skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point, and definitely something that needs to be fixed. We've been slowly refactoring the app into a better, more modular structure but there's still a lot to do.
This has got to be one of the greatest television events in recent memory. Totally amazing. They nailed the ending.

Don't forget the director of the doc, Andrew Jarecki, co-founded Moviefone and sold it to AOL in '99 for $388 million. (And co-wrote the theme song to felicity with JJ Abrams)

He sounds like a real renaissance man.
For [0, 1), would the naive approach of generating a string of, say, 16 digits, sticking a "0." in front of it and calling strod / atof yield similarly uniform results?
Yes. I didn't want to rant our NSQ. This is the reason we choose NSQ because of it's simplicity.

We maintain NSQ close to the consumer. We don't our publisher to take responsibility to the message processing. Once it's push to the queue, we need to make sure it's getting process anyway.

That's why we publish same message to multiple queues. All our DB operations are idempotent. So, we are okay with processing the same message multiple times.
The property taxes are based on the price the owner bought the house for. Not the current value.
When you make a sharp turn while running (or even when you start and stop running), your body works against inertia. It isn't simulated properly by slippery shoes, but can be on a (large, military grade) omnidirectional treadmill.

Omni treadmill shoes used over a large 12ftx12ft are or so could work. But too heavy.
I think his point was that the doctors vs engineers analogy was flawed BECAUSE we have more engineers than doctors.
I'm really not sure what you're talking about. Do you have a specific example in code?

Telescope is not the prettiest codebase in the world, but it uses relatively simple code. So I'm not sure which "unnecessary abstraction" you mean.
It's an incredible statement on the depth of the bay area talent pool and VC money network that so much tech concentrates in such a tiny place (and thus drives up the rent, as in the article). Nowhere else in the world can compete.

It's not for lack of trying. Louisiana, for example, will pay 35% of a programmers salary indefinitely[1]; other states and cities have similar programs. That's serious competition. But the talent/money vortex of the bay area is not just winning, it's actually getting stronger.

The other areas with real companies, like Austin, Seattle, and New York, still feel like also-rans compared to SF and the valley. If you want to raise money, it's still the place to go.

It's just incredible to think about. Is there any other field where there's just one geographical place that's just so far ahead of anywhere else? Especially fields like biotech, where geography isn't directly related to the business?

[1]: http://gnoinc.org/about/digital-media-incentive/
David Sirlin has a great podcast about the theory of game design: http://www.sirlin.net/podcast
I listed a few here: http://www.telescopeapp.org/blog/telescope-vs/

As far as I know Telescope is the most active open-source project of this kind though.
No it's the point of URNs, you can go back much further for solutions that seek to address this very issue.
Growing up in India (different places in north India), I never saw a purple carrot, or a carrot of any color other than orange. I have only seen them in USA and Canada (not lived in Europe, so didn't know about it).
If we're talking about implementations in various languages, I might as well link to my capped backoff with jitter implementation for python.

https://github.com/ekimekim/pylibs/blob/master/libs/backoff....

(apologies for the long link, I keep all my one-file python libs in a single git repo for sanity. I think i've uploaded this one to pypi, where it's available under the name "backoff")
No, Tripadvisor's all about reviews of points of interest (hotels, restaurants, etc), with a messy jungle of forums bolted onto the side. It's near-useless for the context that guidebooks (and Wikivoyage) excel at: how to get there, a place's history, safety advice, etc.
Great part:
"They should not call the elements in the number field F scalars. These elements already have names: they are called numbers. And we physicists and engineers need the word scalar to name some other objects. Mathematicians, like physicians, should at least learn to do no harm. "
My alma mater.
Whoops, you're right! Egg on my face.
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This blog post of mine summarizes some of the key differences: http://gyrovague.com/2013/01/14/free-travel-guide-wikivoyage...

And this is my version of how the split came to be: http://gyrovague.com/2012/07/12/wikitravel-editors-abandon-i...
3. No, judging on stars is ridiculous. A good library is a good library. Perhaps stars may catch people's attention, but honestly anyone professional I've ever known doesn't even remember to look at stars in the UI. Better to look at other things like the actual code and commit frequency and contributions to see if it's still alive.

4. This is not at all true. If you send me a link to code to look at and it sucks, I won't hire you. Perhaps my perspective is skewed since I rarely ever hire people who I have to teach computer science 101 to, rather I take only people who show promise, have the tools, and simply need to put in the time. Your work is completely reflective of you, so please just don't throw random bad code and call attention to it. This is terrible advice.

Anyway, I think you missed the point of my next list. The point is that you give these things long and hard thought. You do them one day if you get there, and you mess around for a few weekends. What you don't do is dedicate years on these projects unless you treat it like a video game in terms of fun level.

1. This is why you take a class in writing an OS and screw around for a few days. This is different from writing an actual OS.

2. Same as #1.

3. New databases are often being written and they are bad. A lot of the new databases are simply layers on others, not true databases. As for this issue, again, it's something that requires careful thought and experience. You better be solving a problem and be solving it well. The fact that things are written is not justification to write them. Notice how so many of these are written and not really used. Notice all the problems created, abandoned projects, and catastrophic design flaws that creep in later in the projects because of lack of planning, thinking, and ability. I've contributed code to some of the biggest databases out there and I don't feel qualified to write one myself. Sorry, but this is another skill beyond most people. If you've ever worked with someone who really gets this type of programming, you realize they were born to do this. You may be a better programmer than them in everything else, but DB, OS, programming language people who are good are super rare.

My lists are not narrow-minded. You can philosophize about how little Johnny can do anything. I speak more in terms of actual experience and reality. It is better to tell it like it is. You can write whatever code, whenever you want, just be reasonable. Build things you and other people want to use. Do not build hacky, half-baked things that waste time and repeat history. Following this advice would probably eliminate a good majority of the bad projects out there. If you can't see that, I am not sure where you've been working all these years. I've worked with some brilliant people, and especially the ones who did these things would tell you the same.
While I was not as plugged in to tech news back then, I'm pretty sure no one emerged from demos of 3D TVs barely able to speak because they were so impressed. And I do see that a lot in the VR press these days. I also own a DK2.
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I'm surprised they even got a notice
It's supposed to be a part of basic income to pay enough for someone to be able to afford rent and to and choose where to live that's within their budget. If it was a separate thing, perhaps people could be given a choice among places with a low cost of living, and then the amount needed for basic income would be lower. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Edit: Manna was more relevant than I thought:

> The government had finally figured out that giving choices to people on welfare was not such a great idea, and it was also expensive. Instead of giving people a welfare check, they started putting welfare recipients directly into government housing and serving them meals in a cafeteria. If the government could drive the cost of that housing and food down, it minimized the amount of money they had to spend per welfare recipient.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna4.htm
You are not so smart:
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The purple ones probably have changed a lot less over the last 50 years than the orange ones which would've had a lot of effort put into them to even compete with other orange carrots.
Does't most editors do that now? I've actually never used one that doesn't.
I just saw the talk. Eric X. Li seems to believe in the CPC pretty strongly.

Here's a universal truth. Outside of sociopaths, a person must believe in his work in order to excel in his (or her) job.

Eric X. Li was a Legislative Councilmember in Hong Kong... a rather finely run district (probably one of the best run districts) in that country. And based on the talk, it sounds like he believed in himself, in the system of his culture, and believed in his work most of all.

It is alien, and definitely wrong to our perspective. But do remember, he lived this stuff for nearly 10 years of his life. He is one of the few English speakers I have ever seen describe the Chinese political system to me.

To call him just an "opportunist" is an insult to his work, and his bravery. He came to America to stand up in front of a crowd and then bash Democracy. And he wasn't ignorant to our culture either. So I'd have to give him an A+ on public speaking for sure.
Oh wow, u mad bro?

Supply/demand curves are literally 4th grade curriculum where I come from. So yeah, mastered that shit 20+ years ago. Thanks for assuming though.

You've gone off the rails and are now confusing 'cost' with 'worth' or 'value'. We can only determine a 'value' or 'worth' when an actual transaction occurs. You can't just extrapolate out on a model curve and expect it to hold in the real world, no matter what your theory tells you.

Bottom line is, if a grocer is currently asking 40 cents for an apple, I will transact at that price no matter how much higher I 'value' that apple. I wouldn't pay 60 cents for an apple that a grocer is selling for 40 cents. I wouldn't pay 50 cents for it either.

BTW, ECMAScript is poised to take over the world. Better strap in.
The http://relay.fm network has some podcasts I really enjoy.

Particularly Analog(ue) which is a show specifically about "feelings" http://www.relay.fm/analogue/
Property is more than just land. People have titles cars, boats, copyright over books they've written, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, furniture, clothing, timeshares, patents on things they've invented, etc.

At any rate, in all three of my examples, money changed hands for work creating property. That money could be used to buy property, physical or otherwise.
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Will there be any way to set up machine affinity? I think Azure Service Bus uses this mechanism (by specifying a partition key for a message) to enable strict FIFO for a given partition.
+1 for "baggage collection" ;D
There's definitely inherent bias in much of the interviewing process, whether deliberate or not, for many tech startups. But there's also a high degree of bias once inside them. Older engineers with families often can't really do a team bonding that involves Saturday night playing games getting drunk and stoned, for example. Many startups, as they grow, provide things like health insurance plans optimized for 25 year old healthy males, that are just not that good for families and make it harder on older employees. And there are a lot of younger engineering managers who feel uncomfortable leading teams with older more experienced members in them. I've seen teams grow and older engineers pushed out for fairly arbitrary reasons, despite being good coders. And yes, even in this crazy environment where it's hard to hire.

(And yes when I was young and early in my career I never really paid much attention to it and shrugged it off, but now it's my friends and I see myself getting up there in age now, it is so very obvious, and a lot more prevalent than I ever noticed.)

When someone has nearly 20 years engineering experience (not talking about me, I don't) it is ridiculous to make them jump through some of these interviewing hoops. Sure, some kid fresh out of college might pad his resume - because there's not much to it. But an older veteran with a long resume, not so much. Experience does count. The ins and outs of the latest technology might vary slightly, but the patterns repeat. So much of engineering goes beyond the code on the screen anyway.
Doctors are also somewhat "presorted" by ability. Certain specialities just aren't attainable by any but the most "gifted", whatever this means in that context, for example tenacity, ability to remember vast amounts of facts and, of course, dexterity.

Objective Performance in doctors is harder to judge than in developers. Some specialities lose a high percentage of patients no matter how good the doctors are. Sometimes even a difference of "10x" in error rates may require more cases to judge than a particular doctor actually has in a year.
Who cares if you're 10x, we'll all be 10x dead at some point. In 50-100 years I doubt most of your 10x work will still be around. Might as well go enjoy some life before it ends.
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Sometimes they prosecute these cases just to gain experience in prosecuting them.
Exactly right. The author loses all credibility when suggesting that parents somehow view children in the same way that economists think people view commodities (which by the way is also mostly wrong, but that's another story).
I feel for the renter, but shouldn't the landlord be able to do whatever they want with their property?

Rent is going way up because there aren't enough homes in sf for the amount of people who want to live there. The city is to blame for this problem. Why is sf such a flat city? There should be a lot more tall condo buildings but as I've read it seems the city blocks any structure over 4 stories.

Raising rent will cause lots of low income people in sf to have to move. That's not a good thing--but what is the answer here? How do other large cities deal with this problem?
So far, it hasn't lead to disaster in case of Minecraft...
* This Week in Startups: http://thisweekinstartups.com/

* Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc...

* WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/

* The Champs: http://www.thechamps.libsyn.com/

* This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

* The Todd Barry Podcast: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/the-todd-barry-podcast/

* Call Chelsea Peretti: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/call-chelsea-peretti/

* You Made It Weird: http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/you-made-it-weird-cha...

* Here's The Thing: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/
Every time I see someone challenging the notion that there could truly be developers who are an order of magnitude better than average (faster, fewer bugs, more maintainable code, etc), I can only conclude that either:

A) The person posting simply hasn't had the pleasure of working with such awesomeness.

B) The person is threatened by the possibility of 10X'ers really existing, since that's a threat to their own ego.

I'm a great programmer, and still know many people who leave me in the dust. I'm glad for that.

"The vanity of others offends our taste only when it offends our vanity" -- Nietzsche
No they won't.

Type in "econometrics of rent control" into your search engine.

It's a fairly well studied question with a fairly consistent conclusion.
That indictment doesn't really provide much information other than what's in your third paragraph ("Ad Min" and "Dallas Smith"). It doesn't really serve as a refutation of anything in the petition, either, as there is no context, only a generalized description of a DDoS--no description of precisely how Miller conducted such an attack--and an assertion that Miller DDoSed Hacker Dojo. The indictment is just Prosecutorspeak for the same events described in the petition, lacking any potentially mitigating detail that would make them seem like they are abusing the law or asserting charges wildly out of proportion to any potential damages. In fact, it supports the petition's remarks about pre-trial detention, as the indictment clearly says "no bail, arrest warrant"--I would think that's a red flag given the charge .

So, to paraphrase, I've read this indictment three times and I still have no idea what happened. So it's not really an authoritative narrative of events, either, and doesn't put any of the questions raised in the petition to rest. In another comment you asked someone if they would say the same thing after reading the indictment, and my answer would be absolutely, if not more so. I'm not sure why it would make you feel any more like this is a reasonable application of computer laws instead of, say, evidence that the San Jose US Attorney's office has too many lawyers and needs to be down-sized.
As Dr. Emilio Lizardo once put it... never mind. :-)
I think Salvatore mis-remembered. The comment was by @jacques_chester (he made a joke about it below, but people didn't get it). The comment is in this thread (HN doesn't let me link directly): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708921 . Look for Jacque's comment in there, and Salvatore replied to it.

I also wanted to find the original, and used Jacque's remark below as a starting point to start hunting for it.
Krugman on rent control (2000)
I've seen my site copied countless times. There are at least 5 or 6 clones that are blatant knockoffs. There are people that bought the non .com domains of my site, and copied the images I designed, and sections of my html code. There are well known companies that have literally copied some of my content word for word and passed it off as their own. One of the clones is similar to your situation, they created their clone for a different country and language, and have a few hundred thousand users.

I stopped caring. I'm by far the leader in the space, and I spend my time ensuring I provide a superior service to the clones. It's actually turned out in the benefit of everyone. It provided motivation, and I worked twice as hard to stay ahead of the pack, so now my site is extremely polished. My users are happy, because they've seen the service continue to improve.

So, my advice is not to worry about it, and to focus on providing the best experience for users, so your competitors have no room. However, keep an eye on the competition, and make sure they're not beating you in any area, that might persuade users to switch services.
What GP is saying is not directly correct, but if the third-party service is compromised they could force you to leak the unencrypted message?

More than that if the third-party service is compromised they can MiTM your encrypted communications anyways.
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Not sure how we're going to mimic that without force-feedback bodysuits or wiring directly to perception through our brains. e.g., make me convinced that I am walking or falling or climbing a wall.
Soft real time data. Anything that would be out of date by the time you had timed out and resent. For example a packet of range data from a robot. Drop one? Worthless now, but another one will be along in 50 msec or so.
"Rent control or not, the law of supply and demand still applies... or about whether rent control works. It doesn't work."

Without rent control, I'm pretty sure that a LOT more people would be pushed out of San Francisco. It seems to me that places like San Francisco, New York, and a few other places are not typical of what other areas experience. I know it's fashionable amongst the libertarian set to blame problems on regulation, but there is much more going on here than simple rent control.
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A lot of sensor data is like this. Missing a reading is not ideal but not the end of the world.
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5 minutes ago I opened Twitter to find my stream had items that Meerkat was retweeting, of people I don't follow. Good strategy to increase usage, but I unfollowed and have now deleted the app.
I have a federal felony conviction, for nearly the same exact offense that Jason is being charged with. I've worked for several software companies since my conviction, before starting my own. It definitely doesn't end your career.
For most things, opening up is noble. But not for a brand -- can you imagine Apple allowing other companies to use their brand for experimentation? Or Coca-Cola?
Bill Gurley predicts 'dead unicorns' in startup-land this year
GoCD moved its user & developer docs to GitBook.
user docs: http://www.go.cd/documentation/user/current/
dev docs: http://www.go.cd/documentation/developer/
and its been great so far!

The best feature by far is fast & accurate search.
I suspect what happened there was to do with http://www.rabbitmq.com/ha.html#unsynchronised-slaves

When using mirrored queues, Rabbit does ensure all the active mirrors are written to before confirming a publish:

"in the case of publisher confirms, a message will only be confirmed to the publisher when it has been accepted by all of the mirrors"

So if my understanding is correct, wiping the contents of a re-joining mirror shouldn't matter, since no new messages should have been accepted since the partition (unless the "pause" part of pause-minority is only happening after other things like re-election or dropping "dead" slaves, in which case yes pause-minority is useless - this seems doubtful, however).

Hence why I think the problem is synchronized slaves.

Basically, when a slave is created (eg. in response to another slave dying), it only receives NEW messages, not existing messages. So suppose the following sequence of events on a 2-mirror queue:

Publish A
Master and slave both contain A
Slave dies
New slave created
Master contains A; Slave contains nothing
Publish B
Master contains A,B ; Slave contains B
Master dies
Slave promoted and new slave created
A is lost

The way around this is with setting the policy "ha-sync-mode": "automatic". In which case the act of creating a new slave also replicates the current contents of the master. To the best of my knowledge, if the same Call Me Maybe tests were run with that policy in place, no messages should be lost.

But yes, this is precisely what I meant by "fraught with pitfalls". The pause while messages replicate can be disastrous on its own if the queue is large, another issue that has bit me in production.

I do love RabbitMQ but I wish there was a good, planned-from-the-beginning as clustered CP AMQP broker out there. Maybe I'll try to write one.
Seems like what you need for that is a lot simpler. You really just need to be able to cut out and redraw the iris and pupil in a different position. The rest of the face shouldn't need to change at all.
The law as it pertains to these contracts or all residential tenancy contracts in the US?

Are 3-, 6- and 12-month leases common? All the residential arrangements I know of here in Australia would be 6- or 12-monthly. Gives a tenant some certainty, but also enables a property owner to move back in, sell, redevelop, etc.