skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, until people can just click a button and buy a bunch of smaller machines with the same aggregate power for less.

Neither SGI nor Sun were boneheaded, per se. They simply missed the signs of the Internet and cheap commodity hardware. Just as MS missed the Internet and Mobile. And I'm sure today's high-flyers are missing something too.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that in an industry moving as fast as ours, the only viable long-term model is to change your model all the time.
ats is also doing some very interesting stuff around adding algebraic datatypes and linear types to a c-level language.

http://www.ats-lang.org/
I do not understand your comment. OP lamented the lack of easy access to demographic data, commenting that "it would be really awesome to just click a few times to see make up of a politician's district" and I gave a link to exactly what OP was longing for. The only remaining laziness circumvention is an application that reads your mind. You think bothering to look before complaining is too much to ask of individuals who comment on HN posts?
I created this app out of interest. Any suggestions for improvements are greatly appreciated.
> I'd describe it--a non-religion whose focus is on tranquility.

The reason white people invented Buddhism 150 years ago or whenever was explicitly to be a religion. This was in order to provide an argument against western imperialism, among other reasons.
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His mention of the glowing hockey puck made me realize that I haven't seen a glowing puck for awhile. Granted, it may be that I haven't watched hockey as much as I did when I was a kid, but I certainly didn't see it last year when I watched some games.

When I did see the glowing puck it made me feel like I was watching NBA Jam on Ice.
Operating with partial context is not only part of real life, but also a branch of mathematical logic called computability theory. That's far from useless.

We should also care because social insight often comes from relative comparisons. They let us compare things without having precise data. For example, people growing indignant is often a sign they don't understand a topic well, which is generally true without knowing the particular person involved.

One of my favorites from this list is the following, which is also supported by research on vulnerability[1]:

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

[1] - https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
MR images, etc, are very modern. The choice of image to be displayed in a text book is not based only on what one would see if one had a brain to dissect at hand; dissection procedures, and the sections that result, are determined by precedence.

The "standard" sagittal section as in this image (i.imgur.com/ZTvy55n.jpg), or this image (i.imgur.com/73YdDXa.jpg) is chosen precisely because it shows in one image several important features of the brain, and is also recapitulated nicely by MRI images, as you mention.

However, there is no reason why Michelangelo would know anything about the different regions of the brain and therefore choose a representation that showed them.

A "fresh" human brain (which is what Michelangelo would have seen) looks like this (i.imgur.com/KXBLtrx.jpg), or this (i.imgur.com/Bm5l8n6.jpg), and without further dissection do not look much like his paintings.

Such brains can be further sectioned in any number of ways, none of which are necessarily obvious. The question then is would Michelangelo have dissected brains in the same way as is now done?
Saw it- It's trying to be a mad men for geeks, and is somewhat successful.

Setting/mood: A

Writing: B

Technical accuracy: A-

Acting: C

Character development: B

The fact that Greek culture has permeated popular culture enough to justify an effort at technical accuracy to this degree involving early PC hardware boggles my mind.
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I understand the point perfectly. It does not change the economics of the situation for the compiler writers. There is no way a company could have offered an Ada compiler for, say, $100, or even $500.
Ha ha, try hand placing 01005. Literally specs of black pepper. Must use ceramic tweezers due to residual magnetism in even the highest quality, demagnetized stainless. I was placing them between BGA balls to solve a noise issue.

The lady I have hand building my boards can place 0201 all day. Pretty amazing.
Something I see missing from computers these days (and lots of days previous) is a programming language designed for non-programmers.

The likes of Ruby and Python are _approachable_ but everything is a mess of libraries, RVM and lookalikes, dependancies, and a whole lot of complication. This is great for the target audience but less so for your average user.

Excel and the Microsoft like are currently filling the role, and doing so poorly.

The scientific community has things like R and MATLAB which do a good job for scientists.

Everybody else _can_ learn a language, but it can be daunting and it's definitely geared towards hackers and professionals.

In an ideal world all computers would ship with a native programming language, a big fat manual for users, and a set of software that's core design allows for and is meant to be programmed for everyday usage.

This language would have to be relatively simple, stable over time, and more monolithic than most. It would have to sacrifice speed and functionality for approachability, but if it were done well it could be world-changing.

Sadly the market is moving in the opposite direction (but in some sense the same direction too) Everybody these days is using an app with simple buttons which doesn't do much at all. It's successful because it's so approachable, but scary because it's so controlled by the vendor.
I recall having trouble with that in chrome. I seem to get inconsistent results removing history items in firefox, too. I dunno. shrug
This is bizzarely coincidental. I've been at a hackathon for the last 14 hours and I'm working on a static blog based cms. All the benefits of having a CMS with the output of a blazingly fast and stable static website. Will be open sourcing it when it gets to version "CRUD ready"
Ask HN: Current and future perspectives on college and life in STEM academia?
Hi HN, I don't know if this has been asked before and it possibly doesn't have enough to do with hacking, but I would like to share this. I am a graduating US high school senior and I was recently admitted to a top US university with strong STEM programs and will be attending. I however was not admitted to its peer institutions with perhaps stronger programs and more prestige. I am grateful for the opportunity to go this school, but I can't help but think what could have happened differently had I been admitted at those places. I'm sure a lot of you have gone through this and I am interested in your perspectives. I do hear that college doesn't really matter, but I am not looking at this from an entrepreneur's standpoint who wants to get out of school as fast as possible. I am strongly considering pursuing some kind work in academia and am also worried I don't have the brains or talent of someone who gets to the top of those fields so I'm also interested in hearing from grad and PhD students. Thanks in advance.
I'm by no means a typography expert, in fact I don't particularly care about typography all that much. I like the new font, but there's some characters (e.g. "o") that just seem like they have an extra pixel or two on the outer edge. It still looks nice and clean though.
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The table thing is very considerate of them. I wonder how many people use it?
ISO9000 just means you must document that management crap on it's employees. As long as your crappy processes are documented, you are good-to-go.
Don't make that attribution error of associating the patron with the artist.

Yes, religion was the primary patron of visual, sculptural, and musical arts for much of the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. But it wasn't the only.

And you'll find beautiful works among the secularist of the Classical and Romantic periods, say, the Pre-Raphaelites. Of whom neither the artists, models, nor subject are generally highly religious in nature.
Unknown Internet Source: "Despite the fact the light water and heavy water are chemically identical, heavy water is mildly toxic. How can this be? Since heavy water is heavier than normal water, the speed of chemical reactions involving it is altered somewhat, as is the strength of some types of bonds it forms. This affects certain cellular processes, notably mitosis, or cell division, due to the difference in binding energy in the hydrogen bonds needed to make certain proteins. Mouse studies have shown that drinking only heavy water along with normal feed eventually causes degeneration of tissues that need to replenish themselves frequently, and leads to cumulative damage from injuries that don't heal as quickly. One study likens the effects to those suffered by chemotherapy patients. Heavy water toxicity manifests itself when about 50% of the water in the body has been replaced by D2O. Prolonged heavy water consumption can cause death."
The course has 1287 graduates, all with a perfect score, so I believe your conclusion is correct. Edited OP.
Internet. Not just as someone who lives in an area with crappy mass transit, but also as someone who loves to drive around and see new areas a lot. As much as I enjoy the internet, some time away from it would be restful. I'd get by without it.
for verizon, replace the last octet with 14 to opt out of verizon's landing pages for unresolved domains.

http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/highspee...
I think I didn't present what I was saying clearly.

I think you definitely want to be very open about what the inside of the container looks like and even what the interface is between the containers and the rest of the world.

I was thinking about the platform that the containers run on top of. You don't gain anything by using a given host platform, but building alternate components that handle deploying and wiring up those containers. You're better off either using the existing platform's components or contributing patches to it, and the latter really only makes sense if you're adding something distinctive.
I've had that same conversation with non-technical people. "Complicated? They're just drawing a yellow line on the screen!"
This is incredible! After hearing about the MIT tinker toy optimal tic-tac-toe machine[1], I built a half-adder out of dominoes[2] around the same time period as that video and hadn't ever heard of anyone else messing with the concept.

[1] http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1215
[2] http://imgur.com/a/qq7Kl
We've talked to Tucker Taft about Ada and Rust before, though it was a while ago and I mostly recall that we discussed aspects of Ada's standardization process (I think Graydon was a fan of Ada's spec). Niko would probably remember more.
And FWIW here's the research presentation Tucker gave while he was at Moco about his new language Parasail: https://air.mozilla.org/region-based-storage-management-para...
How Facebook news feed algorithm works (Feb 2014)
I like to categorize many features that lower initial difficulty as "deferred technical debt." There are type system features that ensure a higher degree of correctness, but it's not fun debugging compiler errors when you're trying to get something working.

For example, being forced to handle errors immediately via return codes or option types is not "fun". By comparison, exceptions act as a giant GOTO and no one blinks an eye.

Dynamic typing is also another form of deferred technical debt. It is preferable to handle type errors at runtime or through testing instead of at compile time. People who claim very few bugs are a result of type errors typically do not have experience with ADTs or stronger type systems than Java / C++ / C.[0]

> Most programmers think that getting run-time errors, and then using a debugger to find and fix those errors, is the normal way to program. They aren't aware that many of those errors can be detected by the compiler. And those that are aware, don't necessarily like that, because repairing bugs is challenging, and, well, sorta fun.

I don't think this attitude has changed in the past 16 years. People prefer to debug a run time stack rather than deal with compile errors, perhaps even more so with the rise of dynamic languages.

[0] Clojure community likes to argue that bugs arise from mutability more than type safety, but I don't have not experience to comment either way.
It looks good. But Helvetica was good too. Anyone have any thoughts on why the switch?
Yep #00 Swiss tweezers. Nothing like them. The feel of the #00 is just right.
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This was a terrible invention.
AF_UNIX with SOCK_STREAM will behave like TCP, in that a "full" stream will block. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1478975/unix-domain-socke..., for example.
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Errr, I may not have made it clear, but Sun did make commodity hardware, as in AMD and later Intel server boxes that would run Linux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems#x86-based_syst...

Not "cheap", but of at least perceived high quality, and something that many startups found attractive. The latter just couldn't actually buy these boxes in sufficient quantity.

Lots of companies suffer because they screw up their sales, fail in that sort of basic blocking and tackling.
My point is this: how many people are there as motivated as op? Motivated enough to comment on an obscure website in hopes of being pointed in the right direction?

Perhaps maybe the disconnect is in that I -- and maybe op as well -- are thinking in the context of people as a whole, and you are thinking in the context of people as members HN.
Sometimes there are just hard deadlines you can't do a whole lot about. In this case, it was pretty much hunker down and get it done in 4 months, or wait another year. For a fledgling company, that extra 12 months was probably the difference between success and failure.
Suggest HN: Let's have comments for job ads
Many times you see a job ad from a company associated with HN linked on the frontpage or behind. Wouldn't it benefit everyone if you could actually discuss what's linked, just like every other link?

I know some people see the critics here in a hard way but if you take the feedback to you (in some cases), it would probably help you, as a company.

And as a person who is looking for job, it would be worthy and helpful to read about what other people have for experience or thoughts about a company. Happy employee - happy employer

What's your thoughts about this?
The few times I've watched football, I've been fascinated by this technology. I imagine football fans take it for granted at this point, but I just want to say "wow, are you SEEING this!?" For a live broadcast to be augmented in that way is damn impressive.
I'm getting so frustrated with Twitter, as a shareholder and big believer in the company. I really think they need to be focusing on new services and experiences (actual new functionality!) with the content on their platform.

For example, many of their users are quite passive - why not improve the experience for the logged-out user? Twitter could be a great source of real-time news for everyone - not just heavy users of the platform.

In addition, did you know that if you paste a url into the search you can see the tweets that link to it? There are great conversations happening about published stories - yet that content has no way to get surfaced, really. I should be able to see the twitter conversations that are happening around every piece of content on the web, and I can't! That's crazy.

I get that design is important, but Twitter needs to innovate on its product. Rant over.
Scary to think about how easily things can be covered up by the government
I am honestly, honestly blown away by the user experience! Amazing walk through; at no point did I feel anything as a chore.

Very well executed indeed. Kudos to the team.
eBay posted this two days ago...

Using Spark to Ignite Data Analytics (
http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2014/05/28/using-spark-to-ignite...)
To put it another way

"It's the ecosystem, stupid."

Apologies to Bill "It's the economy, stupid" Clinton.
> insisted on exclusivity for games they didn't even have rights to

given the price per game and the market value for that, it seems like a low price to screw your competition. by insisting on an exclusive deal they couldn't use it in the playoffs - anywhere. what a well played "screw you buddy" move.
Running commentary

9. It is quite a predicament to be both evil and risk averse.

This basically explains 4chan

41. One of life's machinations is to make some people
both rich and unhappy, that is, jointly fragile and
deprived of hope.

43. High Modernity: routine in place of physical effort,
physical effort in place of mental expenditure, & mental
expenditure in place of mental clarity.

It's hard to get clarity out of someone who doesn't share your abstractions, it's hard to get effort out of someone who doesn't share your goals

47. Life is about execution rather than purpose.

52. Used skillfully, a compliment will be much more offensive than any disparagement.

As a Canadian I know this, and I am tempted to learn Japanese because I think it will take me to the next level

63. The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain
"why" you did something.

69. Saying someone good at making profits but not
good at managing risk is like saying someone is a great
surgeon except for cases when the patients die.

75. The only valid political system is one that can
handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it.

I disagree, and I bet he wouldn't say this about a hedge fund

88. An economist is a mixture of 1) a businessman
without common sense, 2) a physicist without brain,
and 3) a speculator without balls.

110. If you detect a repressed smile on the
salesperson's face, you paid too much for it.

Competition: escalate if they're happy. Love: escalate if they're sad.

112. If powerful assholes don't find you "arrogant", it
means you are doing something wrong.

125. In a conflict, the middle ground is least likely to be
correct.

A compromise between two sane solutions can easily produce an insane solution

129. Intellect without balls is like a racecar without
tires.

163.Journalists reporting on journalism (such as the
NYT intrigue) is an unconscious form of onanism.

187. For life to be really fun, what you fear should line
up with what you desire.

191. In the days of Suetonius, 60% of prominent
educators (grammarians) were slaves. Today the ratio
is 97.1%, and growing.
I understand. But from the point of view of Deis, CoreOS is not a platform. It is a Linux distro with a loose collection of tools pre-installed, some of which Deis happens to use. One such tool is Fleet. Another is the systemd log journal. Each of those tools has dozens of competitors. Deis reserves the right to pick and choose from those competitors without locking themselves in. It also reserves the right to use some pieces of CoreOS without using the other. If you think of CoreOS as an end-to-end monolithic platform, this may seem strange. But it is perfectly aligned with the Docker philosophy, which is that big monolithic platforms are not a good thing. What you want is a vast ecosystem of small composable lego bricks.
it was a terrible invention. thankfully it didn't survive long.
OMG I filled in all of the fields and realized they needed to save individually and when I saved one it reset all the other fields!!! Seriously, so much effort lost.

Also, a lot of the jobs link to an external website, so I spent time on my application for not much...
Wow... I can't imagine a stupider way to hire someone... what does social networking mastery have to do with driving a forklift?
Here is a link to the part of the GOP's 2012 platform that covers this [1].

The understanding or lack thereof of the Democrats, Greens, etc., on internet matters is not relevant to my point, which was that this bill is in accord with official GOP policy and so dismissing it and so your quick dismissal of its threat is on shaky ground.

It's also worth noting that they tried to put killing net neutrality in as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling in 2013.

The House also tried to kill net neutrality in 2011. The Republicans voted 234 to 2 (4 not voting for killing it). The Democrats voted 177 to 6 (9 not voting) to keep it.

[1] http://www.gop.com/2012-republican-platform_Reforming/#Item5
Reminds me of those Excite and Yahoo idiots who refused to buy Google for a cheap $1 million. Some people just don't deserve to be at the top.
Here is a comparison with Helvetica (not HN) and Gotham with commentary and history:

http://thinkcreateblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/face-off/
Rescale (YC W12) is hiring platform software engineers
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We are well funded company by top tier investors (including Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, and Peter Thiel) and offer a competitive salary with matching stock options. We are located in the SOMA district of San Francisco close to BART and Muni. As a platform software engineer, you will be building a distributed workflow engine and cluster management system that will run compute-intensive simulations across multiple cloud providers.

We are looking for a few well rounded generalists to join our team. We prefer that you have:

* Experience writing software in Java and/or Python.

* Ability to context switch between tasks ranging from query optimization to devops at a moments notice.

* Ability to take complete ownership of projects, from conception and architecture right down to implementation.

* Education: B.S. in Computer Science or a related field, however relevant experience and proven ability trumps diplomas and certificates for us.

Some nice to haves:

* Experience with AWS stack, especially EC2, S3, SQS.

* Experience with other cloud technologies such as Openstack, Azure.

* Experience writing RESTful APIs and Django apps.

* Release engineering experience using Salt and/or ansible.

* Expertise or strong interest in the following areas: high-performance computing, code optimization, concurrent programming, security, encryption, certificates.

Interested? Contact us at dev-jobs@rescale.com
Well that's far too much money for me to spend, but I am excited to see it.

Can anyone comment on whether or not ARMv8 is beneficial in embedded environments with limited memory? Will we eventually see self-contained ARMv8 microcontrollers?
Yes, oddly enough they don't reschedule the Super Bowl for us if a job is going to take a few extra days.
What about us Windows users that have always seen Arial?

With all honesty, Gotham looks very bad when drawn by the ClearType renderer.