skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 28 and I've read it 3-4 times now. It's a truly an inspired work. I think that it would appeal to the HN community because the author, Robert Persig, arguably reaches a statement of enlightenment entirely through deductive reasoning. The story is essentially Persig's attempt to piece this whole event together after having undergone electric shock therapy. The story unfolds as Persig and his son travel across the US by motorcycle and is complemented by intermediary "chautauquas" (philosophical monologues) and technical monologues about motorcycle maintenance. The book is an enigma (unlike its sequel "Lila" which is not), and there isn't any other book that I've read that is like it.
You realize that my comment was in response to another comment, and not at the top level, right?
It matters if you want to participate in democracy by voting. Many (most?) places you can't even vote for your town's major or school board without a national citizenship.
Built time only. Docker is only used by the Traveling Ruby authors (i.e. Phusion and contributors) for building the binaries. You, as a Ruby developer who just wants to distribute your app, just uses the binaries that we have already built and uploaded somewhere. There is no need for you to run Docker.

On Linux, Docker is used to provide a controlled, isolated build environment. In other words, it serves as a "holy build box" (https://github.com/phusion/traveling-ruby#why-it-is-difficul...). There is no native Docker for OS X (i.e. a Docker which can run OS X binaries) so on OS X we try to get as close to an isolated, controlled build environment as we can by setting various environment variables (https://github.com/phusion/traveling-ruby/blob/master/osx/in...), but it's not perfect and I'm sure someone will have just the right amount of Homebrew libraries to interfere with it.

The build scripts are pretty simple. It needs more documentation, but here's the gist:

- setup-docker-container - builds a Docker container which will function as an isolated build environment. Only need to do this once.

- setup-runtime - builds a runtime which is used inside the Docker container. Builds mock chroots and stuff. Only need to do this once. The only reason why this exists is because of limitations in Docker.

- build - builds Ruby binaries, given a runtime directory. It spawns a Docker container which performs the actual building. Inside the Docker container, it invokes the compiler, copies stuff around, etc.

Just follow the hello world tutorial and you'll see how it works.
Or not.

But, going with that: Conversely, a better execution may be more difficult to implement successfully.

My original point was that the G-GP's statement was self-evident to the point of meaninglessness. You could flip the bits the other way and say something equally as meaning-ful(less).

Both idea and execution have some level of importance, but holding one constant while improving the other does nothing to discriminate between the relative value of either.
I think that some people may flaunt their philanthropy as a trophy of what a "great person" they are

Do you have an example of someone like this? Someone who flaunts philanthropy and actual harm occurs as a consequence of this?
> The majority of buildings in the U.S. are now on Google Maps.

I doubt this. Out of curiosity I looked at my family's farm and Google Maps is missing most of our outbuildings. More generally I'm sure that they come up short on backyard sheds, pool buildings, structures in dense forests, etc.
Good. Give it up. Most of us like me are willing to pay an additional 10% tax every year just to get US citizenship.
While JeorgR's point isn't well articulated, it's sad that almost any suggestion of racial discrimination appears to be reflexively downvoted and shouted down. So far we're unable to discuss the issue intelligently, which is what our society most needs.

Racial discrimination is widespread, and often unconsciously. For example, one of the first things you learn about hiring is that people instinctively hire employees like themselves. That's why comments like JeorgR's are valuable, to bring it to our attention.

If ~33% of the U.S. population (I'm guessing at the proportion of white males) dominate so much of our reading, our government, business, entertainment, technology, etc. -- just looking at the data, it raises serious (and what should be intellectually interesting) questions about how that happens, and about justice and fairness for the 66% whose opportunities are apparently much reduced.

EDIT: added a bit to the last sentence
Because being an American citizen is like having insurance as I clearly stated before. Also before he got the benefit of being American even though he was living abroad when he took the Rhodes scholarship.

If he doesn't want to have "being American insurance" then yes maybe he should give up his citizenship.

Had he argued just for less complex rules and regulations then I agree but that is not all he is advocating.

He is telling US taxpayers hey keep the country going, I am not going to contribute anything but I want to be able to easily comeback if I need to.
World's most powerful weapon: Mobile launched nuclear missile, top speed Mach 21
I live and work in Italy, for an Italian company, and have to pay taxes to Italy. I use Italian health care. My children go to Italian schools. I don't see why I should pay taxes to the United States. If my Italian wife were to live in the US, she would not owe any taxes to Italy. This is true for citizens of all countries besides the US and Eritrea, and the latter probably does not have the means to enforce it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Individu...
We do use Slack. It's great for real-time communication, and has made us way happier than any other chat system we've tried. (In fact, a year prior we'd tried out lots of chat systems, each time feeling like the switching cost to try was higher than whatever incremental value we were getting. But when we came across Slack, it was so obviously better we decided to try again. We ended up pretty painlessly switching within a day.)

However, email hasn't gone anywhere. As soon as you want to interface with the outside world, it's a hard requirement. It's also pretty hard to beat a lot of the properties of email: arbitrary-sized blobs of text and attachments that are fully searchable, taggable, organizable, and have read/archive states.

I think everyone would love to see an email killer come along (and I'd love if that were indeed Slack), but thus far I haven't seen anything come close.
Yeah, that's what I meant, but it was before caffeine this morning and now its too late to edit.
When I saw that Bill Gates called Business Adventures by John Brooks his favorite business book ever back in July, I figured he must have some deal with the publisher who was reprinting it.

According to the Forbes article linked below, they saw his blog post and rushed to reprint it based on the demand he created.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2014/07/28/how-bil...
It's relevant because it's not just about farming. There is a huge cultural shift involved in Joe Studwell's recommendations. A native would know which cultural patterns are more desirable to reform. It's also possible that Studwell does not entirely have the region's best interests at heart, and is writing to influence things in his favor. After all, that's why the USA doesn't allow people born in other countries to become President.
Not necessarily acquitted though - could be the case hasn't come to trial yet, or some pressure was applied somewhere along the way that would never show up in a background check.
I think this kind of flagging is misplaced. Politics is usually unwanted on HN because political posts usually reduces to "OMG, [Obama/Tea party] SUXXORZ!!!!".

When it's sufficiently interesting, politics is ok, the problem is propaganda and discussing values that are a matter of taste.
Despite all of Google' effort, they still rely too much on USGS published maps. For example, just 6 miles from the GooglePlex is a road in Newark with a gate [1], but Google doesn't know you can't drive on it.

They're doing a good thing, but unless you can see that Google has driven the route and has published street view, you can't entirely trust them.

[1] 37.515696 -122.050873
>Republicrats and Demicans

My boss goes with the phrase "Republi-cons and Demo-rats" which I was always a fan of.
Ah yeah if it's a big service like that, esp. selling via employers, I could see $5k being the going rate. My employer paid for Deloitte to provide relocation assistance (mostly helping me find an apartment), and I think they charged about the same. You don't really get in the door at those kinds of places for less than a few $k.

If you're an individual with a fairly "normal" expat job (just a salary), I'd recommend finding an independent tax preparer who's done expat taxes before. There are a lot of CPAs who have 1-person offices doing tax prep, and some are knowledgeable about how to file for an expat. I asked around and found a friend-of-a-friend in that line of business.
Internet of Things: The Data Is Coming from Inside the House
>People tend to have a sense of what they make per hour, but very few people have a sense of their daily rate, unless they're consultants.

Why? Isn't it equally easy to divide a monthly salary by 30 as by 30 x 8 (ignoring holidays, to keep it simple)?
Yeah because that is what he meant and said in his post.
You can use Cloudflare to manage DNS only, so there is no "slow down".
This is a cool idea. It seems like the meatspace analogy of BOINC[0], substituting physical lab equipment for computing power.

I wonder if this could lead to grant approvals requiring that procedures be duplicated in at least one remote lab and those results also discussed in publications. It would protect against tampering data tampering, but it could also potentially catch lab errors by providing a second dataset. Unfortunatley, I suspect the overheads will mean that such duplication in an external lab might be tough to justify, from a cost standpoint.

[0] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
OK, but in the UK it’s the same scenario until the point where the government automatically returns any extra taxes you’ve paid (assuming you’re purely paying income tax through your employer).
Disclaimers: I was CTO@Kx for a while, but also like InfluxDB :-)

It is definitely more finance oriented, though Kx are making moves towards other application areas. Another difference I'd highlight is that Kx concentrate on the core database itself, esp. performance and expressiveness of the query language, and leave things like GUIs and admin add-on tools to partners (like first derivatives and aquaq).

kdb does just fine with metrics and sensor data. Personally, I would argue that it's weaker on string handling though, which can hurt in certain use cases.

I doubt it'll go open source any time soon. However, it being around a long time is something salescritters can spin to wonderful effect re stability, support, etc etc. ;-)

I think there are fine application areas in finance that you should consider -- just consider the many areas where the core problem isn't related to juggling TB of market data ticks coming off the exchanges.
Vega: a distributed mailbox system
If we want to reduce police brutality we have to end the war on drugs
I'm with you. Is this just some stupid form I fill out for no reason? Or is it going to actually help match me up with people? It might be answered in the video, but I shouldn't have to watch a video to figure out what the point of a web site is.
Actually I am quite happy about his list this year. Great to see a business related book making the top of the list. Seems to me a shift from "the world is full of problems" towards "the world is full of opportunities".
This looks really interesting.

How are you writing the data to disk? I don't see exactly what you're doing in the article. Are you just writing the data to files directly or is there some sort of DB in there? From what I've seen, the storage is the most difficult part.
If you end up switching to Route 53, Namecheap support can give you a Zone file (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_file) to upload into Route 53. They're not exactly the same format; here's a GIST of the script I used to convert them the last time Namecheap was having DNS issues: https://gist.github.com/scpike/a72a748126cbb4359c03
SDN Series Part II: Trema, a Framework for Developing OpenFlow Controllers
Murakami is great, his prose really touched me in a creative/imaginative sense. I get this surreal and whimsical sensation while reading his fiction.

If you're lining up possible other books to read by him, I suggest Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
> When it's sufficiently interesting, politics is ok, the problem is propaganda and discussing values that are a matter of taste.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120530 is a pretty good summary of why I don't want to see politics here. I'll also add the "bullshit asymmetry principle": http://ordrespontane.blogspot.it/2014/07/brandolinis-law.htm... - which tends to become important as these discussions grow. It's super easy to say some inane thing, but to properly refute it requires research, links, statistics, reason... it's difficult. I don't think "good political discussions" are a stable state, either - it's something that might happen for a period of time, but then decay sets in.
Not really, when I write a page per day, I end up with 20 pages in a year. At least for me, rewriting is a very important part of the process.
In the age of DNS providers with APIs, you really should have at least two. At YC we've just moved everything to Route53 and will be adding more - likely CloudFlare and Google Cloud DNS.

All of it will be managed by configuration files in version control, and won't require anything antiquated like zone transfers.

If the code is clean enough I'll release it with pluggable registrar and DNS provider modules.
If you haven't read this book, do. Absolutely and without question life-changing.

Also contains the best description and explanation of the scientific method I've ever read - so good that I put the book on the curriculum of a course on online advertising I ran this year!
China taxes worldwide income also for their citizens, it's just that this rule is mostly ignored.
Cloudflare it's free and works very well (you don't have to use their reverse proxy/cdn).
As a minority that's been closely tied his 'non-white' culture his entire life, I would strongly disagree. Most of my favourite books this year have probably been written by white men, but that's just because white male authors are common in the genres of books I like to read.

I'm not going to force myself to read books from people of my culture (or non-white in general) just to meet some arbitrary bigoted quota. I respect authors for their ability to write well and make solid arguments, not for their skin color, culture, or anything else. If your view of minorities is that we're so prideful/nationalist that we [should] read mostly books by non-white authors, then I find that highly offensive.
This is not uncommon.

For example, Yahoo sued Google for patent infringement over Ads right before Google's IPO.

It then sued Facebook for patent infringement right before Facebook's IPO

etc
Honestly, this just further proves no one should develop for Apple, because Apple can just come in and shit all over your hard work.

Tranmit on OSX is an invaluable tool for people who don't understand how to use scp and sftp from the command line, and I've recommended it to many OSX users who were unwilling to learn how to use the command line.

Edit: I don't care if people downvote me, this is my opinion, and as a software developer, it is my opinion that governs if I write for iOS or not. As long as Apple continues to treat devs this way, I will continue to not care about iOS.
The failed economics of our software commons and what to do about it
Only reading books written by men is not less sexist than reading both and only liking books written by men, so I'm not sure how that would help.

If men are more likely to be published than women, that's an indication of a sexist industry (or sub-genre) and something that all readers should be actively working to compensate for.
Great, now the Russians have an anti-anti-missile-missile-missile.
This is actually just one of the many ridiculous decisions taken by the App Store review team. The truth is that developers keep getting forced to remove functionality, sometimes the decisions are reversed but not always (and it might only work if you've got a large enough following).

I've had enough of this stuff and I've voted with my feet - I no longer develop for iOS and I'm back to the Mac, outside the MAS.

My absence won't make any difference to Apple but it makes a huge difference to my wellbeing and health by not having to deal with this stuff. It pains me so much to see fellow developers' efforts just thrown down the garbage bin. It's extremely demotivating to have your work crippled when you're striving to create the best software. The reason why this keeps happening and will continue is simple - there are hundreds of thousands of people developing for iOS, it's Apple's playground and their rules - if you don't like it, you can leave. If you're an indie, you have zero leverage, that's the reality. I honestly hope things improve in the future but until that happens, I'm done with it.

A few recent examples where the (Mac) App Store cripples apps:

- Drafts get asked to remove widget while other widgets to do the exact same http://www.macrumors.com/2014/12/02/apple-drafts-widget-remo...

- Rejected for slide to start, which is a gesture not even used anymore: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/11/25/racesplitter-rejected-for-...

- Sandbox forces feature removal http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/12/02/garagepays-encryption-remo...

- Notification Center rejection http://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/18/apple-cracks-down-on-nea...

- PCalc got asked to remove calculator but then decision reversed http://www.macstories.net/ios/apple-asks-pcalc-developer-to-...
I'm an American citizen living and working in Switzerland for the last 8 years. When my daughter turned 5, I took her to our local bank to open a savings account for her. The people at the bank turned pale when they realized I was an American. They explained to me that they would have to do a giant pile of paperwork and due to the trouble, they could not open an account. My wife (who's Swiss) had to go to the bank to do it for me. I've had this experience several times, and only hold one account here. It's not like I'm a tax-dodging rich person, I'm an average programmer earning a modest wage. Meanwhile, I know Americans who live here and have quite a lot of money, and manage to move it around and not pay much tax at all. It makes me really want to give up my passport, too.
Do you really think Bill Gates selectively reads book only by white males?

Do you really think Bill Gates would hesitate to put a book on his list of best books if it was written by someone other than a white male?

It's a ridiculous claim when there's absolutely no proof to back it up.

Also, how does it help the problem of what you call "widespread", "unconscious" racial discrimination to artificially include books by non-white, non-male authors just to meet a race/gender criteria? Does that really help the problem?
NASA's New Horizons Probe Wakes Up for Pluto Encounter
A truly futile 'vulnerability'.
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No, you don't understand... this startup's goal is to provide a SaaS methodology for tracking down peer reviewers and threatening their families. Concurrently, the staff engineers will front-run patent applications based on users' experimental data.
Banned is simply not acceptable. They should also be charged for fraud, making false promises about their services to their customers which got one lady raped.
Product Hunt Thrives as a Startup Showcasing Startups
Everyone should head over to https://www.apple.com/feedback/ and drop off a quick note about this. It seemed to help in getting the pcalc decision reversed.
I think he should have picked books he liked less but were written by people other than white men so there was more diversity in the list.
Can I start creating generative art?
Hello HNers!

I am just a web developer with EE degree and quite solid background in math. I would like to ask you what steps should I take to be able to fiddle with generative art?
A cliché? Or general agreement? I thought people generally agreed that Spain has issues in that regard.

"I know the states and bureaucracy..."

I wasn't referring to states in general, you were talking about Spain, I was responding about Spain. I'm not a ranting libertarian, I'm aware of a state's role in society. Knee jerk pouncing on a cliché that wasn't here.

we've been told over and over again that we have to stay competitive, which is just an euphemism for working more and earning less

How much of that extra work is unnecessary (in Spain)?
Here's one such review by Andrew le Donne.
http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-usuall...

I would say that there is some value in Mr. Aslan's book, but while it is presented as unbiased, there as just as much bias in his book as in Wright's that I noted above.
Did a Hyper-black Hole Spawn the Universe?: Nature News and Comment
Ugh, there are a lot of countries, including big ones like china.
The time it takes for people to learn Haskell varies greatly from person to person. Your experience might be different from that of the OP. But no matter how long it takes you, I think you'll get vastly more than a "small slice of cake".
Indoor Air Quality – Do we think about it much?
I don't think the restaurants that this is being marketed towards are competing with food trucks and blogs.

To assume that the real-estate market will suddenly become perfect is kinda ignorant considering how unscalable commercial real-estate is. And this product that they're claiming to make IS THE THING that will solve the local restaurant's demand management issue.

So what you've said basically is that IF unicorns exist OR their product doesn't work THEN they'll fail. ( A+B' = B')

Well I can remove a logic gate for you: IF their product doesn't work THEN they'll fail. (B')
> it does not assign copyright to Mozilla

This is common to many CLAs (sane ones, at least). The Go CLA (really the Google CLA[1]) also does not assign copyright to the Go project, it gives them a license to "reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works"

[1] https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual
I'm pretty sure you didn't read my comment at all, "Most will die off" was there for a reason. Also, don't confuse a fork dying off with it becoming something completely different.
The difference is that some technologies use encapsulation and abstraction to manage complexity, while others vomit megabytes of configuration on the floor.

Of course Docker in an enterprise will never be as simple as running a Rails app on your Macbook, but it provides an encapsulation primitive that looks as powerful for deployment as object orientation and functional programming were for development.

SICP lecture #1: we manage complexity through means of abstraction and means of combination. Docker is a means of abstraction, and it leaks less than the others we have so far (Chef cookbooks, etc.) We haven't quite figured out what the means of combination is. It won't be trivial - writing programs certainly isn't - but it will be better than handrolled assembly.
Except that many other countries have freedom but don't spend anywhere near as much (absolute or per capita) on defence.
They're being paid by a US employer in that case, and I suspect that they're not being taxed by the host country, since they're temporary residents. Wouldn't that pretty pretty easily distinguished from "employed by private UK company, pays UK taxes"?