skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
alone a prime minister cannot do anything if we people don't volunteer , I and some of my friend decide to volunteer and we are trying to educate are neighbour not to throw solid waste on road instead collect it in a bag and wait for municipality to collect the bag from you..
I think the author has an important point to make, which could be helpful for those struggling with addiction and find that the model of the disease and total abstinence suggested by 12 step groups doesn't fit in some.

Anecdotally it seems to square with my observations of long time friends.

That said, I do think that there "a thing" that has aspects of a disease. The belief structure was created by folks from e early part of the 20th century, so there concept that the disease was a permanent affliction was probably just not correct.

I tend to look at addictions as a subset of obsessive/compulsive disorders, which has an additional chemical feedback loop enhancer.

Overall, our understanding of mental illness is woefully undeveloped. Most cases are diagnosed by interpretations Of subjective and self reported symptoms. The last time I looked at a discussion of this related to the new DSM, the very low interrator reliability I the diagnosing of mental illness was scandalous. Doesn't mean it's not a real thing though.
That would go against everything this company stands for and what sets it apart from other car companies.
I'm curious where it was determined he used a botnet? I thought he just made alternate accounts.
Some ways to index data into Elasticsearch from your database
RethinkDB has a long history ... someone better informed can shed some light on this, but when this was written, it was being specifically designed to be used with SSDs. Clearly, that's still not "in-memory", but it was probably reasonable to point out that it was designed with a different set of constraints.
For modern fast reactors it really is. Nuclear waste paranoia is one of the main things that holds back feasible cheap green energy in the modern world.
Hi Will,
Your bit.ly link is broken (http://bit.ly/WorkatGlassdoor)
I think he's been iffy on that question for at least years. I remember a talk where he disagreed with an audience member who was suggesting people should always drop out.
I think he's making a fair point. If the result of a write is that data is stored only in memory on a single machine, and is not written to a more-durable place as a blocking part of the write operation, then I would consider this data store a cache. Because at the point when my application returns from the operation to store the data, the data can still be lost due to a number of common failure scenarios.

If the data is replicated across a number of machines, then determining the durably is a more complex task. If sending data to the cluster blocks the user's write on a response from the quorum of the cluster, then I think the cluster can be considered reliable data store, even if the cluster nodes don't necessarily write to disk immediately or at all. Perhaps they keep the data in memory forever, and there are enough replicas that the chance of data loss (through all replicas being down at once) is low enough to accept. (It's conceptually similar to replicating across many disks and losing all the disks at once, although I agree, it seems intuitively a lot more fragile than disk based replication)

A more realistic model might be in-memory replication by quorum followed by buffered writes to disk on all replicas too. Since there are many replicas, it's not unreasonable to "persist" data in RAM on the many repliacs, but we also get the full benefits of disk persistence after a short time.

Just thinking out loud here.
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Looks great--does DART stand for anything?
Can't find a reference to it right now; but, I recall them saying back post-Q1 or Q2 that they had delayed production due to higher than expected demand for the Model S.
Everybody should adjust to facts and experience. PG points to an important issue that this is an important period in life where you are old enough to to do things kids can't, yet young enough without the daily responsibilities which will patiently wait for you for the next decades. The startup can wait after these unique years
Thank you for putting that quote into context for me - have always enjoyed it, never saw quite so good an example.

In Southern California right now we're living this with regard to Oculus / Virtual Reality.

Oculus being born here / the dev conference happening in LA / and the amount of devs that are playing w/the tech logcally feels like one of those times where we get exposed to Bay Area "newness" of a product.

And as a result, get to invent and problem-solve before the general population even has the consumer tech (which they'll probably first see in bestbuy via gear vr soon).
I'm personally looking into iPython - it seems like a useful tool for interactive presentations.

For example: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/plotly/python-user-guide/...
>Transactions (even at the single write level), foreign keys, indices, constraints are all there to make sure that your database should as much as possible not be able to end up in a broken state.

But you can have all that in process. Consider the most obvious case of just inverting things: writing your app directly in postgresql.
I'm one of the founders of RethinkDB. At no point did we ever work on an in-memory database product.

RethinkDB is immediately consistent by default -- in our earlier days we did spend a lot of time optimizing our serializer for solid-state drives. However, we never designed it with, "the tenet that [the database] was 100% in memory."
You only need 3 Mbit/s for Netflix. I think 6 Mbit/s for 4k.
Usually there are no tuition fees for anyone, including international students. (You have to pay administration fees which are a few 100 euros a semester.)
Yep. Google Cloud Platform has some really great things in the pipeline, as previewed at I/O and elsewhere. Managed VMs in particular will be great, especially with support for custom Docker runtimes.
That's correct, the citizens must also involve in such campaigns.

An Indian research institute - CIFT did a simple hack to help fisherman understand the importance of hygiene. You can find more @ http://210.212.228.207/handle/123456789/990.

This is just one of an example, there could be more out there which other communities / countries have implemented.
Sorry about the ninja edit :) I was still forming my thoughts and trying to figure out how to articulate it properly.
filed under "fashion & style"? :/
"So strangely enough the optimal thing do to in college if you want to be a successful startup founder is not some sort of new, vocational version of college focused on "entrepreneurship." It's the classic version of college as education for its own sake. If you want to start a startup after college, what you should do in college is learn powerful things. And if you have genuine intellectual curiosity, that's what you'll naturally tend to do if you just follow your own inclinations. [10]

The component of entrepreneurship that really matters is domain expertise. The way to become Larry Page was to become an expert on search. And the way to become an expert on search was to be driven by genuine curiosity, not some ulterior motive.

At its best, starting a startup is merely an ulterior motive for curiosity. And you'll do it best if you introduce the ulterior motive toward the end of the process.

So here is the ultimate advice for young would-be startup founders, boiled down to two words: just learn."

This is my favorite part. Elon Musk does it this way even after his first few companies. He goes and learns a bunch of stuff to the cutting edge.
Show HN: Qrintf – sprintf preprocessor / accelerator
https://github.com/srikumarks/cspjs - The readme has benchmarks from bluebird generators. It is only 74 ms slower than the sweet.js solution. So the author knows.
You dont get it. I said its better for company. Ofc its worse for you, but why those large companies should bother? They are interested in results and royalty. No explanation from you is worth as much as having employee in-house for them.
Angular.js vs. Ember.js: The Perfect Fit for JavaScript Framework
Lease Your Taxi Fast
I agree, and that's a typo. It was supposed to be "is not the same", I forgot to put in the extra negation and now HN won't let me edit it.
> For a rural American, "moving to Norway" sounds like crazy talk.

I think he's discussing a German doing this. It might be a German-to-English translation issue. (I reread it a couple times before I figured out he was talking about himself).

Your points about American international mindedness are absolutely correct though.
So you are arguing that in general one would want a ceo that makes riskier decisions? That seems pretty irrational.
DE has meaning outside of Microsoft. I recognize it, and am not in Microsoft's orbit.

Generally it's one step above Senior Principal Engineer and considered an executive position.

That said, tech titles have not normalized as much as executive titles. The general progression I've witnessed is (with managerial level set):

- Engineer
- Senior Engineer (Team Leader)
- Principal Engineer (Manager)
- Senior Principal Engineer (Senior Manager)
- Distinguished Engineer (Director)
- C[TI]O (C-Level)

Oddly there's no level set to [AS]VP positions. Engineering tolerates less hierarchy.

Also DE (and all tech ladder positions) are a recognition of sphere of influence over technical acumen as follows:

- Engineer (own work)
- Senior Engineer (team)
- Principal Engineer (department)
- Senior Principal Engineer (corporation)
- Distinguished Engineer (industry sector)
- C[TI]O (corporation and broader industry)

YMMV
The latter tests arguably weren't performed to improve the killing capabilities of the bombs but rather to understand the physics and physiological impacts of bomb blasts. Given that it's possible (albeit unlikely) we never see a nuclear weapon used in war again I don't see it as being completely obvious.
Samsung Galaxy Alpha Video Review by MKBHD
Ask HN: Do you have a lot of idle hardware?
Hey guys,

I'm trying to figure out if a lot of people have extra machines, either server grade stuff, or even desktop gaming rigs, lying around not being used. We've figured a way of building a cloud out of machines which can be parked anywhere, and I'm wondering if there actually is a reasonable amount of supply out there.

I know when I was working for a large Fortune 100 firm we often had piles of machines sitting in our datacenter not doing anything, but I'm not sure if that's common or not.
Are they going to let you have two accounts, because a lot of people with these names don't really just completely discard the other one? I doubt it. I don't think there's a real fix because the problem is facebook's business needs, not their name policy. They want to know the one physical body behind the name, and at least for me, I don't even want Facebook knowing my two identities are the same person.
Go uses CSP concurrency, which is distinct from the Actor model. They're often conflated since the difference is small, but the distinction is relevant here because it directly addresses your complaint. Namely, synchronization is much easier in CSP since communication is synchronous, so you don't have to build additional abstractions for syncing on top of your asynchronous message passing.
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This really adds nothing to the original EFF article about ComputerCOP, which was posted recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394404
"So starting a startup is intrinsically something you can only really learn by doing it"

This makes absolutely no sense coming from somebody who built an empire giving advice to budding entrepreneurs.
I have a very similar setup as the one mentioned in the article where we create a full baked ami, then create a new autoscaling group which attaches itself with a load balancer.

The reason you want a fully created ami is to greatly cut down on the time it takes to accept new traffic. Lets say you get a spike in traffic, if you have a fully baked ami your autoscaling group can get an alert of the increase in traffic, launch a new instance and that instance will start handling traffic around 60 or so seconds. If you booted a generic ami and then provisioned the box you could easily be looking at 10's of minutes before it could handle traffic depending on the complexity of your app. This could easily lead towards long periods of down time.
"The component of entrepreneurship that really matters is domain expertise. The way to become Larry Page was to become an expert on search. And the way to become an expert on search was to be driven by genuine curiosity, not some ulterior motive.

At its best, starting a startup is merely an ulterior motive for curiosity. And you'll do it best if you introduce the ulterior motive toward the end of the process.

So here is the ultimate advice for young would-be startup founders, boiled down to two words: just learn."

It's not about the money, it's not about how old you are, it's not about giving up, it's not about tricks or hacks and it's not about the obvious path.

For me it's about the curiosity of genuinely wanting to understand how the world generates, transports and consumes energy and how I can remove the barriers and inefficiencies of transitioning our global society towards using clean energy more efficiently and cost effectively so we can mitigate the effects of climate change.
> Am I the only person who ever found the course list for an MBA genuinely interesting? Like, intellectually so.

This comment struck a chord for me. Me (and most of my friends) are about to transition out of the military. After 5 years of literally living a different world, but still being intellectually curious but with no (obvious) technical skills...for a lot of us getting an MBA seems to be the only option to "learn the language" and transition out, so to speak. What you're expressing has been the feeling a lot of us has gotten from friends we have in San Fran or New York or wherever - that MBAs are worthless, and that former military officers are generally risk averse and therefore not good hires in fast moving companies (I don't believe this to be the case at all, btw, but I'm obviously biased). What I'm suggesting is that getting an MBA might have more utility for certain groups of people, and less so for others. Perhaps I'm relying too much on the anecdotal evidence of my circle of friends.
At first I was like "this just looks like a fancy reveal.js ()," but as the video played it begin to look like a fleshed out mag+(http://vimeo.com/8217311) which is damn damn cool from Microsoft. If you can do this with html, imagine the text books you could author. Imagine uprooting that industry with $50 tablets that can offer rich experiences like this
Hi. You don't use SSL for the signup / login form :-(
I lived in Bucktown area & got a steal. Logan square is still tough with the prices rising recently.
I think you misread some stats. 175M is the number of unique visitors reddit gets per month, the page views is over 6 billion: https://www.reddit.com/about
Light Table failed because it was overly ambitious. So the response is to start a new, vastly more ambitious project?
No, PG built that not by giving advice to founders, but by selecting them.
Yeah. Honestly it's a quirk, but I prefer quirks going this way than the other way (like universal compare). That said, all languages have warts. And that's the best kind of warts, the one that is explicit and happens at compile-time.
FYI: Link shorteners are frowned upon on HN.
Not all same-place cultures encourage such interruptions. At their best, same-place cultures still have taboos and barriers against distruptive cross-talk. (And the sorts of IM/chat/conferencing tools most celebrated by distributed teams can deliver just as many derailing interruptions, if team habits encourage that.)

Co-present team members can often sense when a question is most welcome – fitting them into the day's normal interstices – or learn enough via ambient observation that many questions aren't even necessary.
Show HN: Open-Source extensible personal assistant on your desktop
That's definitely a weird place to file the story, particularly considering the message.
Model D - 2-door coupe

My reasoning: Tesla has vehicles (for sale or in plan) in three segments: high-end sedan, CUV, and mid-range sedan. Building a coupe would fill another segment.

Also, the 2-door market has lots of models (2/4/6 series, C/E/S class, A5, CTS) that are priced high. Attracting higher income buyers to Tesla from these companies with a 2-door would be a very logical next step.

D = dual, as in dual door?
Had recall for about 3 days. But it really depends on how often I refreshed my memory for it.
I think there is a fairly convincing argument here that a lot of these bugs might not have occurred if Bash used a hand-written, recursive-descent parser instead of a Yacc autogenerated one:

- The original ShellShock: Reused the general parsing/execution function for the subset task of evaluating a function definition. A hand-written parser would likely have this isolated to its own function. With a Yacc parser, there is neither an obvious nor easy way to call directly into the parser to parse a "nonterminal".

- The ones in the article having to do with error handling: traditionally, error handing in autogenerated parsers has been more difficult and Yacc is no exception. This is related to the first point in that a function for only parsing the function definitions would never execute its input, even upon encountering an error; the usual abort behaviour means the parser stack unwinds until the original caller - in this case the code parsing environment variables for function definitions - recognises the error, outputs an error message, and in this case, ignores the definition.

- The operation of a recursive-descent parser is simpler to trace through manually since each piece of the grammar is logically broken into separate functions, making it easier to audit than the more opaque flow of a Yacc one.
Unusual Flying Object
I disagree with the comments complaining that the "Sways we love" are just a bunch of sliding jQuery animations and therefore unimpressive.

Say what you will about whether or not it's a good idea to promote the longevity of the "scroll and things happen when you scroll" user interface trend, somehow making it possible to build those interfaces with user-friendly tools is impressive.

Think about it like this: Powerpoint is easy and widely used because it involves placing objects on a static, bounded, rectangular space, kind of like a piece of paper.

On the other hand, coming up with some way to drag and drop a user interface element that I can only refer to as "that thing where there is a big image that fits the screen, and when you scroll it to to the top of the screen it stops, and then it fades out, and then the next section of text scrolls over the big image, and then when you scroll to the bottom of the text the image starts scrolling off the screen again", and then really making building that kind of interface element understandable in some kind of editor interface, would be pretty incredible.
> You dont [sic] get it. I said its [sic] better for company. Ofc its [sic] worse for you ...

Only explanation -- a broken apostrophe key.
That's actually a good idea and something that removes the need to create a marketplace for reserved instances you no longer need. Thanks for the info!
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So if you exclude 20 and 21, you are still in your early twenties and you just graduated from college.
Curious what kind of optimizations you did for SSDs.
Came here to say exactly this :( Guys, alteast use a self-signed cert.
Awesome! I remember seeing this on reddit earlier in the year when it was in much earlier stages. Looks really great now!
Although, as a follow-through on the "say what you will" comment above, the Mt. Rainier one where scrolling vertically makes it scroll sideways is an abomination.
Why the NSA Wants a Quantum Computer
There is one motor. The other large cylinder (that does look just like the motor) is the inverter: it turns the DC from the batteries into AC for the motor.
This is a snippet of email I sent to a friend just a few days ago. Besides the slow startup, I think these numbers speak for themselves...:

$ sudo ps_mem
Private + Shared = RAM used Program

[...]
412.0 KiB + 137.5 KiB = 549.5 KiB vi
[...]
12.2 MiB + 2.7 MiB = 14.9 MiB gvim
[...]
968.9 MiB + 94.3 MiB = 1.0 GiB atom (7)

That's with no file loaded in any of the editors, gvim brimming with plugins, Atom freshly installed.
Sad, really.
My first thought was D for driverless but perhaps the more conservative guesses are correct. Dual drive etc.
There's always this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinye
I didn't get the vibe that PG was saying not to start a company in college. I may have misinterpreted him incorrectly, but to me the advice was to not do both simultaneously.

He does mention that there are certain things you can't do if you start a successful company at a young age, but to me the main point was that when you take on a startup you have to be completely invested, and if you're still in school it will be very hard to find time work on both the company and maintain your grades.