skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NB: Richie and Thompson did their development on the PDP-7, not the PDP-11, though the latter was an exceptionally popular system to run Unix on later (and was my first exposure to it).

http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
It could have fallen from or (if they are being stupid) been thrown by the other guy, who happens to appear in the frame just after the object.
Sealed bid. No information is available except the volume and price from clearing the LAST auction.

I'm not aware of any reason why market makers would be required in such a system. Market makers are used in continuous trades such that price information can be continuously reported. There is no such need here.

Your objections seem to indicate that I did not explain my proposal such that you could easily understand my intent.
I'm reminded of this post by lionhearted: http://sebastianmarshall.com/the-genius-and-tragedy-of-patri...
Sure: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

Or, if you want a web-based version (via asm.js): http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html

(I knew about the Burkey version, but the JS port I just found. Ain't the modern world amazing?)
I have first hand experience with mentoring a junior dev and he is dead on about it not working remotely. In my experience it quickly devolves into the senior dev answering a continuous stream of emails or instant messages to help troubleshoot some simple issue. Interestingly, one of the biggest issues I have seen is an inability to succinctly communicate the facts around the issue that the individual iss struggling with. A lot of time is spent interrogating them for more info to find out what exactly the problem is. These are the kinds of situations where you really must be able to sit down next to the person to efficiently bring them along and not being able to quickly becomes an exercise in frustration for both parties.
Quite a lot of people actually. These moves have been on the cards for years. Just waiting now for the next big move in the coming months of when they acquire Xamarin.
What patio11 doesn't get, is that part of the reason why HN crowd considers tarsnap "the best backup software" is exactly because Colin Percival is what patio11 calls "bad at business" (and what I would call "motivated not only by money").

BTW, that is the same reason for the backlash over Oculus acquisition: people are upset that it will no longer be run by "bad at business" engineers like John Carmack, but instead by "very good at business" Mark Zuckerberg.
Thanks!
A full list of examples can be found here: https://github.com/draios/sysdig/wiki/Sysdig%20Examples
How much weight do you put on assisted conversions (VTC within perfect audience)? I've found that aCPA for my site is great at also around $5 but the vast majority of these conversions are assisted conversions, i.e. not direct click throughs.
Maybe they are not spending their own money?
IP over Avian Carrier
Luckily Argentina's attempt to impose its colonial will was thwarted.
Moonjs: Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Simulator in JavaScript
for me, as an internet only customer, it costs $30/mo (via a promo email i just got from twc this month to sell me on hbo via GoT) for 12 months, which is only a promotional period and does not include associated install / equipment costs. As much as I like GoT, it is not worth $360 ($30x12) for one season.
yulaow, clearly the lead-time on a lot of this stuff is longer than Ballmer's been gone, so yeah, not fair to put all this on his departure. "Five months" was a pithy play off "five years," nothing more or less than that.
People are stupid, sometimes. Especially on internet videos.
At an airbnb techtalk they stressed how this is a really annoying problem for them. They actually have a subdomain that substitutes longer than normal english strings within their design:

https://xxlong.airbnb.com/
How To Make a Transition from Sports to Business
Go Nadella go!
This system leaves out the "from each according to his ability"[1] part that's the root of totalitarian regimes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi...
For geeks. Not for business people who have to make the decision to pay for it.

Of course, you don't make the change if you don't want to become the B2B mega secure backup business that patrick is pitching. But if you do want to grow into that then you have to re-brand into something a clueless supervisor is going to be able to authorize. That won't happen often with the current design.

If Colin doesn't want to make a big B2B business, which I'm sure we all believe to be true, then you can keep the old design and be happy. But if he wants to have a "real" business, then he should absolutely go with a standard bootstap theme.

edit: four to for. duh
Be careful about what topics you make political jokes about. Don't forget that your rights end where my feelings begin, especially regarding social issues.
3 Reasons Promotional Efforts Fail And What You Can Do About It
For the javascript part: https://github.com/fnando/i18n-js
I don't get the surveillance icons part. Technically every country should have that eye thing because, so we've been told, the NSA can vacuum up every bit out on every wire.
Shocking findings in a high-profile Turkish case at Boston Security Meetup
> I think you wanted to say that the "change" was made only thanks to the exit of Ballmer, but I think that's an exaggeration.

I think it'd probably be more accurate to say that these particular changes are symptoms of the same corporate change of direction that the change of CEO was, not that the change of CEO specifically resulted in these releases.
It's extremely hard to discern but it looks like there was possibly another smaller piece that goes flying by just before the camera stabilizes and the main meteor comes into view.
> What is next, you'll ask for funding for programs targeted at girls that are only hispanic or indian or black?

How on earth did you draw this conclusion from a post in which I make exactly the opposite point? My point was that programs that single out groups, that sequester, are counterproductive. Read it again.

On re-reading your post, I now think you attached it to the wrong comment. That's the only rational explanation.
Nice. For some reason I can't clone the repo, though.

Cloning into 'roslyn'...
remote: Counting objects: 10525, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4382/4382), done.
remote: Total 10525 (delta 6180), reused 10391 (delta 6091)
Receiving objects: 100% (10525/10525), 16.94 MiB | 1.69 MiB/s, done.
error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200

Edit: This looks like an incompatibility between GnuTLS and whatever Microsoft is using for TLS. Using git+libcurl linked against OpenSSL works fine.
For any compiler, platform-dependence of the compiler itself is strictly tied to platform-dependence of outputs.

Edit: I confused roslyn with the recently announced AOT compiler.
Agreed. I've long since left .NET-land, but I still miss C#, LINQ and the like. Here's hoping for great stuff in the future.
Note that the whole essay retargets tarsnap as a secure backup business. Not paranoid geeks.
Short names also make sense if the same conventions appear over and over throughout the code base. While they can be quite opaque at first, they're very consistent, and people with experience in other APLs will recognize many of them.
>> it looks like each frame has the fragment at about 3 feet from its last position

How did you arrive at this number? What distance do you estimate between the camera and the falling rock?

> If that's a 60fps camera (I think it is?), that's 180 f/s speed or 122mph.

Are you assuming the skydiver is stationary?
Seems like a souped-up version of [ErrorBoard](https://github.com/Lapple/ErrorBoard), which is cool, but also means I can roll my own. Nice work.
The "virtue" of hard work is just a shallow manipulation tactic devised by those in power.

How is this an argument against what ekianjo wrote? Yes, there has (almost?) always been a privileged upper class that had much more leisure than the masses. Still, the fact remains that living standards would have been lower had a majority of the population not worked their asses off.

Should the distribution of work be adjusted? Absolutely! In our current world, inequality is so high, and to a large extent unjustly high, that it's sickening. But there is still a whole lot of work that needs to be done to maintain our living standards.
An emotional hack: How to Cope with the Loss of Your Favorite Team
To get really technical, it's wave drag. ;) There's a fascinating discussion here:

http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?35327-meteors-ram...
When you have to give your product away in order to help generate output from your developer community, that is an issue.

The lack of hardware freebies at Apple = developer opportunity essentially. Your "gift" is a healthy vibrant ecosystem, should you choose to accept it.
The presumption here is palpable. There do exist factors other than the financial -- whole categories of them -- that people take into account when making value judgments like this.

Maybe some people view the Oculus acquisition through that myopic lens, but many do not, and your generalizations do your point of view no justice while simultaneously misrepresenting many of theirs.
Perhaps because neither of these professions (a) pay well or (b) are being hailed as the saviours of the 21st century? Still, 538 should gather and publish the corresponding data to provide the basis for discussion. From my fortunately limited experience in medical facilities, nurses sit close to the top of the not-a-doctor hierarchy.

I have seen a number of male nurses, most of whom are used when brawn is required. I suspect we see a fallout of parenthood, possibly $$. Those who can (either gender), proceed to the MD/DO/DDS (or now whatever super-nurses are called, PA's?). Those who can't, for cost or time constraints, make it to nurse and do ok. Although the hours suck.

In previous generations, nursing was a non-degreed (diploma) profession. It shifted to BA/BS-required in the 70's and 80's and for all I know is one where MA/MS is preferred for continued employment. Can one get a PhD in nursing, as I can imagine what the research might look like?
The whole point is that cperciva has a unique competitive advantage in operating tarsnap in that he's a remarkably good at that problem set.

patio11's whole point is that he loves both tarsnap and cperciva and thinks literally everyone in this equation would be better served if cperciva made more money and by making the tarsnap user experience more sensitive to the needs of businesses who want to rely on it.
Michael Lewis’s HFT Book: More of a Dark Market Than a Lit One
Designing Cultures that Build Great Products
I work construction, and even though my job is a long way from being lost due to automation (strong AI to work reliably with low oversight and human scale maneuverability), it's going to come in.

My skills are all over, but my job is external renovations. We've gone from wood siding, soffit, fascia and shingles to predominantly metals and plastics that are now getting increased longevity. If new houses were built with the best materials, it wouldn't need work done to it for 40+ years.

Stone coated galvalume (iirc aluminum coated galvanized steel) is a true 40 year shingle. Their operating lifespan is likely to extend past 60 years before it absolutely had to be replaced (ie leaks). If that was available for a siding material or for fascia cladding, it would be >100 year longevity. (Shingles on a vertical wall typically last up to 3-4 times their rated lifetime for a roofing application - so 120-160 years).

If a customer gets their whole house done, they'll never be a return customer with our current materials. The work I'm doing today will be redone by a robot, I guarantee it.

We need basic income because almost every job can eventually be automated out. What about the day we're using nanobots? A tree branch damaged your eavestrough? Just pick up a pail of nanobots at the store and pour it into the reservoir in your basement that your houses computer handles all repairs and renovations. Who am I kidding, they'll probably be made by a nanofabricator you have that makes all your material things.
But before that a lot of universities paid $800 (call it $3,000 in today's dollars) for a tape and site-wide license, and ran it on relatively cheap PDP-11s. And I've heard one or more of the team, perhaps before that, would travel with an RK05 disk cartridge seeding copies.
I just spent a while looking up the maths on this and was really surprised to find that the terminal velocity of a spherical rock (diameter 10cm, density 2.5g/cm^3) at this altitude is remarkably close to 300 km/h (I got 340).

Aside: up until now I had imagined that if a skydiver were to ever drop a rock of that size (or a dense piece of equipment like a DSLR) during freefall they would never be able to catch it, but as the terminal velocity of a skydiver in "dart" position is about 320km/h that's not the case. Pretty cool.
The body needs a large amount of salt. But it has to be unprocessed solar cured sea salt. Processed table salt is terrible for you.
Just-Eat IPO ($2.44BN) first to test UK LSE 'Tech Friendly' Market
Interesting development and promising for the UK/European start-up scene, particularly for bricks and mortar based services. 36,000 restaurants is no easy feat.
Unix command: less is more, more is less
NYT isn't the author. Anyway, who would believe and RBC guy? That's why he went to SAC for a quick sanity check.

But as he talked to Wall Street investors, he came to realize that they were dealing with the same problem. He had a good friend who traded stocks at a big-time hedge fund in Stamford, Conn., called SAC Capital, which was famous (and soon to be infamous) for being one step ahead of the U.S. stock market. If anyone was going to know something about the market that Katsuyama didn’t know, he figured, it would be someone there. One spring morning, he took the train up to Stamford and spent the day watching his friend trade. Right away he saw that, even though his friend was using software supplied to him by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and the other big firms, he was experiencing exactly the same problem as RBC: He would hit a button to buy or sell a stock, and the market would move away from him. “When I see this guy trading, and he was getting screwed — I now see that it isn’t just me. My frustration is the market’s frustration. And I was like, ‘Whoa, this is serious.’ ”

This dispels (according to the story) the notion that it was a firm specific or SW specific issue. Of course you could assume this is fabricated (for convenience). But the next step is harder to fabricate:

He hired Rob Park, a gifted technologist, to explain to him what actually happened inside all these new Wall Street black boxes, and together they set out to assemble a team to investigate the U.S. stock market. Once he had a team in place, Katsuyama persuaded his superiors at RBC to conduct what amounted to a series of experiments. For the next several months, he and his people would trade stocks not to make money but to test theories. RBC agreed to let his team lose up to $10,000 a day to figure out why the market in any given stock vanished the moment RBC tried to trade in it. Katsuyama asked Park to come up with some theories.

This could easily be verified independent of Katsuyama (eg, by talking to either the other principals and/or 3rd parties as RBC management). What is important, however, it it is orthogonal to anecdote. And by putting capital at risk and testing ex-ante theories, not only are they getting on firmer epistemic grounds, but they are leaving paper trails internally and externally.

As they worked through the order types, the Puzzle Masters created a taxonomy of predatory behavior in the stock market. Broadly speaking, it appeared as if there were three activities that led to a vast amount of grotesquely unfair trading.

Of course you could object to this as "fabrication". But there is evidence that they tested SW products to defeat these various strategies. These products were later bought and then spun out and backed by third party customers & investors.

Again, this could all be fabricated. But you would need elaborate conspiracy theories to explain the lack of due dilligence by the investors (not to mention Lewis).
Anyone else getting deja vu?

Makes me think of Sun open sourcing Java.
While the main post was interesting enough, and has already garnered responses, I'm genuinely amazed that people pay for that level of "cron monitoring".

Looking around I see at least three services ("probyapp.com", "deadmanssnitch.com", and "cronwat.ch" - the latter of which has an expired SSL certificate).

FWIW one of the main reasons I've never used tarsnap is the pricing and the picodollars, it never felt "real" enough, although obviously it is completely transparent.
That's essentially exactly what I did except when it threw an error I mistakenly substituted an AND in place of WHERE so the criteria were effectively ignored. We do run a stale version of the production database on staging but I didn't try running the SQL on it first so it wouldn't have helped. Do you run every destructive query against staging prior to production and then copy and past the FULL command?
So the guy is homophobic, what does that have to do with Firefox and Mozilla ?

I see a lot of zealotism on these matters against people expressing their views and beliefs. What if he's homophobic ? So what ? Isn't he entitled to have his opinion ?

Paradoxically, and ironically, intolerance towards intolerance still is intolerance. I talked with racist people who hated people from what they think is my religion. So what ? I have no problem with that. And it drove them to change their views, more than if I tried to "enforce" "political correctness". I just didn't give a fuck about it.

It's kind of trendy to be pro-homo, pro-this, pro-that, pro-black, pro-muslim, pro-Yoda, etc.

What's more scary, is that it's become trendy to be intolerant about anyone who expresses beliefs against what is trendy to be. If you're not "pro-homosexual marriage" you're a biggot and a homophobic ignorant prick. Where does all this hate come from ? The guy doesn't lie gay people getting married, it's none of his business, but it's none of our business what he thinks.

Why is it okay for people to lobby for a cause, and not against it ? Isn't it democracy for people to express their beliefs ?

Bear in mind, I have gay friends. I have bi-sexual friends. I have friends from all over the human spectrum. So don't go accuse me of being a biggot, as is the tradition these times with anyone who expresses an opinion.
Wow these contributions are a huge deal for Mono. I've spent the last few months making sure C# code works well in Mono and there are a lot of things that are missing or buggy. WebClient for example on Mono is missing DNS refresh timeout which means your app will never update a dns cache entry. If the ip of a server changes, you're pretty much screwed in Mono.
It's an opt-in way of blurring a face. Getting an algo representation of somebody's face is easy, so broadcasting it doesn't strike me as a problem as long as that's the only data that is being sent; as opposed to also sending any kind of user id along with it.
I like to make this point using housing data from the census bureau.

A typical 1930s person, or even early 1970s person, lived in a 1500 square foot or smaller house. Houses built in the last decade or so average 2200 square feet. Many people could work a lot less just by moving into a smaller place and having the subsequent reduction in rent/mortgage and utilities.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/housing_patterns/pdf/...
as someone who doesn't know a whole lot about the .net ecosystem - does this open the possibility for writing server side c#.net web applications that run on linux, with full parity with the windows environment? with or without mono?
Relative to the entire population, humanity is more urbanized, but that seems irrelevant to me compared to how many single square miles on the earth's surface contain a human who is connected to the global community.

While the decreasing number of people needed to farm a square mile seems like it would matter enough to decrease the newsworthiness of meteor strikes in some agricultural regions, it still seems likely that there has been a net increase in total area that includes the lower bound of population density where a meteor strike would be sufficiently newsworthy to make this list.

Take Las Vegas over the past 50 years as an example. It's a prime example of people being increasingly insulated from the outdoors, yet the footprint and total area of settled land has grown dramatically. It hardly matters whether you're inside or not, if a meteor strikes your block.

Edit: I was curious about the data and found this Google Earth file[1]. It looks like there definitely are many more recorded events, and it's just that the bar for being newsworthy has risen. However, what's strange is the preponderance of events in NW Texas and north of there. If records were population-based, then it should look like population density maps. I can't figure out off hand what causes the density of events, other than flat land and maybe tornado observation equipment, but that would seem to apply to other areas as well.

[1]https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gec-places/59...
Netbeans dropped support for Python, so I guess you'll only use it for C now.
I think this reasoning doesnt depict the real model.

If you are supposed to do 15 hours of real work, the ambiance of leaving when you are done with it is in the best case, going to let you do those 15 hours, but worst case you wont even fullfill that.

An example of that is finishing up something, and then a bug pops out after someone checks it out. If you are not in the office, your work is incomplete.

For the value vs work proposition, its entirely inapplicable for everyday operations. Who is measuring the value? and how do you get to influence those decisions?
If you get to work a project brought down from the product manager, you implement it completely, and the project turns up to be a total bust, or just useless, or not used, you provided 0 value. Does that mean you have to work extra to make up for that?

Or you work a couple of hours rogue-like and discover a dev-ops inefficiency and you can cut down server costs 10%, saving the company 100ks of money. Does that mean you don't have to show up for work anymore?

So value is not the word at play here, its maybe the efficacy of going through your work load. The more time you spend commited the more you will do, and that is pretty strict. The guy doing 15 is not going to get more than his own version doing 40, no matter what.
> Even from an external, symptomatic view, there's a difference between a recreational "high" from a drug and someone successfully treated for depression with the same drug.

To take this position you cannot have spent much time listening to drug addicts, who explain their behavior in just this way.

> The fact that the observation of that difference precedes understanding of the underlying mechanism responsible for it doesn't make the difference any less real.

On the contrary -- knowledge of the underlying mechanism is what separates science from quackery. Remember that all quack cures appear to work, for unknown reasons, mostly having to do with the Placebo effect. Remember also that the study under discussion relied on self-reporting for its conclusions.
Occupy Oakland : Google Bus Now Sports a 'Die Techie Scum' Sticker
Exactly. What patio11 calls "Geek to Geek" business and suggests Colin move away from. Any new user who sees the suggested standard three tier pricing scheme is going to immediately recognize a traditional business. And there goes the entire g2g market. Which I suppose patio11 doesn't care about given that he's suggesting a move away from that.

But without g2g, Colin is going to be competing in a huge market with a bunch of other players. He's also likely to enjoy his business a whole lot less.