skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that there has always been this divide, or similar divides through the course of US history. There's a rural/urban divide which has slowly but inevitably moved in the direction of the urban side throughout the last 100 years. There's a rich/poor divide which I already referenced as haves and nots. There's an educated/uneducated divide which closely mirrors the wealth divide.
None of this is anything new.

You seem to have some beliefs about US history which I don't share. I don't believe in the myth of upward mobility in the US, while there are certainly examples of this, the story is oversold. I don't believe the society is as meritocratic as it is made out to be. The biggest predictor of a person's success is their parent's wealth.

I'd also argue the fact that you apparently crossed this major divide in American culture without even realizing it suggests that maybe you didn't cross a major divide of anything at all.

This is without even going into the immigrant/religious/racial divides that exist. We aren't going to have a homogenous group of 300m people - this isn't a bad thing, and it isn't a new thing.
Honestly that is pretty laughable.
Why are you coming to HN for legal advice? Get advice from a Proper Lawyer (TM) before you even reply to their request.
And it continues to be the #1 language for all the mainstream game web sites.

Flash is not going anywhere any time soon.
The only comment at this level which is constructive and thoughtful gets the downvote?

My thoughts were there is nothing wrong with saying mobile-first and cloud-first. They are complementary to each other. i.e. You build your mobile apps using a cloud backend.
One of the maintainers here, we do agree that documentation and getting our message across a bit more clearer is our primary priority.

One of our major advantages is that we're a bit more ambitious about deploys and we try not to limit you to a certain format: you can deploy any type of application on Flynn, not just web apps, but regular applications and services like databases, mail servers and so on. We then let you connect all of these together via service discovery. Meaning that instead of limiting you to a plugin system, Flynn allows you to write your own "plugins" that behave just like regular apps.
The scariest part of this is that even a week after Heartbleed went public, there are InfoSec professionals out there who still hadn't patched/brought down public-facing OpenSSL implementations.
It would be interesting or useful to know more about it, but what I think is that ideally a right impementation of a GC should not require any tweeks from the outside... and I am pretty sure you are not going to get any signifcant performance boost by using different GC values than default.
Never seen this project before, but I am excited to see where it goes. This idea of reversing the cloud is something I have never seen before.
Cloud storage would work best, stored at multiple data-centers for extra redundancy, stored with multiple cloud services to be extra cautious.

Gold CDs claim to last 300 years and are not too expensive: http://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Gold-Preservation-Write-Once-CD-...

Here are 50 DVDs for $14 that are suppose to last 50-100 years: http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DataLifePlus-Printable-Record...

The 200,000 CDs at the Library of Congress could be backed up on a RAID-1 NAS, but partnering with a cloud storage service might still be a better idea, plus it would allow people to download some of the data if the author allows it.
I agree that the practical problem with the current patent system is in implementation: the granting and enforcement of broad, poorly-defined patents, and the costs of litigation. Whether it's possible for a good implementation to exist, particularly in a long-lived form that copes well with radically new technologies, is debatable.

My moral objection to patents can be concisely summed up by John Carmack:

"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."

Anything that is so specific that it could not be reproduced by an independent human in a clean room (ie, the full text of Harry Potter) is well protected by copyright. Anything which can be reproduced through simple problem-solving can not be said to be "owned" by its creator. Patents outlaw thinking itself.
I would love to see a comparison of the ideas behind Datomic and Irmin - they're actually seem quite different, but a blog comparing the two could really help clear things up and frame the tasks they're both suited for.
Look again, closer.

It's a simple page that asks users to take a core action - choose the market in their area. You can then view all items that you can have ordered to you from farmers/producers.

They have been gaining a lot of traction which is why I told you to look at them.
I feel rather underwhelmed by the performance improvement touted by adequate records. Perhaps someone from the rails community can do something like this: http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2010/12/12/a-tale-of-three-profil...
"Adequate Record" does not exactly fill one with confidence regarding rails. This says "our last versions had inadequate performance,this one is just ok"
I have to wonder if it says "YAMAHA" on the other side, as if someone was handed a photograph of a Yamaha motor and they just flipped the artwork for the other side, not realizing it was text.
Le Phant: Heroku mobile client
Fair points. I guess I struggle to see the benefit as a user. I just glanced at their site and they do list a few benefits for users including "fast and easy payment, perks and rewards for using Kash, manage spending better with daily limits, no bank fees or interest charges". These could be interesting, but as a user I don't know that the incentives are there for me to stop using my CC which I am already accustomed to. I get points from CC purchases, use Mint to set budgets, and do not see bank fees or interest charges because I pay each month in full. I guess I am just not the target market for Kash.

However, I clearly see the many benefits for the retailer. They are saving money on transaction fees, avoid charge backs (maybe?), get paid more quickly, and is free for businesses charging under $100k.

I think in the back of my mind when I posted my previous comment was the classic chicken-and-the egg problem. Lots of benefits for retailers, but only if customers use it. Possible benefits for customers, but only if retailers accept it. I think that many of the other larger existing players in this space already have most of the infrastructure in place (eg, Square) and have brand recognition to boot. So, I see a very large uphill battle for Kash in this space with their business model. However, as you point out, it isn't necessarily a zero sum game and Kash could exist along side competitors. It will be interesting to see if they can differentiate themselves in some way and/or execute better in some way.
IPv6 really shouldn't be special in this day and age. It's just part of the Internet.

The problem is that most hosting providers and ISPs have yet to figure this out.
Oh God yes, at last, 4.2. Real foreign keys, active jobs, deliver_later, etc. I guess it's true, Overlord DHH really does hear our prayers.
In the US it is not legal to bring home items for resale without declaring them.
There's a great presentation on the topic by Angelina Fabbro www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0TFmdO4ZP0 with matching slides http://afabbro.github.io/jsconf2013 . The title says javascript, but it's really a platform agnostic guide that sketches out what mastery looks like and lays out actionable steps to get there.

Seriously, listen to the talk and/or check out the slides.

But 90% won't, so here's her actionable steps:

1. Ask why obsessively
2. Teach and/or speak at an event
3. Work through a suggested curriculum*
4. Experiment recklessly (the code doesn't care)
5. Have opinions
6. Seek mentorship
7. Program a lot
8. Stop fucking programming sometimes.
9. Write Javascript* a lot
10. Write in another language for a while
11. Think like a programmer when afk
12. Know what feedback is good feedback and reject everything else.
13. Break free of imposter syndrome

* These are the two points you'll need to adapt to your choice of language
Tax treatment of crypto-currencies in Australia – specifically Bitcoin
The invention of the printing press is interesting.

There was a flourishing book trade in the Roman Empire, but like most everything else books were produced through slave labour, there was enough of it to go around - imagine a big room full of scribe slaves and a reader slave at the front dictating from the master copy. Even in a podunk backwater town like Oxyrhynchus you could buy mass-produced books of quality. What was different in the time of Gutenberg is that there was a demand for books again, but scriptoria couldn't keep up with it. Mass production of books just had to happen, and this time around it had to be done without a plentiful supply of literate slaves.

There is something to be said for idea that circumstances determine what inventions will be made - it seems that right now the best minds in Western civilization are hard at work at Wall Street and Facebook, as if the most pressing problems were how to work the stock market and how to make better targeted advertising.
Related:

"AS 7007 incident": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident

"7007: FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH": http://merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00380.html
Just saw this in the release notes:

The PostgreSQL adapter now supports the JSONB datatype in PostgreSQL 9.4+.

Indexable/queryable JSON - so fantastic.
You need select or a select-like function to know which sockets are readable/writable without tying up one thread per socket
This week, let’s dump a few ice buckets to wipe out malaria too
Docker Registry experiencing full service disruption
Canvas tiles are exactly the approach we took in making the ChromoZoom genome browser, where we wanted people to smoothly zoom in on client drawn data at 60fps through 10 orders of magnitude: http://chromozoom.org (Note that it's only used for user provided data, as the default tracks are prerendered, like Google maps v1.)

I highly recommend this hybrid approach of 10-20 canvases plus a sprinkling of HTML elements for anybody looking to maximize responsiveness in this type of UI. In our tests, SVG and HTML start stuttering in draggable layers around tens of thousands of elements (easier to hit than you'd think). We actually decided to do mouseover calculations ourselves, in a pixel map within a mousemove handler, since having separate elements to trigger the mouseover was too expensive.
I doubt it'll hurt the OP to ask out here, along with consulting a lawyer. IMHO, if you could simply remove the hooks between the company's Github repo and your personal account, you don't need to share your account details.
Facts and tips on AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
How Ethiopians are working to improve health outcomes with minimal resources
Ah ZX Spectrum that takes me back. I learned assembler on it, BASIC, had a Pascal and C compiler even (the last two had to load from tape). Made one mistake and had to reload the whole thing again and wait 5 minutes or so.

It was amazing how there was this closeness to the machine, you boot right into the programming environment and had to type a command to load a game or do anything.

Some of the games I remember were exceptional, Elite was one of them. Just thinking about the ability to pack everything in 48K of memory.
I'm pretty sure there's a scarier part where there are still InfoSec pros out there who haven't bothered patching their OpenSSL implementation, months after Heartbleed went public.
Sorry you felt that way. That project was sponsored by http://adequatehq.com/, so we don't really have much controll over that. Try emailing their marketing department maybe?
What's the difference between the Web Console in this release, and the IRB console that comes with Better Errors?
<%= console %> is a godsend
In practice, the efficacy of patents probably varies by industry. For software patents, I have a hard time thinking of a single instance where they benefitted innovation. Does anyone really think that Amazon wouldn't have 1-Click, or Apple wouldn't have rubber-banding, without patent protection?

In other domains, I'm sure there are instances where patents did genuine good, benefitting both their creators and society. (It's worth noting that patents are specified in the Constitution as intended for the public good.)

However, I still contend that the net effect is, on average, a drag on innovation, even if it's closer to 60/40 than 99/1. The system incentivizes a "mutually assured destruction" of big companies and patent portfolios, and blocks out small players who can't afford a legal team. It moves market competition into the domain of a flawed justice system, where even a victory can destroy a creator through millions in legal fees and years of lost productivity. It creates a vacuum filled by companies like IV who sit on their laurels and milk patent licenses, often for inventions never realized, rather than actually make anything.
Interesting to note - the change in interest rates therefore has an impact on the size of ship engines, with lower interest rates resulting in smaller engines (or perhaps engines being run at more efficient speeds in terms of fuel consumption)
13 is easier said than done. Maybe this is just me trying to rationalize, but it feels like if you don't have some level of impostor syndrome, it's almost hubris.
Yes it is nice to see continued progress! Could someone explain to me what this negative press is about? I understand that Rails and Ruby by default are not as performant as Node/Go/the JVM but it supposedly functions quite well for relatively large websites (~10K users).
I've been working on a Django project for the last few months. In past gigs I've used Drupal, and even talked community with one of Drupal's corporate overlords at Acquia. I enjoy working with Ember and follow its releases. But I've never grinned and cheered for new features the way I do with Rails.

It took me a long time to realize that Rails' greatness isn't due to magical omakase magic - it's the community DHH (and the core team) have built over the years, and the strong product focus they've applied. Really impressive. Did Torvalds work like this? Has anyone has studied or written about organizational behavior in the open-source community?
RiNOO: (a)?synchronous sockets in C
Hi all, I am the initiator of this project. You can gave me bug reports or suggestions on how to improve VisuAlgo (and its online quiz mode) via stevenhalim@gmail.com. Me and my team are still actively developing this tool and will update it over time.

Question banks for certain topics are not big enough so there is a small probability that you can see two random questions that are the same. This should not be true in the near future.

The code is semi open actually (all HTML,CSS,JS files) are on client-side. The only hidden parts (in server-side) are the mechanism to generate random questions and to verify answers automatically and also our graph drawing database :O (you can draw your own graph for DFS/BFS/MST/SSSP/Network Flow/Matching if you haven't notice).

Regarding slow host, it should not be the case in general. Yesterday NUS has network issues that slow down the Internet connection campus wide. Normally it is very fast.
I know what select/epoll and friends are for.

What's wrong with tying up one thread per socket?
Have you seen All Is Lost with Robert Redford? It came out in the last 12 months, and the premise is that he's sailing in the Indian Ocean when his boat strikes a lost container. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
It's kind of silly to judge new features on their name, no? Adequate Record caches lookup strings, which increases AR performance considerably.
We can handle systems that are or are not IP enabled.
For one, web console is built in. Other than that, I imagine not much.
India becomes the 'Launch pad' for Amazon drones; deliveries may start by Diwali
My experience as “The Underchallenged ‘Lazy Teenager’”
100% speedup is underwhelming?
I was working on a blog post on implementing drag and drop using functional reactive programming (FRP) with bacon.js. Your question just pushed me to finish it :)

Here it is.

http://www.codingupfengshui.io/functional-reactive-programmi...
It's entirely plausible - perhaps very likely - Myhrvold believes in what he's doing, believes in patents, believes patents help innovation, and so on.

The world is filled with billions of people that believe truly crazy things, plenty of those people are smart and successful.
> Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that IV kept asking the same companies to reinvest, and if they didn’t, the threat was that the company could always find something to sue one of the entities over.

This is such a brazen shakedown, it's not even funny. Are there any laws which can be applied to prevent this?
It shouldn't have been written and is mental masturbatory bullshit on the part of the author. He should stick to the content he's educated on.
Quinnspiracy Theory: The Five Guys Saga
Simple. Being a parasite feeds his greed more than doing something useful for society.
It's easy to write trivializing one-liners when you haven't bothered to learn anything about the companies or the problems they are solving.
Along with that, one of the hidden gems is that dirty tracking now detect inline changes correctly. This means things like JSON/JSONB columns Just Works™ out of the box.
I see. Should check it out, then.
It wasn't the Florida Internet Exchange.

FLIX was Fat man Little man Internet eXchange. I was the fat man (I used to be more engineer sized). Vinny Bono was the little man. I (AS 4969 of old) never actually connected to it though... The rest can be found in archives etc as linked below.

I remember the moment I realized who it was - had a customer who called me and said "I am advertising a /23 to you and you are advertising a more specific /24 back to me, originated from AS 7007"
Many (if not most) of AirBnB's major markets explicitly forbid short term rentals without a hotel or bed & breakfast permit and associated taxes, yet AirBnB lists and drives business to them seemingly indiscriminately without so much as asking for such paperwork.

What's the complexity? Airports and felony charges instead of evictions and injunctions?
> Myhrvold believes in what he's doing, believes in patents, believes patents help innovation, and so on.

I strongly doubt that. It's more likely that believes in filling his pockets using crooked means.
I would recommend writing apps as much as you can from "scratch" (do use standard libraries for your language, but shy away from big libraries or platforms that aren't a core part of the language). I think this helps ensure you're not just wiring things together but are truly creating something out of thin air and thinking algorithmically. That experience will serve you well when one day you're confident in piecing together ready-made libraries, platforms, and your own code to create your projects.
I've been thinking a lot the past few weeks about the preservation of art and goods in general. I think it comes from two main sources:

1. Maciej Ceglowski (`idlewords) has been talking a lot recently about link rot. Recently, he found that 25% of items pinned a mere five years ago were dead links and 17% from only three years ago were dead [^1]. That's an incredibly high rate -- and, selfishly, one I'm noticing as my bookmark folders for recipes (RIP BroEats.com) and designs and other things is filled with more and more duds.

2. I've been reading Do Not Sell At Any Price [^2], a book about the subculture of 78rpms. These are records that are so rare and so -- for lack of a better term -- unwanted by the vast majority of the music-listening populace that the act of collecting them is less about hoarding and more about preservation. To quote one of the characters in the book (roughly from memory):

"It's a weird feeling, holding this thing in your hand and knowing that you could break the song," he said. "I snap this record in half and this song is lost forever. It's a lot of responsibility, and sometimes I think that's why I take it so seriously."

I can honestly say that, prior to reading this article, I had no idea what a ZX Spectrum was. Now, after some digging, I do -- and I still have no desire to play one, obtain one, or hold onto it in any meaningful way. (And seeing as I'm usually on the weirdly attached end of the spectrum with these kinds of things, I doubt I'm the only one.) But I'm struck by how important it is to hold onto these things, even if its in a cardboard box in a forgotten closet somewhere or a link on the Internet Archive that gets clicked once every couple decades.

I'm not positing that there will ever be a point in time that someone has the hankering to play ZX Spectrum Xtreme Chess, but I think there's inherent value in preserving this ecosystem -- something of a testament to the people who made it, the people who played it, the novelty that at one point in time there were five million living rooms with this machine in it.

The Web turned 25 this year, and it's already coming down with acute cases of memory loss. I'm hoping that by the time it hits fifty, the problem won't have gotten worse -- it will have gotten much, much better, not just with URLs but with remembering the time when people played 3D StarFighter by the Oliver Twins. [^4]

(This is a very roundabout way of saying the following: Jason, you are completely awesome for doing this, and thanks for sharing it with us.)

[^1] https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/501406303747457024

[^2] http://www.amazon.com/Not-Sell-Any-Price-Obsessive-ebook/dp/...

[^3] The nice things about IA links is you can pretty reasonably assume that they won't suffer from link rot, right?

[^4] https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/14771850314/in/set-7...
Maersk does some land shipping too.

But I don't think Maersk (or anyone) does much work shipping across land on Antarctica. They do supply some of the research stations[1], but these tend to be on the coast.

Given that, I'd imagine somewhere in the middle on Antarctica would be about the furthest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Peary
This is the path it has taken since it left Spain on 7/21: https://imgur.com/2w8vg3R
Will uBiome run into the same FDA regulatory issues that 23andMe did? If so, I hope they have a great legal team...
On Windows desktops (a tiny portion of current web browsers) maybe. Can't view it here and I suspect I'm not alone.
Getting my brain back
"Context switching is expensive. My rule of thumb is that it'll cost you about 30µs of CPU overhead. This seems to be a good worst-case approximation. Applications that create too many threads that are constantly fighting for CPU time (such as Apache's HTTPd or many Java applications) can waste considerable amounts of CPU cycles just to switch back and forth between different threads."

http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-ma...

On 32-bit systems, you can also easily run out of address space for your thread stacks.
If they were ok why should they had forked python?