skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, bullshit, as if taxi drivers weren't already contractors without any benefits. Hell, they had to pay to work, by renting a medallion from millionaires like Evgeny Freidman, who can actually afford to buy them. Uber only takes a cut if you actually make money.

Here's an article from way before Uber came around: "Driving a Taxi, Difficult in Best of Times, Gets Tougher" - http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-di...
Is Yoga good for you? Here's what science says
If you want an excellent book about Commodore:

http://www.amazon.com/On-Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Commodore/dp/...
Orientation entanglement
Creepy: http://i.imgur.com/jvbK94t.png
This is the reason you work for a startup in the first place. It's a gig where you get to play with cool tech and VC money, then get spit out sideways onto the job market when they invariably have to lay off the whole team. The "consequence" is that you get a free pass to look for another gig that pays better without the stigma of having job hopped.

Startups, from an employee standpoint, are not about getting rich off of the company succeeding. That won't happen. They're about building your skills in a fun environment, socking away as much cash as possible along the way, and leveling up your value by burning through a bunch of fun, hopeless companies in a short period of time.

The fact that it took this one 4 years to cycle itself is actually the only downside I can see here. Everything else is what you signed up for (whether you realized you were signing up for it or not).

Now go out and double your salary.
Wow. Facebook sure uses a lot of react.
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I use ZFS on every machine I directly control and could never consider going back.

Definitely lost way too many files to XFS zeroing things out on a crash.
Taxi drivers were already precarious workers, with no benefits. Uber changed nothing in that regard.
Not only was it the side of the prison, but students were actually TAUGHT in a former prison for a while in 1910 until a school could be built.
The Chinese room isn't a conversation thats the whole point. It actually unwillingly represents the neurons in my brain that doesn't understand Chinese either.

Searle is making the wrong analogy because all he shows is whats going on with the input/output when he really should show the entire house as the intelligent part.
Have you asked whether you can bring in another developer at some point? Assuming your work is useful you don't want to support it 24/7 with no holidays? I work for an engineering company and came in as the 2nd developer. Over the years I've brought in many short and long term staff which has been a great learning opportunity. It takes a special sort of guy to be a one man team long term and is not for me.
This is a really important point that many people are strongly resistant to.

False memory is a thing and many people refuse to accept that it could happen to them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24286258

(There was a radio programme this week that demonstrated the process of giving someone a false memory. I would post a link but First Great Western (the train I'm on) blocks a bunch of BBC website.)
>there's a growing suspicion in these comments that this startup was breaking the law

It is very fascinating to me still how the threads in HN tend to always reveal a much larger picture than the tone of the original piece. These discussions often have more insight than the articles that everyone is making popular!
So I guess you're fine with calling books "merely paper" because they are a "subset" of paper-based products? And you're fine with calling people "merely animals" because they're a "subset" of animals?

Human language is not based on set theory. There is a huge difference in connotations here.
Man, I want to hear the answer to this question. I got screwed royally as an angel investor because I was too quick to write a check.
I try to travel as frequently as I can

me and my wife used to as well, until we started realizing that sometimes it is complete madness to do so: there are of course the ecological and economical reasons, but the main reason is we figured we don't have to travel to get into nature. A couple of years ago I started hiking around the city where we live and discovered a whole wealth of beautiful nature of different kinds I never even knew was there. Which made me feel stupid and enlightened at the same time. Stupid because of not knowing it was there and being sucked into the 'you must travel at least x times a year to visit nice stuff' which lives strong amongst many people I know. Enlightened because of knowing it was just there for us to visit whenever we feel like.

We took this idea a bit further and instead of travelling abroad we set our minds on discovering all beauty around us by simply taking the bike and doing a short trip (say 20 or 30km) to an area we've never been before. It is simply amazing what we found already.

Granted, this is not for everyone, for starters because not everyone lives in an area where there actually is easy to reach countryside/rural area, but I highly suggest to look at sattelite images of the area around you, look for green spots and ask yourself if you know what they look like. And go figure it out if you don't.
We have regulations for that, it's called "traffic law". The problem is enforcement, not the lack of rules.
Haha, the pants is a great example, thanks! If I may, I'll use that example internally, hopefully to good (and hilarious) effect!
Combining keyboards and festival toilets, the two dirtiest things known to mankind, only seems logical. This could have spawned new lifeforms.
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I used Polymer for a project a few months ago and I ran into browser support issues. Polyfills helped for most browsers, but my application wasn't working on iOS Safari. I'm not sure if that is still the case, but if so, I would choose to use a different framework such as Angular (easy to pick up) or React (slightly more difficult to pick up).
Can anyone share a non-paywalled link? I'm getting "subscription required" from LWN.
Thanks so much for writing this, I love learning about cases where seemingly concrete rules can be bent. Take a look at Uber who is constantly being told that what they're doing is illegal and their response is essentially "but it's better so the laws need to be fixed". I think that's the same attitude you want when doing everything you can to get back in the deal. Always be optimistic and don't give up to soon.
I think there is a tendency to focus on finding an algorithm that determines weither and how many discussions are "the top x". But really this is not the point of discussions. The point is to maximize usefulness for the participants (weither they actively participate or passively just read along). Also to maximize usefulness in the long run, meaning discussions need to be archived in a way that they can be re-started easily. One discussion basicly concentrates the opinions and arguments around a certain topic, so the starting point is a plain topic (like "discussion about application containers") and not nessessarily a question (like "what do you think of docker?").

The whole question is really interesting.
> As a player, your goal is to win the game, period. But for everyone else, including spectators and the whole support industry that is built around the game, it doesn't matter who wins. It matters only that the crowd is entertained. A player being too good makes the game boring, and so it is discouraged.

I think this misses the point that in many games, for many players, they simultaneously have the role you describe as "player" and "spectator"; while they want to win the game, they want the game to be entertaining and not boring, as well.
Same here, although it is a subscriber link..
Public toilets the pleasant way
I've had the opposite impression of ZFS - it's saved my data on a number of occasions when ext* would have failed completely. I personally think Sun's engineers did an amazing job with ZFS. Plus while the file system is hugely complex, management of it is remarkably straightforward - which leads to less user / sysadmin error when running it.

Sadly though, I do agree with your judgement of Btrfs. I trialled it for about 6 months and found it to be conceptually similar to ZFS but very much it's practical polar opposite.

However, like with any software decision, the right file system choice depends as much on the platform's intended purpose and the administrator, as it does on age and features. For file servers, ZFS is an excellent choice; but for low footprint appliances, you'd be better off with ext4 or xfs. And desktops is just a question of personal preference.
Well, it does have the meaning "it is widely considered a war crime", which is all I was asserting in the first place. I'm not really interested in a semantic argument with you, nor discussing the topic of whether Americans do or should give a fuck about their image internationally, nor even whether the term "war crime" makes any sense in the first place. The parent claimed "we understand that it was horrible war crimes" and unless you interpret "we" to mean "literally every single extant member of the human race", then the claim is accurate.
Indeed, it doesn't make any sense. From the user point of view that is, from their point of view i understand their subscription plan only way too good. ($$$$$)

Don't forget to include the information of the visitors you are leaking if one would use it hosted at theirs. Way more then 100$ value a year :)
I'd imagine a lot of kernel developers use virtualisation during development so that they can still boot their machine (though they probably aren't running Macs).
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This post was from January, but strangely enough, it seems it never got submitted here. I've been using the Algolia HN Search "experimental" interface for months and it works really well. You can turn on the experimental interface through the "settings" link [1] on the bottom of the search page.

Some people love to see "thumbnail" images of the sites in the search results, and they most likely have all the required bandwidth/speed/latency needed to view the images without discomfort. For people on slow, high-latency Internet connections, the thumbnail image loading is slow and annoying. The good news is, after you select "experimental" mode in the settings, you can then turn off thumbnail image loading.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/settings
It wasn't always healthy debate. eg the ZFS vs Btrfs arguments often used to be little more than fanboyism flamewars.
I tried it for a while and it sure has potential has one of those modern monitoring systems that are replacing nagios right now.

However, in production I would not want to run it in a docker. I would want to setup my own server with option to scale it to remote pollers.

In my org we ended up choosing another nagios replacement, but not because of any flaw in bosun.

I love iterating over the main points that we look for in a monitoring solution.

Self-hosted. Scalable, remote pollers that can plugin to the central servers. Locations, remote pollers can add locations to monitor from. Collector agent that runs periodically from monitored servers instead of the nrpe model that listens to connections. The collector OS agent is windows compatible and backwards compatible with nagios scripts. Monitoring focuses on sending metrics first and foremost, so you can set thresholds for metrics, just like bosun does. And of course, with those metrics the web gui draws fancy graphs for everything.

And last but not least, all of this, monitoring agent, pollers, they all use a standard API like REST or xmlrpc.
XFS always had the trailing zeroes problem. And has no FSCK if your filesystem gets really messed up.

I still use reiserfs when I have to run linux (these days I'm mostly FreeBSD with ZFS).
We have used such systems in industrial control systems for decades. TSDB is integral part of any modern SCADA system. This patent is a nonsense.
Yet another great innovation crushed by unimaginative soulless beauracrats.
For a 41 year old man like me and many of my generation the influence of Commodore was life altering.

It was the Apple of it's time, better in many ways than Apple itself with so much potential. Seeing Defender of the Crown for the first time, or using Deluxe Paint, or ProTracker. You just felt like living in the not evenly distributed future where you were in the forefront and everyone without an Amiga was years in the past.

The innocence and magic feeling of all this at the time, unexplored possibilities an amazing time I hope every generation gets to experience in their own way.
I have yet to meet a Muslim that doesn't claim it is the perfect word of their god.
Sounds like a masturbatorium
I saw Kasian Franks speak at a meetup in Oct 2007. A friend suggested that I check out SeeqPod since I had worked at an earlier music streaming startup. As I recall, he made a negative comment about the labels, near the end. His position seemed precarious. Warner sued a couple months later.
You can run ext4 without journaling. You can also run ext2 with the ext4 driver. The reason for keeping ext2 around is more for educational purposes rather than compatibility with removable devices.
> Do you think graphs are more expressive?

In principal, yes. Getting the UX right so that more than a few people will be comfortable using it...

From working with mindmapping software I can see where graph (or multigraph) presentation of discussions could work well.

> What about going even further and model discussions as Hypergraphs or Multigraphs?

I can see utility in annotated multigraphs, but I don't see hypergraphs providing much that graphs don't already provide.
He said "Terms for subsets are still useful.", so I would guess no he is not fine
OLAP?
Well said, its just hard to see that combination of accessibility and magic happening again, everything was new to everyone (almost) back then.
Seems to be. I know some diehards don't like Unity but the majority of people I know running Ubuntu like it a lot, and according to this guy it's looking good on mobile as well. I look forward to trying it out, I have an older Samsung Galaxy phone that should be able to run it for testing.
Bitcoin: How Barclays might make the 'Ebola' of banking palatable
Reminds me of the time Nintendo came up with the world's stupidest name for a console, the Wii.

The jokes that came out then too.
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Precisely why it should be improved.
sublime text 3, out of the box.

the only plugin i have is ES6/Babel syntax highlighting.

it mostly "just works"
I think that AP is making some money from these videos by hosting them on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ6NNLCdio has ads in the right sidebar (one of the newly uploaded videos).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC82Il2cjqA does not have ads.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2467968
I'm not an expert (but, so most people are no experts in this area), but i have a feeling that ZFS needs huge amounts of memory (compared to ext). It does nifty stuff, for sure. But do i need all of that? Hardly.

For example, i am wondering why i would want to put compression into the file system. Or deduplication. Or the possibility to put some data on SSD and other on HDD. If i have a server and user data, it should be up to the application to do this stuff. That should be more efficient, because the app actually knows how to handle the data correctly and efficiently. It would also be largely independent of the file storage.

I've seen some cases where we had a storage system, pretending to do fancy stuff and fail on it. And debugging such things is a nightmare (talking about storage vendors here, though).
But for example, a few years ago we had major performance problems because a ZFS mount was at about 90% of space. It was not easy to pinpoint that. After the fact it's clear, and nowadays googling it would probably give enough hints.
But in the end I would very much like that my filesystem does not just slow down depending on how much filled it is. Or how much memory i have.

edit: Also, just to clarify. I think that Sun had one of the best engineers of the whole industry. Everything they did has been great. Honestly, i have huge respect for them and also for ZFS. I still think that ZFS is great, but in the end, i am wondering if it is just too much. For example, nowadays you have a lot of those stateless redundant S3 compatible storage backends. Or use Cassandra, etc. Those already copy your data multiple times. Even if they run on ZFS, you don't gain much. If you run ext4 and it actually loses data, the software cares about that. That's just one case, and of course it depends on your requirements. Just saying, those cases are increasing where the software already cares for keeping the important data safe.
I remember in the announcement they had a great tagline that completely changed my reaction from "lol, stupid name" to "OK that is good" - Wii will change everything
i would suggest having a list of potential stereotypes and having people from the other countries vote on them =) and then choosing the stereotypes
And if you read the Talk pages you'll see he still has his defenders, getting angry about him being described as a murderer.
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I loved my Amiga A1000. I forgave the early, buggy floppy-based firmware (Kickstart) and OS (Workbench). I think this experience tempered me for a life working with good-intentioned but buggy operating systems. :-)
Yeah; just think if the same product had been sold by the well-known Vector Graphics brand :)
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Mhmm, all it does is to highlight every DOM element that has a reactid. So it does not only highlight the components but every DOM element that was created by react, so for me this is not very helpful.
It's an example of a country where women are legally treated much worse than men. There are no examples of where men are legally treated much worse than women.
Researchers identify plant cultivation in a 23,000-year-old site
http://127.0.0.1:4001/#/fr :-)
Travis Goodspeed had a nice hack using Celestrak data
http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.co.uk/
I've never seen $1 used in production code.
The name "iPad" was made fun of a lot too when it was first announced (being compared to tampons and stuff).

That aside, I think iLoo is a genuinely stupid idea and no amount of rebranding could've saved it.
You have to be pretty savvy to avoid getting scammed with venture capital.
Bring Kindness Back to Open Source
I browsed through the website, but couldn't find if it had SNMP support. If it has, it can maybe replace Zabbix for our company.
Will a commercial enterprise see people as a needless expense that hurts their bottom line? Why cant robots mine the moon withiut us?
I think it's even more bleak than that, because adding the N+1th worker bee adds N new communication paths, unless you start segmenting people into org trees, which at that point you now have to maintain managers and middle managers.

Roughly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law
Thanks. Still, on the same page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Muhammad#Views_...

"It is not possible to write a historical biography of the Prophet without being accused of using the sources uncritically, while on the other hand, when using the sources critically, it is simply not possible to write such a biography."

I believe both Jesus and Mụhammad existed and both were just humans, the former just a prophet who managed to be ingloriously killed, the later just a military leader who invented a surprisingly effective ideology for his bloody conquests (or the prophet who had the "luck" to live his bloody character, whatever). How these things develop can be easily seen on the more recent and good documented example of

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

One of the most interesting parallels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%27s_wives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joseph_Smith%27s_wives
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At the CCC Camp there is something called the Datenklo (Data toilet) where they use festival toilets as weatherproofing for network equipment.
You haven't replied to the question at hand, the externality, at all.

And your "because" lacks any kind of supporting evidence.

Please stop derailing this subthread with your free market bullshit.
You get a little bit of security by trusting Apple. But Apple does not give you the option to also trust someone else.

You trade your freedom against short-term convenience. On the long-term it means that you have to accept all decisions Apple takes, even if you dislike them.
For Firefox users (like me), you can copy paste the content of this file [1] in the debugger, it also works.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cymen/show-me-the-react/ma...
When does such material become public domain?
A slight tangent: another non-standard way of communicating high-dimensional data visually is to render it as human faces.

Peter Watts mentions the idea in his novel "Blindsight" [0], but amusingly enough it is based on actual research:

> those [faces] used near the end of the book represent a very real form of statistical analysis: Chernoff Faces[1], which are more effective than the usual graphs and statistical tables at conveying the essential characteristics of a data set[2].

Here's a passage from the novel:

> He nodded, turning his attention to a woman with no eyes. "Skull diameter scales to total mass. Mandible length scales to EM transparency at one Angstrom. One hundred thirteen facial dimensions, each presenting a different variable. Principle-component combinations present as multifeature aspect ratios." He turned to face me, his naked gleaming eyes just slightly sidecast. "You'd be surprised how much gray matter is dedicated to the analysis of facial imagery. Shame to waste it on anything as—counterintuitive as residual plots or contingency tables."

[0] http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

[1] Chernoff, H. 1973. Using faces to represent points in k-dimensional space graphically. Journal of the Americal Statistical Association 68:361-368.

[2] Wilkinson, L. 1982. An experimental evaluation of multivariate graphical point representations. Human Factors in Computer Systems: Proceedings. Gaithersberg, MD, 202-209.
Their computer had a stroke. If we can simulate a neural network I guess such a "bug" comes with the package :D
> But is the graphics of CHIP comparable to the one on Raspberry Pi?

The CHIP uses an Allwinner R8 SoC, which uses a Mali400 GPU (source: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/06/07/allwinner-r8-module-d...). RPi uses a VideoCore IV GPU.

While there is no open source driver for Mali400 available, it has been partially reverse-engineered (lima). For the VideoCore IV there is an open source driver available, but the SoC on the RPi is special in the sense that when booting the VideoCore IV is the core to start, which later in the boot process starts the ARM core(s). On the VideoCore IV there runs a proprietary OS (probably RTOS) that is based on ThreadX. So most things the open source driver does are simply calls to this RTOS via a mailbox.

Nevertheless the RPI developers market the VideoCore IV GPU as the most open embedded GPU available. Indeed it is the only one, where an official open source driver is available and thus it is more friendly towards bare-metal programmers that want to write their own OS. On the other hand, the RTOS running on the VideoCore IV is a large blob in an instruction set that has not yet been deciphered.
I've never been on the linux mailing list before, how do you actually view the diff of this patch?