skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah Rackspace is hardly to be held up as a standard bearer here, they don't even _have_ availability zones.

We have around 200 instances, had about 59 reboot, and specifically were able to plan around these happening on different days.

We weren't super excited when the window seemed to go to 4h right before it started, but we were prepared.

I'm an ex Racker and I've told people high up at Rackspace for years that until they implement something like availability zones, they're a joke for any kind of production. Their philosophy, as is pervasive in the hosting industry, is that they have paying customers so whatever they are doing must be right. Obviously Amazon often also seems to act this way, but this particular maintenance was handled well afaict, and availability zones showed their value.
If you're committed to going to a college and you get admitted an Ivy, you should absolutely go. Nowadays most of their financial aid plans are fantastic, the professors are amazing, you're surrounded by brilliant people and the reputation is a great perk when finding a job.

Princeton, for example, has financial aid for 60% of its students and the average grant covers 96% of tuition for undergraduates. 75% of students graduate debt free. It's hard to compare other deals to that. Source:
http://www.princeton.edu/admission/financialaid/

And of course, many top tier non-Ivy schools are similarly awesome by these criterias and should be grouped together with them in this discussion.

That said, the concept of "going to a good school" is absolutely overrated by employers, as is the concept of needing to go to through a four year liberal arts education. I know many hackers with a high school education who could run rings around some of my ex-classmates when doing honest-to-god software engineering.

However, what college education lacks in practicality, it makes up for it in the experience. Having four years to learn what you want and having fun with brilliant young people? Sounds awesome, sign me up again.
Yes, I agree.

I was very much interested in LightTable. If I had given money to the kickstarter fund I would be very ticked to find out that those funds were being redirected to a different project (and I would not give funds to those individuals again).

I am also trying to be helpful by pointing this out (not just taking a cheap shot).

Also, my gut reaction to this is "LightTable is effectively dead". Again, not trying to be mean -- just basing this on a long history of following the industry.

All that being said, it does seem that the LightTable folks are trying to be transparent about all of this, and that much is refreshing.

If they are successful in producing something very useful, my hat is off to them. But I have to admit that it sounds kind of "pie in the sky" to me in this announcement. Please feel free to prove me wrong :-D
That's not actually how it happened.
They have a CLI interface in addition to the web interface. That's a refreshing feature.

They also have a vagrant box which you can use to take it for a spin until the live instance is ready.

https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-ncurses

https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-vagrant
Please see my reply just above yours. You can use vim with clojure too!
It doesn't matter since Southern California isn't a political unit. Any significant rail improvements would require state and federal funding to be feasible.
Only the whoishiring account is allowed to post these: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Accordingly, the current post was correctly killed by user flags.
I suppose this is the challenge all societies are grappling with; how to compensate fairly so everyone is comfortable while still better compensating jobs that require more skill or 'contribute more' to maintain demand.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but what about life on the other side of the planet from where the GRB hits?
Love the title.

A more common mistake I notice people making is writing code that makes more memory allocations than necessary.

# Bad: Makes an extra instantiation of a list with 1 in
# it which then needs to be read
x = set([1])

# Good
x = set()
x.add(1)

Overall, I think it is important to remember that when you write a program that every step translates to a set of operations. And this applies to all kinds of programming, not just functional programming.
Everyone is moving to Copenhagen. Denmark is a small country. Even people who live in southern Denmark work in Copenhagen the drive is 1-2 hours max

I actually left for the US but I am more or less autodidact so I didn't leech :)
> Hacker News has developed a reputation for toxic sexism and other insensitivity toward folks outside the Silicon Valley in-group of white, upper-class men.

I don't see much evidence that this is particularly true; sure, I see people that complain that it is, and a roughly equal number who complain that HN is overly swamped with politically correct "social justice warriors" and biased against white, upper-class men.

Personally I think its rather balanced and mostly civil, with a few extremes on every conceivable side, with effective moderation (central and community-based) which both keeps a lid on the problems all-around and keeps the level of bias to a lower level than you'd expect given the rather extreme imbalance in the community to which HN is directed.
A detailed understanding of this difficulty is what I am seeking. Can you explain more about why such a combined thing would be difficult and/or would be unable to satisfy both use cases? Thanks.
It's pretty certain they deliberately changed both instances of the number. How is that even a question?
Although back when the Supremes cared a lot less about the Constitution, or at least some rights, they allowed an ~ $3,500 tax in 2014 dollars for transfers of Machine Guns!!!, "Destructive Devices" and their ammo, etc. Handguns were also almost swept into this scheme, although maybe not at such a high, and inconveniently not inflation adjusted cost.
Agreed, but I like the simplicity when starting out since there's just so much. I'm reading Peter Norton's Assembly programming book from '87 to keep things super simple.

(http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Nortons-Assembly-Language-Book/d...)

Do you have any recommendations?
If you want a job in data science
Perhaps an even more accurate approximation is "replacing the need for professional programmers for problems that shouldn't require professional programming"

A simple example of this is SQL. You shouldn't need to be a pro engineer to run some simple queries.

Another example is Mathematica. Scientists and engineers want to solve their domain problems, can learn a little bit of stuff, but shouldn't have to learn about build tools or d3 just to plot some data and solve some equations.

Whether Eve gets the balance right and is useful remains to be seen, but there is plenty of room at the bottom for empowering non-engineers.
For the masses, yes. But for those willing to take their future into their own hands, I think you'll see a shift away from traditional college education.

Really think that apprenticeship should make a comeback in America. I know I would have benefited from spending some time in industry after high school.
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What does deep linking have to do with copying a site's content?
Any advice for us OS wannabees? ;)
That sounds perfect to me (an american who tends to like learning through MOOCs)
Come on guys, Emacs isn't that hard. You can be productive with it after have gone through the tutorial that comes with it.

Like Unix you can't grok all of it (ever), but you won't ever need all of it. Just learn more of it as you go along. See it as a trip :-)

And if you need your Emacs Clojure development environment right now, have someone make a VM for you.
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Nor am I disagreeing. Only pointing out that Linux was also created based on preceding ideas like Unix, MINIX, etc., themselves based on even earlier ideas ... just like HTML comes out of SGML, and has its own long history.
Silicon is not rock, rock is Silicon Dioxide, which is not the same thing.

It's not the most abundant element on earth - Iron is. It's not even the most abundant on the earth's crust, oxygen is. (Silicon is second place.)

And it's certainly not the most abundant in the universe - hydrogen is. Silicon is 8th.
The last time I checked, the implementation was still half-baked. Hyperlinks for example were not handled in real-time, nor were the equations if I recall correctly.
pardon me for asking, just curious - what year did you graduate?
That's fair. The first two are pretty good suggestions. I wish he hadn't buried them at the end of an article that was very one-sided (e.g., "Hacker News is a cesspit"). I wish he had made a nice summary like the one you provided.

@_danilo: The sad thing is that I actually agree with your goals and the first two suggestions. I disagree with your tactics. I apologize if my viewpoint sounded like, "There is no problem." That was not my intent. I only intended to offer a counterpoint to what I felt was a misrepresentation of the overall character of Hacker News. I definitely agree with you that there are issues.

But in the process of responding to me, you attacked me. I literally feel like a victim at this point. You took the conversation to Twitter, where I don't even have an account, and aired your grievances about me at my employer.

Please consider your actions in the future. You are not helping your cause when you alienate others and make them feel helpless. You could have tried a little bit harder to convince me instead of attacking me (cf. this post).
Not a dumb question! It's answered in the GRB wikipedia article:

"Life surviving an initial onslaught, including those located on the side of the earth facing away from the burst, would have to contend with the potentially lethal after-effect of the depletion of the atmosphere's protective ozone layer by the burst."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Rate_of_occurr...
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There is no general rule.

As the transportation tickets are normally negotiated between the student body and the transportation provider it whats mandatory and whats not wholly depends on the negotiation skills and priorities of the student union body of the institution you're at.

With no opt outs the tickets simply get cheaper. My former institution allowed opt-out and before had complicated mixed system of buying a base tickets which allow travel on weekends only and buying monthly tickets for a little more than 30 EUR/month. After hanging a vote of all students this changed to a flat fee per semester.
One can imagine a tremendous number of useful applications something like EVE would enable. Working in a top notch cancer research lab, I can think of several instances where an exceptionally talented lab biologist needs some computational work done but doesn't have the slightest idea of how to get started. Hopefully, EVE will bring down some of those barriers and change this. This is exciting.
Surely, with 2.3M in the bank, the silver bullet we know is out there can finally be found!
This video by C.G.P. Grey is, at least for me, thought-provoking on this matter:

http://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU
I don't even understand that. What time period is that meant to specify?
>Well, Linux started with Minix

which Andrew Tanenbaum created at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Yup; as I mentioned before in a previous ShellShock article, it seems like if you want to audit a system against this type of attack, you'd need to examine how every packet coming into the system is handled and what data from that could set envs or invoke a shell.

I have a feeling we'll be seeing different variations of this type of attack for a long time now that people are thinking about this type of vulnerability. The ways that this type of thing can be combined with other exploits are both exciting and terrifying.
"when your optics are going to be a much larger cost than the mechanical mounts"

It would be nice if that were always the case. I suspect this is very much like my electronics stuff, a $2 MMIC amp mounted in a $30 aluminum diecast box. You can blow a lot of money on chassis and component mounting.

Also, speed. Could print something where an exact model just drops in place with superglue and a perfect fit. I could probably replicate their chassis in aluminum by hand in a days work, but I'd much rather go lazy and print one. Also each engineering revision drops from "days work" to "hit print and come back later"
And why do we give a damn about tracing? It very seldom solves crimes, since the vast majority of guns used in crimes are stolen, or otherwise illegally procured, like most machine guns (all but 2 used in crimes to our knowledge.

If you really want this you have probably either watched too much TV or want to score political points and harass gun stores, distributors and/or manufacturers. See Fast and Furious for the most notorious example of this.
I don't normally complain about such things, but your font colour could be a lot more contrasty. It's on the extreme end of the current grey text on white/light background vogue and even for me it's pretty hellish to read.
Here's the script I'm running from cron both inside AWS and outside it at one minute past the hour (with our internal DNS domain replaced with example.com):

#!/bin/bash

tf=/tmp/out.$$

for turn in $(yes | head -60); do
start=$(date)
if ! host $(uuidgen).example.com 2>&1 | tee $tf | grep -q -s -w NXDOMAIN
then
end=$(date)
echo "$cmd failed from $start to $end:"
cat $tf
fi
sleep 1
done

rm -f $tf
It would (eventually, once the bacteria recovered) smell bad, but is this a human extinction event? The natural processes that form ozone wouldn't cease, and human action could supplement that. The specific types of plankton in a recovered ocean might be different, but surely we don't think all plankton would die out entirely over the entire earth?
What do you mean by Haskell's deriving being generic? As far as I know, Haskell can only derive a fixed list of classes, except for newtypes, which are sort of a different case. How the fixed list is implemented in the compiler isn't that important... on the contrary, at least vanilla Rust has a way to define arbitrary deriving-like extensions based on inspecting the structure at compile time (even if it's somewhat ugly), while vanilla Haskell has nothing of the sort.
Right but a huge amount of students are taking loans (because they cant afford school at the moment) for college so they can pay it back when they have increased job prospects. It doesnt make sense to spend 60K on school if you will never be able to pay it back.
After taking online classes myself, I am going to have to say that they they still have some ways to go. And like you say, the courses themselves are only part of the value of college. That's not to say that eventually online courses won't be as useful. Perhaps the best thing would be some combination of the two, being able to learn from world class professors while also having a local community to meet with who are doing the same.
The problem is in the taiga.io web, isn't it?

The problem is the animation on the top of the page.

But the application hasn't this problem.
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FWIW, to me it looks like linkify.js is timing out on something.
I take that. Now we need to get to the next step to resolve that 'necessarily'. Where are the respective maximas and what specifically are the differences. PS: Answer to the above may already be well-known and obvious, so I am just genuinely asking since I do not understand it as yet, being inexperienced in this area.
Was hoping it would parse "tomorrow's yesterday" as today.
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ASP.NET Web Forms?
Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither.

In right-winger logic they are, of course.
The minimum generally accepted death toll of subjects (not citizens because, some how, some way they were disarmed first) killed by their own government is 100 million in the 20th Century. My personal guess is a quarter billion, based on different scoring of the Communists who took over China (that's an additional 60 million minimum) and how much worse it turns out to be when one of these regimes is overturned enough that people are able to poke around.

With stakes that great, a well armed citizenry is cheap insurance.
Noted. Thank you! I've heard this a couple times too so your eyes are not the issue hah
But are the type of people who go to Ivy League schools different from everyone else?

I mean: If you're talented enough to get into Harvard, maybe you don't need a Harvard education to succeed in life (for various definitions of "succeed").

I could have gone to an Ivy League school but chose not to. I really can't fathom having a better college & post-college experience than I did...
> , presumably because Rust is newer and this author has other bones to pick with Python.

Presumably because this attitude is what you've seen from the author before? Or presumably because you just assume that he is a "Magpie Developer"? If its the latter, that seems like a really unfair presumption.
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It is worth emphasizing that it's not just accessibility that Germany is interested in. While access to higher education IS an article of faith for the social democrats, there are additional factors in play here.

First, the German economy is dependent on a skilled labor force. As a result, Germany subsidizes tertiary education across the board, not just college. That's not only to keep college accessible for the poor, but to encourage young people to get a solid, credentialed education.

Second, the usual expectation in Germany is that you'll finish university with a graduate degree. In fact, until recently (per the Bologna Process) there weren't even undergraduate degrees in Germany (as they provided less depth than a graduate degree and less practical experience compared to vocational training). The industry is generally interested in an MS over a BS, and having to pay for your tuition may force students to take a break after their Bachelor's degree to earn some money.

Third, there's the German attitude towards personal debt and loans (which is that they don't particularly like either). I think the German banking system isn't really set up do handle big personal loans outside of mortgages and car loans.
20 to 3 in the afternoon = 2:40 PM
> If the government is paying the cost of tuition, how is the cost of tuition kept in check?

The government pays what it wants. If the government refuses to pay, what is the university going to do? It's not like it can compete with free.
Great, this is the type of answer I was looking for. Can you supply or point to more details please? E.g. what is the optimal line-breaks algorithm used for Tex, and what and how much is the negative impact of the less optimal one? Thanks
Itanium was a completely different type of architecture, not a rebuild that keeps the same basic form but simplifies.
Or better yet, how about something like:

[ "jexpr",
[ "function",
"arg1",
"arg2",
["Complex", "argument"]]]

Which wouldn't break the spec either. It also happens to pretty closely match an S-Expression.
Acela trains share track with freight, TGV and ICE certainly don't. This includes the requirement for safe collision with a freight train, which adds a lot of weight.
Designing a mapping from a new language to machine code is easier than retroactively trying to map two languages together that were never meant to be. Especially if those languages are complex and ill-defined.
LinkedIn releases university rankings
Working for someone who thinks this exercise has been "cherry picking," who thinks it's the job of marginalized people to educate bigots, would be a horror show. Especially given the lack of self-awareness you've displayed here. Saying so is not only okay—it's necessary.

https://twitter.com/kelseyinnis/status/516986016356261888
Looks nice, Looking forward to the live demo :)

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