skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another example I always buy a car for cash and never lease. I want to be able to wake up any morning and get a new car exactly when I want. And I don't want to have to obsess over miles on the car or at least have it quantified "12k miles .30 overage". Not even a money issue it just takes the "fun" out of it.

Your point re: renting (and my point) as I pointed out in a reply in my other comment is really the gist of what I didn't like about this article. It reduced everything down to a dollar amount when the decision for everyone is much more complicated. It's actually one of the things I don't like about "Internet advice" it's really hard to come up with a comprehensive analysis of all the reasons people make certain decisions.
That doesn't follow. You don't have to use jackbooted thugs to intimidate someone. Ordering government agents to be sent to a newspaper to destroy information sounds pretty intimidating to me, even if the agents in question are friendly and doing something routine to them.

Is it not intimidation if a gang sends a couple scrawny members to your restaurant to enjoy a pleasant meal the day before your protection payment is due?
You'd be mistaken to think just because you share memory space that you don't have to think about or design around the same issues with threads. The main issue I've ran into with multiprocessing is objects that are unpickleable, otherwise, it's pretty transparent usually.
Same in Australia. It always amazes me how archaic the US banking system is - particularly the continued use of checks. When my wife (then girlfriend) saw that I owned a check book here in Oz she burst out laughing and called me an old man. That was a decade ago.
I have functions for two of these that I use all the time:

# upcd foo : cd up to the nearest dir matching /foo/
upcd () { cd ${PWD/\/$1\/*/\/$1} }

# dncd foo : cd down to the first descendant matching /foo/
dncd () { cd $(find . -type d -name "$1" -print -quit) }

If you are in zsh, 'cd /foo/' also does the latter as long as there is only one descendant directory called foo
Yeah, that's fair. I guess it's not clear if the $85 is for signing up for this Nest feature or for signing up for demand response in general.
Just to be clear on this matter. The Guardian were given every option to return the classified material.[1]

In two tense meetings last June and July the cabinet secretary, Jeremy Heywood, explicitly warned the Guardian's editor, Alan Rusbridger, to return the Snowden documents.

>> At one point Heywood said: "We can do this nicely or we can go to law"

That is not intimidatory. It is exactly how I would expect a democratic institution to act. They didn't send in jackbooted armed personnel to shut down the editorial department. Two computer engineers arrived and oversaw classified material being destroyed. That's it.

It's about as intimidating as a police officer telling a suspect he can get in the car nicely or he can be handcuffed.

The Guardian were asked point blank in a Parliamentary Hearing - "Do you think the entire episode was a PR stunt?" and they said "No."

EDIT TO ADD: I love it :-) Voted down for publishing the story written by the Guardian about the entire incident.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-relea...
Amazon and Thinkgeek are the only two affiliates we work with. I look for stuff all over the internet, Etsy, etc.

How is it any different than any other block that curates content and advertises with affiliates or direct sponsors?

In other news, I got a lot of practice making categorized content which will come in handy for my other projects. I learned a lot about Modified Preorder Tree Traversal in MySQL, which is pretty neat. Sorry to offend, I was excited about building something fun. Have you built anything lately, even just to learn something new?
Anyone remember Jobster.com? Same CEO as Fab.com now.
From my perspective we are either in agreement or nitpicking then. Ideally children would be free to do their own thing subject to the constraint that that thing not be unsafe to no good purpose.

Where would you have found peers outside of a school environment? Given the normal school system is 0 and unschooling is 10 where would you place democratic schools?

I presume unschooling is a good approximation to your ideal.
I guess in the end I just like to do what I want to do and not have to ask for permission or get approval.

I purchased our offices and wanted to install a door and just did it. I want to put in an alarm system I know it potentially adds to the property value. New carpets? Sure since even if we move it has value to a new owner (not 20 years later of course...) I didn't have to clear it with anyone and I didn't have to think about all the fine print in a lease or anything else.

But I do see your point.
This could be an interesting option as well, https://github.com/virgo-agent-toolkit. It has a very small footprint, built with SIGAR for reporting metrics and a lightweight embedded lua interpreter for performing the business logic.
Disclaimers in emails – Please stop
Because there is a power imbalance.
This is super-helpful, thanks for posting!

One quick suggestion: it would be great to be able to save the numbers you've punched in so you can share a URL with someone (e.g., spouse, parents) next time the rent v. buy discussion comes up.
> Fascinating how that problem never appears in the programming community. How we never have a situation where a user is told that they are obviously wrong. /end snark.

This is a huge problem all over programming communities. However, R is reputed to be significantly worse than most. We're trying very hard to innovate not only with Julia's technology, but also with its community. There is no reason for open source programming projects to be "jerkdoms" – we're professionals and our behavior should be professional, civil, helpful, and respectful. Even if we weren't professionals, that's still just decent behavior. If you need evidence of a civil, non-snarky, supportive community look no further than this:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6829

A more typical issue interaction is this:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6769

This is now the longest issue discussion Julia has ever had, and a fairly divisive one (although a bit obscure), but entirely civil, polite, and respectful.

> nothing comes close to ggplot2.

IMO, Gadfly does: http://dcjones.github.io/Gadfly.jl/ – of course, it's very heavily inspired by ggplot2 and uses D3 for plotting in the browser.
also, you apparently do work for canonical which pretty blatently used amazon in their unity search for affiliate gain... come on.
Is it sad that I recognized the comic from the context and the number in the link?
If Google ends-up fixing this, I hope that they don't add metafilter to a white-list and call it a day. The results nowadays almost seem like a hand curated list that would only help the person that made that list.
The power generation market absolutely works like this. The problem is that the power consumption market does not. Since most customers only pay a fixed average price/kWh instead of a time of use tariff, so people have no incentive to conserve power since they're still paying the same price even though the spot price has gone up by an order of magnitude.

If the consumers paid the spot price and realized their air conditioner now cost something like $10/hr to run, I bet you demand would come down. The problem is that this would completely screw over those that can't adjust their demand in the process.
I've used DoorDash 3 times in the past few months and they always underpromise and overdeliver. Emails and texts are sent at each stage of the delivery (order, pickup, en-route, driver is 5 mins away), they always beat their estimates and the drivers are very friendly.

The logistics for ensuring food arrives hot when you don't have any control over the cooking process and timing is hard, but they always managed to do it. I'm impressed.
"[It was Reid's fault] say numerous sources".

I'm not saying he did it. I'm not saying he didn't do it. I'm saying the washington post reported unnamed sources said Reid did it.

I think that's a pretty low bar of evidence, is all I'm saying.
1. Reporting stolen bikes makes it harder to sell stolen bikes, making bike theft less profitable - and ultimately making it less likely that you'll be looking for a good deal on a new bike, since your old one won't have been stolen.

2. Some people actually do care.

3. Buying stolen property is illegal
"Verbose" seems to be a trade-off for removal of intrinsic ambiguity (and the resulting standard wars) within markdown, which I speculate as the reason we still haven't come up with one "standard markdown" despite many calling for it.

IMHO this took minimal yet established markups from various wiki and markdown-ish syntaxes, further simplified them, finally approaching what we wanted as a "standard markdown" in the first place.
I'd hire ted
The idea of using one of these as a transport device (as opposed to a recreational vehicle) is very interesting.

I think that cities in general would function much better with a more diverse transport mix. The improvements in personal electric vehicles is one of the biggest steps towards achieving this.

I think electric bicycles, electric skateboards and now these things can all play a part.
> onclick-like functionality is coming back to frameworks.
Yes. I've noticed and as you might have guessed I'm equally deeply astonished and saddened.

> It is sometimes just much nicer to bind stuff together directly.
Yes. It's so much nicer to have your hammer at your desk than to go to a cabinet to fetch it when you need it. But if you own bunch of tools and do various task at your desk it's either cabinet or a pile on you desk that at some point prevents you from making any progress on your projects.

Things should be kept separated out and organised by concern. If they are brought together it is either for convenience or speed. Both perfectly valid reasons so the separation is never strict but should be viewed as exception not as a rule. If you don't watch yourself you might end up with oscommerce PHP source files where everything is together because it's so much nicer to bind stuff directly.
Management demolishes $300 million in venture capital, employees get axed instead.
I've posted this before, so I hope it doesn't come out as spam (not affiliated, just a fan). A similar project is http://lowendspirit.com/

Dirty, dirty cheap vps (3€/year) with only ipv6.

Actually, that's not exactly true. You get 20 ports of a shared ipv4, which is nice if you can't connect over ipv6. You can also ask for an haproxy entry, so that your vps will answer on port 80 when trying to access your site.

I hope we'll see similar discounts in the future, since ipv4 keep getting more expansive every day (right now provider can easily charge 1-5€/month for one).
> While more research is needed, the proposed timeline suggests that asteroids — including NEOs that pose a potential threat to Earth — may have much greater longevity than previously estimated.

The phrasing here is a little confusing. Is it just new that NEOs can be this old? What was the thinking before? That no asteroids could be that old? Or that no asteroids that old would ever come near Earth (if so, why)?

Am I missing some information (e.g. said meteorite was in some sort of unstable orb around Earth / the Sun for a long time)?
The parent wasn't making that point, but if you want to read about all the scary Coke conspiracies, there's always http://killercoke.org/
Destroying those components would render the machine useless without external inputs and outputs, maybe their intention was simply just to disable the machine, executed in a rather odd manner.
And Cambridge University researchers recently reported progress in penetrating solid tumors.
Are you a Oregon elector? If so, what was your logic? Did you not read the procurement notice? Did you agree with it? If you didn't agree with it, did you lodge a complaint? Or were you too lazy? Were you too lazy to even read the proposal? To read and analyze the resulting award? To read others' analyses? And if you were too lazy, how can you now complain without being a hypocrite? If you're not an Oregon elector, have you done any of these things in your state? Because I don't think an executive would be able to complain about the functioning of a corporation if they don't bother to show up at board meetings or even read the meeting minutes.
How much variance is there in bitcoin mining? With physical access to the hardware HashPlex could easily steal a percentage of user's bitcoins and blame it their bad luck.
But this isn't just about MetaFilter dropping out of the top slots. Google is actively accusing other sites of spamming because MetaFilter users linked to them. Google has clearly miscategorized MetaFilter as a spam farm, and is penalizing it and others because of this algorithmic error.
Despite the negative tone here, I feel like the direction they're working towards.

One possible pitfall in syntax, though: two dashes within one sentence would be translated to strikeouts -- which I could only come up with context-sensitive fixes -- which would violate the core principle (of removing ambiguity).
"Saving the project" has become a massive red flag for me.

In my experience, when anything about "saving" is mentioned, it means a handful of people started the project, made a hash of it, then after a few short weeks passed it off to another team who were tasked with "saving it". This second team blames all their failures on the first, thinks that they are making the best of a bad situation, then after a few months passes it off again. The new people comfort themselves with the same "saving the project" narrative for a while more until it again comes time for somebody else to save it.

Each team after the first lasts only as long as they can plausibly believe that everything is the fault of the people that came before them. As soon as they realize that their shit stinks too, they bounce.

In the end, 90%+ of the man hours in a project were put in by people who thought they were saving it.
We've been saying goodbye to IPv4 for years and years. No one will care unless money is lost by not running IPv6. That is when adoption rates will go up.
2^32 ought to be enough for anybody?
This is insane and would be illegal in most European countries, AFAIK.
You are constantly asserting that it didn't work - I am telling you voice mail just works on any GSM Android unlocked phone on most carriers in the US. You keep conflating VoiceMail not working with VoiceMail not working visually through the app, like iOS has done since day 1. It clearly is not the case - again VME just works in the way most GSM users use it. "Visual" voicemail doesn't work until you download an carrier specific app if your phone is not carrier branded.
Before they were a flash sales site, they were a gay social network:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1835757/fabcom-ready-set-reset
Well, RMS exclusively uses a Lemote Yeelong that has been formally verified to not contain backdoors, and he runs purely free software on it. If that's not enough, he never connects it directly to the internet by having another computer wget certain websites on a regular basis and also download/ upload emails, which get transferred to the Lemote via physical media.

There may still be vulnerabilities, but he's a whole lot more secure than your average person.
I've tried it for a while, for me it was down about half of the time (error 501/502/522 on CloudFlare), At a certain point, I could access my site from my phone mobile connection, but not from my home connection.

I've opened a ticket and was told that there were some problems with the servers/route (can't remember exactly, sorry) but was not given any ETA.

It was a while ago, and I remember it was during the time CloudFlare was being ddossed, so maybe it's fixed now and it work just fine, but I haven't tried again.
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Congrats to the team!

I respect what you've done so far, but I can't help wondering how investors can base their analysis on an experiment restricted to Palo Alto, Mountain View and San Jose. From what I see, the bulk of orders (in $) are from fellow startups ordering lunch and dinners. Where else is the world (except SF and maybe NYC) do so many companies, in such a small geography, order so much food from restaurants?

I'm not saying it's not a good business. I'm wondering if there is really room for growth (a growth big enough to justify the huge series A valuation) outside of very specific geographies.
If you haven't noticed the impact social media has had on our world, you have not been paying attention. Yes, people waste an astounding amount of time with it. People (and businesses) are also more connected than ever before. I've learned that people I know died through social media, I've generated sales for small businesses through social media, and revolutions have been coordinated through social media:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/01/18/if-you-dou...
Excellent point. I didn't put together the link designation with the likelihood that Google had put Metafilter into a spam penalty box. I simply hadn't considered that a possibility given Metafilter's reputation.

Every time I read about this Metafilter situation, I cringe in thinking about how horrible Answers.com is with the abusive tactics they employ now when it comes to displaying content / answers. And yet they remain non-penalized; historically they're one of AdSense's biggest publishers, always found that interesting.
Totally read this as homophobic encryption...
You'll get downvoted now for complaining about downvoting; you were originally downvoted for spoiling the narrative. If you want to inject pragmatism into conversations about Internet surveillance, suck up the downvotes and grey text as a sign that you're doing something right.
Would it be fair to say that cancer is a symptom rather than a disease, or is that completely off the mark?
Just to throw my 2 cents in, I've had a blast using Martini for the past few weeks working on Hacker News Anchor[0]. It's a pretty minimal product, true, but using Martini I barely noticed the framework. I may be biased since I tend to heavily prefer Sinatra-style frameworks, but Martini didn't disappoint.

[0] http://hidden-bastion-5609.herokuapp.com/
I wouldn't say this is a problem with a calculator. These two factors make predicting whether renting or buying will be better really hard in some cases, and the page makes that clear. I see it as an interactive tool that helps you explore all the variables involved rather than a calculator designed spit out a clear yes or no answer in every case.
I did not expect that article to be nearly as long nor as interesting.
This was in the USA, where the law states that landlords and their hired contractors may enter during "reasonable hours" for "improvements."

Probably rendering the apartment inhabitable for hours every day is not legal, and I could have sued for some compensation, but living there had gotten so miserable with the construction noise and random water shutoffs that I just wanted out.
I expected an article commenting on fatalities on some tug-of-war metaphor — for instance, a power-struggle between two countries. I was surprised (and possibly delighted) to find that this article was actually about tug-of-war.
Just happened to me. The second I clicked it I figured out which one it was.
Ask HN: Why has nobody else 'defected' from NSA/GCHQ since the Snowden incident?
I am not looking to start a rambling thread here, however, we like to believe that conspiracies don't exist because surely someone would speak out.

Yet, within the fun world of NSA/GCHQ, nobody has came forward since Snowden to tell the world what it is that the spies are really up to or even how the Snowden stories affected morale in Peeping-Tom-Land.

Clearly there are penalties for speaking out, i.e. jail terms, however Snowden also showed how it is done. Why haven't any other NSA/GCHQ persons booked themselves a 'holiday' in some place like Bolivia/China/Russia?

This is a genuine question.

-EDIT-

Compare the situation with the sex abuse scandal that has gone on at the BBC. (Where, for many decades, many of the BBC's top presenters/DJs were able to rape/abuse children/young adults on BBC premises 'safe' in the knowledge that they would never get caught.)

Nothing is said until a year after the BBC's most voracious paedophile dies, then the whistle gets blown. Thereafter, all of a sudden hundreds of people that never had the courage beforehand come forward. Previously they did not think they would be believed, now they know they will, so, for them it is desirable to speak up even though they are still taking on powerful people.

A similar thing of 'disbelief' has gone on with spying. Before Snowden nobody would have believed that the government taps everything, now we know. So claims that might once have sounded ludicrous could now be taken seriously. You would think others would be incentivised to speak up, surely?
>He never says like iOS. you are inserting that.

Nitpicking much? iOS started the Visual Voice Mail thing. No GSM, non-iPhone user is used to using Visual Voice Mail App - they pretty much tap the VME notification or long dial 1 to get to voice mail - that still works on any unlocked Android with any GSM carrier.
It looks nice, but do we really need another one of these?
It sounds like there are 3 plausible reasons. (1) they had compromised those components and were trying to clean up after themselves (2) they were afraid someone else had compromised them (3) intentional misdirection.

If the GHCQ knew that these components were easily compromised, they would have bugged them themselves given their interest in the material on those machines.
That's interesting, what sort of communication issues have you run into with threading? I've always found it to be mostly a non-issue since you can use global variables or just pass along a reference.
This is very disappointing when it comes to dealing with large files.

It looks like git-bigfiles was abandoned years ago, after making very little progress, and neither bitbucket nor github seem to usefully support git-annex.
I agree it's backwards / ridiculous, but that is apparently how Google prefers links to be treated now. It clearly breaks the notion of good will value sharing between sites. It seems these days all the best ranking sites are careful to nofollow across the board.

I used to see claims that Google gave sites a modest benefit for sharing pagerank via links to other high quality sites or similar sites. That doesn't seem to hold up under scrutiny when you look at the sites that have done well by optimizing SEO.