skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
M-Disc BD is doing the right thing by being readable by common consumer drives, though -- I'd be a lot more optimistic about finding or salvaging a BD drive to read some discs in 50-100 years, since even just the PS3 shipped in big enough volume that there will be some forgotten somewhere, than any specialty formats.

The NASA tapes problem (where they couldn't find drives) is definitely a concern on longer time scales. USB seems widespread enough, too.

It would be cute if someone made a self-contained archival device with display, designed for 100+ year lifespan. Solar powered (although generally external power is a simple enough interface that as long as specs are given, it shouldn't be too hard to recreate), multi-language, redundant, etc. Ideally with periodic integrity checks, a duplication function, etc. built in.

Seems kind of like an Internet Archive project, or OLPC or something.
Wait ... did Elon mention building a spaceport in Brownsville, TX? I can see how that would work well for GEO and GTO launches. That's an interesting breakdown for launch manifests:

- FL, 39a: the NASA launches

- FL, 40a: the DoD launches

- TX: the GEO launches

- CA: the polar launches (Vandenberg)

It is interesting, that by bringing the lawsuit, Elon is essentially saying "hey! how come the block buy deal magically appeared only now that a viable competitor exists?"
I'm currently developing a website, Longboxed (http://www.longboxed.com), that helps users build virtual pull lists, keeping them up to date with the latest releases.

The comic industry needs more of this. There is a wealth of information out there, nearly all of which is user created. Its nice to see Marvel offering this.

I'm very interested in seeing what people make with this. Now let's pester DC, Image, Dark Horse, etc to get on the bandwagon!
Have you checked out Hired yet? We're currently searching for a VPE, and some of our clients have started to use us to look for directors as well (still much less common than engineers or PM, but may be worth a try). We've had 1 director-level hire this month and several more in the works. http://join.hired.com/x/MF3ypl if you don't already have an account.
Anyone know what they're using to generate this page? http://developer.marvel.com/docs
GoLang SF Meetup Group Tech Talk Recordings
Looks like just metadata - characters, series, events - I was just a tad disappointed that event didn't have a "event date" which constituted a date that the event occurred in. Such a date would allow construction of a marvel-verse wide timeline.
I'm a bit confused. Whenever I've used git on my projects, I'd make sure the binaries were excluded, using .gitignore

Don't other people do that, too? What's the benefit of having binaries stored? I've never needed that; I've never worked on any huge projects, so I might be missing something crucial.
Needs a crossover endpoint that takes a url (and schema) for another universe's API
We're using Phabricator at my company, and I'm getting to the point of encouraging people to use it and start seeing the benefits. I work on infrastructure, so when people come to me with issues, I find out what problem they're having and then get them to submit a ticket to me. I've also started creating tickets for issues and assigning them to other people to get them to take a look at it, and people seem pretty receptive.

It hasn't become part of everyone's workflow yet, but it's pretty useful.
Swagger: https://helloreverb.com/developers/swagger
They have their own in-house version of just about every dev tool. http://phabricator.org/
While having access at all is nice, the terms of use are prohibitive and somewhat heavy handed. They basically say you can make something, but can't charge for it in any way, you can't create a mash-up (no augmentation of data) and if it works out, Marvel will probably implement it for themselves anyway. Not really as 'open' as you might hope.

The following default rules apply to all Apps:

Advertising. No advertising or sponsorship of any kind may appear on or be associated with any App (unless included in the Content made available by Marvel).

No Charge. All Apps must be offered free of charge to download or otherwise access and may not contain any in-App purchase features or any other method of monetization, unless approved in writing by Marvel pursuant to a separate written agreement as described below.

...

NO PRESS RELEASES. You may not issue any press release or make any public statement about the Marvel API (and related Content), Tools, the inclusion of any of the foregoing in any Apps (yours or others') or these API Terms of Use without Marvel's prior written approval.

...

Use of our Content. You may not change or edit the Content (e.g., modify, augment).

...

You understand and acknowledge that Marvel may be independently creating applications, content and other products or services that may be similar to or competitive with your App, and nothing in these API Terms of Use will be construed as restricting or preventing Marvel from creating and fully exploiting such applications, content and other products or services now or in the future, without any obligation to you.
The KKK, like Eich, is motivated by hatred for what certain people are, not what they do. They may claim otherwise but nobody with a three-digit IQ believes them.

If you think your argument through a bit further, I'm sure you'll see the distinction.
To be honest, I like the idea of it to some degree (very minor), but knowing me I probably wouldn't actually use it. I don't even go in to check which services I've granted access to via Twitter, Facebook, or my Google account.

That said, I already use a password manager so I don't believe I'm the target audience for the purpose behind this app. Truthfully at most, I'd maybe look at it once and never bother again. But even then I probably wouldn't if it required me to punch in my password to check. This is especially true for people who use unique passwords.
Do people have a hard time sitting alone at a restaurant table for 2+? More often than not I prefer to eat lunch alone; it's my time to think, wind down, escape from my constant interacting with others at work, and fully enjoy my meal without distractions. I've never felt uncomfortable or have been treated differently for eating alone. I do it almost every day. It's an experience that's been achievable for some time now and I'm having a hard time understanding why this is noteworthy. It's OK to eat alone, anywhere, maybe except at grandma's on Thanksgiving.
It would be possible to use hardware virtualization features to emulate the different memory layout and hardware MMIO. I would predict that most of the bottleneck is going to be in GPU emulation and the like, so I don't think it would help that much. The greater control and precision of software emulation for the CPU would make quite a bit of sense.
Just to be clear, it is not their goal to reuse rockets that are soft-landed in the ocean. This particular attempt was to prove that they could make the rocket slow to zero meters/sec at the surface of the ocean, with it upright. Which they did.

Their next attempt will be to target a smaller radius, to prove their aiming accuracy. Finally, after a couple more ocean landings (with possible recovery for analysis purposes), they will attempt to land on dry ground. To do this, they need to prove they can set down within a 1-mile radius. But they believe they should have the same precision of a helicopter.

After this, they are aiming for same-day reusability.
Via John Carmack's twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/459728407169728512
SSMEs ignited 6.67s before launch. From memory, a lot of aborted launches were due to some sensor reading an error with one of the SSMEs.
It's not the move per-se, just that AMZN has previously been impervious to (or even benefited from) unprofitable quarters and missed wall st. estimates.

Unless there's another reason for this sell-off, it means perhaps Amazon's teflon-coating when it comes to it's profit-aversion might be wearing a bit thin.

That's a shift.
http://i.imgur.com/mpTyLyu.jpg
Company I did a contract for last year has 8MB of (Java) source code and a 52MB SVN repo and make £40 million a year out of it...

We're doing something wrong.
The USAF buys a launch, not the rocket itself. The recovered stages belong to SpaceX.
All: this post was killed by user flags. Although it seems like an elaborate troll, we've unkilled the post so those who find the discussion productive can continue it.

We're killing other posts from this domain as duplicates.
This was fun to jump through - if I didn't immediately 'feel' the answer after reading the question, I wrote it down because clearly that's a problem issue for me/my product.
Source of that page seems to point to "Swagger UI":

https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-ui

http://swagger.wordnik.com/
> It's always seemed strange to me how many people seem to think that the right way to solve discrimination is with more discrimination, just in the opposite direction.

Is that as strange as believing that ignoring a problem will make it go away? Because the only alternatives I can see to "Actively try to attract more of the underrepresented group" are "Do nothing about the gender inequality" — which obviously won't fix it — and "Try to push away more of the overrepresented group," which is not what anyone wants.

Also, your use of the word "discrimination" here is a bit odd. It seems to imply that men are being excluded from tech by these programs, which is demonstrably not the case.
They never said it was open, so I don't see the problem, unless you readily associate "API" with "open".
No chance of winning that but they can make a lot of noise about it to draw attention to it.
really amazing find!
Thanks for bringing this out in the community, maybe by getting more exposure facebook will have to do something about this
'Concussive orthophrenology' might convey more of the prestige that could get these diruptive treatments into the top journals.
Re: What can men do?
Because the client is generally more concerned with getting a favorable outcome in the lawsuit than on the fee and a lawyer willing to charge a smaller fee is a signal that they will be less likely to achieve a favorable outcome.

It's the same reason that you don't see a lot of price competition for real estate brokers (though this is changing some).

I'm not saying this is a great reason, but I do thin it is the reason.
As a Sales Director, I would often tell my guys, a six-month old can capture the market., if you would eliminate your profit. But that is not what you are hired for. or in our local phrase 'neither we will play nor we let any'. I love Amazon as a consumer, but as a sales person myself I know, what they are. They offer 40% wholesale margin to a retail customer for books. How many wholesalers and retailers they brought to death? but the even more tragic part is, they didn't earn any money themselves. They obviously succeeded in capturing the entire market, but so could my six month old too.

My experience tells me which is no brainer, death (exit) of such a company is only matter of time, and when such a vendor dies, rest of the market lives on as they were living before this episode.
Two-line music player
Sounds interesting. I will create an account and add my profile.

Thx
That link only shows results for a SELECT COUNT(1) query -- hardly evidence that its "faster than Impala". That's about as trivial a benchmark as one could imagine.
out of curiosity, why were (and if so, why?) you committing node_modules and the bower destination dir.?
That link is not telling me a lot
I appreciated the PSA.
fMRI imaging while undergoing their savant-based tasks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_i...
Elon Musk's SpaceX Sues Government to Protest Military Launch Monopoly
I've never had that problem. My recommendation would be to not use it on Mongoose objects, then.
I don't think the analysts have any idea how to predict what AMZN is going to do.
Yes, always. And if you don't believe me, it's not my trick. I learned it from Dennis Ritchie (he was thinking about a C to Limbo converter).
Obviously, educating all young people about computer science and technology is great. However, providing specialized groups and targeting minorities in the field is a great way to provide those folks with mentors and people they can look up to. It's nice when you can see someone like yourself who made it to the top of their field. Sometimes that is hard to see if you're a minority.

I am a female programmer and started really young. In 7th grade, I remember being afraid that people would find out I liked computers and had a website. I was afraid of standing out and being labeled a nerd. I didn't know any girls who liked computers and probably wouldn't have signed up for a program that wasn't specifically for girls. Being a kid in middle school is a tricky time and having a safe environment to learn and be yourself around like minded people can make a big difference.

To this day, I still feel quite a bit more comfortable at women coding events than tech talks where I am one of 3 women with 100 guys. I definitely think specialized groups can provide a more conducive place for learning when you're in a minority group. I think calling it discrimination is a bit short sighted.
Somehow I think taking over Crimea is more than petty flag waving to the people who live there. I'd ask for more empathy for those whose lives may be irrevocably damaged by the actions of the Russian Head of State.
Well, by doing I meant physical/mental group activities. Games, sports, building something, learning something new etc.
I have never told someone about this, but the opposite happened to me. I had been tested because I was different than any other child of my age. And was diagnosed with a very high IQ (you can guess how many friends I had), but after I was attacked and hit heavily at my head by some russians without a reason (for their pleasure), I have lost most of my ability to think as fast as before. I was in coma for 2days at the local hospital and have no memory of what happened, except of what friends told me. I can't explain how life depressing that was for me, but almost 7y later, I started to gain a little in my speed of thought. However I'll probably never be that smart again and it feels like a big loss to me. I'm still quite talented, but nothing comparable to before the attack.
Tables for one... you mean desks? They're eating on desks?
That was an interesting watch, even as a foreigner. The ULA representative did everything he could to defend their contract - a 'good' politicians as it seems. He responded pretty well to Feinstein's chart I have to say - a chart with cost per ton in orbit would have been much more informative and I couldn't deduct from her numbers whether that has actually gone up significantly. Musk's response to Shelby's remark on a partial SpaceX mission failure was very witty - "according to ULA's standard's this mission was perfect" - he seems to be very good at thinking on the foot.
So does this mean that the problems will be addressed? Or is settling a way of avoiding this?
Gobot also has sister libs in Ruby and Node! I have used the Ruby one a bit and it's a ton of fun. I've had a bear of a time with the bluetooth support under Ubuntu though. I guess I need to try Gobot with my Sphero ASAP.

Ron Evans (One of the gobot devs from the blog post linked in beliu's post) was also named a Ruby Hero a few days ago. He was tremendously inspiring in this podcast on teaching kids to program [1]. I dug it so much I wound up demoing a sphero and a "talking fruit keyboard" at a local career day a few months after I heard him.

[1] http://rubyrogues.com/141-rr-teaching-kids-with-ron-evans
A fast, parallel backtracking algorithm for n-queens implemented in Rust
Seismic is 40 or 50% loss. Catastrophic is 70 or 80%. Complete sell off is 90%.

8% is one major mutual fund that needs its stocks to have certain ratios and profit margins had to do a sell off and technical traders went with the falling knife.
Apart from the gender, plagiaristic issue, I think Jef Atwood really needs to learn about analogies. He was trying to conflate Autism with Sexism in his post.(And did you know that autism skews heavily towards males at a 4:1 ratio?)

In the post about Aaron Swartz, he compared that to rage-quitting, even though he stated that he "understands depression is a serious disease".
What the hell do I do?–Stuck at the "What I do" page
No, it's the reinforcement of social order that predates manners.
2X the size of what? The raw files? Assuming little shared data, sure. But svn will make two copies of every file too.
It seems obvious to me that there are good reasons we should want more women in tech. I just don't think we should expect things to be so different once that is the case, we'll still have (most of) the same shitty problems. It's a worthy goal, because we should have all kinds of people in our field, and they should not feel excluded or unwelcome. But I doubt things will be any better, we will continue to have the same sorts of recurrent problems… just with more women.
A new dark-comedy explores a different side of New York's upcoming borough
I don't see how this is an Ant-specific issue. Ant is just calling into javac with a classpath parameter. The actual execution time spent in Ant should be minimal.
So I accidentally had IIS running default port which serves up an asp project I have. I don't know how to close the "window" inside the iOS app to type in a different IP/path. Not seeing any docs/guide to using either.

edit: Ended up having to delete the app, reinstall, grab the correct port from the [cordova serve] command and then it worked.
>> Any flashcart that works today is likely to be rendered a brick by an upcoming software update.

IIRC, some of the flashcarts have an Emunand feature that lets you play games requiring a newer version (i.e, 6.x) on a 3DS without updating your firmware from 4.x (4.x is required to support the current crop of flashcarts)
> I subscribe to your ebook mailing list, would be awesome to have a update about the pdf through that funnel!

That's one of the main reasons the list exists. :) The day the books are ready, you'll know.
Character Encodings For Modern Programmers
As a former AMZN'er I find that hard to believe.

The company is cheap - it's in the bones. There is no way the company would ever agree to give more of it's loot over to employees if it wasn't forced to via regulation.

Now, Google's "GSU" programme does have an adjustment that is based on company, personal and stock performance via a magical formula that only HR/management knows.
Thanks for the response. The more discussion, the more the idea seems "fun" but in the end "trivial". The ultimate solution to this problem (if you can call it one) is to just start using a password manager.

I appreciate the honesty of HN before trying to build out something that no one would use. I'll keep the ideas coming.
Ever been to an old-style American diner? They also have counters where you can eat by yourself. Counter tables in restaurants are not unique to Japan.

There are also night market food stands which are popular in Taiwan and overseas Chinese communities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_market
> It was incredibly motivating to me. A weird side effect is that I now have a scanner in my Amazon shopping cart. Once it arrives, I will start a chain where I doodle something every day, scan it and post it online.

This is awesome!

I used to draw (hence the hand-drawn illustrations in the book), but it's one of the many hobbies that didn't make the cut after I had kids. As someone who spends way too much time staring at a screen, there's something really therapeutic about actually working with my hands in an analog medium.
Putting routing logic in Nginx seems like a architecture smell to me.
capitalism, get used to it.
I would not have anticipated all of those and I appreciated the heads up. If you're offering an API to the public at large like this, yes, I would default towards assuming it was relatively open barring notice to the contrary. When you make it really easy to start sending requests and bury all the terms in conditions in fine print, that's something of an anti-pattern.

Especially when talking about the kind of API most likely to be used by clever teenagers on a fansite.
How about just "because disregarding/discouraging half of our potential talent means half the geniuses, half the coding buddies and work friends, half the workhorses and half the inspirations. It is a virtual certainty that in those millions of missing engineers is a software revolution we never rode. We are all missing shoulders to stand on, and see less far as a result.".

Even if you disregard the engineering shortage, doubling the pool and taking the to half dramatically shifts the curve of ability and passion of our workmates. We're all missing out.
Thanks! Moving to Seattle was weird: I felt like it was the place I'd always wanted to live even though I barely even knew it existed until a few years ago.
See my response to the other responder for further specification.

I'm an extremely questionable source. Amazon's "Frugal" was certainly everywhere, which is why I remember being surprised by seeing those terms in the performance bonuses.
> I also find Shanley's demeanor extremely rude, off-putting and counterproductive to a discussion on any topic.

Linus Torvalds is even worse according to your definition of bad demeanor. Would you say that this helps or hurts his advocacy?
This seems no different from "regular" recruiters. They:
a. cannot evaluate candidates properly.
b. focus only on placing bodies, appropriately or not.
c. use a limited and inaccurate set of criteria to search for a fit (see a.)

The entire recruiting business seems bogus.
A cool thing about the API is that it returns both normalized and denormalized foreign entities. (E.g if I query a character, it will return a reference to an endpoint to query all that character's comics AND it will return the total number of comics). It saves a lot of time for aggregation.

I used that data a few months ago to create a chart of the most popular Marvel characters: http://i.imgur.com/KVAT3Xn.png

Code for retrieving the data here: https://github.com/minimaxir/all-marvel-comics-characters (I have absolutely no idea if this still works)
20Neon	=	16Oxygen	+	4Helium
24Magnesium	=	20Neon	+	4Helium
32Sulfur	=	28Silicon	+	4Helium
36Argon	=	32Sulfur	+	4Helium
--Looks like it's not possible to turn Mg into anything?
When this conversation came up on Reddit a while back, someone made the same point as you, and I replied (more or less) this back then too:

These terms apply to the free usage of their API.

I have no doubt that if you had a good idea that monetized their API data well, and you wanted to do things not allowed by this default license agreement, you could reach out to them and get a different license that allowed you to charge money and/or do more, probably in exchange for a revenue sharing or something.

Since this is a new(ish) service, they are probably not actively promoting a paid option while they hammer out any bugs or issues in v1 (since the SLA for paying customers is likely more involved).

Obviously this is all speculation, but just because this is the license displayed on the site doesn't mean it's the only license they are prepared to offer.
I prefer to read them as PDF's on my computer monitor. Most of the times, I will either follow along or write simple code snippets to reinforce things and I find it annoying to keep bouncing from hardcopy/tablet to the computer so often. I never really get any eye strain, though I do have horrible vision for what it is worth.