skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really Byzantine? Never ever had this thought. Once its setup, you just cap deploy - how is this much different from git push heroku? To do anything complex with PaaS stuff you still have to write code to setup the environment - likely no more than for cap.
So at least one part of their strategy works.
Nitpicking: Yum on ubuntu us highly unlikely (it's using .deb packages, apt-get). That's what you'd use on a rpm based distribution (Fedora, CentOS).
The problem with taxing "the rich" is either there aren't as many of them as you think they are, or they aren't as rich as you think they are. Fiscal drag has seen to that, and inflation. You can be a higher-rate taxpayer in the South East (of England) and not be able to afford a house. Or you can live in a big house bought before the boom, but have basically no disposable income, indeed struggle to pay your council tax! Or there are the so-called super rich, well you can tax the crap out of them, assuming they all pay up rather than just leave, well the sums involved just don't add up, there aren't that many of them to start with!

Governments in general, and the UK in particular, can't tax themselves out of this hole. They have got to just spend less. Despite all the talk of austerity, this isn't happening right now.
Because the US is a better place to be the kind of person that qualifies for skilled migrant visas or is worth sponsoring as an employee? Very poor Americans might well be better off in the UK, but we obviously don't want them.
The best thing that I can say about that is to ignore those pretentious art school yuppies/hipsters. People like that feel a need to label and analyze EVERYTHING, even when there's nothing there to analyze.
The thing about quantitative easing is that it is not producing much if any inflation and that is because it is not the same thing as printing money as so many people like to call it and distributing it to everyone in the US.

This is mainly because all that money that is being injected into the banks is not going anywhere. They are not lending it out but keeping it in a vault.
To show a graphic of this here is a chart of bank excess reserves held which is the amount of money held over the reserve requirement.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/EXCRESNS.png

This is actually out of date and the total is now at 2.3 trillion.
Flagged. This is an advertisement, I'm guessing part of some kind of financial manipulation, like that facebook movie goldman set up</tinfoil>
Either way, it makes your service completely vulnerable to the government's interpretation of the law. If they force you to disclose your customers' data in secret tomorrow, or face jail time, I have no doubts what your choice will be.

I'm not calling you a liar, btw, I just think you're naive/oblivious, and considering you just now discovered what ACC is and had to check with your lawyer (who isn't even sure how it interacts with other laws), I wouldn't use your service to send any critical information. Ever.
>But if you're writing an iOS game, an HTML 5 web app, a utility that automates work so you can focus on the creative fun stuff, then you don't have to fall back on the existing, comfortable solutions that developers before you chose simply because they too were trapped by the patterns of the solutions that came before them.

This isn't really true at all. It's very difficult to go against the existing standards. If you think the standards for the web are stupid then you're simply out of luck. Back to the desktop with you. What about all the hardware being optimized for C? How many people work in some language they hate because there's money in it and they have to eat?

The systems we have aren't designed for high level programming. Right from the start you are hobbled by this choice. Then someone decides to water things down further by enforcing a high level language on anything running in the browser environment so you don't even get your nice "raw performance" for the things the hardware is actually good at. And this high level environment isn't a a good one, even considered within the constraints set by the hardware! Then there's C - an awful language even for the hardware tailored for it, but many are stuck using it for one reason or another?
Sad to see this site go. Looked like a great project. So just out of pure curiosity, where would someone go to legally acquire lyrics for a particular song ? (sorry to say this but this sounds absolutely retarded to me.. what exactly are you damaging by publishing lyrics to songs ? I don't see the copyright argument at all.. it's not like someone will not buy a song because they can access the lyrics for free online ?)
Leaves a dull taste to hear that a once prestigious prices has lost all of it's meaning. When people like Obama [1] win a Nobel Prize and Putin [1] get's suggested for another.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize

[2] http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.550147
Flip those two bits. What rsync will do on the target system is create a copy of the file you want (with a name like .tempxasdiohkshlksdf-filename.ext) which takes most of the data from the local copy, and a few kilobytes of patches transferred. Then, when this file has been created, closed, its attributes properly set, and it is an identical copy of the file on the source system - it will rename ("move") the temporary file into the name that it should have. This move operation is what makes everything atomic;

It does cost another copy of the file on disk, but it does NOT leave the file in an inconsistent state. It is either the original file, or the new file - no in between.

You CAN avoid this behavior, by using the "--inplace" switch or the "--append" switch, which tell rsync to just modify the file in-place. However, this is NOT atomic, and NOT the default (for that exact reason).
I still find it odd that the "mission" collides with the origins of the name "mozilla" standing for mosaic killer.

Mozilla public name was renamed to netscape and introduced support for the dreaded frames it strated the trend of stupid user-agent sniffing which then lead internet explorer to pretend to be mozilla and then came the browser wars. Not exactly in tunes with the "mission".
Yes, bot nobody can ban you from roads because you are black or woman. At least in civilized part of world.
My understanding is that real-time software optimizes for worst-case latency, even at the cost of making the overall program slower. That's pretty unusual, and most software prefers a different set of tradeoffs.

Consider a project like WebKit, which is definitely not comprised of a "very small team." Does anyone honestly believed that WebKit would be faster if it were written in Java?
A Few Notes On The Culture - by Iain M Banks
Just to say, I love Capistrano - its a great product that I use almost every day. I introduced it at one place I worked and it took deployment time from painstaking hours to minutes.

Thanks very much for your efforts and I am sorry you feel the need to step down from maintenance.
It's also worth noting that even good developers might not understand GitHub.

I worked with a guy (around 8-10 years experience, and a good senior dev/technical architect) who spoke to me about someone he was interviewing for a mid-level role. He told me that his GitHub profile was great, and that he had a ton of great code and specs that he had written. In fact, he had forked most of this great code, and the only code that was his was a few tutorials from some books he had read to try and learn C# a year or two ago.

He wasn't a bad developer by any means. He didn't get the job because we couldn't get the budget to land another dev. However, there's a big difference in perception between a good developer on merit, and someone that has written some commonly used tools.
This joke has to die.

For the 100 or so readers of this article who may be archlinux users, 1 will say so and the joke is alive and this reflects badly on the archlinux community as a whole - who are not elitist schmucks or evangelists for archlinux. There is those who mention they use ArchLinux, so what, whats the big deal?

Why not make the same joke for anyone who mentions that they run macosx or some other apple product?
Explain to me how exactly de-funding the health insurance act is NOT going to be attached to raising the debt limit?

Because the default is 9 days away.

Default will happen at least for 24 hours, maybe longer, so it can be used as campaign slogans.
Ah, I don't. All of my Sublime packages are in Package Control, so I can check the downloads through wbonds site; https://sublime.wbond.net/browse/authors/jbrooksuk
The science prizes still hold their prestige even if the peace prize has often been controversial. The peace prize has always been the most controversial of the set (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Criticism and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Peace for starts).
"You can fix things. You can make new and amazing things."
This could and should apply equally to teams as well as individuals working alone (albeit taking different approaches to working).

What's interesting here is the comparison between achieving something as a team/in an organisation and working alone, which is ultimately what the author is advocating in order to gain certain freedoms. However, it seems to me that one can only achieve so much as an individual and this includes effecting change on a large scale because it takes many hands and cooperation to stir a big pot.
Shining light on open-source licences for scientific software
Probably because somebody somewhere within Samsung can quantify the money Samsung has "lost" by people buying through resellers but can't quantify the costs of implementing this short-sighted policy.
Of course. I was used to work mainly during the night, but now I fell that i am not productive as i was. So, i tried to change my schedule and, indeed, starting quite early as you say is (for now) a better strategy.
OK, you win. I didn't realize rsync was solving for network-bound scenarios, but in retrospect it makes sense.
Europe Aims to Regulate Data in the Cloud
Anyone can 'suggest' people for a peace prize. The peace prize != the medicine prize.

Also, it's just a (prestigious) prize. Keep doing science, don't think about it. And for god's sake, don't come up with science policies that 'will make our country win more Nobel prizes'.
The course:

https://www.codeschool.com/courses/real-time-web-with-nodejs
I would add to the list - "just do the stuff one damn time".

Everything has been done. There is a better technique and better tool and reference design for everything you will ever think of.

For amateur, this overload of information can prevent you actually doing anything, especially in the physical world where anything you do must respect the laws of physics (varnish needs to dry, cannot just set the boolean to true).

Talking from my experience in hobby jewellery making. Only read about something when you fail to do it or after you have done something. Otherwise you will end up like me, spending my free time watching youtube tutorial after youtube tutorial and not touching my workbench.
Might be useless when the whole thing goes down: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-07/a-u-s-default-seen-...
There exists some Cisco network gear that intentionally breaks STARTLS commands in it's default configuration (and wasn't debugging _that_ on a piece of network gear a client owned but didn't know about a fun waste of several weeks…)

( http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/produc... for anyone who wants details… )
I just remembered what else this reminded me of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_%28Unix%29
I'm going to support what could perhaps be a unpopular opinion - there is a lot more to a good programmer than simply writing good code.

I'd take communication skills over someone's ability to optimize a while-loop any day.

As a slightly tangential argument for hiring in general, I would like to offer that no matter what position you are hiring for, only looking at one facet of someone's abilities is very poor judgement.
It's funny, I did the exact same thing.

I haven't logged in Facebook for months because I'm too lazy to open my password manager and copy the password.
The controversy of Nobel prize is proportional ambiguity inherent to the prizes subject.
@jedberg is totally right!
It's like judging people by the way how they pack their suitcase.
To be perfectly honest, you can obtain metrics from Github that have nothing to do with coding, but behavioral analysis. I'll not go into details, because I think it's an unfair advantage.

Github is mostly used for personal projects. You can find a lot of dotfiles, frameworks, many smaller and some larger projects done for a hobby/friend/school/course or out of frustration/boredom.

What my Professor did is the way to go! Just hire that guy for a project, see how it's going and come together in a meeting to talk about the code, the solution and rationale behind the thinking. Then either conduct another team project to understand how he integrates in your company, or just hire that guy. Simple as that.
I think it's good when it hurts.

It's better to struggle with the hacker news treatment early on and learn to cope with traffic spikes than have the same problems when your site gets mainstream coverage.
Google has proven itself as a company capable of, and prepared to move into new markets and to diversify its portfolio of services. Twitter, on the other hand, has only diversified around the 140 character concept.

In my mind, it is diversification that allows a tech company to stay afloat when new entrants can have such a rapid impact on the market.

It is in no way conceivable to me that the 'trendy' means to communicate will still be in 140 character morsels 10 years from now.
Speaking as someone who writes campaign slogans: no.

On the shutdown: The house can and will pass a clean CR (clean as in it won't defund the ACA) with Democratic votes. This will either happen when Boehner abandons the Hastert rule or through a process such as moderate R's abandoning their party to force a vote through a discharge petition (which has already begun circulating).

On the debt limit: Same as the above, except with more urgency.

EDIT: without writing a dissertation on the current fractures in the Republican Party, the Ted Cruz wing is currently very, very hated within the party, and everyone is looking for a way out.
> Static rendering of dynamic content?

Yes.

> I don't think this does make sense.

It does, if you use one of the JS frameworks listed on the linked page.
I'm almost sure that this description is out of date and describes rsync 2.

rsync 3 does not need to create or transfer the entire file list - in fact, it will start immediately, and will have no idea how many files are left -- it's not uncommon for it to always say "just 1000 more files left" all the time while working through a million files. You can force it to prescan all files with -m ("--prune-empty-dirs" or something like that) if you insist.

Also, I might be mistaken, but I think rsync3 doesn't even transfer the entire file list to the other side - it will treat the directory like a file (which contains file names, attributes, and checksums), and transfer that using rsync. If nothing changed, this will take a few bytes. If something did, the entire directory listing is rsynced to the other side, and it will be determined recursively which files and directories actually need to be transferred -- with every directory that doesn't any changes skipped like a file that doesn't need any changes.
It was a good try. Sometimes it works:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dpndp/i_run_one_of_tho...
Worthy choice, especially Suedhof. His work is a seminal contribution to our understanding of one of the most basic principles governing information processing in virtually all nervous systems: the chemical transmission of a signal from one neurone to the other.

His review "The Synaptic Vesicle Cycle"[1] in Annual Reviews offers a somewhat accessible look at the critical bits.

[1] Use scholar.google.com if you want to find "liberated" PDFs.
This contemporary artistic influence is surely one of the components of the definition of culture. Of course everyone is influenced by all kinds of things. It's not a crime not being able to trace the lineage though, nor not to want to. Artists create and their creations enter the societal consciousness, that's part of the deal.
I don't suppose you got any numbers easily at hand about how much of your port 25 traffic negotiates a TLS encrypted connection?
I agree there's a lot of navel-gazing and self-aggrandizing. It's one of those regrettable personality traits that comes with the territory, I think.

But this post in particular was a nice contrast with that, a defence of not having to analyze one's own design influences.
Pharo Smalltalk Cheat Sheet
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=naive+evian&client=safari...
Well, I'm sorry that I annoyed you ;)

If you do find a way to do a proper DCF with mostly-known variables on a growth company likely facing an industry-wide paradigm shift, make sure you capitalize on it by making an exception to your rule of not trading individual securities :P

No one has claimed that this is a science, and this includes the hardcore value investors who often miss risks which the market had in fact priced in.
The longer I stare at this the more insignificant it makes me feel...

On the bright side, if you are into startups, look at all those new people coming into the world who need things!
as Dickens said:

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen
[shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds,
annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Particularly as a startup employee, you have to understand your job can just disappear on short notice. Having 6 mos of living expenses in cash and more in general investments is one of the best feelings; I know that virtually no matter what goes on with my employer I have plenty of time to find a new job.

ps -- yes, you too can save money. For example, I use a crappy android phone on a cheap plan and don't have cable. Those two choices alone save me roughly $2k/year; over 10 years that's $20k. I'm not saying those should be your things, but I bet you've got something.
All it takes is a bad SSL cert, or your CDN going down, and your pages become useless to the end-user.

How are non-JavaScript pages protected from this?
"As I said in a response on our forum, if the stakes are high enough, no datacentre in the world is safe."

The stakes being relevant to US that is.
There's also the Internet Archive which is much older than atleast Wikipedia and is often, in my opinion, under appreciated.
Households controlling spending and debt may be smart, but withdrawing from stocks and investing in bonds strikes me as having been a panic move - not wise at all.
I disagree, their pretentious 'what are your influences' discussion caused the author to analyze what his influences are.
That analysis clashed with the students' initial reaction.. but this is very far from your statement "there's nothing there to analyze".
Not quite.

The US Government operates on an extralegal basis (ie they're willing to cross any line), and roughly 85%+ of all new debt is purchased by the Federal Reserve. What very specifically is not going to happen, is the shut down of the military industrial complex of which the NSA is such an integral part.

So long as the dollar (Federal Reserve Note I should say) remains the global reserve currency, the national debt is a trivial problem (as is paying the interest on it). The dollar is the real linchpin, to everything. All else is a sideshow of political gamesmanship.
> If they force you to disclose your customers' data in secret tomorrow, or face jail time, I have no doubts what your choice will be.

We have no doubts either. The privacy policy clearly states we will give your data to the Australian authorities if supplied with the proper supporting documentation.

I didn't just find out about the ACC, though I wasn't aware of the details. But I'm not a lawyer, just a sysadmin, so I don't need to be. The "its not clear" bit is simply that there are two laws that appear to be in contradiction with each other. Its never been tested in court. And thus, its not clear. But we have confidence that what our position is legally supportable or we wouldn't be here.
Each individual disability is rare and people have different needs. A solution for one disability won't work for every disability.

And so, catering for disability in general is a challenging (but worthwhile) problem.
If I understand what you're asking: duplicated.

What Bedrock Linux does, from a high-level point of view, is intercept filesystem calls for things that would conflict between two packages and redirect them to something unique per client. So if you have two files that each need mutually exclusive versions of a given library placed in the same path, and they both try to read that path, they'll get different libraries. However, if they try to read something that needs to be the same for interaction (say, a file in /tmp), they'll both see the same file.

The system that picks what is shared between clients and what is kept separate is not very fine-grained; it is broad things like /lib and /usr which are kept separate and unique per client, and things like /home and /tmp that are shared. Or at least that is how it is intended - it is configurable, and in theory you could make it much more fine grained and share libraries and what not. However, that's not recommended.

So yes, as you've likely figured out, Bedrock Linux will eat a fair bit of disk space; you'll likely have multiple different copies of things like glibc on your system. There's no reason a de-dup'ing filesystem couldn't free up space. If you're short on disk space, Bedrock Linux probably isn't the idea distro for you.
Blue ocean strategy?
Correct, pasted the wrong link.

Thanks for pointing that out.
The economics of cow ownership
Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don't Connect to the Internet
Hasn't stopped me.
UnOfficial Medium.com Front Page RSS
You don't say it, but I guess you mean it. The time politics and policies come into play things start going the wrong way. See "TED" [1] for example.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-02-29/why-im-fed-up...
... Comments have really gone to shit here haven't they.

Some how we all end up antagonistic over bullshit like whether google have a big enough computer.

But alas, you're right, google could never crawl with an actual browser - what a ridiculous suggestion. I apoligise for such a dumb-witted comment.

As an aside: For my part in contributing such bad quality comments, I apoligise.
I agree as far as that goes. I'm very much in favor of working on great things that contribute to progress. I will add, however:

1. Make sure what you're working on is really a great thing that contributes to progress (e.g. not another junk social media "app").

2. If what you're doing really matters, all the more important to stick to a disciplined 30-40 hour working week to retain your ability to think clearly, instead of slopping into overtime and destroying your judgment.

3. Raising a family is the most important job of all (in a real sense it's the supergoal of which everything else we do is just a subgoal).
It can be even simpler. I use Apache serving static files out of /var/www/gems, and a cron job to rebuild the index every 5 minutes if anything's changed. Caching gems is just `rsync -avz $GEM_HOME/cache <server>:/var/www/gems/`. Publishing internal gems I've built is just scp.
Bedrock Linux can use either (or both!) portage and paludis just fine. What Bedrock Linux does is at a lower-level below package managers - in theory, it should work with just about every package manager out there. When listing examples of what Bedrock Linux can do I usually list portage as it is better known.