skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe we started razing the forest long before the industrial revolution. Norway used to have substantial oak forests that still haven't recovered from a steady decline that may have started as early as with viking age ship building, but that seriously started no later than the 1600's to satisfy demand for more and larger ships throughout Europe.
Do you use Logstash to push to statsd for software that don't support statsd?

I have a HAProxy instance I want to log into something like influxdb.
How feasible would it be to introduce online voting?
Isn't this a market anyone wants?

There are plenty of competitors in the $150-$250 netbook/chromebook market. Not to mention things like the Intel Compute Stick and its competitors like the MK802. Not to mention tablets and phones.

A raspberry pi might only cost $35, but don't forget you'll need an SD card, and a power supply, and a case, and a wifi dongle, and a keyboard, and a mouse, and a monitor, and HDMI and power cables, and maybe a powered USB hub.
Rendering code is easy to express as pure functions...that is mostly how OpenGL and DirectX work, after all. React doesn't help very much with the state of your application (nor is it meant to). That being said, being able to treat the DOM as something to be rendered efficiently in immediate mode is quite useful.
From what I've heard from farmers, fields left to the wild are hard to clear and it's more difficult to return to agriculture after a few years. As a matter of real-estate the value goes down.
The point is, the penalties weren't effective -- if effectiveness of a criminal justice system is evaluated in terms of crime prevention.

We're talking about an age where there were no police organizations as we currently understand the term: a lot of arrests were made by freelance "thief takers" such as the infamous Jonathan Wilde, who himself eventually went to the gallows (because he wasn't merely a thief-taker, he was also the biggest fence for stolen goods in London!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Wild

(Shorter version: think of him as a kind of 18th century anti-Batman.)

Because arrest rates were virtually non-existent except when an angry shopkeeper grabbed a burglar in the act, or a mob went for a known miscreant, punishments were draconian. But because punishments were draconian, they were often commuted -- by the end of the 18th century about half of death sentences ended up being turned into transportation and involuntary servitude (basically, exile and slavery). Crime rates remained terrifyingly high by modern standards until the 1830s, when Sir Robert Peel as Home Secretary abolished and rationalized a lot of laws (he axed the death penalty for most offenses but replaced it with imprisonment) and instituted the first modern police forces:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel

Anyway, the takeaway from all this is, the British state in the 18th century performed a large-scale experiment that proved pretty much definitively that draconian punishments do not deter crime. What reduces criminal activity is certainty of apprehension, even if the punishment is relatively mild or rehabilitative. (Nobody thinks "I'd better not steal that pizza, I can probably get away with it but if they catch me I might end up facing life in jail". But knowing "if I steal that pizza, I will be caught" is an effective deterrent.)
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There are too few of them to replant at anything remotely the rate at which we remove trees.
> I believe that polls on the subject of reintroducing
> it for serious crimes regularly return over 50% support.

To some degree understandable. I used to be against the death penalty for humanitarian reason, but after Anders Behring Breivik gunned down 69 people, mostly children, and got only 21 years in prison [0], I think it would have been better if we just had hanged him. At least then the families of his victim could get to move on, knowing that they will not meet him on the street sometime in the future.

0: 21 years is the maximum prison sentence in Norway, but the prison term can then be repeatedly extended by five years as long as he is considered a threat to society. However that someone is being a threat to society can be hard to prove, so it is totally possible that he will be getting out some day.
>Calacanis's Launch cost $450 a table for 3 days with discount code

The fact that you are asking this means this post was a very good example of sponsored content. He makes a legitimate point, then spends the second half of the article advertising his own stuff. Classic negative review tactics - bash your competition and then pitch yourself.

As for these conferences in general, I don't understand why it is so hard for these organizers to get investors to come to their events. With the frothy market, investors aren't exactly hiding from opportunities to find new startups worth investing in. The organizers just aren't trying.
Dang won't/can't say this, but I think it's important someone does: if you knew dang personally, and were aware both of his political/ideological standpoint and the sincerity of his commitment to fairness and decency, you'd be horrified at the suggestion you've made in the second part of that comment.

On the first part: I personally sit somewhat to the right (ie Hayekian) economically, and I find hysterical leftist social campaigns tiresome and annoying.

But HackerNews is a place I come for respite from that, and where I feel most likely to see discussions conducted with a sincere intent by participants to transcend political biases and seek the truth in any issue.

The bias I do see on HN is towards materialist reductionist positions on science, particularly medicine, but I see that throughout society, largely independent of political ideology.

But to the original point, I'm guessing what Dan meant is that the front page won't be filled with articles like this because they don't fit the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Articles that fall outside that get flagged for being irrelevant, or ignored for being uninteresting. I suspect the latter happened in this case.
This kind of thinking often promotes confirmation biases.
Can someone explain how the entire bin went up? Does it mean that the explosion poked a hole at the bottom of the bin?
they don't have "drone" in their names
And how are the pods made? Hopefully it's also somewhat automated and fast, otherwise the drones would quickly run out of pods to plant.
> all they did was trade an inconsistency in number for one in gender. That's certainly not a win and arguably a loss for accuracy

It's not progress to revert to a previously-fixed inaccuracy solely because of changing tastes. We wouldn't admire it in programming unless it were clearly necessary, or at least a useful kluge on balance. Here, it's neither.

The better approach would be to coin another word, along the lines of Ms. vice Miss and Mrs., as I suggested above. Quoting Wikipedia: "For example, abbreviated pronouns have been proposed: 'e (for he or she) or 's (for his/hers); h' (for him/her in object case); "zhe" (also "ze"), "zher(s)" (also "zer" or "zir"), "shi"/"hir", and "zhim" (also "mer") for "he or she", "his or her(s)", and "him or her", respectively; 'self (for himself/herself); and hu, hus, hum, humself (for s/he, his/hers, him/her, himself/herself). [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neut...
Heh, just a question - could one use e.g. eight of these jet turbines and create something like a fucking-heavy-load octocopter, or is the reaction time of jet turbines too high for this application?

I mean, a single AMT Nike has 800N/80kg of thrust (-11kg for the turbine weight), so eight of these should provide roughly half a ton of load capacity?
I imagine you don't want them to be placed particularly randomly. Using a drone you could ensure adequate spacing between the trees so more of them will have a chance of taking hold, leading to a much higher effectiveness.
> How am I going to show this to my boss, and have him take it seriously with such an infantile title?

Probably the same way you would explain to your boss what KISS principle means or what WTF-metric for source code is :)
Well if you only deforest some trees and leave some left at even spaces the trees will naturally spread back to the area by dropping their seeds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

Your Dewie account was banned; this account is currently at -5.
I noticed this too. Using the contrapositive, he is arguing that all uniformly distributed variables are independent!
On the demos page

http://foam-framework.github.io/foam/foam/demos/DemoCat.html

All the links to "Source" take me to GitHub 404.

I would suggest this is the most important part of showcasing a new project.
This is basically an ad for Akira's new company.
I tend to keep him updated with rust news, so that when the day comes, I've laid enough groundwork to be able to do something in it without having to explain what it is and why etc.

And part of that is showing flaws, and how they're resolved/worked around and so on.
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The similarity is that:

When Amazon gets duplicate orders, or uncast orders, they tell the "customers" to keep the goods.

And when an electronic vote is cast, along with the duplicates, the uncast votes, the hacks, the citizen get to keep the bad.

The difference is that:

Amazon has a financial interest in avoiding uncast orders.

Politicians have financial and power interests in having uncast votes for them.
Not sure saying LXC is "generic" is helpful either. It is opinionated that you should be virtualizing the whole OS environment, like Docker is (fairly) opinionated that you should not be.

I think some of the confusion arose as people used to use LXC as a generic term for the container technologies as well as the product, before there were any other products. namespaces+cgroups is not such a nice name. And using "linuxcontainers.org" as the website does not make it clearer.
I think this falls under the heading of "I'm old", but I already have one machine to maintain. Replacing it with N machines to maintain doesn't feel like a win to me.
Ah the irony: and the US government (the US being the pinnacle of capitalist society) is refusing them at every chance. Isn't this what Kyoto was proposing? Has not the US (effectively) killed Kyoto? Whatever carbon trading is taking place in the US, is probably not internationally sanctioned.

The US practices this international tactic of dragging its feet as long as possible, giving time to its companies to catch up with international standards (and to hell with everything else if need be, environment be damned!). At the same time, it will very willingly impose international standards wherever they feel their local companies are at an advantage. This is why lots of European population are skeptical of the TTIP: the US is probably sending us a Trojan horse.
Ugh. No Falcon.
Oh boy, another complaint about having a diversity of tools available.

You're not really contributing much here, and it's a frustrating attitude to see. We're still in the relatively early days of building the kind of apps that these frameworks are targeted at; the idea that any time spent on incremental improvement or experimentation is a waste, and instead we should; 'redefine how we write web programs' is just nonsense. It's extremely rare that things evolve in that fashion.

Yes, programming probably should be accessible to everyone. That's a gigantic, fuzzy challenge that's totally orthogonal to spending time developing tools that are useful in the immediate present.

And it's not like it's never been tried before. What about Hypercard, or more recently Scratch? Or Swift's playgrounds? All of these are looking at ways to make development more visual and accessible.

Your time would be much better spent contributing to those efforts than rubbishing the attempts of other people to deal with other problems.
Two guys has just put an X-Wing into Earth's orbit
This is probably O'Reilly glitch but the discount code only works for ebook(50% off) and print(40% off) versions separately.

For the combined ebook/print package the code does not work.
"You did not meet the criteria for this discount"
I guess the Rust community isn't so carefree and non-sensitive after all.

> On the other hand "guys" sounds like you're being called, well, a guy

"Guys" means that you're in a mixed gender company.

> (and English has singular they and many other constructs that can be used in its place).

And that's great. But it can lead to writing that feels unnatural - because "they" means something else in other contexts, and it is unusual - so it isn't like it's a clear, objective win over the more usual form.

> Usage of "guys" makes many women feel they don't belong. It perpetuates ideas about programming being a boys club that shouldn't exist.

I guess they don't feel like they belong in any part of mixed gender society then, since it is so widespread. Or are programmers really that more inclined to say "guys"? I guess I can see the argument for the fact that the programming group might be heavily male-skewed.

> Poop jokes might make some people uncomfortable, but they're not as harmful as "guys".

Which you're just going to arbitrarily decide? What do you propose to back that claim up with?

Imagine a mixed gender group of people. They are having a normal conversation. All of a sudden, someone drops a sexual joke, or a toilet joke. I can imagine that some people might feel a bit put off, or like they don't belong. Now alternatively, someone says "Hey guys, let's go to the bowling alley". It's not obvious to me that some of the women are going to be more put off by that, then any one person in the group was put off by the sex/toilet joke.

> Plus, if you read kibwen's comment below that, it's not something that's considered a serious offence, but you will be asked to stop.

Jeez.

> Also, it's an unofficial blog post. Not the same standards.

Not the same standards as what? The fucking IIRC channel? The ruckus that started that rust thread was some jerk making a tasteless comment (of course not the "hey guys" thing) in IIRC. Is that an official outlet? It seems to me that anyone who is part of the Rust community is being asked to be mindful of using the word "guys". And though they can't police unofficial blog posts, I assume they would care how some member of the community - through an unofficial blog post or whatever - write, if he takes it "back to the community" (like posting the blog on the rust subreddit).
Hi,

No :-(, all the software that I use is python, and Kamailio servers. So I didn't have this problem. I can't help in this case.

Sorry
And if it goes well and the poster is ever asked, under penalty of perjury, what would you advise then?

The cost of a new laptop is fixed and small. The cost of a successful startup being destroyed is potentially massive.
Works for me on Firefox Developer Edition on OSX.
It's interesting to note that since it is conditionally convergent, one can in fact rearrange the order of the terms in the series 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4... to obtain a series that does in fact converge to 0.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theorem
The best and simplest results can be obtained by using a Hammersley Point Set[1].

[1] https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/udpoint/udpoint.p...
amazing guy.
I don't know the wtf metric, but whatever it is it's not about "poop". So I'm going to say it's different.
so it is totally possible that he will be getting out some day.

Isn't that the whole point of a maximum prison sentence, though?
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A1 and A2 have different limits.
It will be clear if the upper limit is changed to something other than infinity.
Lets say A1 is sum of 1/x, x=1 to 10.
For A1 and A2 to be equal, A2 will have limits x=1 to 5.
Thus, you cannot strike of sum of (1/x) on both sides in the equation, A1=D.
Tree seeds regularly fall from greater heights, so the seeds can survive.

The pods will have a much larger terminal velocity, but I don't see how that would make it problematic to toss them from, say, 50 meters high. Attach a cheap piece of pulp paper (= easily bio-degradable) to the pods as an air brake, if needed.

I have my doubts as to its cost effectiveness, too. I can't find calculations on the project's site and I do not have data, either, but I would think those pods must be fairly expensive, or drones incredibly cheap, or places where trees can be planted must be extremely rare for this to be economically the best choice.
Once you add the bare minimums you need to make a RasperryPI a basic PC (power, case, wifi, storage etc) then you're probably pushing at least $100 and you're going to have a hard time making money selling them for less than $150-200. And at that price point there already are a number of players
Until this is fixed, the source files for the demos are available here: https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/tree/master/demos
First of all, I see that you are in no position and in 'mindfulness' to ask someone to get-out.

As it doesn't matter for you, where the word comes from, why not acknowledge it? In fact why not acknowledge that it is really "vipAsanA" when someone has already taken effort to show that it is?

This shows that YOU are perceiving people's ignorance to the origins of English words as some sort of cultural superiority/respect which is kind-of linguistic racism.
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How do you find logging over RabbitMQ? I have a guy at my place who's pushing to get log messages flowing over the message bus, but using Rabbit as a logging mechanism makes me feel a bit uneasy. Do you find that it pollutes your regular messages? Or do you have them on a separate control bus?
I believe I have seen some of The Little Schemer code translated into Clojure, and most of that looked pretty trivial changes.

But I doubt you would gain anything from doing that. If you know Clojure you can pick up what you need of Scheme (new concepts get added as you progress throu the book) almost immediately. It really is not a book on Scheme, but of thinking about problems in a recursive way.

Some of the TCO stuff, may not translate well either. IMHO it would be distraction from what the book is about.
In mathematics we don't say that something is "clearly bullshit." We say that it "requires the axiom of choice."
With all due respect, doesn't everyone think their product might go viral? It probably won't. You'll have time to fix the security after you launch.
But what about biodiversity?
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Edit: I should have known better than to post this to HN, some guy found a procedure which threw an uncaught exception. I was bombarded with push notifications (hahaha). At least I fixed a bug (-:
It depends. What sort of security issue is at stake here?
Technically no, but if you are in mainland Europe, Excel will happily save your CSV files using a semi colon. And, yes - that _is_ maddening.
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I dunno, I'll say "hi guys" to groups of women as well as mixed or male groups. I've also heard girls say "hi guys" to a mixed group.

I've also heard people say things like "hey up A" where A is in

["guys and gals", "guys and girls", "everyone", "mothafuckas", "nerds", "friends", "all you", "people", etc.]

Coming form a very formal understanding of language, I can see how it could be taken as a reference to only the men, but coming from my practical experience, "guys" has been used as a gender neutral way of referencing a group without issue.

Now that I think of it, this really is a context sensitive issue. For example, saying "hi guys" to a group of 100 with only one or two women in it might give some listeners the impression that there are no women, thus perpetuating the "boys club" view, whereas saying "hi guys" to an evenly mixed group might not give the listeners that impression.

Language is hard yo.
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> FOAM is a full-stack Reactive MVC Meta-Programming framework.

5 years ago I would have thought that this would have been the title of the tech section of Onion article ...
It's frustrating that this is the top comment on the thread, because it could have been written without reading anything about this Javascript framework.

Ironically, it's exactly on stories like these --- new Javascript frameworks, CSS templates, and the like --- where in-depth HN comments are most useful. I clicked the story, read it for 2 minutes, thought "you know, the top comment on the HN thread for this is probably going to tell me all I need to know about this framework", and instead found your comment.
Frameworks will give you security best-practices and a faster shipping time. Of course, frameworks aren't bulletproof; but if your understanding of security isn't up-to-date then a framework will provide you some shielding against SQL injection, CSRF, etcetera – and will almost certainly help you ship a product faster since you will reduce the amount of boilerplate you're writing.
Exactly. If you use different variable at two sides..say 'x' and 'n' , it will be more clear.
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Since you're so interested in my activity here[1], you may notice that my very first, apparently terrible and flame-inducing post was about me pointing out that an article spelled someone's name wrong[2], modulo transliteration. Now you might argue that I was wrong, but do you really think that was such a terrible, unproductive and antagonistic post? The next mass of downvotes came when I replied sarcastically to someone who wrote that my concerns/arguments were "stupid" and not worthwhile. That provocative post towards me was, of course, not downvoted. My follow-up to my original, downvoted, post was at first well-recieved[3], but then creeped down to 1 again for some reason.

I'm not a victim by any means, and I'm sometimes an asshole. But maybe you should stop taking Karma at face value and stop believing that this community is beyond reproach. If you want to go through my history - which on this account is quite short - at least do it better.

[1] And your profile says nothing about you being a mod.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440971

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441604
> I'm envisioning a way to create software, where while having a conversation with another person, we could collaboratively draw some shapes on the screen, connect them, then my program comes to life, evolves, scales up, scales down, etc.

I am glad there are others who are looking into this same approach to build software. We are currently building just this. http://www.dhi.io

We want building web ui's to be as simple as having a conversation with another developer about the requirement.
I personally didn't like the 7 languages book, to me it was a bit too shallow flavour of languages. The only take away from the book I had, was that IO looked to be a very sweet language to play with.

It was a textbook for a class I had on programming languages thou, and the class ended up not being the stuff I wanted to learn about so that may cloud my judgement.