skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I went to college with Ross. He was a year ahead of me.

I didn't know him personally, but several of my friends did. I had a few friends in college (some of whom I still talk to) who were good friends with him. When he got arrested, I looked up his Facebook page, and I found we have 5 mutual friends listed (and I know a couple of others who knew him but didn't have him on FB). Also, when he was arrested, my then-officemate looked him up, and it turns out he met Ross at a party once and had a conversation with him (though they didn't know each other beyond that). Small world.

That stunned me, but what stunned me more was when I found out Richard Bates did most of the technical work. I knew Richard. We were in a few of the same clubs, we had a class or two, we hung out in the same friend groups, and we were almost friends for a while. Richard was a... peculiar person. He had no people skills whatsoever, and he managed to be both shy and condescending at the same time. He treated people horribly. I ended up having a falling out with him in my senior year after he cut me out of his life for trying to patch things up between him and one of my best friends, who he suddenly cut out of his life with no explanation whatsoever (that is, Richard cut my friend out of his life). IMO, he wasn't a good person. Certain... nicknames for him based on his name began floating around as people got fed up with how he treated them. I'm still absolutely gobsmacked that this guy I personally knew and disliked built the Silk Road of all things. It's still hard for me to believe (and, yes, I know for a fact that this is the same Richard Bates because his email address was published in the trial, and I recognize it as his).

UTD was a special place.

(For the record, I changed my name last year, and I seriously doubt Richard knows my new name. I have to wonder if he'll read this and think "who the hell is this person?", because there's nothing about my username here, which is based off my new name IRL, that he'll recognize.)
This looks great. I use something similar* in Chrome for a similar effect. I like that you can make it exactly what you want with your version.

* http://momentumdash.com/
Dale Carnegie wrote: ... even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's [...] success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering-to personality and the ability to lead people.

Even if you find a great job where you can focus on the "15%" there will always be other departments / managers / competitors, who doesn't play by your rules. You better get used to it and continue doing a good job & read the book "How to Win Friends & Influence People".

If I were you I would stay at least for one another year in my current position and quit first when I know how to handle politics.
Small Gods is a common recommendation from other people, but it is a collaboration with Gaiman. Not that its a bad thing, but it is missing the full Pratchett voice.

My favorites are all Moist_von_Lipwig books. I recommend starting with Going Postal. Its comes much later in chronological order, but is the first Moist_von_Lipwig book and is enjoyable standalone.
That's it (usually written Gell-Mann effect I believe), but it actually describes the cognitive dissonance of ignoring that feeling when reading other non-domain stories, so it's the opposite.
> Are there authors who write similarly?

Nope.

But the closest you're going to get is probably Douglas Adams.
Do you have information on the environmental cost of growing the plants vs eggs?

I would agree that factory farming of eggs has a terrible effect but it seems like on a small scale it wouldn't necessarily be true.
If that's your best alternative then I don't see why not. Being technically minded you can probably bring efficiencies to the process that your friends can't and make even more than them.
These do exist, and they always receive warm welcomes. They're considered like family.
Googlebot doesn't use the crawl delay line in robots.txt if that's what you're asking. I guess theoretically it's because you can normally change it in the webmasters interface.

It's not really ignoring robots.txt either, as crawl delay is not an 'official' setting
>FFC published full Net Neutrality rules [pdf]

Typo in title: FFC should be FCC.
Information-rich screens can reduce clicks and save massive amounts of time, but it's very hard to design information rich interfaces that don't clog your forest for the trees. Add in a requirement that the screen needs to be responsive and work well on mobile, and what was a heavy lift before becomes massive.

For example, https://Userify.com has a very simple (and rather prosaic) interface with not a lot of tools, but it's easier and faster for people to pick up than trying to hook authentication in their Linux boxes to Active Directory or LDAP.

The next release, by necessity, will be more complex and powerful because it's getting an approximate metric ton more functionality. We'll try to balance that by fixing the blah design and color scheme, but balancing info-rich interface against functionality on varying size screens is just really hard.

Even so, the author is right -- but form follows function still applies. I'd rather have an ugly, but fast and functional, interface over a beautiful and weak interface any day. The app that succeeds in both will be most successful.

Ultimately it's an optimization problem.
Guards! Guards! is a great starting point, both on it's own merits and as it introduces the Watch series which is terrific. It was also the author's favourite (or one of his favourites).

Be aware that if you start at the beginning with The Colour of Magic the very early books are a quite different style to once he'd got into his stride, so unless you're absolutely determined to read them all I wouldn't start there.

Edit: Btw, Guards! Guards! is early enough in the series that it's still recognisably 'early' Pratchett, so if you're interested in seeing his style develop it's a great place to start for that reason too.
Yes, everyday. It is nice to do something creative with the hands after a long day of coding.

Mostly using the oven, and the last months I've focused on long time cooking on low heat which is really tasty
One person expects the off-by-one error!
I wrote this. Feedback welcome.
Strava for Apple Watch
Although you are correct, it's more a matter of perception / PR image. If we are looking at Google that shuts down pretty popular projects (Reader, Code, and now G+ seems to be shifting) or pretty innovative projects (Wave, Glass) then how should we feel about becoming dependant on/involved in Google products? What if Gmail switches to paid-only model? What if the next-big-Google-thing will be closed down after a year, again? What if free Google Apps will close down, and only paid version exists? What's the point of getting involved into any free Google stuff? What's the point of using Google at all?
Nice to see you trying print media.

I saw the announcement on Arctic Startup website, is the new magazine connected to it or is it completely independent?

I'm wondering if the money from magazine can fund Arctic Startup, which was almost shut down few years ago.
If you are in good standing with your current employer, the very first thing I would do is get a letter of reference.

They are very valuable, and hard to come by. I wouldn't leave without getting a letter of reference first. It does signal that you are looking for another job, but that is okay. It's not a big deal. Everyone knows it happens, and if they are at all reasonable they will go ahead and do it for you. People leave jobs nicely without burning bridges all the time.
interestingly I wasn't able to run vi, but could run vim. I reported to the github issue tracker.

This seems very neat. Definitely much less overhead than VirtualBox. Plus can write to the same filesystem as windows without windows admin privileges (which can be done with cygwin, but not with virtualbox). Once it supports x86-64 binaries and threading and users, this could be very useful.
I think that making the whole experience one medium or the other, all text or all video, is a relic of platforms that only supported one medium, newsprint and TV. Yes, some stories will demand so much of one or the other that maybe using all video or text makes sense, but clearly that's not what's happening.

If the NYT wants to tell stories as effectively as possible, they should be using the most effective tools as needed. Their priorities seem to be elsewhere.
> I wonder how "security" catches onto you. It's not legal (here anyway) to monitor every employees' Internet usage all the time. Investigating based on alerts may be, but what would trigger the alert in the first place?

I don't know where "here" is, but in the US it is definitely legal to monitor everything you do on company resources.
Argh :-) of course. is malatypism a thing?
I don't think Small Gods is a collaboration, that's Good Omens.
Oh c'mon, he ordered a hitman inside a play the FBI fully staged for him. There was never any harm done to anybody.

Pure entrapment. Create a fake simulated decision dilemma he never had to decide in real life, put a lot of emotional pressure on him, and then when he made a bad decision inside this simulation that harmed nobody, try to condemn him for it.

He hasn't lost my goodwill yet.
I used to work at a company that cached international shipping rates. Those rates are BASICALLY by country because most of the fuel is burned to move the package the gross distance from one country to another.

But every once in a while we'd end up paying double for a shipment because the customer was way out in the sticks or whatever. Had we done more dynamic stuff like taking the whole address into account when quoting a price to a customer we'd never get bit by this kind of problem. But it was only a couple of times a month so I didn't worry too much about it.

My replacement found that this bothered him a lot and he figured he'd score points by fixing this problem. So he did exactly that, transitioned the entire quote system from local database lookups to remote UPS/FedEx/USPS/etc calls. 2-4 rates per shipper (Ground, Air, etc) for a total of about 10-15 every time a customer wanted a quote. And because we would repackage stuff (it was a logistics company) we often never knew the exact weight so we'd quote 3-4 prices so people could get a feel for which choice was their best bet for the best rate without delaying everything by an extra day or two in order to get a hard quote.

We cached these rates by country and weight (up to 1000lbs) so between all the service offerings and whatnot it was about 100,000 pieces of information in our actual, but occasionally incorrect database. So there were two choices:

1. Don't do any caching and just look them all up in realtime for customers. They're web APIs so there's latency associated.

2. Cache, but on a per-address basis. We had an address book for our customers so we knew the couple of addresses they would want to ship to and we could aggressively warm the cache so that all the rates would already be there. But there were about 10k unique addresses in the database * 100k total rates = 1 billion rates that needed to be cached.

When I presented this back-of-the-envelope calculation in a meeting do you know how he blew all of it off?

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- Donald Knuth

I was so flabbergasted that someone could be aggressively ignorant and yet somehow twist Knuth's words to support their own position that I simply gave up. I was dealing with a powerful stupidity and it was stronger than me.

I later heard that during the transition it was touch-and-go for about a week and they had to issue a lot of credit to pissed off customers. The rate quoting page went from about 20ms to render (and maybe 300ms to load) now to about 4 seconds.
They kind of get a bad rap for this because of how large and visible they are. The funny thing is that many of the people here on HN have worked on projects that had very finite lifetimes as well, often closing them down for some of the same reasons.

Someone has to invest the time and money to keep services running, even if only limping along. Google likes to experiment and test the waters. It's part of why they've been so successful. I hope they keep killing off their underperforming/underused services so they can keep on pushing other things forward.

However, closing down stagnant projects is very different from locking down access to previously open APIs (Google Maps). Since we're discussing the closure of Google Code, I won't get distracted with that controversial topic.
The Pi foundation missed the boat on usability. I think it's problem is its made be people who love linux. People need to love what linux CAN DO.

They got it wrong write from step 1. The default raspian makes you pick a distro, then you have to log in (hope you're in front of the manual) then boot your own desktop environment with `startx`.

The Pi should be plug in -> boot to desktop with an icon for the manual, examples, scratch and the python repl. From that you get doing something and there's the carrot to have a reason to find out what other things it can do.

The choices are important but they've got no context until the pi is doing something in front of you.

This board is going to be great for the Pi. It fixes that first step. You make this board do a thing for you and ask "How can I connect two of them up" or "I want the to work while I'm away". Enter the pi to replace your laptop your developing on. Now you have a reason to learn how to leave it unattended.
you can't count on things Google releases to be around very long

code.google.com was around for 7 years. What more do you want?
Oh thank god, all I've been asking for is to read this. BRB.
Actually, my understanding is that Everest base camp is pretty clean, since they started requiring climbers to bring back trash in the 90s. I think it's mainly the higher up camps that have big garbage (and human waste) problems.
Isn't that how they normally do the non-car street view stuff? Basically stick the street-view camera onto a tripod?
Ok, something weird here. Link to article redirects to localhost.
The downside of using (.:) is that it is used heavily in other libraries (Aeson for instance) in a very different context (field accessors, similar in look to json's `:`).
Doesn't it also add liquidity to the market? With many trades happening when the price fluctuates by fractions of a cent, doesn't that hone the market to a more accurate value quicker? Not to ignore the downsides, but my understanding is that there are known upsides.
And the EPA limits it to 4ppm.

So...
Real estate development is something I would personally love to do with my life. I was a realtor, a property manager, and attended a week long course specifically to become a developer, and what I learned is this:

1. Projects take 18+ months to complete
2. You will be a "junior" for years before anyone gives you any creative control or real money
3. Projects are hell.

Expanding on 3, I've been told Real Estate Development is like putting out fires all the time and at the end of the day you're just glad you have something standing at all.

(To compare it to coding, think about debugging a program where every step you take to look at the code takes days or weeks .... you're filing paperwork or talking to the mayor or waiting for an investor or client to make a decision or fixing a contracting/structure error)

If you're willing to invest years of your life working 80 hour weeks putting out fires and having headaches as a junior developer, then someday you might go somewhere as a real estate developer.
> until the patent expires.

It's almost like it's baked into the system.
I had just stumbled on this C# 1.1 parser written in F# yesterday. I'm not sure if a syntax-tree and parser in 350 lines is decent, but I can at least see what you're talking about in regards to ML/OCaml being well-suited for the task.

http://www.fssnip.net/lf
I don't understand why they did not call this creation the new Macbook Air.
The Future Is Just Around the Corner: And Everything Is Integrated
One of these days we'll see a drone with a street-view cam on the moon, or even Mars. That would be awesome.
With that kind of argument all kind of warfare is terrorism, which means the word terrorism is redundant and useless.

Fact is we are at war with some bad people and when we do so innocent people are getting hurt - however we try really hard to minimize their numbers and one of the ways we do that is using drones.

And if you feel bad about it think this way: we try to avoid killing civilians, they use human shields.
I saw so many people complaining about how this would increase taxes. Yet, the full details of the ruling had yet to be seen by the public. Now they can eat their words.

37.
"Nor will our actions result in the imposition of any new federal taxes or fees; the ability of states to impose fees on broadband is already limited by the congressional Internet tax moratorium."
The point is that this sort of trading involves an algorithm making the "decision" to buy/sell/query trades at an extremely high rate. When I click "market order" on my eTrade screen it's going at nearly light speed too -- but we both know that's not the same thing and not what he meant. I think you're being a bit pedantic.
Is there any other better Javascript library than Moment.js to play around with dates ?
I also found that surprising. There are a lot of benefits to having an EU passport-the biggest being living AND working in any of the EU countries without a visa. I'm guessing that's why they're also the most expensive.
Japan space scientists make wireless energy breakthrough
True, but making mayo for 300M Americans will never be small scale.
FWIW, it was 8+ years :)

It was launched at OSCON in 2006.
> Although you are correct, it's more a matter of perception / PR image. If we are looking at Google that shuts down pretty popular projects (Reader, Code, and now G+ seems to be shifting) or pretty innovative projects (Wave, Glass) then how should we feel about becoming dependant on/involved in Google products?

You just listed a bunch of projects that failed to get traction or lost mindshare battles. I expect an innovator to move on from failures, which is what all of your examples are. Reader: Failure, Google Code: Failure, G+: Failure, Wave: Failure. The reasons for each failure differ, but said reasons are irrelevant to this discussion. The fact is that Google attempted something, maybe enjoyed a little bit of success, but the results didn't meet their expectations. Rather than continue running these things with skeleton crews (to what effect?), they've done the right thing and closed them down.

The only exception is Glass, which was an experiment that already is impacting other current and future products. It never had a guaranteed future. It never reached consumer "1.0".
Love Sayings and Quotes
Are the dissenting opinions available?

The FCC delayed this release, declaring that they were obligated to respond to dissenters and that they were going to hold off releasing until dissenters had written up their opinions and they could prepare a rebuttal. (This strikes me as a surprisingly sensible, all-cards-on-the-table governance model, rather than an ongoing media-frenzy feeding blow-by-blow release.)

It pains me greatly knowing that Google worked hard to get a piece of this document dropped. Alas due to a lack of transparency and openness among the FCC and Google's discussion, we'll never have more than faint rumormongering to do here, but in tandem to "Broadband Internet Access Services" it seemed like there was to be another leg of openness, "Broadband Subscriber Access Services." Google not only got to know what was being proposed but got to get it dropped before the public had any idea what was under consideration here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/26/net_neutrality_rules...

To me it comes off as a denigration of the public by the FCC and Google, and the scant evidence about is hard to interpret as anything but subterfuge and sabotage done at the very last minute. A more transparent process would have been appreciated- rather than this "Government as a Service" model of building regulations and applying them, I'd like to have seen the FCC use some transparency and openness in their creation of these regulations to bootstrap regulations better meeting the public mandate.

I expect most registered, official dissent is going to focus on the FCC doing too much, and that no one is going to dissent saying these protections fail to address core points. But gee do I want to know what was in the 15 "Broadband Subscriber Access Services" pages the FCC dropped at the last minute, and why Google lobbied to drop them.
GitHub's success is due, in no small part, to their excellent interface. Google Code was, by contrast, always ugly, hard to navigate, and hard to understand. (This, of course, ignores the many features that GitHub offers, which Google Code doesn't.)

I know of many companies that learned about GitHub via open-source projects, which GitHub hosts for free, and decided that it was so good that they should pay money. Hosting such open-source projects was a brilliant marketing move.

Google Code, by contrast, didn't seem to have a clear purpose other than hosting open-source projects. It was a kind of souped-up SourceForge, rather than a serious GitHub competitor. Google certainly had the resources to improve it, but didn't have the motivation that GitHub did -- and we see the results.

I can't say that I'm mourning Google Code, and I think that the way in which they're sunsetting it is perfectly reasonable. But it demonstrates that free services are only going to stick around so long as it is serving another purpose, and that without such a purpose, you can't reasonably expect it to stick around.
A) congress typically doesn't dictate what is lawful, that's for a judge. Congress just writes the laws.

B) wouldn't this imply that ISPs now need to demonstrate that it's unlawful to block it?
The your worldview is so devoid from reality as to be useless.
Hiring a hitman to kill someone goes a little past "a bad decision"
This makes me very, very sad.

Goodnight Sir Terry, we'll always remember you.
Why enterprise software is so bad
FAA says monetized videos shot from drones are subject to commercial regulations
curl http://www.pjsmprints.com/
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://127.0.0.1/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
Although Going Postal is the first Moist book, The Truth is the first "Industry" book and I think it's best of the lot. Going Postal is still great though (much better than the later industry ones).
> Obviously sites like thepiratebay.se will be censored,

This is not obvious. Visiting the site is not against the law. I don't believe it hosts any unlawful content.
It is actually somewhat meaningful here; the trading decisions are made fast enough that speed of light is the bottleneck and companies pay to be colocated in NASDAQ data centers (paid advantage, "market efficiency"'s invisible hand will probably guide Nasdaq into setting up their next data center on the moon to make the colocated latency sell even easier). Companies also do things like set up microwave relay towers to bypass fiber lines from Chicago to New York, I don't think there are similar stories about TV remotes.
Which is better the new Chromebook Pixel or the new MacBook?
>That shit gets blocked and will continue to get blocked

Does it? I'm unaware of any legally binding or ISP level blocking of this sort in the US.
Looks like nobody remembers that "everything tastes like chicken" reference... Chill, why so foodist?