skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're open to alternatives, I highly recommend using Sequel. It integrates fairly well with Rails, optimizes extremely well on JRuby, has a consistent update schedule, and has a real API for developing plugins against. I realize it's not part of the standard Rails stack, but it actually makes upgrading Rails easier because you're not constantly chasing a non-standard API that changes release to release (even on MRI, ActiveRecord "plugins" break with almost every release).

Disclaimer: I now work on JRuby full time. But prior to this I ran Mogotest and switched to Sequel successfully on that project.
In Britain and other places people have the right to roam, but in America nature walks are generally most accessible to city dwellers. Seattle has loads of easily accessible natural areas (off the top of my head, Karkeek, Magnussen, Seward, Ravenna, Schmitz, Discovery, Lincoln, Arboretum). Where I grew up in the sticks walking in the woods meant trespassing, angry dogs, and barbed wire, or a long drive to a state park.
I wonder if there are stories about running Selenium tests in production. Something in the lines of semantic monitoring (http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/semantic-monito...)
Twitch is ditching Flash for HTML5, just like YouTube
> that's where our platform comes in.

"our platform" is quickly overtaking "the cloud" as something a web browser extension should replace with "butt".
Well, you stated the obvious difference: one set of novels is Western and Tolstoy is not. His sensibility and his viewpoint are Russian. Embedded in his works, especially Anna Kerenina in my opinion, is a prescient understanding of history and if you are the type to infer this sort of thing, human nature.

It's rather interesting that you include Pride and Prejuidice in your examples because that's a novel that a non-westerner would not understand fully. It relies too much on our embedded understanding of a very specific social structure, culture, class dynamic, etc. to the point where even an American who hasn't watched a fair amount of PBS might not fully appreciate it.

It's probably worth picking up a lecture series on the novels and another on Russian history.

And I'm not going into all the deeper, more philosophical content many see in the works.
Combine that with the extremely realistic 3D renderings available today and you'd be able to make whatever VR... fantasies you wanted. Fun and exciting.

Reminds me of this article from 5 years ago: http://www.dansdata.com/gz103.htm
>I make a donation voluntarily, expecting nothing in return.

Sweet, can I have some cash then?
Very fair argument. However there also existed a consistent, full-time effort by significant numbers of people, around 70 in number, (known as Ashab as Suffa or People of The Platform) whose sole job was to memorize the Koran (and learn its interpretations) during the lifetime of Mohammed. They lived in the mosque pretty much all day, and did nothing else. Their learning was regularly checked, and presumably feedback given by Mohammed, until his death. It is not impossible to imagine that they were able to memorize and organize the current canonical text in the right order, even though it was revealed piecemeal. After Mohammed's death, these people went on to travel all over the Islamic world and teach students, giving rise to the "thousands" of memorizers within the 2nd generation of Islam, with no recorded incidents of version conflicts among the 7 established dialects.

However even with that, it is understandably difficult to believe that no mistakes were made in transmission. That's why the Quran calls it a miracle, and calls it Allah's job, to safeguard the integrity the Quran. That fact there is an established canonical version today with zero conflicts among all major prints in all countries is somewhat of a miracle, considering the fact that Muslims across cultures argue and disagree about a lot of other things within the religion.

As for the Muqatta'at, they are a part of regular recitation - they are not simply written characters.
My interpretation is that now you own a smaller percentage of a more valuable company and in theory your dollar value stays the same.
For the definitive Tom Friedman takedown, consult Matt Taibbi's 2005 review of Friedman's book The World Is Flat: http://www.alternet.org/story/21856/flathead/?page=entire

Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays. I'll give you an example, drawn at random from "The World Is Flat." On page 174, Friedman is describing a flight he took on Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Hartford, Connecticut. (Friedman never forgets to name the company or the brand name; if he had written "The Metamorphosis," Gregor Samsa would have awoken from uneasy dreams in a Sealy Posturepedic.) Here's what he says:

"I stomped off, went through security, bought a Cinnabon, and glumly sat at the back of the B line, waiting to be herded on board so that I could hunt for space in the overhead bins."

Forget the Cinnabon. Name me a herd animal that hunts. Name me one.
> If technical books were in comic book form I would be happy--kinda like some military manuals? I just want the information. When I'm learning someting, I like a brief summary of what we're doing, or explaining. Then, I like simple numbered steps. Then give me the theory. The least amount of words; the better! I do like a lot of relevant pictures.

I think there could be a real market for that.
What's the name of the town?
Then it's the role of the employer to set the "bare minimum to not get fired" == "busting [your] ass" and enforce that strictly. The system works!
I'm no fan of Uber and I can't stand its founder or his ridiculous smirk but... they played this well. Uber's got game when it comes to politics. If either political party ever learned demagoguery from Travis, I'd be scared.

It helps them that their opponent isn't sympathetic at all. Non-zero medallion values, by definition, mean that there are too few cabs on the road (and in New York, there are). The Medallion Mafia pisses me off; just a bunch of rent-seekers stealing money from drivers.

I'm actually glad to see the Medallion assholes get "disrupted". I just wish that it were a different company taking the lead in doing it.
The company is not actually selling "five percent of itself". It's selling shares, and the number of shares in the whole company is a board decision.

In serious financing rounds, the company sells preferred shares which have shareholders agreements attached that might protect investors against dilution, for instance by allowing those shares to convert into common shares at a rate that accounts for any dilution.

In practice, dilution as a simple function of outstanding shares is a fact of life, expected by everyone who invests.
Maybe, but if each market is isolated then the network effect is small. To dominate a market you just need enough drivers available to meet the market expectations. If you have two businesses in a market supplying an equal quality service, but where one is 20% cheaper, then the cheaper service will capture the majority of the market.

An alternative hypothesis might be that nobody can think of a way to make money by investing in such a market and so they don’t.
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I feel like, a few years from now, a new kernel developer will wonder why there are ext2 and ext4 modules but not an ext3 module, and this will be the answer.
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There is a slight difference. One doesn't chose to be black or be gay or chose what age they are. These are givens. One does however chose to believe in a religion. Also, blacks and gays and senior citizens don't generally have a habit of proselytizing and judging others morally inferior based on differences. Being blacks or gay or a senior citizens also doesn't require a world view totally at odds with manifest reality nor require financial support or political or even violent action. Some religions do.
It's done with the permission of a majority of shareholders (and any the remaining shareholders had agreed that this is a sufficient condition when they bought shares).
>is there a mascot celebrating Dresden bombing? Or fire-bombing of Tokyo? There is not much difference, beside "efficiency", between those and Nagasaki/Hiroshima. Decades ago it seemed a meaningful strategic bombing operations. Today we understand that it was horrible war crimes...

No. No, we do not see it that way.
Thanks for all of this!

- Glaring Issues: You're totally right. I need to build a landing page for that link. I had originally hoped to create an enticing link to get people into the shop, but I'm realizing it just seems misleading. It had been on my to-do list, and I clearly should've finished that before posting.

-General Sales Feel: This is actually a bit of a problem. Quantifying the characteristic benefits of hand-forged knives, made by people doing it their entire lives, is close to impossible. Any knife is capable of taking a sharp edge and cutting things. How long it holds an edge, how well it performs when cutting food, how it feels, I don't know how to equate these to reasonable metrics. I could give a 1-10 personal rating based on my perception of each knife, but would that make sense? Or help?

I had heard about the "brands to avoid" issue from another poster, and I totally agree with you. I'll be working on changing that tonight. All I meant to say, especially regarding a company like Wusthof, is that price/value ratio is not right. You can get a better knife than a Wusthof for the money. Wusthof still makes some worthwhile knives if they fit your style, but they also produce an incredible amount of not worthwhile knives, at slightly lower prices, in an effort to capitalize their trusted brand name. Again, my apologies for any offense I've caused. If a person loves any knife they have, then it's a good knife.

You're also right that it's an information overload. I feel that it's my responsibility to educate where I can; I'm not just in this to make money. It doesn't seem fair to sell knives like these without offering people a local way to learn the elementary concepts of these knives. What would you suggest I do otherwise? Should I keep these articles but produce simpler and abbreviated ones that could link to the full articles? Where would you want to see this information?

-Selling High-End Stuff: That's a good point. Ultimately, I want make my shop accessable to chefs and the industry. Yet, it will be essential to orient myself towards the home enthusiast, be it the collector or home cook. I believe that the majority of my sales will go to home users. Yet, some of the posters have called out the hand-made, pedigree, and tradition aspects of my content as bullshit-y. I think that both sides are important, but I still haven't found my balance of fully expressing both. Is there product copy that you think works particularly well, or poorly?

That video of John Neeman, god damn. So picturesque. Process videos, use videos in fine-dining restaurants, etc. are on my list. I won't be able to get back to Japan this year, so it'll be a while. I'm working with some American makers, so I may approach this idea with them. That's one hell of a video.

Are there any videos that you would've liked to see on my site?

Thanks again!
Also they might have a library in place for speed development. Startup of services have all the same set of core needs
Can you give an example?

Because I am just not seeing your point. The whole point of a PaaS is to not code to an API. You throw a 12-factor app at one and it Just Works.
Yes this is the problem. Unless investors don’t care about returns how will Uber extract the profits required to justify their current valuation?
Note that ext4 FS driver can mount both ext2 and ext3 filesystems on its own. So this isn't that big a deal.
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Japanese concept of 'forest bathing':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_bathing

there may also be a biochemical process here involving the inhaling of phytoncides

we don't really need another reason to respect and protect trees and nature but there is ample evidence that we need them much more than they need us
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I find it interesting that people now consider Snowden the authority and source for all these things.
Oh I love that site. Periodically skim it for interesting reads. Btw, is there a way to contact you or a place you usually frequent if I do get involved in a mix project? My limited resources and memory troubles make it unlikely. However, if I or someone I meet is into it then it would help to have someone that can bring people up to speed on the subject.
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> What would be the differentiator?

Pitching themselves as "Uber for $X"
This actually sounds like a fantastic opportunity to have your development work subsidized by some rich VCs.
I don't disagree with those very insightful criticisms. I also recognize that Pinker is making a very sweeping argument in his book, one that he likely can't fully back up.

But it feels like we're expecting a lot from Pinker. Basically a full analysis of all types of coercion that can possibly occur. That seems a basically impossible task to undertake. Drawing the line somewhere does not seem unfair.
Do you have anything you can point at regarding String performance? Everything I've seen shows JRuby being faster than MRI. But I'm looking to see if we can make it even faster than it currently is. Any pathological cases would be incredibly helpful.
Depends if you are requesting a donation or a tax?
I believe you are correct, so you cannot just hobby hack on it, but it you have a serious purpose I think the team will listen to you.

In any event "List of QC simulators" appears to be just that, a list, with no stipulation that it contains only open source software, etc.
it's actually hard to generate really high returns without doing prorata. If you don't do it and you invest into 1,000 companies, your pot of money is spread mostly over companies not doing well. If you keep pro-rata it will be more concentrated among companies that are raising subsequent rounds, which is correlated with doing well. Thus, your money will lean naturally towards better companies
You're right that Google has a clause for IP/Invention Assignment, but if push comes to shove a court would probably invalidate overly broad parts of a Google employees employment contract, so I think this fear is overblown. But 1) IANAL and 2) I didn't work at Google.
If GA hired LN to produce an annotated code, then that means the annotations are owned by Georgia, which means they are public record and not therefore copyrightable.
It's pretty much a natural monopoly and very difficult to compete against once in place.
Not an ad! I was looking for any input, which so many people have been kind enough to offer me. Though I understand your irritation. My apologies.
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Not the ACLU. James Risen. Journalist.
Who owns the project source after initial development? Who actually manage deployment in production (and ultimately pays for the vms)?
They exist:

https://www.nostarch.com/catalog/manga
If you have enough liquidity you can implement pools and cut prices in half. It is not easy to compete against.
I think that's a mistake. You are using abandoned software: djbdns 1.05 was released in 2001. It even has a published security flaw from 2009, for which the $1000 guarantee was paid by DJB, and yet there is still no official release to fix the issue (there is a patch available from other sources).

There is a fairly healthy ecosystem of BIND alternatives these days, but djbdns is not one of them.
Obligatory "I feel old" post: Feels like not that long ago I was wondering whether to patch my kernel and upgrade to the experimental ext3.
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You do have 320kbps enabled right? I think it sounds quite good.
How is it a natural monopoly? A natural monopoly is something like the electrical poles and wires. I can't see how Uber could even become a normal monopoly even if everything went their way.
Hey Dave, just wanted to thank you for fontawesome. Fonticons looks pretty cool as well, just signed up.
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Yup it should work fine with external libraries and project functions. Basically: If your tests can run it, Alive can run it.

That's bizarre that AdBlock breaks it for you. Hopefully everything works now (if not let me know and we can try to figure it out)
As others have said, if the cab has the "on duty" light on, just get in.

If, and the happens a lot late at night, the cab does not have the on duty light on you can negotiate.

I've gotten steep discounts or even free rides for agreeing to do stuff like pick up the drivers wife off the clock on the way home.

Like everything in New York, everything is negotiable.
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So it's like pivotal labs, or any other contract shop? Why would anyone fund this?

This sets off my "peak tech" sensor like nothing before it!
Yea, but it's 1000 times easier to organize a ride share with Uber when the app will automatically pair you with someone with similar source and destination locations.
Thanks! And _definitely_ let us know if there's anything we can do to help!
I had completely forgotten about the whole reiserfs saga: v3, v4, creation of ext4, ZFS comparisons, then the trial.

The file system wars were an interesting time.

God I've been reading LWN forever. I had already been reading for many years when that stuff was going on.
Babel performs tail-recursion optimization.

It is, as far as I know, impossible to use trampolining to perform tail-call optimization outside of very limited special cases. You need to do either whole-program rewriting--which means rewriting both the original source and every library or module included--or you need control of the engine itself.

Whole-program rewriting is very impractical and additionally imposes the trampolining performance penalty on every function and method being invoked. It’s very much like implementing continuations by rewriting in continuation-passing style.
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Ok, when was James Risen charged with treason by the US?

AFAICT, the most significant legal battle he's had with the US Justice Department was over the latter's attempt to force him to testify in the trial of Jeffery Sterling, a former CIA officer charged with leaking. Risen himself hasn't been charged with anything.
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The individual choices of Uber drivers aren't what I'm concerned about. I'm concerned about the overall normalization of precarious labor that benefits the owners of capital and hurts the people doing the work. It starts to hurt workers everywhere if everyone gets used to accepting all of the risk of employment, not having access to workers comp or unemployment insurance, etc etc. And given the kind of benefits packages tech companies typically offer their workers, Uber's practices are especially hypocritical.
"$4,536 a day buys you a Bitcoin denial of service attack."
And at that point it's much easier to report them for breaking the law.
I have seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, "The Future"
The Espionage Act in the US serves a similar role to the broader treason laws in many other countries, which often include the kind of offenses included within the Espionage Act. So, while "espionage" and "treason" are, indeed, different words, being prosecuted for what German law calls treason may well be more analogous to being prosecuted in the US under the Espionage Act than it is to any other US offense.
Likewise: http://imgur.com/ux3xfL5
First I thought, what about people with ext3 installed - then I've found this post - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1996708

"no fstab changes required. The ext4 driver has been able to register
itself as ext[23] for quite some time now, so it's transparent.

Many/most distros have been using the ext4.ko driver for ext3 & ext2 for
years. You may already be using that on some boxes, and not even know it.
;)

-Eric (Sandeen)"

Some more techincal information here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/97986 (thanks madars for the correct url)
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This contains many inaccuracies. I think you've let your personal views influence your perception too much.
Thank you! During lunch break I walked to my local library and checked it out.
If you're using firefox, here you go:

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/abbbca60ec286cc73f92
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Another interesting side effect of the outdoors that I've noticed is the impact on human social interaction. I ride the train into SF every day and throughout the week I sit next to countless other people without speaking to a single one of them. I went backpacking through the Lost Cost Trail last weekend and had a conversation with literally every human being that I passed. Not just a "hi, how you doing?" but a genuine conversation about where they were from, what part of the trail they started on, where they were going, what they had seen. In fact, I would get people waving and saying hi from 100 yards away across a stream. It felt genuine and easy and I'm pretty sure they all felt the same.
Ahh but of course. It has the distinct advantage on my iPhone of having a manual EQ as well which means I can tune it just so for my headphones. It beats out the stock media player for listening in most situations
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A similarly biased selection of Romanians I've met in western Europe include an architect (UK) and a bank manager (Loire region of France). However, I actually spent a month cycling around Romania in 2010 and never saw any crazy vans. It was really pleasant, never had any problems, lots of educated people with perfect English, great food, wine and beer. Highlights were cycling up this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transf%C4%83g%C4%83r%C4%83%C8%... - Brasov and Rasnov, plus the old tumble-down mansions on the backstreets of Bucharest, once known as the Paris of the East. Great country!
I don't understand why would anyone pay 120€ for a small van with only one sleep-deprived driver when for 115€ they can get on a regular bus with 3 drivers that rotate and respect European regulations for the number of driving hours in a day: http://www.booking.atlassib.ro/csp/onlinecardpayu/infocursep...

Just for the opportunity to transport forbidden items and the convenience of being dropped exactly at their destination?
Ha! I appreciate fingerpointing with some knowledge behind it. You're right, I don't currently have any Sakai lasers. Though some of my knives are made in Sakai. The two reasons I'm not stockpiling lasers are:
-they're typically manufactured and not hand-forged (most of the better ones are hand-ground, however) and though I have no significant opposition to this, it's not where I wanted to start. I have limited resources and I'd prefer to support to individual craftsmen for now.
-I've used a good handful, and I've loved very few. People lose their shit over the Sakai Yusuke, but I can't get into the samples I have. That said, I've owned and loved some Tanaka R2 knives. Crazy thin and also high performing. I'm working on stocking some soon.

The hipsterish feel was not an accident. I wanted clean and hip with both modern and traditional elements. The other side of this spectrum has been done already!