skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had many of the same feelings about this book. It's way too long and it has some major style issues. There are whole chapters covering single sales meetings in excruciating detail. The writing in the book often reads like cheesy narrator copy from a bad episode of "Behind the Music".

That said, there's still some really fun tidbits in the book. If you are interested in the video game industry from 1985-1995, there's enough in there to make it an interesting read. Just feel free to skip any chapters that seem boring because there are several that you could skip without losing anything.
I've never seen such an open & deliberate case of regulatory capture.
Bacteria aren't capable of spontaneously organizing into multi-celled organisms when they reach critical mass.

Fungi behave much more like this. The thing we don't have an example of in nature is an intelligent creature capable of making tools that can reproduce itself from a single cell. It's definitely a hard engineering problem, but it's conceivable. It's also conceivable that such an entity could seek out and remove any malfunctioning sub-entities.

We humans actually behave a lot like that, it's just that you need at least a whole human to grow another human. It's not so strange to imagine a designed, intelligent creature that can regrow itself from a small piece.
Agreed. For example:

Chicago has a much bigger tech sector, including satellite campuses of silicon valley tech giants like Google.

Kansas City seems to have stronger entrepreneurial support, including being home to the Kauffman Foundation and Google Fiber.
> I take away visions of someone using way more chemical than necessary when reading this

The vision is spraying with the deadliest and sometimes illegal pesticides (DDT and other things).

The "shit of out" is comparing to "0 pesticides". That means plucking bugs by hand in the evening from potatoes, weeding by hand, watering by hand.

> Judicious use of pesticides can improve plant health and increase yields, but that happens in every country.

Nobody is arguing with that, but given that these particular people I know (friend of relatives and so on) don't have time or language skills to read scientific literature what "judicious" amounts are.

> A those "farmers" you referred to really that reckless with their incomes

That is usually seasonal they have other business. They are not reckless they are just capitalists. They are maximizing the profit. The vegetables that look bigger, shiner and of which they can have a greater yield will maximize their profit.
"Xerography is bringing a reign of terror into the world of publishing, because it means that every reader can become both author and publisher,”"

One of major issues with publishing was distribution. Merely having the tools (back then) to create printed content was not the same as being able to put it in the hands of people that would want to read the content. Without the distribution (or the money to advertise) it didn't matter that you could run off copies or even if you owned your own printing press and bookbinding operation. You still had to get the product in the hands of the public.
The letter was not anyway near Teller's style of writing.
I develop on a 2011 Air, most basic model. Does the job fine.
A company I occasionally do support for has a profitable legacy system that runs on 486 or lower PCs. Supplier of product out of busiess. One PC died and they couldn't get any more. I found a manufacturer of current PC104 boards with a 486 CPU. moved the software across to those. It nearly worked but would occasionally crash. I asked a genius friend to have a look at it. He got out his trusty DOS debug floppy disks, footled around for a few days working out what was wrong (slightly incompatible implementation of serial port in the SoC on the PC104 boards, plus crap code in the original system), hand-assembled a workaround and wrote it in to blank space on the original executable, and presto! the system has been running reliably on the new hardware for a couple of years now.
Nicotine would classify as insecticide that, while perhaps not completely benign, is considered to have minimal impact on human health (smoking it notwithstanding). A synthetically derived form of nicotine is the primary insecticide in use these days, although it's incredible success with the insect population is starting to give us second thoughts about using it.
That's similar to what we're trying to do with http://grasswire.com, but not so much "articles" as "tweets/videos," and crowdsource fact-checking after the fact.

So, maybe not very much like it at all, but I agree with your original analysis that curation will be king. News/journalism feels very much like the Internet did pre-Google. There has to be some aspect of real-time curation/fact-checking built in IMO. But obviously I'm extremely biased.
Right. Yes, I am aware of the threading module. It depends on the type of application what to prefer: memory-bound vs CPU-bound tasks
> The paper also reports a decrease in protein, nitrates and fibre in the organically grown crops, which may be undesirable, and which are maybe unsurprisingly not referred to by the authors in their advocacy of organically grown produce.

Hmm. I think this is important, and something I certainly overlooked in the initial hype.
That's a very strange comment. I've never had that problem across several years, platforms and monitoring systems.

Perhaps for a fast respawning process I can see potential problems monitoring it, but that is usually indicative of a problem in itself and something you generally watch for.
As a man who maintains an acre of yard/garden + chickens, that shovel looks pretty nice. Better leverage/ergonomics.

Not sure about the tiller though, in my experience the weight of the tiller makes a big difference into how well it digs in. I'd be happy to be wrong, but it's personally a moot point for me, as my old JD tiller from the 70's still runs perfectly. I do like the "no vibration" handle though...just need to figure out how to hack it together for my own digger.
On a totally different note this startup, Automated Insights, is based in Durham NC (where my startup Spreedly is also based). There are all the elements of a great startup scene; a clustering of talent, a decent incubator that does two sessions per year at around $150K per startup, cheap real estate, excellent food and affordable living. The greater area has 3 good schools. There are numerous other startups here but I can't help but give a plug for what's happening as I know many developers here wrestle with work/life balance. Right now it's very good in Durham. Biggest drawback is lack of local seed funding but things like AngelList are making that less of an issue than a few years ago.
> ... on your exact interests is the goal of a great curation

I am not so sure this is a good idea. It will trap people in bubbles, where they will find only an echo chamber for their existing opinions and never have them challenged. It will insulates them from serendipity and it will prevent them from exploring, acquiring new interests and perspectives and so on.
So not distributed then.
I had to think about this for more than a second. :) I think I see what you mean. Specifically, if N = 2, this doesn't do much. However, as soon as you have more folks that agree, then the first time someone disagrees, you have a good spot for auditing. Right?

I still can't see how the docker idea helps this purpose right off.
The only difference is I sort before uniquing, but the python code uniques before sorting. But the result is identical (and in shell scripting, you can't unique without sorting first).

Although FWIW I just checked and the `sort` tool actually has a flag for uniquing during the sort. I don't know if that's portable though.
The State of MediaCrush 2014
My impression is that by not guaranteeing them it does take them away, because the implementation is free to implement them in any way they choose including in the compiler. So it will not matter if your code is executing on a processor that does not reorder instructions, Javac may already have done it to the byte code.
Having just finished reading it a few days ago, I have to disagree with you.

I really enjoyed it, and as a programmer and gamer, found it really interesting to read about what goes on outside of just writing a great game and shipping it.

I didn't find the dialogue cheesy and I was quite immersed in the story. I felt sad once the book was over, and started playing through Sonic the hedgehog.

I do wish it had more about what was going on at Nintendo. It was much more about Sega, or really just Tom Kalinske.
You need the -f flag to sort as well to ignore case during the sorting. I don't know how portable the flags to sort are though which is why I didn't bother using them.
So the acceptor is a replica-read-only machine and a client-propose-commit-only machine.

Also, the minimum production setup for this cluster is 6+1 machines?
> One of major issues with publishing was distribution.

Distribution is still a major issue.

Cost of making a copy is ~$0 now, but it's still hard to distribute your information.
And the relatively liberal employment laws help.
If you're working on CPU-bound tasks with NumPy/SciPy using threads then you have to think very hard to make sure most of the critical sections are hitting the NumPy calls in C which release the GIL. It's not a great reliable way to program. The way the author describes is basically the only pure-Python way of achieving parallelism for this kind of problem.
Whole Foods downtown, Meijer on 8 Mile and Woodward, Spartan stores everywhere... I don't know what you are talking about.
Linux board for Electronics education, even in primary school
Food Delivery Startup Caviar In Talks To Be Acquired By Square
Because the beauty of a self-organizing system with emergent properties based on each agent's personal values shouldn't be appealing to a "techy"?
I expected it to ask for my email address and tell me when they go live.

Do you know of any trick to automatize the lookout?
The ladder isn't really that big an issue, you can get a decent collapsible or telescoping ladder that will travel pretty easily in a hatchback, small wagon or minivan. Something that will work in most offices with 8-10' suspended ceilings will probably set you back ~$100, for higher ceilings you're going to pay more and probably need a minivan, as well as some muscles to wrangle it around (e.g. Werner MT-26 or Little Giant 12026 which collapsed are ~6ft and $300-500). Having 2 ladders will often make a huge difference in your productivity.

You don't really need that much electrical experience for running low-voltage Ethernet, but you will need some and you need common sense, some basic construction skills, more common sense, some planning skills, and a bit more common sense. Keep in mind that you're going to be putting holes in walls, putting up new faceplates, etc. and you don't want to put them in crooked or leave a mess. Keep in mind that it's one thing for your friends to wonder "What was he thinking?" and a completely different thing for your customers / referral sources to wonder the same.

You'll need a vehicle, but it probably doesn't need to be new. Ladders, call it $1k. Cable fishing equipment, drills, saws, etc. maybe another $1k. Consumable supplies (boxes of cable, jacks, patch cables, wall plates, low-voltage mounting brackets, patch panels, etc.) will easily take another few thousand (particularly using plenum cable). You'll want to keep some quantity of equipment (cameras, etc.) on hand to do immediate fixes/replacements for your customers unless you have a good local supplier, but you may be able to avoid keeping a large stock as long as your orders have enough lead time (and you have the ability to purchase as needed). Insurance, licensing, etc. will chew some, but even so I'd say you're still looking at well under $100k to start, and certainly not $200k unless you're in a very expensive market.

With questions like those, though, I'd recommend spending at least some time working for someone already in the business.
Your analysis ignores the key point that bacteria operate on simple rules based entirely on local concerns, which is not the proposed case in the sci-fi story.
Perhaps the definition changed because the invisible hand he described isn't so invisible. It's usually government intervention / foreign trade policy, and it's anything but invisible!
If there's a decrease in both protein and fibre, what is there an increase of to compensate for it? There has to be "more" of something per unit of mass.
For a fun mutable algorithm to test this with, I'd be interested in seeing an implementation of Knuth's Dancing Links.

For that matter, I'm curious on any performance comparisons between algorithms such as the DLX and any "FP" equivalent. This already exist?
AM Radio: The Banksy of Second Life
Why did you bring guilt into question?

Each individual may have perfectly rational reasons for their behaviour. It can still be interesting to study side effects of their group behaviour.

The gist of the article can easily be lost if you preoccupy yourself with rationalisations about your own feelings about it.
A Canticle for Leibowitz

> In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter. In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself—for meaning, for truth, for love—that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.

http://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Miller-Jr/dp...
Another issue:

The page at 'https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/851-LibreSSL-on-Gentoo.html'
was loaded over HTTPS, but displayed insecure content from
'http://vg07.met.vgwort.de/na/4f1f65b6b6e4419c97ea81e7d27cc0a0':
this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
If anyone wants to try this historically for an arbitrary IP block, Google's BigQuery has a snapshot of English Wikipedia edits from April 2010: https://developers.google.com/bigquery/docs/dataset-wikipedi...

Here's an example query: https://gist.github.com/jarib/c16345c19971e324ac82

Please star this issue to bring the snapshot up to date: https://code.google.com/p/google-bigquery/issues/detail?id=1...
"but it's still hard to distribute your information."

In a sense because of the increased competition (and increased content available) it's even harder.

Otoh, in theory the hard work has shifted and it is possible to get your info distributed in a "diy" fashion. For example you could write a blog, get a following, and sell a book. I'm sure if PG came out with a book there would be a market for it. Back in the day a PG would have to convince a publisher that there was a market for what he wanted to write. So it's really a shifting of the work needed to get distributed.
I think the half curves just represent some form of travel. If you look at March 29th [1] there's a large curve for his 8 hour flight, and some small gray ones for walking to his gate

[1] http://aprilzero.com/explorer/march-2014/29/
That would be a form of "threatening" or maybe "menacing", and yeah, it's intimidation, but I wouldn't count it as an attack.
Just out of curiosity... How are you planning on monetizing this?
Evolution isn't likely to happen in self-replicating robots. Evolution needs a continuous fitness landscape like DNA. A random bitflip is more likely to produce a fatal error than do something beneficial. Even worse if the code is encrypted before copying. There also aren't that many generations. At exponential growth, it only takes a few dozen generations to reach the maximum population limit and stop replicating. Not enough generations for evolution to happen.

Obviously the technical issues with self-replication are difficult, but nature was able to do it with relatively crude methods. No doubt we could eventually design something significantly better. One major advantage would be mass cooperation. Evolution has no incentive for individuals to cooperate with each other, but designed nanobots can specialize and benefit from economies of scale.
I thought the test at the end was way too difficult given the simple introduction to calculating probabilities.
I can't imagine how governments could be a good idea if your description of people is accurate.
> I wonder if/how Google will differentiate between automated news vs machine-generated spam?

If history is any guide, I think this line will be more and more difficult to draw.
Good point, I don't like telling _a bunch_ of friends that I'm trying to do something. I built this site because I work in a lot of two-person collaborations, and I wanted consistent reminders to share progress with the other person.
CloudFlare GoLang LZ4 Memory Corruption
I took 'frankensteining' to mean a rapid progression and skip over many states which would have been encountered via selective breeding.

To take your example, the wolf -> chihuahua would have been frankensteining had it been over the course of a singular or very small amount of generations.
it doesnt make it any less true. besides, that C python's GIL sucks doesnt mean threading or event models sucks.

In doubt, ask nginx how they feel about that. Then ask apache's mpn-prefork how that feels.
This is certainly true for some applications, but originally when Amdahl's law was formulated, people made estimates based on e.g. 95% of an application being parallelizable, and thus fairly rapidly reaching a point of diminishing returns. In practice, however, there's often a simple reformulation of the problem that can result in a much higher percentage, and Amdahl's becomes less an obstacle than it would first appear. There are still many problems that scale more or less linearly with the number of processing units and are "trivially parallelizable".
>t's still hard to distribute your information.

It's not hard to distribute your information. Wordpress.com, Youtube, etc. make this extremely easy.

It's hard to get people to care about what you have to say enough that they keep reading it, but making text available to people (well, people with internet access) who want to read it has been entirely solved for more than 10 years.
More pressure is not necessarily better. Peoples brains work differently.

I would never use the app if it posted on facebook, whereas finding people with the same problem who can't embarrass me in front of my friends (because they don't know them) is more useful. Not saying the facebook version wouldn't be useful for some people, but I bet there are also lots of people who wouldnt' touch it with a barge pole. You might want to consider two separate ones.
If you're holding a global mutex every 100 instructions while context switching between CPU bound tasks, then yes, the GIL does suck. There are a class of IO-bound problems where threading/evented models in Python can be used effectively but that's not the class of problems the author is talking about here.
This is either a bad translation or gibberish, I can't determine which.
No, the occupation being the one referred to in numerous UN security council resolutions.
"Why did you bring guilt into question?

Each individual may have perfectly rational reasons for their behaviour. It can still be interesting to study side effects of their group behaviour."
If only they kept it to just "study[ing] side effects of [..] group behaviour". However, all these meta and orbit-view studies' conclusions are used as justification for all sorts of orbital-level intervention that has real-world consequences on individual's behavior and possibly well-being.

The gist, the implications of the article, and any possible government-level consequences need to be preoccupied over! This isn't just some nifty little article we're reading on the internet. This is your entire environment being slowly manipulated by agendas and "reasoned" responses to correct supposed "problems" such as statistical inequality. Be informed.
North Korea Files U.N. Complaint About Upcoming Comedy 'The Interview'
Building an Outlook 2013 Add-in
Is it a great observation, or just a good hypothesis? Even as a hypothesis, seems difficult to test.
Thanks. Can i use these services for Asia countries (China, Japan, Korea)?
What do you think about Daniel Kahneman's 'Thinking Fast and Slow'?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233649.The_Great_Hunt

Book two of the wheel of time.

Have never read them before...it is a lot of books.
> The NameNode is a single point of failure.

The NameNode service supports high availability out of the box, and uses a QJM (Quorum Journal Manager) to share edits between the active/standby node. To say the NameNode is a SPOF is not only misleading, it's incorrect.

> the NameNode is also a scaling bottleneck. Services which build on Hadoop

What's indicating that the NameNode is a scaling bottleneck? There are production Hadoop clusters with PBs of data, and the NameNode has not been an issue for scalability. Just so we're clear, data written to HDFS does not flow through the NameNode.

> As a result, many enterprises that use Hadoop and HBase do so only in non-critical services, such as supporting the business analytics group

This is the point where I point to the hundreds of companies which rely on Hadoop to run mission critical applications (Facebook, Yahoo, Ebay, Box, ..). Just google around...look at customers of Cloudera, Hortonworks, Pivotal, etc.
Thanks for the advice. I really like the idea of figuring out where my skill gaps are and then working to fill those.
Show HN: iOS 8 Poems
While certainly a neat tool, it doesn't shed a lot of light on the client side stack, and apart from revealing the hosting service and web server, doesn't say much about the server side stack either.
I've created a tumblr to document my favorite new iOS 8 feature: Poetry Generator (aka "predictive text"). Try sending all your friends amazing poems by repeatedly accepting all of the text suggestions! They'll totally understand what's going on!

I've been tweeting with it as @iOS8Poems
> I similarly dislike the idea that someone else could, in any capacity, have the power to decide for me how I am going to live my life ....

Except that your decisions about how to live your life are integrally bound up with the infrastructure provided by society as a whole. Individualism isn't exactly what it's cracked up to be.
Where's Kobe on the graph?