skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Sublime Text (and occasionally TextMate). It saves me time so I'm sure it's payed for itself already.

I also use AWS for some personal hosting.
No.. it is a messaging app that allows you to text your Facebook friends who are also using the app. It has nothing to do with Facebook chat actually.
I also like "Our Comrade the electron": https://static.pinboard.in/webstock_2014.htm

I'm generally not a writing geek, but Maciej is one of the (very) few people whose writing makes me wildly jealous.
Hmm, us-west-1b and -1c aren't a "single availability zone".

EDIT: load balancers in us-west are affected now too: http://status.aws.amazon.com
If anything, I'd say unless the contractor is delivering a complete end-to-end piece of work, it'll almost certainly count as "a contribution to a collective work". Some types of work you might outsource (say, hiring a technical writer to write your documentation for you) might also count as "supplementary material".
"Sinking"

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1970941-microsoft-earnings-h...

Microsoft's Windows Server division is the second largest business unit making up over 20% of its total value. It is also one of the fastest growing divisions of Microsoft. During Q2 FY14, revenue from the commercial segment, which includes servers, commercial office licensing and cloud platform, grew 10% to $12.66 billion driven by higher SQL server sales and adoption of the cloud based Azure platform. Many customers of Microsoft depend on SQL servers for mission critical and business intelligence needs, specifically in the big data analytics domain. As a result, Microsoft's SQL server revenue grew by 11%, outpacing the server market. Additionally, its Azure cloud offering clocked in triple digit growth in revenues. We're encouraged by the continual growth that this division posted, and it is becoming an important driver for Microsoft's value.
Aside from expense, what issues do plastic pallets have?
NOW: AWS connectivity issue for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. California)
Yes, yes it is. There's simply no comparison.

http://rapgenius.com/Dr-dre-bitches-aint-shit-lyrics
"Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks / Lick on these nuts and suck the dick / Get's the fuck out after you're done / And I hops in my ride to make a quick run."

This is pretty tame by today's rap standards where rape and violence are glorified. Don't excuse the violence by claiming that it is racist to point out the obvious truth.

For the record, Afrocentric rap is much less misogynistic than gangsta rap, which is relatively race-neutral.
It's WONDERFULLY USEFUL and INTERESTING.

See also:
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/2931716
and
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/2931852
you (& bitL as well) make some fair points but I actually (maybe because I'm newer to Java?) have quite a different experience with it. The XML setup seems minimal now (sure it's all there but most stuff is now handled with reasonable default configs & annotations).

Take Jax-Rs is a good example. Once you understand it you're just like "Ohhhhh this is the same way Rails/whatever framework handles json requests but I can add in all this non-linear logic without forcing it to play nicely within a presumptuous design pattern". Adding many data sources & logic flows is easy.

Bottom line is that I feel like Java can never really be the next C because fundamentally its much safer and becoming way more human readable. It toes the line well -- you can code minimal stuff similar to the scripting languages, or you can drop years of work/research into optimization for high-transaction algorithms knowing that the platform won't abandon you.

(By the way, I am personally hoping for Clojure or node.js to take over the front-end of the stack & then just using Java to do any heavy lifting that is left over)
Other prominent answers:

- Intelligent species are extremely uncommon - life could be common, but mostly bacteria / simple single-cell.

- Intelligent species choose to hide themselves from us or others somehow - I'm no cosmologist, but maybe some of the dark matter we've calculated be accounted for by dyson spheres?

- Intelligent design - not personally a proponent of this approach but any form of intelligent design (fundamentalist/whole-earth creationist or adapted to evolution) could explain the dark sky paradox

Required (fiction) reading on the implications of Fermi Paradox:

- Mass Effect

- Stephen Baxer - Manifold books, esp. Space and Time

- Too much Asimov to list
What if the pallets formed a mesh network? They would only need to have low-powered antennas (< 100m range) to network effectively with one another, and some kind of reader that talked to one could know all the other pallets that that one had "seen" and at what time. It would take a bit of work, and would be most practical for large pallet storage areas, but it could hugely cut costs, especially for wireless internet.
Between new MacBooks and iMacs, a refreshed AppleTV, watches, personal fitness equipment and now home automation, the WWDC Keynote will be one of the longest in a while.
This is a fascinating documentary on this topic about a scottish boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wvbEQytuQk
I don't tennis, but it looks pretty cool.

At the risk of thread hijacking, I have a broader question. My assumption is that most wearable bracelets have the same tech/sensors inside and the difference is in how your software interprets said sensor signals. So why doesn't someone create an open bracelet that people can hack and customize for any sports/fitness application?

I mean, I would have loved something like this for baseball back in the day (both for pitching and hitting). There are wearables for golf too[0].

So, why not just a generic wearable + SDK/app store?

[0] http://mashable.com/2014/05/22/zepp-golf-sensor-review/
See also Wong Kei's in London's Chinatown. Its notorious rudeness is/was part of the attraction.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/feb...
> The idea that people move from Python specifically to Go is one of those chestnuts of conventional wisdom that never receives any kind of backing in actual data.

A big reason for this is that some prominent members of the Python community left for Go and that Go talks have started appearing at Python conferences.
One accounts b-zone is not necessarily the same as another accounts b-zone.
CHEP and Bunnings (the dominant hardware retailer here) had a big spat over this recently.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/bunnings-11m-pallet-cleanser-...

They now refuse to allow any CHEP pallets on to any Bunnings site. LOSCAM, whitewood or nothing.
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After a gay co-worker and I watched his Luka Magnotta creepy, incredibly narcissistic to the point of nausea selfie vids he uploaded of himself driving around with a cruisey bar soundtrack we anecdotally declared this guy mad, and an extreme closet case which could explain his odd, jealousy filled hatred for women, obsession over the men they are with and his all around girl repellent behavior.

Too bad there isn't a history eraser button we can use to retroactively deny him fame for this.
Hmm, perhaps an iWatch would fulfill such a role
The fact that we're swimming in low-quality patents is also part of the problem

Another part of the problem is the lack of education about the patent system in the general public. The number of rediculous assertions I've seen which are patently (heh) false is astounding. A recent example was a patent awarded to Amazon; the media reporting would have you think they got a patent for taking a photo of something in front of a white background. While that does form part of the claims, the actual details are extremely narrow, and the patent is almost worthless to Amazon.

Then there's the frequently brought up "Apple got a patent for rounded corners on a phone! The patent system has gone MAD!". This was a design patent, intended to stop others making phones that look like Apple's (both other big players like Samsung and HTC as well as Chinese knockoff manufacturers). Design patents are very different from standard patents; they're closer to copyright for physical things than patents.

These are just examples of the tip of the iceburg of ignorance I see every day when people discuss the patent system.

As for lots of "low-quality patents", I disagree that is actually true. It's just the bad ones that get reported on most frequently and loudly; it's the reason more people are scared of flying even though they have a much higher chance of dying on the car trip to the airport. The USPTO and other patent offices around the world are very good at rejecting things which don't (legally) deserve a patent. Generaly examiners are quite familliar with the state of the art of the technologies they examine and know when something is well known or an obvious improvement over the prior art. Sometimes they have to allow something that seems obvious because they have no legal grounds to reject it.
Exactly. I actually looked forward to those kinds of questions because it really gives an opportunity to demonstrate passion, which I found becomes less and less relevant as the company becomes bigger.
Good point, I forgot all about that!
Registry hack lets you get free security updates for Windows XP until 2019
I was reading that with a big smile on my face. They're doing a lot of stuff I've been wanting for a while, especially the web server agnosticism. My new LAMP stack: Linux, ASP.NET, Mono, PostgreSQL.
My path: Become CTO for a startup, join an accelerator, accelerated companies have a 70% chance of success, if company can get to 10 mill and you only have 10% of shares, guess what, you're a millionaire! -- if it fails, rinse and repeat w/ other startups and accelerators.
I'm still willing to bet a steak or sushi dinner that Apple will not release an iWatch. A wearable bracelet, maybe. But not a watch.
> I don't think a CLA typically assigns copyright.

Be sure to read the fine print. The main point of the CLA for most corporate-backed projects is to allow re-licensing under different terms (read: proprietary). This does not require explicit copyright assignment.

On the other hand, the Free Software Foundation requires copyright assignment to give the FSF standing to defend the copyright - to enforce the GPL.

> It only provides the project with a license to use the contribution

Most projects simply specify that any contributions must be made under the same license as the existing code. The act of voluntary contribution is considered (by most) as sufficient to establish assent to this, although many projects take it a step further and require copyright statements in each file header. For projects that never plan to re-license, this works fine.
Optical media also degrade quickly unless you use high-quality, low-density media. Most of my CD-Rs from 10 years ago still work fine, but many DVD-Rs get corrupted after only 2-3 years. Seriously, I've had better luck with spinning rust than I've had with optical discs.

The only way to make sure that a backup lasts more than a couple of years is to copy it to new media every couple of years.
Offers similar functionality to http://chocolatechip-ui.com/
IP policy is an intrinsic and harmful byproduct of capitalism, like inequality. IP exists to legally protect a competitive advantage in the marketplace, making it indispensable to anyone in the marketplace. every capitalist is incentivized to act in defense of current IP laws, because their continued success in the marketplace is based on their control of IP. considering the people defending IP policy are largely the ones controlling the lion's share of capital, they correspondingly have a much greater amount of power to dictate IP policy in every arena, from the legal to the legislative.

this is an intractable problem. information is just an abstract form of capital. at the heart of it, success in capitalism is about consolidating as much capital as you can. it follows that information will be consolidated as much as possible, and this problem will only get worse as time goes on.

since we all need money to fulfill our basic and higher-level needs, our economic systems directly drive our collective behavior. since capitalism is based on competition, this means our collective behavior is always going to be driven towards individualism. as we have seen, when we have problems that require behaviors not incentivized by the economy, such as cooperation - climate change, biodiversity, etc - we instantly hit a brick wall and find that cooperation is impossible. we see companies continuing to steamroll ahead with oil drilling and such in the face of huge disasters, not because anyone is evil, but because everyone is doing their job.

i don't know what the solution is, and i am not advocating any other economic paradigm over capitalism. but i think we need to take several steps back and ask ourselves if our best heuristic for determining the behavior of human societies is: "move capital around as efficiently as possible." and i'm not even touching the fact that laissez-faire capitalism optimizes for inequality.

chicago and austrian school commenters: come at me, bro.
> It's just that Python is unnecessarily slow.

It's not Python that's slow, it's CPython. If you use PyPy you get a much faster implementation of Python, not too far from Go speed.
also, if you want to open a restaurant or anything for that matter-- DO IT -- even on a small scale -- try a food truck, or vending @ Fairs -- you need validation first to see if your food will even sell, if it sucks, then you're not out nearly as much as if you put out 1mill for a brick and mortar restaurant. -- Try your hand at catering as well maybe?
> in fact, this struck me as empathetic

This really isn't empathy. Roger is not feeling his friend's pain—he's transferring his friend's situation to himself and feeling his own pain. He's crying in imagined self-pity.

Roger describes crying in self-pity or frustration many times in the document, even into adulthood. A quick word count:

34 cried
10 cry
19 crying
9 tears

I read (mostly) the first two thirds of the document and this is the closest Roger gets to empathy.

Otherwise Roger's depiction of himself comes off as completely self-absorbed and often unaware or unconcerned with the feelings of others. The narcissism is overwhelming.
we have this
I'm sorry, I don't understand your meaning.
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> I'm always skeptical to hear that a developer has moved from X programming language to Go.

I see what you mean. Also, presumably those that didn't switch, that use and love Python, are not very compelled to write a "We are still staying with Python" blog.

And I think they should. Marketing and perception is important.
Many times professionals do have valid self interest to fight innovation in their field.

Great teachers (and even good ones) shouldn't fear organizational innovations like charter schools, or technological innovation like blended learning. Many times they do fear these, especially when they (teachers) organize.
Every time I hear 'white privileged' I detect envy of the upbringing these kids had.

Perhaps you should channel that envy into giving your kids a similar upbringing instead of moping how your parents did not?
Today's teenagers are the best-behaved generation on record
There is work going on in the python packaging SIG to make installing better. One of the big additions for pip is the ability to install pre-built wheels for those "hard to build" packages. There is also work happening on a new package metadata standard.

Unfortunately, that's all I've learned from lurking on the mailing list for a couple weeks.
I'd definitely like to be able to to tell if I have all the ingredients I need for that cake I'm baking while I'm at the supermarket. I own, literally, four bottles of paprika right now because several times I just couldn't remember so I said "better safe than sorry."

Can we do that yet though? Some sort of smart inventory taking cabinet?
> Despite the numerous tutorials out there, I still don't know what, if there even is one, the canonically best way to install ruby and necessary gems is.

Wait, what? On production, install the exact ruby you need from your favorite package manager. On your dev box, install any rubies you need through rbenv [1]. Put all your gem dependencies into a Gemfile [2]. On either end, bundle install [--deployment] and call it a day.

[1]: https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

[2]: http://bundler.io/v1.6/gemfile.html
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YouTube working on a mobile app for creators and new revenue options
We're having issues with -1a but not with -1c. Wonder if this is isolated to a single rack that hosts multiple AZs?
I received 77 pages for my hosts so far. !Awesome
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My source, a leading mens rights site.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/gain...
other than proper functional programming, maybe, which isn't about to happen in Python

If we could just have tail call optimization, I think we could make the rest work (well, maybe better lambdas, too).
And how do you feel about forking and maintaining those libraries? I think the 'little' here means 'arcane'. If the code serves a solid purpose, and you understand it enough to maintain it, it should be better than writing it yourself.
It was before I worked on HN, so I don't know what happened either, but I share your hope that Maciej comes back!
A bit misleading how their status page lists network connectivity and unreachable instances as 'operating normally', with a small 'informational message'.

http://i.imgur.com/7x5xOQN.png
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Lots of people are douchebags without having brain tumours.
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/

Wow... that was 2006. Everything I've read in the PEP and mailing lists seems to imply that the contributors were doing their best to limit the scope of the backwards-incompatible changes to those parts that were deemed absolutely necessary.

The point wasn't to break backwards compatibility to add new, competitive features. It was to make the incremental improvements to the language while strategically correcting some poor, historical decisions. In other words it wasn't a rewrite or a new language.

That there are still prominent, influential Python programmers who are complaining about the bytes object is a shame. However it's a battle that is slowly coming to an end.

The real problem is that the community has been dragging its feet and many frustrated developers are complaining loudly and publicly about it. It's distorting what Python 3 is.
It still seems completely crazy that someone would write instructions that way in the first place. Surely you'd specify at least something about the composition as well?
Remake of 2048, in isometric 3D
Just a less flat version of 2048
Firefox Browser for Android's default settings requires you to scroll up somewhat rapidly on the page you're currently reading to reveal the browser's auto-hidden URL bar and menu. I tend to loathe this functionality because it means slightly losing my place every time I want to multitask when reading something.

I suppose it wouldn't be so bad as part of a website when viewed from a desktop environment, because you can easily highlight where you left off on the page much easier than you can on a tablet, for example.
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It's definitely not a common use case, because VS reformats the csproj files whenever it modifies them. Basically, when you make a change within VS that affects the csproj file, the entire file is pulled in through an XML parser into a DOM representation, modified in-memory, then serialized back out to XML. Frankly, I'm surprised comments are retained at all.
Alternatively

man -k permissions

works for me even on some systems that don't have the apropos command.
Off the top of my head--

Services:

Fastmail.fm (for personal email),
Office365 (for more legitimate email),
Evernote (had a paid account for a few years, although I never use it),
500px (for non-professional photos),
DigitalOcean for VPS,
Netflix (not sure if you mean consumer services),
Amazon Prime (I only use it for the shipping),
Hulu+

Apps (a subsection at least):

Mathematica (I'm happy to pay for the Home version),
1Password (although I've stopped using it since iCloud Keychain Sync),
Pixelmator,
Capture One,
NI Maschine,
NI Tracktor,
Pretty much every audio app for iOS (iMaschine, Figure, iKaossilator, iMS-20, SampleWiz, Lemur, Vogel CMI Pro, Animoog, Scape)
Boosted is using Loaded longboards which are high-quality longboards. As a longboarder, it gives me confidence that the board will be fun to ride as opposed to being just a plank of wood on wheels. On the other hand, those Evolve boards look decent. The costs of all of these are really too high for me right now, so I'll admit I haven't seriously looked into it.
> Taco Bell has trouble proving that up to 35% of its beef comes from cows

Actually, Taco Bell had no trouble at all proving that their beef met the standard, and the suit was dropped pretty quickly.

See: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/19/us-lawsuit-tacobel...
What do you call a bracelet with a touch screen? Semantics, anyhow.
The market for a generic would probably be smaller. My guess is each application probably shares basics (like an accelerometer) but has different requirements (accuracy, noise, processing power, sample rate) if not entirely different sensors (maybe one needs GPS and one needs a barometer). Which means the generic bracelet that would work for every application would have to be the superset of all possible requirements- and that's $$$$.

But you probably could market one bracelet for a couple different sports, so long as they are similar & you can write the software. Baseball & tennis might overlap a lot, for example.
This is awesome, except I feel like it's missing a game over screen of some sort
Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming
Cerberus [1] is a must have to keep phones safe.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.ce...
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Evernote Premium, and that's pretty much it.

It has its flaws, but it's made a big difference as a catch-all brain bin for me.
There's a massive PR engine at work for both the wooden and plastic side, but the things brought up most are fire and chemical composition. You would think that nothing could worse for a fire than wooden pallets (It's a constant concern for us, not so much pallets but just wood products in general) but there's a serious hazard with the manufacture of some plastic pallets. (Think oil fire.) I'm sure some of this has been overcome or can be, but it was an issue just a few years ago for sure.

In order to combat the fire front manufacturers starting using chemical composition to make their pallets flame retardant. One of the those chemicals is called deca bromine and is considered to be extremely hazardous. This creates a problem specifically in scenarios where food contact is common.

This is a dated article, but it references some of the concerns.

http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?art...
Having done a lot of python and JavaScript, all I can say is it does matter. It is an extra redirect as you try to find out what is happening as part of a callback (repeated over and over). It is also additional cognitive load as you now need to mentally parse the function's name (which you don't actually care about) and the function's purpose. Finally, it is more time consuming.

I really like coding in python, but the weak-sauce lambdas are on of my least favorite things about it. I would like tail call optimization, but living without it doesn't bother me on a daily basis. Lame lambdas do bother me on a daily basis.