skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metaphorically speaking, I think every app store has slider in its settings panel, with "lots of crappy/derivative apps" at one end, and "subjective/random curation" at the other. You can't decrease one without increasing the other.

Of course Google leaves their slider pushed to zero curation, treating apps like web pages (index them all and bury the crappy ones low in search results). But Apple seems to like their slider in the middle, which is why it seems so random to developers. After all, even when applied consistently, subjective rules appear random once you modulo by the difference between the observer's and the reviewers subjective viewpoints.

Personally I much prefer the Google approach, but then that's probably because I'd like for app stores to become commoditized. Apple probably doesn't agree. ;) Their slider does seem to have moved over the past few years though - perhaps it's post-Jobs drift; perhaps pressure from Google?
Most places in Australia, if they support American Express, charge extra to cover fees.
Moven, the Debit Card You Download
"I see DHCP, DNS and AD (in that order), at least in a windows environment as step one of anything."

It gets _messy_ but I think it's worthwhile to write out in biz continuity plan how to function without DHCP, DNS, and AD.

Take my case: we sometimes had the tier 1 and 2 services (the unix-based ones at least) up _days_ before DNS and AD were available. In the real world the business can't wait for DNS and AD to have access to their tier one and two apps: customers are waiting for product.

Note that a lot of work went into getting the Solaris stuff to this point: in particular using ZFS and zones made the process or restoration a breeze. By the time of our fourth annual DR exercise, getting stuff up and running was essentially waiting for it to restore from tape, adjust for things like 'DNS y/n' and done.
Goloc is a tool for counting the number of statements in a Go file
OK I'll give away a really simple one for the lazy: start your own hosting (reseller) company. Grab a dedicated, throw up some billing software and sell a shared hosting plan to every Tom, Dick and Harry that you know. At $9.99 / month for essentially unlimited email, space, transfer you should be able to clear a few hundred bucks a month in a few months.
> What would happen if the Chinese took the same attitude with nuclear power?

I'd bet it would be pretty calamitous, as you imply. I can't say I'm comfortable with the idea.

However, would it kill 300,000 people every year? I'm not so sure.
Unfortunately it's what all of the pro-Android Apple-haters at my office immediately said. I don't think he was in any way biased, just passionate. If his reviews of Apple products were in any way more detailed than those of Android products (which I'm not sure they were), I'm certain it was simply due to the frequency of releases and that Apple products tend to be much more interesting technically.
Economic value check: How much is enough?
For the type of stuff they do at Carderock, I'd say experiments are way better. Maneuver dynamics is really, really hard to do, as the time scales of the problem are long (ships turn on the order of a minute), something very challenging for CFD to accurately represent. Also, accurate free surface liquid dynamics is really damn hard to do, and I'd be skeptical of of most model's accuracy. I certainly wouldn't make billion dollar decisions on it.

In aerodynamics, which has had much more time and money invested, CFD can almost completely replace the wind tunnel, but only for aerodynamics problems we understand (ie wings, fairings, nacelles, turbine blades, backward facing steps, etc). As soon as you leave the validated/understood world, CFD becomes a tool used to augment the designer's intuitions, with the wind tunnel providing an essential ground truth.

Fluid dynamics is the business of predicting complex nonlinearities to a few %, and imo, complex nonlinear models are only useful when validated.
It's telling that when they debated building the DDG1000 they built a 1/4 scale ship:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Advanced_...
I work at a seasonal concert venue in the North East as a developer and Full Time IT Support Staff. After 2.5 years, I'm at 2 weeks paid, plus a mandatory week paid at Christmas, and mandatory one week paid when the season ends to get the team back in gear. So, all in all 4 weeks.
Managing your schedule, Step 1: Abandon all hope
Why doesn't this guy (or anyone else like him) get a non-smartphone. I have a BlackBerry10 device and rarely use apps. Partly because the platform was missing many big name apps, but mostly because I don't want or need such things. I really don't understand why this guy has an iPhone.
What in our wallets/pockets couldn't be replaced by a single digital device (such as a phone)? Or a wristband/watch communicating with a phone?

In my wallet/pockets: cash, business cards, credit cards, driver's license, loyalty cards, keys.

Will we still carry the wallet as we know it in 5-10 years?
Did you know? You can download uTorrent+ with uTorrent
A stripped-down smartphone has quite a few advantages over a dumbphone. Notice which apps are installed: Google Maps, subway maps, Rdio, Uber, Instacart. As he says, these things are like living in the future.
Mario Kart 8: le jeu accueillera du beau monde prochainement
> Is it really so hard to believe that a man who is abrasive has no problem dealing with other people who are abrasive?

That would be a classic symptom of narcissism. I'm not saying Linus is a narcissist, if anything I'm saying the opposite -- if he accepts the same treatment from others that he puts out, that argues against narcissism.

Now Steve Jobs, on the other hand ... I couldn't stand working with Steve because of his obvious and unbearable narcissism. He is why I never worked directly at Apple for more than a few weeks during many years of professional association on a number of software projects.
Everyone makes typos. Give it a rest.
I taught an advanced adult course for a number of years. I taught something north of 700 students in 40 and 80 hour courses over that time. I also later developed curriculum for another instructional program involving around 300 hours of instruction time that taught complex technical skills to another 300 people (equivalent to 2 B.S. degrees in terms of class-time) and graduated them as instructors in their subject. So I feel comfortable claiming I'm a professional educator (at least with adults). I also feel comfortable claiming that there are definitely different learning styles.

In addition, after being identified as a "special gifted student", I myself went through a nonstop progression of tests and evaluations as a student starting in elementary school and continuing all through high school so I'm extremely familiar with the tests and results being talked about here.

I'd say as both a subject of these tests and as a former professional educator, yes, absolutely, students have different learning styles. But I agree with the article that the kinds of styles and methods used to identify the learning modes don't really work.

Even worse, once students learn the results of these diagnostic tools, they use this knowledge as a kind of crutch to explain areas they are weak in. I'm sure there's a term for this phenomenon. Students then expect the teacher to treat them as a special snowflake and teach in the mode that they believe they learn most naturally in.

I believe that these diagnostic tools are being used incorrectly. They should be used to identify where students have weak modes of learning, and then their education should focus on building up those modes, not streamlining the educational process for efficiency and optimizing only for where students are already strong.

It's like a person who already has strong biceps doing nothing but curls in the gym and not only skipping leg day, but telling everybody else in the gym that they don't do legs because they're biceps are already well developed and their legs don't work so well.

This is a continuation of the notion that public education is an assembly line process like building cars and needs to optimize for the fastest way to shove knowledge into a student's head. This is a hopelessly dead-end approach to pedagogy.

Education should be about teaching people how to learn themselves. If a student opens up multiple modes of learning, they can already multiply their capacity to learn. If you are weak in an area, then you should concentrate in that area. Learning is both a talent and a skill that needs cultivation.
I wouldn't be surprised if the coffee machine didn't have a single microcontroller in it, but a simple old-fashioned analogue controller. The prevailing attitude in safety-critical systems is "if it works (and has been certified with much $$$), leave it alone".
Indeed.

I originally enlisted in the Navy as an Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM), and my first command was an F-14 squadron where I was assigned to airframes. On average, we scheduled 40 man hours for each flight hour (sometimes as high as 60). The F/A-18's that eventually replaced the Tomcats took about half that, but for most aircraft you're looking at 10 MMH/FH, at least, for mx alone.

That said, not all aircraft are created equal, and not all those Tomcats required all 40 scheduled man hours. Maintenance manning, at least in the Navy, is largely determined by man hours. So it isn't uncommon for commands to log as many hours as they can to keep billets, and possibly get a few additional ones. Billets are taken away if you show you can operate at fewer man hours.
Raspberry Pi Stratum 1 NTP Server with PPS
Just because companies don't emphasize benchmarks in their marketing doesn't mean their engineering processes aren't driven by them. Benchmarks have as much or more value to the people that make the stuff as they do to the people that buy the stuff.
Same here. I set my main ringtone to silence and only a few contacts can actually ring my phone. I disable almost all notifications and my phone's on do-not-disturb from 10-7 every night.

Maybe my laptop needs a hosts file to block "infinite" sites. Of course, I'm on one right now...
That's the best compliment I've gotten all day. Thanks! :)
"It's wrong to do others work for them and let them represent it as their own"

which is what I do in my everyday job. And I am not shadow-writing, I am a consultant...Writing ideas that superiors represent as their own, or clients do. I guess this is capitalism, life or something. And someone not worth it has to be promoted before I do, as in the author's case someone has to be admitted for her to live.
I think you're right. If people talk honestly about why they did things and weren't obviously trying to do ill from the start, it's pretty easy to empathize.

I read that the participants in the Milgram experiments were _way_ disproportionally likely to be conscientious objectors later in life, and that they attributed this to having been in the experiments. I hope that I've been immunized like they were.

We were crazy careful about screwing up people's machines, because anything that we did that made it seem to malfunction would likely result in them reinstalling the OS over us, and while we had some ideas about how to persist across a reinstall, it was a few bridges too far.

I certainly can't say that we avoided all catastrophe, but I'm not aware of us ever causing one. We had pretty good abstractions: the stack-shuffling code was fully encapsulated so that it wasn't just littered about our normal code, etc..

We also tried pretty hard to avoid the really dangerous stuff. It sounds crazy to put arbitrary code in some random process, but if you know that it doesn't leak, and it never interacts with other threads in the process, it's not really _that_ risky, really.

One thing that probably also helped is that we had so much feedback from the individual ad clients. So we would know pretty fast if something started happening.
The damaged S1 cooling panel lends it an authentic, lived in, this thing is here to stay look.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-27/h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station_ma...
Your ideas and work product are the ideas and work product of the organization, which your superiors represent... different kettle of fish.
there is a nice little plugin "confirm you are not a spammer" which cuts down on comments quite a bit. I also make sure my blacklist is up to date ( I use this one):

https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist/blob/m...

with both of those solutions, my main site does about 5k UV's a day, and I see about 20-30 spam comments per day (as opposed to a few hundred, easy)
There's another side to that story -- in many cases, the quality of written material or lecture is just not that good. Combined with laziness, it's easy for people to convince themselves that they only learn a particular way.

I remember helping the 13 year old daughter struggling with math. IIRC it was a moderately difficult algebra problem -- unless you read the text. The textbook explanation of how to attack that problem was so horrific and convoluted, i did a double take.

Pictures are great because they cut out all of the bullshit, flowery language and other nonsense and lay the meat of whatever you are talking about right out there. That's why effective presenters use graphs, etc to underline key points.
When I finally manage to fall asleep, I can't remember the next day how I did it.

I've noticed it is often preceded by having some thought, then 5 seconds later realizing that the thought I just had makes absolutely no sense. I guess that's the reality testing switching off.
You could try emailing the authors?
I can't believe people don't have different learning styles.

For instance, a guy I work with loves training videos. He will sit and watch lecturers and all the videos in sequence and take copious notes. Not me. Unless it's something complex and physical (like changing a car part) I can't abide video instruction. I don't care for audio much either. It's too slow and you can't skim picking out relevant points, nor refer back up quickly to refresh a concept. I don't think my co-worker does this. If he did prefer to read, he would start reading, read every word and not go back to what he read before until he was finished.

Having observed the difference in our learning style and our relative skill set, it appears (from my biased point of view) that I know a lot more than he does, and I get a lot more done.

But it would be interesting to hear my co-workers take on me. I'm guessing he probably has the view that my "rapid overview and fill-in-the-details as they are needed" approach is flighty, dangerous and inferior to the systematic linear method. And he may have some valid points in this regard. To be fair, we complement each other and work well together as a team.
At last... an intelligent comment. Thank you.
Faster Fast Fourier Transform
I heard Ansible over SSH is good to automate the installation. Has some experience with it? I am interested in a good tutorial similar to OP's article.
Why Startups Are Choosing Amazon Web Services
couldn't you build a heavier model to compensate? I mean most boats are hollow right?

I guess that changes some of the internal distribution of weight but if its done in a uniform fashion things should work out ok right?
Launch in closed Beta. Be upfront with the customers that you accept in your Beta program. They can be extremely forgiving with bugs as long as you inform them before hand and especially if there is no alternative to your service.

Choose the best 10 customers for a Beta 1 - and go through a rapid phase of issue fixing. Then increase the number of customers for Beta 2 by another 10. Continue in this fashion till all your issues have been fixed.
Spheree – The 3D Snow Globe Breakthrough
> The most surprising discovery for me was that it seemed like after foreign language students the heaviest users of the service were education majors. No joke. I never figured out if the noticeably heavy use by education majors was a selection bias caused by the way the service was advertising itself, a sign of especially low ethics among education majors, or an indication that there might be a higher incidence of lifestyle factors (e.g. going to school while working full time) that made it difficult for them to crank out all the BS assignments required of them.

Not a huge mystery here; check the average GRE scores by major here (2001-2004, but the general effect is well documented): http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/GRE%20Scores%20by%20Intended... . Data provided is average GRE score in Verbal, Quantitative, and writing sample, for 50 majors. Here are #s 41-50 in verbal, along with some reference points:

1. Philosophy (589)
25. Business - Bank. and Fin. (476)
41. Engineering - Industrial (440)
42. Business - Administration
43. Education - other (437)
44. Home Economics [?!]
45. Education - Special (432)
46. Education - Counseling (428)
47. Social Work
48. Education - Administration (427)
49. Education - Early Childhood (418)
50. Business - Accounting (415)

Here are the same in Quantitative:

1. Physics/Astronomy (738)
25. Education - Secondary (577)
41. Education - other (531)
42. Social Sciences - other
43. Education - Elementary (527)
44. Education - Administration (523)
45. Public Administration
46. Education - Special (502)
47. Education - Counseling (500)
48. Home Economics
49. Education - Early Childhood (495)
50. Social Work (468)

There are four education majors which don't make the bottom 20% cutoff: Education - Secondary, Education - Higher, "Education - Curr. & Instr.", and "Education - Eval. & Res.". They hold ranks 21, 30, 32, 37 (V) and 25, 34, 35, 39 (Q). So to sum up -- it's a "lifestyle" factor; it's harder for education majors to crank out their assignments because, compared to other students, they're not very smart. What you're seeing is not lesser ethics but greater need.
Yes, cause one definitely wants "Stop the World" GC in a real-time system.
Can you recommend tutorials, examples for Ansible? Is Ruby knowledge required to efficiently use Ansible? I would like to automate the installation of nginx, php, nodejs, mysql, etc. incl. modify a few config files.
I wonder how it will interact with cybernetic tech like artificial arms and artificial eyes.

I hope we don't stop researching artificial eyes once we are able to clone organs.
Yeah we have a near-realtime app and all our customers are in Australia. Tried heroku meh. Silly thing is they run on Amazon so should be able to deploy to Australia.

We also do thing heroku doesn't support with some vpn setup etc but all good for those who can use it.
Dunno. I've heard (and told) a few similar stories that do have a factual basis.
The post I originally responded to was discussing various ways HN discourages long threads, at least relative to reddit. HN also explicitly penalizes stories with comments >> upvotes, and makes it difficult to reply to longer discussions via exponential backoff procedures (I know you can work around it by clicking the "link").
As another commenter said, look at the apps he has Google Maps, Uber, Rdio etc... The only thing I'd be completely lost without would be Google Maps, but I had that on S60.
I would have commented on this but I made my iPad distration free and now its only good for serving coffe anymore! So I am not really using it right now for reading this blogpost and I am not really commenting on this right now, sorry :(
That's pretty much my presumption. Really hard to leak something (or photographs, or schematics, etc.) which doesn't exist.
Massive iCloud zero day being exploited for explicit celebrity photos
Heads up: video with sound auto-plays.

Here's a direct link to bypass the advertisement: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/ask-smithsonia...
Anyone else thinking that Public Write and Execute would be bad for an Airplane?!
>>CMMI seems to be mostly a moneymaking scheme directed at business types with no skill.

I beg to differ.

I started my career working for a CMM level 5 software services company. One of the first shocks I received after I entered the web industry was total lack of discipline here. There was barely any documentation in the web industry- No way to keep a track of a impact of a particular change, no design notes, not even a change log of whom to call in case something goes wrong, in the CMM level 5 firm we would have think of roll back scenarios even before we worked on the code.

In the web industry I saw, the idea of roll back planning didn't even appear to people. Yet the way I saw, a little documentation would have the whole team sane, and avoided more 50% of fire fighting we did on weekends.

Rules are boring, but when something large is at stake it generally is worth the process.
I currently use MongoHQ and get response times in the tens of milliseconds for $18/month. Hardly cost or latency prohibitive. I've seen similar times for less money with Cloudant.

Making sure that master/slave scenario works when you need it to requires extensive testing and care. You also failed to address backups. I've yet to meet anyone who runs their own database who actually tests their backup.
Boeing doesn't manufacture those. AFAIK Panasonic is the leading vendor today.
The pro-Android Apple-haters aren't likely to suddenly have a change of heart whatever happens.
Cool visualization. What causes the spikes? Code merges?
What was the violated trademark?
It seems to me that very few organizations () have effective countermeasures against bad behavior, but very little seems to happen anyway.

() google had that guy who stalked people ( http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee... )
and I've read that intelligence circles have a whole category called LOVINT for people spying on crushes. That said, they have hundreds of thousands of employees between them, and the incidence rate is probably really low.
the creator of ats has recently demonstrated proof of concept python, javascript and php backends.

https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Postiats-contrib/tree/master/...
CodeSpells – Craft Magical Spells Using Code [video]
I have a now 4 year old iPhone 4. It is incredibly slow, crippled by ios 7.1, so slow that Facebook is useless and I only use safari when I really need to look up something. I call it my Comm, because that is what I use it for, communication. iMessages, Whatsapp, FB messenger, hangouts all work relatively well. My iPhone is essential distraction free because it is too slow to distract me, ill look up while waiting, talk to someone, even meditate while waiting for my iPhone to load.
No one gets hurt if a web server goes down... right?
I worry about this a lot. There's archive.org doing an amazing job but it seems like so much of our culture is getting lost because it's online. My box of Popular Science magazines from the 1950s is amazing - even the ads are interesting. The difficulty in archiving this stuff is worrying, as is the discovery experience for someone 60 or 70 years down the road. I can pick up a crusty magazine and flip through it, cutting across a whole bunch of topics and their surrounding context. There are lots of silos trying to save bits of it, but if this guy put a bunch of papers in a box in 1997 and it didn't get eaten by mold, then all of it would have been around to browse today.
A tip I got from Perry Marshall was to put productive apps on your home screen, and throw apps like Facebook, Instagram etc at the back of your phone.

For example, by only leaving apps like Kindle, Audible, or Bible on my home screen, I'm much more likely to do something productive when I'm looking to fill in a few minutes waiting somewhere, rather than checking Facebook which will be a waste of time.
It's one of the reasons success is such a miserable teacher. Much of success is random.
Have you looked at these? https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-crea... + https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...