skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about books as learning resources.

For everyone looking to learn Meteor the first 8 chapters of Discover Meteor are available for free for the next week. It is probably the starting book for everyone :)
https://book.discovermeteor.com/starter

Also the Manning book Meteor in Action is 50% off the next week with the code jiafinal50
The book is in heavy development with updates every couple of weeks. However it is still not finished and lacks some advanced chapters still.
http://manning.com/hochhaus/?a_aid=yauh&a_bid=aeff5509

Apress also has a book called Beginning Meteor but it has almost no relevant content as of yet and no updates in the last months.
http://www.apress.com/9781430268369

All Packt titles are hopelessly outdated for version 1.0, so you better stay away from them.
That is a horrible glib answer.

I was supposed to get a EASY TO USE, READY TO GO, Mesos development environment. So now I have to ssh to 5 boxes and manually add iptables rules? Why don't I just install Mesos myself then?

Honestly this whole thing just reads to me as a marketing releases, not something I would recommend anyone to use.

If the answer is 'use' iptables, fine, but then I would expect the automation that builds my cluster to do it for me, not leave me with a $200 a month cluster just waiting to get hacked.
Do all or most of the existing cancer detection tests involve radioactive measurements? I would hope there would be a less dangerous 'next step' to confirm before moving on to CT scans.
A coaching tip I always give to developers: you don't know enough about a topic if you can only think of one way to solve a problem. If you only know one way to do it, how do you know it's not the worst one?

Take the time to sit back and enumerate a few ways of solving the problem and figure out which one's best in this situation. Why are you rejecting those other solutions? Are you sure those reasons are sound? Are you sure they don't apply equally to the solution you've selected?
The obvious downside is that the cost for all those multiple certs. The market would triple or quadruple overnight. CAs might just love this idea to death, for those reasons.

All hobbyists and small shops will be out of luck however (and there are a lot of those), they have to go back to sending plain text in the clear.
> That's my main problem with the fitness app industry at large. They are much more focused on steps, running and calories than actual fitness.

Because that's easy to measure with accelerometers and gyros, and easy to display some numbers. Go do some stuff with your device along for the ride, see a pretty graph when you're done. Did I do more than yesterday? Hurray! Now to post it to Facebook with the handy "Share" button. I think I'm doing something (and I am, even if not optimal for fitness goals), and I don't have to think very hard about it.

The type of user your site is attracting are the people who don't pay attention to all of the step/calories stuff anyway. I'm a pretty hard-core runner (yeah, I should lift more), and step count is a mere novelty for me. There's nothing about Google Fit that attracts me (Garmin Connect keeps track of most of that stuff anyway). But I'm not their market.
>This is a great way to help increase the risk you get cancer, since it's cumulative, not per-instance.

Well, I suppose at least in their case it has a high probability of being detected within 6-12 months.
Why not? Would you prefer another SnapChat?

These are important, world-changing unsolved problems.
Well said! From a purely utilitarian perspective it could easily be argued that large scale corporate collusion is worse than the deaths of a few individuals.

When looking at which company is more hated in the US I would completely agree that ISPs are towards the top of that list. Not only because of their large scale poor performance and price gouging but also because unlike Blackwater many people are directly affected.
Tilt (YC 12) Is Hiring an Android Lead in Austin or SF
I don't think "standard issue dictator likes posturing" and "roving bands of religious crazies armed with Western equipment murdering women and children for sport" are quite the same level of mess.
Ah thanks. But if Rails is my coding platform of choice how does this integrate into it?
Good article. The correlation between having more than 0 LinkedIn connections and financial responsibility surprised me. I wonder though if the correlation will decrease in the future though, as financially irresponsible people game the system by simply creating a LinkedIn profile and adding a few connections before applying to Earnest.
Learnings from a newbie on marketing, SEO and product launching
Really enjoyed this interview - some pretty interesting insights. Brian and the Earnest team (along with myself!) will be hanging around the HN comments for extra questions.
That's a fair point. Just a shot in the dark, but maybe their calculus is-- they will lose some customers, but for the customers they get to download the app, they'll get a lot more engagement / repeat visits through push notifications or other spam, or just an easier ordering system.

It sounds stupid to me also, but I'm trying to assume that whoever's in charge there knows what they're doing. I guess that might not be the case though.
No, I still have no idea what the rationale was there.
Looks cool. I'll try it out
Give Your Sales a ‘Push: 5 Steps for creating an awesome e-com push campaign
Because Meteor hides much of what's really going on, it's sometimes hard to understand just how the app is working. At least that was my impression of it when I tried it about 9 months ago.

Choosing a stack on your own means more time is spent making things work, but then you know how it works. That's why I went for a MEAN stack instead of Meteor. But I'm going to try Meteor again soon!
A lot of it is coverage. I could pay substantially less if I was willing to go with a worse network. How much would it cost you for a plan that covered all of Europe?
In comparison, Apple's laptops have around a 20% to 37% profit margin. These profit margins are ridiculously high no matter how you look at it.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2513587/apple-mac/macbo...
Sorry that that's the impression. A bit of tech: the sckt agent on the device goes to the sckt server, and asks for a tunnel. It gets an IPv6 address, that is publicly routed, and gets a name (e.g.: storage.acc.sckt.co). Optionally, you can request auth through an HTTP proxy to reach that address, for private deployments.
the tunnel to sckt tries to live forever (or until killed), and pretends to be https to get through firewalls.
Because these sites and ours (room77.com) are MetaSearch sites, we search prices from multiple sources and aggregate the information (inventory, content, prices) into one place. Booking sites like Expedia and Priceline are considered OTAs (Online Travel Agency) since they are the entity that sells you the actual inventory whereas metasearch scours the market for the best prices.
That's actually a fairly tame description of Mr Prince, compared to some I've read. What part do you feel to be inaccurate?

For an insight into his current thinking on business opportunities, have a read of this re: how to engage ISIL.

http://time.com/3490414/isis-isil-blackwater/

If the old Blackwater team were still together, I have high confidence that a multi-brigade-size unit of veteran American contractors or a multi-national force could be rapidly assembled and deployed to be that necessary ground combat team.

Not a lot of regret expressed there.

Praetorian Guard is a reasonably accurate description for his former organisation's activities; administration, special forces and covert intel ops directed from a higher level than the bread-and-butter army.
The Myth of the Free Press
How to hack offline computers using lasers and drones
Meteor uses NodeJS.
Me too. About 5gb but same experience. It slows so much that I switch to 4G just to get things done.
Where do you get "your health will improve"? The point of caffeine is not to improve your health. It's to improve your mental functioning. Mental functioning is not something our brains evolved for. In fact our brains are quite profoundly flawed for that task.
> nothing short of pre-shared keys can be.

Any out of band key exchange is.
Learning from Schooloscope, an OpenData Post-mortem
While a CT scan may be the best known method to confirm later stage cancers now, a better and safer way may yet be discovered that can track the cancer's growth long before a doctor would recommend a scan. Nanoparticles could be a promising way to do that. If we're constantly made aware of many possible risks, the anxiety will (probably) eventually diminish as long as those risks are safely monitored. Overexposure to risks (that were always there) might be just what we need to explore better ways to track medical conditions before it's too late for treatment.
Horrible! Install...View permissions...Whoa! no way...Cancel. One less pesky customer to bother about.

I've seen it happen too often - apps that don't really require access to contacts or call information, still ask for them. The Android permission system is of course broken, but there's a lot of developer laziness too.
Legal ramifications for you or for joker.org.

For you, it is copyright infringement. But it's hard to catch you. I guess you are vulnerable to joker.org giving you up if they get subpoenaed, if they keep records.

For joker.org, that depends on how they are classified. It probably does not qualify for a transitory network safeharbor because 1) if it's servers are uploading it is giving the file to more than one person and 2) joker.org is arguably modifying the content by assembling it into a stream. Though I could be convinced it isn't modifying it just by streaming it. If they are caching, it would also bust their safeharbor.

If it is classified as a §512(c) site, it has a better argument actually. Though I don't see a DMCA agent listed on the site.
This is actually a vary minor incident. It's easy to find US companies that kill 20+ civilians a month on average. Worse most of them are actively killing people for money. EX: Wait we actually need to legislation it or your going to actively advertise cigarette's to children? WTF is wrong with people.

O you set up a program to specifically drop sick people from your insurance plans. I guess sociopaths really do run things.
This should be the top comment overall. The mods should sym-link it into the root thread or something.

From a leadership perspective, understanding that seemingly minor decisions have can horrible consequences, and how often that happens, is what makes good leaders.

Here's one: Bancroft Hall at the US Naval Academy lacked air conditioning until 2004. Even after plans were made, the funding was cancelled because alumni complained that "it would make the students weak".

One admiral had the temerity to re-fund the work and got A/C installed. In reality, not only did performance improve, 25% fewer midshipmen got sick throughout the summer months. A total of over 500 fewer diagnoses. Multiply that by the last 10 years, and you're quite possibly saving a life in that 5000 illnesses.

The medical director's assessment at the time: the students were probably enjoying improved immune function due to better sleep.

When you're in charge and trying to save money for your Ferrari, don't forget that life sucks at the bottom. Maybe you should spend that money on bigger monitors for your help desk people instead.

Because, in truth, you're not successful only because of your hard work and personal risk and sacrifice early on. Plenty of people worked hard, took risk, and made sacrifices to make the organization what it is. You just won the CEO lottery.
There's also the easy way which avoids the problem almost altogether: let the only entity with the legal power to tell who holds which domain also do so cryptographically.

The infrastructure is already in place. Do a good deed and publish your records today, if you haven't already.
It's already way past 11pm EST.
> Now, IE9+, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are all basically guaranteed to look at the same page in the same way, and the "toolsmith" parsers like Gumbo or html5lib are all rapidly converging on the standard. So it's finally possible to see a page the way a browser sees it.

The web projects I have to take part on, are a distant reality from that description.
How have you been here for more than half a decade and haven't noticed that title editing is favorite pastime of the mods here...?

Generally speaking though, the original title is the one to us, and if you use something else, it will generally be changed to match the original one.
That's kinda an obtuse version of a middlebrow dismissal. You're positioning yourself as "of course—I knew better all along! Bow before my foresight!"

In other anecdotal evidence, I've been using Redis as a persistent store since 2011 and haven't lost any data.

There's always the giant caveat: just because software says it does X doesn't mean it does X until you have seen it actually happen. In this case, restarting a zero-persistence master was bad because it goes run->die->restart[empty]. Then, the replicas immediately reconnect, resync[empty], and now they are completely up to date with the master (which is the only Redis contract asked for here: always be an exact copy of your master; since persistence was not requested, the replicas re-sync an empty dataset).

In better news: there are already fixes for each of these issues showing up in Redis very quite Real Soon Now.
Matthew McConaughey EBOLA psa
For the same reasons that a healthcare startup is willing to take on arguably more risk and longer lead times to sales compared to any other industry -- there's so much human impact that can be made (and money at stake) that even a small dent in the healthcare space represents thousands of lives (and billions of dollars). A company like Google or Apple can make more than just a small dent.

From a macro perspective, the US has an aging population with the Baby Boomer generation entering older adulthood. Older population = greater health needs. Financially, it makes a lot of sense for a large company with vast resources like Google or Apple to make a splash in healthcare. And now's the time to do it.

They also have a distinct advantage over startups when it comes to introducing change from outside the healthcare industry. They can withstand the long sales cycle that it takes to get approvals without needing to balance fundraising in the process. Not to mention their unique ability to reduce the length of those sales cycles. They're more likely to win pilots and scale, and faster, because of their brand recognition -- a key competitive advantage when you're talking about a risk averse space like the healthcare industry. Not to mention, you typically need to get a lot of stakeholders together (providers, payers, patients) and align incentives in order to get anywhere. Large companies have a huge advantage here and can influence change relatively quickly. Healthcare institutions are constantly discussing the need for technological disruption (and have the budget / financial incentives to foot it), but by nature they are highly risk averse to any major changes. Large tech companies are uniquely positioned.

SOURCE: I once worked on a healthcare startup, have been through a healthcare startup incubator program, have friends who are doctors and healthcare administrators, am familiar with healthcare investor thinking, and am connected to a spectrum of healthcare startups (both successful and early stage).
Functional programming and condescension
>"No need to check one app to see your weight and another to review a run"

Except the blog post doesn't allude to anything more than what's already present. I can already input weight and run time and it looks like it tracks heartbeat.

Maybe the phone app has problems loading widgets with the webservice currently being flakey.
This service is very good. You can watch pretty much any video (not a movie - that's piracy you know) as if it were hosted on Youtube. Scrolling is smooth and almost instantaneous load time.
The people sitting on the BoD of one giant company look just like the people sitting on another BoD. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if institutional investors or board members in Academi are the exact same people on the board of AT&T. They are all suits and they are all most interested in short-term profit.

It is the fallacy of both the left and the right to attribute human values to large corporations, both public and private.

See also:
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power_elite/interlocks_...
Were people asking for something like this, or is this Google responding to Apple's HealthKit?

I understand the need to offer competing products on their own platform, but I've come to doubt the long term usefulness/support of products in that second category.
we publish the hardware design - in reality we have to run it on someone's chip, we've picked one that includes among other things AES, we just don't use that stuff, at some point we have to trust the CPU, and we use a CRC32 engine for minor whitening and stirring of our internal entropy pool - but crc32 is easy to verify (while AES is not)

more importantly we've chosen a platform that we think is unlikely to have already subverted by 3 letter agencies
Brad Feld Interview on Building Startup Ecosystem
I really don't get what's the big fuss about sidechains. It's a totally obvious next step in blockchain technology. The implementation is what's important.
Sadly I think there's some truth to this. But it's not capitalism's fault, it's our's - as in all us consumers.

People need to smarten up about shitty business practices. Don't buy stuff when AT&T calls, or they'll never stop calling us.
FYI: this link gets me into a redirect loop
(probably because of something NoScript related)
If we are the product of random evolutionary chance, if natural selection shaped us (which probably means a bias toward fast decisions that are probably right, rather than for slow decisions that are provably correct[1]), then it's really hard to see why math (this game we play in our heads) should necessarily have a deep connection with the rules governing the physical world.

On the other hand, if there is a God, if God is a He rather than an It, if He created the world, and if He also created humans in His likeness (sharing something of His nature), then it becomes much easier to see how there can be a valid correspondence between how we think in our heads and how the external universe works.

[1]: Darwinian survival is often a real-time problem: The right answer, too late, means you still die. A fast answer with a reasonable probability of being right beats a slow answer that is guaranteed to be wrong simply by being slow.
I love seeing AT&T getting this kind of attention from the FTC for their terrible, terrible, monopolistic and greedy tactics. Their goal is to squeeze every penny they possibly can out of their customers. Their service has always been subpar.

I really hope that this lawsuit costs AT&T a lot of money; It needs to hurt in order to teach them a lesson.

One can only hope that we can someday have a competitive wireless market with 5+ options for consumers to choose from. That is when customer service will become real.
If you dropped a rock and it didn't fall, you could infer that probably either you are outside an appreciable gravitational field or there's some force counteracting the gravitational field you're in.

In any event, I agree that the question is not likely to be useful, but as I said I think that is because it subtly begs the question in a way that isn't likely to be clear without it being stated quite a bit more formally.

"That's just a dumb question."

While "there are no dumb questions" is an overstatement, I think your tone throughout this has been unnecessarily hostile (not toward me, mind you). You could have done more to educate, you chose to abuse, and in a way that stepped into inaccuracy to boot.
or leave the system as it is an cap the copyright holder's right. I have nothing against Bigcorp making big bucks for the first 10 years of the said product, but when they have already made some substantial gain within those 10 years, who is then benefiting from the profit and to what aim should we consider rightful as a society?
I am only pointing out to the fact the copyright is there not only to benefit the individual but as well the society as a whole.
Yosemite Receipt Caching Bug
I don't actually have any use for this app at all (sorry) but if you ever make squishy foam promo items for your logo I will send you all of my money.
The reason we have low interest rates are that these banks who commit crime after crime own the Federal reserve. The same banks has also put ex Goldman sachs president as head of the european central bank. People have to understand how the monetary system works or we will all end up as debt slaves to unafforadable housing that banks with zero interest create from thin air.
...and with access to your contacts, precise (GPS) location, nearby WiFi access points, camera, phone number, the ability to silently install packages (!) and prevent sleep, and with full network access[1].

Yup, just what the world needs.

[1]: http://www.appbrain.com/app/taco-bell-mobile-app/com.medlmob....
Apparently they are making (or made already?) it easier to sue people in Turkey for p2p copyright infringement. However, the fact that put.io is still up tells a lot about how effectively those laws are enacted.

http://adventuresinankara.com/2012/07/30/adapt-or-die-guest-...
Google: "We want to scan your body with our amazing new technology and possibly add 20 years to your life!"

Haters: "No thanks, way too intrusive. I don't want you tracking me/selling my data/showing me ads."
Just started using Meteor + Telescope on my site TravelMo.re and love it so far. Really easy to use, kind of a pain in the butt to deploy.
That was a pretty interesting read. It really has nothing to do with functional programming, and everything to do with human nature.
Could you elaborate on why it is a pain to deploy? I've never used Meteor but I thought one of the selling points is ease of deploy, hot code pushes, stuff like that.