skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's not that they can't"

No, they really can't. Garbage in garbage out. Can't implement an algorithm or follow a protocol unless you understand it, and the world is full of people who literally don't understand how a thermostat works, how to drive safely, or how to implement the NRAs three basic rules of gun safety.

Note that our shared enjoyment of text as per your 3rd paragraph is only politically correct WRT to programming... if you dare to suggest text might also be the superior user interface, the dogpile will begin. Which is sad. Closed minds are always weaker than open minds...

Lets play a game, I'm thinking of a well designed, expressive, long lived programming language developed by a linguist... Its dumped on here at HN for no logical reason, just the usual womens fashion fad explanations. I suspect this would happen to any "English like" future programming language.
Thanks, a couple people here also seem confused by the join button, perhaps take it to a sign-up form, or change the join button text to be a little more descriptive of what you want the user to accomplish.
'Will the state pay for all these expenses?' For the most part, no.

I strongly suspect that one of the reasons for using a subpoena here is that it transfers the effort and cost of performing an investigation to the respondents, who have been put in the position of proving their innocence, or rather that no crime has actually occurred.

The interrogatories show that the attorney-general's office has made no effort to understand what this software does, and has made no investigation into whether anything suspicious has actually happened. They are on a fishing trip, with the subpoena as the dynamite.
How did Americans manage to lose $119 Billion gambling last year?
That's unfortunate - just shoot me an email and we'll hook you up: nathan@codewars.com
I agree that the author has a webcentric view or experience gained primarily from web development. For most web apps the cost of an individual failure is essentially zero. In that sort of scenario tolerance of bugs is much higher so you can get away with playing fast and loose with process. If you look at industries where the result of a software failure is someone getting killed[1] then you will find lots of process. This process isn't there just for the sake of having process. It saves lives.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
My understanding is that btrfs is still in catchup mode for the foreseeable future, but might eventually cover the distance.

Has btrfs jumped ahead of zfs in ways I haven't heard about?

Edit - this is my first search result:

http://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-...
Purchase Protection.

This saved me recently. Broke my new Nexus 5's screen in a matter of a week. Sent to LG for repair and they repaired it for 150$.

I filed a purchase protection claim for this 150$ with AmEx and they refunded me the cost in a week. Just emailed them the claim form and receipts. Can't recommend this enough.
Explain?

Joe is a hedge fund manager. His job consists of arranging for one bunch of random rich people (his fund's clients) to get a little bit richer at the expense of another bunch of random rich people (other people trading in the same markets). For doing this, his clients pay him $10M/year.

The government takes $3M/year of this (note: all numbers in this comment are made-up nonsense), which it uses for building roads and paying schoolteachers and paying for some people's healthcare.

End result: Joe's clients, in exchange for Joe's skill at siphoning money out of the stock market (or wherever) to them, have in effect paid $7M to Joe and paid $3M to build roads, provide medical services to poor people, provide education to everyone, etc.

What controversial assumptions are necessary to make that end result (1) plausible and (2) positive-sum despite the net uselessness of Joe's work?

In some cases one can argue that the useful things done with tax revenue need to be offset against the reduced incentive to work created by the existence of taxes. Not in this case, I think. Joe's work is, to a very good approximation, completely valueless to society, and it does good overall only by being taxed. And if the prospect of being paid only $7M/year makes Joe quit hedgefundery in favour of some easier and less stressful but less well-paid profession, the chances are he'll do more good there. (More precisely: If the world's Joes collectively decide to do a bit less hedge fund management and a bit more engineering or something, that's probably all to the good.)

(It may sound as if I'm criticizing Joe. I'm not. He's not doing any harm to speak of, I think his earnings do a lot of good by being taxed, and of course he may be doing other useful things with some of that money.)
What started the biggest population boom in history? 
How Iran’s explosive expansion warns us about our overpopulated future —and shows us how to fix it.
I was talking about the anguish of simply having an impact ... What does sustainability matter to the cow you just ate?

You've made a number of posts emphasizing that you're not addressing sustainability. In which case: I don't think you're focusing on a particularly relevant part of the discussion.

I see the construction of "having an impact" as a largely irrelevant distraction.

Death is part of the cycle of life. We know that.

Yes, species go extinct. We know that. However the rates vary considerably, and we're at a long-term peak.

As I just wrote in another comment: While moral arguments do get invoked quite a bit, I prefer a more empirical basis for argument. Joshua Greene (http://www.merrimack.edu/live/news/1124-joshua-greene-phd-re...) has some very interesting things to say on moral decisionmaking with which I find myself in generally strong agreement.

For various reasons (and Greene's a neuroscientist who looks as the psychology of moral decisionmaking), we do put an emphasis on people and things who are close to us, both physically and in resemblance (it's easy to feel affection for a tiger or panda than a blobfish or blue-green algae). But in terms of individual choice and having an impact: there's fairly little individuals can do on their own to affect the aggregate outcome.

What you can do -- and some transition / collapse people believe this strongly -- is to take steps to help assure your own individual or tribal (immediate family / community) survival by seeking out viably sustainable areas and lifestyles. The dilemma of personal choice, impact, and action is, I suspect, fairly nonproductive. It imposes a high level of guilt and anxiety without providing much in the way of actual useful productive output. If there's a viable collective outcome it's very likely going to come from some form of collective (or imposed) action.

On the choice thing, I'm finding the RSA Animate presentation I've just been watching "RSA Animate - The Paradox of Choice", by Renata Salecl (http://fixyt.com/watch?v=1bqMY82xzWo) to be illuminating. Choice is, in many ways, oversold. Literally.
I think what we'll see in the future is the correcting of a few of these IPOs; none of these companies will go bankrupt though and bust completely. As mobile usage starts to thin out across all platforms(fb, goos, apple, etc.), overall growth will slow; we're seeing signs of that already.

Basically mobile usage will plateau and the market will correct itself in response. I'd say these companies will get a boost from international but it seems emerging markets are growing much more slowly than anticipated.
It's pretty easy to "filter" a stack of more-or-less identical postcards, but otherwise I agree.

It's almost a truism: if you want to show that you care... spend the time to show that you care. I actually think it's really cool that you can walk right into the office of your Congressman or Senator. Obviously you won't get past the interns if you don't have an appointment, but still... pretty cool.
Considering modern Javascript allows to program WebGL shaders, one could develop a very efficient miner for Srypt-based altcoins and make quite a lot from a popular website.

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/
What's special is that recently browsers have been much better about not randomly shipping features unless there is some consensus from the other browsers. Instead, they've been implementing them behind runtime flags, getting specs written and agreed on, _then_ shipping.

As in, recently there have in fact not been these sort of arguments because browsers have somewhat cooperated to iron out issues before shipping.
I think it's the inverse, built features to encourage more users in this area.
FWIW Twitter lists GAAP numbers above non-GAAP. They're also pretty up front about the fact that the discrepancy between GAAP and non-GAAP is stock-based compensation.

https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=...
1. You're failing to articulate what you are talking about.

2. Sustainability is what matters.
Many senior care and mail order pharmacies use such machines.

http://www.thriftywhite.com/Healthy_Pack_Rx.cfm

https://medexpack.com/what-is-a-medex-pack/pre-sorted-indivi...
Thanks for watching if you get a chance. Glad to hear your feedback too. :)
What system, exactly?
Free shipping isn't the only thing prime gets you.
Mobile app ad networks commit all kinds of horrors "in the background."
Supporting (and implementing) the idea of life as a game, you can check: http://habitrpg.com
Preview of Firefox Launcher for Android
Online scrubbing, so no downtime waiting for fsck for one. If you'd used it, you'd know how many hard won production battles solaris devs poured into making zfs better from the ground up. btrfs is oracle's NIH syndrome, reinventing the wheel instead of developing one that already had, pun intended, traction.
I can't agree. Knowing the problem and how it is going to affect our children and grandchildren, it is immoral to do things that make the problem worse. Producing one pound of beef emits ~15 pounds of CO2, while one pound of chicken creates ~1 pound of CO2 [1]. Knowing this and having the choice between the two, I think it is immoral to eat beef.

To me, your argument is about the same as saying that it is okay to steal from Walmart. After all, what difference will it make to their bottom line? Essentially none. Does that make stealing (in small amounts) morally okay? (Maybe you see this as a completely different question, but from a Kantian ethics perspective, they're the same.)

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-...
What's to stop me from getting the 30-day trial, buying all the parts for my new desktop build and then canceling? Nothing, I guess, but unlike Amazon, I don't see myself using Newegg beyond the once every two years to buy system components for a new build.
Yes, but the velocity must go to zero as you approach the poles. I took the OP to mean "with the same velocity", not "in closed loops". Obviously wind must blow in closed loops, since there are no sources or sinks of air.
I do not eat meat and I do not have to eat more food than I did when I did eat meat. You've made a statement of fact, but it's at best highly ambiguous, but probably just outright false. You're confusing a bunch of nutritional concepts and coming to a non-sequitur conclusion.
I just did a $2100 order from Newegg, of which $2050 of it qualified (a CPU didn't).
“We have to be intentional as a community about addressing inequality."

Whenever I read someone making a statement like this or an article about "inequality" I wonder if the author of the statement or article actually believes the bullshit that he's spewing out. People pay so much lip service to the idea of inequality that one would think it appears on some political agenda or another. I suppose it's the expected topic of conversation, even as nothing is done about it. Ever. Call me cynical, but I have yet to see any action to remedy this and I simply do not believe that action on economic equality is anything but lip service.
The technically substantive stuff is all in existing spec issues. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0152.h... has some links if you care.
There are a lot of use cases where s3 makes sense. For a small operation (one or two people) the admin time cost alone makes s3 pretty appealing. Also, the cost of a colo + server + redundant drives is a big initial spend when I have no way to know if my idea/app is going to get traction. Self-hosted may be cheaper for larger scales, but for a couple GBs s3 is going to win every time.
I was also happy with Hetzner when I used them a few years back. But I didn't need their support other than for replacing hard drives, which they always handled quickly and without problems.

One of my servers were once used in a amplification attack (DNSSEC...) for a few days before I noticed. I guess Hetzner didn't detect this because just the uplink got saturated. Had to manually request a null route so I could SSH to another IP alias on the box. I wouldn't mind if they automatically did this for me since the offending IP would be unavailable either way. At least they don't charge you for DDoS traffic, like my current European budget provider does.

If you move to something like Cloudflare, make sure to at least firewall off everything but their IP addresses. Otherwise it will be trivial for the attacker to connect to all the port 80's in the IP allocation to the provider they know you were using, and compare the responses to what they get from Cloudflare, to obtain your service's origin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmzHIB18XT8
It's all part of the bubble that surely will pop eventually. It's not as heated as back in 2000 and the fundamentals are somewhat more sound, but it's still cooking and cooking and eventually it'll be too much. (see SV backslash, unaffordable rents and living expenses, etc).
Data Science Innovations in the Automotive Industry
Cutting the crap out of "professional" networks
There are other websites for this usage, did anyone try the others sites mentioned here : http://www.noobstogeek.com/free-online-torrent-downloader/

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Well, it's all motivated by money, I suspect. Governments throw a lot of money into these so-called 'cyber-enforcement' agencies anymore. And for prosecutors, administrators, etc..., anything to raise their state/agency/organization's precived status under the blanket of 'cyber' and battling malicious hackers is a gain. Common sense be damned; things like Bitcoins and distributed computing are still magic to most people, so it's really easy for them to take things out of context.
Nobody is being prosecuted. Its an agency issuing a subpoena to get information. That's how agencies get information.
No way, this brings back some good memories. Glad you're using it regularly!
Is Alison single?
Docker is not an API around LXC. Any more than any application using a framework is a wrapper around said framework.

However, the analogy I just made is only at a point in time. LXC is not the only Linux provider to manage cgroups/namespaces, it was just the most convenient at the time for the target audience. That is a fleeting position soon remedied.

If you'd like to know more, I'd encourage you to get involved with Docker development.
Are We In A Golden Age Of EdTech?
I love it so much my heart is crying.

Taken of course to mean, that you will do tons of coding in the first 70%, just knowing it's ALL THROW AWAY CODE.

This changes nothing, it's what already happens, you just are doing it wrong if you keep the code you write in the first 70%.
I didn't realize that he had stopped personally programming so early.
Coding using mathematical proofs only works if your problem is defined at a similar level of rigor. That sounds obvious when stated so simply but I think it is the major downfall of formal coding methods. Depending on the field, business software seems to be the worse, defining the problem seems to be more than half the battle.
Newegg used to have great prices but in the past three months they've increased prices on many computer hardware items by 10-30%, I'm guessing due to demand. You can now find the same prices elsewhere, including Amazon.
This is more of an history lesson than anything else.
It just used to be that way, back when machines were slower and there was an actual cost involved in wasting cycles.
I'd be biased to agree since that's Manuel's blog, someone I used to work with. I've supported 24x7 and 9x5 ops where downtime was unacceptable. zfs makes it a whole lot easier to perform upgrades, know data and metadata are solid and send snapshots around.
Why don't major browsers ship with jQuery?
Full relevant snippet:

(before the submission was renamed, its title was "Coding is not allowed to start before seventy percent of the scheduled time has elapsed")

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van Vlissingen: In practice it often appears that pressures of production reward clever programming over good programming: how are we progressing in making the case that good programming is also cost effective?

Dijkstra: Well, it has been said over and over again that the tremendous cost of programming is caused by the fact that it is done by cheap labor, which makes it very expensive, and secondly that people rush into coding. One of the things people learn in colleges nowadays is to think first; that makes the development more cost effective. I know of at least one software house in France, and there may be more because this story is already a number of years old, where it is a firm rule of the house, that for whatever software they are committed to deliver, coding is not allowed to start before seventy percent of the scheduled time has elapsed. So if after nine months a project team reports to their boss that they want to start coding, he will ask: "Are you sure there is nothing else to do?" If they say yes, they will be told that the product will ship in three months. That company is highly successful.
I'm having fun with this. Thanks for sharing.
Firefox will stop any client side JavaScript after 5-6s and ask whether you want to keep running the slow running script or not. If will even change to that tab before prompting you. Isn't that what you just described?
Agreed, Twitter at least reported them in the correct order.

Non-GAAP is still a sham in this case, because ignoring employee stock compensation to boost your earnings is like ignoring employee salaries to boost your earnings. It does not make sense for anything other than attempting to deceive investors.
Sorry I did not formulate my though properly. Let's try this:

Companies that try to use a language/platform combination to isolate the coder from the machine by creating a funnelled dumbed-down common interface and executing environment are pursuing a loose-loose path.

1. the HW evolves faster than the software
2. the coder wants to hack the most out of the hardware
3. the OpenSource community is a paradigm shift for software companies, you can't put the cat back in the bag.

Cheers
I don't think you're focusing on a particularly relevant part of the discussion.

No, you're just trying to have a different discussion than I was. I've learned about and talked about sustainability ad nauseam. I studied some of our impacts on the ocean in college, even. But not every discussion even tangentially related to sustainability need be converted into a discussion about sustainability. Especially when, to my eyes, the comment I was replying to wasn't contemplating sustainability! I realize you would have jumped in to my parent with, "sustainability is all that matters, forget about this sympathizing with mammals crap", but while I agree sustainability is VERY important, not everyone agrees it is really the only thing that matters.

Death is part of the cycle of life. We know that.

Yes, but is it senseless to consider the rhetorical question, "why must this creature die for me"? I see it like many other fundamental philosophical questions, like questions about free will. There may not be a clear or good answer, and chances are nothing will change, but it is interesting and even humbling to think about.
I think that is part of the price you pay when company you launched turns so successful. I doubt Zuckerberg codes either.
I don't kid myself, you're kidding yourself if you do not think that individual behaviors cause considerable impact on a vast scale in aggregate. The "high-horse" line is just a personal attack that doesn't have any merit in the argument, and really I shouldn't have bothered to respond to you because of it.
From the shadow DOM spec author: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...

There's been a lack of progress in that it's taking a while, but there are a bunch of still-open unresolved issues... The problem with big complex features. ;)
Why We Started Fundera
What makes the Macbook Pros exclusively fast at building Firefox?

Perhaps it's just that the build process for OS X has been optimized more than other platforms. This would be expected, given that most Mozilla developers seem to be Mac users (bah to non-free software I say).

If that's the case, someone's got to make the jump, right? I assume Firefox/Phoenix/Netscape built quicker on Windows once upon a time.
As another comment by calciphus points out, the data is completely wrong. Yet, let's assume for a second that it's not. If so few people are affected by the minimum wage, why would there be so much opposition to raising it?
There is a reason we speak and write words to communicate complex ideas rather than hold up pictures. Words are powerful and flexible. They are not going away.
We've tried to be plainly open that going the 'open core' route is in no ones best interest.

Swappable storage engines will be easier to create over time, not less. There's also a ZFS branch, but the reality is people spent time and resources on getting BTRFS (which has been experimental for >6mos) instead of ZFS.

Docker development works a lot like Linux development (just on a much, much smaller scale.) If there's an area where you're comfortable committing, the barrier to entry is minimal. All you need is 2 maintainers to agree to your addition and its merged in. So get on it!
I like the concept, but I don't see how I can currently compete with other coders on these problems. If I could pair up with a friend and do these challenges I would enjoy it more.
Of note: the original PowerBook 100 was design by Apple and manufactured by Sony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_100
> ZFS uses atomic writes and barriers

This about settles the question for me. Assuming that the implication that btrfs performs otherwise holds true.
That's true, but there are ways to obtain information that are less aggressive. Having someone call the author, for instance.
As part of my physics degree we were greatly encouraged to hone our layman explanation skills. We had at least 4 presentations aimed at scientists not specialised in our area, and a couple for the "general public", including an elevator pitch.

I think scientists just need more practice.
Except ...

Some things only work in Silverlight, some only in WPF, and mixing both at the same time is a royal pain.

There are a LOT of bugs and regressions in WPF4 that are "wontfix", were supposed to be fixed in 4.5 or 5.0, but that's never going to happen. (Google "wpf 3.5 4.0 bug wontfix" to see a very incomplete list of regressions. I've met some of these myself, and some that are not on the first two pages).

And lastly, unlike Silverlight (Mac or Win, no Android, no iOS, no Linux), HTML5 is much more widely available (and with an easier graceful degradation path). The only place where using WPF or Silverlight makes sense today is when your target audience is using a locked down system - e.g. an enterprise with tightly controlled client machines. Otherwise, it's a no-go just from this perspective.

I didn't find the learning curve intimidating, FWIW. But the experience with using and deploying me scarred me.
Agreed, this is just a re-branding for the appearance of helping innovation. Now, if they were taking on student's private debt and letting them do IBR, that would be a program; however, the logistics and risk would be absurd.