skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethiopia and Iran are both great examples of the West propping up pretty terrible dictators, who were subsequently replaced by something much worse. That foreign involvement certainly doesn't release the Derg from blame for their predilection for torture and mass-murder though...

It's important to be a bit cognizant of the political situations, though. The willful ignorance of Ethiopia's political reality when Live Aid happened led to piles of charity dollars essentially going straight to the Derg, and thus into arms deals to continue the war with Eritrea.
> Google and other companies at its scale don't need to worry too much about focus.

Which is why they tend to become incompetent at taking R&D and turning it into product.
And yet, the key tooling (chipset/OS/form factor) for those numerous combinations is a handful of choices in total.

Add in the fact that it's not millions of variations (really only a couple dozen now). Tim Cook famously said in some conference a while back that all of what Apple sells can be fit in on a table in front of him. I don't think that guiding vision has really changed.

Furthermore, it's not clear if the Apple watch will be successful. I wouldn't use it as a guideline for a successful product strategy - yet.
http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/61d7ae76647d/nginx
Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Deconstructs the Science of Songwriting
That's Elon Musk's wife in case no one noticed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Musk
I wish this website had a downvote button of sorts as this is a ridiculous notion. You have VBR MP3s that rival vinyl. You have FLAC, you have Ogg. People say "lossless" is such a big deal with MP3s but your ear can't really discern anything (unless you're still a teenager) above 256kbps anyways. It largely depends on the speakers, monitors & how they are made that you're listening through. Do your research.
And even if it were, worldwide adoption will be measured in decades if it follows the current automobile aging curve
Also djb's http://curvecp.org
Market share for sedans and minivans has been declining for years. Current mainstream USA market growth is mainly in small to medium crossovers (i.e. tall station wagons that sort of look like SUVs).
That's correct. It's configured in much the same way as HTTP proxying, with a few different load balancing methods (least connections, consistent hashing).
I came into the office today to notice unusually high Adsense activity on my site: ~10x increase in earnings and clicks. As much as I'd hoped it was legit, it sounds like there is some sort of bot activity happening across many sites.
Ironic. Having recently been at UN camps in Kenya, I will let you guess where the few that would inspire the violence end up.

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e483a16.html

See UNHCR 2015 Projection Figures for Kenya
This reminds me of using oth.net to browse ftps for tracks in late 1990s. I used to burn custom mixes for friends in high school back then before napster exploded and everyone had a burner. On a 28.8 or even 56k connection it was an amazingly tedious process to download tracks from ftps. It is pretty insane how you can download an entire discography today in the amount of time it took to download some single tracks back then. oth.net is still active today it looks like, crazy.
Canada does not give their farmers subsidies for grain farms. I had friends that ran a fairly large farm. It was always fest or famine. On good years they would make hundreds of thousands of dollars and on bad years they would lose tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The issue was if you had a string of bad years for to long. My friend is still farming 20+ years now and he made money in all but 5 of them.

He also says that the work load is basically the same for a profit or loss year. It is based on the prices of the crops and that the yields stay the same. He predicts this year will be a BIG loss year.

This is the forecast for farmers this year in US.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-sector-inco...

Farming was something I did for 2 weeks a year for fun. It was so different than my desk jobs that I really enjoyed it and the economy of the business is really hard to get your head around but was fascinating to me.
I'd be more concerned with the fact the EFF press release wilfully ignored the kid's apparent record of multiple similar offences and escalating punishments than the fact that it highlighted a statement the officer really shouldn't have made.

Omitting obviously relevant details about the nature of the alleged offences risks undermining the credibility of future EFF press releases in defence of genuinely inexplicably arrested people, and the problem is there's a pattern developing here: a couple of days ago an EFF press release was issued about a security consultant who "tweeted about airplane network security". From the EFF's press release, you'd have thought he was a persecuted whistleblower, but he instead turned out to be an idiot who tweeted the network security equivalent of a bomb threat.

I'm not convinced that felony charges guilty of nondestructive pranks on teachers' computers are appropriate, but I'm also not convinced that accounts which omit the main reason why charges were brought particularly serve the cause of fighting against judicial overreach. You can cry wolf too many times.
those values are greedy and shitty, and we shouldn't respect them.
More respectfully than what? I don't think making your introduction clear and concise is "less respectful".
Whenever I'm asked for some identifying piece of information via phone, I give a wrong answer.

If they say, "hm, that's not what I have here," I can be at least somewhat certain that they already have that information, and are probably legitimate. If they blindly accept it, then I know they ain't on the level.
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You can do tcp loadbalancing with haproxy, you can't do udp though.
I was wondering, thanks for that. It is kinda NSFW though.
Sounds like the chaos of a startup. It's why some people choose to work at GM. It's also why GM floundered - I can't imagine them having any flexibility in work rules.

I hope they pull it off - I will buy one of their mainstream cars.
Tables nested in tables nested in tables was a fate worse than divs. Even in the simplest case (one box) a table stinks: <table><tr><td></td></tr></table>. I personally found that trying to debug which table a <td> belonged to was hell on earth.
Reasons Not to Sell Your House Yourself
Usetrace makes automated software testing easy
I use slides.com. Easy/fast to put together a good looking slide deck, and I can provide a link for people to watch the slides on their own device (if I'm presenting somewhere that doesn't have a projector or something).
Why do you run into that situation? Do your developers not have access to your interal repo? Emailing packages around sounds like a symptom of a process problem.
Maybe they are losing money because they have 1200 employees. Do they really need that many?
I'm curious what you mean by "Android is modestly profitable." Google doesn't charge OEMs (or anyone) for Android.
I wonder. Wouldn't it be better to move all these people to Montana or something, onto empty land that's got to be better than where they're at? Not like they're tied to the land; they are all refugees apparently. I wouldn't mind them as neighbors: "God helps those who help themselves" is pretty much how we operate around here too.
I'm sorry Google people, but I find such company to be disguting.

Inspite of the fact its main business relies on advertisement, Google believes it is entitled to be a monopoly in technology(any sector).

One could use Thiel's argument of 'monopolies are good' until they are not. Being a monopoly in tech means being the god of tomorrow. In the end, what in the future will not be an outcome of current technology?
HAProxy is used for TCP too. The main benefit from my perspective is that there is one less component in the stack. Whereas I would previously need HAProxy running alongside NGINX to balance TCP and HTTP, I can now do all of this with NGINX.
This case reminds me of a similar case that took place two years ago in Florida in the county right next to where this incident took place. We have removed "common sense" from society and replaced it with zero tolerance laws.

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/florida-teen-faces-felony-charge...
That's probably not the most reliable test to be honest.

Really, the crux of it is this: When you need to concentrate on something that you aren't interested in, are you able to?
>I wish this website had a downvote button of sorts

Have a read of the FAQ:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I agree. It's a daunting challenge. My vision for App Factory is for it to make custom apps of low to medium complexity, for individuals and small/medium businesses. So probably nothing enterprise-level. For personal apps, think... Travel Adventure Log, House Shopping List, Stamp Collection. For business apps, think... Golf Course Management, Research Log, Request/Approval System. The possibilities are many.

If you're thinking... I can do all this with a spreadsheet, consider this. A house shopping app. Sure, it can be done with a spreadsheet. But wouldn't it be more intuitive to have an orderable list of houses with an image, a mini Google Map with it's location, and details that are important to your decision making? Making a simple app like that would be trivial with App Factory. It might take you 15 minutes to slap together a blueprint to do that. Then spin up an instance of the app, and you're good to go. All through a web interface.
Jsonnet: a more elegant language for composing JSON
> Chinatown really isn't changing much; it resists gentrification.

That's debatable. The Empress of China, a landmark restaurant of Chinatown since the 60's, closed at the end of last year to make way for offices. A six-floor building with some 62,000 square feet of space inside Chinatown's scant 24 square blocks is no small matter.
How does that compare to the ELK (ElasticSearch/LogStash/Kibana) stack? (Is it even right to compare?)

I'm currently evaluating ElasticSearch + Kibana to handle metrics/errors/application logs in our web app, it's impressive but Kibana is lacking a lot of features to be complete IMO.

Good point for ELK in my case is that it runs on windows which is not the case of InfluxDB it seems (running on windows is a requirement in my company unfortunately).
Even if the user didn't have to click on each box, that's not even close to turing complete in the problematic sense. It requires a new line of html for every cycle. O(n).

You can do worse with less.

It doesn't belong on that page.

(Hint: basic arithmetic is turing complete if you give it the same affordances)
Sibling: Google has made a prototype that drives on a virtual track. That's far away from manufacturing a car, let alone a self-driving one.

Relevant: http://www.asymco.com/2015/02/23/the-entrants-guide-to-the-a...
Its even more hell on small lawn equipment that continue to use priming bulbs, and flexible fuel hoses. Pretty much the only solution is to run the $10 no ethanol gas for small engines, or drain them after every use.
Says every pundit who's never tried to write an operating system.
Picture phpMyAdmin, but for metrics and time series data. You point it to a time series database (such as Graphite or InfluxDB) and the app draws the charts for you with whatever settings you need, and puts them together in pretty dashboards for easy consumption.
As others have said, the key is to solve the expression problem without discarding type safety. :)

I think that this problem is basically a simple structural relation on sum types in disguise. That's how I interpret the "Data Types a la Carte" paper anyway.

So if you have:

class Foo a where
foo :: a -> String

And say:

instance Foo A+B where
foo A = "a"
foo B = "b"

And:

instance Foo C+D where
foo C = "c"
foo D = "d"

Then if you extend your data type to A+B+C+D, then a simple instance generator should be enough to tie it all together:

instance (Foo v, Foo w) => Foo v+w where
foo (inl v') = foo v'
foo (inr w') = foo w'

I have a (currently internal to my company) Haskell-like language with structural sum/product/variant/record types where we can do this kind of thing. Otherwise "Data Types a la Carte" has the solution in the typed setting of vanilla Haskell (even if it's a little wordy).
OP here: Yes, you are right. It's kind of NSWF. But I fell in love with his work couple of years ago and think more people should actually know him.
Javascript has functional features too.
A lot of Elixir developers come from platforms such as Python, Ruby, node.js
Hello, Ivo Georgiev here.

I am the author of this software along with my co-founder Dimo Stoyanov.

As I assume you know Popcorn Time is based on peerflix, which I contributed on right after it started as a part of our development on Stremio (formerly Cinematic), which started in 2012.

Besides that, there are no relations between the products.

As to why is it paid - the product is much more powerful both in terms of content (automatically scraped) and in terms of features (what you're actually paying for).

Hope you give it a try.
Best, Ivo
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Ub-canaries: Programs that try to make compilers exploit undefined behavior
I don't understand what you're getting at. What is the problem?
I try very hard not to have any slides. If there is some diagram I simply must show, it goes up when I need to talk about it, and stays there as long as I need to talk about it, and then it comes down again. The lights come back up when I'm done talking about it.
Comcast now requires the last 4 digits of your social security number to do anything. Even though it's not the whole thing, I'm extremely uncomfortable whenever I have to call them.
HTTPLeaks – All the possible ways a website can leak HTTP requests
But why not just use HAProxy? It is often used for plain TCP load balancing (we use it).
Two questions come to mind: 1) What is the difference between Google Glass and Apple Watch? 2) What's keeping Google from using IP and competency they developed with Glass and putting it into their own watch product?
Git-timemachine
My company recently went all in with flexbox, and you should too. We had the same concerns, but even IE 9 is 4 years old at this point, and we decided we shouldn't be held back because of it. If a client wants IE9 support, they can pay extra.

I have run into a few IE10 gotchas, but they're all solvable. IE10 just uses an older version of the spec.

and IE itself will be cut loose from MSFT in a few months.
You can turn a Postgres db into an API with PostgREST, and it supports jsonb to retrieve json properties.

https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest
Analyzing the Magento vulnerability
They serve a delicious false dichotomy pie at the cheesecake factory.
This is an important point because money from "traditional" funds like Kleiner Perkins is different than money from "non-traditional" funds, like Goldman Sachs. Venture capitalists balance all risk within their VC fund, but "non-traditional" funds can balance risk against other funds. For example Goldman can balance its real estate risk against its venture capital risk. A reliable comparison does not exist between "traditional" and "non-traditional" venture funds because their volumes differ so much. Thus they cannot, taken together, enable investors to make meaningful inferrences from "Venture capital market" trends alone. Non-traditional funds see the market differently than traditional funds, because they are hedged in many different areas.
Why “How To” Marketing Articles and Blogs May Be a Waste of Your Time
The article claims that SF needs an outlet for condo and high rise growth. Isn't SOMA/Mission Bay taking this up?

There are almost certainly larger cultural differences.
Same here, my HN is 6 yrs old, still read it almost daily. Slashdot, reddit, c2.com, everything2 all have come and gone.

Still waiting for a comeback of usenet groups, though.
Google's like a magazine publisher, TV station, phone directory publisher.

Can you imagine if such publications decide to hire their own doctors/travel-agent/etc to resell their service and push their products over others? That is essentially what's happening.
Where is this thread that has "decent comments" justifying the police response?

Trying to remain objective here but you're not exactly convincing me that some internet comments change the story's narrative in any way.
There's a fork for InfluxDB 0.9: https://github.com/influxdb/grafana/tree/influx-0.9rc4

No idea how well it works, haven't tried it yet, but I would imagine it's still incomplete.
I think it's much much simpler than that. Physical exercise is a super broad term and some of those activities really are boring and repetitive. Most of the low hanging fruit that we all think of as exercise is super boring. I've found that simply taking a walk with a friend who you like to converse with made me realize that exercise can be fun if you find something that works for you.
not sure excalty what you're descibing, but shouldnt flex-wrap work to fix this?
Is it legal? What is the source of the streams?
The blog post tells more and has some nice diagrams: http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r6-released/
It seems to be mercurial server (used only be a few developers usually) is not ready to handle slashdot effect.
From the article, it sounds like ENGINEERS were asked to call potential customers to close deals.
So, browsing through these projects I see a lot of crawlers.

Where is the search tech? Other than that one project which seems to be a JS-frontend for Lucene/Solr, I can't find anything having to do with Information Retrieval.

Unless I'm missing something, the article and the previous one it links to seem to be a bit overblown.

"Could The U.S. Military's New Search Engine Replace Google?" -> Not if the U.S. Military's New Search Engine is the vanilla Lucene/Solr.

Link: http://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog/MEMEX.html
Yes, the Mercurial server being mercurial isn't ironic, it's coincidental
I can hear the difference, I also produce music.

It would be incredibly easy to produce a better test. The hard part is getting permission from copyright holders.

Now - I'm sure a lot of people can't hear the difference because they don't know what to listen for.

The issue isn't that the difference doesn't exist or that it's "not audible" in some objective sense.

It's that they're not listening to the sound in the same way a producer or engineer listen to sound.

Listening is an active process. It involves a lot of unconscious focussing on specific elements of the sound/music.

You can argue whether or not this matters, but that's really an economic argument about distribution and storage costs, not an absolute argument about the physics of audio compression.

Saying the difference isn't audible at all is like saying that you may as well quantise all rhythms right on the beat because most people can't tell by ear if beats are early or late.
>The popularity of Beats headphones, for instance, meant that hip hop producers could no longer just push the limiter until the sub bass begins to sound farty - their fans were all equipped to hear the differences now.

I think you're being overly charitable about how well Beats perform.
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It's a similar web interface (Grafana is based on Kibana), but for different things.

ELK is best for deciphering large amounts of data from logs IMHO. Yes logstash has tons of plugins for third party monitoring systems, but generally speaking you're going to dump your web server access/error logs and syslogs into your ELK setup.

Grafana makes graphite/influxdb more useful and is by far and away the best option available. Usually you're going to be tracking things like cpu/memory/diskio/network traffic, but also anything from StatsD in your Grafana setup.

Combining the two systems into one could be neat, but they work great on their own and have their own benefits.
Shame they're unviewable with the HTTPS Everywhere plugin enabled.
> But wait... how can the pharma industry profit from this?

By researching the mechanism that makes exercise work, understanding the biochemical basis, and developing a shortcut that triggers the same biochemical effect without actually requiring working out.
plus, you can use (or mix&match) other languages that compile to JS if you want. Coffeescript is the most popular choice (I code in literate coffeescript by myself), but stuff like livescript adds some more functional features as well.
It's not like today is any different. The establishment has just traded Russians for Muslims and kept that drum beat right on going.
Does dialyzer work with elixir?
PC-BSD is doing this. They're using ZFS snapshots to get a COW version of your FS before an update so if something goes wrong you can instantly roll it back (even boot into it from the boot loader)
Just FYI it's not an announcement page, it's a link to the source code commit (probably explains why the page is down - isn't expected to have high traffic)
I legitimately don't understand America's obsession with sending so many people to jail.

If you fail to pay child support here, all they do is just garnish your wages both for payment and also for repayment of missed child support.

The employee actually never "sees" the money as it is taking directly from the employer.
Slack and Trello and Heroku and GitHub and Qeek = How We Test at Our Startup
Where exactly do you think those cars come from?

People who immerse themselves in the software world too deeply gain a very distorted view of the world.
Elm 0.15: Asynchrony with Tasks
It's a cute gimmick but it's not that much different from placing a solar panel next to a camera. The main innovation is in building sufficiently low powered camera components and sufficiently efficient solar panels such that something like this is possible.
Haven't you heard what happened to Google Reader? If Google can't even keep small projects with no revenue stream going then how can we trust them with much harder projects for which they will have invested billions of dollars? They'd probably buy Tesla then shut it down immediately. Even if they didn't shut it down Google is an ad company which means it is incapable of deriving profit from anything but advertisements. Google Tesla of today may have been nothing more than a company that sells in-home battery backup for AdWords.
Node’s `require` is dog slow
That's what the octane rating is for. Ethanol even has a higher octane rating than gasoline. All modern (~'96 or later) engines have anti-knock sensors and can adjust timing. 89 octane gasoline vs 89 octane E10 will perform the same.

It just isn't possible to lose 42% from running E10. You won't even lose that much efficiency from running low octane fuel in an engine that requires high octane.

Are you getting E10 confused with E85? E85 is a whole different beast and will ruin a car not designed to run on it.
Part of the problem is that most people who want to talk about *isms of any kind are not capable of thinking in terms other than binary. In this particular case, you're either the person who is moving in or the person who is moving out, with no consideration given to the large real-estate speculation firm that built the new high-rise condo projects that don't fit the neighborhood, on land probably acquired through some sort of government sale process and/or at least partially funded by grant money.

It's the ol' "searching in the street for the keys you lost in the yard because the streetlight is the only light you have."

Everyone wants an affordable place to live. It takes the power of government to wrench that land out from under people without fair compensation and pass it over at below-market rates to big-business to be redeveloped and resold at higher costs to ultimately increase property and income tax revenue.