skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really get where he's coming from here, and now of course I never will since he's not around to expand on it. The Culture is a post-scarcity society; while you can't have a planet full of minions and go about conquering other people, nobody in the Culture really lacks for material needs of any kind and risk is virtually non-existent, unless you are determined to off the grid and get yourself killed somewhere that won't be noticed and without having your mind-state backed up. In the absence of economic scarcity and risk, of course money becomes meaningless. I'm not sure about the absence of private property; people certainly have their own houses, ships and other things. Both libertarianism and communism become sort of meaningless in the absence of economic scarcity, and hardly anyone in the Culture seems to be a hippy either - on the contrary, they're all enjoying the hell out of everything technology has to offer, unless he means their energetic epicureanism. Nobody in the Culture (outside of Contact/Special Circumstances, the secret agent set of People Who Have Adventures) is asked to make personal or economic sacrifices of any meaningful kind. It's easy to be generous from a starting point of endless abundance.

Some of Banks' most memorable Culture novel characters go against this trend; Jennat Gurgeh in The Player of Games is singular precisely because of his egoism and selfishness, and this is assigned huge economic value in the story, notwithstanding the nose-holding that accompanies it; Bora Horza Gorbuchul in Consider Phlebas is fundamentally opposed to the Culture but is invested with immense moral standing despite his persistent anti-heroism. I think that a lot of the time Banks likes to start with the Culture as the default narrative perspective and then inflict a hypersadistic external antagonist, beside whom the hedonism and self-absorption of the Culture folk seems positively benign, even though it might appear neurotic or narcissistic by contemporary standards. The Culture-Idiran war (which is in many ways the defining event of the civilization) is laid out in some depth in the latter book, and examines the Culture's transformation from a reactive to a proactive culture, or a transition from pacifism to realpolitik, if you like. It's interesting to me that while life within the Culture is largely based on non-economic mutualism, the vast majority of Banks' Culture protagonists are plucked form the moral gray area in which Special Cricumstances proactively attempts to shape events to suit the Culture - a gray area Banks liked so much that he named one of the Minds after it in Excession.
This is what I have wondered for a long time.
TRISTAN WALKER: THE VISIBLE MAN
How to Sell Your Company (2011)
If someone is genuinely friendly and welcoming, and you reject their company because you look for and find offence where none was intended, then that's kinda your problem, not theirs.
Google Signs 60-Year, $1.16B NASA Lease – WSJ – WSJ
Money can increase your effective lifespan. A typical billionair has a staff of about 100 people who take care of all the small things that otherwise sip away time from whatever is left over for normal people after work day. They do not have to worry about doing laundry or tidy up the house or even shopping their own cloths (they have concierge who monitors trends and knows your preferences and sends you whole bunch of cloths to try out on demand). They don't typically waste time in booking a travel or wait for a flight or taxi or waiting for coffee at Starbucks. All these "chores" and "waits" out of the way, they can focus on pure experiences and living it up to do exactly what they want. A typical billionair has capability to have 20X more life experiences than a regular guy. So in effect they can live equivalent of 20 lifetimes in same amount of lifespan.

Of course, in reality things don't pan out exactly like that. Many superrich would eventually be too stressed, constantly keeping scope of their wealth, spend 18 hours a day in work that likely won't be relevant in just a decade, end up in divorce or become substance abusive. But what is interesting to me is that money can actually expand your effective lifespan.
The human body has the ability to adapt, nobody knows if our body would naturally adjust to that or not, the probability that we just get used to it after a long time living there is actually big. In that case if a person living on Mars for a long time coming back to Earth, he would actually suffer bone loss or things like that.
If you have such a problem with these business models, why not start a company of your own that addresses these issues to your satisfaction?
I bought a Samsung Chromebook for travelling. Turns out that they're very capable. With Crouton I basically get a bare bones Linux laptop. I ended up using it all the time.
Use cases for Docker driven development
"In every state of the United States, and in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Canada, when you call the police, dial 911, and rely on the police to protect you, you are taking a big risk. Under the laws of most of these jurisdictions, the police do not have to respond. They do not have to protect you"

Also: "Carrying out the duties of a police or fire department are frequently classified as 'governmental' or 'discretionary'. Under the statutes and case decisions in most states, citizens cannot sue the government for negligently performing (or failing to perform) a 'governmental' or 'discretionary' function."

Plus: "The general rule is that governmental entities owe a duty to provide police protection to the public, but not to protect any particular individual"

source: Dial 911 and Die, by Richard W. Stevens

P.S. I apologize I provide a single source, but I personally haven't read too much on this topic, other than the book cited.
I can click on 'Get Early Access', without entering an email address.

I like it! Not so hot on the gifs, but it's short and sweet.
this is absolutely wonderful, as someone who dabbles in gamedev on the side this is immensely useful (just like gameprogrammingpatterns.com).

I love math, it is my favorite subject (numbers are beautiful) but sometimes I don't know the concepts for the math I am trying to apply, this definitely helps fill in some gaps.
Exclusive Perks? My understanding is that Google was paying a lot of money for those things. Do you have any evidence that suggests otherwise?
Wow indeed!
How do I know this statement is reliable?
Gosh, yes. What if you died having not measured, optimized, and made the most of your leisure. How awfully guilty and ashamed you can presently imagine your future dead self would feel if you picture dead-you actually alive in an afterlife somewhere.
Burden of proof. What the hell else could someone mean when talking about a legal dispute?
Chromebook is like the flipside of that Ballmer quote[1]: "that is the cheapest computer in the world and it appeals to everyone because it even has a keyboard"

[1] http://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U
I'm pretty sure that was Steve Squyres in the book Roving Mars, discussing Spirit and Opportunity. From memory, a heat shield can get you from escape velocity down to ~mach 3, and then supersonic parachutes can get you down to ~100mph. It's an issue because you've still got to slow down beyond that, but you can't just ignore atmospheric shielding like you could with the Moon (in response to iwwr)

I could be wrong about him saying that in Roving Mars (I can't exactly grep my paperback copy, and Google isn't helping), but I'm pretty sure it wasn't on the subject of Curiosity... I heard it in 2006 or 2007, while Curiosity was still called the Mars Science Laboratory.
DECO – A cosmic-ray detector for android
> Is there any way for me to tell if my flags are useful

Anyone worried about this is welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and ask, and we'll be happy to take a look for you. But I feel like the kind of people who would worry about this probably tend to be the kind whose flags are useful.
Oh you're satirising an apologist. Fair enough, my bad. Satire gets, well sad when it's indistinguishable from the thing its satirizing (1). Nothing is too silly for the apologists who always showu up.

Rather like Tom Stoppard retiring when the Nobel Peace prize was awarded to Kissinger - how can you top that for satire? Do your worst.

Of course it's ludicrous to suggest that a swat team would be sent, it's that it actually was.

What would be so bad you wouldn't be able to make excuses for it, not that, apparently.
For Guccifer, Hacking Was Easy. Prison Is Hard
Agreed! It's not Docker, but I'm working on getting a decent Vagrant setup included with Kafka: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1173 That supports pulling up a full cluster locally in VirtualBox or in EC2. Just a first cut, but it already makes testing a lot easier for me.

But in it's current state, that patch is a starting point that is really intended more for Kafka developers than for Kafka users. I really like what the Mesosphere folks have done -- great variety of OSes and cloud platforms, plus they do all the heavy lifting of bringing the cluster up for you.
Postal Service Discloses Major Theft of Its Employees’ Personal Data
That's an interesting hypothesis, but I'd want to see some evidence for it. Public service is an actual thing.
Ask HN: What Companies Outside of MaxCDN Offer CDN Pull Based Configurations?
I really, really, really love WP-Rocket for optimization of WordPress; however, their CDN configuration only allows utilizing PULL based CDNs. This seems to eliminate Cloudflare, using Amazon CloudFront and many others.

Are there any free or what other low cost options are there for CDN offering pull based configurations?

Thanks!
The "hybrid" IO architecture is historically known as AMPED (asynchronous multi-process event driven): https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/pai...
You're funny
So, your co-worker got a customer to pay $10k for him to play with new tech that looked good on his resumé. And you got to fix the bugs. Many work environments make those guys come out on top...
For nearly the same price(about 2300/month) you can get 200MB/s worth of Kinesis shards.
Ooh, great point. I had forgotten about that, but the Wayback Machine has that starting in April 20, 2009.
> You could rent a separate VM for every project and still come out ahead without trying very hard and still spend less time doing the project.

Doing the project? Yes. Running it - no!

These tools make sense at the scale of a single project with two hosts in my opinion. Here's what happens in my experience when developer with little ops experience takes care of a few VMs with small apps: (so a majority of services out there)

- where are the logs and what's the available space for them? depends on which VM, some don't log at all, some log debug because they had some work done weeks ago

- which hosts are running which app version and what's the upgrade procedure? likely every one has different manual steps

- what's your system/libraries/application upgrade story? likely missing / different for each host

- what's your DR story? likely missing

- what's the state of monitoring and are all hosts covered to the same extent? unlikely

- is the development and test environment at all similar to production? unlikely

For each of those items you're likely to go back and introduce something that docker/puppet would've either made easier or provided from the beginning. Knowing that you can consistently build the same host/app every time and that it's got the same options, utilities, tools, etc. available is a huge gain even on 2 VMs.

Yes, the huge benefits start at 1X hosts, but I've seen the benefits and I'm never deploying even one production machine without automation anymore. (salt in my case though) Not doing so is actually more work in a long run. And as soon as you deployed one app that way, you have your library of scripts - another app will likely look very similar and anything around it (monitoring, logging, backups, database deployments, ...) will likely be exactly the same.

So I think that you either pay that 10k for orchestration from the start, or you end up paying it bit by bit, every time something needs to be added or goes wrong.
Author here. Trivia: this is actually the essay that is responsible for most of our attributable revenue at Blossom (https://www.blossom.io).
SpaceX Will Announce Micro-Satellites for Low Cost Internet Within Three Months
What do you think separates a "designer" from a designer?
I am ready to vote for the President for a third term only on this policy stance. But again, I am from India so can't vote in the US and Presidents can't have a third term in the US.
In Phoenix, Arizona if you are arrested they will automatically impound any and all $100 bills. You have to go to the police impound station to get them back. You can have several hundred in $20's though and they will hold it at the county jail (where Detention Officers have been caught stealing from the cash safe) and give it back when you're released. I never really understood why.
I like the name madrassa. It stands out, and as someone pointed out means school in Arabic.
Free OpenSource Dyslexia Font – OpenDyslexic
Christian Boer’s Dyslexie is a typeface for dyslexics
Keeping in mind, that compared to the scope of the problem, over 500,000 americans year die of Cancer, our investment has been miniscule.

Compare this to EBola, which, even liberal estimates suggest we won't see more than 100 fatalities/year in the United States, and America has invested $1Billion.

Cancer is a multi-trillion dollar problem - but the technology required to effectively combat it (nanobots, protein folding technology, targeted molecules, rapid-dynamic DNA assessment) is still many decades in the future.

Of course, doing the basic research to develop those technologies is going to cost a lot of money as well. But the difference is, unlike many human maladies (Old Age) Cancer has a pretty well defined solution, we (perhaps appropriately) just haven't invested enough time and resources to deliver that solution yet.
My apologies—I wrote that in haste and I see now that it was unclear. What I meant was that you can't lose comment flagging privileges while story flagging privileges remain intact; the software just doesn't do that. Either all the flag links would disappear, or none would. So there must be another explanation for what sciurus described (as I understood it). Does that make sense?
You, like many people in this thread, seem to imply that punishment only serves to take revenge, or to balance the cosmic scales of justice. But you miss the obvious purpose of punishment: that it deters crime.
It's you. For all the large and growing enterprise software companies you're going to see very heavy sales & marketing.

For example, Zendesk was nearly identical: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463172/0001193125141...
The dots are small to begin with, any smaller and they might not be seen. There might be other, visible but not underlined techniques.
Thanks for the detailed info. Sounds like it's still a bit further off than I'd like out of a primary machine, something I tried a few years ago (unsuccessfully).
A Php Implementation of Benjamin Donelly's Ball and Chain
Tinder Contender, DAVID VS. GOLIATH EPIC BATTLE BEGIN
It's very sad to see more examples of nations with power taking advantage of smaller nations, but I'm aware there are more cases than we'll probably be able to find out about. To me cases such as this one should be resolved based on universal principles that are sadly ignored, such as that all nations should treat each other as equal and see themselves as parts of a greater community whose best interest should be always a priority.
Justice can only be made if it's based on solid principles.
It’s all over: Bitcoin miner maker HashFast to auction remaining assets
I agree that would be a benefit, but

a.) they could achieve that a lot simpler by bundling nginx, Unicorn, Rails, and a pre-vetted set of config files and shell scripts to bring the whole thing together and

b.) that's the value proposition of PaaS offerings like Heroku. Heroku is pretty damn simple already - just git push your code - and you'd outgrow it around the same time as you'd outgrow the bundled slow-client spoonfeeding, so what's the value proposition of this?
The DaaS Hub for Big Data – Analytics – Crawling and Web Scraping
If languages like Haskell and Erlang gave a competitive advantage, wouldn't we see companies which used them succeeding over those that don't?

Maybe Go is fitting into the cultures that succeed, and if that's the case, well it's the better choice, right?
"don't always push the total replacement aspect"

That is the main thing that is quite new. And also that extended meal replacement has not typically been marketed to this audience. Both of these are pretty huge, IMO.
Ruby support in uWSGI is really solid, and it is more used than you can think of (As an example the biggest italian rubyonrails site run over it, and you will find a bunch of interesting blog posts about it combined with ruby). The main issue here is that we never pushed it in the community like we did with python and perl. Frankly i do no know why, maybe it has been a terrible error (taking in account that whoever tried it with ruby has been really excited)
Microsoft plans to bring free Internet across India
The first use case is one of my focus areas at work. We used to not be able to do functional testing until code was in the develop branch. Developers could work on feature branches, but we had no way of deploying these branches to a test environment. The develop branch usually wasn't in a state where we could safely cut releases from it, in effect every release a was train release. Departing early required coordination among multiple product teams to make sure everything was completely tested.

Now, we have a customized version of dockerui (https://github.com/crosbymichael/dockerui) set up with images fed by jenkins. Every branch has images generated and anyone can spin up their own complete test environment. As a result we can complete a lot more testing in isolation and keep the develop branch ready for release at any time.
Is JavaScript here to stay? (1996)
This version is actually the full version. The short version was designed for printing out/conference while longer version is designed for hosting on web.

Also there is a book on the subject
Google's PageRank and Beyond
http://books.google.com/books?id=KsHTl_2Pfl8C

Other interesting articles:
THE $25,000,000,000∗ EIGENVECTOR
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.pd...

How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank

The Google Pagerank Algorithm and How It Works
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/courses/BIB/pagerank.h...
Composition

I read your comment, but this seems more like A sane standard library with proper interfaces and not a language feature per se (also composition to me sounds like the pattern where you create objects which are composed of other objects but that's not what you mean, right)?
What you display here can be done in pretty much any language suporting inheritance (or I'm missing something), so your point is those languages don't have io.Copy out of the box?
Not if there's a giant Google Ball chasing them down!
Meet the loners
And I think it is fairly easy to "self-classify" many kinds of encryption software, though you may have to file an annual self-classification report.
Branding for Startups and Sith Lords
Go seems to be an iteration of Rob Pike's previous languages, Limbo and Newsqueak - perhaps with a sprinkling of other ideas, but not much.

Rust on the other hand has been a far more ambitious project, with very lofty goals. This has meant that the Rust team has needed to do a huge amount of experimentation and iteration, culminating in the tight set of core semantics that you see in the language today. It's not been an easy journey for the them, but a great deal has been learned in the process, and even if Rust never 'makes it' into widespread usage, its contributions to the field of programming language design will be felt for years to come.

This is not to diminish the efforts of the Go team - they have produced a really tight, polished language, with an excellent set of bundled libraries. All I'm saying is that they weren't starting from scratch, and had different goals to the Rust team. That has meant they could get to a stable language much faster.
How to Have an Argument
We use netty for transport in similar scenario. Though we have not hard-tested it with the limits mentioned but wouldn't a write-behind cache can write large volume of data..ofcourse there will be a delay but it is not hard to implement.
Ooh, that's well put.

My explanation of it, which I think is closely related, is that they're very focused on a peculiar kind of freedom, freedom from the power of the state. Freedom from want, freedom from ignorance, disease, malnutrition, freedom from oligarchy: all ignored.

It all comes across to me as a dressed-up version of "YOU'RE NOT MY DAD!!!" Plus a fair bit of "I've got mine, so fuck you".

It make me a bit sad, because the first Libertarians I met, now decades ago, seemed to be very different. They showed me the Nolan Chart [1] and I thought: yes! This is brilliant! Finally I understand why I don't feel comfortable with the left-right spectrum! I don't know if they changed or I did, but what I see of modern Libertarianism seems to me to be a fundamentalist, reptilian form of what I learned about back then.

If I have to choose between freedom from food-borne illness and the freedom of kitchen workers not to wash after they wipe, it seems like an easy choice to me.

[1] http://nolan.jimeyer.org/nolan_example.php
What is a Wormhole?
Seconded. I've added that to our list.
shouldn't? yes.

Can't? Unfortunately, no.
This article is like a laundry list of what's wrong with my generation. Whiny, cynical, woefully uninformed but happy to share technical reasons why something won't work.
The phone has already been returned. So, forget about getting texts from your iPhone friends.
I was going to complain about that as well but will just say it's pretty impressive PR work. ("I'm not even mad, I'm impressed!" -Ron Burgundy)
I ended up loving The Algebraist. It's a very different book that the various Culture novels, but I love the world-building and so many of the little details.
I loved python and wouldn't've given any of it up. Then I switched to Scala and discovered how much I could get the computer to do for me, without giving up the conciseness, readability and expressiveness of Python.
Tim Cook's entire interview from the WSJD conference
I think this is the correct answer. They also kill the sound when they're asking him his address and phone number in the arrest video.
The answer is, I believe, yes. The booking officer had no idea why Aaron was there, for a while, and later discovered it was for B&E, a serious crime. The entire time, the officers' job is to protect themselves and their fellow officers. If Aaron had been a worse kid, and they had been less extensive, it is possible one of them may have been hurt.

This is unpopular, but I believe it to be true, I think.

Aaron was a great kid, but the majority of people brought into the station aren't.
You can use the -profile switch to direct Firefox to use a specific directory for its profile. We utilize this for Firefox Portable at PortableApps.com.

Incidentally, if you're on Windows, you can actually check all of Firefox Portable into source control since it runs in a single directory. You'll get 'changes' each time its run from a new location, of course.
President Obama's Plan for a Free and Open Internet
There is no escape. The language thinks it knows better than you. The standard library is allowed to do things that your code isn't.