skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Eat, Pray, Facebook
James Howard Kunstler: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs
That would explain why I'm getting a massive amount of tickets from my clients why their site is down.
Yep, what has happened in Asia alarmed Facebook and jack up this deal's price, pretty obviously. What weechat and line have achieved can be easily perceived on whatsup, that scared Facebook.
Another archer here, since the 2009.
Super rationality is a reasoning approach in game theory. Probably what you're talking about.
While I'm in "even if its not happening, shouldn't we do something just in case it is" camp, I see a LOT of hypocrisy on the part of people fervently saying it does exist.

Al Gore? The guy who's the poster boy for climate change owns a huge mansion that's incredibly inefficient in its energy use:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

"In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home"

This doesn't even take into account the amount of fuel the guy burns on all of his globe trotting talking about the evils of Global Warming. So yeah, there's the deniers, but it's hard to take these people seriously who are talking about the end of the world, yet are greatly adding to its demise.

I'm all for alternative energy sources, but when do you think you're going to get solar to a point where's its more economically feasible? I just got an estimate from a company last summer and to get a few panels installed and up and running, it was around 40K up-front and then I would break even with the energy savings in about 10 years.

Now think about low income families, you think they'd ever be able to afford something like that? Add in the fact renewable resource companies keep going bankrupt and I keep wondering when, if ever there will be a decent alternative to actually mitigate the ongoing damage.
Google offered to acquire WhatsApp for $10 billion
Spanish banking group BBVA acquires Simple for $117 million in cash
I moved most of my stuff to Route53 awhile back and for the most part I don't regret it.
And still much less than 2%.
You SHOULD doubt it, last I checked their licensing was really shady. I'd stay away from Titanium for commercial products.
Do you optimize your choice of cups? Of USB cables? Brake fluid in your car? How far do you go to get the perfect sugar?

I get my olive oil from an electrical hardware store around the corner from where I work - http://mroliveoil.com/page19.htm - how far do you go to get yours?

Lots of things are worth doing - often unavoidably so - but that doesn't mean you need to optimize each and every one of them until they're "right".
I've noticed every country I visit thinks walking down the street in the US is a dangerous activity, getting assaulted is routine, murders are common, etc.

fact is, violent crime is way down since the 1990s. Not saying current levels are acceptable, but it sure isn't as bad as it is perceived.
Show HN: Lazily load dumb ads in responsive layouts – lazy-ads
I'm dealing with over 30 ad providers & barely any support responsive layouts so I end up with ads loading but not visible on small screens. A performance overhead I do't want, this is an attempt to patch this problem - would love to hear your feedback!
Here's a video of someone teaching them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRwXuRIR3Co

At 4m10s she shows the one I'm practicing the most now, training to focus. I like to do it one eye at a time, and then both. I don't aways use the thumb, I like to go to a park and do it between trees, when I'm on a bus I do it between the window's borders (because it's not transparent) and things out side.

Blink is very important to, try to remember to blink, so it's always lubricated enough. I tend to blink less when I'm on a computer, it's something I'm trying to work on.

I'll give it a few more months to see how it reflects on the eye doctor exam.
An article without a single word of useful information -- no clue about orbital height, how many subscribers might be served by a given satellite, how the system would switch between satellites as one satellite moved out of view, that sort of thing.

Without the technical details, it's a pipe dream unlikely to attract investors.
That is a bad bias. "Data structures & algorithms" could be a footnote in the history of a developer, plus, which "data structures and algorithms" will you use to hire one? The ones relevant to a erlang dev are not the same to a C/embeded one.
10 Reasons why Visual Basic is better than C#
Depends on the TTL (time to live) settings for the DNS entries, doesn't it?
If it's absolutely critical that your users get service right now, it might be a good idea to at least prepare a migration to other DNS servers, like perhaps those of Linode. If the situation doesn't improve within an hour or so, it might be that they don't have a good way to deal with it, and the outtage might take long, depending on the depth of the DDoSers pockets.
American tastes changed vs Japanese and European tastes after World War II. The veterans coming home had eaten lots of canned food and other non-perishables while the Europeans and Japanese citizens had to eat what they could find locally and seasonally. It's had a lasting impact.
Hangout is a decent alternative, or Facebook messenger. Both are moving fast to mobile phone number based.
It is also human nature to remain unconcerned with staggering levels of human suffering until it hits me or someone I personally know and care about.

I just tough our civilization had implicitly agreed to hold itself to a higher standard.
Or, perhaps that weather has cycles and is not an uncorrelated random walk, and that 50 years of living with your life strongly influenced by the weather, along with several lifetimes of your parents' wisdom gives some insight into deep patterns of nature that are not readily apparent. Perhaps these persistent stories about old people predicting things based on caterpillars and trick knees are hints that the world might be more complicated than you think. And if you aren't so quick to assume that you understand the world because you think you understand a theory, you might investigate these hints. Maybe you will find out that there is something actually going on, and you'll have an exciting new world to explore.
The problem with the meritocracy
Pricing doesn't seem too bad. $0.50 for a zone (domain) and $0.50 for a billion queries: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/pricing/
Aereo uses many antennas because the CableVision DVR precedent (or a different DVR precedent) said that deduplication was illegal in a remote DVR service, but one copy to one subscriber was fine.

They may have even started with one antenna generating many copies (one per viewer), and designed the multi-antenna hardware because of a different court's decision, but I cannot recall, and searching is difficult from a phone.
And no BASE jumping either.
That was my reasoning when I answered, but I had missed the fact it was a GROUP BY, which means you can't just filter after the fact.

Edit: In other words it was 100 or 10 aggregated rows. A extra WHERE clause will change the values of each of the rows rather than just filter the rows from 100 to 10. (Which a HAVING clause would do.)
Awesome :)

I just integrated with sorl-thumbnail, I don't know if it will be a fully replacement for our IRC channel, however I'm sure most of the devs will give it a try.

Gitter Room: https://gitter.im/mariocesar/sorl-thumbnail
Check these guys for example http://yuilop.com/intl/lead-server-core-developer-javaerlang... . Look at the challenges they have. These are well known classic problems that generally require mutable lookup tables among other things. Doing it in erlang "to be executed as fast as possible" is crazy.
Reminds me a lot of Slack[1], but the gh-flavored-markdown and tighter issue and CI integration make Gitter stand out.

Any chance of BitBucket integration?

[1] (http://slack.com/)
You can use CloudFlare's free plan as DNS-only.
Yes, but... With a sufficiently widespread third party library they risk a backlash with their userbase. Social networks depend so much on the network effect to bring in users that cutting out a large chunk of users all at once because the protocol changed could cause more users to drop out.

Thinking about it, I wonder how much AIM and MSN Messenger's fights against third party clients messed up their user bases.
Plan To Split California Into Six States Gets OK To Gather Signatures
It's painful to watch an otherwise successful person whip out a calculator to make sure they don't accidentally give their server an extra 30 cents on an ~$18 lunch bill. Just round up and move on with your life. Everybody wins.
Here we go again -- a likely meaningless correlation that someone tries to make persuasive with the word "linked".

Proposal: in popular science writing, automatically replace the word "linked" with "rumored".
100% agree. It's especially hard for teams that are learning both Git and Gerrit at the same time. I both administer and provide support for the Gerrit instance where I work and it has become a huge exercise in babysitting permissions configuration on the server side and dealing with angry users. They get themselves in to lots of "stuck" situations due to a lack of understanding, and it is now possibly building in to a revolt. For the record, I didn't pick Gerrit! :-) Fun times.
Yes, perhaps there lies our folly. It's the choice between being flexible in ability to move our servers really quick, or being tolerant of DNS servers going down.

I sort of hoped that a DNS client would just use an expired DNS result in case the servers would not respond, but perhaps that is naieve/dumb.
Can't you just browse and search "incognito" with Google Chrome?
> Yes? It is not only vulgar, it is utterly clueless.

I don't have the knowledge or experience to say otherwise, so if someone were to ask me if WhatsApp was a success, $16B seems like a good reason to say yes. Are you implying that WhatsApp's sale was a failure case for their owners, and success for them would have looked differently? (reject the sale and continue growth of the platform?)
38.2% of people got 4/5 or 5/5 questions right. That is amazing. I never would have guessed anywhere even close to that. I would have figured it would be around 15% or so given that guessing randomly would put it at 12.5%. I guess I get a skewed perspective from looking at applicants since presumably most of those 38% are happy with their current jobs.
Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Transformation Of The Computer Scientist
From http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

In at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. In an incident this spring involving a 15-year-old boy who he'd befriended, Barksdale tapped into call logs from Google Voice, Google's Internet phone service, after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend, according to our source. After accessing the kid's account to retrieve her name and phone number, Barksdale then taunted the boy and threatened to call her.

In other cases involving teens of both sexes, Barksdale exhibited a similar pattern of aggressively violating others' privacy, according to our source. He accessed contact lists and chat transcripts, and in one case quoted from an IM that he'd looked up behind the person's back. (He later apologized to one for retrieving the information without her knowledge.) In another incident, Barksdale unblocked himself from a Gtalk buddy list even though the teen in question had taken steps to cut communications with the Google engineer.
If you think that was their intention with this acquisition, you're mistaken. WhatsApp poses a threat to traditional social networking, and Facebook obviously wants a leg in that race.
The killer feature for me with ddg (as a programmer) is the ! searches for documentation:

!php strstr
!python os.makedirs
!pypi requests
!js String

etc.

This gives you a single search bar for all documentation, which is amazing.

edit: formatting
My rate is apparently 404.
Oh I don't have any false illusions. I know ORMs fail most of the time when you need very specialized queries - and I know how to do them - but I still hate them.

They're a pain in the ass.
On which picture you see Ukrainian police?
Web components seem to be that one technology that can finally make it palatable for old school desktop developers to develop for the web
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Google offered to buy WhatsApp for $10 billion
Well, programmers are humans too and humans (mostly) like beautiful stuff, so there's a valid point in ruby being better at attracting and get people involved than Python does.

Having worked with both, this beauty thing also applies to library APIs. I found ruby libraries to have a lot more syntax sugar and better 'plug-and-playability' than Python tools.
Ruby is just more fun.
Yeah, there's some quite heavy rent control http://www.thelocal.se/20131113/rent-control-blamed-for-hous... http://www.thelocal.se/20130723/49206
So my first response was who the $^!% is Tim Bray? Then I read. TLDR: famous enough to merit an article about his departure but not famous enough for Google to give an inch to retain him (see Hinton, Geoffrey for a counterexample).

No surprises here. Google is setting the stage for its own disruption. But that event is a total black swan much like paying $16B for a messaging company.
Down for me as well. Lost access to absolutely all of my company's services. TTL 60...
I reach the opposite conclusion. These are premature optimization tweaks which means tons of people are using SQL successfully without knowing them.

You could argue CSS is a failure, because designers don't know that

#sidebar .widget

is slower than

.widget

I'd argue that it is evidence CSS is a success because it makes no real difference, and people opt for the more readable solution.
SQL is extremely powerful. Whenever something comes up and says that it's going to hide the complexity of SQL/raw DB access, it's lying. :) I can work well in many cases, then it bites you in the ass later. That's not a reason to not use ORMs for example, but without knowing how the underlying DB works you can have problems. Abstractions are leaky, always. Same applies if you work in a high level language and you don't care/know how caches work; if you use HTTP requests and you have no idea how HTTP works, and so on.
The parent may have been referring to states with laws prohibiting Tesla from opening its own dealerships or selling directly to customers in those states.
Correction on the queries pricing:

$0.500 per million queries – first 1 Billion queries / month

$0.250 per million queries – over 1 Billion queries / month
I always wondered, if a company doesn't really want to protect their trademark (too much hassle), but has to, can't they just grant people a (temporary, revokable) right to use the trademark pro forma?

I remember seeing a company (something Linux-related) that had a very strict trademark policy, and they did sue people who used their logo or their name, or event something different but similar. But their web site had a form where you could just enter your email address and name, and it would say oki-doki, you may now use our trademark as you like, until we say otherwise.
Putin is pretty evil

Since when Putin has became an euphemism for Russia? Why don't everyone simply say 'Russians are evil'?

Because ~65% of Russians voted for Putin, and they did it three times. He is very popular. Not difficult to see why. Since he came to power their GDP per capita (PPP-adjusted) almost doubled, law and order improved, corruption went down. And more Russians are being born than die, so the population decline is reversed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/02/04/five-myt...

For all his populism, Putin's economic policies have been very shrewd - Russia paid out its foreign debt and has currently some of the largest foreign currency reserves, and one of the lowest tax rates in the world.

As to the efforts to present Putin as some evil thug, throwing journalists to gulags etc. - this is just laughable. The best example are Pussy Riot. When the best anti-Putin propaganda can do is to call a punk-group who insults religious minorities a victim of political prosecution... Well, probably, Russians have to conclude that there are no real issues with freedom of speech in their country!

It's perfectly fine not to like Russians improving their life and enjoying a stronger country. But don't blame poor Putin for that. He is simply an elected official, it's just that Russians have been lucky to find a capable one.
Good car manners? This person has clearly never driven in Austin.
GM has had comparable stuff in their Buick line (very popular in China), Ford just advertises on more tech sites because of Microsoft. Siri hands free is also in the some Honda models.
Ansible Vault allows keeping encrypted data in Playbooks
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vUUVmJE...
I bet he uses "GIT" on his MAC. I know that's probably low on the list of cluelessness in his essay, but it's a peeve of mine and I'm not inclined to cut this guy the teeniest tiniest amount of slack for anything.
So instead, Erik (according to popular legend) called the island Greenland and instead painted the island as being a wonderful place to settle. There are other theories as to how Greenland got its name

So, "this is a popular legend" is the most scientific link on the subject? The second best answer is "translation error"? Um. ok.

He purposely chose the pleasant name Grænland ("green land") to attract settlers, but the choice wasn't exactly misleading. Some parts of Greenland, especially the parts the Norse settled, really are green, as these pictures from the tourist board attest (www.greenland-guide.dk/outdoor_life_photo.htm). He may have been a killer, but at least he wasn't a real-estate scam-artist.
So, after they first deleted some of his text while he was writing, he kept writing with an internet connection on? So that it happened again and again? Doesn't sound all that smart.
Site down for me:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vUUVmJE...
Motivation for us all to write good commit messages.
Link bait? Trolling? Perhaps the author genuinely thinks one language has better syntax than the other - but so what.

If you prefer one - then use it. Others may have the opposite opinion. The majority do not care about your choice. So for pities sake keep quiet about it.
I saw the version of this talk that he gave at Strange Loop in 2012 using Clojure instead of Ruby:

https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/y-not-adventures-in-func...

It was hands down the best talk at the conference that year. RIP.

Edit: 2013 => 2012
This has been my experience as well. I have used DDG as my primary search engine for years. The results have been great, and the lack of !bangs on Google makes it extremely frustrating when I'm forced to use it. (Note for DDG users, you can type the bang on its own to go right to the main site. So just "!w" on its own to go to Wikipedia, or "!a" on its own to go to Amazon, which I find quicker than using the address bar.)
I'm dealing with over 30 ad providers & barely any support responsive layouts so I end up with ads loading but not visible on small screens. A performance overhead I don't want, this is an attempt to patch this problem - would love to hear your feedback!
I'm guilty of using multiple single indexes instead of multi-column, so I'll try to correct that.
Don't forget about how it develops isolated and street-naive teenagers in the suburbs who are completely unable to go anywhere interesting without a parent till they're 16 (or older in many jurisdictions where the driving age has been creeping up and rules disallow teenagers from giving each other rides). Remember the woman who let her 10 year old take a city bus to school and back in NYC (something which most any 10 year old can master after one ride) and got accosted on network TV for her carelessness?
How come Startpage always shows me local results?
Gandhi also mistreated his wife, neglected his children enough to scar them for life, and used emotional blackmail to get what he wanted from the British and the masses. He kept many beliefs a secret from the people which are coming to light of late. I cannot figure out why we admire Gandhi or call him a mahatma? Non-violence? No he used to beat up his wife and encouraged Indians to get beaten up by the British. We did not get independence because of him- it would have happened any way -given that India was becoming a liability to the British.
> People who fight are not all nazis

I never stated that all the people involved are Nazis. No the presence of the Nazis is not irrelevant at all, it's the exactly the opposite: It's very relevant because it says a lot about the real goal of the opposition: Come to power no matter what.

I know that Arseniy Yatsenyuk is backed by USA interests and Vitali Klitschko by EU (German) interests. So it's a sort of a triangle, but these two for the time being are against the Russian backed current PM Yanukovych.

As for the "Liberal West". Theoretically the west (EU, UK & USA) are promoters of democracy, civil rights and so on. Both Klitschko and Yatsenyuk were in Berlin 24 hours before the massacre. So when Nazis with guns were attacking government buildings the two opposition leaders were embracing the move with specific remarks from "Square of Freedom". So there is clearly a link between the legal opposition and the extremist far-right (Nazi + other kind of) opposition. Of course, we don't know if in Berlin any decisions were taken, but then again you have to be a little bit naive to believe in this sort of coincidence.

In this and many others cases, the goals do NOT justify the means, because if the opposition uses (directly or indirectly) the Nazis today, no one says that they are not going to use them again tomorrow against their next enemy. It's simple as that.

The EU's stance is very descriptive: The first day they condemn the episodes (by the Nazi opposition), the next day announces sanctions against the current government!!! It's embarrassing: The EU wants the Ukranian government to stand down because they don't like it.

I'm not saying Putin is any better, but I expect the EU to be a lot better than Putin, China or Iran by supporting democratic values, not back-channeling and fueling war.
Will do! Thanks! Is there a public report available? How long ago was this?
IANAL, but these claims can't last. To the extent those projects are using WhatsApp's trademarks or copyrighted logos, they can stop infringing by renaming and removing the logos. There might be a "hacking" claim against users who use that software to access WhatsApp's servers, but not copyright (assuming WhatsApp doesn't claim copyright over messages sent through the aervice), of unknown validity, and probably not enforceable against a site which merely hosts code to do so. I think.
It's the same with almost anything else. Austerity for thee, but not for me.
It's creepy how you people use that word denier. Kind of like how cult members use it
Right, so take it a bit further. You don't have to simulate everything that there isn't an observer on since you can create a temporal boundary between two areas.

So, translating that into physics:

1. You know you are only going to simulate for the next, say, day.
2. Take all the photons, xrays, etc. heading towards earth and continue to simulate them, but freeze everything outside of a reasonable distance (in hash life, this isn't arbitrary, it is perfectly defined).
3. Continue simulation for that sub area only.