skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment about design features working only in the designer's context definitely rang a bell for me. The most common one for me is the section containing just enough space for the designer's sample text, which is conveniently very small. Fast-forward to the moment the design gets actually coded up, and we've got ellipsified text all over the place.
Off-topic, but what happened to "www."? More and more sites recently seem to be going without a www subdomain.

In this case, "www.jgthms.com" goes to a Gandi parking page. (!) In other cases, the connection simply times out or the server returns an error page.
Pop, the animation engine behind Facebook Paper
You could use macros to perform compile-time checking of SQL query strings (and checking of any arguments bound to the query, as long as they're bound immediately instead of being bound later).
yes, the rendering stuff is nice. i agree wholeheartedly... i'm using 1.4 on that phone since i got it, btw.

but for daily use, there is absolutely nothing new that deserves mention.
How Twitter’s Monetization Strategy is Coming Together
Combining RAII and GC (explicitly choosing what to use for various data) can be an interesting hybrid approach. Looks like Rust does exactly that, allowing you to explicitly define which data is garbage collected (while the rest is handled with standard RAII):

http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/gc/index.html
You have been down voted, but the question is reasonable.

One reason is so that invocations of ssh outside of the context of user invocation of ssh at the command line will also have these customizations included. This is especially important for ssh, which has emerged as a main security interoperability tool for Unix systems.

For example, if you use rsync, the tunneling and host alias conventions you set up in .ssh/ will carry over transparently to the ssh tunnel used by rsync.

Another example would be invocations of ssh in scripts (sh/bash scripts, even) that will not or might not read your .zshrc.
Uh, shut up. It's a discussion forum and he expressed an opinion, instead you just hurl insults? While his might fall under the "too soon" yours is just inappropriate.
"I’m dubious of entrepreneurs who key buyer value is highest price. Building a company is hard and the chances of success are low. I’m looking for entrepreneurs that recognize that supportive VCs who bring relationships, experience, perseverance, tolerance and who are unflappable in difficult times are worth their weight in gold. People who solely value highest price as the decision factor exhibit something about their decision-making processes."

^^^^^
The challenge here as an entrepreneur is that unless you work with a VC for an extended period of time like a year, it's very hard to know how much value they're truly going to add. Every VC claims to be the world's most supportive/connected/the founder's friend, but it's very hard to truly figure that out without working with them IMO. As a result, it's easier to just prioritize based on numbers most of the time.
I would look into Box.com which has been working to differentiate itself as being able to have audit logs, be things like HIPAA compliant, etc. They also had robust APIs last time I looked. There's also always AWS S3+AMI if you're willing to do more of the heavy lifting in terms of interface.
During Elon Musk's Dark Days
I have a Mac/PC drawing app that I never released: http://www.conceptualinertia.net/aoakenfo/forkira-flash-draw...
Seth had high quality health cover provided by UC Berkeley, and availed himself of routine checkups, including cholesterol counts. He reported that his numbers had been going down since he started this regime.

His unusual diet may have been connected to his death, and it's certainly reason for concern, but you don't know anything about the causality.
Yes, there were walls back in the 90s and yes, we managed to break through them. However, the walls we face today look much nastier. I concede that there's no way to know the future, but nonetheless I'd put my money on a sharply slower rate of improvement for CPUs.

In the short term, it would be great if we had a breakthrough in x-ray power sources (for cheaper EUV lithography), a breakthrough in etch control (for vertical transistors), or a breakthrough in III-V materials (for a one-time mobility improvement).

But long term, we need to find an alternative to the transistor. Perhaps spintronics, perhaps non-von Neumann architectures, who knows. But there is no way that a paradigm-changing redesign will be competitive with silicon in the next 10 years. Silicon has a humongous advantage in manufacturing, supply chain, know-how, scaled production, etc. Even if we find a better technology (and we haven't) it may still take decades to get there.
hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

"GHC can target some quasi-embedded platforms these days, but it's also possible to write embedded programs in (pardon the overloading) an embedded DSL that can compile to C."

Haskell can't do any useful work without relying on C. Instead of having pride in what C can do, you have invented the following adjectives "hybrid", "mathematical language", "insecure", "impure", "pure".

Either,

1) Stop with the adjectives and get Real.

2) Prove that Haskell can replace C, the "impurity".

The same holds true for mathematical heritage. I would ask mathematicians to use Mathematica, not Haskell.

(I don't consider OCaml to be a part of this debate because OCaml is hybrid and Real, like C++)
I've had this issue with an iPhone 2 and 4, and was able to permanently fix it in both cases by applying acetone to a cotton swab (Q-Tip) and cleaning the home button with it (allowing a small amount of acetone to enter into the seam). In both instances, the home button worked like new afterwards, for years. Your results may vary, but to maximize your chances, I'd suggest using a high grade acetone (e.g. from a home improvement store) as opposed to nail polish.
No i don't have any source because those policies are not discussed BEFORE. they are ADVERTISED AFTER the fact.

which proves my point. ...but i'm sure Veja will write a piece saying how nice that solution is. Even though every single person studying it already commented that trying to kill the mosquito is idiotic.
Yeah, I don't know what the heck is wrong with Skype either. On video calls, the quality is lacking most of the time and even though we're both on fast broadband connections, the "call quality" is still a 3 out of 5 bars. Switch to Google Hangouts and everything works fine with a lot less connectivity issues.
Inspirational.
They can ask, but it is not required for you to give. It is used for hitting affirmative action requirements.
Samsung Series 7 750 27" monitor, box of business cards, "rolodex" (just a stack of cards), my macbook pro 13", WD my passport for time machine backup, a projector that we barely use but has some cables on top of it that go with it, an NYCDA t-shirt, The Book of Ruby, Beginning Rails 3, Stylin' with CSS, AngularJS Directives, Wired Magazine, buckyballs, a Sphero I barely use, a stamp, an ink well for the stamp, a pen, a little thing of vaseline, and an iPod shuffle charger for my waterproof guy I use while swimming

That specific enough for ya?
They could have defined a subset of SQLite which you could implement without needing SQLite.
Isnt Picasa owned by Google? Their facial recognition is pretty accurate too, not noticeably different from Facebook's imho.
Indeed. Which is why pcwalton is answering Thomas' conjecture about C++'s STL containers.
Yeah, and they use it mainly due to support contracts and industry certifications. Doesn't make it a good idea.

They used to release RHEL kernels with hundreds of patches that could be applied in line, or removed/fixed individually. Now they keep one tree that they manage privately and release only the fully-patched source, without any documentation about what's changed or why. Your only hope of figuring out what has been changed or getting help in fixing it is to pay for support, or browse the commits at Oracle's RedPatch (https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git). Basically, a RHEL kernel is an obscure product designed to make them money.

The primary reason RHEL kernels aren't stable is the bug this thread is about. There is no valid reason to backport a change to swappiness behavior into a 'stable' kernel. The whole idea behind 'stable' is it works, so don't change it. But RHEL has other ideas.

RHEL kernels are more likely to contain security holes than a vanilla kernel of the same version, partially due to the backporting of new or changing functionality. They also don't get as much testing and scrutiny as the vanilla tree. Besides internal testing, changes that aren't included in stock linux kernels are introduced into Fedora for their users to beta-test. Over time we've seen plenty of security holes make it into otherwise 'stable' RHEL kernels and tools by RHEL backports. It's usually a feature they're importing that brings along with it additional attack surface, or introduces a hole in pre-existing functionality.

It's also a big pain in the ass to get a RHEL kernel to support something a normal kernel would support, due to the major changes. You also have to modify whatever patches you want to apply on top of RHEL since most people create patches targeting the vanilla tree and not RHEL. In general if you have a problem with the RHEL kernel you have a lot better chance of success by throwing it out and downloading a vanilla kernel.

At this point RHEL's kernel is a nightmare hybrid of changes going into a tree that nobody else uses because they've moved to 3.x trees for new enterprise releases. Between vanilla 2.6.32 and RHEL's 2.6.32-431 there are 9144 files changed, 3,563,927 insertions, 699,721 deletions. The diff is 45MB compressed. The RHEL sources are 102 megabytes larger than the vanilla source. And in case anyone asks, no, this swappiness change was not introduced into the vanilla kernel's long-term support tree (which is still maintained for this same kernel version). (http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/2.6.32-stable.html)
It's not flash, it's a custom plugin.
It literally is. I had volume button broken two weeks after the purchase. Went to the Apple store, 15 minutes later came out with a new phone.
How to store digital data for a million years? Perhaps encoded in animals' DNA.
this response has nothing to do with my question. my question is how to address the technical challenge of the 'mattress in the middle of the highway' problem, not if we should ignore that challenge because on net we'll have less accidents with robocars.
Of course; Tolkien would only care if the author was male!
Funny, because I dont know anyone who use G+ at all. Except these who was forced to make G+ profile while was registering just for e-mail.

And same time I know hundreds who use skype on daily basic on literally every device they own. Including TV. Only device in my house lacking skype it's refrigerator.
I think people gave Go a lot of credit just because it gets a lot done, especially comparatively to the time taken to learn it, and the stuff you come up with can very well be used in production because you made it robust thanks to the excellent built-in testing and profiling tools.

What's interesting with go is that if you can program, you already know it; all your time is spent building stuff, not learning the language. And when it comes to building stuff, Go is just straightforward.
What is the alternative here? Not even enter the intersection until you believe you can complete the turn before the yellow light?
My iPhone 5 is the worst smart phone I've ever owned by far. Seemingly days after my warranty expired, the sleep/lock button and the volume down button stopped working. It's great that they're recognizing the sleep/lock button issue and I will definitely be taking advantage of it, but I'm still left with a broken volume button
Imagine googling a license plate and finding 1) where it was last seen by a google car (perhaps just a few minutes ago), and 2) a picture of the car and its occupants.

Of course, no reason to stop there, might as well throw in some facial recognition around all those folks you're passing on the sidewalks.

(Don't get me wrong. I'm both excited and optimistic about self-driving cars. The privacy concerns and having Google collect yet more data about the universe? Not so much.)
No, XP's market share needs to become vanishingly small yesterday, and this is part of how we're going to get there.
Putting it in it's own VM would allow to keep IE in a perfect replica of it's current environment (same OS, libraries, plugins, helpers etc), while securing it from the outside (for instance firewalling, snapshot of valid states to prevent corruption, check on the data exchange on the network interface, sanitizing of the input/output if really needed)
Have you ever tried inventorying the free software you use and paying a fair price for it?

I looked into it for a small IT business. For one thing, the list was very long, longer than I expected; just consider browser extensions. For another, inventorying the free software and especially making all those small payments is very time-consuming. Finally, the costs add up. Given the money and especially time involved in paying, I wouldn't be using a lot of these programs (again, think of browser extensions).

I know micro-transactions aren't a new idea, but our payment system is a debilitating bottleneck; transactions are far too slow for the speed at which I can obtain new products. What happened to micro-transactions?
Section 5.2, Validation: "Code sequences are converted into SMT formulae ... and used to produce a query which asks whether both sequences produce the same side effects on live outputs when executed from the same initial machine state."
Please read the sentence following the sentence after which you paused to comment. :)
The Wave and Chase Manson – 212 (Official Video) Dir. Jus.Frank
Then have the VM be configured to only allow traffic to/from specific addresses/dns names/whatever. There has to be a way to solve this that doesn't involve running an ancient browser/OS combination as your host operating system.
NBC Pokes a Hole in Twitter’s TV Story
It was an example of a language feature, that is short variable declarations in type switches, which avoid repetitive casting. The example below has the default clause which handles unknown types. I suppose the point is that you'd never actually do any of this because the method is disgusting.

Thanks for the downvote :-)
This is very cool. I made the Rackspace and Slicehost apps back in the day and I always wanted to make a tool like this to manage Rackspace servers. Unfortunately I never got around to it.
his point is that bandwidth sets a lower limit on lag, for a fixed packet size. high bandwidth is a necessary condition, but not sufficient.
The problem is that all pages aren't written to the spec, they're written to work with implementations.

When there's only one implementation (that authors care about), then every quirk, bug and accidental misfeature can be depended upon, and SQLite has plenty of those ("FLOATING POINT" parsed as "INT", magic of ROWID, the lax type system even more forgiving than PHP, etc.)

If there was another implementation then lack of overlap in quirks/bugs would prevent authors from depending on them (e.g. if you wrote something stupid then it'd work in one browser, but not the other).

ASCII venn diagram of 2 implementations:

{ bugs1 ( usable standard } bugs2 )

ASCII venn diagram of all browsers just shipping same Sqlite:

{( usable: standard and all bugs })
I agree with your overall vision.

But there's a lot being swept under the rug in saying, "These are (usually pretty minor) technical challenges, and I haven't heard one yet that we won't be able to overcome with today's technology." It comes close to a "sufficiently advanced compiler" or "just an implementation question."

Autocars are going to be held to a much higher standard than human drivers. This sucks, is irrational, and is unfair, but thems the breaks. Given that media and social environment, a single fatal car crash will cause a firestorm that could delay widespread introduction of driverless cars for years. People are terrified of new technology: see the shit show about a Tesla catching on fire, or the people who think people wearing Google Glass deserve to get assaulted.

We absolutely have to tread carefully here.
We let people kill more than a few of us. We let people wreck our cars and endanger our lives in situations that would have been easily avoidable.
Google Self-Driving Car on City Streets
These cars will almost certainly be sharing what they've learned about the road with each other. The hard part of this is the mobile data network required to share high resolution LIDAR or other sensor data with many cars. The fact that roads are constantly changing makes it even harder.

Puts the balloon/UAV based internet projects a little bit more into perspective.
The best resources for SQL?
I have a foundation in SQL, but I'm looking to take my proficiency to the next level. What resources would you suggest for better understanding SQL and becoming more efficient/effective?

Books, blogs, etc. Anything would be great!
Digital Ocean's FOSS Android app DO Swimmer, now has multi account support
I get what you're saying, but none of this (except for your contention about introducing security issues via backported patches) has anything to do with its _reliability_, which is what most people would interpret "stability" or "production readiness" to mean.

As for your specific contention about the stability or security of backported patches -- can you provide a citation that RHEL kernels have any more fixes per year than, say, Ubuntu kernels? (Which BTW have their own backported patches.)
The design is not the hard part. Obtaining the proper fissiles is.
How to use your kids as barbells
Use of language that you personally don't happen to like doesn't make someone inarticulate. I don't happen to like the word "however" very much, but I understand it would be unreasonable to write somebody off for making judicious use of that word, because my personal predilections are just not that important in the grand scheme of things.
PushServer – Node.js server for sending iOS push notifications
Next on the front page of HN - "Living with weight". A video showing "experiment" where people are going on with their daily lives, except they have 4 bricks strapped to their face and it's hard for them to keep head straight, they are laughed at, one is fired from office. At the end, text "Living with weight is hard. Samsung New Phone. Weights 10g less than iPhone."
You frequently have packages that are named after generic nouns, like time, host, file etc. There are many contexts where this same generic name makes for the best variable name: clear, short, and easy to type:

func ReadFile(filename String) {
file := file.Open(filename)
}

In Go you have to invent a new name, so invariably you will see a lot of:

theFile := file.Open(filename)
aFile := file.Open(filename)
readFile := file.Open(filename)

depending on who wrote the code.
There must be at least 50 million residential garages in the US alone. If we automate all cars and switch to a Cars-as-a-Service model that is 50 million large rooms suddenly available. That's a lot of reclaimed real estate.

Edit: If the average garage is 250 sq ft (pretty small), average cost of real estate is $100/sq ft (pretty low), then this is a $1.25 trillion windfall. Not bad for a small side-effect of autonomous cars.
This is absurd. Your solution to the mere possibility of being rear-ended while waiting in the line of cars at an intersection is to "book it" across an intersection before the light is fully turned. And you somehow think this is safer?
I'm skeptical at far enough distances LIDAR is accurate, due to noise and the falloff of light's subtended solid angle with distance. I am not a sensor expert but if there is a mattress on the highway far ahead (think 0.1-0.2mi or so) I would not be surprised if am going to see it due to the color contrast and my brain's pattern recognition well before LIDAR will detect it by bouncing light off of it.
If you were to request 67Tb from LA, the response would reach you faster by van than by cable - which is "less lag".
The article doesn't go into it in depth, but I think the answer is that chip makers hit a wall somewhere over 3Ghz range where it became difficult to ramp up cpu frequency without spending ridiculous sums on cooling the processor so it could operate properly (you'll notice that even now, the fastest intel chips come in at the 3.1-3.2 Ghz range ... theres a reason for that)

I was big into building computers during the cpu race between AMD/Intel back in the late 90's early 2000's and the Intel Pentium 4 processor line is notable for pushing the envelope from the the high 2Ghz range all the way up to the 3.4Ghz and 3.6ghz (I still have a 3.4Ghz chip sitting in my home office ... those were the days!)

Wikipedia does a great job of chronicling what happened with the Pentium 4 line here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 with hints to what I've just alluded to above

"Overclocking early stepping Northwood cores yielded a startling phenomenon. While core voltage approaching 1.7 V and above would often allow substantial additional gains in overclocking headroom, the processor would slowly (over several months or even weeks) become more unstable over time with a degradation in maximum stable clock speed before dying and becoming totally unusable"

It was after their failures with the brute force attempt at higher cpu cycles that Intel finally went a different way with initially the Pentium M line (code named Dothan and Banias) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M and eventually the Core duo/Core series that they've since built on.
The sad truth is that most investors will invest their time in their most successful companies. Meaning that if you're one of the weaker ones, you're unlikely to get the time you need. And if you're hot, well, you don't need the investor's help anyways. So these promises have a way of not being fulfilled.

Also - if the value of investor A's advice is better than that of investor B, then the entrepreneur would be willing to take a discount on A's term sheet relative to B. Thus, the market is saying the delta is minimal, because entrepreneurs are optimizing for price.
My understanding is that the number of people who like leaving off the www exceeds the number who remember to redirect all requests correctly.
I believe the nginx server block would read something like:

server_name www.website.tld;
rewrite ^ http://website.tld$request_uri? permanent;
Crowdfunding: How Play-i got $1.5 million in revenue in 30 days
To put it more bluntly: I think it's reasonable to argue that Wikipedia is the single most important product of the Internet to date.
The author Kimon Tsinteris goes into details at the Facebook Paper[1] event.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiY1cheLpmI#t=1527
And these are some links I've been looking at/considering:

http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Oracle-SQL-Programming-Focus/...

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Oracle-SQL-Karen-Morton/dp/1430232...

http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Antipatterns-Programming-Pragmatic...

http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celkos-Smarties-Fourth-Edition/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Tuning-Dan-Tow/dp/0596005733
Nice appeal to authority without a shred of evidence.

Edit: downvotes? Where is the evidence of what actually killed Seth? What makes a 'cardiologist' correct here, vs a scientist?