skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also open source and available on github https://github.com/HabitRPG

The girlfriend and I have been trying it out the last week or so, it's a pretty good way to keep the flat tidy it seems.
Wow, this is a really moving blog. It shows you their point of view.
Sadly, 'reactive' -- like OOP -- seems to be one of those words that gets reinterpreted to meaninglessness. The definition I'm most familiar with, from the Reactive Manifesto,[0] seems like it would fit Go's channels just fine... but anything that puts Go and Erlang and Node.js in the same box might be too broad to be useful.

[0] http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/#reactive-applications
The people who stand to profit from building underground tanks have been pushing hard on this one for a while. Locally there is this movement in response http://peopleswatertrust.org/
It doesn't even say what kind or what reactive programming is - just throws out some random words ...
Quick clarification - at the target CPC or CPA they specified, Apple was unable to deliver enough impressions to meet $10 per day.

(Their average CPC was $.01, and their desired CPA was $.40).

Agreed that $10 a day is not enough to keep their app rocketing up the install lists. However, like any PPC or CPA advertising, iAd is a bidding system - and priority of impressions will go towards those that bid more. Your assertion would be like having a Google AdWords bid of $.01 for a high-performing keyword, and because you aren't featured on page 1 of the SERPs & only get a few impressions, concluding that Google doesn't have the audience to support your budget.
Honestly, just start tossing it. It was much easier than I expected. Make an extra dough ball, so if you drop it dinner isn't ruined.
The friendliest way to write it is to simply not and let the compiler infer it.
I'm a biomedical engineer and have been working with surgeons for a few years. I'm always impressed with their perspective given the situation of surgery. To the surgical team, its just another day in the office. To the person on the table, it is one of the most important days in the life.

I have been fortunate enough to be invited into the OR to observe a few surgeries. The first time, I was shocked at how casual the situation was to the people involved. The atmosphere is more like a workshop than you see on TV dramas involving surgeons (music playing, people chatting about what their kids and weekends, etc. like told in the article).

But after thinking about it some more, this is the atmosphere that's needed. Everyone is calm and collected, and not going to make a mistake from being stressed out. Being stressed out at work every day simply isn't sustainable. Some of these surgeries are tough jobs too, involving standing for hours in awkward positions (which can lead to long-term injuries). These men and women are true professionals - even on routine work they sacrifice their own comfort and well-being for the welfare of their patients.

Agree that it is good to make the perspectives of the original article more widely seen to appreciate what they do!
and in python they are function decorators.
I'm in a similar boat. I use Rackspace for their servers and CDN, and Linode is definitely starting to look nice. It could actually be cheaper to go with Linode and a separate CDN provider, such as MaxCDN. MaxCDN has some of the features that are missing from Cloud Files, which is real nice too. The main thing holding me back is the time it takes to migrate. I know they target the higher end, but hopefully RackSpace will readjust their prices as well at some point.
Tips on Streaming, how to get started with TwitchTV, etc
How is OS X more "just works" than a clean Ubuntu install? And both are far from perfect.
I'm not sure what the exact medical events were that transpired in this case, but the rescue team who found this person performed CPR for 4 hours continuously, and she made a full recovery: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/06/skier-tree-well-mira...
You are part of a society in which you have an obligation to protect and preserve the safety of others through reasonable and responsible actions.

I don't think that locking your car while it is parked or not leaving your keys in it while it is unattended is too much to ask.

FFS.
"That's because you're still failing"
Confreaks is great. The youtube page linked to is nicely organized, and looks to get more attention that my pointers, but three other resources are

* The Confreaks homepage at http://confreaks.com/

* The Confreaks listing by conference at http://confreaks.com/events

* The list of recently added videos at http://confreaks.com/videos

The last one is a bit hidden, as you get to it by clicking on Search on the main page
I went to the real source [1], which provides this data: http://i.imgur.com/d46JG8Q.png, and plotted it. The R(square) value for the fit it 0.2. The Pearson r is 0.44 with a p-value of 0.02 i.e. potentially useful. Taking out Greece, Portugal and USA changes the R(square) to 0.002, the Pearson r to 0.05 with a p-value of 0.8, i.e without the outliers there is no correlation between the values.

So, indeed, the outliers are driving the association... However, one is not permitted to cherry-pick data, so the "outliers" have to be left in.

[1]Barnes, S., Bouis, R., Briard, P., Dougherty, S., and Eris, M. (2011).The GDP impact of reform: a simple simulation framework,OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no. 834, Paris, France: OECD.

PDF file:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/5kgk9qjnhkmt...
Macro documentation is a little bit... off at the moment. :/
Agreed. Maybe something like "Ridiculously fast local faceted search" would be more appropriate?
"This is the sort of fragmentation that makes popular adoption difficult, but is also what makes Linux awesome."

I agree with this in principle, but it confuses me as to why FreeBSD is not, then, much more popular...

We use FreeBSD exclusively at rsync.net, and I used FreeBSD as my personal workstation from 2000 - 2007. Perhaps all the other FreeBSD people just switched to OSX, like I did.
As I understand it (and I may not understand it at all!), the most significant difference is that dataflow programming is deterministic and compositional, whereas actors are nondeterministic and discrete. Intuitively, I tend to compartmentalize dataflow along with maps, filters and comprehensions; and actors with FSMs. This is probably an incorrect generalization, but it works for me.

Somewhere, Hoare gives an example of pipelining the sieve of Eratosthenes through a series of communicating processes, which is a good example of dataflow programming -- you send a list of integers to a process that sieves out even numbers and sends the result to a process that sieves out multiples of 3, and so on. Such a pipeline is deterministic -- given a set of values, you will always get the same output -- and compositional -- the sum of the sieves is greater than the individual parts.

A traditional actor-based model, on the other hand, isn't well-suited for that kind of problem, but is great if your goal is to dispense biscuits and chocolates. State is kept locally, and the actor can change its behavior to external messages based on internal state -- that is to say, actors have discrete identities. The response to any particular message is nondeterministic, because it depends on what's the actor's internal state and decision process may be, and you can't really combine multiple vending machines to compose a new, super-vendor.
One thing you could do is have your day roll over at, say, noon; and then you can check in the next day instead (at the cost of having to remember what you did before noon today, until afternoon). I agree, it's not perfect.

Time travel is a tricky issue, because if you're in a party and taking part in a quest, your missed dailies hurt your party members. So if you go back and say "actually I did that thing", ideally it needs to restore health to them, after some of them might have died, etc.
I don't want to "correct you" but if I had to correct you about something
it would not be on swinging technique or the physics of a lever. I do not
think that it is a good idea to identify the best wood splitting tool in a
laboratory environment and hang a ribbon around it that says "best
survival/bushcraft tool." Obviously all survival situations are different
but there does seem to be a certain mobility component in all survival
situations. This thing is 3ft(90cm) long and 5.5lbs(2.5kg). Not my first
choice to carry that up or down a rocky incline or beat a path through
thick brush with it awkwardly strapped to my back. However you might be
able to talk me into the extra weight and bulk if it did more than one
thing. Unfortunately this thing does not do anything else, but don't take
my word for it "VIPUKIRVES™ is a special tool designed for chopping
firewood, not appropriate for carpentry [AKA felling and hewing trees] or
for use as a striking tool."[1] I love the UNIX philosophy of do one thing
and do it well, but you will notice that in resource constrained
environments the 100+ binaries from coreutils are provided by a single
small executable: busybox.

Tangent: When I was reading the description of the ax I thought it was
strange that the handle was birch instead of the hickory that I expected.
I was reminded of one of my favorite Ted Talks, "Have Broad Ax Will
Travel", by Roy Underhill. The handle is not hickory, because, according to
Roy, "they [Europeans] put their mountains on wrong, we thought ahead
because we are Americans."[2]

[1]: FAQ #3: http://www.vipukirves.fi/english/description.htm

[2]: Skip to 10:00 if you just want to know which direction to orient your
mountains. But the entire video is definitely worth a full viewing.
http://youtu.be/Au1TbIyLcPU
Design a Better SQL Database With Database Normalization
If you want to still keep whittling away at PHP code, then don't do anything.

You want to learn new languages and tools because you enjoy your job. At least I hope you do - you do this 8 hours a day.

I've worked with guys who were 20 years into their career and only knew PHP (ok ok and some C) and haven't even heard of SVN let alone something modern like Git or Mercurial. "Source Control, what's that?"

You don't want to become one of those guys when you're 50. Suddenly your job is precarious and worse than that, if you should lose your job where will you find other work?
> In fact, I'd like to see a source that doesn't advise against it.

I just gave you one :) As far as legality, there's an enormous difference between wanting to know how someone approached and what they learned from a previous career (or school, or serious hobby, etc.) and crossing the line into discrimination. It's not that difficult.
That's a good idea. Thanks man!
Of course, this was a joke more than anything. Printing the web is fine when it is needed.

I'm talking people going to a news website, printing the article, reading it and discarding the resulting paper afterward. Unless you need to annotate or use the printed articles in some of the ways you listed, you shouldn't be printing all the articles you see.
Is there a livestream of this?
"The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets, it is to protect officials." - Humphrey Appleby, "Yes, Minister"
Ah, it's good to hear that. That sort of experience and awareness is absolutely crucial.
I'm Julia, the founder of Zidisha. I'd be happy to respond to comments and questions.
Well, yeah. The above approach just means that you can (almost) always index in O(log(n)) time or better.

If you want to handle multiple encodings, you drop the length field entirely: you have an encoding field, with the different lengths of variable-length charsets internally being expanded out to different encodings.

(So, instead of having UTF-8, you have UTF-8-1-byte, UTF-8-2-byte, UTF-8-3-byte, and UTF-8-4-byte (as well as plain UTF-8). Probably internally mapped to a 16-bit enum or something. Again, this is all internal: to write out to a file or something you map it back to the underlying encoding.)
Could the GoT Poisoning Happen in Real Life? [Spoiler alert]
EngineerGuy: https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo
I've heard variations on them for some time, It's possible I or others got them from there. Thanks much for the citation.
Porque contratar un seguro de salud para embarazadas
Tu eres una persona saludable, nunca te han operado y nunca has tenido alguna enfermedad, se puede decir que eres una persona completamente saludable, pero estando embarazada no tienes que pensar porque contratar un seguro de salud, sino que tienes que tener un seguro.
What if he had a disease?
Wait, is this reservoir one of the large, open, lake-like ones? If so, aren't they already susceptible to tons of other stuff naturally getting in there, like dirt and bird shit?

What did everyone expect, that the water would just naturally stay clean?
The `Date` section says

Fri Apr, 18 2014 2:45 PM EDT — Fri Apr, 18 2014 4:00 PM EDT

But the `About` section says

... targeted to launch on April 14 at 4:58 pm EDT ...

Looks like they copied and pasted the `About` info from their last launch.
I'm an American with NZ permanent residency. I might be convinced to return there ;-)
Why would you need an empty workspace (except at the end,
which gnome provides)? Seems to make since to me.
It doesn't really "re-arrange apps" it just moves
the work spaces to fill in the empty gap.

To each their own, I guess, but I think it's related to how we mentally map our workspace. For example, I know that my code editor and shell are on workspace 2, and my time tracker and music player are on workspace 4, so it's two keystrokes to get between them. If workspace 3 were munched due to being empty (I normally use it for Github and code review), it would be __very__ jarring to be in the wrong workspace when I switched workspaces twice to the left from my last workspace.

In practice, that's not likely to happen to me often, since I leave all of my workspaces open and populated nearly all the time, but it's still an option that I would turn off if I could.
Apparently the water commissioner is running for re-election, so dumping 38m gallons of water seems safer than behaving like an adult and explaining the actual risk factor (virtually zero).

This epitomizes the flawed nature of our political system. I really think that we have far too many elected officials and not enough commissioned ones (EDIT: I should have said appointed) who can be fired or otherwise held accountable. As I age I'm more and more inclined towards technocratic government.
> Med students don't know shit. And don't do shit

That seems like a fairly blanket statement? Care to explain?
I don't understand. Paper can't navigate but you don't need navigation. Why can't the underlying vision of everything except navigation work just as well?
Cool, thanks.

re: your first comment... I'm reminded of a lot of the wikipedia pages on mathematical concepts. Sometimes I have to laugh, because they seem so high-level that only someone who already understood the domain could understand them.
Does Traceur always polyfill ES6 features, even if the browser supports them natively?
http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2833937

Edit: Actually, just checked, that might not be the case. The link in the original submission will somehow, somewhere lead to a livecast. Still checking.
That's not using the ' for anything like Rust's lifetimes, though; "'a" is just how you refer to some not-further-specified type in ML. A function to reverse a list is polymorphic in what the list contains, for instance, so it would have the type 'a list -> 'a list.
The manufacturer's website says that the axe is specifically designed to mitigate those risks.

> The Leveraxe also does not bounce wildly as might happen with traditional axe. The axe changes the kinetic energy to rotational motion and is much easier to control. It is much rarer that you would totally miss the log, because the sideways wing on top of the axe and the stopping knob beneath it ensure the axe will catch the log even if the striking edge would miss it.

> The length of Leveraxe handle (90 cm) is longer than in traditional axes. This provides more kinetic energy but is also an important safety feature. Even if the axe would continue past the log the trajectory will guide it to hit the ground before you instead of hitting your legs.

Agreed that his wood looks much drier than what one normally encounters.
Misunderstood, overrated and propagated by sophomores with a toy project, a blog and too much time?
I mean, he's for sure not the first one to pee in there, he just got spotted :)
Lynx (web browser)
I do not know if it is going to be an unpopular reply but it could be a naive reply. Firewood can also be used in wood burning stoves. Furthermore what do you and Prof. Harris recommend for camping trips?
The earlier attempt was scrubbed - this is a re-scheduled attempt.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/statuses/455798296557002752
Ask HN: How and why do you engage with Quora?
We're also collecting responses on this survey & will share results if we get any interesting/significant data:

http://bit.ly/1pdPvYT
AngularJS: The Awesome Parts
> Second, typical commercial IoT data sources are often on the order of 100TB-1PB per day

Interesting. Do you have a source on that?
50 years after the 1964 worlds fair.
Thats exactly why they keep going with CPR long after the point of calling it. If the patient presents even the slightest of signs they'll keep going and it resets the clock. I've never been involved in a 4 hour instance of this, but an hour or more is not uncommon if there is any sign of revival.
thanks brosef
What if he did? The water is already chlorinated, urine is sterile thanks to the way kidneys work, and the concentration is still on the order of billions to 1. If you want something to worry about, worry about bird poop and animal carcasses - if chlorination is good enough to deal with those, it's good enough to deal with some sick guy's water.
PourOver: Fast Filtering and Sorting of Huge Collections of Items
This is one of those things that seems common once you see it. I spent a couple years living in Prescott National Forest in northern Arizona, and split wood to warm my house. It didn't take long for a neighbor to come over and suggest a tire after watching me chase down all the wood I flung in every direction.

It seems this leveraged action (which is absolutely awesome, by the by) would necessitate the use of a tire even more. Beware of windows, cars, etc. without one.
I feel bad for your brother because I've been there. You should tell him to seriously consider taking the highest paying job he can get, as soon as he can get it, in whatever field he can. It's just a depressing slog, emotional/physical drain until he comes to that conclusion.

I'm not saying give up on your dreams AT ALL. I'm saying it's just too hard to do both simultaneously; that is, to see the world pass you by while you attempt to pursue your interests with little to no income.

I find it's much easier to do it with as clear a head as possible. Get a nice, decently-paying, steady job and then figure out what it is you're really interested in. I'm sorry but it's just too damn physically and emotionally exhausting to be broke and checking FB only to see how "successful" most of your friends/family. The "success" is something simple, as you say, as just having a job that pays well enough for you to forget about money(that is if you can budget appropriately).

After that you'll be able to really focus on creating that path to your passions. Or maybe I'm just a total square.
Is Big Tech A Bad Investment Bet?
Strange decision to go with dropbox-only, instead of letting users just upload a zip file.
"I invite the community to toss around ideas about how to protect against this. I hypothesize that it's an unsolvable problem"

I'm not sure if you would count this as a solution, but, conceivably you could "enable anonymity" at very low bandwidth ... say ... the equivalent of 9600 baud ?

This is fast enough for speech. It is not fast enough for any kind of multimedia that would be acceptable in 2014 and beyond. It might be a barrier that would cause all bad guys to use other networks, but still allow the kind of "freedom" that we're all convinced twitter gives us (and so on).
Adobe AIR supposedly handles media well. These guys offer a library, but licensing seems to be 'call us': https://github.com/yixia/VitamioBundle

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20366848
> The people who fail to do this are simply that: failures. (Though that failure isn't necessarily their fault.)

Did you just omit the second sentence so you could go on a little rant? Or did morgante edit his post?
That was my thought as well. I'm not sure what the likelihood of a disease contaminating the entire resivoir is, but regardless wouldn't the water be sterilized before it hits the tap? After all it's exposed to other wildlife.
Kiwi here - spent the first 25 years of my life in NZ (Taranaki and Wellington) but relocated to the USA (a year in the Bay Area, then just outside Seattle since 2007).

A few observations of factors that may be considered:

- Distance from markets impacts competitiveness of exports

- Distance from world / experience / culture / opportunities leads to exodus of young travelers (see "the Big OE", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_experience) and braindrain

- "Tall-poppy syndrome" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome) reduces visibility of or desire for success

- "She'll be right" culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She'll_be_right); apathetic, relaxed, or optimistic?

NZ has a very strong entrepreneurial culture but perhaps the challenges above or wrong choice of markets to target make that less effective econony-wise than it could be? There's an interesting read on that at http://pando.com/2013/05/14/number-8-wire-entrepreneurialism....
Sometimes you remove the dynamicism on purpose.
>and a beach house

Surely you mean a bach bro?
That's remarkable. I'd love to see a video of someone making a pile of wood from the chopping block. The rest of the internets probably wouldn't mind it either.
Good analysis in the article. Along another line of thought, let's hope its not especially dangerous, as many animals and birds regularly deposit waste in the reservoir. Our first instincts maybe 'eww, icky' but the system is designed to handle it. On the other hand, maybe he was a homeopathic terrorist.
Yes. We changed it.
They aren't perfect, but water treatment systems will do much to mitigate any presence of disease. There are federal and state standards and regular testing of water supplies.

(There are biological contaminants in any surface water, so you need treatment whether humans are peeing in it or not.)

Edit: Oops, they are dumping treated water. The 4 ppb in a sister comment makes a good case though.
If you were initially confused like I was, crate.io used to be the domain for an alternative Python Package Index.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1wcp93/what_happened...
'digital cameras' == 'real-time intelligence'
'film cameras' == 'non-real-time intelligence'

...not a big deal untill you imagine something like ARGUS (http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/146909-darpa-shows-off-1-...) over your country ...now THIS has good reasons to freak you out if you're in the spy business :)
It too would be diluted down to 4 parts per billion and not matter.