skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and there's a business model. There are industrial companies that are good at making things, but not so good at making web interfaces for ordering complex products. So there's a niche for an online service. There are lots of things a good online service could do that few industrial companies now offer. Consider:

* proper cross-checking of compatibility of items ordered
* generate image of finished product
* on-line generation of installation drawing/CAD file,
including mounting holes and electrical connections.
Let users play with the options. Huge win for
designers - "If we add option B, will it fit?"
This, in fact, is the big win - let users try your
options and see what works for them.
* generate manufacturing data in format the seller's
production system can use
* provide cross-company integration. If you need
something that requires parts from several
companies, and they're often used together, give
the user help in getting everybody going in the
same direction.

Most industrial sites have a big parts list and a "call for details" phone number. Getting all the right pieces together is hard. The automation level in this space is low, except for a few big companies.
Trivia: a Johnny Popper is a John Deere model M. I am currently in the process of restoring one. It is called a popper because of its distinct sound, caused by the non-180 degree angle between the two cylinders on the camshaft. I dream about every day to become a farmer.
I agree.

Police have too much free time. Basically, their career path requires that they bring in money or arrests and if crime is down, they'll find ways to meet the unofficial quotas that are held over them.

Crime is down. This is the predictable result of having more police officers to handle less crime. Add in other factors like increasing militarization of law enforcement and the disqualification of people with high IQs and we get the mess that we have today.
> Cops are by and large professionals, who get shot in the face while protecting the same community that vilifies them for a few bad apples.

I doubt this is true, and I feel that this statement is dangerous propaganda that enables crimes against citizens, and that prevents honest discussion about or solutions to the problem.

It seems clear that there is a wide-spread systematic problem of police committing crimes and abusing citizens. As a simple example, see what millions of citizens who are black or Latino say about their experiences; the complaints and documented problems extend across the country, encompassing whole ethnic groups and neighborhoods. (For decades police openly assisted in the outright oppression of minorities.) It seems very unlikely that is the product of "a few", or that it's coincidence that we see the same behavior everywhere. That is a systematic problem; and the solution will come only from addressing it on a systematic level.

I'll add that the 'don't snitch' culture of police ensures that we know very little of what goes on -- likely problems occur much more than we know -- and collaboration by prosecutors ensures their impunity. We know that police can murder, steal (asset forfeitures), assault, kidnap (unlawful arrest) or commit any other crime, even on film, usually without reprocussions. Challenges to their impunity are met with outrage and threats, even in the most egregious cases (e.g., Eric Garner).

For the well-intentioned police out there, and I'm sure there are many, your intentions are not enough. As long as you protect bad police, you are accomplices in crimes and participating in conspiracies.
Per the recent events in Baltimore, simply running from the police does not appear to be a reason for arrest (IANAL). However, it's probably a good enough reason for police to pursue and detain you for questioning.
Thanks for the reply.

I would prefer to avoid many disk operations in the first place. Not sure, if it's applies to your problem, but have you thought about using something like Sentry (https://getsentry.com/ || https://github.com/getsentry/sentry)? Maybe there is some other tool that could help you here, I'm often impressed by the Open Source community and the vast number of different packages for (almost ;)) every technological problem.
Moving off Meteor improved our load time by 87%
Did you read the article? The patient did not go to jail. There was a 10 minute delay in care, until the patient became unresponsive and was transported to the hospital.

Do you really see no difference in culpability between someone standing by and allowing torture to happen, vs someone who attempts to argue with, but eventually concedes to a guy carrying a gun?
It all comes down to what the developer for that app chooses to support. I'm sure there are a number of native applications, regardless of the platform, which look or perform poorly as well.

For a web app to really stand out from the web site it is coming from, it should offer some sort of benefit to the end user that could not be found on the site itself.
Bokken: Open Source Reverse Code Engineering Tool
> Inner-city blacks kill a lot more black people than cops do, yet we bend over backwards to not be judgemental of them.

I haven't encountered many, if any, people who bend over backwards to not be judgmental of inner city blacks who kill other black people, least of all the people who like to point to the number of inner city blacks who kill black people as a means of dismissing specific criticism aggressive behavior by cops.
The minimum useful licensing is in the tens of thousands of dollars. For the SLA they offer, it makes sense. Many well known Ad Serving companies utilize Aerospike (at a fraction of the cost of their previous solutions). It's very impressive result, per machine, from an operational standpoint.
I love to cook, but I don't love to peel potatoes. Just because a chef pays someone else to do the drudge work doesn't mean he doesn't love to cook.

When people say they love programming. They mean they love building interesting things, solving interesting problems, and using interesting tools.

Unfortunately, actual programs are full of boring parts. Yes, most programmers would pay someone to finish the boring parts, but I don't think that means they don't love programming.
If you're rebuilding the browser from scratch but keeping everything else the same (same market, same popular web-tech, same backwards compatibility concerns) then my answer would be "I'd just build a WebKit wrapper and be done with it." With all of the history, momentum, and peoples expectations there isn't a whole lot you can do differently even if you are starting from a blank canvas.

Honestly the only thing I'd want to change if I could re-write history is:

- HTML is now XHTML based.

- JavaScript would be scrapped and redesigned entirely.

- Fix a few issues with CSS (nothing major, but maybe make the spec more specific/less ambiguous in places).
> The article is making the claim that the test is already pretty worthless to colleges as a filter because the differences that separate, say, a 99.9th-percentile score from a 98th-percentile score (number picked by myself at random, as the article didn't mention any that I saw) don't actually correlate to much of anything of use for selecting who should get into the top schools.

Apply multiple filters. The more bell curves you have, the easier this gets. Bonus if those bell curves are not correlated to each other! (I'm not going to comment on how useless this becomes)

Want to be an exclusive college? Use SAT scores to remove 87% of applicants right off the bat. (OK most people below the left half of the curve likely don't bother to apply.)

Now filter out kids who didn't go to enough AP classes. (You've instantly removed children with parents who "didn't care enough" to move to an area with a good AP program! bonus!) Now filter out kids whose parent's didn't have enough discretionary free time to shuttle them to and from multiple extra-curricular activities.

Alright, next up, who can afford to pay for a good essay? Drop anyone who can't.

Congrats, you've just cut down the number of papers you have to read by a lot.

In fairness, once the number of applications become's unmanageable, what else is a college going to do? Spend 1/2 of tuition money on entrance examiners?
Wow, this looks really impressive. I've messed around with trackers since the 90s, and I think lots of people who do kind of wish they operated a bit more like this rather than with fussy hex values and hard to remember effect codes. I've always, for example, just wanted to draw the shape of the track volume as a left-to-right line over top of a track rather than having to hand edit the volume column or use a volume effect (or use a track-effect that's in a different window somewhere).

This looks like it's really going the right direction.

The compressor also is worth taking a look at.
Grooveshark.io
Redmine is good enough for me. You can get a droplet on digital ocean all ready to go too.
a single web specification that browsers would be forced to adopt in order to prevent fragmentation. html and javascript may be different technologies, but as react has taught us, are of the same concern. so merging them closer together would be good (web components is a step in the right direction). throw in css in there too because it's currently a joke. it should have consistent behavior across varying divs, regardless of usage.

post script: javascript should be type safe and support interfaces/abstract classes.
"Stopping medical professionals from doing their jobs puts the lives of civilians in danger."

One of the first, and most important things we can do is to change the language we are using. Above, you spoke of civilians as different from - separate from - police officers.

Please stop doing this. All police officers are civilians - just like you and I.[1]

If you are not in the process of being arrested you are the peer in every way of the police officer. Don't forget it.

[1] With the obvious exception of the reader of this comment who is an active duty soldier/sailor.
IMO, the custom radio is not really a terrible idea; the problem was all the pictures where of the same radio with a new paint job. At least make the knobs look like chess pieces, rocket ships, airplanes, or cats etc.

Then again who buys radios? Custom clocks seem far more universal and let people use a wider range of shapes.
Mapping bike thefts at map.bikewise.org
Actually, you did:

> We're all human, we may love programming and farming

> we're all working toward retirement

I also appreciate how Bill Gates transformed from an elite coder into a dabbler as soon as it suited your argument. You're evidently not someone who ever let facts got in the way of a good story.
I actually have a personal side project addressing precisely this.

You see, we don't use the web as a publishing environment any more. We use it as a view layer for n-tier applications.
Fun fact- Nimrod means mighty hunter. The negative connotation came from early Bugs Bunny cartoons where he applies the name sarcastically to Elmer Fudd.
What kind of data can monitors like this actually collect out-of-the-box? I know that you can train a system to recognize some pretty high-level abstractions based on individual neural activity, but how reliably would a similar pattern-recognition mechanism work across a larger population?
> The article is making the claim that the test is already pretty worthless to colleges as a filter

I'm not convinced this is true. A few years after the writing section was introduced, college admissions were refusing to use it on the grounds that it didn't seem to correlate with any future performance (overall grades, English grades, foreign language grades, graduation rate, etc).

Presumably they wouldn't be saying this if the rest of the test also failed to predict anything.
Digital Hutterites. If you haven't already, you should look into how they (the Hutterites) structure their communities. It seems like there are a lot of parallels with what you are thinking, religious aspects aside.
FWIW, since ARMv6 unaligned access has been supported on ARM.
> 1) 50% of the the post is true and my fault

> 2) 50% is untrue and students fault

In each case, which 50% do you see in that category, and what have you done/are you doing about the first 50%.
> JavaScript would be scrapped and redesigned entirely.

That's a significant change. What would you replace it with?
When a product claims to have 100% uptime, I immediately cringe, knowing full well that they're probably full of bovine manure.

Good read.
It's only worthless if the colleges assume that the test indicates a meaningful difference between 99.9 and 98. If they assume that the test is good and not perfect, and use it as a broad filter, then there is no problem.
Sorry, I realize that; I just take issue with their claim.
It's complicated...

The ranking medical provider on scene is in charge of all aspects of patient care. That seems pretty simple, but then you have to consider the matter of consent...

I can't do anything without the informed consent of the patient. When a patient is in police custody, suddenly the state has some say in what that patient can and can't consent to (and the cop is an agent of the state). However... I can't think of a conceivable scenario where a cop would want to assume the liability of disregarding my advice.
Super small font is a bad design fad that needs to go away. I should not have to increase the page zoom to greater than 100% to be able to read the text. Granted, I don't have the best eyes in the world, but I've had a recent eye exam and don't require glasses. Make the font bigger for the paragraph text.
The rotated A in the Aerospike logo reminds me of a system that's fallen over, and now you can't unsee it:

http://www.aerospike.com/
Same with "exactly once delivery".
AppScale and App Engine Work Together to Provide Infrastructure Flexibility
Also a very cool future sentinel in the X-Men comics.
I'm not an American so I don't feel a gun will "keep me safe" i.e. I won't be attacked or house broken. Though when that happens I can defend myself much better than without.

Is it generally that people feel they won't be victims to crime if they're armed?
Sidenote: that's why behavioral studies never ask "How often do you run" but instead "When was the last time you ran?", or even better "Describe the last time you X". People are terrible at assessing their general performance, but great at recalling semi-specific events.
Thanks for this. Not sure if I'd have gone through the trouble.

It's amusing, reading through Twain's prose, how back-handed he is about his "compliments". I can only imagine how furious his target would have been.

The "modern day" court jester.
Any details you feel comfortable sharing?
Per a recent NY Times article:

"No police officer in England has died from a weapon attack during the past two years, according to the most recent published data, and none have been involved in fatal shootings during that period."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/us/police-start-to-reconsi...
Sure I can. That's part of the definition of IQ - how much explaining is needed, how much time it takes to understand. I can explain away this guy's inability as a different way of thinking. But you could also say, he had a low IQ. Except he was smart in other ways.
Civilians just like you and I, but with elevated rights to carry firearms and demonstrable bias in their favour in the legal system.
You can see from class profiles of leading schools that they admit at least 75% of their class from the 99th percentile.
> Why do you and other coding bootcamps pretend to be anything else than intensive web development courses?

Because that's how they justify the prices they are charging?
I was shocked when I saw this on people suffering from anorexia nervosa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa).

They have an obviously unhealthly thin figure (weighting as low as 35kg), and when they see themselves on the mirror, they affirm they are fat.
Salesforce.com may feel like Web 1.0 software, but SAP feels like terminal style software. The syntax of ABAP (SAP script language) is somewhat similar to COBOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP . Microsoft Dynamics CRM feels like Web 2.0. Oracle bought SiebelCRM and it's seem more modern.

This says nothing about their capabilities, they are all feature rich. And conservatism in ERP and CRM business is valued by enterprise customers.
Apple Watch and the Wiring of Humanity
That is big of you to admit it! I too have 'programming dreams'. My buddy Tom and I share this problem. We agree, they are troubling and I wish they didn't happen.
Jaymin's Jaystation 2 Dev Blog
So now you're talking about something different, which is the overall cost of mining. Before you were talking about cost per transaction, so this isn't the same.

The cost of mining isn't just electricity of course, it is custom mining hardware.

So I suppose the real question is what is the point where successfully disrupting the network is worth the cost. But you have to remember that not only would it take fabricating lots of chips, 51% of the hashing power only starts to make bad transactions possible over a period of time, it isn't a guarantee.

Add to that the fact that making the longest chain of blocks a dishonest one really only accomplishes setting cryto-currencies back some amount of time. Either bitcoin is ruined and other crypto-currencies with even more difficult to attack proof of work schemes are used, or bitcoin is shaken and works around the problem. Either way there is no finality, it would just be a hugely expensive delay tactic.
Theres 2 things that are always on my desk. A wooden buddha and Code Complete 2 (the bible).
Agreed. Though why is my comment below, which addresses the issues as you describe, now "dead".
is there anything you'd change in Meteor to improve the performance?
Working Capital Optimization Trade-Offs: Does Apple Ship iPhones by Air or Sea?
All that is true, sort of. OR you could find somebody who gets it easily, and spend your time teaching them. There are essentially an infinite number of people in the world to teach.
> I have no faith in the basement dwelling loner making significant contributions to AI.

Why not? There's a strong history of individuals outside of academia making large contributions to science.
Thanks for linking to this article. As a French it's a good vision of the complex environment in France today. There is indeed some parallels with the US but the culture is so drastically different and the approach to all these events is in consequence not the same. I also see people talking about racism in this thread but even the notion of racism itself is absolutely not the same and cannot be compared. For outsiders, this article is a good introduction I guess.
Those "good" police are just more bad apples.
Malta Offers Citizenship and All Its Perks for a Price
AMA WithSteve Klabnik, Author and Contrib to Ruby on Rails During CodementorOH- 5/8
Sorry for the obligatory, somewhat self-serving post. Our startup, Pacifica (http://thinkpacifica.com), focuses on a few tools that help people identify these cognitive distortions. Specifically, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy defines a cycle relating how your thoughts affect your feelings, behaviors, and physical wellbeing (as a fully connected bidirectional graph). Understanding how your thoughts are distorted can better prepare you for the next time they crop up, helping you step outside this cycle. In many cases CBT has been shown to be as effective as psychiatric drugs in the short term, and even more effective in the long term as it helps people focus on the source of their anxieties. We're trying to take these same tools, proven in clinical practices all over the world, and apply them to a much broader audience.
Just the other week I was listening to a podcast where they were talking about how Apple seems to be moving in the opposite direction now. They have the MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro (and a non-Retina version), iMac (and a Retina version), Mac Pro, and a Mac mini.
Any reason why it has to be static?

I run a Ghost[1] blog from my iPhone using the Ghost admin editor + SSH for tweaking config files/css and SFTP for uploading assets.

Alternatively, you can just use Journey[2]--Ghost ported from Node.JS to Golang and packaged into single binaries you can run on OS X, Linux or even Windows. It even serves itself over https if required.

[1]: https://ghost.org
[2]: https://kabukky.github.io/journey
> There a systemic problem with police officers in America.

I think its more useful to a view it as a systemic problem with policing institutions than with police officers.

> This isn't a "few bad apples" problem.

I think its a combination of a "few bad apples" problem with a "system that is structured as us against them, and thereby structurally protects the bad apples" problem.
I've built several businesses that either relied in-part to scrapping/indexing websites or solely relied on scrapping/index websites. I We never achieved the success of Google but we did get large enough to be noticed by some sites (Amazon for example). We did face legal issues but of a different kind. There were a few bugs early on that made us hit websites too much and we did receive a couple of cease and desist letters. We fixed our problem and explained the situation to the site owner and everything was resolved.

The only "fair use" type issue that we encountered was using logos from websites. E.g. Displaying the logos of the websites we indexes on our site. Once again, nothing serious came of it. I believe our marketing department removed the logos and put text instead.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about these issues until it becomes a problem. When it becomes a problem it means you're on to something and you're disruptive enough to get some attention. It's a good problem to have IMO.
"I'm not blaming Elon for anything and I don't really have any interest in owning property at the moment. I'm simply pointing out that his company isn't really changing the lives of most people.

Please, sir, it's ME who needs to be given a break.

* I'm not a libertarian as you have insultingly labeled me, I'm a social democrat

* Just because you cannot afford a $3500 battery doesn't mean anything except you cannot afford a $3500 battery

* Had you watched even 10 minutes of Elon's presentation, you'd understand that your utility could install a large scale version of these for your benefit. It doesn't have to be a personal installation, a 'smarter' grid means you can send your solar during the day to a central storage run by a utility or government, and then spend that credit when you draw from grid at night.

* Considering that utilities can do this, that means socially speaking, a government could invest in these. In fact, you'll find California providing deep incentives for exactly this kind of work.

Your "100k on a Tesla" remark, when in reality we're discussing $3500 batteries and similarly priced solar setups, goes a long way towards showing that you have an IRRATIONAL reaction here, not a rational once. You clearly have not investigated even the basics of this, and are using hyperbole to make an emotional statement. $100k would power several homes independently of the grid, or power a multi-family structure like an apartment building.

You could ask your landlord to install a $3500 battery, that's a conversation you could have with your landlord.

It's one you choose not to have, and even though you choose that, you still blame Elon.

This world will change without you. Your attitude is no different that that "one guy" we all know who has a clam-shell dumbphone and is good with it. The world changed around him, although that one guy we know is still bemoaning that Steve Jobs did nothing for him.

For all we know, apartment complexes will install 50kwh setups with solar panels on their facility as a way to attract people: "NO POWER BILLS! POWER INCLUDED IN RENT! NO BROWNOUTS! NO BLACKOUTS!" It'd be a powerfully interesting marketing tactic. Just because you don't own a house doesn't mean Elon's ideas can't change the world.
I should have been clear: I don't know the OP. I was surprised to see this on HN today.