skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why wouldn't you? They're people. They generally have decades of experiences you've never had. They're extremely faceted and interesting. If someone doesn't want to talk to you you accept that and move on but most people are extremely interesting and can teach you something. How can you ignore some of the most valuable sources of interesting information in the world?

Maybe they don't want to talk to me. I accept that and move on.

It's called taking an extremely small risk for the chance that you can gain a friend or even just have an interesting conversation you'd never have had. Everyone's worth listening to.

The really funny part about your question to me is that you're talking to a stranger over the internet but you're having trouble understanding why you'd want to talk to a person in real life.
The key problem is that one of my eyes is next to useless. If I close my dominant eye, my other eye (corrected!) can pretty much see that there is an orange bar at the top, some sort of tanish area, some black stuff that is texty, and a white box below it that has texty stuff in it. On the infamous eye exam chart, I can barely make out the top most letter.

One one hand it is sort of nifty, it is almost like a holographic degradation of quality, it'd be more interesting though if it wasn't happening to me!

Oddly enough I found out that the problem I have (underdeveloped optic nerve) often co-occurs with grip strength problems. After an Amazon order and a week of training my grip, my life long problem of dropping things has been resolved. (Cost me $2k for the neuropsych eval to figure this out, but not dropping stuff all the time is a huge confidence booster, so I am A-OK with the trade off!)

Anyway, hopefully nerve regeneration takes off, I'd love to be able to see properly. (Not to mention all the other problems it'd solve for people!)
XMPP does via MUC: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html
So your argument is an appeal to authority? What specific data sets are you citing?
Why we built Pantheon with Containers instead of Virtual Machines
I certainly hope so... it'd be so unfair if true. Article makes it sound like it's raining blow jobs in high school now.
If that happens it's a bug, and I'd love to have some examples to pass along. I'll make sure they get to the right people. Looking through your search history: https://history.google.com/history/ might help you find them.
That's great! I do not have search history turned on but will definitely find you some nice examples of what I mean going forward.
The pricing is definitely geared towards city living. $300/yr for 12cu ft of storage. I paid $600/yr for 600cu ft of storage at my local U-Haul. So about 25x wholesale/suburban prices. For the price, you get really easy web interface and almost no hassle pickup/delivery. If I lived in a city and had no storage, I would consider it but I don't know how much one can pack in just 3cu ft boxes.

I hope they offer larger boxes or rather, standard pallets. After all, the boxes will be storage in typical bins in a warehouse. Industrial warehouses rent out indoor pallet-sized bins (4ft x 4ft x 5ft = 80cu ft.) for about $12/mo. If they charge a customer $25/mo for 12cu ft and stack even 5 customers in one pallet (60 cu ft), they make $25*5 - $12 = $113 => 90%+ gross margin. This is just monthly storage. Of course the warehouse charges handling fees but they would certainly offer price breaks when 1000+ bins are rented out.

This can be a very profitable venture if the marketing and customer service is done right and their small apartment dwelling customers wouldn't have to rent a car or ask friends for a ride just to storage the christmas decorations each year. All in all, just what a real-world startup is supposed to be.
"Free Markets and legal marijuana!" You're clearly not interested in having a civil discussion. If I were as childish as you, I would respond that you believe in "Socialism and the Drug war!" (both proven failures)

I am only replying for the sake of people who may not have been introduced to Libertarianism.

Libertarianism is absolutely reliant on property rights and contract rights. Both of which must be enforced by a government and were violated in the example above. The huge penalties would be levied by a court.

The regulation that most Libertarians oppose is more akin to the current situation. There are vast regulations on Wall Street (and resources expended putting them in place) but when rampant fraud becomes evident not a single prosecution is made. In the meantime, the barrier to entry is raised and competition is stifled with further meaningless regulation as the Government sells it self to special interests (while claiming "reform"). Other examples: illegal wars, illegal torture, illegal surveillance. No one held accountable.

Your post amounts to "you're against meaningless/hurtful regulation? anarchy doesnt work!!!"
Three major U.S. data providers attacked
Make it more expensive by having video reviews? I suspect people are better at detecting lies in people than they are in a block of text.

I guess this is what YouTube is for...
I wrote a simple tool for syncing an S3 bucket to local disk:

https://github.com/newspaperclub/hank

I found the existing s3 syncing tools used lots of memory when dealing with many small files, so I wrote this in Go, trying to carefully manage memory usage by concurrently listing and downloading the files.

We use it for backing up 500GB across 800k files, from an S3 bucket to a ZFS filesystem for snapshotting. It does the job well, usually taking just a few minutes when there are minimal changes.
EBay Server Farms Ditch UPS, Generators for Bloom Boxes
You are quite wrong good sir, or madam, as someone else in this thread explained that millions will drown with a drastic change in sea levels over 1000 years.

Actually, I'm assuming they were greatly exaggerating which seems to be commonplace in these types of discussions so I decided to poke a little fun at that one. Something about learning to swim and inventing something called a boat.
Double-quote is "sort of literal" (google will perform automatic stemming on single words in double quotes, but not on phrases) if you want really, really literal use "intext:" or "allintext:"
> but if each user action that triggered a one cell update becomes an event I have to keep forever, I see my database size exploding

I think there might be a balance here: you can always garbage-collect events that are already merged in an updated value of the given object. Depending on the requirement, this GC can be done e.g. after days or after months of that merge...
About four years ago, I used a service like this to move between homes [1]. It's particularly useful if your move out dates don't match up with your move in dates, and if you want to load/unload at a more leisurely pace. At first glance, the only difference seems to be the size of storage units, and maybe a bit more automation in the web interface.

The Pod moving/storage unit was basically in units of half-size shipping containers. They would deliver on a date, you'd move your stuff in, and schedule a pickup. Keep the unit in their facilities as long as you care to pay the rent, then kickoff the "download" process whenever you were ready.

[1] http://www.pods.com
Browser Pivoting (A way to get past two-factor auth)
> Just out of curiosity, do those "reputation management" companies realize that in serving their clients by making fake reviews, they help destroy end-consumer trust?

The thing with Tragedy of the Commons is that recognizing the fact that it exists doesn't change the fact that defection is still the optimum reward-maximizing strategy.

> In many ways, it's the old SEO argument all over again - gaming a system to increase ratings eventually erodes trust in that system, making those increased ratings less valuable.

And not gaming the system means that you get less short-term returns while everyone else games the system, gets better short-term returns, and still erodes public trust in the system.
I see this product as having two target markets:

1) Outdoorsy people who carry fuel and find themselvea away from electricity.

2) People who are going to burn their homes down trying to recharge their iPhones during power outages.
The underlying data structures do matter, even with mercurial. One workflow I immensely appreciate with Git is locally committing some series of messy changesets and commit messages and then afterwards, when I have finished the feature, tidying everything up by rewriting the history (git rebase -i) before I push my commits.

When I tried the same approach with mercurial I found that rewriting the history is not reasonably supported by mercurial. They use these append-only data structures that sound nice, because they assure stability (no already written data is ever in danger because files are only appended) and fit with the general concept of commit->pull->merge. But when you want to change the commit history you clash with the append-only concept. The Histedit extension which is meant to provide this feature has warnings all over the place that what I do is dangerous and might result in data loss with changeset backups written to locations in the working tree. It's horrible compared to Git.

Now don't misunderstand me, Git has a lot of problems UI wise (for example I still don't really grasp what is going on with detached heads). But I find the fundamental design choices more sound than with any other VCS that I have tried.
Actually, yes. Even the IPCC has been lowering predictions.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wXkm-8pKPKE/UjhUMlXq44I/AAAAAAAAC8...
But I wasn't attacking, I was congratulating.
Crowdtilt launches iPhone app
Seth Godin's Startup Schoold PDF
19 New York Startups
Not sure what you're getting at here, git developers got to choose their own names for git commands because there was not an existing standard that they were trying to implement.

Do you really think that 'prune' is a worse name than, say, 'fcntl'?

(Also, git-annex is a separate project from git.)
Techendo is starting a degree plan where we help you build a real company. It's called a NoB.S. degree.
How much would you pay monthly/annually to use said service?
When I was in business school, I took a class on venture capital from one of the earliest VCs in the valley. (He invested in Intel, for example.)

One of the two founders of Genentech was a good friend of his, and so he had the opportunity to put the first money into what became Genentech. But he refused to do it because they were good friends, and instead helped him find other investors.

Somehow I don't necessarily see something like this happening often in today's funding environment.
If it's just a matter of exaggerating the effect, it should be relatively simple to build low-tech glasses that do the same thing.

The cheapest, easiest proof of concept is to use mirrors and build a small periscope (see the diagram on the left here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Periscop...). Hold the periscope horizontally, and look through it with one eye while keeping the other eye open. This is effectively like moving one eye several inches further away from the other, exaggerating the stereoscopic effect.

A more compact and practical solution could probably be built by using prisms or specially shaped lenses over both eyes, which would halve the necessary distance out from the center of your face. Still a little clunky, probably, but not as much as an Oculus Rift.
In my experience, people like that aren't interested in getting a brand new phone every 24 months like HN users are. For someone like that, it makes much more sense financially to buy a phone outright, since they are unlikely to take full advantage of the subsidy.
genuely curious : how do you manage to keep your views automaticcaly synchronized with the model in IOS ? It seems that your controller's in charge of the two-way data binding, and that it is clearly NOT automatic... contrary to angular.
Finding your Cricketing Greatness
Thomas Sargent was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"

Fellow laureate Krugman: "S and S played a key role in developing methods that let the data speak instead": http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/go-princeton-and...

The models here however aren't econometric, they are for theoretical economics. The Kalman filter can be used for 10001 different things.
The human side
IMO the only useful thing about A.edu is that they have a good position in search engines and give you an information about clicks -- so it's like Google Analytics for your papers and profile. The rest is sadly either cumbersome or redundant.
In theory it would, but if the company fighting the troll loses, surely that would mean they'd need to pay the troll's legal fees also?
Softwarehelpskill.md
This is a well-known story by now, but it feels like this article buries the punchline a bit. However, I did find this other part interesting:

When co-founder Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, "he sort of says,
'I want this, this and this and I'll give you this, this and this.'
... We did the deal in three days," Gates said.

That included buying a 6% share of Apple, which lawyers convinced Gates
that Microsoft shouldn't keep for antitrust reasons.

"It would have been nice if we had," he said.
Okay, that is pretty awesome. Some thoughts... greens are probably optimal for this because they are fast to go from seed to produce. And 100% of the output can be sold, with basically no wastes. Singapore is also optimal for greenhouses. The temperature there is 23C-32C year round, so you don't need HVAC (just air filters on your vent fans) and you can grow continuously.

The waterwheel thing is clever not for the energy efficiency (it'll be the same regardless) but because it greatly reduces the amount of mechanics/electronics that are exposed to the greenhouse humidity, greatly improving reliability. (Installation cost is probably the same as if you had a gearmotor on every tower, just because the funny waterwheel is probably not an OTS part.)

But even in the video they call it a "premium novelty for consumers", which basically means not yet economical. And who knows how much of it was backed by the mentioned incentives. (They show some prices at 5:12 and 5:41, maybe that can give an idea.)
so can I pass Samuru a link to a particular Amazon product and it'll tell me how many of the reviews have a similar writing style therefore possibly being fake?
Lighthouses are regularly used for navigation, so they need to have almost guaranteed up-time. Don't think that would always be the case for these particular kinds of lights.
Fabrication processes can be patented. I can imagine examples that would be hard to definitively prove based on the final output three stages farther down the assembly line.
Agreed. There were the usual problems with getting used to a new interface layout, but IMO Xcode 5 is a major improvement. It seems faster (I haven't done any metrics though; possibly it's just the more streamlined workflow) and is definitely less crashy.

I'm doing PhoneGap stuff, so the platform restrictions aren't really an issue for me.
I guess I'm just quite surprised Aphyr turned that one up. I didn't look at the fix, but it's a pretty severe bug if it completely, silently disables a feature.
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I'm going to answer this from a technical point of view. I find search is best done by using precedence.

For example say my question is: "how to use rails with devise and omniauth", I break it down to the group in which I think nets the most results should be the first keyword and so on.

1. rails
2. devise
3. omniauth

rails+devise+omniauth: https://www.google.com/search?q=rails+devise+omniauth

rails+omniauth+devise: https://www.google.com/search?q=rails+omniauth+devise

omniauth+devise+rails: https://www.google.com/search?q=omniauth+devise+rails

how+to+use+rails+with+devise+and+omniauth: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+use+rails+with+devise...

The top results are normally similar. With exception to the "how+to+use+rails+with+devise+and+omniauth" search, which is rather different.

From my standpoint the "rails+devise+omniauth" yields the best results as the source of truth is closer to the github documentation "OmniAuth: Overview · plataformatec/devise Wiki · GitHub", over third party information "#235 Devise and OmniAuth (revised) - RailsCasts".

Using "how+to+use+rails+with+devise+and+omniauth" gets rather off topic after the 3 or so results.

Another tactic I use is searching like a command line. For instance: "wiki list breaking bad", or "imdb iron man". This don't work with smaller properties, so "site:example.com" is another awesome tool.

Just my two cents.
I'm still not convinced that Mantle will be a significant motivator for AAA game producers to port to Linux. After all, if an "easier" way to get your game out the door was all that it took, wouldn't we have seen a bunch of Unreal Engine games on Linux back in 2004?

Can you convince me that Mantle is a substantially better or easier way of doing graphics programming than modern OpenGL?
But it can catch diseases. Acting as if pregnancy is the only possible ill effect of promiscuity is narrowing the argument as to be useless, when it was already so narrow it was useless.
If you want to write your own one-function test microframework on that model, feel free; I don't see any reason to prefer using it to existing frameworks, whether xUnit-style or spec-style.
So you are suggesting them to maintain two different codebases during the transition rather than focus all their efforts to the new version to make the transition as short as possible?

IMHO they did the correct choice, every new version Opera will difference itself more and more of Chromium. You can continue to use Opera 12.16 until they take the decision to pull the trigger to completely kill 12.16 auto-updating it...

Remember the transition from Firefox 3.6 to the current Firefox, they didn't kill 3.6 until they reached version 12.
> since navigation charts of the day were fugazi...

OT but Fugazi is the name of one of my favorite bands. In interviews I had read that the word meant "a fucked up situation" but until now I had never seen it actually used that way. Interesting choice of words, interesting article too!
Sure, subject to reasonable limitations on the delivery radius. As long as I can call a cab and have them deliver your box(es) for $29 or less, we've got a deal.

I like the idea a lot, in principle, but the rates amount to robbery. Hopefully some other competitors will disrupt this particular "disruptor" by offering the same service at a more reasonable price.
Sargent is associated with "freshwater" macroeconomics. They tend to be very rigorous to the point of dropping topics considered important by other economists from their models.
Interesting. Care to comment on why you think the issues brought up in this blog post weren't covered by your test cases? To me they seem to be approximately the first thing you would test with any transaction feature, but I don't work on a mutable datastore, so maybe I have a misapprehension of the situation.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, if I see something I think should obviously be tested not tested, my go-to assumption is that the failure was in bad testing practices. To dispel that belief, I need something to replace it with that explains the observation even better. If you're willing to share your view of the situation, maybe that would do it. (There's no real business case for you to do it, since I'm not in your market. But as a hacker, I'm interested in what I can learn from this.)
How could code review discourage code disclosure?
This is a bad example. Why do that when you could just bind directly:

<span>{{ someValue }}</span>

And in the controller JS file do

switch (foo) {
case 'bar':
scope.someValue = 'hello';
break;
...
It is, and I think the author did.
A Google Maps collection of these.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=gplus-ogsb&ie=UTF8&oe...
I didn't find it too hard to learn but there is like 10x way to do the same thing, finding best practices, best library's, etc. is more time consuming
Modern joke "What do you mean by IFR" it means "I follow Roads"
Distraction and technology are related, insofar that technology allows for distraction, but it does not mandate it.

The mistaken assumption is that a person must be "distracted" by one's phone, when that may not be the case at all. Since when was reading a magazine being "distracted", or reading a book being "distracted"? Why is playing a video game considered a distraction?

The facts presented in this article, and the conclusions drawn by this article are orthogonal. Yes, we're bad at multitasking, and yes, people out in the world are buried in their phones more and more, but the connection between multitasking and looking at my phone isn't there.

Besides, why do I have to be particularly good when I'm playing Angry Birds or reading HN? I don't care if I'm performing 10 IQ points or 40% worse than if I were checking my text messages in a park by myself.

The article makes another false assumption that we must always be at our best whenever we do something, which is also untrue. Sure, I could use my slow, deliberate mental system to make all my choices, and I'd be immensely slow but very accurate. Or, I could use my fast, intuitive mental system to make quick, if less accurate decisions that usually get me where I want to be, or in a position I want to be in. I don't need to use my whole brain to hold a conversation with a friend, and I don't need to use my whole brain to wait in line for fish and chips.

There is an anxiety towards seemingly doing nothing, and it's well founded. The author talks about anxiety like it's the enemy, when in reality it's a necessary motivator.
Not really, I feel exactly the same and as it's the top comment I guess a lot of other people do as well. I know it certainly comes up regularly both in the office (people traveling get very annoyed when Google decides they should fluently read the language of the country they're working in for that week) and among friends as a source of constant frustration.

Google isn't alone in doing it either, Bing has slavishly copied this absolute idiotic stupidity although they aren't anywhere near as insulting about it as Google _yet_ (e.g. where Google, Wordpress, Youtube etc. show it in the language it geolocates you to rather than either your browser's language or your profile's language)
We don't expose that as an API in that way. We are rolling out features, but I am not sure flagging reviews as fake will be something we make "public" instead we'd license that to a company like amazon. Otherwise on the small percentage we get wrong we might have some sort of liability.
Why I loved working at Google
I wrote about something very similar last year, the BioLite camp stove: https://bbot.org/blog/archives/2012/06/13/biolite_camp_stove... (I'd argue that the BioLite is a better product, despite being twice as expensive, since it can run on wood.)

A problem with both products that they use the thermoelectric effect, which is miserably inefficient: The BioLite generated 2 watts from a thermal power of 5500W, for a thermodynamic efficiency of 0.036%

Solar panels, on the other hand, don't need to burn anything at all.