skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it was a good reading until "Facebook Censored A Nude Painting, And It Could Change The Site Forever".

So, I'll leave that here:
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"
> If you don’t have much time skip ahead to 3:10 ..

This was the news part for me : the pesticide used is so toxic that the potato farmers won't venture out in the fields for up-to 5 days after spraying it
Well... there's this guy called Neil Cicierega who's making a game about computers in the early 1990s, will full 256 colors, palette cycling, VGA - https://twitter.com/iconarchitect10
For Gemba, this could mean limiting the number of connected Git repositories. I decided against this because:

(1) some new users try out Gemba with a test repository, and needing to remove it to free up a slot for the "real" repo seems like unnecessary friction;

(2) some designers work full-time on a single product (e.g. in a startup) and would get loads of value (pushing hundreds of assets) for free and might never need to unlock unlimited repos.

Thoughts?
EnerBee raises €2.5M for their motion-powered sensors
And roommates who make a lot of money but DON'T spend it on exotic vacations and other luxuries are much better than roommates who do spend every penny they make on ephemeral luxuries.

But then again, as long as your roommate has paid his rent in advance, one of the nicest times of the year in San Francisco is when all the burners are out of town.

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/08/i-wish-you-could-stay-on-the...
SF had an "enterprise" version for running in-house, but IIRC it was fairly expensive. I seem to recall $10k+ when I tried to price it out in 2001. Totally not worth it for a small shop. Free tools like gforge sprang up as replacements, but were just as clunky to use, if not moreso, and were rather difficult to install.
The Steve Job with no license plates thing wasn't actually illegal. He just found a fairly expensive loophole: he just leased a new car every six months. California has (had?) a thing where you had 6 months to attach a license plate to a new car[1].

Parking in the handicap spots was still a dick move though.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/27/mystery-solved-why-st...
Listening excessively to one lobby group is as hazardous as eating excessively exactly one staple - be it sugar or wheat. Moderation is important, both in politics and nutrition.
How to Unlock LG Joy Using Unlock Codes
>...significantly affect business success are likely to be considered employees.

If all the drivers were hired, Uber / Lyft would be out of business too.
I wager 2 would be enough.
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Solving PuzzlOR “Electrifying” puzzle with constraint logic programming
Unbelievable.

Looks like it's worth it to just have a different phone # for anything that isn't personal.
Ask HN: What Can Distributed Software Development Teams Learn from FLOSS?
As a long time free software proponent and team lead of a small development team (10+ ppl) in a midsized company I always try to intercorporate my experiences from both worlds. Lately I was confronted with the need to accept new team members from abroad working on the same codebase and I expect to have even more [http://www.helpscout.net/blog/virtual-teams/ and http://www.peter-ivanov.com/will-working-virtually-frequently-future/] telecommuting people in my team in the future. All this while research suggests that the failure rate of virtual teams could be as high as 70% [http://sherimackey.com/2012/06/19/virtual-success-the-dark-side-of-virtual-teams/].

On the other hand many FLOSS projects do not seem to suffer from the same problems (especially premature deaths), despite being developed in a distributed manner more often than not. What can corporations and managers learn from FLOSS to make their distributed teams more successful? Consequently, what FLOSS tools, methods, rules and policies can and should be incorporated into the software development process in a company more often?

I'm interested in the opinion of others especially regarding technical issues like source code ownership and revision control system, but also ways of communication, dealing with cultural differences, ...
If this was quadratic, then the hash table was not implemented correctly. Erase in hash table should be amortized O(1).
But the system where both pay $200 is even less fair.
"Question: What are etilqs files?"

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-f...
While they were doing that they squandered all their political potential by failing to elect strong, media competent leaders and consequently were dismantled by mass media. Of course the media was relatively keen on doing that anyways, with a few exceptions in the more intellectual news papers.
Looks like this could be very helpful. The landing page makes a great first impression, great animations explaining what it does. However...

Can someone explain to me why so many startups have started to not list their pricing plans anywhere at all, even when you click on the "sign up" button? Did some startup guru tell people to stop putting pricing everywhere and everyone is following their advice?

This is so very frustrating to me as a potential user. There is no way to tell whether this service might be "out of my league" as a solo dev, whether there might be a free plan, etc.
From the way people are talking here, you wouldn't think KPCB has 14 female partners on their team...
Yup, RAID is being replaced by object storage for large scale systems. Last week, HGST acquired object storage startup Amplidata...
The proper solution would have been to switch to a premium rate line, and profit from it!
Great pull request. Ruby makes it easy to duplicate data by calling `.dup` or `+`, and this does help with state isolation. But duplication is an expensive operation.

Ruby's standard libraries don't have much support for immutability, or deep cloning, or copy on write, or linking concatenation. There's no standard library way to ask for a snapshot of an object.

So in the early days for Ruby, an idiom was: if you're writing a method that takes a list, and you need to be sure your list doesn't change out from under you, then duplicate it, get it working, and if it becomes a bottleneck then optimize it.
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"Social Intelligence" again?

Btw, empathy by itself (if we think of it as so-called mirror neurons based machinery of shaped by evolutionary forces reciprocal altruism) is a "glue" of any social formation, so there is nothing special about it.

If we think of it as an "ability to feel other people's feels" (and reflect and react on them) - then it is OK for some context and not so for another. At least, in a harsh, competitive even hostile environments it is rather a vulnerability.

So, inside any kind of social organization, be it a flock of animals or a village community or a company competing in a crowded market - empathy is what holds it together. It is also the foundation of the social aspect of some religions, but why should one pile up more abstract concepts on top of a simple biological phenomena?

And, of course, it is not the most important skill, given that the social aspect of a human life is, indeed, important, but not the most important. Any so-called "introvert" (with is a last-century meme) will tell you that.

There are people, who would say, that independent thinking, not being a docile sheeple, conditioned by social environment, etc. are more important virtues in life.

There are reasons, why intellectual practices and spiritual growth requires a solitude.

So, high empathy is important for a social worker or a priest or any kind of "manipulator", but I don't buy that it is the most important skill for a techie or an "introvert". Yes, it helps when we have to visit a public place, but why should we make other people as our primary occupation?
PageRank Algorithm – The Mathematics of Google Search
To be a pedantic here, I don't think term amortized average cost is useful.

For what I've understood, average cost means average over all possible random inputs. So for specific set inputs, the cost can be larger than that.

Amortized cost means the average cost of the operation over any combination of inputs. So for specific set of inputs, the cost is the stated.

For hash table insertion, both the amortized and average cost can be O(1) with linked-list confliction resolution, but whereas average time of a lookup operation is O(1), amortized is larger (I don't know if there's analysis on this, but O(n) seems correct by gut-feeling).
KDE Frameworks 5.8.0 Released
In Norway it is near impossible to create a valid employment contract for full time workers with less than 3 months notice (doesn't matter what the contract says, on the basis of the principle that employers are expected to have massively more power during negotiation; you can deviate from it, but it generally requires consideration above and beyond the potentially lost pay).

In general employees not only have the right to keep getting paid, but have a legal right to continue to carry out their duties unless there are specific circumstances (e.g. they've been fired for gross negligence or for losing an essential license). The right to work was even embedded in the 1814 constitution, though that right is pretty tooth-less.

Moving to the UK was a major culture shock.

The US seems like a different planet.
All your tests passed, nothing broken, a small bit of code for tremendous optimization,... I can feel the satisfaction!
Question: what kind of crappy AV software can't identify sqlite files?
Pydgin: Using RPython/PyPy to Generate Fast Instruction-Set Simulators
Fanboy downvotes, can't face the truth.
Why does Microsoft still store temporary files on disk? (as opposed to a RAM-backed temporary file system as used in most other operating systems)

Is there a reason for this? It just seems like it would cause clutter and garbage to pile up for eternity.
Spreadsheet in Google Docs, 2FA on Google to keep it safe. Passwords generated with my generator here: https://without.azurewebsites.net/pass.html and kept to 64 chars where the service allows that many. Most get saved in the browser, Remote Desktop Connection Manager, etc. - so I'm not looking them up often.

I like the fact I can get to this from anywhere. Even from IE on my Windows Phone, if I need to copy+paste (e.g. to log into the Spotify app after installing it).
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Would you invest in Jetpacks?
it's not identifying the files, it's using the db engine.

It's probably using it as a quarantine, so then the virus scanner picks up virus data from it's own temp files.
You can employ much better marketing methods, this is just blatant screaming for attention -- especially if you analyze the first paragraph after the hello, you and I both know this.

Fake it till you make it... works for some.
Of course you can start your own company. You could try like this:

1. sell your time: Work as an employee for a couple of years and get some real life experience. Yes, even in company politics. One could actually skip this stage, but hey, you are already doing it, so why not make the best of it? Build your network, get some trainings paid by your company, learn from your managers.

2. sell yourself: do freelancing

3. sell your product: start a company

4. help others building companies and selling their products: compete with Y Combinator

Good luck!
Thanks for the suggestion, I emailed Christian Schaub and he's going to send me over what he knows! :) Hopefully I can add a Rebirth importer at some point in the next few weeks.
I think it has been an established fact that the only way to convince people to go to war has been through catastrophic Pearl Harbor type events, massive propaganda and lies. It also helps to have a professional army and no draft, so that only certain sections of the population are really affected.

The types of wars and foreign policy decisions the US has been engaged in are more or less inconceivable with an informed and educated electorate that could vote on them.
"The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't do it yet." — Michael A. Jackson
How is that surprising? "Time flies when you're having fun" has been a phrase for ages. I'd kinda taken it as a given.
"Now that time is of the essence, I have viewed it therefore necessary to accept such deficiencies in the investigation and likewise take the risk that the interview does not move the case forward."

Or maybe his lawyer should drop the offer and just let the statute run out now, since the prosecutor couldn't be bothered when it wasn't to her advantage.
Now it would be interesting if he agree to answer. But can Assange leave the ambassador now? I thought that he would be arrested the moment he left because he broke the house arrest thing a few years ago.
Thanks for the "tollbooth" catch! I've taken to typing "toolpath" as all one word, and autocorrect got me...

(Author of the linked article).

Also, ain't no way an $8k desktop mill will ever have the rigidity or accuracy to be building stuff that would even pass as a junky watch.
Ubuntu doesn't use tmpfs for /tmp either.

The reason is simple: some applications write huge temporary files, and lots of people don't have much free memory to spare.

And you can solve the pileup by simply cleaning it up regularly using a scheduled task.
Not mentioned, the supreme court is right now starting their review of the case, and mentions the principle of proportionality (size of investigation in relation to size of the crime). Link: http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Mer-om-Hogsta-domstolen/Nyhete...
Because in politics there is always an "investment" side.
No, that view could only be seen as cynical if we would be an a either-or situation - which we aren't. Another plausible path would be bolstering education, especially for the underprivileged that usually are exactly the part of the population not integrated into the political process (e.g. Germany too has a problem with continually declining voter turnout, but if you look closer that only affects the working class, for the upper classes it's still 80%).

The big problem with technocratic approaches like Democracy OS or the pirate parties' liquid democracy is the amount of the population you exclude by introducing this technological barrier to political participation for e.g. old people. But as empirics trump reasoning (quite in the spirit of Popper), I hereby make the case that the net party won't have an economically compelling pension concept or health care plan for the elderly in Argentina within the next 10 years. Now we just have to wait and see ;)
Because using a RAM-backed temporary fs is a dumb idea. If your disk caching is implemented properly, then most temporary files are stored in RAM, but larger ones can be spilled to disk, and the OS gets to decide what's best based on a global view of the system. By using a RAM-backed tmpfs you are forced to use RAM and spill to a swap partition that is inflexible and hard/impossible to resize.
Sometimes it easier to be anonymous when trying to talk about something extremely personal.
Better still for some fines you are forced, or can opt (as opposed to larger fine) to go on a speed awareness course.

After all the point is to make people drive safely, not make money for the state.
Yep, the watch is just a watch. They know it, I know it, you know it.

Now, how do we make it look more like a "personal, exclusive, luxurious" experience? I wonder...

The craftsmanship of a real watch is not something to be missed. But since Apple's watch is just electronics, they can't appeal to customers with a soul-less PCB.
Instead, they make a Discovery how it's made movie about building a watch case.
He's consistently asked to be interviewed by the prosecutor, so I imagine he'll agree.
What about Disqus? They are probably the largest python app so far.
They view IE as part of their support burden and rather not add to that burden until they can change the version requirement on everything at the same time. They would probably be happier if we branded Chrome and narrowed its UI to our app's needs.

> Have you tried telling them...
They know. They are the purse holders, not the brain holders.

(unrelated side note: looks like someone is disappointed that I have clients on down-rev browsers)
You realize this description by Suvorov, embellished or not, is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the visor-opening description which I find hard to believe?

>I'm just curious what makes you question this aspect of the event so .. is it hubris?

ZZZZAP! Luc gets hit by a lightning bolt from a clear sky. I guess we're done.
Many Swiss would disagree with you. Turns out if you give people a lot of responsability, they'd rather use it responsibly.

Could it be that representative democracy produces part of the political disinterest and lack of knowledge?
Which programming language should I learn in 2015?
Very informative, thanks! I have never played those old games but I will look out to try from now on, very captivating.
I prefer full quote from Knuth:

"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

I have the problems with many happy-coders that they only remember the part about about not optimizing early and often forget that part when you should measure performance, find bottlenecks and get rid of them.
Does it have an binary header (.exe/.dll)?

Or better, does it match a sqlite signature? "The header string: "SQLite format 3\000" for example http://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html
... and then it gets continuations, and that's where it becomes interesting.

Any case, the intent was purely didactic, but I did implement a Scheme dialect based on half of that code. To be released some day...
Article creator here: wow, I had no idea it was that popular!
Thanks for the write up. I'm mostly in agreement with your point of view.
become a stoic, practice all the virtues, not just empathy

your brain will thank you for it
If you really have to question every action that might end in your death then you would never go outside, put anything in your mouth, go to the bathroom etc. Your question really only makes sense when considering activities that have a relatively high risk of death in which case the answer has to come down to two things. Firstly how risky is this activity? And secondly, how much risk am I willing to take? If you want to answer those questions, I recommend watching Honnold's film on risk as others have pointed out.
I don't think I agree with your interpretation of that story or the conclusions you've drawn from it.

Not wanting to donate the first apple II or use it to "help stop wars" doesn't make Steve Jobs a bad person or demonstrate a lack of empathy. He could have easily understood exactly where Wozniack was coming from, but have drawn different conclusions about what was right. The things that people associate with being "good" aren't always the best indicators of morality or motivation. Someone can be a good person without ever giving money to charity.

And before we crush the dreams of children, it should be pointed out that musicians, artists and athletes are heavily rewarded for their passion and skill every day. So are many successful entrepreneurs. It's our responsibility to chose the right heroes, for ourselves and for the next generation. There's a Judas for every Jesus. We get to choose which one we want to be.

I'm no Steve Jobs fanboy, but describing him as "unabashedly ravenous, merciless and ruthless" is far beyond the pale. Don't let a few rumors and out of context stories color your judgement of an entire human life. Empathy, right?
A little bit of building "exclusivity" on top of a very much off-the-shelf product.
I think it's a hard business model that's for sure.

Most people here think that Freemium works because you have Open Source developers who have 'day jobs' which means they'll be more likely to buy the private services. That's a bit of a stretch because it's mostly development managers who choose the development tools at any reasonable size company and they have a lot of other concerns.

There's also a scaling issue in model. A flat fee for a repository doesn't go much of a way towards paying for the total cost of developing and delivering a complete web platform where your costs scale by number of developers and infrastructure.

The major thing in Githubs favour is they are now the place for Open Source development so they have other revenue opportunities. I can imagine good revenue opportunities with large partners (e.g Microsoft) that want to reach out to developers: separately their large database of developers is a big asset for other services. Presumably, the VC money is predicated on new revenue streams over time.
Headline writers have been doing that for hundreds of years. It's the content-farming model thats the important thing about 'clickbait', the headlines are a distraction.
If John McAfee can see this himself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
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So you think that the US wouldn't have entered WWII if the US electorate had been more informed?
Self-driving Cars in 30 US Cities by the end of 2016
What happens in Belgium is the actual driver claiming it was their Polish/eastern European employee/acquaintance/... driving. This self-declared driver, gets something in return from the actual driver. The fine gets sent to Poland/whatever, and never arrives because of lack of communication between the national police services. The driver walks away free.
This is why we need better application profiling yesterday. Not "I need write to x location" but "I am highly sensitive to read latency in x location, and highly sensitive to available space (append only) in y location." cgroups is the beginning. Eventually, a much-evolved container notion will solve this. I expect embedded and mobile distributions/OSs to follow suit.
Well, it's not only larger files that spill to disk; using a normal directory forces the OS to write them all to disk (even if with a delay thanks to buffers).

A RAM-backed tmpfs, on the other hand, would avoid writing to disk if the size of your files doesn't cross the threshold of free memory.
Your reasoning is based on the assumption that selling passports is some kind of a grey/black business. I see no reason it should be that way, especially since there are conditions attached to it (e.g. 250K investment).
I believe it's in the Gem::Specification.traverse method here:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/rubygems/rdoc/Gem/Sp...

The 'trail' parameter, an array, was implicitly duplicated by applying the '+' operator on each recursion through a dependency.
This is very nice, however I wish they would have used a traditional rendering technique (e.g. raytracing) for the decoder stage. It would have been more difficult to compute the gradient, but maybe not too bad if employing some type of automatic differentiation. If they had done it that way, the renderings could scale to any resolution (post-learning) and employ all types of niceities such as depth of field, sub-surface scattering, etc. Instead we're left with these very blocky, quantized convolution-style images.
This seems like a remarkably sane resolution to the current situation, and I'm surprised it hasn't previously been proffered.