skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly did you mean by "contingent"? I interpreted what you wrote as meaning that since there aren't a vocal group of polygamous families making themselves seen and heard, it was somehow okay to ignore them because they were so insignificant.

Maybe I misunderstood what you were saying, but I think my point still stands: that the marriage equality campaign is not really about equality for everybody because it does not include minority* groups like polygamists.

*Although in many cultures polygamy was the norm for hundreds and thousands of years and only recently been banned.
> Except if you are someone like DOSBox or FreeDOS

MS-DOS has been disassembled and reverse engineered to death by these teams, and there's little if anything at all left to discovered.
are you privy to research in either of the organizations. I know its great to revere age old organizations but as we are speaking the best research is probably being conducted in a place we least expect. I am not privy to research at Ma Bell or only the published elements of Microsoft Research - so your reaction is more of an instinct than any factual basis.
Oh Boy ! This is quite a steep decrease.. So if I am reading it reading right, this makes S3 ~300 percent more expensive ( 2.6 vs 8.5 ).

Sounded more like a April 1 hoax ad to me at first ( too good to be true ). It will be also interesting to see how much this drives down S3 prices.
CSS animations and transitions performance: looking inside the browser
Digital Ocean is still cheaper.

Amazing how competition works.
Most people will never find Linux just like they will never find the NT kernel. What is important for most users is the outer shell -- not the inner workings.

The more the Linux kernel is used, the more contributions and bug fixes it will have from companies that use it. This might also mean better hardware support -- which we all benefit from.
Right, but unit tests do that too. And that would still be something I would in most cases rather handle in unit tests than in assertions in the code itself, for mostly the same reasons.
Really? I've found that it's easy as pie to find extremely highly skilled developers from my local Clojure meetup and get them interested at well below market salaries.

I must admit that I was looking for a bootstrapping co-founder instead and even 50% market rate didn't make sense in that context so I don't know if they would've followed through, but it sure as hell didn't feel like a tough sell.
Perhaps. But I was amused. :D
Yes, but that money comes with baggage. I've read a lot of horror stories of how VCs kick the founder out, etc.

I can understand if you need the money, but c'mon, this guy had a billion dollar exit. $3 million is nothing for him.
Yeah, we just recently got our IE upgraded to 9 on our Army (MAMC) network. FF 24 ESR too... moving on up.

Unfortunately many networks on many of the bases are still using IE 7 and 8, so we have to support those some of the time (project dependent).
Usergrid, Deployd or BaasBox? Which open source BaaS solution do you recommend?
It is for a simple web or mobile application which needs user management, some way to accept payments and maybe supports social login.
Please let me know if you have any other suggestions.
Just a note: This is not decentralized, it is just a centralized marketplace using the decentralized network Bitmessage.
I think that's a standard Google thing. They announced Gmail (and the then insane 1GB free storage) on 1 April too.
I don't like having to commit to an entire year, but reserving that m3.medium brings the price down considerably.

Hopefully AWS will take a look at Google's automatic cuts and think long and hard about it. We're using AWS, but reservations are a constant point of friction for us.
That's not quite a fair comparison. The $35.38 Google price takes advantage of their sustained usage discount, if the instance is running the entire month.

The EC2 price is the full rack rate. You can do better with a spot instance, or by paying up front for a 1-year or 3-year reserved instance.

It's still a stunning price drop from Google. And from my tests, the Google instances give a lot more performance than the supposedly equivalent EC2 instances.
Yes any patents would have expired, although the copyright still has upwards of 100 years left.

I don't think reading some source code will put anyone at risk of frivolous lawsuits (unless they actually do infringe, in which case it would be a grain of supporting evidence).
The Medium article is fairly accurate on the whole, with maybe a few minor inaccuracies here and there. Its word choice in "own" is unfortunate in that circumstance, but I don't believe the author actually intended to suggest that ESPN "owns" the NFL, the MLB, etc. Reading the rest of the article, I get the general impression that he knows what he's talking about. At least on a high level, if not necessarily 100% of the minutiae.

In my article (the Slate one), I state that ESPN was an outlier -- but that everyone else sort of recognized as much, then wanted in on the action. Nowadays, RSNs (regional sports networks) have fees as high as, and in some cases higher than, ESPN and its sister networks.

"I think the cable companies themselves (and specifically their lack of competition) are bigger factors in their prices than channels' subscriber fees."

It's a very significant factor. So is the lack of competition among the networks licensing to the cable companies. So is the lack of competition within the major sports leagues. So is the lack of competition within any given city for any given sports franchise. In general, you've got an agglomeration of oligopolistic markets -- resulting in a sort of "powers-of-ten" [1] increase, at every step of the value chain, in programming costs. The consumer is left footing most of these bills.

[1] I use "powers of ten" here in the metaphorical sense of that old science video, and not in the literal sense.
If you hover over accidents in Google Maps, sometimes it says "reported by Waze". I assume there is lots of data mixing happening on the backend that we can't see.
Appreciate your thoughts not_paul_graham, and totally agree with the logic behind your arguments. But for me, this course is more than just a coding experience. Living a valley experience so closely, among the kind of people attending the program has a value beyond what can be explained, at least for me. It is just like quesitoning the value of an elite MBA (that breaks-even after 3-4 years on average), which a lot of gurus are questioning these days. I might learn equally sitting in Bangalore, in one tenth the cost, but I really believe that there can be stark differences in terms of nuances, personality traits, friendships and work opportunities, if I don't attend this course.
Is this partially an attempt to throw a wrench in the gears of the Box IPO? If there's going to be a price war anyway, better to start it now and prevent a competitor from amassing a big war chest.

I don't understand how much Box is a (potential) competitor in this market, so could be way off base.
Useful? The next three weeks of HN will be:

MS-DOS cross-compiled to JAVASCRIPT.

MS-DOS running in pure CSS.

Word for Windows as pure HTML 5 (<brainfuck> element).

DOOM RUNNING NATIVELY on NATIVE MS-DOS on a PEBBLE.
Moore's law doesn't say shit about storage.
No, his point is that you don't have to fight the language. The course in the language is obvious, it's just long and kind of ugly. It's wading, not fighting.

My problem is that the solution in a slightly more expressive language is equally obvious, so I have to fight my own rage at java for its stuttering and clumsy excuse for closures. Fighting the language, on the other hand, is when I try to write a conditional or loop in sh.
Unfortunate? Gmail caught on pretty well...
Maybe someone will produce a version of Word for Windows 1.1a that runs on a modern OS, and I'll be able to open and edit documents that have been impossible to open in later versions of Word (of course Word for Windows 2.0 would open the document, convert it to its new format in place, and then crash, so I'd need to find un-borked versions of the documents first).
The Lisp community is more known for heralding the language than it is at heralding the users of the language.
In the future you will be able to just scan the key and then 3D print a precise replica from the safety of your home.
Two halves of the same sea turtle fossil discovered 160 years apart
This is getting common in Denmark, I think due to two reasons:

1. It's very common for students to work 1 or 2 days/wk while in university, so companies (esp. tech companies) are already set up for it. This is because the way university funding is structured students have an incentive to work ~5-15 hrs/wk, but cannot work more than 15. Some stick with the same arrangement even after they graduate, working 15 hrs/wk to fund a startup, or game company, or whatever.

2. Since benefits (healthcare/childcare/etc.) are provided directly by the state, not tied to your employment, part-time vs. full-time doesn't matter from that perspective.
I like these "learn to code" websites, it helps to get new people familiar with the topic. But do we really have a need for so many of them? When I learned web development I googled "<technology name here> tutorial" and it was enough 99% of the time. This plus knowing the mozilla website for reference + stackoverflow covers 99% of what I ever wanted to learn regarding web standards. SQL perhaps is something that needs a bit more structured learning, but still any "sql tutorial" search will get you probably a good foundation of SQL.

Is there a real shortage of web developers out there? I'm not so sure. Perhaps there is a shortage of GOOD web developers out there. And I doubt that a good future web developer will learn better from a dedicated course rather than reading the rails tutorial / or watch rails casts on their own.

I mean, learning to learn and finding information by yourself (for me as a hiring manager) is much more important than what you currently know. I'm interested in what you could potentially do, not what you already did.

And if you know what you already know by researching on your own and building your own curriculum then I might be a bit more impressed (although probably I shouldn't be) - just because this is how I learned web development. By building things, and Googling things. By stackoverflow, MDN, and yes also w3schools. By reading the HTML spec, by reading ECMAScript language specification, by taking academic RDBMS theory course as part of my undergrad degree. I might be completely wrong, but I would need a lot of good faith to believe that with an online self contained crash course someone is able to become a fully qualified web developer without doing some leg work.

In other words a really good web development course in my opinion is a bad one. It makes it too easy on a new developer, making them think that all the information will be available for them and every task is broken down into small edible pieces. I want people to know what it is to be challenged with a question they don't know and research.
Exactly 10 years from when Gmail was launched to the public, with its massive 1 GB of storage.
How do you feel about hate speech (anti-Islam, anti-semetic ) being banned and punishable by jail and fines in European countries?
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Yeah, I couldn't find the words initially for why he rubs me the wrong way. Self grandeur and verbosity can be tolerated. Fanboyism can be tolerated. But verbosity from fanboyism (for a kernel)... well....
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Hi curiousDog, if you're paying for one of our support packages (https://cloud.google.com/support/) and you're not happy, I'd be interested to hear about what's not working for you. You can email me at dewitt at google.

(If the free support isn't working, I'd still be interested, but also would likely recommend you consider signing up for a Silver or Gold package if you're building a business on GCP. Thanks!)
If and when AWS responds will be quite interesting. GCE launched with lockstep product offering and pricing with AWS. This is the first real movement away from that lockstep position. On one hand it is competitive, on the other hand does it speak to other underlying issues: maybe GCE uptake has not been as expected and needs to do something drastic to compete with AWS?
Did you seriously just compare Digital Ocean to Amazon and Google?
Not sure what Rich Hickey thinks, but my impression is he believes that example-based testing (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simulation-Testing) is superior to other kinds of testing. Also, he promotes design rather than only coding (typing); perhaps when you did less TDD, you didn't invest that time to do more design? (Maybe TDD was a time to do design?)

Anyway, you don't have to believe what he believes; for example Brian Marick's Midje. (https://github.com/marick/Midje) Whatever makes you the best Clojure programmer is right for you.
Now if only Google would announce spot pricing for the cloud compute instances much like EC2 has...
Obviously, lock safety tend to go hand in hand with other forms of safety. My experience is that houses and apartments in the US seem relatively easy to break into. Here in Stockholm (Sweden), I've never ever seen an apartment door that opens inwards (and most are steel enforced), and street-facing bottom floor windows have steel bars usually.
This is great. I love this kind of documentation/tutorial roundup post.
Sort of related, though freakishly religious, are the hutterites:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite

The colonies are very successful, so much so local farmers have often lobbied successfully to make made them illegal.
I think it's an extra heavy isotope of turbinium that is made in neutron stars.

"get your ass to Mars"
that typically would be a concern, but our first version is built only with a Coinbase integration, and all payments are handle through their merchant services and their payment iframes. Once we implement our own payments we will have to handle this appropriately.
Is differing personal politics a defense against just viewing it, or is it also a valid defense for dissemination?

For example, suppose I write a rationalwiki.org article on some specific brand of radical Islam which includes a large amount of citations and links to the relevant source material. I think that linking could reasonably be called "disseminating" (at least in the modern legal climate..), but I would be doing that with the intent of dissuading people.
You expect more than 1 comment for a 9 minute old account? People join HackerNews, often because they finally have something to say in a comment thread.
Bill here. I agree that the expletive you used here is not appropriate.
Sometimes people create accounts and start commenting shortly thereafter.
You did something wrong.
Did you use Prismatic's Schema [1] at the time? It seems like that was developed for your exact problem/use-case.

By the way; I don't think Rich makes fun of TDD, but of how little of TDD is left when you're working with purely functional, side-effect free, code: passing functions data and verifying that you get back the right thing.

In practice every Clojure coder will tell you debugging is still a pain but that it's not a problem as long as you check each small, pure, function for correctness ... which is pretty close to, if not the same as, TDD.

[1] https://github.com/Prismatic/schema
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Java 8 doesn't have immutable collections, nor would I consider Java 8's lambdas to constitute first class functions. Java 8 doesn't have function types, just functional interfaces.
download hivemind (crudzilla.com),

I swear if you follow the 5 step setup on the homepage, you can have a working web app in less than five minutes :)

I am serious, lowering the bar for web development is something we are really trying hard to tackle...

I am happy to get anyone else interested, started.
How about 2084 in a TSR utility?
Does the f1-micro use SSD drive?
Google Slashes Cloud Prices: Google vs AWS Price Comparison
digging into it. looks like it so far. thanks.
It´s even cheaper if you run the vm non-stop. They are offering sustained use discounts.
The fact that one is from the Triassic while the other is from the Cretaceous doesn't make the latter less of a dinosaur.
The average technical book (for instance) sells 2000 copies. That's not going to provide a whole lot of lead generation for most authors.
So, if your home is out of energy you're locked out? I don't know how common that is in USA. But where I live, you'd be trapped under an hours-long storm while waiting for the power to come back during rain season.
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I ordered a Lockitron during the presale, and got it 2 weeks ago. Took forever, but I do have it.
Your math is correct, but you have to remember that Google compute instances don't include disk storage or network transfer - you have to pay for those separately, which drives the cost up higher.
They sent me an email telling me my unit "shipped" last July and would arrive July 14-20th. 3 months later it still wasn't here so I sent an email, and the response was basically, "Uh... we expected to ship it to you at that time, but really we have no idea when we can actually ship it."

1 year after preorder they had to process the amazon payments preorders or amazon would void them. So here I am almost 2 years since I preordered a product that I've paid for, and they can't even give me an expected ship date.

Of course they continue to send marketing emails/self congratulatory accomplishments about software updates and hardware fixes for a product that doesn't exist.
What exactly are you wanting? Does the world owe us all something?
it turns our you need a fancy laser cutter to do this. melting brass reflects infrared everywhere, which can destroy everything within sight. one solution is to use a different frequency, which costs more. i run keysduplicated.com, and we long ago settled on CNC mills instead of laser cutters to make our keys. they're cheaper, slightly more reliable, and much faster.
There seems to be a lot of negativity here, and it feels misplaced.

I think this looks fantastic, and a project I'd like to try with some of the more advanced kids in my school. The fact that its based on Flappy Bird is a bonus. My students loved making Flappy Bird in Scratch, so they'll probably love trying this as well.
That seems to be premature. Depends what you consider a DevTool. Chrome still has far better profiling/tracing tools for performance analysis. The latest Chrome versions even let you hover over functions and view what the V8 JIT thought of them (e.g. deoptimized and why). Even relatively low hanging fruit, like debugging WebWorkers is missing from FF. I see tons of missing stuff that Chrome DevTools has that FF is missing. It doesn't have something like the Timeline tab for tracking memory/framerate over time. I don't see stuff like HTML5 FileSystem/IndexDB/localStorage browsing. SourceMap support doesn't match Chrome. Etc.

FF seems to do better with the DOM/Designer portion of tooling, but from a JS-heavy coder perspective it seems behind.
yup, it is currently twitter login only, there will be other login options soon of course. haven't seen satoshibox.com, they are keeping it nice and simple
From ./Opus/asm/formatn.asm in Word v1.1a:

; /* Following comment is preserved verbatim for eternity */
; /* Rounding becomes a non-existant issue due to brilliant re-thinking */
; /* "What a piece of work is man
;	How noble in reason
;	In form and movement,
;	how abject and admirable..."

;	Bill "Shake" Spear [describing Sand Word] */
How many people who use trello even knows how to get IE9 to spoof a UA header? I sure don't. And if they can't update their browser, they probably can't put some sort of request proxy in between to change headers.
You can drag messages from one tab to another. It will ask you if you want to put all messages from that sender into that category in the future.
Well, if I have to use a regular key, then there's no benefit to having a an electronic lock.

And yes, I suggested a "keyless" code lock in case you lose the key ;)

In an emergency condition, the simplest action (the one with the fewest steps, protocols or devices) you can take to recover completely is the best action. Losing your key and phone while being chased by muggers (for example) is just such an emergency. If you have enough faculties to remember your key code, you can still enter your home even if you're naked.

I like to think of services like KeyMe, which I do think is a fantastic idea, as an extra nicety during non-emergencies.
I think we agree about the usefulness of things like the Promotions tab, but I just never turned it on. It's not really a big deal.

Meanwhile my mom loves the email promotions she's signed up for (if only she would stop forwarding me ones every few days...), so something like this is great for her. Different strokes and all that, and it doesn't degrade my experience by existing. Seems like a win.
There is now https sorry
~200 years of American history in a GIF
Why we dumped Basecamp and what's the alternative
all of which should be fixed :]
DO is a completely different service. It's Apples to Oranges. You don't go with GC or AWS just for a bare-bones VM, you use them if you already use (or want to use) their greater portfolio of services.

If you are just using EC2 or GC for VM hosting, you are doing it wrong and are throwing away a lot of money.
Do not look at the price of housing as an indicator of being wealthy! It's often an indicator of regulatory failure & NIMBYism more than anything. Otherwise my home area of Vancouver would be land of the wealthy, while it's actually became the 2nd most unaffordable city in the world. Unaffordable being housing price : annual income ratios. The bay area has started to attract mainland chinese cash too. Friends have been outbid by mainland chinese buyers with cash trying to buy a house in palo alto.

You don't even have the luxury of going over a bridge and housing prices dropping significantly. In Vancouver, the average house is $1.2mm - $800k+ and going 1 hour away from the city core just drops you $100k-$200k.
> The other alternative is if the Supreme court rules spying is unconstitutional but then they are just ignored by the Executive branch

Is there any doubt that mass surveillance is "unconstitutional"? Do you think the people organizing the surveillance (ie. establishing the police state) give a fuck?

> for now there is still constitutionally protected rights and limited government

Constitutionally protected rights, such as Bradley Manning's habeas corpus, perhaps?

Limited government? -Oh please. The takeaway here is that strangely enough, a piece of parchment written 200+ years ago cannot magically prevent tyranny in 2014.

(Much like the very same parchment cannot magically grant some people rights that others don't have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ng... )
dfbrown factored that into the calculation (by multiplying by 0.7)
"you can probably disable them completely, should you experience problems with performance in production."

Clojure has a variable called "*assert*" just for this
purpose: set it to "false" for production to
turn off all these type checks.
>Moore's law doesn't say shit about storage.

Yes, the cost progression of storage is expressed by Kryder's law, and is actually faster than moore's law. (well, in terms of storage space, not storage speed.)

Of course, both are observations and not true laws; things will get interesting if/when the capital and power required per unit compute (or per unit ram or storage) stops dropping.

But, my point is that in the past, the costs involved in providing compute infrastructure has fallen dramatically over time, and most people expect this to continue, at least for a while.
so you were trying to hire 1 person? And from that you conclude that it's easy to find many good people at below market rates?