skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the old stories and myths, Fire was the inspiration. The spark. The kindling. It's flames lighting up the dark naturally attracts people to gather in, to look inward instead of outward into the shadows. Fire can't travel far from it's source of fuel, it must be carried like a torch. One of the first things you learn about Fire is that fire is meant to be shared.

Some of the older cultures have a fire tending tradition. For some, the "fire starter" was a sacred, and respected skill. In others, a boy or a girl was initiated into the tradition by given a fire to tend when they come of age (around 10 - 12). They tend to it all their lives, merge the fires when they get married. When their children becomes of age, they start a fire for the children from their own fire. When they die, that fire they have tended all their lives cremates their body for the final time.

Modern-day Fire rituals are not confined to the candle or the flame or turning on the TV. Running a torch around the world is an example.

These days, we're out of touch with Fire. We typically control it in the form of gas fuel lines or electricity (lightning, in the old stories are considered a different form of fire). Your mom probably told you not to touch the stove, because it is hot and it will hurt. We have fire-safety drills. We have fireman who comes in to wipe out the fire, lauded as heroes. The typical story we have around Fire these days involve explosions, anger, and destruction. Lots of mad cackling.

The old stories of Fire, on the other hand, speak about inspiration, will and drive. Fire worked with the other elements: Earth to contain it and is itself the fuel and raw materials; Water to circulate and transport heat; Wind to stoke it up. Fire is to be respected, both the fire in the campfire and the fire within your belly.

When you lead people in your quest to make it big, change the world, or to get rich, is your inner fire that of anger, rage, suffering, and destruction? Is your "disruption" story another fancy way of saying attack and ill will? Is it another way of saying you're going to take over the world and control it with power?

Or is your inner fire inspirational? Is it the clear, cleansing fire that burns the darkness you carry within? Is it the kind of fire that you'd share with friends? Is your inner fire the warmth of your love and the light of your vision?
Agreed if they're not a drummer or not learning the drums
I win :) http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/2/6894875/elon-musk-says-nex...
I thought it was worth the read. It's short and quick. I don't agree with everything, but it's compelling and entertaining, and thought provoking.

I also read Blake Master's blog entries back when he first wrote them, and found the book a better superset.

Thanks for the rec on Synthesis of Form!
The rumour says that Elasticsearch is a better JSON document store than MongoDB; in practice it hits the pros points quite well.
Small price to pay for usb security. Also, if your only keyboard stops working, wouldn't it accept the next keyboard by default because there isn't one connected?
> I don't need or use an app to interact with any of those things, and when I have been offered apps, they've been worse than useless.

A store clerk recently invited me to download their app, and when I showed her that it requested every single permission, she was still baffled as to why I would want to cancel the download.

> Why can I find a shelf stocker in Target and he can use his li'l belt computer to tell me where anything is in the store, down to the shelf, and how many they have, but I can't have access to that information before I enter the store?

Home Depot's mobile app will tell you exactly where an item is on the shelf, including aisle, section, and level. They even have a map so you can find items that aren't on numbered aisles. It's fantastic.
Simple, yet powerful text editor that can encrypt the files it edits
I feel that you're right. These analyses seem somewhat facile.
While digital content right now is a big thing, there's a lot of us that only buy physical media. I don't want to invest my hard earned money into something of no actual value. I don't buy digital downloads, I only buy on blu-ray (though I would go with dvd if something's not available on blu-ray). I don't buy mp3s or whatever else, I only buy CDs. The only thing I buy digitally is from Steam because they are far and away better than dealing with physical game media currently.
BSD differs from Linux in some important ways. If one of those differences affect your works, than Mac OS X is useless, even if it is Unix (and Linux, some would say, isn't)
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I have to ask 64% of what?

I just ask because even a large AWS instance is relatively cheap. And saying, "We saved 64% in margin X" sounds great on paper. I'm forced to look at the big picture. How long did developing the solution to turn on/off the instance cost? Sure maybe a day, 8 hours, $800 dollars of labor at a base estimate, maybe less. How much time was spent in generating this report? Was this report generated before and this cost missed (how many times was it missed)? Whats the ROI on this solution?

These are the question a manager should ask. And I understand if you can't divulge them across the internet.

:.:.:

I ask because AWS is cheap, and sure saving $50-100 a month sounds good. Put better toilet paper in the restroom, or buy bagels Friday morning.

But if you are investing >$800 in developer time to engineer a 8-10 month ROI solution, wouldn't just buying a box to set in the corner and calling it, "The building/staging" box result in exactly the same savings? Without surrendering up time?
Link? Every article I can find says they used a DVD.
I would imagine that this holds true for social media apps, but, in my experience, the browser is still king for commerce.
Chrome uses the Keychain for passwords, but it handles certs itself AFAIK.
This is the work of Jonathan Perkin (from joyent): http://www.perkin.org.uk/

It's great. It really is. I never understood why it's not used by more people. Homebrew is simply awful.
> more films than you could possibly watch in your lifetime

I was curious if this statement was true...

So assuming, 4.4 GB her HD film & 2 hrs long each, you can fit roughly 232 films per TB or 232,000 films total (for 1000 TB), that's 464,000 hours of HD content or 53 years (!) back to back.

So, yes, that statement is true. Now the next logical question: Has the human race produced 464,000 hours of video content?

Let's assume there are around 100 cable channels showing content in HD video 24/7 (with no overlap, there are more but a lot of duplication). That's 2,400 hours of content a day, 876,000 hours a year or 101 years back-to-back worth of watchable content shown each year.

But realistically that will be at least 70% duplication (particularly looking at it over several years). So even if we just look at 24/7 news and shopping channels which always produce original content, you're still talking about easily 200,000+ hours/year.
I keep my free Dropbox account, but I won't pay them any money while they have Rice on board. (I was a paid member of Loom, which they acquired. As a result of the acquisition I was to become a paid member of Dropbox's photo syncing service. Instead I demanded and got my money back.)
I spent a month in exchange at a Gymnasium in Germany. It is hard to express how different it is from a US high school. The main criticism I've heard is that the Gymnasien are good at the expense of the Hauptshchulen.

For those not familiar, the Gymnaisien are college-prep schools that start around 4th grade, and roughly the top 1/3 of academic performers qualify; the rest of the students go to Realschule or Hauptschule which are more of a vocational track and end around 10th grade.
That is totally anecdotal, there is zero evidence that their emphasis on culture had anything to do with their success. Don't get caught up in cargo cults.
I'm not sure if you missed it or if I missed your point, but "rocket science" generally means "science incomprehensible to the public", which the underlying tech here likely is. It's not hyperbole as much as run-of-the-mill marketing to the masses.
Ah! Got it now. Thanks.

Ok. Now I'm concerned.
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"the internet" is a more fragile medium than a disk, that's why. High-density, cheap, persistent data storage is critical to make sure that most of the cultural expressions of the last few generations don't vanish into a black hole sooner than later. It's our version of ancient Babylon's cuneiforms etched in wet clay. Just imagine how much crap Jason Scott could fit into a storage container with these. A lot of crap. A loooot of crap.
While SAT, and their cousin SMT, solvers are useful in the analysis of symmetric cryptographic primitives, they quickly become useless once the complexity of the problem hits a certain threshold. They are best employed to analyze contained parts of the primitive.

It can be wise to use a SAT solver to find a preimage of, e.g., SHA-256 reduced to 10 rounds. But it will be hopeless on the full function, unless it is severely broken.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-take-your-anonym... They log basically nothing (so they claim). Fast speeds, tons of locations, OpenVPN compatible. Zero problems for 2 years now.
Drummers get fast notes by bouncing the stick on the drum heads i.e. for one flick of the wrist you can get 2 or 3 notes. It doesn't matter how much tactile feedback you get, you're not going to be able to play like you can on the real thing.
you have to read the data off the disk though, and that won't be 3160 Gbps
I dont think the added latency from mesh is a big of an issue as it would look, I mean look at the 300ms of latency typical to a 3G network. I do see a practical limit however in the number of wireless hops before it should be bounced back to a wired network.
Ah, my mistake. You're right. Although I would not be surprised if they used a similar technique once they had access to SR servers.
I don't know how to interpret this. The fact that better diet, exercise, and sleep can improve cognitive function is well-known, right? Is there any reason to believe that this isn't just yielding short-term benefits that seem to counteract the decline rather than reversing the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's?
Last I read, Apple was limiting javascript performance in UIWebViews compared to what was available in Safari, is this still the case?
>"Hire Employees Who Are Excited to Wear Your Logo on Their Hoodies"

how about building a company that would make it employees excited to wear its logo on their hoodies. Compare for example wearing "Palantir" vs. "SpaceX" on your hoodie :)
"Useless" a strong word for a simple difference between two Unices that affects your work. You could just as well say Linux is useless because sysvinit and upstart aren't the same as launchd.
I received a response from AWS a short time ago regarding this issue. They are able to reproduce the problem and are currently testing a fix. I will send a follow up once we receive confirmation that the issue has been fixed.
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Oh, also... I forgot I created an ansible playbook on ansible-galaxy a couple weeks ago that builds Google's webrtc implementation:

https://github.com/jgrowl/ansible-galaxy-webrtc

It will build the JAR target but that will build the .so file as part of the process.
This "cool hacker settings for your Mac" script turns off your laptop's power saving features (sleep, display dimming, hibernation even though sleep was off(?)), removes at least three kinds of backups for data loss (MobileTimeMachine, Resume, hibernation file), and changes AppKit settings in a way your customers will never be using (by turning off Automatic Termination, which is pretty harmless).

Please don't run scripts like this, unless you promise not to post about how your untested configuration is so unstable and has such bad battery life after an OS X update.
So it was basically a match between Japanese formats. The fatter, heftier 3 hour VHS easily performed "oshidashi" on the little 60 minute Betamax, throwing it out of the ring with one shove, thereby claiming the "yokozuna" title.
I also have a repo of 64bit packages built on Mavericks: http://pkgsrc.saveosx.org/Darwin/2013Q4/x86_64/All/
Sony learned from this experience and did everything right when it came to Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD

Maybe not everything. I remember that BD-J alienated Microsoft and offered no real consumer benefits. Sony also didn't bribe Universal enough, leading them to go HD-DVD-only.
Good concept, but you should be putting MIDI compatibility front and center instead of burying it halfway into the manual.

Here is a detailed list of the drums, cymbals and percussion that are sampled in the subset of the Natural Drum Kit library that Aerodrums uses:

Nobody cares! Seriously - nobody cares. Actual drummers who would be fussy about particular models of drum are certainly not going to be using your product - they'll either drum with practice pads or with a compact piece of hardware like the Wavedrum or Nord Drum pads.

Non-drummers who care about drum sounds (like myself) will either use a quality software emulation like Spark of Jamstix or some dedicated hardware driven via MIDI. Your expertise is in the video analysis, your sample playback software and sample library is frankly just taking up space on the hard disk and is probably less good than the cheapest VST/AU plugin.

Wannabe drummers/gamers are more likely to use hardware like the toy sets that come with Rock band or Guitar hero software (which make a lot of sense for drums rather than guitar). This class of people simply do not care about which drums sounds, they just want the option to select between a few different kits like rock, pop, jazz, electronic etc.

You would do much better to partner with an existing vendor of drum or music sequencing software that will have a recognizable brand and some marketing muscle to go with it, as well as deal with tech support and so on. My heart sinks as soon as I see 'built in sound library!' because it's invariably crapware. You are charging a pro price - $100 is not a lot of money for the work you've put in but that's the reality of the music market these days. So ditch the sample playback engine which nobody needs and concentrate on delivering low-latency MIDI and OSC output.
No. In iOS 8 apps can use WKWebView, which is accelerated.
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It's very impressive that the dude in the video learned how to play that well on Aerodrums, but as he explains at the very beginning, it's a completely different technique than you use with real drums.
You still have to replace /bin/bash and /bin/sh binaries, even after doing a `brew install bash`.

...right? `brew install bash` will just give you /usr/local/bin/bash, and then use that as your interactive shell.
The next thing you should do is update the unix tools you already have on your mac. This is more relevant than ever since the recent "Shellshock" debacle.

How many developers are launching bash scripts with environment variables defined by third parties?
As of a couple of years ago, the entire content of The Pirate Bay[0] was under 100MB[1].

Think about that for a moment - it's the index for one of the largest collections of publicly available content in the history of humanity, and it fits in my wallet 80 times over[2].

[0] Not the P2P content that people download - just the main site itself, containing all of the magnet links, etc. TPB's 'content' is literally just an index (it's not even a tracker).

[1] I don't want to link to TPB from HN, but just search for "pirate bay archive". There's a large archive that contains all of the site data (db backups), but the magnet links are all you really need content-wise.

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Compact-Credit-Style-Flash-Drive/dp/B0...
>6) she increased her sleep from 4-5 hours per night to 7-8 hours per night;

This alone probably accounts for everything. My god, even a healthy person at 4 hours of sleep is a mess. Doubling that is a major, major difference. The difference for me between 6 and 8 is like night and day, especially from a memory point of view. I can't imagine 4-5 for a long stretch, let alone as my regular sleeping pattern.

I wonder if caffeine abuse is a factor here. I meet a lot of older folk who can drink 10+ cups of coffee a day. I really don't think they have that strong of a tolerance. I think it just props them for a while due to poor sleep and they get used to be being stimulated and cranky instead of addressing their sleep issues.
I just finished Feynman's Rainbow by Mlodinow. It's an interesting look at Feynman and Gell-Man. It was a little lighter on Feynman moments than I expected, but certainly worth the read. I took a break from the 3rd Game of Thrones book to read that.
I'm curious about #11. Any ideas why that would be part of the program?
http://www.imdb.com/stats

Seems to be rather likely.
Its an ugly trend and an invasive one. The fact that you need to reassure me that your content is good makes me question if your all you just want is my email and become unnecessary email notifications. Its needy, demanding and somewhat attention seeking.

Usually websites that insist with these subscription popups have mediocre to poor content.

If your work is good enough, people will subscribe because they like it. Don't force it.
I did think it came out oddly high -- I also didn't chceck ssl/dedicated ip... I think. Maybe the calculator helpfully updated itself with more "reasonable" settings... ;-)

[edit: yep, was the ssl cert thing. Now I end up with 0.00 USD/Month, which certainly isn't an unbearable expense...]
(6) she increased her sleep from 4-5 hours per night to 7-8 hours per night

That's a huge lifestyle change..
How my struggling business was saved by Confucius and Lester Freamon (The Wire)
That is some quality open-source intelligence gathering. I'm not in that industry but I still find it fascinating to read how he manages to figure out and puzzle together all this data.
There are things you can't do, like press or buzz rolls, but you can bounce off your palm and drum very fast this way. Take a look at http://youtu.be/iF8296Aai9k?t=2m28s (starts on a roll)
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Microsoft Releases Elastic Scale for Azure SQL Database
Have those guys sign up for Y Combinator!!
Assuming MS is dead, 60PB of data is what google might mine on you for creating an empty google doc.
I would guess you would also cringe when some asks you for a Kleenex (facial tissue), or your daughter asks for her Barbie (doll), or son asks for his Teddy Bear (stuffed animal)...
The spiders present a puzzle to evolutionary biologists. According to ordinary Darwinian natural selection, only the fittest individuals will pass on their genes. But if that’s the case, why do tangle-web spiders act in ways that might conflict with an individual’s drive to outcompete its neighbors? A spider that defends the nest might put itself at personal risk, jeopardizing its chances of producing offspring. And a spider that rears the young might have to wait to eat until the hunters are sated, so it might go hungry. These are not behaviors that would be expected to enhance an individual’s fitness.

Which is the whole point of "The Selfish Gene". It's not about individuals; it's about their genes. Genes win when their bearer helps out other individuals sharing the same genes.
Alloys containing thorium were quite popular at one point - the B-58 Hustler used Mag-Thor and apparently their airframes gave off more radiation than the nuclear weapons they carried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mag-Thor
Here's the actual paper:

http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v6/n9/full/100690.html

Abstract

This report describes a novel, comprehensive, and personalized therapeutic program that is based on the underlying pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, and which involves multiple modalities designed to achieve metabolic enhancement for neurodegeneration (MEND). The first 10 patients who have utilized this program include patients with memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), or subjective cognitive impairment (SCI). Nine of the 10 displayed subjective or objective improvement in cognition beginning within 3-6 months, with the one failure being a patient with very late stage AD. Six of the patients had had to discontinue working or were struggling with their jobs at the time of presentation, and all were able to return to work or continue working with improved performance. Improvements have been sustained, and at this time the longest patient follow-up is two and one-half years from initial treatment, with sustained and marked improvement. These results suggest that a larger, more extensive trial of this therapeutic program is warranted. The results also suggest that, at least early in the course, cognitive decline may be driven in large part by metabolic processes. Furthermore, given the failure of monotherapeutics in AD to date, the results raise the possibility that such a therapeutic system may be useful as a platform on which drugs that would fail as monotherapeutics may succeed as key components of a therapeutic system.
I get that, and I wasn't trying to say that GNU/Linux is Unix, either. In fact, what with systemd on most major distros these days, GNU/Linux is less Unix-y than ever (I'm not saying that's good or bad; I have my reservations about systemd but they are irrelevant to this discussion and I'm not being biased either way about it here).

That said, for just about any project I've ever worked on within a GNU/Linux ecosystem, I could have easily adapted it to Mac if that was my chosen platform. HTML is HTML, JavaScript is JavaScript, so for today's web-centric projects the OS you're running doesn't matter as much. Even languages like Python don't really care what's under the hood.

Of course, if you're doing Linux kernel development, or targeting a GNU/Linux deployment, then a Mac isn't the best idea. :)
This should be common sense to anyone who's ever sat around a campfire.

I mean, all the work is done for the day, you've likely eaten (or are eating), the dark sky and the fire sets the mood, stories are told. We still do it to this day (although not as often). It's why people go camping...
http://boxstarter.org/
Link: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130619/ncomms3061/full/nco...

The researchers never used any discs. The 1000TB figure was for a surface area equivalent to a CD or DVD; they're the same physical size, and these descriptions give the reader an idea of what a 9nm feature size means in practical terms.

What they actually developed was a novel resin and a method for etching 9nm dots in it using a specific optical laser setup. If it were to be commercialized, it'd be a new type of disc, and CD/DVD lasers would not be able to read it.
Terrible article. Lots of things happened, many people said this, nobody knows, etc.. Complete waste of time.