skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking Ethernet because the cluster topology would then be under control of software configuration. You could go either way, I guess.
I wouldn't call Netflix, Instagram, HP's entire public cloud, and Wikipedia "personal and small projects". Did you even read the article?
You do realise this is satire, right?
Kolibree is the First Ever Connected Electric Toothbrush
<rant intensity="105%">

You have no idea how much I wish that first one would work for me. We've got a very dysfunctional 30 minutes status meeting (legacy of a long-since moved on manager) every freakin' morning which could just as easily be handled via email.

The first hour of each day is basically wasted - the first half hour nobody's going to start something because they'll get interrupted half an hour later, and the meeting itself accomplishes nothing except sapping any motivation the participants might have arrived to work with.

</rant>

Music is usually my go-to. The Music For Programming series is very nice for the purpose, very calm, ambient type stuff.

http://musicforprogramming.net
I have thought about this a lot - I biked to every day this winter, and only took the train wearing a surgical mask a few dozen times when I couldn't bike. I didn't get sick this winter like I usually do.

I probably need to bike for the next 9 winters though before I can really attribute not getting sick to not taking the T and exercising.
I call it "my groove" or "plugged-in", and it's not something I can force. I notice it generally involves two things, the first being the standard from most replies, which is music, and the second is that I am working on a problem that I enjoy working on or if I'm not enjoying it I see the problem as a challenge. If I am failing at making progress though, it will quickly fall through, it's the momentum of being awesome that compounds. The same is true in the games I play to let off steam.
OSX doesn't come with a package manager.
As far as I have seen it's actually dominant in general. The only stats I found[1] say it is totally dominant in EC2 deployments (55% of the total with second place with 24% being a generic "linux").

[1] http://thecloudmarket.com/stats
One important and often overlooked feature of Tails is when you shut it down it wipes your system memory/RAM using sdmem.

Your encrypted data and sensitive files are often accessible via memory forensics even if you shut your computer down. Including the websites you visited. Your encryption keys can be in your computers memory for weeks and is easily accessible via a memory dump.

This is why people say that with physical access your computer can always be owned. Even if it's encrypted. Tails is the only one I know that handles this attack vector by default.

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/memory_erasure/
Uh, aren't there other phones that take 3d photos... and we see how many people are using those phones right now.
Just wondering, do you think mir or x is installed on servers?
That is true, but you have to remember that rates are often adjusted when property values increase. In other words, if home values double in 5 years, the city doesn't get twice the property tax revenues, as the rates are often adjusted downward to meet the desired budget.
Holding currency and also bonds. Property and shares are pseudo-index-linked, though, I grant you that.
Norwegian Army using Oculus Rift to drive APC
Article translated from Norwegian to English using Google translate.
You can also kind of tell March used to be the first month by how september-december are named (7 8 9 10)
haha. Thank you for the correct. Edited ^
Has someone clicked on "Publish" 2 weeks too late for April's fool?
You do realize his comment is a continuation of that same satire, right?
Chef Kitchen for setting up servers with a standard Rails stack
Lets Solve Hackaday.com/Space
So I converted a few tracks to 8-bit with noise shaped dither. Have a listen and remember that the noise floor is now 48dB higher (8-bits) than it would be with 16-bit.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1h4z0quoybo60c0/O1SwT35Nve
id map = @{ @"my key": @123};
A lot of the tech employees that are being protested are young, single, and much more willing to move for economic reasons than families. The ability to buy a house in the future, not deal with protesters, and probably make more money overall in a city with lower rents is pretty enticing. Silicon Valley has a lot of tech companies, but now Seattle and Austin do too- not as many, but growing. At some point the hatred misdirected at tech employees could result in San Francisco suffering from less tech investment than other more stable cities.
According to Kepler's law of planetary motion, the orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci. Although circles are ellipses, having the planets start with a circular motion makes the system simpler but somewhat unrealistic.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Clojure
That timeline shows that Red Hat knew about Heartbleed exactly 14 minutes before the other distros did. Hardly sounds like a "leg up" to me.

The Heartbleed disclosure was kind of botched, but in general things go more smoothly, with all the major distros being informed ahead of time and having time to prepare patches. For example, see the Xen privilege escalation vulnerability in 2012, and the PostgreSQL remote execution vulnerability in 2013. In both cases, Ubuntu was informed ahead of time and had updates ready to roll when the vulnerability was publicly disclosed.
Can you help me understand exactly what this does, and how it is better than basic CMS?
(not being a brat, I'm actually curious. It's just that I just couldn't quite figure it out by reading the website at a quick glance, which you could also take as feedback I guess)
“Can I Automate That?”
Yeah but your income can, with the same effect.
Yes 100%.

I want stability. In fact I need stability and there's nothing more stable than a boring corporate desktop so...

CentOS 6.x's Gnome desktop despite being considerably older is an order of magnitude more stable, works flawlessly on every bit of kit I've tested it on and doesn't fall over on minor patches or kernel releases. I lost count of the number of times I've had power management and display regressions on 12.04 LTS. The only reason I ended up with LTS is because the NetworkManager VPN stuff that I need on my laptop is tied into later versions of NetworkManager which aren't supported on CentOS at the moment. I will say that they don't actually work on 14.04 either and I have to resort to manually adding a route because NM doesn't handle default routes properly.

On my personal laptop (Lenovo T400) I binned Ubuntu and actually run Windows now because the PM regressions were unbearable and the battery life was shitty even with 30 minutes pissing around with powertop.

Yes comparing to bugzilla. People haven't managed to displace bugzilla for a good reason: it works pretty damn well on massive projects.
"plays nicely with hardware" isn't really an Ubuntu thing. Hell, some distributions like Manjaro and Mint play better with hardware by including proprietary graphics drivers on the disk if your system can't boot on Mesa. Ubuntu doesn't have that.

In my experience of Linux distros, Fedora, Suse, Manjaro, Chakra, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, all the Linux derivatives like Zorin / Elementary / Mint / Bodhi, Crunchbang, etc all do the exact same thing and do it right:

Boot ISO, get live desktop, have a launchable guided installer. There are only a few such installers, a lot of distros reuse them (but some still duplicate the work needlessly) and they all perform relatively the same.

The outliers are your Arches, your non-live Debians (the default iso isn't live, for example) and your Gentoos, where you don't get a live desktop and have to do the routine manually.

> one that looks decent (e.g. fonts)

I've been installing Suse 12.3 and 13.1 a lot recently because I find a lot of users like Yast, and I think they have gotten their fonts pretty well in order. They used to be the poster child for bad font rendering, too.
This reminds me of the claim that the NIH discovers most drugs in the US.

It is true that the NIH conducts basic research that often identifies biologic targets, but there is a huge difference between discovering a lead compound and actually bringing it to market. That difference is about $1B. That money has to come from somewhere and the free market is a great place to get it.
I've been reading this series with interest for years. Thank you for writing it.
> And this is one of the reasons the iPhone feels more responsive with the same (or worse) hardware

This is making the assumption that any latency delta is because the system is CPU bound; I suspect this is one of the least likely cases. In general, I suspect apps are going to be I/O or fillrate bound, with some additional latency because touch controllers aren't benchmarked and are only starting to get more love from device manufacturers.
See my original post. I use a laptop and a desktop as well on LTS.
This, like the C64 compute module [1] would be a good way to get a good understanding of where the problems are. A long time ago when I was looking at parallelization issues in storage, I came across some excellent work done by Garth Goodson at CMU in their "Active Disks" [2] project. The was connecting what were essentially RPi class devices together.

What emerges is a sort of calculus for describing parallel systems which takes the amount of compute per second a node can do, the amount of data that node can "consider" during its computation, and the time it takes for all of the nodes to "react." In this case a node considers a data structure when it evaluates its state (say the head node of a list, or the median element of an array) and is constrained from taking action by a threshold of assurance that the data it is considering it accurate. The reaction time is the time between making a change to the data and the time at which all elements in the cluster considering that data consider it true.

I used to describe that to people like those big mechanical train signs at stations with all the letters on a flip wheel. People look at the sign and consider it, it is stable and 'true', then a train leaves the station and all of the letters start flipping as the sign changes to show the new truth about what is happening. People with no knowledge are stuck waiting for the sign to settle down before they can go to their track, people with knowledge can be heading for their track but if the track used on their arriving train is changed they will be put in motion again. The length of time it takes to change the sign is equivalent to the time it takes for a cluster to react. And and train station cannot usefully serve trains faster than the passengers can figure out which train to be on, nor can a cluster usefully process structured data faster than the truth of the relationships in that data can be ascertained.

It all collapses down to Amdahl's law of course but along the way can help you figure out where the inefficiencies are going to crop up in the system.

[1] http://www.vintage.org/projects.php

[2] http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/Active/index.shtml
Good point - I hadn't thought about how early stage startups are your customers.
Patch Heartbleed affected Ubuntu servers the easy way
I think the satire value is somewhat diminished by the fact that private repos are possible. If github only hosted open-source projects, then it would be funnier
It's a very good question. I really have no idea what the implications are and probably depend on each company.
Project Ara Developers Conference Day live stream
Even easier. 13 months of 28 days with one or two "leap day" per year make up 365-366.
I just want to say thank you! I have that page burned in my memory. I relied on it heavily when I first encountered A* many years ago in undergrad. I think you have changed the design of the page because I don't remember so much red!
I would say that, no, parents should not be expected to internalize all of the thousands of different things we're finding out about the best ways to raise kids. It's far too much to know, and the knowledge is currently too tentative. But, it's also pointless to bring that up every time a new study comes out, because these things are good to know. That's probably why the GP is catching downvotes.
Please tell me that the specifications will be released under a free culture license.
Why would you run a GUI on a server in the first place?
What?

If you rent and retire you can go wherever rent is cheaper. Problem solved
Will the KitKat update include BTLE support? I'm guessing no.
Agreed, this is the same conclusion i came to. Shame its still going for $1500.
Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to be unpredictable.
Soon your cat can be your laptop!
Increasing the readability of your code.
Hi, I am not a parent, but I think I have to put across this point of the way of looking at morality being independent of "free will", because "free will" is an illusion and the illusion of "free will" is also an illusion. The non-existence of free will should not be confused with fatalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism. Morality and love and compassion can still be quantified without free will. What goes away are actually the negative feelings like hatred, anger and pride and shame.

Let us take a simple thought experiment. Let me ask you to choose a book. Let us make it simple, let us remove all the books that you do not know about, and just consider the books that you are aware of being great. If you have already chosen one, drop it as it is wrong, don't ask me how, but I know, and this time be sensitive to the process of choosing a book. This is the most freest of choice that you ever will get to make, so free will better be here or else it is no where. Do you observe that there is a certain gap from the time I ask you to pick a book, and then there is certain gap and then suddenly there are a list of books in your mind. There is no way you can explain why you didn't think of The Godfather even though you know it is a great book. Let us say you thought about Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix, Surely You're Joking Mr.Feynman and Seven years in Tibet. You have just finished one book in the series of Harry Potter and you are not interested in reading fiction again, so eliminate that, then you are only left with Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman and Seven years in Tibet, say you like reading biographies so you chose Seven years in Tibet and Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, now when you have only these two options and there is no coherent opposition that is present in the system, only then comes the free aspect. There is still no way you can explain why you did not think otherwise, of choosing another book in the series of Harry Potter and reading more fiction. So where is the free will here?
All of this still does not eradicate the feeling of love and compassion we feel and does not make everyone guilty by reason of insanity.

All of this is much more well articulated by Sam Harris who holds a Ph.D in neurobiology and graduate in Philosophy. He talks about the delusion of free will at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FanhvXO9Pk

Here is another piece of his work where he promotes scientific thinking and argues that moral questions are best pursued using, not just philosophy, but methods of science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Landscape
I like the concept, but you really need a "Try it First" option that lives outside the paywall. I am very hesitant to type in my credit card before I have any idea if the service works how I expect. 2 cents.
Mark J. Cox (RH) emailed the distro's mailing list inviting anyone on this very closed list to contact Red Hat SRT asking for details.

(http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/08/10)
> It was out for years, but discovered independently within days of each other.

Well, two years, the minimum number of years for which you can claim it was out for years. In order to avoid tricking yourself and your audience I'd stick to "a little over two years" rather than "years".

There were 749 days between a bugged version of OpenSSL being released and the flaw being discovered. There were 13 days between the independent discovery. That is still a small window compared to 749 days but not that small, and during that 749 days more and more people put bugged versions of OpenSSL into their infrastructure, which, I would assume, increases the chances that somebody discovers this flaw.

I would agree with you that it's not totally random -- of course it isn't, it's probably related to the state of the world changing over time. People adopting bugged versions is one factor, progress on security tools may be another, other publicized TLS bugs causing people to look harder at this area may be other, etc
Not necessarily.

I've written about how "OO" as is commonly done in Java/C++ is a mistake: http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/classes-suck I know of the closure/object duality, and have some understanding of the tradeoffs involed, here: http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/classes-as-syntactic-sugar so my opinion isn't totally uninformed.

So why should I waste my time with yet another OO book? Plus, I know it from reputation, which told me closures greatly simplify or even eliminates many patterns in this book. Languages with a GC and no closures should not exist, and so should books who teach how to work around their absence.

But I have just learned some interesting things about this book right now. Like, it was written in Smaltalk primarily, and merely translated to C++. Before Java came out, no less. So maybe its use isn't limited to class based, single dispatch, statically typed languages that don't have closures nor generics (like the first versions of Java).

But if the book is limited to such braindead languages, then patterns are just a symptom of bad language design, and I'd like to demonstrate that.

But first, I'll read the book. At least, I will know my enemy. I'll probably learn a thing or two along the way. And who knows, maybe I will finally "get OO"?
yeah.. we should all use a distro based on something unopinionated.. like systemd ;-)

personally i'd rather benefit from solid pkg management with updates and bits available for free (as opposed to only paid subscriptions) and with wide availability of the same cloud images across cloud platforms (published by the distro themselves).

sometimes opinions are good and beneficial, and become widely adopted because its just a better way of doing things ergo, ubuntu cloudinit for declarative userdata based initialization of cloud instances, has promulgated far and wide across other distros and operating systems.
You tap that wealth by selling the house. You don't just get to turn something that you get to continue using into cash for free. Somebody is taking the risk that the value of the house is going down. And anyway, usually interest on refis are lower than what you can get prudently investing the money.
Belgian court bans Uber from Brussels
Tech Specs:

Display: High resolution display is the equivalent of a 25 inch high definition screen from eight feet away.

Battery: One day of typical use. Some features, like video calls and video recording, are more battery intensive.

I don't think Google's Marketing department realizes what "tech specs" really means. When I talk about displays and batteries at bare minimum I want resolution and mAh.
TLDR Wikipedia
Origami 1.2 released
And Macbooks can be hacked through the battery https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2796264
It seems incredibly silly to be biased in such a way against one particular medium.
Powerful tools for developing Web Apps
"I maintain a few systems which are in devops territory on top of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, a single desktop machine and a laptop."

To quote myself...
Announcing StrongOps 2.0 with Node.js Cluster Management and DevOps Capabilities
maybe this blog post can help https://blog.prismic.io/Ux-QjgEAAGMGit8h/writing-room-and-co...

Put simply, it is a backend called "Writing Room" for managing and structuring content, and an Restful API for developers to integrate this content in any technology (websites or apps).
I had no idea those were videos, b/c they don't have affordances that tell me they are videos until I hover over them (which I did not).
I love the "Purchase Glass" button that just redirects back to the same page.
Essentially it's a tax write-off for the wealthy.
Not in the same sense, I think.

Apocalyptic religions want an apocalypse, and followers arrange their views to fit. Note how often the date just gets revised when it misses. If I understand rightly, early Christians expected Jesus to return while they were still alive, and quite a lot of modern Christians expect the same thing, dozens of generations later.

The apocalypses that science predicts [1], though, are narratively unsatisfying. A bunch of bad things will happen, but most are so far in the future that it's hard to imagine that humans will be around for them. It's just not about us. In contrast, the science-y things that people seize upon in an apocalyptic way are generally un-scary to people who can do math. E.g., planetary alignments, the LHC.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth
More likely you would be suing for monetary damages, such as the wages you lost by leaving your previous job, any money you spent on relocation, etc.
The New Age: Leaving Behind Everything, Or Nothing At All
were you able to get firehose access for that? or were you just spidering the public tweet stream?
"The median worker's wages have been essentially stagnant since 1970"

This kind of language is exactly why you think only 20% of Americans are wealthier than our parents and grandparents. Money ≠ wealth. Compare the number of people today who have access to washers, dryers, irons, microwaves, a kitchen, cars, cell phones, and so on to previous generations. Even if wages have remained stagnant the average standard of living is almost always increasing. You can even live in an apartment, own many or all of those items I listed, and still be classified as living in conditions of poverty.

I'm not saying poverty doesn't exist. But I am saying the definition of poverty is constantly being adjusted because humans are so great at creating more wealth. Instead of an absolute metric for poverty or a standard of living, we use a subjective one that changes as humans acquire more wealth.

If you haven't already, I'd highly recommend Paul Graham's essay "How to Make Wealth"[1]. He covers this subject very well.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Toshiba's first 4K laptop arrives next week for $1,500
If my neighbor buys a Ferrari my Subaru doesn't suddenly cost 10x in gas/maintenance as a result.
How are the extensions secured? Are they sandboxed in the live environment, or is there an auditing process to get into your store?

(Cool project Den - best of luck!)
You do realise that RoG's comment was also a continuation of that satire, right?
Your comment really made me stop and think. It does seem like a contradiction at first: when your child does something good praise their character not their action, when your child does something well praise the action rather than calling them smart or talented.

After some thought though I can see it as consistent since when they do something well you can praise them for being hard-working (character).
Building blocks: how Project Ara is reinventing the smartphone
Great suggestion. A one-off form where you can plug in a URL and email address would be pretty easy to add.
As someone you hires too, I do that, but also look at the website if there is any.
F1 pit stop comparison between the 1950s and today.
> If the environment is noisy and headphones are necessary, music without lyrics. I tend to like trance or orchestral movie and game soundtracks.

I'll take this opportunity to plug my ambient noise generator:

http://asoftmurmur.com

There are other non-music options too:

http://coffitivity.com

http://noisli.com

http://rainycafe.com

http://mynoise.net <- very customizable. Great for enthusiasts