skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i've always found craiglist free section very handy for this.
Markov chains easily allow you to attach cost functions to them. Not particularly data mining oriented, but good for running simulations and cost-benefit.
Another way of thinking about it is this:

Governments can make these kinds of investments because (as you say) they might still be around in 200 years, and because they can recoup ROI on them via overall GDP growth captured through taxation. They can capture the upside by doing so at the scale of the entire national economy instead of worrying about monetizing minutia.

So it is a form of venture capital, in a sense, just at the national scale.
Windows Server will let you run your own Azure, but you can't run your own EC2 or GCE.
It's going to take a lot of marketing people to convince people to pay for something they can now get for free via PostgreSQL.
I appreciate that Bitstamp made a statement, but anyone who trusts this is a complete fool. Trusting Mt. Gox was precisely how I lost money in its demise.

I was also called a complete fool by someone on HN just before I lost my money. The comment made me angry. Me, a fool? Yet it was true, and I should have listened.

Run away, don't walk. They lost 5 million dollars. Let that sink in before deciding to trust them with any money you care about.

5 million dollars is about the same as a Series A round. They lost the equivalent of an entire company of programmers. You could employ 50 programmers for one year with that amount of cash. And it was precisely your money that they lost.

For all you know, this could now be a game of "musical chairs" where the last person to withdraw money from bitstamp will be left wanting. Don't let that be you. Guard yourself.

By the way, Mt. Gox lied through their teeth to me, all the way up until their service shut off. Leading up to the disaster, I was in constant communication with their support staff, and they were very reassuring. "No, of course no one will lose money. Withdraws will reopen soon." Too bad the support people were themselves being lied to by Mt. Gox management.

So, no, a statement by a bitcoin service isn't worth the weight of the paper it's printed on.

EDIT: It's distressing that HN downvoted the parent comment to the point where they felt like deleting it. Please try to downvote less in general. The parent comment was simply relaying Bitstamp's statement.
Every commit is tested against Android. We just merged a PR that improves our iOS support.
I understand your perspective, but I still think this is a reasonable thing to warn people about.
A good example of openwashing. You can call anything open these days, even proprietary software!
Ah, yeah. It actually shows up like that on my OS X v10.9 computer as well. This webpage’s stylesheet specifies that comments should use either Verdana, Geneva, or a sans-serif font. Since neither Verdana or Geneva have a glyph for U+2705 WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK, the browser uses font substitution¹ to look for another font on the system that does have a glyph for that codepoint and use it instead. (Font substitution is pretty much necessary since it’s currently impossible for one font to hold Unicode’s repertoire of 110,000+ characters; even the OpenType format is limited to a maximum of 65,536 glyphs).

Both iOS 5+ and OS X v10.7+ include the font Apple Color Emoji, and that font does have a glyph for U+2705 (the same glyph you see in my screen shot)², so OS X and iOS text rendering systems use it. On your Windows computer, I’m guessing the font that was substituted for Verdana/Geneva there was Segoe UI Symbol³.

As an aside, I’m pretty interested on how OS X and Windows decide on which font to use when there are multiple fonts installed containing the required glyph. For example, I have two other fonts on my OS X system that have a glyph for U+2705 (Everson Mono and Symbola), but OS X always seems to consistently pick Apple Color Emoji’s glyph. Maybe OS X’s text rendering system goes through the fonts in alphabetical order and uses the first one it finds containing the required glyph? It would be great if end users could have a bit more control over the font substitution process. I know it’s possible to do in some text editors like Emacs⁴, but I believe that programs like that use their own text rendering systems instead of that supplied by the OS (could be wrong though).

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to add, as for having the glyph be a green box with a white inner check mark, The Unicode Consortium actually mentions how the glyphs should look for characters with BLACK or WHITE in the name⁵:

“Q: What about characters whose names include WHITE or BLACK?

A: Names of symbols such as BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE or WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE are not meant to indicate that the corresponding character must be presented in black or white, respectively; rather, the use of “black” and “white” in the names is generally just to contrast filled versus outline shapes, or a darker color fill versus a lighter color fill. Similarly, in other symbols such as the hands U+261A BLACK LEFT POINTING INDEX and U+261C WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX, the words “white” and “black” also refer to outlined versus filled, and do not indicate skin color.”

――――――

¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_substitution

² — http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode#block-2-di...

³ — http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2705/fontsuppor...

⁴ — http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6491202/overriding-emacs-...

⁵ — http://unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html#6
I thought about it hard today. It was tempting to give them a discount and offer a crappier version with crappier support but ultimately decided against it.

First time I said no
Take some database courses, learn about transactions and isolation models, maybe some do some distributed systems courses, learn about agreement protocols, failure models, recovery models....
I wondered what had happened to pebble beds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor

Most power utilities don't want to operate a radioactive chemical plant

This is a brilliant phrase, thankyou.
Per David Kastrup earlier in that thread:

> It is a greater problem for us to definitely block free applications from being developed, either completely or by putting up prohibitely high administrative or technical hurdles, than it is to accept the possibility of non-free ones here.

I think this is a good example of why trying to actively fight certain use cases - in this case, potential use by non-free software - might as well be considered harmful. In this particular case, clang/LLVM is proving itself to be more free than GCC.

I'm a pretty strong free software advocate, and at this point, it's sounding like LLVM is the way to go for even that reason alone. Deliberately crippling a compiler to satisfy an ideological agenda does not encourage the development of free software, especially in comparison to making a free software project like LLVM that demonstrates the ways in which free software is better software.

Basically, while I admire RMS' strong convictions, I'm beginning to believe more and more that they're doing the precise opposite of what he - and many other advocates of software freedom - actually want.
> the language slowly evolved and was molded to fit as best as possible the problem they were trying to solve.

Which is...? Wikipedia says [1]

> "to be a good language for the creation of large client and server programs that run over the Internet"

and that looks too vague to me.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%29...
If that were true, there would be an order of magnitude fewer commercial database systems on the market.
OK, so here is an idea for disposing nuclear waste that might sound outlandish: with the current progress in putting stuff in space, couldn't be compactify all that waste and throw it at the sun?
$7,180/month, $86,160/year. That's a pretty penny.
The singularity or humanity will destroy everything within 50 years. If we make it another 100 years, I'll be pretty surprised. Old, and surprised that is.
I find it unfortunate that CouchDB is pretty much a dead project even though it's fundamentals are for most projects better than MongoDB. Master-master databases are the future for most scaled architectures.
https://cloud.google.com/terms/

"5.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, this Agreement does not grant either party any rights, implied or otherwise, to the other’s content or any of the other’s intellectual property. As between the parties, Customer owns all Intellectual Property Rights in Customer Data and the Application or Project (if applicable), and Google owns all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services and Software."
> Bitcoin's fees

Huh, what?
Sounds like the "big dig" in Boston.
I agree. It's pretty interesting (and validating) to watch other people pair up and write code like this, regardless of the subject matter.
Don't worry about the stipend levels. Many institutions are now in a race to the bottom where they're adapting to paying everyone the minimum allowed by NIH.
and maintainable.
Prosecutors Said to Recommend Charges Against Former Gen. David Petraeus
I'm not really sure what you mean. The number of nodes you need depends on the capacity you need and your replication factor.

Most C* deployments are in the 9-15 node range. You could safely deploy with 6 nodes and RF3 if 6 nodes gives you enough capacity in terms of both disk space and IOPS.
IBM ADEPT: An IoT Practitioner Perspective (Draft)
In context, I have to think that was a typo for Bitstamp.
Probably meant "Bitstamp's fees"
Gngr is an old-fashioned new browser
Yeah, just one example: the world doesn't need another paper on symbolism in Ulysses, it needs English professors who help legions of young people become good writers and thinkers. The "research" that's being done by departments outside of the Top 100 -- maybe even the Top 25 -- has an extremely low marginal benefit compared to better educating undergraduates.
Stop Checking Email So Often
I'd bet that's only there to verify granting of stock options: manually going through the top ten isn't that labor intensive. There's still an advantage to getting free service for a year.

Re flash: unfortunately that's the state of the art for cross platform copying to the clipboard. Their implementation just seems broken.
This is an absurd comparison in the context of food. When it comes to eating animals, we (Westerners) are used to eating muscle tissue. Cows and lobsters have large, edible muscles that can be separated from the rest of the body for consumption, cockroaches do not.
Why wouldn't it?

Very few businesses really have this requirement. End of the day, if the Feds show up with a warrant or warrant-like paper, I'm not going to jail for my employer. Hell, if I was locked up defending their data, I'd probably be expected to charge my accruals for my absence.
Ok so we actually agree in that much of the animosity towards jews stems, not from an inherent theological constant in islam but rather the israeli conflict situation and other regional factors. This was what i was trying to communicate, because the discussion started with a ridiculous comparison to nazi ideology.

It sounds like you really just don't like muslims because they are on the opposite side of the israel-palestine conflict.

Personally i agree that the situation is terrible, and quite a mess. But if you can't see there are several groups, factors, policies, wars and incidents to blame/explain the current situation you are blinded by the israeli perspective.

There are always two sides of the story in conflicts that span decades.

Lastly the israeli population is pretty divided in their political leanings and observations. Some are hardliners and certainly will sacrifice short-term peace in return of a total take over. A large part of the more progressive youth are split in their views, especially after mandatory IDF conscription. Parts of the large minority are frustrated with the hardliner rhetorics, still others cry for a more agressive stance.

It seems to me that you ignore the nuances of regional conflicts.

One of them being that Israel has not made any note worthy mistakes that would lead to any hatred towards them, which is ridiculous to expect in conflict with continous hot warfare, spanning several decades, and with a death toll much, much higher on the palestinian side.
This looks very well built. Would love to chat with you.
What happens when someone dies on a cruise?
This reminds me of a Quora answer[0] about what Mathematics graduate students do all day.

"And, indeed, you are lucky! After a hundred years or so, your idea (along with a bunch of other ideas) leads to the development of aquarium air pumps, an essential tool in the rapidly growing field of research on artificial goldfish habitats. Yay!"

[0] - https://www.quora.com/What-do-grad-students-in-math-do-all-d...
They have a huge test matrix. Sharding tests, performance tests, and large data tests probably take a long time.

You can see their test matrix here: https://mci.10gen.com/

and the driver tests here: https://jenkins.mongodb.com/

Also they run https://mms.mongodb.com/ which does backup and monitoring
You might find handmade hero interesting. http://www.twitch.tv/handmade_hero
'Amazing' Automated Cooking Machine Takes Huge Shit at CES [WATCH PAINFUL VIDEO]
Very nice! I'll have to try this out when I get home.
The Myth of the Tech Whiz Who Quits College to Start a Company
Nuclear waste is extremely dense and therefore extremely heavy. It would cost an incredible amount of money to launch it into space, let alone the sun. The corollary is it's also really valuable since it still contains an incredible amount of energy, our current reactors only burn 5% of it where as future reactors will be able to burn all of it. An analogy I often use is we're burning just the kindling and our 'waste' is the hard oak that's harder to burn.
I don't know about a device operating at the scale that Azure is using, but the key stores on smaller Thales HSMs can absolutely be backed up to smart cards.

Security of key material is all about procedures. With a private CA I helped to setup, we used a quorum based authorization scheme, and the collection of smart cards was distributed among different reporting lines to make collusion between employees difficult.
Actually if you read the Oakridge reports those cases are considered. For reference this reactor would have both survived and shut down cleanly in both the Chernobyl (over driving the reaction) and Fukishima (30m tsunmai + 9+ earthquake) situations.
The term "open" only appears once in the article on this line (aside from the title):

> Building on our openness with the availability of the first Docker Image in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

What the hell does "building on our openness" even mean in that context? I've read it several times and it makes no sense. It is great that they added Docker images (really) but maybe someone technical at Microsoft should start to proofread what nonsense that the marketing department spews out.
They have MongoMMS which has 2 datacenters and provides backup and monitoring services for Mongo clients
ok, now how does one install a package manager? I see they are using installation _images_ for some reason... Why does one need an installation _image_ to install a package manager?
What do you do when the rocket explodes on launch?
And the Hammersmith Flyunder project in London http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/hammersmith_flyunder.a...
I thought that was what made the article so engrossing. When I travel outside California I find the world so much more magical, and enchanting, which I think his writing style was trying to convey.
I think having a girl cast a spell on you is one those things that is hard to fathom until it happens. Then you start to question everything...
Detailed link: http://streetswithoutcars.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/the-hambu...
It's true, and soon there won't be.
You rarely talk to anyone who says "I want to make a lot of money so I'm going to be a researcher!"

I'm not a fan of generational hate, but for the generations that were the architects of this corporatized society, an academic job meant that you wouldn't be rich, but that money wouldn't really be a problem for you. You'd have a lifestyle comparable to about $120k in the Midwest, adjusted for cost-of-living (but coastal property also wasn't as skewed). The humiliating day-to-day struggles of the poor are hostile to the life of the mind, and the earlier generations knew it.

Hence, you have Boomer professors, even with the best intentions, championing the academic career because it has been good to them. If college advisors weren't picked from the most successful 1-2% of those who attempt PhDs, you wouldn't see the smartest of every generation shoehorned into these programs. (And yes, my experience was that almost all of the top students took an academic path at first, though some, like me, left as early as one year into a PhD program. Sure, there are a few who start Facebooks or are hand-picked to be proteges of hedge fund managers, but the other 95% of top talent veers academic-- until their illusions pop.)

So... while it's true that no one went into academia expecting to be rich, they also expected lives where money wasn't really a problem: they'd be able to buy a house, raise kids, travel abroad now and then, and because college profs respected reciprocity in admissions, beat college admissions without a fancy prep school (those being at a price which most professors would still find out of reach, even in the better times). And they got totally fucked, relative to that promise.
CA Bay Area Apache Kafka Meetup on January 27th, 2015
There has been about handful of ways to coax all common UPnP implementations to give you LAN access, except for the all the obvious ways if you can get the victim to view a web page. Don't rely on it for security.
Two big questions for economists today
Ironic that you've both picked languages that are used quite effectively, if unsexily, to solve problems. Both Python and Java are at the "plateau of productivity" - there's not a whole lot of innovation going on, but they're stable, robust, and have a large ecosystem of tools that let you get work done quickly. A good portion of this is because of the stability of a large standard library that everyone can depend upon.
Any rocket that could deliver nuclear waste to the sun would use an awful lot of fuel, given the density of the waste, and would be a very big problem if there was a failure shortly after launch.

Also, anything that could deliver radioactive waste to the sun could deliver it to a major city just as easily.
The other part I don't like about these conversations is that I still really believe that a good college education isn't about learning a job skill. It's the one time in your life that you can think full-time about life's big questions and devote yourself fully to intellectual curiosity. It's a shame to use that time to learn about restaurant management.

But it's crazy that it costs $50k/year to read great books and discuss them with a small group. It's a crazy price if you're intellectually uncurious and just want to get a job. It's an especially crazy price if you just want to party and grow up a bit before working.

Our society should have room for both vocational schools and big-picture-intellectualism schools. It's part of the reason I'm so excited about developer bootcamps, if only as a model of what adult vocational learning could look like -- shorter time commitment, much lower cost compared to university, and a faculty fully devoted to pedagogy and student outcomes. You should be able to attend a low-cost big-picture-intellectualism school for a while if you want, then learn vocational skills at another school when you're ready to work.
> Logging, logging, logging - I can't stress on this enough.

There is no easier way to offload, view, filter, alert and search than logentries:

http://www.logentries.com
> "The star researchers aren't standing on just their own work. They are able to pull off what they do because of all the other researchers in their field."

It's more like they are able to pull off what they do in spite of all the other researchers. (that are spawning off bad hypotheses, producing fraud, using up precious grant money, etc.)
Azure needs to provide SSD backed options for all blobs. As is, they encourage you to use local SSD storage, which gets wiped on reboot.
Randall Munroe took the question as part of his What If series.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/32/

Earth - Hubble is moving too fast to get decent close-up imagery, the distance is too small, and frankly Hubble just wasn't designed for it (as opposed to spy satellites of the major powers). Hubble does use the earth to calibrate its cameras, though.

Randall gives examples of how imagery might turn out.

Moon - speed's an issue, but less so, especially if you're imaging a large region

Here's an example: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/22/

Mars - Hubble has targeted this planet lots of times.

Some examples: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/solar_system/mars/
1) A lot more code isn't read in vim or emacs nowadays. We don't have the equivalent of indent on the github web ui

2) Everyone and their mother is doing code reviews now, and a lot of code reviews get (very visibly) bogged down by style disputes.

3) indent and his modern friends (eg clang-format) generally only answer trivial whitespace questions, and not even things like method capitalization. gofmt is the obvious extension of indent.
I think it's mostly just designed to raise awareness. There's no "Get Involved" link, but I'm not sure how your average citizen gets involved with nuclear tech in general...
Even $1M buys a lot of test equipment.
So do most medical schools in the US.

Eg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Scientist_Training_Prog...
yeah i guess it strikes me as odd that these silos are painted as such dire straits when describing a scenario that includes the backdoor of "unless you choose to go into industry and immediately make 100k+".

I and the other people in my graduate program don't have that option... I studied music technology, degree was pretty expensive. no stipends, literal you pay for degree, BA-style, but are not going into a six-figure business field.

These are the choices you make in life, and being presented with an opt-out like that is as they say "a good problem to have". It would be cool if every field could make intelligent people rich as they improved the world but, you know.... its life.

If I had chosen a different field maybe I would be making 6-figures instead of doing boring enterprise work (decent money but most of my research peers were less programming focused, didn't even have this type of out), but I also would be even further from my goals. I wouldn't have the foundation of knowledge that I'm hoping to return to / build from in the future.

I guess the point of this comment is that the author should be thankful that people in science are valued by industry (even many programmers are only considered "labor", basically). There are lots of fields people devote themselves to that have no industrial use & they are relegated to lower-paying dayjobs regardless of who they are willing to sign on with. As for whether or not academia should be more lucrative, well.... should people be paid to learn? is academia the most efficient way of learning? is it an antiquated social construct? many open-ended questions.... got my masters but didn't go back for PhD, waiting to see whether or not there is a better way to make it happen out on the pavement.
I wasn't trying to pretend. As I said, I went into science because I like science. If I wanted to get paid as much as possible I would've done something else.
Somewhere between C++ concepts and Haskell typeclasses with a hint of Java interfaces.

But yes, their primary usage is to require that type parameters exhibit a certain set of properties.
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