skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That sounds like the kind of thing someone from Microsoft would be happy to post.

And that sounds like something someone with no concept of libel would say. Are you trying to get sued? Because this is how you get sued.

> I'm glad you've found a solution for yourself, but I still find your story hard to believe. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and all that.

I too don't believe the OP. However I also don't believe that they're working for Google's competition. I just think we're getting less than 1/2 the story. Plus 125K is a HUGE amount of clicks/views for a 12 day period, they'd have to be one of the largest sites on the internet.
I agree with you if you mean to say that it introduces complexity and server side load if you run it on a per-request basis. Considering the time it takes to minify, this obviously isn't the use case that the developers had in mind. Most likely it is meant to run as part of a build system of a mostly static website, and not on the server itself.
Do you ever get constructive feedback from 1* ratings?

I've left 1* ratings for games I play all the time because I absolutely hated the in-app purchase intrusiveness.
Very nice. Template Haskell takes a similar approach, though is (usually) not run-time.
eval is not a good idea if you want to write a compiler that generates small efficient binaries either. This is why, for example the Stalin Scheme compiler does not include eval.

"Running that image has equivalent semantics to loading the Scheme source file into a virgin Scheme interpreter and then terminating its execution. The chief limitation is that it is not possible to LOAD or EVAL new expressions or procedure definitions into a running program after compilation. In return for this limitation, Stalin does substantial global compile-time analysis of the source program under this closed-world assumption and produces executable images that are small, stand-alone, and fast."

https://github.com/barak/stalin
Do you have a source for that higher ranking of faster sites thing? Just interested.
This would help, but its not enough. `--dry-run` tells you what it would do at a point-in-time, but isn't a guarantee that by the time you update a stack that that is what would actually happen.

Terraform's execution plans, on the other hand, can be saved and applied. This tells Terraform that it can _only_ apply what is in the plan. It _must not_ do anything else.

To match TF here, CloudFormation would really need "staged changes and applied changes" as separate steps.
This.

Read the profile, find something they mention you don't know about, ask about it, make a joke.

You can even use the same shitty joke over and over--all told, shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

It's like starting up a conversation at a bar or wherever with a stranger: listen for a second, ask nicely about whatever they're talking about or bring up a random thing, and go from there. Practice on people in elevators if you need to overcome your anxiety. :)
I'm with you on the general principle that printing paper books about fast-moving subjects looks like a futile endeavor, but - does 3D printing still move that fast?
> If I understand correctly, it's like saying a car has negative speed because it's going backwards.

Well, kind of, but I think that would be an oversimplification.

Negative temperatures have a concrete physical meaning, being "hotter than infinity", in the sense that if we bring in contact 2 systems: one with an arbitrarily high positive temperature, and one with a negative temperature, energy (heat) will flow from the negative system to the positive.

This looks tidier if we use the thermodynamic beta (beta = 1/T) instead of temperature. Then we can say that heat always flows from a system with a smaller beta to systems with a larger beta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta

Maybe debt is a somewhat useful metaphor here. If someone has a debt of 5 apples, in some ways if makes sense to say that this person owns -5 apples. But in some other ways it makes no sense: a person with 5 apples can eat them to get less hungry. A person with -5 apples cannot eat them to get more hungry.
Unreal, I am really stoked to start playing around with this!! Thanks Mitchell & Hashicorp team!
https://www.hidemyass.com/
Ah, the 800lb Gorilla of open source web apps. We wanted to highlight some of the little guys first, but... it's coming.
Tyler, as someone who constantly thinks about different avenues of working on my own, it's really informative to hear stories such as yours. Plus, your story is usually the one people gloss over. We usually hear about the two projects a year that make billions and the ones that completely fail. It's refreshing to hear about an app that made money and gave you the financial stability to take a couple more risks. Thanks for sharing!
> I think there's a difference from a Powerball jackpot. There, the upper limit is defined. Whereas there's no upper limits on Sam's investments.

Statistically, you can still define a finite expectation value for an unbounded probability distribution, just as you can compute a finite value for an infinite sum.
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http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-sit...
> ... letting an employee announce on Twitter that they are changing Generics in Swing

I hadn't heard that - could you point me to a reference please?
Imposing large scale engineering projects of this nature will probably have to wait until after production and point control of self-replicating nanorobots, organic or otherwise, is fairly mature. At that point the cost reduces down to design and raw materials and looks feasible when compared to simply going to other worlds in search of additional space, or building arcologies, or other methods.

Sadly much vision has been lost somewhere in the last century. People are much more conservative about preserving the present state of whatever exists, and have lost the sense of wonder and ambition that characterized the opening of the modern age of machinery.
First day:

Follow tutorials. Get something to compile.

First week:

Download an IDE, particularly a JetBrains product if you can. They're really amazing, especially if you're new to coding. Try to make something simple.

First month:

Find a friend who knows how to code. Ask for advice when you get stuck.

Second month:
Master the debugger. Learn every single thing you can about how it works. Seriously. This will save you a ton of time in the long run. Learn absolutely everything about it, especially conditions, step into and watches.

After that:
Write as many projects as you can - and complete them. If you're having trouble with something, ask your friend how they might approach the problem. At this point, the biggest thing you need to learn is how to ask the right questions.
Hey,

We are reading this and we will be helping soon. We met with Alex Polvi when he stopped our office a few weeks ago and we discussed integrating CoreOS.

Given how their file systems are laid out and a couple of other items on their side as well as that we are building out a metadata service that will be launching soon we thought it would be best to wait on the integration until after the metadata service was ready.

This way we could use it to integrate with CoreOS and make the deployment process a lot simpler.

Alex has been super helpful offering a lot of support to help us get this done and we are very excited to move forward, but we thought it would be better to do it right with the metadata service instead of launching it without that, knowing that we would have to rebuild the way the image was being provisioned and every early adopter of CoreOS would then need to redeploy their droplets.

Because we have a lot of projects in flight at the same time I don't have an ETA and we've certainly found it difficult to give product release estimates when we are also in high growth mode because there are always many interruptions and reprioritizations that happen on the fly every week but I'm hopeful that this one launching this quarter.

Thanks,
Moisey
Relevant:

http://i.imgur.com/ztDKKbr.png
I recognize the phrase and can even hear the hosts speaking it in my head... but I couldn't tell you the name of the sponsor. I'm sure it'll come to me.
Oh, yeah :/ The login page is over SSL, but everything after that is not (!!) This protects your password but not your OkCupid session cookies. It's an improvement over no SSL at all (which was the case for a long time) but still leaves a lot to be desired.
Thanks. Just for those curious, his latest book is from 2011:

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (4th Edition)
http://smile.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-4th/dp/0321...

And apparently there is an update coming in October:

More Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)
http://smile.amazon.com/More-Cocoa-Programming-OS-Guides/dp/...
What is the licensing on the source code?
Did you weep for the ones who died when they went through the window of a pickup truck?
There are some cases there for Samsung phones.
It frankly frustrates me that Debian/Canonical ever used libav to begin with. ffmpeg is and has been the better of the two for quite awhile. The person in this thread arguing against inclusion of ffmpeg would probably be astonished by the number of developers who are building ffmpeg from source instead of using the libav that ships with Debian/Ubuntu/etc. We should encourage developers to use RPMs, especially for something as heavy to build and install as ffmpeg/libav. Many heavy hitters have settled on ffmpeg. It should be done here as well.
I'm really glad this saw the light of day. So many people were criticizing Yo for being 'useless' and all that, instead of trying to think about what to create with it.
The web has risen in the same timeframe though, which offsets people's willingness to pay for desktop software, at least in theory.
<sigh> That was mildly sarcastic on my part. I guess I overplayed it.
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I honestly thought that all three sites were basically doing the same thing. Thanks for the insight, this was actually very informative and interesting to learn.
CoreOS Fleet 0.6 released
How Accurate are HTML5 Score Keeping Sites?
$125k in under two weeks is impressive. Or a lie.

Let's charitably assume you only get 5% more traffic going from 12 to 14 days (ie the missing two days fall on a weekend) then divide to get a weekly run-rate:

($125k * (1.05)/2) = $65k/week * 49 weeks
(dropping a couple cause xmas is low)
= $3.2M/year adsense run-rate.

Are you seriously surprised that the reaction is pics or it didn't happen? Or that any ad company would flag a customer coming out of nowhere with numbers like that?

From experience, this is enough to get you an adsense account manager -- I know G doesn't do customer service, but for this size account they definitely will. Start again, come up slowly, and be able to justify this to a human.

edit: oops, misread 12 as 3. adjusted numbers.
I wonder what Niedermayer would say / has said.
So I can use your app to spam other people? Nice :)
I don't buy it. After all, if he's never done anything outside the realm of acceptable political beliefs, then nobody has anything to lose by going into his politics. And if he has, they surely have the right to know, especially the Mozilla employees. Clearly, that's not why those comments are being downvoted.

Either the HN crowd is finally tired of the political chicanery or they're afraid that fostering further discussion could reveal something about Chris Beard they don't like. This would cause yet another round of political nonsense that winds up in a second Mozilla CEO resigning. That would be extremely embarrassing not just for Mozilla, but Silicon Valley as a whole.
It was zero additional work. Importance was filled by analyst and priority when planning. It was very neatly managed project, one of the best I worked on. If it is kept neat, those things help a lot.

Github labeling way of prioritizing and what not is actually harder to keep then fixed fields. You can live with that, but it requires more effort and attention to be useful.

Anyway, the problems the parent complained about are not in priority/importance category. The inability to do prioritization more practical then labels or milestones is a big thing. It is standing in a way, because you have to spend too much time in issues list and essentially re-prioritize in head again every time you are looking for something to do.
I really do not understand this continued complaint about Scala compilation. I've been developing in Scala for over 4 years full time and have never had compile times be the major bottle neck in my workflow. Between incremental compilation and good modularity test times dominate my "waiting" cycles and that is on the order of seconds. Hardly noticeable given my think/type loop is much slower than that.

I have any number of complaints about Scala but compile times is way down on my list. I'm generally interested in what sort of compiler performance is expected.

That said, it might be a generational difference as I've worked on projects where full compiles happen overnight...
Is it easy to "Yo" back someone if they're not in your contacts? On the android app I don't see how to do that.

Also, the security of this seems questionable.

There are other, more interesting uses of the yo API:
https://medium.com/@YoAppStatus/yo-developers-api-e7f2f0ec5c...
Same here. I'm having a hard time understanding why I should use this. What's the benefit?
Nice article. I really like your point about using generators to make Underscore lazier.
You need to use your Yo username.
I'm guessing ride bikes to the bridge and leave cell phones at home? That's the only thing I can figure. They had to carry quite a bit of gear.
> 10 meters high layer of CO_2 with current concentration already absorbs 99,94% of IR radiation, so whatever made it above fourth floor would be swallowed by next floors. Any change to the concentration of CO_2 makes no difference on Earth's radiation.

Do you have a source for this?

>Water is even more potent

Yes and that would be a huge problem if it built up instead of falling out of the sky.

>how are you sure that Sun's increasing activity is not the reason of climate change?

This is actually what I was thinking of when I said "we don't know for certain is if there is another currently unknown cause with a larger contribution to global warming" though I believe this particular theory has been debunked.

>four centuries ago Batic Sea was freezing seasonally

You are referring to the little ice age which was primarily a localized event and therefore not caused by changes in the greenhouse effect or solar radiation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

>We know it is highly correlated, true. Correlation is not causation, though.

I completely agree. The fact that they are correlated does not give us a causal link. The fact that green house gasses increase temperature does. The only missing piece here is how much of the increased temperature is caused by our greenhouse gas emissions and how much is caused by other unidentified forces.

>There are plenty of possible effects in thermodynamics that would easily make the noise in measurements above the level of changes that are announced for greenhouse effect.

I completely agree. When I said there could be an unknown effect, I did not mean to imply such an effect would be outside of "possible effects in thermodynamics".

>We have no way to verify the claim the greenhouse effect takes the place

Actually we can. We can measure the radiation before it hits earth, when it hits the ground and when it leaves the atmosphere as well as measure what radiation is absorbed and emitted by various gasses. We don't have a perfect understanding of the green house effect, but we can observe it in action.
I just said group because presumably he wasn't the only investor in those companies, so a group of people stand to profit. If he was the only investor I would have said individual. It's also meant to highlight the fact that multiple people are in on this, whereas an actual black swan event is something that tends to be much more difficult to predict or be a part of.

I would be amazed if someone could go 5/40 in predicting black swan events under their original definition.
State's passport and visa system crashes
Buying a house is a huge investment. Sure, you can do it all on your own to try to save some money but not without risks. I like to think of an agent as a sort of insurance charge to ensure I am not wasting my money and that I'm getting the best possible price on the best home on the market that fits my needs. I also don't want to spend all day looking for listings on my own. Had I not used an agent I wouldn't have bought the home I live in (and love) today since it didn't fall into the specs I was set on going after.
The behavior is even more miserable if you try to navigate via keyboard pageup/pagedown. Whole sections of content are liable to be skipped, and when they aren't, you often land in an odd intermediate frame that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Page designers need to consider that navigation is not always continuous.
"Terraform" - seriously? Making world a better place through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility?
I got it straight away, but I kept second guessing while I clicked the link to find out that it literally meant what it said.
Please don't consider every usage of the term "eval" to be what is discussed in this article. Perl has two forms of eval, one which takes a string and executes it as code (the "bad" one) and one which takes a block of code (used for exception handling) which is parsed only once (essentially at compile time).

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/eval.html
What a bunch of pointless data and hubris to prove that, yes, people are predominately fueled by the laws of physical attraction.
My understanding, from the article, is that it was the text on the bio. I suppose the text in an introduction could be similarly weighted in the receiver's mind. So does an incredibly shitty introduction with a great picture warrant a response? How about a mediocre intro with a good picture? Where is the tipping point? How does one sift the wheat from the chaff?
As soon as AUTHYO yo-s you, it's popped to the top of your Yo friend list. So it's very quick to yo back.
i also love a good single malt.

(I live in NJ, I have Bluegrass, 6-zones in my sprinkler system)

About "Watering deeply and infrequently": I thought 30 minutes per zone, 2x/week accomplished that. Are you suggesting watering for 15 minutes and running through the zones 2x each time I water?
Ask HN: How can I find hackathons post-college?
Hey HN,

Throughout college I participated in many hackathons throughout the college circuit (HackNY and other HackerLeague events). But now that I have graduated, I want to continue to participate in them. I have done extensive google searches to find aggregated lists and have found some listings but not too many. Anyone have any tips, lists, or sites that they check? Also, I'm in NYC.

Thanks!
Thanks! My original goal was extremely simple. Earn $X to do Y home improvement project. But as the app took off I've readjusted my goals. I've never thought about becoming "rich", instead, I see it as a wholly possible way to earn just enough to support my family and be happy.
Right, someone's CS drop out cousin is getting this.
You can get a vinyl cutter for a couple of hundred quid.
You seem to be treading on thin ice here: espousing things that are cracks in the plaster of ... what I think you think ... is a common-sense-ish scientific body of knowledge that most people instill which has displaced a space once occupied by religion.

But you do this having a weak grasp on the very concepts for which you claim inconsistencies or inadequacies, sprinkled with a dash of anti-intellectual falsehoods/misinformation.

This is probably why you got downmodded, not that you didn't have a larger point with showing how common beliefs are common beliefs, whether they be from science, rhetoric, cultural tradition, or religion; and that media or governments (or other institutions representing the "will of the people") often color the inquiry that can ultimately shape and theoretically improve these commonly held beliefs.
Expanding Open Source technologies on Windows
Bitcoin Price Speculation – Lessons Learned From Trading Stocks
I previously used ffmpeg in a broadcast production environment, and had to compile from source constantly because of this terrible decision.
Yes, sorry, we're saying the same thing, but I phrased it badly.

All stocks in a perfectly efficient market have the same EXPECTED return -- differential behavior can and will still occur, but it is necessarily unpredictable. Investing in any one stock is as good as investing in any other stock, in terms of expected returns. Now, there's still room for strategy in such a market: it's like, imagine the difference between betting $1 on a fair die, with one of two possible betting options: Either a 1-5 gets you nothing and a 6 gets you $7, or a 1 gets you nothing, a 2-4 gets you your $1 back, and a 5-6 gets you $2. In both cases, your expected return is 16% gain -- over enough iterations, you'll expect to gain money. But they are different in terms of risk/reward.

(And you can get similar risk/reward tradeoffs by investing broadly or narrowly in a perfectly efficient market.)
"I don't believe that and it seems like a difficult thing to persuade you of -- at least right now."

Well, evidence to the contrary should persuade me. But isn't that pretty much the definition of IQ? A kind of "general intelligence quotient" which is broadly applicable to many different skills? E.g. I'd expect Stephen Hawking to be pretty good at chess if he ever decided to apply himself at it.
> And that sounds like something someone with no concept of libel would say.

Pshaw.

1) OP is the one flirting with libel.

2) I responded to that with satire.

3) OP asked me to explain the satire.

4) I explained the satire, and actually did it with generalizations and no specific accusation.

And you think step 4 is going to get me nailed for libel? Can you cite any legal precedent? In the United States, satire goes a long, long way. We like our free speech quite a bit.

For instance, here's a Microsoft ad claiming that if you buy a Google Chromebook, you'll get something worth $0:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjQhYBKInwo

A little satire goes a long way.

But I'll let you know if Microsoft lawyers come knocking. Or maybe I should just go ahead and make a baseless Hacker News allegation with no evidence at all, using an anonymous account, asserting that Microsoft is going after people for libel for posting satire? And that they want $125,000 in settlement?
Upvoted for first instance of Levenshtein-related joke I've ever seen.
Maybe some restaurants. Not the one I worked at. And unless they share them in some kind of city-wide (or international) database, it's not the same effect as uber refusing to have you as a customer any more.
There is a concept of "free speech" and it has nothing to do with your employer. It is a freedom guaranteed against violation from the government. That is all. Any other use of the term is inaccurate. If you mean to say employers should let you speak your mind, then say that, but don't equate it to "Free speech" because it is something totally different.

And you DO have the freedom to tell your boss to go fuck himself. The government will not stop you and therefore you are free to do that. But, your boss has the freedom to fire you for saying that as well. You are misunderstanding what free speech, and freedom in general, is.