skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just asking: How much insulation do typical homes have?
Innovation: Do it or Die
The sad thing is that this very real phenomenon "punishes" those who start series early, the very people that validate the business model or writing sequels at all. I don't expect I'll bother with book 6 of GoT for the very same reason you state. And the TV series will be in syndication by then most likely!
Wow... and the last time it sold was for $34,000 in 1975.

That's a 10.4% annual return per year for 40 years.

That's better than the 8.2% returned by the S&P 500 over the same period.
...no, I don't think that really fits.

Besides, it wasn't the sharecropping itself that was a problem, it was the abusive lending.
If we go by your comment, where is 80% renewable energy going to come from? Current renewable energy production in US by most liberal standards is not even 10%. That is after all these years and spending billions of dollars.

On the side note obum in his commencement speech told coast guard (below), in his words, so no one thinks that I made it up, as it is that ridiculous. And this comes out of Harvard today. Surprise? May be not.

His Coast Guard commencement speech
"So I am here today to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security. And make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. So we need to act and we need to act now."
Why Early '80s Babies Are Different Than Other Millennials
After watching "Babylon 5", the first American TV series I knew that had a fixed length and didn't try to go as long as possible, I decided that if you don't have an end, you don't have a story. So unless I know there's an end, I don't bother. It's worked out pretty well; Robert Jordan's series kept getting longer (= doesn't know how to finish) until it got so long he died. GRRM seems be having similar problems--taking 5 and 6 years to write the latest two suggests to me he is getting bogged down (= doesn't know how to finish).

I had similar problems with "Alias." You can't just upend who is good and who is bad every month. It isn't believable, and it feels like you're playing with your audience. It also indicates you have no idea what you are doing (= no end point). I watched season 3, and quit early on in season 4 after I realized...
Oh, you mean actually verifying 1. I wasn't doing that. I was just doubting 1 being true, but interpreting the problem as asking you to verify 2, in which case you only need to turn over 5,8, and green.
Sub-optimal perhaps. I think sub-par is optimistic about the average cup of coffee.
PSA: Nathan will be doing a talk about Specter at the next SF Clojure Meetup http://www.meetup.com/The-Bay-Area-Clojure-User-Group/events...
Read his first comment :)
Big Flashing DevOps Thing
I don't have much insight into Azure pricing, unfortunately. You need the bigger disk with the standard tier A1 for your app/service?
Citrix acquires Grasshopper
"Yet anti-consumerism is clearly helping to build the Patagonia brand. Indeed, the company is seeing double-digit annual growth."

My mind spins on that statement. Kudos to the marketing genius who increases sales (= consumers) by convincing customers that they're being "anti-consumers". Companies that use group/political identity (in their case perhaps even 'cult') as part of their scheme take quite a risk in doing so, but Patagonia is one of the companies that has proved remarkably effective and successful in that genre -- consistently over a long time.

Regardless, I actually like their products.
Has anyone considered Google? It was odd, I recently was accepted into one of their internal programs and noticed they used Salesforce as their CRM. I know this is not nearly enough evidence but Google doesn't have a CRM and think it might be an obvious choice.
Grady Booch on the Future in Software Engineering
UC Browser to Be Selling User Sensitive Personal Info to E-Commerce Websites
If you look at the chart on the top of page 8 of the technical paper (https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf), they have some intelligent guesses for core-years to crack a DH-512, 768, and 1024 group, as well as associated memory requirements.

512, which they actually did, is 10.2 core-years for the precomputation plus 10 core-minutes per actual crack. 768 they estimate at 29,300 core-years plus 2 core-days per crack. 1024 is estimated at 45M core-years plus 30 core-days per crack. On top of that while 10M of those core-years are easily parallelizable with specialized hardware (the sieving stages) 35M of them are spent doing linear algebra on a square matrix with 5 billion rows. The authors of the paper note that there's been little work on designing custom systems suitable for this task and only give a rough estimate of the resulting cost (somewhere in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars).

As you can see the challenges presented (hence cost) doesn't scale linearly with problem difficulty. The linear algebra step looks completely implausible at 2048.
Or at least less ponderous pw restrictions. Thanks for sharing that video.
I'd argue that creating an element that has size dependant on the size of something somewhere completely different is not something you should be doing anyway.

As others have mentioned, being able to switch the orientation of the principle axis is very helpful, for example when going from a row to a column on mobile. Because all positioning is defined based on the principle axis, all the styles translate correctly, and you don't have to override 4+ different rules.

> How do I box 1 height stretch? Hm... I don't intuitive know.

If you understand how align-items aligns everything else along the secondary axis, then "align-self: stretch" seems pretty intuitive (http://codepen.io/conlectus/pen/WvGLvy).

> re: 1em margin breaking alignment

I'm not sure what you're referencing here, as it seems to not do that http://codepen.io/conlectus/pen/WvGLrK

A guess would be that you don't have box-sizing: border-box on all elements set.

Adding "flex" always makes the element take up as much space as it can, and the number specifies how much "force" it applies compared to other elements.
IP can be broken down into its constituent parts. Patent, Copyright, trademark, and trade secret. The rules for each are different and sufficiently complex that the question should be treated as these four parts.
I prefer to treat secret questions exactly like passwords.

Example secret question: What is the random string I just generated?

Example secret answer: JmoPZGDg3JxpgRTTrHrXD5t5jVfvSm
Anti-consumerism and growth for this company don't have to be mutually exclusive (though there is natural tension between them). I wasn't very familiar with them before—I assumed they were an expensive brand for people with more money than sense—but now I'm wondering if I should consider them when I buy the jacket I've put off purchasing for the past couple of years. There's definitely a market for durable, repairable goods (see the BIFL subreddit for examples), and Patagonia's growth could be coming at the expense of more traditional brands.
"The company’s anti-materialistic stance ramped up on Black Friday, 2011, with a memorable full-page advertisement in the Times that read, “Don’t Buy This Jacket.” (...) The attention the ad received helped to bump Patagonia’s 2012 sales significantly."

They don't have an anti-growth strategy, they have a marketing strategy with an "anti-growth" message, targeting rich people who are willing to dump money into anything that will clean their consciences.

And that isn't bad, it is a brilliant marketing strategy!
kvm doesn't have dom0. More generally, you can run kvm on an unmodified SuSE (or other Linux distribution) kernel.
What Motivates Extreme Athletes to Take Huge Risks?
Slackin. A little server that enables public access to a Slack server
https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/500007057937145856

https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/521894442064560128

https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/458391373994270720
Of course, hypocrisy runs rampant for this community. Privacy is important... as long as it's our privacy, not their privacy.
The linked article in this major thread explains why this doesn't make much difference:

http://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.html

In my experience cars are just as likely to cut in as out, and that's what the extra space is for anyway.

If you arrive any later it will be minute or two per hour, so worrying about people "getting ahead" of you accomplishes nothing. If you want to win the race against the others on the freeway tomorrow, leave 5 minutes earlier!
Okay, now I'm really confused about what you meant with your original post in this thread.

If you doubt (1), how is it that you need to verify that the 5 has a color, but not that the blue has a number on the other side?

To verify (2) you only need to prove that every even card has a blue back. An odd may be blue or green, but an even must be blue. Hence the 5 is fine, it can have any color. The blue is fine, because it can have any number. But that 8 must have a blue back, and that green must have an odd number.
> You probably don't need nor want an Italian art-deco piece of 60s futuristic polished steel priced at $1000 and upwards. But investing at least $100 into a entry-level grinder will get you coffee miles ahead that pre-ground stuff. I assure you it's a noticeable return on investment.

What about grandma's old manual grinder? Is it not up to the task? Such grinders also sell for much less than 100$.
All the things mentioned in the article are great, but I think the dominating factor in Patagonia's double digit growth is likely the larger activewear boom (see Nike sales) and growing interest in technical outdoorswear from the fashion industry.

http://fourpins.com/style/is-outdoors-menswears-new-heritage...
It's probably worth updating the headline. I clicked on it expecting a story on how they're keeping people from settling in southern Argentina.
It may sound strange, but it makes sense. Imagine a phone maker advertising that their phone lasts 6 years without needing replacing. Their market share could grow while the overall number of phones sold shrank due to increased longevity.

Just because there's a local (Patagonia) increase in a metric (sales) doesn't mean there isn't a global decrease.
I'd rather support the 10-year hoodie.
The US has space experts worried about an extra-terrestrial land grab
Ah, I see the source of your confusion now.

The actual situation as given to us is not that there are 4 visible cars on a table. It is that there are 4 visible cars on a table that contain a number on one side and a color on the other side.

We are being told to verify the statement:

"Of the 4 cards placed on the table, which have a number on one side and a color on the other side, if the number is even then the other side must be blue."

If the color/number statement was left out of the original problem/video (it isn't) then your argument would be true, as it would be an assumption that is not listed and we would need to flip the 5 as well.

E:

And I suppose the blue card since it could have green on the other side.
Thank you for PerlGuts Illustrated!

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RURBAN/illguts-0.49/index.htm...
CSC sues Eric Pulier for alleged fraud
There is a word for that: EBITDA
If you're interested in this, I'm putting together a meetup/workshop/lab at the Palace of Fine Arts in SF every weekend. Come out and share, learn, and build with other people interested in this field.

Think of it as the Home Brew Computer Club for Robotics/AI :)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/762335743881364/
It would be a step in the right direction.
A surprising amount of industry consolidation happened after the Thailand floods a few years ago. There's what, 3 hard drive manufacturers left!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Hard_Disk_Driv...
Can you explain why that would be?

In any case, in many locales it's almost entirely unheard of to street-hail a taxi. To name two places I've lived, in Boston and Silicon Valley, you always need to call for a taxi, unless you happen to be staying at a hotel in a downtown area.
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There is a fundamental reason for the difference: in standard CSS block/inline layout, widths depend on parent widths, but heights depend on child heights. Far from being stupid, this difference is the entire reason CSS is parallelizable at all.

Flexbox makes this simpler by switching to an entirely different model, which is the right approach for UIs (as opposed to documents). But I can't really fault CSS 2.1 for not introducing flexbox right away, because CSS 2.1 is complex enough as it is.
Being Expressive in Code
The original site, and my comment, are from 9 days ago. The linked diff is from 7 days ago.
Nothing goes over my head, my reflexes are too fast.
Are You Really Needed?
I read Thiel's argument more like a cultural criticism than the lack of talented inventors coming up with great things.

Being engineer myself, I believe it's impossible to be a good or sane one without being optimistic. However we always must be aware of the broader society and HN does not represent it.

There always was some societal resistance to technological change. Socrates hated books, for example. But take anti-vaccers. This is a group of people who reject an undeniably proven and extremely beneficial to society advancement, because they don't trust doctors and scientists.

Or take GMOs. In Europe some countries have banned growing of them and it seems to be because of popular pressure. So if you are a talented crop geneticist you are out of luck. And if you do work in the field of your interest, you probably do at the eviil Monsanto. Because they are the only ones that are big and rich enough to enable them to lobby politicians to stay in business.

We should be optimistic of future, but look at the broader culture. After all art does capture the zeitgeist and one of the most popular album of the year 2014 was titled - 1989...
(music's nice though)
I have a similar revulsion to what I call our "pre-order culture". Everything is "coming soon, preorder today!" It used to be just video games (and I guess some books) but it seems like EVERYTHING is available for pre-order. Kickstarter and its ilk certainly didn't help that.

Once I type my credit card in it flips the "when is it going to get here" switch in my brain and the obsession sucks. I preordered an Apple Watch and spent so much time checking shipping status and hanging out on /r/applewatch that by the time it actually showed up the thrill was gone.

There's a bunch of psychic overhead involved in preordering something -- or watching/reading a story that doesn't end -- and the anticipation completely outweighs the payoff.
Yes, that's a very nice visual introduction to what's possible with flexbox.
How can there be no such attribute if there is a continuum of that attribute?

Picking thresholds is not unfair. It's the fundamental way that life interacts with the world around it. You physically cannot examine everything that could affect you with infinite precision.

The job of regulation is not to pick a mythical "perfect" result for every possible case, it's to force a good guideline into place. This is partially arbitrary, and that is okay. It doesn't matter if that fine is $200 or $220, the regulation just needs to work.
I store these in the Notes field in KeePass. Or sometimes in their own password entry.
http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1727004

https://code.google.com/p/letsbuildacompiler/

(It looks like there are several more or less complete C versions.)

http://linker.iecc.com/

http://www.iecc.com/linker/
You have to frame it exactly right.

Patagonia could reasonably gain market share (number of people wearing Patagonia) while lowering sales-per-person with the net outcome being higher sales overall.

This only makes business sense if consumers _want_ durable goods and 'punish' businesses adequately that make shorter lived products. Consumers have to want it enough and have enough information in order to provide the correct market pressure.
I know C++ and care about the Windows desktop market but don't have that money. Out of interest, what software is it? What sort of market? Do you need assistance or another developer?
It seems there is something related to the exclusivity and cubbishness many people seek out in order to stand out by not standing out.

Many higher end brands seem to eventually reach a point where they have to figure out how to keep growing without 'diluting' the brand (ie becoming too mass market). The Coaches, Burberrys, etc. Some bring out sibling brands in order to accommodate both markets, some fail and fizzle out.
Nagios plugin to monitor redis with Node.js
Yeah, I had expected an article about the Argentinian province and was curious about why people in there would be "anti-growth". Patagonia is one of the few places on Earth where I'd run to were things to turn really, really bad (nuclear war, world war, a global epidemic).
Looks to be the case based on the config. I'm suprised storage wasn't abstracted to accommodate redis or the like which is essential in a load balanced scenario.

The API doesn't seem quite idiomatic either, I'd expect to create a struct containing options and a function that closes over the http.Handler interface e.g. func(l *Limiter) Limit(next http.Handler) http.Handler or a function that takes options and a next http.Handler that creates a struct implementing http.Handler.
So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.
You could try contacting the mods first, state your reasoning and ask for their blessing?
> Tell me what i can do to replace 800 gallons of oil a year.

As I understand it, grid-powered geothermal heat pumps can replace a lot of it, at much greater efficiency. There's an upfront cost, sure, but I think its a fairly quick payoff even at current energy rates, much less if the externalities of fossil fuels were internalized into the rates.
Absolutely! And for those sites that don't let you pick your own questions, just use random answers anyway. And for those sites that have the same small set of questions (mother's maiden name, etc), use a different answer on every site.
I agree! My book is 175 pages because I tried to keep in the good parts and trust the reader to figure out why character A got to point B without explaining the entire journey. Skip to the interesting parts and let a couple lines of some dialogue explain the in between.
Certainly a possible strategy, but for web traffic it isn't ideal: web traffic is bursty and latency-sensitive. You can also probably still do a little bit of correlation for very large, long uploads to servers with not much other usage, but admittedly that's a much smaller target.
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Java EE 7 in Liberty… so far…
This must be 32b windows ABI; pushing arguments on the stack instead of using registers.
And energy transportation.
No, the disk is fine. I just wish that VM cost $20, perhaps $25, but not $57 which it costs now (I've corrected my original post, it was not $67 but $57 as I remembered wrongly).

I wish to publish a relatively simple app for a reasonable price and I'm sadly skipping Azure from my consideration. I'm seeing VMs similar to A1 cost about $12-15 with many hosting companies. And for $20-25 I can get your level A2 which costs $115.

I realize you may not be in a position to influence pricing. I just would like to point out that the pricing of Azure VMs is not simply uncompetitive, but plainly prohibitive. I hope Microsoft does something about it.

Saying it as a veteran Microsoft developer since the 90s.
For a solid advise, talk to a lawyer.
If you're a US person, why not... But for someone who needs H1B sponsoring and relocation (probably with a family as well), Netflix is the worst company to work for as your first American employer.
Ask HN: Do you take screenshot on your phone and need to search them?
Thumbtack Takes Its Own Investor, Google, Head On
Is there a way to remove "withdrawn" applications from averages? There are a lot of decimal point errors there, which skew the average way up.
Slide #100 onwards: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
Erlang the Movie II: The Sequel [video]
Given Salesforce's ownership of Heroku, I wonder what affect this would have on the Rails community? (to be certainly folded into Azure)
Free Trade's Great, but Offshoring Rattles Me (2007)
I think it's been clearly shown that part of the regulation is harmful to both drivers and riders. Also that some of the beneficial regulation goes unenforced.

In many cities it's definitely possible to make a system that's better than the old one for everyone (except for certain investors).
That's only about 5% if we build HVDC lines.
I don't think it's fair to compare Citus DB to MySQL either.

I never did. I just stated my experience and you READ that as a comparison. Due to me mentioning MPP, I then lead with PSS. See how that works?

I mention MPP and PSS to inform people who are on MySQL and looking to change. I don't think MySQL will come with native MPP or PSS because of licensing issues (I may be wrong).

There is shard query with MySQL which is a percona effort. But there are too many moving parts for a production env.

Finally, I'm not too bothered about other offerings in the MPP space. I'm already paying a license fee and reaping the rewards. It's good enough for me and was able to hit the ground running very very quickly.
If you want to do that, you need to register with someone who can give you a phone number, but ideally not your carrier. You could conceivably have a SIP-like model where you can send control connections over Tor and media connections over the regular Internet.

(I think the Guardian Project has tried making actual VoIP calls over TCP over Tor, and I don't know how well it worked out for them. So I'm assuming you won't be able to route the media streams anonymously, maybe just the control channel.)
I love your response, as it is all about context and understanding. My main point was centered on the fact you really can't speak for others unless you have their context, which is impossible because you aren't them. I do realize how important that distinction is! :)

Bitcoin provides features of currency, but does so with a nod to identity management as access is limited to those with the keys. This means cryptocurrencies could give way to federation, which is payments + identity + some standard. The problem cloud continues to disrupt everything in sight - including traditional 'currency'.
How to generate personalized videos for your Unbounce leads
I had trouble with Google Drive on Windows. The Google Drive process would frequently take 100% of a core even if just a single 1k file was in the Google Drive folder. It's broken.

This really bummed me out because I was evaluating it before sending Google my money, but I have concerns about the quality of their client. Apparently this has been a problem for years.
It was pure philosophy but it becoming less so as we make things like cochlear implants that replace some neural circuitry with electronics.