skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a typo (I had to actually type out the line word by word instead of copying and pasting because highlighting the text wouldn't work for reasons stated in the post :)
A friend has a question for you: "How many moves does it think ahead? Or does it just think in the 'here-and-now' (only 1 move ahead)?"
Fibs (Yet another Threes knockoff)
Recently, I've been addicted to the game Threes.

One of the things I found interesting about the game was its scoring system. The scoring system works like this: for every tile 3 * 2^n, you are awarded 3^n points. It's sort of the equivalent of writing your number in (broken) base 2, and then reinterpreting it as base 3. Gameplay wise, this system guarantees that combining two tiles will yield a score that is greater than the original.

This had me thinking about another base system: the Fibonacci base system, which is explained more thoroughly than you could ever ask for here. The Fibonacci base system represents numbers not as sums of powers of the base, but instead as sums of Fibonacci numbers.

Well, I had the idea: why not play Threes, except that instead of "overflowing" base 2 representation, you overflow the Fibonacci representation by combining two adjacent Fibonacci numbers?

So I went and coded the game. My javascript skills are not so great, so the game's just a terminal game for now. You can download and run the game with python fibs.py

http://moderndescartes.com/essays/fibs
isitdownforeveryone or is this hacker news?
They also only support IE. (Or at least they did last year.)

You can also find some documentation speaking about Netscape.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ntcs/scrty_tls-eng.html
The building cited as an SRO is the Hugo Hotel. It's vacant, and not even in the tenderloin.
That one is different in multiple ways. Try to play one and then another. It looks the same, but is not. You may like one and get bored by another.
Not chasing, just accepting from something that was already made.
Then when your friends are at your home, you kick 'em out if you want to see a movie you pay, rented? wouldn't be fair also make them pay, or will you let them consume for free too?
What you're arguing for is essentially the difference between a shell script and a more complicated shell script [some tool designed to "express directly" what you want to do]. You ask, why wouldn't we use something more complicated if it does exactly what we want to do? Because unless you really need to do some exact thing, it adds unnecessary complexity which leads to many additional problems. And if you need the added functionality, you can always add a feature or use a pre-existing tool.

Your debugging argument is bonkers. You claim shell scripting is too hard, then say it must be easy to troubleshoot a "well-designed babysitter tool", which requires WAY more domain-specific knowledge of debugging tools! If you don't know how to write bash scripts, you sure as hell aren't going to have an easy time figuring out why your package manager's borking on an update of openssl.

Did you even read the executive summary of the position paper? "Systemd is becoming the de facto standard" .. "Systemd represents a leap in terms of functionality" .. "People are starting to expect this functionality [..] and missing it could [..] make Debian lose its purpose." They only want it because it has new features, and people are starting to expect it. It's a popularity contest, and systemd won.
The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery
You realize NSA has a lot more signals interception programs than just PRISM, right?
Sometimes people use it to buy a property with a tenant in it (at a reduced rate, usually), then evict the tenant and move into the property themselves (typically after a renovation). It's much less convenient/more time consuming than buying an empty unit and moving into it, but it can be less costly.

Relatives of mine did something similar in Berkeley (I don't think that they actually used the Ellis act per se, but another eviction exemption).
2014: I can take credit cards for my startup in 10 minutes with Stripe, but Delaware needs 8+ hours to run a batch job to collect taxes.

W. T. F.
How is this pre-development marketing?

They built an editor and then created buttons for the next functionality they wanted to build.

And for people who paid they used Zurb to service them.

Where do you see this as scummy and deceptive?
To be fair, git is not the only guy out there...any version control system will do.

Even svn can do this except you lose the lovely aspects of distributed version control software like hg and git offer.

When version system wasn't invented? You just have a shared file system and you coordinate with people. diff is an old software from the 70s.

You can still keep committing locally.

Provided that you have a copy in the first place and you have the most-up-to-update version. Otherwise, you need to get it from someone else.

You can add another remote (e.g. BitBucket, a shared directory, or just a USB stick) and keep collaborating.

You can run local server to handle incoming and outgoing.

You can even share patches by email if you want.

Patch exists before git, just use diff.

Don't get me wrong. I love git. It's nice. I also like github. I just think we ultimately have to remember sync is an issue regardless which VCS we use.
> I often wonder how collaboration was ever possible before git.

Like this:

> You can even share patches by email if you want.

Also, floppy disks.
There is one problem though I can see which is a lot of package managers link straight to GitHub's raw tarballs as well as some deployment tools. Hopefully that will be improved over time though.
Big difference is you weren't being paid! I had a free and ad-free app on Android and I got some abuse about missing features. I took it down after a while. The sense of entitlement was unreal. Now if I was making $50k a day, I'd take all the abuse that could have been thrown at me!
“The observation that a human-induced earthquake can trigger a cascade of earthquakes, including a larger one, has important implications for reducing the seismic risk from wastewater injection”

I recall reading that there are a lot of fracking sites around San Andreas Fault.

Sometimes it pays to be skeptic also about this kind of technologies.
That game has piles of stretch goals already. Maybe they'll just say "We're doing Linux because it's easy and will help us make money" instead of trying to juice more preorders out of it.

Then again, whether it helps moves sales would depend on whether the Steam Machines get any sort of adoption and on RSI releasing the game before Linux has a lot of notable titles supporting it. Who knows?
The zoning laws are good old NIMBYism. But the rent control? That's good ol' socialism.
So... on a crappier browser this would have worked? Heh, nice to know that they never bothered to open this in any modern browsers.
This is surreal. In western Europe, you'll find somebody manning a shop next to the pumps, if there is one, and you may have to pay for gas inside the shop, but most pumps take credit cards. I think any lawmaker suggesting that an attendant be made mandatory would be cause for much hilarity. I understand that this is a way for the state to provide jobs artificially, but it's definitely a different way of operating.
How would it make them more useful? - legitimate question. Can you not run linux applications from SteamOS?
There are two ways to calculate your Delaware taxes (assuming registered as a C-Corp) - the authorized shares method and the assumed par value method. The online annual filing form makes this quite easy to calculate. Unless you are generating huge revenue then par value is the way to go.
5 predictions for the Web that were WAY off
Well Feinstein's not up until 2018 (if she runs again, I guess), so you have time. But really trying to run for Senate is a multi-year process. You ultimately have to convince hundreds or thousands of people to volunteer for you, and round up millions (if not tens of millions) in cash. Especially in California - it's literally a tenth the size of the country population-wise, so you're basically running a race that's a tenth the size of a Presidential campaign. In the Primary alone you're going to need 600K or so votes at least.

To do those things (recruit volunteers, bring in donations, get attention) you need to start in advance by networking, building contacts and gathering favors. You should get involved now in the local House race or a county/statehouse race to start that process or at least to get familiar with the political process or how people commonly run campaigns. A lot of people sort of subscribe to the notion that politics is or should be simple, but the reality is that you have to know what you're doing to be effective. Charisma and ideas only get you so far.
"We knew that transactional email was a problem worth solving" A story worth telling in it's own right I believe, when clamoring on about lean methodologies. Nice article would love the pre-phase lean story leading up to this stage.
The article is very carefully written, such that the reader can take issue with whatever fits their own bias. Its a very well done article in general, and provides ammo for both sides to sling each other with.

IMO, the intelligent reader will see the story for what it is. A tragedy... and a realization on what happens when tenants don't like being evicted.
I played for about 2 hours right before bed and couldn't get to sleep for hours. I was wired. Don't know if this is related to what you're suggesting or not, but I won't be playing this game again at night time.
Welcome to the wonderful world of government websites - (un)fortunately you're not alone... I've had almost exactly the same experience with the German e-government "solutions" last year:
http://distributed.hamann.se/blog/2013/08/31/the-horrifying-...
Man Beats Robot at Ping-Pong, World Breathes Sigh of Relief
Hey, you don't have any direct contact details in your profile.
This is pretty much what I was thinking.

$1300 a month isn't a lot, but I would be really surprised if there's not somewhere in the SF bay area or a nearby city (Sacramento, etc) where it couldn't cover a small apartment or studio, utilities, and normal monthly costs like groceries.

As noted in other comments, it makes the focus of the article feel disingenuous as compared to people who are being priced out of their homes and don't have any safety net at all.
Github is down
$ git pull

ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Even the most obvious of sarcasm is poorly adapted to the comments section of Hacker News.
Unproductive people can be unproductive anywhere, and it does not make sense for them to take up precious space in places like San Francisco or New York City. They should move to cheaper areas.
Did DO address their security problems with data being left over after from prior instances? I admit I am not up to date on that.
I had to resort to IE to get my franchise tax paid--during their business hours, of course.
Maybe it's a loading spinner/graphic. Haha.
Democracy happens, it's just rather indirectly related to voting. The coin of political power is public passivity - a resisting public will seriously ruin a politician's day, democratic or autocratic. Elections have the effect of forcing politicians to rely on public opinion to create passivity, because using terror in the authoritarian style would get them ejected. Therefore democratic politics consists of efforts to push (or be pushed by) public opinion.

(This democracy/autocracy contrast recurses to population subsets, cf: the civil rights era.)
I just don't get how you can defend this tenant at all. She was constantly unpleasant, didn't pay rent, didn't even bother trying until the last possible second at which point it was "well what options do I have?" It's as if she believed she deserved to live in a house she didn't own for the same price in perpetuity. How does this belief make any sense and why should people sympathize with it? The idea that the owner had to pay his tenant 14k to get her out while she was refusing to pay rent and didn't leave anyway is absolutely maddening. These laws need to change.
After spending 6 months there for an internship, I'd have to agree. Even the roads you explicitly pay for with tolls are crap. My car will never be the same again.
Unless they moved, they mentioned they were on Rackspace a while back, switching from cloud servers to dedicated servers.

https://github.com/blog/493-github-is-moving-to-rackspace
I did that with my father's computer store website back in 1998. We had computer descriptions, a price, and a 'buy online' button. The button just had a hit counter on the page, with directions to the store. Every hit meant someone wanted to buy a computer through our website and couldn't. I showed him the data that we could double our sales just by making an online store, but he was not convinced. In any case, the cash flows of that business wouldn't have worked out for him. Still, I thought this was a widely known technique.
I recently heard from someone who worked at Target that each day the managers would lock the doors after the last customer left, and physically lock the employees in. Nobody was allowed to leave until they were done checking for theft. This would last 10-15 minutes, and they didn't get paid for this time.
I used to not really understand why GitHub being down sent people into a fervor, since you know, git is distributed and you can just work without it.

But then just a few minutes ago, a 'brew update' failed because the recipes are hosted on github. Then, 'opam install' failed (which is why I was updating brew) because it too, is on Github. Then I went searching for build failures, and the answer was in a GitHub issue thread, with a link to a pull request that fixed the issue.

No, I don't have a solution to doing this better, but man do you feel the fragility of these systems when one component goes down.
You and your IT folks may be interested in Spatialite, which sounds like a good use case for what you've described. Spatialite is spatial extensions to SQLite, means you can store spatial data in standalone DB files. Has good level of support in GIS software, plus it's the first spatial database format to support the upcoming GeoPackage standard (due to replace shapefiles):
http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/
http://www.ogcnetwork.net/geopackage
Digital collection of Newton's papers
Wow I am amazed at the negative tone of this article, the author clearly being dismissive about Steam and Linux. I thought that Ars was supposed to be one of the better tech blogs out there but I think I need to reevaluate my opinion. This is pitiful journalism at best.
> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter[n] Time.”

We're not used to sites like Amazon being shut down during nighttime hours, but I've come across it before for government sites. For example, when I filed a corporation with the IRS, after I answered a few pages, the site said I should come back during work hours. They probably have a person at the other end who handles the forms...
How do you record a trace? That would be interesting to do.
I think your idea could work if you had multiple items to sell. One desk jig probably wouldn't create enough of an income for a single maker to make it worth it.
Define "good."

It's pretty common when you've got a mainframe-type system that needs to do a bunch of batch processing and report generation. It's an excellent way to ensure that no data will be altered while the reports are running.
One other spin on the follow up comes in timing and content:
Follow up after 2 days, 7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months, and annually. This increasing time frame rarely is found to be annoying and is an effective way to keep in front of them. Also try and send a new set of content after 2 contacts.
I figure you're talking about DX11's multithreaded submission? While it's true that GL doesn't have support for this yet. AFAIK, DX's implementation is very slow, and all the major engine developers end up implementing their own batched dispatch anyways which ends up being faster on PC.
Pretty sure the root cause is the blend of http/https sources. Chrome and perhaps other browsers helpfully block the http content some of which is probably needed for the webpage to function.

In Chrome you click the shield icon next to the bookmarks star in the address bar. I believe the page will then reload showing the http content which will usually fix the issue.

I say "helpful" un-ironically above because the http content can compromise whatever is on the page.

The OP is of course right that the developer of this page is dangerously incompetent.
The ability to take my memory and stash it a rack away, optical can enable that

In optical fiber, at a minimum, every 3.3cm is another clock cycle of delay. (210^8 m/s / 3GHz / 2) (speed of propagation in optical fiber / clock rate / round trip factor).

That being said, being able to have hard drives* in other racks would be great, if nothing else just for vibration concerns.
made a large number of people believe that it is somehow noble and elevated.

People haven't changed. There have always been trolls, malcontents, crazies. Attend any public hearing, ask any fan club or newspaper mail room.

As a new medium, the distinction of the web is significantly lowered transaction costs. No different from email spammers.
People who aren't wealthy don't eat out as much and don't spend nearly as much when they go out to eat.

My apologies, I didn't mean they spend the exact same $$$. Poor choice in wording on my part. My point is being poor doesn't mean your car never needs a mechanic.

And of course service jobs have to be near the wealthy. When it doesn't matter where a worker is located, that job gets outsourced.

Non sequitur. Plenty of un-outsourceable jobs exist serving people who are not wealthy.

You can dream all you want of a utopia where people can live in the middle of nowhere and have their ideal job. But that isn't going to make it a reality.

Where do I speak of dream jobs? I'm just saying it's awfully self-centered to think that the poor exist to serve the wealthy.
I'm a grad student at Tufts, and our online course registration app does this (called "SIS"). You can only register for classes during some time period: 8am to 6pm, I think. It's crazy.

Tufts recently hired a huge team to "fix" SIS. It's now called iSIS and you can tell it's still using SIS underneath. (The HTML markup returned is the exact same as before, but it's dressed up a little nicer.)

Nuts.
The entitled have trouble with reading comprehension. The site was explicitly closed during certain hours, sadly probably because the data is verified by hand. He is whining that he doesn't like the hours.
Weird, I live in IA. I've never heard that there are states where gas cannot be pumped by the customer. Weather? All gas stations I've seen have an open pavilion/roof over all of the pumps. Flammable liquids? Unless you are smoking while pumping your gas, there's a pretty low risk of explosion or fire. There are cases of static electricity igniting the gas but that's rare. Normally the non-conductive handle protects against that very well.

It seems that it would actually be less convenient to have to wait for an attendant, especially when the station is busy. Unlike service from behind the checkout counter, the attendant must walk around to each car...at least twice I'm assuming...to start and stop the fuel? I'm not familiar with it.
I think the crux of the question is why this was so interesting, and I would say it's just not. It wasn't surprising or interesting.
I intentionally avoided use of the word "unrepresentative", as I was not sure what would qualify as representative of those who have been evicted. I understand that my use of "sympathetic" may be viewed as similarly vague, but I believe that its meaning may be more well-understood.
Just knowing that it's an experiment defeats the purpose. By getting honest responses and behaviors, it is easier to build a solution that people actually need or would actually use.
I find Twitter useless the moment people start having a conversation. It's impossible to follow unless you happen to be following all of the participants.
In what partition design do you need a trigger per child table? You only need to add partitions to the trigger on the parent table, or at the branches if you have multiple hierarchy levels.

I run a Postgres instance that partitions daily (for reasons of space management). When creating the partitions in advance, it is easy enough to alter the trigger (or a function called by the trigger) in the same script that creates the tables.

DDL via copy-edit-paste is just asking for problems anyway. Those operations should be automated.
Everybody is a teacher.
here's my first TEDx talk. Hope you will enjoy it and any comments are welcomed!
Totally agree.

This entire situation is quite a shame for all involved - it's a dreadful problem without a good resolution.
This comes up every now and then. I'm really not sure there is as much NIMBYism in SF relative to other cities as many people believe. By the way, by "not really sure", I mean not really sure. I just view it as more of an open question than many people here on HN do.

Here's where I'm coming from - SF is small, old, and largely built. It's in the middle of a very large metropolitan area, but it includes many of the old parts that have had high population densities for a long time. Contrast that with the population densities of most American cities, and the general land area. With the exception of New York, SF much smaller and more densely populated than almost all of the regions used in these comparisons.

Now, when someone builds a large housing development far from the urban center of, say, Houston, that counts as development for Houston. When this happens in Walnut Creek, it goes down as not developing in SF.

So the way I'd answer this question - and I haven't yet - is to look at subregions in major met regions in the US that have had a population density of above 17,000/sq mi for more than 50 years, and try to measure how much development has occurred within those areas in the last 20 years, or what kind of opposition to new development happens in those regions now.

My refutable hypothesis is that SF will no longer show a dramatically different pattern of NIMBYism from those sub-regions outside San Francisco. That doesn't mean it won't show NIMBYism, or that it won't show more NIMBYism than other old, relatively dense regions - I just think that it may reveal that "population density over 17000/sq mi for more than several decades" correlates with general opposition to new construction regardless of whether it happens in SF.

Like I said, I haven't checked, it's just an idea. This would actually take some work to investigate.
I don't disagree with the first part, I do disagree strongly with the "State's Rights" part. The Constitution is a balance and should not be Federal heavy like it has become in the 1900's to today.
I suppose you could just forge your own silicon and software and submit that as part of the proof.
WTF Svbtle?!

do you a system to transact automatically with state funds? and what about when it gets hacked and people ask why no one was paying attention? people sit and approve transactions. your taxes pay government employees, not robots.

you're an idiot.
Agreed

Given the "[a]t first, Withrington accepted Inge’s presence", I would think that if she'd been a clean and polite tenant it's entirely possible the new landlord would have had no motivation to evict her. There may not even have been the complaint, given the article's not-so-subtle way of saying "maybe the landlord submitted it!!".