skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. At FoundationDB, we're writing a coordination tool (working name "beastmaster") that provides service discovery, locking, leader election, etc on top of our transactional key/value store. It is higher level than these tools; our idea is to try to make it useful from a command line or DNS rather than have to be baked into every piece of software that needs service discovery.

beast service --lock name=mailserver.foundationdb.com --run mailserver.sh &
beast service name=webserver.foundationdb.com --run webserver.sh &
ping mailserver.foundationdb.com
wget http://webserver.foundationdb.com/
When I think of functional programming I think of the verbs or actions. So instead of worrying about the onion, I would think about dicing. There is an input, onion and output, diced onion. That is a function.
...while Android has blundered along releasing phones with 4 hour battery life and jittery screens.

Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution?

Some Android phones are junk. Some are great. Most are in-between, and there are a LOT of them. You can make the same statements about desktop and laptop computers based on IBM's original standards, and you wouldn't blame IBM for the range.

I do wish Google provided better vision and guidance for all of the Android implementers to complement the open choices the implementers have. Freedom to make design choices is great, but without guidance about good choices the brand takes damage.
It can go in any direction. I've seen companies that I might potentially compete with in the near future disclose a lot of things that could give me/anyone an advantage. It's not that we have "100'000" active users or any of the metrics, but rather something very important:
Their strengths. There is a company founded by a few guys who had an idea, and patented it. They were already in mid-management corporate positions, so they managed to secure some funding. The strength that they always put up on microphone was that they're relying on patent protection, and that they want to see the likes of Google license their technology. The problem with this is that if they were programmers they'd know that their software patent is invalid, and that it's nothing really out of this world. Instead of focusing on building a solid product they wave the patent around while some of us are finding ways of taking them on.

I disclose the technology that my app uses, but I don't feel comfortable telling the world how I've managed to do something that could take minutes achievable in seconds.
What I should have said was that XP was the first decent consumer-focused release since Windows 95. 2000 had a good codebase, but an abysmal adoption rate.
You might be right about that. My impression is that the IOS experience is still qualitatively better, so it'll be interesting to see if a lower price point iPhone impacts market share shifts...
>The job of an engineer is to take the cost of materials, the budget, the expected longevity of the bridge, the project schedule, the prevailing environmental and geological conditions of the siting, etc. and balance all of these different variable against each other to arrive at a solution

I'm not a lawyer, but I would assume that a good lawyer adopts an analogous process: they take the value of the contract, the prevailing legal conditions, the case history, etc., etc. and balance all these different variables against each other to arrive at a solution.

I think the problem with many corporate lawyers is the same as with many corporate programmers working at large, traditional corporations: risk takers are heavily penalized, and those who make traditional, low-risk decisions are rewarded. You know, the whole "nobody ever got fired for using Java" bit.

But lawyers working in private practice, or partners in firms with a lot of power, will presumably be willing to balance risk against reward, and try to optimize accordingly.

Lawyers: please correct me if I'm assuming incorrectly here.
The only downside to this article is the URL with profanity in it...apparently it can't make it through my corporate firewall!
I use Keepass, it's a local DB but I store a copy on dropbox for safety and convenience. You may not want to do that if you're really paranoid.
By that figure, if you slapped four of those on top of a 2013 nissan leaf, it'd generate enough power in one hour for a leaf to travel all of 8km at 100kmph#. So, say 6 hours of that good stuff, you've earned an extra half hour of travelling.
That's with 100% efficient panels working under theoretically maximum sunlight (midday on the equator). I agree, it seems that the author is speculating well beyond his area of expertise (whatever that is).

#http://insideevs.com/real-world-test-2013-nissan-leaf-range-...
It's fairly straightforward on the Brightbox cloud. You get the server to where you want it and then create a 'snapshot'.

You can then create new servers from that snapshot as required.
Cooking uses linear typing, hence, you can only use your eggs once.

Clean is a purely functional language with linear typing.
Your defense of your point is bordering on the absurd. Yes, its technically true that these things may not indicate racism/sexism is the motivation behind their usage, but the vast vast majority of their usages are derived from racist/sexist thoughts from the wider culture or in the individual themselves. This is even more true in the case of the word nigger. To offer your point as if it has any usefulness in practice is ludicrous.
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That doesn't follow. Some people may read every day, but not have a lot to say.
You are correct. Solar panels on any kind of safe vehicle wouldn't even run the air conditioner.
I was on a solar car team in undergrad. Every 2 years we built a car with budget of about $1 million (and almost all of that went to consulting, parts or expert contract labor). We could afford space grade PV cells and fit as many as possible within the max 4.5 x 1.8 meter dimensions. We spent months refining the design to reduce drag and comfort was not a priority. This year's car can carry 1 (small) driver to 105 MPH (168 KM/H), but crusing speeds are about half that. On a sunny day we could maintain highway speeds without drawing much from the battery.

http://solarcar.engin.umich.edu/thecar/

The World Solar Challenge begins on October 6th in Australia where 26+ teams from the around the world will race their vehicles 3,000 km from Darwin to Adelaide.

http://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/
If Apple cut the price by another $100 they might make sense as a pricepoint but at only $100 less than 5S it seems crazy to me

Conjecture: these will be the free-with-contract phones next year, and something else will occupy the $100 slot.
That is besides the point. I think you'd agree that condition now and millions of years ago were quite, quite different. They were held in check by various predators, we eliminated. Shells weaken by acidification of ocean have put new new sort of organism on their menu (or weakened their prey).

The fact that our efforts of only several decades/centuries could return jellies to a state that was 10 million of years ago is astounding.
> Nothing can be done about Pax’s employment, but I want to take a closer look at the motivations of both Nitasha and Anil, and why they decided to gang up on Pax.

Are you serious? Pax ganged up on himself. He doesn't need any enemies apart from his own attitudes and public statements. It's disingenuous to try to find reasons for his firing apart from common sense and self-preservation on the part of Business Insider.

Here's my favorite Pax Dickinson quote (source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/10/pax-dickinson-fired...):

"In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of niggers. It's his own fault for dressing like a whore though."

So, given the above, we need to imagine there was a conspiracy to get him unfairly fired?
Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution?

More or less. There is no incentive for carriers to help customers find the best Android experience, and so many help customers find the worst. Google utilized this perverse (and often dishonest) aspect of mobile phone showroom sleaze to gain market share quickly.
Straightforward design meaning a never-ending single column of content? I would be shocked for such a page to require any creative usage of divs/spans whatsoever.

Also, just curious, what's the point in having a footer that I can never properly see because new content is injected as I scroll down the page?
Very cool! I like the simple approach of foregoing all the fancy new tech and doing the simplest possible thing (though the quality/bitrate does suffer)
Yes, that is the point of them.

If you are planning on creating one you should speak with an accountant and attorney to make sure you know the rules. If a corp or LLC is being used simply as a front a suing party can "pierce the corporate veil" and come after you personally.
PostgreSQL comes with a command line client: psql
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.4/static/app-psql.htm)

If you're going to work with a relational database you need to learn SQL and how the relational model works. There's no shortcut that won't just leave you worse off in the long run. SQL was originally designed as an end-user friendly way to work with relational data.

For learning about relational database theory I recommend Chris Date's book "Database In Depth: Relational Theory For Practitioners." There are quite a few good books for learning SQL. For learning the PostgreSQL flavor of SQL the PostgreSQL docs are probably the best place to start.
Couldn't hard copies be outsourced to No Starch if a set amount was donated? I'd much rather buy a book - and would make a higher/set donation.
Quantitative trading seems interesting because I would hazard that you need strong math background along with solid hacking skills.

There are other problem domains with similar requirements, but I'm quite curious to hear stories from other HN'ers who have tackled quantitative trading either for themselves and in the day job. Specifically, if you can share a bit on your technical work in such a role, that would be cool to hear about.
So quant funds don't use that much calculus? Primarily statistical techniques?

I would guess that might be the case since pure arbitrage no longer works and thus quant funds have to delve into more probabilistic strategies like stat arb.
1360 is top of atmosphere. At the surface, at the equator, the ideal number is about 400 W/m^2. So yes, the physics don't work for what we think of as a car.
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Pretty much what I thought. The leaner the better.

Moreover, in our specific case, we did not want to introduce dependencies on hosts that are managed by our customers so as to not run into conflicts with their own stack.
I don't think you fully appreciate how expensive it is to go to court.
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My Startup: Supreme Overlord

I am against those gimmicky terms. They mean nothing and come and go. The company I work for is all about calling developers "rockstars".
Javascript isn't the best language to "learn to program". Syntax wise it's decent, but for at least us web developers, we shouldn't preach that to newly interested folk. You see how bad websites are today, and it's mostly due to abusing JavaScript. When people learn something they want to use it, and if they know JavaScript better then a good back end server lang, they create...a mess. Stop abusing my CPU!
The only reason for a degree requirement is that it simplifies the employment process. Everything after that is downhill. Has anyone noticed that most stellar entrepreneurs are dropouts of one kind or another -- a list including Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson?
Just look at the apparatus set up and trace the beam path. Then things will become clearer...
I skimmed 96 comments looking for anyone to say, "You know, this is pretty offensive and/or wrong." I found only two posts comprising one sarcastic attempt at pointing that direction.

No one's making the argument that porn's good, but a lot of people either genuinely assume so or want to signal that they're really pragmatic and modern and liberal. (If you think everyone's just bracketing the moral questions and that it's appropriate to do so, ask yourself how well a post on successfully marketing on white supremacist websites would fare.)

I'm not going to make an actual case that porn is evil either: it's clear we'd have to do a lot of work on finding common philosophical ground first, and I don't have the time. But in the face of apparently-overwhelming social acceptance of evil, it's better if someone says, "Hey, everybody, this is wrong," even if they can't convince people of it at the moment. Since I can't find much to upvote here, I'll be that guy:

Pornography is evil in concept and in practice. Building your business through it is considerably worse than, e.g., using huge email spam networks. It beggars belief that--in a community that can at least entertain the idea that it might be wrong to create a business by exploiting people's lizard brains with notifications, gamification, and misleading social ads--ninety-eight percent of comments on using porn to promote your business either avoid considering morality at all or go out of the way to indicate that everything's a-ok here.
And was then sold for profit. This book is being released for free once the funds have been raised.
But it's wildly popular in other parts of the world. Apparently it's the number one color for aftermarket modifications of iPhones.

Look at the design of Sony products over the past 50 years. The design has changed radically. Heck, even look at the Apple design language over the past decade or so.

Things change. Everyone thought that OS X 10.0 looked very stylish at the time...now it looks dated.
We've been tricked into thinking the Internet is free.
> 2000 had a good codebase, but an abysmal adoption rate.

Yes, which kinda-sorta was expected as it was still considered part of the NT-line and not a consumer OS, and WinME was released after it.

Still, it was a perfectly good consumer OS (IIRC, 2000 was the original merge point of the NT and 9x lines, then the building base for Project Neptune which fell through and ultimately lead to Whistler after 2000's release), much better than WinME could ever be, and I only reluctantly switched to WinXP (to try AoE III which refused to install on 2000, of all things)
I indent religiously, and I comment, but I use a lot of static site generator-type software and I've yet to find one that doesn't completely ruin the indentation in the output, even with the various kinds of HTML-prettify plugins.
The issue is Accountability.

It is more important to know "who/when/why" are people looking at your records that stoping people from accessing them all together.
Try Firefox, my box is newer.
Look up RANDU.
You'll likely want to start by filing either an ITP or RFP "bug" against Debian's wnpp pseudo-package, depending on who will be maintaining the package.

http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
It is true that the color palletes of attractive hues vary by region. In part, this has to do with skin-tone. You can verify this by looking at Make-up for women (who understand this stuff), and compare trends on a global level. This is not withstanding the value for money argument, which is a valid (but disctinct) point.
But how does vb.net help her play the viola?
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I think you are misunderstanding how branding & pricing works.

Chanel perfume can be bought for $100; a Chanel suit for $2000.

A new Ferrari will cost $300,000; a Ferrari T-shirt is $75.

An $850 iPhone fits nicely into this, especially as it it has a similar level of design quality.
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This looks pretty close to a straightforward rewrite of the PG essay.
>Racist, sexist, and other group-biased social structures often constrain and disadvantage individual members of the notionally "priveleged" class -- particularly those least interested in preserving the bias.

Agreed. I'm not saying everything is black and white. It's a generic concept.

>use of "majority" when the intent is to refer to the structurally-favored class is problematic

Not that kind of majority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_%28sociology%29

A minority group is a sociological category within a demographic. Rather than a relational "social group", as the term would indicate, the term refers to a category that is differentiated and defined by the social majority, that is, those who hold the majority of positions of social power in a society. The differentiation can be based on one or more observable human characteristics, including, for example, ethnicity, race, gender, wealth, health or sexual orientation. Usage of the term is applied to various situations and civilizations within history, despite its popular mis-association with a numerical, statistical minority. In the social sciences, the term "minority" is used to refer to categories of persons who hold few positions of social power and whose position in society is underprivileged.
they might have multiple versions, with modern faster versions and a scaled back IE6/XP version.
All true. I was just pushing back against the idea that Indians will "jump to get" brightly colored cellphones. Color has next to no impact on the Indian cell phone (vs say cosmetics) market, which is very feature-comparison and value for money driven.
Re. current discussions of security and code review because of NSA and other government entities corrupting standards. If Google and Facebook cannot find such simple errors and then even balk at implementing a fix, which turns out to reveal an even larger flaw, what hope is there.
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I have yet to see a "commodity" smartphone or tablet that was nearly as stable or reliable as an iOS device, didn't have the UX destroyed by manufacturer customization, and wasn't abandoned by its manufacturer and never updated again just a few months into the two-year upgrade cycle.

Has the Android ecosystem actually solved these problems yet?
> "I'm not sure what the lesson is here."

At least the author's frank about it.
I don't think that's the term you meant: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/buggery
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I downvoted you for being so thick that you can't figure out how the comic was relevant to the discussion and also because you took the time to explain your downvote, like it actually matters.
Generally true, but often the motivation is not revenge or recouping financial loss; it's deterrence.

Examples that come to mind are the MPAA/RIAA suing individuals for copyright infringement and developers for distributing P2P software, Sony suing individuals for modifying game consoles, and although not a civil suit, Goldman Sachs having Sergey Aleynikov criminally charged.

All quite depressing examples unfortunately.
No the applicant pool will be more bullish. In many cases that might mean weaker (i.e., unable to estimate work effort properly).
Why? Not saying I know that it is or isn't, but I could see myself doing similar just for the value of the links / hits / personal brand, let alone the fun of deeply analyzing something like this.
64-bit ARM chips in iPhone 5S serve up taste of Intel-free future for Apple
Well, you're free to make a small donation now and order the book from Amazon (for ~$20, I expect) in a few months. I know it's not psychologically the same thing, but the end result is similar.
To be honest. I've seen way, way worse. He is very, very, VEERY arrogant - if you don't put space before and after an operation sign, you are an idiot. But the man earned it, somewhat.

I've seen people that are that arrogant and have delusions of grandeur. They are the poison, really.
Links to reliable sources: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/todai-research/research-news/com...

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7462/abs/nature12...
Semantic = for developers. I.e. not in the "make it nice for web crawlers" sense, but for readability of template code.

So for my own workflow, I have been quite comfortable being a "semantic stickler", where markup is written first and with only a general wireframe. CSS classes are added sparingly, to mark separate areas of concern for LESS/SCSS grouping. And then styling work begins, during which I try to avoid adding presentational fluff to markup at all costs. It's hard, but CSS3 allows a surprising amount of power.

The rule of thumb is: clean template code is worth dirty CSS hacks. CSS is going to be shit anyway, due to its inherent qualities as a language. So might as well make templates awesome.

And again, this is for developers' sanity more than anything to do with "semantic web" or whatever.
It's easy to present a special use example as a benefit over the current trend. It doesn't mean it would hold up over multiple comparisons.

Although, any example that I could provide that would show the exception would also likely be a special use example. So it turns into a your mileage may vary situation.

But, I've not always seen a slightly shorter amount of typing as a benefit to this sort of thing.
>Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution?

To you and I? No. To your parents or the general public? Yes. They will buy one low end android phone, it was suck, they will say "Android is terrible". I know people who went from iPhone 4 to a free Android phone and are wanting to return to apple.

The same goes for laptop companies. They'll buy the cheapest Dell. It'll fall apart in 6 months. "Dells are terrible".
Graphic Designer | Web Producer

Don't really care what title I'm given, unless it has "director" or "scholar" attached meaningfully.
I was a quantitative developer working alongside a quantitative trader in a small 'proprietary trading fund'. This is roughly how all quant funds are separated. There is the "technology" side, which builds the data/trading infrastructure and then there is the "research" side that generates the trading strategies to run on the infrastructure.

My job involved anything from hooking up to brokerage APIs to optimising MySQL replication topologies. Quite varied!

In a way, it wasn't too different from your average startup, with the possible exception that you deal with a non-trivial amount of data from day #1 (hundreds of millions of rows are not uncommon).

Open source has gained significant ground in funds these days. Python/R are now the "default" go to languages for quant trading research, with some MatLab too. Libraries such as NumPy, SciPy and pandas have really brought 'algo trading' to the 'retail' (algo) sector as well.

.NET is still generally used quite a lot in investment banking, particularly C# for front-office GUI code, and C++ for any legacy number crunching libraries.
All successful and failed transactions against any resource gets logged. We haven't exposed it in the API yet, but it's coming.
seconded. I wouldn't even have to quote Machiavelli to say that it's important to show your future contractors(or your peers) what you are capable of, to force them to think twice before arranging anything with you.

Will it reduce the number of incoming contractors? Probably. Will the contractors who'll still chime in be more likely reliable, after considering what they're agreeing with? Very likely.