skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks nice and priced fairly, got my copy, Thanks.
It looks like it's a similar design externally, but it might have changed internally. For example, there are two thunderbolt ports now. They also don't sell the "server" configuration anymore, which had also had 5400rpm drives.

So, it still could be from heat. It's probably a cost issue, but there is a lot at play in such a small system.
They've also released Sketch resources for Material Design.[0]

0.http://www.google.com/design/spec/resources/sticker-sheets.h...
This is undoubtedly a ploy to entice developers into using their icons everywhere, so Google can subliminally convey its secret message to take over the world.
>The problem is they are secret from the regulators too and aren't following the regulations.

Which regulations?

>Harmful externalities are something the market blindly ignores because capital can just ignore the damage.

What harmful externalities apply to this case?
It now has window._=function(d){ ... }
Maybe, because it contains more fiber and less carbohydrate for the same amount of bread. Google gives a nice infobox on the subject for the query "white bread vs wheat bread".
There are a lot of ideas that are great and people will say they love them. There are very few ideas that are great and people will pay for.

The real test of these people you talked to is whether they will pay and not whether they like it. Is a Tesla a great car? Yes, but I won't pay that much for a car. Would it be great if someone made a documentary about me? Yes, but I won't pay for it. It's not a matter of bullshit, it's just the difference between whether someone likes something vs. willing to pay for it.
I'd recommend you guys look into Stackage to relieve some of the cabal hell pain, if not most of it.
> Sure, but if you tell them that their life will be shit anyway, how's that helping their planning?

I mean "shit" as in something goes wrong that makes things unpleasant. If you have the financial cushion, in the US, it isn't that bad [unless its medical, in which case you'll end up bankrupt much of the time although hopefully ACA will reduce that issue].

> They don't live in isolation. They're bombarded with a consumerist culture that tells them to live outside the standard they can reasonably afford. It takes an iron will to ignore all outside influences and be content with the stable level of poverty you can afford.

Tbh, I agree with you. I want to go back to renting a room so I can save more money and my friends/family all openly attack me on the idea because "No woman will want you, blah blah", etc. The hilarious part is the same ones mock me for "consuming too much" even tho the handful of things they mock me about collectively cost less than $50/month compared to saving $1k/month by renting a room. I'm single now and I don't need that much space.
As for the fiddling, i get you. For me typically the only fiddling i do is set Win2k colors, narrow space wastes and set a font that's a little less wide than the default. Pure usability fixes. Maybe that's why they never had those options, because Jobs would've ripped off anyone's head who introduces usability issues.

It's not that i'm worried about the downvotes. Occasionally i intentionally post things that i know will get downvoted, but go ahead anyhow because the reality that might be uncomfortable to some still deserves to be voiced.

In this case though there is nothing obvious, so i am honestly curious what about my post someone disagreed with strong enough to click that button. I ask, if nothing else, because an earnest explanation of the downvote might be interesting in itself. :)
I'm pretty tempted to buy a copy.

However, the thing holding me back is, I've recently switched from SublimeText to Atom.

I didn't see much development on the SublimeText front, and Atom seemed to have a growing community.

For anybody that's purchased it - what are your thoughts on how applicable this might be Atom? Or helpful to somebody using it?

(I know that Atom is "inspired" by SublimeText)
Is Perfectionism a Curse?
I don't understand your problem with errors versus maps.... they're actually the exact same code pattern:

val, ok := m["foo"]
if !ok {
// handle not found
}
// good path

and

val, err := m("foo")
if err != nil {
// handle err
}
// good path
The UI can always be updated, being proficient in something no matter how it looks will take you farther than hoping on or abandoning tools based on their appearance.
> The `try!` macro is just as non-special as `FromError` (and `Result` and `Option`). You're free to recreate the whole ecosystem in your own libs if you'd like (ignoring the `Carrier` proposal for the moment and its associated syntax).

Sure. I'm coming at this from a viewpoint of a) syntax is very important b) user-defined macros are generally undesirable
I will check back later today for the newly formatted version. In the sample, some sentences were split between pages (with the top half of the letters on the bottom of one page, and the bottom half of the letters on the top of the next page), and that low production quality really threw me off.
>I actually challenge you to give me an example of JSON functionality included in a standard library that doesn't suck

Uh... the one in the Go standard library? :)
npm? Really? That seems weird.
This is an impressive job. I'm curious why the arxiv paper uses Julia's benchmark suite but doesn't make any other mention of Julia in the discussion, given that it's quite relevant to this work.
As it doesn't have a source of hardware entropy, and the Raspberry Pi actually does (bcm2708-rng/bcm2835-rng), I'd say it's clearly worse from one perspective.

From another perspective, the network on the Pi's connected via USB so it's not particularly great but it ought to be just fine for Tor. (Never actually tried an Onion Pi setup myself, but I have a few lying around, so I might do.)
Had to play this in IE11. Wouldn't work on any other browser i have installed.

Found a fun existential secret ending though.
The best 3rd best player ever: http://skepticalsports.com/?p=112
> Where I'm coming from we have this saying: communism is all about fixing problems that it created in the first place.

As you will observe, HN is throughly infected with the communist delusion, commonly observed with atheist intelectuals. People like us, who escaped communist shitholes, after having to witness how it degenerates whole societies like a cancer and therefore being allergic to the false "but but but we have to help!" siren call, will be attacked by the infected often for merely loudly pronouncing the word "communism", which the rabid marxists are trying to cover up like the plague.

After escaping to the west precisely to escape the social trainwrecks caused by the communist fallacy, it is so sad having to watch the new home going down the same damn way as if they didnt have basically the rest of the planet as a cautionary tale.
I would suggest NYC work harder on enforcing those rules which apply to landlords which relate specifically to safety -- I've seen some pretty astonishing abuse.

One of the shortfalls from Airbnb, Uber, and other human to human services is that their initial growth & design comes from early adapter use. I can't provide hard facts but the people who use things earlier tend to be a little smarter and a little saner. This observation is based on what happens to online communities as they expand.

Airbnb has built a system, when used the way it was originally intended, with well meaning hosts and gracious renters everything works great. As it transitions to a mass market product dynamics change. You have people gaming the system, hosting sex parties, attacking you with hammers (bad joke), etc. Government & city regulations have a lot to do with managing the "riff raff." Taxes, revenue, rent, these things matter to a lesser degree than personal safety.

Airbnb, Uber, and all of these other sharing services need to think really hard about this. If you are launching your AirBNB/Uber for X service, and your early adapters are already the mass market, acquired through ad campaigns. Watch the hell out.
Can you also make sure to improve the keyboard shortcuts. Judging from the sample you mix upper- and lowercase. If one reads "CTRL + P" or "CTRL + R" one might be tempted to add the shift automatically to get the uppercase p, while later on you specifically write "CTRL + Shift + p".

I also suggest a new version of the sample as soon as the new version of the book itself is done.
I'm not sure why Fig got so popular, when Crane [1] was on Go since day one, is actively developed, and pretty much does the same thing maybe even better. I haven't seen the latest Fig features though. Maybe Fig finally does more, but ideally they should merge especially when Fig is planning to migrate to Go!

[1] https://github.com/michaelsauter/crane
I totally agree! I know that books are difficult to write and the author deserves his or her due. But these are paper prices for electronic content and I just won't pay this much, particularly when most (if not all the information) is available online with just a little effort.
Seagull learns to prey on pigeons
All the more reason for someone who's on top of things to fix the defaults whenever they change.
Its interesting because:

1. there is a logical reason the stores charge what they do("some 75 percent of items are returned or repossessed within weeks of the transaction" Anyone care to calculate what the interest rate should be on a loan with a ~75% chance of default?)

2. The prices that stores charge are not a "good deal" and therefore increasing sales "hurts people"

3. Shouldn't people be allowed to make decisions that may be against their best interest - at least in the U.S. there is/was a national sense of personal freedom and self determination
It looks like these days the real challenge is in launching the transport vehicle without it exploding. Few countries have the technology for that.

Congratulations to Argentina, it's certainly a great achievement.
"We were standing in the lay-up line, warming up and shooting, and Rodman was standing back and watching everybody shoot. I said, ‘Hey, come on, you have to participate; everybody’s shooting lay-ups, you have to shoot lay-ups, too.’ And he said, ‘I’m just watching the rotations on the basketball.’ I said, ‘Excuse me?’ He said, ‘Like, when you shoot, your ball spins three times in the air. Joe’s sometimes has 3 1/2 or four times.’

That’s how far Rodman had taken rebounding, to a totally different level, like off the charts. He knew the rotation of every person that shot on our team — if it spins sideways, where it would bounce, how often it would bounce left or right. He had rebounding down to a science, and I never heard anyone think or talk about rebounding and defense the way he could break it down."

Isiah Thomas on Dennis Rodman's rebounding. http://www.businessinsider.com/dennis-rodman-basketball-geni...
It's very interesting to read about Rob's experiences. I had a similar (ish) experience working at a startup that was in way over its head making hardware. I got out earlier than he did (I only lasted a few months). My only advice is that if you're working at a startup and you don't have confidence in the management, definitely get out.

I also worked at a very well-run company (Laurel Networks) that also sold an appliance running embedded Linux in the early 2000s. We basically shipped a modified Red Hat 9. I was on the OS team. Our main concern was making sure no unnecessary ports were exposed or services running. We didn't have quite the same focus on creating the absolute minimum OS image size since our product included a hard disk. We had similar concerns with providing a seamless (and secure) upgrade path.

I think disk size is not that important in embedded Linux any more. If you're shipping a router that has its OS on a read-only compact flash card, you'll struggle to even find a CF card under 32 MB these days. They just don't manufacture them. So there's not much incentive to squeeze things on to a floppy disk any more. Microcontrollers still exist out there, but they don't run Linux (or usually any OS)-- usually they're just a "for" loop on bare metal.

On the other hand, minimizing the amount of code you're running is as important as ever. The more code you're running, the bigger the attack surface is. I hope that the Toybox project gains some traction out there as an option for folks that need it.
As someone who backed, then retracted my pledge, my thinking was thus:

When you are looking at a product designed for security, you want complete, up-front honesty. The campaign had claimed (or perhaps strongly insinuated) that it had effectively designed four prototypes. This turned out not to be true (well, allegedly at this point -- it's really not clear). That raises other questions about what they might not be forthcoming about.

In short: I expect a security product to be proactively disclosing things like this. That's how you build trust.
Mindsuckers: Meet Nature’s Nightmare
I knew at some point we could get to the topic of addiction being a disease.

I don't believe it's a disease. If you didn't drink alcohol, the "disease" would be gone instantly. This just feels like a justification for the government to pay for a person's lack of self control, which is why there is a push to get it re-classified.

Ever wonder why there are so many kids being diagnosed as autistic these days? There aren't any more than before, the bar for classification has been lowered to get more government funding.
If StartSSL gets hacked you are in a bad place no matter what.

And you're more likely to screw up key safety yourself than for that narrow window to be exploited.

I don't think it's ridiculous.
> Beyond that, we’ve got new commands, .dockerignore support

Gosh dangit. It's about to the point I need a separate tool just to manage all my .ignore files.

Come to think of it, maybe just ln -s will do.
Or yelling "I have Ebola" on an airplane.
Sadly, you likely don't. AirBNB's "insurance" doesn't cover anything except the host's possessions. It doesn't cover building damage or damage to others' posessions. So, it's not true commercial insurance despite the fact that a business is being run. And transient renters statistically do a lot more damage more often than long-term (12 months or more) renters.
Subway?
npm is actually a great tool to get dependencies of all kinds, not just JavaScript files.
of course this happens look at the the difference between the spot vix and the futures settle price...
It certainly can be a symptom of a mental illness.
In NYC, that would still be illegal. One of the long-term tenants of the apartment must be staying in the apartment with any short-term guests.

If you have a 2-bedroom apartment, one roommate could host while the other goes on vacation. But they can't both be gone at the same time.
That was fun! Spoiler-ish talk below.

I'm not entirely sure what to make out of the last ending - I personally got a feeling that this was a demonstration of trying to escape addiction. Stereotypically gamers enjoy games because they are empowered in the gaming world, which could be something that they lack in the physical world. Understanding that addiction and getting to the root of a friend's problems can help them break that.

I don't think that's exactly what the author intended, but that's what I got out of it. shrug
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It's an old deprecated netscape tag. In Netscape/Firefox derived code, it's superceded by the 'crypto' javascript object.
Order isn't currently significant; it's the RFC (which I haven't seen) which proposed adding this in some form.
I dunno what the hell these people's problem is. Nothing about their actions makes any sense to me.
was the "bad expression" and "Undefined Error" part of the story?
Wow, I just tried Origami, and it provides exactly the only feature from Sublime Text I was missing, thank you so much!!
Now, I definitely never going back to an IDE, makes no sense any more.
Yup, this is why you don't need err1 err2 err3 err4... (I've had to do similar things in C# before).

Also, := does shadow in a sub-scope. The difference between shadowing and simply assigning in the same scope is negligible (i.e. either way you can't get at the old value).

err := foo()
if err != nil {
err := bar() // err shadowed here
}
f, err := baz() // err assigned here

What would be the difference between shadowing and assigning on that last line? You can't unshadow without leaving scope, at which point the value you were shadowing also leaves scope.
This is a great way to find ideas for a niche project. Awesome.
What exactly is Fig?
They always have a choice, they are just weak-willed and have a ridiculously high time preference.

Being poor isnt primarily an inability to make money, it is an inability to save money and delay gratification. Being poor is a mental state. They'd likely end up poor even if they won a lottery.
I find it saddening that the commenters here are having trouble with being empathetic.

People who are exploited don't need your advice. We all know that we can live in a lean-to made of spruce branches and dry pine needles if we had to. That's not the problem these people have.

Maybe the commenters here offering their well-intentioned advice are unaware of the shame and guilt that goes with being poor. It is widely believed in popular culture that your financial situation and future are within your hands and beyond reasonable misfortunes, if you end up poor, it's self-inflicted: you mismanaged your money, you decided to have an alcohol addiction, you don't know how to follow safety procedures and lost your leg, you didn't study hard in school and save money to go to college. You didn't work hard enough. You're lazy. You're stupid. You smell. You could dress better. Blah blah blah.

The problem is that these rent-to-own businesses exploit that shame and guilt. They're using some pretty under-handed tactics to convince economically disadvantaged people that they can afford these luxury goods they clearly cannot. They try to sound appealing by offering luxury goods to people who cannot otherwise afford them so that they can stop feeling like they are failures. They obscure the true cost of their payment plans with sticker prices that emphasize the lowest term prices and not the full cost (car advertisers like to show the lease-cost in the commercial but are required in most places I know to disclose the full price of the car in the ad).

To say that these people are "stupid" for falling in with these businesses is ignorant of the predatory practices these businesses are using and the complicating factors which result in poverty.
A decompiled and instrumented version of Fallout 2 for Linux
Faster JavaScript parsing (2011)
if startssl is compromised (and if start ssl doesn't use ssl, allowing for mitm), then I don't imagine you'd have much luck regardless

no matter what practices startssl uses, once your connection to them is compromised or once they are compromised, then the attacker can change what practices startssl suggests to its users.
It's a tad depressing that some scientists are telling him he's doing it wrong, and should instead be doing something else, like working to prevent plastics from entering the oceans in the first place. That is a vastly harder problem because plastics enter the oceans through many paths, from falling off container ships to washing down rivers to being carried out by the winds or falling off pleasure craft (I myself used to have several spare bumpers for my boat, donated by what I like to think of as "The Society for Mariners Who Aren't Very Good at Tying Knots").

We don't have particularly good data on which paths account for how much: http://www.sea.edu/plastics/frequently_asked_questions

Easy solutions, like anti-dumping treaties, are already in place. A relatively cheap means of removing plastic may not be a bad next step.

Citizens willing to put time, effort and money into investigating practical engineering solutions to these problems should be encouraged, not dismissed. Particularly by people who are not themselves working on the alternative solutions they claim would be superior.
This post speaks hits the spot - a perfect rundown of the (broken) SSL experience. Why do we still live in an age where security & identity are so tightly bound that to "secure" a site, you have to pay someone to "validate" your authenticity - which we all know, is bollocks anyway.
There are tons of notification services out there, but most of them focus on one particular niche (such as stock prices, social mentions, monitoring news sites, etc.)

On the one hand, I like how broad this is. It purports to handle a bunch of different types of events, and all you have to do is describe what you want in plain English.

On the other hand, I'm skeptical about how well a service can execute when it has to handle such a broad range of alert types.

I've written a lot of notification-type stuff (e.g. monitor a Twitter feed for when my book titles are mentioned, monitor a bank account for unusual activity, monitor a blog without an RSS feed for new posts), and it's definitely not a one-size-fits-all type of service. If GetNotified has to write new code for each monitoring request, I would imagine the subscriptions would have to run for a good long while before they make a profit.

P.S.: A little free copy editing help: There's a typo in "If you are in doubt, just submit the request and will let you know if it can be done or not."
Ask HN: What are some upcoming technological storm?
Markets are usually disrupted by the four risk categories behind PEST analysis: Political, Social, Economic and Technological change. If you read most founders' histories, you'll see a common pattern though: The only one of those categories that can be reliably predicted and timed is technological change.

For example, PayPal started out as a security company by predicting a social storm: that employees had too many digital keys to things, and anytime now, they'd like to keep them all on a PDA Wallet. Turns out that social storm never came. But the technological storm of "the Internet" had something else brewing.

What are some technological storms you see coming?
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Toxoplasma gondii can infect humans as well* if they have sufficient contact with cat excreta, and lead to a similar disregard for dangerous situations. I conjecture that some non-negligible fraction of violent criminals carry this parasite and that it would be worth screening for in incarcerated populations.

* http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your...
How many production environments deploy all containers on a single host?
All the number 1 posts on reddit's front page
Saw his TedX talk in Delft; inspirational! Although there are plenty of challenges ahead, he proved that strong will gets you far. His crowd-funding campaign was a blitz from what I remember.

The technology needs a lot more investment than he raised for large-scale deployment, but I think he shook people awake at the very least.

I think he also made a wise choice of staying in The Netherlands. Water management is definitely a forte, especially in Delft. The marine technology department is attached to mechanical engineering.

Will be interesting to see what the real tipping point will be for this concept to experience another 10x jump.
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Check out the landing page: it's awesome.
Very nice. One thing I'm missing in the TOC is a chapter on creating your own packages: the official docs are (as usual) quite sparse and I'd love to have a couple chapters (tutorial + reference) instead of following the typical "take a look at a existing package and wing it from there" approach. Can someone recommend some good resources on this topic?
It could be much simpler, but practically speaking, electric vehicles have many more complicated features when compared to affordable ICE vehicles.
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