skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how nix/guix deprecates the need for PPAs. PPAs allow you to offer a collection of packages, and updates, outside of the main repository and allows users to 'opt-in' to those packages and updates, which would otherwise not be visible to him. It seems to me nix/guix is entirely orthogonal to that.
Ask HN: Hacker News Morning Standup
For a couple week now, myself and a few friends have been doing a biweekly 15m morning call where we check-in and see how everyone's side project is doing (what we accomplished since last time and what we plan on doing). The goal is to hold each other accountable, and provide quick feedback / ideas. Everyone works a full-time job and we're fairly spread out geographically, but this has proved to be quite motivating and some good feedback / ideas have come out for each of our projects.

I'm wondering if this "morning standup" idea could be expanded to include the HN crowd. The goal would be to bring more diverse opinions to the table from people with different backgrounds, skillsets, etc. I want to propose 2 ideas that I'd love to get feedback on and gage interest. I don't see either as paid services, but completely free on some open-source platform.

#1 - HN users are grouped into "teams" of 5 - each working on a side projects. Once a week, the members do a 15m standup where they share their progress since the last time they met, and what they plan on accomplishing this week.

#2 - The goal here is to encourage ideas from different industries to mix together. Every week, 10 random HN users are assigned a conference call where they get 2m to speak about an innovation / problem in their field.

Let me know what you guys think.
I know a few happily married couples in "open" relationships. Poly or whatever you wanna call it. And I know a few unhappy, obviously sexless couples in traditional marriages as well.

For me, marriage is both an outdated and terrifying prospect. The thought of being with one woman for the rest of my life, sexually, is off-putting. So instead of doing what many others do - cheat, get caught, divorce, repeat - I just choose not to marry. Unless I find someone of a similar mind-set.

Dating sites are filled to the brim with women/men who want a "discreet" relationship. Instead of being open about our needs and communicating and accepting those needs, we choose to hide/vilify those who are brave enough to do. So as a society we keep up this fake appearance of "proper" when increasingly more and more are cheating, getting divorced, being miserable...why? Why is this necessary? I don't get it.

Sorry for ranting. It's just what you said struck a chord with me.
Relevant PG talk/essay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ

http://paulgraham.com/before.html
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# Ratio
VP 100 10
Director 1000 5
Manager 5000 6.18
Other 30900
Isn't it syntactically valid ruby and really just a dsl?
Automakers to gearheads: Stop repairing cars
Any avid podcast listeners have thoughts on how to make this useful? How are you currently finding new content (or is that not an issue)?
lol @ being sued in India. From what I've quickly glanced over, it looks like you're dealing with a scammer.
HomeLabs looks to brain games to raise awareness for Parkinson’s Disease
Hm. I followed that link, and didn't read anything about intent not being required. What did I miss?
I know of two very large cyber espionage incidents that can be traced to individuals in China. It may or may not be government sanctioned, but the evidence that it is is somewhat compelling. For one, the hackers only work during business hours. Secondly, the tools used had a very specific signature of state sponsored espionage.
"I would argue that that would be true for any company doing the acquiring."

Well then, we agree. I'm not saying, "Thank goodness Google didn't acquire them." I'm saying, "Thank goodness they weren't acquired" and it just happens to be in the context of a story about Google doing the acquiring.

I can't think of any company that could have acquired Tesla where the outcome would have been favorable for the things I personally want. There were rumors going around a while ago about Apple buying them, and my reaction was the same there.
Elon Musk Almost Sold Tesla to Google in 2013 for $6B – Digital Trends
I think, the Lua rewrite was a joke. But support for lua in haproxy is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_China
While I really agree with the sentiment of this post, it should be noted that the aosp browser seems quite a bit updated since lollipop. It's nowhere as bad as it used to be.

We'll see how long it lasts.
Problems with that paper. If OKCupid addressed these in their data set, the didn't say.

1. OKCupid is a worldwide site but they don't say whether they're correcting for that by limiting to the USA
2. They don't say anything about correcting for regional differences.
3. They say nothing about the message rates. What percentage of a black woman's incoming mail is from white men? If it's some small percentage, can one discount the novelty effect?
4. They don't correct for income. Since in the US, black men have the lowest income of any group, it's much more likely that a given the choice between a black man and a white man, the white man will have the higher income.
5. Likewise for education level of the sender.
6. Likewise for message content. Is it possible that black men send messages with different content than white men?
7. Finally, this only considers message rates, as if the goal of a dating site is only to get other people to return your messages.

This isn't any kind of a scientific study. Please don't act as though OKCupid has proven anything significant.
Right of course.

What I am trying to point out is how some naive people look around and say well I got myself a job and got myself stable without assistance so why shouldn't everyone have to do it on their own?

But the thing is, if you are white in the USA, your great grandfather probably came to this country as an immigrant and lived very simply while making a little progress and making a little money. Then your grandfather took that momentum of stability and went a little further, then your father went a little further.

People of color don't have that momentum unless they were very fortunate. There are exceptions of course but their great-grandfathers, while not slaves were very held down in society.

Even when that weight is suddenly lifted in the 70s, it didn't magically give them generational momentum.

So some teenager looks around today and says, gee what is the problem, I can do it, why does anyone of color need special preference. It's dangerous ignorance.
Yes, I realize that, But just wanted to be sure, I know how legal system works in India especially when it comes to online frauds etc.
Institutional racism in the US was a lot stronger 60 or 100 years ago - yet the level of black crime was significantly lower.

I had a hard time finding chart to show this, but here is the Chicago murder rate chart for 1870-2008: http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q689/john_albert1/murder...

I see a huge spike in the 60s with gradual leveling - but we are still 3x higher than before whatever happened in the 1960s...
Huh, I was wondering about the returns, and how you could pack it again if it's so tightly compressed. From the FAQ, the answer is that a courier picks it up and drops it off at a local charity.
HAProxy offers a better DDos mitigation configurables in comparison to nginx. Thats it.
Cut Calories without Dieting in 2015 –
Just let it go. I would say there is an extremely remote chance this scammer will pursue. Just wait for the oDesk team to come back, but even if no, keep your calm and carry on.
IBM Launches Program to Share 700 TB of Global Cyber Threat Data in the Cloud
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141118152523-205984021-my-s...
The first six words of the comment to which you are replying are, "Summaries are great, and extremely useful." That's what I think about the abstracts of academic papers. Academic paper summaries are not always exemplary, but they are usually very good. The only genre of writing I know that regularly has better summarization than the academic paper is the legal brief.
They especially work if you've owned and maintained an actual, physical building. You can build for the ages, but if no one patches the holes in the roof every now and again, it will rot from the inside out in a few years.
Photos look somewhat more modern after that. It's exactly what I needed. Simple, does one thing right :)
Not good for a serious agency, but it stops the lower level ones that aren't going to do this.

We use these hashes to fight off spammers. A bloom filter won't do us any good because it will provide false positives.

An external service will be legally subject to subpoenas, so pawning it off doesn't solve the problem either.

You're right. Log anonymization is hard.

The only really good way to solve this is to throw this information away, which is also legal. Because of the spam considerations, we need this for now. I might decide it's not worth it though and just stop storing even these hashes.
I usually pull a number out of my ass. I roll a die, in my head, and spit out the first number that comes to mind.

I find that estimates for this kind of work are usually pointless. The data isn't being used for anything useful. It took me 2 hours to fix vs an estimate of 3? Nobody cares. It took me one day vs 2 hrs? Again nobody cares, in the grand scheme of things. They care that it got fixed, that's all. They start to care if it's taking more than 3 days. But anything between 15 minutes and 3 days....nobody cares. Maybe my situation isn't typical.
MemSQL (Y 11) is hiring Database Engineers and Field Engineers
Check the democratic peace theory on Wikipedia -- not even USA start wars with democracies. The rights of juntas is maybe not the highest priority on the planet. Except in the UN, where they shanghai groups like UNHRC...

(I was Hellbanned before this comment :-) .)
Just to speculate on that:

Talking about Tigray, with a population of 4.3 millions. I wonder if the equipment to farm to feed those people would actually weigh less than the people? A few thousand boat trips would serve to move them all. In fact, once a fraction had been moved, pressure would be reduce in Tigray to house and feed the remainder.

Remember America took in 65 Million people over its history. Most of those came by steam ship. Today it would be faster and cheaper by far.
A Rest API using Django and authentication with OAuth2 AND third parties
Not to mention the vast ecosystem of some really great nginx plugins. The one thing I have found desperately wanting in both nginx and haproxy is the support for real-time stats and filtering found in Varnish (supports HTTP only). I am absolutely hooked!

// Query Times
varnishncsa -F '%t %{VCL_Log:Backend}x %Dμs %bB %s %{Varnish:hitmiss}x "%r"'

// Slow Queries
varnishncsa -F '%t %{VCL_Log:Backend}x %Dμs %bB %s %{Varnish:hitmiss}x "%r"' -m "VCL_Log:SlowQuery"

// Top URLs
varnishtop -i RxURL

// Top Referer, User-Agent, etc.
varnishtop -i RxHeader -I Referer
varnishtop -i RxHeader -I User-Agent

// Cache Misses
varnishtop -i TxURL

// awesome dashboard
varnishstat
700 students in 1 class, now that is ridiculous.
Hitler seemed to take Austria with very little if any bloodshed. Even in retrospect resisting might have been worse for the average Austrian. No one was coming to reinforce the Austrians if they resisted Hitler's annexation.
> do you imagine "neurotypical" people love to do banal assignments that are below their skill level?

Actually, yes. I say this for the simple reason that dopaminergic stimulants make banal things fun, with a linear correlation to the degree of their dosage. Everyone loves cleaning their apartment on enough Adderall.

If the dopamine-receptor-deficiency hypothesis of ADHD holds true (and it's a far stronger hypothesis than anything about depression et al.), then dopaminergic stimulants will act to emulate the neurochemistry of someone whose dopamine "set point" is naturally higher.

Or, in other words, a person with ADHD, taking a properly-calibrated dose of an ADHD medication, should experience the same level of motivation as a neurotypical person.

Which implies that if there is something that a particular dosage of a dopaminergic stimulant makes enjoyable, then people who naturally produce the same amount of dopamine endogenously will also find that task enjoyable. There are people who just love cleaning their houses, love banal assignments, love paperwork and bureaucracy. ("Love" being a bit strong—they experience no pain from it, and can get into a flow state from it somewhat like a video game. They probably won't say they enjoyed it, but they probably won't say they feel like they wasted time, either.)

The weird insight one gets from this is: if dopamine-receptor imbalance forms a normal distribution (as many people have more dopamine than is neurotypical, as have less), then there are a whole lot of people walking around who really enjoy make-work. And some of them make policy decisions.
I’d tell him that if he wants to waste law enforcement’s time, he’d need to come up with a more realistic threat, and suggest that maybe instead he ought to try going dancing, or maybe relax on the beach. Also, maybe call him up next time there’s a falling bullet injury in Hunters Point.
Given that the context of this discussion is using HTTPS on .gov websites, isn't it reasonable to assume that other government departments will provide their private keys to the relevant SIGINT agencies?

I don't see that HTTPS-encrypting .gov websites provides much security advantage.
Getting Started with Node – Basic Routing
I hate to nit pick at the design of the site but I found the light green links on a white background very hard to read.
Agreed

Exchange does not needs NetApp HA capabilities if you use multiple copies of database.

In our case NetApp sold snap manager for 30 remote copies of already triple redundant (one remote copy) database and then tape backup at month end.

In my view they just fooled the unsuspecting customer and just oversold everything.

That was fine too if it would have worked.
Did I read that right? School integration creates gangs?

http://www.nber.org/digest/may11/w16664.html

>Rucker estimates that each additional year of exposure to desegregated schools increased black mens annual earnings by roughly 5 percent, increased their wages by 2.9 percent, and led to an annual work effort that was 39 hours higher. At the same time, for these black male adults the probability of poverty decreased by between 1.6 and 1.9 percentage points. Overall, five years spent in desegregated schools yielded an estimated 25 percent increase in annual earnings and increased annual work effort of 195 hours. Desegregation also resulted in significant long-run improvements in blacks' adult health, as measured by self-assessed general health status; the effect of a five-year exposure to school desegregation is equivalent to being seven years younger.

Some of the first American gangs were Irish (Forty Thieves, Dead Rabbits) and integration of the Irish in American society certainly didn't cause an increase in Irish street gangs.
Do a project of your own. Pick some problem you see around you and solve it to the stage that you deliver the final product. It could be as simple (or complicated) as a website for people to play Sudoku (if that's your thing). You'll learn a lot about software: how to pick the right data structures, how do you persist said data structures, how do you set up user login, how do you draw a 9x9 grid in HTML, etc. There is a lot of details that you can only learn by doing. You'll also train yourself to think as an owner of a problem, rather than a drone who gets told what to do.

Technical wise, if you want to get deep into a sub field (deep learning seems to be the buzzword these days, no pun intended), then pick some open source projects in that domain and try to contribute to it.
First, just wanted to say that I find this topic really interesting. I'm trying to understand who the target user is for open-source FPGA tools.

For many hardware companies, the risk of using an unproven tool is too severe. Unlike software, you can't just push out a patch if there is a bug. I mean, in theory, I guess you can since FPGAs are reconfigurable, but it is probably not very straightforward from a deployment point of view (I actually don't know so feel free to correct me).

So, since you cannot push out fixes easily, it's quite scary for the engineering teams to work with unproven tools. For the consumer electronic space, product life-cycles are quite short (mobile phones get updated every year!). So you definitely don't want to risk cutting into your product's time-to-market due to bugs in the FPGA tools.

Also, the bigger the company, the more likely that they will have high-priority direct-support from the FPGA Vendors. Whereas, it's probably harder to get support for open-source tools. So I can't see consumer electronic companies choosing open-source tools.

So again, I'm not against this work at all! Just trying to understand the target audience.
> fork of Docker

wat

https://github.com/docker/docker/commit/a27b4b8cb8e838d03a99...

Jan 18, 2013

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden/commit/9c79...

Dec 6, 2011
You are so right about the quality. But, it's actually really easy to see how nobody noticed it.
Interesting that R looks late to the party with the highest growth rate over this period - I find it doubtful that R has grown so much in that time, but I guess instead that academic coders have started to use Github.

Does this suggest that R usage is greatly underestimated, generally, then?

Also why did all of Perl get pushed in Q3/12? And every language got a significant peak that quarter? Is that a data error?
That's more complex than it appears. As others have pointed out, many of China's neighbors feel it has really stepped up its territorial attitude lately, eg Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines to name but 3. Part of the reason that the government is pushing the trans-pacific partnership (which does not include China) is to get the other SE Asian countries on a more competitive economic footing by opening up access to our markets, so as to put a brake on China's rush towards being a hegemonic power.
See this, under March 17. The Chinese seems to have admitted to the spying now.

https://www.strategypage.com/qnd/china/articles/20150405.asp...
I've been developing software for about twenty years now (as well as overseeing teams of developers), and at one point or another I needed each of the things I mentioned. I have never, however, been required to implement any of them using a functional style (or any other specific style for that matter). And if you like learning languages, that's great (I do too, from time to time), but I find algorithms to be so much more useful (yeah, in the real world). Like I said, I have never written more than a few lines of Ruby code, so I can't comment on the merits of that particular language, but if you find that you have to switch your main programming language more than twice a decade (even twice is probably too much) you're either spending time on the wrong thing, or picking the wrong languages to begin with. Languages that provide significant advantages over existing ones (that justify the very high switching costs) don't get invented more than once a decade. So, if you have to switch, think hard whether your new choice is one of those few that are likely to age well.
I didn't read that implication in the GP's statement.
I failed in doing something very similar. Could you explain how you split the image up into triangles?
Pardon my ignorance, but why would a catastrophe result from an errant upvote?
Garden is not a docker fork, though it is capable of running docker images.
Meaning – “In orbit” vs. “on orbit”
The icons are totally not the ones that are official, very poor design.
Sounds like a pretty good SaaS idea using twillio. For $9.99 a month you connect 5 people to a conference call every morning to discuss milestones for their side project.
$120k~ Melbourne Australia. 26 years old. Linux Systems Engineer / Operations.

Self-taught as didn't agree with most formal education. Pay has been between $90-$130K in various roles over the last 3 years, four years ago (as a 22yo) I was on around $60-$70K~ And busy climbing the ranks.

alt account for anonymity
Haha, not at all. I do not take it as an attack or anything :).

The UI is obvious. The inability to use most of the intermediate file formats for anything since they are secret formats is annoying. If I remember correctly it had dependencies on Java and Mono. The command line tools are archaic and very difficult to use even before realizing they are not documented out of the fear of giving something away about how anything works. The iMPACT for programming chips incorrectly loads the libusb.so file and has to be LD_PRELOADed on linux, but even then there is some weird race condition that makes it work 1 out of 4 times. In order to do anything you have to download and install 15 gigs of data and agree to aggressive licenses.

The compiler tool chain usually is a compiler and a linker. I could understand if you said that the place and route was more of a linker step, but people often call the full process 'compilation'. The fact that stitching the modules together and actualizing the equivalent of addresses and instructions (in CPU terms) is a physical fitting and box packing problem in an FPGA does not make it a fundamentally disparate step to me.

Wow, I did not know that about the ARM compilers. I must have got the wrong impression from forum posts on the use of GCC for ARM chips. That makes me pretty happy, particularly that ARM is helping with the open tools.
I will say though that this feels like it is supporting my point because people are using the non vendor tools. If support is a concern, support is not something that only a big company can provide. Postgres provides support and adds features on auction. I will admit that the responsiveness of Oracle for their customers having a need is much bigger and more organized, but it better be for what people pay for that.
With the Oracle example, I think I am leaning towards 'there will always be room for a proprietary solution to handle edge cases of a market' instead of open solutions will not work as well as proprietary ones and are unable to be the defacto standard.
Why is special-casting json or jsonb worse than special-casing arrays?
> Is there a gay crime wave? I haven't noticed one.

I can think of two possible, orthogonal answers why that (sort of) fit the hypothesis:

- the key is not 'stable relationships with women' but 'stable sexual relationships';

- many gay men do have stable relationships with women, in the form of strong, non-sexual friendships.

[Edit: I neither support nor reject the hypothesis; I just don't think gay men are necessarily a good control group for it.]
yes that's how I want to play this out but It was just today I realized that how much personal info is out there in open, just want to know if there is any way to get rid of the whois info on multiple databases?
This 1964 patent claims that you can nixtamalize corn with ammonia, so sufficiently concentrated lant should work: https://www.google.com/patents/US3117868
Oh god i never noticed that! Maybe it does not install when running the native linux ISE.