skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea for quick impromptu presentations, so a made a script for git: https://github.com/qznc/dot/blob/master/bin/git-randomline

$ vi $(git randomline)

Then explain to someone in five minutes
Get a better employer. I can understand thinking that e.g. existing options are not mature enough, but "never" is a stupid policy.
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Good point. But, that's not the goal. It's rather an extension to the physical meeting if you're product team... But marketing, hr etc. teams shall use it as well for keeping their teams/departments up-to-date... and those guys never heard about "SCRUM", "agile" and "Standup Meetings" :)
This is fantastic. I felt like I was alone in thinking acme is great, but is missing a text editor. Nice to see I'm not the only one.
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Well, we rather focus on teams than on "self-tracking".
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Nonsense! Its happening already, like in the Nature Conservancy.
Not sure I believe Aviary was the main visible competition to Adobe.

As far as photo editing software goes, I've been a hobbyist and part time photographer for a while, and I'm not sure I've ever heard of Aviary. When people recommend alternatives to Photoshop, I hear about Pixelmator, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, and a few others, but I don't remember ever hearing of Aviary.

To me, it doesn't seem like Aviary competes with Adobe directly at all. They're probably eating into the market of people who apply a few filters and upload to Flickr, but not many of those people use LightRoom or PhotoShop anyway. Even then, it's small fries compared to the pro/hobbyist Photographer market, and those people aren't going to use a web based editor because of IP issues and the inconvenience of uploading gigabytes of RAW files.

Also remember Adobe is huge and has products for document editing and video editing and other stuff. It doesn't look like Aviary does anything in those areas.
I made this free tutorial series for PhoneGap/Cordova (http://app-o-mat.com) -- it assumes you know HTML/JS (but not too much)
> It surprises me why there aren't joint defense funding efforts in place to put these industry pests to bed...
One barrier to collective action is that the courts only give you a limited number of attempts to kill a patent (usually one, but sometimes sort of two). So if you join up with a group, that group's attempt is attributable to you, and your one shot is used up. This effect, called an estoppel, is one reason you don't see more of this.
A quote: "But it does help us predict and explain some moral choices."

Predict, yes. Explain, no. Many such studies can predict that something is going to happen, that a correlation exists, but far fewer even attempt to offer a testable explanation, a way to turn a correlation into a cause-effect relationship. Science commentators as far back as Aristotle have described science as a way to craft explanations for observations, not merely describe the observations and their outcomes, which is that this study does.
Facebook's Immutable also provides Cursors for its immutable collections: https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js#cursors
I thought some more about it and I think the issue is that the value proposition of your product is not strong enough to get traction. One of the ways you can improve it is by converting it into a monetization channel for app developers.

So say a free game app has a 100K users playing the game and you know the location ( enable GPS in your SDK) of these users and the times when they are active (start tracking that too) etc then those users could answer a quick survey for larger brands (who pay per survey completed). So the survey is not about the game users are playing, but about a new movie that is launched or a new Xbox Game title that is launched etc. The free app could continue to be freely used if the user answers 1 survey every 20 times he or she plays the game. Survey can even allow you to show a relevant targeted ad next time or promote some other app game too.
As a glass-window diorama alternative consider the exhibits at the Mashantucket Pequot museum:

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center features 85,000 square feet of permanent, indoor exhibitions including life-size dioramas, films, and interactive computer programs.

Pequot Village: Observe daily life in a recreated 16th-century Pequot village, pre- and post-European contact. Walk among the trees, wigwams, and people who are cooking, talking, weaving, and working. Hear natural sounds and smell the aromas of the woodlands and campfires. All the figures were life-cast from Native American people; the traditional clothing, ornamentations, and wigwams were made by Native craftspeople.

http://www.pequotmuseum.org/PermanentExhibits.aspx
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My first thought for something actually doable would be a group of compressed gas cannisters with highly reflective balloons attached to them. Very simple mechanics, all you need is a strong valve on a timer, so it can be made to survive the impact with the ground.

Once they're inflated, they would rise to relatively high up, so they can be carried off by winds. Because of the high reflectivity, we would be able to track them from orbiting imaging satellites and probably even from earth, teaching us more about wind speeds and flows on Mars.

One thing I'm not sure about is if this could meet the weight/space requirements.
We also tend to execute daily on the concept of "Done is Better than Best." We would certainly look into some kind of self hosted option if/when we need to set up our own wiki. Hackpad was simply faster and "done."
Both are irrelevant - its just blame-throwing. The climate is changing regardless. What will we do about it? Doing nothing is not acceptable.
Samsung Gear VR is way better than it should be
Except that Lennart Poettering (at the least) was directly involved in negotiating the dependency on systemd's libraries for the GNOME stack: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/...

Considering GNOME is part of the new school design philosophy in general and largely developed by Red Hat employees, it's inevitable that it would have happened anyway, but the systemd developers were directly complicit in speeding it up.
Sounds like the basic elements of his former Groove groupware, which worked really well, before it was bought by Microsoft, and disappeared down the memory hole. I always wondered if that was the cost of Ozzie's hire, or if they just thought it would cannibalize their existing server-based products. Fifteen years of missed opportunity.
Gold and platinum are each a smidgen more dense than tungsten, so if you're willing to splash out for one of those metals you'd even have a bit of volume left over for a really tiny science experiment.
Thank you for sharing that draker! Digging around for other gems I can steal!
In the same vein, the most bravado-laden thing an American president ever said was Madison announcing his intent to fight the Ottoman states that were sponsoring raids on American ships:

The United States while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none, it being a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, so war is better than tribute.
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>I'm confused. Comments have up/down voting, and posts have up voting and flagging.

The voting system exists so that the community can raise productive comments, and lower unproductive comments. It's impossible for Paul Graham himself to come to every thread and say which comments are good and bad. We have to help how we can.

>I've seen both people posting "you're hellbanned and it doesn't look warranted" and productive, moderator-accepted complaints about changing titles.

The Y Combinator is reasonable, and human. It has a set of rules it attempts to operate by, but human agents occasionally violate their own rules. Ultimately, all decision-making authority rests with them, not the community.

But the fact they exist is difference enough to demonstrate my point.
> where is a good place to read about and/or discuss interesting philosophical questions

You should explore similar books to these:

- The Pig That Wants to be Eaten

- The Duck That Won the Lottery
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Characterizing criticism as "hate" is fallacious and serves the opposite function of what you wish. People see support of systemd as being just ignorance and whining. If you want to support systemd, then do it with actual arguments.
"I can totally understand the general idea of stock trading and how it helps both those who have good ideas and need money and those who have the money and invest it according to their taste."

This is a cognitive bias that is very prevalent (for obvious reasons) on HN. The markets are not primarily vehicles for moving money from investors to enterprises. Another important, and probably dominant, purpose of the markets is to accurately price and allow the buying and selling of risk. This is neither a new or unexpected phenomenon.

"But it's very hard for me to believe that something like HFT where firms go to unbelievable lengths to implement purely technological trading advantages benefit the real economy."

This is because of your cognitive bias and your ignorance (I mean this in the non-perjorative sense that you haven't investigated this). HFT firms, like any other trading participant, smooth demand curves generated either in time (buying from a participant now and selling later), venue (buying in one place and selling in another), or other ways. This allows other participants, who are not interested in being traders to hedge their risk more efficiently and thus more cheaply.

"The fact that financial industry as a whole just recently in the 2008/2009 crash and it's aftermath were able to extract obscene amounts of money from our governments (i.e. us) to keep the world's finance system from collapsing makes the suspection that most financial products purely based on a material advantage (be it monetary or technological) are akin to a scam very reasonable."

And now we see why gut feelings are dangerous in this discussion. You rightly feel deeply troubled by the big bailouts that cost all of us to the advantage of a very powerful few, and you correlate that with HFT. When in fact, HFT did not receive any bailouts and for the most part small independent shops without the size or power to engineer them. The 2008/2009 crash was based on non-HFT traded instruments where single deals could dwarf the entirety of the HFT industry.
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I'm the opposite; I pick up unknown numbers because, hey, who knows what it'll be. (Having once called several people from jail, who all didn't pick up because they didn't recognize the number, enforces my tendency to do this.)

Then again, I very rarely get unknown phone calls.

I also rarely listen to voicemail. Anyone who leaves me a voicemail is nearly guaranteed to be someone who doesn't know me, and doesn't know that they can contact me in one of a dozen different ways that I'm more likely to notice before I even see the voicemail icon.
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"That is simply not true. Porting systemd to other kernel is not feasible. We just use too many Linux-specific interfaces. For a few one might find replacements on other kernels, some features one might want to turn off, but for most this is nor really possible. Here's a small, very incomprehensive list: cgroups, fanotify, umount2(), /proc/self/mountinfo (including notification), /dev/swaps (same), udev, netlink, the structure of /sys, /proc/$PID/comm, /proc/$PID/cmdline, /proc/$PID/loginuid, /proc/$PID/stat, /proc/$PID/session, /proc/$PID/exe, /proc/$PID/fd, tmpfs, devtmpfs, capabilities, namespaces of all kinds, various prctl()s, numerous ioctls, the mount() system call and its semantics, selinux, audit, inotify, statfs, O_DIRECTORY, O_NOATIME, /proc/$PID/root, waitid(), SCM_CREDENTIALS, SCM_RIGHTS, mkostemp(), /dev/input, ..."

It's not just cgroups.
If you are timestamping in a data center and they throw off the timestamp source for the entire data center that could theoretically cause you issues.
No, the important lesson is to always label your units, and another one might be to always be careful passing dimensionful numbers between codes and teams. You can run into the same problem by accidentally even forgetting to convert between, e.g., newtons and millinewtons.
> Learning is fun; endless googling is not.

At least you have Google, Bing, Yahoo, ...

Kids these days. :)
I judge it by how amenable the code-base is to the kinds of changes I need to make over time. Over and Under resist common changes in different ways.
The paper (...) is not an example of good science.

Very true, good point. It's quite common to see a study that makes some observations, even rigorously controlled ones (this isn't an example), then offers a conclusion that isn't supported by the observations. People untrained in science notice the quality of the observations and think that supports the conclusion.

In this case, a correlation is established, then, when evidence for a cause-effect relationship is needed, the authors instead begin waving their arms.
I'd say D+M lets you know you need to do something and New Relic helps you identify what that actually is.
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Slackware and gentoo have both been closer for a very long time.
iirc doesn't Reagent do this automatically via caching?
That link is real time. State of the art server farm rendered is orders of magnitude better.

"The last movie I remember having a CG face was Clu" By strict definition if you remember it having a CG face then it wasn't good. It's not possible for you to remember a good CG face because if it's good you wouldn't know it was CG!

The next big test might by Paul Walker in Fast and Furious 7 or Philip Seymore Hoffman in Hunger Games 3. Both big budget movies where the actor died and CG will be used in at least some places. That's the ultimate. I think we can already get away with CG if the actor isn't known. But for actors who have faces we know and mannerisms we subconsciously recogonize it's another step up in difficulty.
I....what? The building is not green because people use energy to commute to that building?
This sounds even worse. You won't be listening to a voicemail, which most people understand ought to be brief, you'll be listening to a recap of either someone's attempted conversation with you, or two people conversing.

Unless it works differently, somehow.
Hey, Rich. First of all, thanks for musl libc.

At the moment, yes. We do keep much of the internal systemd architecture in tact, but we do eventually aim on partially decoupling it, or at the very least expanding the breadth of configure prefixes for tuning its behavior. We are a pretty early stage project, after all.

Indeed, the systembsd and systemd-shim projects are working on the D-Bus interface reimplementation part.

Our goal right now is to be a minimal systemd base that can be plugged in interchangeably and have the vast majority of unit options be respected.

There already are systems that offer primitives to reuse systemd units. nosh is one of them, and there also exist scripts that can convert systemd services to SysV initscripts, and even the opposite (dshimv).
I maintain a list of resources that also can help programmers get a job: https://github.com/andreis/interview
>NetBSD can run as a xen dom0 host too

Isn't there a bunch of fine print that goes along with that?

>Alpine Linux

How? The installer doesn't even work.
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"On a whiteboard, Ozzie has jotted down a long checklist of emotions easily conveyed by voice, but difficult to decipher in quickly thumbed-out bursts of text: concern, pain, urgency, empathy, clarity, seriousness, confidence, anxiety, trust, strength, accountability, anger, fear, stress, confusion, doubt…"

Isn't this why we don't use voice? Voice is so rich and emotionally expensive. note: I haven't tried the product but I guess I am always a bit skeptical of voice products.
I'm not sure that they actually reduce the cost of anything. I just finished reading "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis and; as I understand it, this is how HFT works:

1. You the buyer, tell N exchanges that want to buy at a maximum price $X.

2. HFT "watches" the exchange that my bid reaches first (by milliseconds)

3. HFT traders then place themselves between you and the N-1 exchanges and offer to sell you the stock at the maximum bid price. They do this by finding the stock on those other exchanges at less than your max bid price and owning it for a fraction of a second before they sell it to you at a higher price.
And here is my problem with both learning sites like this and search engines like Google. If I search for hosting JavaScript, appgyver.com doesn't feature in the results. In that scenario search is broken.
I wish a fraction of the effort going into "fixing" javascript went into fixing the real abomination: the DOM API (and CSS). Then everyone would benefit, even people using Dart, Coffeescript, and TypeScript.
To avoid using systemd in practice basically means switching distributions, or switching away from Linux entirely. Depending on your setup, this may be far from trivial.

I think systemd has a lot going for it, and it's been pretty stable on my Arch notebook, but I'm not too thrilled with the way it takes over so many tasks at once and eschews text log files. What's frustrating is that I didn't have much choice in the matter. Yeah, I could switch to another distro, but since Red Hat, Suse, and now Debian and Ubuntu are switching to systemd, that leaves Gentoo or BSD or something. Which are perfectly fine in their own right, but that's pretty drastic if I just want to avoid systemd.
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The deal is, there is no way for a beginner to come to that conclusion after finishing a given tutorial. The different solutions are separated. It is not a continuous flow. HTML/CSS/Javascript(/php) are luckily taught in succession and tandem, but rarely with the hosting, naming, storing, sharing aspects integrated.

It should be:

html -> css -> Javascript (-> php) -> Hover(DNS) -> AWS(server) -> Final assembly -> Live product! -> github -> promotion/advertising/fluff
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What's stupid about it, exactly?
> The most expensive rare earth element you can currently send to Mars is platinum

Platinum is not a rare earth element. REE is a specific term which describes the lanthanides, scandium and yttrium. Platinum instead belongs to the imaginatively named platinum group.
They complement each other. Heroku's metrics show you dyno and traffic info, New Relic shows more detailed app data.
Anytime I've investigated Docker it's seemed more like something that someone who wanted to build a Heroku competitor would use as an underlying aspect of their infrastructure than something I (as a developer who wanted to minimize dealing with sysadmin tasks would use).
The problem, as I understand it, is that the dioramas were dehumanizing to the point that registered members of the tribes depicted were offended.

At the end of the article they mention the alternative being full-size recreations that the visitors can touch and interact with. While it limits the number of displays a museum can offer, I think it does show more respect and offers more depth to visitors:

"For non-Makah visitors, it is a diorama in which the viewer doesn’t examine the Indian under glass, but takes her place."
Yea that article is a bit off & largely a marketing piece.

For a start, if you disrupt (rather than MITM attack) the GPS signal, the internal time distributor host (prob sending PTP & NTP) will fall back to their internal oscillator. Usually these are Rubidium or caesium. They will have a hold over of enough days to sort out the issue.

Secondly, Chronos Technology are trying to sell a service where you don't need to rely on GPS but they will come to your DC with a highly portable time source recently GPS synced and discipline your caesium or rubidium oscillator every n days. They are trying to be the modern day Ruth Belville*.

It is useful as an idea in cases where we don't have an easy way to set up GPS in the DC and you can live with a relative clock domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Belville
Quoting myself

> unless a customer asks to do so.

which I agree with.

Since 1986 I already have seen too much technology come and go, to be convinced to use "language of the month" at work.
How is this different from the traditional role of government? When – with the exception of violations of civil liberties (which we probably agree are unethical) – does the government initiate force against those who are not, by consensus of the population, harming others?

That is, what is your definition of "harm" which is broad enough to cover, say, non-violent theft (as my example) and incarceration, but narrow enough to exclude, say, polluting a river? (Or choose another example where you think the government overreaches.)

Further questions:

If I am Libertarian and sovereign me believe polluting a river harms me, so I shoot you; does that give you or your family, who does not believe polluting a river to be harm/violence, the Libertarian-moral standing to shoot me? i.e. do we settle this Hatfield and McCoy style? Would the winners be those with the biggest guns, or do Libertarians, in an attempt to belay further violence, put things to a vote and only initiate force against those who go against the vote?

If I am Libertarian, but am infirm and thus unable to properly defend myself, is it Libertarian-moral to outsource my force-initiation to an outside group? If so, how do the services this group provide differ materially from the services the executive branch of the government provides? If not, what is my recourse; should I die because I am physically weak?
Anyone serious will have their own oscillator with enough Holdover to get them to sort the problem out.
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The previous pedantry wasn't me though; only the MiB / MB comment. And that was partly out of curiosity if 1000MB == 1GB was a deliberate rounding.
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IMO, invading some African countries, searching for sick people and enforcing quarantine would be more useful than getting involved in a new war in Syria/Iraq.
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Can't live without it. Gives you an icon that allows you to instantly pull up all cookies related to the current site, inspect/delete, and set policy for them. Make sure to disable Ghostery's cookie control, though.

For quick inspection and deletion (that also includes localStorage), nothing has worked better for me than this bookmarklet: http://deceptiveweb.com/blog/examine-offline-data-bookmarkle...
What a nice piece of propaganda. Reality though, is different. You, sir, need to research the subject before posting. Lots of army officers, construction workers went there with motivation: "if not us, who?". Slaves won't do what was done there.
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Why? I've been a coder for 10+ years, dont have a github account. Never used git. All the enterprise projects I work on chugg along just fine on local source control servers of various flavors (CC, Mercurial, SVN, etc...)
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i feel the ios 8 is still a bit buggy!!