skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guaranteed free advertising for a me-too WhatsApp competitor awash in a sea of fellow fast-followers. No doubt, this article will be forwarded around the techo-news-sphere.
tumblr.dj, i'm looking to share its subdomain, but still busy doing other project.
Just when I thought I kicked my 2048 addiction...

Great job. I love it.
This new site called Meterfy came out on Friday (I think) that is trying to be "Wikipedia for numbers." It currently only allows submissions of individual numbers as facts, but if something like this could handle datasets it could replace entry level analysts. For example, thousands of people (and algorithms) pour over earnings reports to find out different information about companies. Much of this work could be done by fewer people, freeing up the productive efforts of the others...
That duct tape... and electrical stuff hanging off the ceiling... makes me cringe! EEs in my dad's company used to call that kind of project an "ikebana." :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikebana
Animated / interactive Bezier curves: http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/
OVH doesn't inform you because you're paying commodity pricing for unmanaged servers. It's actually your job to keep track of the downtime, not theirs.

Digitalocean stands to make ~$10,000 monthly of of a "$1,000 server" because it is somewhat managed, and thus has the responsability of informing the 100 or 1,000 odd customers affected because of their mistake imho.
I rarely ever see apples-to-apples comparisons in Android-iOS development discussions.

It's tempting to say that his TechCrunch credentials bias him, but I actually chalk it up to his wanting to write a dev blog with a link-bait title. I don't think the lesson learned has anything to do with Android first at all.
Got my start with a Sinclair ZX-81 and an IBM 4341 when I was around 13. Time flies when you're having fun.
I've been building mobile apps for about 2-3 years. The company I consult for builds iOS first... not because of any design/coding difficulty though. Not to beat this very dead horse anymore but iOS users pay more frequently... so we go iOS first to determine if it's even worth it to build for Android.
Me also! Had a hiatus on programming for this most part in university though, otherwise would be in same bracket.
Yes, and the trucking industry stopped fighting freight rail years ago and now makes use of it.

Trucks are more flexible, sure, but to get that flexibility they trade off operating efficiency. This is why many long haul trucking companies such as J.B. Hunt [1] and even UPS [2] now make use of intermodal shipping. [3]

It's not commonly known that packages sent via UPS Ground frequently travel on trains. As a general rule, UPS Ground packages traveling long distances across the U.S. are shipped by train. [4]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Hunt

[2] http://www.ups-scs.com/transportation/rail.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_freight_transport

[4] http://compass.ups.com/processes-of-package-in-transit/
Well this is one of the more shameless examples of blog spam I've seen in a while.
Anyone been to an airport lately? All open outlets are swarmed upon by people charging and keeping watch on their phones to make sure they don't get stolen.

How about mini lockers with miniusb and apple chargers in each locker. People swipe a credit card and can rent a mini locker to charge their phone is.

I realize how low tech this is but it's less so than people babysitting charging phones.
Neat! I wish more companies would do this after declaring their software deprecated.
(This is the author of the original post.) My comments about the relative difficulty of building on top of SMS/MMS were somewhat of an aside. That difficulty did take us by surprise, but as you say, wasn't reason enough to leave Android on its own.

Once we'd decided to abandon the SMS/MMS approach, we were then building our functionality on top of a more straightforward messaging channel, and had to decide whether to proceed on Android or iOS. At that point we chose iOS for the reasons described.
for chrome, "Switch To Tab":

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/switch-to-tab/gbfh...
When you have enough users, and NFS homedirs, it makes sense.

The University of Waterloo just uses DNS round-robin, but that's not particularly reliable since the load balancing is up to the whims of each client's DNS client implementation.

And then there's software like mosh[0], which, IIRC, does round-robin on the first connection but then sticks to the same server afterwards so that you can e.g. connect to the same pty even if your local IP changed.

[0] http://mosh.mit.edu/
Ouch sorry was just trying to be helpful
This sounds like the problem I had, which I'm trying to solve with https://nachapp.com - instead of my attention being split between several apps which focus on specific TYPES of content (i.e. everything you listed), it focuses on a specific WORKFLOW - acting as a central high-level hub, based on the core concept of achieving personal goals (which I think would be the same thing you mean with "learning process").

It isn't trying to completely replicate the storage of everything you have in the apps you listed. Instead, it's trying to focus your attention to what your real goals in life are, so you hopefully end up with quite a minimalist approach, where you're discarding a lot of info that's essentially a distraction, and really able to focus on only saving the stuff which is relevant to your goals, and keeping a hierarchical list of actionables as your method of recall for the content, instead of it being scattered randomly across a dozen apps.

If this sounds like an attractive solution to you, would be great to talk about this a bit more (you can reach me through the site's contact form), because I want to work out ways to make the app smarter for covering that exact workflow you're talking about (discovery -> actionables).

Note that the app may look pretty "simple" from the landing page, but it is also very much aimed at power-users (I personally have a couple of hundred active steps+goals).
Couldn't agree more. Show them something really cool they can make on their own and curiosity does the rest. Robotics, TV, a mobile app, physics, whatever moves their world at this point will do.
Fearful of Large Tech Companies’ Power? You’re Not Alone, New Poll Finds
I'm _still_ writing z80 assembly for those calcs! Want to help?

https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel

How about a kernel with preemptive multitasking, dynamic memory management, a tree-based filesystem, cross-platform binaries, and the comforts of Unix?
Definitely. Ship that shit.
I made more points by just going counterclockwise through the arrow keys over and over: 5368
And remember that "a hate group" is actually "more than one hate groups" because Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul definitely qualify as haters and bigots.

If you have the stomach, google yourself up some Pat Buchanan quotes -- it's really vile and disgusting stuff, and he absolutely and without question qualifies as an archetypal "bigot".

In fact, the Guardian article that recently outed him as contributing money to Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul happened between the short time that he announced in an interview he was NOT going to resign, and between when he DID resign, so it may have been a factor, the straw (or rather the bay of straw) that broke the camel's back.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controvers...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/04/brendan...
Also started with the 6502 in the late 70s, but it was entered in hex through the KIM-1. I was a teenager, and part of my brain was wired while understanding that computer.
I think that analysis is interesting but incomplete.

I think that there are two different kinds of interaction in social media: growth oriented interaction (show and tell) and approval/support oriented interaction (counselor sessions).

Show and tell takes more work. You have to teach your community members something to be successful. But it is also more enriching because it encourages meaningful comments that explore and expand on the ideas shown to the group.

Support group posts are much easier. Just relate your story, grievance, or thought. Meaningful comments are harder to come by because they tend to be simple messages of support or derision or a comment that could be their own support group post -- people will tend to go ahead and collect points with a second post rather than 'hijacking a thread'.

I believe the reason support group posts begin to dominate even in social forums that start off as member enrichment oriented is because they are easier and everyone harbors them. Through sheer numbers one strikes a chord and gets voted up. Then another, then another. They are easy to craft so the raw number of posts begins to guarantee that the forum will become dominated by support group posts. At the same time, it becomes harder and harder to teach the group something new: the circlejerk effect.
I will not be surprised if it beats C as it will be then, by generating C code itself, but C code that no human would write by hand. It has been done before in programming history (not just C, fortran has been beaten as well http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=200989 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-19014-8_1... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.150... although the prior art focuses on Lisp I think Haskell and ML like languages are better equipped for this). Imperative code is a lot harder to reason about, and low level code is a lot harder to write if one cares about correctness and performance simultaneously. Specialized functional languages has a history of beating C implementations. It could be faster still if one removes the constraint that one has to generate C code, for example coroutines and proper tail calls become easier to implement. The bottomline is that correctness is easier to achieve with functional, and performance with imperative. So we would need both and they meet in a compiler.

Take the example of Stalin and StalinGrad, they are Lisps. Their compile times are epic, but once done they have a history of generating faster code than C for specific applications (a specific example where it will excel is multidimensional numeric integration where the function to be integrated is passed as an input). The main reason why they would be able to generate faster code is that they are smarter about inlining. The reason they are smarter about inlining is that programmers intent is better preserved when encoded in a higher level language.

Can a programmer not write the same code in C by hand ? Sure they can, but it will take longer and would be more error prone and likely to be costlier to produce, unless one takes the help of these higher level abstractions primitives, but then you aren't really writing in C anymore. Can the C compiler not be equally smart ? possibly, but it will be a lot harder to make a C compiler smart than a functional language compiler smart. Functional languages leave a lot of room for the compiler to do its thing, C while not as bad as Java still over-specifies how exactly something needs to be computed (my way or the highway). Add the fact that when code is written in a higher level, but optimization friendly language one can enjoy the benefits of compiler techniques yet to come. It future-proofs the code to an extent and amortizes the effort that went into writing the compiler.

Now of course one can use C++ template metaprogramming to do much of the inlining that Stalin does, but then again you are essentially using a functional programming paradigm.

EDIT: HN easy on the downvote. You may not agree with stephencanon but there was nothing in his comment that deserves a downvote, seriously ! @stephencanon compensated to the best of my ability.
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This is really awesome, let me know if you want some credit to test building it on DigitalOcean support, john@
You might fine this useful: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-08-30-protecting-sshd-u...
Almost everything starts as a copy of someone's work. Threes can be seen as a combination of Tetris and sliding block puzzles like '15'.
The World Set Free (H. G. Wells)
> As the saying goes, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

It's "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", but it's not quoted enough regardless. So much pseudoscience could be avoided with reasonable expectations of proof.
Technically, Lua is a strongly typed dynamic language: it's just that most things happen to be of a single "supertype" (the table).
If you need a more rigorous approach, Lua's integration with C is good enough that you can write the architectural bits in C/C++ and just use Lua for the long tail of behaviors, or go one bit better and use a language like Terra [1] that provides a C-like static language inline with your Lua code.

[1]:http://terralang.org/
Agree totally. Physical servers are fully managed by DO and they absolutely must inform customers when they fail at their job.
Scott and Scurvy: How the Royal Navy forgot its cure (2010)
> Mothers tell their children that if they don't eat their breakfast the drone is going to get them and so on.

It’s a very sad story. Do you have a link to a more detailed report?
I did this a few years ago using text messages and Twilio. Not quite as slick as "Siri, open the garage", but it worked! http://rumsey.org/blog/2011/11/voice-controlled-garage-door/

"Siri, text house open the garage" was as close as I got.
I had the same idea as you! You can check out the project at http://code.fraction.io
I've seen it as a seenjs example... whats wrong with that? better than fizzbuzz.
I only just noticed that the registration page where the password and security question/answer are initially set isn't even https. Even if the input is sanitized on the server side, that's another huge invitation for an attack.
>> OVH doesn't inform you because you're paying commodity pricing for unmanaged servers

Well no, I'm not paying commodity pricing (I'd hardly call a ~$6K server commodity) and OVH offers managed virtual rack services.

>> Digitalocean stands to make ~$10,000 monthly of of a "$1,000 server"

Err, what? You're vastly underestimating the cost of one of their nodes.
Interesting idea, but I'm not so sure that I approve of the mass non-consensual drugging of people's cats.
This is why you use a more substantial, long-standing service, like http://prgmr.com
Interesting

1 - (1 - 1/16^7)^250000000 ~= 61%
A more "use-case" example than your other responses.. I believe Amazon uses a NoSQL database for their product data. It's tons of reads and relatively few writes. They don't give a crap about transaction quality for product descriptions, comments, etc. However, when you get to the checkout page and they start doing things like taking your money and updating their inventory... that's and ACID compliant database. When you're dealing with money you want transactions, rollbacks, etc.
From what I've read, for people like cooks and galley hands, the work on an offshore rig isn't really much more dangerous than the corresponding jobs on a cruise ship or a merchant ship, so it is not at all clear that danger pay explains why kitchen and laundry workers are paid so much on oil rigs.
I have just reworded the article to be slightly less verbally offensive. "Pervert" stays (as that's only self-deprecating), but "raping" is now "abusing".

Yeah, that's still loaded, but please keep in mind that the whole article is very much tongue-in-cheek. It's not about bro culture, or trying to make rape seem funny. I should have known better, but don't assume that "rape" must imply "violence towards women". I am guilty of using the former term, but certainly not in the meaning of the latter. All the compilers among you have my sincerest apologies.
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If there was an API outage we would report it on our status page, the blog post is about the health of individual physical nodes on our network that bring down clusters of VMs. If there was an API endpoint outage we'd post it to the status page. :)
I still don't understand these rapgenius non-lyrical annotations that get posted here. Why not just write a blog post with your commentary? Having to click a bunch of times to context-switch between the real content and your thoughts is just an annoyance.
Stop or my drone will taze you
This is not true. See this for example: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3

You can do CREATE TABLE schemaless (id blob, name blob, value blob, PRIMARY KEY (id, name)) WITH COMPACT STORAGE; and have a 'schemaless' table, essenitally, just as with Thrift.

This is not a workaround either - this is first-class supported, just as you can read/write from/to 'schemaless' thrift columnfamilies using CQL.
pokpokpok also suggested this. I created a branch where you can try it out yourselves!

git clone git@github.com:themadcreator/seen.git
cd seen
git checkout vary-heights
npm install
npm run site

then nav your browser to http://localhost:5000/demo-2048.html

it looks like this: http://snag.gy/RdOtD.jpg
I think you have two issues here. The first is that in a larger business there are a significant number of messages that get sent out as a matter of corporate policy that don't get the attention management thinks they should. Quite possibly email is not the best approach to these, but telling management that the email was a waste of time is going to make no friends, especially if there are legal reasons for the announcements.

The second problem is that there are managers who do send out de facto spam and probably could use the feedback.
I don't know anything about their reliability, but their prices quite high: http://prgmr.com/xen/plans.html
Thanks! This is an improvement.
Behold!

http://postimg.org/image/ecyg84yof/
I am 63. I code sites. I build boxes. I touched my first computer terminal at the NY World's Fair in '64. Fortran on an IBM senior year in high school 67/68. That was my first and last computer class.

I was on the Internet before the WWW.

I am 63, but immature for my age.
Yes. They are likely in place because it hasn't

a) filtered up to SCOTUS

b) been accepted as a case by SCOTUS.

Business and religious organizations are significantly different kinds of recognized organizations in the U.S. It's not correct to try and draw a parallel between them. Just like it's not correct to draw a parallel between U.S. criminal law and the UCMJ.

In your last example (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/30/nj-rules-against-ch...) it's possible the ruling will stand since the church was running a business outside of its normal religious functions. Here's the actual ruling http://www.aclu-nj.org/files/8713/2639/9826/CRT_6145-09_Bern...

In this case, the property was held by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Not a church. However, majority ownership in the association is held by the United Methodist Church. Board members must be members or clergy in UMC. Meaning they formed the association as an organization outside of the Church and thus is required to follow the laws any other owned organization must follow...including non-discrimination.

This would be analogous to a church buying a McDonald's franchise and then claiming they can not hire minorities or women because of some religious tenant.

UMC owns a large number of businesses and properties that it leases for business or residential use. As a matter of fact, a better analogy is UMC might form a non-profit company that owns a low-rent apartment complex (as a social outreach program) and only allow low-income people to live there. But then deny an application based purely on somebody being gay. Or property that a restaurant leases and then demands the restaurant not serve gay patrons.

In this case the

In this case the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association owned about a square mile of beach front property that it used for both religious services (my guess would be with a fee paid to the Association by UMC) and rented out for various functions including weddings. It'd be no different than an owner of a large function hall renting it out for weddings 6 days a week and for church service on Sundays (which is actually quite common).

The Association then sought private organization (not religious) tax-exemption as part of a nature preservation agreement. A legal requirement under this exemption is that property be available for public use on an equal basis.

You can see where this is going and the rest of the opinion is good reading to help flesh out the story. It's relatively clear cut, and doesn't infringe in any way on the UMC to exercise their religious beliefs. In fact the UMC's defense was an effort to push out their religious beliefs into the public sphere in clear violation of the law. A law that, BTW makes clear exceptions for religious organizations and their practices -- even if discriminatory.
The split turbocharger was most likely identified by interested journalists at the first race. The power train was homologated for the season at the end of February, so the design was finalised prior to the third pre-season test. It's most likely that the turbo was in this form a while ago.
Think that guy who did the Doom/Quake/Duke Nukem source code reviews can do one on Half-Life now?
What's really interesting to me about this agenda is - for years I've always bought into the general apple narrative that they don't _really_ pay that close attention to what their competitors do, and that they just build what they feel is the best thing to build, period.

This agenda just makes them seem a bit more "human" (rather than just Jony Ive's magical workshop of super-designer elves) - at the end of the day, they are still another company that fears their competitors and closely watches them, and plans accordingly during these off-site strategy meetings.
This is some refreshingly pleasant transparency as to the spirit of the rules. Thanks!
It's refreshing to see a car chase that looks and sounds a lot like what an actual car chase would actually look and sound like, as opposed to the very synthetic and stylized depictions typically found in modern movies and television.
Sugar-powered biobattery has 10 times the energy storage of lithium
The movement seems to have been appropriated or at inspired by people claiming to be anti-capitalism anarchists. In that idealogy, the very existence of jobs is considered parasitic. Wage labor, which they call "wage slavery," is seen as inherently exploitative. They aren't just against high paid jobs in the technology sector, they're against the very idea of division of labor and capitalism.
He learnt to read when he was an infant..
I remember clearly in a conference he said: "... by the time I got to school I have read a couple of hundred books ..."
Clerical staff at your service. While I'm at it: please don't delete and then repost a story. That's an abuse of deletion and we penalize accounts that do much of it. Instead, use a different URL.
This is not the source code for Half-Life, nor is it the source code of GoldSrc, it's just the GoldSrc SDK.
48 years, winter quarter freshman year. Fortran II, then assembler. First job was summer of 1966, again in fortran. Huge numerical analysis programming.

Many languages since then, many domains.

Still programming. Likely to never stop.
How is releasing source code under a commercial license considered "opening it up"? All this stuff was already available to modders/third-party devs through the SDK program. The only news here is that they made it available on Github.
Ever done ACID? It can induce a variety of perceptual anomalies (for lack of a better term).

I once saw the world in flat 2D, as if every object were made of paper cutouts. Then everything went plaid.
> Making a donation based on private, personal beliefs is ENTIRELY the point of a democracy

No, but its part of the point of a free society -- as is criticizing others actions based on their personal beliefs.