skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make it sound like your decadences cost little ("10 percent externality") and give you lots of happiness, when it's the other way around -- things like eating cattle, fish -- things like driving -- have huge environmental costs and probably don't make you that much happier or better off.
An artificial divide eh? If it wasn't for nationalism everyone would hug and be friends? I think nationalism is more of an effect than a cause.
I'm pretty sure the top-end Dell Precision mobile workstations have more computing power than the top-end Macbook pros, for instance. The same is probably true for the HP Elitebooks.

They may not be as light, though.
The traceroute is useless without a return traceroute..
Note that boot2docker will expose dockerd on the network if booted on VMware Fusion too. So if you boot in it, it works all the same.
The error in saying process is bad, is simply that its also subject to human error.

But process is refined over time. It may have a wrong step, but then you fix that and now it doesn't. That's the point: you write down what you should do so you don't do the wrong thing again.

I'll go further: automation is bad because a human may have made an error in writing the automation code. See what I did there?
Facebook isn’t Myspace
New York Police Department is beta-testing Google Glass
Don't quite agree; it's time we stop putting the colonial legacy as a reason. The reason? It's been 65 years since colonialism ended and that's enough time to fix things. A lot of things have been fixed too but the real problem is a huge population. It's trivial to fix things for 1 million people compared to the 1.2 billion people and that's the real problem; not colonial legacy.
The Big Data we should be paying attention to
> Nobody is calling spending weeks writing a caching layer for a 20-row database "elegant" or "best practice". That's a complete straw man.

Have you used any Java API? That's exactly the feeling I get from using them.
Americans elect their legislators. If enough people in their district don't like what they're doing, they can put someone else in office. It's a beautiful system.

And careful what you ask for re: a SCOTUS ruling.
But Google was one of the main driving forces behind the DRM proposal…
As bad as the spread sheets can get it's helpful to have the business side make them. Even if you do have to implement a 'real' solution at least you now have a prototype to go off of
I'm not sure that affects the morality of it though.
Windows 8.1 Update 1 now looking like April
I first thought this is a Wiki for Algorithms with sample code in different languages.

Well, this site is apparently a marketplace for algorithms.

If anyone is more interested in open Wikis, I found what two sites using Google:

* RosettaCode.org (code in many languages): http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Merge_sort

* Algorithmist.com: http://www.algorithmist.com/index.php/Main_Page
yes it's intentional!1!!!

Just a internet joke from 7 years ago, playing out its death spiral as wit on a corporation's 404 page.
Hence the docking station. Full workstation when plugged in and 8" screen in meetings.
A bit OT, but somewhat relevant:

I like Angular, but I also find that in many cases it's pretty heavy weight for me. I've been working on a library that lets you add AJAX to your app w/o any javascript, using HTML attributes, REST-ful bindings and the Basecamp2 content-swapping approach:

http://intercoolerjs.org/

It's not designed to be a be-all-end-all javascript library, but it lets you tactically AJAX-ify your app in high value places without a lot of complexity.

Here's a (crappy) demo I threw up:

https://vimeo.com/85881209

It's in early alpha, but if anyone is interested, please fork and ping me. Lots of interesting stuff to implement still.
450 million for a company that never shipped a product. Their entire value came from the algorithms and algorithm developers. That part is unheard of.
Ehrlich wasn't wrong - hundreds of millions of people did die from starvation in the 1970s. Even in the 1990s, more than 100 million people died from starvation. Now ~8 million people die from starvation every year. You're right that the situation has got better since the 1970s, thanks to the Green Revolution and economic improvements. I've laid out why it's going to get worse again.
I dunno, 37s got pretty childish on twitter. I think this is a lose lose situation, both parties look like amateurs.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be sarcastic or not.
THE COZY: Smartphone-Controlled Cover for Your Radiator
My understanding is that staffers take the calls and basically tally numbers of support (positive or negative). If the numbers agree with your representative, they can use that as ammo in their debate.
dunno how to post anonymously because the jsfiddle url contains my user name :(

http://jsfiddle.net/wanhalo/G5ShW/1/
Units of measure like "2h+10min" in JavaScript with a 17 line sweet.js macro
No, not really kidding. I resent having to study some superficial biology to satisfy somebody's notion of a good rounded education. I grew up in a University town with a large teaching hospital. We had biology inflicted upon us by well-meaning folk who wrote curriculum and were all related to the University in some capacity.

I'm not anti-learning. I object to somebody else dictating the set of superficial knowledge I need to learn.
If it is elegant then it won't have tight coupling everywhere. Presumably by "elegant" you really mean inelegant.
Don't panic, but that public Wi-Fi comes from ... inside your house
Really? When was the last time you tried it? I've been using VirtualBox for years and it's been pretty solid for me.
I'd suggest giving ranges for total out the door pricing based on mileage or some other formula. I know this is a hard thing to guesstimate because of how complex airfare pricing is.

I personally love the idea of paying for a travel consultant to take care of my trip for me - and more importantly, be there to take care of me if something goes awry - its like a modern day travel agent, but with more transparency in pricing. Showing what someone would have paid for said trip thru kayak or whatever would also show the added value - if you can figure out a way to give semi accurate numbers of the savings on the front side based on mileage and actual savings when the trip consultant had set up the trip for you would go a long way to getting return customers.

Offering travel insurance that actually does something (versus what most of the common carriers offer) might worthwhile, especially for complex fare hacking trips split across several carriers.

The biggest issue with the travel industry is a lack of transparency - none of the existing online services really help with that.
Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease
Over Engineering != Best Practices
Optimizing only if needed != Cutting Corners
but
Bad Code == Bad Code (no justification for it)
Macaw is almost here
I did try it when I was a young kid, around 10 or so, and many people smoked. I tried it cause it supposedly made you cool. And, yes, I never inhaled the first time cause I coughed too much.

When I was in my teens, I went with some friends out and about and they all smoked. They told me I had to take small breaths to get used to inhaling the smoke. I tried it and felt the overwhelming fogginess it brought to my lungs. I was an athlete and immediately sensed how it was clogging things up. My lungs were trying to tell me something!

That was many decades ago and I have not picked up a cigarette since and never will.

I had a girlfriend who smoked. When we broke up, she said that the one thing she was grateful to me for was getting her to quit smoking. She said, "Everything smells better and tastes better and I don't run out of breath all the time."

I was great in bed, too.
Awesome to see crowd funding getting leveraged for such great potential. The team's been at this for a while and making good progress. Great to see the new name!
Bill Gates spends first day back unsuccesfully installing Windows 8.1
I seriously doubt #5 has anything to do with it. Considering that he has been in the U.S his entire Adult life (i.e old enough to make his own choices), one can characterize him as American rather than Indian.
A Readable Wikipedia
Microryza/Experiment founder here, we're excited to launch a new landing page introducing the new name. http://experiment.com
Same idea, you reduce arguments down to these repeated definitive-sounding cliches that are held sacrosanct and impenetrable to dissent.
Congratulations. You invented travel agents.

Modernized them, I suppose.

Not exactly an exciting and thrilling turn of events but it seems the metrics all point toward this as a better solution so I suppose "exciting" is overrated.
For 1),

I think the difference is the mechanism of automation. The cotton gin meant the millions cotton pickers were out of cotton picking work, but this was being somewhat offset by increased low-skill, low-intelligence factory work elsewhere. Inventions disrupted and enabled greater individual productivity in single verticals of work: cotton picking, logistics (steam engines), circular saw, etc. These productivity innovations enabled a single person to do the work of dozens or hundreds.

Today, robots are removing the need for a human at all in not just one but effectively every low skill, low intelligence job. We're not far from a world where the great automated farms that feed the majority of the US are run by a few people making sure a swarm of end to end farming machines aren't broken down. This will happen in the next 10 years. Slightly different robots are already automating logistics in warehouses, and soon they'll be driving our commercial trucks. They'll fly our planes, build our buildings, our cars, our electronics. Oh, you say, but someone needs to build the robots. Robots build the robots. They build the robots that build the robots. There will need to be people who design and program and repair the robots, but none of that is low skill or low education; the cotton picker of today couldn't build or design or repair a robot. It's impossible to predict the future, but the nature of accelerating returns suggests that in the next 50 years we will replace almost every low skill job worth automating. Notable exceptions are human facing jobs in the service industry, though I expect innovation will change things pretty wildly there as well. Looking at you, accountants.

The TL;DR: the difference between today and the industrial revolution is that robotics is capable of automating almost any low skill job, rather than enabling greater productivity for humans doing the job.
In theory, both should get logged in the system. In practice, though, (I've seen this question answered in a lot of AMAs by congressmen et al.), they simply don't treat email as a constituency channel.

The amount of attention your representatives tend to give your issue is directly proportional to the amount of time you can force them to spend listening. You can filter an email; you can skim a letter; you have to listen to a call all the way through. The best thing, though, is to set up an appointment, and talk to them in person.
It's interesting to see where Apple has done visible product collaborations before. Rarely have they been effective. In the post-clone (Jobs.2) era I can recall the HP-iPod [1], and the Motorola RAZR with iTunes [2]. Both (differently) lopsided in their loyalties. Both failures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod%2BHP
[2] http://appleinsider.com/articles/06/06/12/motorola_razr_with...
I've been building an angular app for a few months now I must admit that angular is great, but the learning curve is too steep.
Of course.

Problem is that ocean acidification (low pH) gives jellies advantages

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121231180617.ht...
http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/3/414.full
http://www.spc.int/oceanfish/en/publications/doc_download/72...

Though some analysis point that there are no benefits to jelly fish.
http://aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_53/issue_5/2040.pdf

Generally, from what I've heard, the global warming is already straining the metabolisms of the existing sea creatures to a breaking point.

Problem is we need to a super sharp CO2 reduction right now, to just keep the climate as it is now (i.e. patterns of extreme weather) and hope to restore balance within 50 years. This is ofc based on simulation so God knows, how accurate it is...
Yes definitely. The code is available for people to learn from, and you will be able to edit the code and see the results immediately. The goal is to all about making algorithms more accessible.
It's the first time I see prices comparable to Hetzner's - thanks for the info!
Ah! I get to plug one of my favorite websites, OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man): http://www.omim.org

Their article on left handedness goes into great detail as to the biology behind hand preference. In short, it's related to brain patterning and the direction the hair on your head swirls (seriously!): http://omim.org/entry/139900

As for the evolutionary reason, the most recent research suggests that it may have to do with cooperation. Simply put, it's easier to cooperate when everyone (or most everyone) uses the same hand for most activities. More details here: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/04/left-...
They should at least promote the good legislators that cosponsored the USA Freedom Act on the banner so the good ones don't get sent massive phone calls and emails and are instead promoted for doing what's right.
> So what? Surely this kind of argument happens any time you have a proposed standard from a single vendor.

The declarative nature of CSS means you have to set syntax in order to test things out while also making it bad to deprecate syntax (no meaningful conditionals). Attempted workarounds are things like the vendor prefixes disaster.

I was under the impression that post-split Blink was going to do the same thing Mozilla does and turn on unprefixed experimental features for Canary/Beta and flag them off in the release channel until things hit CR.

There isn't a lot of debate that the feature in question is desired but it seems like goog is jumping the gun. I'd guess it's because they have internal stakeholders (polymer, angular).

P.S. If anybody on the committee is reading and cares about a random guy on the internet's opinion: +1 ::shadow, ::shadow-all
Geo-congresso 2014
UK reveals footage of 'top secret' drone [video]
I agree that the default was wrong in Windows Vista. I disagree that an icon would've been OK -- as Joel Spolsky pointed out, he had no idea what the icon would do. That's why he opened the fly-out menu, and that's why a lot of users opened the fly-out menu. Where they got confused.

I just found it frustrating that the tech press echo chamber ganged up on the fly-out menu, when that wasn't even the problem. The fact that Microsoft eliminated the complaints with just one button in Windows 7 shows exactly where the actual problem was.
I too have noticed some conservative institutions looking into or already switching to using AngularJS, such as banks, and some areas of the federal government.

I, for one, am glad to embrace my new frontend overlord.
If I have a bucket with 2 million key, it takes a long time and 2000 requests to get the dir listing. With mimicdb it would only be one fast request.
Missed the point. All W3C committee member influence the set of features covered by W3C standards. That's what the W3C committe is for.

But the allegation here is that Google is ignoring the standardization process and shipping features before getting signoff via a committee draft, and that's a bad thing. The MPAA can't ship features at all, so they would never have access to this trick without convincing a browser vendor to do it for them.
Not so sure about that.

http://www.palantir.net/experience/public-radio-internationa...
I'm curios, do they actually do any kind of protection, and what's their limit?
OK, fair enough. But you mean like a debate on the floor? I'm not sure how many minds are changed on the floor of the house... especially based on a second-hand tally of constituent calls.
Was the OS X binary built without cgo? I can't seem to access containers in private https registries:

$ docker login https://registry.example.com
2014/02/05 14:36:20 Invalid Registry endpoint: Get https://registry.example.com/v1/_ping: x509: failed to load system roots and no roots provided

The hostname in question has a valid SSL certificate. I encountered a similar problem in the past with Go built from homebrew[1][2]. Has anyone else seen this?

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/17758
[2] https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4791

Update: Filed a bug against docker, others are having the same issue. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/3946
We ended up writing an s3 library out of our frustration with Boto's slowness and it has a nicer, requests-inspired interface too

https://github.com/smore-inc/tinys3
This comment was almost as funny as the site!
Yep if you're willing to trade weight you can easily get a core i7-3840QM which can do 8 threads (4 cores) fairly fast. My current one I've been able to emulate some of the last gen consoles even for fun, compiling Firefox or Firefox OS is largely going to be an issue of disk speed which is fixable with either gobs of ram or and SSD, (preferably both, though overprices the alienware m18x r2 will take multiple drives, an msata ssd, and 32gb of ram and can be upgraded to workstation graphics cards if you have the cash).
No, that is not the form of an ultimatum. In an ultimatum, the threat will only come to pass if the target does not comply with the demand — it's an either-or situation, with the threat used as leverage to get what you really want. Google isn't saying, "Either suggest some stuff or we will ship the Shadow DOM API. We don't want that to happen, right?"

The message was of the form of an advisement rather than an ultimatum. It is similar to "Hey, everybody, I'm putting these cupcakes out. Get them fast because when they're gone, they're gone." I don't think anybody would hear that and say, "Hey, stop throwing around ultimatums." The "threat" is not a threat — it's a heads-up about something that is going to happen, so that people have a chance to respond adequately.

You can still say that Google was not considerate enough in what they did, but there is definitely a reading of the message that is not an ultimatum.
Which I've read many times, but nonetheless, the imagery of highways shot at slow frame rates with long exposures creating a visual metaphor similar to a circuit, used many times in later works (even commercials) originated here.
Hi kingnight, our experts will refund you if they can't help or you're not happy.

In the old system, there was always a lot of tension when we'd refund customers, because the experts would have already spent a lot of time. But in the new system, we made it so we (admin) can't actually refund you, only the experts can. This has worked wonders because they now use refunding as a form of segmentation. Often they'll refund after 30 seconds if it's clear they can't help, which is a far cry from the amount of effort they'd previous expend before a refund.
> Imagine Google built a open-source, very well-designed doc & app platform, with the advantages of both the web and native platforms. If this platform would get widely adopted, it may be a good thing.

I don't think it's a good thing if Google achieves this by making Blink into a de-facto standard, effectively making Blink (a large pile of C++ code controlled by a single vendor) the only viable browser engine.
Hello, author here,

I recommend App::pmuninstall for this task:

pm-uninstall [options] Module

https://metacpan.org/pod/pm-uninstall
Ask HN: Is anyone using the new webdesign tool Macaw?
http://macaw.co

If so, what has been your experience?
Clickable

http://macaw.co
> the learning curve is too steep

Compared to what?
(Not the op) I can still be annoyed by their apparent conclusion that 'nobody wants an ebook' and attempt to make them aware that not only do I want an ebook, but I actively do not want a printed book.
TL;DR: Anecdotes from an angular conference, garden variety hyperbole, contrived google trends chart.
Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor
You are lucky if deadlines with actual penalties have been a "tiny minority" of your experiences. The problem I experienced too much at some companies is "management" making artificial deadlines become real deadlines. VP of X sees feature set for delivery on Friday, sets up demo for potential client on Friday. Now everyone is in crunch mode or the company suffers when client can't see the feature. Or CxO drops in and says "I got invited to Conf Z in two weeks, I told them I'm going to demo Feature C and they just tweeted it, that's still on track, right?" Now, those were not the best managed companies, but I'd imagine there's a lot of people who end up in similar situations. As well, the author works at a consulting company, where I imagine many of the deadlines are baked into the contracts as deliverables with financial penalties for not meeting them. Consulting is a different world than a startup where you get to build something you hope to personally use for years.
This used to be called Worse is Better. It's not a new idea: http://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
Apple Patents Induction Charging With Orientation-Based Action Triggers
I am interested in the BTRFS support in particular, it is clear that performance in FS is key. However, what I like the most about Docker is the ability to use layers and diff them. In effect, I want version control for images, because it allows me to not run extra provisioning tools for the images (just rely on simply Zookeeper stuff for app config). Whatever gives me 'vcs' for images in the most performant way, wins in my book.
how many airline tickets are sold a day?
Remember when fighting back involved marches and riots in the streets? Now it's a hashtag.

Waaaay more convenient. Things are definitely going to change.
I'm disappointed by the total lack of evolutionary perspective in this article.
That's true if it was local. A 2 million key response from an externally hosted MimicDB instance would probably have to be split in 2000 requests and take the same amount of time.

Send me an email nathan@nathancahill.com and I can show you how to set up a local cache. It's quite simple.
I can't figure out how such a system is supposed to work. Anyone have any ideas?

For example, a couple of years ago I worked on an algorithm to find the maximum common subgraph of a set of 2 or more molecular graphs. More specifically, I wanted the largest subgraph in M of N graphs (M<=N), I wanted to define the atom match criteria, and I wanted to require that rings not be broken in the subgraph. (Chemists love rings.)

I did it the old-fashioned way. I read papers, I investigated similar systems, I implemented various implementation details, and I did a lot of testing.

How would I find such an algorithm using this system?

There are only a few people who develop this sort of algorithm. Why might I expect that this system is a better resource than traditional means?
In that case the code was bad enough, it would have probably been quicker writing from scratch, if I had a decent spec to go with.
Congrats on the new launch! I'm so excited for you and your team. I genuinely believe that you are creating the platform by which many people, who otherwise may have been shut out, will get their chance to contribute to the sum of all knowledge. That's something very dear to me. I wish you and your team all my luck and support.
oh my all caps on HN. I guess there really is no where safe on the Internet.
can confirm ! am architect at at a major Canadian bank and AngularJS is our preferred UI framework , even over JSF and that is a big deal for all java shops.