skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my bands, the Feng Shui Ninjas, wrote a song about the Nac Mac Feegles, who appear in several of Terry Pratchett's books. In his memory, we're making it available for free on Bandcamp. Any payments for the song or the album will be donated for Alzheimer's research. This hit us really hard.

https://fengshuininjas.bandcamp.com/track/livin-every-dae-as...
PolarSSL has had their own fair share of nasties. Only a few months after Heartbleed they had a remote code execution in the ASN.1-parser. They fixed it quickly however, and keep a current CVE list at their home page. It just goes to show that all popular SSL options are more or less bad (and the same goes for IPsec).
Even if his data doesn't fit into that 1TB, he can always delegate storage to different VPS and use a load balancer.

Saying "I have infinite data" is not an excuse for not looking for alternatives.
Canadians, where do your packets go?
I wonder if she understands the role of idealized forms in art, or idealized forms fit into everything.

We see them not only in comic books, but also on the covers of romance novels. We also see them in roman statues for both genders.

Edit:
Personal anecdote: My asian friends are big fans of bishonen tropes or mangas, which seems to be the manga counterpoint to western comics beefcake/cheesecake tropes.
"code is data" is the traditional incantation
Google sells ads. Something like 98% of their revenue is ads. I seriously think they are at this point becoming allergic to any sort of for-pay business model.
I thought that CoLinux was actually running Linux as a service in the NT microkernel (like MkLinux on Mach), rather than just an executable compatibility layer.
Interesting point - I think I agree with your logic, re: "retroactive" concept of a commercial use case.

What I'm curious about, though, is if the video is considered an artwork, can the FAA reasonably use their authority to classify the flight as commercial in nature?

As in, if the purpose of the recording was not simply for profit, but profit comes by way of the artistic contribution (e.g. editing, adding a soundtrack, creating a montage for entertainment) then it's not really a "commercial flight" but simply a personal use resulting in a commerically viable product. There are some hairs to be split in this distinction I think. I mean, taking a video out the window of a personal / private aircraft is suddenly under the FAA's purvue by implication? I don't think they would be wise to go that route, but if they are, that'd be good to know in a hurry. There are a LOT of YouTube videos that suddenly run afoul of an overly broad interpretation, I'd wager.

I'm not claiming to have the last word on this, but rather using my inherent stubbornness, creative background, and understanding of intellectual property / fair use / artistic case law as factors in the discussion. Hmm. Seems like a fun debate, and one that could be productive!
Technically and absolutely they should have been (and in this instance, I agree) - the magazine and/or photographer likely compensated the pilot for their time, fuel and use of the aircraft which is very precisely the definition of a commercial air operation.
During.
Pretty much just the US does that.
Modern day Silicon Valley is Wall Street's younger brother. The exact manifestations may differ, but the underlying psychology is analogous.

This isn't even necessarily "bad" objectively (though it could be bad subjectively depending on who you are). It's just how it is now.
This is actually not the case; you take the first-round test, and then if if you pass you submit a resume into a black box (the 'Qualifications Evaluations Panel') which evaluates your qualifications 'holistically' and then you are invited to the interview round. It's quite possible to achieve the highest possible marks on the test and never be invited to the final round, as I can attest.

Perhaps the system was different when you applied in 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#United_Stat...

See FAA

Is anyone familiar with the concept of a revolving door? The FAA isn't magically immune to this process and is in fact a good case study of the phenomenon.

But continue to downvote comments not because they aren't true but because they challenge your mistakenly held beliefs.
But I could take my drone, hire my neighbor who is a commercial pilot to fly it for, say, a quarter, and then use the footage?

I think he'd be up for that.
Statistics is, classically, more developed in the realm of "applied math" than "pure math" while linear algebra is, again classically, more a "pure math" discipline. The difference in rhetoric you cite falls out of this exactly.

In practice, both have wonderful presence in math both applied and pure. Linear algebra is one form of abstract algebra which is easily one of the most important mathematical disciplines. It's also the characterization and method of manipulating large arrays of numbers in interesting and practical ways. Statistics is the mechanism of interpreting live data under knowledge of uncertainty toward generalization. It's also probably well characterized as a particularly well-behavior substudy of measure theory... the pure mathematical notion of generalized "substance"
Did you even read the article? The 840 Pro was the top performer, reliability-wise.
I couldn't get into the Brentford Triangle personally, but I really enjoyed Armageddon the Musical.
Ask HN: What is your advice for a DevOps newbie?
I'm joining a bootstrapped startup (online service) that just applied for (and received) Series A funding. As we're growing pretty fast (around 10 million users currently), we need to bring down the infrastructure costs and ensure continuous delivery & uptime.
I'm graduating in may and currently playing with various tools including Puppet, Chef, Ansible and Salt. I'm more in favor of Ansible right now.
So, what tips/advise would you have for me? 😃
The drummer and I also have a side band named Carpe Jugulum, after another Terry Pratchett story. And another bandmate was on the concom for the Discworld convention. Like I said, it hit us pretty hard.

I hope he's drinking, fighting, and stealing his way through the amazing afterlife with the Feegles. He deserves it.
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I think one unstated takeaway in the article is that you shouldn't rush into school. School is important, and there are a lot of paths that you close for yourself if you don't do well in college. It's not as big of a deal if your calling is software development, but if you want to be a scientist, professor, doctor, lawyer, banker, venture capitalist, etc, you're going to have to do well in school. And if you graduate high school with a 2.7 and don't know what you want to major in, you should put off going to college until you know where you want to go and how college will help you get there.
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"cmake, autoconf etc provide consistency for the admin building OS packages."

I have to laugh any time I see the words cmake and consistency in the same sentence.
> Is Lisp anything like Lambda Calculus?

In many respects, yes.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_aba...

There are differences of course which should be pretty easy to spot if you know lambda-calculus well.
Yes, this is also my biggest concern. I'm working in bioinformatics and smallish open-source repositories created by other bioinformaticians which haven't seen much maintenance but still get used a fair amount (like https://code.google.com/p/biopieces) will probably be the worst casualties from this transition. Guess we'll have to backup those dependencies somewhere else...
From little I've read on cygwin mailing list (btw, cool folks over there) - it seems the problem is not very easy. If I'm not mistaken the Windows Kernel actually does support fork()-ing, but the win32k system somehow "forbids" it (lots of grains of salt). After all for a long time there was a commercial UNIX compatible offering on Windows that probably used fork() all over and must've worked (also it supported case-sensitive names for the filesystem)

BTW, the coolest usage of fork(), and granted a pain in the ass to port possibly was the one in REDIS where antirez used it to fork() at certain time the current process, then write back the state of memory knowing that it'll get a "snapshot" of it, and if writes to disk succeed, this "snapshot" would correctly and fully be written to the disk.

I know there are plenty of other uses (for example this way "lua" can do threads with just a bit of a communication library on top... e.g. any language without explicit thread handling can actually use them).

Wondering what made win32k folks disable it. Possibly there are lots of gotchas...
7 cups a day?! Wow...hopefully decaf.
I thought it was nice that he at least acknowledged his lucky breaks, and admitted that it could easily have gone very differently. Many times on HN (and elsewhere) we see people pontificating about how hard they worked to succeed and stridently denying that accidents of birth and circumstance played any role.
I've become very concerned after seeing this. I'm about to move to the bay area on a $125K salary with my partner - not sure what kind of job my partner will find as he isn't an engineer. It looks like I might have made a mistake accepting that offer. What do you think? Could someone have a comfortable life with a $125K salary in Silicon Valley?

I've been poor in my life once, the kind where you don't have enough to eat and you go to bed hungry (dictatorship country), so I totally feel for these people. Poverty has a snow-ball effect as someone else noted here, and this effect could possibly be stopped or slowed down at early stages when you have the right opportunities, but once this effect has really taken off, it's very hard to stop it or come back from it.

In my experience, people will work hard to end their sufferings when you give them the right opportunities. Please remember that: "Whatever the conditions of people’s lives, wherever they live, however they live, we all share the same dreams." - Melinda Gates
Is it a question of whether they were compensated or whether the art was used commercially?

i.e. if a private pilot takes a friend along and the friend later sells said pictures to a magazine.
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Cyprus instilled this program to placate Russian millionaires who lost a boatload of parked/stashed money in the great Cypriot bank debacle of 2012/13. There were lots of unhappy customers from all sorts of unsavory backgrounds. An apology would've not cut it.
Explain to me how this is a good use of my tax dollars.
Kallithea is partly a fork of our old, legacy version of RhodeCode without all the hard work our engineers spent over the last 12 months in turning an open source project into a real, sophisticated enterprise product.

In more than 30,000 engineering hours our team added exclusive Subversion support, 4x better performance and tons of security fixes (all based on enterprise customer feedback), server-side-mergeable pull requests and maybe the world's most flexible and advanced code review system.

Anyway, I recommend to try out both and choose the one you trust your source code and team's productivity more.

P.S.: RhodeCode Enterprise 3 is free for startups and small teams.
Definitely checking this out later. I've been in a VICE documentary binge lately and this will add to my collection!
there is, it's called anorm.
https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.3.x/ScalaAnorm

You don’t need another DSL to access relational databases
SQL is already the best DSL for accessing relational databases. We don’t need to invent something new. Moreover the SQL syntax and features can differ from one database vendor to another.
No. Are there any issues with it you think?
We have a medium sized website with lots of user generated content. Think Google has indexed ~2m unique pages and they crawl ~420K every day. This costs us about 1,5GB/day in traffic. Dedicated servers with volume traffic option usually brings you a long way in terms of cost if you have this type of traffic pattern. For your case a cheap E3-1220 at €49 from leaseweb would bring you a long way.
The problem is that the FAA doesn't issue licenses for private use of commercial drones right now, effectively making monetized videos against the law.

Quote from another article:

"Chris Servicky, a licensed helicopter pilot who helps run the company, says they never got the FAA’s letter and says that he talked to the FAA about trying to get certified and they said no.

'They don’t want you to make money off of it, so we sell the editing of the video,' he said."[1]

Saying monetized drone videos are legal is akin to saying meth is legal. Technically it is if you have a prescription, but it's near impossible to get a prescription, rendering that point moot when it comes to legality.

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/these-are-the-companies-the...
I don't think anybody knows about the hardware yet. The photo of the prototype is an Atmel ATMega: not an ARM core, no BLE radio; extremely unlikely to be involved in the final design.

I'd expect they'll use one of the Cortex-M0 uCs with built-in BLE radio (like those made by Nordic or Cypress). Microcontrollers tend to be nicely open from a software perspective.
Just saying I got downvoted a ton. Like around 50 or more times for just saying Google is on GitHub.
I think it's a refreshing OS - at the same time, it's the exact opposite of the OS I have been meddling with (mostly in my head). My ideal OS embodies the core concepts of functional programming and the idea of the traditional web browser is nixed to an extent (the web is a wealth of knowledge but the way it's constructed + modern browsers just make it a distraction factory) - there are better ways of getting data from the web

The OS should help us be more productive - I think we've forgotten what people hoped computing could be 50 years ago. I wish the web were more like a book than one of those free magazines at the car wash, and I wish my OS was more geared towards productivity.

Sometimes a return to explore old concepts is called for. People mock web 1.0 geocities pages but... the information density of the web was amazing back then (hah web 2.0 could really be called the big bang then.. someone already coined the term it seems and has written about the topic at length http://www.emilybinder.com/technology/web-big-bang-and-crunc... it even mentions the 'big crunch'
If by "Google app engine console" you're referring to https://appengine.google.com/, that's already in fact "dropped." Check https://console.developers.google.com.

The App Engine UI is getting an overhaul; App Engine as a product is probably going to stick around.
I have a secret desire to reuse the code domain in this manner.
I'm the author of the cited add-on: Custom-New-Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/custom-new-tab/). Thank you so much for promoting it jakke (OP)! Just wanted to quickly respond to the few comments in this thread about my addon.

- It doesn't work for FF on Android (I have never looked into it).

- It's true that setting browser.newtab.url does achieve similar functionality but only Custom-New-Tab properly places the focus!

- CNT can fix your "blanking the URL" problem. Check out the preferences.
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So you're saying we should just go and kill those incredibly wealthy friends of theirs instead of bothering with the foot soldiers?
>>IF it were treated as a public health problem

Or if it were punished by death, like in Singapore.
0 is a good one

As a pilot who wants top live, i'd prefer people without training to stay out of the sky. Flying an extension of you (your drone) is even worse because you have even less interest in the safety since in a mid-air collision between planes, you die too. If your drone hits my plane - you do not die. Want to fly? Get a license. Want to fly a drone? Still get a license!

What you ask (FAA to leave the issue alone) is akin to letting 2 year olds drive 18-wheelers on the roads you drive your kids to school on? Feeling comfy with that?

To people who claim drones aren’t dangerous: YOU might have almost been killed by one last time you flew commercial: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/near-c...
Hmmm... not quite. In the case of the rent you got some resource,(ie a place to stay) that is worth x amount of dollars. Your friend who was nice enough to cover that expense gave you a gift of x dollars. The amount of money you make is a trade you made for your time. If someone were to do your work for you while you reaped the rewards... yes you would be taxed for that.
Alas it's too late, for his brain is dead and warm. There was a nice 'translation of a song' on today's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality chapter (http://hpmor.com/chapter/120), I'll repost here:

Even if the stars should die in heaven,
Our sins can never be undone.
No single death will be forgiven
When fades at last the last lit sun.
Then in the cold and silent black
As light and matter end,
We'll have ourselves a last look back
And toast an absent friend.
IMO, Google's problem is that many enterprise customers believe they need on-premise, and realistically, Google cannot deliver on-premise solutions of systems designed to work on their Google scale platforms.

I mean, that google search appliance seems like a reverse engineering / wikileaks dream. 'Here's a box accesses internal customer documents, and nobody knows how to upgrade'.
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If you're monetizing it at all it seems pretty straightforward. A video you don't consider art could be monetized, a video you do consider art could be monetized, it doesn't really matter. It's kind of a silly distinction to say that the person's intent means the FAA couldn't make any case to categorize it as commercial, because they laid out a very clear cut definition.

I mean if someone does consider their video a purely artistic endeavor, then they just shouldn't monetize it. If it's a case like here where the money would have been nominal, then it shouldn't matter. And if they have an issue with not monetizing it then they're looking to make money off of it, and so it would certainly be commercial use.
The FAA doesn't say the videos are against the law, or even that the flight is against the law - they're saying the flight must comply with commercial flight regulations if the video it takes is monetized.

"Drones taking monetized videos are commercial flights, according to FAA"
Well, after posting about this just yesterday, my app is now back in the top 20 rankings today. But it had definitely disappeared from the rankings for a good week or so. I guess it was a glitch or maybe related to the downtime Apple had yesterday, and it was fixed when they fixed things.
There's a lambda-calculus-like core to Lisps, but there's enough on top that I'm not comfortable saying that Lisp implementations are "just the lambda calculus." As for indentation-based syntax, there is a Scheme SRFI[^1] that specifies an indentation-based syntax, although I'm not sure how many Schemes actually ship with implementations.

[^1]: Various extensions to Scheme are proposed as numbered SRFIs; the extension in question is SRFI 49, as defined by http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html
Bootstrapping is not a conflict of interest. When people are operating as both VCs and executives there are conflict of interest considerations.

Situations involving conflicts of interests are not inherently unethical, but greater care is needed.
So here's an indepth article in English:
http://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/03/12/shiny-flakes-bust-38-ho...
[I]f you crash at a friend's house for a few months without paying rent, you're supposed to count the amount you didn't pay in rent as gift income.

You're fundamentally correct, but it's worth unpacking the logic here. First, the donor pays the gift tax, unless an agreement is in place for the recipient to do so. The controlling case is Dickman v. Commissioner, 465 U.S. 330 (1984), and the basic idea is that, if you have a recognizable property right, foregoing the commercial use of that property in favor of providing it at a discounted rate creates a recognized gift. The gift amount is determined by the fair market rental value of the property. (This gets around the concern of the poster below about how you're supposed to declare income you didn't receive.)

Gift taxes are really just a method of checking large-scale tax evasion schemes where someone gifts assets to family members; to ameliorate the effects, there's a $14K/person/year exclusionary zone (plus other exemptions and methods to reduce liabilities) where you don't have to declare or worry about gifts.

Technically, couch-surfing probably wouldn't trigger the IRS' interest (not sure even they would try to figure out the fair-market value of a couch and a blanket), but giving someone a room (let alone the full use of a rental property) would in fact be a taxable event. However, it's unlikely, even in the Bay Area, that the value of that would rise above the $14K/person gift exclusion. In Dickman, the parents had to give a lot of interest-free loans to trigger the IRS' interest.
My knowledge of the Dark Enlightenment is very limited at the moment, as I've just discovered it during preliminary research for a study of fringe movements in California related to technology. But during a cursory reading of Yarvin's I've found a few mentions of feudalism as a desired goal (obviously, under some weak autocracy), as well as mentions of traditional gender roles and a defense of slavery. I also believe that Peter Thiel funds Yarvin through a startup company of his. I will not list the false accounts he mentions (I noted down a few so far), because I don't want to discuss the subject here. A cursory glance, though, reveals the Dark Enlightenment to be a fascinating Californian fringe movement, with some truly novel interpretations of familiar ideologies (mostly fascism, but not quite, as fascism was directly influenced by Romanticism while DE rejects Romanticism except that restricted Ayn-Randian form of it, and fascism was very much nationalistic -- again, through romantic influence -- while DE isn't).

As to your description of the Gilded Age, I am not sure what our points of disagreement are. Yes, the Pinkertons weren't actual armies, nor were they entirely ignored by the government. My description was greatly simplified for brevity. As to the conditions of workers at the time, comparisons to other societies are irrelevant, because that economic growth (which was the result of immigration, land expansions and new resources) was not at all contingent on the exploitation that was taking place.

In general, comparisons are often less useful when the framing discussion (in this case, questions of policy) is normative. If a tyrant comes to an island where the population is starving, and feeds them a loaf of bread a day but forces them to do backbreaking work for him, then their position is better than the alternative, but no one would suggest that this is in any way desirable or even ethical. The same would be true for another tyrant who feeds his enslaved population two loaves of bread a day.

Comparisons are useful if the claim is made that no other policy would have been possible, which I don't think anyone is making. Sure, growth would have been slower (concentrated power is always a lot more efficient, as time and resources are not required to achieve compromise and accommodate other stakeholders), but preference of efficiency over other human goals is purely a matter of value.

The Bolsheviks instituted an autocratic form of communism, which is pretty much the complete opposite of feudalism (which is usually the result of a free market, although the terms are anachronistic as no one used the term "free market", when real feudalism was actually in place), and in any case, feudalism is certainly anathema to any ideology promoting equality (like communism).