skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I find it puzzling at the least that the article takes no issue with this at all; it wouldn't immediately occur to me that Yahoo Small Business would publish paid placement ads as articles, but this doesn't exactly scream "reporting" to me, so I have to wonder if that's close to the truth.

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell
I use Flexget and Transmission. Wondeful combo. Keeps Plex well fed :>
>> RAM is cheap. I think I paid $100 to upgrade my Mac Book Pro to 16 GB.

RAM was cheap. Prices have went up a lot. Most DDR3 prices have almost doubled since this past spring/winter. 16GB laptop kits are ~ $140 when they were $75 a few months back. Still relatively cheap, though.

Not to mention Apple only makes 1 laptop that you can add your own RAM to nowadays (13" MBP). It's $200 to go up to 16GB on a Retina.
...Nikola Tesla. to name one more.
The video editor tries to appeal to those people who would think that robotics takes away jobs and that robots might "uprise" against humans, while the content will mostly be interesting to robotics enthusiasts. Seems like the journalist wanted to make doom-bringer dystopian video about robots but failed.
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Oh undoubtably, one of the governments successes over the last decade has been to get gun control back under control.

Crimes involving a gun are down by half over 10 years (they set up some special task force to police firearms as well as working in Europe with partner countries where the guns where coming from).
[video] How one young boy leaves the .NET nest for Scala (Johansson)
Warning: One scene is marginally NSFW.
Put another way, the 'designer' is the Sales Engineer.
I don't want to have to pay someone to undust the fan of my laptop after a year of usage. I am a grown up, I accept that the warranty will not be valid past that point and that I might break something. I paid for the thing and I have the right to do with it whatever I want.

The clock thing above isn't a fair comparison, a computer doesn't fall apart into two hundred pieces once you unscrew the case, there are just a few discrete components and most of the time one just replaces one of them completely, almost nobody attempts to repair surface mounted components with a soldering iron, even at the repair shops. You don't have to have any special knowledge to do those things, just know a few tricks, ironically mostly related to opening things the producer didn't want you to open, and handle it with some care.

By the way, am I not, accidentally, at a site called "Hacker News"?
Indeed is unusable for the points made here.

Under the graphics you have the links to the respective jobs. Just check for yourself what these "Go" jobs [1] and the "Scala" jobs [2] are. "Haskell" jobs are also interesting.

And more: don't forget that currently even Php ads feature the infamous "experience with functional programming (Lisp, Clojure, Haskell) is a plus" line.

[1] http://www.indeed.com/q-Go-jobs.html

[2] http://www.indeed.com/q-Scala-jobs.html
It actually makes a lot of sense, because the change to Scala was triggered by "Simon". Another Simon will come and bring Python or something even worth.
How do you decide when to put `#hubspot-open-source` hashtag to repo description?
"There won't be a setting to turn off to achieve an outcome whereby the car touches any other object. It just won't happen while you're driving on public roads."

Can you not see the idiotic flaw in your plan.

You're driving along. You're coming to a junction. A bike isn't looking and is going full speed and will hit into the front side of your car. You do not have time to brake. Your only option is to swerve into the next lane, which will mean you crash into a fellow car.

You have crashed into a car, but you have saved the cyclists life.

There is absolutely no way in the world you'll be able to get regulations in place to prevent making fully manually operated vehicles. You're high. It's not going to happen.

There's also no evidence to suggest that driverless cars will make roads any safer. You still have to account for cyclists, pedestrians, animals, and the billions of cars driven by people etc etc.
Warning: One scene is marginally NSFW.
Looks like a really nice place for a bank vault, yes. But does physical security matter that much for the IT sector? If so, these ridiculous security measures are worth nothing if not accompanied by very, very heavy digital security solutions.

P.S. Why didn't they start a bank in there? Is banking too mainstream already?
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How? Every package manager that I've seen so far allows installations of locally downloaded packages. Some will even helpfully download all dependencies. That's a good thing in general, however, the package could just as well contain adware/spyware. And every package format that I know of supports post-install scripts, those could easily change configuration settings. Since package install runs as root that added layer of security doesn't help here.
Well, a lot of microchips tell you to write a value to a specific location in memory because that location in memory is physically wired to the hardware you're controlling.

So for example the output pins of a microcontroller are a memory location wired (through a buffer and some control circuitry) to the output pins. The PWM circuit is a counter and a comparator, where the comparator's inputs are the counter and a memory location.

You could write a key/value to memory location mapping layer, of course, but that's basically what vendor libraries, device drivers and operating systems already provide.
I wouldn't credit Kalashnikov quite so highly, the real key was the invention and wide post-WWII adoption of non-corrosive primers, which radically decreased the maintenance required after firing a gun. After that, it was the Soviet system that ensured zillions of reliable, low/no maintenance weapons would flood the world; Kalashnikov's was the later, but it was proceeded by the SKS (same round, fixed magazine fed by clips).

But using him to represent all the of the above works. I'd add John Moses Browning, history's greatest and most influential small arms designer, if for no other reason a design detail that's used in almost every semi-auto pistol today. And we are still using weapons he designed in the 1910s, e.g. the 1918 M2 heavy machine gun and the M1911 handgun, one of which I carry almost every time I walk out my door.

I'd add Jay Forrester, who's Project Whirlwind invented the physical computer as we know it; he left the field after that project, saying correctly all the really important and interesting stuff had been accomplished.

Alfred Nobel, inventor of the first stable high explosive (stabilized nitroglycerin known as dynamite).

Pick a selection from Thirty Years That Shook Physics (quantum physics), and go back some, at least to Newton and Leibniz. And, oh, Euclid.

Claude Shannon is best known as the father of information theory, but before that he wrote one of the most consequential master's thesis ever, in which he applied Boolean logic to found both digital circuit and digital computer design.

Hewlett, Packard and Shockley unintentionally founded Silicon Valley.

John Ericsson, inventor of the monitor class of warships (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_(warship) ) and how they influenced naval design following.

Tesla, for AC power, Edison's DC had strict transmission length limits.

Time for breakfast, that'll do for now.
CloEDIT, a new HTML code editor
CloEDIT is a HTML editing tool that currently can be best used to work with twitter bootstrap 3. It has also included a little bit of functions to support editing html file for lift framework.

Check it out at:

http://www.mkrrf-it.com/cloedit/
Thomas Midgley Jr. Invented leaded fuel and CFCs.

Norman Borlaug developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.

Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that it's a good idea to wash your hands before carrying out surgery.
> "Scala and its supposed (largely academic) benefits"

Perhaps you would like to discuss the "academic" benefits with the likes of Twitter and Foursquare?

> "it just doesn't do anything that Java can't do"

It's a more expressive language. You could argue that Go and Python can't do anything that C or assembler can't do. That doesn't make Python irrelevant.

> "plus the tooling for Java is wayyy better"

In terms of the JVM the tooling is exactly the same. In terms of coding I use IntelliJ for both Scala and Java development, without noticing much difference in quality between the support for either language. In terms of libraries Scala has access to all the libraries that java has as well as additional libraries designed specifically for Scala.

Most (actually all) Java developers that I know grumble when having to code in Java after they are exposed to Scala.
I can't talk too much about C#, but in Java there is no first class support for `map`, 'filter`, `reduce` etc. (with Google's Guava, you can imitate these things, but not so elegantly). So transforming a data structure involves a for-loop and lots of mutable operations. Iterating and transforming a collection in a functional style is much nicer.
You can agree with me and still continue to remind us that not everyone will be exceptional. Kids need those reminders. We need those reminders.

Just take care not quash dreams while recommending having a plan B. Exceptional is not normal. True. But it's normal to dream, and from the morass of many unfulfilled dreams emerge our successes, dreams still intact.
Interesting read, but I still think that people spend faaaaaaaar too much time thinking about typefaces. I just don't think they make as much of an impact on the page as people think they do.

At first glance, I thought the "elite" and "subtle" were both the same face, and likewise with the "informal"/"playful". It's only because they were blown up to a large size that I actually started noticing a tiny difference. Maybe it's just me?

To me, the overall layout of the page is far more important. eg. margins, font-size, line-height, paragraph width, etc.

The exception to my rule, that I might spend more time on, is for big newspaper style headlines. Those I treat more like images/artwork than like text, so they get commensurately more attention devoted to them.
Jefferson founded the Democratic Party, known then as the Democratic-Republicans. The Republican Party was formed later.
Does physical security of bank vaults still matter that much nowadays? Most of your money is stored in bits and that applies to the super-wealthy at least as much as for the mere mortals. It's certainly still important, but the "we'll steal tons of gold and valuable papers" is probably getting old.
Interesting, actually what you mention is not an accounting per se, but I agree with you, specifically

>> 1. Pre-processing data for the entry.

For this specific example if the accounting package does not support certain depreciation method (which rather rare), you can easily do this in Excel, both for financial modelling purposes and as a supporting document for the accounting entry.

>> 2. Post-processing data.

What you describe is not accounting. This is financial and management reporting. Yes, Excel is what is used by most everyone.

Good points.
I would argue its only easier to learn than Angular because it is smaller. Just data binding in AngularJS is much easier to me.

That said, I liked knockout when looked at it, I just looked at Angular shortly after and fell in love. Annnd, I haven't looked at the new version, so grain of salt.
Actually, I do primarily use VIM.
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In addition to the love being given here, I'd like to throw in that if you are updating an existing web app, nothing beats KO. You can add it incrementally to a page without turning your whole app upside down.
> Because even though OS X is a pretty full-featured unix not all software that installs easily on a linux installs easily on a mac os

Having used Homebrew now for many years, this is really just lingering FUD from many years ago. I've spent at least as much time building custom RPM/DEB packages, finding PPAs, etc. for things which don't compile cleanly on a particular Linux distribution. That's just a cost of using bleeding-edge or obscure packages: the right lesson to draw is to avoid taking on the cost of using less stable packages unless you gain significant benefit.

> Vagrant boxes also are platform independent if he had a vagrant development env, he wouldn't have to blog about how to install python

He didn't — that's a local cost he chose to take on for perceived benefits but it's neither necessary not advisable if you don't need something other than the system installed Python (2.5-2.7). This is exactly the same situation as on a Linux distribution.

> You certainly can install all pythons that your projects use side-by-side, but this quickly turns into a mess when you have multiple projects that deploy on different target systems, maybe with different sets of libraries etc.

This is a platform-neutral problem which has been well solved for many years using Virtualenv:

http://www.virtualenv.org/

> All in all: It's cleaner, less work and more flexible.

What you described is a LOT more work and adds significant performance and usability overhead to things you do many times a day, particularly if you need to work on more than one project and spend time spinning Vagrant instances up and down, installing updates, etc. rather than doing something productive.

It might still be worth it if you really need to test your deployment process all the time but otherwise that cost adds up. Personally, running locally and testing on EC2 has been much easier, faster, and makes my testing realistic by using the actual real production infrastructure rather than a facsimile crammed onto one laptop.
"The big vision is a world in which the economy is characterized by collaboration and trust and optimism and hope and freedom and sharing and love,” he says.

This is my favorite quote from the article. It's refreshing to see people working on a project that, at its core, is focused on these values. We need good fun photosharing apps, but we need these kinds of projects even more.
Does the removal of the limit on the password length mean that the DoS is fully mitigated by the password hashing speedup?
The fascist state is not rising in America. Fascism is ideology not way of governing a country. Since USSR was oppressive too is like saying the communist state is raising in America.

What USA is having is the possibility of devolving into totalitarian state, but what ideology will rule it is yet to be seen IF that happens.

The moment when a drone kills US citizen on US soil without judicial oversight you will know that that danger is real. But you are still far far away from that.
Stalin, Hitler, Julius Cesar, Genghis Khan.
Everyone has a morning routine e.g. Exercise(45min), Shower(15min), Breakfast with the family (30min), Read News(15min), going to work(30min).

Case 1: You've worked late and want to sleep a little more. You decide not to exercise the next morning and the alarm to wake you up 45 minutes later.

Case 2: The alarm rings, you lazy and do not want to get up now. Would you be willing to sacrifice the read the news? Disable the read the news and you can sleep about 15minutes more.

Basically you stop thinking about how much longer I could sleep, and change that model for tasks you do in the morning that you could skip to sleep more. As simple as that.

No statistics, no conclusions of your rest. is just a tool for organizing your morning, to sleep the hours necessary to be productive when you finally get up.
As someone who uses AngularJS pretty hardcore, can anyone give me a good high level summary about Knockout or point me in the right direction?
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Ah, thanks for the info. I tend to use Drive myself - I just assumed Dropbox was the most used/largest.
So Salesforce is going to get an overhaul of the their mobile platform and, as a result, their business for one million dollars?

That sounds like a steal to me.
I upvoted you before I read your last paragraph. I am massively in favor of personal freedom, but I am not rooting for massive disasters or scandals with self-driven cars. Nevertheless, it creeps me out in the same way it must creep out Richard Stallman.
I think the idea is that if you want to do that, you would use OpenStack, and your application logic must be pluggable so that it supports this protocol, OpenStack, S3, or any other KV store you can get a library for.
Sorry, yes, I was sloppy with the term. I'll leave it as-is so your comment makes sense.
Thanks.

I think RePair can be regarded as grammar-based (though they don't say so), but I don't think it produces a grammar which would be useful in any context other than reproducing the original sentence.

What I would really love (and maybe I'll just have to write it myself?) is a practical algorithm (not too worried about worst-case guarantees etc) which produces a semi-readable grammar from multiple example sentences, and can then be turned around to generate lots of new sentences.
(But who do want nice hardware.)
I respectfully disagree that LaTeX is "the correct tool for people that want complete control over their document formatting" - in my view, LaTeX is for when you don't want to think about formatting at all - because it automatically formats things.

Something like Adobe InDesign is for when you want complete control over your document's formatting. (InDesign is actually a quite good word processor.)
Is there something like this for Canadians? I dont think we can use this service.
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Oh look it's a kid who founded a pyramid scheme. Please tell me more about the pyramid parties concerning the sale of pointless baubles.

Revenue metrics are completely pointless. I could exchange $1 dollar a billion times with my neighbor. That doesn't mean that this little enterprise will either turn a sustainable profit, nor does it mean that I have a billion in revenue.

Let the pyramid parties commence!
But for only one thing i would not use a framework, a library like http://ractivejs.org is enough for that.
Hi Evegeny,

They are the usual suspects for social learning, aren't they? Pinterest definitely is an inspiration for the user interface.

The problem with typical social learning platforms is the quality. Try learning about a topic from these sites. There will be just no structuring, anyone can share whatever they know, you can have any content on any board - the reality is that these platforms are no better than following lots and lots of twitter feeds and blogs and trying to learn about a topic. There will be lots and lots of links to read and you might end up spending hours and hours reading them. But after spending that much time, have you ever felt that you have just wasted significant part of your life? I always used to feel so. This is the sad state of informal learning which is one of the reason we keep looking for institutions providing formal learning. Among other things, when you pursue a course from a university or a MOOC or something authoritative, there is a trust that you are not going to end up wasting your time reading biased or some amateurish blog about your subject.

One of the things we did with CoLearnr is to attract people with expertise in certain subject areas and allowed only these folks to curate content. Of course, the community plays an important role in enhancing the topic by participating in discussion, suggesting alternative links etc.
At least in the US, a drop-in auto sear is considered to be a firearm/machine gun in the eyes of the law.
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Ask HN: Do you host client's websites on your own server, or on shared hosting?
Hey all,

I'm just getting into the wide world of freelancing and am wondering what the best approach is for hosting client's websites. I've been very strongly advised by the lead developer at my company to stay away from hosting client sites on my own vps and to just use shared hosting. His rationale is that there is less maintenance time involved, less client time involved, and you benefit from the host's security instead of having to make sure yours is up to par. On the other hand, hosting on your own server gives you control over the environment, and if you need to change anything then it's much easier than on a shared host. What approach do you recommend taking?
Very cool list. Though seeing all the religious figures at the top, makes me cry a little inside. But when I think about it, it makes sense.

It seems ancient history produced two types of people: great political and religious leaders.

Modern history mostly has: scientists, inventors, philosophers...
I agree with you on the functional style. C#'s LINQ solves this problem quite well, although they named them differently (map -> select, filter -> where, reduce -> Aggregate). I've seen a number of people laud C# for being functional-ish because of such features.
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On behalf of the rest of the world, I thank you for not aiming to acquire that power, then.
How does this impact the release of 1.6, considering that 1.6RC1 was released yesterday? Does 1.6RC1 contain these fixes, or does this mean that 1.6RC2 is coming out soon?
She didn't "demand" a car, she asked for one. What kid in America doesn't want a car for their 16th birthday?

I asked for one too, and I got one. I had to buy it myself but my family helped me find one that was super cheap ($50) and it lasted me all through highschool. It wasn't stylish, but as Fat Tony would say, the sentimental value of it was through the roof.
Except that's actually pretty accurate. One of the reasons MS is so slow is because their apps & platforms are so heavy with reverse compatibility.
Allow me to don my cynic hat and add a subtitle to this:

"Salesforce's marketing department joins the 21st century."
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You set up a "full Hot-Hot style DR solution" in one day ?

Did you try actually failing it over ?
Gandhi for showing the world that non-violence and non-cooperation can be an effective form of political expression.

Abraham Lincoln for ending slavery in America.
This is actually a good thing, no?

If academia is hoarding too many erudite free-thinkers, cut them loose elsewhere to solve the world's problem. If the best 20% of teachers can be leveraged via online resources over 80% of the students, it's ok to have some smart researchers go to the private sector.

Automation combined with cost pressure forces re-allocation of resources, and that's fine.
cli script anyone? you obviously dont have to love excel...
Wow, the comments are so heavy and downbeat on this story. There seem to be 2 main arguments:

Various people are saying it's a pyramid scheme and therefore a con. I don't see it myself. A pyramid scheme generally doesn't have a physical product and crucially requires a number of tiers recruiting new members. Origami Owl just appears to be a straightforward direct sales model akin to Tupperware or various cosmetics parties (e.g. Avon in UK). The reps buy stock, arrange the parties and sell it. That seems to be entirely legit.

The second bone of contention is with the use of the word "designer" as a name for the sales reps. Hardly the crime of the century. Tupperware call their reps "consultants" but they don't charge consultancy rates. It's just in keeping with the theme.

I think we should be celebrating this young woman's initiative in seeing a market, finding a product that fits and building out the business.