skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, your whole deal is "what is he like"? This is the sort of dull thinking that leads people to become obsessed with rumors and celebrity gossip. The fact that he might hate women is relevant, just not in the way you desperately want it to be - the way in which you can ignore what he said. I grew up around racists and sexists, so you're utterly wrong in your speculations about my world view. And that's all your responses are - speculations about some psychological defect or another that you can use to ignore what's being said. That is called a 'defense mechanism'.
Thanks a lot! I really like that you mention the design, because one of my goals was to create on of the best looking Windows 8 apps. I'm not there yet, but I'll try :)

I'm not too worried about the Google trademark, we'll see how it goes!
Apologies, I'm not referring to you as prepubescent; rather I'm referring to "trolling" as prepubescent behavior. I edited my post to more accurately communicate that point.

Trolling is a loosely defined term, but most definitions agree that it is a tactic whose primary purpose is to "get a rise" out of someone. The method used to accomplish this here (in the FB post) is to use language becoming of an asshole. Impersonating an asshole as a rhetorical strategy seems like an act doomed to fail.

I have no appreciation for trolling as a rhetorical device. It belongs in the bin with other disingenuous debate techniques. There are, I think we can all agree, far better, more honest methods of making one's point.
"Everything as an expression" is concept that exists entirely separate from LISP as a programming language. Eg, in the untyped lambda calculus everything is indeed an expression and it obviously predates LISP.

The thing that makes LISPs interesting is that both data and code have the same representation. Manipulating code and data looks the same and that leads to all sorts of interesting meta-programming constructs

Also I'm not sure what you mean by "under the hood", but Ruby's internal representation is an abstract syntax tree (as with most languages). That AST bears a resemblance to LISP because LISP is both the language and AST rolled into one, but I would never confuse Ruby for LISP because it has an AST representation.
This is actually an important topic for me. I am implementing a sharding distribution based on consistent hashing using MurmurHash3 as hash function.

I am taking the first 4-bytes of the hash function output and using that. I checked and MurmurHash3 mixes the first and last 8 bytes of hash output as a last step, but I am not sure how much differentiation there is in the first 4-bytes.

I guess it is something I should check.
You don't need to cross borders either. Guess what, I happen to live in a country where everything is banned (USD, Euro, gold, silver, etc.). That didn't stop me from saving in USD, Euro, or Bitcoin. I couldn't buy gold because nobody has that, because it's so inconvenient since you can't normally divide it, transport it, or keep it safe. But Bitcoin doesn't have any of those problems, so here we are saving in Bitcoin and not being punished through inflation, seizures, etc.
I'm not sure I do either, but the first analogy that popped in my head when I read about Mr. Adams' approach was one of weight loss. I don't think it's a particularly good analogy, but it's the best I can come up with as an illustration of his "system-oriented" approach.

In a goal-oriented system, someone might choose to lose 30 pounds as their goal, then they'll work toward that goal through exercise or diet. Upon achieving it, they'll either continue (setting another goal) or fall off the wagon (going back to previous habits and gaining the weight right back). I've known enough people who have tried to diet repeatedly--and have succeeded in their weight loss--only to fail miserably and gain the weight back within a few weeks.

In a system-oriented approach (or maybe you could call it a habit-oriented system?), you focus on building up or improving your habits so that they meet whatever goals you set. Using the example of losing weight, you'd focus on diet and exercise by making fundamental lifestyle changes to your behavior and eating habits that simply happens to produce weight loss as a byproduct. People who exploit this system by changing their habits consistently keep the weight off because their day to day behavior has fundamentally changed. To put it another way, their habits would have to be dramatically altered in order to go back to putting on the weight they lost as a consequence of this approach.

Now, what I'm at a loss on is how this might apply to businesses, software development, or the likes other than to suggest it's a matter of developing good habits. To use his restaurant example: Instead of focusing on income goals, focus on making the best food in town and serving customers quickly. On second thought, maybe there isn't anything more to it other than habits? Maybe there's no "secret?" Develop good habits and plod along until something falls into your lap as a byproduct.
Ask HN: How can I practice Software Design?
Hi folks. I'm currently studying software engineering and design, by reading "Software Architecture in Practice", among other books. I understand that reading alone is not enough, and I need to practice design. The question is: What's the best way to practice software design based on what's online nowadays? Is there any recommended way to do that? How can I validate my designs?

Hope this is not too much of a dumb question, but some help might come in handy. Thanks a lot.
Not when you can fit significantly more on a single LTO tape.
It seems a bit ridiculous, but if not this specific business (delivery of text books by drone) I could see this type of delivery method become very useful for all sorts of materials, legal and otherwise.
I know the sensors are fairly good, but you would soon have to organize some sort of traffic lane type system if the drones were popular, would you not? (thousands or millions, not hundreds)
Using modern technology to deliver information via helicopters printed on paper. Reminds me of pigeon mail service.
Seeing this in Chrome Canary, OSX:

"The page at 'https://www.venturelynx.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Shadows+Into+Light|Op...: this content should also be loaded over HTTPS."

Changing the http of the font URL to https should fix that.
But the article does talk about cities. In fact, one part specifically targets cities 'as a vacuum' that sucks the life and quality of life from rural regions.

If I can hazard to interpret what you mean - I think you are saying for NYT to compare the net benefit (how people in cities are better off).

However, I'd call in to question whether we should focus on the net benefit vs. the very fact that Russia has fundamentally discarded its rural regions and the like.
So you're a lawyer, right? Politically I get what you're saying but legally, with the 14th amendment and all, he has to either illegally prioritize or illegally ignore the debt limit. Maybe ignoring the debt limit has more constitutional standing than reprioritizing the congressional budget. No idea on my end.

Personally, if we're prioritizing, I think he should do some math where they pay all treasury bonds, on time and 100%, and then just cut every other expenditure in half (or whichever % works out), across the board. Social security checks, contractor payments, gov't worker payments, etc. Anybody refuses to do work, send the half-paid national guard after them and order them, since we're in crazytown anyways. And tell them to write their congressman.

That's possibly the "least illegal" option, and certainly the most politically palatable, as far as respecting congress's self-contradictory legal orders in this mess.
Read the update at the bottom of the page, it has a very important observation.

"Update: Stephen Curry, who works on protein structures, had this to say about the paper: “Credit where it’s due: this is certainly an innovative approach to the problem of determining crystal structures of proteins. And I do like the idea of ‘citizen science’. Although it’s probably questionable how much science the gamers are understanding, the involvement in this sort of research, even if it is just at the level of playing a game, is undoubtedly a good thing.”

Curry also points out that a structure for this protein was published in 2003 using a different method called nuclear magnetic resonance. Khatib says that this is “quite inaccurate” and that people have struggled to use it to progress any further, but Curry says that they don’t say much about the differences between the old and new structures.

Likewise, Khatib doesn’t mention how closely related the M-PMV protease and the HIV ones are. “This information is crucial for deciding whether a structure of M-PMV protease is going to be any use as a template for the design of novel classes of drug targeted to HIV protease. If I had reviewed this paper, I would have asked for that information to be included because it is needed to make sense of observed differences in structure,” he says."
It's more than the money, it's elite socialization: Rich kids learn to believe that they are pre-ordained to be leaders/rulers. That outlook helps them get there.
The good trolls are basically self-sacrificial. A good friend of mine makes the racists on Stormfront look like idiots by trolling them without them realizing it. It can be a weapon of good. However, I agree with you; everybody these days rushes to call what they're doing trolling when it falls apart in their face, but the post under discussion here is what a troll should look like, IMO.
Just an FYI that Dashing - http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ (Open Source) and http://www.geckoboard.com/ (Paid) already have tons of modules available if you're looking to get going right away.

I also have a Raspberry Pi powering our dashboards but it really struggles to render some javascript, especially if we switch between tabs every 30 seconds. Any ideas for the cheapest possible way to power the TVs other than a Raspberry Pi?

Edit: Also https://ducksboard.com/ exists as well as a paid option
If we assume that media is subservient in large to the state (one can certainly insert a joke about Russia here, but I actually mean "Western" media), in accordance to Chomsky's model, this would not be surprising.

It seems with Snowden's leaks. Every week or so there is new punch thrown into America's eye. Snowden just got some kind of award. He got some time in limelight. American government is shut down. Common, how long till we hear about how horrible some other political rivals are "Russia's poverty problem" sure makes me feel a little better about NSA spying and idiots in Congress fucking around with the budget. I wouldn't mind maybe a few more "China is a terrible place" stories too for completeness.
It was a decent list until the absurd carbon question.
>I would just like to see more balanced coverage

Well, this is the NYT, so I wouldn't expect much of that, or from any major news publication that is heavily influenced by the government of where it calls home. I think one can reasonably get balanced coverage by sourcing from different places with the biases of the host nation in mind.
Yes, and I'm sure where you come from "micro-aggressions" is a real word too.

>And calling programming a "male space" is inherently exclusionary.

No, it's a statement of fact. The US Marines is a male space. Oops, am I a bad little misogynist now?

>Asking that people be nicer, and maybe consider the effect that gems named "rape_me" and "retarded" might not really reflect well on a community, with a defensive knee-jerk reaction about "politically correct thought-police safe spaces" is not a "valid point".

Yes, it is. If it's invalid, then by all means invalidate it for me.

>No one is coming into the Ruby community, or the programming community, and trying to make it "all about their vagina". In fact, they're asking the opposite; that there's less emphasis placed on their vagina, and more on their code.

I don't hang out with Rubyists. I don't care about Ruby. It's a bad language, for a start. In the general programming field there are plenty of people spending lots of time trying to boost the status of women and institute PC memes. Do you deny this?
It is very likely you're putting off developers that would otherwise be happy to talk to you.

You seem to indicate you are not a developer yourself, yet you think you have ideas related to scalability. If I want someone to tell me how to do my job then they'd need to be either a developer I want to learn from or paying me obscene amounts of money.
Simply making money is not enough to classify your website as commercial. Also, it is likely your website costs you money when you factor in hardware, electricity, and programing time. Even if you make money your website probably still counts as hobby unless you have incorporated or are running it like you would run a business.
I do not work for the NYT. I did, once upon a time, work for a news organization that was considered to be innovative with respect to using technology to further the presentation of journalism.

One of the things I worked on was a generic framework for "composite" stories -- that is, a collection of not just text and photos, but integrated presentations of text, audio/video, photos and data visualizations, with customizable templating to lay it all out and organize for the web.

Time and link rot have not been kind to the things that were done with that. For example, the data bits of this:

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/mining/

no longer function, and it certainly shows its age, design-wise. But that was where we were in early 2007, technology-wise, and it was built with a hacked-together-in-a-week proof of concept of the underlying framework.

What we had at the time shipped with some standard out-of-the-box templates for presenting a story, and for one-off stories we could also task someone to work on creating new ones which could be slotted in for use. When new templating work wasn't required, they could put together a composite story presentation in a matter of hours, once they had all the materials they wanted.

The next evolution of that, which I was pushing for toward the end of my tenure there but never got to complete, would have been integrated data processing and visualization tools, allowing journalists to toss various sources (my rough draft worked with spreadsheets, since those were a pretty common source) into a denormalized data store, scrub a bit, and generate useful presentations from them.

While I can't be sure, I strongly suspect that the NYT has done something similar, developing the underlying framework for tying together a bunch of content in an attractive way, and probably building some tools to simplify and speed up the generation of the data presentations. What they're doing here, and have done a couple other times, seems well within reach for someone who knows what they're doing and has access to six years' worth of advances in technology.

(anecdotally, I've heard that the NYT special projects are done in Rails; ours were done in Django since it was originally our in-house web framework, but in either case it's a strong argument for the productivity gains of those web frameworks)

Edit: FWIW, here are slides from a lightning talk I gave at PyCon in 2008, about a data-driven project and the timeline involved in it:

http://media.b-list.org/presentations/2008/pycon/lightning.p...

Sadly, the story itself is no longer functioning.

Here's one that's actually miraculously still online, from the fall/winter a few years back when everyone was worried about swine flu:

http://www2.ljworld.com/data/flu/

The core of that was put together very quickly, and then it was about an hour's work each week to update with the latest data coming in.
Note it’s Mike Bostock et al. putting these together on the tech side. They’re probably getting pretty quick at it by now. http://bost.ocks.org/mike/
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That's true, however the US has a huge interest and 65 year track record supporting global free trade, which is a system that other countries can get on board with.

Certain oil-producing nations aside, this isn't mercantilism, and if the EU and East Asia had a problem with our military presence then we'd probably hear more than token protests about it.
Reddit is over there. <<<<<<<
Only when I am really really bored and have exhausted anything I wanted to look at on the first 2-3 pages.
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I have the same issue with space on a 3-monitor setup. I simultaneously use Chrome, the Chrome inspector, an editor, terminal, Skype, an IRC client, sometimes Firefox, Finder, etc. There's always more things you can put up if you have the space. If I had 6 screens I would dedicate one to a dash, but with 3 it's better used directly for development.
And not representing many of us, let alone all of us.
When I was into martial arts I used to hang out with guys who would carry around knives or kubotans everywhere. Funny to see that programmers also have their own "everyday carry"… although I have to admit to being skeptical of the actual real-world usefulness of either one.
I would be really surprised to find that a tree is faster then a fast cryptographic hash function like SIP hash. Cache misses to main memory are worth 10s of instructions and that number is going up in many cases. Hash functions can be pretty efficient at allowing the processor to run multiple instructions in parallel.

If you know the tree will be cached and/or the keys you have to hash are large then sure a tree might be a win, but hashing a small key might only be the same as two or three cache misses. Comparing tree nodes is not instruction free either.

I think it is really a case by case sort of thing, but there is no substitute for measuring (and nailing down the comparison to specific hash functions).
The widening wealth inequality as it relates to inheritance can be explained mostly by one simple concept, something Buffett himself call the most powerful force in the universe: compounding. Wise people with money, given enough time, will rocket to become insanely wealthy. Compounding does nothing for the middle class who generally spend most of their income, and it works the opposite way for the poor who are debtors. Over time this force will make the wealth gap worse and worse, which is exactly what's happened.
I've been using is since the shut down and I've been pretty happy with it.

What do you find slow?
But then people wouldn't click on his amazon referral links maybe?
It's ironic that your implication is that the media should focus entirely on US problems to the exclusion of any other country's problems - and you think this will be unbiased
Also, I'm not Canadian, but what's the competition about? And why is that even front-and-center on your homepage?

And why does your site icon look like ... I don't even know what that is?
https://www.venturelynx.com/assets/porto/HTML/img/favicon.ic...
lol@gmail.com whoever owns this, hates their life.
The problem with Android is choice
I don't think the point was to bitch about not being Saints Row. I think the point was that the realism in many cases isn't fun:

"But there’s also a “death tax” as it were, where whenever your player dies, you have to pay your hospital bills of about 5% of your total cash, banked or otherwise. In a game where the fun is about rampaging around, attracting police and killing other players, the game is offering you a disincentive to play this way for fear of death and subsequent monetary penalties."

"You have to buy insurance, you have to pay deductibles if your car is wrecked, you have to buy or steal it back from an impound lot if you leave it somewhere or die in a police chase. In what way is any of this fun? If I die in a horrific car crash as the thrilling end to a five star police chase, what’s the harm in respawning me for free in the hospital with my car shiny and new in the parking lot? Why make me lose money, file an auto insurance claim or drag my car’s mangled corpse out of the impound?"

"It’s a game where the hardest single player mission is not robbing the federal reserve in broad daylight, it’s using a crane to load boxes onto a truck for twenty minutes."
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If you think I'm a sexist, then I think you're an idiot. You know nothing about me.
I could have sworn I read that as "that works with Internet companies". Like I said...
Did you stop to consider why I (and others) flagged it, or did you just skip straight to a Hacker News conspiracy?
Same old in a new package. Dilapidated villages, evil Putin, some churches, and an oddity, this time in a form of a gypsy wedding :)

Very well executed though. Great photography and web layout.
Let's see how this sounds from the other side: You shouldn't consider founding a company if you don't have the ability to survive for a few weeks or months while looking for a replacement employee. If an employee's sudden departure puts the company in a dire situation, it's the company's fault, not the employee's. A company is expected to have a little stability.
> You should be embarrassed to argue this way.

You should be embarrassed for defending Orin Kerr.

> I've been here long enough to know that you're getting upvoted for comments like these

I got downvoted. Maybe you want to revisit what you think you think you know and enjoy bloviating about.
That's brilliant I will have to reuse this line.
For reference, ad hominem means "attempts to undermine an argument based on an irrelevant fact about the person making the argument" (Wikipedia). It doesn't seem unfair to use it to paraphrase the description "your tactic of discrediting the guy rather than looking at what he actually said".
On my device it was very smooth.
Machine: Chrome Version 30.0.1599.69 on 2012 rMBP
I've seen large companies lay off workers, some of whom have been with the company for many years, with no notice at all.
I added a link to your article, as well as a link to the discussion here.
Wouldn't this in fact be completely unrealistic? If attackers have full control of entropy inputs, they can just hook up a very high quality randomness source, but record every single bit before it gets to /dev/random.

Of course, why bother with that if you have that kind of access?
Vagrant is available for Linux.
Definitely a Nexus phone. I would wait for the 5 if possible, it should be out soon.

(Or just get a 4, if you can.)
Inequality for All is a movie worth checking out - http://inequalityforall.com
I think points are not all created equal. my 4 point comment caused 34 comment replies....
Firstly, you might want to post this during UK time for better responses.

I went in the other direction so don't have a great deal of help I can offer, other than asking if you've considered working for a company with dual presence and transferring to their UK office after working in the US for a while? I know of several people who've done this. The other Americans I knew working in the UK all got jobs there after attending university there.