skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK... but when you are dealing with a lot of laptops, enough to necessitate more plugs than a single 5-8 port power bar, it's probably going to run up against that limit.

I think the danger outside of load would be rare, but IIRC US specs for power cords specifically don't require compliance with daisy chaining (similar to C undefined behaviors?) and I bet most commodity power bars are cost-optimized to all hell.

Disclaimer: I am not an electrical engineer.
There's fig2coreos[1] which will translate your fig.yml into systemd files. Then you could deploy across a CoreOS cluster[2]. Pretty interesting.

[1] https://github.com/centurylinklabs/fig2coreos

[2] http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-complex-apps-for-doc...
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Disappointing that it doesn't have a chapter for plugin development, in my opinion that's the best feature of Sublime Text: You can use all the python ecosystem plus it has a nice API. Plus you understand anyone's plugins because is all python, not some random lang they like.
Same. I literally scrolled down, didn't see anything, so I figured the page must be buggy / not working and I closed it...
The OP said interacting with Siri, far from causing her son to diverge from constructive social behavior, helped him learn it - he ended up being better able to interact with real people. I have no particular reason to believe her son's experience was atypical. Do you have any reason to believe it was?
Ask HN: Curing Founder ADD
I saw Emmett Shear's startup school talk a few days ago. He talked about he and Justin had "founder ADD" at the beginning.

They would start an idea and get off track with other ideas and launch/work on them only to have them fail and go back to the original idea.

I was wondering, other than finding another cofounder to be your "parent" how do you guys focus and commit onto one idea at a time?

Link to talk if anybody's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ3tZ05KCtw&feature=youtu.be&list=PLQ-uHSnFig5OyY5JWSQrl_gESiEUJxe1m
If you enjoyed this read you should watch the movie "Her" by Spike Jonze, as mentioned in the article. It hits quite heavily on the same theme (though more focused on romantic relationships with AI) and offers a pretty realistic glimpse of what this technology might look like in the next 20 years. Really enjoyed the movie.

On the same note, I was talking to someone a few days ago who was telling me about how many of her girlfriends use Tinder to essentially have virtual boyfriends. She explained that in many cases they meet guys via Tinder, move to text-messaging, and the relationship never progresses to in-person meetings. They simply love having someone on the other end of their phones to talk to. The knowledge that someone is there at almost all times seems to be comforting and addicting. Kinda crazy, but again this kind of thing is only going to become more and more common due to the fact that technology is in everyone's pocket from a young age now.

The question I ended the conversation with was something along the lines of, "Do you think they care that it's an actual human on the other end? Would they be ok with really convincing AI?"

Food for thought.
Inspecting barely a fraction of the facilities and having very limited power to prosecute the most flagrant violators is the take-away from this.

You're obviously reading something into this. I didn't get a "guns are bad, NRA is evil" vibe at all. Instead I read about how people in this industry, customers and employees have little to no protection from potentially hazardous environments and perhaps no idea how severely contaminated some of these ranges are.

It would seem that if one of these ranges had an elevator in it, the elevator would be inspected far more frequently than the range itself would be.

Maybe you've been informed about the potential risks of an indoor range, but it seems that those risks are severely compounded when an operator flagrantly ignores any reasonable safety standards like filtering recirculating air.
I have a Mac for use at home, but most of my coding is done at the office on a windows machine... Can anyone suggest a similar resource for Ultraedit?
Cool, "new shiny" servers and new zone!
Part of it is that almost every service you interact with on the internet is a "startup". It's not reasonable to expect everybody and their (literal) grandmother to know who's got an investor-friendly P/E.
Much respect for the starting points:

"Listen and believe. Talk to your coworkers who belong to underrepresented groups. Listen to their stories and experiences. Don’t be defensive, just listen. And then when they’re done, believe what they’re saying. Don’t explain it away, don’t play devil’s advocate. Believe that they know just as much as you, are as smart and capable as you, and have had experiences that you don’t know about.

Stop ignoring the issue. Specifically, we should acknowledge that we haven’t said enough about anti-Black and anti-Latino attitudes, and that we have not articulated our complicity in industry sexism and misogyny. Indeed, we have often helped build these systems of exclusion, not merely remained silent while they were enforced. We must understand that trying to pass under the umbrella of whiteness will not save us from discrimination. Indeed, the statistics show that Asians make $8,146 less than white workers at tech companies—not as underpaid as other minorities, but certainly an enormous disparity that makes clear why solidarity between underrepresented communities is essential."
Exactly, I was speaking from a US perspective. The historical reason for this is in Europe, interoperability as you travel between countries was a priority, so a single European protocol (GSM) with a removable, interchangeable SIM developed.

In America, competition/free market was the priority so the result was many non-compatible digital protocols (CDMA/TDMA/Nextel/GSM). In the US, if you're switching carriers, you are probably throwing away your phone and getting a new (subsidized) one from your new carrier. Even if you are moving from a GSM to another GSM carrier, because of the subsidies the old SIM is probably locked to your old carrier and it might be cheaper to get a new, subsidized one anyway.
It feels worth pointing out that this is a free event. So expecting lots of infrastructure (like an abundance of power sockets) does seem a bit unrealistic?

It was pretty cool to see some startup "legends" in real life. There where definitely interesting "geeks" in the crowd, if you went to the trouble of sniffing about.

I think you're right in assuming that one of the most important (perhaps the most important) aims of the event is recruitment for YC. Given that YC are organising this event, giving out free food and generally going to a lot of trouble that seems pretty obvious going in though. They're not a charity, they seem like a nice bunch of guys running a business.
The enterprise loves J2EE, given the tooling they provide to manage resources, application deployment and monitor usage.

For them to go on hold, Java needs to go on hold on the enterprise.

At least on context of the enterprise, I very much doubt they will ever go away. Only as a side effect of the said companies replacing languages.

Just like CORBA only went away, as the same type of companies moved from C++ to Java/.NET ecosystems.
> The second reason that such systems are extremely unlikely to emerge is that even if it would be doable technically, it would be extremely expensive to a company. And there would be literally no demand for it, because the overwhelming majority of people don't care about talking to robots. They already don't have enough time to spend with their children, partners, friends, parents... why would anyone waste time with a fake person? No company would invest the billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars, to solve this problem in the next few hundred years.

You've missed the point. Why would people watch a TV show and grow to love/hate characters, where there's no interaction between you and them, and all the lines, actions and scenes are scripted and rehearsed. They certainly don't have time to do it, and have children, partners, friends, parents. They would surely not binge watch, schedule time to watch new episodes come rain hail or shine or spend big bucks to visit filming locations etc.

Companies will invest stupid amounts of money in AI that has human qualities. Take the TV Show example: the AI is the "show" and each day they get into entertaining or emotional circumstances that you can "catch up" about, joke about etc. Their charisma is highly engineered to be incredibly engaging and fun to talk to, so you keep coming back for more. Over time they become a "good friend" that you love talking to. They never rebuff you, snub you, have no time for you, make fun of you (too much, just enough to joke around and have some banter). But why do they keep telling you how great Pepsi's new flavours are??
Okay, I'll accept that: What used to be
the usual isotopes of iron, carbon, aluminum,
etc. with some extra neutrons, after
whatever gamma rays, alpha particles, etc.
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This is interesting, buy I'm not completely understanding the graph.

The 'return' is what is confusing me. It seems that may be the stock price, but then the far right axis is labelled return in percent, but that percent would need to take into account when the stock was bought or sold. Or is it a field of 'change'.

I'd like to see a simpler graph of sentiment mapped against price.
Because he's not in the data recovery business. And who are you to tell him how to run his life and his career path?

What moron has been using their service for years and for free without a contingency plan? What idiot/geek/nerd in today's world doesn't keep triplicate backups of important data? Hell, I keep encrypted backups at home AND in the cloud/offsite. Just because you failed at LIFE and protecting your assets does not mean the next person is being petty or owes you a favor.
"We" aren't the problem. The problem is that startups need non-technical users to use their stuff. People who aren't qualified to, nor remotely interested in, managing a tech stack simply are not going to care about how random that entity is. You can't make them care. It falls to awesome people like Jason and the rest of Archive Team to keep that sort of historical record for posterity. Because it's important. Trying to thwart them, as Noah Everett is doing, is just straight-up not good.
Hey, thanks for the nice hug, everyone! It's been a fun night. :)

I updated the mirror that ewoodrich referenced; what was up there before was a slightly older version. The new one has a few more pages in it and a few typos fixed here and there.

I've also swapped out the page on my site with a redirect to the mirror, since my web hosting service has rebooted the server twice now. The mirror is on my faculty web space at work, so we'll let them worry about it now! :)

No worries, though. Glad you all are finding the materials useful.
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> And who are you to tell him how to run his life and his career path?

A member of the public who, collectively, trusted him with an irreplaceable part of the historical record. You take on that responsibility in the pursuit of profit, you don't get to discharge it when it goes under.

I've never uploaded anything to Twitpic. But parts of our history are there, and that's important. Blowing off fine folks like Archive Team/dcurtis/toomuchtodo when they're not even asking you to pay for the retrieval of those historical archives is simply antisocial.
I've always had respect for the FDIC. Its former director, Sheila Bair, wrote a good book about the 2008 financial crash, "Bull By The Horns", and in there she has a lot to say about what makes for good regulation.

I think one the problems the US has had in the last couple decades is a lot more talk along the lines of "government isn't the solution, government is the problem". This can be a useful critique in particular instances. But when it's a general slogan of people in charge of government, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Would be good if it were to use more environmentally-friendly materials. The piezoelectric material as described in the article is molybdenum disulfide. This could be a huge disadvantage, since molybdenum is not so abundant in nature (scarcer than lithium). There are already concerns regarding the use of lithium, and whether its availability would be able to sustain global production (rechargeable batteries, mainly) in the next hundred years or so.

I gained a huge interest on piezoelectric materials upon learning of solar piezoelectric thermoacoustic generators. Not really as efficient as solar panels, but could be far cheaper and more environmentally-friendly.
...This should just be the instructions:

1) $ curl -o https://fix-macosx.com/fix-macosx.py
1a) Review fix-macosx.py
2) $ /usr/bin/python fix-macosx.py
> For me, an even better outcome would be to have Startup School cut down to 100 developers and gaining a technical focus

Interesting you should say that. We've tossed around the idea of HN sponsoring a hackery summit a la Startup School but with a purely technical focus. It might complement Startup School well.

The YC/HN world has always had both technical and entrepreneurial hemispheres, if you can call them that, and some people identify more with one than the other. Cross-pollination between the two is beneficial (which is one reason why we've always resisted the idea of splitting HN into sub-communities) but yeah, it can be frustrating when you find yourself in a local optimum for the side you don't find interesting. We hear similar complaints about HN pretty regularly even though we try to keep both sides well-stocked.
"When you set up a public service, you do have a moral obligation..." - eropple
"Western, common-practice tonal music (and notation)," is not anything close to a good definition of the word "music".
This is a great tip, and much easier to remember than option-clicking the green button!
I thought the Office Hours this year were borderline mean spirited. When a team is willing to come and be grilled in front of 1,700 people, it needs to be done with a lot of tact. If you rip someone apart in a public environment like that, it becomes about you, and not about the company that you're critiquing.

Sam and PG did a great job last year. They seemed to be able to hit the right balance of probing questions while being respectful of the people they were interviewing.
This actually looks very interesting, but I'd recommend some changes to the website.

First of all that beautiful full screen image, sadly, it's useless. Not a single word there of what you're about, or even a symbolic photo suggesting what pebll is.

Then, it seems to me, most of the wording on your site assumes the reader knows something about your product. I'm getting a vague idea, but it certainly isn't clear.

Do pebll's have actual value? You suggest they might when you say it gets passed on "instead of receiving payment".

So, I pass a pebll, then they pass it on to somebody else, and they pass it on, etc. etc. But today, when people 'pay it forward', aren't they actually paying for something? So if I 'pay it forward' at the coffee shop and buy somebody a coffee, the they get the coffee and a pebll? Then they do something for somebody else, and that person gets their groceries carried and the pebll? Is that right?

I like some of the idea, but I dislike the action of "I'm passing this thing on to you", it makes the whole process feel a bit ingenious (though I think most peoples idea of pay it forward is less than geniune).

I do think you are on to something with the idea of tracking the good you do, and how that can be passed on to others and multiplied, but I don't know that you've nailed the messaging, and because of that, I don't know if you've got the right solution or not.

Also, for your layout of your site, try Simon Sinek's version of start with why. I think your why is currently your strongest point.
Indeed "music psychology" is a good term but is almost a truism. There is no such thing as music otherwise. Music is only psychology. Everything about patterns of dots on paper and the theories about them is valid when it aligns with psychology and invalid otherwise. A pattern in notation that isn't psychologically experienced is not music.

Teaching the notation by the hypotheses about music that the canon of "music theory" gives us is like teaching chemistry by 100 year old diagrams and names of chemicals.

To be perfectly fair, the post here does do a BETTER job with the Western-notation-scope than most other examples.
> That's what most people want when they search for 'music theory'.

I think most people are actually thinking, "I want to understand music more." when they search for "music theory", and instead of learning deeper understanding about the nature of music, they are taught about notation traditions. Then, most people decide they do not especially care about "music theory" anymore. The folks who continue are those who like studying notation patterns.
Sorry, I was thinking of Siri's voice-to-text dictation. That's 99% of what I use Siri for. But yeah, you can't get the other stuff on mac yet.
Avoid timestamps: computer are not perfect, their clocks tends to drifts in non predictable ways (even with NTP).
I suspect seen quite real bugs due to clock drifting (and linux non monotonic timer (which impacted python) for a while (but problem is solved)) resulting in packet drops because networks stack don't like to see packets arriving in the future when I was using pyzmq.

http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2013-October/02...

My intuition is we are close to relativistic problems. (Can't prove it, I have to code a kikoo lol form for tomorrow).
I don't think enforcement is the only issue. Consider the recent Jimmy Johns non-compete which has made the rounds. As someone who worked in a sandwich shop at the age of 15, I would have signed anything for 5 bucks an hour, and I certainly wouldn't have had the confidence that the agreement wouldn't hold up.This serves as a chilling effect on the employee. This is the scariest part of these tactics in my opinion.
I thought the Office Hours this year were borderline mean spirited.

They didn't seem mean spirited to me; but they certainly did rip people apart (especially with the UI critique). At the end of that I left thinking "I'm glad they weren't doing this on Tarsnap, because they would probably have opened patio11's blog post and read the whole thing out in front of everybody".
I like those more too. I remember stumbling upon 'Coders at Work' at a random Barnes and Nobles in Houston, couldn't put it down.
What's wrong with giving the speakers - and the folks you converse with - your full undivided attention?

I showed up to startup school with no electronic devices other than my phone. I figured that I was there to go, listen, maybe talk a little bit, and then go home. If I want to sit on a laptop I can do that much more comfortably in bed.
It's all about discipline. You have to commit to one thing at a time, prove that it works or doesn't, and then move on.

If you're changing ideas, it should be because your clients told you the idea you're focusing on wasn't going to work. Whether that happens before or after you create the prototype is just a matter of how honest you can get your audience to be.

I've seen far more companies fail at this than succeed. In my limited experience, it's what defines a successful founder: the ability to have laser focus, execute, and then know when to move to the next thing. Too early and an opportunity is lost, and too late and time is lost.

Unfortunately, no amount of advice can prepare you for knowing the right moment. A lot of it is luck (despite what anyone tells you), and the rest of it is just going to depend on the context. There are very few generalizations you can make about it.

I know that wasn't very helpful, but you're basically asking us to unlock one of the things that every entrepreneur is trying to unlock. I don't currently know of a magic key.
> The augmentation dot is a dot placed to the right of a notehead. Though small, this dot wields some serious power: it changes the length of the note by 150%. In other words, it makes the note half again as long.

Oops.

Very nifty and fun though.

Woof!
worth reposting ...

"""

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

"""
Actually, this theory of harmony is largely wrong. Harmony is actually explained in my original post's link: http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/ttss.html

Just like other fields, people actually do advance in our understanding and figure out what was wrong in the old theories. The music world has just done a very poor job of disseminating the updated understanding. That's probably because academic music institutions are too often about cultural preservation rather than about furthering our understanding.
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Morality is orthogonal to rights. One has a right to do many immoral things.

I note, by the way, that the arguments have degenerated from reasoned to "but rights!!!". You're going to have to do better than that.
We've tossed around the idea of HN sponsoring a hackery summit a la Startup School but with a purely technical focus.

I wouldn't want to attend a "hackery summit" which simply consists of people writing code; I can do that better at home, since having people around is distracting.

On the other hand, a "hackery summit" with technical talks from people who have built cool things would be very interesting.
I did mention I have a music degree, right? I teach music lessons for a living. So if you were implying that I'm a scientist who doesn't get the value of this notation-system stuff and am just being pedantic about the word "theory", you're totally wrong.

The reason I complain about the term is exactly because of the post above yours: people actually do think they are going to learn explanations about the nature music and they don't get that.
Docker is based on LinuX Containers (LXC), which are much more lightweight than a full OS VM. Containers are basically namespaces for processes, networks so I would expect way lower overhead than a full fledged VM.

More details here - http://stackoverflow.com/a/16048358/803923
http://blog.dotcloud.com/under-the-hood-linux-kernels-on-dot...

It is a virtualization layer, but not nearly as heavyweight (and perhaps not as well isolated) as a full VM. As to the isolation - I don't know how "good" it is, but I expect it will only get better. I think this is what PG means by "do things that don't scale".
What's wrong with giving the speakers - and the folks you converse with - your full undivided attention?

Not all speakers are saying interesting things all the time. Also, having my laptop out at BSD conferences allows me to engage in the IRC backchannel, which is often just as informative as the talks themselves.
It's only downloading comments and metadata, not the images.
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