skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, the line "And that's why I like go" seems to imply that Go is able to keep you from making errors in untested context-free code snippets. Perhaps you meant "and that's why I like that Go doesn't support operations like `map`"?
This sounds like someone got hacked.
She is a college grad, so I'd giver her the benefit of the doubt. Sure there is an editor involved to provide feedback, but she could have been studying to be a writer anyways. E.g. Journalism is a tough field to find a job in, but plenty of kids have a talent for it, so go off and get crazy life experiences to write about.
How bizarre, that seems like a disgruntled user; even if they were shutting down, they wouldn't word the email that way.
Right. The way I'd put it is: in system software, the iron law is that you don't make the programmer pay for anything she doesn't need to buy.

What you pay (GC) for the privilege of having pointer cycles in your data is grossly disproportionate to the benefit. Yes, there are a lot of things that are O(k) with pointer cycles and O(log n) without them. If what you buy from this optimization is worth the cost of GC, you are doing a lot of these things... a lot.
I completely agree. It's not surprising though: Discourses and The Enchiridion were delivered as lectures; Meditations is a personal diary.

Marcus was obviously heavily influenced by Epictetus, and at times manages to state some of his ideas more poetically (esp in the Hays translation). Overall though, The Enchiridion is a much better base for Stoic philosophy. It's short, acerbic and almost every section can send you off into deep thought.

Meditations is mostly interesting as an example of someone trying to life a Stoic life - it shows Marcus' failures, his attempts to conquer his fears. It's well worth reading, but you'll learn more from Epictetus.

Edit: for Epictetus, I prefer the George Long over the Elizabeth Carter: http://www.ptypes.com/enchiridion.html
I got it as well, came via an aws account.

I filled in a support request with browser stack.

Seems very odd, angry ex member of staff maybe??
It is hard to comprehend the vastness of Siberia. Russia is more than 2x as big as continental US. Large parts of it cannot be reached by car unless it is during certain times of the year.

Laying a fiber optic cable across all that mess and then all the way to Beijing is going to be quite expensive. They are going to be very pressing economic incentives to do it.
This is really simple, people. s/ops guys/ops team/g.

Done.
Unfortunately, looking at what other entities do doesn't provide any answer to what you ought to do.

Is vs ought is a serious problem, unsolved and (as far as I can see) unsolvable. We end up doing things for no reason other than that we feel like it. But, if your philosophy suggests that you should do things in spite of how you feel, that's going to be a problem.
I've been using jscs [1] for js style checks.

[1] https://github.com/jscs-dev/node-jscs
Similar, for OS X use "open ." (or replace the "." with whatever file you want to open)
You've just described the function of the title, though, as the subject of the thread, which only has (as of now) a couple of rather short subthreads.

It might not be that easy if you're talking about a 100+ comment thread, with various tangents, each of which might be interesting in their own way. What if the content you want is not directly related to the subject at hand? The longer a thread becomes (particularly using a threaded format like HN does) the more divergent the subthreads become.
I thought about buying one but then build my own:
http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01257868826

Got the board etched including hole drilling via ebay (as a service).
Location: Greater New York Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Focuses on leveraging emerging technologies and how they can enable new, profound enhancements to user experiences as well as improvements to technical operations. This includes computer vision, machine learning, cloud computing (in terms of operating at a scale that otherwise would have been impossible), location-aware technology, graph databases like neo4j and titan, and large-scale information retrieval.

Résumé/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgriffin

Email: tom@thegrif.net

My passion is in building great products that people love.

I am constantly questioning the world around me, asking why things are the way they are, and seeking new ways of delivering great user experiences and sustained business growth.

Most of my work focuses on new, bold, breakthrough innovations that could fundamentally transform the path of a product or even an entire company. Other times I am immersed in quiet, simple ideas - ones that are so small they may have otherwise been missed had it not been for insight and curiosity.

I have over fifteen years of hands-on experience in driving design-driven innovation, delivery of large-scale technology initiatives, and identification of new opportunities for growth and sustainable value. I have been regarded as a thought leader in enterprise technology, product innovation, problem solving, and design thinking.

My key strengths include:

♦ identifying transformation opportunities in business architecture and technical capability

♦ developing and leveraging emerging technologies

♦ evangelizing enterprise-wide change

♦ creating corporate innovation processes and incubation programs

♦ aligning technology teams, business capabilities, and solution development

♦ innovative resourcing/staffing strategies

I am looking for opportunities that leverage my passion for building great products and services, value a hands-on approach to design and use of emerging technology, and build upon my success in helping teams embrace and foster innovation and creativity.
OH NO! SQUATTERS!
Do you have an opinion on or know much about newer / more user-friendly EMR's? I'm specifically thinking of PracticeFusion, but I imagine there are others.

Why doesn't stuff like this take-off? Is it the product of slow-moving hospital bureaucracy, or are there other reasons?
Can anyone explain something that's always puzzled me: when dating the ages of rocks, geologists look at the proportions of the isotopes that are in the rocks. Because isotopes decay at a well known rate (they have a half life), then by knowing the proportion of the isotopes that the rock would have had when it formed and comparing to the observed ratio now, they can tell how long ago the rock formed.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopic_dating

By "formed" I guess this means "cooled down" so it's not magma or lava anymore.

But how do they know the initial isotope proportion? When an "old" rock with some ratio of isotopes melts and becomes magma or lava again, why does this "reset" the proportion of its isotopes? To put it another way: the isotope will have also been decaying when it was part of the magma wouldn't it? Why don't new rocks have the same isotopic ratios as old rocks?
Washington Post: The N-Word
Nice. Do you find yourself having to contort code to work with numbapro?
Do you take time to develop schema/ requirement before programming?
Creating big applications obviously requires planning but do you guys plan for small applications? For example, creating a small application to record baseball games.... I finished creating DB schema in an hour but I'm not sure if I should move ahead and make changes as I write code or should I think for a day or two about it in depth.....
although he didn't out the individual, i'm surprised that Suster made it so easy to figure out who he is speaking about by disclosing so many details.
SEEKING WORK - Greater New York Area - REMOTE (unless in area)

Focuses on leveraging emerging technologies and how they can enable new, profound enhancements to user experiences as well as improvements to technical operations. This includes computer vision, machine learning, cloud computing (in terms of operating at a scale that otherwise would have been impossible), location-aware technology, graph databases like neo4j and titan, and large-scale information retrieval.

Résumé/CV: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgriffin

Email: tom@thegrif.net

My passion is in building great products that people love.

I am constantly questioning the world around me, asking why things are the way they are, and seeking new ways of delivering great user experiences and sustained business growth.

Most of my work focuses on new, bold, breakthrough innovations that could fundamentally transform the path of a product or even an entire company. Other times I am immersed in quiet, simple ideas - ones that are so small they may have otherwise been missed had it not been for insight and curiosity.

I have over fifteen years of hands-on experience in driving design-driven innovation, delivery of large-scale technology initiatives, and identification of new opportunities for growth and sustainable value. I have been regarded as a thought leader in enterprise technology, product innovation, problem solving, and design thinking.

My key strengths include:

♦ identifying transformation opportunities in business architecture and technical capability

♦ developing and leveraging emerging technologies

♦ evangelizing enterprise-wide change

♦ creating corporate innovation processes and incubation programs

♦ aligning technology teams, business capabilities, and solution development

♦ innovative resourcing/staffing strategies

I am looking for opportunities that leverage my passion for building great products and services, value a hands-on approach to design and use of emerging technology, and build upon my success in helping teams embrace and foster innovation and creativity.
There's a difference between information and media. While Doctorow uses the term "information," he's really talking about professionally produced media. And mostly entertainment media, at that (NBC shows, his kid's book, etc.).

That stuff just doesn't get produced if there's not some way of generating income from it. And that requires some kind of barrier to distribution. Although the nature of that barrier -- technical, social, legal, whatever -- is very much up for debate.
If you liked the theme of this essay you will like this book:
"How to Be Idle" by Tom Hodgkinson.
The book starts similarly and expands the idea of idleness to trying to bring it into your life.
I saw these guys at maker faire. They won a ton of ribbons. I also saw them at Engadget expand conference.

It's was a tasty cup of coffee. :)
Agreed - beautifully surreal quotes, lovely writing style, fascinating subject.

She wrote a piece back in January[1] that gives a lot more insight into the logistical and management aspects of the arrangement, as well as the risks (financial and physical).

[1] http://fashionista.com/2014/01/model-in-china
I wonder whether anything of this sort has been done in the past or is a current research topic. If so, it would be interesting to know the current level of progress.
JSCS is quite good. Also, I use the jsdoc plugin to validate and make sure the jsdoc comments are up-to date.
That was my immediate thought. This really does have the tone of a disgruntled (ex-)employee.

Edit: I just double-checked. Previous support@ emails were not sent via AmazonSES. This one was.
A bit like A. K. Dewdney’s idea of the “voters” simluation (as seen implemented in the old xlockmore program mode “voters”).
Note that the investment in this startup was made via Upfront Ventures and not Suster himself ("We" vs. "I"). That makes the sample size more complicated: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/upfront-ventures/inve...
If anyone is interested in working on a "walled city" mod to the game "Banished" http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/2014-08-26-mod-kit-beta/ please contact me.
Because all you need most of the time is a flat stream of characters. You don't need any of the DB crap, no random access, no indexes, no structure.
But, but team is not a personallity neutral term. How about just "Hey"? Short and precise. If talking to a single person, use "Ey" instead
Guns are just physical information
They are used a bit. "IT people just don't get the problem" sounds fine to my ear and I see that kind of construction. (Which has a slightly different nuance from IT doesn't get it.) It's a bit clinical and impersonal but something like that is what I'd probably use in an official marketing doc. Peeps, on the other hand, is very slangy and at least today carries the implications of acquaintances, as least as I've seen it used. As someone else mentioned, folks isn't a bad clearly general-neutral, casual term. And I use it from time to time in more casual writing.
This post is full of mistakes and unclear thinking. I can't figure out what the author is arguing against or for. Is she against quantifying wealth? I'm not sure. Is she against working hard? Maybe. Does she think it impossible to quantify happiness and well-being? I get the impression she does.

First, the author made a huge mistake when talking about GDP. Her comparison used absolute instead of per-capita values. India and Canada may produce the same amount of wealth, but India has 35 times more people. Of course per-capita GDP doesn't fully capture quality of life, but it's easy to measure and hard to fake. That's why it's used.

Most people make mistakes when it comes to balancing work and leisure, but to claim such mistakes are killing us is preposterous. People in developed countries live the longest, healthiest lives in the history of humanity. The nation with the longest life expectancy is the workaholic Japanese culture so disparaged by the author!

Many people, especially in technology, say their productivity is changing the world, and this is irrefutable. But no one seems to know what they’re changing it into, because no one can measure the world. When no one can measure the world, how much can it really exist?

This really irks me. Measuring and quantifying something is a prerequisite to optimizing it. Maybe a lot of people are measuring the wrong things. Maybe they're missing or underweighting a factor. Maybe they just have different preferences than the author. But to suggest that the entire enterprise is bunk is to disregard centuries of progress across a dozen fields of study.

If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't
spending it right.[1]

1. http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WILSON%...

Edit: Pronouns fixed. Apologies, I thought Quinn was a male name.
How is this different from the "cut and paste programming" that has been largely decried?
I hate posts like this that don't name names. If someone's a bad actor, just do us all a favor and name the bad actor.

Using a throwaway in case I'm wrong, but Andrew Romans of Rubicon Venture Capital (http://rubicon.vc) checks all the boxes here:

* Andrew Romans' firm co-invested in Navdy, alongside with Upfront Capital, in mid-2014 (http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/02/navdy-raises-6-5m-for-its-i...

* Andrew Romans recently spoke on CNBC about Alibaba (http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000314534);

* Andrew Romans wrote 'The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital' (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D86G2NW);

* Andrew Romans did a 'fireside chat' with Dave McClure of 500Startups at SXSW (http://www.alleywatch.com/2014/03/what-dave-mcclure-said/);

* Andrew Romans' fund discusses a 'unique fund plus sidecar model', matching the 'sidecar' language used by Mark in the post (http://rubicon.vc).
BrowserStack is Shutting Down
> you can never go from strong consistency down to an eventually consistent system

Sure you can. In fact, almost every eventually consistent database is built on a collection of strongly consistent single systems. Eventually consistent systems are even frequently built on top of consistent distributed systems, and some of the largest infrastructure on the planet works just like that.
Bah, sorry about that. I copied it out of the chrome extension that I use to promote books on my blog out of habit. My bad. Won't happen again.
Clearly then our best path forward is to spend all our time convincing others to do things.
I had never heard of PracticeFusion, but clicking through their web site it looks like they're targeting solo practitioners and small practice groups.

Hospital systems with thousands of practitioners need systems that are many orders of magnitude more complex. The amount of investment it'd take to build a modern hospital-system EMR from scratch is enormous. A well-funded startup could certainly do it, but then there's the problem of adoption to deal with.

Hospital systems are very like big government from an IT standpoint: extremely conservative and risk-averse, even more so than regular big business tends to be ("you'll stop us from using Windows XP when you rip the install media from our cold, dead hands"). You know the old adage that nobody ever got fired for recommending IBM? Well, nobody ever got fired for recommending Epic.
Do the passwords provided in the mail actually work?
And then, there is also Jaron Lanier: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3899518/information-wants-...
The tacit identification in the post is an interesting strategy. Why not just explicitly identify the individual? Are there legal implications here or is he trying to manufacture more drama by getting the reader more involved?
Am I Lost Alone, in a World of APIs and Syntaxes?
I can kind of see where you're coming from.

The problem is this -- if your developers are good enough to understand all the operating system nuances of handling IO -- (how does dirty page writeback works, buffer cache vs page cache, opening file with O_DIRECT, what does append only mode do exactly to the file, how do you use append-only mode effectivelt, what operations are atomic on the file system, how does mmap function work, what about fadvise, etc. etc.), they are probably smart enough to not use the database and write their own storage layer, OR they are also smart enough to read through the fine print and pick a good database.

If they don't know those things, they will want to reach and pick a database off the shelf, so to speak. They might pick a bad database. Because they might not know how to read the fine print, how to benchmark, how to benchmark failure, how to not read into the marketing bullshit "But it said Webscale on the front page, how come it ate my data, I don't understand...".

Unfortunately quite often databases are treated like black boxes and they are chosen not necessarily becuase of technical merits. Sometimes it is stupid marketing sometimes it is golfware ("CEO spent time playing golf with an Oracle saleman. Salesman lost just enough, but in the end everyone is forced to use Oracle from now on).
Well "Sherlock Holmes Debugging" may be redundant, since this is really just "debugging" (though who would have clicked on that link?), I was most excited by this line:

> There is no sin in software engineering more serious than thinking some behavior of a computer system is magical or beyond our understanding.

I've been trying to find a good test case to get my junior engineers to step out of their code and see more of the layers. This is a pretty good mantra for improving your debugging skills.
For kicks and transparency sake, here's the bitlink: https://bitly.com/1xy6LYZ+
Wait, woah. Really? How? Where? Any links that will point me in a direction towards that demo app? Or even what it is named? How do I get started?
msravi didn't mention anything about this hypothetical parameter being local. Bell's theorem does not rule out nonlocal hidden variables.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopholes_in_Bell_test_experime.... Many of these are practical matters and have been overcome in one experiment or another, but some issues (like the possibility of superdeterminism) are more fundamental.

And the article explicitly mentions how pilot waves through superfluids could give rise to nonlocal yet deterministic effects.
Democratising-the-electric-car
Yes, I do. Even if it's not final, at least you have an idea of the direction you're taking. You'll find out quickly if it's the right direction or not. That's the fun about development!
Is the security claims in the email real? It should be possible to verify relatively easily -- and it should be done soon before they patch the security issues.
She is also a complete joke...
Someone Is Crawling TorHS Directories: Honeypot
I agree. These days, I tend to approach a persistency implementation by asking myself:

* will it be read or write heavy?

* by what data/key will I access the persistent data?

Most commonly for the type of work that I do, it's write once - read N number of times. What I end up doing then is just to keep the data in-mem in a hash table while writing it async to disk. Concurrent reads hit the hash table while the disk write is being performed. The file(s) are indexed by using a hash of the data itself, multiple ways to to lookups can also be done by using softlinks. Hashing lookup-keys are almost always prefered because of possible locale/security reasons (makes it harder for you to implement an accidental LFI if you only deal with base36) If needed and/or depending on access patterns, I also keep the N most accessed items in a hash table in-mem over time. The API for this usually ends up as two functions, Get and Put.

The amount of code for doing this is a couple of hundred lines at most and it's complexity I've found by experience to be preferable to using a db for the type of work that I do. YMMV.
I see how this being a DHS endeavour would give rise to the observations, but why would the offense in question, assuming it is one, be a homeland security rather than FBI or military police matter?
Assuming the RNG is a deterministic random number generator, then that should make the entire game deterministic? Given independent runs, the decisions that each cell takes should occur in order, and therefore achieve the same result.
That is where I think I come down on it too.

There are (probably, I don't really know) so many people out there who are either good writers or have good stories, it would not be so surprising if there are a significant number of people who are both.

Doing a quick google turns up [1] and [2], which describe her as

"Meredith Hattam is a web designer and writer based in New York, and an advisory-board member for the Model Alliance, a nonprofit labor group for models working in the American fashion industry."

Her homepage [2] also points to [3], and the writing there seems to live up to a similar standard. I can't tell if she writes everything on there or has simply submitted a story, but the tone of the few pieces I looked at sound very much like her.

Her blog is also quite interesting [4]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/meredith-hattam/

[2] http://meredithhattam.com/

[3] http://waitingroomny.com/

[4] http://meredithhattam.com/blog/
That sounds fantastic. I'll give it a look
A road map to the future for the auto industry
Is Open Source Software the Future?
Well, I think in many cases the intent by the speaker is to be gender-neutral, including in the cases OP shows. It can be ambiguous and off-putting to others though, and in other areas people usually accommodate (e.g. female chair members are "chairwoman", not "chairman").

It does bring up an interesting subject: what is a good colloquial or informal way of specifying a plural of an individual unit for these sorts of things without resulting to annoying chaining of multiple words like "guys/girls" or "men/women"? DevOps "guys" is out. DevOps "people" doesn't use individual units. DevOps "monkeys" or "ninjas" are kind of gender neutral but sound very...stupid. DevOps-ers sounds awkward. I guess you could go with something like "gurus" but not every hire is going to be a guru.

I suppose the safest option is "DevOps engineers", but that adds some additional formality and isn't so colloquial or simple.
Only in the sense that all matter in the universe can be defined as "physical information."
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