skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Varies quite a bit by field afaict. In CS, I've never paid to publish in journals, and I think it would be seen as weird. However we do often publish papers at conferences (big conferences like SIGGRAPH, CHI, and IJCAI are possibly actually more prestigious than journals to publish in), and in that case it costs money to attend and register for the conference.
cool. your original comment just came off very insulting and not terribly insightful/valuable. glad you gave him some pointers elsewhere
There are plenty of web IRC clients.
An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story
Ah! Missed it! My bad.
As far as I know, FedEx operates without unions. Not quite sure how that has effected the industry.
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This is what their web page says for hospital IT departments (http://www.medisas.com/product#it-depts):

"100% in the cloud and monitored 24/7 by our highly
skilled technical team, so you won’t have to
worry about getting your servers back up.

The specialist IT console allows you to monitor and control
the system from your computer, tablet or phone.

Naturally, we use the same level of security as
banks and government security organisations.

Finally, hassle free software for you & your organisation."

"100% in the cloud" and the rest doesn't sound like they're putting a system in the hospital to me. I'll bet it doesn't sound like it to hospital IT departments, and that could well be shooting down a lot of sales, and damaging their reputation for those who remember it as this.

If they are putting a system in the hospital, this would very poor advertising copy, an unforced error.
https://github.com/thomasballinger/curtsies looks well-designed. (I haven't tried it yet. What I do is code to ANSI terminal codes directly: e.g. https://github.com/darius/sketchbook/blob/master/misc/sokoba...)
This could be a bad move for Amazon.

Amazon has amazing customer service. It just works. Parcel delivery is hard. USPS etc don't cock it up because they're lazy or stupid. So currently Amazon does the stuff that works and lets another company tAke the blame for the hard stuff. But in future people won't be saying "some company lost my package". They'll be saying "Amazon lost my parcel".

(There are some things Amazon gets weirdly wrong - I cannot fathom how search is allowed to be so terrible)
> the idea of hotplug at all is the least of concerns

No, you don't understand me. Even if actually hotplugging things is completely uninteresting to you, your init system still has to somehow be able to deal with the fact that on a modern box, all your devices show up in essentially random order with random delays. sysvinit currently handles this by putting a completely arbitrary sleep call in the beginning of the boot process. Just last week I had to deal with a server where due to circumstances that sleep wasn't enough, which lead to the ethernet devices getting initially wrongly named, which was bad because the mountains of script doing network configuration there happily treated the external network as the internal one and the internal one as the external one.

Even if hotplug is a feature you don't care at all about, due to design decisions made by the Kernel team, if you want to run a modern Linux kernel your machine will have to fully support hotplug properly or it's going to (rarely and non-replicably) fail in interesting and imaginative ways.
If you can afford the markup on their groceries, Amazon Fresh in Seattle's delivery can occur in less than 12 hours (sometimes <6). The only thing that's kept me from using Fresh as a utility is price. Local grocery stores still win on price.

If you're laid up in bed and can't leave the house, Fresh is awesome.
You and others have a good point about the title. We've edited it to take out the linkbait.

Great comment, too!
> highly toxic comments

I really don't see any of grayed out comments in this thread as toxic, leave alone as highly toxic. There are some lame jokes and one-liners, but they could simply be put at the bottom of the page without a slap on the face that is the gray color. Comment authors can see their negative scores and that's a signal enough for them to mend their ways, don't you think?
i think you want the application-facing interface to remain REST (links between entities, HATEOAS), but the REST/CRUD client's transport layer wouldn't be traditional http/ajax, rather implement similar capabilities to a Datomic Peer. So a CRUD READ would query a cached Datomic index rather than touch network. Create, Update, Delete could be http/ajax or could be something else like a websocket; I believe transport to be orthogonal to the fundamental principles of REST application design.
In what orbit, that doesn't require propulsion, do you get constant line of sight?
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Why wouldn't they compete with everyone that is a material cost to them? 10 basis points on their revenues is already approaching $100M/year. My guess is they pay quite a bit more than 10 basis points too (spent a while looking for reliable source to corroborate this but couldn't find one).

AMZN seems to want to do everything they can to expand and lower their costs; I don't know why credit card fees would be excluded from this.

They could develop a completely novel solution over time. My guess is they will become much more serious about payments over time because of articles like this[1] and this[2].

[1] http://recode.net/2014/04/12/jeff-bezos-to-amazon-payments-t...
[2]http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/29/amazon-wants-to-include-pee...
Likely not true. Apparently the address linked to MtGox is actually likely from BitStamp. Can't rely on a bitchain.info label.
What are the names of these proxies?
Yes, after seeing many familiar gems in the graphic I was almost surprised to see that hakiri gave my Gemfile.lock an 'all clear'.

The should be able to calculate what percentage of these would still be vulnerable if fully updated - now that would be an interesting stat!
He won't unless he builds libraries and other public institutions.

You need to build things with your name on it in big letters for people to remember you. Larry has not as of yet done this in a big way at least not given his present net worth.
Are there any articles about Sergey's role in the company ? There have been a few since Larry took over as CEO, and I feel this article greatly downplays Sergey's role.
> Microsoft execs also announced at Build 2014 that Microsoft would be making Windows free on Windows Phones and tablets with screen sizes of nine inches and under.

I wonder if this could be applied to a dongle type device? A winRT HDMI stick combined with a nice keyboard/mouse presenter would be a nifty platform, since WinRT has a better track-record for keyboard/mouse support than Android.
Nice to see they've continue the trend of ensuring each exploit has a proper logo.
So... it's as powerful as an unshielded microwave oven.

Imagine the hideous health implications if a city block got cooked.
The IBT is one of the last powerful private sector unions out there. It has significant lobbying power (its the 11th largest donator to political campaigns in the US), and would join with UPS/Fedex to help resist any outside company that does not acquiesce and subject itself to the IBT.

I don't know to what extent that industry is regulated, but there is a very long history of teamsters getting their way.
The fact that the yen has fallen against the dollar means that yen are worth less in countries where they use dollars, but not necessarily in places where they use yen. If yen were worth less in Japan that would reflect itself through higher yen denominated prices on stuff in Japan -- it would show up in inflation -- but inflation in Japan is somewhere south of 2%.
A simple solution would be to charge the same amount to apply regardless if it was granted or not.
My thinking was that a 1:n delivery system is easier to manage than an n:n one. But you are right that the last mile is not the simplest part.
The explanation is wrong. In Normal Mode, 'te' is takes the cursor to the character before the next occurance of 'e' on the line. E.g.

Test Words Go Here
^

'te' would take the cursor to here:

Test Words Got Here
^
It's not strictly rational but when you are giving extrinsic rewards, like a gift card, they are not perceived as an added reward but as a replacement. What did they replace? The intrinsic motivation/justification that prompted them to perform the action in the first place.

When the motivation switches from intrinsic (I'm doing this because I'm a good person) to extrinsic (I'm doing this for money) we use a different value of judgment which in this case appears to not have worked as well for you as you would have liked. Instead it may have been better to offer some form of recognition/acclaim to reinforce the intrinsic motivation and promote this behavior. For example helping people on stack overflow rewards you with feeling good about being a productive member of a community; the "reputation" score reinforces that same fact. Now imagine instead of having the reputation score mechanic you were paid 25 cents for every accepted answer instead? Would we have seen the same adoption or would people have not bothered "working" for a few dollars an hour?
"It was an understandable, safe, and wrong decision at the time."

That's such a good way to describe a bad decision. The accumulation of decisions with those characteristics will sink any company.
> 1. As the site says, systemd is both an init system and a collection of programs that make sense to have in a system. One can already strip most of everything from it (I think only journald is mandatory), and there is usually a stable api between every component, so one can simply replace them.

The only stable APIs in systemd are the ones that the whole agglomeration of programs provides to the outside world. Anything else can and will change and break without warning according to the systemd developers.

>3. I can agree with that. But it's not that sysinitv or upstart worked on non-linux systems (without ugly hacks)

Didn't matter, they had their own init systems and until systemd came along very little software depended on a particular init system.

> Gnome will depend on systemd when under wayland, that's instead a fact. Actually, on logind, which has an api that anyone can reimplemnt (https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logind...)

According to the chart someone else linked, which I think is by the systemd developers, logind cannot feasibly be reimplemented and the systemd version can't be used by anyone else: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo... In practice, no-one has managed to reimplement anything beyond the most trivial APIs exposed by systemd. Some (like the whole new-style daemons API used by many daemons ported to systemd) literally cannot be implemented by init systems that aren't structured the same way as systemd.

> 11. Nobody is forcing anyone to adopt systemd. It's getting adopted because distributions and developers think it's better.

In at least some case, it's getting adopted because important software has been rewritten upstream to depend on systemd.
That is a very sad article indeed. I believe Ted Nelson's work is hampered a lot by the fact that none(?) of his texts are available as ebooks/reprints -- which mean they're far to difficult to get ones hands on in order to read the original.

The insights Nelson brings to the idea of hypertext (besides coming up with the term in the first place) are somewhat more significant than for instance Fielding's contributions in his REST paper (partly because Nelson was so far ahead of everyone else).
> While an IDE running under Windows is hardly what I would like to work with

Visual Studio is probably the best IDE ever created. Have you even used it?
Google tried social without a real name policy (aka Buzz) and it didn't work. Google+ has better content.
But information can not be transferred as we please. I believe that our consciousness arises from the information stored in the material structure of our brain. But there is no reason to believe we have any way of extracting or transferring this information to another place.

If you assume this step is a "small leap" you are entering the realm of science fiction. And that's okay, I greatly enjoy reading science fiction. But if you tell people that this might actually become reality in the future, they will rightfully be skeptical.
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I think this will be an option in the near/mid term.

I've long assumed Amazon would compete more directly with both shippers & big box stores - by combining optional last mile delivery for items as well as potentially pick up points.

Fresh probably can't work very efficiently outside of a few hyper-condense markets. But ordering everything online and driving through to pickup a preselected batch - of groceries, cables, clothing, electronics (whatever)... that is very doable. You just need regional fulfillment centers (check) and then smaller local pick up points... this could be achieved with an acquisition or two.
They nearly always call for geosynchronous orbit, because they want to always be over the rectenna on the ground.

The Earth will occasionally put such a satellite into shadow, but remember that the Earth is tilted, and so is the equator.

Getting up to GEO is hella expensive.
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It appears that you failed to read the data correctly. He says that 66% of the Gemfiles examined contained any vulnerability and 13% of them contained a 5+ issue.

That doesn't even mean an exploit btw. Some of those gems might be in the Gemfile but never actually used (deprecated but not removed, hence not updated), or the vulnerable component might never be used. The gem might only be used on internal data, not user-manipulateable data.

Furthermore, you can't extrapolate 13% of the examined gemfiles containing such an issue to all gemfiles, which you did.

The fact that it's reported certainly doesn't mean it will be fixed in all downstreams (what this article refers to). Do you read every CVE? Every single one? Didn't think so. Most gems are relatively unpopular and any issues in them won't be widely publicized. Sure, Rails issues are shouted far and wide, but most of the rest are easy to miss.

Hell, some CVEs don't even get fixed in the gem itself, let alone all the consumers of that gem; the gem just remains vulnerable because there's no maintainer or the maintainer insists that it's "not an issue".

Please don't make such misinformed comments without even reading the article with sufficient attention to detail to get the statistic right.
smart hiring strategy!
The difference is that marketing gives you a pretty steady ROI. Once the drug is developed, there is little to no risk involved in spending billions marketing a drug.

However, spending billions developing a drug without patent protection is a massive risk since drugs are easy to make but extremely hard to find. It would be trivial for a competitor to make the same drug at zero cost once its found to be effective. In this scenario researching drugs almost certainly has a negative ROI. Patents alter that calculation to make the endeavor worthwhile.
It would be interesting to know why this is. Are each of these dependencies really small on average? Or is there some big cascade of dependencies? Or is there a particular framework that's to blame?

I've had a similar issue when using the Spring Framework in Java, where including it in your project at all brings a whole host of other (often not very good) libraries in. This is a problem in Java, which doesn't have any built in capacity for loading multiple versions of the same library.

In Python, I suspect that I've been in a similar situation when using things like Pyproj, Numpy or Scipy, because those all depend on components written in C or Fortran. Perhaps next time I use any of those libraries I shall take some time to read more of the code and try to trace out what things they may be brining in.
nope it didn't turn up in my google search. I generally google the title, when I get desperate I google title+"pdf", it has never worked so far, but I keep being hopeful.

"We will begin billing your Payment Method for monthly membership fees at the end of the free trial period of your membership unless you cancel prior to the end of the free trial period". I guess I will not sign up.
This article kind of confuses me - what does it mean for a gem do be 'secure' ? The idea of many gems being 'secure' or 'non-secure' is a non-sequitur. Obviously for some projects, like Rails, it's fairly clear what is meant when someone talks about a vulnerability - that you can hacked somehow. However, if someone wrote a gem to wrap eval into a command line tool so they can use some random ruby commands or libraries from their shell, well, secure would be a non-sequitur, but also beside the point.
STOP LYING! Everyone knows the only security issues nowadays are caused by developing in PHP, that's why we bash it every day, right guys?!
After a second reading, it seems you're NOT being sarcastic, but I'll post my response anyways.

They're already building their own backbone to their datacenter [1] [2]. Why won't they expand into producing their own energy (if they aren't already)?

All evidence points to them moving into areas AMZN believes they can do better or are cost centers.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/13014244
[2] http://seattle.jobing.com/network-engineer-aws-backbone-netw...
And in the end, it turns out that YouTube comments with real names are just as terrible.
after a bit of clicking, I had a banner saying $40/month for unlimited
Google+ became just like .Net of Microsoft. It's a umbrella for a number of confusing services forced together. Depending on whom to talk to and the favorite of the month, it can be different things.

It was social connect before. Now it's unified login. Next it's going to be whatever. Sounds awfully like .Net in the old days.
AFAIK the real names policy is largely not in effect anymore, contrary to Facebook?
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Here's a quick introductory resource: http://www.learndatalogtoday.org
Gaming network lag explained
What? That's my explanation after all.
In France at least there are a lot of places like this. For example I shop at Leclerc Drive where you order and pay online. It's ready 2 hours later and you have 24 hours to get it at a physical location. Once you get there, you scan a customer card or your nfc smartphone and somebody comes to your car with your products in bags (frozen, refrigerated and room temp being in different bags) in like 2 ou 3 minutes. If you want to, you don't even have to get out of your car as the guy will load it up your trunk, but most people just help out.

I live in a moderately big city and there are 4 Leclerc Drives (www.leclercdrive.fr), and then there's Chronodrive (www.chronodrive.com) and U (www.coursesu.com).
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I'll concede they're a small but loud group of users. I'm not convinced the type of people who will refuse to use a service because of a lack of pseudonyms are necessarily influential.

I would attribute Google+'s failures much more to their abysmal launch strategy, which massively restricted otherwise-excited users from ever joining Google+ until it became a barren wasteland.
Larry has paralysis of part of his voice box, which explains the tone of his voice.
Start with having a y-axis. That graph isn't a graph. It's just two numbers.
> I never heard about it from any of my friends who aren't
> reading sites like HN.

Anecdote: a decidedly non-technical friend of mine with the last name of "Star" had his Google+ profile disabled after having his name falsely classified as a pseudonym. The only Google+ service that he actually cared about using was Hangouts (a sentiment universal among my friends, it seems... despite its faults, Hangouts really is best-in-class as far as I can tell). The end result was that he missed out on spending time with his friends because of an unanswerable algorithm attempting to enforce a dubious policy. From a user's point of view, this is incredibly frustrating.

To this day, his Google+ profile picture is the same photographic proof that he had to send in to convince them of his name's legitimacy. His rationale is that if his profile gets disabled again, he can just point to his profile picture.
Has nobody here read "Gravity's Rainbow"?

Love and rockets, indeed.
The news is quantifying what qualitatively is expected.
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But if higher education was already free, why would the poor go to war for corporate America, defending big oil wherever needed around the world ?
The difference in solar energy is also not a factor of two, but more like a factor of six (deeply inaccurate there, but that's the general idea).

Factor of two would be day and night. In space, it's day all the time, while on Earth it's night half the time, on average.

However, you also have sun angle. You're not getting much energy when the sun is near the horizon. Even if your panels track the sun, there's a limit to how close to the horizon they can track before they start shadowing each other. Atmospheric attenuation also becomes extremely strong: note how you can comfortably stare at a sunset.

Atmospheric attenuation is a big factor even when the sun is overhead. Even when it's straight above, you're still losing something like 30% (again highly inaccurate, just the general idea).

And then there's weather. On cloudy days, you don't put out much. How much this affects you greatly depends on where you put your panels, obviously, but it can be a big factor.

Then you have a meta factor from the fact that these other factors vary over time. If you took a constant 2x or 6x loss on your power generation, it would be one thing. But instead, you're generating a lot of power at some times, and none at other times, and those times don't necessarily line up with demand in a nice way. So now you have to efficiently store the power when you generate it, or have lots of additional capacity to make up the shortfall at night that does nothing productive during the day.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised if Musk's overall point is correct. Flinging massive solar panels into space ain't cheap, and the money you spend on rockets could buy you a lot of solar panels in various deserts, plus high-voltage transmission lines, plus storage facilities, plus.... But it's considerably more complex than "twice the solar energy".
That's how you test a service: just put it on HN. If the traffic does not take it down, it's the hackers around here.
Not actually what we're going for :).
1000$ around 1940 are about 17000$ today. I don't know what the point of converting them to today's British pounds is.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000%20usd%201940
In fact, the beam wouldn’t even be intense enough to heat your coffee. In the center of the beam in a commercial SPS system, the power density would be 1 kilowatt per square meter, which is about equal to the intensity of sunlight

Of course, if it's only as intense as sunlight, you would wonder why they are bothering building a rectenna and an SPS. . .
Datalinting
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> That beam is WAY more powerful than the sun per unit area. If not, we'd just use the sun.

Not necessarily. Rectennas can get ~80% conversion efficiency, PV panels you can actually get in bulk are closer to 30. So you can have a beam about as strong as the sun and get ~triple the power out the other end by using microwaves instead of light.