skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a phun side note. Reverse mapping government censorship of DNS. Since I think governments are starting to go down the slippery slope road of censorship here is how map out the censorship.

If you have the list of the whole internet servers which answers on http port 80. Then you can reverse map government censorship dns list. Ie you can find out what the government wants to censor by doing lookups in the censored dns and for example opendns on the servers ip that answers on port 80, then you diff the results from the dns servers and if you get different answers you find out the government black list.
It sounds like this sort of problem comes from using a cooperative scheduler to implement concurrency of arbitrary routines rather than control flow. I haven't been in a situation in which it would even be possible for something to yield less often than I expect, because I expect it to run until it yields. Similarly I don't often find that subroutines return too infrequently because I expect them to run until they return.

This library is probably nice for the places I would otherwise use threads.
Surprising that this isn't on the front page of the website with the community most empowered by Ubuntu. Use Ubuntu as your main OS? Run a server using Ubuntu?

Congrats Ubuntu on the world record!
I was thinking of the same article. :-)

In their defense, most of the people that I know at Google work very hard. It's not a culture of 40 hour workweeks.
Each tool has a different use case. Votes is a great example.

Memcache has no guarantees about durability, but is very fast, so the vote data is stored there to make rendering of pages as quick as possible.

Cassandra is durable and fast, and gives fast negative lookups because of its bloom filter, so it was good for storing a durable copy of the votes for when the data isn't in memcache.

Postgres is rock solid and relational, so it was a good place to store votes as a backup for Cassandra (we could regenerate all the data in Cassandra from Postgres if necessary) and also for doing batch processing, which sometimes needed the relational capabilities.
This is fantastic.

I love (classical) music and as a music hobbyist I try to dig more into sheet music for a while. I would also pay for some kind of premium service (maybe great content or listening the sheet music in combination with a famous record).

Anyway, I subscribed to your mailing list, please just keep on rocking.

PS: And yes, I own Logic and could play sheet music in that way. But I do think you folks will prepare something more which a hobbyist can enjoy!
What's the problem with the chat response? You didn't identify yourself correctly as the account holder. That appears to be a very good reason for not deleting someone's account.

What I find more scary is that using those exact questions I could answer them for at least 20 of my contacts, since:

1) I know their email addresses

2) I know when they signed up (because they asked me to accept their contact details when they signed up) and I have all of my chat history back to 2003.

3) I know at least five contacts on each account, because I share them with those people (work contacts).

TL;DR I could delete all of my work colleagues Skpe accounts assuming those questions are Skype's standard identifications questions.

P.s. I understand that you want a feature in Skype to "delete your account"!
I completely disagree with you. Local florists are to Target, as BloomThat is to Google Shopping Express. All the benefits of shopping online with delivery in less than 90 minutes. WAY more convenient than spending an hour driving, browsing, buying, driving.

And as Chad said below, they hold all florist to a high standard "to ensure quality across the board."
>By the same accord, without titles, buzzwords, etc as an engineer I won't be able to differentiate between resumes of a regular graduate level physics educator and one who is capable of nobel prize level research.

if you're in the position to make a hiring decision and can't make such differentiation - well, yep, that is what we have in software engineering. In physics the situation seems to be a bit (though not much) better, in part because of CVs, in part because the network is smaller.
I was deadly serious, and I agree with you.

I'm a Swedish/Australian dual-citizen, and although both countries have higher costs of goods, it seems a most reasonable price to pay to have functioning public health care.
If they're not paying, they're trespassers. Out. They're free to pursue their right to life without violating someone else's, and they've got far more ability to provide for themselves than you're giving them credit for.

Charity has its place, I advocate and facilitate it, and am not under any delusion that it comes from compelling others to contribute.
Would they approve a 20% project that aims to bring back Reader? Or would you be able to work on that without approval? Just seems like a lot of politics would be tied up in what people choose to work on.
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Thanks. But, for example, how do you even do it in PHP pre-5.3, when anonymous functions became available? (I see PHP-RQL doesn't support pre-5.3). Or I guess the answer just is, you don't. So for now, ReQL won't really work with languages without anonymous functions. [Never mind, saw your reply about that below.]
> I mean sure-- if your company is under cash flow pressure you have to pinch pennies. You have no choice.

Google's per-ad revenue was down 6% last year. Ads are 95% of their revenue. They have huge data to see trends.

Just because Google is still profitable doesn't mean that they aren't seeing a near future of red ink. Say per-ad revenue goes down 10% next year with the same costs and their profit goes from $10 billion-ish down to $5 billion. And if this decrease is a trend?

Competition from iAd and Bing Ads, smaller screens that are harder to advertize on, and so on. It's easy to see a near future Google that has to spam ads or make huge cuts to remain profitable.
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The page "Why Age 60?" was pretty upbeat. I don't know how to feel about him referencing a ST:TNG episode for justification of suicide.
http://www.zeroshare.info/why_age_60
If me not immediately seeing promotionspam kills your business you have a flawed business model.
Transit compiles schedule data from hundreds of worldwide transit agencies, does custom pathfinding and is a pretty sophisticated project all on its own. It's not gmail, sure, but there are entire companies that do the same thing as this "one single feature."

Also, as others have pointed out repeatedly, 20% has not been "ditched." And this isn't a poster child, it's just one example.
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Already working on it (putting together a package for the Internet Archive; might as well put a torrent up as well).

EDIT: Scraper running. Should be done shortly (collecting small version, original version, XML data).
Yes, that's what I meant. Bankruptcy won't get the federal mafia off your back, but it will discourage all lesser loan sharks.
Dymaxion map is beautiful. But I consider it critically flawed for "general use". Understanding the distances between points on Dymaxion map is nigh impossible (at least for me).
So the Independence Day movie was lying? I'm so disappointed!
This projection looks fantastic. It would b great if people actually started using this in schools and what not. With the advent of tablets and the general digitsation that's been going around, you can have "rotable" Dymaxion maps -- maps that could be rotated and oriented in such a manner as to look like what we're used to -- but when zooomed out, the Dymaxion/Fuller projection gives students/people an accurate picture of what the earth truly looks like.
> "but hitting someone and being cheated on are not even remotely on the same playing field"

Hey man, I think we've covered some interesting ground here, but I think we just have to agree to disagree. I certainly don't think that cheating should be punished with physical abuse. However, I do think that the cheating on someone who you're engaged to and clearly expects monogamy is worse than hitting someone once. I just do.

Also, let's not forget that, whilst unacceptable, the kick was solicited by her admission of infidelity, whereas the infidelity is seemingly unsolicited.
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I agree with your point about theoretical vs the reality of a Boards function. I should have been more explicit, I am disagreeing that Board of Directors are overlooked in MBA education. At least in my experience, the Board was discussed often.
I'm genuinely curious about the prospects of disrupting the online university market.

The question "What makes a degree valuable?" is at the heart of its success. All these companies that demand a four year degree - what are their criteria? When they see that someone got their degree at a very inexpensive online school, will that hurt the perception of value?
The non-technical founder can afford to pay his partner a salary, yet is not an accredited investor[1]? And will also fund the business re server costs, design, marketing, etc.? If I were the developer I'd be very suspicious. If the non-technical person isn't offering time or skills either, I'm not sure what they're bringing.

This also sounds like doublespeak: "work without interference" vs "editorial/final say." Sounds like "final say" is still basically unlimited, and I'd rather get approval before doing the work than after!

[1] $200k annual income or $1m assets (sans house)
Those manuscript pages (like http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=30... and http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=48... and http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=59...) are some of the most beautiful pages I've ever seen. I wish I could read those letters, and old French.
The big difference with just scripts is that you can "freeze" the state of your deployment with strong guarantees that 1) it will not change and 2) it will behave the same way across machines.

Another advantage of containers is that deployment can be made atomic: either container A is running, or container B. You can't end up with a half-finished upgrade which leaves your server in an undefined, broken state. That property becomes very important when you deploy to a large number of servers.
Those positions require very little skill, and provide very little pay. Correct. The next part is where most people today get the argument wrong; it isn't that those jobs should pay more for the arbitrary sake of paying more.

Those type of jobs are the step for many people that not just have no more steps to take, but have never had any walkway to stand on. Their entire lives have been spent just trying to make it to the next day.

The argument is that those positions are part of a larger, predatory economy or society seemingly designed to keep a certain subset of the country/world subjugated to another. When you see protests about a higher wage at entry level positions such as fast-food and retail, what you're really seeing is the confused, leaderless argument that life sucks for many people and shows no signs of relenting. It's a first world suck, but suck nonetheless.

Source: research into lower-socioeconomic lifestyles while attaining advanced degrees (and living that life when young; thank God for scholarships).
In fact, Eric Lippert, when first introducing that feature on his blog started with a five-part series about continuations and only in the end got around to explaining what that was all about. It was a very nice read.
I will add that Docker is getting an architecture upgrade, and in the future will support nesting :)
When you project a map, there are three properties you would like to maintain: shape (aka conformality), size (aka equal-area), and direction. But you can have at most two of these properties.

Mercator preserves shape and direction at the expense of size. Peters preserves size and direction at the expense of shape. Peirce Quincuncial preserves shape and size at the expense of direction. Here's a transverse Peirce Quincuncial map I generated: http://frammish.org/tpq.jpg

Many other projections try to combine these, like the Miller projection maintains direction but strikes a balance between shape and size, getting neither one right, but neither is horribly wrong either. The Winkel Tripel projection tries to balance all three attributes.
I have not heard a good argument to why I should use nerdtree over the built in netrw. Do you have one? Honest question.
So I wonder what positions the good MBAs tend to be in vs the bad, for example which kind are more likely to be big company CxOs.
So, this is Mozilla's equivalent of Polymer. Fun!
We'd also want to restore the force of bankruptcy for these loans. When the student loan goons have to get in line with all the other sharks, student loans won't seem so much like free money for them.

Also, it's precious to describe a market that the government has exited as then having "no competition".
Yes, and the idea of comparing Africa to other countries is certainly not new. Here's an example from 2006:
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/35-the-size-of-africa

At the time, the Economist also redid the exercise starting with an equal-area projection:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartograph...
When someone gives you a sufficiently large codebase written by other people and asks why when they click A they get B, you have two options:
1. Read the code and try to reason about it.
2. Fire up the debugger and replicate user actions.

Guess what? Callbacks in JS make option #1 significantly harder, since they are, essentially, runtime weakly typed mechanism for code composition.
I've only read one, but it was quite unlike anything I'd read before - old guy, depressing grind of a job, alcohol and rough women - but a rawness and authenticity that you don't often get. At the time I was very interested to learn that he was effectively writing of the life he'd lead.

There's a whole stack of comment below on judging him-as-a-person - but if you read widely you'll be well aware that many books are worth reading despite the character flaws of their authors.
I would be curious if the author would have investigated further if he knew for certain no monetary benefit would have been given by Amazon.
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If it's so hard to calculate, perhaps the government - and the bank cartel - should stop doing it and leave it and our currency the fuck alone?
This is regrettably hilarious. I'm laughing in shear disappointing hilarity.
As a guy who is learning the piano but doesn't know how to read sheet music very well, I'm really excited about this as a learning tool. Would it be possible to show the letter notes next to the notes on the sheet music? Also, how easy is it to incorporate new pieces... could I potentially submit sheet music that I have purchased and you could convert it for me for a fee?
Almost all the big email marketing software sends you an email after sign up to verify you want to receive emails from them. It's called "double opt-in".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonopah_Test_Range ?
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I don't think that the MBA is so important that it could be blamed for so many ills in the world of work, but I do think there are two fatal flaws with the modern MBA: Demography and intent.

1.) Demography: Who is the ideal MBA candidate? From what I've gathered, the historical answer would be: "Someone from outside a business education about to move into a business role." So, of course, your average MBA is going to be someone who studied Biology or Mechanical Engineering as an undergrad, right? Well, they're in there, but they're surrounded by people who studied Business and Economics as undergraduates, often from elite schools! What could a Wharton undergrad possible gain from a Wharton MBA? Social proof? A two-year vacation? It's unsettling, and it leads to the second problem.

2.) Intent: What sort of work is the MBA cut out for? Well, they're masters of administrating businesses, so...management? Nope. Consulting and banking. Like lemmings, they go right off the cliff into these fields. All of them. Even the ones who came in there looking to simply move up the ladder in their chosen field, like biotech or energy, will feel pressured into becoming some sort of banker or consultant. So, the MBA ends up becoming a launching pad for people outside of consulting and banking to get in, and for people on the inside to move up.

I don't know how business schools would go about rectifying these flaws. Even if they were to shut out business types, that second flaw is so deeply ingrained in the b-school ethos that anyone seeking to be a better manager in their original field would likely be derided by his or her peers as an underachiever.

Interestingly enough, I hear the Executive MBA is a far better experience, simply because the students are too far along in their careers to make a pivot into something else. They're just there to get better. And maybe for the two-year vacation thing as well.
You have two different things happening here:

1. Normal startup legal issues (corporate form, employment law, tax, funding, IP, etc)

2. Subject matter legal issues. The subject matter you've chosen (collections) is a highly regulated activity, at the state and federal level. You need to find someone who does collections (also called debtor/creditor) to help you understand what you can and can't do. A TOS document doesn't help limit your liability to third parties - like debtors - who may gain the right to sue you if you screw up. And that's a profitable niche for some attorneys - representing debtors who want to sue creditors/collectors who don't follow the rules. Your TOS can insist that your customers indemnify you - which may turn out to be worth nothing, if the customers are insolvent/thinly capitalized.
In our solar system? We don't know.

In our galaxy? We don't know.

In the universe? We don't know.
>The Philippines is a perfect example...

No it isn't. We would not have left Subic Bay unless they asked us to.

>Indeed, "so what?" is our common reply to people's wishes to get our military off their land

It's not "their land". It's Japanese land, and people in Okinawa don't get to make that decision for the entire country. The country of Japan wants us to be there, and we'd leave if they didn't.

Places in Japan have NIMBY sentiment. Go figure.

>Yep, ask people in the Middle East, Cuba, etc...

The Cubans made a deal with us for a long lease in Guantanamo. When the lease is up we'll leave.

We never had any intention of staying in Iraq or Afghanistan, and we wouldn't have been in either country if the locals had kept to themselves. We were invited into Qutar and KSA.

I don't see the problem.
> Patio11's emails, which I signed up for and love reading, end up in the promotions tab.

So drag them back into the main folder. I did. Works great.
First of all: über-cool.

Minor bug, Beethoven's 5th was off by a measure for me. (Goldberg variation was spot-on).

Also, right/left arrow keys aren't skipping measures (as the keyboard page says), but are skipping whole sets of measures.

But overall, as a musician, I actually found it rather distracting to watch the line try to follow the notes exactly, as the line constantly sped up and slowed down due to rubato, etc. -- indeed, in particularly fluid pieces, it can even be possible that the right and left hands don't match up precisely in actual performance.

It might actually be more clear, and far less distracting, if you followed the time signature for the beat, and simply highlighted all notes in the current beat within a light-pink rectangle overlay, and then that box would instantly disappear, and the next one appear, upon the next beat.

That way, we can focus with our ears on the actual movement in the music, without being distracted by visual movement, but still have a perfect visual indicator of where we are.

But anyways, great work and great idea! Kudos, well-done!
I grew up developing on small monitors. It was painful.
Thanks!

Well it seems that consensus is that the current page turning is not optimal... Perhaps scrolling is the solution. I will definitely invest some time in that to improve it.

Also, regarding the time and key signatures, I very much agree with you, they need to "stick"...

As for color coding, is the purpose to make it easier to follow a certain instrument?
If only they made real life rotating, oriented maps. They'd need a new name, perhaps something emphasizing their roundness...balls? No, the kids would make fun of that. Spheres? Too generic.

Wait, I got it.

Let's call them globes.
I've been saying this for years. The Earth is egg-shaped and fatter in the southern hemisphere, not a perfect sphere. Logic would dictate that any surface with steep mountains, continental tectonic shifts, and deep trenches is not perfectly spherical. Coincidentally, I have an uncle who was a geodecist and one of the world's GPS experts.

I knew college professors who believed that most map projections have a eurocentric bias, but it makes almost as much sense that creating maps and globes is easier to do if you assume the Earth is a perfect sphere.
Really nice. Now I know the meaning of those squiggly lines. I also like the sparse full screen layout.

A few minor things: While jumping to time points works, scrubbing does not. Instead, the notes image gets dragged. You could embed the image as a background-image instead of an <img> to prevent that. Or catch the dragstart event on it and return false (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4211909/disable-dragging-...). A custom Rails error page or better error handling would also be nice (http://notezilla.io/bla). And there are a few console.log's left (TIME!!!! :)

Did you match the music to notes by hand?
It actually made me switch back to zsh. Pipe not working is just a no go for me. But overall, this is a great shell, very accessible compared to bash/zsh, I particularly appreciated the configuration mechanism.
No they don't. See Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. - scans/photographs that primarily seek to reproduce the original work don't qualify for copyright.
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This is a consequence of theorem discovered by Gauss: Theorema Egregium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorema_Egregium
I think they are doing ok and will continue to do ok with "side-projects": Google Fiber, Google Glass, Google Cars.
>China is, simply put, orders of magnitude bigger.

One order of magnitude, anyway.
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Tonopah Test Range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonopah_Test_Range
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So you're going after an existing market with existing products, trying to "beat them on price and style".

That won't work.

Changing products costs, more than just money. So people and businesses won't change what they're currently using unless strongly motivated to do so, either due to the shortcomings of existing solutions (which would have to really suck), or because your solution actually solves problems that existing competitors do not.

If you go after an existing market on price, the established players can simply underprice you until you die. If you go on style, they have at least a chance of improving their style - assuming style really matters in a B2B context anyway. But really, you need a bigger differentiator than price/style, or you'll find yourself in a race to the bottom against players with a strong competitive advantage over you.
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$TERM is a joke when you're on ssh (and that's always).
It's always "xterm" but there is a huge variation between those xterms and key codes seems to be altered as they pass down the chain.

Is Home ^]]1~ or it's ^]H? You have to guess every time.
I have no problem with Apple or any other IT company pursuing hardware patents. But I think software patents are BS.