skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just name recognition - it's the data, and already being the first app on someone's phone to do the task.
Are you aware that there are already more powerful tiny ARM single-board computers on the market that fit in the same size, power and price envelope? Like ODROID: http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/

From $35 4x1.5Ghz Cortex-A5 ODROID-C1 to $99 octa-core Exynos5422 ODROID-XU3 Lite (4x1.8Ghz Cortex-A15, 4x1.3GHz Coretex-A7, plus OpenCL 1.1)

They have their own ecosystem and monthly magazine (sic!). Raspberry Pi is one of the first and most popular; it's great for beginners, but if you really need to push the envelope there is always competition that tries to undercut them in price, performance and/or features. Now again, RPi 2 has set a new bar, but it is not that high.
I add to the point: doing it on a game many can't even make half way through.
Merriam-Webster uses a very permissive standard for grammar compared to most other usage guides. I like them, but you have to be careful following their advice. If you read their words fairly, you will note they say that "comprised of" is rejected by some readers.

It's the whole descriptive vs. prescriptive thing, and MW explicitly adopts a descriptive standard (they say so in their preface). A good introduction to this larger question is David Foster Wallace's (excellent) essay in review of Bryan Garner's (fantastic) usage guide (http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0...).

If you are interested in usage, and are not familiar with Garner's book, I recommend it. (http://www.amazon.com/Garners-Modern-American-Usage-Garner/d...) It is superior to MW for most writers' purposes. (For students of linguistics, MW might win out.)

Garner, incidentally, doesn't much like "comprised of" -- http://www.lawprose.org/blog/?p=2385 (“invariably inferior”).
Interesting.

So if a successful & profitable software company is about to hire you but you would decline the offer just because She is using JIRA.

Apparently this also says how hard it is to manage people rather than dealing with just code and tricking the compiler.
Which is why the edits this guy has been making have generally been to eliminate the 'is comprised of' usage, not to replace it with 'comprises', but to replace it with clearer, unambiguous forms.
As a linguist, it is absolutely not an issue of grammar. The grammar is 100% correct. Nit-picking over the so-called "correct" definition has nothing to do with grammar.

It is an issue of semantics, and a rather arbitrarily prescriptivist one at that. Actually, I'm not even sure I would say it's a semantic issue. Most speakers will easily understand the intended meaning.
That's the point so many here fail to address. Lots of businesses are using MongoDB at large scale (2PB clusters) and willing to talk about it too.

MongoDB gets a bad rep, some of it their own fault for sure, but it's not as lousy as some people here make it out to be. Careful object modeling goes a long ways. Wired Tiger will be a massive improvement on their current storage engine, which is pretty awful for write-heavy loads to be sure.
Yes - very important. Google has failed entering other markets. The name isn't enough. But... This involves some hard science, which they're outstanding at.
If you get a civil service position under this program you will have a job regardless of who's President. That doesn't mean that these initializes will still be around, or will be funded at the same level, or will be given the same latitude.

It might be different if these offices/initiatives were part of cabinet agencies with functions and authorities in various statutes, but it looks like most of them are executive initiatives.

Which is not to say that the next President (Republican or Democrat) wouldn't want digital tiger teams, but there is no guarantee that one would either. If you are interested in this primarily for the advertised flexibility to cut across cumbersome government rules, January 2017 should loom large in your thinking.
>>People want more choices now. It's why McDonald's is struggling to keep up. Their systems, multiple generations more advanced than before, can handle it but only to a certain degree.

This narrative doesn't explain why In 'n Out is very popular. They have five items on their menu. http://www.in-n-out.com/menu.aspx

(They also have a secondary menu, yes, but that's more for stylings and extras.)
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Made this little jobby last night after stumbling across this: https://github.com/paulirish/git-open which is also awesome.

Launch the homepage:
gem home gem-name

View Issue tracker:
gem issues gem-name

View Documentation:
gem docs gem-name

It tries to do some clever stuff like falling back to github url's if the gem creator didn't add explicit links. Falls back to rubydocs if there are no links and the gem isn't hosted on github.

To Install:
gem install gem-home
Awesome book. And now this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388.
The 10 richest cities in America
I think this one's more interesting for the (projected) salary requirements for living comfortably in these cities.

For example:

- San Francisco — You'd need $124,561 to live comfortably in SF.
- New York City — To live comfortably, you'd need $131,365 in Brooklyn, $169,639 in Manhattan, and $116,907 in Queens.
"In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called 'Go Set a Watchman,'" the 88-year-old Lee said in a statement issued by Harper. "It features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel (what became 'To Kill a Mockingbird') from the point of view of the young Scout.

"I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years."
Yeah, I nearly got caught out once when I went to a restaurant and ordered wine "number 23", thinking it was like a Chinese Takeaway menu or something. I was wondering why there weren't in order! Got an odd look from the waiter too. Lucky I didn't go for wine number 200.
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While most commentary is (fairly) focused on browser behavior and keyboard hijacking, I'd point out another viewpoint: why the frak does every latin alphabet using nation need its own keyboard layout? Couple of diacritics is hardly a good reason to reshuffle the whole keyboard.
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Problem is where it is branched. I don't think they will be able to keep up well. Plus, the new MongoDB storage engine (wire tiger) takes care of its biggest issue which Toku addresses.

Plus, I think you'll be able to just buy Toku's storage engine if you want it when they make it pluggable with the new MonogDB storage engine API.
There is no reason to expect a product with $100M spent in testing by some of the highest paid mathematics and software engineers in the world to keep up with free software?

I say that is wrong. We should expect it to be better, and it is. The intel compiler is faster than GCC on Intel hardware and it always will be. Why? Because GCC can't keep up with the new hardware that comes out. Proprietary compilers have always had the upper hand because incredibly complicated optimizations are incredibly hard to reverse engineer.
Sadly there is just no way to prevent a language to evolve, even with an official language body. As a French speaker, they tried that with a very conservative body which is deciding what is good and what is wrong (Académie française).

The result is that the written language is now separated from the spoken language and both evolved separately. (that's also why the vocal recognition in French does not work well but that's another story). So the alternative is much worse than just accepting that the language is changing.
Uber have been very very gung-ho about how much their drivers make so I would claim that they do in fact promise a career. Not with uber-x but with the more expensive services they offer.
It is also the case that it was advertised to developers with the promise that you don't need Ops or DBAs or anyone like that. These developers found it did indeed work well for 1 developer on 1 machine working on 1 app with 1 very simple database accessed on 1 connection.

Then they chucked it over the fence to Ops who were expected to make it work in Production, and everything about it was found to be woefully inadequate, and the Ops guys were forced to carry the can. Those guys feel - quite rightly - that they were shafted by MongoDB, both the company and its fans.
I think this one's more interesting for the (projected) salary requirements for living comfortably in these cities.

For example:

- San Francisco — You'd need $124,561 to live comfortably in SF.

- New York City — To live comfortably, you'd need $131,365 in Brooklyn, $169,639 in Manhattan, and $116,907 in Queens.

Some of these (among the ten) seem low to me, based on known rents, etc. Like SF?
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Not certain that "timing" would apply to Intel founders Gordon Moore, Bob Noyce, Andy Grove and perhaps some others in the semiconductor industry (Shockly, ....). Also Seymour Cray.
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> I know people from Europe who call themselves Christian, and yet when asked when was the last time they went to church, they basically just went for weddings and funerals.

Degree of participation in religious ritual and degree of belief in God are not necessarily related. There's certainly some correlation, but its quite possible to believe that God exists, and that he isn't overly concerned with whether you show up at a particular building on a weekly basis.

> So, sure, in a census or some government form they may self-identify as Christian, but for all practical purposes they are "godless"; IOW, "god" plays minimal to no role in their daily lives.

You seemed to have conflated "God" with "formal religious ritual".
Village Pump or Manual of Style would be the normal places for meta discussion of mass changes of "comprised of". If the editing is problematic it goes to ANI and then amybe RFC and eventually Arbcom.

Edit: and some Wikipedians really do like talking about this stuff. Look at hyphen, minus, en-dash, and em-dash for an example of discussions spread out over several article talk pages, several meta spaces, with some Arbcom action. There are easily 500,000 words just on different dashes.
If you're already able to pay salaries, you probably don't care, but for small side-project type startups without any funding but with a few people contributing, it's a _big_ difference.

I suspect this is why JIRA has very different pricing for <=10 and >10 users.
Heh, the written checklist is definitely something I can relate to! I'll probably give this a try, it seems like you've had some of the same issues I've had :)
That's because it is a timeless tale about the goodness of people, of faith and charity and humanity. Those are everlasting values.

My girlfriend reads the book at least once a year. She says it keeps her grounded and optimistic. I started doing the exercise last year and I have to say, she is right.
This may be nitpicking, but I really liked the marketing material here, aside from this phrase:

"Do you need a way to divide your resources across multiple projects[...]"

It's a pet peeve of mine that so many processes and tools use the phrase "resource" in place of person. It may not have been what was meant by "resources" here, but that's how it reads.

How about:

"Do you need a way to manage multiple projects[...]"

or...

"Do you need a way to divide your time between multiple projects[...]"
In one sense the author is right. In another sense, saying "I have no idea what I'm doing" is a status play. Those a bit down on the totem pole don't have the luxury of publicly questioning their own competence.
You can see an example of Fluxible with react-router: https://github.com/yahoo/flux-examples/tree/master/react-rou...
Now we are arguing about the semantics of "grammar". How did we get here? :)
Most people probably shouldn't go to school
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Personally I would never do something that kludgey. I bought whatever CeroWRT recommended for $50 refurb.
The Information Arms Race
A writer working on a biography of Harper Lee came to my high school 6 or 7 years ago to give a presentation about her. He told us that she had written another book but didn't want to publish it due to the pressure she felt from the success of To Kill a Mockingbird, so she planned on having it published after she died. This is probably the book he was talking about.

I can't remember exactly who the writer was, but he spoke about his experience interviewing Kurt Vonnegut for his biography, so it was probably Charles Shields.
Channel overlap isn't really an issue in 5GHz mode with DFS [1]. This also isn't completely accurate for 2.4GHz mode unless you will have high-bandwidth clients connected to multiple routers simultaneously. WiFi is cooperative by design, so it's possible to have 20-30 routers broadcasting networks in the same room on the same channel and a single client connecting to any single one of them at mostly full bandwidth. You can run into the Hidden Node Problem [2] if you have high bandwidth wireless users spread out and connected to multiple routers.

With just two routers and a single laptop moving around an apartment, your biggest problem for signal (on a 2.4GHz network) will be the neighboring apartments and not the unused router, as it is just broadcasting beacon frames about every hundred milliseconds and not doing much else.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_allocation_schemes#DCA_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_node_problem
I feel sorry for this editor now that these edits are known.

It'll be interesting to see if their edits start attracting reverts and discussion.

Perhaps someone with skills could do before and after charts of edits that stick and exits that got reverted?
I honestly couldn't tell. I think that in itself says something...
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To answer this ironically irate question as honestly as I can, here is my perspective. I voted this up.

It speaks to me. Substitute MongoDB for PHP or vb.net or w3schools.com in that post, and it is my frustration. With these tools, I feel bad. I feel sad. I feel they are inferior. But I can never find a real, convincing, proper argument. I have to go through great lengths to stay objective, and it's never quite satisfactory.

Why? Because I'm not good at exploring my thoughts purely objectively. I'm human. When I use a tool, I feel passion. Sometimes positive, sometimes negative. When I use Lisp, it burns like fire. But when I try to explain it, I have to admit: there are only downsides the eye can see.

When I use PHP, vb.net, or MongoDB, I'm on Antartica. Without a jacket. It's cold. It's sad. There are no penguins. I feel bad. But I cannot tell you why. I have to admit: they get the job done. Millions use them. The greatest of the greatest sites and applications are built with them. Software that you use every day. Around the world.

So perhaps it's just me. As painful as it is to admit, I simply cannot find the words to match my feelings about this. And I feel alone.

Then I read this. It warms my heart. He knows what I mean. He speaks my language. Had he had a good, objective argument, he would have used it. But he didn't, because he only has bad feelings. It is precisely the fact that he doesn't have anything objectively negative to say, yet feels so badly about it, that speaks to me so much.

MongoDB might be objectively good, but I find it noteworthy that so many people consider it subjectively bad. This is useful information to me.

That's why I voted it up.
Meteor is by far my favorite new platform for side projects. I love how easy it is to get something up and running, the integrated build system and the simplicity of deploying your projects to a meteor host.

I wish there was an easy way to use a different database although I get it, it's part of what makes Meteor so easy get something up and running quickly.

My gut is that if Meteor weren't solely tied to MongoDB and instead had an easy way to switch to Firebase, Parse, etc this platform would really take off.
Thank you!

We're planning on developing the pricing structure so that there are a couple of more options.

At the moment we're trying to gauge traction and get enough users to be able to take the project further.

On a side note, that PM tool comparison link is a great resource!
That's not how large orgs do their budgets in many cases.
Plus, the "cost" of a device is more than what you pay at the store. For many people non-technical people, it includes hiring an IT guy to help them get it setup, spending hours on the phone with support or hours Googling for help.

Even if you're a technical person, your time might be more valuable than futzing around with a router.

A lot of people are willing to pay a premium for something that just works.
Raspberry Pi 2 – Quad Core and Runs Windows
Well, not necessary silly, but it is not the only dimension on which people and nations might align themselves. Being left-wing or right-wing are not enough to define any person or movement thoroughly. The supposition that a right-wing government could never support a left-wing movement in another country is refusing to understand any orthogonal things exist.

For instance, I consider myself right-wing by local standards, but when looking at how things go in Turkey, if I must choose a party to support, I would pick the one that's a member of Socialist International. Still, I think that does not make right-left split totally silly.
I am old enough to remember MySQL in the 90s, those guys sneered at anyone who said they needed transactions, just do it in your application. Same with enforcing relational integrity, just do it in your application. We all know how that turned out.
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The 90-second pitch
Yes, we have 2 x 5 GHz. You can also use the gigabit ports as well.
Governments create and sustain markets in many cases. And in this case, the government created the entire foundation of the internet itself. The government involvement is the thing that made the internet exist.
As a process improvement expert, one of the most significant modern breakthroughs was leveraging the intellect and experience of front line employees.

This was fundamental in enabling Toyota to go from cheap unreliable Japanese garbage to the biggest most reliable car manufacturer.

Reach out to me if you'd like to know more, we can have a chat or I can recommend some reading.
I'm not really happy with it, but it works well for me in two projects.
In first one, Mongo acts as a huge distributed (multisharded), replicated file storage — we're using GridFS to store tens of millions files with tons of searchable metadata.
In the second one it is just a backend for geo tracking software.
OK. I'm being downvoted presumably because I sound partisan or something, butyou don't have to assume that the people posting here are paid shills because their view is politically mainstream, lots of normal people have these views without being paid. That's all I'm saying. You don't have to assume that one view is astroturfed when there are plenty of people who will line up to defend it for free.
For a moment there, I thought this was related to the Eero language project (http://eerolanguage.org).
Definitely more information about your integrations would be really helpful. For software like this, having an integration with Zendesk to bring tickets into the tracker or Github Issues into the tracker is essential; to the point where having an open API is great, but you're probably going to have to do the legwork for those integrations.

Having said that, I think there's a lot of room for improvement in the issue tracking space. Good luck!
Even in a storm, you won't feel a thing on a big ship (over 300m) with stabilizers. And you have to understand that there is a difference between a storm which involves different mediums, like gas (atmosphere), liquid (sea) and sometimes solid maybe (the shore or some sea cliffs) and a storm which resides in one medium only. The Venusian equatorial winds which surround the planet in a few days (at 300-400 km/h) and which are pretty permanent, can be considered storm winds. Those plans with balloon deploying were designed especially to take advantage of such winds, in order to get shorter days.
You can quickly flash the device with an OpenWRT build. Pushing an update to our site shortly that has some of the details. Look for the Developers tab soon.
If this came out 5 years ago, I would say it may be worth a look. Coverage was spotty and slow at times. However, routers have come a long way since our favorite Blue Linksys WRT54 router.

They are faster than ever, and have a bigger range than ever before. I suggest skipping the Eero and opting for something like this: http://www.cnet.com/products/asus-ac2400-rt-ac87u-dual-band-...
This certainly true, but it's my hope the culture will shift to make the waterfall option impossible.

Back in 2004 or so, I heard of a major company that only updated their website once a year. Even then that was considered ridiculous. Consumer expectations have shifted massively; plenty of places now release every week or two.

I have hope that the government culture could shift similarly, so that software projects that don't deliver anything for long periods are seen as troubled no matter how many Powerpoint decks and GANTT charts they produce in the meantime.

And I think the way to change that culture is by having enough projects that deliver early and often, so that people say, "Well, those guys are shipping monthly. What's wrong with your team?" So instead of keeping people from being blame-y, we get them to be blame-y about long project cycles.

I think that's definitely happened a fair bit in industry, so there's some chance it will happen in government, too.
You are probably not the intended market for this device. Not every piece of hardware has to accommodate the needs of every demographic within the market.

It looks like they're targeting the group of people who want their home network to just work.
HAHAHAHA AOL made the internet‽ AOL is the quintessential example of the closed, proprietary network that is not the internet until other forces made that change and then AOL disappeared.
> with all the complexity that implies

Running the installer and paging through the wizard.
Should we convert passenger air-liners to drones?
-Pretty hard to hijack

-Is it possible to create a situation where only authorized personel can control the flight mechanisms from the ground?

-would you fly in one?

-what other advantages/disadvantages would it have?
Numbers game coding challenge. Knock yourself out!
See the identical submission made an hour earlier, but with extra new-account voting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990369