skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would he even do that? Author doesn't want to engage in office politics, he wants to code. Participating in dramatic events is completely counter-productive. Also, consider whose side his co-workers would pick, taking in account whatever happened to the previous two guys.
I think in order for a reasonable comparison to be made, it would have to be between the frequency of fires in Tesla vehicles vs the frequency of fires in vehicles less than a tear old.

In my experience (as a firefighter), most vehicle fires occur in older (>10 years) vehicles.
I needed a way of backing up mysql without writing a script to lock down the front-end (fancy isdown page), stop the webapp (just a php script that pulls data out of various APIs), stop mysql, perform the backup, then start everything back up.

So I run two instances of mysql, one is PROD and the other is read only replication. I can backup the read only replicated mysql instance without having to stop anything in production.

I am looking into the same for my nosql db's right now.

Regards,
The longest one I've seen that isn't just noise:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,3,2,2,1,1...
It isn't clear to me that they are using trademark law to silence critics. IANAL, but based on my understanding of nominative use, I do not see how this use of the logo qualifies. Let's look at the list of general criteria for nominative use in the Wikipedia article linked in the OP:

1. The product or service cannot be readily identified without using the trademark (e.g. trademark is descriptive of a person, place, or product attribute).

2. The user only uses as much of the mark as is necessary for the identification (e.g. the words but not the font or symbol).

3. The user does nothing to suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder. This applies even if the nominative use is commercial, and the same test applies for metatags.

The use of the logo in this case is not necessary to identify Ubuntu. If the site in question had just used the name "FixUbuntu", it is doubtful Ubuntu would have cared. But not only do they have this vaguely official-sounding domain name, they also had the Ubuntu logo as the most prominent art on the page and did nothing to disclaim the association.

In response to the complaint, the site has dropped the logo and has also added a disclaimer. I'm betting Ubuntu will be OK with this.
Usually people are skeptical about Slackware package manager (slackpkg). I thought I'd just throw in some links to alternatives. If you want to try another package manager you can install it and start using it in under one minute. Package manager is a package just like any other :)

One is slapt-get [0], supports third party repos, resolves dependencies if you use it with repos that have dependency metadata, if you really really must :) Salix repos are a nice source of extra packages, and have dependency metadata. You'll have to wait a bit for them to upgrade to 14.1.

Another nice package manager is slackroll[1]. This one doesn't do dependencies, but has other nice options.

For slackuilds (build script repo, like BSD ports) you can use sbopkg [2] or sport [3], both are nice.

Have fun.

[0] http://software.jaos.org/#slapt-get
[1] http://rg3.github.io/slackroll/
[2] http://sbopkg.org/
[3] http://slackermedia.info/sport/

UPDATE: I think there's a lot more to a distro than just a package manager, and these tools might help someone. Of course you'll probably get most stuff you need out of the box, some others from slackbuilds.org.

Slackware pkgtools (installpkg, upgradepkg, removepkg) are really simple, manpage for each is under 2 screens of text, and they really get out of the way, and never betray you.

Further, init system is classic sysvinit with rc style scripts in /etc/rc.d and it supports normal SysV scripts like other distros, in /etc/init.d. No pulseaudio out of the box (it's available on slackbuilds.org if you want it).
You can disable NetworkManager and install WICD from /extra in no time, and it's not gonna magically re-enable itself later.
Yes, I noticed where you said that wealth is destroyed if the money is never spent. Thus I concluded that you conflated money with wealth, because that statement makes no sense. Hoarding money in a savings account does not destroy wealth.
It's been a bad day.
So what do you do when your data center majorly (and I mean MAJOR) blows a raid disk swap, and your backup is corrupt, and piecing things back together will take days? You get to work.
Over twenty years of this, the only reason I have ever bought any console is for exclusive games.
This is great to see and long overdue. We get a lot of customers that ask about how they should create email templates. We don't really want to go down that path, so we'll be happy to direct them here.

Also, +1 on using Litmus for testing rendering across different clients.

There are also other things to consider when designing email templates and email deliverability in general.

- Always use multi-part, with a nice text part. Not having a text part is a spam flag.

- Keep the ratios of images and links to text low. High ratios are spam flags. Also, most of the time images will not be displayed by default.

- Use common sense, avoiding exclamations and referencing spammy words (eg. buy now!).

- Avoid link shorteners (commonly used in phishing emails)

- Use Litmus to test against spam filters to see where common sense fails.

- mail-tester.com is another nice free tool for checking for spam flags.

- There are also some little things that can trip you up, like having malformed message-Ids where the domain in the message-ID does not match the sending domain.

For more thoughts, we have a best practices (http://documentation.mailgun.com/best_practices.html)

Edit: Also, PLEASE only send emails to people that have given you (like on your website) permission and you have validated the email address with a confirmation link (double opt-in) before sending subsequent emails. Always give recipients the conspicuous and easy ability to unsubscribe.
The article's only five paragraphs; maybe you could try reading it? "High-end digitizing equipment" isn't cheap. Just one big archival scanner can run $5000-$10,000 or more, and they had quite a few of those, probably specialized/customized.
I encountered the same criticism (not doing overtime) when I was working for a Japanese company even though I'm the only one who is doing 5 projects at the same time and all ahead of schedule with no major issues. I was actually passed over for a promotion because of it. This post brings back bad memories :)
> One would mean I would be moving to Palo Alto, California, where I would be joining a well-known, highly successful, technology company. The pay was great, and working there would make any future job hunts virtually non-existent.

in my humble opinion, the only time you should pass up an offer like that is to work on your own startup. after all did you not apply, and interview, and compete fo, and WANT the job? i don't get it.

sorry, it's just too good of an opportunity. jeez. at least someone else got a shot because this guy passed it up.
Well then maybe brush up on your economic theory before rereading my comment?
Well, I wasn't gonna, but since you asked...
I make a point of telling them in the interview that I don't work over 40 hours a week. (This may not be strictly true, but I don't want to work for a company that would consider it a problem if it was).
Sorry, I hope 1&1 fixes your issues soon.
Origin of the name "Empire State"
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I suspect the $400 PS4 contains roughly $400 worth of hardware, so it's not surprising that it would be similar to a mid-range PC. This generation isn't as "generous" as the $600 PS3 that cost $800 to make.
Many consumer ESPs have free templates you can download. With a tiny bit of work, you can make them work anywhere. For example: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/templates/all/
Where in CT? I spend a fair amount of time in the Hartford area and have never seen one.
Pure CSS carousels
Without commenting on the science or validity of the study...the map implementation here could be improved, in fact, it's about as confusingly implemented as an infographic could be.

First of all, it violates the "rainbow map" rule, in that a wide spectrum of color is used to graph what is basically a very simple continuum: more depression vs. less depression.

http://eagereyes.org/basics/rainbow-color-map

Second of all, and most egregiously, it uses the most confusing color scheme possible. At least in America, which is the WaPo's main audience, the color blue is widely used to describe "depression" ('feeling the blues'). While red is often used to describe a dangerous or very intense situation...it's not really appropriate here, as red is also used for "passion", which is not mutually exclusive to depression, but is not usually associated with it either.

And the purple, rather than acting as a middle ground between "more" and "less" depression, comes off as its own weird symbolism.

And why the f-ck is "gray" in between blue and purple?

And of course, in America (and especially among the audience that the Washington Post serves), red and blue often indicate political thought.

It's hard to think of how this map could be any more confusing, even without getting into the discussion of how country/state-color maps greatly distort the quantities involved.

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That said, I was surprised to see that the United States ranked on the low side...my intuition was that well-off countries had higher rates of reported and diagnosed depression (first world problems and all that). But I had to stare at the map for quite awhile to make sure I was reading it right...

Edit: Also, this stuck out:

> The most depressed country is Afghanistan, where more than one in five people suffer from the disorder. The least depressed is Japan, with a diagnosed rate of less than 2.5 percent.

I know Japanese culture has the propensity to be greatly distorted by outside observers...but how is it that a country that has among the highest suicide rates in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan) also happens to have the lowest rates of depression? I mean, it's certainly mathematically possible (e.g. clinically depressed Japanese, few as they are, are also at the extreme edges of depression, or, Japanese suicides are committed for reasons other than depression)...it's just a bit unexpected.
The Reality of Marketing
Doesn't the 360 run little-endian?
Evidence-based decision making: guns vs. suicide
This one looks like rain on the side window while driving down the highway: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,1,3,2,2,2...
The Myth of the Creative/Logic Dichotomy
I agree with you that the editorial falls short of an endorsement -- at most, it's an endorsement of the effort, not the result, which hasn't even emerged yet.

But I don't agree that the EFF response is "ludicrous scaremongering". I think the EFF is right that there is a substantial danger here of serious problems, which the editorial mentions (even linking to a page on the subject) but doesn't, to my mind, give a sufficiently stern warning about. Furthermore, the word "secret" does not appear in the editorial. I agree with others who find it shallow and naïvely uncritical.

At the same time, there are definitely benefits to be had from trade agreements.
Another important one: optimize the design for display without images. Most email clients block images by default, so that's how most people are first going to see it. (The notable exceptions are Apple Mail and iOS Mail which load images by default.)

With the notable exception of iOS Mail.app and OS X Mail, virtually all email clients block images by default.
Australian bitcoin site hacked, $1 million in virtual currency stolen
I'm starting a new policy of not reading posts like this unless they say who the offending company is.
Provide Commerce Acquires Mobile Gifting Startup Sincerely
Scala is the most enjoyable language I've ever programmed in. Most of the complexity is superficial or shaped to the problem; there are a lot of features and they can be combined to make complex things, but each of them makes sense, and there's very little in the way of fiddly edge cases to memorize.
You forgot the step where Monsanto shows up for an editorial board meeting and provides background information that makes an editorial on crop yields timely and relevant to current events. An NYT editorial on a treaty negotiations does not appear for no reason.

There is a reason others on this thread make the connection to the NYT's support for the war. This is another "slam dunk."
Most of your sitemap links go back to homepage (Investors for eg): https://goshippo.com/sitemap/
Guy looks like a Bond villain.
>it's not quite my ideal, but then again what is.

Many of GoDaddy's competitors. I don't have, and have never had, such complaints about Hover, Gandi, Digital Ocean, Dreamhost, or any number of other domain/hosting companies.

My trust in them as a company is gone so far that excluding some truly revolutionary changes I'll never touch one of their services again.
Hi, thanks for commenting. I just think you guys would be more effective if you communicated more honestly.

I'm sympathetic to your concerns around IP enforcement in TPP. But instead of discussing those, I find myself having to educate people about the basics of legislative procedure, like whether a treaty will be reviewed by the Senate. Even under TPA, the answer is yes.

I don't understand why you guys write this way. It creates massive distraction from your central points (see: most of this discussion), and it turns off folks who have the best understanding of the issues--the folks who theoretically should be most helpful to your cause.
Two walls of static colliding: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,26,0,14,3,1,15,...
I like this one:
http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,1,3,1,0,2...
LOTS of game related companies use the "image map" method because, as we all know, games are audio/visually awesome and cannot possibly be represented by plain text emails.

In my case the result is: Big red placeholder image and copyright text /unsubscribe link underneath it.
BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS
good article...
Do the MRI people own Ruby trademarks and patents? Did they use them to torpedo a free Apache implementation of Ruby?
I don't understand what beer culture has to do with the majority of the post
Moving triangles and noise that eventually get stuck in a surprising loop: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,2,3,1,2,2...
What do you mean failsafe? That the batteries would shut down? My understanding is that in two of the incidents the drivers were able to continue driving until they found a safe place to get off. I think there would be a safety issue if the car completely shut off power on a freeway due to the cooling system failing.
That's another good question to ask: how often is overtime "required"?

You can usually spot it in the job ads themselves (look for "fast-paced," frequent references to "deadlines," and similar language).
Bollywood is not directly making American films, but American films are definitely getting financed by Indian money [1]. The Reliance group (which makes movies in Bollywood) is also one of the big investors in Dreamworks.

http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/about/history
THANKS FOR THE INTERESTING VIDEO BUT DON'T SHOUT SO MUCH
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There's also slackpkg+[0], an extension for the regular slackpkg program that enables third-party repos (e.g. Alien Bob's multilib repo.[1])

[0] http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+.html

[1] http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/
Show HN: Amazon with Interactive Books?
Its possible this exists for all cars but I am not aware that the data has been given for Tesla but it almost assuredly exists with their cars reporting home all the time.
this one goes from chaos to repetitive order http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,2,0,2,1,0...
How would you enforce said policy without reading the article?
If you hover over the book image or click "Flip to back", you will see the magic.
GDB reverse debugger is very slow as it is saving the execution state after every instruction executed.
There is a commercial plugin for GDB reverse debugger: UndoDB. It is much faster than just GDB (they claim only 1.7x slowdown), but unfortunately not very stable for the product I'm working on.
You bring up excellent points. I'm in a very similar situation and I think of it in these terms. Developers are doers of the work and where the payments accrue. If I don't work, we all don't get paid. I don't say that because I don't value sales, which I won't do (because I understand my weakness) but its hard to divorce this mentality when it becomes engrained.

That's also not to say copywriting or design isn't valid but its severely hard to justify a PM when there's a total of 3 cats to wrangle. I imagine his attitude comes from fully understanding he's all but worthless and instead of bending over backwards to make up for the deficiency, jackass syndrome sets in.

Bait and switch seems to be pretty prevalent in our field, whether it is intentional or not. I personally wouldn't name and shame immediately but at some point when the anger subsides, I owe it to the people that come after me to be perfectly honest about this point in time. Can company x grow out of the mire of this? Sure. But this will help others read red flags early before any major damage is done.
Well for comparison, the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf have never had a fire. This is despite the two combined having sold over 100,000 cars. Meanwhile the Tesla S has only sold about 19,000 cars.
I agree with your premise, but a possibly better example would be the 2011 movie "Mars Needs Mums". [1] "The film was a commercial failure, and is the biggest box office bomb in history, grossing only about $39 million on a budget of $150 million."

It's also, coincidentally a Mars reference :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Needs_Moms
Reading the actual article, the most striking thing is that NYT actually didn't say anything about the agreement, even though causal user might conclude they did and they are in support of it.

But in fact, that didn't happen. They described what Obama administration would like to do (which doesn't even mean they really want to do it, since the administration lies all the time, let alone that they would actually be able to do it). They described how hard it to reach an agreement in general. They described that there are people that are worried about the agreement. They described how an imaginary cool agreement would look like. What they actually didn't is to describe what the actual agreement is or what it actually does. For all we know, they could be selling their souls to the Devil or joining the Galactic Empire and the article would look exactly the same.

So NYT editorial board just wasted time of their readership to say "it would be nice if the agreement were nice, and Obama administration wants it to be nice". Without providing a shred of actual information on the actual agreement.
Good point. Startups can get away with using stock photography to show the use cases for their product, but it does seem a little questionable to have stock photos for a science-based company like this to use stock photos of a space that probably isn't theirs, and a 'guy-looking-into-microscope' that probably doesn't work there.
It's the opposite of a stupid idea.

The one problem with it is that it isn't ambitious enough - it only is helpful with remembering stuff you saw on your computer screen.

If only there was a way to OCR everything you saw, index it all and allow you to search for it again in the future.

Imagine if I could wear some glasses or something, and then they had an app that could do OCR or everything I saw! That would accomplish the "OCR the screen" thing, but expand the scope to things off the computer screen too!

Oh. Wait. http://www.google.com/glass/start/

Damn Larry Page.
Learning to rock-climb is changing how I’ll teach math
It's not as clear-cut as that. Are you still selfish if you don't give to charity but you vote for higher taxes and expanded social programs?
What in the world?

I don't see how anybody tolerates this crap. I wouldn't have lasted a week there. And you better believe there'd be threats of legal action on any withheld pay. It's obvious to me that they're just riding horses into the ground until they get where they want to go.

I also wouldn't have put up with that "You're not 100% committed here," crap. I probably would have laughed in his face. "Look pal, unless you have a specific problem with the job I'm doing, stuff it. Then I'd make a show out of leaving at 5. A company needs to deserve overtime before I'll give it to them. Pulling shit like this is the fastest way of losing it.

It's easy to see the psychological tactic they're pulling, preying on your desire to be part of a team to extract an unreasonable amount of effort out of you. If they're using them on you, then they're probably using them on everybody and working there will be misery. Time to call the other shops and see if they filled their spots yet.
By reading the comments? ;)
So the trend now looks to be webifying the appification of the web.
Sony will start streaming eventually. It would be fantastic if they implemented a disc matching policy, allowing you to stream a game with the disc in the drive. Perfect backward compatibility with no software support necessary.
There are startups like this. I left one before a pivotal point that might have resulted in me making some money for some of the very same reasons:

1) Commitment was questioned -- in my case, I disappeared for a rainy weekend for my wife's birthday and wasn't online over the weekend.

2) Attitude was questioned -- regular beat the staff meetings in the morning after pulling an all nighter, I tossed the pen to the next guy (a friend) and miss threw and it hit the ceiling. "Why are you being an asshole?" It took a bit to realize that was what was being asked.

3) After a great showing at Demo we launched with no ops/support and engineers with the knowledge (me) were expected to be on call after 80 hour weeks. I got grumbled at due to a support issue as I was returning from a morning at the Legion of Honor and heading down Highway 1 (no signal, peace). Oh, the wife wasn't happy either -- "why are they bugging you on a Saturday morning?"

That said, the overall product we built was one of the more fun and diverse I was involved in. It was very hard to make the decision, but sometimes you know it is just right to walk away.

There are startups that are like that. Sometimes, like the post above, the signs are there early. Sometimes, they don't show themselves until much later.

A couple of years later when the company had an exit, of the 35+ people that were there when I left, only four that I new (including the two founders) actually remained.
Good point. We can argue all day about whether startups like Airbnb should be regulated, but it seems pretty clear to me that the government has a public health interest in regulating a pile of powder and its associated health claims.
I'm not sure what opportunity cost there would be, considering that their digitizing operations are not revenue-generating. But I can see your general point, that even if all the physical repairs and goods are paid for by insurance there could still be some residual costs to be absorbed.
That is the thing I can't stand about most liberals, they always think they know what's better for you than you do. Take your nanny state regulations and bother someone without their own brain.
So you only respond to people who agree with you and dismiss anyone else? That's pathetic. Enjoy your run.