skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technical details about our OSS distributed key value noSQL database, Hank
I do get it. The people are irrationally pleased by the illusion of progress. Upon learning that their strategy is ineffective, executing the broken strategy should bring them no utility.
Announcing Smart Directions by Mapbox
I know ".ngo" is planning on being released at some point this year and will (supposedly) only be available to registered NGOs
You're right, it is kind of surprising. I guess the spoken takes precedence over the written somehow. There's even occasionally an incorrect "it" thrown in for good measure.
Coders I interview I ask for pseudo code. I don't care about what languages they know or don't know but how they approach a problem and how they find the solution. Many roads lead to Rome so it difficult to say, this is wrong or right or if this is even better or worse.

The best java programmer I ever hired was a truck driver who loved math. He couldn't really code when I hired him, but he knew how to organize a problem and find a solution that would work.

I've had interviews where I've been asked to write code and sometimes I did. Most of the time I just end up leaving. Most good coders are language agnostics and can figure out how to do what is necessary in whatever tool fits the situation.
I live and grew up in Taiwan. Zhuyin is a learning tool taught to all schoolchildren to teach pronunciation. It also happens to be a computer input method because everyone knows it, and the alphabet fits onto a computer keyboard. No adult regularly uses Zhuyin otherwise.

I've recently switched to using Pinyin for computer input because Zhuyin has a larger alphabet compared to Pinyin, and the Zhuyin keyboard on iOS has smaller keys to fit more characters in the same space, making it much harder to type with. The Pinyin keyboard is essentially an English keyboard that spits out Chinese.
Google is for profit, but their support open source is awesome, so I do not understand why they do not hold their promise.
Did Google acquire that? Or did they officially pull their filing?

http://domainnamewire.com/2013/03/07/google-says-it-will-mak...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/09/google_rejigs_dot_ap...
Something like this will happen and then something will happen to finally eliminate top level domains in the first place or at least remove them from display.
really easy to fix this
Wait 'till we upload ourselves in a simulation.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no
possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

- Salvador Dali
The ram usage is very high for an application of this type, if you compare it to something like Indefero [1]. The minimum requirements on the page you linked seem correct.

[1]: http://projects.ceondo.com/p/indefero/
When we do that, we lose control of the documents, we can't get at the history, we can't search them, we can't even find stuff in there,

Except SharePoint does store history and you can search it. And no need to create a second Beta1 and Beta2 folder when you can just mark documents as release = Beta1 or release = Beta2.
I'd like to see a lot more two character or short non-specific domain names. Personally, I need ".op" but just for general use I feel everyone would benefit from "theirna.me" style domains. In place of "theirname.food" or similar.

Is this just a stylistic choice on my part? Or possibly it would be too difficult to manage on the part of the registrars.
Sanctions? The ones implemented already are basically non-existent and aim only at small group of people. Sanctions in line if russia will be proven that it sent army to east Ukraine will be economic ones - freezing all arm deals, weapon-related technology exchange, allowing state owned companies to do business in EU and US and pushing towards alienating Russia in global energy scene.
It's worth noting that even Joe Armstrong, who designed Erlang, has said about Elixir: "This is good shit."

http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
Old news, see story on Donuts.inc [1] for example. Lots of people pooled money to create a gTLD registry, it is nominally free money. Cost of hosting 24 servers (one for each time zone) which can handle millions of DNS lookups per second is pretty small (like $100K/year all up, less if you use part time/contract systems folks) You can get 10G links with 100M commit pretty cheaply and if you get more traffic its because you've got more domains so that cost scales with profit. Vs $10/year so once you get 10,000 domains you're break even. Pretty easy math.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/donuts-inc...
If you watch the video, which I'm guessing you didn't, because it answered your question.

Basically the question boils down to, when a lot of things orbit the same center of mass, why do their orbits all roughly align to the same plane?
Why the music industry is trying–and failing–to crush Pandora
Sass's content Directive Use Cases
Honestly, the only thing that a local well-funded library does not give you is instant gratification like Netflix streaming. If you are willing to setup a queue and allow most content 2-4 weeks for delivery, you should not have to pay for any music, [hard|soft|comic] books, magazines, or movies on DVD.

Granted, this is also for non-current releases.

Also, you may be underestimating the legal protections that libraries have, and also the voting power (and uncanny monetary resources) of the common library patron.

I am not an expert in the subject, but it would be interesting to see recent legislation for/against library systems (budget cuts notwithstanding).
AT&T copies Google, names 100 cities where it could offer gigabit fiber
Sorry, I don't understand. There was an investigation, which found no breach of law but was damning enough for at least one senior-level resignation.

How does that equal "there was no investigation?"
Please feel free to teach that to all of the people forced to use SharePoint, who mostly don't know about that. And SharePoint's obtuse interface does not make that particularly easy to discover.
Satoshi Nakamoto's birthday Easter egg
Occultism's 'Tables of Soyga': the first cellular automaton?
I think that there is much more of a culture of admitting to things these days that would be more socially unacceptable than even back in the 90's. I also think that they are low balling it saying "Downey predicts the most likely changes between now and 2040 are that the percentage of people without a religious preference reach 25 percent. " I expect that number to be reasonably higher in the united states, it would be very interesting if it was 25% of the worlds population with out a preference in 2040.
In my opinion, text adventures can have a certain beauty
because they tell a story in simple words (for a great
example, see Photopia).

I never managed to get the appeal of Photopia. It just grated on me. Never could get the hang of Adam Cadre's style; always preferred Emily Short or Andrew Plotkin.
Yawns In a few months, nobody will remember. I'm a HUGE Github fan, but the world doesn't revolve around you, not even the tech world. We all live in a bubble here.
Aww. Based on the title and domain, I was really hoping for an analysis of the political industry.
If it's a tool used for your job I'd suggest they spent 30 minutes to learn it. Would you allow a dev to just start using Git with no training at your company? Would you cut the dev any slack if he complained about Git without bothering to learn how to use it first?
Back to Basics: Writing SQL Queries
Could be the Internet, could be the phase-out of TEL...

(For the uninitiated, yes, this is trolling.)
To an experienced software developer, any document management system is going to feel like a poor excuse for a source code control system. But many businesses live and breathe by their documents and workflows the way development teams do their source code.

It sounds like most of your complaints are about the way the processes were managed rather than SharePoint itself.
It is intuitive that exposure to a wider range of ideas than found in one's home area undermines religious faith, but interesting to have this confirmed. Anecdotally I have noticed signs of this worldwide.

The phrasing "blame on the internet" (along with college, apparently) implies a bias for religion over more agnostic views, but I guess this is NPR reporting the religionists' interpretation rather than NPR's.
> If it's a tool used for your job I'd suggest they spent 30 minutes to learn it.

By all means. How do they know when they're done learning it? It's by definition difficult to tell the difference between missing functionality and hard-to-discover functionality.
This. If you can sing along to a song, you can definitely figure out tones. It might take some associating each word with a tiny little snippet of music, but that is essentially what it is.

Re: figuring out whether your tones or speech is correct, try talking to Siri or Google voice search. I tried my French on the French Siri and it was humbling.
EDIT: Whoops, replied to the wrong comment. I meant to reply to the apparent Searle adherent.

You are going overboard in the other direction. Cochlear implants show that machines can talk to brains without an abstraction other than an electric signal. It's a long way from there to living even partly "in" a machine, but that was kind of my point.
"I know it is simple math but I think it would be pretty easy to find 1,500 companies"

Not really true (I'm in this business for a long long time). First you'd have to market to a much larger pool of companies to end up with 1500 buyers (I'll take your math to be correct for the purpose of my comment by the way..) To market to those companies will cost big dollars. How are you going to do it? Direct mail? Web ads? Pay per click?

In order to sell TLD's you have to be in the path of existing registrars that control the market. One of those of course is godaddy for example. Not easy to get shelf space there.
I appreciate the author's viewpoint, but I think he does not make an argument persuasive to opposing viewpoints. He does not address values, assumptions, and reasoning used by such opponents. The Wally quote and the talk of admired past painters using aids are helpful on a subconscious level, as they are appeals to authority and accomplishment. It would be much more persuasive to directly attack the naturalistic values of opponent. I would challenge the author to develop a more persuasive essay. If it is reasonable to extend the author's argument to cover music, then what sort of argument would he need to offer to convince others that Skrillex has the same artistic merit as Frank Sinatra, which in turn has the same artistic merit as Mozart? Going beyond even that, I would like to hear the author's opinions on algorithmically generated art, like the Mandelbrot set.
I'm one of those people the distinction is lost on. What would "hosting" involve beyond lending the office space?
It seems to me that a startup of any kind should have some sort of tagline or side bar that explains it like I'm five. If I'm not an Ops person and I come across, this, then if I can't grasp what it is or how useful it might be right off the bat, I won't recommend it to my Ops person at work, right? I understand the target audience is DevOps, but I think every startup should have a simple-yet-accurate layman's explanation on the front page. If you can't do that, maybe your service is too complicated?

This is something I think most startups miss when they do landing pages, unfortunately. Even as a frequent Hacker News reader, I have no idea what's going on... and that really shouldn't happen. :(

/rant. :)
I understand that people have bills so making a profit in not inherently evil.
For OpenDomain, the whole goal was to make sure the domains went to the best open source projects, so any thought of selling them could corrupt the vision.
I must tell you though - someone approached use years ago for one domain and had offered to pay for it, but instead I gave away for FREE, only to get SUED afterward. That made me really question my project. The only thing that kept it going was that I have been doing this for 15 years. Now Google screwed me - I should just quit the project and sell all the domains and go on with my life.
11 April 2014 GAL Asociación puntoGAL

That translates to the dot GAL association. Maybe they also make dots...with gals on them?

EDIT: Found another.

11 April 2014 CAREER dotCareer LLC

Humph.
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Thanks for the comprehensive comment.

I completely agree on the discussion here and that Piketty has struck a nerve. I was just a bit annoyed that no one was even attempting to claim actual knowledge of the book at hand, but was ready to make statements on its content, without any kind of qualifier (really, all I wanted). I have a feeling this is going to be one of those books whose influence, at least in discussion, will be greater than expected given the people in those conversations who didn't read it. I have found it an easier read than I expected though. Right now I alternate between it or Infinite Jest each night, which is a really nice change of pace in either direction.

I got the ebook on my tablet to just speed through in bed, but I've realized this is going to be one I'll need a physical copy of eventually to annotate. Thanks for the link to your subreddit, I've subscribed.
When I discovered it, I hadn't done much interactive fiction for a while, and for some reasons it really got to me. I had no idea what to expect going in, and the experience of exploring it, even if it's essentially non-interactive, was enlightening. I loved when it occurred to me to type "fly". It was liberating. Like all good art, the experience it gave me is essentially incommunicable.
It was also tried before finding the opposite result, when cable companies repackaged broadcast signals and transported them for a fee, in arguably much closer precedents:

Teleprompter Corp. v. CBS, 415 U.S. 394 (1974) [1]

Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc. - 392 U.S. 390 (1968) [2]

Unlike the Zediva case, these were actually heard at the Supreme Court (but they are also old, decided before some important cable bills and copyright act modifications).

Eh, seemingly conflicting precedents are, of course, why we are at this stage.

[1] http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=case&...

[2] http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/392/390/

EDIT: links.
If you haven't read already, check this: https://medium.com/p/d96f431f4e8e

She did a lot of wrong things:

- Dating a coworker is not one of the best practise.

- gossiping around about your co-workers/founders character is the also not the best thing to do.

- If you write shit code, your code will be removed. She is definitely not known for her coding abilities. She is just a melodrama queen who is bad at heart, opportunist, blackmailed founder to poison the company atmosphere.

- You can create a healthy workspace shouting "Women Women" every time. We work with women too. Our behaviour and respect is based on compassion and professionalism. They are just like any other person in the company.

- The real story must have been that she is a bad/mediocre developer who was being reviewed which didn't turned out pretty well (Obv since she was busy bitching against coworkers). The only good way she had to abuse and insult the company publically , get sympathy and then a Job. She seems to have good PR skills. (Pun intended)

Again, here are some of her recent tweets:

https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/458347574672388096
https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/458345005866696704
I concur. I loved the Functional Programming Principles in Scala course and recommend it to everyone I can. However, I'm not at all sold on the Reactive Programming course.

Erik Meijer's lectures -- at least in the first iteration of the course; maybe they've gotten better -- were riddled with errors, confusing exercises, and an overall lack of coherence with the rest of the course. It pains me to say this because Erik seems like a cheerful guy and I really wanted to like his lectures, but they are a mess.

Even Roland Kuhn's lectures, which are pretty good and a lot clearer than Erik's, didn't manage to sell reactive programming to me. One glaring problem was that the actor model seems to throw away most of Scala's static type checking, which we had learned on the previous functional course. Suddenly it's ok to pass whatever message to actors in a way that seems closer to dynamic typing.
I think there will be regions where it will be much higher (the south, bible belt, etc), but there are parts of this country where it will also be much lower (New England/the west coast). If immigration is opened up at the farm labor/blue collar end of the skill spectrum, there will likely be an up tick in religious observance in areas that might otherwise trend downward (California).
They are making some serious money from this scheme. Google alone has spent $18.6 million on registration fees of its 101 different new gTLD.
Sure, but this can only be appreciated if the relationship is large enough to have an explicit non-changeable contract and routine auditing. From any lone consumer's point of view, "cloud" providers are black boxes that will probably try to limit the damage a rogue employee can do, but any methods or promises can change overnight based on business needs.
I'll play it safe, and make sure he doesn't read that letter. ;-)
Would issues of faith - by definition, those things you can't see or prove - require homogeneity? Pinpricks of doubt would likely erode such delicate beliefs. In a connected world, where you can interact with those who don't look like you or have your experience, it seems those pinpricks would be easier to come across.
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I think I know what you mean, and I disagree. It's an illusion to think that any practice (including tech) is non-partisan -- tech influences policy and policy influences technology. Every company functionally has a political allegiance, even if it's not specifically acknowledged, and the unwillingness of SiV companies to acknowledge this publicly hurts everyone.

This doesn't eliminate opportunities, but creates them -- funding a conservative incubator now becomes a potentially viable business plan.
Where can I start registering name with the new LTD? I am really interested in .foo and .ing
Absolutely true. Almost everything in an extreme fashion is toxic.
The landing page hasn't dislodged me from my dinosaur ways.

Possible weekend project idea -- startup landing pages for the common man. A service to crowdsource/automate (and then index) the translation of buzz to something at least your or I understand in 5-10 seconds, a more lay person, say 30 seconds.
Yes, this is a common rhetorical tactic used to dismiss the opinions of women when they address issues of sexism publicly. Thank you for demonstrating this disingenuous method of discourse so ably.
Comcast Response To Netflix's Opposition To Time Warner Cable Transaction
Ask HN: What should I read this summer?
I'm looking to compile a reading list for this summer, and I'm sure other HNers would love to have a list of suggestions from the community.

I'll read just about anything, so what are some of your favorite books, both fiction and nonfiction?
The long wait for clownpenis.fart is over!
>Photorealistic paintings are impressive because they aren't photographs.

I think this is the fundamental difference of opinion between people who think you can "cheat" in art, and people who don't.

I would argue that judging the quality of art based on the difficulty of producing it betrays a shallow appreciation of art. A person who says that is basically saying "I have no basis on which to judge this other than whether or not I could have produced it myself."

This is why you'll see a lot of overlap between people who sneer at "cheating" and people who dismiss things like modern art and found art as "not art".

In other words, the two groups are essentially using different definitions for the word "art".
Of course you're right, but I actually thought the strength of the course was that it teaches you FP first, Scala later. Scala I'm still undecided about, but I loved FP.
Lot's of non-R&D enterprises scrape up some dollar figure they can semi-plausibly call R&D in order to get tax incentives. Often that does not resemble what people here would call R&D any more than getting paid not to plant resembles farming.
Really weak result. One factor over a short time period in a single country without throwing in the dozens of other variables? This is exactly the sort of result you expect to go away in subsequent time periods. (Also, the OP's confusion about correlation/causation in the hilarious bit about logistic regression certainly doesn't increase my confidence in this result.)
I changed the url from [1] to the article it cites, which is more substantive. But should we link to the actual paper [2] instead?

1. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/21/303375...

2. http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5534
This seems like a good time to mention that 50% of the problem is the overcomplexity of TLS itself not necessairly OpenSSL...
> Dutch is known for being one of the hardest languages to learn

My understanding is that Dutch is actually one of the easiest languages for native English speakers to learn.
Or that they need more toilets.
Scala is a code smell
I think the main problem with these articles is that the examples given are exceedingly simplistic, and hence in no way represent real world build systems. It's very easy to have a build system look nice and clean for trivial examples, when it breaks down is when the software it builds gets more complicated and the number of hacks and extra code is added making the build system into a big mess.
The registration limitations can be arbitrary. For example, I was excited to see that my city had signed up for a domain, but in the application they say the domain will be closed from public use and that they will delegate names only to official departments of the city.

But I guess if you are planning to make a commercial operation around a gTLD, its best to let anyone register.
This happens time and time again. 'Band Aid' - a generation ago - was a 'product', i.e. a record with concerts and sport events. They did not invite anyone from Africa to be performing on the record or at the concert - an oversight. The money went to the war lords, the starving were patronised, the food rotted in the harbour, Bob Geldof made millions from the career uplift and everyone felt smug about doing good. It should have been seen as a scandal, but no, we did not want to hear that. Someone will point out to you someone - they don't know their name - who owes their survival to Saint Bob and portray you as worse than Hitler for criticising.

Design is one lens to look at what happens, an interesting lens at that, however, the bigger picture is told all the time with things like Band Aid.
The numbers here are actually not alarming, even positive.

In every human population there is a small percentage of people with some ideology that makes them inclined to do harm to others. 3700 anti-black incidents, 1100 anti-semitic, in the US - the population is about 300+ million. The hater-attacker percentage is something like 1 to 3 x 10^-5. That is tiny!

Of course it is deplorable that we have this much, and undoubtedly it implies a larger percentage who are hateful but not crazy enough to attack people. Still it does not seem a crisis. The situation has improved greatly in the US, I think other places have worse problems of this kind (e.g. see waps on this page).
Hey! This is great! I can fill my C++ code with statefull functors and lazy evaluation. The enemy shall not pass. No one will ever be able to debug it. Instant job security.

Seriously. I like experiments, but just keep this away from production code.