skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, that's exactly where the video lost me. A few additional shell capabilities? I'm interested -- cool!

But throw in a database editor and a million other unrelated-to-the-shell features? I've been down that road before, and it's a maintenance nightmare. Unless this project has huge community backing, it seems inevitable that the development resources will be stretched too thin. Then it won't work on my next computer and the bug report will sit in the queue for months while I return to bash. I don't think I want to play this game.
What will the government do with Bitcoin the day a report comes out that American citizens have been killed in a terrorist operation financed by bitcoin?
Meanwhile, Google engineers work an average of 50 hours a week: http://www.quora.com/Google/How-many-hours-a-week-does-a-typ...
And yet, the entire freaking point of p-value testing is to maintain a pretense that Popperianism makes sense. Validating a hypothesis? While my simple minded fellow, that would be anathema! Don't you know that Popper explained that you can only refute hypotheses! So we'll refute the null hypothesis instead.

That's a great way to put it, I like it a lot. How do you want to validate your hypothesis then? I admit that it's quite a thorny issue for me. I like Box's quote "All models are wrong, but some are useful" --- I assume that if I poke at my model long enough, I'll always be able to falsify it eventually (eg. show that the error term isn't Gaussian). Nevertheless, a model can still embody enough truth to be useful in a given context.
Mutability is a great tool; it dramatically simplifies certain algorithms, and dramatically improves performance of others. But it comes at a cost, and there are situations in which it is inappropriate. So the language should force you to think before reaching for this tool. It shouldn't be the default tool for every problem.
There is a fairly active fork of ServiceStack v3 at: https://github.com/NServiceKit/NServiceKit
Give it time. As long as JSON is "the answer", people will build more layers of stuff on top of it.

Just like XML.
Also, the permission request to edit the wiki is a one time request. Once you have permission, you are free to edit the project page or any other page on the community wiki.
Hacking Protonmail... with a browser.
I have to disagree. I've written some stupidly big init.d scripts in my time. Replacing them with:

[Unit]
Description=My dumb script

[Service]
Exec=/usr/local/bin/dumb-script

And no longer caring about PIDs, forking, etc. has been very refreshing.

I agree, however, that systemd feels too monolithic, and I question the wisdom behind journald.
Thanks for the detailed reply.
One nitpick though: I've recently learned that .NET apps created for version 1.1 - 3.5 do not run on .NET v. 4.0+ - as a Java developer that was kind of surprising. You have to install a separate runtime, which affects Windows 8+ I think, since only v. 4.0/4.5 is installed.
I don't know what's worse, the sense of entitlement to good grades or whatever thinking is behind the feeling your life is ruined if you can't work at Goldman Sachs.
From an user perspective, those walled garden for ebooks are a real problem.
Since I like to have a paper copy of my books, I have a working solution, not perfect though:
* If there is a paper version, buy the paper version.
* If there is a DRM-free ebook, download it somewhere or buy it (depending on the price and added work, like a new cover, ...)
* If the is only DRM version, download a DRM-free version for free once it's available.
* If there is no paper version:
* If there is a DRM-free edition, buy it
* If there is only a DRM version, no good solution there, either a pass or a download somewhere.

My reader is a Kindle, so not perfect there, but I manage by keeping it in airplane mode at all time, to avoid stupid updates (like the 1984 fiasco), and by adding book only through Calibre instead of amazon's library manager.
A modular wearable 3D input device for 3D applications
This reminisced me of Apple LC times big time. Marcel Proust's Madeleine style. Dithering, games such as Beyond Dark Castle[0], HyperCard games.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISP9su7okHo
I enjoyed living in LA. I grew up in SF and came back because I have family here, but I find the irrational aversion to LA from SF extremely irritating.

LA does have somewhat dirty air, compared to SF, this is true. However, out by the coasts, it's not too bad, and the water quality at the beaches is actually very high (it has improved immensely over the years, but perception hasn't quite caught up). LA also has a lot of old neighborhoods with a really cool vibe. Hiking and more remote beaches aren't nearly as difficult to come by as people up here think, and the beach towns (Manhattan, Hermosa, and so forth) are pretty great. Also, people in LA don't start sentences with "as a fourth generation native LA resident" crap that is truly irritating in SF, and they don't seem to think that "right to move" is unidirectional (we can move out, but nobody's allowed to move in… I'm looking at you, Seattle). LA is also adding more and more density, getting more urban (as the bay area sprawls out due to severe building constraints).

Also, there's quite a bit of very interesting and creative work here. I worked for a film compositing software company, and it was kind of great.

With electric cars on the way? Eh, maybe some days LA will get its air quality under control. Then it really will be a huge, traffic clogged, overcrowded, clean, creative gem of a city… well, at least parts of it.

Ok, one thing - I've been hard on SF here, but that's because this is a particular issue where I think SF residents have it totally wrong. On the balance, I actually do think SF is a beautiful place - it's got problems, but the undeveloped coast, redwood forests, hills over the bay, and so forth are also spectacular, and some sections of the city are historic, dense, urban, and walkable in a way that you still don't really find almost anywhere else west of the Mississippi. There does seem to be a tendency toward hyperbole on the "sf suks" style post that would rival the knee jerk reaction to LA you sometimes see here as well.
RakNet's (http://www.jenkinssoftware.com/) low-level killer feature is a tweakable guaranteed-messaging-layer on top of UDP. One can send messages as unreliable-unordered, reliable-unordered, unreliable-ordered and reliable-ordered. Messages can be sent in ordering channels (messages in one channel are only ordered between each other, not with messages in other channels). ENET (http://enet.bespin.org/Features.html) has a similar low-level feature set, but lacks RakNet's high-level features as far as I know (replication RPC, voice etc).
I see no introduction, or explanation of any kind. [1030am CST]
Page supported this view while Brin disagreed with Page. As such, the title of the original article and its body are misleading. Below are links to [1] the point in time of the conversation referenced in the article and [2] the original discussion of this interview on Hacker News.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdnp_7atZ0M&t=17m34s
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992795
You're simply repeating the same error that the GP criticized. Yes, we call the first situation A, and the second, B; and B has [more] rules, while A does not. (A = advertising, B = a Real Experiment)

Great, but why? What it is about B that justifies the different ethical/legal criteria? Surely it's not the fact that eridius applied the label "experiment" to one and not the other?

How can it make sense to say that doing X is ethical "as long as you're just trying to make money, not publish scientific results"? Presumably, certain things are just wrong to do for whatever reason, and that is why scientific bodies user their publishing standards to prevent them from happening. Those reasons are surely just as applicable in other contexts; if scientific bodies don't have rules for those cases, its because they have no influence there, not because they think it's hunky-dory outside the lab!

"Well, yeah, MegaCorp burned people alive, but it's okay because they were just trying to make money, not publish results on human flammability."

How many more different ways can commenters make the above point, so that people will stop replying that "what advertisers do is not a Real Experiment, so they deserve a lesser standard"? That's a restatement of the inconsistency, not a resolution of it.
The tone of the post makes it seem like your only major gripe with the device is the battery problems. A defective battery is something that is covered in the warranty, so you could get it repaired, but instead you return it. I understand if you would have had a shitty experience overall, and the battery was the proverbial last straw, but that doesn't seem to be the case from your post.

You list 5 problems, 2 of which are fixed, 1 which is a production defect that can be repaired at no cost to you, and 1 of which you yourself say "it isn't as bad as I thought it once was.". Overall, you have 1 decent point (the keyboard), and if you had used that point as your reason to return your Surface, that would have been perfectly valid. Instead you use the one thing covered by warranty as your primary reason in the summary at the top. It's possible you intended this to come across differently, but in that case you need to elaborate some more.

Windows 8 on a desktop and on a tablet are very different animals, purely because of the way you interact with them. Windows 8 has special controls for touch, which you don't usually see on desktop. That's why 2 weeks is still a short time to spend with it before declaring it bad. Try a bit longer, there is logic in there, it's just unfamiliar.

As for tips, you could have expanded on the steps you took for your issues, so it would be more balanced against the bad parts of the review.

I understand the concern about the return policy, and I don't see any problems with returned a product you're not happy with. I just wish you would have written a more balanced article with more reasoning behind it and a better indication of what you liked. The current version reads too much like "There were some good parts, but most of it was literally worse than Satan", mostly because it's a list of issues rather than a review. Some expansion on your points and maybe rewording some things would make sure people stop getting that impression.
Chips + Facebook = Greasy Keyboard
A language not used by anybody yet, at position 16. Tells you something about the quality of the Tiobe index.
"but xiki would have to turn into a multi million dollar business before insurance or bank companies would consider any legal action."
Or until they step on the wrong foot, or rub some executive the wrong way.

It's murky water and just because in most situations it'll be "okay", doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about it from the start.
... dependencies with 3 other libraries: AngularJS, WebWorkers, and Traceur Compiler

Not 99 lines anymore, hence no bragging rights

And # of lines stop being a problem since VAX computers
Transcript of fireside chat with Google co-founders and Vinod Khosla
Errr, based on one 4 year old data point and a guy that says "there is very high variance"?
I don't think it's a major problem. This is one old guy who didn't even understand that his restaurant was listed on Google. As soon as a tech-savvy person stepped in it was cleared up in a few minutes. The damage may have already been done, but that's another story (some are saying the restaurant was already in decline).

Sure, it's unfortunate, and these kind of "crowd-sourcing casualties" are going to happen here and there, but is it really that big of a problem, relative to the value that is gained?
Awesome!

Thanks for the detailed answer, sir :)
Indeed.

Also a lot of "mainframes" are actually virtual machines running on modern physical hardware. I've also seen companies who have the console output sent to a webapp and commands returned the same way, thus making these 1980s relics seem almost "modern" (as, for example, you can utilise them from an iPad/Smartphone without an app).
There's a bunch of really amazing SF writers mixed into much of the pulp, like Philip K. Dick, Lovecraft, Poe, etc. There seems to be a lack of a large amount of the old serials but a few of them remain.

Weird and annoying: The copyright expired on much of the works, yet some of the archives refuse to display the text on copyright grounds. Take for example "The Variable Man" [1], which Wikipedia [2] claims copyright already expired on due to lack of renewal. So probably a bunch of these issues could be released if they reviewed the records. (Luckily the Gutenberg Project has a copy available [3])

http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmazingSF http://www.unz.org/Pub/WeirdTales http://www.pulpmags.org/weird_tales_page.html http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasticMysteries http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasticNovelsSF http://www.unz.org/Pub/FantasySF http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ADT1736.0001.001?c=moa;c=moa...

[1] http://www.unz.org/Pub/SpaceSF-1953sep-00006?View=PDF [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Variable_Man#Copyright_sta... [3] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32154/32154-h/32154-h.htm
People love to bash yelp, but it's merely a reflection of the fact that People Are Dicks

Check the reviews, there's also how many reviews and friends the person has. The lower these two numbers are, the most likely the review is fake (either pro or against)

Also check how balanced the review is. Most legitimate ones are fair, and won't go over the top either way

And of course, there's always someone that's going to complain about a sushi restaurant serving raw fish.
Dependency Injection: http://www.amazon.com/Dependency-Injection-Dhanji-R-Prasanna...
France did that (the infamous "35-hour work week") in 2000. This has proven to be a disaster on multiple counts:
- it created a mess in public hospitals where it completely screwed up the organization of shifts for nurses and doctors and lead to French hospitals decline
- it benefitted profesionals and middle managers who got more vacation with maintained good wages
- it ended up being horrendous to people with lower paid jobs as it became an opportunity for their wages to compress. It lead to a significant stagnation of wages among lower class workers, and eventually their impoverishment.

I am actually surprised and disappointed that some of the smartest minds of our generation think that the best way to solve long term unemployment is to reduce the work week hours...
It would seem to me these types of hacks are very risky in light of the recent lawsuits involving bogus Yelp reviews.

Specifically, Yelp was forced by the courts to reveal the real identities behind bogus reviews, and further individuals have been held personally liable for defamation.

Though the Google Map hacks may not fall under a cause of action for defamation (thought it may), certainly I could see rather large judgments under a theory of tortious interference with business contracts/business relationships. These suits permit not just damages for economic loss, but also punitive damages.
I'm sure the founders would say "well 20% time of five days is a whole day" and say that the engineers therefore work a 4 day week already...
There is also a transcript if you don't want to spend time watching the video: http://www.khoslaventures.com/fireside-chat-with-google-co-f...
This is great! I clicked all the way through to the end.

Instead of 164 separate html pages I would have just 1 and used javascript to step through the panels. Could even lazy load the other images so initial page load is faster. But that's just how I would do, the artist might not be a web developer and the way it's setup works.
I second your praise of Django docs. They're a good example of how technical docs should be written. I think the team behind Django even wrote an article on how to write good docs. My gut feeling is that the docs is part of the reason Djangos is so popular because anyone new to web frameworks would find it easiest to pick up Django.
Even if I wanted to work productively for 8 hours straight, most of the low-level office tasks I'm required to do keep me from doing it -- explain to marketing why X product from Y vendor won't work for our situation, responding to email, meetings that always take up an hour no matter how short the agenda, etc. I think most of the engineers I know have employer-created hurdles that limit them to 4-6 hours daily of truly productive work.
The whole idea of building hardware to be easily verified by the user is pretty interesting -- it's the intersection of industrial design/design for manufacturing, ee. computer security, in some cases crypto, etc.

We haven't gotten much beyond stupid stickers and hologram seals.
If they are obsolete, pixels can still be represented as rectangles in your scalable format for aesthetic reasons. What's your point? Aren't quests obsolete too?
If you extend SV from it's hippy origins the ultimate aim for people is full time unemployment. People shouldn't have to work, the argument goes, if we have the ideal place to live in.
if google is going to take it upon themselves to list a business they should be held accountable and the information should be accurate. google listed the business without his consent and it was incorrect information. i hope he wins... google listing a business that is closed on weekends could have been detrimental in this case. the business owner doesnt need to change because technology has evolved beyond his understanding, google should have never listed the business to begin with. google = giant scraper site of misinformation.
Even with moderate padding; that price tag and time frame is a bit too high, especially if you outsourced this to a team of multiple developers.

Just a general observation, I don't know much about your architecture.
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My Code Retreat Syllabus
> the business owner doesnt need to change because technology has evolved beyond his understanding

I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, but I disagree with that line in particular.

If you disagree, please sent your reply via the Pony Express to the Harlem Public House; I shall check with the barman therein to see if your letter arrives every other Sunday.
What did the government do the day evil things happened over the internet using encrypted communication?
The greatest and most critical motivator is purpose. You may have goals, but do you really connect with those goals and the things you need to do to make progress with them? You might try asking yourself these questions that relate to your purpose:

1. Who are you?
2. What do you do?
3. Who do you do it for?
4. What want or need was this intended to address?
5. What changed for them as a result of what you did?
Definitely! We actually write about it quite often -- we're fairly well known in the security space.

You should probably check out / follow our blog: https://stormpath.com/blog/
Either you misunderstood me, or I don't quite understand how that would not help.

My suggestion is to embed an iframe to the posted URL on every page on www.washingtonpost.com. Every article, everything. I'd assume this would blast the logs enough that if you look at "time X-5" you'll have too many data points to actually make something out of it. Because everyone who reads an article on wapo will have also visited that page. So yes, that embedded page would be loaded by every single viewer of any page on washingtonpost.com.

Edit: I just realized that there is a huge unfixable flaw in this approach. The request for an article in the logs will always show up shortly before the request for the SecureDrop page. Even if you would iframe a random article on the SecureDrop page too you could see from the logs that is was loaded before the actual article. Essentially rendering this thing useless :/

So... Nervermind... I guess.
This is a definite no. Public flagging opens up flaggers to retribution. Then no one will flag at all and the system breaks down.

The deterrent to flagging too much is losing flagging privileges. (and I'm speaking from experience)
I believe http://www.reputation.com/ does this.
>'The world is going to change drastically in the next 10-20 years. Side discussion related to the article: what to focus on? Will web development still be a thing (I'm doubtful)? If so, what does web development look like in 2024? 2034?'

People were lamenting the death of web development since the introduction of Front Page. There will surely be new tools and abstractions and probably some consolidation of jobs, but I see no reason to think the profession will disappear or become unrecognizable.

>'It seems like a lot of engineering energy will go into the design and manufacturing of the systems that will manage human life in space.'

Eventually perhaps, but I believe that's incredibly far away. There's plenty left to extract, fight over and profit from using traditional methods which are many orders of magnitude cheaper right here.

I recall a quote to the effect of 'The price we put on natural resources is equal to the price of procuring the very next ton of it.'

I think that's apt.

Long before we spend money and apply our technology to mining asteroids we'll spend it on tech to herd [1] and eventually supplant the terrestrial workforce.

1: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/pepper-spray-dr...
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"Pan con tomate" is a popular breakfast here in Spain, so good choice here. Now you only need to think where to put the 25% black economy that plagues our country, where most of our young people are actually working.

I suggest some black olive paté.
It's the least they can do after that show was so rudely cancelled.
How Time Magazine Sacrificed Its Standards to Promote Saturated Fat
This is a different deployment of the same product [1]. Which, incidentally, was originally created by Aaron Swartz. The Wikipedia page[2] has a list of well-known deployments.

[1] https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/securedrop

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDrop
What exactly is yelp telling you? I'm something of a foodie and am stunned at how inaccurate the reviews are for most restaurants. Most of the reviews seem to come from a minority "elite" users who are chronic whiners and come off as terribly immature. Its just incredible what people ding establishments for. "Fries came late, this place sucks! Zero stars!"

Some people think the issue with yelp and google reviews is trust. Its not. Its entitlement and a lack of proper criteria. The types of people who gravitate towards these reviews and become frequent reviewers are often people with poor taste and a lack of understanding of what they are reviewing. They're not crowd-sourced Robger Eberts. They're your cranky local paper's film critic who thinks 'naughty language' is the most unforgivable sin.

If anything, services like yelp have made me appreciate the art of criticism and a lot of my dining decisions are now done via professional critics with good reputations instead of the usual gang of misanthropes and weirdos who dominate yelp.
Target audience will be shifting towards general market. I focused on enthusiasts at first as I know that market very well.

Tutorials can be private and could be shared if you wish; we offer 'export' functionality.

Down the line, as we collect more data (makes things interesting) there is a plan to introduce some sort of crowd sourcing aspect.

Feel free to bug me if you have any questions! Thanks for checking it out.
You're right on all counts, however Google employees are most likely not low wages worker, and do not have complex and long shifts as hospital workers. I don't think that giving them more free time to recharge/replenish their energy would lead to the collapse of Google. And it is a bit different if it is a mandatory reduction of the work week at the federal level, and an experimentation by a company. If Google feels like they would benefit from it, they are free to try and report their findings.