skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The coda at the end is nice tool in general. Whenever you find yourself in a discussion, where it seems people talk past each other because some words have a fuzzy meaning, try to avoid the word completely. Works good for discussions about "free will", "love", "intelligence", "luck", "conciousness", and apparently "types".
Think of the plastic on an Apple wall transformer: that precisely flat and nearly reflective plastic finish.
Because space.

Getting to it, and returning from it, is inherently more dangerous than not going that far, across those kinds of boundaries, and returning. I don't think it's an issue of power, but the nature of what that power is being used for.
I don't think "blowing money" really applies at this level, where it's a speculative test. The customer is paying the full price of the whole rocket, just like every other space launch that has ever been carried out up to now. They are perhaps missing an opportunity to get a full-power landing test in on a customer's dime, but it's better to not risk alienating customers with delays that have no relation to the mission that they're paying for.
"Firefox cannot guarantee the safety of your data on www.amazon.com because it uses SSLv3, a broken security protocol. Advanced info: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap"
This highlights a bigger problem: why should you have to reimplement the same idea hundreds of times if what you already want to do already exists?
I'm just saying that they reinvented most of the stuff that you get from clojurescript by default, and they did it in a more awkward manner because they tacked it on top of JS.

Like they already have a JS preprocessor, have their persistent datastructures, etc. and have to deal with a lot of stuff they wouldn't need to deal with in a functional programming language.
How to build your growth machine: Part 2
I read everything he writes. The only time I have had a problem with anything he said was in "Under the Banner of Heaven" he partially blamed the Mormon church for the kidnap and rape of Elizabeth Smart. I suspect that the guy that kidnapped her would have been a piece of shit no matter what religion he was born into.
Learning Vim: Working with Files (curated by Ran via RefreshBox.co)
Pretty much. I actually found "Into the Wild" to be among his least interesting--probably because I couldn't really identify with McCandless."Into Thin Air" is the book that put him on the mainstream map and it's awesome. "Under the Banner of Heaven" is particularly noteworthy as well--although I found the historical parts the more interesting. (The modern story was mostly just depressing.)
No. It's still a claim grounded in rhetoric rather than reason. It's the lack of anything but rhetoric that bugs me, not the specific wording.

I mean, look, one could perhaps make such a claim, and make a reasoned case for it. The article doesn't do that. It doesn't even try. It merely defines work to be slavery, and quotes some people who agree. That's not proof, not evidence, and not very convincing. It's just rhetoric.

So the author dogmatically makes an assertion. That and a buck will get you a Coke at McDonald's. If you want me to listen, though, you're going to have to do a lot better than that.

[Edit: The article did give some reasons. They're dogmatic generalizations that are so far removed from my experience of work that I completely dismissed them as mere rhetoric.]
why is it limited for selecting three features?
It would, however, be easy for a non-peer reviewed amateur to make a mistake. It's an appeal to authority, but in this case I don't believe it's a fallacy.

Furthermore, since peer review is fallible, I don't believe Clausen's identical mistake making it through peer review proves the process any less important.

Perhaps Clausen's criticisms were not well intended, but wouldn't any respectable scientist demand rigor before seriously considering such a hypothesis? After all, the burden of proof is not on Clausen.
Immediate mode UI, not functional programming, which aren't very related (most immediate mode UI systems have been done in procedural languages).
The chinese build factories where they make pretty much everything for the global market. The americans build free time-oriented startups, such as image sharing, social news aggregation and messaging. And advertising, gotta keep those leisure sites funded.
Just bought that today. Very cool!
Very cool concept and article.

You may also notice that many of these looping gifs are done in much simpler way by just playing part of a video and then playing it in reverse.
What's fascinating is inferring the other motives and agendas swirling around the issue that are then cut through by hard science (in Krakauer's favor):

From http://www.alaskacommons.com/2013/09/22/what-everyone-is-get...:

"The forensic question “Were the seeds poisonous?” is of interest only because it sheds light on broader, more contentious question, expressed bluntly as “How stupid was Chris McCandless?” If, like Alaska Dispatch reporters Dermot Cole and Craig Medred (and again), you think McCandless was a clueless, crazy knucklehead, arrogant in his disdain for wild nature and its perils, then you want to think the seeds weren’t poisonous; the kid just died of starvation because he was too stupid/crazy/arrogant to make it to safety."

"But if, like Jon Krakauer (and, in the interest of full disclosure, like me), you have some level of empathy with or sympathy for McCandless, you want to think the seeds were poisonous—he was doing his best to survive a difficult enterprise and was done in because he consumed something that was not known to be poisonous until two decades after his death."
We know that some people have gut flora that help keep them slim; we know that some people have gut flora that help keep them overweight.

Taking fecal matter from someone who is overweight stacking the probabilities away from your favour.
So, for example, http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-exam-cheats/

Note that this particular exam was taken by 25,000 people, so that's almost ten percent.
I'm unsure how your response indicates that obesity is a self-control problem. Participating in a camp for however long and dramatically changing food intake is bound to create results. But if people could get the same results on their own then they wouldn't need the camps in the first place.

In addition, the group of people that are aware that this type of service is available, and that can afford to take multiple days off work to go to a bootcamp exercise program and pay for the program, is a unique portion of the human population with significant commonalities in genetic markers, cultural backgrounds, and many other areas. Their accomplishments should not be used as an indicator for all of humanity (and of course neither should the events described in the original article).

For the person below who asked for references: Unfortunately I don't keep a file of research on obesity because I don't have the problem myself. So I can't directly point to the things I remember reading. But that is also why I started my comment with "I believe".
+1 for tumblr
Agreed. The article writer really failed in that section. It's just rounding error. Based on his written reactions there, I honestly don't think he realized it was oscillating at the time he wrote that part. It seems like he just didn't want to bother to correct himself after the fact or is just intentionally being stupid.
I was reading about this upcoming milestone last week when attempting to unlock my old Sprint iPhone 5 for use on other domestic carriers. The consensus then was that it would apply only to Sprint devices sold after this date; an old Sprint iPhone 5 will continue to NOT work on other networks.
Yeah, it has very little to do with actual anarchy.

A clickbait title in my HN? gasp
Depending on the exact climate/heating system, the energy saved might be enough to run a dehumidifier and still come out ahead. The dehumidifier will also raise the air temperature.
Cool! I was looking for an easy way to create a sequence diagram just yesterday, but I did not see anything I was happy with. I will have to give this a shot.
I found this wonderfully clear and refreshing and I felt hopeful for the future of programming. In the meantime, it's just nice to see that not everyone is a shambling cultist, repeating canned talking points they read on a wiki which affirm to them that their own choice is the very best choice possible.
Where Men Win Glory is a really great book by Krakauer.

All the controversy lately over American Sniper has me wondering where the Hollywood drama about Patrick Tillman is.
It will sound cheesy and overused, but here it goes:

"Some men just want to watch the world burn"

Sounds about right.
cmd+f "pipe"

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Try setting your heat to, say, 50 degrees F and you may discover you've got some cold spots in your house when the pipes there freeze and burst. Let alone if you try going for lower temperatures, or entirely without whole-house heating.

So set it to the low 60s and wear layers? Welcome to what anyone who's ever been even close to poor already knows.

[edit] Maybe this is more useful in places that already barely need heating. Winter lows in the 20s and 30s (F), that sort of thing.
That may be unlikely, considering a few of the things you mentioned are proprietary or not available for OpenBSD. What is more likely is that Alexandre created something new, which makes sense considering he also created the sndio API discussed in the article.
>It's highly unlikely for me to ever work as a developer

Maybe someday you can work as a developer for yourself. The good thing about a software business is that it's more about business than software. If you can code a working solution to fix some problem that exists everything else is irrelevant. The really hard thing is to identify a problem that's business worthy.
I would love to hear feedback on your experience with the service. davida[-at-]il.ibm.com
Not to discredit the authors but this reminded me of image maps. Flashback to the early 90's!
are people really born pieces of shit though? or are they molded into one?
> They really don't have a capitalist and innovators culture.

Have you ever read any of Bunnie's many articles about shanzhai? Sure, the big corps in China are state-controlled monoliths, but the grassroots level is seething with innovation and way more capitalist in a "red in tooth and claw" sense, unconstrained by silly Western ideas about intellectual property, health & safety, etc.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284
> And because many people—both admirers of McCandless and his detractors—regard “Into the Wild” as a cautionary tale, it’s important to know as much as possible about how McCandless actually may have died."

Cautionary tales are just that, tales. It's entertainment pure and simple.

Cautionary tales have never taught, if anything they do the opposite and create wrong thought patterns.

We don't need to know to not go off to live in the crazy wilderness unprepared. Eat less cheese burgers is a boring story(Morgan Spurlock aside) but a better lesson.

The fact people seem to have the need to self justify that they are entertained about stories of someone else's downfall is an interesting condition.
Blue-Turquoise-Green deployment – zero downtime during database schema changes
I was trying to describe how to manage blue-green deployments but running on a common data store with zero downtime. The TL;DR version is that you deploy a 'turquoise' intermediate version which is forwards compatible with schema changes required by the next release.

Hopefully someone else will find this a useful shorthand for describing this approach!
Film Piracy Streaming Away from Downloads, Study Participants Say
I also wanted something in the category you're describing and after shopping around a bit I stumbled across Mikrotik's products. I bought one of their 24 port smart switches and it was exactly what I was looking for. Not a lot more expensive than some of the nicer consumer-targeted gear, but it has way more functionality.

http://routerboard.com/CRS125-24G-1S-IN
I help clients negotiate SAAS deals, and I like this as a template. It's better than 95% of the contracts I see. But since this is the internet, I will use the rest of this post to complain about things:

1. Formatting: One column of text is better than 2. It's digital, we don't need to cram words in to save paper.

2. Information Architecture. Contracts longer than 2 pages should have a table of contents. In most use cases, people are only looking for 1 or 2 specific terms in the contract. ToC helps.

3. Naming is Hard. Names should suggest some unique aspect of the thing they represent. In this contract, the parties are defined as "Company" and "Client." But both parties are companies. Using "Company" to refer to only one of the two companies invites confusion. Yes, it's defined. Yes, it's standard practice. But a better defined term might be "ASP" or "Host" or "Provider", etc.

4. "Herein." I don't like herein.
4.1 Herein is stuffy. No one talks like that.
4.2 Herein is ambiguous. http://www.adamsdrafting.com/herein/
4.3 Instead, use "in this agreement" or "in this paragraph."

5. Arbitration? Going to court is a hugely expensive distraction. Arbitration is slightly less expensive and distracting. Any reason not too ask for arbitration?
Sorry Shostack, I was just responding to the MVP part...as for the "small person"...I was disappointed too...my dream job has always been to be the heart and soul of a robot.
It wasn't chosen for anything, it was just a related project. And I guess not for its data collection functionality -- that's orthogonal to the goals of the toolkit -- but presumably for the instrumentation and request tracing bits.
Actual anarchy is not chaos, it's non reliance on authority.
I'll take my free stuff on a machine-stamped tray of 316 steel. I don't need anything fancy, just so long as it's piled high with the fulfillment of my every desire, provided completely gratis.

Now that you mention it, I think I would like a silver platter. Just put it on the steel one. Actually, make it two, so I can still use one while the other is being polished. And have a silver polisher bring the next tray. And make sure she has read Dune, and has a D.V.M. with a specialty in herpetology.

What's that? My choices are actually between a gaping stab wound and a turd sandwich? I'll take the sandwich, I guess....
Wow. That switching fabric is so much smaller than the HIPPI crossbar backplanes we used in the 100baseT/pre-GigE switches that I used to write firmware for... almost 20 years ago now. Of course, complexity means higher cost, so it's obvious why nobody bought our stuff. Hopefully, this open hardware project will have better luck!

/* it's easy to forget just how many iterations of Moore's Law have happened since the mid-90s */
Would device donations be of any use to you?

I love the idea behind this project. It would be great to see "out of the box" support on some more accessible devices.
I wonder why the measles vaccination rate for Oracle is so high (~99%). Is the culture of the parents at Oracle that different from Pixar (~68%)? I wonder if there was a localized anti-vaccine movement at Pixar. Pixar has a relatively small number of employees (1,200) compared to Oracle (122,000), so their daycare is probably a lot smaller and the parents with kids attending the Pixar daycare are much more likely to know each other. So, a few parents spreading anti-vaccination philosophy could have a larger influence over the decision to vaccinate.
Changing over your routine (or script) to the time/s of day when I'm active (or US participants are generally active) is clever... but not that clever ;-)
You're bind-minded
Ask HN: Why don't cloud file stores like Amazon S3 have query capability?
So you have an Amazon S3 bucket with millions of items in it.

Seems logical there would be some sort of query language to identify files according to a range of criteria.

I wonder why there's no way to do so?
It better be cheap; it's possible to build an affordable house that is well-insulated enough that the plug loads will be higher than the heating loads.

In a very cold climate, you also need to keep your house fairly warm to avoid problems like frozen pipes.

Ironically, the wasted heat caused by poor building practices can help make buildings more durable by facilitating the drying of the external walls (less of a concern in Europe where houses are often made of masonry instead of wood).
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I don't look at it as reinventing the wheel, any more than one would consider the advent of new languages and technologies a reinvention. They're iterations on the concept, bringing that concept into a new environment to be further refined or built upon.

Other threads in this discussion bring up Finagle's shortcomings, partly due to certain features not being addressed or included by Finagle's authors due to them being low priority. In that case what you want may not already exist, but may work as inspiration for another incarnation.
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App helps deaf people enjoy music
> that ceased after a series of complains to some branch of government made to "protect consumers"

Why the "scare quotes"? It seems like consumers were actually protected by that scary government.
When selling to larger enterprises, particularly high-value company-wide licenses, it's also often worth having a section in there defining who the customer is for the purposes of the agreement. (Do wholly or partially owned subsidiaries generally [or by express permission] get access? What about their subcontractors/joint-ventures/acquisitions?)

I'd be surprised if many larger enterprises agreed to 30 day payment terms and a late payment penalty clause - particularly one with interest compounding monthly - since they regularly take more than 30 days to pay invoices
(the standard hack is to offer a reduction for payment within a certain time frame instead)

If I were the customer I'd also be extremely reticent about signing a contract which gives the vendor the right to increase the renewal rate thirty days ahead and also obliges me to automatically renew for the next period if I don't give thirty days notice. That could be an expensive decision to make in the space of an afternoon...
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I've the exact same needs, and by occasion got hold of cisco SG300-10 switch, which I think fits the description - so I thought to share my experience, in case it is useful.

I use it for the home lab, where I have a one-armed router serving multiple VLANs, and I have 3x MacMinis running Linux as a "server farm" (The latter I use because they are quite a good gear power-management wise, scaling from ~18W at idle up to ~250W when all cores are busy, and because they are very very quiet, which is handy when the "lab" is next to the bedroom).

The biggest complain I have about this box is that the only way to manage is the Web UI, and especially the 802.1q configuration is a bit unintuitive (though I just learned the firmware is actually upgradable to something with decent IOS CLI, so I will try it out and update here the impressions).

Otherwise, needing just a very simple L2 switching and 802.1q trunking at gigabit speeds, and fanless operation - I am pretty happy with it.

8 ports works well in my setup (the main segmentation/trunking is really in the lab, the rest is either wireless, or directly connected to the "border router").

Where I needed to add more access ports, I used http://www.conrad.com/ce/en/product/976050/CE-Port-Network-S... to help. Also based on my experience seems to be quite a solid building block for a small home/lab network.

full disclosure: I do work for cisco.

EDIT: the upgrade to the latest firmware indeed unearthed the checkboxes to enable telnet/ssh, as well as quite a few new features, comparable if not more than the "bigger brothers". What's pleasant is a quite comprehensive IPv6 support.
No he talked about enterprises in terms of IT companies. What I am referring to are enterprises that aren't in the bubble of the IT industry e.g. banks, insurance companies, retail etc. You know what the rest of the world defines enterprise to be.

You have different problems and pressures when you don't have hundreds/thousands of highly experienced engineers.
Here is a rule sheet for a northern California schools' programming contest from May 1982 - this was back in the day when it was mainly Apple, Commodore PET, and TRS-80 in the schools.

http://www.portcommodore.com/programming_contest_82.pdf

I don't recall any of the winners completed all three challenges in the 2 hours. Maybe two complete and one partial at best.

As a class we went through Hands on BASIC with a PET (see link below for book), I and a few others were tearing through the PET/CBM Personal Computer Guide, magazines and whatever else we could find.

http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books-kim-pet-vic.htm
sorry about the off topic, but wym.io w/o js enabled on the page shows this:

> function (){ return React.renderComponentToString(Application(null)); }

Just looks a bit messy tbh. ;)
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Thanks.

I'll stick with http://www.dbms2.com/2014/04/30/spark-on-fire/ however, for the most part. (The mid-2014 PR blitz I thought I was engineering didn't actually happen.)
Linux is also compiled with llvm as well as icc
I haven't seen anyone selling Wedge specifically, but it's not that different from what you can get from Quanta, Edge-Core, or Penguin Computing.
Thanks. This was super helpful.
Apparently juniper is with their OCX1100[1] model.

[1]: http://forums.juniper.net/t5/Data-Center-Technologists/Junip...
Mathematica also has its own string pattern sytax

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringExpression.h...

Something like that would be

StringExpression[
"$",
Repeated[DigitCharacter],
".",
DigitCharacter,
DigitCharacter
]

or

StringExpression[
"$",
Repeated[DigitCharacter],
".",
Repeated[DigitCharacter, {2}],
]

or

StringExpression[
"$",
NumberString
]

and the other is

StringExpression[
Repeated[
StringExpression[
Repeated["p", {1, Infinity}],
Repeated["q", {2, Infinity}]
],
{2}
]
]

This can be made more concise since StringExpression has an infix form (~~) and Repeated can sometimes be replaced by postfix ..
You're right; thanks. There is a difference between "providing source code" and "providing source code that may be built and run by the user". RMS was right, about tivoization.
That only works if your product requires essentially no capital to develop.
As a Canadian, I feel an odd mixture of outrage and pride . . .
I'd be interested to see what sort of anarchy would happen without a product manager picking which features fit and didn't. The premise of 'developer anarchy' seems to suggest that they'd figure it out - but I wonder how long it would take if there wasn't one person who could call something out-of-scope.
Hm, that's interesting. I went to great lengths to ensure it rendered without JS (since it's all React)! :P

I'll look into it. Thanks. :)
Because that would be a database and would have database prices.
Even then, Java's had ExecutorService, Callable<T> and BlockingQueue<T> for a long time. Effectively the same thing as Go's green threads from a programmer's perspective, with the only real difference being that Go swaps out an executing goroutine on I/O or other syscalls (or calling any C code).
As others pointed out, this older style is more suitable for masonry homes which might be less susceptible to mold and have enough thermal inertia to prevent pipe freezing.

On the flip side, you can make your house air-tight and use a heat exchanger to refresh the air while retaining the heat: that's the concept of Passive Houses[0]. Not suitable for cooling down hot & humid air (you'd have a condensation problem) but definitely an option for heating a home.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house