skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's boring, unfulfilling, tedious and people don't respect you for doing it. People would still go to college to get jobs that have those things.

Ha, they'd give up on years of income and pay tuition for that? Nope, I think a lot of people either wouldn't care enough, or just wouldn't be able to afford the opportunity cost. For many of the people whom a 70k minimum wage would affect, college is a financial investment, not a route to lack of tedium as an accountant or whatever.
Schneier's Law comes to mind

"Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law...
The email address will be used if you create a free monitoring, to send you weekly digests and alerts in case of quality issue / slowdown on your monitored page.
So yes, we reject temporary address as we don't want to analyze daily your webpage if you're not reading our e-mails.
Domino IO – An Open Hardware WiFi Platform for Things
Seems funny though that the goal of "keeping money protected" is something that the banks want to drag their heels about since they might have to pay for it... On the other hand, "you get what you pay for" seems to apply when they are shopping around for the cheapest devs they can find.
Let's be honest, and not pretend that this has absolutely anything to do with the difficulty of acquiring this information and providing it, and so much more to do with the "the less done to publicize how much I made, either by itself or in comparison to my employees, the better".
Citation? I just installed nginx 1.7 on Ubunutu using a PPA and nginx -V says "--with-http_spdy_module".
By the same token, there's probably a fair amount of legacy Delphi code. It was especially popular for 4GL outside the US.
You're thinking about this the wrong way...use them the way they are supposed to be used: drive turbines with them.

Steam engines, treated as powerplants, are actually remarkably efficient.
The question that you should always ask before going down an proprietary-add-ons business model is, what are you going to do the day someone develops the same functionality for the open source product, in a fundamentally different way? Are you going to rip out those parts every time you release your proprietary version? Because your customers are paying for those parts to be very stable.
> I realized that the developers of SQLite maintained a remarkably well-structured and comprehensive suite of hand-written test cases in their repository

Tcl for the win[0].

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
I think you missed the part about studies that make the case that utilities could be doing this today. Utilities are conservative though, I don't expect them to jump in with both feet right away.
Humans as a species don't have the best financial judgement, which is one of the reasons we have homelessness to begin with.

Even if everyone had an ivy league degree, with a cell phone, and was physically healthy, we'd still have unemployment as our economy isn't producing enough jobs for humans.. And unemployment + time with no savings to burn through eventually equals homelessness.
In the early launches, whenever something went wrong the stream would be cut off instantly --- sometimes they'd even leave the connection open but just stop sending frames, which made my video player very sad.

I sympathise: they don't want to be associated with failure. But on the other hand, there were an awful lot of people, including me, who would have been utterly fascinated to see a first-hand view of the failure modes.

I'd still love to see the crash footage.
I guess this is a reminder that writing secure C is actually really, really hard.
Not that's open source, but I can do a little write up article and share a sample app that shows how to do it.
As far as I can tell, anecdotes, social proof, and familiarity play far more a role in the reputations of almost every language/tool than most engineers seem prepared to admit.

(But don't worry, dear reader -- you're probably the exception!)

PHP gets singled out for a bit of extra abuse (some perhaps justifiably, some not so much), but it's far from the only language whose popular conception is not so much based on thoughtful evaluation.
Things like this make me so happy to have things like DDWRT, OpenWRT, et al.
Mirror for Database Error'd: https://archive.today/D33zV
These are not problems with C. These are problems with a shitty dev team.
I got this impression as well, especially given

>> Participants’ reported political
affiliations were 40% Democrat, 20% Republican, 36%
independent, and 4% other

I think that distribution is quite a bit different than a random sampling of US adults would get you. For a study examining political preference, having such a bias is pretty harmful.

Perhaps their effect would have been more pronounced with more Republicans, or maybe it would have been less pronounced. Maybe the unusually high percentage of independents dampened the precondition of extremism, or maybe it actually exacerbated the precondition.
I had applied to this program once. I had suggested to draw people from an agricultural background (willing to put in long hours on dirty jobs), long distance runners (short term motivation, higher caloric efficiency), civic-minded volunteers (long term motivation), and long-distance backpackers (austere living conditions). I may have been slightly biased from personally having all of those backgrounds...

Anyway I didn't get in though I was in the top 10% and encouraged to re-apply in the future. I still think it would be fun, though obviously I need to step up my game as the application pools don't seem to be getting any smaller.
I would find it hard to believe there's a single human in all of history that would be bored if they found themselves living in present day. Especially now that we're in the Information Age, more and more boredom is becoming a conscious choice for anyone with an internet connection, rather than an inescapable circumstance.
Or a reminder that when someone sends you a list of things wrong, maybe you should read and understand it rather than applying a 2 second fix that doesn't actually fix anything?
I wonder if this applies to HN's views on surveillance/NSA/Snowden leaks. I certainly don't see any nuance in the majority of the comments posted on those topics.
IIRC Tokutek (well, now Percona) holds patents on the FT indexing technology.
Certainly. Just to illustrate this, assume a small and simple multinational company that has headquarters and marketing (100 staff) in the US and manufacturing workforce (150 staff) in Vietnam. That's all the workforce.

The median salary in the company will be about $200 per month (because a majority of workforce is in a low-pay country). If the CEO makes $250,000 per year (which is not particularly much for a company of this size), she'll earn an outrageous 100 times as much as the median in the company.

Now let's assume that activists are unhappy with this 100 times difference and there's a boycott in order to reduce the CEO pay in proportion to workers. Guess what will happen?

Half of the workforce in Vietnam is kicked out and the gap in production is bought from a manufacturing partner in Pakistan (where the workers will earn $150 per month).

CEO pay is unchanged, but the median pay is now $2500 (pay of a not-high-status sales assistant in US). The CEO now earns only 10 times as much as the median worker!

Did things improve for the poor workers? Well, you could say so, because some people in Pakistan got a job, but the actual outcome still is that the people who work on the product now get less than before.

Road to hell is paved with good intentions, and naive activists are hit by the law of unintended consequences. Yes, the CEO-to-median figures are not very meaningful for a multinational company.
I've just accepted that residential routers are full of assorted orifices (security holes, backdoors & holes in functionality).

Then again I'm not hiding anything dubious - if I was I'd install a firewall box asap. (And yes I know the "nothing to hide" slippery slope etc argument)
EU to File Antitrust Charges Against Google
Interesting. The D-Link security advisory (http://securityadvisories.dlink.com/security/publication.asp...) states that the issue was only partially resolved. What was changed (aside from adding an additional buffer overflow) in the patch that attempted to alleviate these issues?
Arbitrary longetivity?
Couchbase has indexing, map reduce, and full text. Also a mobile sync connector.
Well, the "index" was merely an example. Actually, what I want to do is implement persistent data structures (a.k.a. functional or immutable data structures) in a combination of javascript and C++. See [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
Shopify to raise $100M in Toronto, New York IPO
lutorm, I should have put a disclaimer in there. I know nothing about SpaceX policy and so I wasn't trying to cast any aspersions. (and frankly, the 3% figure VieElm mentioned sounds more like attrition than Neutron Jack policy)
I wonder what happens if you do the same test on stuff like creationism or homeopaty...
What if I just want to see the blurred text?
California’s Farm-Water Scapegoat
They'd be on the wrong end of the rocket. The centre of mass is close to the engines, but not that close; the landing legs have to go at the bottom for obvious reasons, but any aerodynamic surfaces have to go near the vehicle's stern, as it moves through the air. Since it's descending vertically, this means the top. This is what the pop-out grid fins way up are for.

Fun fact: if the F9 first stage had traditional fins at the bottom, they wouldn't be able to do this. The vehicle would tumble in the upper atmosphere and end up either nosediving into the ground or breaking up.

Don't believe me? Go get the KSP demo and try it for yourself! The demo is pretty ancient, but it is free: https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/demo.php
The profit model is simple: code injection into the packages to track usage and activity.

Don't even think HN wouldn't engage in mental gymnastics to rationalize why it's okay to do that.
> This is, of course, speculative. We don’t know if the study findings scale to the whole of the United States. It’s back of the envelope math. Atop that, the study itself is an analysis, which is not the same value as experience.

Hence my question. Do we actually see any utilities making steps in this direction?
Microsoft Surface 3 review
But you shouldn't also pretend you have zero information. They hit the barge last time, engineering principles are sound, so those two things alone give you an estimate of "quite likely". Yes, 80% is kind of arbitrary, but it tells you the same story as "quite likely" with an added benefit of being able to plug it into some math that will yield you better results than going with just words.

See "If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics": http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-....
Sometimes when I'm in a plane I daydream about what body shapes I'd make in free fall in an attempt to increase my wind resistance and decrease my terminal velocity. I also wonder if it would be better to land on trees, water, or a really really steep snow covered mountain.
Why would he revert his legacy? He has fought pretty hard for surveillance.
Chrome 42 will pour your Java coffee down the drain: Plugin blocked by default
agree on normalizing for location, but not on occupation. If certain occupations require higher skills, and are therefore able to pay higher salaries, then I see nothing wrong with them getting higher priority.
I think he's referring to the fact that every time they do one of these they have more experience with everything, therefore with each new launch the chance of failure should be reduced. He said there will be more than one launches until the end of the year. So by then, the chance of success should rise to 80%.
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You don't understand the parent's comment. Check my other comment.
France Considers Forcing Google to Disclose Search Algorithm
If you liked that one, you may also enjoy 'Accelerando' by Charlie Stross.

It's available for free at Stross' blog: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
I agree. I watched the first Formula E race and didn't think much of it. The really interesting work is with the current F1 hybrid power units. I will be surprised if Formula E ends up as anything more than a side show like GP2 F3000.
The Verge review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9377677
TokuMX was really "MongoDB done right", at least up until MongoDB's integration of the WiredTiger engine. They also did some stuff with things like election protocols and stuff to improve on vanilla MongoDB, as well. It was really quite nice to work with. I've been a vocal advocate for it over the last couple of years.

All that said, I am rather concerned about a lack of ongoing support for it, though. TokuMX 2.0.0 was released 7 months ago, with the promise of MongoDB 2.6 support "shortly" (MongoDB 2.6 was released just over a year ago). That's yet to materialize, and I've reported a number of bugs which haven't received prompt fixes (inlcuding a segfault which was closed as "working as intended"). These are edge cases, and certainly not the norm, but I was really impressed with Tokutek's support of the product a couple of years ago, and it sadly feels like it's dwindled to life support.

Unless Percona makes a strong showing with it shortly, I'm not going to be able to justify building on it any longer.
xpost from comment on the orig blog

http://pastebin.com/ukBvSKyw - Look at the timestamps. And no "Recorded Future" here, hence published before their fetch.
Even if we had a "permanent" energy source, we have only a finite number of atoms. So one day we would actually also be guaranteed to cycle our thoughts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theore...

So for me true immortality is not only about unbounded time but also unbounded size, neither of which seems achievable.

For all purposes of regular human condition though, an approximation is good enough.
>The poster of that comment should RTFM...

I am not sure I should go read the manual before setting a string key in an array to make sure that the specific string does not falls under some kind of special treatment. When normal people see that they can set string keys on something, they would assume that it work for all strings regardless of their content.

And regarding PHP manual, it does not even have fundamental stuff right. This comment is from an ex php core developer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/comments/2md8c0/new_safe_cast...

>using a == instead of a === would cause the desired result

Except using == will result in a hundred other weird behaviors that have caused numerous many bugs and security vulnerabilities, that every one uses === with out exception..
Excluding accidents, natural disasters, murder or suicide.
The lack of understanding isn't necessarily a "misconception" -- it may just be incomplete knowledge of the entirety of the system.

I think the question "How does a toilet work?" is much like the question "What happens when you type 'google.com' into your browser and press enter?"[1] I'm sure I have a sufficient understanding of the general idea (e.g. flapper and siphon, or parsing and DNS lookup), but I'm well aware I couldn't reproduce or accurately describe the whole system/process on my own.

[1] https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
I can't even find a single example from Oracle that would be cherry-pickable as evidence for their supposed open-source-friendliness. Literally every open-source project that Oracle owns has stagnated at best (aside from maybe Java; while I'm personally unimpressed by Java 8, I know there are a few people who would disagree with me), and at worse has significantly deteriorated, died entirely, been shoved off onto some other organization, or resulted in a fork, and sometimes all of the above has happened (see also: OpenOffice).

Like, I'm a pretty well-natured person in general and am happy to give even some of the most despicable companies the benefit of the doubt on occasion, but I seriously can't find a single reason to do so for Oracle. They're just that fucking irredeemable.
Manhole cover explodes on live TV
March Madness at Microsoft: Bing predicting college basketball games
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One of the best things about the solar/wind + storage combination is that it's decentralized and cheap at small scale. This makes serious electrification of remote and impoverished places viable. It reminds me of the wildfire spread of cell service in places that didn't have phones before, only on a larger and more important scale. Give a village cheap electricity, and awesome things will happen.

This gets to another point that bugs me in these discussions... the pushback against wind/solar dominance by the pro-nuclear crowd. Insisting that nuclear power is the right way to go is western-centric. It's fine for the US, Europe, Japan, and other advanced nations that have the infrastructure to support it. But is it a solution for Peru? For Somalia? Of course not. Wind/solar/storage, on the other hand, is totally viable as a solution for even the poorest nations. This alone is an argument for solar over nuclear.
BizDev&Communications
The F-1 filing with the SEC is here:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594805/000119312515...
They aren't speaking literally. From my point of view, a human who can live, say, 10,000 years is as good as 'immortal'. Sure its literally wrong, but I heard webster now defines 'literally' as 'figuratively' so I'm ready to give up on pedantry.
Sounds similar to the rules Texas issued last year: http://www.ssb.state.tx.us/Important_Notice/Information_for_...
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Unfortunately, that single line addition means that this code can't be used with other open source projects. It can't be combined with code released under the BSD, MIT, MPL, GPL or other OSI-certified open source licenses and kept under the same OSI license. This puts it more in the 'shared source' realm than the 'open source' realm.
> It’s relatively easy to pick up on someone’s personality in their application.

From the written application that's supposed to be as terse as possible? I think I could get a feel for someone in person since I could dig into particular questions on the spot, but seems I'd have a real hard time judging meanness if I could only see the 1-way communication of the written YC application.
That doesn't mean they would have sued over it, though. Just that they disagreed with Google's actions.
Synthesizing methane from biomass is a solved problem at a known cost that can't really be scaled away. It's not significant in the market because it's far more expensive than fossil natural gas. It's also more expensive than coal gasification, which is probably the second round in that particular gun.

So we could see peak load plants powered by gas sourced from filthy coal. More likely than a clean biomass solution, sadly.
Whatever the motivation, this makes code released under Apple's custom BSD license incompatible with other open source licenses, so you can't use this code in other projects.
Interesting, so I could work for the NSA or CIA and still get all the street-cred with you guys? Sorry but this is exactly the reason why I'm running my own business since 18+ years and never looked back since. If being "sheep" is what this job is now all about please kill me now.

EDIT:
actually your comment is exactly what I despise because thinking like this makes you a non-free person. I'm sure people who worked for the Stasi or currently justify the actions of their employers (Google, Facebook and other FVEY collaborators) would exactly justify their existence with similar reasoning.
Point being, if you feel that your employer does something shady it's up to you to change it. If this process makes you unemployable or an outcast in your current environment then I'd still have more respect for you serving me at McDonalds than doing what you do.
Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence [pdf]
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We often run tests scaling up to ~40 nodes without problems. You could probably push Rethink quite further than that, but I think over 100 nodes would be hard. The goal is to keep pushing the boundary indefinitely.
Right. That's the correct use for nuclear in a solar/wind + storage future - a stable and reliable base load.
What makes a great startup idea?
Sloppy scripting http://cl.ly/image/1L2G1V3C0A08 :P

(Edit: added emoticon for joke emphasis)
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A civilisation where people can live arbitrarily long lives may have some interesting consequences. For one, cultural stagnation caused by people with entrenched beliefs sticking around. A lot of social progress and scientific development happens over the dead bodies of the old holdouts.

Then in the beginning at least there is the risk of extreme social inequality and a gerontocratic ruling class. Only the wealthy will have access to life extension and it may be the wealthy power structures that deny the technology to other people.

Finally, a civilisation made up of long-lived individuals may become extremely risk-averse, with possible consequences of reduced experimentation, creativity and rebellion. They may also turn out a little like what Larry Niven makes of the Puppeteer race: powerful, cowardly creatures, highly ritualistic, paternalistic and soft-totalitarian.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. I can be bored and on the internet at the same time.
pfsense on a thin client = 40$
OpenWRT on a home router as AP = 30$
Not getting pwned = priceless
It is a systemic problem with the incentives. If the CEO is moral enough to go against shareholder interest, he'll be replaced. If not, the board members will be replaced through vote and possibly sued for going counter to shareholder interests. If not, the shareholders will be replaced by shareholders a more ruthless out-competiting company.

Imploring everyone to just be more moral isn't going to fix the systemic problems.
> To me, if you're not willing to pull commits from outside your walled garden or allow external forks of your technologies, then you're terrible at open source. Sure, you technically checked off the very first checkbox ("make source available") but you stopped there. That's not a success, that's a stillborn effort...

That's still significantly better than what a lot of big "open-source" companies do.

Not that I disagree with you. Just putting things into perspective.
Hmm, I don't think you are missing anything. I was wondering are there things I could do in order to improve the chance that the person on the other end will have the cash upon delivery?

I would imagine most people do want to pay for their order, however, they may forget to grab cash for their order or something along those lines.

So, keeping that in mind do you know if I as a provider could do things to help customers fulfill their orders as that would also help me a lot. I would imagine this is something others have dealt with and if I could learn from their implementations it would help a lot.
Sorry, I don't follow. Could you unpack this?