skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that it's best to disable arrow keys in insert mode only. This is the real problem here. By using arrow keys in insert mode, the novice ends up using vim just like a glorified notepad, and never truly understanding the different modes. Since they aren't ever going back to command mode, they never consider using more advanced movement operators, and then they never realize the power of composing motions and commands.

Whenever I start teaching someone vim, I always add this to their .vimrc:

inoremap <Left> <nop>
inoremap <Right> <nop>
inoremap <Up> <nop>
inoremap <Down> <nop>

This way, arrows still work as expected in command mode, but not in insert mode. The novice will learn to only insert in insert mode, and move and operate in command mode.
It seems pretty ambitious to claim that you're wise and intelligent enough to be able to know what an infinitely wise and intelligent thing would want.
Edit: Oh I get it, that was satire.
Qt5.4 Just Released, with Added Chromium Browser Engine
I assume you once did a project where you were trying to make FactoryModelControllerInitWidgets in js? The fetishization of boilerplate doesn't work as well in js.
Early Rosetta data causes rethink of where Earth got its water
Hold on, you're using the fact that UK journalists ironically recycle a term that's normally used in a perjorative sense as justification for stereotyping them? What you've said can be effectively applied to any possible occupation in any field.
This article is 4 years old, written before the tunnel project started, but it clearly lays out the risks. Not only in building the actual tunnel, but also that the city of Seattle (of which I'm a happy resident) is on the hook for any cost overruns. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/what-could-possibly-go-wr...

Search for the section that starts with "The tunnel-boring machine gets stuck" to read Dominic's assessment of TBM risks.
This German Invention Supposedly Makes the Best Coffee You've Ever Tasted
I've seen the exact same issue in some Dell PowerConnect switches.

We only saw the issue when using the "iSCSI Auto-Config" mode. Manually configuring the switches with the same config but entered by hand resolved the issue.
In general, free play and basic obedience training.
That's an infantilizing policy. Why should the government decide when you take some of your vacation?
Oh look, another nautil.us link gets posted and quickly picks up 6 upvotes.

I've read and enjoyed a fair number of articles on nautil.us so I'm not saying this in a nasty way.... But the vote ring involved here seems way too obvious.
Scott Aaronson on Walter Lewin
Scientific Peer Review Is Broken – Fighting to Fix It with Anonymity
cheap for one server...definitely not cheap at AWS scale.
So, to reintegrate this datum into the ancestor post...

* The newspaper would advertise job openings for reporters with "5 years of experience writing in Moldovan" as a requirement. Reporters that list experience in "Romanian" are arbitrarily culled from consideration. Despite the requirement, 100% of the newspaper is written in English.

* The newspaper had a correspondent in Moldova about 3 years ago, who also wrote in English, and that section of the new job description was blindly copied from the advertisement for his replacement, a position which was actually cancelled after 4 weeks, for "business reasons". The newspaper loudly complains about a shortage of qualified reporters. They don't mention that the candidate that they interviewed rejected their offer for its ridiculously low base pay.

* The reporter job is eventually outsourced to Moldova. Readers wonder why the local police blotter has so many Andreis, Tanyas, and Nicolais in it, and begin to worry about the Russian troops quartered east of the river.
Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology
Would any start-up founder refuse investment from Ron Conway because of his personal beliefs? Ultimately, do you care about the source of funds?

For those who are more discerning, can you recommend any investors? How many Michael Dearings are there?

http://www.harrisonmetal.com/nsa-corrosion-of-silicon-valley...
I think a 4 day workweek should become a thing. I am more than happy to put in extra hours monday through thursday so I can have an extra day for the weekend.
Lots of places have a "License to Carry Passengers", and the purpose of that license is to prevent new drivers. It's not to protect passengers. I'm fine with requirements that protect passengers. I'm not fine with requirements whose sole purpose is to prevent new drivers.

Regarding the knowledge (yes, I know it's for black cab hails) - if you think that's useful, and are willing to pay the increased rates that result from the higher level of service (and as one who has taken London Cabs, I can attest it's a wonderful service, just not one I would be willing to pay for), then you should be free to pay for that service, in the same way that others should be free to provide and advertise it.

But don't make it a requirement to run a service like Uber/Lyft.
A downright prescient 2010 article from Seattle's local alternative newspaper
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/what-could-possibly-go-wr...
Cell Biologists Often Skip a Simple Test That Could Verify Their Work
When people talk, they lose out on the advantage of psychology. compete with the future, not with their ego - (founders have an abundance of this).

Keep youre head up, watch the $$ fall down. Keep your head down, watch the $$$ go up.
Seattle's Tunnel Project is cursed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIeuSlKQ3w (1:19 sketch comedy)
Heads up: Ghostery prevents typekit from loading by default, which completely blocks anything from rendering on the landing page.
Yes, It looks like it doesn't support multi-key ACID transactions. As per:

https://ramcloud.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RAM/Deciding+Whe...

> If your application requires the higher-level data model features of a relational database, such as secondary indexes and transactions spanning multiple objects, then it may be difficult to get that application running on RAMCloud. The current RAMCloud data model is a key-value store with a few extension (such as conditional writes, table enumeration, and multi-read/multi-write operations); it does not yet support secondary indexes and multi-object transactions. Most of these operations can be implemented on top of the existing RAMCloud features, but it will take extra work and these operations will not run as fast as the built-in RAMCloud operations. We are currently working on adding higher-level features to RAMCloud.

Still. Aside from that, it is free, and open source and gives hundred times better latency?
I realize this is a personal project, but this is deeply amusing considering that:

1. Way back when (circa 1998-2001?), the Mozilla project started as a radical redesign of the next gen Netscape browser. One of the core principles of the architecture was that the browser itself would render the UI elements (using an HTML-like tech call XUL).

2. The Firefox browser (then called "Phoenix") was a reaction against the above, which was thought to make the browser too heavyweight and slow. Originally Phoenix was the Gecko engine in a native UI window without all the XUL overhead (and without all the other components of the Mozilla Suite like the email client).

Now we're seeing the reverse trend, 15 odd years later.

EDIT: It turns out I misremembered about Phoenix dropping XUL completely--rather they dropped XPFE for a "new light-weight XUL toolkit", along with dropping all the non-browser components of the Mozilla suite.
The only reason why we are here and not rotting are our immune systems. Take it away and we dissolve in matter of days.

Recently research on very old lady showed that all of her immune cells came from just a handful of stem cells.

It made me think that the only reason we live that long is because, that's how long our immune system lives. As we grow old it becomes less and less versatile as stem cells die out and less effective as the most effective randomly die out. Then the old age diseases kick in as there's less and less competence in cleaning up this pile of bio-matter that we are.

Excising and eating a little is not because it almost kills us and therefore it makes us stronger, just because our cleaning crew was optimized for much less food and much more movement.

Stress is not good for you. When you see pair of identical twins you can tell which one lived life of more stress. He/she looks older and by various measurements is older.
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Tolerance builds quickly and a strong mental addiction develops quickly. Having to take a shit ton constantly means you're pissing brown within a few months and cessation means withdrawals (nothing even close to heroin, but still there).

Source: my friend with a ketamine addiction.
Actually, @aphyr's analysis is wrong. In fact it's actually worse that he says. There is an exactly 0% chance of conflicts between two transactions that each only write 20 random keys (as they do in this test). This is perhaps counterintuitive, but, because there are no reads, any serialization order is possible and therefore there is no chance of conflict.

Equally wrong is his assumption that this has any bearing on the performance of FoundationDB. In fact FoundationDB will perform the same whether the conflict rate is high or low. This isn't to say that FoundationDB somehow cheats the laws of transaction conflicts, just that it has to do all the work in either case. There is no trick or cheat on this test--this same performance will hold on a variety of workloads with varying conflict rates as well as those including reads.
It could hardly have been more obvious that the cut and cover option (trench with a lid "tunnel") was the best choice for the public.
One Weird Trick to Design Perfect Applications(?)
How the VPs of Sales of Talkdesk, Zenefits, Showpad and Guidespark Doubled Sales
Right, but if I'm understanding all this correctly, unused vacation time exists as outstanding debts that can be called in as soon as an employee departs.

In theory, that could be enough to tank a company that otherwise might've (somehow) survived the departure of their employees.
The article is a little thin, but the Paragon of the Polygons on which it's based is quite lovely: http://ncase.me/polygons/

I'd love to see a lot more about this. It's one thing to know subtle bias magnifies in groups. It's far more interesting to then see how that plays out in different circumstances.

EDIT: I just realized they have "further reading" at the bottom. Here's one relevant to most of us: http://iangent.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-wh...
Yes is it all closed. Look at bittorrent-sync. Totally cool, but closed and controlled.
I don't see that working here, other than being used for porn and piracy.
A City That Is Moving 9 Kilometers Down the Road
This is Foundation DB's announcement they are doing full ACID databases with a 14.4M writes per second capability. That is insanely fast in the data base world. Running in AWS with 32 c3.8xlarge configured machines. So basically NSA level data base capability for $150/hr. But perhaps more interesting is that those same machines on the open market are about $225,000. That's two rack, one switch and a
transaction rate that lets you watch every purchase made at every Walmart store in the US, in real time. That is assuming the stats are correct[1], and it wouldn't even be sweating (14M customers a day vs 14M transactions per second). Insanely fast.

I wish I was an investor in them.

[1] http://www.statisticbrain.com/wal-mart-company-statistics/
How about a multiple column AND partial index? (that may have been what you are suggesting). Best of both worlds? I just tried it, and it does work (at least on 9.4). Here's an extremely contrived example with a rails 'users' table

create index test_index on users (name, email) where name > 'A' and email > 'B'
Torrent Based browser from BitTorrent
You might be thinking of something else. Erdős was constantly remarking that he would offer some amount for some problem. I would guess there are hundreds of open problems with Erdős prizes attached -- some large, some small.

I can't find a list. Odd.
"Surely god would never disagree with me"
Oh wow. Good to know. Thank you.
You see, I barely need to "understand" Java to use it and get decent and performant code but I need to be a javascript expert to be able to do anything not horrible.

Please stop trying to act like the state of web and javascript is good because it's shit. Web development is basically a bunch of people suffering from stockholm syndrome.
The submitted title was "Rosetta first results: ocean water not from comets". Since the article's own title is not very informative, we changed it to the first sentence, which is. We also changed the url from http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/12/10/rosetta-fuels-debate..., which points to this.
Might be nice if we could specify an external file, or a YouTube video, instead of uploading or recording a sound.
Citi Ventures, Plug and Play Launch Global FinTech Accelerator
Rendering perf is catching up
2.x since it's widely available on systems. I do DevOps work.
> AOL with Tor. Yay.

I checked but I could not find any mention of Tor; could you explain why you threw that into the mix?
obviously something on your end is being done right.
Is there any large software company in the industry that has a sizeable development center in India that isn't a clusterfuck?

I've got a sample size of three and all were gong shows.

I blame the outsourcing mindset -- low cost, high volume of people. No focus on quality and accountability. Because the individual engineers I've worked with have on average been excellent. Most of the time though you just get a pool of "resources" rather than actual named people with clear responsibilities.
Yes, the default since git 2.0 is simple push which just pushes the branch you are on. It can also be set since I think git 1.8.

I don't understand the issues that are being presented by this plugin and I really don't like the tone of the whole thing. If you understand push and pull the workflow is pretty simple, even in large groups.
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Would a better fix have been to have a load balancer per team, and then have the EC2 instance bind to the correct load balancer?
Of the Apple devices, iPhone 4 and 4s dominate. This tells me that either the data is old; or more recent device users (5, 5s, 6) don't upload to Flickr as much any more.
Marketing ethics
Way back when wasn't the original plan for Seamonkey to use Gecko to render the UI as well? Maybe they were too far ahead of their time back then.
A service like this would be great. I recently had a spike in expenses due to some home repairs and some part time work would have been great to deal with it.
I don't have any hands on experience with SASS, but IIUC, you can `@include` and `@extend` PocketGrid as well.
As of a fairly recent (pre-Glass) interview I saw with Thad Starner, he was still using it. The interview must have been in 2011 or 2012. However, I've never seen the code for any of these things.

That said, RA (as documented) was a quick elisp hack -- so, you could hack up a similar thing in your language of choice for your editor of choice. (I think the use of elisp was dependent upon the fact that you can -- and many people do -- do everything inside emacs ;-)
For Universal Pictures, Zero Blockbusters Equals Record Profits
I really like this idea! Wonder how I could convince my day job to try it out.
The major reasons why Uber/Lyft changed my life when ordering taxis:

o Single Contact point - I don't have to power dial a bunch of different services, or try and find out who is currently picking up in my region.

o Always, Always, Always a driver available. There were so many times when I just could never get a pickup on the peninsula. With Uber/Lyft, no matter how busy it is, or what concerts are playing, I can always get a ride. 100% of the time. (And yes, I know surge pricing makes those rides pricey, but I would much rather pay 3x or 4x and have a ride in 5 minutes than spend an hour to 90 minutes waiting for a cab. )

o When the driver/dispatch claims they are on the way - they always show up. Not only do they always show up, they show up reasonably on time. And, better yet, I can see if they are moving in my direction. That real-time car location technology is a major innovation.

o The feedback mechanism means I haven't been picked up by one psycho, or in one half-broken down vehicle yet. I'm not claiming they haven't existed on Uber/Lyft, I'm certain they have. But, those types of drives will be downvoted so quickly they'll cease to be a driver very quickly. With Taxis, I had a ton of drivers on the peninsula I dreaded being picked up by. One of them was frequently undergoing some weird psychotic episodes which had him shouting out to voices. Another was just an asshole. I frequently got into old cars with non-working windows, and often doors that would not open from the inside.

o No screwing around having to "pay through an app" - you don't pay - you just book your ride and get out at your destination. Particularly when you have a bunch of bags and stuff - that's awesome.

These are just a few of the reasons why Uber/Lyft changed everything. I can't believe anybody who frequently took taxis on the Peninsula would claim otherwise. Price is about #7 or #8 on the list.
> That's not really a rebuttal. Sure, maybe we can ask that question about those things too. Why not?

I gave my questions as examples of large groups behaving unoptimally. That happens all the time everywhere, so using the "well why hasn't the market sorted it out then" argument against any one question (vacation policy in this case) is a little naive.

> Are you expecting everyone's political opinions to mesh with yours so closely that we'll all agree if a theory seems to contradict them, it must obviously invalidate the theory?

I don't see where politics come into this unless you think Prop 13 is good for Californians or that U.S.'s nation-building in Iraq went swimmingly.
Why ApplePay is Fizzling
That's a fair point. We added "19th Century" to the title.
I want to second the advice to write. That helps me a lot. Pick any of your hundreds of interest or articles. Reserve some time for it, lets say one hour. Study / read for 30-40 mins. And then use the rest of the time to write a summary. That is the hard part and forces you to concentrate and really understand the subject. It also clears out a lot of subjects because you will notice much faster what you are really interested in. Ideally blog about it so you have the pressure to write something decent.
To our friends at Twitter – On flying the coop
"Maybe there's a way to solve [net neutrality] with technology, he muses". "Maybe we don't need to attack from a policy perspective."

"The internet has handled big problems in the past, and they always do it through innovation, through technology," Klinker says.

Amen to that. So, what they're basically saying is, seed your webcache. Interesting idea, but what happens with dynamic content?

Note: this looks like a way to keep tpb online indepedent of servers or domains
Would any start-up founder refuse investment from Ron Conway because of his personal beliefs?

Yes. I would refuse to take his money, based on his support for the CIA and torture.
Weather Man: Life at a Remote Russian Weather Station
My husband and I work from home, and my inlaws can't figure out why we also send our toddlers to daycare.
First, they are an Uber driver, so presumably they have at least filled in a form or applied. I know my Lyft drivers frequently have applied to be Uber drivers but haven't been approved, so there is clearly some type of process.

But, more importantly - how familiar are you with Taxi Drivers on the Peninsula. Many of them are very new to the valley, many of them have just started driving, and quite a few of them are scary, psychotic, or just plain mean. I have yet to have that experience with Uber/Lyft, and when I do, I expect my, and others feedback, to correct that situation immediately rather than have to deal with it for any prolonged period of time.

Also - think of the hundreds (thousands?) of people a day for the last 10 years who carpool over the bay bridge. In that situation, you truly are getting into an absolutely random strangers car. People don't seem to have any issues with that - and there is ZERO background check, tracking, or awareness of those people.

The world is not as scary as people seem to think it is - In terms of risks, the most dangerous thing is likely not your driver, but the fact that you are in a car in the first place. They kill 30,000+ people a year.
I have to agree. I love Houston but I left it for San Antonio because the tech scene in SA was much more lively with Geekdom and Techstars. Though I'm now in Boulder I've been keeping in eye on SA and there's a lot of cool stuff going on there, plus the VC activity has really picked up—multiple $1+ million rounds have been announced or will be announced in the next few weeks.
One thing that San Francisco has that somewhere like Detroit doesn't, is the affluent residents with the ability to sustain a service like Uber or startups such as food delivery. Those kind of services are viable to create a startup focused on in SF but not in Detroit.
Sometimes we all need a little help to wake up. ZzzupApp might come in handy
> Still. Aside from that, it is free, and open source and gives hundred times better latency?

It doesn't have the same guarantees. If you need those guarantees, then there's no comparison and it doesn't make sense to compare latencies.
But a multicolumn index on (b, c, a) would be effective for a query on (b, c), as well as on (a, b, c).
Is this the first step to switch to servo?
Decentralized Payments with Bitcoin, Adrian Macneil from Coinbase
I'm all for it if it means we finally get ::-webkit-scrollbar equivalency in Firefox...
I don't know, they seem to tout interfacing with network and hardware pretty heavily.
You've coded a lot in languages very similar to Java and that is an argument for Java's ease of use?
I had noticeable psychosis courtesy of ketamine in the ICU after being run over by a truck. Likely having a broken pelvis etc. didn't contribute to a positive trip, of course, but I would be very reluctant to take it again (not that anyone asked at the time - or that I could have answered sensibly). But like most psychoactives, dosage is key...
what about Algolia? HN uses it
I think,it is not possible for the companies in consulting or services business.
It is far easier for the right way to "stick" if you can reference something you did the wrong way beforehand while learning it. Learning Haskell recently has helped me really understand this; finding the right way is difficult and often not entirely intuitive at first, but once you try it out and work through things the hard way, you gain the ability to appreciate what you were missing.
How to Stop Wasting Colleagues’ Time
Hey! I grew up in the Downriver area as well (Lincoln Park specifically, about which the less said the better).

Growing up, I only ever went into Detroit for concerts and the semi-annual "Greektown" pilgrimage. Outside of that, it was blight everywhere, and I thought that is how a big city looked. It wasn't until my college years that I seen a bit more of the world and my perspective changed on urban areas.

Overall, I think Techstars moving in will be enormously positive. Cheap rents, stalwart employees (because of the bitter winters), and a "we can only go up from here" attitude is a good mix.
Alternative headline: "Ketamine, a commonly used anaesthetic drug long on the WHO's list of essential medicines, raises hopes and concerns as treatment for depression"

But that headline would be way too long.
I precisely ranted about this issue as a way to challenge Google: http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng...

I think we need to optimize local search engines and aggregate (in some ways) all this into a global search engine.