skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Linode for production machines for about 4 years now and have been very happy with them. The security issues were a concern but appear to be the exception rather than the rule.

I've been using DO recently because I was given some free credit - mainly for testing Ansible. Their pricing is very aggressive and they do have that new fresh out of the box feeling.

I haven't used anything from them in production yet though so can't do a full comparison. Negatives for DO are they don't support private networking in all of their datacenters, they also don't pool bandwidth (as far as I'm aware) between all of your instances, I haven't seen any references to permanent/fixed IP addresses in the DO control panel - they seem to be dynamically assigned on each droplet spin up.

I haven't used DO support but Linode support has always been fast and accurate for me. For me, at the moment, DO isn't offering anything more than Linode so moving sites doesn't make sense in my case (disk IO isn't an issue for me at present).
Though off topic, I couldn't agree more. Get the pricing right and then designs will matter more.
I'm not sure if you had some anti-wolfram sentiment to start with, but that is not how I interpreted the article at all.

It read to me as a respectful, amusing trip down memory lane. No agenda.
Curious: what's the 30Hz effect? Flickering on a static desktop? Or just less-smooth animation?
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It matters if the assumption is that possibility of each child being boy/girl is 50%.

The first child can be boy or girl. The second child can also be boy or girl. So the probabilities are like this:
BB: 25%
GG: 25%
BG: 50%

You can replace older/younger on the article with child 1/child 2.
Seriously? There IS a hybrid approach (read above comments). Ridiculous.
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Huh, I think you're right. BIT.TRIP RUNNER was definitely in the HIB 6 [1], but I don't see it on the download page either.

There's an button to get the Steam key, though.

[1] http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/32252091984/humble-indie-b...
You mean they used to, until the limits on secret donations from one rich guy were gotten rid of.
Garrett or Allegany?
http://www.quora.com/Kaggle/Why-did-Kaggle-focus-on-oil-and-...

A related CEO quora answer
The fact that Qt is C++ also played a role.

I have always sided with C++ in the usual C vs C++ wars, since I know the language (1993).

My first Linux distribution was Slackware 2.0 back in 1995, before GNOME or KDE existed and many used twm as their window manager.

Having been part of the gtkmm mailing list for a while, mainly due to my dislike on those days of Qt using moc, I can tell there were quite some heated discussions in the usual C vs C++ style.

So C guys would side with GTK, C++ with Qt and not many in the GTK world cared about us in gtkmm.
Both are good providers and the only comparison point that wasn't covered in the article was support, and speed of support. I have to give it to Linode because as far as I can remember every support ticket I filed got some kind of a response in 5 minutes.

Another thing to compare them on is DDOS protection and mitigation. I don't have enough data to compare both, in fact nothing on DO's side but I know that getting null routed on Linode is not a very good experience. You don't get much info from them and it's one of those helpless situations I guess. Does anyone else have experiences with either?
... And all this has what to do with having non-nullable references be the default, with a wrapping Option or Maybe type for otherwise?
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The MacBook Air from 2012 or later can drive two 2560x1600 displays at 60fps: https://twitter.com/Antagonist/status/252936243606859777/pho... (It only has one Thunderbolt port, but Thunderbolt displays can be chained.)

While the integrated graphics on the 2013 models can drive 4k displays at 60fps, only Thunderbolt 2 has the necessary bandwidth. The latest rMBPs have Thunderbolt 2, so they should be fine once OS X's drivers are updated. Everything else is stuck at 30fps.
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My take on Dennis Rodman's CNN appearance in the tune of a mid 90's WWF interview.
It's explained in the readme:

Sometime we just want to test some simple file handling functions, and don't want to create real files and directories because:

It's annoying to remember to remove test files and directories after tests

It's annoying to fill the content of dummy files with file APIs

Forgot to delete files after test may cause some troubles

Tests should completely live within sandbox. Create files and directories may cause side-effects on your system

If your dummy files and directories got affected by other processes on your system, you may have no chance to know what's going wrong with your tests

So I create this to implement a filesystem in process memory, and a mocked fs module which has some compatible APIs.
This explanation ignores the two perspectives of probability - assertions on states of the world (the "frequentist" view) vs. states of the mind (the "bayesian" view).

See also http://lesswrong.com/lw/oj/probability_is_in_the_mind/
Yes this seems MUCH advanced. :)
I don't know if the vehement dislike for Wolfram is all necessarily rooted in the same underlying cause. I suspect different people have different reasons for it.

I think there is a kind of idealized scientist that nerds want to look up to. A great sense of humility, a clear sense of purpose, an unwavering commitment to reason and rationality. Yet I can think of no famous scientist that actually fits that mold.

Another poster brings up Kanye West, someone that people seethe over that he isn't humble enough.

I read in the parent's comment a sense of great frustration, that somehow Wolfram isn't being sufficiently reverent to someone who they clearly idolize. I can almost see spittle forming at the corners of their mouth. It makes me a little sad.

Wolfram certainly doesn't do himself any favors by reinforcing the narrative that he has a big ego, and always working in a reference to his book (which I think this essay is much more appropriate for then how he shoe-horns it into his other writing).

But I get it. People don't like it when you toot your own horn. Although if I spent ten years writing a giant science tome I'd probably want to bring it up all the time as well. I suspect Wolfram is aware of this perception of him (I think I've actually read him mention it before). I kind of hope he ignores it though.
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I like the idea of an extended audition, but not for peanuts. It needs to be my actual rate or a significant fraction thereof or we're not really operating as equals now, are we?

I actually negotiated an extended audition as part of a recent contract. The decision makers were starting to say things like "we definitely want to hire you, but we need to flesh out requirements on the project" and "we'll get back in touch in a few months to get things kicked off". Code for "wow, that's a scary looking bill rate" perhaps, but certainly not the sort of talk that tends to lead to gainful employment.

So I suggested that we do a quick R&D project at a reduced rate just to see if the thing they wanted to build was in fact buildable. We'll just run for a few weeks and see where we stand, then reevaluate whether we want to work together.

The nice thing about doing it this way is that they get to see the "other variable" in the salary calculation. It's not just Bill Rate * Hours. It's Bill Rate * Pace. A fast, expensive guy can turn out cheaper in the long run, if the Fast bit outweighs the Expensive bit. 3 weeks to a Month is enough time to see whether a given dude is in fact good and fast; not just in bursts, but steady state.

Granted, that's one datapoint. And it just happened to work out nicely. But I think it's a good way to prove to a company that you are in fact worth the rate you've quoted them.
I'll add a European perspective here: we're a growing tech company in Antwerp, Belgium. We design and sell CMOS image sensors for all sorts of medium- and high-end markets. We're looking for an additional software engineer right now (team of two now). Contact me if you're interested!
The post is not about the probability of what a person with a given pair of children will say.

Rather, what they said is given, and the question is: what pair of children do they have?

You are either going over my head or under my head, so this will probably make one of us temporarily look a bit foolish :).
Curiously, "Homeland Defense" was the term proposed by either Al Gore or Joseph Lieberman, I'm trying to recall which, in the 1990s.

One reference to Lieberman:

http://books.google.com/books?id=r_gH5s4B2SEC&pg=PA454&lpg=P...
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Find companies you like. Identify people who work there. Email them, and ask.
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Graph databases vs No SQL databases
What is difference between graph databases and no sql databases ( redis, cassandra, rethinkDB etc). For me No sql databases are just simply key/value. Can anyone please explain it
You don't just "find" a co-founder like you "find" an employee. Co-founding relationships based on trying to find co-founders are hardly strong relationships. Ideally you would meet a co-founder in the course of doing various kinds of work.
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Obviously a scam on a scam...
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The biggest issue with Linode appears to be the way disks are tied to instances[1]: you can't easily snapshot like you can on DO.

It's a real shame, because if tools like Vagrant and Packer worked with Linode like they do DO...

[1] https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/174
It is, but the limit is your ability to cram it all that in a single rocket. It's why the James Webb needs foldable mirrors (JWST is made of small mirrors stuck together basically).

There have been a few proposals for in-space interferometers, but budgeting shot them down for the most part. In hindsight they may have been cheaper given the ballooning costs of JWST.
Lobbying <> bribery.

There's a difference between buying a politician diner and talking to them and writing a big fat check.
This is wrong.

In oversimplifying your table for potential idiot readers by introducing the silent variable of older vs younger child, you have introduced order into a statistics problem wherein order is irrelevant and masked the fact that what matters is which of the children you already know to be a boy. You grant this difference for the BG pairing, thus producing two options, but not for the BB pairing. There is not ONE way of knowing this for BB, as you present in the table, but two: you know the older is the boy, or you know the younger is the boy. 2/4 = 1/2. QED.

What you should have done in the first place, however (unless your aim is to produce a blog post which, apparently, can convince otherwise intelligent people that irrelevant information can magically become relevant) was simply remove the one boy from the equation and reformulate the question. What is the probability that this other child is a boy (and thus that both are boys)? 1/2. Fuck the table. Had you not used a table, this would never have happened. But it feels authoritative, right? Thank you for the psychology lesson.

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Downvotes but not refutations, because there aren't any. I'll assume it's my tone. My opinion of the competence of the average reader on this site has plummeted reading the other comments, however, so hey, fuck you guys too. :)
I looked at DigitalOcean's offerings and read through their forums several months ago when I was thinking about moving from a (pathetically underutilized) US$20/month Linode instance to a US$5/month DO droplet, but there were several red flags:

• Complaints about DO shutting down instances and locking accounts until people FAX'd in a copy of their driver's license, passport, etc. (If a user isn't breaking the law or violating the ToS, why does DO need identification? If a user is breaking the law or violating the ToS, then terminate their account!)

• Having to stop accepting signups in their Amsterdam location for a while because they ran out of IPv4 space but didn't support IPv6. (A message from August 2012 says, "we hope to have something in the works by Q4 2012 or Q1 2013." As far as I can tell, they still don't support IPv6 in any of their locations.)

• Not supporting the booting of custom kernels. (They've been stalling on this at least as long as IPv6 support.)

• Botching their Ubuntu image and having everyone's Ubuntu droplets sharing the same ssh host keys unless the user explicitly generated new ones. (Probably an honest mistake, but that's sloppy, especially considering they're effectively forcing users to use their distro images.)

The recent kerfluffle about not always wiping data after a user's disk image is destroyed would've also been a gigantic red flag (that had been doused in kerosene and lit on fire before being run up the flagpole) if it had happened a few months earlier.

To be fair, Linode's security/privacy record is far from spotless — they've been super evasive about breaches, and their handling of a data leak bug/vuln I reported didn't leave me with a super-awesome feeling — but my gut feeling is that Linode sucks just enough less to justify the US$15/month extra. That could easily change, though, but I imagine it would turn into "both suck, screw it, I'll suffer with an EC2 t1.micro instance."
I'm actually doing this right now. Working at a Target warehouse and on my startup and projects when I'm off. The problem is there are 2 kinds of jobs generally, physically demanding and mentally demanding. If you do something mentally demanding you will lose all motivation to work on your own projects when you get home. When you work a physically demanding job where you can daydream and think while at work and come home to code, don't bother because you'll be physically exhausted at the end of your shift. The perfect match seems to be finding a part time job. 20 hours a week, no more no less.
yeah except the third party font issue is a known vulnerability and there isn't one for svg's.
The original article is more interesting and sheds light on the hidden assumptions that go into the calculation. It also considers under which sets of assumptions the answer is not 1/2.

http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/11/08/the-tuesday...

The attempt at shortening it down to under 300 words omits all the complications and subtlety involved in the problem.
A thought here.

We've become way overcredentialled as a society. There are a lot of things where comp-sci degrees are genuinely helpful and a lot of areas where they are required for no real reason other than HR gets too many resumes.

This idea of an apprentice/journeyman/master progression is something I think has tremendous potential in the tech industry. A lot of it can be learned by doing, and for the theoretical stuff, a good Master ought to be able to teach it or provide materials for self-study.

I would like to see this idea take off more.
> Now I'm in a different part of the country, can get FiOS, but while Verizon's service always delivers over 50 Mbps on speedtest sites, it often chokes on Youtube or Netflix. When that happens, there's no simple way to determine if it's the provider or some random provisioner in the middle.

If you have shell access to a Linux machine in a College of Engineering attached to some university somewhere [0], try this:

1) Use youtube-dl to get the actual URL of the video that Youtube is sending to your machine that's slow as balls. [1]

2a) Wget that url on your home machine.

2b) Wget that url on the machine attached to that university.

3) Notice the discrepancy between download speeds of those two machines. In particular, notice if your home download starts at full speed, but is throttled to super slow speeds after a couple minutes of video have been downloaded.

4) Run a traceroute (I love using mtr for this) to ensure that the route to Youtube from your home machine goes directly from your ISP's network to Google's network. If this is the case, then there's noone to blame for poor performance other than your ISP and Youtube.

Comcast used to severely throttle Youtube videos downloaded on my connection here in SF. Using the method outlined above, I discovered that:

* I had a direct path from Comcast to Youtube at both my house and at the university.

* At my house, the first minute or two of the video file was fetched at full link speed (~6MB/s), the remainder of the video (even when downloading a 1080p MP4) was fetched at ~100KB/s.

* The very same file when downloaded at a university across the country was fetched at full link speed (14MB/s) and never slowed down.

[0] To lessen the chance that the campus network admins will be artificially throttling your connection, natch.

[1] You will notice that this URL is super-long and appears to encode all sorts of fun stuff in the domain name. This (along with a traceroute) leads me to believe that accessing this URL at another physical location won't give you a file from another CDN that's closer to that other physical location.
Amusing ourselves to death
I agree with your entire comment, but the "Rather Big Brotherish" part made me laugh, considering the recent NSA scandal, and the fact that the entire public is basically carrying around a 'telescreen' for all intents and purposes.

Off-topic but funny in and of itself. Also a small note, but even in America some places view face coverings with extreme caution, wearing one in a bank for instance is a big no-no. Not a religious issue in those sorts of cases, really an identification, wariness that you might rob the place issue.
In this case, that should be part of the hiring risk that the company takes on, else you're punishing the good developers, who presumably you want to join your company, for something they have very little control over.

Tell your barber that you're going to pay him 1/2 from now on because half the other barbers in the city are worthless...
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i'm kinda hoping to have some time to hack out a haskell implementation of the SDD solver next month (not sure if i'll have the time then, but I hope to)
do you think it would be possible and/or worth it to reconstruct a automotive road course? this is something i've always wanted to do. there's a ton of video online (though usually shot from inside the car.)

the one i spend the most time at is pretty flat, though. i suspect the green hills are hard to get a match on? here is an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyZcERAlBeE
If this gives me (personally) a significantly better viewing experience at normal distance than the 1680x1050 I have now, I won't just buy it, I'll eat it.
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Please yes, someone do this. Pretty much every programmer I know would get one (or two ^^)
You mean mini DisplayPort?

Because the U2713HM has a DisplayPort.

I actually have the U2713HM and in my experience DisplayPort is a pain in the behind. I don't know if it's the monitor or the connection in general but whichever it is, it seems to suck.

If I move my desktop an inch it will drop the signal completely, I'm not exaggerating one bit. It seems like if I even shake the cable a bit I lose the connection and when it does that it doesn't reconnect at all anymore, at least on Linux, without replugging the cable. Because it's a desktop I have to crawl under the desktop to replug the connection.

At first I was using it on Intel graphics (i7 2600k) and sometimes I didn't get video at all on boot, dmesg had messages about "DisplayPort link training failed" or whatever. I had to reboot to get signal or replug both monitors in specific order and play with xrandr. I also started experiencing massive GPU hangs on Intel, don't know if it's related, but eventually I gave up and bought a passively cooled ATI. I have the same exact problems with that. I even bought a second DisplayPort cable, thinking that might be the problem. Nope. I even keep getting the similar "link training failed" messages with ATI.

The connection seems to work fine if you get it working once and treat the cable like it's cursed and avoid touching anything ever.

Don't know if it's the monitor or the connection in general though. What I do know is that the monitor also buzzes when there's lots of text on the screen (i.e. just open Wikipedia in a browser) which drives me insane at night if it's silent. Googling seems to indicate it's a problem with this model. Some "premium" display huh?

If the future of display connectors is DisplayPort I will cry myself to sleep at night.
It has nothing to do with frequentist versus bayesian statistics this is really just a pure probability theory problem.
I can't believe we might finally start seeing some movement in the resolution world outside of the Macbook realm. Think this will ever make it to laptops? Dell announces the year 2025 Ubuntu Programmer Edition ;)

On an unrelated note, I have a last-gen Intel Haswell CPU with the HD4600. There's no way I can power this, can I?
Yeah, I don't understand that rant at all. I am not fond of Wolfram either but this article was pleasant to read.
This was the quote that really resonated with me:

"You know, it's funny. For all Feynman's independence, he was surprisingly diligent. I remember once he was preparing some fairly minor conference talk. He was quite concerned about it. I said, "You're a great speaker; what are you worrying about?" He said, "Yes, everyone thinks I'm a great speaker. So that means they expect more from me."

It reminds me of Daniel Chambliss' findings in "The Mundanity of Excellence":

"Swimmers like Lundquist, who train at competition-level intensity, therefore have an advantage: arriving at a meet, they are already accustomed to doing turns correctly, taking legal starts, doing a proper warmup, and being aggressive from the outset of the competition. If each day of the season is approached with a seriousness of purpose, then the big meet will not come as a shock.

Feynman's diligence was not at all surprising. We cultivate this idea of eccentric geniuses. But it's precisely the diligence- to little details, over years and decades- that makes all the difference.

- http://www.visakanv.com/blog/2014/01/the-mundanity-of-excell...
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