skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I honestly don't understand how you can live in India and expect shit like this not to happen. People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death, how cold you possibly expect the authorities to care about counterfeit books?

I'm quite disgusted to see this poor comment. I don't understand how it is adding to the topic at hand. You went from a re-printed book with an error to rape and politics in the country of the author. The article had nothing to do with either.

Even if India has the highest rape statistics in the world, that doesn't add any relevance to the point you are making, which basically boils down to: You don't have a reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death, therefor you should expect "shit" like outdated re-prints. What?

Rape statistics are not even clear enough to make the point that India has more cases of rape than the USA (due to differences in reporting rates and definitions of rape). Some experts estimate rape statistics to be about equal [1]. Homicide statistics are a lot clearer in both reporting and definition and there the USA "beats" India. [2]

>India is a beautiful place, with lots of brilliant, talented people, but until their local and federal governments start observing and enforcing the rule of law, it's going to remain one of the shittiest countries to live in.

Is that your final conclusion? That India is a shitty country to live in? To an article about an Indian re-print of Donald Knuth's book with an error in it?

If you had used this argument template for an American author, to drag American politics and crime rates into an unrelated topic, you'd be ridiculed and derided.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/01/02/are-women-safe...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
White and Other Lies
Because of frequent use, lying has become an inseparable part of conversation.
You can also include that mobility is hard. The high housing prices that some seem to think is a good thing makes it harder for people to move. Similarly the idiotic health system also makes changing employers or locations harder. The public school system is also contributory. Dual income households are the norm also hindering mobility. The networking infrastructure is also pretty terrible in most places (little choice, low speeds) which makes remote working less feasible.

That contributes to making it harder for supply of people and the demand of positions to be matched when not collocated.
"Major hard on"? Really?
The artificial limitations around iOS are contrary to what developers should believe in -- the freedom to write and distribute software on a platform without approval from some central authority.

Despite the fact that iOS has much better design and comes with much better developer tools, Android is nowadays the better choice.
Agreed with the 'reading my mind part'. Though it is high time for fantasy season so its probably at the front of everyone's mind right now. Anyway, very excited to get into this.
The software equivalent of this mistake would be spending millions of dollars building software targeting Linux when the customer needs to run it on Windows. It's not "certain input parameters", it's obvious environmental conditions that should have been considered at the outset.

I would really like one of the naysayers in this thread to describe to me exactly how a mistake like this gets reasonably made. I keep getting replies saying that there are good reasons why something like this would happen, but nobody has actually given me one.

There are no confounding factors in this case that invalidate the freshman physics calculation that tells you that this building design will melt things or light them on fire. There is no excuse for not doing said calculations when designing a curved glass building, especially when you already made the mistake on a previous building you designed. And there is no conceivable way you thought you mitigated the problem while actually failing to do so in a reasonable fashion.
If i embed Lua in my go app via C bindings. Would it be possible to pass messages via lua channels to go channel and have it send/receive messages on that channel.

Could this be possible?

sorry I know this is out side the scope of this project.
Toxic Leaks At Fukushima Reach Lethal Levels of Radioactivity
Well I personally like the fact that it's backlit and the media keys are more intelligently placed in my opinion. With that said, I wish you could choose the cherry mx switches. I prefer blue.

So, yeah, definitely not enough to make me replace a mechanical keyboard I already have, but perhaps enough to make me consider getting it over my current one (das) if I didn't already own one.
I measnt not use the phone network, because the SMS could be diverted.
From The Wire -

Stringer Bell changes the name of the product - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbbZc2pab9k
No. Docker just supports provisioning containers. Take a high level view of a data centre with 10,000 machines, you need orchestration software that knows about and automates these 10k machines, which ones are online/offline, utilization, storage, networking, current state, power distribution (what happens if a racks power drops out?), etc and then provisions these containers onto that hardware. Think of this orchestration software like a brain, and it knows about the current state of things, keeps a watch on what is happening in the data centre, fixes things when they go bad, and knows where to put things when you want to do something.

Docker --> hardware
Orchestration software --> Docker/LXC/VM/etc --> hardware

An additional example would be dotCloud (makers of Docker), they have orchestration software sitting atop Docker, which knows about users, machines, etc and then provision these docker instances on AWS hardware.

dotCloud (orchestration software) --> Docker --> AWS EC2 (hardware)

There is a great wired article (linked to below [1] and in the OPs story), which outline how Google uses this orchestration software in its day-to-day operations. There is this great diagram [2], which shows Omega (Google's orchestration software), and how it deploys containers for images, search, gmail, etc onto the same physical hardware. There is an amazing talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management, Mountain View) about Omega at Google Faculty Summit 2011 [3], I would highly recommend watching it!

ps. Orchestration software has a global view of resources across all machines, so it knows how to get the best utilization out of all these machine (think jigsaw puzzle). You submit a container profile to the orchestration software, things like instance lifetime, cpu, storage, memory, redudance, and the software will figure out where to place your instances.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/google-borg-twi...

[2] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFMlO98Jkc
So.. then what? Ban homeschooling? You would remove the ability for families to teach their kids creationism while at the same time putting gifted children in schools that are largely stifling and restrictive, when they could otherwise be homeschooled (crudely put, bring up the bottom while bringing down the top), perpetuating the race towards the lowest common denominator. Oh, the irony.
The window coating explanation makes no sense. You test that on individual panes before installing them and see how much light it really absorbs. Either the coating underperformed, in which case they should have caught it, or the coating performed to specification but wasn't specified to block enough light, in which case they should have caught it.

I'd like to know at least one of these "1000 different reasons" why this could happen. Because I can't think of a single one, and nobody else has given me any....
Someone who has a low reaction time overall might have a better reaction time drunk than someone with a reaction time of a dead cow. My friend claims 0.1 reaction time on a game where you have to click your mouse (I believe him because he's a professional gamer so it makes sense), while I score 0.2 at best (which is average) and older people score worse and worse
Maybe you should reflect on why some people who use and like macs are not fans of Apple fanboy commentary.
I have to agree with tokenadult. It may be the circles I run in but the people I know who homeschool do so for the 'There is No Speed Limit' effect rather than to indoctrinate their kids with some religious belief or insulate them from ideas that conflict with such religious indoctrination.
Both studies were done by the same scientist who seems to have other stakes in the process than just academic curiosity.
What nonsense. If the author had bothered to go out and look at any university nearby he could see what universities are doing right now to adjust to the new funding landscape.

You have an increased reliance on poorly paid adjuncts. It does keep personnel costs down, but the rapid turnover and poor pay don't increase quality of instruction. It takes a semester or two to develop a lecture course as taught at any new place, and after two years you are off to greener pastures.

You try to attract students at any costs, regardless of academic ability. They may not benefit from watered-down instruction because they are unprepared or insufficiently capable, they may not finish, but while they are there they keep the place running.

This is what is happening, no speculation needed.
Up to a point yes. A point of 200-220 lbs of muscle on a 6' frame.

When people take steroids to gain muscle beyond that it's not healthy. Also a beginner in a plateau who can only bench 160 has no business taking steroids, he's not the target audience.

Also weird hypertrophy routines dependent on machines, ignoring the core free-weight lifts aren't healthy. Many bodybuilders have muscle in unnatural places, which screws up their flexibility, mobility, and make them look disproportionate. Freakishly big bodybuilders spend hours stretching to avoid becoming muscle bound.

These practices give weightlifting a bad reputation but are easily avoided by not practicing them.
Assange must have set off alarm bells for potential sources even before this latest news. For example, it seems that while Snowden might have gotten some advice from Assange, so far he has done all his leaking through other channels.
Performance, mostly. To read both the email and the phone you'll have to make two requests (or a single multiget). The keys have a good chance of belonging to different replicas, too, and even if they don't, you are still going to have 2x disk reads.
> an average programmer in a good team will have effective negative productivity.

I have a qualm with that statement, I think. Do you have anything to back that up? It doesn't make logical sense to say that "If I have four programmers and they give me nine megawarbles of productivity, and I add a fifth programmer who can only create one megawarble of productivity, I will have a team that only generates eight megawarbles of productivity."

Too often, programmers are drawn into this romantic idea of being a 10x programmer, but I can honestly say that, in my experience, there are more 10x programmers out there than there are 10x programming problems. The IT world needs more data janitors than it needs data scientists.
Yeah, that might be a bit of inconvenience.
I sort of wanted to have your reaction, but while watching I felt her pain. She trusted cloud storage and got burned by a system without much fail-safety. The failure was partly hers if she didn't read the directions, but partly Google's for not at least putting up a warning before deleting YouTube videos. "Are you sure you want to delete YouTube content along with your Google+ account?" I read somewhere that Google wants people to stop thinking of YouTube as separate from Google+ (I wish I could remember where.) This seems like a harsh way to drive the lesson home.
It was so obvious when I read about it here http://brooksreview.net/2013/08/omnikeymaster-upgrade-pricin... just the other day.

Why would Apple build a distribution channel and then let people upgrade apps outside of it without getting their cut? I think this was obvious for the Omni guys too, they just wanted this problem to get some publicity.
For TV I have no idea, but for a computer, you can get 10 bit per channel output from most graphics cards these days. You still have the problem of the source material being 8bit per channel though.
AP StyleBook says to use the gender the individual identifies as. Thus why all the news media now reports on Chelsea Manning.
Doesn't this assume that both writers want their value for the column to win, instead of one of them possibly deciding that it shouldn't write it's value if one already exists for the field?
Our (US) healthcare system alone is probably the biggest deterrent to entrepreneurialism in the country today.
He put his super important laptops in checked baggage? (What kind of dimwhit does that?) And claims a conspiracy because he (says) there were lost? Come on...
I should also mention that in early high school (grade 7 and 8), I went to a 'community school', where the kids had the freedom to learn at their own pace, and largely what they wanted to learn. Maths and art were self-driven, with teacher direction available. There was cool stuff like classes on massage (very popular!) or aerobics, and a few other things.

School was fun, and the teachers were nice... but this being said, I was one of the group of people (~10% of that year level? fuzzy memory) to choose to leave the school (no parental pressure) and go to a regular high school because "I think I am not learning enough". That was my own, personal motivation, not driven by anything external. And I was a kid who would come home and read the encyclopaedia for fun, cover to cover.
Shiny Object Syndrome and Startups
8 months later: "ArithmeticException - joke doesn't add up"
Chronos is the "cron" for the cluster. Marathon is the "upstart" for your cluster. You can start Chronos via Marathon.
They kind of have to because the App Store doesn't allow paid upgrades. There's no way to offer two prices (upgrade price and full retail price) for an app.

EDIT: The in-between choice would be moving to SaaS (see Adobe), but that's another discussion entirely
There is not a whole lot of diversity or diverse ideas floating around public schools, either.

They tend to be bound to a geographic district and people tend to live near people very much like themselves.
Me neither. I've been using a Das Keyboard for years now (was surprised that a fan of the Model M didn't mention it) and see nothing here to compel me to give the CODE keyboard a go.
Ask HN: Best practices for interface mockups?
I'm working on an idea for a website that would communicate schedules between clients and businesses, but I can't seem to communicate my idea for the interface.

Whenever I need to communicate my ideas or expectations I have trouble getting what I have in my head into something I can show developers or potential users beyond a simple wireframe. I've tried good old pen and paper, but it's difficult to get across the feel of a screen interface onto paper, not to mention my drawing skills leave much to be desired. I ran into similar problems trying to sketch things out on Paper for iPad or Ink for iPhone.

I've seen a few interface builders available on the app store (such as Interface HD) but they seem more limiting than helpful.

What are some of your standard practices and tools for trying to get an interface together for a pitch?
It's already sold out but it was the only backlit mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Clear switches on the market.

Unless you don't mind soldering and/or building a custom keyboard from scratch that's a huge selling point.
In case you are talking about Cassandra collections (maps and sets), and not abstract maps/sets, then you are wrong. Only CQL3 Lists work like that - there are no UUIDs anywhere in CQL3 maps/sets implementations.
I just wish they had _much_ better audio equipment, it is a pain to listen to it, even though the topic is very interesting and the people too :-/
Terrain Rendering with WebGL
Privat DE Mail
It seems to be a hipster trend in the Bay Area. At least, the only people I know that do it are hipsters and don't do it for religious reasons. However, this is the Bay Area, so it might not have any relation to why people do it in Iowa, say.
I don't think the people arguing with Justin in that thread are novices or naive users, but they do seem to be unaware that when you lend your computer to someone, you should set them up with their own user account if you don't want them surfing through your stuff.

It's funny how the tech community browbeat Microsoft for years about how Windows should have been designed as a multiuser system like Unix, and then when Microsoft finally took their advice and made the necessary user-level security improvements, their efforts were ignored.
Do you seriously think that public schooling is actually going to give children exposure to this "undesirable beliefs, classes and ethnicities" that you speak of? That kind of public school is a mythology. Public schools are by and large 1) socioeconomically homogenous, 2) racially homogenous (among one or two groups), 3) class homogenous, and/or otherwise culturally homogenous. And even in schools that lean towards heterogeneity rather than homogeneity, it's not like all the kids are harmoniously integrated into one happy family. Schools are dominated by cliques and social circles, and stereotyping is rampant. A kid in a school with Asians is going to come away with the stereotype that Asians are nerds. A kid in a school with African-Americans is going to come away with the stereotype that African-Americans steal things. And while that might not be the case in all cases, I might argue that it is as representative as your belief that homeschooling parents are "controlling," etc. etc.
It would have been nice if he included a video/sound clip of how it sounds.
Show me your models
The Mac App Store does provide something of value: app hosting, oh-so-easy purchasing (just enter a password, as Apple has your credit card details on file), app delivery, license management.

But the downsides. Boy, the downsides. And they take a 30% cut of the gross price.

It would be really nice if there was an alternative App store, which offered the similar benefits, was cheaper for developers, was curated, but was more developer-friendly.
> the document revealed that the police force was instructed to violate the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations in order to arrest me:

That's great they have direct evidence the Police were instructed to violate the Vienna Convention.

More and more everyday we're seeing Governments doing whatever they hell they want, in blatant violation of laws - laws from their own countries and international laws.

Sooner or later, people will have to stand up and fight this.
I figure the reason it's set up that way is because BAC is way easier to determine on the side of the road during a traffic stop than a comprehensive study of someone's driving, so we have to lean to the less permissive side.

(We opt not to lean to the more permissive side because drivers who are drunk are indeed already responsible for a great deal of injury, loss of life, and damage)
I imagine the perk at early Google was cheap stock options.
Making the mistake once is forgivable, but twice? After all the press from his previous parabolic building, you'd think he'd give it a second thought!
You can test on a limited range, but you will hit handset specific bugs - its just a fact of life on Android.
HTML mock ups with fake data is the best I guess.
Programming is knowledge work. If someone is "worse" than another, it means that they less knowledge. If you have four programmers with a similar amount of knowledge, and one with much less knowledge, to gain more knowledge this one will have to go to the four, who will then spend time transferring knowledge instead of using it effectively. That's your Fred Brooks 101.
ZeroBin - The Anonymous Text Sharing Service
You say you want to create a website, but the tools you mention are mobile apps. Have you tried desktop options like Balsamiq (http://balsamiq.com/)?
It's more like I started from "Let's design a message format that can be passed through shared memory or mmap()ed with literally zero copies", and then arena allocation was a natural requirement. :)

> Since your approach is much more focused, you have been able to turn out usable results orders of magnitude faster than I have.

To be fair, the fact that I'm working on it full-time -- and with no review, approval, or other management constraints of any kind -- helps a lot. :) (Down side is, no income...)
If you need a backlit keyboard it means that you (1.) are working in an environment that's way to dimly lit to be healthy and (2.) really need to learn touch typing.
Thanks! That clears things up. I appreciate that.

P.S. - Not to Justin but others. Funny, you ask a honest question on here and people downvote you...sigh.
We are, but their privacy laws have absolutely no bearing on Australia. At the moment the only control the queen has is the ability to indirectly act through a Govener General who can disband the current government at will. That's never happened and probably never will though.

The whole cookie thing is just people flying off the handle anyway. One person put a warning so now everybody else does too.
Another comment on the top of a Hacker News post making the mistake of thinking that all good revenue sources are good revenue sources for startups.

Customers don't give a crap about how easy it is to [write|deploy|test|debug], but if you add a lot of friction to the iterative process, you take away a lot of the advantage a small startup might have over an established business operating in the same space.

Established businesses actually have a lot of efficiencies when it comes to maintaining the status quo and slowly evolving change, and the Apple AppStore model adds enough friction such that status quo and slowly evolving change are much more of the terrain than not.

Keep in mind the innovator's dilemma, and think about how startups exploit it. You want to pick some area where the established businesses aren't competitive, which has narrow margins, larger scale, faster development cycles... and then when you've got a lean and mean product, you go after the established territory.
There is http://appbodega.com/ but, yeah, nobody buys there anything.
Sixty symbols has just published a video discussing the physics behind this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1Hgzi2ElQ
Gemasolar - focused light solar power coupled with molten salt storage
Part of the problem is, it's difficult to convince companies that (html/css/js/php) coding work is worth something, unless the company you're working for is actually a startup. Especially when they say "Can't you just do it in Wordpress, or Wix or something?"

Another part of the problem is, developers take that work. I probably would myself. I'd hate myself for it but if I have to take shit pay to make ends meet I'd rather do it coding than not.