skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least due to the startup costs and necessary experience involved, there are many fewer breweries opening than frozen yogurt places. I can't believe the number of frozen yogurt places. And they're still opening. In a mid-sized city with a really long and cold winter. I almost want to go in and ask what the heck they're thinking.
I know that there is a cost attached, even though, from an argumentative stand point I sometimes want to wish it away...

That is where transfer payments between the publically fincanced broadcasters come in. Make one big nice platform where every EUropean can watch all the non-third-party content and then distribute part of the public broadcasting revenue to those broadcasters whose content was watched by users in other countries.

I know this is not realistic, but from my point of view it looks as if the only reason we don't have something like this is that the people in the right places just don't care.
Cheaper servers = companies buy more servers = more Windows Server / MSSQL / sharepoint licenses.
`sudo apt-get install nginx` does not just work if:

- The repo is down
- External network doesn't work
- You are missing a dependency not in your apt-cache
- It conflicts with another package due to a dependency

All of which are possible and happen.
No. Spintronics still uses electron transport, but the electrons are spin polarized. Atoms aren't individually excited in spintronics.
An afternoon at Bakushu Club Popeye sipping Baird and others remains one of the top beer drinking experiences in my life. Japan's beer scene is really exciting, and it's too bad so little of it makes it to the states—what does is often pricey even relative to European imports.
It's no different to opencompute et al.

If hardware mffs see this as a challenge, there's an easy solution. Start building it!

The huge gap in this, opencompute, etc is that for most of us, it's nowhere near cost effective to actually have these designs fabricated. That leaves a gaping hole for supermicro, dell, etc to fill.
Snowden at SXSW: The NSA is 'setting fire to the future of the Internet'
I guess spy satellites aren't as good as Hollywood has made out...

I would have imagined it wouldn't be that hard to point some satellites at the search area and look for something on the surface of the water, or a new impact area on land.
Now that I'm reading that ... isn't every subset of a finite set itself finite (and thus limited)?
If you ever manage more than one box, or rebuild your box with very similar configs, Ansible is a great fit and is easy to get started with.
I actually discovered your book yesterday and got very excited about it! What is your target release date for it?
Came to the thread to mention this. It's super cool, although sometimes it drops my seeders to 0 without explanation. And only on my rPi.
This comment is spot-on.

According to the Yegge programming axis, Haskell is extremist conservative (emphasizes safety above all) and Clojure is some notches down into a more moderate zone (merely "conservative") that balances safety against pragmatism.
What's the difference between a "package" and a "configuration"? At some level, they are both sets of files, so I can imagine a tool handling both, providing the benefit of a common interface. On the other hand, why might one want separate tools for packages and configuration?
The author is quite defensive about the commercialisation around agile. I don't think this is warranted.

I'm a developer, but I have described myself as an agile consultant in the past.

This isn't out of cynically spotting an opportunity to make a buck. Its because I've spent a lot of time working in agile environments, learning the pitfalls and how to do it well, and want to share what I really and genuinely think is a better way to deliver software.

When vendors and consultants start to coallesce around an idea, it usually means that the idea is a good one that is gaining traction, coming down from the ivory tower. It's a positive thing and not something to leave the community that you founded over.

I've heard this argument many times over the years, and it always sticks in the throat a little. I'm evangelising an idea that I passionately believe in but am seen to be selling out the community ideals somehow. I walk the same line on my current venture in the DevOps space.
Is your life not noticeably improved by the existence of the internet?
> It's already illegal.

No it's not. In general. Depends on where you live. But for me it's illegal to distribute it though, which torrent protocol does.
A list of reasons not to use MySQL:

http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
Market competition is good, but it isn't enough for progress either. Current microprocessors are quickly reaching fundamental physical limits. We will still see speed increases from architectural and algorithmic development, but not from faster (...5Ghz) processors.
Imagine a world in which the treatment for heart attacks was to get the victim to sit down and press icepacks to their chest. Someone writes an article about "Why icepacks aren't good enough" as treatments for cardiac arrest. It would be clear why the article started by talking about icepacks.
Heat maps aren't always easy to make sense of for colorblind people like myself.
It's an expression of enthusiasm, don't take it so seriously.

min* is like min but takes a list, it's not built in. Yes, I know about apply, I still prefer min* to (apply min) in certain cases.
Raspberry Pi has USB right? So why not just get a Schiit Modi? A very high quality DAC that can be entirely USB powered.
Joel Spolsky wrote a good article on this approach:

"Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

[NB Yes it's from 2002 but the basic rules of the game stay pretty constant]
A Wild New Look at Birds, Thanks to Time-Bending Video Trickery
I've used Cinelerra quite a bit; it has multiple layers, color correction, and perspective filters, which makes me happy.
But giving people exactly what they want only further enshrines the status quo, which is almost always crappy. Make things because you have to, I guess.

HN is pop programming culture and if you're writing Clojure, you can't expect them to appreciate it as much as, say, Node.js.
Time? Do you write all your applications in assembly?
Very few. He's enlightened enough that it's hard to know if it's for real.
Technology gives certainty to seafood purchases
Stream Torrents Instantly From XBMC
Disagree COMPLETELY. I can waste time hunting down the file I need, or someone can build something fantastic to use.

Hell, when I was a youngin' I wrote FastFlick to make MY life easier. We as hackers are always striving to make things simpler for everyone, but most importantly for ourselves.

http://fastflick.blogspot.com/
> I understand what he says, but from a grammar perspective, he's wrong. He complains that Agile, which started out as an adjective, has been turned into a noun. He wants it to be an adverb instead, so he introduces agility, which already is a noun. And then he says it's not a noun. (I'm sorry, but I just couldn't not point that out.)

Your knowledge of English programming is excellent, it is a rare and underrated skill. I can only recall one article on English coding posted on HN [0]. BTW love the double negative at the end.

[0] http://antirez.com/news/61
I have that set; since the original cut is from the laserdisc transfer, you can actually see the matte backgrounds when the TIE fighters attack the Falcon as they escape the Death Star. I'm hoping Disney will restore the original cut and fix those little issues.
I wonder if that was an accident that he couldn't back out of. A programming game that turned into, "Holy sh*t, this might go somewhere" but it was too late to turn into a synonym.
Most likely your SD card is full. This can happen on some installs like OpenELEC which don't use the whole SD card.
That site is inspiring. How many wonderful things can be built with the right mix of technology and passion.

Thanks for sharing.
I'm a little surprised that the New Yorker (although this is a New Yorker blog, so maybe it's not the "real" New Yorker) is doing the HuffPo/Gawker/Buzzfeed kind of "look what just happened on Reddit!" type of post.

However, as a former reporter, I can understand the temptation of looking at reddit as a treasure trove of quotes and opinions that require no more than a few clicks to use in an article.
> The thing about HashDist is that you can actually install it in userspace over any UNIXy system (for now, Cygwin, OS X, and Linux)

I've been looking into Nix (the package manager) recently, and it also can be installed on OS X and various Linux distros (I've seen Cygwin mentioned, but I don't think this is well supported).

If you're familiar with both, what does HashDist provide over Nix?
From what I can see none of his own books are actually about "Agile". In fact "Agile development with Rails" is probably the only one that used that word in the title, and I can't really fault him for taking advantage.

Also he wrote some quite good books, 'Pragmatic Thinking and Learning' come to mind. I don't think your comment is particularly fair, nor does it diminish the point he is making in any way even if you're right.
>the state of audio is not really that great in linux either

I personally disagree, after doing hobbyist music production on Windows with Cubase (& friends) for years, I moved to Linux and I found a whole ecosystem well integrated into the OS/distro itself that makes me way more productive with better results.

While the array of finetuned technologies/plugins/samples might not be as extensive as on other more popular platforms, the Jack environment and its freedom is really unrivaled.

I think it has to do with the way of doing things on Linux systems vs other operating systems, while on Windows you have your DAW + ReWire, on Linux you just fire up Jack and a few dozens of smaller applications (+ your DAW, which might be Rosegarden or Ardour or others) that you can tie together with easy-to-use interfaces like patchage or ladish. On that note, ladish is awesome, allowing you to suspend and recover whole jack sessions (with dozens of programs) in a simple click.

Also check out kxstudio, they have some really fancy and nicely built tools that further improve the ecosystem.
Even utorrent has the stream feature.
Exactly, good luck to the RIAA goons trying to mess with South Americans.
Just in case, I started a new HN thread here[1].

Disclosure: I'm the author.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7379166
I had some hope that maybe somebody just snatched the plane in order to kidnap the Freescale Semiconductor employees, but that seems impossible by now. The only nation that has performed such Bond-esque schemes in the past and still exists is North Korea, but the plane could not have gotten there withoug being noticed by the airspace control of at least three nations.

Also, the plane should have veered to the East, not the West.

EDIT To clarify for the downvoters: I was hoping so because it is the only chance all those people could still be alive. Which sadly they aren't.
We can disagree. What I was trying to say with #3 is that it's just an index. You use the index by using Google. If you don't like the index, don't use Google. But they aren't stealing the world's data so ownership doesn't matter. They are indexing it and creating a new bit of information, they own that. You know what I mean? It's just an index and they respect ROBOTS.TXT just like other crawlers (but not all).
One subtle problem that I think is potentially relevant is that Classic Perl's version number has to keep incrementing from 5.x; someone who isn't following Perl development sees Perl using the same major version number as it was back in the mid-90s and assumes it's not being actively developed.
They're moving it up from 7 days to 30 days at some point soon.
It doesn't work for communicating anything, all the decisions are made in small conference rooms and the noise remains in the open space where noise happens.

Big spaces are ok if you can concentrate in the middle of the jungle and to casually chit chat to someone, but that's it.
A graph with no units on the y-axis (and not even stated clearly in the text) put me completely off reading this article.
What are the best resources for one to learn PostgreSQL?
Seems like it needs more publicity :)

For your RPi, be sure to have enough space on your SD card. If the video stutters, put a download speed cap.
Periodic Table of Elements, according to relative abundance
I spent a few years inside Big Blue. It moves very slowly but (IMHO) has world class people putting out well written, quality stuff.

It has its dark corners like anywhere else, I'm willing to concede it may just have been the teams I worked with that were awesome, it's certainly not cool, I wouldn't want to spend my whole career working for them and (frankly) god help you if you let one of their salesman in the building... But I learned a lot about doing things right. And now I'm a freelancer without the massive organisational overhead so I get to do things fast and right.

I dunno, maybe a large traditional corp isn't the only answer, but some way of enforcing good practice on people for a while, like a boot camp, so that they can take some of it with them to environments where it's not enforced as rigidly.
Dollar General Discount retail store at a price to employees
Watching this Video makes me see the truth behind multi billion dollar company's like Dollar General
Relevant

"Origin"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761898

"Usability Anti-Pattern?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238482

"NProgress et al."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6246183
The raspi has a hardware video decoder for some codecs (e.g. H.264) whereas the bbb doesn't. Hence the bbb is not very practical for htpc setup.
Dmlenu
Here's a more relevant Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Air_Flight_574

A commercial airliner that went down at sea in 2007 in East Asia and no debris were found for a week.
Actually it's also illegal in Switzerland, as it includes the uploading of the movie.

However, there has never been a verdict on this.
Indeed, the license is impossible. In addition to what you point out, it attempts to say the same thing as many as 5 times, introducing unacceptable ambiguity.

The final straws for me is that it is the creator's explicit intent that no incomplete or incorrect implementations be publicly accessible (he among other things thinks there's enough already...), and that the author broke a promise to the community, demonstrating that his word is no good.
Brewing (and wine making) seems like the rare field(s) that consumers think they can do better.

I don't think I can make a better computer than Apple just because I use one. I don't think I can block better than the offensive lineman on the 49ers, even if I think he's incompetent. I can't make a car better than GM, even if I might drive one.

Yet why do so many people think opening a brewery is easy?

Beer Wars is a great documentary on the fight craft brewers have against the big beer companies. [1] The war is all in distribution.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326194/
Author's point is that we are focusing on the wrong place (puppet, chef, etc.), hence potentially making the problem worse by attempting to deal with the symptoms instead of addressing the root cause. Puppet/Chef etc. may indeed still be relevant and potentially even more widely used as it would become much simpler to develop recipes, etc.
Apple is asking record labels for iTunes exclusives to compete against Spotify
I've always thought of how revolutionary it would be to have some kind of video hosting site where you distributed encrypted content throughout the users in fragments. When you would be using the client it would always be broadcasting to others, but you could enable or disable a background daemon to do it throughout the day. You could have it "smart allocate" the video cache, and it would keep local your favorites and could pull down your "watch later" videos in advance. It could buffer episode 2 when you are watching episode 1, etc.

I can't think of another way to democratize youtube - the costs of storing and broadcasting petabytes of videos are astronomical, but I think torrenting proves there is a lot of untapped bandwidth in the world you could take advantage of if you mask it over with a nice GUI. I guess that is the real downside of such an idea - it can't work in the browser, unless you implement a torrent client in javascript, and even then you couldn't maintain a local cache.
"A damages expert will argue on Apple's behalf that, if the parties had acted reasonably and rationally in a hypothetical negotiation, Samsung would have agreed to pay $40 -- forty dollars! -- per phone or tablet sold as a total royalty for the five patents-in-suit, which relate to (but don't even fully monopolize) the phone number tapping feature, unified search, data synchronization, slide-to-unlock, and autocomplete."

I don't know where to start. Apple predicting what Samsung would have agreed to; that acting reasonable and rationally, Samsung would have agreed to pay to totally crazy sum; or the patents themselves.

What can possibly be innovative about tapping a phone number? How is unified search Apple's idea and not some actual search giant's? What is innovative about data synchronization? Does Apple do it in a particularly clever and innovative way that Samsung copied? And does every single website also owe Apple $8 per visitor for having autocomplete?
Tencent-JD Tie-Up Takes Aim at Alibaba
Check this then http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736
They still use copper on 10gbit in some places for rack-local connections through both cat6 and passive sfp+ cables
Yeah, except with beer you have 2-3 orders of magnitude more starting expenses.
If you watch from a small screen it's not that bad!
When I went to tech meetups I met a couple mentors that had office hours... the first thing they started talking about was how much money they helped startups raise. They acted as if that validates any advice they gave. And their advice didn't seem that good.

In reality I got more helpful advice from my peers. That's why I recently started a club for developers. The idea is to meet weekly online and talk to each other about the progress of our projects and startups. If any developers feel like they have no network at all (like me), then you should join my club. The link is in my profile.
If you're going to read startup books, read these
Dollar General always in the news negatively 
there need to be a fall to company's like this.
Some pilots report debris @ N9.72 E107.42 https://www.google.com/maps/place/9°43'12.0"N+107°25'12.0"E)

Edit: satellite images are provided for a search: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014
and my comments are sometimes about what was tried but didn't work, or alternate ideas that were considered, along with commented out code and examples.
I've used Fabric this way as well, and found the same thing. If you start from a known-good state and apply a deterministic transformation to it, you've got another known-good state.

The problem is that running commands via SSH isn't really a deterministic process. It's fairly predictable, but it relies on a lot of inputs that can change unexpectedly. So it mostly works, but building a server has to be cheap and easy, because you throw them away a lot.

I think my ideal system would be sort of a cross between this and NixOS. We build servers with NixOS-style stateless declarative configuration. But then instead of using NixOS mechanisms for functionally/deterministically modifying the running system, we treat running servers as immutable and disposable and build new ones whenever we need to change something.

That seems like it would give maximum maintainability and robustness.
His words:

"Once the Manifesto became popular, the word agile became a magnet for anyone with points to espouse, hours to bill, or products to sell. It became a marketing term, co-opted to improve sales in the same way that words such as eco and natural are. A word that is abused in this way becomes useless—it stops having meaning as it transitions into a brand."

From his company's website:

http://pragprog.com/categories/practices

I think the callout is appropriate.
I find it really hard to understand how a quick, 5 minute meeting every day can hurt a team.

> - Rarely the right information.

You were doing it wrong: standups are not to give or receive information, just to inform the team what did you do yesterday, what are you doing to day and any blockers.

> - Rarely at the right time.

We schedule them 15 minutes before the first team member goes out for lunch (10:45 am), this forces a hard deadline.

> - Failure to communicate.

You should communicate blockers to your SCRUMMASTER immediately, the daily meeting is to remind him/her the blocker is still there.

> - Finally the "what I did yesterday" part.... If you don't know what somebody is working on, then go and ask him.

This is so wrong in so many ways. The SCRUMMASTER's job is to keep management off developers back and play interference so they can focus on getting the job done.

A stakeholder should NEVER be invited to talk directly to developers about what they are working on. If they want a daily status, they can attend the daily standup where they cannot talk, just listen. If they have questions, ask the scrummaster after the meeting.

The daily standup is a tradeoff, as SCRUMMASTER you promise the team they will not get dragged to any other meeting during the iteration.
Watch these bros fail in the gym
I laughed so hard at this #selfie parody
Once you involve the filesystem, you lose about 90% of users. Personally, I think hierarchical file systems a pain in the ass. I'm glad platforms are moving away from them.
Can someone elaborate how much extra value this creates to the project?

As Facebook and others already joined, i'm curious how much added value a big company like Microsoft brings in.
Thanks, I was just affraid I'd missed some kind of builtin macro or convention. At one point I thought that -> would rewrite function #"\*$" to decorate them with apply ... paranoid noobies you know.

ps: you're a very enthusiastic person ;)
This seems waaaaaayyy too polished in all respects for an app designed to break the law. I would not be at all surprised if those prebuilt binaries were sending your details off to the MPAA.
The Canadian copyright lawyer I talked to says no:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/popcorn-time-is-like-netfl...
Proof That Guest Blogging Is Not Dead, Coming Right From Google
This is what (sadly) puts a hole in the concept. Because most of the tyrant ISPs don't provide symmetric connections, you are never going to maintain a 1.0 ratio throughout a viewing, so you depend on seed boxes to keep the download demands from crippling popular videos. Unless they add a daemon option to keep seeding when not using the app, users are always leechers.
Also important to note that you can send magnet links from Chrome to it (a-la Chromecast) via the Play-to-XBMC Chrome extension.

Supported platforms are:

- Windows x86 x64

- OS X x64

- Linux x86 x64 (XBMCbuntu)

- Raspberry Pi (Raspbian, OpenELEC, Raspbmc, Xbian)

- Android 4.0+ ARM
This is a common complaint amongst doctors. I'm not exactly sure how a call for design can really work. How can a future startup compete with these juggernaut EHR systems on design alone?
As a German, I would like to point out that the German government also behaved abysmally in these cases, both with Al-Masri and also with Murat Kurnaz[1].

The latter case has shown us that Frank Walter Steinmeier is a wolf in a sheeps coat. Despicable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Kurnaz