skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if this is sublime satire.

Yes, your preference to have no fixed address is exactly the same as someone's genetic disposition about the gender they are attracted to. Having no fixed address likely enables negative effects like fraud. Same sex marriage likely enables… what, exactly?

How can you not see this is exactly the same argument as inter-racial marriage?
Yes, they have, and many are preparing to move. I've set up a local repo at work.
This word is being used way too much today, disagreement does not necessarily entail bigotry. He could actively endorse anti gay marriage without strongly and unfairly disliking gay people, ideas, etc.

It's a majorly shitty decision though no doubt.
Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

It for me it also replaces bookmarks, and does better tab crash recovery than the browser alone. I've used it to 'unload' an entire browser window with multiple tabs that encapsulates a particular mental state so I can concentrate on something else and then switch back to it with less difficulty than having to entirely rebuild that browser+mental state combination from scratch.

Nevertheless, I do find that tabs continue to proliferate. A bit more help to detect duplicate saved tabs, do automatic grouping, and integration with external tools meant for particular use cases (Pocket for stuff I want to read/watch later, pinboard for longer term/more structured categorization, etc.) would be welcome.
Newspapers are dead; Long live journalism.
Currently at #2 on the HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7461210

Calling for:

✔ A Mozilla boycott

✔ His termination

✔ His demotion
The problem with silent+no vibrate is that interruption still exists. I often take my phone out of my pocket when sitting for dinner, or just randomly when I become aware its there.

What I really should do, and might do after writing this is trying and balance the notification messages. reduce them to have no context at all, hopefully I wont accidentally read them.

But the real problem is once I have a problem on my mind it bugs me to I solve it. It takes over my thought processes and annoys me, and when this happens while I'm out on a stroll or out for dinner, I'll spend the rest of the evening thinking about it.
I used the standard Ubuntu image. I tried 12.04LTS, 13.10, and 14.04LTS alpha/beta/whatever.

I'm not sure it's possible to buy an x140e with Ubuntu preinstalled. When purchasing from Lenovo's website, the OS choices are all versions of Windows 7 and 8. It would be nice if this potentially modified version of Ubuntu was released somewhere.
Ask HN: Who are the four guys in Y Combinator home page?
Cisco Joins Race to Offer Cloud Services
Is it really that hard to read like, the very next sentence on the page where he explains exactly what he means?
"When you use a web app today, you usually connect to its developers' servers. This is backwards, and leaves them in control."

Also since when does "billions of people use it" mean something isn't broken? Lots of ubiquitous things are very, very dysfunctional.

Anyways this all seems very pie-in-the-sky but Kenton Varda is an incredible person. I'm very interested.
Is only the grey color available? Didn't see black on the product page...
InfluxDB v0.5.0 release ready for production
> After all, after people get paid from their job, shouldn't it be their right that they can use their money as they please?

"He’s certainly allowed to have his opinion, of course, but I’m allowed to judge his actions of supporting the cause financially."
For connect as well? -- our users (via connect) have been tugging at us to replace Stripe with something that transfers sooner

edit: made into a question
When you're attempting blackmail, you need to ensure that your hostage has value to your victims that is commensurate with your ransom demand.

You have a shitty puzzle game that's getting "thousands of downloads" and you want Mozilla to fire their CEO over that.

Not going to happen. We can do without your shitty puzzle game, thanks.
Can anyone comment on how this is different/better/worse than owncloud?
Interesting to note that Aaron Levie owns just 4.1% of the company at this point: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/0001193125141...
>After all, after people get paid from their job, shouldn't it be their right that they can use their money as they please?

If they spent that money attacking your family, would you be willing to do business with them?
I was unaware of this issue until today but I think Hampton is really great. And I think his position here is thoroughly defensible. How unfortunate this all is.

Edit: I see he is being accused here of blackmail and oppression himself. Wow. Fuck you guys.
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This is off-topic, but I did not know that about Ford. I find it very interesting that Huxley invented a dystopian society which also praised Henry Ford but for completely different reasons.
That sounds like an excellent class of hypothetical devices. Sadly a niche market at the moment though.
Cisco Outlines 'Massive Revolution' in Company Strategy
boycott javascript as well?
I am sure this was a hard decision to make but this was the right one. It is hard to overlook one's past actions and afaik brendan has not apologized/redacted his stance.

BTW, Apple rejected quite a few gay apps in the past. They should strongly consider rejecting everything Apple made.
Yep, for Connect as well.
There are a lot of comments here about competence of software developers at various ages and levels of experience.

However, the New Republic article was more about technology entrepreneurs who aren't necessarily coders or engineers in the traditional sense.

These entrepreneurs and the VCs who seek them out and fund them tend to have a bias toward youth, because there have been some stunning success stories among the young, as laid out in the article and in many comments here (Torvalds, Wozniak, etc.).

But, the skeptics interviewed in the article argue that these 20-something wunderkinden are the edge cases, not the mainstream. Historically, scientists and technologists have tended to accomplish more in their 30s and 40s and beyond.

In the world of software development, certainly there is a mixture of talent across the age spectrum. There are excellent programmers in their teens and twenties, and mediocre coders in their fifties. But there's a general consensus that experienced programmers in their fifties are better able to avoid some classes of mistakes that twenty-something coders simply haven't had a chance to see yet (but will).
Good for you. I also up until now thought Mozilla was fighting for the little guy and as a developer I've been wanting to work for them. Not anymore. There's no way I want to work for a company whose CEO has publicly supported voting against two people's right to be happy.

For those that say don't mix business with politics, think about what you are saying. Politics affect our day to day lives and the way we live or die. How can we separate politics from any other sphere of our lives?
Sorry to interrupt you but I was about to say the exact same thing.
Maybe there should be an Accept-Vulgarity http header, which some HN readers would keep set to "scatology;q=1.0, obscenity;q=0.9, banality;q=0.1"?
If you actually read the article:

We will continue our boycott until Brendan Eich is completely removed from any day to day activities at Mozilla, which we believe is extremely unlikely after all he’s survived and the continued support he has received from Mozilla.

A quick interpretation would be "Mozilla should never pick someone who doesn't like gays."

That's against employment equality even though CEO is a unique position. But still, personal belief doesn't always mean the CEO will turn out bad and disrespect everyone else.

I have question for the founders: if you were told one of your employees doesn't believe in gay rights will you fire him?
> black-mailing

Translation: not putting an app in an app store.
> 5. Solr is faster than PG, but PG has everything in one server.

With the GIN optimizations in 9.4 this need to re-evaluated. Solr will probably still be faster but maybe not enough for it to matter.
I'm impressed the GAO investigators got into pretty technical detail.

For a government agency, I know the GAO reports are generally considered objective, and nonpartisan. For politico experts - how has the GAO managed to not go, say, the way of the EPA
I understand where the authors are coming from. They're made that Eich supported a bill that denies their rights. However, what Eich does is his own, personal business. The writers, at least in my mind, are mixing business with their personal lives.

I support gay marriage, but I think that this isn't too much more than needless outrage. When someone boycotts Google because Google supports gay marriage, a lot of us look at them and go "Wow! What an idiot, boycotting Google because they think that Google is immoral! They're the immoral ones!" This is the exact same thing, it just happens that the authors' views align with our own. I think it's ultimately just petty. I'm glad gay couples can marry in California, where I currently live. I think it's a step in the right direction. I just think that needless outrage like this, which only isolates you from potential customers, gets us nowhere. We get it, you disagree with the CEO's personal values. I understand your outrage, and that might mean nothing to you. I just think there has to be a better way than this to actually get your point across.
Basically all the smart watch features in a candy bar phone.
> Sit down with me for 5 minutes and I'll find a whole bunch of personal things about you I don't like either

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu
It's not just them or their puzzle game. It's not just gay people either. It's everybody who wants everyone to be treated equally and not be denied their humanity. The CEO's values fly in the face of Mozilla's values. That's why he should be shown the exit door.
Good stuff, and a nice writeup/explanation!

To impudently hijack the thread: for a very similar approach (jaccard similarity coefficient, ruby) which has a nice abstracted implementation for background workers, take a look at David Celis 'recommendable' - here's him introducing the same system: http://davidcel.is/blog/2012/02/07/collaborative-filtering-w... and the gem itself: http://davidcel.is/recommendable/ I believe it's been discussed on HN before.

Redis is used to store the binary votes, and to compute similarity coefficients. Since redis is very good with set operations (intersections on multi-million-member sets (and more) are crazy fast), it's quite the natural choice for the db backend. One of the cases where a NoSQL solution seems to be the right tool for the job, as a matter of fact!

I've used recommendable (incl. in production code) in the past, it works very well, is reliable, robust, and easily hackable for whatever needs. (e.g. it's meant to integrate with Rails, but it's quite simple to make it work on barebones ruby, with (e.g.) Sinatra as a lightweight web app exposing vote functionality, and so on.)
> What prevented the authors of this article to spend $1000 to counterbalance Eich's contribution if they are so concerned?

So only people who pay for their rights deserve them. Noted.
Correct or not, that's irrelevant to the point I was making. The farthest he has ever gone against gay marriage is to say that he personally believed marriage was between a man and a woman. He never campaigned against it and even when personally opposed to it, consistently said that legislation like DOMA was unnecessary. That's hardly equivalent to giving $1000 to prop 8.
> What prevented the authors of this article to spend $1000 to counterbalance Eich's contribution if they are so concerned?

Who says they didn't?
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It was about time someone optimized charging/discharging of batteries. I didn't know ordinary batteries have such a potential for optimization, I thought that would be the batteries in UPSes. Current UPS batteries die in 3 years, having been used just a dozen times, apparently because the UPS insists to keep them fully charged at all times. Someone fix this, please.
Misdirected rant.
You are picking people in the past and comparing them to the present.

Continuing your line of thought..So you are saying if someone had slaves today, you would condone that act and continue supporting other stuff they make? Sorry, I would not.
Well, if you're arguing about the length of childhood (which IMHO shouldn't be the basis for age of consent, decision-making maturity should be), then we have not lengthened human childhood.

Socially, we've delayed the age when youngsters achieve self-sufficiency, start working, etc; but instead of prolonging "youth" currently our habits (most likely due to food industry) have achieved earlier age of puberty than before; biologically those kids are maturing sooner for having kids of their own.
> whatever Eich does in his time is irrelevant

Of course it isn't.

If he was backdooring JS crypto libraries for the NSA, or shooting orphans, or selling crack, that would be seriously inappropriate behaviour and he would lose his job for it.

Many people might consider it inappropriate to be fighting against gay marriage - it's not just a political issue, it's a moral one.
ComputerIndustryBlacklist.com is availble as of writing if someone was looking for a side project. Considering the professions involved, I'm sure we can do better than a bunch of Hollywood execs.
Sort of.

The apps talk to the world in a different way that normal native apps would. All communication goes through a Cap'n Proto RPC connection that is handed off to the app at startup. An executable is provided that knows how to bridge this to HTTP, making it relatively easy to port in existing apps, but the real power of the platform will eventually be exposed through that RPC connection. Inter-app communication will be through Cap'n Proto RPC, which is capability-based, allowing apps to expose APIs to each other and letting the user easily and security control which apps can talk to which other apps. Compare to Docker, where you can open ports, but don't have fine-grained control over capabilities. (Sorry, this really deserves a lot more explanation...)

Also, the idea is that you don't isolate apps, you isolate individual objects. So for Etherpad, each document is in a separate sandbox. This means that the platform can implement sharing for you, by doing it at the instance level. It also means that if I share a document with you, I don't have to worry that a security bug in the app will allow you to get access to all my other documents. Only a platform bug could allow that.

Finally, there's a nice web-based UI for installing and managing apps, so even non-sysadmins can actually run their own server.
I'd prefer there to not be categories. There's definitely something to be said for the discovery and discussion that occurs when the only prefiltering you can really do is based on the title of the article. There's something nice about forcing everyone to coexist in the same bubble. Plus, there's already Reddit for granular discussion.
You can't be oppressed by someone who has no power over you. The powerful oppress the less-powerful, that's the definition of oppression. Speaking your mind (as the authors of the article did) cannot, in any way, constitute oppression.

They are not blackmailing anyone, that is an absurd statement in fact. If what they have done is blackmail, then leaving a negative review on a product or app is also blackmail. Tweeting about bad customer service also becomes blackmail. If this is blackmail then expressing any negative opinion at all is blackmail.
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https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike https://github.com/olegp/pg-mongo/
and my favorite: http://pgre.st/
When you have 1.5 billion people the game is played at an entirely different level. One which Turkey is highly unlikely to reach.
what's unprofessional about this stance? They're standing up for their values. Why should we separate different aspects of our lives? We're not machines, we're human beings. I say, I'd love to do business with them because they stand up for their values rather than bow to greed and fear not getting some unknown moroccan's business.
My bad. The way I interpreted your comment was

> But (a random map is useful because) it does match a territory (somewhere out in the actual universe), it's just a (location that's hard to find).

I don't know what I was thinking.
If Brian had funded a political campaign to deny voting rights to all people named Chris, you may be singing a different tune.

They outlined that they were personally affected by his political choices, and therefor hurt that Mozilla would promote him. This isn't about someone's personal flaws. It's about someone's actions affecting someone else personally and boycotting a company for not acknowledging that.

Seems valid to me.
Tunnelbear is providing free Giant Tunnelbear package for people from Turkey[1].

It is easy enough to use and gets the job done perfectly.

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Counting down from infinity and other improbable feats with __del__
Because it's not about the $1000 (and you didn't honestly think it was.)

With your prescription of discriminated against minorities offsetting the donations of bigots to parties who would fortify or extend that discrimination, gay people would also have to worry about bankruptcy. There's at least 5 bigots for each gay person.
I imagine that if you wanted to block all DNS queries not going to government DNS, you put a block on packets routing to port 53. This is going to hit a lot of businesses that use their own DNS systems though. It would be harder to do a wide-ranging-but-not-total block, methinks, but I am not a net admin; I don't know the feasibility of mass port blocking.
I support your decision to boycott, although I personally disagree with it.

I wish you would give Brendan the chance to repent.

First of all, and most importantly, it's unlikely they are going to shitcan him as CEO.

Second, he has not spoken about his motivations for donating to Prop 8. If he was doing so in pursuit of abolishing the marriage institution altogether, I consider that very different than doing it because he only wants straight people to marry. (Since this is a politically charged issue, I will say that while I am personally in favor of abolishing marriage altogether, I think actively working to deny gays the right to marry in the interim is an exceptionally absurd idea.)

Third, his views may have changed over the years.

If he came out saying he was wrong and donated 10x the amount he donated to Prop 8 to a LGBT charity, I would consider that a win. There are ways to make this right without shitcanning him.
That was a typo. I did actually mean to say "solo" rather than single.
Regarding California: this is simply not true any longer. A poll conducted over a year ago found that over 60% of California RVs support legalizing gay marriage: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/fivethirtyeight/2013/03/01/p...

Please explain why you believe that this is a false equivalence.
What if you GA the algorithm itself? Such that GA converges on hill climbing (or something better, if it exists) as the best technique to use.
I wouldn't necessarily do the same thing but I can understand why they did it. It can be really really hard to stomach doing work that in anyway benefits somebody so opposed to something that fundamentally defines you as a person.
here is another mongo like postgresql addon: http://pgre.st/ it has quite nice other features also.
I know. I tell friends who are depressed about being 29 that life begins at 30. From my wizened perspective of mid-50s, I even find people in mid-30s to be somewhat green.

Of course, everything I've done in my life has been late. Graduated college and grad school late, married late, had a kid late. So I'm about 10-15 years behind my age peers and experience-wise have more in common with people in mid-late 30s.

When it comes to having ideas... I feel as though I'm bubbling with ideas these days. Maybe it's just too anecdotal to mean anything, but it seems to me that everyone blossoms in their own good time. There's no such thing as over the hill, until you decide that you're over the hill.
Coursera Brings In Longtime Yale President Rick Levin as CEO
Does stripe ever plan to release more advanced/streamlined analytics?
They're certainly not treating Brendan Eich equally.

Discrimination on the basis of political stance is bigotry, too.

Their position is extremely hypocritical, and by defending it, you become complicit in their hypocrisy.
That's against employment equality...

Is it though? Are homophobes a protected class? Would a company be forced at the point of a lawsuit to hire a goose-stepping neo-Nazi if he or she had impeccable credentials?
I mostly agree, I think.

"That's precisely the point: it creates a market for labor that does not currently exist."

I'm not sure how there is not currently a market for labor, it's just presently tilted in favor of employers because employees have too much trouble "going out of business" when there isn't sufficient demand for them.

"A UBI allows natural market forces to do things that we have to do with regulation now."

Right.

"Minimum wage could be eradicated with a UBI, for example, since everybody enough to live on."

With a sufficiently high UBI, this is clearly the case; I'm not completely convinced that "a sufficiently high UBI" is not so high that it would cause other problems, though that seems likely.

"Real wages for unskilled workers would be forced much higher,"

Real wages for unskilled workers would certainly rise. Whether they would be "much higher" doubtless depends on the size of the UBI.

"which I think would be a very good thing for the economy as a whole."

Possibly. It would certainly motivate more automation, which is probably good. Forcing them too high too fast would likely mean some significant problems as society figures out how to adapt.
How Online Gaffes Make us Seem Unintentionally Creepy
This isn't a WTF. Don't use private APIs! They're inherently fragile! It's like complaining when your web scraper fails because a company updated their website!
I don't understand this at all. A laptop typically uses 30-100Whr just being turned on. So this gigantic lump of crap gives me an extra hour or so?
I think with modern Java libraries (and testing libraries as well), the days of 1:1 interface=>classes are almost gone.

I rarely do that any more these days so hopefully it'll become non-issue in the future for you.
The intersection of people I've met who actively fund and promote laws to deny gay people the right to marry and the people I've met who actively fund and promote laws to remove government from all marriage has been exactly zero people. I would love to be proven wrong about that, and I'm not saying your argument is incorrect, but I have personally only seen that argument used as an excuse to deny gay people the rights already given to heterosexual people.
Many people might consider it inappropriate to be fighting against gay marriage - it's not just a political issue, it's a moral one.

Yet, we are forcing everyone to take a stand on this "moral" issue.
I was thinking more of an architecture comprising either:

1. more servers with less capacity (CPU,RAM,Disk) each
2. same number of servers, but six + Hard Drive Raid0 in each

Both of which could be better for other apps but include their own set of problems and, as you pointed out, could result in higher costs.

I think I was misunderstood. I was not questioning the architecture chosen, sorry if I sounded that way. I want to learn why was it chosen since I don't see many like it. So far you have provided me with some very satisfying answers, and for that I thank you.