skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very familiar with the high school most featured in this article (knowing in real life several of the persons interviewed for the story), and the young entrepreneur I know best has been trying to do something about the social issues in that school. It's hard on the students when the administration doesn't have unified buy-in on the importance of student-to-student social interaction in an online learning environment.
I'd really love to see someone make this portable to other unixes -- it'd be lovely to finally have good package management for the ~/mine/bin dirs I have on servers everywhere

Amen. That could be hugely powerful.
Old media places a high value on being 'first' as well.
Yes it's something like it. There is another base difference; SETI@home or other folding projects have a centralized infrastructure for the data to be collected and bound. And all the software to be run on the client side are written for a specific mission. So every software should be rewritten for these platforms. My MassiveClouding dream has a some way of dissecting any software into parts and run on the clients. That's why it's a dream.
This fellow created XAudio as an X11 extension:

http://www.chaoticmind.net/~hcb/murx/xaudio/
I believe mysqlimport handles csv files as well.
Seriously?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
Years: Immortality isn't one step. Extra years are all you need for immortality, as long as you last long enough for the next treatment that gives you extra years.

Aubrey de Grey has termed this concept actuarial escape velocity.
I thought he meant worth reading despite the flame bait title.
But sound shouldn't go over the same connection as your mouse and keyboard all the time. I currently use Pulseaudio to stream my sounds from both my laptop and desktop to an always-on server hooked up to a stereo. Xorg would be out of place for that kind of sound transport.
blocked or not, utilizing svn export is a 101 level thing. Who runs these places??

Another reason to love git, one single .git folder in the project root.
You can also use http://thewe.net/tex/ to type out equations on gmail (as well as in the gmail chat).
Countdown to companies starting to deliberately give TC false/misleading releases in 3... 2... 1...
Sounds like having an enter or # key increases the number of attempts needed significantly.

So why would anyone make keypads without them? Ease of use over security?
Whoever is downvoting this has likely never participated in the news making process. Traditional journalism is often wildly inaccurate, and most of it is spoon fed from PR agencies, anyway.
There is already a protocol for this, though not in X. (Edit - well yeah, that's the point you were making, sorry. But this may be of interest anyway) It's quite robust and used in a number of commercial applications, like Reaktor. Unfortunately it seems to have exactly zero traction with hardware manufacturers.

http://opensoundcontrol.org/introduction-osc

JACK is pretty good too...but I see your point. Audio development on Linux fragmented several years ago - LADSPA vs ALSA was the start of that, IIRC - and although it's fairly robust today, almost everything feels years behind the Windows/Mac platforms. Video is even worse. For anyone but experimental artists or those with an in-house development team, it doesn't offer much of a platform for commercial work and is likely to scare potential clients away.
Hey there.

2.5 of our physical servers run Passenger/Rails.

If this were a Java app, I definitely would have been able to get away with less (mostly because of less memory consumption, but less CPU consumption wouldn't hurt either)

However, I'd probably still want 2 machines for redundancy.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838981
To be clear:

* Guides/IRC are from my perspective not relevant to picking a host

I'm not referring to documentation on the service itself here, but to the software install/setup guides which seem to be in vogue at the minute.

Regarding community, with a service like a VPS it's a bit of an airy concept to me; somewhat akin to having a community around a petrol station.

That said - I can see how both of these things would be nice to have for some people.
From reading the article it doesn't seem like it does a whole lot more than MacPorts... most of what is discussed is possible by tweaking port settings (prefix, partial/custom builds, having multiple versions of things, etc).

Maybe the CLI app exposes some of this a little more easily? I am not sure but I am curious why they built an entirely new setup rather than just improving/fixing up MacPorts...

Nonetheless a promising start!
Yep! We used nginx's fair balancing module before switching to haproxy. It also helps me do rolling restarts/hot deployments in a nice way.

It's really a great piece of software. Kudos to Willy.

PS - you're also correct about the nginx->haproxy->apache. nginx makes a fabulous front end and I just plugged in Apache/Passenger where Mongrel used to be. I like that 1) I can easily plug in something else in the future and 2) Passenger on Apache is very stable. Nginx support is newish and I'm running stripped down Apaches that only do Passenger, so I'm not too fussed about it.
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Some bits from that site which contain the closest thing to an answer to my questions.

"What I have against the Church of Scientology (CoS) is its deceitfulness, its lack of compassion for its members (especially the hard-working staff), its aggressive hard sell, its arrogance, its attack on free speech, its litigiousness, its harassment of its critics, its lack of concern for families, its gross neglect and abuse of children, etc."

"The Church of Scientology is a vicious and dangerous cult that masquerades as a religion. Its purpose is to make money. It practices a variety of mind-control techniques on people lured into its midst to gain control over their money and their lives. Its aim is to take from them every penny that they have and can ever borrow and to also enslave them to further its wicked ends."

"On the surface the Church of Scientology seems reasonable. The insane content of it is only revealed to a person when the early stuff has done its work and made them more susceptible. After a short while a person "believes" that Scientology is doing them good. They are then persuaded to help their new-found group further by donating money and/or working for the organisation for almost no money. Many people do exactly that."Ethics" is used to good effect to trap a person. A person�s natural tendency to do good is worked upon. Yes - they want to be more ethical, but what is ethical? This is where a clever trick is pulled! "Ethics" is redefined by Scientology in such a way that to be ethical is to be a better Scientologist and obey the "church"."

I don't have concise quotes for the other point so I'll try to explain them. The centre of the beef seems to be about how the church protects itself using litigation, influential contacts to control the information about it available to the public. It is very difficult to "prove" that Scientologists believe in any of that southpark stuff because their documents are copyright protected.

"By using copyright laws the Church of Scientology withholds information about the teachings of its founder from the public. The public sees only a limited amount of information, information the "Church" feels will not harm its reputation to any great degree. Thus people are attracted into it based on this limited information and its seemingly fascinating possibilities. Once in, the existing members of that organisation have the opportunity to possibly erode the critical thinking faculties of the new member over a period of years. After that, the person has either left, been evicted or possibly their critical thinking faculties have been eroded to the degree where the absurd is accepted as spiritual truth."
One limitation is the throttling for each domain. If I had a smaller set of pages that I wanted to read frequently, this solution would not work. I understand the need to avoid DOS attacks, but in some cases, it would nice to be able to read a million pages from 3 large domains instead of 1 from a million pages.
The point of using LaTeX to render an image is that it preserves the beautiful and precise layout that only the (La)TeX engine can give.
I am relatively sure it couldn't be done as a startup. The profit margins just aren't there. My back of the envelope math says that each Work Unit, which, based off my experience takes ~8 hours to finish, would go for ~$0.80 (assuming that EC2 does a comparable speed, which isn't guaranteed). In order to make a decent profit, you'd have to be paying the users <$0.20 per unit, or roughly $0.60 per day, per core. It doesn't seem like a good enough proposition, that will barely cover the increased power consumption.

On the other hand, if an existing company branched out into this, something like Amazon and MTurk, I could see it working. A company which already has a user base, which has software installed on clients could leverage this as a "Oh yeah, here, we think this is cool, try it".
and actually, going even further back, CritLink http://zesty.ca/crit/
Mathematica will do

In[1]:= Unevaluated[y = Integrate[x^2, {x, 0, 100}]] // TeXForm
Out[1]= y=\int_0^{100} x^2 \, dx

which in that case is rather pointless but I suppose it could be helpful in the case of something more complicated.

Maybe Maple can do that too; I don't know since I've only ever used Maple for one 20-minute session and don't have a copy handy.
Interesting to see just a slight overlay with Woobius' eye in the video. While of course quite different in its overall functionality, it just shows that whenever one person/team has an idea, 10 others got the same idea at the same time.
Note that on http://www.mathim.com/translate/ when you type anything with a slash in it (eg: "x/2") it tries to go to http://www.mathim.com/translate/x/2 and fails, presumably because it's trying to interpret the slash as a directory separator.

Edit: cool, looks like you fixed the http://www.mathim.com/translate/x/2 as I spoke. Though the image at http://render.mathim.com/x/2 is still broken.
Mr. Castillo-Chavez, the texas congressman who is so concerned about math and science degrees, has a bachelor's and master's in business administration. I was a little surprised - usually the politicians fretting about the scarcity of Americans in science are lawyers.

A recent study by the RAND institute concluded that pay for science and engineering graduates has been lagging badly behind other professions, and that the low interest of Americans in these fields will change once pay catches up.

Like that Onion article: "study finds 98% of commuters favor public transportation for others." Seems the same for science and engineering careers.

Maybe we need a real role model. When Barak Obama speaks, people listen, and when our president emphasized the importance of science careers, I'm certain that he inspired hundreds of thousands of minority students in America to one day become lawyers who encourage engineering degrees for others.
The philosophy of Homebrew is radically different from MacPorts or Fink. Homebrew tries to work as far as possible with the pre-installed big items (Perl, Ruby, Python). It drags in as few dependencies as possible, in general, from what I can tell.

Both Fink and MacPorts, on the other hand, install virtually an entire second world of software - parallel to the built-in Apple stuff - in their respective sub-directories (/sw for Fink and /opt/local for MacPorts).

If you install Getmail with MacPorts, for example, you instantly drag in a full Python installation as a dependency (even though OSX already has Python installed). Similarly, if you install Weechat with Perl support, MacPorts installs its own version of Perl to build Weechat against. There are pros and cons, I think, to the Homebrew and MacPorts/Fink methods, but they are very different.
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Well, it looks like the entire footprint (Ruby LOC) on github is smaller than port.tcl in MacPorts, so I imagine it seemed more approachable.
Well, I'm guessing that in your Python-ish pseudocode any code wrapped in curly braces is a lambda. I missed that when I commented.

What I meant was that if you had code that ran to look up / generate those blocks, rather than just a literal block, it would always process both (even though only one is needed).
I think one of the main things that pisses people off about Scientology as opposed to skinheads (to use your example) is that no one really thinks that skinheads and their associated organisations are legitimate despite any efforts to make themselves seem so. No one is clamouring to give skinheads tax exempt status as non-profit/religious outfits.

Scientology tries to maintain a veneer of legitimacy while in reality, being pretty damn shady. By and large, I suspect they seem far more hypocritical to Anonymous, et al than many other questionable fringe groups, such as skinheads. If there's anything that really sets off activism on the Interwebs, it seems to be hypocrisy.

Plus have you actually read about the beliefs and teachings they push while demanding that people pay for the privilege of receiving them? Have you read about the "Sea Org" and so on? Whacky stuff.
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That's a good, subtle one: http://cronus.ws/~mta/fonts/GeorgiaTimesNewRoman.html
In retrospect, it looks like this guy is just blogspamming. Nothing to see here.
Sounds a bit like Odeo, which is what the Twitter guys were sick of doing when they started doing Twitter.
For home directory stuff, I've found that just git can be quite sufficient for tracking and syncing dotfiles and ~/bin.
It's not that hard, provided the people who wrote it are aware that other Unices exist besides Linux.

(I've done a bit of porting to OpenBSD. It's a pet peeve of mine when people hardcode references to bash for no good reason.)
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There is no real gain in convenience compared to a Starbucks Card or cash, and you still have a paper receipt involved in the transaction. I'm having a hard time seeing how this is a step forward.
Maybe. I have used latex extensively (and is now currently busy typing my dissertation in Latex). I personally think that Latex is a bit overrated.

There can be much better programs and Latex's applicability is fairly limited. It takes hours to get something to look right.
That and...

"Your parseLinks() and processDocument() methods must complete within a total 10 seconds per document processed"

... as a limit on processing leaves room for competition. One advantage of the BYO-Cloud solution is that you can pay for more intensive processing of the crawl.
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I must be the only moron who used to be eager for others to see his programs. No teacher ever looked at it long enough to appreciate it though; I quickly established a reputation as a computer show off and the teachers were dismissive of me, spending more time with kid who actually had problems.
The moral of the story is not to use shorter names, but to write better code.

The scope of the post was variable naming. I used dates and "The Three Bears" for a light example of variable naming that almost anyone could understand. I did not even begin to address "better code". I'll save that for another (or hundreds of other) posts.

Your Mama Bear example is some seriously broken date iteration code (so you change lastDay from within doSomething?).

The code is fine. It only becomes "seriously broken" if you change the loop variable within the iteration, in which case you seriously broke it with poor practice.

The Baby Bear code's naming is a bit off too. Is it inclusive or exclusive?

The naming is fine. So is the code. Your question of inclusivity or exclusivity is meaningless without understanding the assignment of the iteration variables, which again, was outside the scope of the post.

The letter 'y' is obvious

No it's not obvious. That's the whole point. It's extremely poor practice (See Papa Bear example.) You cannot assume the poor sucker who maintains your code will know what "y" means. And Heaven help him if he tries to do a global search for that variable in 2,000 lines of code. Which may lead him to reuse it inside the iteration. Which is just about the only way to "seriously break" it as in your Mama Bear complaint.

Your revisions will cause exactly the problem I was demonstrating to avoid.
That which does not make you stranger will kill you.
As long as you run it forward once, you should be able to do reverse execution. What you consider "impossible" is taking a binary and executing it from its last instruction up to the first: that would be impossible, or at least ill specified, because a program could have many exit points, but only one entry point.
See also: Marathon Monks of Tendai

"The final two years of the 1000-day challenge are even more daunting. In the sixth year they run 60km each day for 100 consecutive days and in the seventh year they run 84km each day for 100 consecutive days. This is the equivalent of running two Olympic marathons back-to-back every day for 100 days...

Only 46 men have completed the 1,000-day challenge since 1885"

http://baldrunner.com/2009/06/13/tendai-marathon-monks/
VMware Workstation can do this for entire VMs. They call it "replay" IIRC.
It was France & Germany in the 60s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
"Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results."

-Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching"

From anecdotal experience, some of those (in a typical corporate environment) who trump their 'working overtime' don't do much during 'normal' working hours.

I talked to a guy in an airport security line once, and he was a million-mile frequent flier. He related how he took his entire family (wife, kids, extended family - 20 in total) to Hawaii on Marriott Rewards points and frequent flier miles. You could tell the unspoken fact was that two weeks they spent together was probably the most time he's spent with them in years. Working hard seems to be a badge of honor nowadays but is it really something that fulfills you?
Every single startup entrepreneur is secretly thinking "We will be on that list".
I disagree. I believe its discovery and wide use turns it into a respectable genre. Its use shouldn't be looked down upon any more than the use of the blues progression.
This article doesn't reveal much because it confuses 2 different scenarios:

1. The research result that a small amount of offtime, e.g. "In the Boston Consulting study ... guarantee each consultant one uninterrupted evening free each week", "can yield unexpected on-the-job benefits"

and

2. Examples of employees taking much longer times off, e.g. "staffers are expected to leave in time for dinner" (presumably every work day, and probably only 5 work days per week), and ""wellness scorecards" to track whether employees are working too much overtime"

Without diminishing the importance of prioritisation, the article doesn't reveal anything about offtime any longer than a very limited "one uninterrupted evening free each week".
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It looks cool, but I wish the early adopters the best. It will be a little while before I let this near my system.
I've been having problems with my Yahoo Pipes of Hacker News as well. I get the same error of "error fetching http://news.ycombinator.com/rss (502 Bad Gateway)". This has been happening for at least a month.
Sure, computing becomes a commodity and people / businesses will compete on "extras". Compute cycles and storage will be auctioned off in real-time depending on the buyers' need for and sellers' ability to provide data integrity, computational correctness guarantees, cycles/dollar, and a jurisdiction where the computation and data are legal.
Invoking Parkinson's Law is incorrect. That would require Arrington to be uninteresting, and your main point to be intimidatingly profound, neither of which are true. This was plain old Distraction By Shiny Objects. I think "see randomness" applies here.
yeah, I was assuming I could use this to order a drink before I arrived at the store. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
I think mikeryan's point was that there might be some way to use them here _instead_ of shipping them back. Convert them to trendy office furniture and sell them for 10 times the price of the recycled metal, that sort of thing.
Sort of reminds me of the Info Pad idea from a couple years back: http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/05/desperately-se...
So . . . uhh . . .

What is your suggested solution?

Not trying to piss you off. I just think we have a lot of people in this country who point out all sorts of shortcomings, but do not offer potential solutions.

You've still not told us how you would address minority education. Most people seem to fall into the wsprague camp. You have not stated anything, other than the problem.
Can't agree more wallflower, there's a few things that I'd note:

The 'work day' is 8 hours, however, I really can't do the programmer hyper-focus thing for more that 6 (and I feel really depressed after 6, 5 is safer).

Generally I could be on track with my objectives if I only worked those 5-6 hours. But I stay those extra 2 anyway. (I don't know, out of social guilt?)

This causes me great consternation, as those 2 hours are wasted time to me. But working in the cubicle farm, there is no way to reclaim that lost time. I'm not particularly money driven...

I mean, I'm happy when I get raises and promotions, but mostly because of the accomplishment factor (Someone appreciates that I'm good at my job!)
The thing is, I don't go out and buy a lot of crap or really spend wildly, so money isn't really that useful. What I'd really rather have is when I get a promotion they say, 'OK, we're going to pay you the same amount, but you only have to come in for 7 hours instead of 8'.

I want more TIME not more money.
This would be beneficial to both of us, as I'm not really working 8 hours straight, and they're not really paying me enough to be working 8 hours straight (not that I would be able to if they were).

And don't get me started on pc load letter.
This is just people being nostalgic to the past. There are people that claim that site was 'never good' and people that claim all of the 'newfags' are 'the cancer that is killing 4chan.'

I was referring to the fact that once upon a time 4chan wasn't about the memespawning and repetition. The memes were just a part of the larger community that was /b/.

What I find funny is that you can see 4chan's community spreading to other sites. Reddit is now fully infested with meme generation, and it's just started to have the same set of people artificially creating memes and getting scolded by long-time users. I'm curious to see how Reddit survives, considering it both has user-based content moderation and subreddits to stave off the so-called cancer.

Now, of course, Hacker News has recently made the tip into memeage, and I'd suspect within a year we see a meme or two that's become a big part of the site. It's taken a surprisingly long time to tip, but it's tipped.
Still? Christ it tooks hours when I typed my dissertation-- and that was pushing 20 years ago.
I've seen this in the other new item here on HN. But this article has some interesting comments concerning left-handed usage. I wonder if the theme will be reversible for ease of use by left-handed people?
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I've been playing with Open Office Math lately, and using it to convert to MathML. It may be worth a look (behaves like the formula insert in OO Writer).
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