skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the detailed response. I understand that having to deal with this sort of situation instead of working on bringing the project closer to fruition must be very annoying from a core developer's perspective. Sorry for contributing my part to this being dragged out further.

To clarify, what has distraught me the most about this change is not even the change itself (although I do think that, however small or warranted on its own it may be, it may have long-term ramifications that need to be considered much more carefully), but the way the process seemed to diverge from the fairly open and inclusive discussion that seemed to regularly take place in the past. This change may well have been brewing somewhere for a while, but from the point of view of someone who is not in the "inner circle", what was perceivable of it essentially was the thread I linked above some 16 days ago (which was remarkably full of responses by apparent "insiders" that aimed to discourage people from discussing the topic at that point in time) and the thread announcing the RFC, in which even some of the most basic questions needed for a casual observer to understand the tradeoffs were unanswered when the proposal of the RFC was mainlined something like half a day later.

The end result is something that looks similar to what happened with GNOME 3 to someone who was in the opposing camp in both cases, where the "in-group" at some point decided that they had identified a development agenda of utmost importance to what has in fact been part of the central mission of the project all along, and increasingly came to send the message that they held disagreeing members of the "out-group" to be obsessive hecklers and people who should just get out already if they don't like it - although nothing says it has to end up like that, where this took the state of Linux desktop environments is easily observed nowadays.

When considering the overall lifecycle of a project, the number of remaining "difficult decisions" is a far more accurate metric of completion than code or concept. Frustratingly, it is pretty much bound to increase towards the full end of the scale of the latter when the development process is a highly public affair. People wouldn't argue this topic with such ferocity if it wasn't for their appreciation of your work so far and high expectations for this project; please don't let that go to waste by shortcutting the decision process when you have come this far.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it yet, but the book that would be most practical to actually recover society after disaster from a purely technical standpoint would be the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Chemistry-Physics-94th-Editio...

The sheer amount of information in that huge book is crazy.

Another alternative would be a wikipedia backup stored on an SD card and one of these or similar: http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/...
I'm glad TLC exists; the 840 Evo is fast enough and reliable enough and it's much cheaper than a 2-bit MLC SSD.
The comments of this article include a lengthy and interesting reply by Daniel Weinreb (of MIT Lisp Machine and Symbolics fame):

http://newartisans.com/2009/03/hello-haskell-goodbye-lisp/#c...

The author's reply to Weinreb can be found here:

http://newartisans.com/2009/03/the-jvm-and-costs-vs-benefits
Why? How is that their responsibility?

And what advantage would there be for them?
Against the usual recommendations, I install the Haskell platform with Homebrew. After that a 'cabal update ; cabal install cabal-install' gives a newer version without any problems.

And I agree that sandboxes are great!
Engineers are low status? Please. That might have true in 1984, when Revenge of the Nerds came out. But it sure isn't now.

Also, as a man, I have benefited from literally millennia of people advantaging my gender. If I occasionally get blamed for that, I think I can handle it. Maybe you can too?
Interesting to compare a view between running and cycling. Runners tend to run on the same side of a road in both directions.
what about https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/rollermouse-free2/
You're right. But not in this particular sentence.
Apple makes some nice hardware but they are not alone in making good stuff. They have some stiff competition.

For example my Sony Vaio Pro is significantly faster than any of the numbers mentioned in the article. It gets nearly 1GB/sec in read speeds: http://i.imgur.com/24GdPiz.png

The drive is partitioned so ignore the odd size.
Why would I want to run this on my Pi?
I wonder how many of those data points are mine? Disappointingly I can't find any route that I alone have run or ridden - that's something to fix this summer I think.
It looks like it's losing a lot of dynamic range when you zoom in to a specific road and it's all completely pink (or whatever the hottest color is depending on the chosen theme).
Bulk update using one query over Django ORM
The 2300USD listing is from some separate seller called "Stork Group", not Whitelines. And they describe it as "Brand new and unread!", so they probably have no idea what the item is.
I understand that the sentence you quoted is easily construed as a cheap potshot at startups, but all I meant to say is that suddenly, there is a large number of people coding - and, more importantly, writing about coding - who did not grow up staring at mangled C++ debug symbols and hex dumps. I don't mean to say not doing that makes you a worse programmer - the difference does, however, seem to explain the composition of two groups who like shouting things to the effect of "I don't understand how you can find that easier to read than this" at each other.
"Hans Rosling TED Talk"

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...

"This is an extraordinary presentation.
Being informed about the world is the first step towards a better humanity."
Apple iOS 7 Updates Silently Remove Encryption for Email Attachments
When we raised money, nobody asked my male cofounder if he was going to be distracted by his young children. Why? Because they knew it would make them look like assholes. That they don't treat women the same way is a hint.
Adventure Roulette
I sometimes wonder if naming patterns in an intentionally vague way is a strategy to hide them in plain site. There should be some rule that titles should be sufficiently specific.
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Why would you have a Pi instead of a MacBook Pro?

Rhetorical question is rhetorical.
Because attractive women is offensive.
How can present geography help as a vital category after a large earth reforging asteroid impact or any other heavy geological disaster? Wouldn't the tectonic plates be shattered and reconfigured?

The present geography will only serve as a history or even mythology.
If you do write this up, definitely avoid the false equivalence that one could read into your comments here. I agree that being around the CEO picking up a hooker could be uncomfortable, but Roizen's story involves much more career risk and personal impact.
More cycling in UK and Scotland than northern Italy? Hrrmm... I'm guessing that it's indicative of more strava users than representative of total activity.

Cool map though - as others have mentioned, zooming in provides a lot of interesting detail.
any email I can contact you at? thx
The computer hardware would be a real problem. Sadly most computer architectures are guarded as a trade secrete. And even early PCs like Apple I and the one that Bill Gates wrote his first BASIC for, were using off-the-shelf CPUs. One of the last wire-based (non ICs) computers with high speed performace (~ 500 MHz) were the Cray super computers. It seems most of the details are lost in history. We should start to reverse engineer the museum pieces and write the knowledge down on paper. Probably it would also help us with current gen CPU design problems.

The software side will be easier. Knowing ASM of the available CPU architecture one could write a C, BASIC or Fortran compiler from scratch and write a operating system either by using source code from books (like Minix), etc.
>Square is often compared to Apple, but Apple successfully decommodifies products through actual fundamental innovation (phones, MP3 players, PCs).

Disagree 100%. Apple's products are inherently commodities, and their innovations are decidedly only in the PR and marketing spheres. From a technical perspective nothing they do is particularly innovative.

Apple did not invent the mp3 player. Apple built their "seminal" GUI only after Xerox PARC showed them how. Thinkpads have had fingerprint scanners since 2004. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Apple doesn't innovate so much as take someone else's idea and give it a slick marketing campaign and some anodized aluminum casing.

>They make stuff people actually want to pay premiums for.

This part I agree with. But it's because of the slick marketing, not due to some kind of next-level technical wizardry.
"What about the men!" is a deeply disappointing response here.

Yes, men can also be victims. And it's also important to fix that. But you can make that point without instantly demanding equal air time or suggesting that a woman telling stories about her life is placing an enormous burden on you.
What changed after the new business partner showed up? How did it transform from basically breaking even to half of a million a year?
Clever Cloud is a French PaaS provider.
I have no experience with them.
Industry shall now be punished for bringing to light the abuses of Government.
Shame. We had electronics as a VCE elective for the final year.
Hari Seldon would have (pretended to) approved.
Beautiful. Can someone please make a printable version...
Shame about the new buttonless clickpads on Thinkpads. I'm using one now, and it's definitely more of a hassle than the old style.
Yes, there's no possible way a VC talking about making deals and raising investment could possibly be related to a site about startups.

/me rolls his eyes.
Neat idea, but the demo video just makes me think it is hard to use with precision. Going in to a second "precision mode" seems like a bad workaround. Look at how the narrator struggles a little to hit small targets like the window close button and the scroll bar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knnh_vIVgA4

The lack of precision reminds me of those crappy quality trackballs on miniature wireless keyboards.
On the contrary, POS and payments services have never been less "sticky". There are plenty of iPad POS apps and swipe dongle thingy's to choose from, and the cost of switching is negligible, especially for the (Square's) low end of the market, who don't require much functionality.

My biggest problem with Square is that they have tied payments to point-of-sale. You can't use Square, the payments product, with another POS system, and you can't use Square Register with another payments product. This kind of closed ecosystem neither serves the customer nor moves the industry forward.
An 11 year old's experience with Google Glass
Arya Valentino on Google Glass
Inducing system load on a Tor hidden service, to generate heat from the CPU, to increase temperature of the quartz crystal driving the system clock, to cause system clock skew, which is remotely detectable via the TCP sequence number generated by rand(), or more directly by TCP timestamps (RFC 1323).

This lets you try to check if a given hidden service is running on a known machine, or if two hidden services are running on the same machine.

Could you skip everything in the middle, since request latency is correlated with system load? You have to load the server in either case, so both are active attacks. I think the problem is that latency is so variable due to Tor itself, it's actually faster to measure server load through clock skew than through request latency.

How would you find a candidate public server to run this attack against? "Many hidden servers are also publicly advertised Tor nodes, in order to mask hidden server traffic with other Tor traffic, so this scenario is plausible." But I think you would run your public Tor relay on a different machine behind the same firewall, since you want the absolute minimum amount of processes running on the machine actually hosting the hidden service.

Not that I know anything about running Tor hidden services.
It is already happening. Google Drive now costs one-fifith that of DropBox.

Box is probably similar. It is hard to compete against the big guys.
There were keyboards built as large trackpads for the old powerbooks - a.k.a. the fingerworks touchstream: http://lowendmac.com/bookrev/03/0530.html#4
I have heard a lot of ridiculous arguments about feminism, but this one at least has the virtue of being novel.

It's still not very interesting, though. If you were to read as much as a book on feminism, you'd know that there are reasonable answers to these questions.
sounds fun, let's? I'll host it.
Clients I speak to are interested in cloud solutions. But as soon as information security comes up anything related to America (ownership as well) is a no go.
So I'd think that there's a pent up need for reputable EU PaaS providers.
> From a technical perspective nothing they do is particularly innovative.

Could not disagree more. While it might look like that on paper if you decompose an Apple product to its parts, there is clear value they are adding as the system integrator. There were very capable Windows Mobile PDAs before the iPhone, and the sensors used existed too, but the particular combination that provided the marvelous user experience never existed before. That is innovation.
Apple is a huge darling of most journalists. They can do no wrong, and the first exposure most people had to the "innovations" were through Apple's consumer tech.

The McKinsey article linked to "Grow fast or die" in the Techcrunch article is well worth reading:

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet...
The debugging described by this blog post took approximately three weeks.

I now have a new standard for "hard to debug" bugs.
> Wikipedia

Is way too big and does not actually contain most of the information which would be useful in such a scenario.
After reading your comment, and considering Serf (the docker coordination thing), I wonder what it would sound like for musicians to coordinate over a gossip protocol (rather than through a centralized conductor which as you note struggles to scale). What would that even look like?

EDIT: Or, as sgeisenh points out below, that's chamber music.
My idea on connecting job seekers to companies
interested. how do I contact you?
Yeah, so "obvious after the fact". here's some prior art:

http://watermarked.cutcaster.com/cutcaster-photo-100329053-O...

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/wooden-castle-gate-24387358.j...

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/gothi...

http://www.artfactory.com/images/Medieval-Door-2219CDJ.jpg

Slide to unlock is as old as doors. The only other obvious alternative to someone skilled in the art of doormaking is rotate to unlock.

Honestly only reasonable definition of obvious to use is:

"based on the presence/awareness of innovation A, B, C, etc, how likely is it that two or more people are likely to come up with the same innovation simultaneously. The greater the likelihood of two or more people simultaneously arriving at the same solution, the less likely something should be patented.
It's certainly not very thoughtful or empathetic.

It's easy for you to say what other people should do. But if somebody has been harassed or sexually assaulted, reporting it or suing has to be up to them. There are enormous personal consequences to doing so. Blaming people who decide not to do that is putting an additional unfair burden on somebody who has already been victimized.
Supreme Court green lights detention of Americans
Why I won’t work for Google
Ask HN: What would it cost to re-create "What's it gonna be" ($2M cost in '98)?
Wikipedia describes the video as:

>It is one of the most expensive videos ever made, costing upwards of $2 million, and focused largely on special effects. The video begins with a glass filled with liquid moving toward the edge of its resting area, which spills and transforms into Busta Rhymes as a knight in a futuristic armor suit.

I really wonder what it would cost to complete today.
That's ucsb's crit & iv classic. Source: raced there many times. Info on crits http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterium
Well, today, Paul, I'd like some of this "terrible reading comprehension" you have so prominently on the menu (I mean, reading both an article and a testimony about actual discrimination, and then saying it's a "lifestyle choice", it's either that or something so much beyond bad faith, it's positively Luciferan). Additionally, I'd like a healthy serving of victim blaming, because I too subscribe to the idea that any abuse suffered by attractive females is completely their fault, why should they be attractive in the first place?

(edit: obviously sarcastic)
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcozjXK-850

Wikipedia describes the video as:

>It is one of the most expensive videos ever made, costing upwards of $2 million, and focused largely on special effects. The video begins with a glass filled with liquid moving toward the edge of its resting area, which spills and transforms into Busta Rhymes as a knight in a futuristic armor suit.

I really wonder what it would cost to complete today.
I'm a fan of Scrivener for organizing a novel. I collect snippets of prose, research, character studies, motifs, meta thoughts on where I'm going, the actual draft in Scrivener's binders and folders.

For actual writing, I find that my best prose comes from putting pen on paper and using the transcription as an excuse to edit. I've thought about this a lot, and I think the reason is that going analog removes so many temptations to get online to check some detail and then wasting 15 minutes by not writing.

With software, I think it is mandatory that you isolate yourself, out of WiFi range (or at least with WiFi turned off) and to stare at blank pages long enough to let the words flow.
Cool tool! How do I save a code snippet if its in a file using stash? An example please?
While "fundamental innovation" is a little strong, they are not merely better "decidedly only in the PR and marketing spheres". I'm guessing your experience has been different, but the fact of the matter is that a large segment of the market has such a better experience with Apple products that they're willing to pay a premium.

Not to deny that their cultural position as status symbols is also a big factor, but it is an objective fact that many people actually have better experiences, and not by accident or because it's easy to make that experience work, but due to deliberate hard work by Apple that many competitors have tried and failed to supplant.
Square's expansion in Canada last year doesn't appear to have gone anywhere meaningful. It's not just Interac; all cards are now Chip based. Credit Cards still also have the swipe but it's mainly used for cross-boarder shopping. It's been years since I've seen a card swiped in Canada that wasn't from an American tourist. Finally, Interac debit cards dominate the Canadian POS scene and the are Chip only and so won't work with Square any time soon.

If Square can't even meaningfully make inroads into Canada, I highly doubt they will be able to make inroads into anywhere else. But, we'll see...
Not to mention the fact that they do a terrible idea conveying what they're actually selling -- there's nothing that says simply "it's grey paper with white lines."

"On Whitelines there is no visual interference between the lines and the pen colour."

So, the lines on the paper are different depending on the color of the ink I'm writing with?
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That is entirely conjecture - and this is journalism?

When hard facts are not around to be had, reporting the general consensus seems acceptable to me.

You may have been thinking of investigative journalism?
Great question. Something in the mountains near the last remaining bit of snow and rainfall, something in a very cold climate now which will be warm soon.
Lob (YC S13) is hiring its first Growth Engineer
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Background
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Understand and improve user signup and API integration flow

Use data and analysis to help impact business decision making

Integrate A/B tests across the application and create deterministic ways to identify success/failure

Implement strategies to acquire users, increase conversion and engagement among current users.

Requirements

Experience with Node, Angular, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS

Fluent with multi-variant testing, and conversion analytics tools.

Knowledge of delivering and measuring the success of onsite advertising, off-site syndication, or email marketing is a bonus

Benefits

Health benefits for you and your dependent(s).

Open vacation policy.

Commuter benefits.

Free lunch, dinner, and snacks. (Our fridge is always stocked!)

Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the Lob team; you'll directly shape the direction of our company.
Unfortunately the way most applications are written the response time of SSDs is the primary benefit because they present low concurrency and don't parallelize the procesing of data as it comes off of disk.

One of the blessings of an education in hardware; you learn to think in a distributed, parallel model.

People are really bad at that until they learn/train otherwise. Our brains are parallel at low levels, but conscious thought seems to be mostly serial.
There were untrue statements, I corrected them.

Also you can't express a preference (up or down) for something you've never used.

I'll elide the snark next time, but I'm not going to stop correcting false statements or sharing learning resources.
This was pretty easily fixed, though. The technician took one look at it, nodded, and I had it replaced for free while on Christmas + New Year vacation.
this reminds me of someone who trolling #haskell irc channel https://gist.github.com/quchen/5280339
If you have other offers (real offers, not just bluster from headhunters), you can leverage those in your request for a raise. If he thinks you're going to stay around, he has no reason to offer you a serious raise. Show him that you are able and willing to leave, and he'll have to decide if he wants to make a counter-offer to keep you.
None of those are 'prior art'. You are confusing the mechanism with the application. RTFP.
This is my current champion:

https://github.com/django/django/commit/8a0fa75839

Took the better part of a year to finally understand, at which point the two-line fix was simple.
>People like you make me REALLY angry.

Same to you buddy. Guess we'll have to fight it out in the political arena like anything else people can't agree on.

PS I didn't even say the things I believe that would really make you angry, like "pregnant women and women with young children probably shouldn't be working at all, and definitely not running a startup".

PPS That's a hell of a lot of wild assumptions about what "people like me" believe" off of one sentence.
They should have asked.