skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech community is plagued by a fear of the new and unknown. I've seen it time and time again, and it really baffles me.

Anyway, yeah these sound neat. I hope more than anything, though, that they have secure firmware. One of the biggest problems faced by the average home is vulnerable router firmware, leaving millions of routers open to exploit for various nefarious purposes.
In between, he probably put out 200 odd books. The man wrote like his life depended on it.

As far as gaps go, I'm still hoping GRRM won't break any records
I think talking about "resources" is very standard for project planning. I'm a resource at my job and I have no problems with that.

I think that you obviously have to be sensitive of how you use this and context. For example, I once overheard a manager say "my resources are working on it this weekend", which to me betrayed a lack of compassion and dehumanized the team.
Given that I thought I saw a link on here at some point for revivalists of the old Gopher protocol, I was in the same boat.
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It's not hard to become familiar... http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=KKD+Interactive#%7B%22ran...

I'm guessing you stopped looking around Feb 2004? :)
...and that's the thing, right there.

Having deployed a large Aruba installation, I really like the Aruba system in general (consumer-unfriendliness aside).

That being said, unless things have changed since a few years ago, you're still looking at >$1000 to do a minimal installation, once licensing and support is set up.
That reminded me of this, which I think is relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8991732
That's a really good point. We were trying not to be too sales-pitchy and just get across why we love Matterhorn and how it can help you with your projects. I think the word resource was a bit of misplaced "marketing-speak" that went into the final version. Taking your recommendation on board :)
Nope, it doesn't.

Or rather, it has a 3 clause BSD licence with an additional "Comment on BSD, GPL and Copyright": http://www.shenlanguage.org/license.pdf which is significantly longer than the 3 clauses minus the all caps disclaimer of warranty boilerplate.

Which might be acceptable, it looks OK at first glance (compared to an unacceptable initial version presented yesterday), but it does add to the overhead in doing things with Shen. Fatally? I don't know, but the usual dismissal that "It's got a weird licence" still holds, even if it has much less weight now.
Dish used “small business” discount to save $3B at taxpayer expense
Those same people expect their fridge to make them coffee.
"to comprise" is distinct from "to be composed of", because the latter is actually "to be", with a past participial phrasal verb.

"to be comprised of", on the other hand, is not distinct from "to be composed of".
It's yet another fight between prescriptivists and descriptivists over what defines correct language usage. English is full of examples where incorrect usage became pervasive enough to become accepted as correct. But some people fight that process because they don't like that the language changes as a result of people using it ignorantly.

For me, it really comes down to how you view the purpose of language. If the purpose is to convey meaning as accurately as possible, then these changes devalue the language since the usages that result from ignorant speakers are, by nature, less precise. The oft-cited "begging the question" has a very precise meaning that's difficult to convey in other terms. When ignorant usage widens the meaning, we lose the ability to easily refer to the more narrow meaning.

On the other hand, you can view language as a shared cultural identity that's always shifting and evolving organically. In that light, these minutiae are pointless because the majority of speakers don't understand the subtlety and never will. You can try to educate people, but you'll just end up alienating them. As humans, we're evolved to learn language from our environment and the people who talk to us, not from a textbook. So why would we consider the textbook version to be the canonical version?

These two viewpoints are diametrically opposed and yet are both reasonable and there are many well-educated people on both sides.
Ask HN: My Netflix got hacked – I found out who sold my credentials. What now?
So, my Netflix account got hacked. Some of the profiles in my account were removed so I lost quite a bit of information on where I was with certain series. Anyway, with a bit of 'research' I managed to track down who sold my login information (Name & address). What's the best thing to do with this information?

Ps. I live in The Netherlands. Person who sold my credentails lives in The Netherlands too.
Ask HN: Freelance Work Questions
I've been looking at software development freelancing gigs on elance, odesk, etc and have been seeing really low rates. On top of that, I see bids coming from other countries that I'm sure someone in the US couldn't beat. Are US based freelancers making a living wage? What sites are they using to find work? Any advice is appreciated.
First off, note my qualifier "barring catastrophe". Second, "not dying" is an extremely strong economic driver.
True. But also because it's a sensitive and nuanced examination of the fucked-uppedness of US culture with regards to race. I certainly hope that isn't everlasting, but the book remains depressingly relevant.
The Nation's favorite shark, as ANSI art
> Raspberry Pi is the first and most popular

While certainly most popular, I'd dispute the claim of being first. For example BeagleBoard was initially released in 2008.
White makes a convincing case that the guy will now be unemployable, which for me goes the extra distance from severe to bad.
Eh, I think the more important take from it is that any species is prone to developing an unbalanced advantage that ultimately does them in.

We humans just happen to be the ones on top right now doing the unbalanced expansion thing.
"The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim"

For anyone who makes any claim. The legal definition of claim is that you must assert you own all or part of the software. If Facebook makes the claim against you, the only defense you need is their patent license grant and the software license.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8988301
The bigger lesson is that we techies tend to disregard the severity of certain real pains (setup, configuration, up front commitment to schema, etc). And let me tell you, all of us know it, but many of us accept it unquestionably.
I get it. To take the joke even farther, you might imagine a headline from The Onion along the lines of "God working on sequel to The Bible". Not funny when I state it all dryly of course, but hopefully you can see the joke now?
Money Really Does Matter – I’m an Admitted Code Mercenary
Most notably for myself: Sublime SFTP, SublimeGit, and Sublimerge.

I'd pay for Anaconda or SublimeLinter beyond donations in a heartbeat if it did have a paid option, as well.

http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp
https://sublimegit.net/
http://www.sublimerge.com/

http://damnwidget.github.io/anaconda/
http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/latest/
While I expected it to annoy me, for some reason in this particular situation I love the fact that we're using very current terminology in the context of a 'classic' from the 60s. Perhaps because it 'anchors' the term and makes it seem more like a useful word to describe a phenomenon that has always existed, rather than annoying, very-specific jargon.
soon techcrunch headlines would be: UBER DRIVERS LAID-OFF, REPLACED BY SELF-DRIVING CARS
I've heard you get better rates on TopTal and through 10x.
Why Are American Schools Obsessed with Standardized Tests?
Mostly grammar edits as I would see them while reading. This was many years ago (before the thank button I think) so maybe things are better now.

I gave up trying to edit Wikipedia and instead I contribute by giving them money every year.
I now understand.
MySQL is one of the top 3 databases, it is used as main database in Facebook, Wikipedia and many other high traffic we sites. There are forks like MariaDB and alternatives with more features like Postgres. MySQL with its several different db engines is unique and with the default InnoDB engine it is on par with its competitors.
The Internet is a Meritocracy
Nice. Also try https://code.google.com/p/gource/ for visualizing the git history.
You have to admit that it feels very out of place here on HN.

I wouldn't have minded it as much if it wasn't so long and including some detailed issues OP faced with Mongo.
Kind of misleading data. The number of cab/tuk tuk drivers and street vendors is astounding, way more than there should be. Technically employed, but driving the wage down.
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Immediate need is for a front-end developer, but we are also interested in growing our devops and backend / data engineering staff.

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The RPi is running eth0 and usb over the same bus, which makes it a bad choice for rolling your own router. Other than the fun of understanding how the parts fit together, I would be surprised if you could find a dev board that would outperform a dedicated router in terms of features and power consumption for a low price. Some of the RPi alternatives might be close, Banana Pi, Odroid, etc.
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Just curious–why do you want to host the data on your own servers?
This is sadly common in the world of database marketing. There are very few companies who are the least bit humble about what they're doing.
Does that sandwich make your car more 20% more efficient?
Yes, the InnoDB engine adds transactions, foreign keys, and all the other traditional RDBMS features that the original authors of MySQL didn't think anyone needed.

InnoDB by the way is an Oracle product.
The screenshots need to be not-test-data. Make up some fake company with fake tasks; looking at screenshots of a development environment leave me underwhelmed.

What I want to know is "Why should I use this over Asana?"; the copy doesn't address it, and the screenshots leave me unsure as to the specific use cases for the product.
Well, that describes a dream I have - to make all services function calls. I should be able to order a pizza by just issuing a POST request to some API endpoint, preferably without caring about anything else than the size and list of ingredients. I definitely should be able to install a local print shop as a system printer, so that instead of calling them and sending them e-mails and wiring money I could just do File->Print, change few options, click Print and have it at my doorstep the next day.

Come to think of it, a lot of services are but glorified function calls - it's just the API (i.e. having to talk to people) that's messy and too broken for any automated use.
From the donation benefits section:

"Win competitions like biggest single donation of the month, or most donations in a month for bonuses and prizes!"
Because "fun" in that context is being used like a countable or mass noun, therefore "That was so much fun" would be the correct usage.

"Entertaining" is an adjective and you can use "so" as a modifier to express how entertaining whatever you were doing or watching is or was.

This probably explains it better than I can:

http://www.grammarphobia.com/qa#a31
A fair point. But common usage can find an obstacle in those whose beliefs or principles refuse to accept it. I still enjoy seeing the Sears Tower in feb-roo-airy, in spite of others' desire to visit the Willis Tower in Feb-you-airy.

As long as they don't try to drop a "nuke-you-lar" bomb, I won't correct them. I could care less, but then I'd be apathetic to their linguistic failings.

(Edit: grammatical error)
InnoDB wasn't always an Oracle product. It was bought in 2005.
Atom now using Io.js
Anaerobic bacteria are incredibly difficult to culture, especially if the specie is one that doesn't spore or last long in aerobic conditions. Those are most likely what are in the probiotic pills, but I do not know and am only speculating.
No reason why it couldn't work on the server: create multiton versions of stores and when a page is ready to be rendered assign the state of the multiton instances to the corresponding singleton instances, call render and return the singleton instances to their previous states. Sure it's hacky as hell but just hide it somewhere, there is no reason to do it manually in application code.
>You won't even try to provide an example?

Well since we don't actually live in an anarcho-capitalist "utopia", governments tend to intervene sooner or later in dysfunctional markets. And I find that regardless of how bad things were beforehand, or how light the resulting regulation, the response from AnCaps is always "You touched it, you bought it!"

Nonetheless, the history of Standard Oil is a pretty compelling example of a natural monopoly.

>If the cost of laying cables is an inhibiting factor for the first company, then it is also the inhibiting factor for any companies which follow.

The difference is the potential ROI for each market entrant.

For the first company, the entry cost may be high, but since there'll be no competition, there's potential for decent profits.

The second company faces the same entry cost, but they also have to compete with the first company, so their potential profits are much lower.

As a result, those who might disrupt the market are much more likely to invest elsewhere.
Trial-By-Error Learning
That's right. I wrote some computer books some years back, and the royalties were somewhere around 10% of the wholesale cost of the book. So a book with a $40 shelf price might have a $20 wholesale price... and with only about 6000 copies as a typical print run, I didn't make much at all.

And also bear in mind that an advance is just that: it comes off the royalties, so you may not end up making any money for quite a while.
That's incorrect. It's only revocable if you make a claim. As the person said, if the only claim you make is that you are using the patent grant itself, your rights are not revoked.

It's overly broad, but your interpretation isn't correct.
By involving a linguist in a discussion about the best way to write something.
Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf can recognize Al Gore's contribution to the creation of the Internet but you cannot? Without government involvement and investment, the global communications network might have started and ended at AOL.

It's easy now to forget what the internet was like even 20 years ago when things were just ramping up. There were huge government initiatives all around the world that made it viable for commercial ventures to use it.
Some timing sensitive operations like PWM are possible on the old Pi by making the DMA controller directly transfer data from hardware PWM to GPIO without using any CPU cycles.

Frameworks like pigpio and servoblaster use that trick, but the standard gpio python module which doesn't use DMA has more mindshare, probably due to its simplicity.

There is an implementation of RTlinux for the RPi from the Navio guys [1], but I'm not sure if it's compatible with RPi2.

[1]: http://www.emlid.com/new-raspbian-with-real-time-kernel-jan-...
It's already happening. I for example, consider myself a kind of atheist-catholic, and I'm not the first one. I go to church (not every sunday, but now and then), go on missionary trips and participate in a local community. It is not easy, as almost everyone does believe in God. But my friends are supportive, and I do get to debate once in a while and is all fun. Plus, I really dig Jesus ethics.
But the vendor told them it was a general purpose database...
I really like this. Executed properly, it will solve WiFi issues for medium to large in-home deployments. I think the killer angle is the ease of setup and configurability. The most important tech here to me is the fact it promises to self-update and try its hardest to never stop working. If their marketing is accurate, I'd recommend this in any simple deployment requiring more than one router. (Say, throw it in your parent's large house and trust it will just keep working over time)

That said, a current-gen AirPort Express or Extreme covers many of the points here.

- You can set it up in seconds from your phone, if you have an iPhone. (Otherwise, you're stuck with OS X, Windows, or the Windows utility on WINE, though there are some okay open-source config utils).

- It's going to be pretty much rock solid. They're very good about reacquiring network access, and the firmware is about the cleanest I've ever seen on a router from a technical perspective (the iCloud services are a bit weird, but those are optional).

- You really only need one of them to serve single-level homes /apartments where they'll be punching through less than 5-6 walls.

- It won't auto-update, but some might consider this a feature.

- If you plug a second AirPort in, it asks if you want to extend the first network.

That aside, the bandwidth reduction from a multihop mesh would likely make the Eero unsuitable for my needs (I tend to saturate AC, so I just throw more wired access points at the coverage problem to keep my bandwidth up).
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Not only have you missed the point of this author's talk, you've also missed the point of Feynman's answer, which served to demonstrate that the question being asked did not have a simple answer that could be succinctly constructed in a way that does the whole story justice. He wasn't saying 'don't try to understand magnets, just use them' he was saying 'I can't answer that question in a satisfactory way without first explaining all of Physics'

The author of this talk is not abnormal to do things without remembering them. I write things down all the time only to come across them a year later with no recollection.

It must be nice to be so self-assured of one's intellectual superiority though. Most of us have no idea what we're doing, after all.
For the impact to be similar, it will take a lot more than similar writing. I will read this -- I would read Harper Lee's grocery lists with interest -- but I expect that it will be a minor literary footnote, not another beloved landmark book.
What's a "very large dataset?"

We started having issues around 100GB that forced an upgrade to SSDs. That lasted us til 2TB, at which point we switched.
Having worked with and competed against some such folks, I can guarantee you that they are not fighting for the same business as you. Their clients are usually small businesses who have no idea how the internet works, or clueless 'startup' guys who had an idea once and zero clue how to implement it.

So yeah, the people they sell their services to don't care about any of the stuff you and I would lose sleep over.
Why is this so bad for Titan? Datastax seems to have helped Cassandra a bunch.

I haven't tested neo4j's clustering because you have to pay to use it. Was actually hoping to switch to Titan.
The ones I have seen are definitely low-overhead. They also seem to be pretty transient and skeevy, though that may be more a reflection of the typical owner than the nature of the business.
Honestly, my biggest issue with this landing page is the dummy text in the screenshots. Its nitpicking for sure, but it would look nicer if you took the time to give the projects realistic names in the screenshots and whatnot. Also that Sign In button needs another 5-10px of margin at the top.

Otherwise its a very nice landing page in my opinion.
Ok, but Polish is a dying language, so I don't think it matters that much.
Well said. Though I think that in the context of an online encyclopedia, being precise has far more value than in most other contexts, and so the prescriptivists are in the right. This should be recognizably true even if you take the side of the descriptivists in other contexts.
No, he's correct.
I just legit adverbed "legit" [0]

http://www.xkcd.com/1443/
Hey, thanks for the tip! Just signed up for a beta invite...looks pretty awesome :)
> This hard-coding solution has very concrete advantages.

True, but you missed the major disadvantage of doing everything in a monad: there may be horrible side-effect demons lurking in every line of code!

In my experience, the most egregious offenders are shared mutable state (AKA multithreading) and exceptions. Introducing multithreading or exceptions into an application which previously shunned them feels like switching to a whole different language; one where all our intuitions and guarantees can be undermined at any time.
Thoma Bravo acquired Compuware (not just dynaTrace). The copyright notice at dynatrace.com reads "2015 COMPUWARE CORPORATION" so it seems the business is still in operation. Ruxit is "a division of Dynatrace LLC", a company registered three months ago. It's unclear from the blog post what is its relationship with Compuware, if any (and what does the "we became a public company" refer to).
No need to be baffled. The start-up graveyards are full of companies that have promised a mesh wireless system and have failed miserably. It is not fear of the unknown, it is a very healthy skepticism towards unsubstantiated marketing claims. Or, in other words -- it is fear of the vaporware.

If it all works as advertised, this would be great. But there is no reason to believe these ambitious marketing claims before there is actual product on the shelves.
> Encyclopedias should be information, not opinion.

Yes, OK. Grammar trolling the whole of wikipedia does not add information - it just serves one person's opinion.
> Meat or chicken?

Is there something I don't know about Chipotle's chickens?
Making Drinkable Gold for the King of Siam
Indian here. Finding good designers has become the bane of my existence. We don't have a strong design culture. What designers we do have are amateurs fighting for $5/hr projects on Elance. Their work is mostly borrowed and their skills limited to a handful of Photoshop effects and good Google skills.

The good designers we do have are almost never without work, and if they are available, they find other avenues to market their services than tacky, borrowed sites.

Plus, plagiarism isn't really looked down upon here. It's even the accepted norm in certain places.