skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real systems at Github's scale take far more effort to add features to than your gut instinct first stab at imagining how it's done. There's caching to consider, instrumentation to build, privacy and security to consider, UI decisions to make, performance implications, documentation, tests to write, and deployment details to finalize. This could very well represent a week or two of work for a developer plus some ops work thrown in.

That's not all that much effort, but Github's staff has plenty more to do: maintenance on existing code, bugs to fix, research to do, troubleshooting, improving older code, updating code for new architectural improvements, writing internal features that don't show up in the public UI, and there's also the fact that every feature you turn on means an ongoing commitment to maintain that feature for the forseeable future.
trampolining - confirmed
Which VPN provider?
Another issue is old books. I recently got value out of PAIP and On Lisp, and I still see people recommend A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. Stepping beyond CL for a second, car and cdr have even deeper roots; for example if someone is introduced to the wider lisp-like world through SICP they will also have to become comfortable with car and cdr.
* lisp-1 (Python rules)

* Python (sucks)

* 2-way

* Yep! CLOS syntax

* Yep! hy.contrib.loop - to be promoted soon

* Yep, they're OK, relies on dispatch char that's static

* Very little, actually - it compiles to (pretty sane)
Python AST / Bytecode - so good pdb works to debug Hy :)
Shazam Poised to Raise $20 Million in New Funding at a $500 Million Valuation
Our Flappy Dystopia
I've used the 13 inch models for dev since the 2010 models. You really want to actually see these models in person I think, the 11 is tempting because it's the same power but that screen is really very different.
Couple points:

1) Larger risk pools are better. Let's say you have your ten closest family members and friends, and they're willing to spend an arbitrary amount to save your life. Despite that, a diagnosis like brain cancer or a severe heart attack with complications is likely to bankrupt all of them. Make it hundreds of millions of people, and the bumps are smoothed out to oblivion.

2) Lots of people are embedded in communities that have fewer resources available than other communities. You're damning them to die--or, in this case, die in a significantly less dignified way without proper palliative treatment--just because their friends and family happen to be poorer.

3) What about the people who don't have many family members or friends? Do we just want to condemn them to suffer, merely because they thrive with only a few friends instead of many?

Private insurance helps with these problems. Some people, however, aren't willing, knowledgeable, or rich enough to purchase health insurance. Even if you hold them in contempt and think that they deserve to die because of their lack of insurance, as a society we don't like that. So we can either (a) provide everyone with public health insurance/care or (b) require everyone to purchase insurance. Some countries go with (a), some with (b), most a mixture of the two.

It's best that whatever country we're in, we look at the countries that have had the best results in health outcomes and copy them as best we can in new local contexts.
Strong agree. Most robots are programed for contingencies and edge cases. Comcast drones are most decidedly not.
>At the end of program execution, the user can examine changes in the sandbox filesystem, and selectively commit them back to the host filesystem.

This is a cool idea.
I couldn't agree more. It's a disgraceful situation. If or when I leave this country, it will be in no small part due to issues such as this.
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Capitalism ruins everything eventually. The Olympics used to be this shared patriotic experience. But now that it's being packaged up and segmented for maximum gain it will become less relevant to big parts of society. Which is probably a good thing considering how patriotic fervor becomes increasingly merged with giant corporations and the military.
Then you should give this a read if you haven't: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/ts.ps

tl;dr you can actually generalize trampolining quite a bit in order to get co-operative threading.
Choose extfs every time. btrfs is bloated.

x220:~/tmp/linux-3.13.2/fs/ext4$ ohcount .
Examining 39 file(s)

Ohloh Line Count Summary

Language Files Code Comment Comment % Blank Total
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
c 37 31707 8586 21.3% 5038 45331
make 1 8 3 27.3% 3 14
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Total 38 31715 8589 21.3% 5041 45345
x220:~/tmp/linux-3.13.2/fs/ext4$ cd ..
x220:~/tmp/linux-3.13.2/fs$ cd btrfs/
x220:~/tmp/linux-3.13.2/fs/btrfs$ ohcount .
Examining 81 file(s)

Ohloh Line Count Summary

Language Files Code Comment Comment % Blank Total
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
c 79 77101 13378 14.8% 13025 103504
make 1 15 0 0.0% 4 19
---------------- ----- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
Total 80 77116 13378 14.8% 13029 103523
You (and the downvoters) don't get it: my surprise is that bestham's first reaction was not human sympathy for someone suffering; his first reaction wasn't to try to help; his first reaction was to score a cheap political shot.

That's awfully sad, albeit not as sad as the fact that it was successful.
That's exactly what I thought this was from the title; I thought MIT had obtained a license or somesuch.
This remind me that business is pure gamble, and business people is bad gambler. They want to play but do not want to lose and if they lose they want to blame somebody.

Managing ego and heart is harder than managing a project i think.
The free account gives you one private dashboard and unlimited public dashboards. Pro accounts are $10 per month for unlimited private and public dashboards.
Maybe because London doesn't lock up women's rights advocates and people who suggest homosexuality might be OK. Russia gets hate because it doesn't bother to try endearing itself to people. It's sort of like America only minus all the stuff America puts out that people like.
If you want to keep bash completion on working when having git aliased to g, try to add this line to your .bashrc:

# Complete aliased git, too.
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g
The case study link on the page is broken actually.
Reversing IBM's remote firmware configuration protocol
CSEC Surveillance Analysis of IP and User Data
What was the original (now deleted) comment about?
User value and implementation effort are not correlated.

I'd turn the question on its head: why aren't you blogging about every little feature you've added?
Thanks for that quote! I will use that. Yes, I'm aware of the "90% issue" which is why I estimated three more months. They were telling me it would be 2 or 3 weeks. But I was able to look at the system in depth.

For your questions:

- they will also be using this product in their own business and want to sell it to other businesses. It is a generalised management and scheduling system. Customers schedule appointments and come in. (I identified that this is a risk for me because if we finish it but can't sell it, they still get the benefit of using it in their own business)

- this would be an independent company but I'm assuming we wouldn't draw up formal paperwork until later on

- they work full-time on their business. This has just been a part-time thing (which is why it's taken so long) and they will continue to be involved part-time (more on the sales side whereas I would take over handling all the technical side)

- no salary for anyone from this but they do get salary from their other business

- vesting time was not discussed but I would propose it for everyone based on this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=559070#up_559211

- no other investors forseen or programmers other than if we decide to move away from the Indian firm
Selling iphones with Flappy Bird installed on ebay
Thanks for catching that! Fixed
"Forever" is a long time...
Some people who are members of Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, etc), interpret the (2nd or 3rd Commandment, depending on how you are counting) "shall not take the lords name in vain" thing to imply that you must not say the word "god" (You will frequently see 'g-d' used by these people). Others see it as a prohibition against using the word "god" irreverently. Others see it as a prohibition against using the word "god" when combined with other "swear words" (this is the "goddamn" case, "damn" being an extremely mild "swear word" that can be found in PG movies). Others still go further and say that the commandment forbids the use of 'minced oaths', such as 'heck' (hell), 'darn' or 'dang' (damn), 'gosh' (god).

For the most part, everybody considers this restriction something that they should only expect of themselves (very similar to how it is unheard of for a Jewish or Muslim person in America to object to somebody else eating pork). Rarely, you encounter somebody who does not have a strong grasp on that concept.
Personally would just use the 15". It's hard to code on a teeny screen like the 13".
I donated $50, but I really wish US (and other countries) would reconsider their broken healthcare systems. My dad died of cancer a few years ago and I am really glad we lived in Denmark when he got it - - with a great public healthcare system. He lived 2 years with his cancer, which is a lot when you are counting days. Not many normal people can afford these things (as each of my dads treatments cost about 20.000USD+ and he had a lot of them).

Also, just yesterday DHH posted this:
"Top income tax rate for California residents is 51.6%. Top for Danish residents is 51.7%. (Kicking at $500k+ vs $70K+, though)."

Which puts things in perspective.
Interesting, thanks for that! I'll read it over on the train in the morning and see if I can't fudge it in :)
A case study in solving a problem that doesn't really exist? Maybe this is just me, but it seems mean time to lose a pen is much smaller than the amount of time it takes to run out of ink. And replacement is hardly a pain - it's not onerous to keep a few spares around (and necessary anyway, again, because the damn things get lost)
Ask HN: Is there a "magic bullet" to test claims of Verizon/Comcast throttling?
There's been a lot of discussion about Verizon and Comcast throttling services like Netflix and Youtube. When someone claims that they found evidence, there are often comments saying that the method is flawed. If all these claims are not conclusive, what would be the "magic bullet" test? Could we do it by collectively sharing certain network results? Would testing the bit rate with VPN on/off help test these claims?
Right, it shouldn't result in a re-upload.
What would be the security issue? NAT does not add any security - the firewall does. Just because you have publicly routable addresses doesn't mean they're publicly accessible.
Their other pens sell for $2046.45 & $1773.59 (US Dollars). I can only imagine what this will sell for. I'm pretty sure that even if I had more money than I knew what to do with... I still wouldn't pay $2000 for one pen.
A question about state rights..

Does a US State have the right to refuse to supply services to an entity involved in illegal activities as defined by the US Constitution?

That is the real question here..
I just stuck this in my PS1:

hr() {
printf '=%.0s' $(seq $((${COLUMNS} - 20)))
}

PS1="${GREY}\d ${RED}\$(hr)${GREY} \t"

It dynamically adjusts to the width of the terminal, and looks like this:

Mon Feb 10 ======================================== 16:30:30

My complete BASH prompt: https://bitbucket.org/wyatt/dotfiles/src/25cb260a05b68dd81a5...
Yeah I have seen them in person in store. I just wondered if anyone had long term experience or had this predicament before and what they chose.

I mean 13 inch MBA is on the refurb store atm in stock so maybe it's a sign to get it. My thing is like I have a 15" MBP so getting the 11" would be a bigger contrast in size as opposed to the 13" if you see where I am coming from.
Not really; mbox uses seccomp-bpf to filter system calls, from userland, using unprivileged users. A very ambitious project to build on top of mbox might be an even lighter-weight Docker-alike using userland system call interposition instead of Linux containers.
Tech companies that offer discounts usually cater to college students. What about young professionals who want to continue learning?

Most students receive financial support from their parents and have ample disposable income for products like GitHub [0,1,2]. Recent grads who want to keep learning about technology are more in need of discounts.

I'm not discrediting GitHub's campaign — I'm happy that the company is reaching out to students. It's just that the trend toward offering students discounts is somewhat misguided and shortsighted.

[0] http://news.byu.edu/archive12-apr-payingforcollege.aspx
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/education/parents-financia...
[2] http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/choice/who-...
Surprise, surprise -- a science journalist got it wrong.

There are two reasons one cannot have water flowing on the surface of present-day Mars. One of them is mentioned in the article (temperature too low), but the other reason, for some reason omitted from the article, is that the atmospheric pressure is too low -- liquid water requires a certain amount of atmospheric pressure.

Scientists theorize that there might be very brief flows, a matter of seconds, bursting from an underground water reservoir (where enough pressure might exist to support liquid water) and rapidly sublimating (changing directly from ice or liquid to vapor) as it flows across the surface, which might explain some surface markings that seasonally appear and disappear on the surface.

But the title of the article, and much of its content, is misleading -- we're not going to see "water flowing on Mars" in the way that most readers think of such an event.

A quote from the article: "In any case, these recent studies don't conclusively prove whether there is flowing water on Mars, nor do they begin to answer the big question: could this water support some sort of life?"

This language goes beyond careless -- it's ignorant and irresponsible. If it exists at all, Mars surface water can only last a few seconds. Any search for modern life on Mars will need to go below the surface, where we might find pressurized pockets, at a temperature higher than at the surface, able to sustain liquid water on a continuous basis.
so it ends up a fish actually _does_ need a bicycle!

-bowerbird
> "I don't say things that I know are offensive to you."

I ask for nothing of the sort. You may behave how you wish, but don't expect others to mime you in return as a favour to you.

Your religious rules are your religious rules. They are accepted "common decency". We certainly do not have them in common.
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It's a whole range of things. I don't have a comprehensive link at hand and these questions are so heavily politicized right now in the US that searching is all but pointless.

>Aren't any insurance provider covering these kind of things?"

On paper, yes. In reality, no. I'm not aware of any sources of data on which, if any insurers are better in this regard. The insurers obviously have no reason to divulge this and the folks who experience are likely dead or dying.

>"If so, why anyone would take a insurance that doesn't?"

As the other comment points out, most people receive insurance through their employers, limiting their options. It's possible to self-insure, but prohibitively expensive for many people.

Even among those who are well-paid. The costs are high enough that it's quite common for married couples, particularly those who have or plan to have children, who could otherwise live on one income to maintain a one job "for the benefits".

Finally, there's an incredible amount of misinformation about how these things work in practice and about legislation like the Affordable Care Act aka "Obamacare" which aims to address some of the worst parts of it.

>"Sorry, but I cannot understand how a high skilled worker in a high income country has to beg for money because medical problems."

Medical care in general and cancer treatment in particular is atrociously expensive. Paying out of pocket you'd be looking at several thousand per month for drugs, thousands per day for hospitalization and tens of thousands for major surgery.

Even with insurance the co-pays and deductibles (amount the insured is required to pay) can range up to a significant percentage of those costs.

Unless you're fabulously wealthy, a terminal illness generally means living exactly as long as your insurance and/or the generosity of others allows.
Been working on Lua based stuff that can bring up enough of a system for containers (networking and so on, still some bits missing) https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall
Just curious, what "flavor" is Facebook blue (#3B5998) kool-aid? I always imagined it to be like a Blue Razz Blow Pop.
You're right, I don't get it. We're not politicians, we're developers. He's pointing out the fact that he's paid taxes for $x years and in the moment he needs the most help, his government is not here to provide for him.

He's not saying Obama or Bush or Clinton or Bush or $foo, he's saying the government.
Angular. Seriously.
Thank you. I have an old Optiplex as a number crunching toy and had just decided to use the two currently unused SAS drives to run a first ZFS test. You just saved me a lot of frustration.
Nice, exactly what I'm looking for. A few ideas for features:

More options in the filter preferences. How are wildcards handled and multiple domains?

A system-wide hotkey for turning on and off the distraction (I'm an avid Vim user and do a lot of text editing so I'd prefer not to use the mouse too much). Maybe even make it work together with Alfred.

Custom messages for the blocked website.
Is there a way someone might donate without using Paypal?
The unfinished video alone deserves the upvote. Cool idea, now I need to get back to work :)
Inkless metal pen will write until the tip is all worn away. FTFY.
I would go with ZFS, at least for now. BtrFS is getting there but i wouldn't use it production just yet,
What's the point ? He would give diplomatic answers about events 20 years ago. What would that accomplish ?

His energy right now is behind a really great thing and a great inspiration for all of us - to apply ourselves and our geek brains to doing something useful in the world, not just optimizing hip city limo rentals for inflated multiples.

So I think these so called soft ball questions are great. They set him up to hit the ball out of the park. Go Bill ! Hit that thing ! Let even the shallow and dull minded hear the message and see that this is what great people do when they have the opportunity.

Public opinion is fickle and there is far too much snark and strife. He is going in the right direction so God speed.

But I'm not going to start using SQL-server or anything.
I have an 11" and my dad has the 13", so I have experience using both.

I find the 11 inch is such a nice size for portability, however it's extremely annoying to work on because the screen is so short. The lack in vertical space is truly annoying.

The 13 has a lot more pixels which is nice, however in my case, the higher pixel density is harder to work on because my eyesight isn't as great as it should be and the denser screen makes focussing more difficult for me. Most people probably wouldn't mind though and may even prefer it.

I'm betting that the 13 is a better choice for you if you have any desire to be productive.
apt-cache search mbox | wc -l
82

Ouch. How disconnected from the real world can academics get?
Angular can easily work as a facade to the underlying es6 features coming soon.
CL in the 21st Century is Clojure.
No.

It uses ptrace and seccomp-bpf.
If travel weight is the primary concern get the 11. It is tiny.

I have had both. Now I have the 13 and want the 11. The change in carry weight from a 15 to either MBA is life-altering.

The screen on the 13 does give more acreage to work with. I got the 13 primarily to get a bigger SSD.

With the 11 you will want to live in one window only. The screen size is optimized for portability rather than productivity. On a plane the 11 is a gloriously useful size.

I dock my 13 to a Thunderbolt Display at work.
Can dtrace do sandboxing the way ptrace can? I didnt think it could.
I have been waiting for an app that does this for a long time.

Too bad both the deb link and makefile are broken.
Nice touch showing a motivational quote when you try to visit the blocked website.

I've been using Concentrate[1] so far with great results. It has a few more options (such as a growl message every X seconds) but no nice motivational quote for websites! :) Also – the first version is actually free (click the buy button).

[1] http://www.getconcentrating.com/
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It is an easy concept to grasp. The way you presented it was insufferable, and I'm fairly certain you did have a comment moaning about downvotes.
Very cool project; really terrible name.
Hmm well I do use it when I'm around the appartment and stuff or I use my iMac. But as the 15" can't connect to the iMac because it's not compatible I was wanting something portable that I can take around with me, train, travel etc. I'm a contractor so odds are there will be displays I can plug into where I go.
vpn.sh's UK locations are overloaded right now, StrongVPN seems to work if you can get a slot in the UK (use the ping tests to get one that's under 400ms from your location) and I've had a second hand recommendation for whatsonthebox.net.
Forever isn't very long, then?
I recently upgraded from a 2011 11in MBA to a 2013 13in MBA. For me it was a huge improvement; the increase in screen size sounds small but it really makes a difference in usability, at least to me.

The improvement in battery life was also eye-opening. My old MBA had a fairly typical life for a laptop, around 5 hours or so. Apple advertise "up to 12 hours wireless web" for the current 13in MBA (9 hours for the 11in), but I'd heard that the power saving features in Mavericks make a real difference, so I put it to the test. I opened a number of auto-refreshing web pages (Google News etc), so the browser (Chrome) would be loading a new page every 30-60 seconds or so; I figured that would be a reasonable imitation of light web browsing. I also left iTunes playing music. (Brightness and volume were at the levels I normally use; net connection was over 802.11n wifi; Bluetooth was switched on but not connected to anything.)

It ran for 15.5 hours. Yeah, I'm impressed :)

If you value performance more than extreme battery life, you may want to look at the 13in MacBook Pro instead.
I donated $25, and feel the same way. The healthcare situation in the US is un-fucking-acceptable.
> The fact that computers are too inconvenient to use for communication without using locked centralized platforms and proprietary software is a testament to the failure of computers as a communication tool

Or maybe social communication platforms are a natural monopoly and the computers are working just fine.
Maybe not in functionality, but they hit the same demographic.
Doesn't have to be particularly soft. Coin silver wire (2mm to fit standard draughting leadholders) is "normal" for the silverpoint drawing technique, and there wouldn't be a whole lot of sharpening involved if super-fine cross-hatching wasn't one of the expectations ("scumbling" a duller wire will also achieve shading).
Ask HN: What are the best sources of news for iOS app dev?
What are your best sources for news of iOS app development or design?
Where do you find useful snippets for iOS apps?
Sell the 15" for a Thunderbolt display and get the 11". That is a killer combo.
In other words, it is a well made pencil.