skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still trying to figure out what exactly this is, but it's totally addictive. Which is odd.
Totally agreed. I got myself a corner model and I love it. The cable organizer you can get with the desk works really well.
I'm on a N40L and found that FDE taxed the CPU too much underneath a RAID 6 array to be useful. I've heard that the more recent models are CPU upgradable to CPUs with AES-NI. What sort of FDE R/W speeds are you seeing?
Like Tony Stark's basement.
Because tacitly the point is to stand around jumping on newbies or people you perceive to be doing things wrong.

If you can't quickly get that gratification you just move along to the next guy who left out a semicolon that wasn't germane to his question. Who has time to deal with other people's real problems?
It's Notch's Ludum Dare submission. https://twitter.com/notch/status/460054268935168000
ehehe, of course... I guess it's not understandable otherwise :)
When I was having some renovations done a while back, I had a desk built into a spare bedroom (that I was already using as a dedicated office). Basically, its' about 10' long and wraps around one of the corners. The corner is where my 2 monitors live as well as an articulated keyboard tray with a mechanical switch keyboard and mouse + trackpad. And an old Aeron chair (which HM replaced at no charge about 7 years into its warranty when a part broke!).

One of the nice things about this arrangement is that the corner is really deep. At one time this let me use a big CRT. Now it just lets me shove lots of USB drives and so forth out of the way. I have a few computers but I really only use my Mac Mini most of the time.

Most of the remaining wall area is file cabinets and bookcases. Truth be told a lot of the paper volume in the office is essentially "legacy" paper though I have cleared a fair bit of that over the years. If I were starting today, I'd probably make more of an effort to have as much digitized as possible. As it is, a lot of the older material just isn't worth the effort.

I used to do most of my computer work in my office. Truth be told these days, I often just work on my laptop in some other room. Not sure why I changed but I find I like moving around unless I'm doing some task that's a lot better on my desktop setup.
I am one of those people who didn't really consider the possibility. It's not that I thought it was impossible, but I dismissed it as probably impractical to use.

Rust is showing that it's actually practical, in a somewhat-normal language with somewhat-normal libraries.
I live full-time in an Airstream travel trailer with my wife.

This is my corner..
http://www.watsonswander.com/assets/2014/02/TAW55485.jpg
I actually really wanted to do that, but I got the door before it had the handle hole cut through it (there's a place not far from me that sells unused things like that). There's still time, I suppose.
The reasons why KWC came to by are a bit complicated. Essentially, the mainland Chinese garrison sited there was granted an exemption to the UK's 99-year lease, which means that Britain and its Hong Kong agents did not have authority over the city. A fuller history is here:

http://www.tofu-magazine.net/newVersion/pages/KWC.html

"At the Convention of Peking on the 9th June 1898 Britain obtained the New Territories under a ninety-nine-year lease. There was one exception, Chinese officials could remain in the Walled City, as long as it was not inconsistent with the military requirements of the defence of Hong Kong This was of no consequence to the British — until the following year when local peasants rebelled, and attacked colonial traders in the new region. The then Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Henry Blake, asked the Viceroy of Canton for protection and requested the Chinese customs post in the Kowloon Walled City be closed down. The viceroy sent in 600 troops, half of which, unbeknown to Blake, moved into the Walled City. Deadlines for their removal were not met. Their presence was deemed inconsistent to the military requirements of the defence of Hong Kong and British troops were sent in to remove them.

This military intervention would set the stage for eighty years of political argument, and claims and counterclaims over actual jurisdiction. In the meantime the population of the Walled City continued to grow, all but ungoverned and outlawed becoming, in effect, the tiniest city-state in the world. Theoretically controlled by the British, technically owned by China, and actually governed by whoever wielded power within such an anarchistic enclave — invariably gangsters.

Throughout the rest of the City’s history various confrontations have taken place. The Japanese, who occupied Hong Kong from 1942-45, must have feared whatever lay within the Walled City’s murky interior, and attempted to dismantle it. They achieved little, except pulling down the old exterior garrison wall. In 1947 the British tried to demolish the now wall-less walled City and build a park. The Chinese rejected this, claiming it remained the official residence for their representative. In 1948 the British did evict 2,000 squatters from the surrounding area and demolished their huts — the rioting that followed ensured they didn’t try any more colonial re-development in the area.

1966 saw the Cultural Revolution in China and the communist flag was briefly raised in the city. Official attempts to remove it were met with more rioting. British policy came to regard Walled City as something of a hornets nest — best not to be kicked unless absolutely necessary."
Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? One Year Later
You might like the Microsoft Sculpt. Similar feel to the mbp kb, but ergonomic.
I'm fundraising for another billboard, this time for FCC. Save Net Neutrality
I think this says more about their business than their deployment process. It might be a good rule of thumb to say, "If your business can lose $400M in 45 minutes, you're not in business, you're playing poker."
Why do people always focus on the code part? Even when the code is written in a language you don't understand, you can contribute by making the documentation, install process, or general community better.

In the article one of the questions asked is, "Is the documentation good?" If it's not, but you use and like the project, that is your opportunity. Perhaps you can see there are a lot of bugs filed, but nobody is triaging them. Even when you don't know the programming language the project uses, getting or making reproducible test cases for bugs is something you can do.

I completely agree with the "relatedness" aspect. If you're not using a project in your day-to-day work it's hard to stay involved with it. The best Open Source developers are those who understand the perspective of the users, because they are a user.
Besides defeating the purpose of posting the question, having a question closed is inherently deflating regardless of wording. And should be reserved for genuine need, and should not be the default that every newbie has to fight tooth and nail just to get valid questions answered.
I'm always surprised how people describe evolution as from a source information independent from fossil evidence. When, in fact, we tell what evolution was, up until now, from the evidence we have and not something else. The evidences shapes the theory (the sum of theories). If complex organisms become simpler, than that's how evolution works. If simple organisms become more complex, than that's how evolution works.

Epistemically, what's going on, I think, is that evolution is pretty much assumed to be true and from the evidence it's only concluded what results it had.
È di girati cazzo! :D
Maybe at the local level that's true, but at the Federal level, this is changing. Google used to be very politically uninvolved, but they did a 180 on that a few years back and started aggressively building a strong lobbying arm a few years back [1], hiring a high-profile ex-Congresswoman, Susan Molinari, to head it up [2]. This operation has grown to the point where in 2013 Google hit #8 on the list of corporations that spend the most lobbying Congress [3], with lobbying outlays greater than those of Comcast and Lockheed.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transfo...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-ad...

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/4/4394234/google-eight-bigges...
My wife and I share a room on the brightest corner of our house. It's mainly furnished with Ikea, which is cheap, functional and has a clean style that is well suited for an office environment. I have a workstation with a couple of 24" monitors mounted to the wall. I was concerned that the desk wouldn't be large enough, but having the monitors off the desk surface frees up more than enough space for me. My mechanical keyboard makes typing at my desk a bit more fun. And I can take my laptop over to a surprisingly comfortable chair in the corner of the room when I get tired of sitting at my desk.

We also have a puppy that likes hanging out in the room and is a great source of distraction.

http://imgur.com/a/vj3mt
Ahaha non avevo visto che eri tu! Infame! XD ti voglio bene
> GPS doesn't need a constant feeding of data from ground stations

This is not the case. USNO steers the clocks(4x) on the satellites. I think they do this via the AF but I have always been a little uncertain of the exact method:

GPS time is automatically steered to UTC(USNO) on a daily basis to keep
system time within one microsecond of UTC(USNO) modulo 1 second, but during
the last several years has been within a few hundred nanoseconds. The
rate of steer being applied is +/-1.0E-19 seconds per second squared.[^1]

One of the reasons for JPS's need for direct contact with ground stations is that the newer satellites do not contain the any rubidium frequency standards and use an experimental time synching system.

[^1]: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gpstt.html
Play automatically:

setInterval(function(){ $("a").click() }, 100)

(Edit: Yes, this leads you through a very fast, very bad life. Play manually and have a better life.)
Correlation does not equal causation, chocolate-and-Nobel-Prizes edition
A need a dining room table for a new apartment, a door table would be perfect, but where does one go looking for abandoned old doors like that?
The article is about Axel Springer AG, publisher of the largest German tabloid Bild and newspaper Die Welt. Springer, the scientific publisher is another entity.
The dependency of the Internet on a small number of ISPs is an anachronistic, unsustainable requirement. When the Internet was first starting, they were necessary to lay cable and maintain network infrastructure. As a nice consequence of building the infrastructure, the ISPs got to charge for routing traffic as well. But this makes no sense. Why should the ISP's have so much bandwidth routing power?

Routing inherently lends itself to decentralized algorithms, and the research is starting to catch up to the ISP's. Mesh networks are growing in popularity, and once they reach a critical mass they will be unstoppable. Expect to see a rise of reliance on mesh networking in universities and urban centers.

BitCoin is going to revolutionize bandwidth routing. In decentralized routing algorithms, payment for bandwidth is a difficult problem to solve because it depends on centralized components of the system. But BitCoin enables 1) micropayments, and 2) distributed transaction storage, which both benefit bandwidth routing research. Some point soon, routing will be completely decentralized, and the infrastructure providers will receive micropayments of BitCoin in return.

As my senior thesis, I'm researching "TorCoin," a proof-of-bandwidth cryptocurrency mined by transmitting bandwidth over the Tor network. This summer I am working to apply this research in a business environment. If any of this interests you, definitely reach out to me and we'll schedule a chat: miles.richardson@yale.edu
It's a complex problem, but with a "training/welcome period" (explained below) for new users, these specific issues can be addressed:

- experts (users having rep above EXPERT_THRESHOLD, say 5000) want "interesting" questions

- most new questions are not interesting

- "new users" (having rep below some REGULAR_THRESHOLD, say 100) are not educated and have unrealistic expectations

- it is expensive for the community to manually educate new users

- asking questions is inexpensive for the asker, but answering questions is costly to the community (to research, comment, close, find dupes)

- it's hard for new users to gain rep by answering questions because rep-whores are more experienced with the site. thus new users are instead encouraged to gain rep by asking questions.

Some ideas mentioned on SE would help:

- require rep for asking questions

- give rep for finding duplicates (discouraging repwhores from answering dupes, encouraging dupe linking)

- give rep for taking a quiz about the 2-Minute Tour or other FAQs

Additionally, a training/welcome period for new users (during which they interact a slightly more among themselves than directly with experts) would go a long way toward fixing a lot of deeper issues. New user questions (which tend to be uninteresting dupes) would be hidden from experts for some period of time NEW_Q_DUR (say 1 day). During that time, only other new users or regular users can answer the question. Experts can un-hide them with a Setting but can only comment, not answer. Benefits:

- new/regular users (that care about the site) are incentivized to answer questions, find dupes, work with others at their rep-level and do some of the (educational) activities that experts see as menial, rather than just ask questions

- experts get a higher signal/noise ratio of interesting questions, as bad questions can be cleaned up by new/regular users and interesting questions will likely remain unanswered after NEW_Q_DUR (since new users tend to be less experienced and less able to answer difficult, good questions from other new users)

- dupe rep-whoring is mitigated because once a rep-whore becomes an expert, they cannot answer dupe questions without new/regular users having time NEW_Q_DUR to flag as dupe

- new user expectations are made more realistic. until they've participated a certain amount, they cannot expect to draw immediate attention from experts. also, they become aware of the dupe problem.

A caveat might be that new user questions with enough upvotes can become answerable by experts before the normal time limit. Also, if/when new user question quality improves, NEW_Q_DUR can be reduced.

Some very minor drawbacks:

- new users would be slightly deterred from asking certain questions because they do not value answers from non-experts (leading them to do more research on their own)

- more class-ful community, potentially creating stronger biases (I don't think this is too bad because class mobility is clear and feasible)

- some new users that would care about the site might instead be turned off by the welcome period on some principal and never participate
You mean the Axel Springer company? Yes, and not only a movie. One of their businesses is the publication of germanys "BILD" newspaper which became a bit more moderate in recent decades but was among the main enemies of the left-wing students movement during the 60ies and 70ies from which the terrorist RAF, the subject of the movie, spawned.
It's interesting that he admits his company rely on Google's search traffic (while criticising them for showing any of their content, but I digress) - and criticises them for algorithmic changes that don't benefit his company (fair enough), then decries the idea that competitors pay for some new advertising spot. So the attitude here is against paying?

But later he looks at Google's free services and claims that they're not free since they use a behavioral currency (fair enough, they collect lots of data of course) - and maybe it would be "better and cheaper" to use normal money. So, we should be paying for services? Hmm. Not a completely equal comparison, maybe they should be at the top of Google for whatever terms.. but it seems odd to preach that I should pay for convenient services and they shouldn't for the majority of their traffic.

I do agree with a lot of what he says, but I use Google services and find them helpful.

Perhaps the fundamental issue here is that this is a big media company and they want transparency into Google's algorithms. What's a media company going to do with that? My guess is optimise their pages to abuse the algorithms and dominate the search rankings. Great for them, judging by most media outlets, terrible for the search user. I think I'd rather Google have a secret algorithm than have my search results dominated by whoever can abuse a known algorithm the most - especially because media companies I'd rather not hear from (not necessarily Axel Springer) and scammers are among those with the means to do so.
That's nice, but spamming your product all over the comments to this post rather discourages me from using your services.
I call this "Science of the Gaps". Where there is insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion, or to provide a mechanism for a process we know occurs, one is just made up (by non-experts seeking to bolster the image of science).

My understanding is that no one knows how life originated, but that doesn't stop many people from prematurely invoking the Anthropic Principal.

On complexity, logically, we cannot say that evolution has no tendency towards complexity, and also that evolution explains the complexity of modern organisms. Not that the OP was making the latter claim, but it's not an unfair assumption.

Also, your post seems to suffer from "feigned surprise" :-)
What makes this worse is that sometimes the alternative approach to #2 really is much easier, if the asker would do it. And sometimes, the asker really is wrong to regard it as more onerous. So we can't categorically ban that kind of response. But it's not automatically valid either. People will generate instances of both problems all day. So we're back to moderation to solve that somehow and moderation always has problems.

It's only a community problem when the community takes up a strong bias e.g. against the asker, and does things like closing questions aggressively. There is an underlying problem but the community has made it worse and closed off the natural compensation mechanisms.

As for lack of response to serious/challenging/useful questions (which already has a 'reputation' incentive) I'm afraid there's no way to solve that unless cash bounties will work.
Is it me or the graph in the post doesn't say anything about actual speeds, just their changes since Jan 2013.. misleading title?
D'oh!!! Thanks.
It's a skinner box disguised as a game.
Larry Page Tried To Sell Google For $1.6 Million
Because he works for a CA.
In the middle of a move (out of a rental into a place we are buying) so no pics but I work full time remote from the bitterroot mountains of Montana.

I use a costco wire shelving unit + a couple of boards as a standing desk with a monoprice 27" ips monitor and a macbook pro. I have one shelf set up to keep the monitor and macbook at eye height and another lower one with boards for keyboards and mouse plus a drafting chair for when I want to sit. Also there is one shelf on top and another a couple of inches bellow the keyboard shelf for stability and storage and the whole thing needs to be against a wall to work well.

It works pretty well but I find myself missing a sitting desk for days when i'm too exhausted (from climbing and skiing mountains) to stand all day. Not sure if I will purchase an adjustable or just set up two works stations once we've moved. Either an arm to move my main monitor or a second monoprice is cheaper then any adjustable desk i've seen.

Also a comfortable chair usually with a cat curled up in it, view of the mountains and a closet full of climbing and skiing gear.
Interesting read. I particlarly enjoy the fact that Montgomery Ward basically commissioned a computer for production. Makes you wonder what would have come about if all those retail outlet computers had gained traction and become established brands.
At some point this became depressant for me, but interesting concept.
It has a 1 hour TTL, so assuming you start working before you go offline you might be ok. Fair point though. It could be worth upping that to a day?
TechCrunch dropped RadiumOne as NY Disrupt sponsor techcrunch.com/2014/04/26/we-are-dropping-radiumone-as-a-ny-disrupt-sponsor/
It's an interesting choice as in British Vernacular

Waffle - speak or write at length in a vague or trivial manner.
But isn't that extremely limited? Does Mac OS X have keyboard shortcuts for entering greek letters or the infinity symbol.
I think something good might come out of this and I actually loved the name (I clicked on this because waffle.io souded cool). What I really think , in terms of design, is that you should get rid of that 3d rendered waffle.io image with that shadow. Not only it makes the website look like something of 5+ years ago but you can also see that the image is heavily compressed and is not looking good at all.
I've only seen more people interested in Ruby over the last few years, and only token interest in Go. I hear a lot more interest in Elixir/Erlang, Rust, Clojure, and Haskell from Rubyists around here than I do for Go.
Weekly food for thought, On managing career
I work from home as a freelancer.

I use a flat desk, which I extended on both sides so its more wide. Under left side of it is chassis & UPS, under right are routers and subwoofer. On far left side on the desk you can see laptop, and on right one various stuff that form one mess :) Also there is a white light lamp that forms nice soft backlight in the background (it's not that strong as it is in picture). This summer I plan to move, so I plan to get a new setup, a better desk and a better cable management.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68877713/IMG_20140426_19...
Reddit can also be hostile to other image hosts
When Bigotry became OK
Leadership, Management and Administration
Cur.to/RiskEverything
I think you missed the point here, but nice trick :-)
Drowning in problems? Automation is the solution ;)
It's always funny when you see old masters of the universe become Marxists when someone is about to eat their lunch. Doubly so when it is a business that has spent the better part of two centuries appropriating the public space into a private one through ever increasing copyrights. Now they run across someone who does it better than they could ever dream of. And all of a sudden the forms of IP that Google uses to corner the market from publishers are in huge need of public debate. One these people will cover in a neutral and even handed way in their own publications. But what's not up for debate are the bits of IP like they paywalling publicly funded research for a century or more.

I'll take out my magnifying glass to look for my violin.
Seems like a right path to take down comcast.
We have a lot of vim and emacs people, and an IDE crew too. I personally use vim. I think there's even a Kate file in the source tree?

There's been lots of effort to make sure Rust's grammar stays simple enough to have great IDE support eventually, so as the language matures, hopefully we'll see it supported in a lot of them.
Devil's advocate example:

union hack { int x; float y};

int foo( int *i, float *f)
{
*i = 3;
*f = 42.0;
return *i;
}

Aliasing rules say foo need not read from that int pointer, may switch the order of the write to f and the write to i, and can assume that foo returns 3, so

struct hack h;

foo( &h.i, &h.f);

might return 3 or something else. I think that last call introduces undefined behavior, but only becuase of the definition of foo that the writer of that call might not even have the source for.

But of course, that is an "you shouldn't do that" edge case. One could also claim that the corrigendum doesn't apply because foo doesn't "use a member to access the contents of a union".
hmm. I think I'm gonna go look at kittens
This is more art than game.