skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really see how your code or queries could cause mysql or apache to gradually slow down and then speed up when you kill the processes. It sounds more like virtual memory of some process is growing too high causing thrashing, or apache has too many children, or you're running out of some resource, or something is leaking memory.

Regarding apache/mysql: are you using stock distributions, or did you build them yourself? Are you using any unusual configuration in either of them?

You say you kill both mysql and apache, but what happens if you just kill one or the other? I'm just wondering if it is some buggy cgi script that is leaking resources.
Sounds silly to have two separate operating systems. Sure they're going to converge those?

What about Chrome OS and Android?
My math-less quantum entanglement explanation: http://davidjarvis.ca/entanglement/
This isn't really about "fake it 'til you make it", it's about committing to what you're actually doing.
I'm a bit disappointed HN changed the title I suggested (Patents as Routes to Work), since I consider the analogy to be the best part of the post. Oh well..
I cringed reading your post, how on earth does someone get themselves into a position where they are owed 7 months salary? What happened there? I hope you managed to collect in the end
I was surprised to see an investor relations page. Most prop groups aren't actively looking for more money. And they talk about clients, which is unusual. Can you explain?
Probably. Personally I like to call it emotional maturity. I'd be surprised if emotional maturity and immaturity couldn't be proven to exist. Obviously the 'norms' of emotional (social) maturity differ depending on society. But clearly there are people who just don't "get it" and don't or aren't able to act in line with the norms.
I don't doubt this, due to the perception many employers have about the value of degrees. However, if you're just going to start your own business, then this perception is not an immediate concern.

Of course, if you fail in your entrepreneurial efforts then that's another story.
All i want is a Chromebook Pixel with Haswell and a bigger storage (at least 128GB), and I'll have my perfect *nix laptop.
> How can any government accept a situation where communications are so secure that none of their agencies can break it?

Chief George Earle: Sensors all over the city can zero in on anyone at any time. I can't even conceive of what police officers did before it was developed.

John Spartan: We worked. This fascist crap makes me want to puke.
Valve will let you share Steam games with friends & family
This[1] article claims that the FAA memo about the gun was incorrect.

1. http://www.wnd.com/2002/02/12940/
It looks like you can sign up for information updates on the new HP and Acer Chromebooks on the devices page:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.htm...
Cyber Is Defence Industry's New Battleground
In 99.9% of cases, true. I was just trying to point out that the comment about UI's was invalid.

If your code drops down to ASM or anything like that, then it becomes an issue. But that's not most use cases.
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Good sign for anyone wanting to run OSX on a chromebook.

The current line of ARM processors has been a major roadblock thus far.
Hey guys, I've got some things to finish up here at work but I'm gonna eat lunch at my desk and answer some questions then!
Hmm, the animation works for me in Firefox 23.0, but not in Google Chrome 29.0.1547.65. I'm on Ubuntu Linux 12.04.
I find their reasons curious. Why in the world are they using zone files? There are tons of DNS servers that support database backends, and writing tools to interact with them is easy.

For that matter, writing an authoritative only DNS backend is easy (been there, done that - took about one week from starting to read the RFC's until having a production ready backend; it takes little time because most/all of the hard work is in the recursive resolvers, and the DNS protocol is actively very well described in the RFCs)

And claiming DNS provides a static view of the world is a bit funny - DNS provides TTL values for everything. If you want a dynamic view, you specify low TTLs, and make sure your clients honour them, and couple that with fast replication of the zone data. There's plenty of options for that, from the duct tape (my DNS server could update however many records you could write to disk on your hardware per second - via a small script that used Qmail as a queueing messaging server...) to well polished products.

Couple that with NOTIFY and IXFR, the protocol provides every mechanism necessary for keeping zone data replicated and up to date. Many modern DNS servers also let you instead simply rely on database replication (e.g. you can have the DNS server serve data out of Postgres for example, and use Postgres replication to keep the zones up to date over multiple servers), or leave it to you to do updates.

The appeal with DNS here is the long track record and existence of servers that have been battered to death in far more hostile environments than most internal service discovery systems ever will need to deal with.

The downside to DNS is that to get things like guaranteed consistency, you'd need a backend that can guarantee it, and clients that don't cache (which means you need to be careful about what resolvers you rely on). And then it might be just as easy to just deploy one of the options in this article (but there's nothing inherent with DNS that prevents that either).
Have they replaced bash with a good BSD licensed shell, or are they still rolling with an ancient version of bash? Hard to see that as a "positive" if they are...
Uh, so you're arguing that it is "not telling?" I really don't see what claim you are arguing against.
You must have never experienced the prices of printing services at UPS/Staples/Kinkos... $1.20+/per page for fax, $.50+/per B&W page for printing, etc.
What was wrong with the desktop in 2005?
12.5% of people is 1 in 8. That's way too many to be considered outliers. More detailed data: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat07.htm
Can't wait when Windows XP finally gets dumped by MS. I suspect a nightmare for a lot of companies and lots of crying towards MS. I hope they don't change their decision to drop XP next year.
> Personally I think actual impostors are more endemic and just as likely to latch onto advice like this.

This is completely true. Except true impostors are likely to half-ass the second step.
> And there are some people who are so naturally charming and can read what others want that (but on a superficial level) that they become pyschopaths.

That's not the definition of psychopathic trait (or disorder, or anti-social behavior) though. What characterizes it is diminished empathy and remorse, so in fact, it's a lack of emotional intelligence.

The point is that if you're free from remorse but still have a working mental model of other's emotions (like most humans), you can better manipulate other's intentions without guilty or other thoughts influencing your decisions.

We all fall somewhere inside an empathy spectrum, only the ones that fall at one extreme are characterized as bearer of psychopathic disorder, while the functional ones live normal (or almost normal) lives. There's a big chance you work for one actually, these people tend to be successful in leadership positions.
You could do with some kind of min-height fix to stop that annoying reload jump when changing options. Otherwise, it looks great!
All or Nothing: The Next Generation Consoles
I have to say, RethinkDB has piqued my interest. And I'm a pretty staunch MySQL/SQLite -based developer.
I'm currently using a columnar SQL database with a denormalised schema of about 1000 columns that contains several billion rows. 99% of our queries are SUM over some of these columns, with a few simple filters: WHERE order_id IN [...] AND date > xyz

It performs really well (sub-second queries over millions of rows) but it's licensed by data volume and (more importantly) it's a single-server solution - at some point we're going to need a distributed database.

Is RethinkDB suitable for analytics workloads like this?
From the article here:

It may also make children smarter. Davidson notes that because social-emotional training develops the prefrontal cortex, it can also enhance academically important skills like impulse control, abstract reasoning, long-term planning and working memory. Though it’s not clear how significant this effect is, a 2011 meta-analysis found that K-12 students who received social-emotional instruction scored an average of 11 percentile points higher on standardized achievement tests. A similar study found a nearly 20 percent decrease in violent or delinquent behavior.

Goleman isn't mentioned.
(Despite pulling a quote from the beginning, I did read the whole thing.)

I'm not intrinsically against the idea, but if you're going to teach children this sort of skill, the teachers themselves are going to have to be a bit more brutally honest with themselves about what the children actually deal with, or it really will just be one more feel-good exercise of no value.

Recollecting himself, Reedhom sat up straight. “Mommy,
I don’t like it when you scream at me,” he announced
firmly.

“Good,” Wade said. “And maybe your mommy will say: ‘I’m
sorry, Reedhom. I had to go somewhere in a hurry, and I
got a little mad. I’m sorry.’ ”

Let me tell you what the kid is hearing here, or at least what a lot of the kids are hearing: "If I say 'Mommy, I don't like it when you scream at me' Mommy will just stop screaming and I can get away with whatever it is I may have done to trigger it." Or, Mommy might just as well scream back "DON'T YOU TALK BACK TO ME LIKE THAT." and keep on going; what then? If you're not going to address either of those issues, you're just adding another place to the curriculum where the children will learn to parrot back at you what you want to hear without actually changing anything about their lives. Honestly, we have enough of those.

If this is going to work, the teachers are going to have to step out of the fuzzy-wuzzy bubble of school and address the real world interactions the children might actually experience, and not slant the coverage, so to speak.
Behind the scene, NSA on iPhone 5S presentation
When you sent me this last night, I lost a few minutes getting my head around what it was best used for. Now I can't stop thinking about it as a pointer to the future of JS lib loading.

+ 1 star: Identifies inefficiencies in the sea of endless loaders & metaframeworks
+ 1 star: Zero-configuration network-based lib loading
+ 1 star: Clean presentation & clear thinking about the problem
+ 1 star: Tests!
+ 1 star: Brilliant name

Five stars, would do business again.
The get a warrant to put a key logger on your machine and get it that way.
Portfolio of Tim Hussin: Photojournalist
>Because they don't teach how to be "insanely driven" at school.

No. But, then again, there are thousands of wrecks that were "insanely driven" and got nowhere.

Besides being "insanely driven" it's not a bad idea to also actually learn how to drive.
AngularJS Do's and Dont's
Most likely 84.25% of everybody earning more than $100,000 per year probably graduated from college. That simply jives with modern America post WW2, as a nation America manufactures college degrees.

It's not about endorsing dropping out. It's about the fact that you can absolutely succeed without college. There is no one path, there is no "right" way.

Go down that immense list of people for whom college was nearly or entirely meaningless: from Jobs to Carmack, from Rockefeller to Carnegie, from Gates to Wayne Huizenga, from Renault to William Hanna, from Sheldon Adelson to Richard Branson, and on it goes.
With that being the case are there plans to spend a bit more time on driver support? At the very least a high-quality 1st party Java driver would go a long way. Even better if you provide Scala/Clojure/Groovy bindings.
I can't wait! The last MHacks was so awesome.
Nothing in this article proves anything about whether you need to go to college. If anything, it indicates that Peter Thiel may have picked the wrong kids for his experiment.
" There's always a dozen incompatible solutions, and it's never clear which one should be used."

Welcome to software.

While your other sentiment seems logical, if you actually look at it as a lisp practitioner, you'll find the answers to the questions you have relatively easy. You don't have to "update" the language, for many things you can just use it like any other.

The problem isn't that lisp isn't updated, but that there aren't enough of us to build the lisp django, or at least there aren't enough of us who want the lisp django for it to happen, so thats why web development in lisp is limited to using raw hunchentoot or microframeworks like Restas and Caveman/Clack(which are both pretty awesome btw). Other than a few minor tweaks, lisp really doesn't need updating. More/better libraries would be sufficient!

Can you give a couple of specific examples where you think lisp is behind the times and you are "forced" to implement whatever. I can think of maybe a handful of such instances(there isn't a really great STM, but we do have other awesome concurrency options as just one example), but the list of lisp features I miss in python(my day job) is 1-2 dozens at least(and If I had macros and CLOS I could probably half that list in a week or two :)

In other words if you are crazy enough to use lisp for useful projects, the language will help you, maybe you haven't tried? Maybe you have and just had bad luck. Some domains(GUI programming for example) aren't as well supported for example. Others are pretty ok.
"Something for everyone" where everyone includes Google, the NSA, your future ex-wife and her lawyers, the Chinese Public Security Bureau, and any behavioral tracking advertising networks or other businesses Google cares to partner with. I'll stick with non-cloud-based computing for now.
> It is really hard to understate the volume of words and man-millenia spent reading and writing about these books.

So much brain power spent on scriptures which are, in the light of current knowledge… improbable to say the least. Sounds like a huge waste of effort, really.

Take the Genesis, for instance. Currently, only creationist crackpots actually believe it. It's more of a symbol. It seems however that some centuries ago, every Christian, including the most knowledgeable theologians, believed it.

Instead of trying to explain why the text was written for a good reason, wouldn't it be simpler to just recognize, as our knowledge expands, that the Elders were simply mistaken about such and such point, an move on? Just archive the mistakes and strike them from the cannon already, it would be much simpler for everyone.

But I guess a religion that routinely admits its own mistakes wouldn't be very religious, now would it?
First off, very clever. Second, I have a case for which I might actually use this.

Using multiple textboxes, apply each search term to a nested mongo resultset. Visually narrow down the data structure you want to get out of mongo, and generate the mongo query you'd use to get that data.
It looks like it made it into WebKit on an experimental basis: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/125201. This was over a year ago, though; don't know about its current status.
Or if you just bought a mid range chip from 08 - 10. Comparing the 150w behemoths of 2005 to the 5w parts of today is kind of unfair, when we have always had 65 - 110w parts acting as the mainstream.

In that realm, this next generation of 5 - 30w parts from ARM and Intel is performing equivalent to the last generation of core 2 quad processors at 120w. And people did some serious professional work on those kinds of chips.
Exactly. When I was about 20, one of my partners emptied the bank account leaving us unable to make payroll/rent and finish some client jobs. Had several clients come angry demanding we finish or they'd sue us. My dad gave me the exact same advice. We'd try to find some way of finishing the job over a longer period of time, otherwise, hey, lose your deposit, and good luck suing me or my company that have zero assets. It worked fine.

Years later at a more successful startup, the "sue me" thing doesn't work so well, and a pretty major win depended on a simple "and/or" clause written with inverse logic.
That was so that Verizon could get the exclusive deal...

I'm rooting for Android, but I seriously question any product where phones with abysmal battery life routinely ship.

Most recent data point: Friend was using my old iPhone 4S and recently switched to a Nexus 4 after the price drop. The 4S was over two years old and his experience with the brand new nexus has been noticeably inferior battery life. Same app usage pattern, etc.
>I'm actually 30 credits (two semesters) away from graduation.

Which means you essentially have a college education.

It's not the piece of paper you get at the end that is the education.
I HIGHLY recommend making the Mote.io in your header clickable. I had to hunt around the page to figure out how to get to your actual app's web page. Super annoying.
> Imposter syndrome is not about "fake it till you make it". Overcoming imposter syndrome is realizing that you have made it.

I'd have to disagree here. Impostor syndrome is an emotion. People overcome them in different ways. Mike's and yours suggestions are just two different solutions. The way I overcome it is by mentally preparing myself for the emotion and having a plan on how I can overcome it (ie - writing tests, working on a smaller problem, etc).
Really great way to present a new tool, congrats!

However, I still don't know what exactly is this tool supposed to do :(
Care to explain a bit more? (Just for the record: I know bower, npm, requirejs etc.)
This is an awesome idea.

I'm excited to see aws supporting the growing class of civic minded applications.

Hope some awesome things come out of/are highlighted by this.

-d.
You can build your own "1/10-scale, binary-compatible, cycle-accurate Cray-1" replica (http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/)

This is an earlier Cray, from mid 70s to early 80s. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1)

I don't think there are any similar projects for other Cray machines?
Take your inane conspiracy theories someplace else. I'd like to say more derogatory things but I'll refrain.
IE10 in Windows 8 did not crash and recovered. All other tabs where a-okay.
I think the argument would be that, though Excel is awesome for small data sets and so validates that it is indeed a great way to think about things at a level, it does not scale well. Indeed, one of the first things people suggest is to run away from large scale solutions that were done in a spreadsheet.
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Out of curiosity, what is it about crack cocaine that has you so terrified? There are far more dangerous drugs out there...

Sorry for the late reply. I disagree with you, and I was a bit tired so I stopped discussing :P I'll answer your question:

The combination of accessibility, addictiveness and health effects. I live opposite to an addiction treatment center and see crack addicts every day. It's addictive like tobacco is, has stronger mental health effects than alcohol and because of its low cost is more accessible than any other hard drug.

I know alcohol is very dangerous too, but 99% of alcohol users manage their addiction in a way they can still manage their lives adequately. With crack and other hard drug addictions you will find the odds reversed.
Absolutely, but just consider that modern neuroscience is still new, and scary, to the vast majority of teachers. When you consider their sole job as brain training, emotions very much included, the profession is made much simpler in many ways. The problem is we are likely looking at another two decades before these brain science methods are more mainstream. IMHO growing brains is the exact and, dare I say, only purview of educational programs.
I would echo everyone who has said there is nothing shady or unsustainable about this. You are managing people with skill-sets to complete work of business value for customers. This is essentially how most of the world's companies run.

As for whether it is sustainable for you, you might want to get another few customers, to see if your pipeline is repeatable. You may also wish to accumulate enough savings to live on for 6-12 months. That way you'll have some runway to ramp up your rainmaking, and figure out if you want to do this for a living, or go back to a day job.
same here, I was trying to figure out why the figure is $10 there?
Have you looked at Braintree: https://www.braintreepayments.com

For quicker invite to Stripe Australia beta, drop them a message on Twitter. By the way, at the moment Stripe Australia only supports charging in AUD, with USD support to come later.
> If we want to increase the percentage of effective non-impostors, we need the experts to learn to accept their expert status.

I'd argue that a good part of what helps some of these people achieve the expert status is their impostor syndrome. It pushes them to continue to be better all the time and never be satisfied with themselves (to a fault). Challenging them to "accept their status" is like telling them to change a core part of who they are.
Great website. They used to update news way more often but for a year or so now it's been more an active community than a frontpage.
When it comes to security, when people refer to "something you are", they mean that distinct from the "totality of who you are" or "who you truly are" (if you can even define that). Thus, fingerprints are "something you are"... but they can still be faked, and they aren't necessarily immutable, either. They explicitly aren't talking about "who you 'really' are" because if we had a way of telling that, we would be done. We wouldn't need any of the the three factors if we simply knew who you were, magically, 100% accurately.

So, the "something you are" is still distinct from "who you really are", which is the thing we are trying to establish. (And we should have at least another two or three decades before that becomes a tricky question of its own.)
Can cognitive intelligence be proved to exist?

The thing that we call IQ (or g) is a set of cognitive abilities in pattern recognition, problem solving, puzzles, symbol manipulation, and so forth. Insofar as "something" is measured by these kinds of tests, then IQ/g can be said to exist.

Similarly, the set of traits and behaviors collected under the umbrella of "emotional intelligence" are a grab bag of self-regulation, resilience, emotional self-control, insight into one's own mind, ability to form a working model of the emotions of others, ability to "read" the emotions of others, and so forth. These are less well defined than the abilities grouped under IQ/g but insofar as they could be measured through well-designed tests, then emotional intelligence can be said to exist.

Alternatively, there could be a functional or "effectiveness based" definition of emotional intelligence, even if it were less quantitative than IQ/g.
I'm disappointed to say that I miss Magsafe and the slant as much as I expected. Otherwise I completely agree. Once you go retina, you can't go back.

(For those that may wonder, I have to rmmod/modprobe a chromeos_laptop module after boot, but everything else works perfectly out of the box. Just bump up the font size or DPI in KDE and you're good to go.)
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Open mind isn't enough. There are no clear unequivocal paths to improve social skills.

I suspect that lack of situational awareness and lack of concentration power/endurance is at the heart of most of these problems.

Knowing what to do isn't enough, you need to do it. But improving awareness and endurance of your awareness is only possible through months or years of training, especially meditation and trying to find more awareness in social situations.