skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really excited by ansible, but I quickly found out that using `register: result` and `when: result|success` throughout so many playbooks meant I was back to the mess that is understanding the flow of a chef script that you didn't personally write.

Maybe that's not a problem since I rarely found an open source ansible playbook for anything I needed and had to always write my own.
Original paper here: http://www.asanet.org/journals/ASR/Feb13ASRFeature.pdf

Science Daily writeup: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130130082258.ht...

Slate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/03/28/guys_who_do_...

Write from U of Washington where the research was done here: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/01/29/more-sex-for-marri...

Married men and women who divide household chores in traditional ways report having more sex than couples who share so-called men’s and women’s work, according to a new study co-authored by sociologists at the University of Washington.

Other studies have found that husbands got more sex if they did more housework, implying that sex was in exchange for housework. But those studies did not factor in what types of chores the husbands were doing.

The new study, published in the February issue of the journal American Sociological Review, shows that sex isn’t a bargaining chip. Instead, sex is linked to what types of chores each spouse completes.

Couples who follow traditional gender roles around the house – wives doing the cooking, cleaning and shopping; men doing yard work, paying bills and auto maintenance – reported greater sexual frequency.

“The results show that gender still organizes quite a bit of everyday life in marriage,” said co-author Julie Brines, a UW associate professor of sociology. “In particular, it seems that the gender identities husbands and wives express through the chores they do also help structure sexual behavior.”
Look at some of the comments for Satan. They all sound like they were created from the same prompt list and have the same tone/sentiment.

Actually, the sheer number and proportion of reviews with the word Satan in it is ridiculously high...

Also doing a keyword search for "evil genius" is pretty fishy to me...
I think it's a bit different in this case. He did chase his dream, and it didn't work. Now he's committed to putting it on hold, at least for a while.

There's a big difference between putting something permanently on hold and never trying versus trying, failing, and then putting them on hold.

I don't think he'll be bitter because he tried this time. Maybe after some time he (and his family) will be ready to try again.
Industrial advancement IS the knowledge of creating components. Hordes of people at giant companies are improving every minor aspect of the tools that create these components. If we had all of the knowledge these companies have built up at any point in history, it could be implemented. The tools are the HIGHEST cost in creating components because they cannot be changed dramatically, and it's difficult to put them through iterations of improvement because you need to keep using the expensive tool you made to make up the cost of what you paid for it.
Interesting idea but I would offer an alternative to JSON for device<-->dweet communication. JSON parsing on small embedded processors is often memory- and CPU-prohibitive. A small (preferably binary) protocol is lighter and faster to work with on these little microproccessors. When I built my Lightcube[1], I designed a binary protocol[2] that is easily parsed on the Arduino or even the smaller ATtiny microprocessors. Designing and implementing the protocol was a learning process for me but I ended up with something that didn't tax the CPU, leaving me more processing cycles to interact with my hardware.

[1] Lightcube: https://github.com/chrissnell/Lightcube

[2] Lightcube protocol: https://github.com/chrissnell/Lightcube#lightcube-protocol
Cool, but if you can learn electrical engineering concepts, you can learn to copy/paste/hack some ultra-simple C too :)
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This is not an original idea by any means; it's called the Church-Turing thesis, and has been around for 50+ years.

As for your question "what are those limits?": In a nutshell, no computer program can ever fully answer questions about the properties of other computer programs. Unlike what GP is implying, that is a hard limit we can never ever get rid of. So if weather is universal, we will never be able to fully understand it!
The jarring context may serve valid instructional purposes:

The vividness improves memorability.

Discarding colorful but logically-inessential details from a problem description is a useful skill that can benefit from practice.

The portrayal of life-or-death stakes draws interest by making the solution seem more urgent, and helpfully alludes to the real stakes, in commercial or military engineering, that are faced by those who are adept at such work.
Anyone remember years ago when Boopsie from Doonesbury gets herself digitally imaged at the request of her agent?

I wonder how long it will be before deceased stars are routinely used as major characters in movie roles? It's been done in commercials but I don't think in any full length feature films.
There is no evidence that Apple doesn't like these apps because they aren't able to recoup fees, there already exist iOS apps that let you move money from one person to another without Apple getting involved at all.

For example, I often use my bank's app to move money to and from my roommate. I should note that this involves no transaction cost at all.
couples had sex 1.5 fewer times per month

Could someone check the paper and see what was really meant here? I'm guessing people aren't having negative sex.
the point is that they predict future performance equally for different groups, not just that they predict performance. your language is alarmingly exaggerated and pompous for someone who lacks basic reading comprehension skills and is entirely ignorant about the subject of intelligence testing.
> Maybe a startup is the best place for me ? I honestly don’t know.

Well, the mediocrity described here is exactly what startups take advantage of, right?
I have to agree. I think it's a great, and much needed, project but I discovered that just beefing up my hardware a little and running Windows on VirtualBox was cheaper in the end. Many applications don't work out of the box, and require all sorts of twists and turns to get them working, if at all possible.
I only use it for SketchUp and Netflix now. I used it a lot when I first switched to Linux (iTunes, Office, Steam), but it's become less necessary as I've learned how to avoid Windows applications and more applications have ported to Linux.
I'm from Russia too, and my understanding that the situation is not that bright: they clearly declare that <<bitcoin is "money surrogate" and cannot be used>>(used as money?).

What they _might_ do at some point is in fact allow trading bitcoin itself just like China. They declare that they are concerned "protecting interests of users of cryptocurrencies", so there is hope.
IFTTT + Steroids?
Klout evolves into a content creation platform
The Google C++ style guide has its quirks, but describing it as "C with classes" is flat out wrong.

> no boost

Not true, select parts of Boost are available.

> no lambda

The C++11 features are being rolled in gradually. Lambda expressions are now permitted.

> no rtti

The guide says "avoid RTTI" and urges the developer to come up with a different design. This is very much in line with C++ best practice overall. There's no ban on RTTI.
Why would the Russian government want to ban encryption they can't break? Can't imagine.

More seriously, I assume there's a longstanding suspicion that any Western encryption technology has been engineered to be vulnerable, which isn't totally paranoid.
I get what you are saying. My point is that even in the same product line, e.g. phones/tablets, there is no guarantee that Apple will be able to sell the same number of iphones/ipads in a few years. Case in point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Ltd#Financials

BB was growing like crazy for the whole decade till 2011, consistently ~40% year over year both in revenue/profit AND users. Just a dink in 2012, and kaboom, you know the rest of the story. And note that enterprise email was supposed to be the unbreachable moat for a business.
Nothing too fancy--just submit a git repo and/or sample website showing off a clever use of your software. For the prize, maybe bragging rights, maybe an API key, maybe a pet elephant; just something fun, you know?

It's a pretty low-level product, right--basically a messaging fabric in the cloud that is easy to use. I can think of some delightfully perverse things to do with it, as can I imagine others.
Nixon was a genius
longjmp is what the library and standards writers refer to as a "non-local goto" so it's kind of to be expected that it would manage to bypass destructors (I'm not sure how you'd unwind the stack enough to ensure that you've destructed everything created since the corresponding setjmp).
Probably not... I don't think it's in any country's interest for now.

But here's an interesting story I just found:
http://www.policeone.com/police-administration/articles/6643...
For revolutionaries to assume they can rely on a system that authoritarians control is inherently a dumb idea, and the lack of any good alternatives doesn't change that.
I know that gog.com has been packaging up games for OSX with it. It works pretty well for that jump. One person configures it once and ships the app with its own wineskin and it just works.
If you are using screen, use the command "nethack on".

- Welcome to the hacker's treasure zoo.
- You drop a magic marker.
- You destroy poor window 3.
I'm curious about why MQTT didn't work for you.
Vocabulary lists: why they must be a part of your development standards
This is a common error. Usually authors mean that y = x/1.5 rather than y = x - 1.5*x. I think it comes from taking the phrase "1.5 times more" and replacing more with less to reverse its meaning.
isn't this a sort of indirect form of advice? reminds me of this: http://imgur.com/NIqQB
So, it's ugly, but just treat single-level JSON as a really oddly-padded binary blob, right?

Match on opening bracket, skip forward to third double-quote, ingest string until hit unescaped double-quote, process string.

EDIT: You're looking at up to like 6 bytes of overhead:

{"a":"<blob>"}
Man the banner ads on this blog are jarring. Guess he could just live off all the ad revenue that's sure to be rolling in from those, right?
Wish I could upvote this again.
This kind of thing isn't at all unprecedented. Oliver Reed died in 1999 during the production of Gladiator, and his face was digitally recreated on a body double for a couple of scenes he hadn't yet shot, for a movie that came out 14 years ago.
15 years ago Apple was a dividend paying manufacturing company. It had not been a growth stock for many years. 15 years ago the standard wisdom was AOL and Pets.com.
Since when did laws have to be based on science? That requirement would nullify most of the US's code and that of most states.
Interesting, the architecture looks greatly simplified compared to even standard RISC (As opposed to lets say x86). Due to that simplification it will be power efficient while being inherently highly parallel.

Would be interesting to find out:

1. How high that degree of parallelism can be pushed, are we talking about tens or hundreds of pipelines?

2. What frequency this will operate at?

3. What is up with RAM? I saw nothing about memory, with lots of pipelines it is bound to be memory bound.
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Yeah, and it works pretty well. I'm more worried about having to ever explain that Google is interrelated at all, since that could cause confusion. It's hard enough with one account.

In a more technically-savvy organization, I'd definitely just integrate more closely with Google Apps and be happy.
I don't mean to sound rude here, but welcome to the real world where IT is not the focus of business and is often seen as a cost center and necessary evil. This may not be right, but it's something that has to be dealt with.

I see my role as an IT professional as helping the other members of large organizations to understand what IT can do for them and how it should be used securely and appropriately. It's way, way, way bigger than just enjoying hacking on code or building small networks; it's putting together systems to support business.

After all, for most of the world IT is there to support the business, it's not the businesses' product.
The doc is indeed pretty good, and available offline (ansible-doc). I quite like that it uses a very declarative syntax, and it's relatively easy to get idempotent operations. And the fact that you don't need to install anything on the machine you administer is definitely a strong point.

One downside is that I can see how tracking down role dependencies would be tricky if you had many different roles. I also haven't tried at scale.
This is a very cut-and-dry explanation that sells Exxon's future value (and our reliance on petroleum products) way short.

Production of electricity is more efficient than production and refinement of fossil fuels. BUT, Expenditure and distribution of that energy as electricity is less efficient for use as a transportation fuel (as I understand it; correct me if I'm wrong!). This is particularly true for heavy-load transportation like 18-wheelers and industrial applications. Until battery and electric motor technology improves to provide more torque for longer periods of time, fossil fuel will be responsible for moving our STUFF around via diesel motors. The moving of that STUFF still represents the majority of our transportation fuel burned.

Exxon is also a very large investor in electric vehicle battery tech, which will be one of the key technologies to change our transportation reliance from fossil to renewable.

Also don't forget about plastics as a petroleum product; I think it will be some time before we replace plastics as a common building material.

Granted, Exxon only spends ~3% of their profits on research of any sort, which is probably less than their advertising budget, and they spend less in a year on R&D than Google does in a quarter.

I don't really mean to start an argument, and I do hear your point. Exxon is the leader in a dying business. Still, Exxon isn't ignoring the puck. They're probably as aware as anyone where the short-comings of fossil fuel transportation start and stop, and they are as interested as anyone in technology that will upend that industry.
I would think with Russia and China banning BitCoin, it would make the currency more valuable. This seems counter intuitive to how the BTC market responding by crashing after the Chinese announcement.

Does BTC follow the same economic principles as standard currency. Such as your basic supply/demand, when supply goes down, demand goes up and price goes up. Or is it immune to such things?

Just curious. . .
> although I never heard anyone had issues with hosting, say, Debian mirror with GnuPG and OpenSSL, or adding TLS support to some product

From the Debian package description for openssh-client, at http://packages.debian.org/sid/openssh-client :

"In some countries it may be illegal to use any encryption at all without a special permit."

That warning was added to the description for a reason.

As for hosting, there was a huge issue originally with the export of cryptographic software, which led to the creation of Debian's "non-us" archive of software that had to be hosted outside the US. That got solved once it was possible to distribute such software with a notification requirement. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/03/msg00... for the long and storied history.
I assumed "times" meant "instances", not multiplication, ie y = x - 1.5
then can transfer into their bank.

I agree with you until this point. Banks will still be able to apply the same safeguards they use when customers deposit large amounts of cash (reporting large transactions, "suspicious" activity, etc)

Same goes with certain type of merchants such as precious metal dealers.

I don't know if other merchants that deal with large transactions need to report large cash transactions (casinos, car dealerships, etc?)

Bitcoin is really no different than cash in this respect, except it's easier to move but actually more traceable since the blockchain is entirely public.
I cannot tell if your parent post is an arithmetic question or a sex joke...
I'm not an employee so I don't speak for Breadbox, but I would imagine they're:

A) Staying lean. A web app means web developers, probably 2-3 (they could probably get by with one right now, or even just a contractor).

B) Making it easy to interface with. You don't need to remember anything, all you need to do is respond when they text you.

SMS is even more efficient than push notifications, since those would require them to build two native apps (if they only build one, they lose a big potential market). Not to mention, you still lose out on customers without smartphones; not as much of a problem these days, but I'm sure they have customers on feature phones.

Also, push notifications can get lost in the shuffle - when one gets a text, though, one typically responds immediately.

SMS is expensive to send, but they may have a way around that, or they just crunched the numbers and save money on SMS over more developers.
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You might be overthinking this.

MachoMan and GirlyWoman had sex 28 times per month

EgalitarianMan and EqualityWoman had sex 26.5 times per month.

(numbers and names made up.)
Great work from a great Geekdom startup! Yay!
Even more recent, CLU from Tron: Legacy is actually just a younger version of Jeff Bridges digitally recreated on current day Jeff Bridges' face. Its a pretty fascinating process as they basically pin points on the imposed face to the underlying one in order to capture the expressions of the non-digital actor.
Nice write up. On a similar note I've always wondered why they say the planet mercury is cold at night. Wouldn't it take weeks for the surface to cool down since its in a vacuum?
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I've never heard of that until now. Neat. Maybe for my next device.
I read it as y = x - 1.5

The "times" means countable units of sex rather than multiplication.
The first I can think of was "The Crow" (1994), where they digitally composited Brandon Lee into a few scenes that hadn't been shot/finished.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109506/faq
And if x < 1.5, it was a subtle joke.
HA! Nice. Have my upvote, friend.
> Brines believes the quandary many couples find themselves in comes down to this: “The less gender differentiation, the less sexual desire.”

The 21st century catches up with common sense.
I use it to run foobar2000 on Linux.
I bring up Redbull because there you have a company that was able to profit more-so from it's brand than their product. Their brand created more value in the company than the product they were making.

GoPro has a similar mission as Redbull I think, therefore they would be wise to follow the lead Redbull has already proven successful.
They could probably start cutting IT costs by learning the difference between their PC tower and their monitor.
See also: Doom as an Interface for Process Management[0]

[0] http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
I've been wanting this, so I'm happy to see you launching in PDX, but I want fresh bread every day. It doesn't make sense once a week. Fresh bread delivered today isn't fresh bread tomorrow.

I'd love to get a Lovejoy Bakers sourdough baguette or a New Seasons french baguette delivered every morning, maybe with fresh squeezed orange juice.
We should note the timing when the world is distracted by the olympic games starting ceremony.
Roger that. I use Ubuntu for all my dev work and for media manipulation work...If only these efforts would be dispensed on making the utility software on Linux user friendly. Have yet to find a screencast maker that just works :)

At this stage working on something like wine seems like a misguided effort. I use windows as my primary desktop OS and it works well. For non-windows users, a vm solution would be way better than a kluge like wine.
All valid points. And "Don't think about it" can be valid for things that aren't the main point of concern for your customers. Executives have limited things they can pay attention to. They don't like to change what they don't have to change, so they can focus on what's important.
I really agree with this so hard. Especially web programming with multiple frameworks and plugins.
Charging $400/hour does not mean he does not need extra money. His nature of business is a short term projects, it's not like a regular web developer who has to work 40 hours a week for many month to finish a project, he only does audits which don't last long because of that you see this "high" (I personally don't think it's high) hourly rate.
Great idea, since it's all theoretical currently I'm wondering with the compiler offloading how well it will actually perform. Itanium was capable of doing some amazing things, but the compiler tech never quite worked out.
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Look, "someone only using IDEs with windows" is nothing like what you just described. You gave us all the wrong facts in the initial comment. You've identified all the wrong facts as important.

Your fellow is abnormal to the extreme. That he's never met anyone in 10 years to tell him drag & dropping is not programming is one thing.

Making your description match a good proportion of C# developers or even Java developers just shows your irrational bias against types of programmer you obviously view as inferior.

The problem is not that he's using an IDE, the problem is he's not a programmer.

Bloody luddites clinging to their consoles.
(I live in SF)

You should list some of the bakers you get bread from on the site/signup and not just in the app. I'm hesitating signing up because I have no real interest in bread delivery unless it's from certain bakeries that I know are worth the extra effort over buying a loaf of Acme bread or whatever at the local Safeway or corner market. Like Josey Baker and Arizmendi, which I see in the screenshots. And even then it's like well... I don't just want bread, I also want like a bunch of their other products (scones, croissants, etc.). Maybe I'm better served by Postmates/Taskrabbit, but more bread products than just loaves of bread would be awesome albeit more complicated.

Also if you could deliver Tartine bread I would be so all over that in an instant! Especially right out of the oven :) Even though I like to bake and I have two loaves' worth of dough proofing in my kitchen right now.
Thanks for sharing. I like his insight of spreadsheets being the tool to share data with the masses.
"the car had a strong, new-car smell that prompted him to use a baking soda car freshener in it"
So it was the baking soda new car smell that caused him to fall asleep, not just the new car smell. I know, technicalities....
http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/i-pencil#axzz2sg52yand

As shown in this story by the simple example of a pencil, the ability to produce products of the type we have now at the expense we have now might as well require it to be 2014, not 1991.