skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of characterization going on in that sentence.

A tupperware party: Oedipa's social circle consists of housewives who lack financial independence or grand ambitions.

Too much kirsch in the fondue: the tupperware business is distinctly secondary to an excuse to get a bit drunk with friends, which tells us a bit more about her social cohort.

to find that she, Oedipa: her role in this story is thrust upon her from the very first sentence, in contrast to the the passive drift suggested above.

She supposed executrix: Oedipa is la little pendantic, not to mention well-educated, although we should already have guessed that from her upper-class name.

Pierce Inverarity: Inverarity is a remote village in Scotland (and a very nice one too; I've driven through it several times, but that won't be on the test). We may suspect that the late Mister Inverarity was a typical Scottish penny pincher...

once lost two million dollars in is spare time: ...or maybe not. This will be a whimsical story that confounds out expectations.

more than honorary: Oedipa must have a certain level of professional competence to have been selected for this task.

Besides all this, don't neglect the more poetic aspects of the language - the rhythm, alliteration, internal rhyming and shifting subjective clauses are engaging, the word combinations euphonious. I find Pynchon a pleasure to read despite the lack of plot or clear narrative motion. He has voice, bringing in sense of children's stories with their odd givens, the mild daytime drunkenness, the sense of having been selected for a task bigger than one might have chosen for oneself.

As you can guess, I'm personally rather fond of this book :)
From my perspective, at the very least, the link was a means of showing a couple of screenshots.

Is it a full-blown application? Sure, I guess. But I could care less about that.

The actual content is a couple of screenshots - not exactly something that requires JS.

Also, I'm not speaking about designers at all. I am not a website designer, and never claimed to be one.

I'm speaking as someone who uses a web browser. As I said earlier: To me, readability > aesthetics. Especially as I'm often on-the-go. Things that look better but are lower contrast are often unreadable when you've got any amount of glare on the screen.

I use one web browser for the majority of my browsing. So yes, there is consistency. I'm not talking about across applications, I'm talking about within an application.

It may not be about purple scrollbars for your text documents, but that's what it will largely end up being used for.

And yes, native applications have a greater power to style things. But there is a distinction. Native applications inherently require greater trust. I'm not going to install any random application that comes my way.

Also, there are applications I stay away from precisely because of that - precisely because they have weird styling, and weird UIs. Case in point: Github's desktop application. Great program - or would be if I could get over the UI. But as is, I don't tend to use it.

That being said, it's a bit of a moot point regardless. It's just yet another thing I'll add to the list of bookmarklets to disable things to make websites readable. Along with many of the other things you mention as people being able to style as features.
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> For eg

FYI, "e.g." stands for "exempli gratia" which is Latin for "For the sake of example".

So "for eg" is actually "for for the sake of example".

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g.
I'd use Mercurial but its name has too many syllables.
Ask HN: Which NoSQL solution should I use for lot of upserts?
I am actually working on a big data project and I am using SSDB.
The problem is, it doesn't support clustering and sharding so I might have to implement it by myself; which is not the best solution I think.

I mostly have to deal with floats or integers and the schema change really often so key/value storage is really suitable for my project but I can't store data into RAM because I generate 20GB of data per day (with 100K write/upserts per seconds).

Is there anyone of you who is using a persistent key/value storage in production environment, which can support clustering and sharding? I have tried Redis but I will run out of RAM in few days.
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Do you all still have personal websites?
Hi All, quick question.

How many of us have our own website or do we simply rely on our works at various URLs as our online presence?
Git rocks for small to medium sized projects, never tried it on a large one but Linus made it for the kernel so that would not worry me either.

Going into a directory and easily creating a repo there, where I need it, is great.

Canonical did something similar with their Bazaar tool.
What's your prediction for demand in 2055, when someone starting college, welding, etc is about a decade from retirement? Gotta skate to where the puck is going to be.
Exactly the same thing happened in Estonia when serious flaws in their system were discovered:

http://estoniaevoting.org/

And if you, in an Internet comment, dare to suggest that Estonia's system isn't airtight and hyper-secure, you'll get mobbed by Estonian trolls. :/
For anyone else who doesn't want to suffer through yet another unnecessary web application:

http://imgur.com/a/mkbHB
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> In particular, in many other VCSs, you just simply commit without having to create a branch in the first place. Labeling them (via whichever mechanisms your VCS provides) is typically optional with modern version control systems.

Since, for me, local branches are a massive part of why I prefer git, I'd be interested in examples of how to do the same thing in other VCSs.

It doesn't make sense to me that they're a byproduct of having a garbage collector, since (1) git-stash exists, (2) local branches are a common selling point, and (3) git-clean honestly seems tacked on rather than a core piece of the design.
At apple, routable addresses are handed over to macs used by people. They use private IPs just for production infrastructure.
They were experimenting with wi-fi though I think this is on hold pending selection of a different vendor. But I get the impression you meant something else - like seating-only cars, or with tables for laptops, or...?
How is this different than the current situation, other than one is wires, and one is wireless? ISP's still need to aggregate household cables into larger fiber before hitting the datacenter.
This.

Bleeding Edge is full of laugh out louds - and possibly of some minor interest to HN.
This isn't new; Portland Community College had a welding department back in 2000. Many different buildings across campus had display cases and installations of metal sculptures and signs produced by that welding department.
iVote in a nutshell:

"The NSWEC believes that unfettered access to source code by the general public would not be in the best interest of the State" (http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/...)

This apparently matters so much that it was specifically criminalised:

"A person must not disclose to any other person any source code or other computer software that relates to technology assisted voting under the approved procedures, except in accordance with the approved procedures or in accordance with any arrangement entered into by the person with the Electoral Commissioner. Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both." (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/peaea19123...)

Oh, and the whole thing runs on custom javascript crypto: https://cvs.ivote.nsw.gov.au/scy-libs/crypto-lib.js
I've seen a few posts by people saying that the name and language on your page remind them too much of some of the current flame wars. I personally don't care, but were you all aware? Why the name shill?
Writing a garbage collector and binary wire protocol client, even if they're just toys, show an understanding of how things work that is important. A depressing number of professional developers are basically just stacking code legos that someone else built on top of each other until an approximation of the right result comes out, and never get deeper than that. The fact that you've even attempted a mark-and-sweep garbage collector marks you as someone who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty. It's a good thing.
We just need a Tunisian food trend. I had to go buy some caraway to make a tabil spice blend for a fennel couscous.
What I really want is a mathematical dictionary.

As a non-mathematician it is terribly frustrating to read math, or really any study with significant mathematics, and not know what the specific symbols mean that are assumed to be understood. I mean most spell out the terms for each equation, but do not describe (rightfully so for brevity) the operands.

My math background is not exactly weak (through linear algebra) but the symbols that are in set theory, topology and other disciplines would be really nice to have a reference for.
The reality is that etcd is still probably a year or 2 away from being production ready.

In the mean time Zookeeper has shipped dynamic ensemble configuration which bring parity to the only thing etcd had any advantage in. (Not that it -really- mattered, most people that were running dynamic ensembles were already using Netflix's Exhibitor)

Zookeeper is also faster, has more features and you need it anyway if you are running SolrCloud, Mesos, Hadoop etc.
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No.

Firstly, the customers aren't distributing the software so I don't see how they could be liable. Secondly, the customers are the ones who are actually being wronged here, because they've purchased devices based on GPL software--for which they are entitled to the actual source code.

If anything, the customers should be the ones bringing suit.
>> No company insurance pools or any other insurance through groups

Agreed. Company pools consist of healthier people since they specifically exclude those who can't work or are retired. This actually increase the per-person cost of medicaid vs having everyone on it. Of course we working folks get a better deal now when we don't actually need it.
I'm not sure what flame wars you're referring to.

We picked the name Shill because it sounds a lot like shell, but is a bit of an in-joke because it is built on Racket, which is a descendant of Scheme. All three have slightly negative connotations: schemers, racketeers, shills.
I find the main media silence regarding vulnerabilities in the Electronic Voting Machines in India similarly baffling.
"Well, duh."

Thank you for reinforcing my point (elsewhere) about how the "gratuitous negativity" rule will never be used to do anything but reinforce the HN zeitgeist. I knew I wouldn't have to wait long for an example I could point to.
The narrative here is confusing..

The Chief Information Officer of the Electoral Commission, Ian Brightwell,
claimed Halderman and Teague’s discovery was part of efforts by “well-funded,
well-managed anti-internet voting lobby groups,” an apparent reference to our
friends at VerifiedVoting.org, where Halderman and Teague are voluntary
Advisory Board members.

So, the CIO complains it's a smear job by an anti-internet-voting lobby group, (which it apparently was?)

Yet at the same time, Brightwell concluded that it was indeed possible that
votes were manipulated. Happily, despite criticizing the messengers, the
Electoral Commission admitted that there was a FREAK flaw with iVote and
scrambled to promptly patch it.

Then they admitted the vulnerability and rushed to patch it. Which is exactly the hoped-for response?

So what is South Wales doing wrong here, you know, other than trying to let people vote over the internet, which is a horrible idea, only perhaps matched by the absurdity of our current generation of e-voting machines? I understand their hands are not clean in many other regards with this program, but patching their cipher suite just doesn't seem newsworthy...

BTW, an open source voting machine platform (for use at the polling station) sounds like a great project for USDS or 18F.
Everyday Australia inches one step towards being the new China. This is a drop in the bucket compared to the kind of legislation the TPP when passed will impose on Australians.
I've been using it in production for a number of applications for about 6 months now and haven't seen any performance issues. Prismatic http://getprismatic.com/ and CircleCI https://circleci.com/ both use ClojureScript for their front-ends. CircleCI open sourced their front-end here https://github.com/circleci/frontend/tree/master/src-cljs/fr... as you can see it's a decent size app, and Prismatic have blogged about Om and performance here http://blog.getprismatic.com/om-sweet-om-high-functional-fro...

In general, there should be very little overhead compared to regular JavaScript once the advanced compilation option is used.
Last I tried bart, it was slightly less comfortable that a cattle car. Impossibly noisy, lurching constantly, smelly and old. Last choice I would ever make again for transportation.
WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
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I was born here in the '90s so I'm pretty sure I missed the whole phreaking scene, but your statement is a strawman regardless. I am advocating for this sort of public intervention. I support it 100%. Do I have to repeat that again? 100%. But reality will catch up with your ideals, and it's someone's job to take concerns that aren't yours and apply them in the best interest of the public [as determined by an imperfect, slow, and but at least somewhat democratic process]. Sometimes they fuck it up by overstepping their bounds and acting in ways they are not authorized to. This is not one of those times. This is the domain of Parks and Recreation, and they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do, for completely boring but sensible reasons. I have even more respect for the artists for knowing this in advance and planning for it. It is an act of defiance. Your act of defiance does not trump everyone else's way of life. I look forward to them (hopefully) releasing their 3D model for all of us digital yuppies to go and 3D print on our fancy printers while paying higher and higher rent so we can continue to live and work in our fucking city, you know? I just happen to like our parks, respect the people working in them, and find the whole blame game distasteful. They put up some art, it got taken away, political or not it's absolutely no surprise.

In summary: It's their job. You want to give change what they do? Great! We've got a process for that, and it happens every third Monday of the month (Community Board 2 @ Brooklyn Law School). When Parks and Rec starts browsing our emails for dick pics, maybe then people can "take to the streets" with their coup. The Memorial would be a fitting location.
Last summer, a project I was working on used hg. Missing partial staging is the only reason I haven't completely switched over from git.
Some people are better than others at identifying useful ideas and communicating why they are useful. Those people often grow a following organically.
> No more dedicated boxes for mysql, mongo, etc. This in turn enables you to have an easier ops experience, because every single machine in your fleet is homogenous (same OS, same patches, etc)

Is that a good thing? Granted, the AWS account I used to managed was 8-10 machines at most, which is probably well below the point where Kuberenetes makes sense, but I remember that it was useful to configure different kind of machines for MySQL than Apache (disk needs were vastly different, for instance) and that the MySQL instance for the web server had different needs than the MySQL instance for offline data processing.
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hope that helps.
Why would I want to read books about people that fall under your definition of 'success'? Do I have to read about and fetishize war profiteering too? Just follow the money, right? Jobs over Wozniak? Zuckerburg over Borlaug?
I had a minor issue with my state tax filing this year. They sent me a note about what to send in...with a fax number for faster filing.

I sent it...my first fax in maybe 15 years, and then like I remember doing, called to confirm receipt.

"I'm sorry sir it'll take 5 business days to confirm receipt?"

"Can't you just walk down to the machine and see if it arrive?"

"No it doesn't come to this office, it prints out at another office and they have to scan it in to attach it to your file"

"...what?"

Absolute madness.
yes, not being able to put up a statue in public property is basically on the same level as centuries of persecution, seizing of private property, taxation without representation, and company.

Imagine if McDonald's just decided to put up giant golden arches in the park. There's a reason the procedures exist.

I do think this is a clever and interesting thing to do, and I hope this ends with the statue staying somehow. But I really don't see the point in comparing this with the establishment of the nation.
I haven't used it myself, but yorr description of upserts with ints/floats immediately reminded me of Amazon DynamoDB docs.
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Voltage is not the same as energy density. It's one component of it certainly, but not nearly enough by itself to tell you anything.
I always found it slightly funny that the artwork the welding department at my local community college produced was miles better than the artwork the art department at my local 4-year produced.
I want more space for bicycles and not so good smelling bike riders. I think BART can't please everyone. For my commute to the city its the worst 2 hours and 10 minutes of my day, every day.
Let me direct you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9330078
A friend of mine who recently went on a trip to Tokyo said that it looked like how people in the 80s/90s thought the future would look like. I guess he was spot-on.
Honestly, as a consumer of both projects, I'm happy that rkt exists because it provides a working demonstration of a solution where container images are orthogonal to other concepts such as orchestration. If it went the other way, our vendors would be swearing up and down that the only way for this container thing to work is if we install their complete solution.

I love my Apple MacBook Pro and its soldered components, but I need my data center to be meaningfully upgradable.
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To be overly simplistic and aggressively reductive, balance the value of networking using this:

http://smg.media.mit.edu/library/Granovetter.WeakTies.pdf (coupled with the probabilities of value for each connection, among many other things) -

with the value of working at that moment (maybe with consideration of diminishing returns at the day goes on, seeing as networking events happen later in the day).

And you'll be at the start of quantifying the trade-off.

Then realize you just spent a whole bunch of time, and wasted productivity calculating that, and the next time just promise yourself to make a spur of the moment decision based on mood, feelings of social isolation, how many 'good' friends you have at the moment, how 'included' you feel, and all the other computation reducing techniques your brain employs via intuition and emotional well-being and instead go off of that.
The "emergency" bulk internet surveillance is chilling too.
The computer history museum in mountain view has a new lobby exhibit on this machine.

But then <snerk> there isn't a lot to see.
The fact is I don't want to host my data in amazon because the business is actually in china.
> Xcode IDE is so profoundly poorly designed and implemented.

That's some strong criticism.

I loved Lightspeed/THINK C and Metrowerks CodeWarrior. I also have a generally positive opinion of Xcode (which might be even higher if I was remembering it from 20+ years' distance, instead of dealing with version-version inconsistencies and incremental bits).

It's unfortunate that having a good, free, first-party compiler inevitably sucks the oxygen out of any competitive market. But there were some lean years in the Mac compiler world, and I'd never want to go back to that.

That said, I use vi for everything else, including lots of non-Cocoa code. I would be completely happy to do Cocoa dev in vi also, if it could be as functional as Xcode. I'm very interested to hear more about your retooling experiences!
Being liberal and 'open minded' does not mean one is more intelligent, or less violent or whatever. It just means that they are 'liberal and open minded' in some context.
As a New South Welshman, I'll mob you if you suggest that the NSW Government is capable of anything but incompetence. Both major political parties are paralysed by corruption [1].

The irony is that a world leading electronic voting system was developed by Andrew Tridgell, who lives in the ACT, which is a stone's throw from NSW (in any direction) [2]. The NSW Electoral Commission was quite free to download the GPL source code and use it as a base. I gather the GPL'd system has since been replaced with a proprietary one by the commercial partner, with the proprietary system being released under the same name [3].

[1] http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/icac-exposes-the-n...

[2] http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections_and_voting/electro...

[3] http://archive09.linux.com/feature/38285
Maybe vulnerabilities in the tech are simply not that important.
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Fellow Aussie here. Could you please clarify? I've never seen anyone pay at a cafe with a cheque.
A wireless ISP is designed around high-bandwidth uplinks to aggregate from each tower/AP to central points. A mesh doesn't have this topographical feature. (Other considerations: limited frequency bands)

The difference, I think, is that the traditional layout works better for the common use case than a mesh does. A mesh with an uplink would be preferable in a scenario where a traditional system is too difficult or expensive to deploy, or where traffic is going to be generally internal.

Oh, and where you have some kind of trust mechanism in place. A mesh with malicious nodes is potential havoc. Central authorities give you a chain of trust that mesh systems don't have.

And no, doing away with that central trust for political reasons is generally not as good an idea as it sounds like. Managing trust without any central points is much more difficult and much easier for users to screw up.
It's all about craftsmanship.
I personally consider the new rule an exhortation to down-vote more aggressively whatever gratneg we come across. As I like to say, there's a button for that!

To respond to your original point, I don't get it. If you choose to release under a license which doesn't require releasing source of any mods, that's a perfectly reasonable choice. Why should there be a "possibility of legal action" against something which is explicitly allowed by the license?
Does k8s replace fleet in a tectonic system? It's been asked several times on this thread, but there hasn't been a straight-forward answer yet.
Rust's "Option" type is a generic enum. There is no explicit "nil".
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What are the applications of WebGL?

If you are doing a game or a 3d application on browsers- WebGL would be the way to go obviously. But apart from that, where could it be used? Could websites and web applications benefit from using WebGL? If so, in what way?
Would it improve or worsen battery performance?

ps: Sorry for all the noob questions but i am genuinely curious about the implications of WebGL.
Seriously? Can you point to some links?