skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice writeup Walter. One of the more useful things about a static landing zone is that the head isn't moving over a surface as it does on a traditional center landing zone. Both Seagate and WD drives have had issues with drives "kicking up" contaminants from the LZ which cause a head crash later as those contaminants migrate across the surface of the disk.

As for lifecycle, I'm with atap who questions the limits on this plastic. Basically there isn't anything to "wear out" as far as I can see on the landing zone.
Sorry if this is off-topic, but as someone who once sat through a four-hour compile of Octave several years ago and never touched it again, what exactly are the advantages of using Octave and R compared with the standard SciPy stack? (IPython, matplotlib, numpy, sympy, scipy, etc.)
Inspection is trickier with printed values, even if you have four sided printing.
Thanks, I bought the paperback for $30 on amazon, had no idea it was also available for free!
Yeah, just like abuse of photocopiers. They're meant for letter size documents only!

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artmarketwatch/warhol-...

Nobody is required to use a given medium in a way that others find "proper" just because they annoy some people. I personally enjoy the stream-of-consciousness feel of this style of self-referential twitter threads for certain types of storytelling or reporting.
Hi, that's a great idea. We'll add it to the features list.
An Lushan Rebellion
so True!
(throwaway)

Porn is disastrously distracting to focus and motivation. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/
Yes, we're going to study the data for a research report on culture and race.
Certainly an exclusive game for XBoxTwo with HoloLens.
There's a problem with having to use and trust Dropbox, however. It's a company that's consistently proven that they can't be trusted, both in terms of truth and competence.
Those interested might also check out beancount. It's double entry accounting in text files similar to ledger. Martin, the author, has written some pretty fantastic documentation around it.

http://furius.ca/beancount/
I've had something close to this for years with my N900 (circa 2009). It detects when I am at home or work (via WIFI), and mounts its file systems on my laptops via sshfs. I can run Debian apps on my N900, and have the laptop display the UI via X11. I'm hoping this will work even more smoothly when I get my neo900.
The three worst-timed deals of the dot-com bust
Yes, it's like anything else: the dose makes the poison.
Japan Bicycle Parking Technology [video]
How to clone Agar.io
Reading books from web browser
In Paris they have the Metro, but in Rome they have busses.

My friend Sally, who teaches English there, told me that they're trying to dig a subway in Rome but whenever they find any buried ruins the archaelogists have to spend a few years puzzling over it before the subway line can go any farther.
Do these HTTP/2 server implementations downgrade to HTTP0.x/1.x if the client support only an older version? Will there be v2-only servers in near future?

If the answers are in the slides, forgive me - using the iPad the Google slide software breaks the back button and is too annoying to read beyond a few slide pages.
Debugging and implementing older protocols seem to be easier, as they were text based.
Sure it does. HTTP/2 streams are bidirectional. The websocket flow can be perfectly emulated in HTTP/2: make a websockety request, get a 200 HTTP response, then both sides keep the stream open and send data through it.
i used couchsurfing myself, as a host and guest all over the world. one point the article didn't talk about - Airbnb. once people realized they can charge money for the empty room/couch they ditched couchserfing. i find it too bad because in a way we all hurt ourself by charging each other. there was something magical about the vision that says - host someone from other county for free and next time you'll visit there you have a free place too.
Counter anecdote: I did plenty of MDMA 10+ years ago and I have just as much social anxiety now as I did then. Yes, it is alleviated for the few hours you are inebriated, but alcohol mostly has the same effect for me, anxiety relief wise. No long term relief and a profound reversal the next day. The last times I did MDMA were so unpleasant by the end of the trip that I get anxiety thinking about doing it, a decade later.

I now also have generalized anxiety. While I doubt it has anything to do with MDMA, I would strongly caution people to not self administer substituted amphetamines for psychiatric disorders.
> I have no idea how Minecraft hasn't been sued over this yet

Is Minecraft explicitly aimed at kids though? I mean, what exactly do you have to do to get sued if you have dongers in your game? A childish graphical profile?
If you have the Lat-long and trust it, why not extract the street using OpenStreetMap?
> Do these HTTP/2 server implementations downgrade to HTTP0.x/1.x if the client support only an older version?

Many do, yes.

> Will there be v2-only servers in near future?

Yes.

> Debugging and implementing older protocols seem to be easier, as they were text based.

Implementing text protocols seems to be easier, but writing an implementation that can handle the wide variety of both compliant and slightly non-compliant traffic is an exercise in frustration.

This is not helped by the fact that people see the text protocol and think that it's easy to implement, so they go and write their own HTTP/1.1 server and leave it on the internet. Their server is probably not quite spec-compliant, so everyone else is left trying to interop with it.

Binary protocols are hard to debug by eye, but they aren't hard to write parsers for.
This is ten days old, just going through the backlog, sorry.

You missed what I meant by intellectually dishonest. I gave you a few examples of laws that aren't 'gunpoint-enforced', including laws around incentives to do things. Your rebuttal was to invoke a long string of events that eventually resulted in 'trespassing', and invoking 'gunpoint' for that. It's not, however, gunpoint for the original law.

> If you ignore the rule of law, there will be escalation til physical force is involved

This is also part of what I mean by 'intellectually dishonest'. You're claiming that all laws are 'gunpoint' and therefore de facto immoral because you can concoct a long chain of unusual events that ends up with some form of physical law enforcement... but your own requirement for 'all speech should be free' falls into exactly the same pattern. You concoct some government official who refuses to pay into a minority's account, loses their job, refuses to depart the premises. But your own FOS laws do nothing to alter that chain. Slot in a FOS violation for the government official instead of paying into an account, and the chain remains unchanged. From your own reasoning, this means your FOS law is 'gunpoint enforced'.

It's usual for this style of libertarian FUD - claim all laws other than their own proposals are 'violent' or 'at gunpoint', and then skip over the details that their own suggested systems rely on exactly the same mechanisms. And yes, it is libertarian to say things like 'all laws are violent'. No other group takes this baroque standpoint; it's pure libertarian rhetoric. And seriously, laws around governmnet co-contribution are 'violent' because a government employee might lose their job if they don't comply?
I had noticed everyone had the same typical serious programmer personality here. That's why I enjoy reddit a lot more because it's not like that 100% of the time.
Great, now you've posted that Lego will have to ban any text messaging features.
You do need to learn _a_ way to generate document. I don't see how the JS method is easier than, say, using a ConTeXt Lua Document (CLD). I'd really like to compare samples.
The conclusion of the piece seems to be a restatement of this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/.
Eliminating drag. Because the head uses air pressure to keep itself off the platter, that air is also going to be pressing against the drive, causing friction, and requiring the motor to work a bit harder. By parking away from the platter altogether, you're eliminating that source of drag and friction. Regarding the orange widget, the damage happens over hundreds of thousands of park and unpark cycles -- a little wobble and a little rubbing after each one, which will eventually be enough to get things out of alignment and thus, broken.

The difference between near the rim and near the spindle is that air pressure. If it's near the spindle, it still has that drag that's making the motor work harder. Near the rim, that pressure is gone.
> Actually this is not the end of the world. As you mentioned, Rust's JSON library supports `ToJson` for primitive types, but also provides compile-time code generation for arbitrary `struct`s. Quoting the code from my project:[1]

Pardon my self-promotion: if you just need some one-off JSON and are willing to use the nightly compiler, I wrote a compiler plugin that expands JSON-like literals into an expression that expands to the tedious way of building up a JSON object.

https://github.com/tomjakubowski/json_macros

I find it's super handy for testing libraries or applications that emit JSON meant to go across some well-specified protocol. Some day I'll get around to expanding the library to support pattern matching with JSON literals as well (pull requests very welcome!).
Show HN: Ese – Exports Elasticsearch index from one cluster to another cluster
Let's break down a few of these myths. The whole guide is worth a read. The author says it's roughly the equivalent of what 1Ls go through.

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Can the police give you the idea to do something bad?

YES - http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=646

You're supposed to refuse.

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Can the police commit crimes along with you?

YES - http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=649

There are limits, though, to what sort of crimes, explained in the guide. Assuming they haven't overstepped those bounds, they're not in trouble, and you are. Not only that, but YOU can even get charged for the crimes they did if you were both members of the same criminal conspiracy.

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If you're under duress, is it okay to kill someone to save your own life?

NO - http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=813

It would be good to go back to review the necessity section, as well - http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=722

EDIT: Fixed a mistake.
FIXME: How to get your MVP ready much faster
Swift Summit 2015 Talks
I'm not there anymore, but this is West Dorset. It's a nice place to raise a young family, but the job prospects are few and far between. It's a bit too far to commute to major cities unless you want a 3+ hour drive or train journey each day. Unless you are happy working in Tesco or being an office administrator, all young people will gravitate towards London. The biggest industry is tourism, but that of course is very seasonal.

There is a lot of new development going on (around 60/40 split between green and brown field) most of it being retirement apartments. They are a great idea as they create jobs and relieve housing demand, but at ~£300k they are well out of the price range of most local people.
I'll add one more thing and then let it go because (respectfully) I don't think we're going to agree. Only ideology could make someone cling to a measurably harmful idea and insist it's still actually a good idea.
Is there anything stopping you doing this on current Android devices? You can run a debian userland without any trouble, and there's an X11 server available in the Play store (`x.org.server`).

I suppose the usability leaves something to be desired in the general case, but even all-in-one apks like `org.gimp.inkscape` go a long way to addressing this.
1 gram is an oversose.

I did that twice and was getting vertigo for a week after. Same with my friends.

I'd say fair amount per night is 2x0.1 grams per night.
The Founder and the Inferiority Complex
Please refrain next time. It's completely off-topic.
For Southern California, and the Los Angeles area in particular, this is a very good blog to read: http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/

Their current (May 29) entry is titled "Don’t hold your breath for Millennials to purchase homes: 6 years into a recovery and Millennials are still moving into parental homes at record levels."
The author explains that in http://meaningness.com/meaningness-history which is poorly flagged. Examples: hippy, death metal, Twitter, etc.

Edit: http://meaningness.com/modes-chart is also worth pondering.
Actually, it's from an evidentiary position that I think no reasonable person would hold the opinion "girls are not as smart as boys". Just like I think no reasonable person would hold the opinion "The summer sky is typically green". Both are wrong, but one suggests that half of someone's students won't get a fair shake.

As far as I can tell, you're the one politicizing speech here.
Wim Hof who holds the world record for immersing himself in ice water says he uses his mind. He has been involved in some interesting experiments.

http://www.icemanwimhof.com/science
Reality does not exist if you are not looking at it
I have never understood this concern about radioactive waste. Just bury it so deep that nobody other than an advanced civilisation with Geiger counters could possibly get to it. Problem solved.
Asking the question and exploring it is one thing, asserting it, without evidence, as true, is another.
I can't actually tell if that's sarcasm anymore or not. Next slide is a new URL, new page. Based on initial testing, the behavior seems fine. Same behavior as one would have for something like http://example.com/my-presentation/1.htm, 2.htm, 3.htm, etc. and navigating them with hyperlinks on each slide that link to neighboring slides.

It's not like Back/Forward browser buttons are overrode to behave and previous/next for the slide presentation.

Remember those horrible embedded Flash presentations that you couldn't directly link to a particular slide within the blob? Yeah, that "breaks the Web". Back/Forward is supposed to go back to the previous page the user was on (which is a "slide" in this case).

Using Chrome 43.0.2357.81 (64-bit) / OS X.
> Binary protocols are hard to debug by eye, but they aren't hard to write parsers for.

Implementing a text based protocol (SMTP, POP3, HTTP0.x/1.x) for a client application is certainly easier and less documentation is required. Knowing the clusterfk of the binary Office document formats, the newer text based ones re far easier to parse (be it XML or plain text doesn't matter). Be it binary or text based, one has to write a parser anyway. Only with text based protocol one could also use Regex or string match during, which is quite useful for non-production development/testing.

I read about "prioritisation" of data as a hint for the server, and less caching of data on the client. With the reoccurring "net neutrality" debates, let's hope this protocol cannot be misused/used to prioritise certain packets for parties who pay extra. I am not into this debates, but it would be certainly a disadvantage for startups over established parties. Given the many problems with SSL (heartbeat, broken/outdated certs, hijacked cert vendors) an HTTP/2 without SSL would be a nice fallback scenario - wildcard certs for new startups are still a bit expensive, especially if one will have to replace (=costs) the certs every few months due security concerns.
Hmm, modern C++ memory management is not entirely different from before. You have std::unique_ptr which is a game changer. I recommend just learning the language itself well. The C++ Primer (latest edition) plus Effective Modern C++ would be a good start. Also, read that doc floating around about everything a programmer needs to know about memory.
You mean, it changes the page URL on each action you take? So pressing "back" takes you to the thing you were... looking at previously.

Going to a new tab in Chrome, navigating to <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7QXGYOLCh4fcUq0jDdD..., and clicking my browser's "back" button takes me back to the New Tab Page, so I'm not sure I'm seeing the behaviour you're describing.
A flaw in the design of the Internet
Seems cheap
Great question!

If you get shafted by your employer during maternity and they pull coverage early, and give you misinformation re: COBRA timing, and it's not an open enrollment window with the state exchange, even if you can convince the state exchange to let you in before the next open enrollment period, the soonest they might do that is at the end of the month.

And if you have any ongoing treatment issues, the temporary/indemnity insurance you'll have to buy won't cover any preexisting conditions.

TL;DR–if you get left in a lurch, you're still stuck on temporary insurance which won't cover preexisting conditions.
Leon Lederman sells Nobel medal to fund medical treatment
The quoted joke was not homophobic. Rather, it was a pun of a sexual nature. Homosexual sex is just sex. Jokes can be made about it, just as jokes may be made about heterosexual sex. People who don't like sex jokes are not "normal", they're prudes.
I would agree except that they also use scrolling to change slides. It feels a little weird to scroll down 3 ticks of the mousewheel, then have 3 clicks of the back button do the reverse action.
Advent Future
State wide prices are pretty useless. They claim the highest wage required for a 2bd unit in CA is ~$27/hour. I make about this much, and in the bay area actual 2bd rent prices would be 60-70% of my post tax income, before any utilities/etc.
It seemed so obvious that it never even occurred to me that businesses wouldn't do this, but you're absolutely right. My starting point here was that if you think you're not hiring for culture fit, you still are, but without any chance to consciously correct your own biases. But I never made the next logical step that it should be made consistent and explicit in a business. I think it's a good idea to do this. Of course I am excepting awful, discriminatory culture fit definitions.
I don't think you can dismiss my line of reasoning by saying "ultimately" and then saying something I didn't say at all.

It seems that we indeed cannot agree on a useful shared definition of "true". The laws of physics are ultimately indifferent to our notions of truth, and yet our notions of truth are instantiated as emergent phenomena within physics.
Considering OrientDB does everything and more, is Neo4j withering away?
Scrolling is a separate matter. I didn't even bother to scroll the first time. I just pressed the next/previous buttons on the slide navigation bar.

In the scrolling case, I still don't see how it's "overriding the browser buttons", but rather having a JavaScript that advances to the next page on scroll.

In the scrolling scenario, my actual back and forward browser buttons behaved as expected — just for the pages (slides) I visited. No more, no less.
One thing that puzzles me, those big co's have tons of engineers. One might say that they've commoditized the software development. So how come they're unable to solve some tasks internally? I'm not talking about some very domain specific tasks, where it makes sense to consult/contract some experts/academics, but there are just regular engineers working as a contractors/consultants for them.
For the record, I never said it was a cure...
Thanks!

I'm still not such a huge fan of the post given the lack of concrete examples. The whole "the author's opinions about what people do" genre can often be a bunch of non-falsifiable platitudes and generalizations that ultimately don't end up meaning much. Think about one of those dime-a-dozen blog posts about how those who succeed in business project confidence, listen to the client's needs, and have a great pitch that hooks people within seconds.

Okay, well enough. But that doesn't actually even mean anything. Instead of just having some boilerplate word salad, how about some examples? Provide actual examples of strategies real people actually used to project confidence in real life, real ways people listened to the clients needs, and real-life great pitches that hooked people in seconds. That way the blog post becomes interesting and useful to me, the reader. And without them "the author's opinions about what people do" is basically the sibling of the horoscope.
We need the WebSQL HTML5 standard - a client side relational database, somewhat comparable to the client side NoSQL offering IndexedDB.

Chrome, Safari, Opera and their mobile counterparts have a WebSQL implementation. Absent are Firefox and IE/Edge. There is no technical reason not to implement it.
Holy crap. I actually put this in my notebook to look into. I was flying home from Atlanta a few weeks back and I was staring at the hole, wondering why it was there.

I didn't get around to researching it, but here it is. It fell into my lap.
Great idea! Synthesizing additional signals to obtain more accurate results is one of the core concepts of context platforms. Pulling in extra data from other maps is something I'd seriously consider if the simplicity of the demo use case wasn't the primary concern.
First of all, "there were a couple things tacked on to the presentation that maybe could one day be used by a developer" is a pretty desperate argument, given that the keynote was three hours long and focussed on a ton of things that don't have any API at all, like Photos, and did not mention a single implication for a developer even for the things which had APIs, such as Now on Tap (which means that developers had no reason to bother going to the sessions on that feature, as it was clearly something designed for end users only; apparently it actually has a couple APIs).

However, sure: I'll bite. No: announcing random stuff that we can't play with and that they won't talk to us about is totally useless for developer. This entire event was just about causing people to go "wow, they are smart". I am a developer quite interested in 3D video, and so despite seeing Project Jump and going "ugh, another end-user product announcement", I figure I might as well talk to the engineers about it: only, they aren't willing to say anything about what might be available or how it works or essentially anything about their plans... so good luck "getting ready".

Regardless, the next thing you really need to defend, as this is what we are talking about: what are you, as a developer, doing to get ready for Photos? Google I/O has become less and less developer-focussed ever since it started (I have gone every year), and has turned into more and more of just a showcase of their end-user products. This year as the epitome, and all of the developers that I know who attended were quite disappointed; even the ones who still liked last year's somehow were now also saying "this event seems to have lost its purpose and is no longer useful".
Having to get off the train for 75 minutes, with all your luggage etc., is effectively "changing train" to most people, even if you end up getting back on the same train.
This is someone who doesn’t owe you anything or want anything at all from you tell an interesting story. If they were using morse code it wouldn’t matter – so no, you shouldn’t say that. (It’s always the same, boring, irrelevant talk about the presentation format. Who cares about such irrelevant things in cases such as these that are not the least little bit about presentation?! It’s so, so boring and so, so cliché. Wildly off-topic, too.)
Couchsurfing is not that effective if 95% of the community is just looking for a free place and 5% actually hosts. You've got way too many parasites in the community. With Airbnb, that problem is solved - people who don't host have to pay and the people who do host can still reduce their costs significantly when they go for a trip themselves.