations of these laws and rules were more serious than had been acknowledged, and we believe Americans should know that this confirmation is just the tip of a larger iceberg.

Apparently there's still much more untold. And the senators still don't intend to tell openly what they now.
+ it doesn't ship anywhere besides US
What are the building blocks of Brick?? Does it use X-Tags?
This is absolutely true. Graduating from a top tier (most of the time that means private) school will give the person a tremendous amount of leverage in their job search, and greatly increase their chances of landing a high-paying job.

What that means is that telling the students to "just go to a lower-tuition school" simply perpetuates the current class system and undermines social mobility.
There is another listing with a price tag of $162.50. Other than those shipped from Hong Kong and without original packaging, I don't see any differences.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZTE-Open-Firefox-OS-GSM-Unlocked-Cel...
I guess the next step is for them to put an 'ads' tab on the search engine and move all the ads into there.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection
Where is Canada? If we are to count huge landmasses hostile to human habitation, here we are:

Sahara desert: 3.629 million sq miles (9.4 million km²)
Canada: 3.855 million sq miles (9.985 million km²)
Running this from any web host will almost certainly get your server turned off along with a pile of abuse emails. To make it run even faster you should scrub all the Bogon routes on this list:
https://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/http.html

I would also scrub all the sinkholes and captured botnet C&C ip addresses as hitting those will lower the reputation your netblock. List we use at meanpath is:
http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/domains.txt
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainbl...
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=ipblockl...
http://malc0de.com/bl/IP_Blacklist.txt
http://hosts-file.net/download/hosts.txt
http://www.joewein.net/dl/bl/dom-bl-base.txt
http://www.dshield.org/feeds/suspiciousdomains_High.txt
http://www.malware.com.br/cgi/submit?action=list
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domain...
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=ipbloc...
Have you actually been to and/or lived in California?

[A little background about me: I was born in Cali, left when I was 6 months old, returned when I was in my late 20s, and stayed there for 5 years (San Diego).]

The reason I ask you this is that your viewpoint is why I went to Cali. But when I got there I found that the idea of Cali is very different from the reality of Cali. I have lived in a variety of places around the world, and I must honestly say that California was one of the worst...

Re your first point: (1) California believes in the future.
I would say NO, California believes in itself. They think (sometimes)that they are the future, but most often they build on what they have today because they fear about losing it. Not about what they can do tomorrow. A lot of what they do is about preserving the image of what they are, not about progress or the future. And as for the people (stereotypically)... Rednecks, gangbangers, surfer-dudes... There are a lot of them.

Your second quote: (2) California reasons from first principles more than elsewhere. Everyone else looks at what everyone else is doing and tries to superficially copy what looks like it works...

I think here you have it 50-50. Yes, some new things come out of Cali, but on the whole, they copy, (it's just that sometimes the copy is way better than the original)Except the idea of copy is a little changed, they don't copy exactly, they take an idea and 'shift' it. First is was a shift from real world to online. At the moment it's a shift from many to individual (online).

And your quote does need repeating, as is sums up Cali well, from gold rush to dotcom boom -

"For the engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit." - John Maynard Keynes

California runs on this.

Cali is about profit, nothing more, nothing less.
I've been using this site since the OP posted it in a web design subreddit. I've found this site to be very helpful.
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Grass does not grow harder by pulling on it
After seeing the episode of The Lookout[1] about online flower services which contract out to local florists I decided to use the local florists directly. The gist of it was that the local flower shops will tend to give a more skimpy arrangement for online orders since they have to give a cut to the website.

If you're in NYC I highly recommend Starbright[2]. They have arrangements as nice or nicer than a fancy florist like Ovando, but the prices are way better.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/full-bloom-online-flow...
[2] http://www.starbrightnyc.com/
I was going to make a new post about it and saw yours. Yes, I agree that it's a TREMENDOUS annoyance. We were just having a great discussion in the student loan thread, and within 30 minutes it fell of the front page despite having over 200 upvotes.

Same thing has been happening with articles on certain topics, such as fitness.
He who is right first, is wrong for the longest period of time (my own afaik)
This is probably true. At least when it comes to articles about fitness, when they fall off the front page I always assume that some overweight guy got annoyed and flagged it.
I find this interesting, this is really great feedback for me actually.

Those are some of the important lessons, although use (postgres|cassandra) are really too prescriptive. More like "use the right tool or tools for the job".

Also, use consistent key hashing where appropriate is another important less that I should emphasize more.

And "build for 3" is another important lesson. It makes scaling much easier.
I hope he is, he knew what he was playing at.
Not a professional in this field, but still have some tips that might help:

* Market before release. Don't build your product and release when it's finished. Try to get people on board as early as possible

* Write mails to pretty much everyone you know and don't know (Blogs, Teachers, Family)

* Be careful when telling people about your idea. Don't be aggressive, accept and value their opinions, maybe give them a little something when they are interested (a test account, small plan etc.)

* Maybe throw together a beta/alpha

* Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKYkmYuk5l8

Hope this helps. Good luck!
Essentially: conformal (angles are equal in different areas of the map -- this is the purpose of Mercator, for sailing), equal-area (regions of the same area are represented equally), contiguous (paths between regions do not leave the map, e.g. not a Goode homolosine, Dymaxion, etc). Pick two.
The article came out 2 weeks ago, fwiw, when it was clearly unavailable for purchase (I hit the page then, it said "Sign up to find out when the Moto X will be available").

If you're still interested, the Moto X is available on ATT on 8/23: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/16/4627716/moto-x-available-a...
> opposite of Nickel Metal Hydride

Fully discharging any battery isn't good for it. NiCd had the particular problem of "memory" developing though, so going through a full discharge cycle was necessary to prevent the memory forming. It wasn't good for the battery, but it was better than letting the memory develop.

I'm not aware of NiMH developing a memory, so that wouldn't be a good thing to do with NiMH either. I always tried to avoid full discharge of my NiMH batteries and always got a pretty long life out of them.

Really the full discharge cycle is an artifact of the needs of one particular chemistry (NiCd) that became something that "everybody knows" you should do long after it became counterproductive.
I've always thought tmux had a great man page.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tmux&sektion=1
We're doing the "Uber for X" in a non-ironic fashion still? Surprising...
And so the cycle continues...
Since the promotions tab is so great for consumers, the obvious next step down this path is to add an 'ads' tab to the search engine and move all the adverts into it. If people like them they'll know where to look.
Rather than misleading maps, I'd say misleading title: The article asks if we've been using misleading maps for over 500 years and then presents an alternative which is just as misleading (another rectangular projection, just as Mercator).
I suppose the internet generation never really took the time to read man pages (nor to write one for that matter).
I would say morality, but I realize that's an invalid argument. It seems like the government shouldn't be allowed to profit from issuing student loans (especially bad ones).
Part of the problem with mchurch was willful ignorance. A few colleagues, including some fairly senior people, reached out to him and volunteered to try and help him resolve his concerns. To my knowledge he never took them up on it.
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Also, "For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/education/poor-students-st...
Nope. Had a battery replaced in my 2012 Air recently(only because a clip separating the battery from the case broke,not because of the battery life) and it took 30 minutes to get it done at an Apple Store.
This is so gonna mess up our entity recognition at trending.io.
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It's not good for consumers if it crushes other businesses.
Here's a link to the actual collection: http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&cat=highlight&f=%2...

Getty's blog post about it: http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-...

An example page where you can download a 4264px × 3282px copy of Van Gogh's 'Irises' (28mb .jpg): http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=94...

I'm wondering how long it will be before someone creates a .torrent with the entire collection...
Then people will stop getting that degree, and the competitive salary for that degree will get higher.
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You could "unproject" another projection for which you have texture back to your sphere and then do the isocahedron projection.

Also, maybe you can find a database of the countries border as lat/lng polygons and just draw the countries.
I like the idea of building queries via functions with jQuery-like chaining.

However, the whole idea of overloading operators to pass in Python functions that somehow get converted... makes me feel uneasy, like it's too-clever-by-half -- having to keep track of which operators are actually supported, which client languages (Python, PHP, etc.) support it, if something's being messed up along the way...

Is there an alternative string syntax for such functions, written in a ReQL-specific language that can be used instead?
> You’re Not Even Trying Anymore

That's not true, Hollywood is trying -- they're trying to make the stockholders happy. Sequels of movies that did well in the box office, predictable plot outlines that have been proven to appeal to moviegoers, dozens of nearly identical films based on what has worked in the past -- this is good business.

Remember, film-making is not primarily an art form, it's a business. The highest-paid, most respected producers and directors are those who stay within budget and create commercially successful films.

Want to change things? Stop paying to see typical Hollywood films. Go to small art theaters, or rent or buy small, well-reviewed independent films that won't be displayed at your local multiplex. Don't patronize mass-market theaters, instead acquire and see the sort of films only seen on college campuses and art houses.

Example -- do you want to see Scarlett Johansson in "The Avengers" or in "Lost in Translation"? "Lost in Translation", a small-budget project written and directed by Sofia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's daughter), is an absolutely terrific film, well worth your time. "The Avengers" is pure eye candy, and a pretty good film as major action-film productions go, but it just can't compare to "Lost in Translation".

My point? You have choices. Vote with your feet.
Hey scubasteve - great name - and thanks for the comment. You're absolutely right: pricing tricks and up charges are not cool. The price we display is the price you'll pay (plus a little tax). We're working hard to spread to other cities super fast. Where are you located?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections has many more.
From the code, I could see that they are built on top of X-Tags
It's basically what you get when you start your deployment toolchain as simple shell scripts, then make them evolve, add features, and at some point, rewrite from scratch with a "real" programming language. I don't know if that matches your definition of "glorified" though :-)
Large version here: http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=94...
I think it's fucking awesome and it works like a boss in FF 24 (beta) on OS X. I'm very excited about this project only because standard UI elements are so irritating to make (after having done it hundreds of times) and the alternative libraries (in my opinion) all do too much and too little at the same time.

For everyone complaining about Chrome, I would like to say this is "beta" and "ahahahahaha."

Not to be malicious though! I just have a really shit experience on the web with a lot developers only targeting Chrome/Webkit. Like ScalaTour for instance-- a wretched experience if you're /not/ using Chrome (read unusable).

It's nice to see it go the other way for once! ;-)
Should I have thrown a literally in there? Literally Concurrent means at the same time. Parallel literally means non intersecting. I understand some dumbass has\is trying to co opt the language it doesn't mean I have to like it.

If one of them should mean one thing and the other the other why not have the one that literally means at the same time for the term that means at the same time. And have the one that means non intersecting mean threads of execution that are beside each other but not touching without lots of pain and suffering. Sorry, rant bit off.
I'm with you as well. I refuse to get navigation systems in cars (and I work in the automotive industry!) or radios without physical buttons. As far as texting, these days I find it easier to just use Siri to send a text message than to have to type it out on a keyboard - especially when I'm walking and my entire body shakes making it very easy to mishit letters. At least with Siri, you get an audible proof-read.
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The toe-shoes are great, at least.
I would be interested to see if an App Academy model for a credentialed institution could work. Small deposit payment upfront, and a period of return dependent on salary. Definitely changes the incentive structure for the better.
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>have our world maps been wrong or misleading for 500 years?

No, they were just used mainly for navigation. The reason why the Mercator projection was popular for so long is that its angles correspond to compass points and you navigate by a trivial algorithm:

1. Draw a line to your destination on the map and determine its angle with the north, say 25 degrees north-east.

2. Set your course at 25 degrees north-east and keep it constant. Your will arrive to your destination by a rhumb line [1], which is only slightly less efficient than a great circle.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_line
That's not the way Google works at all. The entire basis of Google's offerings is that they want to give you the most relevant search results possible, along with relevant ads. If they cease giving you the best search results possible, they know that it opens them up to competitor providing a better product.

The far more likely scenario is that the car will direct you to the nearest supermarket, but also recommend a couple of shops nearby or on the way that it thinks you might be interested in. If they direct you to a "theater 25 miles away", then they know full well that someone else will come in and provide a better search product - in the long term they lose.

There may be privacy issues with Google, there may be issues with the prominence of ads, but claims that they don't provide good search results are completely missing the point.
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Not an Apple consumer here, but my netbook battery only lasted about one year, and I attribute this rapid failure to my use of a cheap, (I live off-grid) modified sine wave, voltage inverter, but I have no valid proof of my assumption. As likely a cause for the battery failing to take a charge is the fact that I often ran the netbook until the battery charge depleted to the point of shutting the PC down.

When I bought my current, pure sine, inverter I noticed that my new battery lasted nearly twice as long, but since switching to FreeBSD last year my second battery quickly bit the dust...

I'm expecting the present battery to last somewhere between one and two years, but I'm not taking that expectation to the bank.
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What they claim for this device is not only not feasible it is not desirable. As a PC user, programmer and administrator since IBM's first model I am extraordinarily skeptical that it is for real.
I couldn't find an OPML file on Wired's site that contained all sources so I made this one:
http://pastebin.com/6WpUJSLy
I also corrected each feed's title.
But the Peters projection is a lot easier to read with the expectations most people have for the word "map." The Dymaxion map illustrates to me why it's not always best to solve for a single variable without making any concessions elsewhere. You have something that works really well for that one problem, but it potentially becomes unusable in real life.
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