skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this would actually be awesome for 20-60 minute sprints. The only change I'd make is to put the pairs into private offices, with comfortable room for 3 and cram for 6, ideally with glass walls or something. And then give everyone a private personal office to use for half of the day as well. When engineers cost $200-300k/yr and real estate is 18/yr/SF, I don't see a problem with burning 500 square feet per engineer.
1cent/GB still isn't that impressive to me.. I have terrabytes I need to archive -- mostly family photos and videos (and my oldest kid is 5!). 1 terrabyte = $10/month. It's still cheaper to just buy external hard drives.

There are those online backup services that are unlimited for $X/month, but I have been bait-and-switched by those services twice now, and it takes such an incredibly long time (months) to upload everything.. so I've quit relying on those as well.
Really interesting to hear that ProPublica used this sort of feature in a news context.

What other methods did you guys use to investigate "unpublicized" events/occurrences? What barriers did you face to finding that info in general?
-- Soylent is not a diet. It's not low-calorie, low-carb or anything like that. The simplest way to describe its nutritional content is that a Soylent "meal" has 33% FDA daily value of everything (including fats, carbs, protein, vitamins, minerals). Also, unlike a diet, you don't have to eat it all the time (or according to any sort of regimen) to benefit from it. It is designed to be nutritious enough to replace one's whole diet if necessary, but this decision is up to the user.

-- True, there aren't double-blind, peer-reviewed studies (give it time, though...). But the product was developed over the course of a year, with the help of ~100 volunteers who beta tested it and offered feedback [1].

-- The article you linked correctly identifies the importance of low-glycemic carbs, but it loses me when it argues that all "processed" foods are high-glycemic. Not only does "processed" strike me as a weasel word here, the person they're citing as an authority on this issue is Dr. Dean Ornish, whom many regard as a quack [2]. Soylent's carbs are designed to be low-glycemic. They use a form of maltodextrin ("low DE") that is designed to be low-glycemic, as well as whole-grain oat flour. These ingredients are indeed "processed." But (forgive me) the proof of the Soylent is in the eating: all the beta testers took regular blood tests, and these were checked for any abnormalities, including blood sugar levels. Rob Rhinehart actually had a glucose monitor implanted in his chest to test Soylent's glycemic index directly. The result: "Soylent has a pretty low GI" [3].

[1] http://blog.soylent.me/post/69009837729/last-month-five-boxe...
[2] http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/03/05/dr-dean-ornish-...
[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qpjh4/im_rob_rhinehar...
Ender, as an ultra-rare 3rd child in a world wide society/government that enforced a 2 child per family policy (long before people started to realize such was stark raving mad), as a "super-genius" (why a 3rd child from his parents was allowed, if not quasi-required), potentially had many more such fights, at some level recognized that, and was essentially bred to respond in such a fashion (weasel word since the authorities were rolling the dice in the hope he'd be a suitable balance of his older siblings).

Very much a special case, only partially applicable to situations in the real world, here and now.

But there's reasons the short story and the first novel resonate with so many of us....
What to expect from Node.js 1.0
Out in the Open: Hydra Vows to Instantly Analyze Your Big Data
It does work, thanks!
Sector weighting equally is based on diversification. Market cap weighting will tend to bet more on winners (the market cap is going up), concentrating your investment there.

Another way to think about it: market cap weighting is a momentum strategy. Equal across sectors is mean reversion.
That's a poor justification, there are plenty of tools to index and search C(++) code like ctags or cscope, and your example could use a vector or a struct, I have a hard time imagining when a function with such a prototype would be useful in real life.
It also wasn't obvious that you had to scroll down to read more stuff even though it was yet another Twitter Bootstrap thing that we should all know and understand in this 'sign up to our Saas startup' context.
I don't see how having the type makes it easier to grep, grep finds the function name regardless

You can also search for something like "\w+\s(.?)\s*{"
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I would love to follow a Tim Ferriss (well-versed body hacker and author of 4-Hour Body) experiment with Soylent. I've read his book and his analyses convinced me to try a diet for the first time in my life to change my body composition. Now I go through Slow-Carb diet phases a couple times a year. If he had praise for Soylent I'd be willing to give it a try, too.
Where did Amazon deny that Glacier was tape? I don't believe that the climate control requirements debunks dape.
Ben's perspective is strongly influenced by his experiences at Netscape and Loudcloud and looking for and funding rocket ships. Are these cultural artifacts - working w/ jerks, hiring young, working 72 hours in a row - the inevitable outcome of venture funded tech? Are there strong counter examples?
> Should make for a good story for Kickstarter as well.

Actually... I think it might make for a better story for Crowdtilt... since they use them (and not Kickstarter) for their crowdfunding. :)
Ben being a VC is a bad reason to give him credibility. His experience at loud cloud and ops ware (and then HP), and generally being smart, is why I find him interesting.

If you read the book, there were only a few fairly badly communicated or stupid parts, and they made a lot more sense in context (it is partially biographical, so he includes mistakes and why they were mistakes).

The "old people" is one of those which made more sense in context. It was a bad idea to let it be pulled out like this, imo.
>It turned out that Arthur was bipolar and had two significant drug problems.

Then it's very likely that his extremely productive coding marathons were during manic episodes and/or while abusing stimulants. Certainly not something you would want to bank on either way.

My dad was bipolar and also one of the hardest-working men I knew (even during waves of depression). He actually had a couple (prescription) drug problems too. But when he started up a manic episode, it was still abundantly obvious. Basically what's described in the article- seemingly endless pools of energy and stamina despite little to no sleep, always working on or planning some kind of project (for my dad, it was usually some kind of restoration), and never relaxing.

I think he was probably an exception to the rule, because when he was depressed and taking heavy doses of benzodiazepines, he still managed to get his fair share done. I'm not a psychiatrist and I don't know Arthur, but I'd guess both his absences and drug use stemmed from his depression.
Docker's experience using Go (GopherCon talk recap)
"...respect for the rest of the night."

Respect or fear? Dude, all I know about you is that comment and I don't want to have anything to do with you. I'm sure you're a great person and all, but....

Out of curiosity, while we're discussing escalation, at what point do you start being a "bad actor"?
The "web generation" has brought us lots of great changes, I would have quit IT back in the 90's if the internet hadn't happened. But this immature attitude towards everything from technology stacks to how to run a company is really starting to grate.

Reminds me of back in the 90's when object-oriented databases were going to rule the world and software was all going to be write-once-run-everywhere, or the early 2000's when static typing was the downfall of society. Meh. Every generation's got something like that.

As skeptical as I am of the latest trends, I sincerely hope that people stay excited about them, and keep using them. That bubbling cauldron of ideas does generate a lot of noise, but it also generates new ideas and progress.
Craigslist: the web's fertilizer
Hi there, I'm an engineer at DeepDyve. I'm wondering how long your rental was for - was it a 30 day rental? And was 30 days too short to cite the article later? I'll talk to some people here, but we may be able to extend that period pretty easily.
I've been fascinated by KWC since the first time I saw Bloodsport. I dug the depictions [1] in Gibson's bridge trilogy too.

There's something that draws me to that kind of organic human architecture whether it's Kowloon, Brazil's favelas [2], Torre David in Venezuela [3] or Ponte Tower [4] in Johannesburg.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela

3: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/feb/12/la-tor...

4: http://vimeo.com/51295174
because it's "Tesla"
> I'm not remotely interested in litigating most of this.

This reminds me of the character in "Five Easy Pieces" who repeatedly says, "I don't want to talk about this," while talking about it nonstop.

> Anyone who tries to rationalize the legitimacy of the United States is in a similarly tricky rhetorical position ...

Wait, did you just compare a government to a church? Governments aren't religions -- they don't posture as morally superior gateways to heaven.

> If you cast your net several centuries back, it would be hard to find any group of people who don't have something truly appalling to excuse themselves for.

Yes, true, which is why religions are in the impossible logical position of posturing about a moral superiority they can never substantiate.

> Your comment created the perception that Galileo is a divisive issue amongst Catholics, or the Catholic church.

I did nothing of the kind. Prove me wrong -- locate the quote in which I say that modern Catholics don't think Galileo is a hero of the scientific revolution. The word "is" in the above sentence is your choice -- by contrast, I took the position that Galileo was an issue for the church, until 1992 when he was rehabilitated.

It's a simple matter of reading the words. And your reply completely vindicates the views in the post you replied to, a post in which I say, "I want to emphasize that I think the Catholic church is a fascinating entity with very many well-intentioned followers, but the thinly veiled intolerance for ideas outside the canon is a constant irritation."

> Later, full disclosure: I polled Catholic school students in my office and found one person who had a Christian Brother teacher who believed Galileo to be a heretic. Shows to go you, you can find nutballs anywhere you look for them.

There's a lot of rationalization in your prose. You do see this, yes?
Yes, I absolutely agree. Ignoring never worked, it only made it more fun and challenging for me. The best way to stop a bully is to punch them in the face early on and make them think twice about considering you a target.
Do BDXL discs have greater longevity than other types of optical media?

Back in 2000, our studio switched from archiving our audio recordings on DAT to CD-R. Thinking the greatest threats were loss and scratches, they made three copies of every disc and stored them in different locations. Around 2007, all of those CD-R discs started becoming unreadable around the same time.

Video recordings were archived to DVD-R starting in 2003 with the same three copy approach. In 2009, after having successfully rescued all our audio recordings on to RAID5 network attached storage, we weren't so lucky with saving our early DVD-R data.

I always assumed the reason DVD-R discs lasted less time than CD-R discs before chemical decomposition was because of the greater density, but I never looked into it enough to know for sure.

I have to imagine if Amazon is indeed doing this, they have some sort of plan in place to write all data to fresh optical media every five years or so. If so, that would create a very different cost equation.
He hit her nearly 4 times every minute for 30 minutes. that's staggering.. i hope this destroys him.
He was also a drug addict, from the book, and it was in the context of nonperformance, at a company which was dying.

From his response, I think at a less-critical ("peacetime") company stage, they might have tried to help him within the company.
I'm trained because it's been a year or so since apparently all startup web sites are like that, an option I've seen is to add an arrow to indicate there's more.
Is it a Poe[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
If you are just bored, then perhaps you're not getting the hard problems. Even CRUD can be hard when you are working with bad API backed by complex domain model.

For example, I'm working on a form (easy right?) that allows user to build layers on phantom models before it is allowed to persist. Each layer of model is supported by one API. There are distinct possibility that the persisting can fail at one time and you need to roll everything you persisted before back (through the same API). Even those rollback calls can fail. Not only that, but each of these API calls can take 10 to 90 seconds to complete.

Now it's hard right?
Equally large news from today's press conference at the National Press Club - SpaceX is taking on ULA (united launch alliance, a consortium of incumbent players in the market) and the "block buy" allocation of military / national-security launches to ULA.

Here's their handout, from one of the reporters there:

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/459734785314013184

Playing politics a bit, Elon's claiming a ~ 75% reduction in launch costs by using Falcon 9 rockets instead of the block buys allocated to ULA, so he's filing a lawsuit to give his company access to this market.
He even goes into details of how some of ULA's engines are manufactured in Russia, and given the festivities in the Ukraine our legislators would rather be less dependent on Russia for space access. He even whets the politicians' appetites with his blurb at the bottom describing how $1B per year could instead pay for operating a fleet of A-10's, or 15 Marine Corps battalions, or 12 F-16 squadrons ... or it could instead pay for purchasing 10 F-35's, 2 LCS's, or 50 UH-60 Black Hawks.

Politicians (and Beltway reporters) definitely respond to money dangled in front of their face.

Here's how he arrives at the ~75% reduction, btw:

• ULA annual cost: $3.0-3.5B

• ULA cost per launch: ~$460M

• Falcon 9 cost: "under $100M"

This forum has tons of live-blog style commentary leading up to and during the press conference.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=lsmvrej...

--------------------

(edited to clarify about ULA engine sourcing; thanks physcab)
> From my reading of the article, there will be a specific channel (450), but tuning to that channel will simply launch the Netflix app.

Note that these kind of "app channels" are pretty common with cable systems now, so while I guess it might be odd to people who either never had cable or were early cord-cutters, its not at all odd to describe this as getting their own cable channel.
Hash – How can I create a password that says "SALT ME" when hashed?
Michael, I am convinced the way forward is to incorporate and (positively) subvert the system from within.
Are you at all concerned about the possibility of the Trusting Trust[1] problem manifesting in any of your Go compilers?

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
It's to continue the outer loop from the inner loop.
Microscopic 3D printer
Any source on that? Searching for Adafruit Fona only gives this thread and some junk results.
The likely long term effect is that the person eating it seeks out different foods to eat.

As far as I am aware, every attempted complete synthetic food replacement has failed due to psychological reasons, like texture, palatability, and variety, rather than nutritional sufficiency.

Put simply, people stop eating it, whatever it is, because it does not satisfy the mind along with the body.
They might be people who ordered boards with the Zynq 7020 SoC, which is shipping either first or more quickly for some reason.
>but for something written in the last couple of years to have over a thousand of them is very surprising

Hardly surprising. Gotos will be found by the hundrends or thousands in C projects like compilers, kernels etc.

It's used for localized consolidated error handling, but also for stuff like parsing code (bison generates tons of gotos IIRC), state machines, etc.

If anything it's the old "Goto statement considered harmful" that's a little too naive.
Diving into Go: A Five-Week Intro
In Usetrace you define modular tests by using your own site. Tests (or traces) are visually represented like cartoon strips. You can follow test execution from a live view in your browser. Tests are executed automatically and in parallel. An average test run completes in 10-20s from request. Error screenshots and reports can be emailed or send to your team chat e.g. HipChat.

In Rainforest you define tests by writing instructions for human testers. Reports only tell you if a test was successful or which steps succeeded / failed. It takes close to half an hour for one two step test to complete in five browsers.

Cheers,
Eero
CEO of Usetrace
http://twitter.com/EeroHeroHeino
- Successful soft landing in the Atlantic

- Seas were too rough for a quick recovery

- Rocket subsequently destroyed by wave action

- Will attempt recovery of the next Falcon 9 launch

- A Falcon 9 recovered on land could be re-used the next day (!)

- SpaceX is lobbying to allow private competition for National Security launches (eg GPS satellites)
The first half of the movie gives a really great image of the Chungking atmosphere, so definitely check it out. I highly recommend it on its own narrative strengths too of course.
> The first enterprise hardware is geared towards 2015

I've been hearing about this since pets.com was a hot investment and not a whole lot has shipped since then. For a new storage technology that's particularly concerning since you don't know how accurate current guesses as to cost will be and, critically, nobody has a baseline to say what reliability will be like in the real world.
This is probably close, at least for launch.

The problem with this theory, however, is that tape still would have been cheaper with roughly the same footprint, and tape has the benefit of often being forward-compatible too, as the drives improve, so does the storage capacity of the tape.

The author dismisses that amazon wasn't using tape, but I haven't seen much evidence to support that necessarily.

Maybe the reality is they probably use a bit of everything. A robotic disk library, a robotic tape library, maybe a robotic optical library. Maybe they're secretly ahead of the rest of current tape technology and are getting 20TB out of a single tape. They could be using custom hard drives, or even having a robotic platter library.

One thing for sure is that it's not active disk drives, and I don't believe they keep all the data on optical disks alone, given that optical disks degenerate much quicker than magnetic storage.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suing to open up national security launches
Michael Crichton's "Why Speculate" (2002)
HSTS should be an implicit browser feature, not a server-side add-on. There should not need to be a server-side flag required to enforce this behavior.

If you go to an HTTPS page on a given domain, your browser should always prefer the HTTPS page, even if you try to follow an HTTP page. The reason is, if you were able to reach the page via HTTPS before, you should be able to reach it there again, and HTTP would only expose you to an unencrypted page which is more than likely the same in content. The only downside is that sometimes HTTPS and HTTP URIs serve different resources even though the URI is the same (which I believe should be considered bad behavior by the web server)

Requiring admins to enable HSTS puts the onus on web server admins who are motivated to improve security for their users a tiny bit, and only works for admins who have servers that can support HSTS flags. There are many legacy systems which simply can't or won't be changed to support it. Hopefully the above behavior gets put into the HTTP 2.0 standard so admins don't need to go through a checkist of add-on security measures every time they create a new web server instance.
This is a better article, but maybe it's too technical: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/tabulation-hashing-...
You're right. We received more than a few brickbats for this since yesterday. So we changed the github oauth request scope. As it stands now, the data we request is only the user scope which includes the user's private email address (https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes). We'll add additional scope requests if a user elects to use our upcoming github build feature.
I love remote companies because they can afford to give their employees the freedom to have drug habits or kids who demand a lot of attention or whatever else. There's no pressure to "keep up appearances" so as long as his communication on git and hipchat is professional and his code quality is high.

In real offices there is too much wasteful drama/noise around 'perceived slackness' that often does not correlate with the actual facts. In a remote environment everyone is being judged on the same time-scale by the same exact criteria which has nothing to do with their age, sex, lifestyle choices, sleep habits, etc.
BitTorrent: Netflix should defeat ISPs by switching to peer-to-peer
He probably thought it was still r/technology
Although I write all of my code in Vim, I have always found it to not be great environment for text. The main annoyance comes from dealing with long lines or automatic line wrapping that never seems to do what I want it to.

Does anyone have other plugins that they find useful when writing in vim?
I imagine you would also appreciate the work of Lebbeus Woods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebbeus_Woods
Here's the full architectural rendering from the book they mention – they seem to have adapted part of it for their splash page. You can definitely sink quite a bit of time looking at what's going on in each room.

http://www.deconcrete.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Kowloon...
You might want to clarify that you aren't Russ Cox and that this post is a summary of a presentation he gave.
The home page is incredibly bland. "Are you data-driven?" They might as well be advertising shampoo or something.
If you look at a lot of other highly creative disciplines (art, music, etc), the non linear performance (by person, task, and time) is also common. Temperament, drugs, etc might be factors.
Video tour is great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSzgh3D7-Q0
Hillary Clinton Blasts Edward Snowden for Fleeing to Russia and China
Man I love food. I love the engagement with the senses, the stories about its origin ingredients, the way those ingredients get put together into a meal that can be enjoyed with more than one person. Soylent strikes me as something I would've been into before I learned all that.
I've used http://www.dx.com quite a bit. Prices are really, really low. Shipping is free. However, you may have to wait two months for your products to arrive.

Since most of this stuff is based off of open source hardware it's pretty much identical to the name brand stuff. So it pretty much comes down to a cost/time ratio consideration when first starting out. Before you know it though, you will have quite a large collection of parts built up.

Also remember you can hit garage sales, recycle yards, and thrift shops to find a lot of old hardware that you can salvage valuable parts out of for less than the price of the parts themselves.

Edit: made link clickable
I like that this person talks about connecting people and people having their lives touched by Nokia. Nowadays we are very distrusting and dismissive of such talk. There is a good reason why of course, but still there is something reductive about the attitude of "it's just a fucking app/website/phone/whatever".