skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s time for doctors to admit that our lack of sleep is killing patients
This looks quite promising. What piqued my interest was the section that said "Universal apps built for Windows 10 shine on Microsoft Surface Hub and scale to the large screen."

Looking further into Universal Apps for Windows 10 leads to http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/03/02/a-first-loo... which details the vision for the platform. That page mentions: "... Windows 10 will make it easy for you to create a Windows app that packages your website for publishing to the Store. Once installed, your website can update and call Universal APIs from JavaScript, creating a more engaging user experience."

Could someone more familiar with Universal Apps shed more light on this? It sounds interesting, but I'm trying to figure out if this is similar to Chrome Webstore Apps or Hyrbid Mobile Apps wrapped in Web UI's (e.g. Cordova).
Languages all seem to lack the right word for it. "Mastery", "wisdom" etc. all don't seem to quite capture the essence of it.

I'm frequently glad for Heinlein's invention of the word "grok" to finally give a name to it. I just wish it was a prettier word.
Title attribute of the massive image on the top of the page

"Huge logo to hide any actual information"
I respect your effort to implement an open inter-operable SIP based network.

I only referred to the code that implements the p2p DHT part. That part was duplication of effort.

Now, you are talking about a serious and interesting problem in open systems: spam/spit/...

However, Tox faces the same problem. Their network was attacked at least once from the 4chan community. And they came up with a solution. Their solution doesn't force you to tell anybody your contacts and doesn't need certificate authorities.

How about talking with them about the problem to join efforts?

The Tox people are very open to other people using Tox just as a transportation core.

I'd just be unhappy to have another DHT-based communication platform that didn't talk to the other players first.
Is this open-source or do I have to pay? Not clear from the web-site.

If I have to coordinate multiple apps (three apps in this system, have to speak with each other over ports) and I want to run each app in its own container, on the same server, or distributed, can Ansible help me? Thanks.
* Open page

* Search for "io.js" and "iojs"

* No results

* Not worth reading

Unless you are talking about merging with iojs then I don't give a shit. If they don't get merged within a month (or officially started) I will be taking all our code over to iojs...
It's a little more complex than that.

The French (European) heatwave had a lot of long held social and family structures that contributed to it, from a tendency of the elderly to live by themselves, often disconnected to one degree or another from family, most of the country was in 'holiday' mode in August, and other things.

The embarrassing thing about Katrina wasn't that it happened (though the flooding was preventable), or the deaths.

It was that -the agency specifically designed to deal with the AFTERMATH, and given billions of dollars to do so- was so spectacularly incompetent, from the top down (Michael "Heck of a Job" Brown, a lawyer friend of Bush's put in charge of FEMA who by the time of Katrina had no more emergency management experience than the NIMS course you and I can take online for free), that they actively made things worse in many cases, not better.
Very cool. In my experience, using a skewed pivot doesn't actually help in practice. Outside of the case you mention (where the input is a random permutation), sampling must be used to choose a skewed pivot, which has a fairly significant overhead.
FWIW I've worked in places where this would be standard to communicate over email, particularly if it's not that big of a deal (as in, we have plenty of other projects).

We don't really know the details of how the rejection even took place--maybe he asked for it that project, maybe he was on it and performed poorly, etc.
> The real problem with traditional management structures is that it often breaks down to this sort of system to start with.

This is exactly right. The traditional organization already falls prey to politics and games due to lack of good structure, not due to the idea of structure itself.

You will get a system regardless of whether you intentionally create one or not. It's far better to get the one you intend and can develop, than an uncontrollable chaos.
The Designer Stands Firm
One could very loosely define a 'leak' as "memory the author didn't expect to be retained past the next few GC cycles".

It looks like this tool helps you check your assumptions about how long your objects are kept alive.
Recently read Band of Brothers - pretty sure this story was one of the ones that is mentioned in passing towards the end of the book.
So, to relate this back to the original article – all these people interviewed started with low prices at the beginning and built up their profile, raising their rates along the way. I look at that and think, well that's a good and clearly proven model, and it makes sense why it works that way. I don't look at it and think, well they should have started out with higher prices right from the start, since clearly they were worth it all along!
I think that Amazon is content to let Zappos experiment. If Zappos loses customers, statistically most of them will end up at Amazon anyway. Tony Hsieh is pretty out there, and a lot of his ideas sound kind of crazy, but I think Bezos believes in him and is willing to let him try. Even though everyone says "Oh, that won't work" you don't know until you try.

If Zappos can experiment with a new leadership style, maybe it produces desirable results that can be replicated elsewhere. Maybe it fails miserably. What's likely to happen is that there will be things that work and things that don't, and I guarantee Amazon is interested in that. Because of all the things I've heard about Amazon (many of them good), I've never heard that it's a great place to work. Their turnover is high, so maybe they're looking for ways to reduce it while not losing the culture of urgency (though some would say fear) that makes them so good at executing on things.

Of course, if it's a total failure, Bezos will likely fire Tony and trash the entire idea.
Each ramen packet has about 400 calories, add in a few vegetables and a little meat and you've got a 500-600 calorie meal. Nothing in instant ramen is inherently bad for you (unless you have high blood pressure and are sensitive to sodium intake--and even then, just eat less of the seasoning).

Sure living off of nothing but instant ramen isn't great, but neither is living off of nothing but broccoli.
Why is it better to do free work to build a portfolio of non-professional work, rather than building it by starting with lower-paying engagements?
For perspective, here is what Isaac Schlueter said when TJ took over.

http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/
This all honestly resonates a lot with me. It sounds a little like LightTable. It is not explained best, that is for sure. I still need to find and see software, but provided there is one, I think his heart is on right place.
sure that isn't the strangest battle in WWII
So flockport is a competitor to Docker? Seems to do what Docker does. So many choices. CoreOS too . Docker has the momentum and VC$. Hard to really know what the "right" choice is.
Welcome Office 365 for Android tablet
The Real Mayors of 'SimCity'
I knew some preppers and it is pretty frightening. They practice one day a month and apparently the first order of business is to capture and defend a Walmart or similar. These guys are going to be a liability in a crisis.
If I'm not mistaken: Altering a table can be costly and may cause a performance issues, specially if you have millions of records. Rows will be most likely locked and get updated and during this process other threads should wait until related row become "free".
It is very limited, I am a vim guy, it has nothing to do with vim. Simply we are reinventing the wheel every time and that is the biggest issue.
Ask HN: Why was my post deleted?
I had a post about defaulting on student loans, and after posting within moments it disappeared.

I'm wondering what I did wrong, if anything, or if this is just a bug.
Definitely true, but also note that none of them started at anything we would consider to be "a lot".
Yes, Amazon owns Zappos. In Tony's book, he explains that legally Zappos still gets to what Zappos wants.
> There is a very low statistical chance of an apocalypse event occurring.

And some people assign a large enough negative utility to dying in an emergency that it makes sense for them to spend a substantial amount of money preparing for an emergency.
Actually, that sounds terrible. I already am sometimes annoyed when I try to first use a variable, and then go back and decide where should I declare it - visual studio doesn't like that - literally not being able to go through a broken state would be annoying.
You mean http://www.py2exe.org/?

Drawbacks, the tooling is superb, but it will take you months to wrap your brains around the tooling, idioms and best practices. Expect a learning curve to get acclimated with things.

Another plus is the community is self-aware and wants to get work done.

There are other programming languages where if you criticize them - instead of taking it as an engineer - they get their feelings hurt and delve into deeper denial.

In 2015, there are numerous tools to handle cases where GIL, as an example. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Concurrency/
Unison is bidirectional.
From the classic computer science point of view, you are correct in saying that a lambda that does not capture in variables from its enclosing scope is not a closure. But I think that's a meaningless distinction here that would only serve to be confusing. Rust uses the terminology "closure" to refer to this pipe syntax, regardless of whether it captures variables, and that's fine. It's less confusing for people who aren't coming from a computer science background, and it's not really even strictly speaking wrong. A closure is a function coupled with an environment that allows it to capture values from its scope. A closure that captures no variables can still have an environment, the environment just happens to be null.
I don't see how the usual buyout amount would be able to take the money out of the equation. "Low performers" who don't have good chances in the job market surely will stay, since their earning potential is greater than what you reasonably offer them in a buyout. The likelihood that the skilled employees will take the money, knowing they will get another job immediately, is much higher.
Windows 10: The Last Version of Windows?
"I think one of the bets holocracy makes is that a group of people with a better understanding of their responsibilities and who receive quicker, clearer feedback will naturally be more proactive about problems."

Who provides the feedback? Based on what credentials? Explain why that person not a manager.
That's pretty cool. Is this data available somewhere in a digestible format if I may ask. Some interesting analysis could be run on that data.
> Americans-as-rugged-individualists

As someone who's lived all over the US, this description is quite accurate in rural areas. Americans (and, I suspect, people in most sparsely populated areas) do have a strong culture of rugged individualism.

Take someone from rural Idaho or Montana and drop them off in the mountains with a gun and a knife, and I'll put money on them surviving.
I guess I just don't think that's a very realistic view of "price". Nothing is priced based on innate value, but rather a complex interaction between value and the ability to market that value.
Well, yeah, America is a country where one allegedly unjust killing by a cop results in looting and nationwide rioting. That's not conducive to trust in ones neighbors. That said, I think in most cases where it really hits the fan, people help each other out.
I think it's more analogous to Urbit than LightTable.
But using a skewed pivot is not my point. It would not be particularly clever to respond to the problem of branch mispredicitions by doing suboptimal things. The solution is using algorithms that avoid hard to predict branching and exploit data locality. Thus, super scalar sample sort, which is significantly faster than skewed quicksort even in the case where quicksort gets the pivot for free.

Regarding overhead for sampling -- super scalar sample sort samples sqrt(n) elements, sorts them, and picks a fixed number of pivots from them (e.g. 256 in the implementation I used). But that is worth it, as no branches are needed to find in which "bucket" (between which two pivots) to put an element, using predicated instructions. So the overhead is not the problem, and as you can see in the other plots (in /plots), ssssort executes more instructions. It is still significantly faster than the other algorithms because it exploits the properties of the CPU.
As a child I loved to see Big Bird and Snuffleupagus engaging each other over some very basic point.
This is the saddest thing I've heard in 2015. Anyway, Thanks a lot, UCB, for all the efforts.

BTW, DOJ should really cross Justice off in its name.
Loyalty runs both ways. Employees aren't going to want to stay loyal to a company in this mess of a capitalist economy.
> if you completely do away with job titles, the politics would go away

For anyone who finds this plausible, it might be enlightening to contemplate (1) the first "hacker koan" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan and (2) this classic XKCD cartoonhttps://xkcd.com/592/ .
Web Accessibility – Best Practices
Then they spent billions on loans to rebuild - and no rebuilding was done, and nobody paid back the loans.
> For that matter, I never understood how feminism could be hijacked to do with programming. What is the matter with you, Joyent.

Feminism is, loosely, a set of values about how to see the world around us and what to prioritize in interpersonal interactions and what should be respected and what shouldn't. It's not about programming itself (the very act of writing code) the way that, say, OOP is, but it's definitely about social structures, including the social structures behind the act of writing code.

When we talk about programming projects or communities that are a "democracy" or a "benevolent dictatorship" or a "meritocracy" or a "do-ocracy" or a "holacracy" or run by "consensus", we're also talking about a set of values that drive the inter-human interactions behind programming. (Some of these overlap, some of these are incompatible, and some of these -- including, for instance, "consensus" -- have multiple meanings in practice.)

Whether one believes feminism is a good set of values for these interactions is certainly something people can disagree on, just as much as people disagree on whether a meritocracy or a consensus-based approach or a dictatorship is a good set of values. But I think it's pretty clear how all of these can be applied to programming projects.
having worked an example to see how this could possibly work, I feel compelled to note for other people who might have wondered that a circular rotate looks like "(a << (x % 32)) | (a >> (32 - (x % 32)))"; as written, you're replacing every bit with zero.
That's hiring 101. All the candidates you passed on were losers. Never consider the possibility that you passed on someone great for a stupid reason.
> At best you are saying "I promise that I won't pursue legal action in situations conforming to these criteria." This is not legally binding,

Actually, promissory estoppel is a thing: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Promissory+Est...
I wasn't aware of who Jeri Ellsworth was, but a cursory look says that she was fired by Valve.

Were her comments before or after she was fired? I'm not sure that if it was after, we can necessarily count on it being objective. I've heard plenty of people make comments that aren't exactly the most accurate after they've been fired.
"And Jacob served seven years for Rachel", a very old and instructive tale ...
There certainly are but are there that many reasons that are good enough to make someone stick around instead of taking 3 months pay while not having to work?

I imagine most developers could find a job with similar pay in a month or maybe one and a half, so the reasons would have to be strong enough that you'd give up an extra 10% in salary, or even being able to take a 3 month long vacation.

On the other hand, if they recently had to move to Vegas I wonder how hard it is to find work there and I can totally see people not wanting to move again so quickly.
Every freelancer starts out not having a lot of experience being freelancers and so they make the typical mistake of thinking about their clients as their employer rather than as an investment in a relationship that needs to be developed over time.

Many get too hung up in the value of the services they provide when what they are really selling is trust.

The people that manage to make good money on freelancing aren't always the best at what they do, but they are good at managing expectations and making the client feel like they made the right hire.
Location: Louisville, KY

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Only to the North East U.S.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, SASS, Less, Git, Hardwired, Sinatra, Bootstrap, Pure, PostgreSQL, Heroku

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/elizabeth-certa/b8/3a2/299

Email: Accessible on Linkedin

Full stack Rails developer (who gravitates toward front end) with a year and a half of experience, looking to work in the Louisville area or in the Northeastern United States. Excellent communicator, hard worker, and chocolate enthusiast.
Use LXD, it is more flexible.

Can have application structured as multiple processes so can map VM patterns to it easier, without creating unnecessary containers.

Believe you also get better security between containers

Also LXC has been in the kernel longer and seems more mature (since 2.6.20-something).
Then with that 50:1 (I just checked, and it is for 2014 revenue) you're comparing the annual revenue of a company that licenses CPU cores with a company that makes CPUs, solid state drives, servers, networking equipment... so yes, obviously Intel has a higher revenue.
But why deprecate the blow-up feature?

Let's offer the valve as an "option" for the less venturous types! :-)
How 18F is doing DevOps
Class of 2015: you’re the most indebted graduating class ever
Plenty of people are still status driven.
So either you have to decide you want 0 of these people at your company, or else ...

Honestly, my experience has been that structure is one of the key things that makes teams effective (not structure as in "rigid meetings/etc", but structure in the sense of "understanding what their role is and where they fit in")

This doesn't strictly require managers, of course, but self-organization rarely works out that well either as the org gets larger (you have the same problems, they are just hidden and nobody is accountable) :)
One of the AsTec founders (Daniel Gurdan) has an interesting back story.

Playing with explosives in his basement he lost part of his hand. Being an avid juggler he was sad that he could not juggle clubs anymore.

He built himself an robotic hand which won the first price at the German youth science competition [1]. He was 16 at the time.

The quadcopter was his follow up project
and a main component of that project was that
the copter was controlled with a glove[2].

Referenced articles are in German, but the images are worth a click.

[1] http://www.jugend-forscht.de/projektdatenbank/jonglierhandsc...

[2] http://www.jugend-forscht.de/projektdatenbank/die-ufos-komme...
V. I. Arnold uses 17 words:

"The determinant of a matrix is an (oriented) volume of the parallelepiped whose edges are its columns."

http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html
Umm. Sorta kinda. Freezers are easy. Frankly solar + batteries or propane powering a freezer would be more cost effective and less time consuming than raising the animals. Most hobby sized farms need significant inputs, like grain or hay. If you aim for enough land for pasture/forage, there's still going to be times of the year when you'll either need to have harvested likely requiring fuel/machinery) or bring in inputs.

Chickens, the most cost, effort, and space effective food animals need about .1lb/day of grain, in addition to forage and kitchen scraps. For that, you'll get eggs and occasionally, chicks. FWIW, I've had chickens for 5 years, and the first chick hatched yesterday. If you've got young hens, you might get .75 egg/day/hen. As they age, that goes down. All in costs are probably O($0.50)/egg.
I've seen this done, but there was a class of employee not eligible for the buyout (e.g., engineer).

So you wind up with good engineers, and all the bad management and support that couldn't find jobs elsewhere, and that works out real well, you betcha...
Howard Thurston, the Great Magician
I plan to make my money in the post-apocalypse selling maps to preppers' homes. Just give me 5% of their cache and we're good.
I've worked at companies at a minimum of 2 years or more and have switched between 5 companies. Would that be considered job hopping?

If I was a hiring manager, seems totally reasonable to me.
In all honesty, the decision was taken by the project sponsor and is final. We built this https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht and it is already used by some other projects distributed outside of Savoir-faire Linux. So far things look well for OpenDHT so I don't think Savoir-faire Linux will change its mind of the decision at this point. I know you think this is a duplicated effort, but it might not be as true as you think. I respect and understand your frustration, but the decision is final.

However, do you have a link about the Tox 4chan DOS? A quick Google search failed to turn interesting results.
You're not including the title from the JSON column or setting weights in your alternate version. I'm not sure if that can be included in the index or not, but that might be the reasoning.
It's only "insane" by myopic Western/American standards. Look at the martial arts of Japan (Judo, Jujitsu) where to earn a black belt--which is traditionally not the end of learning but merely symbolizes understanding of the basics--takes at least 10 years of dedicated study. Since martial arts began to be "Americanized" in the ~1980s, we now see black belts handed out to 8 year old children after a year or two of study (in fairness, Tae Kwon Do is the more common offender in that regard).
Memorizers are the lowest achievers and other Common Core math surprises
That's a bit like saying that camels are animals whose backs can be broken by a single straw.
That guy was a total crack-up. Like you, I'm a hobby gardener. It's taken years to learn what will and what won't grow where I live, and how to tend, harvest, and preserve the bounty. I've gotten pretty good at it and it's a good supplement to our grocery needs but I have a long way to go (and need much more good land) before I can replace our grocery produce.

The firearms discussion in this article was even funnier. All of these guys own AR-15 variants. Not a bad weapon to have in a civil strife situation but mostly worthless in the typical configuration for game hunting. These fools will happily plunk down thousands of dollars for reflex sights, forend grips, and single-point slings but few of them own a decent hunting rifle with a scope. Previous election year ammunition hoarding has shown that .223/5.56 and .308/7.62 get scarce quickly but popular hunting rounds like 30.06 are generally easy to find.

The narcissism in this article is strong. I get the feeling that these guys might even pray for civil society to collapse just so they can get a shot at being someone important.