skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to read an article on history when the first paragraph has a glaring falsehood:

>Most historians, though, acknowledge that the war’s most ambitious aim—full equality for black citizens

Quote from Lincoln:

>If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
This + SSD (Crucial IIRC) gives me 200+Mb/s write, 400+Mb/s read speeds:
http://amzn.com/B00FCLG65U

USB 3.0 is pretty fast. Without TRIM performance will probably degrade but that will take time.
Enders game was a good read. I could never get into anything after that though.
Indeed, but also if you raised a pet and then had it attack your neighbour. Humans, are the only ones with autonomous status, and even that can be disputed by other things such as mental disability or coercion.
Yes, this ran on an 1987 Amiga 500 with the Commodore A501[1] 512K RAM expansion. This means:

* 1MB RAM
* 256K ROM
* 7.16 MHz (yes, that's 0.007 GHz :)) Motorola 68000

plus a whole lot of custom chips [2]

There were different ways of expanding the Amiga RAM and the demo became so popular it was reverse engineered by a popular cracking group Skid Row[3,4]., patched and re-distributed

[1] http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/a501

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500

[3] http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Skid_Row_%28old%29

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfcrViBGn8
Yep, I can see it now. Overhearing conversation about getting high and food and saying "Do you want the 2-day or 1-day premium shipping for your marijuana + cheetos order?" ;-)
I'd love to see this one come back. I lost so many hours playing the original series. I also like the stuff that Star Citizen is becoming so I think we might actually have a staff that could make a half decent 6dof game for once.
Also on my list but I missed it. Thanks for brining it up!
I just learned what a Misfit was today!
What sort of speed might some of these rogue planets be moving at? While the faster they move, the harder it would be to 'latch on' to a stable orbit / land, could they more than a waypoint to distant stars - might they be a 'spaceship'?

Although this would require us to 1) discover a dark planet, 2) moving at an appreciable percent of lightspeed, 3) with enough time to reach it, and 4) heading in the right direction so we could alight at a nearby solar system. If colonization sounds hard, how about those hitchhiking odds - infinitely improbable!
Actually that is spot on. The problem of the line is that it shows something positive ( got a cert 14 years ago ), but also something negative ( there have been 4 generations of servers in the meanwhile, where are the cert )

Obviously that is easy to explain in an interview, the problem is getting the interview in the first place. Resume are not analysed, they are scanned by irrational human, sensible to effect similar to https://xkcd.com/641/
All I got is

> [edit]

I had a post here that was about my recent work at stellar, but in the cold light of the next-day's caught-up sleep, I didn't like the tone of it -- too unstructured and rambly, a little too critical of other people's work -- even for a personal blog, so I've removed it. Sorry.

Any archived version?
When you live a place, you can and should have a right to attempt to change it. This is a basic tenet of American government (taxation, representation, etc.). Just because a place has "always" been a given way does not and should not mean it can never be different.

That, I suppose, is a long way of saying that zoning can change. And sometimes other regulations change in ways that are inconvenient for some, especially when those people have failed to make a compelling case for why things should not change. We call this "democracy".
The fact that they even need to have a separate version of Windows which is what it should have been from day 1 is already bullshit.
The DOE announced the awards for ORNL and LLNL last November, and there wasn't a similar announcement about then, I don't see why today's is any more relevant.

That said, I doubt it comes as a surprise to the Chinese government, but it's kind of an ironic stick in the eye given what the DOE's mission is (and what the supercomputer at LLNL is used for). I suppose I don't blame the US government as I'm guessing the law prevents US companies from exporting devices used for nuclear weapons, but it's definitely a dick move.
For context, Raft is the consensus algorithm that powers awesome distributed systems like Docker, CoreOS, Kubernetes, Consul, and more!
In its biggest deal ever, LinkedIn bought lynda.com for $1.5B
Worlds smallest computer
I moved a large portion of my IRA to cash towards the end of last year, there were just too many red flags and unknowns, and seemingly unexplainable reactions to the daily news cycle, and the market had performed just so well over the last several years, it seemed like a peak would have to be near.

Of course, what actually happened is I managed to miss a 15% bump in IJT, a 5% bump in VT, a 6% bump in IYY, and about flat in GLD. The two stocks I held directly however did go down about 10% since selling.

So yeah, the two most basic pieces of advice; you can't time the market, and don't hold individual stocks (without spending the time to actively manage your portfolio), both rang quite true for me at least the last 6 months. I just haven't gotten back in, because I'm sure the day I decide to do that will prove to be the actual peak. :-/
"Most of Earth’s internal heat was delivered by the giant collisions that built the planet, a large portion of which remains locked inside its crust. This heat slowly trickles to the surface, providing a source of internal energy that has endured since the Earth formed. This interior heat will last for billions of years to come, but it’s a puny amount of energy, 3,000 times smaller than the sunlight that blasts the Earth daily."

Do this mean 3,000 times less than the Suns total daily output, or 3,000 times less than the sunlight that physically hits the earth daily?

I suspect the latter, but I still find this surprising. If daily sunshine hitting the earth is so massive then let's make solar work! If we could just collect even a fraction..
Finding patterns in data and nature while observing how they intersect. Making discoveries.
Any thoughts on golfing it smaller than:

for(int i=0;i<100;printf("%d\n",100-i++));

...I'm assuming we're talking C, with the appropriate includes, and main, etc..
Leslie Lamport: Programming Should Be More Than Coding [video]
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If it were just a matter of opinion, you could have left it like that a long time ago, but instead you have presented a long series of factual claims intended to show that yours is the only reasonable opinion, and I am merely responding to them. For example, your claim of exponential complexity was not just a matter of hyperbole, you backed it up with an explanation: "...because you need to either stick to one specific implementation of one specific language runtime, or you have to deal with explaining them all." If that is no longer your position, say so, and we can move on.

Another recurring factual claim is that there is a set of people that will understand this issue only if it is presented in a very specific way. Putting aside, for the moment, the question of how well that worked out in practice, let's look at what characteristics you have ascribed to your target: 1) They didn't get it as presented in the original article; 2) They have read what the JLS says about it, but did not understand it there; 3) They could not be led, through a suitable explanation, to follow what the JLS says; 4) Any explanation based on computing basics would be beyond their grasp; 5) Despite all this, they understand (and not just think they understand) the more complex issue of argument-passing in C++. It seems unlikely there is anyone in this set. In particular, while there seem to be people in group 3, I doubt any of them have made it into group 5.

As for an alternative explanation, we have, for example, eslaught's post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9249285
The first paragraph gets to the essential point with admirable directness, without using any comparison to a language that has a particularly complex array of argument-passing cases.
> 3,000 times less than the sunlight that physically hits the earth daily

This one.
Just started reading "Continuous Delivery" by Jez Humble, et al. Really wish I would have grabbed this years ago, great primer on what (for me) is a confusing topic. http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automat...
Hmm. I bought a small container of pure stevia powder from Whole Foods, and it has a little tiny spoon I'd say about 1/20th a teaspoon. Put even that small amount in a cup of tea and it is as sweet as a whole packet of sugar.
> watches before the Apple Watch

Yes, I remember the iPod nano
Fair point. :) Although, in the first instance, I had meant `arbitrary' to mean something slightly different, more along the lines of `a condition chosen without adequate justification', rather than `permitting anything whatsoever', as in the second.
This says 50fps, so I assume it was the 7.09MHz version...
I'm pretty sure that at least since 8, Windows has a built-in PDF viewer.
Apologies. I'll explain my quote some more.

It was a moment of clarity when realizing that I wouldn't get anywhere if I wasn't moving.

My motivation for self-improvement and self-discipline comes from my desire to move. When I am not happy or content with where I am, that's a sign I need to get moving. If I don't move - I'll be stuck where I'm unhappy. Right?
Lynda offers courses in many things besides programming.
You know, I have never heard someone use the word 'entitlement' in a meaningful and productive manner. It is pointlessly dismissive.
> My negativity here is NOTHING compared to the negativity and resentment by the professor in the article, who cloaks it in positive language.

Please note you're assuming the worst of people, and appear to me to be choosing to give no benefit of the doubt. Would you be willing to reconsider doing this? At least for a moment?

> On the other hand, he is advocating for a Cult of Computer Science with specially designed courses for different races of people.

I read the exact opposite into what she's saying: That we have specifically designed courses for white males (that happen to be open to all) and should consider mixing the design up to better serve a broader range.

I base this partly on the fact that she specifically attacks the idea of racial segregation that you seem to think she's suggesting in the intro:

>> Throughout history, and even today in certain parts of the world, attitudes like this have been the basis for keeping entire segments of the population uneducated (“teaching women to read and write?! seriously, they can’t do it, look how much longer it takes for them to learn” or “blacks in Universities?! seriously, they can’t do it, look how their grades are so much lower”). This is basically the attitude of a class of educators who live so much inside the box of convention and intellectual lazyness that they are uncapable of seeing the big picture.

For what it's worth, I would call this negativity. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if there's some resentment there: I'd certainly be resentful if someone scoffed at teaching me how to read and write! I would call it uncloaked negative language.

But, in all these things, it seems to be against segregation, not for it!

On the topic of learning styles: What I've read hasn't mentioned much about race or sex. I believe that we all - even as individuals, regardless of race or sex - use multiple styles, and that we all can benefit from multiple approaches. I certainly don't always get everything, and having an explanation re-framed in a new way - in a new style, one might say - gives me another opportunity to understand.

I think, at worst, she meant to appeal to our sense of fairness and equality by borrowing - perhaps awkwardly - by tying it to the civil rights movement. I'm skeptical at best about how relevant sex or race is. I'm not willing to crucify her over that though.
Full of emotional, uninformed, off-topic FUD-fueled rants? Yup, definitely a systemd thread!
The war involved a lot of people on both sides, and it's reasonable to think of a lot of them as contributing aims. It's reasonable to say that full equality for black citizens was an aim of the war even if it wasn't an aim of Lincoln. After all, it's not like he started it singlehandedly.
I would love to do the same someday. Where did you stay? Was it easy to find a reasonably priced, decent quality place?
A Brief Guide to the Common Lisp Object System
There is too much radiation... for life as we know it on those planets.
Foundations (and all corporations) have a board of directors who can be personally sued for a foundation's actions. That's the reason Directors & Officers insurance exists.
Some background of the story:

CNNIC is a root CA from China. It issued a false certificate[0] and got revoked by both Google[1] and Mozilla[2].

CNNIC is also believed to behind some MITM attack against iCloud[3]. Pulling CNNIC from Firefox was once discussed five years ago on Mozilla's bugzilla[4, 5, 6].

0. https://cpj.org/blog/2015/03/chinas-cnnic-breaches-sacred-cr...
1. http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/maintaining...
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/mozilla_revokes_cnni...
3. https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-appl...
4. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689
5. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476766
6. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607208
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These are excellent! Thanks!
"Twitch builds pokemon"
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I think the galactic bulge probably doesn't support life because of ionizing radiation and unstable orbits.
There are couple solutions, but rather sub-optimal:

1) There are Startup House in SF. It has it's limitations and more like co-working in SF with option to stay. Rooms are more like hostel for short stay with double-deckers for sleeping.
2) Most examples I know are renting big houses by couple teams to live/work there occasionally. So, not the optimal solution.

It would be much better to have actually normal set-up for working and living for 3 months, for example. In case it grows bigger, there could be separate houses for teams that could afford more comfort, pool, bar etc. So, to make it like disruption village for small teams could have everything required.
You might be underestimating the distance between stars in the galactic center...
How much personal information can a corporation require you disclose to them?
I work for a large financial firm, my wife works for a big tech/finance/auditing consulting company. We both have technology positions within our companies.

From her end, her company requires that she disclose any companies that her or anyone she lives with or is directly related to does any financial business with. This includes banking, home/car insurance, loans, mortgage, etc. Certain companies are on a non-approved list due to "conflicts of interest" and employees aren't allowed to have accounts with them. One of her co-workers was apparently forced into refinancing his mortgage with another bank because the bank he had a mortgage through was not on the non-approved list.

I can somewhat understand requiring your own employees submit all that information, especially if they're involved in auditing sensitive data from said clients.

But I find it outright offensive that a company I have absolutely no business or ties with (aside from my wife working for them) is demanding that I disclose information that I find highly personal with them using my wife as a proxy.

My wife and I keep our finances separate. While I don't have any issues sharing things with her, I do have issues sharing with her employer. I feel it's simply none of their business.

My own employer recently started rolling out a political donation pre-clearance program. I have zero interest in donating to political campaigns, so it's not too big a deal. But according to their fine print, I must pre-clear with them any political donation made by me, my spouce, my parents, siblings, or children. Again, I don't see it to be any of my business what any of those parties listed do with their money - how does a corporate even justify imposing that type of requirement?

Are companies going too far in requiring that spouses/family members share this type of information? Is there any way they can verify if I omitted information in what I disclosed to my wife? Can they legally do that?
Started off good and then lost me when he talked about using them for stepping stones to the stars. I'm confused about that.

A rogue planet in itself makes a terrible colony. And by stopping at one you about double(!) the energy/time needed to leave the solar system.
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Hey, just to let you know a lot of the changes you recommended have been implemented so once again thanks for the constructive criticism!
Incorrect, the point of a corporation is to give its directors protection, and to give the corporation itself legal liability.
> I don't think your speculation and armchair research is any more more helpful than the bad science journalism you complain about.

Anonymous people on the Internet can't be held to the same standards as a research paper. On the contrary, since this is largely a public opinion forum I believe that commenting without evidence is encouraged and it's up to the reader to make a determination about said opinion.

What a silly idea that we aren't allowed to publicize opinion.
You can't run Yosemite on a lot of older hardware: http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade.
I'd ask:

It seems there are a lot of implementations of Raft, few of which are entirely complete (CoreOS's etcd seems to be the best). Perhaps this is the downside of the emphasis on ease of implementation, vs creating 'golden libraries'. Which implementations does he think are the best in each language?

PS What is the meetup?
Would it be also great if accepted team could live and work for three months in environment that motivates working on their projects? Not only during the interview period? Also, this would give possibility for the teams to know each other better, help each other and have good time together.
This might actually be possible in the near future with cryptocurrencies. Nobody "owns" a bitcoin wallet; spending the money inside is just a matter of having the private key. Assuming a service pops up to provide nonzero interest rates for holding bitcoin, you could grant the autonomous entity enough bitcoin to pay its own hosting bill indefinitely, then erase your copy of the wallet key and any privileged access you have to the server.

As for the actual software running the autonomous entity, all you have to do is provide an API so that the hosting providers du jour can bid on providing hosting service. Since the software uses nearly zero CPU or bandwidth, and the entity would be willing to pay above-market prices for its survival, hosting providers will be incentivized in perpetuity to register themselves and collect basically free money from the entity.

Irrational hosting providers might try to kill it, so you'd need some level of redundancy. Also, you'd want to require a TPM and a trusted computing platform to prevent recovery of the wallet key.

Anyway, that's how you'd create immortal software.
FYI, there's no Raft in Docker (AFAIK), and CoreOS and Kubernetes both have Raft via etcd.
Ah, sorry, I misread how you wrote that.

My impression has been that Coursera is really about applying Socrate's (or is it Aristotle's) dream: free classical education for all.

Learning about Final Cut Pro is great, but getting classes on general machine learning ( at least ones that are worth more than a 2000 word blog post) generally require going to a school with a 5 digit price tag. I think Coursera and Lynda aren't trying to compete with each other on that end.
BigML cofounder here. Most BigML customers doing machine learning at scale use either BigML subscriptions (starting $30/mo) or private deployments – both of which provide unlimited model training and predictions and are suitable for developers and large enterprises alike. In addition, with BigML you can export your models (for cluster analysis and anomaly detection and not just classification/regression) to run locally and/or to be incorporated in related systems and services.
I believe it's the carbonated water that cuts the salt and grease. I used to drink a lot of soda and switched to carbonated water so I understand what you mean by lubricant.

My wife has a similar autoimmune problem. She also drinks 4-5 diet cokes a day. I wonder if there is a connection. There are flora in your mouth too.
InnoDB was great before it was hacked by Chinese and backdoored to fuck
It does seem like a common metric for small to midsize companies, that your #1 salesperson should earn as much if not more than the CEO. It's funny because CEOs will say, without a second thought, those are the dollars they are happiest to spend.

What makes the rockstar saleperson's commission so much happier spending compared to the rockstar engineer's salary? I think simply the ability to measure the ROI on those dollars. The day anyone figures out how to directly measure ROI of engineering dollars with the same "obviousness" as sales quotas / commissions, it would completely change how we hire and retain engineers.
I would like to congratulate curbed.com for finding a new level of annoyingness in ads. They have a sound ad that does not have a corresponding video window (at least i could not find any) where you can kill the sound or pause the whole thing. So while I am reading the article I get to hear the same inane chatter about barbecuing every couple of minutes. Thanks so much!
I wonder how long before malware that uses this will appear, given this is trivial to exploit.
Mark Twain allegedly quipped:

OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous
months to speculate in stocks in. The other are
July, January, September, April, November, May,
March, June, December, August, and February.

Still relevant 100+ years later.
What's wrong with ninja? It's CMake's best output format as far as I know. A lot more enjoyable to use than, say, msbuild.
The U.S. experience with slavery and civil rights is pretty much why I don't believe in anarchist or anarcho-libertarian principles. People organized into institutions have a greater capacity for good than people left to their own devices. And sometimes those institutions have to drag people into the future by burning everything down and instilling virtue at the point of a bayonet. I sometimes think that if Congress hadn't pissed all over the Constitution's federalist design in the 1960's, we'd still have segregation today.
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