skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who works out of coffee shops a lot, there is pretty much ZERO appeal for me to use this kind of service, since I view my coffee costs as "rent" and prefer to pay full price plus a tip to be viewed as a good customer.

Bringing in an app saying "I'm a cheapskate that doesn't want to pay full price" is not the message I want to give to coffee shop staff.
I must not be anyone then. I have a (nearly) six-year old Thinkpad that I've upgraded a few times. I could have afforded a new replacement at any time, but I'd rather keep using the machine I already have.
I agree there are exceptions, and even in the ideal world, many Americans will still end up having to submit something. But I think that starting from zero is silly. The IRS already knows a lot about our income - they must, that's part of how they check the correctness of our returns.

I think a system where the IRS says, "Here is what we know about your tax situation. We have calculated your taxes. If we owe you, and you agree, you don't have to do anything. If you agree, and you owe us, please pay us. If you do not agree, ammend this information and submit, with payment if necessary."

Forcing each American to start with a blank form seems wasteful, to me. It's a reproduction of work. I absolutely agree with your upthread comment about taxes being inherently complex, so please don't mistake my comment for an argument against that point. But I think that many Americans would be able to just accept what the IRS suggests, or at least use what the IRS says as a starting point. I think that the existence of the 1040A and 1040EZ forms support this point. (I tried finding numbers on how many people use those forms, but could not.)
I never understood the coffee shop thing. I hate working at coffee shops, people nosing around at what you're doing, never enough desk space, that feeling of guilt once you stay there too long, etc.
If you are in DC and raising money, I would highly recommend you talk with Dingman Center Angels at the University of Maryland. They have financed a lot of companies over the years and most of which have no affiliation to the school.

http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-excellence/dingman-center...
Machine Learning: Decision Trees
The limits of social engineering
I think this is far more reasonable.
I'm over in Detroit at Core but I used to run my own in A2. Glad to see folks representing. Are you at one of the companies on MadeinA2?
Are margins on coffee good enough to support this long term? High end coffee is quite expensive as is square footage in small trendy coffee shops.

I suppose the odd abuser who parks their butt for 3-4 hrs a day in the coffee shop can be dealt with in other ways e.g. they must order food to keep a seat. If they are forced to walk to the coffee shop each time they will likely max out at a few coffees a day.
I ran some adsense stats to check. Found it interesting because I never pay attention anymore. The average from 2008 until now has been $0.62 RPM (revenue per mille/thousand views). For this year my tutorial site is averaging $0.42 RPM.

The highest I have seen across other sites, some of which were made for adsense, was $3.43 RPM.
Metamaterial turns any surface into a radio antenna
Odd, you must have replied concurrently with my deleting my post. If I ever delete something here on HN, I always double-check first to make sure that it hasn't received replies first to avoid this situation. It's only by casually re-reading this thread a day later that I amusingly discovered by deleted post had received a reply. =]

> most make way more than $300k after only a handful of years of experience.

I was referring to family physicians. They do not make this sort of money on average, especially not just out of residency. There are numerous serious physician compensation reports that will confirm this.
I agree! We're launching city/region sites around the US to profile each of the amazing startups around the country and eventually the world.

We're always looking for people who are interested in having a site launched in their area.

Contact us if you are (or you know someone who is) interested: http://started.in/bring-started-in-to-your-city/

EDIT: Sorry. I didn't see or click on the link before commenting. That's awesome. We love resources like madeina2.com!
I grew up in the D.C. area, and as much as I rag on it for being plebe as far as food/culture goes, it definitely has a much stronger tech scene than people give it credit for. DC has a very well-established base of technology talent with a lot of domain-specific knowledge. The talent doesn't take the form of hot-shot 22 year old Stanford grads, but more very smart people that have been working at Raytheon, etc, and have deep knowledge of control systems, AI, image processing, etc. It's a different pool of talent than what VC-funded startups are typically looking at, but I think it's one that has a lot of potential for companies who want to work on "hard" problems that require advances in different problem domains.

The biggest weakness, in my experience working at a D.C.-area startup, is that it's hard to get the hot-shot 22 year olds when you need them. Virginia Tech and U MD are good, but I think the nearest really good CS programs might be CMU in Pittsburgh and maybe GT in Atlanta. Either are quite a hike.
Time saved in procuring said grounds, making the coffee, cleaning the press, increase in variety and availability (many locations) and likely increase in quality depending on your skills/preference.
You're absolutely right -- everything turns to poison in excess.

Fun fact about THC though: "[...] babies of women who used cannabis at least once per week before and throughout pregnancy were 216 g lighter than those of non-users, had significantly shorter birth lengths and smaller head circumferences."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843371
Will you be supporting the new Opera 15+ browsers?
Anonymous complaints are an ethical issue. If you have no recourse then complaints become pernicious.

Also, they forwarded some pretty basic details, an email and a name. They weren't sent her SSN, mailing address, or anything like that, so it's no more identity than she associates already with her email address, as far as I can tell.

You need to be able to contact a complainant, otherwise there is no resolution, only a complaint.
Thanks for this. I cringed when I read "there was no underlying theory." That dog don't hunt.
If they can convince Zibetto on 6th Ave to sign up I'll immediately give them $45/month. It'll save me a fortune!
> I have a hard time with that. The question itself implies that there are lots of users who know what "Droid" is but don't know what a Samsung Galaxy is - which I, frankly, find difficult to accept.

I think you're misunderstanding me -- I wasn't referring to Android, but to "Droid," the type of Android phone by Motorola sold in the US by Verizon. Verizon mounted an absolutely massive advertising campaign a few years back to promote the early "Droid"-branded phones. It lodged the idea in a lot of brains that "Droid" == Android, in the same way that "iPhone" == iOS. So you (or at least, I) still frequently hear non-technical people talk about all sorts of Android devices as "Droids."
good thing humans aren't herbivores.
Well, I think all watches are made of atoms and hence ATOMIC. I think most just don't intentionally include an atom of cesium, ask it to resonate, and then measure the frequency. ;)
Mturk is great, but takes too long..
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Here is example of radare2 session: http://xvilka.me/r2.gif
mainly talking about f# here...

this looks like the classic example for f# type providers. there are a few talks tomas petricek[1] has given on that topic. the relevant talk is one of the skillsmatter talks[2]

i'm not sure if they're all publically available, but they used to be at least.

edit: but basically the summary is that you can do really cool things with type providers and have your ide(visual studio) give you full completion on parts of data you want to analyze. kinda like re# but without having to generate half a million lines of xml for web services.

there's also book coming up with chapters about it from tomas [3]

[1] http://tomasp.net/

[2] https://skillsmatter.com/members/tomasp#skillscasts

[3] http://www.manning.com/petricek2/
>When/if we see real AI, we probably won't understand how it works.

If that's true, then it's very distressing since a smarter-than-us AI whose workings we do not understand would probably kill us all.
Tokyo Court Rejects Mt. Gox For Bankruptcy Protection
Oh, how dares she!
> The income tax is complex for two reasons: 1) it's inherently difficult to define "income" in a practical way; 2) it's a tool used to further all sorts of economic and political policies.

3) It's probably the top target law for being gamed/interpreted in a creative way. The more loopholes are patched the more patches there are to find loopholes in.
Brutal Introduction to Dependent Types
>But the iPhone had seemingly won initially, and Android ate up ground from it even back when Android was complete shit.

Android gained its market share by being free. That's a strategy that only works once. Yes, Windows Phone is now free, but Android's market share lead (and corresponding advantage in network effects) is nigh insurmountable at this point.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Android : smartphones :: Windows : PCs. In both markets, Apple pursued a "high-end" integrated hardware/software strategy with a focus on premium devices and premium user experience. This opened up space for a secondary player to offer an inferior good - one that consumers could choose if they wanted similar capabilities and were willing to accept a certain level of degradation in fit and finish. The problem is that there's only room for one such player. In the PC space, that player is Windows. In the smartphone space, that player is Android. Windows Phone is like the BeOS of smartphone operating systems. It does a lot of interesting things, and it's better than Android in many ways, but network effects among software developers ensure that it'll never catch on. It's sad, but such is the market.
The SR-71 and the MiG-25 were originally envisioned for exactly the same role: next-gen high speed, high altitude interceptors. We made a decision that missiles would fill the niche better, and the SR-71 became a recon platform, but it's roots are still in combat.
Sure but the vast majority of C out there is C89/90/99.
Looks like an iframe.
No need to carry a french press and coffee grounds (and hot water source) when you wander outside. Yes, coffee is cheaper if you make it at home, but people still go to coffee shops.
Registering my interest. I'm in Alexandria.
What about for EFI? Does this guide hold up the same?
> I and my team have probably reached out to tens of thousands of reporters

If you said you put together a list of emails 10k in number I'd believe you, though I'd say a lot of those emails are worthless. I was a PR firm, or at least a founding partner in one, and those kinds of numbers aren't realistic if you're talking about having a valid, active contact and actually having some meaningful interaction with that journalist. PR, or at least PR done by professionals, is always quality over quantity.

The kind of PR you're talking about is what's provided by sites like prweb, which is just north of worthless unless your sole metric is the number of places that have re-printed your press release.

Most programmers here (myself included, I changed careers) would, I imagine, cringe if the marketing guy said he was going to do some of the coding. There's a reason programming is a profession and people who know what they're doing get paid well. Same goes for PR. You probably can build that iPhone app yourself, but you probably shouldn't. Leave PR to the people who do it for a living.

Having said that, most small companies shouldn't bother with PR. Small companies should focus on sales. I say this from experience having built companies and having done PR for companies from the largest (major airlines, telecom companies, hotel chains) to the smallest local businesses. Put another way, when we launched our PR agency we didn't PR ourselves -- well once, and it was a complete waste of time.

A mention somewhere might be neat but it's nearly worthless for a new company. If you don't believe me dig up the research on how valuable that mention in TC actually is.

When journalists start coming to you, hire a PR person.
In machine learning you are implementing known algorithms on fully understood systems.

Studies of humans (medical, psychological, economic, etc) are attempting to discover unknown algorithms on unknown, extremely complex systems. The quality will always seem lower than engineering studies because scientists don't know what they don't know.
I did have a look at what Jenkins offers plus if you're already using it for CI then that might be easier I agree. And thanks :)
Off the top of my head Enron in 2001, WorldCom in 2002, Lehman Brothers and AIG in 2008, and GM and Chrysler in 2009 all seem to be better fit than Blackberry for the 'century's biggest corporate disasters'.
LA is full of people working low-end jobs (e.g. waiting tables) while they try and break into the movie business. So I'd expect a pretty weird income distribution where the median doesn't necessarily reflect everything that's going on.
I suspect you're getting a lot of traffic. it's going on 3 minutes for load. I've tried both chrome and firefox on os x on a high speed connection.
How go the repairs there? I loved visiting the observatory and museum hall on my first few trips to PR.

Did they manage to keep all or most of it open to the public or is it now purely a science installation?

Edit: Ah, I found a link to the visitor's center ( http://www.naic.edu/outreach/describe_fset.htm ). Happy to see it is still serving the public and looking forward to taking my kids there next trip down.
> That is why we are look at articles from just last 24 hours.

This makes no sense. How does this not yield basically a random pick and dismiss most relevant but less active journalists?
I was learning about directed graphs and recursive searches in PostgreSQL and this library helped me visualize my data.
SSH is an encrypted protocol for communication with remote hosts. You don't have to allow the use of 'bash', but can still take advantage of all the networking, encryption, authentication, etc capabilities afforded by SSH. Nobody's stopping you from scp'ing files and then calling puppet using ssh. Seeing as virtually all modern network appliances support using SSH for transferring configs as well as a maintenance and rescue channel, it's probably not harmful to allow its use in a virtual container, and each org can decide how it manages its use.

I for one don't really care much about root vs non-root in terms of host security. Even if you patch your kernel, without using grsec/SELinux/etc somebody'll just find another priv escalation hole next year and own your host with an unprivd user. If you actually focus on securing the host and applications, userland exploits have the same effect: little.

I don't think there's such a thing as a disposable service container. If it's a multi-user service it's got certain intrinsic properties you can't avoid. You have to be able to configure it, run it, use it, maintain it, troubleshoot/debug it, monitor it, etc. Who's "inflicting truth" doesn't matter as long as you can do all of the normal administration tasks required of multi-user network services. This, by the way, is where SSH becomes incredibly useful. Configuration management is not a panacea.

Things like Docker already do weird custom things to your service very similar to iptables-mangling rules, and nobody seems to have complained about it yet. It was only recently that they stopped mangling stock binaries like init in your image!
I don't trust the source though. /she/ included "an email" "from godaddy". But Skepchick has been host to such golden, contributing members of society as Rebecca Watson, so excuse me if I don't feel compelled to believe incriminating claims from people who ruin blood cancer research donation drives with inappropriate and divisive humour, then criticize others for being confused or offended rather than apologizing.

From reading the article alone, sure, I wouldn't be quite as skeptical, but I'm going to hold out until GoDaddy has a say in this case, because I don't really trust either of them.
So this is the same price as PressFriendly, but without the PR professional to help me review the story? Do you guys have any PR folks on staff?

I think all of these services that make PR easier are great, but I'm not sure that I see the value here over your competition.
Apologies for deleting my post--I hadn't realized it had received replies when I deleted it.

You're completely correct that the top earning physicians (mostly surgeons) can make seven figures or nearly so. I was referring only to family physicians, where $170k-$200k really is a realistic salary (even with several years of experience).
I'm not sure that "size matters" here means "small is better than large". But with a modular design where you can swap parts in and out, how could you ever change the size of your screen if you want a larger phone?
Scaling Search: We used Solr to Reduce Indexing Time from 14 Hours to 12 Minutes
The crazy complexity of the US tax system is worse than it appears. There is a non-linear increase in complexity as one goes up the income scale. Have a few investments? More complexity. Real estate investments? More complexity. Starting a company? Even more complexity. Reasonably diversified individuals that have perhaps sold a company or two can expect a rough time.

One reason the complex system is tolerated is that the people it really hurts are very few. A friend of mine has never been audited and does nothing shady but spends roughly $30,000 on tax accountants every year preparing his returns because they are so complex. Fortunately for the rest of us, we just have to waste an inordinate amount of time with Turbo Tax.
I use this. I love this. But when you told me you're going to make money from my drag & drops, it made me pause. Not that I think you're an immoral company, and not that I am being naive in thinking that a dozen others aren't already tracking me, but how exactly will you be using "my data"?
Yes, that's also normal. We send out a ton of abuse complaints daily, and we get responses directly from the end user in most cases. It's fairly rare that the provider acts as a middleman (and even then, it's generally just automated prodding of the user if they don't respond quickly).
This is an interesting post and I went on a similar adventure about 8 months ago to build a Rails-free test suite (based on MiniTest) for an existing large Rails app.

It was a work of art. But ultimately a triumph equalled only by its monumental failure.

The amount of hacking necessary to make tests work without autoloading is insane. Also the amount of refactoring required to take existing, working code to use dependency injection to be Rails free has introduced too much friction to be useful to the dev team.

As a team we're re-evaluating the strategy and trying to determine if it's something we want to continue with, or of it's just a useful thought experiment.
Would love to be made to eat my own words.

But seriously, would love to hear thoughts on various setups, solo apache, solo nginx, a combo, or whatever.
Here's my unsolicited opinion:

Dehaan is pretty much spot on. Knupp's post seemed to first latch onto the idea that devops is about devs doing ops works. To add, I think Knupp should do a rewrite after listening to some devops cafe and food fight podcasts, if he really believes in what he wrote.

It's somewhat an unfair comparison though. If you're the author/creator of ansible you surely have spent a lot of time thinking and understanding what devops means. To be frank, I cannot tell if Knupps post is just link bait to sell his book.

The concept (and value) of the devops mindset & culture is less debatable in 2014 than in the past 5 years. Those who latch onto the totem pole model will simply get left behind while the rest of the industry moves on... or at least that's what they tell me!
I feel like this would be a much better discussion somewhere else—i have no idea whether you're still reading this thread. :)

I get what you're saying. The way I write my systems when doing evented/reactive logic is that there is a layer between the event and the message to, say, the FraudActor, responsible for mediating between domain events from different bounded contexts (to appropriate a term from DDD) and the system in question.

The main criticism I have about your methodology is that I reject the notion that the OrderActor should be responsible for sending messages to the fraud system. An order's responsibility should be maintaining information about the order and its status—not validating whether its fraudulent, which (if the fraud detector was worth its salt) would involve a lot of historical information about the ordering party, payment information, etc—none of which should bleed into the order system, and which is the kind of thing the fraud system assembles by listening to events from all over the place. In that scenario, were the fraud system's interface to change, there would likely be changes that have to cascade to every system that touches it (regardless of whether its developed with an actor model.)

I realize you probably wouldn't, in reality and given realistic requirements, architect the system entirely the way you've outlined before this. But given the constraints of a blog post, I think the OP can be forgiven the oversimplification of the example, and you (I think) should also be able to see that his implementation has merit in real-world scenarios.
Do they get salaries (or other consideration) commensurate with being the most valuable contributors who are worth their weight in gold?
Would you need this monthly? What about a pay per use, and you could say sell bundles of emails, like reach 10, 25, 50 reporters?
> If I was accused of yyy, I would have the right to know who accused me

That is false for any value of yyy.

You don't need the email address to defend yourself (which is ok), you only need it to retaliate (which is not ok).
Sure, everything you say is true, but only for a narrow slice of the real estate market. Did Intel raise their children in their HQ building? No, but their property taxes are protected by Prop 13.
Interesting!

How close are you to allowing developers to extend it? You have drag&drop to twitter, facebook, but it'd be nice to interface it with buffer as well.
Seed it from /dev/random.
Yea, it's pretty awesome.

What's really neat is you can even use it on Windows.

My personal setup is Cygwin Zsh inside Console2 (tabbed cmd.exe shell) proxied via ansicon.exe (makes cmd.exe ansi color escape aware). It's not quite as nice as say Konsole on linux or iTerm2 on a mac, but it's the best I've found for windows.

Setup guide:

Setup console2 like this http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandP...

This post sets up ansicon: http://www.kevwebdev.com/blog/in-search-of-a-better-windows-...
How soon until those new icons are going to arrive? ;)
Kendo UI Goes Open Source
The biggest reason is that public-key crypto is "just a math problem" to an extent that isn't true of symmetric crypto. Diffie Hellman, for instance, is just an RNG and a couple modexps. There's no machinery of repeated substitutions and permutations and nonlinearities to hide your mistakes.

Another big reason is that public-key algorithms are parameterized to an extent symmetric systems aren't. Two random numbers is all you need to safely encrypt something with AES. Diffie Hellman, the simplest of the public key algorithms, needs a prime, a generator, and random private keys with particular relationships to those parameters.