skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is totally up to you. You can write your book and push changes to GitHub, store the book files in your Dropbox directory, tempt fate and just store them locally, etc.

Softcover just pulls in the HTML and eBooks that are compiled from the source code, as well as the book config files, and generates the views and links.
I've felt the same but the syllogism path is hard to explain. Basically, many of these services are founded the same way Amazon was founded - completely unsustainable and then hoping something magic happens to make it sustainable later. Amazon wouldn't have survived without the dotcom scene going crazy and they barely got through to the other side. The music services exist by seeking to convince end users that they are entitled to "mostly free" music, and they only reason they can supply that service is with debt funding. Their hopes is that the appetite they instill in the end user will give the business enough support to argue favorable licensing terms from labels and the government.

So when that happens, the party that hurts is the songwriter. You already have way too many people believing the canard that an indie songwriter should only expect to make money through touring and merchandise, and never from their recording efforts. That opinion is self-serving and pushed by those services "use your songs as a marketing expense!" when it is actually supposed to be the musician's livelihood.

So what happens when a musician gets less and less likelihood of getting any kind of financial remuneration from their actual songwriting? It's a disincentive to focusing on original craftsmanship, and an incentive to focus on churning out greater volumes of homogenous crap in an effort to capture a very tiny piece of a very large homogenous pie.

The end result from the perspective of the listener is that they never experience the counterfactual; they never know what they're missing. Sure, you might be enjoying that latest "indie" piece that is really just a max martin form with a decemberists diphthong singing tone combined with a couple of dubstep beats, but is that really original?
Norway will cut through an island in tribute to massacre victims
Gavin Andresen: "I'm disappointed Newsweek decided to dox the Nakamoto family, and regret talking to Leah."

https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/441547758827474946
Show HN: Internet History Podcast - An Internet history project
Trying to crowdsource a history of the Internet Era. Feel free to tell me what I've gotten right, what I've gotten wrong, what I've left out, etc.

In honor of the 20th Anniv. of Netscape's founding, interviews with the original Netscape team are coming out over the next few weeks. First interview is already up with Lou Montulli, creator of the Lnyx browser, the browser cookie and <blink> tag among other things...
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Good point. I'll try to make the initial loading faster, and rethink the quick info feature.
Absolutely agree.

Bitcoin is one of the hottest news stories right now. People want to know more about Bitcoin. A big question about Bitcoin is "who created Bitcoin?" Newsweek answered that question.

This is journalism 101.

Many of you disagree with this premise –– and I sympathize and understand why you're upset –– but this is how the system operates.
Nice, but its a re-implementation of the Google Chartserver right? (same model, URL describes charts which are returned)

The issues Google ran into were as it gets popular you need a more server horse power, and the work of keeping things secure is pretty high.

That said I always enjoyed using chartserver :-) so I presume I would enjoy using this. But what I'd really like is a package for python or perl I could load up behind an nginx instance and make this a local feature.
Ah, if they were writing about it 2 years ago already, then their result may be the one that was repeated in front of me - curse the mainstream media's "new! new!" language in their copy.

the abstract from that paper is very informative as to the context:

"It has been known for over a century that electrical signals are produced by material failure, for example during crack formation of crystals and glasses, or stick-slip motion of liquid mercury on glass. We describe here new experiments revealing that slip events in cohesive powders also produce electrical signals, and remarkably these signals can appear significantly in advance of slip events. We have confirmed this effect in two different experimental systems and using two common powdered materials, and in a third experiment we have demonstrated that similar voltage signals are produced by crack-like defects in several powdered materials."
Hypocrites are everywhere even in the private sector, nothing particularly strange that they exist in the public one.

>I've even pointed out point-blank that their salaries are paid for by the same taxes they rail against incessantly and are met with blank stares or wry grimaces before they launch into an extended soliloquy about "values" or personal responsibility or some such.

There's this kind of sick expectation of consistency. I think it's fine if someone directly benefits from taxes and calls for their decrease. You make a villain out of them, but when someone like Warren Buffet says 'the rich can contribute more' you applaud him even when he directly benefits from less contribution. Anytime anyone espouses some belief and doesn't reflect adequate action to demonstrate that belief you could fault them for it. If you're going to fault the deeply conservative anti-federal government types for being inconsistent, you may as well fault everyone who doesn't meet your standard, less you yourself become the inconsistent one.
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It truly baffles me just how many very effective and specialized planes are supposed to be replaced by the F-35, which, it seems, can't really do any of those tasks right.

There's a very good reason why there were so many specialized aircraft in the first place.
Try the SSMS Tools Pack. The 2008 version is free. Doesn't do exactly what this demo does, but what it does is different and much more. It keeps your script history and has an execution plan analyzer.

http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/Download
See under "offer type": http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWH595M/ref=kods_gw_nrm_...
Go to work, but ditch the boss? Zappos embraces "Holacracy"
As far as I know, many public school typing classes still teach double-spaces. It isn't until you get to things like classes in journalism tracks at universities that the concept is dispensed with.
Not to mention the robustness of that damned machine...

> The aircraft is designed to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator, and half of one wing missing.
I'm not a bitcoin user who is I'm generally a strong believer in privacy and I think the other article went to far (particularly in personal/family details). Having said that there is a legitimate interest for those who do hold bitcoin in anyone who holds a significant portion of the bitcoins as their actions could massively shift the value of their holdings. Owners of signficant stakes of public companies have to be declared for this type of reason.

The interest in the transaction (and information about related holdings) is to me reasonable and relevant given this individual is believed by some to have a massive quantity of coins from very early mining.
You win: I was confusing those things! I was thinking times were treated as a timedelta ranging from 0 to 23 hours 59...
No, this is the "green address" of instawallet.
"I obtained Nakamoto's email through a company he buys model trains from."

In Europe, this would be completely illegal. I'd suspect that in the US this at least breaks the privacy policy of whatever site Nakamoto was using.

"Two weeks before our meeting in Temple City, I struck up an email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, mostly discussing his interest in upgrading and modifying model steam trains with computer-aided design technologies. "

I understand that this is sometimes how journalism is "done" but the sneakiness of it all seems pretty low.
ACID is outdated? Shall we use mongodb for bitcoin?
Compiling to CSS, very interesting strategy. Will definitely try it. Porting my layout manager to the browser is on my to do list.

I created DesignGridLayout for creating visually correct UIs using canonical grids (a la Mullet and Sanno, many others). You specify rows and components. DGL figures out columns, spacing, alignment, baselines, etc.

https://designgridlayout.java.net

[Shout out to Jean-François Poilprêt, who's now the project owner and greatly extended the functionality.]

I used to be very bullish on constraint solvers for UI, Cassowary included. I found that creating visually correct forms continued to be very difficult. Partially because the UI components do not have the built-in smarts, such as anchors for text baselines.

So I decided that capturing (encoding) the heuristics of canonical grids was best implemented (at the time) with explicit imperative code.

Constraint solvers still have great potential for document layout, a la responsive designs.

I have no doubt that a future bottom up redo of a UI component framework (UIMS) will embrace constraints for both document and form layout.
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So, your company’s been acquired. Now what?
Hi, newsflash "hackers" are people too, and who doesn't love being in the spotlight?
Libertarians view of government is, 'I want to be allowed to do whatever I want while everyone else is restricted to doing what I want them to do.' It's a dumb ideology that falls apart with literally any amount of thought.
Replace 'CEO' by 'my wife' and you have my life. It's difficult to explain apparently, but me sitting quietly in my underwear in the office chair staring at the wall on a Sunday morning doesn't mean I'm not busy. Those pancakes can wait.
Which is precisely why argumentum ad hominem is something to be wary of.
you're both idiots.
I'm sorry, but the journalists I have met do not do A.

They conceive of a narrative and find totems that can support their position.

You are espousing ideals that are taught in school, but rarely achieved in the real world.

That whole theme of unethical in B happens most of the time.
I don't think Google Chartserver offered SVG, though, did it?

I think that's a significant difference, in that the <object> variant of this API has the potential for access to the chart elements for styling and interactivity.
Update:

OK, perhaps I should have googled Troy Shinbrot, as he was the guy who presented the work I saw. Apologies!

I worked this out after a simple google image search for his name. The image from this article (sorry, it's more of an advert in fact) is the one that sparked my memory, you'll see why:

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/04/rutgers_da...
I'm pretty sure they already do that.
What are the ad units and what are typical CPMs?
he will certainly die, idiot.
So the argument is that by creating (e.g.) a fixed-income, everyone that makes use of it will by definition become hopelessly dependent on it?

I think that the parent post was arguing that cutting social programs disproportionately affects African-Americans.

I see it this way. Taking away assistance that people are currently relying on is guaranteed to hurt them. Giving someone assistance with the goal of keeping them dependent on it forever seems less likely to have the intended affect. How do you guarantee that people don't use the assistance to better themselves? If the goal is to keep a group of people down, as a whole, this doesn't seem like a very effective strategy.
I actually liked mockito, when I was doing Java development a couple of years ago.

That just looks like a horrible test, I tend to argue that when you have to resort to using a verify on any mock then you are looking at something problematic.
LOL... site is offline.
Nice to see "Release It!" get a shout-out from Martin Fowler. That book is one of the most valuable and terrifying reads I've ever encountered for those of us working on big, complex systems.
Could we save satellites and astronauts by wiping out the Van Allen belts?
Hmm. It seems possible that this address was a Gox location, since following the tumbling trail led me to this address:

https://blockexplorer.com/address/1eHhgW6vquBYhwMPhQ668HPjxT...

This is the famous "424242" transaction that Mark Kerpeles signed to prove that he was in control of enough BitCoins to keep Gox solvent in 2011. Perhaps the first 'received transaction' wasn't actually Satoshi's.
I'm amazed noone ever mentions GRSecurity as must have. It will reduce the risks of an actual comprise significantly. Non-patched Linux is always full of rootkit potential.
So ignoring the hype, here's the outcome-to-date...

The ticket was reconsidered, reopened and classified as a bug.
http://bugs.python.org/msg212771

Nick Coghlan's dissection of the issue here: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-March/02... is pretty much perfect - wonderful piece of technical writing!

Donald Stufft has expressed an interest in making the patch for this happen, and assuming all goes as planned this usage will raise a deprecation warning in 3.5 and be fully fixed in 3.6.

News in brief: User raises issue. Issue gets resolved.
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There are two droplet limits, one is the number of droplets that you can spin up which you can see in your settings page:

https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings

The second is if a customer signs up using Paypal we restrict some of the larger sizes, this is done to minimize the amount of fraud we have to deal with.

Unfortunately we deal with a high amount of abusive and fraudulent signups so we've had to instate a lot of automated filters and other updates to the user experience. It really sucks, but without it we'd have a lot more fraud which would really just make the entire experience worse overall.

In either case opening up a ticket will get either issue resolved.

Sorry for the inconvenience but if anyone is good at fraud detection and wants to help us to continue to automate it and make it smarter, we are hiring =]

Thanks,
Moisey
That doesn't really say anything about the comment you're replying to. You can be happy with a service regardless of their honesty, especially if you're not aware of any dishonesty that's occurring.
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Dong Nguyen and Satoshi Nakamoto.
It's also mentioned in an XKCD "what if":

https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/

> The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it’s mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 “Warthog”) whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.

> To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.
I guess our experiences might vary with what happens to prototypes/first cut implementations.

From my experience what starts off as a simple proof of concept/prototype that is done quick and dirty to validate an idea, ends up being the actual production code. This is due in part to clients that come and say: "well it works, why rewrite it? you can just fix bugs if they come up", making you have to maintain what was originally meant to be a throw away implementation.

While right now your intentions might be to rewrite, I do believe that you might reconsider this decision once you have a couple hundred users to please, who all want new features or bugs fixed. Now I do not know what your idea is and how critical time to market is for you but I would recommend that you consider removing non-essential features to get it out quicker rather than skipping quality.
> You have reached the limit of 5 free articles a month.

I haven't read any Newsweek articles this month. And it appears I'm not going to, either.

Google cache link for anyone else who gets the same message: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?output=search&s...
The problem is that the F-35 costs a gazillion dollars, and (partly because it costs a gazillion dollars) the program is too politically wired-in to cancel. So they have to cut other planes to make room for it, and the only way to do that is to claim the F-35 can do the missions those other planes currently do.

Which it can't, of course, but since admitting that would require keeping the other planes, which would require canceling the F-35, which can't happen, everybody has sort of agreed to pretend it can.
Yes, a good example of sticking with an idea and growing it slowly and steadily for years and years and years! Also, of pivoting and sticking to business-to-business solutions.

Earlier on, their projects involved creative remixing of music, but they extinguished them in favor of supporting other businesses [1]. We should all take a cue from them!

[1] But there is still lots of creativity which takes place at their hackathons! http://blog.echonest.com/post/69095723329/automatic-music-ha...
I'm not sure if that's what it's supposed to be. But that's what I made of it. :)
For data that I intend to share/reuse, I tend to have it in a SQL dump, but here are my (perhaps non-informed) assumptions and needs:

1. The values in this data never change. That is, if I'm maintaining a store of the U.S. Congress vote database, all votes (in the past) are inextricably and forever tied to a legislator's ID.

2. The seed data is so large that loading by ActiveRecord is too slow and needs to be done either by plain SQL import or activerecord-import.

3. The dataset should, when possible, imply its own opinion on conventions...so the Congressmebmer table will always be "congressmembers" and Vote will always be in "votes" and the relations and their keys will have the same convention in any app that uses this data. Of course, a particular app may choose to rename things, but they can do that after the seeding process.

4. For a situation like the above, it's likely that a Rails Engine has been made, i.e. with all the domain-specific logic.

For smaller datasets, say, a list of the U.S. states and their abbreviations...storing them as plain seed files should suffice.

So anyway, those are my past practices. I'm not saying they're best, though, and am always looking for better ways to organize data between apps.
Is there air-air combat happening somewhere in the world? If not, when was the last time this could have been used?
Birds, Bees and Big Data: How One App Helped 50,000 Women Get Pregnant
You are confusing testing with unit testing ( an unfortunate name) . Unit testing is a design tool not a testing tool. It has more in common with UML than with selenium.

You can in theory throw away your unit tests after you've implemented a piece of code.

It should be used for exposing weak design ( tight coupling for example) not for exposing nullpointer exceptions.
Unfortunately on two machines that I'm using that i7 cores, 16GB of ram, they both seem to have performance problems with layout recalculation.

Also I believe that many problems that this is trying to solve is already alleviated in existing technologies that will work in modern browsers, including IE10+, and web documents do not necessarily need constraints.

I think contributing to Mozilla or Webkit, or proposing a specification to the W3C would be more advantageous for your cause.
Yes, but this is not really related to what I said.

Ayn Rand, and any other person who has become independently wealthy in a way that has nothing to do with the government, can despise looters and be consistent. Government workers in particular cannot.
I like that Mozilla is improving the existing accepted standard, but using modern (mostly patented) codec techniques we could get lossy images to under 1/2 of the current size at the same quality and decode speed. Or at a much higher quality for the same size.

The speed modern web concerns me. The standards are not moving forward. We still use HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jpeg, Gif, and PNG. Gif especially is a format where we could see similar sized/quality moving images at 1/8th the file size if we supported algorithms similar to those found in modern video.

In all of these cases, they aren't "tried and true" so much as "we've had so many problems with each that we've got a huge suite of half-hacked solutions to pretty much everything you could want to do". We haven't moved forward because we can't. WebP is a good example of a superior format that never stood a chance because front-end web technology is not flexible.
If you were running an exchange why would you keep everyone's money in the same wallet? It seems like you would keep a wallet per user with their funds in it. Then any attempt to double transfer would fail on the bitcoin side because their wallet wouldn't have the money.
It took me about an hour to put all of this into an ansible playbook. I think there are couple of examples out on blogs about this as well. If there is interest I'll share my playbook.

Writing this playbook paid off already for the second installation of the box.
4 Startup Lessons You Won’t Learn in College
Class of 2014: Take note.
Speaking for myself, I used to be sort of libertarian when I was young. Getting a job that paid well and living on it convinced me that paying taxes really wasn't that bad and made me more liberal. Then I worked for the government for a while and found that a lot of what people complain about with regards to how the government spends money weren't just true. Nowadays I'm ok with taxes, but I'd rather the government get things done by just mailing checks to people, which is simple and hard to mess up.
3 Things Startups Should Know About The New Domain Extensions
Thanks for mentioning this. I had peeked at those specs, proposals. Looks like a CSS version of GridBagLayout. No mention of canonical grids. (See my other comment.)
Wonderful. That's really great news!

Now if there was any way you guys could start offering your Marketplace platform outside the US (UK specifically) I'll be all over that like a cheap suit! ;-)

I salute you!
Disable the User's JavaScript Console
You can't document your way out of a usability problem.
Right, but the journalist could have found him and written an article about his background and motivation without putting a picture of his license plates, home, face, and location in a prominent article, all of this after harassing him to the point that he felt it necessary to call the police. That's just dumb.

This brings up an interesting question, too - does writing a prominent piece of software qualify you as a "public figure" and allow the paparazzi to chase you everywhere and stalk your acquaintances and family?
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Completely agree with you, we definitely broke a few promises.

We ran into this problem because we were used to our development cycle that we had in 2012, but in 2013 our growth really took off and we spent most of our time working on scaling challenges.

That unfortunately pushed us back on a lot of different timelines. Now that we've grown the company from 5 people to over 50 and with this latest round we're finally catching up and able to move things forward at a better pace.

We are reviewing and reprioritizing our product roadmap this weekend and next and will be providing more updated timelines and also issuing more updates if we fall behind on the new estimates.

Thanks,
Moisey
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