skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really have much else to say about this, except that I definitely didn't take "applications" to mean Flappy Birds, because that seems ridiculous. Obviously the guy who they introduced as crying at the end of a Tesla biography doesn't want to spend his life making mobile games.

> Maybe, but starting that discussion means that we'll probably start talking about "high/low" standards, and I try not to think like that.

I was thinking more in terms of the entertainment/pragmatism scale. I think this is good writing more because it made me go "wow, I enjoyed reading that", whereas it seems like you're coming from more of a "this was kinda lame because some of the things they said were questionable" standpoint. Nothing wrong with that, but if we didn't recognize it we'd be yelling at each other for hours.
That's important for the many millions who haven't ventured beyond the "TV model". They don't grasp (and don't want to) anything other than "turn on TV, change to channel X". The "watch what you want when you want" then becomes an extension of the standard model, instead of something fearfully (to them) different.
Apropos nothing, but the Catholic Church not only acknowledges Galileo but also apologized for its treatment of him (which is a bit weird, given that it involved people in 1992 apologizing for the actions of people in 1610; let he who is without a culpable relative in the last four hundred years cast the first stone).

In 12 years of Catholic school I never once heard a priest, nun, deacon, or teacher aver to any deficiency in Galileo's work. He was presented to students as a hero of science, as one would expect.
I think you're understating the capabilities of sql databases. Stackoverflow runs off a single dedicated ms sql server machine: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an...
On Mobile, Facebook Has Moves Like Jagger
When we chew, our body sends a signal to our stomach that it's time to start digesting food.
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> I noticed this with someones blog post and then a Slate article. Other than making people think its a new link, if its on the front-page, doesn't that mean it gained traction in its original form?

This outcome might mean that the article won recognition before someone (a moderator or the original submitter) noticed an error that merits correction.

For example, yesterday, someone posted an article about "Stephan Wolfram" that ended up on the front page. That's not the man's name, which means text-based search won't find the submission, which means it's lost to Google and posterity. To me, regardless of what score the submission has, such as error merits correction.

Also, some titles are correctly seen as linkbait, a term that means misleading or sensationalist titles meant to appeal more to emotion than intellect. Those also deserve correction.

If I saw an error in a submission I had made, I would correct it even if it was riding high on the front page. In fact, I would take that as a good reason to fix things.
This article cuts off partway.
ThoughtWorks first released the commercial product that would become Go in 2008. It was rebranded later, shortly after the public announcement of Golang. Yes, it was a confusing move, but at the time there was no reason to believe that a programming language might conflict with a continuous delivery tool. Golang has produced a large and robust community, so of course it's confusing now. But it didn't come out of nowhere.
"Anyway, that's besides the point. This "old" blog hints at something sort of hypocritical or schizophrenic about startup culture."

I had a similar thought just reading the title. But then again, as the CEO of Motorola said when I worked there,
"Everyone is coin operated to some extent".
Yeah, the Dynamo paper is very clear about the rationale behind creating DynamoDB and its usage:

- downtime (lack of availability) is very expensive to them, both directly and also reputationally

- traditional ACID stores don't scale with writes whereas an eventually consistent store can achieve this

So I completely agree with you in short: Amazon have great reasons to pursue approaches based on eventual consistency.
In addition to that, the digestion process of complex carbohydrates begins with enzymes in your saliva.
Why Consumers Won't Pay for Productivity Apps
I think you are too emotionally involved or don't play poker and missed the reference. If Google+ is now a feature that divisions can choose to integrate or not, it's not table stakes.

No silo of Google gets to choose whether to be secure or not or what level of scalability or whether they'll decide to be profitable or not.
UPS is already using Natural Gas/Diesel hybrid engines for runs between SoCal and Vegas.
Congrats to the ThoughtWorks team! Go is a great product, and its open-sourcing is a very welcome move.
Life Inside the New Minimum Wage Economy
Umm, then he should release the video.
Envirius – Universal Manager Virtual Environments
I kind of doesn't, at least for me.

And also Facebook seams to have no idea what I want to see.
As all I see when I log in is mostly stuff about people I don't know. I would much rather see everything and filter it myself.
You don't necessarily see every policy initiative a President tries to undertake. Often, policy initiatives begin in private consultation between executive staff, legislators, lawyers, and lobbyists. Sometimes, it becomes clear from those private consultations that the policy initiative cannot succeed. When that happens, it typically doesn't serve the President to publicly proclaim that failure.

So it's quite possible (and I believe probable) that the Obama administration tried to do net neutrality, but ran into some kind of wall before the policy went very far.
A few years ago, I came up with a similar proposal, though more specifically aimed at making callbacks easier to manage. It was a simple syntax extension, as opposed to new semantics for the language.

You would write this:

var! x = expression;
statement;
statement;

And JavaScript would parse it as:

return expression.then(function(x) {
statement;
statement;
});

This is obviously shamelessly pilfered from monadic syntax 'let!' in F#, and my own 'let!' extension in OCaml.
Chewing something that also causes you to salivate makes your stomach produce more acid in preparation for digesting whatever it is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3376919
Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL?
that worked. I'd probably feel comfortable if there was just a disclaimer that said you don't store credentials on the login page. I'm probably too trusting but I like it when product designers are thoughtful enough to explain what is done with credentials/data.
I think it's worth keeping the question narrow in order to keep discussion focused on the topic at hand. Other countries have different sets of laws around elected officials, lobbying, campaign contributions and so on that probably give rise to somewhat different behavior for different reasons. I don't think that focus implies that the US has the least-trustworthy politicians.
They should have used Barley or quinoa. They are much healthier than rice, and tastier too.
Oh, by the way, if by µctf you're referring to µcorruption (our MSP430 CTF), that was Square, not Stripe. :)
How do you do that?
I paid. I had no intention of paying until I realised Vodafone Spain charged me 80 cents (euro cents) for a text to my Mum in the UK. A text conversation between us had cost me 8Euros, and some of them were just yes / no replies. After that Whatsapp seemed like a bargain.
> I was a child so I had no end goals. I hated their weakness and wanted to make them suffer.

Thank you for sharing your perspective. I know you already regret your past, but I just don't understand why anyone would ever think this is the right thing to do. I'm pretty sure my 6 year old daughter knows better than this. It is probably genetic. I think the thing missing here is empathy and there is evidence linking genes and ability to feel empathy.
Obama, like most politicians Obama likes to lie, a lot. That said I don't completely blame him on this since it's not his jurisdiction. Could he have done more to support net neutrality? of course, but it's not something that was directly under his control. Obama has broken a lot of other promises over far more serious things that were directly in his control so this is a drop in the bucket in my opinion.
Possibly upsell to some premium set of services, or branch out into other business lines. E.g., Amazon's not just a bookstore any more.

Simple phone messaging, not likely.

But where does phone messaging lead to?

• Other comms services (voice, voicemail, teleconference, video). There's room for improvement in all of these. Look at the one stand-out from G+: Hangouts.

• Sales or transactions. From text messaging to commerce-via-text is a step. Or banking. Both are directly monetized.

• Some level of community-based information service with a commercial component. I've long wondered why more of the social networks haven't gone here.

Or, of course, "get bought by Facebook".
The strategy equally weights the stock sectors in the S&P 500
using ETFs. In a rising stock market this would incur capital gains taxes in a taxable account. If you are saving regularly, you could direct your new investments towards the sectors that have underperformed to get closer to equal weighting without selling the outperforming sectors.
This is extremely inspiring. I've been on a streak ever since I read John Resig's post and your comments about your book. I'll be writing code for my side project every day, at least 30 mins. I don't know what it is ... But I'm really freaked out of breaking the chain, it keeps me really motivated. I love it.
hmm I tried doing that but I dont think it worked...maybe I didnt do it right...any suggestions?
It does look very nice.

How adjustable is it? I could be wrong but from the pics it looks like it only slightly adjusts so you can get you standing height just right. It does not appear to adjust from standing height to sitting height.
I get the broad idea.

Actually I never went to the re union with those memories at all. But when I saw the person, I just recalled everything that happened back then.

>>Years later, you still care enough that hurting the bully made you feel good

Sorry but I never did anything to the bully, but he did it to himself. Instead of spending his time studying or making good use of the time in some meaningful way, his plan of action was pull down others.

That can work once or twice, with some helpless people. But life itself is a bigger problem, and you can't bully life. The fact that most bullies end up in prison or with permanent problems with anger and people issues. And then land up in life long economic misery, is a self infliction.

I some how get a feeling that most bullies realize the futility of physical power in a world where power and money hold the key to success. And then also realize its the innocent looking nerds who are likely to win big. There fore try to pre-screw/pre-revenge them for the likely outcome they will face in the future: "Ending up doing small time jobs for nerds themselves".
> Mentally ill people aren't expected to become famous billionaires -- it's just not part of the social expectation.

Mental illness basically means durable patterns of behavior well outside of those expected of the majority of the population that causes adverse impacts in some areas of life. Honestly, I'd be pretty surprised if there weren't particular forms of it that were disproportionately common at the high as well as low end of the social heirarchy, though the adverse impact at the high end probably would be in areas that don't relate to social status.
What Would Happen If Google Really Did Kill Google+?
The story from a different perspective: on my old project, there was a bus factor of 1...and I was that 1.

When I was a new college hire, I thought that would be a good situation. And while it has its perks, it also has many downsides. But the biggest one came when I decided it was time for me to move on.

I wanted to stay with the company and move to a new project. It seemed like a great fit, the new project wanted me...but the director of the old organization told me I had to stay responsible for the old product for 3-6 months before I could formally transition. I had to basically threaten to quit in order to have that number reduced.

If you are in this situation, make sure that either the company is working to increase the bus number and give you some more resources or that the company realizes your importance and compensates you accordingly. I didn't quite realize that my employer saw me as being the critical engineer until after trying to leave. In hindsight it's obvious, but since I started right out of college as a junior developer under people who knew everything about the problem space, my mindset was never "I am the expert", even long after those actual experts had left.
JQuery Sorting by Attribute Value
"But it will be the best for a great number of screws," he said, matter-of-factly.
I agree that using Elasticsearch as a primary data store seems risky. The situation is improving though; the v1 release introduces easy backups (for example, to s3) which from my experience work very well.

Prior to this backing up was a messy process.
Code Babes
If synchronous looking code is switching on demand when IO gets blocked, then isn't this just how other language schedulers work (e.g. python, green threads in Java)?

A few years ago it's what everyone liked about node ...
This book looks really cool and I've always been interested in reading more about game programming.
Is there a way to grab this as a pdf instead of only-online content?
Being more surgical is not the equivalent of spending more time.
A small router for Openresty
What's to stop a free alternative like Telegram taking all the market? Smartphone adoption is still happening here, and I use the rates are much lower in developing countries. Once word gets around maybe everyone will switch.
Actually, in the IiF technique, no: you bundle the rice in cheesecloth and cook it in direct contact with the water (this is one of the rare cases (other than eggs) where you deliberately expose the heating medium to the food).
Huh, interesting. Thanks!
Using Vim as a writing environment
It has been stated that there will be videos available, but I'd not expect them until next week sometime (when the organizers get home and have recuperated).
Why do we need senior people at all? The short answer is time. Hiring someone who has already done what you are trying to do can radically speed up time to success. But won’t they just ruin the culture? This question must be taken seriously. However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory.

Wow, that's offensive.
Culture In Silicon Valley
If you want to know what kind of person you'll end up with after you elect someone to office, pay attention to the negative propaganda coming from their opponent before they are elected. That's my new method for evaluating who I support.

(If you tried to raise any concern about Obama's motives or ability to carry through on his promises in 2007 you were labeled a backwards, change-hating racist, either literally or at least tacitly in the minds of his supporters.)

Why is his stance on net neutrality even newsworthy when he's presiding over a security state that is in the middle of ripping the 4th Amendment to shreds?
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Next time try the search box at the bottom of the page?
This is the worst description of the randomness issue I have ever read. In trying to make itself accessible to nontechnical people, it manages to miss or misstate every key point about randomness and its uses. It also doesn't understand the meaning or purpose of the function being described.

In the name of public accessibility, it's a perfect wash.

Guideline: if an article about random generating functions doesn't include the word "entropy" in the first 1000 words, it's not worth reading.
as someone who is not a fan of Facebook but uses, I've got to admit I noticed they did something and I've been using the site more recently, and that it's better recently.

Mainly, I've increased the number of news sites I 'like' and I'm getting my news much more through FB recently, I already used to 'unfollow' people who post worthless stuff frequently, so I'd guess my Timeline is at a good 'configuration'

I've been tuning down my consumption of mainstream media greatly and have been following more `real`, `credible` journalism, as well as more 'community' content e.g.: friends bands, friends projects, local initiatives, fun/comedy pages that refutes backward thinking and political discussions relevant to my area of the world, this is also making me less engaged in, for example, Hacker News because I'm becoming less interested in US matters etc, so, I've got to say that my views on the Bad of Facebook are softening and I'm seeing some Good, although it feels a bit weird to say this :)

Obviously it's not all flowers tho, as much as I may be getting 'bubbled', the same people that have views that I see as backwards are probably getting their own confirmation-bias version...
True, thanks for correcting my math. I still think there could be negative health effects, but obviously they wouldn't be as pronounced. :)
I would much prefer to see native provision for "channels" and "channelized blocks", à la the core.async library for Clojure/Script:

https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/examples/w...
If that's possible, it's equally possible that it's because they accepted campaign contributions from Comcast, one of the larger violators of net neutrality.
Furthermore, is it not possible that they made it all up so that Comcast would give them a large contribution?

While I don't like to go for conspiracy theories, I would like to point out that these are about as likely as the Obama administration actually intending to improve network neutrality.
ES7 has `async function(){}` and `await call();` syntax proposal that adds the promise/generator trick to the language.

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:async_functi...
I was watching Notch coding his christmas santa game in Dart/WebGL the last time, that was fun.

If you try to keep up with what he/the streamer is writing in your own editor you can get a better feeling of how certain things work.

It's like a nice interactive workshop where you get no help and it's hard to keep up.
Retrograding potatoes means raising them to a temperature where the starches are liberated from their initial structural networks, and then allowed to cool so that they recrystallize in a stabler network. Autoretrogradation means having a process that does this without needing human intervention somewhere in the middle.

An example of something you can do with a retrograded potato is tossing it into a stand mixer and beating the hell out of it without them turning gluey, which happens the starches get mechanically freed up and then crosslink.
Interesting. When I was a kid, verbal tactics were my defense against bullying. Whenever a bully tried to give us shit, I'd hit back with ruthless insults. Divorces, learning disabilities, etc. Nothing was off limits. For the most part, it worked, though there are still some people who avoid me today because I pushed back too hard.

The great equalizer in my life was my autistic brother. It was the 80s, before anyone knew about or understood autism. He was constantly under threat from bullies. And as a physically small kid, my verbal battery was the only tool I had to defend him.

That situation gave me a lot of perspective. If not for my brother, I imagine I may have been a verbal bully like you. Would've been interesting to put us in the same school back then.
I don't see the fundamental distinction between this and a S&P 500 index fund. Instead of carrying out one rebalancing (at whatever frequency) there's now two rebalacning steps -- one at the sector level and then another one to account for market cap changes within the sector. The net result of either strategy looks to be an imperfectly realized approximation of the performance a continuously adjusted market cap weighted portfolio of those 500 stocks.

Is the claim that this is somehow a better approximation? Are there some tax loss harvesting benefits? What am I missing?
I'm convinced this is true for most mainstream news reports on even slightly technical topics. It's not just IT - if you talk to people in other disciplines you get the same response. I think you could discount a little bit of it as experts being overly picky and journalists having to bring the topic to the masses, but it's often much worse than that.
Yeah, but they tried hard to keep their price low. Remember that full meal replacements have existed before - one of soylent's differentiators is cost.
Facebook monetizes things by selling ads.