skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, a million years is about 5 times the lifetime of our species. Whoever will be reinventing our knowledge will probably be so different from us that this discussion won't make any sense anymore.

A few thousand years ago, somebody probably asked "How will people of the future be able to tell histories once we paint over all the rocks?"
Isn't the Java mascot named Duke?
We know that astronauts frequently have had to be badasses, and even flight controllers have had to be badasses (e.g. John Aaron, Apollo 12, "SCE to AUX"), but this is proof positive that even the guys that fix the bugs in the rockets sometimes have to be badasses, too.
Looks very nice!

Does this play well with existing JVM threading support? More specifically, if there is a call to a synchronized method inside of a fiber and another JVM thread has entered the monitor, will this block the entire fiber scheduling thread?

The reason I ask is I'd like something that plays well with legacy code.
That is already happening. We are moving Eventsourced into Akka to become "akka-persistence":

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/eventsourced/B2Nx4HJB-...
Interesting metric. I wonder if it comes down to deeper understanding of value something brings, and therefore the money it is worth to them - and if taking this practice throughout life, are they then more financially wealthy - or is it more Android buyers are in an non-controlled ecosystem, where the applications they need are free or cheaper - and so there are less profits

This should really be used as a way to support and promote the idea that owning an Android is much cheaper in the end is cheaper for most, though it likely has a degree of apples and oranges comparison to it.
That is possible, but it could easily be the reverse. It's a chicken/egg scenario.
I read merit points as what you want and attendance points as what it costs to get those merit points. So if you needed 300 merit points to complete your project, then you could take 92 Columbia attendance units or 4 University of Chicago attendance units. In a lot of cases, it seems to take a lot of warm bodies.
Its come to this point quite often and probably will in the future. Both parties use the debt ceiling as a time to try to get what they want. Read each parties statements in the 2000 - 2008 era for a laugh at how they switched (almost word for word) this time.
Edit "...10,000 Actors..."

Comments "...10,000 Co-routines ... "

;-)
I don't think wealthy people should feel bad or guilty, just that people should not blindly chase wealth as the most important goal in life.
We've experimented with reduction-based preemption but saw no perceivable performance benefit (you can look at the Fiber class code and see them commented out). We might bring it back if we find a good use for it.
Well, I was certainly not thinking about 4 and 6 year olds; in general, I don't see how would they get exposition to porn, unless they were left unattended in front of a web-connected device, and in that case porn wouldn't be my main concern (as difficult as it sounds, I'd rather explain bestiality than suicide bombings). Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I was thinking more about 8-10 year olds, to whom there's plenty of ways to introduce the concept of sex, not only through conversation but also vetted media (e.g. books, films).

I don't have kids, no, but was involved in the education of my (much) younger brother, and so in a privileged position to discuss this with him (compared to his parents), and he has grown up knowing about sex way before discovering porn.

Are you seriously implying that all sounds are created equal, especially given that some people end up behaving like children when hearing sounds related to sex?

I'm implying that a porn filter wouldn't solve the real problem. As for people behaving like children when hearing sounds related to sex, I have to say I don't know any above 20 years old.

Do you also fart in elevators? When it's hot outside, do you also come butt-naked at your office? When you get horny, do you make announcements?

No. I also try not to make silly comparisons on online discussions.
I, too, am curious about how much of this is driven by housing costs.

The salaries sound impressive until you start adjusting for cost of living. I live in a part of the country with a very low cost of living, and make what I consider to be a decent salary for a developer (less than six figures). According to CNN Money's Cost of Living Calculator (http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/), the equivalent standard of living in San Jose would require a salary of $131K (or $140K in San Francisco). Suddenly, the base salaries the article cites don't sound so impressive.
PickToRead's beta 2.0: Go Flat
it is. but unfortunately we don't have an alternative..
This isn't good advice either though. Many people eat way too many fats and often consume extra protein as well. Carbs should be your main energy source (~65% of your daily calories should come from carbs) with a lot of the rest coming from protein. The solution is to continue to consume large amounts of carbs, but change the source so that the carbs are complex which are generally nutrient rich and provide a great energy source for the body.
Is it possible to build this (or any other 2.x) with homebrew, or do I need to build it manually?
Right, but the $125k software engineers are worth 2-10x if given appropriate work (and 0x if not).

The MBAs tend to make that 2-10x capture less likely...

... and, as you noted, drive up the cost of living.
American economy will slide till https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma is resolved.
Great job with this. We had created a similar plugin called bootstrap-tagautocomplete: https://github.com/Sandglaz/bootstrap-tagautocomplete
Net Neutrality, Copyrights, Patents, sensible immigration laws, friendliness to entrepreneurship.

No. We're screwed too.
Bitcoin blockchain in redis visualized with d3.js
Fascinating visualization of the bitcoin blockchain.

Screenshot here if traffic load is too high at the moment: http://i.imgur.com/bYotQwy.png
We plan to implement an active revenue model that provides Advertisement and Deals that are based on explicit behavior of users and extrinsic data (i.e. based on what our users are actually doing and where our users are actually meeting up on a daily basis). This will align the purpose of visiting the App for the users, with the profitability streams being implemented by the company; thus, creating a positive correlation between user experience and profitability.
Extending Chrome support for XP users until April 2015
All the bastards didn't cause this.
I am a little disappointed. I was hoping for something revolutionary, but nothing put forward (at least in this brief description) is anything new. If this is actually a company and not a charity like the article states, how exactly are they going to make this thing earn money? It isn't like no one has tried to create an all encompassing news source or one that has numerous investigative journalists on staff. Do they just think they are good enough to succeed with the exact same strategy that others have used and failed?
The big goal of this MLH season was to encourage new hackers to join the existing community. Specifically, attendance points encourage hackers to travel to other universities / hackathons that they might not normally go to and to finish a hack (which is super important). It also incentivizes hackers to find other people at their schools that they can travel and work with.
Georgia Tech went from never competing in national hackathons to #15. Props!
Please sort the list of states in the filter. Reading each of 50 entries to find my state is suboptimal.
Here is a counter-example to the general validity of the "it was all right in the past" argument.

Think about the iteration x_n+1 = a * x_n * (1 - x_n)

Usually one rushes to examine a > 2, where there are interesting phenomena of bifurcation, period doubling, and chaos. Go back and look at a < 2. The iteration converges and defines a function f(a).

It is a rather strange function. For 0<a<1 f(a)=0. Then for 1<a<2, f(a)>0. Imagine if this were some kind of theory of technological unemployment, with the parameter a being the level of technology. Technology grows and grows 0.2, 0.5, 0.9, without any problem of technological unemployment, but there is a threshold at a=1, and boom! at a = 1.1 there is lots of technological unemployment.

The most general argument, that technology didn't lead to unemployment in the past, so it will not do so in future, is at heart a claim that functions like f never arise naturally. But clearly they do!

On the other hand, showing that an argument is invalid doesn't help with working out whether the conclusion is true. Indeed, the counter example also serves as a challenge to believers in technological unemployment. There are toy models in which things are zero for a good while, then a threshold is crossed and things start to happen. Is there any model of technological unemployment with a threshold arising naturally out of the dynamics?
You should add an option to send coal to the President, as well. I know it is Coal to Congress... but we should give credit where credit is due!
DC, Baltimore, and Austin have pay at ~80-85% of SV levels with 50% cost-of-living.

Chicago is a good option if you don't mind working in finance. Lots of companies out there that pay even better than SV; cost-of-living comparable to DC or Austin.
Mostly a). The people who apply at the last minute don't usually have the idea at the last minute. They apply with something they've already started working on, or at least thinking about.
Premise taps into hunger for real-time data
You could also say that the increasing number of YC graduates is increasing the number of 'How to get into YC' guides. Also, these are not hacks they're just shedding more light on what the YC is looking for.
Well done, man. Seriously. Every time someone starts talking about how x language makes it "easy" to do some kind of backflip, I start peering over the fence. Then someone almost immediately implements it in a C library -- or indeed, gets there first.

But have you given any thought to the critical and urgent problem of running 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, and 10,000 Spaceships?
Excellent point. Those are definitely two different things and are both important, but I would argue that you can determine the "how they code" component during the interview as questions about previous projects, rather than making them write code in front of you. And again, a short-term contract would also work to solve this goal while not wasting my time.

Very good point, though.
This plan crashes and burns at Step 3. Hope you make money though.
Yeah, that would work with a ping to Plivo and a dummy callback response too. Same trick as I used here.
With this government shutdown, the very real possibility of default, the incompetency of many in government finally reaching and affecting the American public, the NSA leaks, the company and journalist shakedowns in the name of security, and the lightning speed at which information of all this can now reach the literal hands of millions, we're in an incredibly pivotal period in our society. I fully support Omidyar 150% for wanting to catalyze this change. Whether he may or may not be going about this the perfect way is irrelevant.
Fantastic. (Hopefully it doesn't become a men's club.) Greenwald should bring in Jillian York, onekade, Falguni Sheth, and all the other fantastic journalists trailing behind him.

But what of Democracy Now and Al Jazeera? Are they going to be quasi-competitors in the adversarial journalism game? Greenwald was actually contacted about possible involvement with Al-Jazeera's US TV station but that never went through..
Researchers Uncover Holes That Open Power Stations to Hacking
So, do you think redshift would exist if they hadn't seen f.lux?
I've been looking for something like this to use in my webIRC application. Can't wait to give this a try.
> We have to remember that shared hosting is not for heavy or critical websites.

If you look carefully, you can find providers of shared hosting who will be honest about what they're selling you in terms of capacity and that you can rely on.

DreamHost is not one of those businesses.

> There are always some unwritten, but well-intentioned rules attached to unlimited hosting plans.

Something something the road to hell something...
There is also a follow-up "The Two Cultures of Mathematics" by Timothy Gowers. I found it a crystal clear explanation of the differences between the schools of "problem solving" and "theory building" - and particularly of what really motivates "combinatorics".

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf‎
> If you disregard isolated heaps and memory an actor is just a thread plus a queue. Other threads write to the queue and the threads gets messages from queue and executes them.

Exactly. Turns out, this is what good thread design looks like anyways, no matter if they are OS or green threads. However, if you put on your safety goggles and lead apron, you can also do other "unsafe" things which may lead to performance boosts. For example, why toss the giant JSON blob into the queue intended for the JSON decoder, when you can just put a pointer to the blob? Of course, then the burden of cleaning up the blob is up to you, the developer, not the runtime.

> What do you mean by multi-core?

I mean distributing N actors/green threads/etc. to run in parallel over M cores. This is not a trivial "write it in a weekend" type of task and support for it may or may not be built into language+runtime. For example, Erlang had concurrency but not parallelism for a time.
I wonder if this says more about the users of each platform? For instance, many people (especially younger people) are eschewing Facebook for things like Twitter and Snapchat...
With a backlog of work to do once you return. Its not like an office or factory suspending operations because there is no work. Many of these people have deadlines that they won't be able to meet without a great deal of effort and likely overtime (if granted). So not only does this shutdown give them a "paid vacation" it's going to pay extra so that the work can still get done close to on time.
That's a false equivalence. Almost all bills have "dirty" attachments, but no party has ever held up the debt limit bills until the last minute like this, or attempted to extort concessions. The Republican talking points are trying to compare Obama show-voting against the debt limit, or Tip O'Neil negotiating with Reagan, but in those circumstances, there was never the threat to take the government to the edge of the deadline.

Prior to the recent crop of idealogue Republicans in the House, much political compromise came about by horse trading legislation, earmarks, committee appointments, et al, behind closed doors. Now with earmarks mostly gone, Tea Party republicans have nothing to show off to their constituents except for achievements in idealogical concessions from the other side. This is a new and dangerous precedent because "compromise" on idealogy appears as a loss to one's radical constituents. Your congressman used to go home and brag about an earmark for a local library or bridge, now he goes home to brag about how to overturned a Obamacare.

In no way is the current disfunction "the way it's always been" or "business as usual"

Also, the idea that the US can prioritize payments like that is false. First of all, the Republicans have tried numerous times to actually ban the practice of prioritizing payments to avoid default. Secondly, the Treasury's ancient computer systems can't just be updated overnight to hand these kinds of changes, secretary Jack Lew said as much.

Republicans have no faith the government can fix healthcare websites, but somehow are willing to risk the health of the US economy on the treasury to be agile and fast moving enough to both update computer systems as well as navigate a legal morass of contractual obligations to avoid potentially missing debt repayments.

Trying to downplay a default IMHO is pretty irresponsible. We don't need to run this experiment.
Assuming you mean installation (not build).

Don't think you can install with homebrew (yet). Apache Ambari, another apache project that helps install and manage Hadoop stack, should very soon be supporting installation of 2.x both on single node and on a cluster.
> You start with individual journalists who have their own reputations, deep subject matter expertise, clear points of view, an independent and outsider spirit, a dedicated online following, and their own way of working.

Interestingly, here in the Netherlands a similar venture was crowd-sourced by a few investigative reporters and personnel:

https://decorrespondent.nl/en
According to friends who have tested them, Gunnars don't block blue light very well, but these $8 safety glasses do: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000USRG90
I wish people would stop being impressed by "bigger and bigger numbers" over time for anything denominated in money that is undergoing inflation.
What am I missing here ? Isn't "Show HN" the same thing ? We have plenty of those everyday on HN
I posted up a detailed screen flow of the entire process on my own site if anyone is interested:

http://blog.charleyma.com/square-cash-initial-thoughts-scree...

Overall though, extremely impressed with Square's offering and it was also instantly debited to my account. Curious to see if the value increases to a somewhat significant amount if this "instant transfer" translates into 1-2 business days.
So unlike cryptocat this is still going client <--> server <--> other clients right?

Therefore am I correct in thinking Tesla is still open to the same lavabit issue where the gov't sends a national security letter and Tesla has to build in a backdoor to capture the RSK?
There is an economic benefit to a great many pursuits, but it is generally controlled by short-term benefits, at the maximum within the lifetime of a single human being, which is incredibly short-term still on a geologic time scale.

The benefits of generalization and broad understanding outlive a single person, a single society, or a single period of time. People who are well educated in the liberal arts, which includes both sciences and the humanities, will make more integrated decisions and more sane ones for the long term. We need those people; in my opinion we all need to be those people, even if we spend most of our time specializing. It's a subtle but critical difference.

I am utterly convinced of this: blind specialization will merely move humanity in an unknown direction which is the result of a self-reinforcing process of unknown origin or termination. Generalists will move humanity forward. It is the difference between a cancer and a baby: unmoderated growth versus life itself.

Do we want to go where economic gain takes us, effectively puppets of a multidimensional system beyond our full understanding or control, or do we want to move humanity forward? That is the question.
The author is a recruiter, with all that entails, but it does at least mean they know what salaries people are getting.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3403924 about "Hadoop Reaches 1.0" almost a couple of years ago.
The "problem" is that the House, the Senate, and the President (unless a veto is overcome) all have to agree- and so far, that hasn't happened. The Dems have a pretty good PR department, and are doing a good job of spinning it as though it is a problem with the (Republican led) House, though.
>Also, let's not forget the cost of living in DC.

For the folks misunderstanding that comment:

The link goes straight to at least ten pages of positions with USDA which is located in Beltsville, about 10 miles outside of DC. Bethesda and Rockville, both of which are in the top five, are other also DC suburbs. At a glance there are 300K+ positions in the DMV area, a significant percentage of the 1.3M listed.
I had a checking account under my Dad with a debit card when I was a minor. When I turned 18, I just called them, and they made it my current checking account. I'm not sure what the difference was.
Greenwald et al have learned to be sparse when it comes to sharing details. Risks are often involved -- for example, they might not have registered the domain name yet. Also it's obvious from the article that this is all in the brainstorming stages.
Why not a feedback loop?

Either way, people and companies in the Bay Area will have a hard time if the state of things gets too out of sync with the standard-of-living expectations of the rest of the U.S.
Rails 3.2.15 has been released
Key point: for decades in the UK, school education forked at age 16 -- the point at which you specialized. Prior to age 16 you'd be studying for exams in 6-10 subjects: originally 'O' (ordinary) levels, then GCSEs. (School leaving age was 16.) If you wanted to continue and eventually go to university, you then went on to study for 2 years for 'A' (advanced) level exams -- roughly equivalent to year 1 or 2 at a US university. (British taught university degrees were typically 3 year courses.) However, this was intensive enough that typically you'd only take 3 or 4 'A' level subjects. This forced early specialization -- dropping either all science or all arts subjects.

(This system ran from the late 1940s through the 1990s, subject to fine-tuning. So, for example, in 1981-83 I was taking four 'A' level subjects: physics, chemistry, biology, and 'general studies' (a vague attempt to shoe-horn the entirety of the liberal arts field into one quarter of the student's time).)
Oh my god, this is horrifying
a-ha, got it, thanks :)

true, esp if use HaProxy as LB
We're not based in the USofA and don't plan to be there.
It made me sad because it makes me realize I have no control over the fact that they are growing old.

Instead, what would be nice is if provided information such as: ask your father to go for a prostrate exam, ask your mother to run these other tests, and so on - based on the country, age and perhaps race data (which is not collected right now).

The website is nice and intuitive.
Voting is how these people got in office to begin with. The problem is them, and the problem is us.
He looks like a fang though. Maybe that's what they've nicknamed him internally.
This quora answer describes one such person in the industry watching porn all day and writing most enticing copy for it.

http://qr.ae/NSSa0