skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RethinkDB is an interesting project which is exceptionally simple to cluster - it's actually their "Hello World!" example.

http://rethinkdb.com/
Nokia somehow manages to do offline maps just fine - you can download maps of the countries/cities you need separately and they take up no more than about a hundred MBs each.
It depends on other things too. For example, if you have credit card debt, you should probably pay it off instead of investing in a mutual fund, since the interest you pay on your credit card is much higher than the yield you can expect from a mutual fund.
There a smell from the explosives - it's quicker to cover an area for the smell-ee than with a metal detector.
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"After a few months underground, almost all landmines leak vapours that betray the presence of explosives."

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21603239-...
Out of curiosity, have you considered also becoming an UberX driver?
Browsers tend to only complain if doing so breaks security, such as using Javascript from a HTTP source on a HTTPS page: the JS could be swapped out by a man-in-the-middle. If you use or communicate using HTTPS on a HTTP page, there's no real issues.

You can actually force Google Analytics to use HTTPS on a HTTP page[1] with _gaq.push(['_gat._forceSSL']) but it's not the default. If it's not the default, it's not going to be used heavily across the hundreds of thousands of pages using Google Analytics. Privacy death by a thousand cuts.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
That ran through my mind too. Getting paid for your unused storage sounds nice, but what happens when illegal content ends up on your drive?
Ah ok neat, I got bitten by that once in the past, did not realize that the other way around is fine. Now that I think about it that's kind of logical because you can't really give more away than you are suggesting to the user, only less. Thank you.
I have no idea who this person is, and the Web site does not seem designed to help me find out.

Snipe? Does that handle ring a bell for some people?
The real ergonomics of the LispM were due to the wonderful Microswitch keyboards, which have never been equalled since. To use one was a kind of revelation into the the apotheosis of keyboard use.

(The old, original Tom Knight AI Lab keyboards were even slightly more wonderful; the later Microswitch LispM keyboards never quite equalled the originals in terms of tactilely satisfying feel.)

(For a long while after leaving MIT (ran the MIT-EECS LispM and DEC-20 machines) I used one of the custom-made Lawrence Livermore run of Microswitch keyboards, driving a custom 68K board which turned the up/down events into standard RS-232 for use with standard CRT terminals. I think I still have that keyboard somewhere in the now-long-abandoned kids' play junk.)
"new enough browsers" - will work automatically in mobile Safari? Cool! Unless we are talking about _specific_ browsers rather than just new ones.

1. Browsers are installed by the user.

2. Browsers are binary too. It seems Mozilla prefers C++/Rust to build them rather than JavaScript.

3. New web tech is mostly developed by Mozilla, who is de-facto paid by Google.
That's something that might be fixable with a user-script or a browser plug-in?

Maybe something for the likes of ghostery or adblock to implement?
Ready is a beautiful new caller and contact list experience
The free-form pseudo electronic jazz in the background makes it particularly hard to listen to

I don't know, daddy-o. Those cats were really flyin'. I dug it.
what an awful diagram. it implies there's some kind of symmetry that relates all four, but when you look at the details there are asymmetries. if you think it was helpful look at it again and explain why di appears in two quarants but dq and dv appear once each.
Generally, however, the problem is concern over leaking sensitive data to insecure connections (e.g. load an HTTPS URL but your HTTP referer header on all your insecure HTTP requests tells people your URL).

I don't see any issue with loading an HTTP site and then making an HTTPS request to Google Analytics. It's better to secure part of an insecure page than to leak part of a secure one.
Hm, no, my point is that in order to be successful the platform needs an economy. Just producing cheap phones doesn't create an economy.
"I guess that would be great, if developers had any kind of UNIX background."

Pretty common, even in the enterprise, unless you're dealing with .NET developers.

"those people are long gone"

Not in the enterprise. The startup space isn't where the money is for things like Cloud Foundry or OpenShift or Docker.

In the enterprise, usually the development team is the one to tell the ops team exactly how to install & configure the software, or have to produce a 200 page build guide with screen shots. In these environments (almost every large telecom and retail bank, for example, or the majority of outsourced EDS/IBM/Infosys/TCS organizations) ops has almost no critical thinking capability beyond a handful of "premier support" folks and "architects". I am not talking about the individuals - many of them are trying as best they can given their background. I'm talking about the way they're organized.

IBM organizes their strategic outsourcing teams, for example, in teams of about 100, with 5 to 10 senior-intermediate technical leads (they know syslog, kernel modules, TCP/IP, scripting, etc.), 20-30 intermediate technical leads (they know how to do general sysadmin tasks but don't really understand how to admin storage, the kernel or TCP/IP deeply ), and 60-80 freshers that barely can spell grep.

There are exceptions, but this is often is by design to keep the costs down.

IBM earns about $26. Billion. Dollars. in revenue doing this. Multiply that by 5x across the rest of the outsourcers. Multiply it again by 15x to cover the in-sourced shops across the world. This is an area where software is definitely eating an industry.

Docker's target is for teams where

(a) the devs do the work anyway, ops just sits there staring blankly on conference calls, perhaps operating a keyboard if you're lucky (80% of the enterprise IT shops on earth). So, route around them and only retain those who know what they're doing.

or

(b) the ops guys are devs to begin with as they've automated the shit out of everything (Netflix, Google, Startups)
Having just come back from a Disney World trip recently, I can say that this magic is still very much present.
The manual is amazing too. Especially good is the author's sense of humor and the design primer in chapter 7. For anybody wanting to get started I would recommend taking a look at the tutorials.

http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf
The scoring is weird. It places your final result on a scale from 0 to 99, but just hitting Submit without changing anything produces a score in the 800-1100 range, and my "Highest score for your gender and age range" is 1520. Why doesn't the scale reflect actual values? How could someone score substantially worse than random?

...I think something is wrong with their best/worst scores, actually. About 80% of the age/gender brackets say the best is 0 and the worst is 1520, and that consistency is weird to begin with, but some have really dramatic outliers. Women aged 50-59 range from negative 162 to 410,378,090!
http://www.snipe.net/about/

edit: removed cheap shot about motivation.
If it were me today, I'd play with it by algorithmic trading.

If it were me at 20, I'd tell myself to take 30k, buy a decent car and pick up girls, and leave the rest to smooth over my life. Especially to avoid taking jobs when I don't really want it just for money. Then I could invest in my personal projects and skill growth.

Whatever investment growth for that 100k would have been really meaningless compared to the experiences I missed out on.
You are describing a Direct Public Offering [0], which was widely used in the US in the 19th century but waned in the 20th.

Loyal3 does not appear to be underwriting GoPro's IPO. If they are being traditionally underwritten, some other syndicate is doing that and a select fraction of their clients are getting the IPO price. Loyal3 is apparently merely including it -- immediately, on the IPO day -- in the list of securities it permits its clients to transact in. Many brokers, including discount brokers, will do this. Also, it looks like Loyal3 does dollar-based investing. That is, you specify how many USDs you want to spend and Loyal3 eventually delivers some quantity of the security in exchange for those dollars. If you expect a stock's price and availability to fluctuate significantly on its IPO day, you may find that you get a lot less for your dollar that you thought you would.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_public_offering
I actually already am, but talking about that skews all sorts of reasonable estimates since they gave me a $1000 signing bonus and for a month are ensuring me $40/hr for certain working hours.
Yes, I've had personal experience with a lot of different types of Brazilians, in different parts of Brazil, and I'd say eating meat is no longer a middle-upper class thing as it might have been a decade ago.
Glad to see a techy want to focus on techy stuff, and want to present on techy stuff, and stand her ground and not be railroaded into presenting more femtard claptrap. Good for you!
I thought you couldn't take the $0.55/mi expense if you're using your vehicle for hire?
It kind of is hard to see much value in Uber outside of SF which has abominably bad taxi service. I'm not sure about network effects, but adding the lyft app to your phone costs $0. And for similar price and convenience most customers probably are willing to use competitors, so I'm not sure uber isn't a commodity or how it gets pricing power.

Consider nyc; even if uber is the only competitor left standing, yellow cabs aren't hard to get. I'm sure they'll adopt similar ios/android hailing apps, so what then is the value of uber?
I'm uncertain why you expect anyone to send people to Catholic schools "because cheaper"?

Not everyone is Catholic.
Feedly is under heavy DDoS
I Just Heard Some Startling Things About Uber ($10 billion in gross revenue)
Indeed, and it's awesome. It's just impressive that we can detect that odor better with dogs than with some sort of engineered odor detector
The goal was not to have a fast vi, for writing applications in a slow way. If you wanted vi, there were other systems.

It was a system for research of development of advanced software, often with complex GUIs. Symbolics sold for several years into the CAD and 3d-graphics markets.
Well, I've owned the car for 3 years before lyfting, and it had 60k miles when I bought it; 90k miles when I started lyfting. The payments don't stop when you don't have a job, so THAT cost is a sunk cost, and with the miles already on the car I consider it to be basically valueless. Should I also subtract the rent that I pay for where I live? I would have moved in with my parents, temporarily anyways, (which is embarassing at my age) if not for lyft.
As a foreigner who was once earning R$500/mo ($250 at the time) in rural Brazil, I support this message.
I just got in an accident today, and that was one of the first things geico asked. "Where you using your vehicle for work?" I can't but imagine that's because geico may not have to pay if I had been.

edit: I just checked my geico policy information. They're already on it, as of my may 2014 policy renewal:

14. Personal vehicle sharing program means a business, organization, network
or group facilitating the sharing of private passenger vehicles for use by
individuals or businesses.
[...]
18. There is no coverage under this Section for any person or organization
while any motor vehicle is operated, maintained or used as part of personal
vehicle sharing facilitated by a personal vehicle sharing program.
I enjoyed your viewpoint. Your blog post have actually been a great talk on women in technology, aka, people in technology.
I looked all over for a link labeled "About" or the like and did not find it.

What's with the cheap shot about motivation?
> Nah, it's an institutional problem; you'd solve it with slightly different rules about how schools are run. For instance, you could give principals more autonomy over hiring/firing teachers but make it harder to fire THEM, thereby reducing the ability of nitwit politicians to exert pressure to fire particular people. You could make more of the relevant intermediary jobs (like state superintendent) nonpartisan, and make being nonpartisan an explicit part of the job. You could add more transparency to hiring/firing decisions and leave it to the voters to punish politicians who do that sort of thing - if regular elections aren't enough disincentive, then add a petition-based recall process.

The voters vote these people in intentionally. They campaign on it.

> Or you could recognize that political sea changes at the local level don't happen often enough for this to be a significant problem, so we shouldn't worry about it until and unless it actually happens. Don't institute cures that are worse than the disease. (The fact that some district in Texas has this problem doesn't mean you need tenure everywhere in the country.)

I suggest you employ Google. Its a frequent problem in the South, not just Texas.

> Though the real solution is more student autonomy. Let parents decide which schools to send their kids to rather than arbitrarily assigning them to a specific one and the whole issue basically goes away. If parents don't like what's being taught to their kids, make it easy for them to go elsewhere or teach the kids at home and they don't NEED to get rid of bad teachers. (When people don't like what's served at a restaurant, they don't typically lobby to fire the cook, they just eat somewhere else! Because they CAN.)
Fundamentally, the purpose of a school system is to benefit the students, not the teachers. If you want to convince people tenure is a good idea, you need to make the case from that perspective - why it helps the students. Otherwise it just sounds like special pleading.

And when people like you are willing to pay the full cost, including an externalities beyond just the price of tuition on everyone involved, sure.

Strangely, people seem to pretend that they don't exist and/or balk at the full price tag.

It is alot like the USPS. Even UPS and Fedex don't want its unprofitable routes in rural areas because they can't be made profitable. The problem is, when you rip away the profitable portion of the process, it ends up costing the taxpayer just as much when the bill comes due.

If you want vouchers, you need to fund every child equally...including the fact they may live in the wrong neighborhood. You don't get to say "Too bad, kid, you live in Compton. No one can get you to a good school on time unless we gave you more than every other kid."
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Huh. So most of them were distinguishable to you? Interesting.

I could tell a properly-placed color apart from the colors two or three spaces away from it, but not usually from its immediate neighbors. My main strategy was to assume that, if a color looked identical to each of its neighbors, it was in the right place. I got a 16, which seems decent enough.
Great presentation as usual. One fundamental tension I see in much of the work he does is between purpose-built and general-purpose tooling and environments.

The challenge in both the maker space as well as much of the visual learning and programming material he has done previously is that each of them is incredibly time consuming to adapt to each new different project. In the real world even similar tasks within projects in the same domain often have enough subtle differences that re-use is not possible or very costly.

That isn't to say these are insurmountable but maybe much of the focus needs to be on meta-tooling that can accelerate the work of experts to build these purpose-built environments (as opposed to making generic tooling).

Inspiring stuff.
Which recent discovery? We've been aware of rather large octopuses for a good long time.
at least she has a mercy to not name the conference in her righteous rant, as after reading it i also started to feel that the conference organizers are arrogant chauvinist pigs because they reached to a woman in tech to talk about ... you'd not believe it ... women in tech. I guess the right choice was to reach to a man in tech. Yes, yes, that would be the most PC solution that everybody, especially women in tech, would applaud loudly long after the conference ended - a man in tech talking about women in tech.
> Basically what I read from this is that people can, for as little as $10, own a piece of any company, especially ones that "they love", and not-legally-speaking have to do zero financial diligence. I'm all for innovation, but that's scary.

How is that any different than the other trading platforms?
my apologies, i'm in a terrible mood and taking it out on strangers on the internet.
Mergesort gets pretty damn efficient, even with moderate buffer space.
Not sure that's an argument for anything. A lot of businesses build on crappy software.
To me all his assumptions seem pretty reasonable. Since Uber isn't providing a detailed breakdown, all we can do is estimate. And if we're willing to accept the basic assumption that people respond to economic incentives, remember that Uber's incentivized to be as misleading as possible in their favour. Even if it turns out they're completely lying, there's a reasonable chance that the economic benefits from building network by doing so are significantly greater than potential future costs if someone found out they'd lied. Given that context, I think the author was actually being overly generous and deferent to Uber's stated numbers.

My father-in-law's an NYC taxi driver, and before that (in the 90s) worked for a black car service. So I can tell you from inside experience that you make more money in Manhattan than anywhere else, period. The fact that Uber drivers have the freedom to go to New Jersey or Far Rockaway or wherever doesn't mean that they actually get any benefit from doing so.
What kind of systems today in the software development field are produced by experts for experts?

The only ones I can think of are languages like C++ or Rust. Perhaps emacs and vi...
From this comment I am confident in saying we were either friends or enemies in the 90s :)
Stanford has 800 maps from the Glen McLaughlin map collection online (aka California as an island): http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zb871zd0767
Megaupload cases put on hold, but asset freezing still an option
I think it's safe to assume that drivers working 70 hours a week are already working during the surge times, and so the benefits are already accounted for in the average.
In our case we're storing copies of incoming email messages, one per file, into a date-stamped directory. At the beginning of the next day, we add all the previous day's message files into a single .zip file and remove the original files.
It is so much fun to reverse engineer financials.
But there were giant squid bodies long before we managed to find a live specimen. We also found many beaks on sperm whale stomachs that showed they did exist. So while a great discovery, there was reasonable evidence of it's existence before the first intact bodies and video images.

Is there any evidence like this for sea serpents?
Launchbar 6 has been released
Ben didn't rudely reject the commit, he rejected a trivial commit to docs as per maintainer guidelines, he explains the thoughts behind his actions in his response: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...
As an active contributor he has to deal with hundreds of commits / pull requests / comments / etc. As a result, his actions are instinctive where he actually thought he was following the project's maintainers policy.

Joyent's actions were pre-meditated, they took to their company's blog to publicly crucify him, labelling him an Asshole and that they would've fired him on the spot if he were only working for them (sadly he was in the unfortunate situation where he was only donating his OSS efforts for free). Whilst they were quick to classify this a fireable offense, they stopped short of saying they would no longer be accepting free OSS contributions from him in future.

I can sympathize with Ben's response in that he thought he was doing the right thing in rejecting a trivial change, I can't however sympathize with Joyent's treatment in their public PR crucifixion, instead of what should've happened and dealt with any criticisms of their core contributors privately, and if one should be required, (although it really wasn't necessary) they could've made a joint statement on how future pull-requests like this are now welcomed.

They have yet to recant their post, or admitted any fault or overreaction. Unlike Ben who in hindsight, wouldn't have reverted Isaac's commit.

It's not only about the historic events, it's also about respect and perceived appreciation of valuable OSS contributions which they now seek to attract. AFAICT Joyent is the same company who stands by their post.
That's not the phone being mentioned here. There are multiple Firefox OS models.
I'd be surprised if that were the case. It's a legitimate business expense. The rules may be different if you don't own your own car, because the deduction is supposed to encompass both fuel costs and wear and tear on your car, which gets tricky if your employer owns the vehicle (as it would be for most taxi and livery services), but... I think THEY get to take the deduction.
Experts in a field can also be quick to dismiss new ideas and accounts presented by people not in their field, or without years of experience and a strong reputation. To me it seems similar to how programmers can be quick to dismiss unlikely-sounding user bug reports, until they can see the bug with their own eyes.
Cool. If I can live till 2100, I have the possibility of our property becoming possibly beachfront. :)
Regular warrants given after the attack (to get records or add logging and records) and no pre-existing logging on the network (enforced on providers, or done by a central entity with or without legal permission) makes it really hard to track down attacks which are short-lived, highly mobile, etc.

I'm not sure where the current, ideal, and historical tradeoffs have been for this.
I can't help but notice that the region occupied by the memristor is what would be best described as a 'flux-capacitor'. You really can't make this stuff up.
It's not that long ago I did my prototyping in wire-wrap - I still have proto boards in wirewrap sitting on my old-stuff shelf. These days we just get boards done in China and delivered in days. I think that it was largely the shift to surface mount parts that killed wirewrap as a prototyping medium
I second freshbooks. Free for upto 3 clients. Not sure why you think the UI is clunky. I like their simple and elegant UI/UX. Been using it for almost 3 years now. Gets the job done without too much baggage.
This sentence was pretty interesting:
"The legend was initially infused with the idea that California was a terrestrial paradise, like the Garden of Eden or Atlantis."
Someone's gonna get in trouble for using an eval in tweetdeck...