skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it took much more than a billion dollars to develop a rocket. You are just ignoring huge swathes of the cost to support your claim. If you estimate the aggregate cost of SpaceX launches, including 50 years of work by NASA, it will be orders of magnitude greater than $1B. I mean, tell yourself whatever you want, but R&D isn't free, and they didn't have to do most of it.

In the context of the present thread, since many of the problems associated with a manned Mars mission are unsolved, forgive me if I'm skeptical that Adam Smith's invisible hand will somehow bring the cost down to manageable levels. With or without COTS.
What bullshit.

I can't touch type but my code reads:

def snmp_command(session, oid, media_servers):
result = list()
for host_name in media_servers:
snmp = SNMP_CMD.format(host=host_name, oid=oid)
snmp_reply = [x for x in session.cmditer(snmp)]

if len(snmp_reply) == 0:
log.warning("No data for EMS Media Server SNMP cmd {0} for host {1}".format(snmp, host_name))
continue

# add the Media Server host from which we got this reply to the list of snmp reply
snmp_reply.append(host_name)
result.append(snmp_reply)

return result
I think "blub" is just another example of "you don't know what you don't know", which is always going to be relevant. And not everyone have tried, or intend on trying, obscure/sophisticated/mind-bending programming languages. And that's fine, since we all have different interests (as long as we don't try and pretend that we are very knowledgeable about something which we don't really have an interest in pursuing).

But to call someone a "blub programmer" does come off as quite rude.
You mean like WhatsApp?
> Why the downvotes?

Who are 'we'?
What do you do?
Why should I care?

Your post contains no useful information, and thus contributes nothing to the discussion. Ergo, downvotes. The only way to work out what you're talking about is to go through your comments (which I did) and synthesise based on founder bios and a job posting. Even then there is little to no concrete information about empiric.al that I could find in the few minutes I spared for this.

Here's a post that might have worked better, and maybe even could have got you some marketing/interest. I didn't downvote you the first time, but I would be far less likely to downvote this:

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I agree completely. File management is still an unsolved problem and existing solutions are not optimal by any stretch of the imagination. It's really only getting worse as more and more user data moves to various independent and unconnected online services. Even if you manage your local files in a satisfactory manner you can't use the same system everywhere.

I'm actually actually working on a product that should help alleviate that problem. It does $ACTUAL_DETAILS and works by $IMPLEMENTATION. Our site is barebones for now (empiric.al if you want to read more about founders or sign up for information), but we're really excited about what we've built so far and aim to launch next month. Hit me up on $EMAIL if you'd like to discuss it!
Release Lightweight Go Docker Images with Makefile
I'd argue that murder is on the extreme end of stealing.
The Techempower benchmarks are using the old version of GHC, 7.6, and the Golang devs have been tuning Go's core libraries to win at this specific benchmark.
I was thinking something similar. I get the whole 'Soul of a New Machine' vibe they were going for but it felt like talking about where in the Hall of Fame a rookie player is going to be[1], which is to say "Great, you made some changes, you pushed in a lot of traffic, now in a year or so we'll be able to evaluate how well you did. Declaring victory this early is potentially quite damaging to the future evaluation."

Except that I presume the Wired folks feel like if they called it you will remember them as being 'the journalists that broke this huge story' and if the future turns out much more ho-humm than that, well you won't remember this article anyway :-)

[1] - Tracey Kidder's "developers and managers as superheros book."
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1997)
Go was released as an open source project on the 10th of November 2009. Which part of that is _not_ open to you in a way that Rust is ?
I'm not trying to win an argument with the military. Nobody wins an argument with the US military. It's the most powerful organization that exists, if you exclude the leaders to whom it is accountable. But that doesn't change the moral and legal facts, which are pretty clear.
Show HN: VidFall.com – Pay with your time, not your wallet
>You could also argue that Haskell's STM is even safer than using CSP channels (which also exist in Haskell) since you greatly decrease your chance of data races

We actually have transactional and non-transactional channels as well, which is pretty cool.

Also the reason for using STM instead of channels is that they compose without the possibility of deadlock. You can have deadlocks with channels.
Diversity at wake forest
SGP1 creations temporarily disabled – DigitalOcean
We have temporarily disabled droplet creations in SGP1 while our engineers investigate recent errors detected in that region.
Tue Nov 11 00:24:05 2014
Exposure – App of the week
Thanks! Getting rid of the hassle of finding clients is definitely the idea here. Look forward to finding you some gigs :)
New Relic IPO Filing
Ugh... So the British Colonial Chief, in 1966, wrote “Unfortunately along with the birds go some few Tarzans or Man Fridays whose origins are obscure and who are hopefully being wished on to Mauritius.”

And from the Wikileaks cable:

'He asserted that
establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to
resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents.
Responding to Polcouns' observation that the advocates of
Chagossian resettlement continue to vigorously press their
case, Roberts opined that the UK's "environmental lobby is
far more powerful than the Chagossians' advocates." '

That's just ugly and wrong.
Interesting -- a .NET dynamic functional language with lots of inspiration from Haskell, but strict-by-default with explicit (but succinct) laziness, like Alice ML.
he's referring to flagging stories, not comments.

the flag link is right next to the comments link.

it's very easy to accidentally flag something from the home page of hacker news, when you actually intended to read the comments.
I encourage you to look a the benchmarks published here: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask03... which includes Haskell beating nginx and Haskell beating SDN controllers written in C++ and in Java.
No you're certainly not alone, however the vast majority of prison systems have very high recidivism rates.

You have to ask yourself whether you want prisons to punish people or to get them to not commit crimes in the future, if your goal is to punish people, then sure, feed them the opposite of their preferred diet.

If your goal is to change their behaviour then the breaking of bread can be instrumental in creating change. By showing respect for their culture you can begin to bridge the gap and help them respect yours.
Wow, you're really calling a course of study that usually takes 3-4 years to complete a "party trick" because it's replaceable by technology? By that reasoning, isn't any job any of us have on this forum also replaceable by sufficient technology?

Anyway, back on topic, "the knowledge" also covers alternative routes for road closures. I've usually been pretty impressed by black cabs. They know obscure little streets on the opposite side of town. Rarely have to give instructions. Compared to NYC where cabbies ask me how to get somewhere.
Sometimes I disagree and someone else has already provided the new information I was planning to.

Sometimes I have a problem more with tone than with content -- someone was right, but being a jerk. I'll both downvote them and upvote someone else who was right and more appropriately civil.

Sometimes a comment is simply pointless. Someone posted a meme, a lame joke, or a comment that has nothing to do with the topic at hand (like "this" or "totally correct"). Downvoting is a nice shorthand for "this comment doesn't add anything to the discussion".
Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults
Don't discount his advice about culture, finding people who culturally fit is important and if they are using dress as an indicator you don't want to fail it.

The advice I have heard is to ask the hiring manager. If they say they don't care feel free to wear a suit, however if they say something like "nothing too formal" listen to them.
Why Men Shave [Infographic] No Shave November
Your theory of a donut-shaped universe intrigues me. I may have to steal it.
While the actual story is a terrible human rights violation, I don't see how this is related to .IO domains in the least.

I think most people that purchase/visit an .IO domain have little idea what geological place is tied to it. It sounds like the money goes to the British government to use as they see fit, and I doubt many people would have a problem with that in the first place if it wasn't in this unfortunate geopolitcal context.
ObamaCare for the Internet? ISPs and friends lash out at president
We already have thousands of top level domains and it's utterly ridiculous. People with trademarks have an obligation to protect their mark or risk losing it. Depending how you read that, it can involve buying hundreds of different variations on your brand name under different top levels. Some of them even appear to be trying to capitalize on brand protection behavior; companies will feel compelled to purchase .gripe for example to stop it hosting negative content about them.

$ whois apple.gripe

Registrant Organization: Apple Inc.
Registrant Email: domains@apple.com

See?
Simplifying the design ethos of Material down to 'print design' without understanding how it works is unhelpful, IMHO.
LA Spotlight on Popular Photographer and Filmmaker
No, being saucy is fine, and people much more disagreeable than you (cough) seem to thrive here. I can't see why you were banned, but I asked, because that's weird.
Shock therapy had some interesting results in regards to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
Jason Calacanis launches a startup incubator
> Is it correct to say that neither the Congress nor the Senate can override the FCC in some fashion?

The Congress (House of Representatives + Senate) can through the same basic process as regular legislation (the process is expedited, but it still requires majorities in both houses and either the President's signature or a veto override with 2/3 in each house.)

So, sure, Republicans in Congress could block FCC action -- if they can either get Obama or a significant fraction of the Democratic Caucus in each house on board.
It's funny that whenever Apple does something, it shifts fashion. Reference counting is suddenly hip, when garbage collectors have been invented to solve problems with reference counting and those problems are still there with ARC.

I'm waiting for the day in which Apple will introduce an optinal GC as alternative to ARC on iOS, along with proclaiming red as the new purple.
"I just believe Kan when he says that the ones who are actually worth their fee won't work on a 10MM deal."

That really sounds a bit like "anyone good works for XYZ" (pick some of the usual suspects) or "all top lawyers work for big NYC law firms and have made partner" (or similar .... you get the point). Or the local business man in a no name town, that nobody has ever heard of, couldn't possibly be as sharp as a guy operating where all the action is. Why would anyone be in Bentonville if they can be in NYC or Chicago?

You are making an association between what a top firm does and how they evaluate opportunities and what an individual who happens to work somewhere else (for some particular reason perhaps he or she can't move on to "bigger and better things") and what their actual skill level is which are two different things.

As a generality of course it can be true and a shortcut. But making an assumption that someone couldn't possibly provide value (assuming they don't harm a deal of course) I don't agree with.
I'm not sure whether native look and feel is ever important point. At the moment I cannot think of any enterpise-ish application that does not ignore native platform look and feel.

And for both Delphi and now .NET, there is significant market for third party components that look purposefully non-native.
Re: "If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right", that's the cheeky title of the article you link to, but not really the content of it. The article discusses how to get the best bang for your buck when spending your money. It may still be the case, however, that the best happiness bang for your buck is to do something with your free time other than seeking above all else to maximize your income in the first place, and the article is not intended to exclude this possibility.
> "What's the difference between a super stupid comment and a comment which gets no votes at all?"

Feedback for the comment writer. Shows the difference between "nobody thought much of my comment either way" and "some people really disliked my comment".

I think it's been very effective at weeding out the completely pointless comments (memes, jokes, "this", "I agree", etc.) and is also somewhat effective at weeding out subtle incivilities (I've changed my behavior in response to downvotes before.)
Part of the problem with this argument is that safety is often not the real motivation behind any particular speed limit.
Why is someone selling ebooks on a dark market? Surely there's more straightforward ways to get it if you're going down the illegal route anyway.
Studies show you're more creative when tired.
the downvote button could simply function as a `hide` button
I would be extremely shocked if this was actually the case. Do you have any source for this claim?
Don't know if the author pushed out a fix or the problem was with Firefox but the navigation links on the left now work after FF auto-updated to v33.1
>UK police departments are not funded by councils. //

When council tax has an earmarked additional portion specifically noted to be for police funding I think you're clutching at semantics. UK Police are in part funded from council tax garnishing, a precept as you say.

Where I am at least [in the UK] the police commissioner details a request based on a proposed budget which is put to a panel "the police and crime panel" which sit to set the funding that will be made. The panel comprises members of the local councils and they must vote as to whether to endorse an agreed budget and so collect the tax to pay for it.

The distinction you seem to be making doesn't appear to be there. The police and council set the budget between them effectively, councillors having veto powers, the council collect the money as part of council tax.
Let me know if you're ever in London. I'll shoot the shit with you.
It is surreal reading this. The geographic connections between ccTLDs and their associated 2-letter pairs with their English connotations are completely arbitrary. ICANN could have just as easily decided to issue all 26*26 two-letter TLDs according to some other scheme.
Any port or protocol or format that gets "prioritized" will swiftly be used to tunnel non-prioritized traffic.
Given how it is mentioned at the outset and conclusion, I almost have to think it's stated ironically or something.
Streamlining academic publication: write, collaborate and publish in your browser
Rendering of the solar system to scale
You generally use Unicorn etc. behind something like nginx. The last time I did that I used nginx to handle thousands of concurrent connections that were forwarded to nCPUs Unicorn instances. Nginx is very good at handling lots of connections, Unicorn is good at handling a Rack app.
What President Obama’s Net Neutrality Proposal Means
John Pilger's "Stealing a Nation" documentary goes into the Chagos Islands in quite a lot of detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zhGvId4fcc
That link should have been: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8584126
For the record, Go does not allow you to operate on fd, so some fine tuning TCP parameters does not happen unless you do reflection magic and use SysCall. Which is PITA compared to Python.
Postkmarkapp (postmarkapp.com) is also providing such a thing. Just like Mandrill, they don't let you forward it to any inbox; however, I was already using them to process the e-mails and send a JSON payload to a webhook of mine, so it solves my problem apparently. I just hope their uptime is decent.
Trying Firefox again after many years on Chrome. As a developer, this is the thing I'm missing most so far.

Have been using the Allow-Control-Allow-Origin: * extension[1] on Chrome, while not perfect, is tolerable.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/allow-control-allo...
It's a software company. Since there's virtually zero cost of goods, you expect a high margin.

They are burning a large amount of cash on sales/marketing. Presumably this is forward looking, so it's probably not a big deal (ie upfront costs to get long, multi-year contracts).
The massive economic benefit of self driving cars
> It was legalized under Obama.

It was legalized (both retroactively, covering events that had occurred prior to the act, and prospectively by broadening the allowed surveillance under the law) through the FISA Amendment Act of 2008, signed by George W. Bush on July 10, 2008.

Its true that Obama signed the bill passed by Congress extending parts of the FISA Amendments Act that were scheduled to expire in 2012 for five additional years. But that just kept it legal, it didn't legalize it.
I was surprised not to find Jarkko Oikarninen[0] on that list. As the author of the first instant-messaging network[1], Jarkko paved the way for much of how we communicate today.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarkko_Oikarinen
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
I picked up http://getleads.io for only $40, it was ridiculously easier than I thought because somehow I remembered .io domains as being expensive. Seems like the competition has brought down the prices quite a bit in the past few years.
That isolated false positives created a lot of dead people, but even when you look at the statistics of how many dead people were killed by rich or poor people, the statistics are still overwhelmingly against poor people. Breivik and Lanza are exceptions that proof the rule.

Furthermore, people purchasing semi-automatic weapons are not subjected to the scrutiny that I described. What I described is the process that you go through if you want to buy an automatic weapon. The high price of semi-automatic rifles such as AR-15's discourage use by people who would abuse them, but the even higher price of automatic weapons is even more effective. Only two people have been murdered with legally owned automatic weapons since the 1930s.
Calacanis really has optimized the whole vertical integration for this sort of thing.
Always wanted to live in a police state.....
It is not an accurate characterization. There are several people in this thread advocating for gun rights, and none of them even begin to resemble your absurd characterization.
Now I see the rush for New Relic to acquire Ducksboard. Should be good for the team, since they apparently took a large amount of shares through the acquisition.
This is an "application server". When you are doing anything that isn't PHP you basically need a process behind your web server (Apache/Nginx) that runs your actual ruby/python/java application code and speaks HTTP.
because you need something between your Ruby code and nginx/apache.
IANAL, and I'm not responsible for poor legal advice that I haven't even given. The elimination of stupid corporate lawyer bullshit like this would be but one of the benefits of a non-scarce TLD regime. If keeping a trademark required spending many billions of dollars every year, either firms would make do without trademark, or the law would recognize that "apple.gripe" doesn't mean anything about Apple Computer's trademarks.
>So it continues to operate as a 'private' airfield and you can only land with permission of the owner

corporate perks at Google have just become perkier - ability to commute by your private jet and land right near the campus. Protesters can block Google Bus - let them try doing that to Google Jet.
HBO Will Make Asimov's Foundation with Interstellar's Jonathan Nolan
Few notes on web development in Haskell
Slightly OT but does uwsgi feature much in the ruby world? /from a curious python guy
I would guess those will stay, though I don't really know. They just spent the last couple of years building a building for the Guardian Angels -- I can see it out the window of my office across the street. It would be a little odd to abandon it.
Non-citizens, too?
For Sale: Renovated Luxury Condo; Can Survive Nuclear Attack
PPR just means you have to get permission. Lots of airfields are PPR, and it's just a matter of making a phone call. In the UK practically ALL airfields are PPR.

It's just a question of whether or not the owner is likely to give permission. I can understand NASA not wanting everyone to land there, but if Google is the owner then it would seem to be unfair if they just kept the airport for use by their own jets and their buddies.
Who is talking about capital punishment? I'm pretty sure the point of the thread was incarceration, and even then I'm not actually offering my opinion on the efficacy thereof, only pointing out that the picture is far simpler than most people who have not been there believe.
Data visualization company aquired
I think the whole problem is "it depends on your plan."

I had to select a healthcare plan (an idea which I found rather strange) and spent many happy hours in October curled up with countless HMO/PPO/WTF policy books, looking into exactly these details. I have a history of mental illness and addiction, and my wife came within about 12 hours of death during a two month hospital stay earlier this year, so minor questions like "can I receive appropriate treatment for a potentially life-threatening illness?" have taken on an urgency that they did not possess when I was younger.

Is abortion covered? I still haven't found an answer there despite poring over my plan manuals. My wife has not been able to take birth control until very recently and we are not in a financial situation to be able to care for an infant. Did I click the right button in my convenient private healthcare web app?

Dental, weirdly enough, is not actually covered under Canadian universal healthcare, despite the relationship between dental health and seemingly-unrelated things like cardiovascular health (seriously!). It's pretty strange.

If I had any actionable advice to offer, it would be to look into this crap now. Some of the plans on offer were shockingly bad, despite the price tag - "we pay up to 75% of your hospital bill!" Fantastic. My wife had her appendix out in Florida on vacation, the surgeon lost a few staples in her abdomen, and next thing you know, she's looking at a $250,000 bill (covered by travel insurance, thankfully). $250,000 * 0.25 = $62,500. Not checking this stuff out could cost you - health problems strike when you least expect them .
Actually, everything was pretty simple: Use libev since it's faster than libevent, use Node's http parser because it's fast. Then allow each thread in the pool to run its own event loop. This pretty much sums up my university's Internet Programming course. There were few hairy bits about tcmalloc, but they did a great job about explaining how they took advantage of object pooling and region-based memory management. Great post guys, I can't wait to give your source a read :)
I'm going to see Sen. Cruz speak on Saturday. If I get the chance, I'll ask him about his net neutrality stance.
Well, if your github had nothing interesting why would you think it was relevant?
> Many Chinese leaders openly proclaim themselves our enemy and they take aggressive actions against us

[who?] [citation needed]