skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they still value speed over durability? If so, thanks but no thanks. I prefer my database to be durable. If I want speed, I use RAM.
2.4GHz has three non-overlapping channels. At max bandwidth, it has one non-overlapping channel.

5GHz has twenty-one non-overlapping channels.

In an apartment building, where you're pretty much guaranteed to be in close proximity of at least a few other active routers, 5GHz is a big deal.
There is an implied "it is my opinion that..." because I am stating my opinion. I think most people are able to pick up on that naturally, and I don't feel it necessary to spell it out.

I am sure many here would argue that it doesn't adhere to their notion of correctness, however.
Here's a demo I put together:

https://github.com/appsforartists/ambidex-example--bike-inde...

It instantiates a new Reflux store for each request, and uses data in the URL to figure out which stores to populate before rendering.
Boy, a polling org putting up political opinion pieces sure seems like a terrible idea.
All is only true until you need to scale it out.
I think it's because some people and style guides (e.g. Strunk & White) reject this use of "so" as being a generic, overly vague intensifier. Often these people suggest pairing it with a "that" clause, which allegedly makes it more acceptable.

So, instead of "so fun", some people would prefer that you write e.g. "so fun that I squealed with glee", or even just "it was incredibly fun".

At least that's the argument I've come across. To the extent I even think about such things, I couldn't really care less if people use "so" like this; the meaning seems perfectly clear.
Could this be an isolated case and is this someone you know? Sorry to ask but could it be someone with a grudge? How did you find out who sold it etc - I think a bit more information would be useful
Well I don't think that comparing costs this way makes too much sense. Running a successful business requires having more income than spendings. If you can achieve the same thing with $20 instead of $90 than you found a potential competitive advantage, even though not a huge one. :) Being frugal works very well for many corporations, including Amazon. I don't see that priced justified compare to JIRA based on the feature list of this tool.
Good insight. Will be working on some of the features people have suggested. First milestone was the original use case I had. I shy away from changing the code too much.
It's just a piece of software, a basic tool - not a war machine that requires 10 years of training, really no need to patronize. I'm really glad not only almighty Oracle admins can handle a database today
Google doesn't spread innovation around to partners [0]... the terms of OHA, and the terms of Play Store are strongly in favour of Google and effects any competitor [1] that forks Android without Google's blessing.

The Play Store terms range from absurd to downright ridiculous.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/22/google-open-when-convenient...
[1] http://marketingland.com/acer-incident-revives-conspiracy-th...
I'm actually fairly interested in the WiredTiger integration. I switched from MongoDB to TokuMX about a year ago because of disk space and atomicity concerns, and Toku's been really good to me. Mongo 3.0 promises to catch up in many respects; if it does, then it might actually solve the vast majority of the complaints that people have historically had with it.

The marketing copy still pretends that TokuMX doesn't exist, though - it's had these features and more (including transactions) for quite some time now.
That's why the number of people 18-70 employed full time would be a much more interesting number.

No removing of prisoners, people on disability, housewifes, people that worked just one paid hour this week...

The picture painted by that number would be bleak in most of the developing word, that's why it's not readily published.
Yeah, went to Product Hunt front page and HN front page in the same hour. I don't think I can do much.
Go further. All things behave this way. You were compelled to comment given your current circumstance, your particular makeup of cells and electricity sitting in your chair typing, blah blah blah. The beaver knows it's building a dam insasmuch as anyone else knows what they are doing.
I managed to get something for syncany https://github.com/syncany/syncany:
https://commits-io.s3.amazonaws.com/71712d74724.pdf
How to Generate 36,282 Readers + 1,000 Subscribers from a Blog Post (Case Study)
There are a couple of things. First of all, just synchronizing the I/O is hard (there are good comments in the reddit thread there).

Combat in non-enclosed spaces is hard do to ranged attacks line-of-sight, etc.

I'm slightly surprised it has taken this long to do with pudding-farming, as that lets you get plenty of really powerful items (as well as other benefits from sacrificing the corpses)[1]. There are a few parts of the game that are super hard for a bot even with the equipment of pudding farming, but I would have thought a few thousand runs would be enough to luck through them with simpler rules.

1:
Puddings are creatures which can split in two when you hit them, and each new pudding will count as a corpse (which you can sacrifice to your deity for benefits) as well as having items. I don't recall all the details, but some of the rare drops from black puddings are really powerful. The idea is you take a really crummy weapon, so you don't accidentally kill the pudding and then hit it over and over again to get lots of treasure. In this run it looks like the bot used a skeleton key as a weapon.

The main deterrent for a non-bot player doing it is that it is really boring (There's a quote somewhere from the devs that is roughly "we implemented a penalty for pudding farming, it's called 'pudding farming'" Obviously the other deterrent is the prestige of beating the game without pudding farming, and that does apply to bots too.
Bigger issue is that utility f.lux.
If your routers don't do zero handoff (Ubiquiti's term for seamlessly switching control from router to router as you move through a coverage area), then Eero might have some benefit.
I agree, gotta get those views though right?
The actual benefit of using ctrl-S (or cmd-S for us Mac folk) is that autosave is still not ubiquitous, and I'd much rather press cmd-S regularly when it's not necessary than fail to press it and then discover that I needed it. The great thing is that it's basically instantaneous now so it costs nothing to press it every few words, which definitely wasn't the case when I acquired the reflex in the late 80s or early 90s.

For this particular default I see no problem in overriding it. I'm sure there's only a minority that routinely uses ctrl-S to save a lot, but essentially nobody uses ctrl-S to save a web page that contains a document they're in the middle of editing, given how esoteric that is and how unlikely it is to produce a useful result.

That's not to say that overriding defaults is good in general. But there's no need to be consistent about it. Overriding ctrl-S is totally different from overriding the arrow keys, for example.
Nethack is a very complex game, and takes a very long time to understand enough to ascend (beat the game). Think of it like dungeons and dragons on crack, with endless possibilities and variables.

The fact that someone wrote a bot to think on its feet enough to do this, is astonishing.

You should try it out in your free time, check out alt.org, there's a server where you can play and the irc channel #nethack on freenode (I believe) is very helpful and there's a few wikis available.

But beware, it becomes very addictive. The 'one more turn' rule applies heavily here.
People do blindfolded runs of Mike Tyson's Punch Out! Which is also impressive.
Definitely not a stupid suggestion - I haven't contacted the police yet, no. I was stuck between contacting this person directly to give him a good scare (maybe he'd reconsider what he's doing) or contacting the police, or passing on the info directly to Netflix.
I absolutely agree with the plot flaws. I'm sure there are much easier ways to solve crop disease and dust storm problems. It'll probably involves alot of genetically modified crops and building dust proof houses.
I agree wholeheartedly, but I have to wonder if our resistance does any good. Years of telling kids not to say Sally and me went to the store has produced, now, several generations of people who say he gave it to Sally and I, which, of course, is just as wrong.
Library patterns: Multiple levels of abstraction
So could your comment.
Oh sorry, I just meant that since the people discussing had no formal knowledge about languages, grammar, semantics, etc... the only mention about any formal concepts about them would slide the discussion into the basics.

I do agree with what you said.
It's incredibly complicated. That's probably less of a big thing now than it was in the 80s or 90s. In the 80s or 90s it was just amazing that a game could be that intricate.

The sigil-based graphics are part of what make the complexity possible. And - the dev team have coded in all manner of combinations of things, many of which get you killed in plausible/amusing/annoying/complicated ways.

There's a culture of players looking at the source code while they play. The source is really antiquated C.

If you decide to have a go, I'd recommend printing out a copy of the manual, avoiding the spoilers for the first couple of dozen games at least. Just try to learn your way around the dungeon just from that manual, and experience the complexity and sense of mystery.

It's not a particularly 'good' game - grindy. A vogue at the moment in roguelikes is for games with as little complexity as possible. For example, I've spent far more time studying the C code to this game than I have playing it: http://trogrd.tumblr.com/post/61949503427/zoo
Fancy website. Here's another product creeping into the same space
- http://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/

Finally bumping out Aerohive, Meraki and others determined to destroy my wallet.
I had no idea that fun was not allowed to be an adjective.
but it did last for thousands of years, pretty sure we'll get a lot more efficient at resource management by then.
"they basically built a rocket-powered hovercraft, something that's never been done before"

They basically built a retro-rocket¹. Rockets existed, the principle of retro-rocket-like descent braking existed too (usually deployed on parachute drops of heavy equipment like tanks).

"I'd wager that the real reason is that Mars is more interesting to explore than Venus's atmosphere."

As you also noted, it's about public attention, which was fed with a lot of Mars stories. Mars' surface was more observable and thus made it more easily for Sci-Fiction writers to speculate about. It had less to do with practical considerations like those related to its atmosphere.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrorocket
All these facts were true when unemployment rate was higher. So even if the numbers are off by some offset they improved.
Seems like a pretty damning article to everyone currently in a position of power, not one political side or the other.
Nethack is fiendish, and you only have a single life. The dungeon is procedurally generated. There are techniques to ascending but it's hard even for people to do, let alone programming a bot.

You get potions, scrolls, weapons etc but have no clue what they are until you use them (some scrolls will help you identify what other things are in advance). Nothing about them will give you any clue (scrolls have names like "AFEWA AWEBRPO", potions are just colours etc.) To survive you need to use them though. You need to drink, but the potion might be one of weakness, poison, blindness, confusion etc. You need to eat regularly, and food is scarce, but it also might poison you. A ring of slow digestion is helpful there, but until you use an identify scroll on a ring you won't know what it is. It could end up being a ring of attract monster, for example.
It's not because of the cost. I switched to Android because I wanted a large phone and the Galaxy Note was available YEARS before the iPhone 6.

Then there is the annoying fact that as soon as a new iPhone comes out, the old ones get slow/ start crashing
Every single iPhone my family has had (sample size of fifteen, starting from the original phone) has had this issue.

Edit: the other big issue was the iPhone's lack of multitasking. For the longest time it wasn't possible to do something as trivial playing Pandora while reading HN.
makes you wonder if Uber disclosed this to Goldman or their clients when raising money???
It's not a very intelligent thing to change the form of the curse words but not their content. It's the kind of solution that a child's intellect might come up with - I can't call my sister "fat"? It's OK, I'll just call her "taf" instead.
Definitely plans to integrate with Github. We're working on rolling out better integrations over the coming month, we're especially excited about adding slack integration too.
Many people with "normal jobs" in the U.S. can file the 1040EZ, which at least originally almost fit on a post-card. (http://www.irs.gov/uac/Form-1040EZ,-Income-Tax-Return-for-Si...)

(I wouldn't know, actually; I've apparently never had a "normal job".)
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other types of reference materials often conform to a rigid and pedantically defined aesthetic. This aesthetic is more about context, appearance, intuition. Editing is an art form.

Conveying meaning differs from conveying the intended meaning with clarity. When you have to say 'most people', we already have a problem. Reference material should refer. Leaving it up to intellectual interpretation is simply no good for material that is meant to record and preserve information.

That said, this possibly has nothing to do with the difference between 'comprised of' and 'composed of'.
50 Shades of a Quiz
It's why I'm using Beaglebone Black for a project involving many RGB LEDs that have a timing-sensitive protocol - it has two "programmable realtime units" on-die with the CPU. It's a pair of separate cores (200mhz, IIRC) that can handle in hardware the kind of software bit-banging that needs to be done on RPi, and it shares some memory with the CPU. It's able to process or raise interrupts, too. It can handle ADC, PWM, and probably a few other TLAs that I'm missing.
The show creators have apparently been already told about the ending, lest something unfortunate happen to GRRM. As things stand, I don't see him wrapping up the series even by Book 7, which, I hope to read before my kids go to college (I'm 26)
I'm sure they don't, but it's hard to overcome tradition. I imagine there was no real reason to share layouts across countries in the 1800s when a lot of this stuff was hashed out.
Though you get an html file and a folder with all the external assets, which I find to be pretty annoying. Safari did a single .webarchive file, but I don't think anyone else ever standardized on something like that.

It often wrecks the layout, but I tend to print to PDF rather than deal with saved html files.
Eero is a little white box that aims to change Wi-Fi forever
It seems like it's equally about promoting one of Gallup's products, the "good job" metric they link to. I don't see anything partisan in the piece, simply because the same unemployment metric has been used by both Republicans and Democrats to further their goals.
Ocean Gravity
Reminds me of the plot for Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, hopefully things like that doesn't happen though.
That is truly impressive. I remember what a colossal achievement my first ascension felt like. Nethack is such a complex game, but the most important skill is probably patience and planning single moves, something a bot can be perfect or very good at. Now I feel like playing again.
This is idiotic to think this way. So we distill your experience of college into what MOST people should do? I think not. Why? Because it becomes a head trash excuse for the lazy.

A degree is something you get for finishing. A lot of people have very little to claim they have actually completed that has meaning to an employer. But a degree is one of them that is a gold standard. A degree also signifies you've given a certain subject a lot of thought. So do certifications, previous work experience community service, awards and more.

Surprise, if you are somebody who can work smart and knows how to complete things, you are more employable than somebody who doesn't. And if you also stack on that a lot of other good qualities, skills and finished work you're an even better candidate. And if you're personable and work well with others, even better.

A more appropriate sentiment would be you didn't get much out of your degree because you changed careers. (Many people do that, no news there) But others respect the work they have done in the past and how to synthesize what they've learned from specialized and general studies to apply elsewhere.

Everybody knows college is expensive. It's not a mystery. The costs are laid out there. But it's also quite easy to develop alternative paths to completing a degree in a specialized field and not get into enormous debt. One is to do fantastic and apply to a ton of scholarships. Another is to do community college work, get the degree there (something finished) and also work and save money. But I can tell you there is a point where you can do part time college, part time work and find it really draining. it's good to complete things in a lump sum.
Don't forget "fantastic", "stupendous", and "awesome"!
I don't know him and there are 1000+ accounts affected. I notified Netflix - I even have all the other credentials. I passed them all emails + passwords and told them to email all the affected customers. This was 5 hours ago, and I'm yet to receive an email. I will email these people myself within 48 hours if Netflix hasn't done so themselves.
Apple kills its TestFlight service
It makes sense that the rate decreases - people give up hope and stop looking for jobs, or get shitty 3hrs/week jobs, and thus drop out of official statistics, without any actual improvement.
>There is enormous brand value in thinking "I'll get an Uber"

I'll get an Uber, maybe I wont get raped

I'll get an Uber, maybe I wont be billed $200
London has a real problem with thieves targeting keyless cars
We will be adding private repo support soon, it's just the mechanics are very clunky (ssh keys and such). You could however generate a temporary token (until you have purchased the poster, at which time you can delete it). You can enter the repo address on the home page as such: https://<auth-code>:x-oauth-basic@github.com/user/repo.git
I don't see anything wrong with presenting facts unless they are wrong.
These facts don't look good on media outlets and Obama, but facts are facts.
What I want to know is if these facts are true.
What's the relevance of that question? There's no reason it has to be all or nothing. I would harshly criticize any site that overrode ctrl-W but I couldn't care less if they override ctrl-S.
> 84% market share is a loss if you don't make any money on your product.

Its a win if it is preventing a competitor from getting the kind of dominance in a market that is key to delivery of a product on which you do make money (like, in Google's case, mobile platforms are to online advertising) that they could use to extract rents that would cut into those profits.

Chrome and Android don't need to make money directly to be successful, they just need to be popular enough that other browser or mobile OS vendors can't use their position to cut off Google's advertising revenues.
This bizarrely obsessed gentleman is very wrong.

The alleged mistake is exemplified in the article like this:

> The Wikipedia editorial community is comprised of many interesting people.

Supposedly, this should be "composed of" or "made up of".

However, that is incorrect. The verb "comprise" is simply being turned into a passive form according to an established pattern which generalizes over many, many English verbs:

subject verb+tense object
-->
object "to be"+tense verb+pp preposition subject

For instance:

A eats B -> B is eaten by A

A includes B -> B is included by A

A included B -> B was included by A

A had included B -> B had been included by A

A makes up B -> B is made up of A (composed)
-> B is made up by A (invented, tidied)

Under this transformation, the preposition has to be suitably chosen to match the verb. It is related to its semantics. For instance "of" doesn't go with "include". And the "make up" example shows that multiple prepositions are possible, depending on the semantics.

To insist that we may not apply this pattern to "comprise" is a very bad case of prescriptivism. It's right up there with insisting that a diaeresis be used in writing words like cooperation, that sentences may not end with prepositions, or that infinitives may not be split.

Here is the real issue:

In modern English, "to comprise" has two meanings which are opposite! It means both "to constitute" (be a part of some whole: to make up) and "to contain" (be a whole, containing something else: to be made up of). The passive construction "to be comprised of" applies to only one of these meanings. It does not work with the "contain" meaning, regardless of what preposition is chosen. For instance:

This country comprises twenty states. (contains)

* Twenty states are comprised {of, by} this country.

Whereas:

Twenty states comprise this country. (constitute)

This country is comprised of twenty states.

We cannot indiscriminately wage editorial war on "comprised of" based on the assumption "comprised" always means "contains"! "The Wikipedia editorial community is comprised of many interesting people" is simply the passive form of "many interesting people comprise (constitute, not contain!) the Wikipedia community".
The scrypt used in cryptocoins has been sabotaged by limiting the amount of RAM it uses.
You were still much closer to the hardware than virtually every modern programmer outside of the embedded programming space (and even then), which is my point. What you were doing was effectively operating system programming, seeing as there wasn't really much of an operating system in the modern, traditionally-understood sense (except for the PDPs, which ran some timesharing system like ITS or Unix or somesuch, but those also tended to arrive with the full source code, at least in the case of Unix, so that one could port it oneself).
DeadBeef News: Like the Onion but for Programming and Startups
The BLS puts out 6 different unemployment statistics for every period. U3 is the "official rate", but you can also look at the other ones, including U4 = U3 + "discouraged workers", U5 = U4 + "marginally attached" workers, U6 = U5 + part time workers who would like to be full time. You can make arguments about which measurement is "right", but putting out an editorial implying that there is sleight-of-hand going on is silly--all the measurements are available, and comparing a single one to itself over time as a "headline rate" is completely reasonable.
It's interesting how a bunch of subtle tweaks to a restaurant's menu can increase spending: http://www.menucoverdepot.com/resource-center/articles/resta...
There are lots of advanced techniques for identifying things. If you have a pink potion you can throw it at a monster, and based on the monster's reaction you might now know what pink potions are. Most of this stuff would be hard to learn on your own though.
A warm (surprise) welcome to the #microbiome community
And they have Issues and Pull Requests turned on.
As someone in the 20-35 bracket who works in cyber-security, I have never heard of this program. I was never told about it in high school, in my CS program, nor have I heard of it at work.
I use some particularly crashy software at work, and even when autosave does work I have to play "Damn it, where did they put the autosave folder?" If I've saved in the last few minutes I can usually just redo it faster than finding the most recent save file.

I ought to keep a shortcut to that on my desktop.