skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "... the number of people working on it will be exactly proportional to the amount of work required to be done … "

I strongly disagree. This is a recipe for burnout because it ends up being done by the people who care most and are willing to sacrifice more than others (in terms of time/health/whatever). Taking the view that 'the work got done, therefore this was the correct number of people' does nothing to account for the human cost. Example: One person can organise and run a conference with hundreds of attendees and tens of speakers but I'd argue it's not a good idea. FWIW I've seen team sizes between 1 and 75 for exactly the above scenario.

I've been in this kind of position (great learning experience) and seen others go through it but it's a completely unsustainable way to run any kind of organisation.
If you're doing this, you probably want to disable saving the binary logs -- journald will still retain recent logs from the current boot, so the status commands will still work.

Personally, I uninstalled syslog and enabled binary log retention back when I was running F18, and I'm wishing my Ubuntu and Debian boxes had the same ability.
Recently (last year?) Megabus started offering rides among 6-8 destinations (the 4 bigger cities and a few convenient suburbs, plus Reno). I live across from one of the stops, and I always see the buses nearly full, and it's refreshing to see them cruising down the freeway. Otherwise, urban buses work fine in the bigger cities (LA as well, mind the convention), but most people live in suburbia, which is not conducive to good service. Luckily, the younger generations are moving downtown, hopefully a long lasting trend.
I wonder if most people didn't even notice that because they remain logged in to Google services all the time.
The important thing is not to leave it logged in while you do this. Log out, and clear all cookies for good measure after every time you check it, otherwise zuck will still be following you around the web via the Like buttons.
It would also be easier to just manually fill out those pages than to develop a PDF that can be auto-read by all of them.

But what's the fun in that?
Throwing the Big Switch on Roslyn
The IRS does accept voluntary donations, but despite the rhetoric Mr Buffett has not actually given more to the government than he has to. So I'm a little skeptical of his claims. Also, part of the reason his secretary pays more is because he has gone out of his way to avoid paying taxes (euphemistically, to structure his businesses in a tax-efficient manner).

I'm not arguing that there shouldn't be an estate tax, or that people shouldn't pay it. Just that I fully understand why they try to avoid it. I would probably do the same thing in their situation, and I suspect many others would as well.
I'm hoping they'll be able to provide more than just video ads, though. Small businesses tend to not have video creative ready, and compared to the better produced and more entertaining ads that will probably work best on FB, they may be paying a high CPM for pretty poor performance.

Regardless, if it helps more brand ad dollars move into online and mobile, I'm all for it because it's good for our entire industry. I think this could be the biggest ad product in mobile to date, and I'm sure we'll learn a lot.
The "doers" are already "doing," they don't need any encouragement. In fact, they're so busy "doing" they don't have time to waste on TED talks. They're not going to gain anything by going to a TED talk.

Now the people that do have time and resources to be able to afford the ticket to TED, they're not doers. Otherwise they'd be busy "doing." I know this is contrary to how TED presents itself, but when was the last time something meaningful resulted from a TED conference?

TED is a zoo of ideas for the great unwashed masses to filter by, to gawk at, then to go home and forget at the end of the day.
Notes on the synthesis of form by Christopher Alexander [1], and subsequent works, deeply changed how I approach problems and perceive the world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Synthesis_of_Form
I also wondered why the death of Paul Walker was in the video. Surely Lou Reed was more influential, yet his death wasn't mentioned.
Good job! I did the same a while ago https://github.com/ptbello/_strap

it's a medley between bootstrap 2.3.* and automattic's _s theme.
Haven't got round to updating it to bootstrap 3 yet.
I guess that's what the Christmas break will be for.
> Eh, why do you think Iran is responsible for these deaths and not the US?

Because that was how I phrased the hypothetical.

> Threats and disagreements are between the rulers of both countries, why on the earth should civilians be somehow involved and the slaughter be justified?

Because in the hypothetical retaliatory force was being used to defend US citizens---something I believe is moral and which the guy I was talking to seems to agree with.

I don't think you are in agreement so I don't think we can progress at this point in the discussion. We would have to backtrack first to talking about retaliatory vs. initiatory force. That is too much to bite of in an HN comment discussion.

As a side note, you could switch the names of the countries, it doesn't matter.
This looks like a good, simple Bootstrap 3 theme. https://github.com/roots/roots is another more mature option, but also has more features (could be a downside for some).
I'm in the same boat like you and was pretty disappointed to see that it's basicly nothing but an ad. It makes you think more than twice before paying 75$. Even though it's clear that this is a pre-order, it looks weird that you pay for a pdf with a single page.
Inside Hong Kong's biggest Bitcoin mine
They most certainly did not, any more than Apple invented the smartphone — the core algorithm would have been familiar to a mainframe COBOL programmer, after all, and the distributed aspect was common under other names in scientific computing or relational databases. I'd be somewhat surprised if they didn't first hear about it at some place like Stanford and realize how promise there was in a cleaner, less crufty implementation than the various HPC job schedulers or hacked-up shell scripts managed by hapless grad-students around the world.

None of the above is intended to diminish their achievements: in fact, I think the reverse is true because the industry history is littered with people who had great ideas and never really implemented them well. Big ideas just aren't worth as much as the many engineer-years of hard work it took Google to go from a concept to massive-scale HPC being a routine, commodity service. It's easy to say “Google succeeded because Larry and Sergey had two key Big Ideas” but that ignores the huge accomplishment they made in actually building a sustainable company which took those ideas to massive scale.
Bittorrent does not work great, to my mind, compared to a centralized service. It's absolutely abysmal on network traffic, is inherently slow, and depending on the communication, practically unusable outside affinity groups. Toward that last end it's useful, but i'd hardly consider it great in general.

I don't know enough about Bitcoin to say if it's efficient but i'm aware that transactions can move around the network without much effort, which is nice. But there's big downsides to the transparency of transactions there vs cash or credit, not to mention having your "wallet" stolen vs more traditional credit systems that are more durable for general global commerce.

Both of those things are useful. They're just not as efficient or reliable as a centralized service can be. Centralized services & communication have their own problems, but generally speaking the bigger they are the more robust they are, which is often the opposite in truly distributed systems.
Ok, but your perception of IT as desktop support doesn't change reality.
The best advice I have ever read on the subject is in Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (1936).

1) Become genuinely interested in other people.

2) Smile.

3) Remember that a person's name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

4) Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

5) Talk in terms of the other person's interest.

6) Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.

So essentially be genuine, and if you try to do anything intentionally just try to put the other person at ease.
Remote Desktop Client for Chrome DevTools written purely with JavaScript
on the other hand, it's nothing for a biologist. I blew through about $300 in reagents yesterday AND messed up the experiment.
Not all proxies support DELETE and PUT. But you're right, it should support both.
Brazil effectively goes against the US when voting in the WTO. Most of the other times it is more about expressing its dissenting opinion on some issues, but not something like this.
Restricted Transactional Memory on Haswell
The government has a secret system, a machine ...
Exactly. After all, it's pretty much how Apple made its historic unprecedented profits: more designers than engineers.
Switching to Freemium: Lessons learned from changing iOctocat's price model
when I eat a big meal or lots of sugar.
> First study: female apes are more interested in tool-like sticks than male apes.

The study reported that juvenile female chimps were much more likely to use sticks for doll-like behaviors. Using sticks for other things such as as tools or as weapons were not reported.

It has been reported
elsewhere the female chimps have a greater propensity to use tools including sticks for food-gathering purposes: http://www.eva.mpg.de/primat/staff/boesch/pdf/fol_prim_tool_...

> 3b. Second study: female apes are equally interested in "feminine" and "masculine" toys.

Male monkeys showed a strong preference for wheeled toys over plush dolls, and the preference of female monkeys was smaller, and human children show roughly the same pattern for these toys.

Also note that chimps are apes, and vervets and rhesus monkeys are not.

> 3c. Third study: a doll attracts 20% of female vs 8% of male ape attention.

Six toy types were studied, not just dolls.
> Uber's defense is that it needed to charge so much more to encourage its drivers to stay on the job

Maybe people would be more OK with it if Uber kept their commission flat, i.e. they get paid the same for each trip regardless of how much they are charging extra for the conditions. Not saying they have a duty to do this, just that from a PR point of view it would get rid of the assumption that they put prices up too much to increase their profits.
From a legal perspective, I don't know if non-invasive data collection falls under a certain category. I know that authorities cannot enter my home and bug it or install cameras without a warrant. Authorities cannot install a camera in my bathroom to see if I am flushing away drugs, but can they ASK the water company to tap my pipe as it returns to wastewater management? The first action would require a warrant, since they are violating my home and person to obtain the information. If the same or comparable data are gathered through the cooperation of a third party, does that action still require a warrant?

I suppose the standard of 'non-invasive' is whether information is collected directly from my non-public activities (warrant certainly required) or from compliant third parties. Of course if the third party does not cooperate then a warrant will compel their cooperation.

I would argue that ANY data collection on a target should require a warrant issued by a judge for probable cause. So, indiscriminate collection of cell phone metadata would be prohibited, because my metadata is included, and there is no probable cause for surveillance against me.
New York Senator Accuses Airbnb Lobbyist Of Misinformation Campaign
maybe it could have been sugar in the coffee or something.
I love the internet. I was at Compute Midwest too. His talk was where I initially learned about this. Are you from KC?
That would make sense if this were something that was intended to be useful and meaningful. I think this is just supposed to remind you that Google is a thing.
It depends on your industry and target market. There is no one size fit all.
Most hosts out there offer linux as their main platform? Plus, installing python with apt-get is not much more difficult than php. One liner, minus the .ini configuration stuff.
Really? What Google commercials have you seen recently?
How to Build an Urban Igloo
How do you know China actually landed on the moon?

(Just kidding...)
I didn't get this popover, I wonder why?
"therubyracer" is a pun; if you know that it is a wrapper around "V8", which can refer to a car engine, it is easy enough to remember.
>> Ok what percentage of their income do they pay now compared to what they would pay under Fair Tax?

This is pretty irrelevant as we agree they're dodging now, and the Fair Tax would encode that as the law. Better to attempt to close the loopholes or imagine a third system than to move to a system that's regressive by design.

As for the general rule - the proposal requires a roughly 30% national sales tax. If I earn more then I spend less as a proportion of my earnings (this is a recorded economic phenomenon, not posturing), therefore my Fair Tax percentage is lower than people who earn less, even within similar socio-economic strata.

I'm not sure there's anything hard to understand here.

>> Yes but what happens when the government decides to increase the flat tax?

Not sure what you're driving at with this question. The obvious answer is "everyone pays more".

--edit-- If you don't think those on high incomes should pay the same or higher percentage of their income as those on lower earnings, that's a different argument entirely. I'm arguing that given the position that those on higher incomes should pay the same percentage or higher in tax as those on lower incomes Fair Tax is a bad idea. If your politics don't match to this assumption then you might as well say because we're not going to come to any sort of agreement!
Thanks for sharing your story! What are your plans? starting something?
Or maybe the new Google. Or the same Google we always had.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the zombie apocalypse started...

Anyway, those areas you guys are calling non-coding and "junk" do a lot more than we understand, and I would venture modifying them willy nilly could have some pretty nasty outcomes.
Modifying the Memorability of Face Photographs
No Deadlines For You: Software Dev Without Estimates, Specs or Other Lies
IBM sees five tech-powered changes in next five years
maybe. But cash prizes can be anti-motivational, and can negatively affect reasoning (this is a known phenomenon). It's probably a huge part of the reason why the federal scientific granting landscape is broken, btw, so the status quo is not much better. Moreover, only one person gets the prize, so a lot of people will make an upfront investment and get burnt out by their loss. Finally you have to consider, who is the best equipped to make those sorts of upfront investments and are they the people you want deciding the course of science? The really smart grad student whose intellectual prowess is being exploited by the professors is not going to be in that position.
I don't care about personal conenctions (got an email / phone no. to everyone), but there are some communities that pretty much depend on facebook. If you start dancing and are interested in events, you pretty much have to be on facebook. That's where the announcements / updates happen. That's where you find out where various people / teachers will be going. (at least that's the case for the UK and swing/blues)
It is a pretty serious accusation. I wish you'd prepare a pdf or something where ou state your case. Most people don't have time to dig into that themselves.
Denmark declares Bitcoin legal for trade
Some quick searching and skimming turned up this article:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/how-does-caffeine-affec...
This looks very awesome! I like what this is providing. I really like coding in Obj-c (not my most used language but love the syntax and feel) and being able to make a backend using code that could be shared with an iOS/Mac client is a very attractive feature to myself.

I'm already sold on your service. I can't wait to get started and I'm really looking forward to the iOS and Mac SDKs.
Crashing Google Chrome on Google website
If you want persistence (in the functional sense) and ordering I'd rather implement a skip list personally. You can use your existing hash code as a randomiser to determine level promotion. If you're going to keep it around you may as well make use of it. Skip Lists also have the nice property that you can stick a immutable linked list facade on them (since the base layer is fully linked)
Don't worry, after you "delete" your profile its still there for a month. You have to hold firm for 30 days of no logins before they "really" delete it.
Autobiography Through Devices
Denmark makes it LEGAL to establish Bitcoin Exchanges
Of course it's not exactly the same. But the approach was similar. They each believed that more could be done to bring their creations closer to perfection if they understood the underlying technologies better. Commenter took that to one level, and Carmack took that to the extreme. But both relied on tech abstractions that effectively had a multiple levels of proficiency.
It's optionally statically typed. You can choose to use types if you want. That alone is a huge improvement.
I avoid package gems like the plague. It makes dependency management a gigantic pain in the ass and forces you to target your code to a specific version of an operating system. You can't take a system that works just fine in Fedora and move it to Debian without making sure the gem version differences don't break anything.

In today's cloud-based hosting environment, you want to preserve mobility whenever possible, and Bundler does a better job of managing Ruby dependencies than dpkg/yum does. You can then use configuration management to get a system bootstrapped to a base where all your Ruby projects can run, then Bundler can take care of project-specific dependencies. It's not perfect, a lot of times a project gem will require system dependencies, like MySQL, but the separation of concerns does help a bit.

You should, however, use system Ruby because using RVM / Rbenv in production vastly increases complexity, and because the system dependencies that your gems have will be the right versions. It's much easier now that the latest Ubuntu packages Ruby 2. It took me all of an afternoon to redo the configuration management and provisioning and migrate my projects when Ubuntu 13.10 came out.
An open letter from Edward Snowden
2013: The Year of Linux on the...Everything
I think that it is more than syntactic sugar, it's an affordance. Different notation schemes make it more or less likely to find and code particular solutions. As an example, the syntax of ML-derived languages makes partial applications a much more reasonable choice than they are in Scala or in C-derived languages: the syntax is tuned to them.

Array programming is due for a renaissance. Like any other form of abstraction, we gain leverage once we are able to internalize it and use it. The thinking you mention is, I think, just the normal hurdle of unfamiliarity.
You Can’t Improve What You Don’t Measure
Algorithm can tell if you’re a hipster so Internet can sell you a plaid shirt
I found myself using other service more often when I see a surcharge. Especially for short rides, I prefer waiting and extra 5 minutes and spend half of the money.
And next thing you know, the Melding Plague:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_Revelation_Space#...
From my understanding, if the day ever comes where the official PHP engine is switched to HHVM, it would catapult performance past Python and Ruby in pretty much all scenarios.
I think they've now removed it after seeing they got mentioned on TC;DR.

[edit] Nope, still happens but now it's on a delay.
This is somewhat similar to the List monad in Haskell:

http://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Understanding_monads/...

Bind is concatMap and return puts something into a singleton list. This allows "nondeterministic" computations, where applying functions over all elements in the list is implicit (via bind). Using the monad is not the same as having map be implicit everywhere, but it allows cases where you need several chained implicit (concat)maps to be cleanly implemented.

This is arguably a better design than making all functions polymorphic over lists, and having implicit maps be a global rule (rather than something constrained in a monad's context).
Building Decoupled JavaScript Applications with Postal.js
Can hot water freeze faster than cold water? (1998)
Because Bootstrap's typography and layout (line heights, margins and spacing, etc.) is way better than most everything else, including browser default stylesheets and most WP themes.

Because if you do want to customize it further, there are an increasing number of people who find it most efficient and powerful to do that on top of Bootstrap, and a lot of code samples/templates for doing so.

I know that the official line is (or was?) that Bootstrap is 'a starter place, for wireframe prototypes, not for mature projects' -- but that is not in fact how it's been used. I believe the reason it's been so popular is because of it's excellent typography, as well as fairly well-structured easy to work with code.
Kalvin, Randy, and Jason are some of the nicest and most capable founders around. Wishing them luck on their next journey!
USV on CloudFlare investment
Not only the title, but the text...

"With more research and development over the next couple of quarters, some version of this predictive model could be deployed throughout the organization... But it’ll likely require a great investment — not only to refine the model but also to build a visual data dashboard...and to build a software platform to collect similar data in the future."

Inputs for Autogenerated "IT project" status update:

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> "predictive model"

> "could be deployed throughout the organization"

> "a visual dashboard"

> "build a software platform"

> "similar data"

> "In the future..."
India initiates retaliatory steps against US diplomats
What unintended effects would the Hyperloop have? My limited experience with the California train system is that it's no good unless you are in no hurry, or your travel just luckily happens to coincide with the right time and place.
Skymall for People on a Budget
I think this is very true:

"There were a bunch of old devs opposed to adding this documented "processes", saying that "open source is about fun and processes kill the fun". But to me that was always shining through that argument was that there is always an implicit process and that process is usually ideal for the current people "in power"."

Jo Freeman has an essay called "The Tyranny of
Structurelessness" which focused on how this issue (lack of explicit process) played out in left-wing political movements in the 1970s, and she does a great job of explaining how the lack of explicit process allows those with implicit power to keep control of things.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/structurelessness.htm

"Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a “structureless” group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved. The very fact that we are individuals, with different talents, predispositions, and backgrounds, makes this inevitable. Only if we refused to relate or interact on any basis whatsoever could we approximate structurelessness — and that is not the nature of a human group."