skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure. "We regret to announce...", "We appreciate", a factual paragraph about what the team has been doing at ebay, and a way to export your data.

That's far better than the typical "We're excited to announce that we've been acquired, and are immediately shutting down the product", at least in my opinion.
Trading Bases – Sharing My Startup Post Mortem
Doh, missed that part.
Does anyone else feel that Kevin Rose has the right to demolish it but at the same time Kevin Rose only cares about Kevin Rose and that this is a dick move?
Kevin Rose rejects cash offer, begins demolition for his Portland retreat
I wonder why does Kickstarter even allow a project with no identifiable person/company attached to it.
Do extensive work within a code base that is recognised as being well written and design and architected. Try to be mentored by great programmers, ask their advice on specific questions about your code.
I've added some notes explaining my reasoning. I hope that helps. I'll dig in and explain some of the settings more thoroughly in the future.
I'm surprised there isn't anything similar to National Heritage status in the US. Effectively protecting important or just old buildings from destruction or substantive changes. Also protects the character of an area.

But I guess "freedom" or something.
Unfortunately, not really (in part because I sort of have no old photos of myself).

I have some recent-ish photos (made in the last two to three years) on my blog. But I have located only one photo from a few years ago. It was made under very dark conditions and really does not show anything. For one thing, it is too small. A confounding factor is that my hair goes readily blonde, so I look wildly different from one photo to the next, depending on a lot of factors.

This is the only old photo of me that I know I have: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v4b3_qtrnP8/UvlaGATv1UI/AAAAAAAAAQ...

This should be all the posts with pics of me on my blog:
http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/search/label/Selfie
Brrr I'll miss my everyday notification from Want, that's a bummer !
Rich white people problems
I'm not sure which claims you mean.

The specific claim that it's significantly warmer now than it was about a thousand years ago during the MWP does mainly hinge on (a) tree rings, (b) ignoring the difference between high frequency and low-frequency information sources, (c) ignoring the error bars. We can't say with any certainty that current temperatures are "unprecedented" compared to the last big peak and it seems likely to me that they are not. (The MWP is making a comeback, scientifically speaking). A couple of relevant reconstructions are plotted here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/28/loehle-vindication/
Are there people running servers that actually swap without it being a disaster? For regular 'cattle not pets' servers I just decline to create a swap partition and vm.panic_on_oom = 1.

Java's bloated heap, for example, has easy to use startup options that cause the Java process to use a deterministic amount of RAM, as does any other sane program that uses nontrivial amounts of memory.

OOMing (or swapping) a server almost always indicates an error that needs human intervention, so cleanly killing/rebooting the faulting system and raising the alarm in your monitoring system is the right thing to do.
Now compare things you mentioned with a social climate where the entire country is one big prison, North Korea style.

Can't imagine life like that? Yeah, I thought so.
What are the tax laws of Ireland like this time of a year?
Occam's Razor is a philosophical tool. It's strange to see the argument "This philosophy says don't use philosophy". It's a bit like a sign that says "don't read this sign".
(1) He absolutely has the right to demolish the home
(2) Having the right to do something doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea
(3) In this case, I would think that he will not have a very pleasant time in the neighborhood after exercising his right
Show HN: Purzue – Résumés redefined
Posts without urls get penalized, so you would be better off posting this as a Show HN that points to your site, then adding the text above as a comment to the thread. Good luck!
dear stjohnkarp.net, it's not me. It's definitely your database.

you suck.
http://blog.svpply.com/post/31008753911/ebay-inc-acquires-sv...

"One thing we do want to make clear: Svpply is not going away"

Sadly that's exactly what Our Incredible Journey is designed for.
I keep thinking the long term goal here is not an Oculus Rift product, but devices that tie in augmented reality and marketing / sales, with hooks to your Facebook account. I honestly see them ditching anything to do with a game display device.
Libya implements world’s first mobile voter registration
That's a perfect description of my feelings on the matter, actually. If the community had really cared about protecting the home, why wasn't it on a list of protected/historical properties? Surely Portland has something like that, right?

Maybe the house just isn't that significant?

Either way, I don't feel the new building looks like it lives up to the name "Deku Tree Retreat".
To apply the sysctl changes right away:

sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

My oldish kernel doesn't recognize the PID settings, which is unfortunate.
Step Inside The Invisible World That Runs The Internet
This seems like something that might take off with a distributed/remote call center. Ship them a chromebook and they are ready to work.
I think this anecdote hits right to the more general reason that the evolution of the Internet has shifted away from decentralized services. In 20/20 hindsight, the maintenance load was never going to scale to the increasingly broad segment of the online population.

Even for a lot of technical folks, the maintenance is a hassle. My anecdata: almost all of the technically capable folks I know who could maintain their own email server choose to outsource it. For the average Internet user it's outright impossible. Even if it only took "3-person days a year" for maintenance, the mountain of experience required to be capable of the setup just isn't there. Not to mention the stress and hassle of dealing with attackers, software upgrades, outages of various sorts, etc. And that pain tends to be multiplied by the number of services maintained.

In this light, perhaps tools like Docker are quite a bit more interesting. We might imagine a scenario where the maintenance itself is the product, not dissimilar to automatic updates on Apple's App Store. You buy a "cloud app", which is installed on your server (or cloud instances) in a container, receives auto-updates provided by the vendor. Purchase and configuration is handled by apps on mobile and/or web.

There a ton of potential wrinkes in this idea, and certainly some services (e.g. web search) wouldn't adapt into to this model... but it would be pretty neat to see even a partial shift to services-as-apps.
Would it be fair to describe it as concurrently executed code?
> They did one think I still can't figure out and this is true, or I am losing my mind. Somehow, they went into my pictures app on my Ipad, and took a picture of me out, and stuck it up on their Google plus profile?

Still trying to grasp if this is serious or just a parody
Change jobs every 1-2 years (not just a salary bump, but a varied experience as well). Get a long-running side project, where you allow yourself to refactor as much as you want.
Increasing the max setting does not consume additional resources. It merely makes it possible for applications to get the resources they ask for.

For example, just this morning Chromium started failing because I hand't disabled limits on one of my machines. I pulled down my standard settings, applied them, then the problem went away. It wont' be coming back either.
Such rules exist. Many homes have "historic monument" status and cannot be torn down.

But you can dispute it in court. Steve Jobs spent years to win the right to tear down such a house with protection in woodside, CA. Ofc, he passed away before construction began, iirc. Coincidentally, the VP Eng. At my previous employer grew up in said house back in the sixties or seventies.
Failing before you launch
YouTube Terminates Top Indian News Network For Infringement
That's a fairly noisy data source with lots of both false positives and false negatives.

I've actually been burned by use of that data as a user - the last time I was in Germany for a CCC camp, I needed to log into my bank account. Not trusting the WiFi, I bounced through my VPS to do so. It seemed to work fine, but a few days later the bank froze my account. When I called them they insisted that this activity meant my computer and email had been hacked and I needed to change my email password, virus scan my computer, change my username with the bank and change my password. There was no way for them to mark the use as 'legitimate'.

On the other side of the coin, there are lots of ad fraud bots running through residential ISPs.
I think that (and correct me if I'm wrong) what you're really asking for is for the reflog to be exposed in some way.

Certainly I've force pushed before when I didn't mean to. When I went asking where the reflog was they (politely) offered to dig into my repo and give me a copy of my reflog. But I would have preferred if this was something that I could see easily myself.
It's funny, because in some cases you can write HDL code that looks like a loop - but in this context a loop instantiates multiple instances of some piece of logic.
Does what amounts to celebrity gossip really belong here? If it were a Lindsay Lohan story, it would have no more relevance but wouldn't be posted here. I'm flagging.
Something terrible and greatly upsetting seems to have happened in the comments, but I can't for the life of me understand what.
If you'll allow me the arrogance of saying that I'm pretty good in my genres (web-app, mobile, and I'm starting to come into my own in game programming but really I have a shit-ton to learn in these fields I know enough to sound smart but I'm FAR from a genius), I'll say that most of what you are seeing is a bunch of subject matter experts answering questions. For example I might be able to tell you the in depth ins and outs of using RabbitMQ as a messaging queue for async processing in a web application but I know next to nothing about how to write an audio driver for Linux, or the math principles behind the best cryptography algorithms. So to answer your question I'd need to rephrase it a bit and say how do I become really good at a subject. Here's what I did:
- I have 15 years of professional experience, sorry I don't think there is any shortcut on this one. 15 years teaches you things and processes that you will never learn in 2. THIS DOES NOT MEAN that all programmers with 15 years are better than anyone less experienced just that there certain things that the years drill into your head that's impossible to give to someone with less experience.
- I read A LOT. Like 3-4 technical books a month. Immersing myself in the my area of study helps my think naturally in those techs.
- I write a lot of experimental code.
- I go to meetups and talk to other good developers
- I constantly try to learn something that I think is over my head.

Never stop learning and never stop pushing yourself. I'm driven to know everything I possibly can about my areas.
If you were a vegetarian, would you be offended if the interview was at a restaurant that serves mostly meat-based dishes?
Rackspace tries to keep vultures from poaching its top performers
If you want a word view where science is deeply rooted, it's pragmatism, not positivism. And creating value is what pragmatism does.
Wow, how old is that kernel? I've been using that since at least the 2.6.32 era.
Keep the logo :)
Show HN: Rakoshare, a simple syncing tool
Something about that spray-painted sign makes me want to demolish the house anyway, like "how dare you decide that choosing to put up a house of my choosing is 'evil'".

It's not about good vs evil, it's about the community feeling attached to the skyline. (Still doesn't make it a good idea to demolish the house.)
Or edn?

https://github.com/edn-format/edn
Well it comes down to the maintenance and repair, and brick is gonna be easier by far (if you do it right). My friends just completely stripped and rebuilt a century-old brick home in Baltimore, which if you use reclaimed materials isn't too expensive.

But who knows what kind of gigantic mess a million-plus century-old wooden house consists of? It's bad enough maintaining one that's 50 years old... If you're not doing it yourself, i'm sure it's exorbitantly pricey, and you don't gain anything by paying double for an old house when you could pay the same and get modern construction to boot.
Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes
It's simple... for any software you run into ask yourself:

How can it work?
How does it work?
How it should work?

And the most important thing:

Avoid involving yourself into code that is a mess before knowing how it should be written in the first place.

Also, if you're into OOP, think about access modifiers as:

private - if it's called from somewhere it has to be only in this class... (or im gonna slap someone!)

protected - only this class and its child classes...

public - does this really has to be part of an interface?

Once you start thinking this way you know you're on the right track.

...and read a lot. :)
In the end, everyone is just trying to make a more accurate map, right?

Pretty much... which is why philosophy and science are not mutually exclusive. If they were, there wouldn't be an area of philosophy called the 'philosophy of science', which concerns itself with the best ways to acquire knowledge. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
How bad sitting posture is affecting your health
That might be. I guess I'm just being a dick about it then?
I noticed that when at work, I usually end up doing one of the following three things:

1. Explain things - either to my co-workers or to the computer.
2. Explore - navigate the codebase figuring out how different pieces connect to each other, building an adequate mental model of the system.
3. Debug - search for the root cause of a problem by examining the state of a system in between steps.

Sometimes my mental model ends up being insufficient and I have to do 2 and 3 together to "update" it.

Thus, I think that to become a better programmer, you need to get better at these three things.

"Explanation", I think, is the most difficult one. I have found that studying math has improved my explanation skills dramatically, and it helps not only when talking to computers, but also when talking to people. Of course, not everyone has the opportunity or desire to study things like calculus or differential equations, but I think that reading computer science books is a nice way to exercise that math/logic muscle.

To get better at things like debugging, I had to tear down some mental barriers. Sometimes you'll have to go out of your comfort zone. Never think "oh, this is too hard for me". For example, if you're writing something in Python, you must be mentally prepared to dive into the internals of a 3rd party C module. The key is to approach it with a "we must get to the bottom of this!" mentality.

Don't worry too much about technology. Your "goodness" as a programmer isn't defined by how many languages you know. It's better to know a few very different languages than a lot of similar ones. For example, I think that knowing Java and Lisp is better than knowing Java and C#, because you can quickly pick up C# using your previous knowledge of Java, but knowing Lisp may teach you something you wouldn't know if you decided to stick only to enterprisey languages that give you higher employability.
Very possible. The problem is how chunky the pen is to fit the sensor and illumination.
Apart from the cognitive difficulties this creates, forcing you to check the box means the default is to add someone to the no-fly list (see Dan Ariely's research)
tl;dr Tested using dice rolls, where perfectly ethical participants should report an average score of 3.5. Night people are also less ethical in the mornings (4.22), but not as unethical as morning people are at night (4.56). Depressingly, average participants are still a bit dishonest during their temporal 'comfort zones,' although the morning people (3.86) once again outdo the evening people (3.8).

I've never trusted morning people and now I have evidence to validate my bias, ha ha! /tongue in cheek
Why do you conclude that Kevin Rose only cares about Kevin Rose? Is it just because some unspecified number of people have protested the demolition, or do you have more information?
But you have not paid for the right to sell that spot.
Understanding x86 Instruction Sizes
Microsoft: Future 'bleak' if gov't continues unlawful data collection
The problems with/about free will have more to do with people's emotions than anything else.

For some reason people just can't accept determinism; possibly because it often seems to lead to a belief in nihilism and that is judged (perhaps rightfully so) to be destructive/dysfunctional.

On the other hand the only way free will makes sense if it's a property of all the universe and thus essentially is just the phenomenological experience of the passage of time.

Since we conflate free will and consciousness that would mean people would have to accept that there's nothing special about human consciousness and that your dog is also conscious and that even your table must then in some be 'at least a little-bit' conscious.

And that is something we also categorically seem to refuse to accept.

Either way I'd say determinism and universal consciousness are just different sides of the same coin and our opposition to them says more about our adherence to religious concepts and insistence about humanity's 'special status' in the universe than anything else.
Box Trip – Copa do Mundo – Rio de Janeiro Brasil (World Cup)
I suggest you learn a bit about perspective and human psychology, starting with The Imposter Syndrome:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

Sometimes, folks who think they know everything just don't know how little they know. Some of your smartest people sound not terribly confident because they know the limits of what they know and how many things are unanswered. Sometimes, really talented, amazing people feel like shams and really mediocre people feel like they have conquered everything and are The Bomb.

After that, you also need to find out some kind of objective measure of "good" for x thing. I don't know enough about programming to suggest what that might be for that domain.
Surprising findings on 2-year vs. 4-year degrees
Top 5 Best Free Antivirus Apps For Android Smartphones
It sounds like things might turn out okay, since an offer of $1.375 m was made after they asked for that much.
Geisla Moraes e Brunno Lopes – It Will Rain (Cover Bruno Mars)
I've seen swappiness = 1 as a recommendation rather than 0.
This is dumb, just because something is old and nice doesn't make it historic, valuable, or important to the community. Apparently once something is built it can never go away because someone has some kind of an irrational attachment to it.

I see the protection of culture as an attack on progress. Maybe if we want some authentic culture we could rebuilt the longhouses and/or use the temporary tent like structures of the nomads. That would be historic and cultural. ( I'm an oregonian but not a portlander btw).
In a more personal note these huge victorian style homes remind me of slave plantations with the big house, good riddance.
I think in the article she does acknowledge that rationally, she knows that she did gain a lot of experience and skills, but she focuses on the uncontrollable emotions and feelings that she went through over the course of her last 4 years.
What are the good convenient and modern FPGA's good for a modern computer?

I'm not sure what I'm asking here, really. I would ask for a PCE-Express board, but I've switched to a laptop as my main machine, with external monitor, keyboard and mouse when in home/office. I guess a PCE-Express board that could in principle be used in a rack-mount server would be useful.
Exactly what I wanted to say. It's a bit like Facebook where everyone seems like they've got more interesting lives than yours - but that's just people cherry-picking the interesting bits of their lives and putting that on display.

I used to feel inexperienced and self-conscious until I started looking through the code of open source projects I use, seeing sloppy and sub-optimal code. We're all human, and we can always improve.
I'm sorry that someone stating their thoughts can so easily unleash your spite.
Misfit’s CEO on Pebble Deal: ‘Why Cling to a Dying Business?’
I don't think we are at "revolution" yet. We are dabbling. We are giving teachers new tools. We are creating content for kids who can already read fairly well, and content for pore-K kids, but failing fairly miserably at the 1st-3rd grade level.

We are tooling up the industry, but not revolutionizing it. We are the same old industry, with shiny toys, and online classes that supplement schooling, but only replace it for a very small minority of very clever children.

The investors don;' signal a revolution. They signal a market opportunity, which is not the same thing. When parents start pulling their kids out of the public schools, because the online options surpass the local school district at a functional level for lower income working families, THEN we have a revolution on our hands.
Parrot Minidrones
Been there, late 1800's farmhouse. Patching or replacing plaster walls is messy and inconvenient, but the concept is pretty similar. We've not changed room layout though, so not sure how that goes. Shouldn't be much different unless you have a load bearing wall to move.
He can do whatever he wants with his property, within the law of course, but at the same time, I find it hard to believe that he won't have moved on to the next thing within a few years, ultimately having done this for nothing.
So Carbon Design is now the Occulus Bellevue office, or did Occulus already have an office there?
yeah, things can get a bit screwy when you filter and then change the active measure. It isn't a simple fix unforunately. I've added a bug to our backlog. Thanks!
They scan email for spam detection and to auto-classify emails into categories and their "Important" flag.
I'd predict that there would be no correlation, at all.
Aren't these part of what gets cleaned up by git gc?
All the more reasons for Baboom?
I believe (depending on the config)a 737 burns 850 to 2000 g/hr. Wide range based on if it's the 737-400 or a different variant, if it's climbing, fully loaded, etc.
It is not, however, near what is stated in the info graphic.
Guy is claiming to be a memeber of a legendary group, people are arguing for and against this. I personally couldn't tell you which side is right.
I think there's a certain amount of histrionics here what with bringing up the whole 'evil' thing and your phrase "doesn't care about your privacy'.

I would have bought a more reasoned argument - getting into bed with Google demonstrably involves a tradeoff in terms of privacy - but I feel we're just a small step away from the days of 'Micro$oft' comments on Slashdot now.
I strongly disagree, and prefer the swappiness at the default level with a modestly sized swap file (1-2GB). There are lots of poorly behaved applications that will allocate RAM that they never touch again. If you turn down swappiness you end up wasting that RAM which could be better used for disk cache.

I currently have 1.2GB of swap in use on a machine that is not doing any active swapping at all; that's 1.2GB more space for caching.

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How many people use AWS without paying for support?

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/pricing/

Because you don't get any support whatsoever past forums without paying for it directly.