skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you refill the ink cartridge yourself?. Also point doesn't start acumulating ink and leaving stains in the paper like most pens?.
Completely disingenuous would be more accurate. More hits that way tho, I suppose.
"I bought this to power a home-made submarine" :P
I think the cross section of people who want simple hosting, but don't care at all about bandwidth is small.

most of the features provided are only useful to developers as well.
Same, I've had one of these pens since 2007 or 2008. First saw them in HS, when the $20 or $30 sounded like a lot of money, when a grandchild of one of the founder(he claimed, and it would be an odd claim to make if it weren't true) was in a class of mine. I used to get made fun of, which hasn't bothered me since high school, until people started realizing they were always asking to borrow it to write down a note or sign a receipt.
I'm dense today, I think. I'm afraid I don't see the false dichotomy. I see "kinds of people who read books in America" and "some of the kinds of people who review books in America". Is there a 3rd/nth group I'm not seeing - perhaps "people who read books and who also review books"?

Genuine question
Thanks for the clarification, I didn't mean to be offensive, I was just quoting your term re 'tiny'.

It looks to me as though the announcement, which may not be new (I'm not sure) indicates a new marketing push towards smaller retailers, but then I'm not involved enough to know for sure.

And I would just say that Paypal has an awful reputation as far as their treatment of their customers, so I would perhaps be a little wary of putting too much reliance on themr for your switch?
Some of my thoughts:
I'm surprised by the dislike of Actionscript (guess it's memories of AS2 mostly). AS3 is quite nice in my opinion, and the display list is a charm to work with, while FlashDevelop is one of the nicer IDEs that I've had experience with. Sure, it runs on Flash and the timeline concept is weird when not making animations, but that should have no bearing on the language itself (and it seems there are efforts towards alternative runtimes anyway, who knows where this may go in the future).
I'm surprised by how many people like Go, because, while nice, seems not very relevant and a bit directionless imo. Also surprised by the overwhelming popularity of Python compared to Ruby, which I think is better than Python in every way (except performance, but both are the wrong tool for such a job in my opinion).
I don't see why there is a "Lisp" here, as it seems to have both Scheme and Clojure, but (weirdly) not Common Lisp.
Rust shouldn't be here either, as it's a WIP. Judging a language that's still in alpha seems... wrong.
Oh, I see now. You are correct.
nah, just look to laws that are not friendly to building. Most in the name of protecting something or someone popular to disguise the fact those making the laws don't want others there.
You could hit it with paint balls to blind the camera without bringing it down and you could probably get away with it.
"Misrepresenting" is your postulation perhaps. Either way the spirit of backing up your thesis with peer reviewed research is totally fine in my book.

The citations aren't there to trick people into thinking things are more serious than they are. They are meant as foundation and support to the theses of the essays. What more could you ask for? Seems ad hominem.
Although it is true that Hans are the majority in all major regions of China, still there are significant ethnic concentrations in regions, e.g. see ethnic autonomous areas listed here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_entities_of_China) other than Tibet and Xinjiang. History shows that large empires with regions of diversity can catastrophically divide up after long periods of being a single entity.
I think most here would understand "bounty" as "bug bounty", a reward for finding a bug. I personally didn't think any of it until I read your comment, but I get that the title could lead one to believe that the hacker extorted Microsoft.
> although the landing procedures could more than nullify whatever comfort benefits they had.

Could you expand a little bit here, what to you mean?
i didn't say anything negative
Ugh:

"The kinds of people who read books in America seem to have no problem with my writing. But I am clearly a bee in the bonnet of some of the kinds of people who review books in America."

Which I interpret as: Because I have high sales figures, that clearly proves that experts are easily upset fussbudgets who you shouldn't listen to.
i didn't say it shouldn't be
That's correct, but the underlying philosophy of making money off of someone else's content still applies.

To quote Andy Warhol:

"I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product.

But then they always say that they're helping you, and that's true too, but still, if people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. So I guess you should pay each other. But I haven't figured it out fully yet."
I had much fun with X-Beyond Frontier
Seems like a really silly thing to renege on. Do you have any more posts discussing what happened?
Biscuit for reddit - a new take on reading reddit on your iPad
Added:

like+dislike
like/dislike
(like/dislike)*log(like)
(like/(like+dislike))*log(like)
(likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet))
(likeDirichlet/(likeDirichlet+dislikeDirichlet))*log(likeDirichlet)
lower bound of confidence interval at 95% level

http://arcane-waters-4617.herokuapp.com/

source: https://github.com/bshanks/lang-rank
Why we should think about redesigning shoes
I would imagine that a net-shooter would be the most effective weapon against drones. Plus, it's a weapon that could feasibly be operated from a drone itself without weighing too much, being too hard to aim, and minimizing human casualties if it missed.
Kottke says that this story gets "trotted out every time some large organization introduces some complex, bloated, over-engineered product or process".

And then he gloriously "debunks" the myth, framing NASA as the unfairly labeled neerdowell.

The inference is that today's news on gov't waste is also potentially a "myth".

The reality is that Kottke's post is a red-herring.

What's the 2nd result on Google for "Space Pen"? It is, of course, the snopes page describing the "hoax".

And have you seen any major (or minor for that matter) news organizations today using the example of the "space pen" as an indicator of government waste?

No.

So in fact what we have here is a little allegory delivered in a neatly wrapped package to instantly defuse further investigation, and let us all go back to our armchairs.
http://lwn.net/Articles/551695/

Its funny how standards evolve. Should we do things because they were declared standard? Or should we do things because they make sense?

In the case of the original post, it was IE vs Chrome. In the case I just brought up, it is Linux vs BSD with their implementation of POSIX.

The same story will continue to run as long as we expect different systems to run "similarly" based on a unified standard.
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What really grinds my teeth is the version of the story/myth that replaces weighlessness as the problem with vacuum, as in this post.
JetPens[1] has a bunch of great articles, research and reviews. I highly recommend them for their service.[1]

[1] http://www.jetpens.com/
It is possible that the homes were bought at lower prices in the past, and are now 'worth' more than the owners could afford to buy with thier current income.
People who have lived in rent controlled apartments for many years skew the stats, as they're paying much below market rate (not saying this is a bad thing).
I've done IT at both megacorps and govt. Frankly, I don't see a difference. If anything, govt work has greater transparency and accountability.

Contributing factors are, but not limited to:

- scale

- complexity

- legacy / installed base

- laws, regulations, rules

- organizational processes (workflows)

- quality of developers

- resources

- politics and agendas

Just trying to support all the entrenched chaotic mutant use cases and edge cases will wreck any project plan.

I much prefer working at younger, smaller companies. There's fewer roadblocks. But the healthcare and other benefits working for government rock, so here I am.
It implies that there's a housing shortage, and that housing is purchased by the rich and those willing to live above their means (or willing to skimp in non-housing areas of their budget) bidding up the small quantity of available housing, and everyone else moving away. A similar thing happens in most expensive housing markets, driving the population growth in low-wage, easy-to-build areas of the Sunbelt like Texas, Arizona, and Nevada.
That's what the CTO of Stanford Hospital listed as his biggest fear, interview #3 in the series (not in this post, but the one before it).
Yeah, it's dead simple, google "space pen cartridge" and you'll see. Also, I've not had the pen leave stains when using it.
Early-Warning Is an Unknown Unknown
I'd say just the opposite. Zombie Feynman's point isn't "lay off the popularizers". It's that the essence of science is testing ideas.

I haven't read a Gladwell book, let alone bothered to run down all the relevant science. But if Gladwell's legion of critics are right, then he's doing the opposite of Mythbusters. They are teaching people to experiment; he's turning ideas into appealing stories without any interest in testing them.
clickable: https://sfhntwilio.eventbrite.com/
SF better go high-rise or they will suffocate their economy.
If I had to guess, it's the fact that Russian spacecraft tend to land on the ground, and typically fire a rocket burst right before landing to slow down even more. It's the equivalent of getting kicked in the ass by a rocket-powered donkey, twice.

American craft land in the water, which is much more forgiving to begin with, and I don't think they fire rockets before hitting the surface.

(Although, I'd love to hear more about the other design differences.)
I'm really enjoying the comments.
How much do you lose in communication when working on a project remotely?

I've been working from home for many years and, work-wise, it was really not that different communicating with the team vs if we all were sitting in one room.

It is just the personal feel that is different. Things like you miss some side-jokes, which might not be that fun without personal presence; Hanging around after work; etc...
I know several people that misspell their own name on Facebook for this purpose. I imagine that if people still want to be unsearchable, this is what they'll do.
What is the most interesting thing I could do with this?
Wait, I thought they sent out t-shirts and just ran out.

Due to overwhelming response, we’ve run out of our entire stock of tee-shirts! With future challenges we’ll be offering a reward for the first group of people who respond.

So, did anyone get a shirt or just the first few people?
In Soviet Union 35 people own 110% of the wealth.
hell yes - im a python guy but this still looks great!
It's so low-radioactivity that it's license exempt. The warning labels are just for novelty.

You probably have a more radioactive americium source in each of your smoke detectors than in that entire jar.
Don't forget The Pen Addict!

http://penaddict.com/top-5-pens/
I don't know about that. To me, the three-man Voskhod looks like the most uncomfortable spacecraft that was ever flown.
"For those of you in the coastal elite who are reading this post for the perverse pleasure of finding out just how unaffordable your city is . . ."

You caught me.
I'm a little confused. Are you a US citizen? If you're ever refused at the border, there are other channels. One guy at one point of entry doesn't ultimately decide your fate.
Do the Advanced Algorithms course in MIT`s Open Courseware site here http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Also look into Hadoop, Mahout and machine learning in general.
Might I recommend you also add a banana slicer to your cart?

http://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-571-Banana-Slicer/dp/B0047E0EI...
$7.99 on page and $12.29 on Amazon? Something changed or just Amazon hates Poland now?
Or alternatively, that everybody else doubles up and lives the bachelor lifestyle for a long time. Roommates are very common in the Bay Area, as is youth. The large number of 20-somethings just starting out in their careers skews median incomes downwards, and many of them don't have the same housing needs as someone with a family.
I know nothing about Polymer but Yeoman makes trying out JavaScript frameworks so fun and easy that I'll probably try it out.
Good luck hitting the lens on a moving UAV a couple dozen meters off the ground...
I don't think the typography on your landing page does the design of the app itself justice..
This is a common topic of discussion on HN.

I'll risk downvotes to create a discussion in a sometimes touchy subject.

STEM fields aren't the only ones with large gender imbalances. Others include elementary school teaching, nursing, garbage collecting, road maintenance, and many others.

Are there efforts to recruit men to become elementary school teachers on the scale to promote women in STEM field?

Are there efforts to recruit women into construction and collecting garbage?

Why or why not? I don't have the answers, although I don't think male-only scholarships exist to promote male teachers (though I think society would benefit from it) nor female-only apprenticeships to promote women going into construction or garbage collection (though I think society would benefit from it, and would probably result in making the fields safer).

I'm curious what people say. If nothing else, if we find successes in some areas we may be able to replicate them in others.
Same here. Most of my friends that do this are either teachers or clinicians of some sort that don't want their pupils/patients finding them. This is a much simpler approach than the privacy morass Facebook has intentionally created.
I thought it referred to the time elapsed between the pirated release being made, and your having access to it. How high up the chain you are. Hence the inevitable escalation to 0hour, 0sec as bandwidth increased over the years.
That's cute. Guess there's always one other option, for people that don't want to/can't let themselves be searchable by name

delete's Facebook account
To review a book it is not strictly necessary to have read it, at least according to a few targeted authors, including this case ("I just wanted them to read my book all the way to the end").
Yeah not intentional, wrote it out to have a easier to read title
I know several people that are quite bright in real life but only post cat pics and unfunny quotes on facebook, then like random useless uninteresting crap. They are ruining the "experience of facebook/social networking" for everyone on their friend-list willfully as a slow sabotage.

That is kind of the best thing one could really do to subvert the facebook. It isnt enough to change name, or to misinform or deactivate etc, the best thing is really to offer the lower the quality of everything below crap, to drive others away too. To more fertile and free lands of networking. Whatever that is, it will be somewhere soon enough.
Thanks for the feedback, this was actually something I was pretty concerned about when I made it, but I decided to go with it anyways.

One question: do you think slowing down the color change would make a difference? I started with a 10 second animation through 5 colors, but it's currently a 30 second one. I might experiment with making it 1 or 2 minutes to make it more unobtrusive. thoughts?
I've worked with a remote dev team for 5 years as a product manager working in the office. The team-level collaboration was probably better than in many office environments I've worked since.

This was circa 2005, so as you can imagine the tools weren't quite as well developed as they are today. This meant that everyone had to make sure they communicated extra well. Rule of the road was that you were available on IM same time as office hours, you announced coming and going with an email to a shared distro list, etc. No rocket science.
Also, they got measurements from three birds so they have 216,000 continuous non-stationary measurements. A stats guru might be able to figure out the effective reduced sample interval.
Can someone help me understand what is going on with the mods or the ranking algorithm here? This post was on the front page this morning, dropped from #19 to #50 within in one minute.

Then it reappeared on the front page for a good two hours, now mysteriously dropped from #9 to #50 within one minute.

It's like there is a bot or mod that is flagging it down to #50. I'm beginning to suspect I'm cursed or someone has it out for posts from this domain! Kind of disappointing since I worked really hard on this piece. I've read how the ranking algorithm works but I don't have a voting ring and there is no flame war happening here. Sad face.
Remember that technology exists, usually for some time, and often in a completely usable state before it makes it to RELENG.

http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/zec_presentation.pdf

Hell, you can even still download the freebsd 4 patch from archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030523110842/http://www.tel.fer...

It's all over mailing archives from that era, too.

I mean, I'm not saying I'm a kernel programmer... but I'm not an idiot; I can apply out of tree patches.
How to Be the Best Public Speaker on the Planet: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/10/how-to-be-the-best-publ...
yeah, it's only a couple weeks old, so I'm working out the kinks. thanks for the heads up!
> This is a common topic of discussion on HN.

All of your questions have been answered, very many times, in all of those other threads.
Very impressive. I didn't know about objectAtIndexedSubscript and objectForKeyedSubscript so I wouldn't have thought this was possible as a category.
Erlang is awesome, but only offers high-level concurrency constructs (actually, just a couple), it does not support low level ones (CAS). You can't write, say, a good concurrent hash-map in Erlang. Or in Haskell, for that matter.
It depends on what you consider simple. I don't consider the earlier code simple, just crude. Testing it, or adding features (e.g., tacking caching) would increasingly make it messier, plus the code mixes error handling and low-level concerns with business logic.

The final result is broke up in nicely referentially transparent functions, making testing or refactoring more trivial. Also, the main body reads as a DSL, a programmer can pick this code and more easily figure out what it does, which is easier to reason about.
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that's wrong, sorry! obviously, something about my media queries is off, will fix ASAP.
I use one and find it pretty good. I go between crouton with xfce for development using vim or using nitrous.io in the browser. I mostly use the setup for angular or python coding.

I'm pretty happy with nitrous, I do kind of find the context switching a bit strange in that I can have browser tabs open and tabs in nitrous open - ctrl-tab obvious changes the browser tab, but my brain, when I'm editing code in a tabbed environment, still sometimes expects the code editor to switch tabs. Still, I have to say I ran an experiment on nitrous and if Vim is more your thing, you can actually run a shell inside the browser and fire up vim.
Or,you know, just stop using facebook.

The degree to which users are accommodating Facebook's increasingly onerous privacy policies is becoming ridiculous.
> Is there another possible explanation?

Other elements in the cost of living do not scale the same as housing, so you can expend more of your median salary bidding up the real estate.
thanks! was gonna go to vzw, but now strongly considering tmob.
Thanks for the screenshot, I'll fix that ASAP.
He could have been framed. Even if he is its all true that doesn't mean he doesn't have something interesting to say about freedom.
Psh, any bird can stay in flight for 5 years if aboard this drone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528598.
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I agree. Regardless of what they've done, they largely accomplished their vision. Their vision was to put a PC in every home. They started with such a lofty goal and delivered. The first thing I ever learned on a pc was typing a: <return> to load a floppy on MS DOS.

It seems this is largely their problem today - they no longer have a lofty goal to focus their energy on. Most companies have one. Google - organize the world's information etc. etc.
This is absolutely perverse and unsustainable.

I don't know what "fixes" this - a massive correction in tech wages? Another recession? Not sure.
This seems to be a WSJ re-spin of some nice original research by Trulia[1]. I'd read it there.

[1] http://trends.truliablog.com/2013/10/middle-class/
That's your inference. I hear this story once or twice a year. Not from news agencies but from engineers in meetings in response to our company or some other company creating a perceived boondoggle.
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In case this saves anyone some time...
https://www.facebook.com/help/www/224562897555674
I mean, I know that now.
Namecoin can keep track of the initial date that the particular identity was registered. It can allow for the owner of the identity to quickly update information for everyone to see in the blockchain. It helps a great deal when it comes to keeping track of identities. You can store up to 1kb of data inside a namecoin registration.

The above cannot be said of Bitcoin addresses or GPG.
the best way? uh, "fire everybody and close your doors" is straightforward and effective ...
Yes I'm sure click details on that link you sent, or check it out.

https://sslcheck.globalsign.com/en_US/sslcheck?host=www.mavi...
exclusivity is a never ending game.
> The inference is that today's news on gov't waste is also potentially a "myth".

Really? That's quite a leap. I read it as an interesting debunking of a common myth that I have heard before. That's all. Not sure where you got the "today's news" part.
I'm reminded of Brain Burn's "Welcome to Texas": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPQHghD3Ddw
If you stop using facebook, then you also lose the benefits of facebook. Some people want to use facebook, but not be searchable by name. It is not difficult to change one's name on facebook, so I hardly think it's a ridiculous response.
That's more like a bullet point synopsis than a title.
TPM is in the top-1000 sites in the US. It seems they're doing okay without Flipboard and others.

I just don't think it's a good business idea.

Presumably they've analyzed their traffic and made the better business idea based on the amount of inbound traffic that Flipboard et. al were sending their way.

[1] - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/talkingpointsmemo.com
EXT4 fs and other fs , NTFS is a little pony if you go to servers world
> Where lack of accountability comes is the idea that contractors can be fired if they don't do a good job, whereas it is much more difficult to fire a full-time employee.

When was the last time you saw that happen? The only major .gov IT screwup which I can recall having any consequences for the vendor was the FBI's virtual Case File system. Everything else tends to get brushed under the rug either to avoid disrupting the relationship (!) or because nobody wants to have to explain why they didn't say anything before the failure was publicly obvious.
Well almost, you can use web workers and create "tasks" that will use more cpu cores.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Performan...