skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome! We were using parallel_tests, but we just bought a second test server. I was looking into Kochiku from Square, but that gem looks perfect. Thanks!
> By whom? And for what purpose?

VMware? Google? Amazon? RedHat? HP? IBM?

> If Docker was about to be acquired, why would there be any interest in raising a round? That dilutes everyone for no purpose. That's not smart.

It moves the valuation up and it increases the chances of being acquired.
Corporate structure can be figured out later, but if there are 2 of you, agreeing on a 50/50 split is your best bet...

Deciding if you are for or non-profit can be decided later (add that to the application that you are deciding), but choosing non-profit might help your cause.
> The cool part the BBC story leaves out is that they print with material that simulates what the science community anticipates martian and lunar soil will be like!

We should be launching habitation fabrication equipment as soon as SpaceX has the lifting capacity for it!
Optimizing Webfont Selection and Synthesis
> The email is personal,

The email is not personal. It has a name and a few words (the "<insert something interesting they mentioned>") but it gives no feedback on why you are not hiring them. Reading the rejection email as someone who might be receiving it, it would leave me wondering and frustrated, and more likely than not I'd reply to ask why I was rejected. You're not going to hire me, there is no reason not to just tell me.

Maybe this is just American culture (they seem a bit less straight-forward with negative things than the average Dutchman), but the ever-polite "hopefully you'll stay in touch" is more annoying than nice to me. Staying in touch is regular communication, not a line you should say to everyone regardless of how terrible their resume was and how applicable they may be as a future employee in a different position when really you're meaning to say goodbye.
Disruption: What Webworkers Should Learn from Uber
> but now architects have to become software engineers.

As you said, software is eating the world. In the end, you won't have doctors, lawyers, architects, aviators. You'll have software engineers/developers who understand medicine, law, building trades, and flight.

Once you understand concepts, everything else is just syntax.
They still require the utterly ridiculous "Ok, Google" activation though. I know its irrational, but I really don't want to have to use phrases I would never use in day to day life to communicate with my computer.
One source of this problem is that only Google and Nuance have voice recognition engines that are any good, and they are very closed up (unless you pay tons of money to Nuance like Apple does for Siri).

Most developer's only option for voice technology is to use Nuance's API which requires uploading the voice sample and waiting for a response, this is nowhere near fast enough for pleasant interaction. Things will only get better when Apple, Google and Microsoft open up really high quality on-device speech APIs for their operating systems.
Washington Post: NASA to award space contract to Boeing and SpaceX

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/16...

> NASA plans to award a much-anticipated, multi-billion dollar contract to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station to both Boeing and SpaceX, according a person familiar with the process.
$368M patent infringement award against Apple, Oracle vacated on appeal [pdf]
Wasn't there a leaked FBI PowerPoint that very explicitly stated that they can't intercept iMessages? (and it was a point of frustration)
My point was that relaxing is often what you need to do to get things done. In my experience, at least. YMMV
Is that really the Dalai Lama? The responses seem to be completely unconnected to what they are responding to. I feel like it's a bot, just texting random aphorisms.
I still swear by NetNewsWire http://netnewswireapp.com/

My protip is I only subscribe to personal blogs with infrequent update schedules. So no TechCrunch and no Engadget, etc
Here's one: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/crs-1-multishe...

Here's another: http://www.infinera.com/products/dtn.html
I mention: "never do these tests on a production server unless you’re sure you have plenty of RAM and you fully understand how web server processes consume memory. You could easily bring a server to its knees if there are many concurrent processes running, each using a high amount of memory." It's a temporary debugging procedure. The obvious goal to reduce memory usage.

Later on I say: "If by increasing the memory limit you have gotten rid of the error and your code now works, you’ll need to take measures to decrease that memory usage. Here are a few things you could do to decrease it:"
Schizophrenia Isn't Actually One Disease
The events being tested are not up to chance. There is lots of evidence about which way a situation will go. The test is not predicting a coin toss, but interpreting information about a complex situation.
Yeah. iirc, most of their data structures are COW which can be nice, depending on what your looking for. And, as others have mentioned, they often have a simpler, if less generic, API to them.
Is it really appropriate to expect a slew of candidates to drop everything and do "sample work" so you can assess them?
> They have the same kind of rounding problems - except in base 10 instead of 2

Sure, but if you aren't dealing with transcendental functions but just typical input from people and arithmetic, you don't usually introduce as many errors by rounding to a base-10 representation, so decimal floating point solves a lot of the problems (at the cost of performance if you have a system that implements it over hardware that doesn't.)

You still have the big + small problem, though.
+10 for bacon.js!!

Edit: While I use it primarily for ajax, skipDuplicates and flatMapLatest are a godsend for building autocomplete
Actually that is something that confuses people unnecessarily. There have been stable releases for a long time.

The vision absolutely is not going to change, and as far as I know the issues with the core contributor were quite a long long time ago.

Anyway every project has issues with people. But at this point, Node is probably right up there actually if you were to make a list of projects that had the least likelihood ever of being impacted by politics. Just because there is such a huge enthusiastic community, great package manager and culture of modular development, etc.
This is what I did. I bought a Brother monochrome laser printer (HD-53??) back in 2012 for use printing out college junk. If memory serves, I was on the starter cartridge for a year or so, In fact, I may still be on the starter cartridge. I can't even remember if I bought a new cartridge.

The total cost has only been about $150 or $200.
Ask HN: Best Shared Web Hosting for Python Apps
I've used Godaddy a number of times for LAMP-stack applications (I'm not totally sold on them).

I'm looking to downgrade my linode vps to shared hosting on another platform - no need to pay $20/month if I'm hardly using the resources of the server.

As mentioned, I'm looking to decrease that $20 per month bill and use some cheap shared-hosting, to host my existing apps (> 100 hits per month currently) .

I'm specifically developing in Python and need a shared web host to support Python.

Anyone have any good recommendations?

Thanks!
The Washington Post is saying they both won contracts, with Blue Origin on subcontract to Boeing to replace the Atlas V engine.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/16...
I wouldn't trust any company that blatantly dodges the question of security with a half truth. It's clear he's playing word games for PR points.

You can reset your password and redownload all of your messages to a new device if you use iCloud backup. Cook is full of shit when he says that Apple doesn't have the capability. They own the system.

Even a dedicated civilian could reset your password, associate a device with your account and receive all messages going forward. To state that Apple cannot is such a laughable claim that it becomes clear that it's just a PR game. Which calls into question how sincere he is in his feelings about privacy.
Same goes for C and C++, pretty much exactly the same. Well, I have some bad news for you... :)

It's not because it's JS that we can fire the architect, SOLID principles (yes, they still are quite good practices), and abandon all sane project management.

Truth is, there's no silver bullet, it's always a trade-off, blah blah blah.
In the end, I found it easier in JS than C to adapt the quality management of the project with it's criticity.

Yep, I have some slightly critic components which run in JS right now, and I'm OK with that.
Creator here - AMA! :)
I have not looked into the actual document contents, but based on what you said, I do agree with you. But your poins are orthogonal to the question of whether or not it is appropriate for a manual/handbook for the Senate's conduct of business to be public or secret in a representative democracy.
This needs to be ported to JavaScript, or at least update the Math library to include Vectors.
Another Day in the Trenches
Footage found on old digital camera, WTC7 Destroyed by 'Controlled Demolition'
Looks like a very interesting slate of talks. Anyone interested in programming languages should read some Cardelli and try to attend.
You may want to use a more intuitively behaving datatype for currency, even if just to avoid flame on certain community sites on the web. Consider an integer representing ten-thousandths of a penny, if guaranteed to stay in USD or GBP, or a dedicated currency library otherwise. Currency's just one of those things that makes some people very emotional when the notion of any kind of error or rounding is mentioned.
How do you do the personalization?
That's very true but there's something sexy about working with the actual hardware. Maybe I'm part masochist.
That's correct. What used to be ~T is now Box<T>. We say 'boxes' instead of 'unique pointers' now.
Passenger Privacy in the NYC Taxicab Dataset
Yup, I used to use Google Reader, but switched to https://newsblur.com/ The app is fast and polished, and the dev is very responsive. https://twitter.com/NewsBlur (Hi conesus!)
80% doesn't make much sense, you probably should stick with 1% (or did you mean 8%)
Indeed, I just read an article entitled 'Why doesn't Amazon sell iPhones'. Who's right?

http://www.cnet.com/news/why-doesnt-amazon-sell-iphones/
2a is a real problem too.

You simply can't have it all; you can't raise children in a free-flowing environment where they can explore and learn from the consequences of their own actions, and throw parents in jail for hypothetical things that could have gone wrong because they weren't being helicopter parents. Which is damn near legally mandated now. Or at least, what is legally mandated would have been considered helicopter parenting when I grew up.

I say this without comment as to the right balance for society. I just wish there was one that I could rely on it.
Never got into RSS, so no.

Reddit and Hacker News. Aggregates everything together and crops out much of the nonsense (although both have a bias, so some points of view are inherently filtered).

Only big downside is no offline availability. However in my limited trials with RSS the promise of offline was rarely delivered up to a workable standard (e.g. pages would be so mangled it was painful to read them, key images missing, etc).
[DSA 3025-1] apt security update
Semantic Interoperability: The Future of HealthCare Data
Red Hat and Oracle will murder each other over Docker. I expect 2 to 5 billion in 3 to 5 years.
> Wouldn't take much for that to be misunderstood and for you to get a nice friendly visit from the cops.

That's a very good point, I hadn't considered if there's a suspicion of what was done and what for (since I was only considering personal privacy)

Okay so what about a personal device like a laptop or desktop you own?
"That’s why each lecture will be available via YouTube and iTunes Connect shortly after they happen, and associated reading materials and assignments will be linked to on the course site. To keep in touch with others following along with the lectures from afar, there will be a forum and Facebook group available to discuss their content and provide further opportunities to learn from those involved in startups."

So, not quite a MOOC, but still pretty close. I wonder if this is the MVP for scaling YC beyond the individual batches.
That's sorta where I've been coming up, too. Great, hard working group but docker strikes me as a very small component of the deployment stack, the entirety of which doesn't even have much enterprise value.

What would be a good comparison for a component company like this getting to 100s of millions or $1b?
"Package" and "library" are two words that mean the same thing. They're more generic terms for "crate," which is Rust specific. "module"s are ways of splitting up your code inside a crate: one crate has many modules, and each module belongs to one crate.
I'm not very experienced in representing money in computer programs, but I thought the best practice was to store all values as integers (using either cents or smaller as your unit).

Any reason you chose to use doubles instead of integers or longs?
The problem is that the corporations too often have a large influence on what is considered "dangerous," and that too often becomes things that are financially dangerous to entrenched corporations, like innovation.
A deadly side of algorithmic complexity
The best way to represent money is as fixed point integers. 64.64 would be a good start, you can adjust that up/down with more knowledge about your application.
I use Reeder [1], backed by Feed Wrangler [2]. I have a few hundred feeds, many of which rarely update. I find it an invaluable way to keep up with interesting and important news; I use RSS the way many people use Twitter, apparently.

[1] http://reederapp.com

[2] https://feedwrangler.net/welcome.html
I didn't said it was a contradiction.

Just that the GPL dream that spread into the mainstream thanks to Linux becoming GNU's kernel, now is less so thanks to more liberal licenses.
Actually I believe that question almost needs it's own thread
... read and modify my data on youtube ...

would be nice to have some more info on privacy policy and general documentation before hitting me with yet another chrome plugin ...
Of the examples Dustin offers here, the ones that have voice replacing typing make the most sense:

- When I’m inputting my home address in a web browser (on mobile or desktop), I should be able to tap the “State” dropdown and just say “California” and it have it select that option for me.

- When I highlight the browser address bar, I should be able to just say “The Economist” and have it automatically find the address in my favorites and go there.
...

- When I click the “To” field in a mail app or in Gmail, I should be able to just say a person’s name and have it fill in automatically (and maybe show me a dropdown to select which email address to send to).

Dustin's examples where the voice recognition replace a series of swipes and or taps seem, to me, a bit frivolous:

- When I open to the home screen on my phone, I should be able to just say “Instagram” and have that app open.

- On iOS, when I get a notification that covers the top of the screen, I should be able to just say “ignore” and have the notification instantly disappear.

I know exactly where Instagram is on my phone. It's a swipe and a tap. And to ignore a notification on iOS, all one has to do is swipe up on it.

The incremental time spent vs voice control seems negligible, and not something I'd fret about as a user nor a UX designer.
I got it from Bob Cannard's lecture at Berkeley's Edible Education series 2013

Bob's - http://vimeo.com/album/2192316/video/51178467

The whole series - http://vimeo.com/album/2192316/page:2/sort:preset/format:thu...

I've just watched it again to double check, it wasn't a chore.

This year's - http://edibleschoolyard.org/library/edible-education-101-ris...
Yes, Feedly.
That's true, thanks.
Do all of these people actually come in to Stanford to teach the class? I can't even imagine having a class instructor list like this.
One way to spur adoption, let's see a Yocto BSB for this
There's a lot more stuff under the NASA umbrella than manned spaceflight that do a lot of great science (Such as the JPL) and are generally some of the best at what they do, so I wouldnt advocate shutting down the whole program, however I would agree that building launch vehicles is not something they should handle themselves. I would have preferred them to be championing SpaceX, but it seems big, slow, hulking bureaucracies have an affinity for each other.

Unless NASA's already got a rocket they've been developing in secret, I'd say SpaceX could put up a person in orbit faster than NASA+Boeing can with theirs, given their respective track record.
U.S. threatened Yahoo with hefty fines
Yep. Feedly.
I use Feedly + Mr. Reader on the iPad
Using data analytics to offer loans to new borrowers
Using data analytics Earnest is able to offer one-, two-, and three-year loans to new borrowers who have short credit histories, large student loans, or are just entering the workforce. These non-traditional borrowers are often overlooked by financial services institutions.

Interest rates, says Earnest's CEO Louis Beryl, “should be about what people deserve to pay, not what they would be willing to pay.”
The Technology Behind Datazenit: Part 1
In Silicon Valley these sorts of businesses are often derided as "lifestyle businesses." The Valley -- especially the big VC ecosystem -- wants big sector-conquering victories. That's because the VC industry is driven and financed by mega-hits.

Building a respectable, profitable business might be fine from a traditional MBA or bootstrapper's point of view but it's actually a failure in VC-land since it will not yield a monster exit.
Docker is just one piece of the puzzle. They still have a lot of work to do, as he said in his comment. Things like container orchestration, networking, service discovery, etc. If you read the linked blog post, they actually explain this at the end of the article.
The first app I've downloaded that doesn't ask to push notifications to me. <prayer hands emoji>
In addition to using voice actions to launch
activities, you can also call the system's
built-in Speech Recognizer activity to obtain
speech input from users. This is useful to obtain
input from users and then process it, such as
doing a search or sending it as a message.

https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/voice....
You also need a commercial insurance for your car.
> Want to send UUCP mail? x400 mail? Need other non-SMTP mail support? No, because it's 2014 and most people will never, ever use these? Too bad, the code's installed and running waiting for more exploits.

Agreed. Fork that into something else if people still need it.

> Want to configure it, in 'human readable plain text' too bad, here's a macro language which no other daemon uses.

Here I disagree. Not that the language isn't bad (though I do still use home-grown m4 in some old Apache configs), but the overall configuration of Sendmail is roughly equivalent to Postfix, Exim, or any other fully featured SMTP server:

1. look at the online manual, reading the descriptions of every single individual config option.

2. copy and paste as appropriate.

Having set up all three of those, I can say that getting a correctly functioning Postfix or Exim takes just as long as getting a correctly functioning Sendmail. All of them have a lot of arcane options.
That's fair. And you're absolutely right that the technology has been around for ages.

I would ask - why is it now that it's actually being used outside of the few boutique scenarios that came before?

I personally think it's a change at various levels of the industry (from the speed of ideation->delivery, inefficiency in process, dc consolidation, efficiency/density) and Docker is an integral piece in helping alleviate those problems
Feedly + ReadKit on osx
There's test builds of Android L for the Nexus 4 available, so it looks like it will also officially get that release. It's still got 2GB of RAM and a quad-core 32-bit ARM, so it's not too different from the Nexus 5 in that sense. It is really a question of how long Qualcomm will support the S4 Pro board support package. If we've all moved to 64-bit ARM cores, then that'll be a bigger problem for these older 32-bit phones.
Business and customer values
I think it's less about generating a certificate and more about managing and serving push notifications which assumedly takes resources to serve and manage. Not to mention the cost of setting up the servers in the first place. They have to make money somewhere, right? I mean you can't expect this much work for a pure passion project can you?

Honestly I'm more concerned that it's so damn cheap. It's hard for me to believe that a $1 fee on software that only works with devices >6 years old is much of an economic incentive for a project of this scope. It becomes a lot easier to believe when you look at their sourceforge download stats and realize that they've been at this for years now and they have some pretty amazing numbers on their side:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/whited00r/files/stats/timeli...

We all know that Apple is obviously under-serving older generations of devices in the interest of getting people to buy the new one. This project appears to be proof that there is a sizable segment of the market that still cares about their 6+ year old Apple devices.
yes, they are. all of these will be recorded and available online same-day. we'll also post all other material (readings, etc). it should be pretty good--i really tried hard to get the very best people i know on each topic.
Doesn't look like it:

https://github.com/Khan/KaTeX/wiki/Function-Support-in-KaTeX
Actually, they where never banned as such and this decision is not a decision in the case, but for formal reasons.

The original decision was an immediate decision based on the idea an immediate reaction is required before final judgement takes place. This final judgement has not taken place.

The immediate decision was opposed and for formal reasons the judge agreed that immediate action is not required.

Final judgement in the case itself will take place some time later this year. The jury has indicated, that in the case itself it may eventually violates the law. But this is only in indication until final judgement takes place.
Research seems to suggest that psilocybin (the drug that makes magic mushrooms "magic") permanently increases open-mindedness [1][2], so that's one "easy" way to do it.

There's also a lot you can do consciously in daily life. By deciding to be more open-minded through constantly working to really understand why the people you disagree with (no matter if it's serious topics like religion, politics, morals, ideology or more trivial topics like tastes and interests) think the way they do it's almost impossible to not end up more open-minded.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/201110/p...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/3/5869465/scientists-figured-...
Rails 4.2 Overview, Part 1 of 2
Feedly + Reeder on OSX
To the extent that this is true, it's one of the major social criticisms of Silicon Valley-- that it's a Ponzi financial scheme where the game is to spawn massive but deeply unsustainable growth juggernauts and then sell them to greater fools like the public market.
While I agree that one shouldn't abuse these people, the corporations deliberately set it up so that they're the only agents that can be communicated with. There is literally no one else who will bother listening to you, and the only ones who will listen are the ones that have no responsibility or power.

I think people who treat others like dirt are jerks, but the true blame lies at the feet of those who set up the system.