skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Config data accessible via HTTP instead of files.

Although its not limited to config data necessarily.

I suggest reading http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2013/12/day-20-distributed-con...
I was going to join the hate sphere here, but getting Lars, of all people interested in your vision enough to work on it (even if its simply an advisory role). She's clearly has something going for her.
I remember MySpace ended up blocking YouTube from their site. And YouTube, a small startup at the time, turned to their users to plead to MySpace to activate them again. A few weeks later, they were back in business. But it's interesting to know how close YouTube was to hitting the deadpool.

Edit: Dug up an older article about it: http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/22/myspace-users-angry-ove...
Yes, I'm aware. I was just answering the question, not to compare it to anything else.

Still, Java still requires another dependency..the JVM. Go binaries require...well nothing.
volatile

to the rescue!
There's already a commercial functional hardware description language called Bluespec.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluespec,_Inc.
yes, everybody get an answer.
> What. A. Fucking. Bitch.

Although I agree with your general assessment of Campbell, I think you should change your wording here.

It's not right (IMHO) to use gendered insults. That sounds sexist, I think. Much better to just say "What. A. Fucking. Asshole." and leave gender out of it.
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It may very well be that she hired the wrong developers. However, it doesn't look like she's respectful of developers either.
Iff the SATA controllers can deal with it, I don't see why SATA couldn't be a fast point-to-point connection.
Everyone's piling on you because that wasn't the point of the example. Automation grants humans extraordinary powers, as long as humans aren't simply steps within the automatic system.

There's been an awkward growing phase of the technology industry that has led to technicians that don't have any real understanding of the systems they maintain. Compare and contrast Robert DeNiro's character in Brazil with the repairmen he has to clean up after. We could be training those poor duct maintenance guys better.
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We are looking for a group of hackers to work together in SF. Like a co-working place without the BS. Anyone interested?
> How is it better than other existing open icon sets such as FontAwesome, then?

(From the homepage) I suppose it'd be these 2 aspects:

- [...] designed to be legible down to 8 pixels
- Our icon font WOFF is 11.1Kb (roughly 4 times smaller than Font Awesome).
I am able to get about 4 decent/good results by googling "clash language". Though I got more results with "CλaSH language".
Drone wars: Google, Facebook focus on flying
> Domestic energy usage includes electricity, which is not significantly produced by petroleum (about 1% in the U.S.), so I don't see evidence that the rising cost of oil has had a significant impact on energy consumption.

And what about the rising cost of electricity?

> I see no evidence at all for "Jevon's Paradox".

Jevon's Paradox is a straight forward corollary of supply and demand. If you make the cost per mile go down, all else equal, the "demand for" miles driven will go up, which will erode if not exceed the savings from higher efficiency. The last decade is not representative because the "all else equal" bit is totally off: Gas prices have doubled from ~$1.80 in 2004 to ~$3.60 today and we've had a global financial crisis that suppresses demand for everything.
I did my bachelor's project on translation between functional HDLs that were also reversible, i.e. only describing total, bijective functions. The idea of functional HDLs goes back to at least the 1970s, and the coolest language I found was 𝜇FP by Mary Sheeran. It was an algebraic VLSI design language where logical gates as combinators are the only language constructs.
...you've never met a sysadmin that took an algebra class in college?
But hopefully, you do find ways to point out that this is not OK. I mean, it's not OK when it's done to a minority because of them being a minority. When it's done to white males because an outfit wants more diversity... meh, I can't get too excited about it, even though I'm white and male.

Don't become an insufferable whiny brat. But don't stop trying to find effective ways to call out racism when you run into it, either.
The book (above) has a comprehensive series of equations you can use to measure the cost of interconnections in parallel algorithms. I can tell you I did an MSc-level course in this, and it is very complex, one of the hardest courses I did on what was a very difficult MSc.

Edit: But basically your comment about interconnecting RPis with ethernet is completely true. It's a huge waste of time.
That's ok. I've been there I didn't think it did much at the time but looking back it helped me put everything in perspective and helped me remember the world isn't over.
Ditto. DevOps is charged out at the same comparative rate Sys Admin was 10 years a ago. Which makes sense - it's boring work and not as many people want to do it.
I'd suggest checking out http://growstuff.org/ to get your fill of more literal open source gardening! It's a neat project: "Growstuff is a community of food gardeners. We're building an open source platform to help you learn about growing food, track what you plant and harvest, and swap seeds and produce with other gardeners near you."
That's, like, the firstest of first world problems:

- My land value has skyrocketed.

- Now I can't afford the property taxes and have to sell the land and retire several times over.
Ask HN: Do you ever program under 'the' influence?
I know this could be seen as a trite query, but with the advent of a very real possibility of mass legalization in the next 10 years, i wonder how it will affect IT in general as many tech industry hubs are in potential Green States.

I am specifically interested in marijuana, but if you are huge fan of boozing behind the keyboard that is cool too.
Very polished kickstarter but I'm left wondering, do I really need an $80-$200 charger? The MacBook air charger is already pretty small and my phone lasts all day without the need to recharge. Although the tech inside it might be novel and interesting I really don't see the cost vs benefit as a consumer.
I am not a "techie," unless you'd like to be the "bookie" or the "accountie," or perhaps "presentie."

Who am I kidding: these engineers have earned their place by subordinating to someone like this.
To iterate is human, to recurse is divine
> Maybe it has to do with the fact that Google X has been somewhat notorious for upsetting shareholders.

Evidence or sources?
Wild. So, if this takes off (ie, enjoys miner adoption) and if the incentive structure works as advertised (ie, miners stand to make more by accepting the invalidating transactions), then this pretty much destroys the credibility of 0-confirms except with trusted parties, yes?
We launched our first app,'The Gentlemen's Alarm Clock', not doing so hot
We launched our first app, 'The Gentlemen's Alarm Clock' and it is not doing so hot. The app is an alarm clock featuring sexy women's voices engineered in a way to make waking up a bit more pleasant.<p>We have poured thousands into Facebook ads(pay per install) and it just isn't bringing in more money than we spend. We recently switched from free to 99 cents on iOS and our profit margin did not improve. The app is still free on Android due to their policies. I've reached out to about ~50 online magazines and blogs trying to get featured but the best I got baack was an email with a price quote over 10k.<p>Any insight or ideas on how we can go from red to black would be appreciated. Thanks<p>www.gentlemensalarm.com
By being the ones to make the lifestyle change and travel by public transit. Sure, public transit isn't torture, but the point is person A is always eager to volunteer person B for change that benefits person A. (And person B feels the same way about person A)

Also, I doubt much eminent domain was exercised/abused during the construction. Have you noticed the way the tracks weave, go underground here, run in the middle of a freeway there? Terminals in the outskirts of town? They certainly exercised that power, but it's not like BART runs right through the middle of town.
I think that it can. With some weights of 0 and some weights of 1, you can trivially map 'jumps' that skip from a node in one layer to a node a couple layers distant, by means of some incorporate-no-other-inputs intermediate nodes, right? Sigmoid function on 1 is still 1? Once you have those, it's just a matter of how many layers you need for any acyclic structure, I think.

Although if you wanted to come up with difficult scenarios, it's not hard to think of structures that would make some of those middle layers really tall, or add a lot of middle layers.
That's just for now. From the looks of the laptop connection they're angling for a buyout/license from iGo, who already makes a zillion nub-ends just like theirs.
They've already been bought and sold a few times before. Their offices are based in the UK now, I believe..
Wow. That was torturous to read. Then I saw how often that the nytimes lets her spew this awful mentality: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/author/rebekah-campbell/
No.

Maybe I'm missing out on something? [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/323/
We hate regulation as an industry

I don't.
Me too!

Here's a bunch of Arduino gardening (and other) links:

http://www.rootsimple.com/2013/03/arduino-homesteading-proje...
And this is a guy in journalism. Where communication is his career. Awesome.
It's not so much that DevOps is killing the developer as it's the expectation that you can have your regular general purpose developers do your DevOps on the side.

I can relate to the downsides pretty well - I'm the only developer in my group and my job is mostly to develop web apps, but the IT side doesn't have much knowledge of modern tools - they live in the era 'just use Drupal and Apache' so I'm often the one who ends up having to figure out the deployment of the applications I work on (and also help with random problems from their OTB apps) and such.

To be honest, I don't mind when it's DB stuff because I'm pretty comfortable with it and have plenty of background with various SQL DBs, and it's not a time black hole, but when it comes to configuring servers and deployment I hate having to deal with the DevOps because there are so many pieces I never have the time to really become comfortable with them all and I feel very inefficient. Accomplishing something doesn't always take long itself, but it can require spending a day of reading wikis and documentation to accomplish something simple when you've got a lot of moving parts. And the worst part is that you have to deal with the DevOps bits so infrequently it's like you have to relearn them each time.
There never was any credibility behind an unconfirmed transaction.
well bad news for any film-maker who wanted to make a spinal-tap-style parody of Silicon Valley...because there's no way you can do better than this story.

like the HN Post (about six or so months ago) linking to a story about a company that built tools for automated securities trading and whose IPO was interrupted because of a glitch the software running on the exchange they listed on--my first thought on reading HN posts like this one Clinkle, is that someone read an article on TheOnion and thought it was reporting actual events. As much as i love TheOnion, even they could not do it better than this.
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Here is the actual patent.

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=...

> An electrical plug and receptacle relying on magnetic force to maintain contact are disclosed. The plug and receptacle can be used as part of a power adapter for connecting an electronic device, such as a laptop computer, to a power supply. The plug includes electrical contacts, which are preferably biased toward corresponding contacts on the receptacle. The plug and receptacle each have a magnetic element. The magnetic element on one or both of the plug and receptacle can be a magnet, which is preferably a permanent rare earth magnet although electromagnets may also be used. The magnetic element on the plug or receptacle that does not include a magnet is composed of ferromagnetic material. When the plug and receptacle are brought into proximity, the magnetic attraction between the magnet and its complement, whether another magnet or a ferromagnetic material, maintains the contacts in an electrically conductive relationship.

What part of that abstract doesn't also describe the magnetic connector on a Japanese electric water kettle?
I wonder what would have happened to the "Yuppie Eradication" project had the owners of said vehicles possessed defensive means such as firearms.
This is awesome, and I'm glad to see them innovating around it. I've scratched my head for years now around clearing time of payments and digital payment systems. It isn't like you have to load gold coins on a ship, or manually have people verifying checks these days. There's realistically little reason for the entire system to be so slow- except for the fact that it is.

For years payment processors have been more than happy to just be fine with things being slow. Paypal has been around how long, and they don't seem to be pushing for it to go faster. This doesn't seem to be a problem bound to Moore's Law or the speed of the internet, just something that needs to be taken care of.
Sounds like a trick to me. What, I'm supposed to be a good person just for my kids' sake? Yeah, right, buddy!

;)
I found myself saying to the reporter over and over, "This may seem obvious, but..." and it's true that many of ideas don't seem like anything new. But because I see them happen over and over again, I thought they were important to highlight for anyone starting a startup.
Honestly pretty damn secretive. I worked at Google for the summer and that was the only building on the campus I couldn't go into (I could even go right up to Larry's office door but not to X). My good friend was an intern on X and he never told me a word about what he worked on or who he worked with. That's just an intern. So even though they do reveal some projects for PR once in a while, it's definitely a very secretive part of an otherwise fairly transparent company.
> The only other option is that it wasn't random, but some event led to both discoveries. Perhaps a hint was around, a new method of

> finding vulnerabilities, or anything at all that could nudge people's minds in that direction.

As somebody who has witnessed several cases of simultaneous discovery of security vulnerabilities, this is exactly how it happens. Some vaguely related event happens which causes multiple researchers to all start looking in the same place.
Do you mean that you don't develop for Rails anymore, or just that you don't do the gardener?
I have done the same, sort of, only eschewing BIOS for UEFI and thus getting straight to Long Mode :-).

It's pretty basic, currently just boots up and prints the memory map.

It's written in C++11 with the aim to be as clear as possible: https://github.com/thasenpusch/simplix
Have a look :-).
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Zero-confirm transactions have zero credibility anyway, so nothing lost here...
Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner thwarted by hack
Got an email from Stripe about this this morning. Our accountant was ecstatic!
NASA Signs Over Historic Apollo-Era Launch Pad to SpaceX
Getting people to sign up for an account is part of their advertising strategy.
Stop thinkfluencer-shaming!!!!
A distribution of the Linux operating system. It's a Debian distribution with some userspace tools bundled.
So, in practice, what is the probability that a transaction would really be cancelled if the issuer of the payment uses this service approximately two minutes after initiating the transaction? (I assume that two minutes are a realistic estimate of the time it takes to realise that one has made a mistake, remember this service, search for it online, and fill out the necessary info.)
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"The death march was a complete success!"
Unambition syndrome | by robfitz | Figuring out early stage startups
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Rule 34b: If it is a tech question, there is an appropriate xkcd reference.
EU is currently working on changing that, inside eu at least.

Their proposal can be read here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?...
- routine

- habit

- music (headphones)

- get started

One thing that really helped me is to just "go through the motions" a few times when I sit down. I will literally compile/run a few times only changing a comment or adding a blank line and then removing it. Not only does it help my laptop "warm up" and swap in the pages it needs to compile quickly, it helps me get into the edit/compile/test cycle.
There's too many variables to give a simple answer. It depends on the current state of the network (the miners mempools), the priority of your transaction, the fee/bytes of your transaction, and what % of the hashing power bitundo has. Some transactions take a few blocks to get confirmed, these are the ones that have a much, much higher likelyhood of being undone.
"Our team performed brilliantly in the month leading up to our launch at the South by Southwest festival; they worked day and night. Now I look for major events that we can all work toward every three months."

Essentially, she is punishing success and hard work. I worked for a company similar in this aspect.

Employee got given tight high pressure deadline. When he made it, he was rewarded by another tight high pressure project. And so on until employee either did not made some or left.

The company had two types of employees: active newcomers and slow everyone else. It is not exactly the same dysfunction, but kind of similar. I think that she severely underestimates what this kind of treatment do with people.
And replace the free market with what? Communism? Where people like you try to show your brilliance at dictating how things "should be"? GTFO.
It's not related to bluespec. (cf my other comment in this thread)
Which it will, in the form of transfer taxes and capital gains taxes.
Isn't this 7-day hold just an internal Stripe policy though? The new faster transfers are just the normal ACH speed.
Misterious.

The IDs or hashes or whatever seem not to be unique.

Take the value from one url, put it into Google and you will find several other urls with the same value. Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ivv6tf7rfsr0klq5
Loved your articles back in the day :-) The new animated diagrams are really cool. Can you describe in a few words how you create them?
Membership in a group doesn't preclude discrimination against that group.

Total count:

- 9 white males

- 2 black males

- 4 females

- 1 unknown

What strikes me as odd is that at a ratio of 9:6 (or 10:6/9:7), they have completely excluded an entire segment of candidates just to bring their ethnic and gender quotas more in line with what they'd like to see. The fact that it's discrimination is obvious, but whether or not that's bad is another question. If they are just doing so to make their office look more diverse for the sake of diversity, I would personally consider that to be bad business and ethically questionable.

If they're trying to promote a broader scope of cultural experience in their writers, then perhaps it's better to discriminate based on experience, not ethnicity. If they think that women write inherently differently than men, then they have bigger problems related to sexism.
Bluespec has a strange story: initially it was developed like Clash, as a subset of Haskell that could be translated to a HDL. However its users hated the Haskell syntax, so the Bluespec designers added a layer of syntax on top to make it look like more a HDL, and they also downplayed the powerful type system for adoption.

Since then, Bluespec has not become too popular, but Haskell has. Clash may have a chance.
Yes. It is housed inside the NASA Ames complex. Some masters and Phd programs.
Interesting product. It doesn't really look like this is meant to make any money for the developer yet (maybe the plan is to add fees to their mining pool at some point in the future?). I suspect the point is to drive policy so that companies and individuals don't trust transactions with zero confirmations, or at least start checking for double-spend attempts. The standard right now for many companies is to accept zero-confirmation transactions (e.g. bitpay does this). Because this is such a widespread practice, it's effectively a security vulnerability of the bitcoin network as a whole. If this site can change this standard, then maybe they'll make the bitcoin ecosystem more secure.

This is an interesting phenomenon of the bitcoin ecosystem. If someone owns a lot of bitcoins, they're incentivized to make something like this even if it doesn't directly make them any money.

By the way, the extended FAQ for the mining pool is still showing Lorem Ipsum text: http://www.bitundo.com/pool/faq.html
Actually just read a few talks by danes in the financial council in Denmark. They are currently reconstructing the entire payment infrastructure to allows realtime transfers of payments. For payments under $100.000, transfers are done three times a day, as is seen with services such as MobilePay (Venmo wannabe) that i believe are considered a e-money institution.
If anyone is interested then i can provide the links to the slides. They are, however, in danish.
You can see them as abstractions of AWS in some ways. An average consumer wouldn't go through the trouble of dealing with AWS to backup their files and even for developers heroku provides a nice level of abstraction
> She sounds horrible and I hope she fails.

That's a horrible thing to say. I hope you withdraw it.
Abstrats are meaningless. You could patent something that who's abstract is "It's a club which you use to beat people with." as long as the actual methods are novel.
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Came here to make the same comment.
Bosses often believe that this move is motivational. Once in a while, for a good reason, everyone will try to accomplish the tasks and do more for the company. But doing this just for the sake of seeing everyone sweat, IMO, is asking to lose the team.
> What about those with disabilities and use screen readers or braille displays?

Screen readers work just fine with js generated content¹². I don't know about braille displays, but I guess they work the same.

¹http://stackoverflow.com/a/18861097

²http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade...
Maybe sexist application are finally going the way they should: Away.
It's a nice, and really needed reaction to the Microsoft view that ops people only need be able to set options on a GUI. Obviously that that never was the case, on Unix or Windows, but their marketing tried to make it look like so, and lots of people hiring and looking for a job believed it.

A DevOps can expect a bigger salary, while a company hiring one can expect way more productive candidates than if they asked for only ops.
I think people should stick to n-of-m checking versus this scheme.

When people try to undermine a system, two negative things may happen: 1) The system that is being undermined will be pushed too far and it won't be see as reliable and/or 2) The system that is perpetrating the undermining will get patched out of existence.

Both scenarios end poorly for the bitcoin ecosystem.

If you want to send a bitcoin but aren't sure you'll be receiving what was intended to be your half of the transaction, stick to n-of-m signature transactions.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts

EDIT: With that being said, I believe it's time for the BTC community to figure out how to patch this problem before it ruins zero-confirm for bitcoin.