skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure - you can do most things yourself - doing analytics is actually pretty hard to get right. From my pov, their value is on not having to do it yourself, plus a good, flexible API.
SF plans 120-day annual short term rental caps
oh wow they integrated H2O as well. really interesting developments!
I switched from OpenWRT to pfsense a while back and I am never going back. It runs great in a virtual machine, if that's your thing and you already have a need for VMs.
Google App Engine in Open Source (AppScale)
"To my surprise, he never owned a tube amp and preamp—both of which allow for a smoother, more organic sound." I put my tube amp in a tray of tofu for an even more organic sound.
Does this make Shopify the largest Ruby IPO to date?
I don't think I am doing any such conflating.

Being able to reason about things equationally makes my code easier to reason about. Having a type system and a compiler assist me makes my code easier to reason about. Having fewer variants makes my code easier to reason about. Not needing to know the order in which functions have been invoked to know their return values makes my code easier to reason about.

However, I will make the statement -- and this is indeed conflating! -- If I can prove something about my code, then it is easier to reason about. The proof can be simple or complex.
Great start. I work a lot with web performance monitoring tools. This is definitely a fresh approach.

I would definitely build out features/checks that other tools aren't doing at the lower price-point. For example:

* Geo-location speed comparisons (e.g. performance from New York -vs- Sydney). You seem to be halfway there, just need to add the comparison graphs.

* Bandwidth speed comparisons (e.g. 4G connection -vs- 100Mb Fibre). Most people don't test their websites on slow connections.

Well Done. Ping me if you want some assistance.
I just think it's odd to say because my development/gaming desktop was just upgraded to 8GB of RAM from 6GB a few months ago and I never close tabs or shut anything down until something crashes. So saying 8GB of RAM is only good enough for Facebook... you should see my Steam library that likes 8GB of RAM just fine.

Maybe the problem isn't that Facebook takes 15GB of RAM, it's that Firefox or Chrome will take literally as much RAM as it can get. I should try surfing Facebook on the 128GB servers we have at work and report back my findings...
Chrome pins the Google certs, so MITM will only work if you get the user before they've first downloaded Chrome. And then you have to ensure you only ever MITM those clients, or your attack will be detected.

And TACK literally was designed to solve this problem. If the MITM interferes with you communicating to other TACK clients, you detect their attack. If they don't, you detect their attack.
Does anyone have experience moving from App Engine to AppScale?
> Google has declining CPC ... now they get fewer and fewer gains with the investments they do.

Keep in mind that the declining CPC is coupled with increased revenue, caused by the amount of ad inventory they're moving. So, your second statement is not supported by your first.

(disclaimer: googler, but not in ads or anything related)
350h is a lifespan, and you're quoting a speculative paper. I haven't read the story extract, but I assume the plan would be to bleed matter into the micro black hole to maintain it. (Arthur C Clarke posited the same concept 40 odd years ago in his Imperial Earth novels.)

I assume your point is that a GeV is a minuscule amount of energy, which isn't going to push 130kT around at any speed.
Drupal is becoming more and more insane with each release (especially 6 -> 7). The database structure is really getting out of hand. It's becoming harder and harder to deal with the performance issues.
> not a single session even bothered to take into account personality.

So you'd prefer that the interviewers set up situations for unconscious biases to take hold? That would hurt the quality of engineering at Google.
Quoting one thing is not ignoring another.
Tinygraphs, avatars as a service
Was already posted an hour earlier. See here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9376391
Sure I get using existing tools but I'm trying to grasp the real value here. So I should view it as an analytics platform that supports completely adhoc data types? Because, to me, the first main selling points it makes on their site I couldn't care less about. Storing and querying adhoc data is a solved issue and extremely easy.

Now if they are providing the tools to make analysis quick, efficient, and intelligent - That makes a bit more sense. Guess I'll have to check out a trial.
I think Gumby was either making a self-effacing joke, or a gratuitous dig at RMS -- I'm not sure which.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingnut_%28politics%29

"Wingnut" (sometimes "wing-nut") is an American political term used as a slur referring to a person who holds extreme, and often irrational, political views usually with a religious overtone. According to Merriam-Webster, it is "a mentally deranged person" or "one who advocates extreme measures or changes : radical."
As a counterargument:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/sg/when_not_to_use_probabilities/

(Note that I think that starting with a good 50/50 coinflip and revising it based on evidence in this case is reasonable, I just think it's nice to have a reasoned opposing opinion sometimes.)
this guy clearly has a passion for security.

d-link could do well by firing whatever uncaring 9-to-5 programmers they have and hiring him.

part of the problem is that people with this kind of passion and skill are few and far between... is very rare that good people want to work for a company like d-link on something like drivers or router software.
10,000 years, hmm? Ever read Larry Niven's short story "Cautionary Tales"?
To be fair, it's not just "technically viewable", it's also legally forkable and redistributable, along with any changes that might be made to it.
Cogent downtime due to racoon
Yes, we ask all contributors to sign the CLA (http://rethinkdb.com/community/cla/).
Automatically downgrade to a more general implementation if those features are used. Add a flag to assert that a regex is actually regular and should use the fast implementation.
It's time to consider restricting human breeding [2014]
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Shoot me an email to slava@rethinkdb.com -- I'd be happy to help!
In all my time building websites the over emphasis on design has had a negative impact on the majority of projects i have encountered.

Non-design stake holders will obsess over design to the detriment of other less interesting issues, vendors are selected on the quality of mock up not their ability to deliver or technical expertise. Designer will go for gold and disregard best practice, what the user/product actually needs and what can be delivered on time and budget.

But I (like most people) do not work for apple/dropbox/megacorp... so my anecdotes are not exactly relevant to the article.
I've moved a couple of side apps from GAE to AppScale (on EC2) without any trouble. I haven't tried it with any bigger apps/data yet.
Again, you are just repeating your assertions and somehow think that simply asserting them makes them true. It does not, and I don't think I can make you understand the difference between assertions and evidence, so let's call it a day.
Love and hate for processes
I'm aware that they are going through an overhaul of their customer service systems, process and probably the people. Its tough to grow as fast as they are, especially in this area. It is exceptionally hard to find great people, maintain culture and values while still providing great support. I'm not making excuses for them, except to say that I am certain they are aware of the issues they have had had in this area and are working on getting better.
I use groups, (look forward, and lookbehind) all the time, now that I have been comfortable with them, they are great in that I can write simpler regexps, or use fewer patterns. And I use perl for one liners, which is as far as I can go comfortably with perl. Thing is, I use regexps most for one-liners, and with perl, and grouping, it is simpler for me, than using sed for instance, where I then would have to think, (and test), substantially more, or filter the output through yet anoter sed expression. So grouping works for me. :) It is of course slower, but so far, the most critical time for me, has been the speed with which I can make a solution that works.
That's not how I read his comment, though re-reading his comment I see how you read it that way.

I read it as a list of hi-lights from the article, and I assume that's how he meant it to be read;

- interesting things will move to the premium version
- JS VM to power future versions
- pluggable module API coming
Why exactly couldn't it be combined with those licenses?
Adding Hand Tracking to AltspaceVR
Why does the kernel matter so much to you?
all you need to do is to make continuous corrections of your trajectory towards the Sun

The sum of those corrections is the Earth's orbit.

Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9368401
GamePostman-delivers the best mobile games based on your preferences and BigData
I've been a Shopify customer for about 5 years. What impresses me most is how much they've ramped up product development in the past 18 months. They're building new features at an aggressive pace and continuing to maintain a high degree of polish and ease of use.
maliciously?
CUPS didn't originate with Apple (although they hired its author)
We could both give each other empirical evidence all day.

I wouldn't really call my assertions unproven. Speaking of referential transparency and equational reasoning is kind of the core of a lot of computer science.

I'm not really sure what kind of evidence you are asking for.

I will say that I think some programming languages are more interesting than others, and some are a more productive, better use of time than others.
Well, you are hedging your bets. It is alot like buying a house imo.
This reminds me of the log abstraction:

http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what...
Interesting that they should mention Fellowship Church--I've been there a few times, several years ago. It's this sort of giant complex (we'd nicknamed it "consumer Christianity"), with big auditoriums and a separate youth center and all the bells and whistles, a coffee shop, I think a book store? Here, photos of them:

https://instagram.com/fellowshipchurch/

Even at the time, one wondered why God would need such lavish and hip furnishings for His people. Big screen TVs and broadcasts and sound systems and powerpoints and the whole nine yards. Yuppie Christians living in DFW ate that shit up--Starbucks Christ.

For my two bits I preferred the earnest fervor of some pentecostal friends of mine, a married couple who ran a small traveling ministry that would setup shop in strip mall and praise Jesus until they hit hard times again. Over and over this happened, but they never gave up. Real salt-of-the-earth hard workin' folks, doing drywall and painting until it was time to put on the bright pastel suits and start fighting the Devil all over again--and for these people and their congregation, this was a very real and present struggle. I have a lot of respect for that.

I think there are a lot of reasons behind the assumed decline of Christianity in America.

It's not particularly popular in intellectual circles, for example, to talk about Right and Wrong--with a notable exception for identity politics, it seems. In fact, expressing a nonsecular faith of any sort tends to get you looked a bit askance at, because it's basically something we assume only uneducated folks maintain.

It's also trivially straightforward to poke holes in the original holy texts, and so every smartass with a copy of the Bible can gleefully go after followers and impress their friends with easy attacks. At the same time, a lot of even the reasonable stuff just doesn't make scientific sense anymore--we know that homosexuality doesn't kill anyone, we know that pork properly prepared won't hurt you, we know that a menstruating woman is not actually helped by isolation, and so on.

Even more, I think we see just how shitty and callous and uncaring the world can be, and how hypocritical even the devout are. Easy access on Youtube and Twitter and the news show us just how badly off a lot of humanity is and how much they suffer. It's hard to believe in a benevolent God in such a case.
Yeah but for sure life is more like the latter rather than the former.

It also comes down to preparation and not making the mistake of trying to wing something that is super important.
Here's the rationale:

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/
First of all, limited VC involvement? They raised $122 million from VCs:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shopify

These investors include VC firms like First Mark Capital, which are NYC based - and oh yeah, the exact same VC firm that was the biggest investor in the startup I worked at that I said is in freefall but now getting positive financial press. It's not about whether the VCs are running operations, it's about whether the VCs are worried they won't get their money back without an IPO, which seems like a genuine concern for an operation that's losing money.

As to your second point of confusion, your pointing out its a Canadian company as if what I'm saying doesn't apply:

"We qualify as an “emerging growth company” pursuant to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified exemptions from various requirements that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies in the United States. These provisions include:"

They are IPOing on the NYSE so they are still regulated by the SEC, and if you actually read the filing you will note that they are using the new JOBS act in order to IPO. What I'm saying is not unrelated to anything, Shopify is one of the first companies to take advantage of these new changes in regulation. Maybe Shopify specifically isn't a shaky company, but I do think the doors have been opened for shaky companies without much scrutiny to be sold to a public that has been misled by PR.
The title here is odd. The project is called "AppScale". The link is to the project Wiki, not a release announcement. It is an open-source implementation of the AppEngine platform.
I hope they add React-PHP.
Main point to me: "What this suggests to me is that people who care should be working not for animal rights but animal welfare–to ensure that farm animals don’t suffer and that their deaths are swift and painless."

AFAICT animals don't worry about dying in the same way people do. They may miss Wilbur but they don't sit around wondering what happened to him and extrapolate it to concern for themselves. My moral sense is that treating them well is much more important than not killing them.
The Kremlinological aspects aren't too surprising -- neither Cook nor Ive is widely associated with the ancien regime at Apple so there's no downside for them in criticizing it. Mistakes Were Made, and so on, but the company is doing So Much Better Now.

From the point of view of the current leadership, it's time to both praise Jobs and bury him.
Like the article says, they make sure the command to system is one of their php files before running the system command.
Extremely rare photos of Muslims in history
I would trust Apple's even more if the firmware releases were as regular as iOS updates. And the same goes for AirPort Utility releases, especially on Windows.
I'm simply sharing my experience, which involved their head of customer service yelling at me, and their vp of revenue flat out lying to me.

If I'm truly an outlier, I'd welcome outreach from them (in the form of the refund they promised me long ago). But I don't expect it.

Running a startup is crazy hard... but establishing cultural norms like 'don't yell at customers' and 'don't lie to customers' isn't hard. That's easy. And either I had a wicked outlier experience, or they failed to do that.
Do you have any particular insights how to get a reply from the HR? Applied twice through this form to a super relevant position with matching skills -- no reply, not even a negative one.

All at the time when I'm rejecting other offers expecting to have a chance to talk to SpaceX.
Sure, but for smaller companies you will ONLY see the paid PR , whereas big companies have a lot more critics since they are better known, have more employees, etc.
I didn't know a single Lua programmer, and then one of our software developers wanted to write some code to run in Nginx, and two hours later I knew a Lua programmer, and his solution works great in heavy production use. Seems pretty easy.
I think my assertions are pretty well accepted virtually ... everywhere, so it didn't really occur to me THOSE specifically were what you were calling into question. But if THAT is what we are arguing about, I agree, this is all rather cyclical and pointless.
Thanks. I missed that discussion yesterday. I understand the reason now.
This is a great question, and its one that isn't really made clear anywhere iin compiler books that teach it. The tl;dr is that you get lots of nice properties for free, and that it makes writing analysis algorithms much simpler with fewer edge cases.

For context, I was involved for a bit in writing this book, and I was at the conference that spawned it, and I wrote chapter 25. That said, it's been a few years and my memory is poor, so I may have some details below wrong. I'm basing some of this on a fun paper I wrote (http://paulbiggar.com/research/fit-2009.pdf) and stealing directly from my PhD thesis (http://paulbiggar.com/research/#phd-dissertation, section 3.3)

Factored use-def chain: With a def-use chain, dataflow results may be propagated
directly from the assignment of a variable to all of its uses. However, a def-use
chain requires an edge from each definition to each use, which may be expensive
when a program has many definitions and uses of the same variable. In practice,
this occurs in the presence of switch-statements. SSA factors the def-use chain
over a φ-node, avoiding this pathological case.

OK, english version: in program analysis, you want to know the value of a variable, so you create a "def-use chain" which connects a definition of a variable to all of its uses. In some cases, you might have very many uses and definitions, esp of the same variable. This esp happens with switch-statements. In SSA form, each variable is only defined once, so you dont get pathological cases here.

Flow-sensitivity: A flow-insensitive algorithm performed on an SSA form is much
more precise than if SSA form were not used. The flow-insensitive problem
of multiple definitions to the same variable is solved by the single assignment
property. The allows a flow-insensitive algorithm to approach the precision of a
flow-sensitive algorithm.

English version: if you put something in SSA form, you can connect the use of a value directly to its definition (since it's only defined once, with one value). Without SSA, you might have more definitions of that variable, and so not know it's exact value, type, etc, when you go to use it. Without SSA form, to get that data you'd have to analyse the flow of the program (look at loops and if statements, etc). With SSA form, you can ignore those and get a similar level of precision.

Memory usage: Without SSA form, an analysis must store information for every
variable at every program point. SSA form allows a sparse analysis, where an
analysis must store information only for every assignment in the program. With
a unique version per assignment, the memory usage of storing the results of an
analysis can be considerably lower than using bit-vector or set-based approaches.

In English: When storing the results of your analysis, you can save them much more cheaply in SSA form, from a CPU and memory perspective. Without SSA, you need a hashtable of variables, with a list of values each. In SSA form, you only need on value, not a list of values, for each variable. You can also number single-assignment variables by number, rather than by name, and so use simple arrays rather than hashtables to store the results.
Yeah. That article is really nice and is making good points. But it is really strange to read that on Quora of all places, the site that had to resort to hiding answers just to force people to sign up, whose purpose and business model seems completely unclear ("the startup that missed the chance to be bought"), and which is not really a leader in design as well (though I don't think its core is badly done), apart in using tricks to stimulate initial participation.

That is not even off-topic, he mentions it in the article and links to an answer (https://www.quora.com/Why-should-or-shouldnt-you-migrate-you...) on why people should move content from Blogs to Quora, as a counter example to Medium. But that answer is not convincing at all, there is not much in Quora that makes it more likely old content gets seen, nothing at least that beats Google's long tail for blog articles, notwithstanding that the linked article is not new. I have a blog, it is not popular, but I get so many visitors via Google on old articles that I could be quite happy about that, if it were anything to be happy about.
A bit yeah but I've never done more than a 30 day trial always staying with a text editor or QT Creator. I'm always looking for tools that enhance my workflow. Sometimes all these tools feel mostly the same after I try them.
Preparation looks very different for different types of people. The ability to wing something and knock it out of the park is definitely a skill.
I don't think ttytter is true abandonware. Though the website and version number haven't been bumped since 2012, I have noticed a few small changes as reclently as 2014 (since I keep a copy in git).

As for fixing things, can't beat the simplicity of a one-file perl impl! Do you have an example of how retweets are broken? I haven't noticed, but it sounds like you need to be following someone using some special feature for RTs?
Everything you have said can be said about literally every possible opportunity to make money outside of those that leverage sweat equity.

If you want to say something about his idea that is specific you could add value.

For instance attempting this arbitrage is a risk transference since you are betting that the technology of batteries won't catch up before you have made back your capital investment.
> These companies were using the income from other companies they were consulting for to build out the product. It's like free development. You get your engineer time paid for, and make a profit on it, and much of the work goes into the product side of things.

Also, consultancy gives your team experience with how your customers are using product in the real world. You are basically building the product with input from one or more representatives of the class of customers that are likely to be most willing to pay the most money for your product.
What if the "robotic" questions themselves have a bias? They almost certainly do. (They've already turned off people who don't like robotic questions. :P) Demographic diversity is just as important as creative/intellectual diversity - I think diversity of hires requires diversity of questions. It requires some bad interviews, but it creates some great interviews. I've had interviews and been interviewed in both settings; no regrets. White male, though, so hard to say.
So you think I'm speaking to you as an authority figure?