skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but probably less than would be disbursed to those excluded by means testing. If it had no other downside, it might well be a good idea.
Is this saying someone swatted the Linode offices to steal a phpBB user database? If so, that's a bizarrely dedicated effort
This episode was fantastic, thanks for reminding me how much I love listening to John Siracusa.
Woz. Greatest guy. Truly a national treasure.
The reason you (and others) think this is that Scott Adams' article appeared on HN recently, so it appears original.

In fact, Scott Adams' piece of wisdom was written in much the same manner, and with exactly the same source: the writer himself.

Systems thinking has been around for a long, long time and this wisdom is not new. We should just be glad it's coming up again and again, because it is correct, and that's what's important.
Remove one of the disks from the mdadm RAID1, setup a zpool on that disk, setup the OS, copy the relevant data over, and then simply attach the 2nd drive to the zpool and zfs will automatically create a mirrored vdev for you.

If the existing filesystem can be read by FreeBSD (like ext), you can just copy the data over in a single system but in the worst case, you could just copy the data over from a 2nd system over the network. You'll probably want to do that using tar with archive options, so the only difference between doing it locally vs over the network is whether you pipe the tar create directly back to tar extract, or to a tcp utility like tcputils or netcat in between.
Wallstreet has so much diverged from the real world that their financial innovations benefit world as much as invention of new casino game. On the other hand their inventions can hurt economy a lot because they invite to their casino people who apart from gambling use their money for developing economy. They lure them with high and fairly sure profits, but since investing in financial instruments is nothing more than gambling, probable high profits are offset by fairly rare but absolutely devastating crashes that damages players that haven't completely parted with real world economy yet. And that's really harmful.
Example of Father/Son Respect, Honor, & Love
It reminds me of that old quote from Baron Rothschild (popularized, I think, by Ben Bernanke):

> Baron Rosthschild was once heard to say that he knew of only two men who really understood gold -- an obscure clerk in the Bank of France and one of the directors of the Bank of England. "Unfortunately," he added, "they disagree."

http://goo.gl/7EUCx
I have 5 cats. They are cool to have around. I guess I would read a site about cats if it was humane, highly informative and helped me make their lives better.

I don't like or view sites that make fun of cats or any animals.

My suggestion? Curate niche content. Be the tastemaker of indy sci-fi or crowd source projects. Whatever your interest is.
I believe when they refer to "the incident", they don't mean the immediate one with the SWAT members, but the previous year's hacking incident, https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
I wasn't excited about scala's macros initially [a], but Eugene's Burmako's recent talk [b] on the constraints the developers worked with to keep macros consistent and interoperable was illuminating, and has changed my mind to a large degree [c].

In the end, they only directly added support for
1) type-safe macros, aka "black-box" macros
2) ...invoked transparently as methods, aka "def macros"

They identified "white-box" (non-type safe) macros and quasiquoting as distinct from black-box macros, because the type signature of a black-box macro tells you approximately what it will do, meaning that you can treat it as a "black box". But additionally, in order to write a meaningful type signature, the input to a black-box macro must _already_ be valid scala code! This means that the addition of macros cannot actually result in new scala syntax [d].

[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3709193

[b] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scala-macros

[c] still hoping the existence of scala macros leads to the deprecation of a bunch of other features though

[d] see the explanation starting around 33m30s in [b]
OP should modify the title to clarify that this was 1996.
tl;dr

Can someone summarize the relevant points for us?
It's larger point was that how you think about success matters very much. If you focus on your goals, you'll lose sight of process; but if you focus on correct process, you don't need to have sight of your goals.
Pretty cool stuff! I think it's great that this lib is designed with extensibility in mind rather than being tightly coupled to any particular data store. I can see this being very useful for offline sync and reactive UI projects.
"Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?"
"Various manufacturing fixed cost (safety tests, product tests, etc) $5"
"Marketing, stocking, etc fees $5"

These figures are just arbitrary. Weakens his argument.
See I thought so at first too, but the phrasing of "Not so coincidentally" plus the below phrase is in the future-perfect seems to intimate that the two are related

We will be discussing new security policies to address scenarios like this.
why does a dumb consumer think a good kettle costs $90+? because they are dumb.

http://www.target.com/p/aroma-hot-h20-x-press-7-cup-stainles...
Could you not simply store your privet key in a truecrypt container then split the truecrypt container into however may par files as you want and distribute the pieces to as may friends via micro SD for safe keeping? Then not only would your friends not be able to conspire and betray you (as this is Jason Bourne scenario) you would then need most of the peices and the passcode to access the contents
All of this is still true today.

Edit: except the parts about SF, obviously. San Francisco is clearly not the interesting eclectic city the author describes. More and more of the office park culture of SJ & The Valley has crept into San Francisco, and this influx of white and Asian males who work in tech has made San Francisco many steps closer to a large office park "city".
I hate to say it, but this is another, probably impractical attempt at the holy grail of 3D displays, the "3D projector" visualized in probably nine out of every ten big-budget science fiction films over the past thirty years. It's something we dream of making a reality, but the laws of physics just aren't on our side for volumetric displays.

This isn't a problem that's going to be solved until someone discovers some novel property of light that allows two invisible beams to converge into a visible point.
I would love to see some data visualization of this.

Hans Rosling, who runs the Gapminder website, produces some great visualizations of world economic trends.

"The River of Myths" (a famous visualization, short)

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-river-of-myths/

"DON’T PANIC — The Facts About Population" (an hour-long documentary, including interesting visualizations)

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-p...
As it relates to production process, and management, with the goal of quality: seek out W. Edwards Deming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming. It's not terribly accessible, but it is pragmatic and wise. Highly recommend his book Out of the Crisis, in which he describes the ideas he put in place to pull Japan out of the post WWII recession and turn them into an economic power respected for quality.
My professional experience has been the opposite. Over the course of my career, I've seen a steady decline in leadership, project management and general management. The return on skill has gone up. If you are the best in the world at your topic, the world is your oyster. Things turn around so quickly today, that specialists who can stay current can extract a ton of value quickly. It's tougher for leaders and managers.
Gumroad charges 5% + 25¢ per transaction.

Compared with Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢, it's expensive, but Gumroad appears to do two things that Stripe doesn't:

- Work out whether and how much sales tax to charge (which I guess should be easy if you operate in only one state)

- Absorb chargeback fees

This second one makes the 5% seem more reasonable.
It's pretty cool that at least two of the off-site links from that page are still live, considering how quickly most sites from that era fell into link rot:

"prefab hell" http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96sep/kunstler/k...

"sushi" http://www.lauralemay.com/essays/death-by-wasabi.html
A title describes your responsibilities, not your seniority.
Four suggestions: 1. Lenticular screen for a passenger's detailed view. 2. ?Infrared? sensor detecting which side is using it. 3. Anchor/dedicate screen space to controls. 4. Haptics with physical reference points. All should be relatively cheap to implement.
This phenomenon of a "permissions mismatch" is common enough with various open-source software licenses that it has its own name: license incompatibility [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility
I dunno. Maybe I have no taste, but sometimes I go up to the city and eat someplace and the food is crap. Sometimes I eat down here and it's good. As a matter of degrees, I won't deny the city is better, not to mention being a cheaper place to live in most parts. But it's not quite as black and white as all this.

Mountain View is not worse in this regard than any other suburban city. It's better than most. But it isn't a Big City, and only a foolish person could expect it to be, given its population density.
Pretentious hipsters ruining SF since the last century.
On second thought though, technology has allowed us to share our views about this topic right now. The text medium and relative anonymity has enabled us to share a lot more than we would have a hundred years ago.
Alright, so it's outbound traffic + app storage that you pay for. (After all, you can set the DB disk size in the calculator)

It's still a bit confusing though, (IMHO), given that the discrepancy between hourly & monthly rates grows bigger the bigger your package is. It starts off from ~0.2 USD and goes up to ~400 USD if you max everything out and there's no detailed description of what additions are contained in the monthly package.

Also, on the more detailed pricing page their "recent prices" are broken and only show if you switch to Asia + then back to the US. Furthermore, do you need to pay for the server's forced minimum storage requirements (e.g. 20 GB * 0.16 USD per ? - I'm assuming monthly here) or do you only have to pay for your additional requirements?

EDIT: also, the suggested packages on the more detailed overview page list a 512mb RAM / 1 vCPU instance which is no longer available at all - (isn't that what heroku offers for free)?
ok they've change the monthly transfer limit since the last time they offered 50 GB for free. However the 250MB file size limit is still a deal breaker for me.
A third option after PIDs and mechanical is to use an opamp and thermistor to control the temp: https://math.temple.edu/~cmartoff/teaching/ph22109/thermisto... or one of these: http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheet/nationalsemiconduc... (discontinued, but I'm sure there is an equivalent made) I bet this thing: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e60d/ uses one or the other, given the analog control.
Stop guest posting for SEO
Perhaps, lack of understanding on my side, but what does "their number will be up" mean?
From what I've heard, it's most often the case that developers want to move into trading.
Spectacular photos of SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier
Show HN: Don't Get Ripped Off By Your Lawyer
The best indian restaurant in bay area is Sakoon, on castro in MV, try the lunch buffet and kerala fish curry

The best japanese sushi in bay area is Hoshi in santa clara, try the toro.

The best vietnamese homestyle in bay area is Tofoo Com Chay in downtown san jose, try the vegetarian bamboo soup noodle

The best cheap michelin french in bay area is at Chez TJ, in downtown MV.

The best burmese restaurant in bay area is Rangoon Cafe in palo alto.

The best chinese hot pot in bay area is wuji hot pot in milpitas

The best indonesian restaurant in bay area is bay leaf in sunnyvale. try nasi bungkus

The best korean bbq in bay area is gooyi gooyi in santa clara CA

The best independent coffeeshops in bay area are in MV (dana street, red rock)

The best steakhouse in bay area is alexander steakhouse in cupertino
Yeah, it sounds like someone was aware of an old copy (2010-03-03) of a database backup sitting on some "personal" server?

Was it the https://forum.linode.com forum? It looks like it does run on PHPBB...

In theory, it sounds like the goal of the SWAT was to clear the building of employees, and break into the target server, while no one would be sitting at an office workstation, and thus rendered incapable of disrupting the attack. It sounds like all that effort actually worked.

So then, after everyone returned to the office, staff discovered the intrusion, and they performed a password reset for anyone who hasn't changed their forum password since 2010.

But! Were the forum credentials valuable? Do people do things like mine bitcoins with their hosting? Is the PHPBB MySQL database isolated from all other user credentials, or is there overlap?
Is there any app or project something like btysnc?
I mean data sync using WebRTC?
Any thought about speed? Can it be faster than btysnc?
Thanks
Healthcare is free in that anyone anywhere can go to a hospital with anything and be treated for it without paying anything. (And everyone who earns enough money pays taxes).

You really want to argue that healthcare isn't 'free'?

Gun control isn't 'authoritarian' it's sensible. Only with a screwed up U.S agg-prop point of view could you construe it as 'authoritarian', there is no mention of guns as a "right" in any of Australia's (or almost every other country in the worlds) constitution or case law... So could you justify how you came to your point of view?

There are no active internet filters in australia... Though there is talk of them, and some ISPs filter stuff... Do I need to remind you about Wikileaks getting it's Amazon servers shutdown... Even if there was a filter in Australia, it would be 'closer' to the US not further in similarities.
but the context is food labelling, not technical/philisophical argument!

Let's address THAT definition of "Natural" without getting sidetracked by irrelevancies.
Whining is forever.
Its gotten better in terms of cuisine since 1996 with all the funny money floating around constantly.

Then again, you have to deal with all the people that this has attracted in Palo Alto and Mountain View.
How about this for an abbridged version?

"You can add methods to any objects (no metaclass required), and any object can be inherited form, becoming the prototype of its descendants. In other words, any object can perform the job of a class in a class-based language."
How can someone say with a straight face that it's "pretty hard to screw up sushi"
Movie adaptations of novels are generally very, very questionable in terms of true-to-the-original accuracy. And novels at least have the advantage of having been written for the kind of entertainment-driven everything-fits-together narrative that movies are compelled to conform to. Real life, with its terribly inconvenient nature for pacing and self-contradicting, does even less well when compacted into 2 hours for a primarily visual medium.

If you see a movie adaptation, you can be pretty sure it's inaccurate. The question of accuracy shouldn't be in the detail; it should be in the message that the movie was trying to tell.

"Ip Man - A Legend is Born", for instance, conveyed Yip Man's desire to spread Wing Chun better than any other movie biography, whereas "Ip Man" best discussed his philosophy of life and "The Grandmaster" put him into a historical context completely ignored by the other movies. They're all factually wrong, but they're wrong with different emphases and strengths because they're expressing different perspectives on the same life.
Structured Haskell mode
Sure, agreed. I guess I meant: Australia would be a more useful comparison.
You know what that's so true. I avoided NameCheap the first few times specifically because of the name. Sounds like a guy running a company out of his basement. And with domain names being worth $2,000+ and on rare occasions getting hijacked and stolen, "cheap" doesn't sound like a good thing.

"I'm looking for a construction company, anyone know a good one.", "Oh yeah I use Cheap Construction Co. they're great!"... "Yeah no thanks."
The Geigenwerk/"Leonardo's piano" reinvented in the '70s—as a guitar accessory
This doesn't discredit goals, they're still very useful, and your process must align with your goals to help reach them.

The way you'd think about procrastination, for example, wouldn't be to simply set goals of productivity, but to find the underlying causes of your procrastination. Often this is a lack of organization, a lack of system to determine what to do next, a physiological issue, a lack of time to meet your basic needs, or a lack of ability.

All of these have systemic roots, and systematic solutions. Improve your system and get your tasks out of your head (GTD), fix your metabolism (systematic exercise, diet, etc), change your schedule to make time for your unmet needs, or systematically learn skills that allow you to progress faster.

Systems thinking isn't about ignoring goals, but rather about solving the roadblocks, which are usually systemic in nature due to the natural complexity of human nature.

Rarely are solutions so simple as "want your goal harder." Look one or two levels deeper, and you get into systems thinking, and you find better solutions that are more effective. You still have to want your goal, but you'll be more successful at actually reaching it.
I've read the article twice and still don't understand what the story is or what is being implied. Are they saying that whoever hacked into their database had the office SWAT'ted as part of the attack? Can anyone with more knowledge of this describe why having the office vacated would benefit the attacker?

For being a blog post that is supposed to illustrate their new transparency regarding security issues, it sure seems cryptic.
The geography perfectly reflects the life stages of a middle class american. SF is young, fun and eat-out place and as you go south its gets older. San Jose is a middle-age boring place where people are busy with kids and other house chores.
Structured Haskell Mode
I don't think the data requirements are that realistic. While the actual interference patterns on a hologram would be ridiculously large to send as a bitmap, it's easy to compute the interference patterns for the superposition of points of lights, which is what this volumetric display is showing anyways. So a computer would only need to send a list of points and colors to the display.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_holography#P...
As other told you this version is intended to be used on amd64 CPUs, which means the most popular 64 bit CPUs (both Intel and AMD).

The reason they don't provide ARM version of FreeBSD is because embedded systems are not the same and have different setup. Since Raspberry Pi is quite popular I can imagine that someone might build available to other for download but I wouldn't expect FreeBSD project do it (it probably would be someone else - I see link to images here https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi). If you have FreeBSD machine you can compile it yourself.
This has been a bug for so long, it feels like Groundhog day. Chrome developers couldn't care less about windows users.
Don't want to spoil iWoz for you, but wanted to mention that his father was pretty cool too. Taught him the right stuff that enabled him to build great things. And it is not like he was some kid-genius. It is just that when you have a full scale electronics lab at home, you tend to pick things up, even as a four year old.
I grew up there too and will live there in a yr or two again. I partied, raved, did drugs, made unforgettable friendships, went hiking, water rafting, and much more. Iunno man. Might want to hit one of the local boys or girls up. Many people are unaware of how many different types of lifestyles are very close. Their lives just self select for similar populations.
I never get tired of listening to his Incomparable episodes on "Star Wars." And, of course, the final Hypercritical episode, in which he dissected his own podcast.
This article implies that the access of the old server was linked to the SWAT raid.

"Not so coincidentally, an old personal server had a database accessed using old forum credentials obtained from the incident last year."

It is a little odd how they praise the SWAT team in the first paragraph, then imply they hacked into a server in the second paragraph.
"A new class of middle-income nations that barely existed 50 years ago now includes more than half the world's population."

I found this sentence confusing as:

- I read 'middle-income' to mean 'median income'

- I read 'middle-income nations' to mean 'nations whose mean per capita income is at or close to the world-wide median per capita income'

Can anyone provide an alternative (less confusing but still specific) reading?
ok, some of this is ridiculous

- sushi is really easy to screw up, just buy really crappy fish, and alot of people do that

- there's awesome chinese food and vietnamese food in san jose, much better than most of SF, second only to LA in the states.
I think Woz said more less the same. Something like it was maybe not 100% of the story but at least things where mostly true and the essence of the characters right.

EDIT: Watch him say it : http://macmothership.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=226
I am sure if there was profit to be made from these kind of performance metrics for Programming, you would see entire industry spring up to solve that problem.
Yeah, well, I shouldn't provide a link I know that works... that wouldn't be cool on HN lol

It was actually pretty good from BBC (some BBC documentary shows have been proven to be fake in the past)
One Hundred Songs In A Day
"I think what would be cool/interesting (and I'm guessing what cing meant to say) would be if there were a way to get that list (the scary-looking one, not the vitamins and minerals one) from some procedure done to a vegetable.'

It is currently not possible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolomics#Metabolome

Found some papers on Google that try to find fractions of the metabolome -- in this one, the tomato:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533921/

The identification of compounds, in particular secondary
metabolites, through a metabolomic profiling approach
encounters some major difficulties. First, the number of
commercially available standards of secondary metabolites
reported to be present in a specific plant species or
tissue is low. Second, in an automated online separation,
PDA detection, MS measurement, and/or MS/MS fragmentation
of mass signals, it is difficult to meet optimized levels
for all eluting compounds. Due to overlapping compounds,
low intensity mass signals, or difficulties in the
isolation of the mass signal for MS/MS fragmentation,
the extraction of usable information for identification
purposes can be complicated. Third, the lack of dedicated
software and databases that integrate spectroscopic and
MS data limits the identification procedure to a manual
level. Nevertheless, by these means 43 metabolites could be
readily assigned in the tomato fruit extract (Tables III
and IV), leaving more to be identified. The total number
of compounds detectable by our LC-MS system is difficult
to calculate due to the presence of mass signals from
isotopes, adducts, and unintended in-source fragmentation.
Tangentially, that's the future continuous ("We will be discussing..."), not the future perfect (which would be, e.g., "We will have been discussing...").
Re. Geigenwerk versus /viola organista/, I'll leave this here: http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/11/leonardos-ins...