skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: How does the average volume of the people you talk to affect battery life? Volume-setting being equal, will I have longer battery life if I only call whisperers?
I do this as a performance piece, in particular, performing it at this year's annual MathsJam gathering[0]. I do know people who have worked out how to do it from first principles. I became aware of it about 18 months ago, interesting to see it getting some publicity. I've been trying, but as yet have been unable to find the original source.

Tanya Khovanova[1] wrote about it some time ago, although I can't find the exact link, but doesn't remember where she got it from.

Nice puzzle.

[0] http://www.mathsjam.com

[1] http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/
Funny, I thought it was actually a law that they MUST disclose such things. Thanks for the heads up.
Waste of bandwidth.

edit: Oh, I see there's content past that stupid splash page.
Can't you just Ctrl+ it?
Probably in a very drab, anonymous office park just like most companies in the Valley.
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I understand why Uber's culture might be less popular with drivers and I certainly wish they seemed less smarmy - to echo another commenter - but this description totally underscores why I prefer Uber to Lyft as a customer.

Nothing against Lyft per se (though getting hit on by drivers twice, including a text after the fact, my last trip to SF didn't help), but the "we're all friends" culture sounds ok on paper but when I'm paying for car service, maybe I'm just a bitch, but I don't want to be your friend.

I get there is a difference between liveries and ride sharing in some cities, I do. But I live in New York. I don't want to sit in the front. I don't want to bump your fist. I don't always want to talk (though I've maintained a diary of sorts of many of my favorite Uber driver conversations). I'k primarily using the app because I need a car and couldn't get a taxi. Having a warm and fuzzy relationship is fine, but most of the time I'm trying to do work on my laptop or iPad. As a result, I'm more incline to use the service that treats it as a business than a lark.

But I do appreciate that Lyft drivers feel more appreciated there. That's important. I hope Lyft continues to treat it's drivers well.
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Update: the discovery endpoint is pretty simple and now documented: https://github.com/docker/swarm/blob/master/discovery/README...
I find this really interesting. I prefer Uber at-least in LA. I have used both Uber and Lyft pretty consistently in the last year. My problem with lyft has been my extreme experiences that come at the expense of "being a friend". I have had rides from LAX with drivers asking me very private information like my religious beliefs. There was another guy who was talking about his relationships and hinting at his sex life. It was bizarre and funny in the way he said that he does not like to talk but lyft emphasizes on this social experience (and in my head I was like, dude please shut up.. i wont mind) I am sure these incidents can happen with Uber but so far I have never been creeped out even if I thought the drivers were rude or even reckless etc.

With lyft, I tend to sit on the passengers side; which kind of increases my sense of dread when I get weird drivers.

I hear this quite frequently on how awesome it is that Lyft emphasizes this social experience. But in my personal experience it has a (slight?) downside.
You know, the whole point of cat is that you don't need to use it in a loop. It concatenates files. It wasn't named after a small furry mammal.
I checked out duktape a while ago and found the documentation quite impressive. Although it didn't seem to have too many examples regarding how to embed into a typical app (with class hierarchy, etc).

Also like a lot of these other "lua alternatives", it's interesting to note development seems to be driven mostly by one guy... which if you want to use it in a project brings up the question: "What if they get hit by a bus?".
I remember having one of those plastic-enclosed mercury maze games where you tried to guide a blob of mercury (without it breaking up) from the outside to the center of a maze. 1970s probably. I recall having it for quite a few years. Probably it broke and the mercury came out at some point :-)
I'm definitely going to have to look into this more. One thing I _love_ is writing, regardless of the format. While I enjoy writing code, there's something about eloquently explaining something on paper that feels amazing. I started writing a book on Haskell because I missed writing so much (now whether it's any good is another matter entirely..).

This makes me think about my current classes and how there is very little importance placed on documentation. We have to write massive javadoc comments to appease our TAs, but rarely do we write documentation of any actual substance. Obviously, much of this is due to the "one and done" nature of our projects, but I digress. But when we look to get involved in open source or "real" work at a job, we have to figure out how to write documentation that isn't horrific. But that's a topic for another day..

Anyways! Looks great! I'll have to shake off the cobwebs and see how I can get involved.
> So if all you need is running a few containers on a single host, Docker alone may be enough for you, in that case you can safely ignore the other stuff for now.

I should have clarified on that earlier, but I'm interested in Docker for the more clustered approach. I don't really want to re-invent any wheels if I can't help it, so I'd be using existing tech.

Just in your reply, you mentioned:

* Fig
* Crane
* Compose
* Flocker
* Shipyard
* Swarm

Whew. That's kind of what I'm chaffing on. I could learn all of this, but it's a lot harder to casually understand how it all would potentially fit together.
He's not eating it, and he's not absorbing it thru the skin. I don't see how he could get poisoned.

Also, remember, it's not like eating an ounce of lead will poison you.

Yes, kids eating lead paint over many months can be a problem. But there the lead is ingested, and they are kids.

An adult holding solder in his mouth is not a problem.

FWIW, I did this myself for many years from 13-24 without any problems... and I don't recall ever swallowing a single piece of solder.
Under the 1033 program, it's given to police forces free of charge:

"By providing law enforcement agencies with surplus military equipment free of charge, the NDAA encourages police to employ military weapons and military tactics." -- http://www.newsweek.com/how-americas-police-became-army-1033...

'[The 1033 Program] "permits the Secretary of Defense to transfer, without charge, excess U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) personal property (supplies and equipment) to state and local law enforcement agencies (LEAs),"' -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/14/t...

Caveat: "given" may be the wrong term:
'Estevez said that such equipment is "conditionally loaned" to the local police departments and is returned to the Department of Defense for "demilitarization at the end of its useful life."' -- http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/09/10/official-most-...

It's also definitely worth noting that the majority of items aren't tanks, though:
"Requisitions cover the gamut of items used by America’s military -- clothing and office supplies, tools and rescue equipment, vehicles, rifles and others small arms. Of all the excess equipment provided through the 1033 program, only five percent are weapons and less than one percent are tactical vehicles." -- http://www.dispositionservices.dla.mil/leso/Pages/default.as...
(Though if that <1% is in terms of number of items rather percent of total value, that may still be a misleadingly small percentage.)
There is no messaging system; visit the user's profile (click on their name) and cross your fingers they have some kind of identifying information- an email address, a web page, etc.
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We'd love to see the community try and port our Sass components to other frameworks like Ember or React. We'll definitely support anyone who wants to try.
I think Uber in this case managed to capture a large demographic of people who do not take taxis, but who are willing to pay for Uber, hence the market for Uber in the US is that of $11 billion/year + X billion/year of people who fall in that category.

Consider the fact that just last year, Uber had more than $10 billion in transaction (keeping 20% of that as revenue)
Speaking for the DevOps, a large part of the job is being responsible for building trusted systems from trusted components.
I want to continue considering Docker to be part of that trusted stack, but from looking at the minutes, it seems that you
are willing to mislead even large partners like Google while on the record.

JB (Google): Docker is an anchor of a large ecosystem of projects. Docker Inc
bought Fig, is it a separate project or is it going to be in Docker?
SH: it should be explicit. The Fig guys make proposals and those are reviewed
as every body else's.
JB (Google): The idea is we will be more comfortable if we know how to
contribute both to Docker and the larger ecosystem.
SH: The day after Docker Inc. acquired Fig nothing changed at all, everything
is still in the Open. The reason for the acquisition was to make Docker more
user friendly. The experience should be awesome. The more people we can throw
at the problem the better.
VL: Understanding what is off limits or at least where the limits are would
be helpful. This is entirely driven by technology? We can collaborate "here"
but maybe we can compete "there".
BG: It's absolutely right, there is a large number of projects competing with
Docker Inc. and that's fine. Some folks want Docker to remain a packaging
format. We should add a statement there on clarifying this.

Source (both as github gist and google doc):

https://gist.github.com/inthecloud247/00eb3130f728b635db9e
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfWNzfwptsMgSx82QyWH_Aj0DRKyZKxYQ1aursxNorg

Just today, the "Host management" proposal initiated by a Fig developer was closed (by him) without any discussion after he released the new Docker Machine project (which AFAIK was initiated without any public discussion or warning.) https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8681
How does this compare/contrast w/ (eg) Raspberry Pi or similar ?
If he's enough of an old-timer, it's probably still lead solder. I hear it was pretty hard to let go of, as lead solder is superior in virtually every way except toxicity.
As a non secure function its "killer app" is being everywhere on every platform and being massive overkill for many applications.
I look forward to digging into this deeper, and have a couple of questions.

How much contact with related community and professional organizations have you had, both with regards to this content and also the conference? In Austin, we have a Content meetup, and a chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, for example.

How much contact have you had with corporate writing departments working on communication style guides? I'm thinking of Mailchimp's "Voice and Tone", and the original Xerox Publishing Standards: http://voiceandtone.com and http://www.janvwhite.org/xerox-publishing-standards

Thanks!
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Leaded solder is still easily available over the counter in electronic shops, and is the stuff of choice for manual construction, repair and rework by everyone who has half a clue.

There are numerous exemptions in RoHS on the requirement for lead-free. This is because everyone knows that lead-free solder is unreliable junk, and the risk is not acceptable in some applications.
No reason not to, really. The paint of my car has all kinds of evil chemicals in it, but if I lick my car I'm not going to die. Even if I licked my car a lot.

There's a huge difference between skin exposure and ingestion.

At some point being overly cautions crosses the border into pseudo science.
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Interesting. How much traffic does it get?
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> (There are other criteria we use when making these kinds of decisions, like performance, speed of development, availability of developers etc, but I thought we were talking about modern functional languages so I didn't bring these up.)

Oh, indeed -- and I might even agree on the non-platform arguments. And I'm not discounting those -- I'm just saying that the JVM (not Java/Scala/Groovy/whatever) argument is overstated :). IMO, as always.

Agreed about Rust as well, I think. Java programmers are already used to the verbosity (tongue firmly in cheek ;)).

EDIT: Actually, come to think of it... many of the criteria you mentioned would apply to JavaScript developers, wouldn't they?
I see comments on the veracity of this bill, but I decry the idea that passing more laws will fix this. It's mere theatre. There are laws already which ban the things our government is doing and they ignore those laws, what is it to ignore one more law? It grows worse with each passing year even the customary dog and pony show slap on the wrist has been dispensed with. The 24 hour news cycle moves on and the fourth estates co-option is more obvious daily. Arguing the details of bullshit doesn't strike me as a judicious use of our time. I strongly urge you to throw any effort you consider devoting to discussion or even thought in regard to legislative fixes to moving forward with the broad adoption of encryption and infrastructure changes within your own organizations that prevent them from monitoring our communications whether they like it or not. The United States government has proven itself untrustworthy, the best option is to simply remove the choice from their hands.
The only true solution here will be to rule cellphones as inadmissible in court; Not under the Fourth, but under the Fifth. More and more, computers are becoming part of our brains; As inextricably linked to us as our limbs. Until we recognize that this is not fantasy, not the near future, but the now, we're all at danger from government overreach.
I think it's outright dishonest to paint advertising as not a privacy problem. It's a huge portion of why ones every online movement is tracked in the first place. Google's entire gimmick is that they're better at stalking people than any other tech company on the planet, without "targeted" advertising they'd have long been irrelevant. Also, claiming you need a credit card to do things online is a great example of "not making sense and muddying the water". If Google/FB charged for their services there's still no reason they would need my address or any other identifying information- it's not like they're sending boxes to my door.

On your last point; Tech companies and governments get put in the same boat for good reason- they actively work together on a regular basis. Even if the company is "compelled" to give the info- that's still only an issue because the companies are whoring and storing all the data they can get their hands on (for indefinite amounts of time).
I don't mind if the bill is weak, because real solutions are happening outside of electoral politics.

Curve25519 deployment is now massive, for example. LibreSSL is moving forward. RC4 has been ripped out of a lot of stuff and replaced with ChaCha. Salsa20 is in a ton of software and has many users. SafeCurves are getting discussion, especially ed448 and E-521. More people are deploying TLS. More people are conscientous. More people are protected by default without having to make an effort (TextSecure is a great example).

My only sad point is that people are still talking about DNSSEC, which reduces security significantly if used for anything besides signing DNS records. I don't know why anyone not affiliated with Project Bullrun wants you to use RSA-1024 for security.
This bill won't pass. Some members would object, but mostly it's just not worth passing because it doesn't do anything. Also, it was introduced with just a few days left in this Congress. (All un-passed legislation is wiped out by the change in Congress.)

BUT, it's not intended to pass. It is intended to communicate and memorialize a particular political opinion. In this case, it is intended to stand in opposition to the opinion expressed by some law enforcement leaders that the government, in the face of improving commercial encryption, should have new powers to mandate back doors.

Most--in fact the vast majority of--bills that are introduced into Congress are not intended to pass, they are intended to make a point. This is one of those bills. That doesn't make it bad or good. That really depends on whether you agree with Senator Wyden. (I bet most people here do.)
There's no dissonance, only scads of evidence suggesting lead is dangerous, and no evidence from you to the contrary.

Same as if I said to you, "Open your eyes the sun clearly orbits the Earth!". You'd either ask for proof, or shake your head and laugh.
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Fair enough, the Pi killer is a dual core 64 bit SoC with a GB ethernet port, a SATA port, a 1080p/60 capable GPU, and support for 2 - 8GB of DDR4 memory. That is like the 21st century set top box thingy, and possibly throw around computer. At a MSRP of < $50 (which makes it killer) (PSU, case, ssd, monitor etc all extra of course).
+1, paying 99/month for the first non-free layer of contentful is defintely not cheap, and the free tier won't get you too far.

Ideally what I'd like to see for a small team is to run a $5 digital ocean instance that does at least a mediocre job of managing assets in a database and triggering the static export of the site. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that a non-savvy user would consider as useful. Any idea for that (or alternative for contentful)?
I use this approach in Fire★ (http://www.firestr.com). Lua vm instances are tiny. There is a reason lua is used even in systems like nintendo DS
>At some point being overly cautions crosses the border into pseudo science.

Sure, but there isn't much harm in that in this particular example. What is there to be gained by holding solder metal in the mouth?
No regrets.... if you are going to suck up to traders to get in on their pile of gold, either commit to it or don't. I used to complain about code exams until i realized "this is how you prove you want/deserve the job.... if someone else can pass where i fail, that is not necessarily the hiring managers fault". if you cant answer their questions dont expect the job.... you either want it enough to fortify your defenses or you dont. Even if they are going to ask a bunch of redundant, irrelevant, easily Google-able crap -- not having an answer is going to beg the question "how come they never, out of curiosity or to impress people in my position, Googled this easily Google-able crap?"

i just dont think these environments r made for you or me...... i used to win many math comps and was at the top of my class for years & years. in college i went into media programming & psychology because i didnt really want to study stuff i thought was boring all day just to be a market kiss-ass

as a result, i have a pretty boring job but i let my mind wander creatively & still work on a ton of music & creative projects. I've designed some pretty sophisticated machine learning algorighms/research in audio signal processing but i don't get to study it all day because there is not much market demand.

i know i have more raw talent than most people i interact with (in fact im confident i can self-teach myself various technical disciplines to near-expertise) but i've also come to understand that employers don't care. beyond entry level, they are just looking for someone who says the right things and has already done work that resembles the job they are hiring for.

sometimes i consider self-teaching toward a goal like being a quant, but then i remember that that world is not for me. im not insanely greedy so its not a big deal. and though my enterprise work now is boring, there are several things on the horizon that seem much more promising & appealing than finance. i am accumulating skills & enjoying having room in my head for other thoughts. i don't work in the startup world because i haven't encountered anyone with compelling ideas but i suppose thats where people like me are destined to end up.... i stay sharp & am confident that i could code a mini-enterprise in a year, once i find the right idea.
The page is unusable at lower resolutions.

http://i.snag.gy/O9Abg.jpg

It's pretty bad.
Can you just open it in an incognito window, or whatever the equivalent is for your browser? That worked for me.
People who don't understand how much utility these improvements provide can complain all day. Personally you've delivered exactly what I have needed quickly and, from my use, bug free.

My vote (not that it gets counted here) compose should definitely be merged.

Great job on all the rest, ignore the haters, they just prove you've made it!
Where did you see that the 840 is still going error-free? It says that the 840 maxed out it's reallocated sectors at around 900TB and veered into a ditch right before the petabyte threshold.

It'd be interesting to run these same tests on enterprise grade drives as well.

Edit: You meant that the 840 Pro is still going, I see.
So, basically, you fake it with carefully timed "cron jobs", setup well in advance of the experiment, but there's no real communication between instances during the experiment.

They just seem to be real-time-coordinated from outside because of the way the cron jobs are firing.
There is more wrong with DNSSEC than RSA-1024 (PKCS1v15 RSA, no less!). DNSSEC is a PKI run by world governments, most prominently that of the United States. It's hard to understand why anyone working in privacy would ever support it.

Thankfully, it's dying on its own engineering (de)merits.
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The point is that a Senator is now on record opposing that type of new statutory authority.

This bill is not intended to be a defensive wall; it's a stake in the ground in a debate that's just starting. It's a political move, not a serious legislative move. Most bills are.
Party pooper!
Can you explain a little more ?
Portability and modernity instead of a security focus?

I'm not sure why I would use a fork of OpenBSD instead of just FreeBSD though. I've always seen the primary benefits of OpenBSD as deriving from their obsessive focus on security, but if this fork isn't focussed on that I'm not sure what I gain vs. other BSDs that already have these goals and objectives in place/completed.
They clearly indicate that it was inspired by XKCD and even print the URL to the original comic in the image. How is that plagiarizing?
I don't believe that's quite how it works. I don't think it needs to vaporize the way boiling water vaporizes, to be entrained in the smoke.
We are in a similar position as yourself and share your opinion. What we are essentially doing is:

1. reviewing our immediate requirements
2. doing a quick paper research for those that match
3. selecting a top five based on GitHub stars and helpful resources on the web that we can find
4. proceeding with a more complete technology assessment

We plan to make things as agnostic as possible so we can keep a watch on the space as things progress and if things change we can swap out a component for something else which may better meet our future requirements and/or have better long term mindshare or traction.
I just went "WTF" out loud. WOW! I had no idea music (or at least vocals) had this much depth. Thanks!
I use Hacker News (YC) by thekingshorses. The design is alot better then most the stuff out there. My only beef would be that it stops loading content after a few pages. Sometimes I like to binge read and would love to go deeper into the results.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn&...