skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you @jonnyg and I've since edited it to be more clear. Thanks for clarify and we at Kismatic look forward to providing a good Kubernetes based experience for everyone.
Linux Directoy File System Structure
I don't think so - my mum was trying to get a cheap-ish new replacement for her 5 year old 10" netbook last month. It's very very hard to do. Certainly when you compare the spec:price ratio of anything on the market today compared to a tablet + bluetooth keyboard.
I love you michealochurch.
I'm annoyed that there's still no way to underline in markdown.
the article reports that 80,000 were killed in the Hiroshima bombing; that's a common misconception, it was easily twice that if you include those who died of cancer in the following decades - for the most part thyroid and leukemia.
I just uploaded a Superpowers video demo showing off some of the editor plugins as well as real-time collaboration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxX7VFjf-XU
There's a difference between leadership and authority.
In the case of a small startup, a "flat" structure is sometimes simply a description of what the group have worked out in order to be productive and effective. In cases where I've seen firsthand a fairly hierarchical management structure, decisions were often carried out in an abstract, awkward a manner that was in many cases not in the best interests of the company.
I've had the best luck with http://www.codementor.io/ I don't really write software there, rather I give advice to others as to how to write theirs.

I tried odesk and guru, their pay rates were too low.
The success of the approach mentioned (ask instead of assert) depends a lot on the culture of the receiving developer. Also, if there's a language barrier, being subtle can actually muddy the waters instead of help the situation.

You can phrase things directly, even adding minimizing language (to save face), but be clear about the problem during the review.
If you divide today's GDP by the number of people employed, and adjust for inflation, you'll find that average worker productivity went up 4x since the 1950s, while wages stayed stagnant or went down.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speedup-american...

Companies aren't hiring like they used to. There is no need. Automation and outsourcing have reduced the demand for local labor.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=185

This is a good thing. Overpopulation is behind some of the biggest dangers that face the entire human race, including climate change, overfishing, ecosystem collapse (bees and others disappearing due to stresses introduced by changes in agriculture), factory farms (ethical issues) etc.

Countries have to break their dependence on the old style pyramid of more young people paying for old people's social security. It encourages exponential population growth, which just leads people into trouble later on and kicks the can down the road.
I really want to write a detailed post explaining everything that's wrong with this idea but I just don't have time. I will however point out three things:

1. You haven't published anything or proven that this team is capable of making what you're advertising.

2. Do you really have the audacity to ask someone for a salary without having provided any service and after reading point #1?

3. You clearly don't understand how open source works.

Have to keep going.

4. There is nothing unique or new about your project. Cross platform, HTML5. That's it? That's your big idea!?

...

1,000,000. LOL
Don't volunteer for that! Of course they will say yes, just as if someone asked if you wanted them to document something, or just as customers always say yes if you ask if they want a feature!

Just tell them, "... You should document this in team wiki before we merge this."
The idea of encoding a book as a string is incoherent once we look at it with intellectual rigour. How are images in illuminated manuscripts or graphic novels encoded? What does "all books" even mean? Are we talking about each individual artefact past present and future or some idealized representation of each: e.g. is my current copy of Catcher in the Rye encoded separately from the copy I was assigned in 10th grade English class?

It's all a matter of interpretation.We can just as easily choose a different arbitrary encoding and claim to have found all the books in π. There's no need to make things complicated. We are free to pick any interpretation we want once we are claiming that numbers represent books. Let:

B = {b1, b2,...bn}

Such that it contains the set of all books. And let:

def Find-books(num)
if 3.14 < num < 3.15
then return B
else return "all the books not found"

The article assumes that there is some natural way of encoding books. But digits of π are not Unicode or Ascii characters. Though we can interpret a digit or string of digits as such, that encoding is arbitrary not a property of the natural or mathematical world.
One approach I took in a recent project was keeping the documentation in documentation folders under each project, using markdown.

It was good because documentation was tied to the source control and easy to locate and read when you were working on the project.

It's easy that wiki's become neglected and forgotten if there's not someone that "cracks the whip" so to speak so I think any way to lessen the friction and bring it into the coding environment is a good one
GNU stands for something specific in one of his books this tribute is coming from.
I'm also interested in this. I would invest 10-15 hours a week. Perhaps more if the pay was $15.00+
5 tips to become a kickass developer. What I learned in the past two years
I think you shouldn't point the leds at your face, but away from it, so that the light has a chance to shine directly into the camera sensor.
Jeri Ellsworth, who worked for Valve building hardware, described a lot of shadow-management going on when it comes to larger scale:

http://www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ellsworth/ (best text version I found, podcast with the actual interview is linked at the end)

“But the one thing I found out the hard way is that there is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company and it felt a lot like high school. There are popular kids that have acquired power in the company, then there’s the trouble makers, and everyone in between.”

The problem as she sees it is one of scalability. What works for five or 20 people doesn’t necessarily support 300.
Okay, let's say I can put in 10-15 hours a week.
As I said earlier, I don't want to make a living out of this. I want to make useful things, useful enough for a person to pay me to do it.

I don't have a revenue target in mind. If I get at least $25 per hour I spend, I'm more than happy. I have no idea what the market rates are though. I am handy with most technology, and have enough equipment at my disposal.
I don't see any proof of this, so this seems like click bait.
This is what they said about notifying users:

Google Wallet buyers will not be proactively notified. Keep in mind that if you do not remove your integration before March 2, 2015, your buyers will get 404 errors upon checking out with Google Wallet for digital goods API. To preserve your user experience, we highly recommend removing your integration and migrating to another payment processing solution as soon as possible.

(from https://support.google.com/wallet/business/answer/6107573)
Yes, Valve is an amazing example of a flat company. I had intended to talk about them in my original essay but couldn't manage to make it fit in anywhere. Their employee handbook is a fantastic read on how knowledge workers should work together: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
The linearity of utility is irrelevant to the dust specks or torture problem because you can always increase the number of people to receive dust specks so the utility of torturing a single individual for 50 years is higher.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/n3/circular_altruism/

And calling people hypocrites because things like involuntary organ donation gives them "cognitive dissonance" is absurd. Also regarding hypocrisy, note that Yudkowski works for an organization whose goal is to protect humanity from Skynet, while people in Africa are starving. (I'm not personally attacking him, he can work on whatever he likes, and I think governments of wealthy nations have both the resources and responsibility to alleviate starvation, and individual efforts are mostly pissing in the wind. But parent poster brought up sweatshops &c. so I went there.)
Watch Your Freedom (Because Apple's Not)
"Apple's failure to release the source code for these products and software violates users' freedoms to study, modify, and distribute software"

and more in the campaign to boycott Apples use of DRM and to promote free software
Please don't say rude things to other users on HN, even when you consider a comment bad. It only makes the site worse for all of us.
People can become leaders and then turn out to be bad for the group. It's also harder to hold non-official leaders accountable and to make sure the not-so-glorious aspects of management are taken care off.
Public vs. private cloud: Price isn’t enough
Valid question, and not easily duckduckgoable. I found this explanation on tumblr, by blackboardmonitor. I wish I knew how to link to the damn thing, but I can't figure out the tumblr interface.

In Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, the operators of the clacks
tower use “GNU” as a code to mean the message should be passed
onto every tower. An article on wiki-Lspace says that “The G in
the code means to send it on the U at the end means to turn the
message around at the end of the line and the N means not logged.”

When a clacks operator died while working, or was killed, their
name was passed in the overhead with “GNU” in front of it, as a
way of commemorating them, of not letting them die, because, “a
man is not dead while his name is still spoken”. It’s a way of
keeping them alive, you see.

Terry Pratchett, may he rest in peace, wrote the clacks as a
fantasy equivalent of social media, of emails, in particular, but
general interweb communication as a whole. Therefore, people are
posting “GNU TERRY PRATCHETT” because it’s the equivalent in our
world of commemorating him on the clacks; we’re keeping him alive,
in a way, in a way which I think he would have liked.

Because no one is really dead until the ripples they caused die
away. So, now & until I myself die: GNU Terry Pratchett.
I've seen it done many ways. My intention with this essay was not to create a comprehensive reading on the subject but instead to communicate about what I've learned thus far (from experience, observation, reading, etc).

I had hoped to come across in favor of a flat style with the admission that there are times when direct authority is the best solution to a startup's problems. How'd I do?
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (2009)
It looks like it is more general purpose, than just html browser.
> I would argue that cultural change has to also start from the top.

This is where the "breathing room" comes in. I think that fostering an environment where people are free to organize themselves without edicts and policy produces overall better processes (and ultimately better quality).

I think it's OK for management to lay a framework, provide a particular kind of training, but it's best to provide goals that forward the company, step back and let the people closest to the work decide the best way to achieve them.
Code Triage – makes it easy to contribute to open source
I only recently learned about this site, but I can tell already it's going to be an important channel through which I'm able to contribute to open source projects.
"Researcher" is appropriate for someone who actually produces academic output. It may not be immediately practical, but it consists of new ideas that have been formalized and tested sufficiently to pass peer review of other researchers.

Has the Mill architecture done that? Are there any actual papers about it? Anything beyond marketing fluff?

It seems like there are some ideas behind the Mill that seem interesting when you hear about them, but I haven't seen anything rigorous enough to even be reviewable.

And it doesn't look like that is the intent, either. Rather, from all appearance, it looks like they are trying to drum up interest for investment.
Pi-Search
"Scientific parable fiction" is a pretty narrow genre (though I'd personally argue that Yudkowsky does a pretty poor job of it - for example, Harry constantly assuming things without testing them and just happening to be right because the author says so).

One that does come to mind is:
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4976703/alexanderwales

alexanderwales writes relatively short, punchy stories that explore specific academic and narrative themes, and, importantly, generally work extremely very well as stories even if you discount the thought experiment aspects.
At the risk of making an uninteresting comment -- I really love seeing cool/interesting work like this done by people who aren't devs in America. Not that there's anything wrong with American tech or devs particularly, but just that I feel like we're finally getting at the true promise of the internet.

Great work, Found the characters really consistent in style, and obviously functional.
I think (hope) fortune will favor more modular approaches to these types of suites/programs instead of huge monoliths. Since projects of this type, especially ones that are OSS, are so very new and few in number, it will take some time before we start to really figure out what the core components really should be, and even longer still to hammer out specs/APIs that allow interoperability.
These studies are flawed as they use "median household income" but households have changed a lot since the 1950s. There's many many more single parent households than in the 1950s. If you compare individual wages instead of households you can better see the wage increase since the 1950s.
Sure, gladly. But it's not so much an argument as a simple observation, plus refuting or ruling out out a bunch of false notions of the good that people have gotten used to. And since it's an observation you see across all living organisms, there isn't any one piece of evidence or one specific argument. It's just part of the nature of life. So I think what is warranted is not an argument, but an example.

Think about a simple organism. Something without complex reasoning about higher values. Say, a frog.

What is good for the frog? What is bad for the frog? Well, the only thing that can matter to you, if you have the consciousness of a frog, is getting pleasure and avoiding pain. When you eat a fly, you are doing it for that reason. When you drink water, you are doing it for that reason. And so on. I mean, frogs probably can't reason at that level---but if they could, that is how they would have to reason about it. Pleasure is inherently valued because of the way organisms are, biologically. It is the thing that evolution uses to reward the behavior that is "wanted" (i.e. that "wins" in a natural selection sense).

In other words, natural selection only works if organisms have a reason to act. For extremely simple things (e.g. single-celled organisms), there is no "mind" or "consciousness" in the organism that regulates behavior in any way. But for complex organisms, there needs to be a mind. And the pleasure/pain mechanism is the way that natural selection has for regulating behavior in the minds of conscious organisms.

Pleasure and pain just are inherently valuable---they are the only things that are inherently valuable. Because of the way biology works.

It's no different for humans, really. Besides physical sensations, humans also have emotions of pleasure and pain. They have moral value systems. When your moral values are satisfied, you get pleasure; when they aren't, you get pain. That is not to say, any moral system is equally valid. It isn't. The best moral system is the one that leads to the most pleasure. That is the one that is in harmony with biology and reality, not religion, social conformity, environmentalism, or anything else, but proving this statement is too much for a comment, so I'm just putting it here so you get the gist of where I am headed.

To get back to my main point--one way to see that pleasure is the only inherent value is to try to think of some reason for acting other than that. Ultimately, there never could be one---not a valid one. But pleasure always can be a good reason for acting.

Keep in mind I mean pleasure in the broadest sense---humans are long-range creatures, so I mean joy, rapture, happiness, contentment, fulfillment, and so on, plus all kinds of physical sensations (good food, sex, etc.). So I am not advocating range-of-the-moment hedonism, like, coke and hookers. I mean, yes, if that's a way to maximize your pleasure---but it isn't for any human being I know of.
Now you know how I feel.
Write a matrix multiply. Or a linear equation solver.
I totally support this "abuse" of their infrastructure if it makes them realize that giving free access to their own social network via Internet.org isn't a charitable endeavour.
Hahahah nope.
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Do you really have any insight into what you were thinking when you were 4 years old? I assume you have no idea if you really thought it was "fun", or if it was just something that people did, and therefore you should mimic it.
I've used a Microsoft keyboard and the only thing I didn't like about it was that it was ergonomic but the '6' was on the left instead of the right. My friend loves her Arc Mouse though, and doesn't seem to have any issues with the Surface Pro 3 keyboard.
No doubt, but I think that boom is waning. My city is a terminus for large quantities of trains shipping oil to refineries in New Jersey. I've noticed a dramatic falloff in tank cars in the yard and sidings over the last 4-6 weeks.

Politically, having oil sands and fracked oil production decline is politically convenient, as people who live near the now overburdened train lines are screaming about explosive trains, and the keystone pipeline is pretty controversial.
There are already a few jvm's written in Javascript.
The trackballs on the BlackBerries were absolutely perfect... until some tiny amount of dirt/oil/etc got in there. Then they were glitchy little bastards.

I also have the Logitech Trackman. I swear by it, and will never go back to using a mouse. I started with the wired version, then reluctantly bought the wireless model when I needed another one. The wired sells used now for $300.

FYI, Pledge or similar furniture wax works wonders on the trackball. I pop mine out every couple of weeks and give it a good waxing.
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> I think the issue is that people tend to round down "speck of dust" to 0, then multiply, then find of course any amount of torture isn't worth 0.

Why not round it down to 0?

There's some level of discomfort in everyday life to start with that's effectively negligible for any normal person, simply because it's a prerequisite for interacting with the world (getting a raindrop in your eye, dealing with a minor wedgie, having an itchy nose, whatever).
It works fine and this is commonly their connectivity arrangement. This one is remarkable because it has some UHF radio hardware. They don't need to have a network of transponders: one will work just fine if the victim regularly comes into its proximity. At those times it can be queried for position information.
This was covered in "A Pattern Language" decades ago, under Ceiling Height Variety:

> the mere fact that the ceiling heights vary, allows people to move from high rooms to low rooms, and vice versa, according to the degree of intimacy they seek — because they know that everyone correlates
intimacy with ceiling height.

> According to this theory, the effect of the ceiling height is not direct; there is instead a complex interaction between people and space, in which people read the different ceiling heights in a building as messages, and take up positions according to these messages. They are comfortable or uncomfortable according to whether they can take part in this process, and can then feel secure in the knowledge that they have chosen a place of appropriate intimacy.
I'm all for seeing the source, but a better starting point to see what Sirius is capable of is their videos page at:

http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/category/watch/

Also, the site was having some DB connection errors with the attention, so it looks like you can view the same vids directly on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEiLPIvZiW4jq9ZMonYdhcg
"Programmers: You Probably Don’t Know What a Computer Is" is too baity a title for Hacker News.
I don't think I have encountered any keyboard that would last for several decades.
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But there are parts of that work, and parts of other work, that seem pointless on the surface, but in fact have a very specific and necessary part of the system ensuring the end goal.

Someone might just be a paper pusher, literally organizing papers, something that seems entirely pointless busy work—but someone needs to do that organization, within the context of the system, to ensure its function.

People should know their function and how it impacts the end result that their organization achieves, but it is not guaranteed to be full of meaning and glory.

There is something noble, and virtuous about it, still. It is a contribution to a system which enables the function of society, which by all measures improves as a result, on average. Why not call it virtue?
Planets: Ocean is confirmed on moon of Jupiter
I know neither yours nor my comment strictly related to the topic - which is about not breaking builds, but the effect of latency on a web page only has a tiny contribution to conversion rates or other user satisfaction metrics as compared other factors - like stability and features. Hence, I think it's not _important_ for most web programmers to be hyper-aware of the latency - as long as it's reasonable.
Thanks for this link! I've always love reading GNU manuals in HTML because it relies on your browser's navigation, which is always better than what any website could implement itself. Ctrl-F is fast because scrolling is trivial and doesn't require a Javascript callback for every pixel scrolled, and without a CSS-customized div after every paragraph, you can load web pages containing 2MB of text just fine.
There are some articulate descriptions of how it does or doesn't work at Glassdoor: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Valve-Corporation-Reviews-E...
Am I missing something, or isn't this problem easily fixed by enforcing testing before push? As long as the appropriate tests are available, seems like this could be solved