skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: Aphyr talks at length about how riak is not a CP system, even though nobody claims that it is. Riak is AP. Aphyr demonstrates how this plays out in practice and gives an intro into CRDTs, which let you achieve something that is eventually correct for certain kinds of state transformations.
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but WHY???
The Present and Future of the R Programming Language [video]
I know your pain, vertically aligning anything in CSS is quite annoying, unless you have a fixed width outer container. That being said, that's a problem with CSS implementation as it pertains to this one particular problem. The fix isn't to chuck CSS and HTML, but to keep improving it.
Easy mistake to make, as she is called Jules, also a gender neutral name ;)
> Subtle sexism aside

Uh, what? How did that sentence display any sexism?
I remember those days. Quitting was really exciting. I got more work done in the first few months after I quit than probably at any other time in my life. I'm on day 1100ish now and it doesn't come as easy, but it is still pretty awesome working for myself. It's still kinda scary, but I consider the experiment at least pretty successful considering I'm still at it 3+ years later. Good luck to you.
"Famo.us the hype ware that has been coming soon for years?"

It's available at http://famo.us/

"There are no scientific or studious concepts behind it"

A retain-mode scene graph, the basis of famo.us, is definitely a tried and true computer engineering concept.

Quick question: Have you actually used famo.us?

Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at famo.us.
One reason not to use your method: Google's own guidelines. See:

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/de...

"Sites that use responsive web design, i.e. sites that serve all devices on the same set of URLs, with each URL serving the same HTML to all devices and using just CSS to change how the page is rendered on the device. This is Google's recommended configuration."

Generally I've found that when Google recommends something, their search algo prefers this too. I obviously don't have direct proof that it does, but if SEO matters I'd follow what they suggest.
It's iTerm2: http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home
Parse cloud, locally or on your infrastructure
Ikea is evil, plain and simple. I'm boycotting them.
Jesus, Republicans and NRA banned on school network
Sounds like a similar situation on our side. We use a minimally modified updater from ChromeOS and have built some tools into the Omaha server to do rate-limited updates to the population of machines and track error rates in the same fashion.
Get your laptops off of your crotches. Macbooks especially run hot and you are heating your sexual reproductive organs. That is not good for your ability to procreate particularly in males. It can even have long-term effects.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/17664.php
I'm not sure about the credibility of this link, but I would do the research myself.
I enjoy reading quotes.

I like that I get insight into a (sometimes) brilliant mind and I can do so in a few seconds by reading a few lines.

Some are inspiring, some make me smarter, some are worthless.

Unlike OP, I think that tv series' quotes are likely to be much less worthwhile, for me, than those I'm used to.
For the network, you're getting 2x 10Gbit connections, configured in an HA-Bond, and plugged into a real switch. There's no current dependency on a virtual networking layer.
"Area CEO Likes To Think Of Family As Small, Close-Knit Business": http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-ceo-likes-to-think-of-...
I wonder if you could get subjects who travel a lot to record, before going to sleep each night, in a secret journal they do not share with each other, about whether or not they experience a hum in any given location. If those journals substantially agreed, you might be able to get a clearer picture of what, if anything, is going on.

If there is any sort of community built around a potentially hard to observe phenomenon, it's likely going to be a mess sorting out true stuff from false stuff.
It depends on your definition of quantum computing, the D-Wave does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing and has been faster in some applications.

https://plus.google.com/+QuantumAILab/posts

They're just getting started, this field is very new, very difficult, and there are a lot of very smart people trying to answer the what/how/why/where/when of "quantum" computers.

The hardware outperforms off-the-shelf solvers by a large margin

"In an early test we dialed up random instances and pitted the machine against popular of-the-shelf solvers -- Tabu Search, Akmaxsat and CPLEX. At 509 qubits, the machine is about 35,500 times (!) faster than the best of these solvers. (You may have heard about a 3,600-fold speedup earlier, but that was on an older chip with only 439 qubits." [1]

[1] https://plus.google.com/+QuantumAILab/posts/DymNo8DzAYi
The company is a family of "brothers", hundreds of friends but only a few "brothers".

Consider how that sounds to a woman considering a position there. I'm not saying it's deliberate, but it's sending a message.
I have a Python function that allows both of those:

def randomString(alphabet, length):
....

randomHex = partialApply(randomString, alphabet="0123456789ABCDEF")
randomBase32 = partialApply(randomString, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567")
random10Char = partialApply(randomString, length=10)
random4Char = partialApply(randomString, length=4)
randomHexByte = partialApply(randomString, "0123456789ABCDEF", 2)

Comes in handy occasionally.
bitly won't work. pinterest follows and "strips" redirects to generate link title and thumbnail. you need to have your own url shortener with pinterest's crawler either blocked or served different content. an interesting idea would be to host the links on a domain/service they can't easily block (i.e. tumblr) and do the redirect to amazon using javascript.
The regional circuits created a mess with patent law. Wasn't it the 7th circuit that never found a patent to be valid. 3M was justifiably upset about that. If forum shopping is bad now, think how it would be with regional circuit patent law.
This article heavily confuses sound waves and EM waves in places. Just because they are both described in Hertz doesn't make them equivalent.
Earbits is back online
I think the problem comes from a lack of understand of the complexity of such a task. Vertical align text according to what? The easiest way to vertical align text is exactly how you'd expect it to be, and it solves the problem perfectly.

If you want to align text vertically, you just do

font-size: 20px;
line-height: 40px;
vertical-align: middle;

What's the problem?
You totally should use billforward platform to manage plans and billing for billforward platform itself. Meta.
Yes, of course they did what D-wave calls quantum annealing. As you say, that's all the D-Wave machines can do.

The D-Wave executive's claim that the problems used in the study are "not at all the right choice for probing a quantum speedup" is in reference to the specific subtypes of quantum annealing problems that this study looked at, not whether they were doing quantum annealing at all.
How Ansible makes automation easy
I assume he's probably second- or third-generation Korean-American, so maybe the word "family" doesn't invoke quite the same meaning to him as me, but I find it rather icky.

In Korea there have been companies, small and big, saying they're like families. Usually, that's a code word for saying "We expect you to sacrifice your life, including your health, time, and relationship to your actual family, for the good of the company, and not want anything in return."

I'm sure Edward Kim meant none of this, but still that's a metaphor I won't touch with a ten-foot pole in a corporate setting.
This is interesting. Pretty sure I get it but if this is open source I'd like to see it. Two comments:

1) I'm not sure it would be much more effort to implement this scheme in a dynamic language. Most of them can introspect their own code and you could easily flag such an error at startup time.

2) I like the style of passing a thread to every function. In that case, I wonder why you even have globals that multiple threads need to access. What I try to do is initialize ALL shared data in main(). And then pass those structures ONLY to the exact threads that need them. This can be done in either static or dynamic languages; it enforces a nice structure and is easy to read.

I'm not saying a dynamic language would be better for this project. C is a great tool and appropriate for a huge number of problems (also inappropriate for a huge number of problems).

FWIW Ritchie's C (the one they wrote Unix in) was very weakly typed, and that heritage still shows. I don't think it's an accident that C is popular; its type system doesn't get in your way, doesn't bloat your code, and also allows creative use/abuse.
On the homepage, the 'hamburger' menu doesn't show. Every other page is fine though.
write-once-debug-hack-anywhere is more accurate.
Building digital libraries in Ghana
Any tech startups we can meet with today for coffee?
Hey guys, we're a startup from Irvine, CA up in Silicon Valley for the day. We would love to meet and network with startups up here while we're still here! We are developing a cloud based monitoring and control platform and system for sustainable aquaculture. We were just up here talking to the Monterey aquarium. Let me know if you want to meet! Yousif@ReliableReef.com
Convince your company to contribute to Debian Long Term Support
"if you had an idea for something that you believed could potentially benefit many individuals' lives, would you pursue it regardless of the obstacles, costs, and time involved?" - without a doubt in my mind
Ultimately it boils down to "be human" or, failing that, "sound human" :-)
Would you really want someone who could not be bothered to learn how to shift on a normal bike to be zooming around at 120mph+ on an electric super-bike? Besides, they already have sport scouters for that.
I was really hoping "Delete key friendly" meant that they weren't forcing Chrome to bind delete to the back function any longer.
Thanks. Do you mind telling, based on your method, what would you aproximately quote for the tasks I listed in reply to al2o3cr's comment then? Thanks.
Improving Facebook on Android
Can I ask how the mapping is done to go from zip code to legislators to Twitter accounts?
Except no one, ever, would take "dog bites man" as "one dog bit all of mankind". The title is misleading and, at least one person (myself), took it to mean "quantum computing in general".

P.S. why did you go with "man bites dog"?
Knock it off. You run a business not a family. The divisiveness of using such a term is appalling.
If you're interested in discussing the crowdfunding aspect, I'm happy to help. I manage the Hardware, Design and Tech team at Indiegogo. Software is generally more difficult to crowdfund, as it requires a very active community to get that initial momentum. Strategy will be key to success, and it's not going to be a walk in the park. But, if you're passionate about it, it's absolutely not impossible.

If you're seriously considering this, shoot me an email at evan (at) indiegogo dot com.
Hahaha first thing I thought of when I saw this article.
Interesting. The bit that they are talking about is this:

"In addition, you must not use a link shortening service in a manner that makes it unclear that you are linking to an Amazon Site"

First, your own server is (arguably) not a link shortening service as long as you don't offer that service. Second, if you were really worried about it, you could register a domain for your site called, for example, forwarding-you-to-amazon.com or fantastic-amazon-deals.com, link to it, forward from there. It seems to me that this would be compliant. That couldn't be any more clear that people are going to Amazon.com.
Do you have no comment on the (brilliant, imho) substance of the article, just the presentation?
Thanks for the input! I think that's what I need to do. It's easy to get discouraged though when it feels like you don't have the resources to accomplish something you want to. That said, I think this is possible if I go about it in the right way.
A key point of the post is that inconsistent VM performance is a problem that scaling startups have to do a lot of work to deal with, and some people here are scaling or have scaled startups, so...what are y'all's experiences?
> "Firstly, it’s important to remember that when I use the word 'family,' I don’t mean the literal sense of the word. 'Family' is a metaphor"
... AND then I stopped reading.
There are various haptic illusions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_Illusion)

In audio, we have the Shepard tone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone) as an auditory illusion.
For me the main lesson here is that I should be more attentive and investigate. I remember noticing some ungiffy vibe about animated clips on Twitter, but quickly dismissing the observation. Perhaps if my timeline contained a lot of GIFs I'd dig deeper, but it doesn't help feeling shallow.
Developers that enjoyed access to Xerox PARC systems, RAD tooling, and environments like NeXTStep already had access to much better hypertext systems with layout support.
Meet Bill Reichert and Learn to Pitch tonight at hackerdojo
Loud pipes save lives! I upgraded my pipes for performance reasons, but I'm not disappointed with the new sound.
Thanks! No plans of stopping in sight. :)
https://blog.serverdensity.com/does-everyone-hate-mongodb/

They use it as well for similar purposes. So it isn't a strange choice.

That said, I'd use Cassandra as well. ;) I found when testing the write performance was significantly better. However, I didn't test the special Mongo variant they are using.
Great point and my answer would be "no, keep them off motorcycles period."
That's a lot of post production work. :) I'd be embarrassed someone might see I clicked through a TMZ link or something.
What would you have done if he'd said no? For that matter, why even ask? It makes no sense to me...
Thank you for your willingness to help out. I am passionate about it, and I'll definitely send you an email and see if we can discuss strategy. I had never seen your company before. Definitely could be a great alternative to Kickstarter for me!
Pitches by Analogy – Tips and Gotchas
This somehow reminds me of Inception. We have a perfectly functional computer, then we run a browser on it, we download a bunch of HTML, which in turn will download a whole slew of JavaScript in order to create the illusion of an application running natively that offers a subset of what the computer could offer. The only difference is that this web application supposedly runs on 'all devices' except that every web application is quite brittle once you try to actually run it on all devices. And forget about device access (though that is slowly getting a bit better).

The only plus I see in all this is that in the end we are now free of the API lock-in that OS vendors traditionally required, that we tend to take 'client-server' applications more or less for granted and that because it is server centric you don't have to bug your users to download the latest version every time you improve things (though as was pointed out in another thread, this is also a disadvantage, as a user you lose control and if the company goes out of business you could lose it all).

The web also roams much easier.

If we keep going like this for a little while then we're back where we started, with the graphics terminals from the 80's, (canvas is pretty close actually) only this time across the WAN instead of a lan and with the ability to hyperlink between applications.
I'm confused by the notion that using nicknames mean you're substantially closer to someone than you would be as members of a team. This is, actually, extremely surprising to me, given my previous experience on sports teams! Sports, in particular, has it's fair share of intermittent shoelessness and chatting about other subjects as well.
You should go talk to the guy that runs an aquaponics program near West Oakland BART.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IryIOyPfTE

Dude is amazing. My mother took a really interesting Saturday class from him.
Well, avoiding mutation can be helpful but it's not a rule to be followed blindly either. A mutable local variable never hurt anyone, so long as it doesn't leak out of the function.
Supreme Court invalidates software patent
afaik by your own site/service, they also mean your own social media profiles
"1) I'm not sure it would be much more effort to implement this scheme in a dynamic language. Most of them can introspect their own code and you could easily flag such an error at startup time."

That's just implementing a static type system in the dynamic language.

"2) I like the style of passing a thread to every function. In that case, I wonder why you even have globals that multiple threads need to access. What I try to do is initialize ALL shared data in main(). And then pass those structures ONLY to the exact threads that need them. This can be done in either static or dynamic languages; it enforces a nice structure and is easy to read."

I code much closer to that when latency matters less. As it stands, reshuffling different views for different functions takes precious nanoseconds every function call.

Edited to add: My response to 1 should not be interpreted as "BAM! Point for statically typed languages!" My contention is that statically checked type systems are phenomenally useful - this really just weakens the notion of static or dynamic types being a fundamental attribute of the language. I think a more accurate perspective is that for any language and any type system, there is some subset of the language that abides by the type system. That intersection may or may not be useful, and may or may not be checkable, but the most joy is to be found where it is both. The only real wins from integration of that checker with the compiler are 1) it's unavoidable (which can be relevant if you generally have sloppy process, but fix your process), and 2) the type information may provide invariants useful for optimization.
As someone who was close to a real family who happens to operate a company together, I'd say the only thing that kept them together was the fact that they took great pains to separate business from family life.

The biggest challenge they had as a family was people taking the work roles home with them.
Well, I'm somewhat still arguing in the context of the OP's assertion that "the hackery required to attempt to imitate native mobile apps is horrific". I not only disagree that it's horrific, but actually think it's pretty darn good. I agree with you that it's not perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good.
It's not very clearly stated, but they say the ELF radio waves may be able to excite nerves and hence be "sensed" by the body.
Native is whatever the operating system uses for user space applications.

Android uses Java, C and C++ for user space applications, hence native Android means all three languages using Android APIs.
Loud pipes save lives!
It's completely fine that you feel that way, but many people (including the author and the other employees of ZenPayroll) feel differently. It's great that they can work for a company that fits their ideals, and that you can do the same. No need to vehemently argue for your way or dismiss theirs.
we do :)
Loud pipes save lives! Despite what you think in your ignorance. The AMA and thousands of motorcycle riders believe they do.

http://motorcyclesafetynews.com/?p=878
Sometimes I feel like people are trying to be offended... If you look at the full quote, he wasn't talking about his company. He was talking about his friends in his personal life.

"Allow me to draw an example from my personal life. I have hundreds of friends, but I only consider a couple of them close enough to call my brothers. They call me the same. That doesn’t mean we have the same mother and came from the same womb. It’s simply a way to say that my relationship with them is more akin to the one I have with my two actual sisters than it is to most of my friendships. My “brothers” know all about me and I them, just like my real sisters do."

Maybe the only close friends he has that are as close as family are male. Are you suggesting he's sexist for that?
CubeSlam
What exactly is your definition of "weekend" here? If you're counting hours we have to know which hours to hold you accountable for!
We should improve that on the website, 10k - USD, GBP, EUR
Outdated Designs Erode Trust
I work for an awesome bunch of people, friends and colleagues. But I wouldn't ditch my family for them.

If I could improve my family's fortunes in some meaningful way, I'd be out the door in a few days.
Let's say 5pm Friday to 9am Monday?
If you make that page really narrow there is an ugly purple bar that comes into view from the left that overlaps a part of the content.
Are there any chances that governments could compel SSD manufacturers to introduce artificial backdoors allowing for data recovery?

Or is that a certainty?

I see that being pretty difficult as you would need to have 2x the storage in an SSD without being easily detected by anyone taking it apart.
Why we don't use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL
No, the transmitters are extremely powerful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLF_Transmitter_Cutler says it was at some point the world's most powerful radio transmitter at 1.8MW. Actual field strength will of course depend in a complicated way on distance from the site and the propagation, but you'd think that if these sites were the source, there should be a strong concentration of cases around the transmitters.
You probably wouldn't want to even click the TMZ link in the first place when you knew you were making the video, since the post-production is so onerous. It's like a precommitment that you're not going to get distracted. In fact, when I did my maniac week, I precommitted to not doing any post-processing, and it helped me focus a lot. I would think, "hmm, I wonder what the strongest dog is!" but then realize I couldn't slack off on video, so I wouldn't even Google it like normal.
SSDs are very different from spinning platters. Instead of creating complicated devices that try to mimic spinning platters, why not have a different storage model entirely?
Would you classify this as progress?
A potential of a 64-hour work-weekend? deal!
CSS3's flex attribute solves that. It's the holy grail for modern web-interface-development.
Vertical center text:

.vertical-text {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
}

(add ´align-items: center´for horizontal center)
You trade browser lock-in for OS lock-in. The original Internet Explorer strategy. Fundamentally it is a rent seeking strategy. When I noticed that Google was up to paying a billion dollars a quarter for traffic I realized that in some ways the gold leaf was falling off the piazza and revealing the the ugly plaster behind it. My guess is that the rent seeking here is in the form of directing search traffic in some way.
I agree, the one main nifty feature I can think of is consolidation of weight and ability to play around with center of gravity on the bike. For instance, on a sport bike you would want to shift the center of mass to the front, to keep the front wheel down and also to help steering. Shifting the center of mass down would also help with flicking the bike in and out of corners.

You can also design 2 wheel drive bikes! I honestly have no clue if it would be a good idea, but with electric power you can do that. It might be a death trap for all I know, but I think it would be really cool to have an all wheel drive bike.

The final advantage of electric bike is silence. That actually cuts both ways. You want to have a loud (reasonably) bike, so people notice you, and don't run you over. But riding full speed in near silence through a country road is quite surreal as well. Try getting your bike to 80+MPH on a backroad someplace, and kill the engine for a few seconds. It's quite an interesting experience.