skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the article, though, the "urban setting" was next to a highway, which isn't typical of any urban setting I've lived in. And the "natural setting" was still in the middle of Stanford, which isn't really what I would call a natural setting. If the parent lives in an urban area similar to the "natural setting" of Stanford's campus' green area(s), then I'd say that yes, the parent would benefit.

The study seems pretty handwavy, though. I'm not sure that a walk by a highway counts as a urban area control group. (Although, it also depends on what "highway" they are referring to. The street in front of the campus is not a highway the same way the freeway/interstate is.)
I've been using my own tool to manage my bookmarks and notes. I was thinking about making the boards shareable but it didn't get enough traction to continue it. Cool to see how close was our product names. Check it out and feel free to fork it: http://pinboard.space
"Views expressed are based on survey results of a 27-market study." A bit more detail concerning the source (without having to download the full report) would be nice.
"...killed by the only fatal reactor accident in US history."

Is that really true?

'“Nobody died at Three Mile Island” — unless you count babies.'

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/27/cancer-and-infant-mor...
Without closures, or something that well approximates them, it seems hard to say a language "supports the functional paradigm". You can write functional code in C, but beyond very simple things you're implementing most of the machinery yourself.

"A language doesn't have to be pure to support functional programming."

This is very much the case.
Couldn't finish it either. I thought that maybe there would have been commentary after a few of the tweets, but the format is bad.

I did see a few good points (Fullstack helps you understand legacy practices and why things were the way they had been..), but a lot was definitely lost in all the noise.
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How do you plan for your website to handle traffic increase from an upcoming marketing campaign? What makes Walmart, Amazon so vulnerable (http://bit.ly/1RRFAqn)?
"on the cusp of finding" is a much weaker statement than the current title "Earth-like planet discovered".
A similar proposal from a while back was one on "Rapid Bootstrapping of Space Industry," essentially concluding we could have a robust space industry with an industrial output 1,000,000x that of US GDP within about four decades - for as little as 12 metric tons landed on the moon to kickstart the process. The proposal relied heavily on automated systems and coming advances in robotics, but ignored other likely improvements such as atomic-scale manufacturing. Other than perhaps sheer disbelief I'm not sure why there hasn't been more interest in it.

[1] http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/affordable-rapid-bootstrap...

[2] Paper - http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09...
Holy fuck....I did not realize it was that bad...
Ok, we edited it for you to correct "heresy" to "hearsay". Seems like an important correction in a thread about religious text. (If you don't want this change, let us know and we'll revert it.)
> the amateurs should have the basic good sense to leave the airwaves to the professionals

That's pretty unfair. Amateurs often help out with communications after natural disasters, and historically have often been the first to setup radio communication in areas struck by natural disasters.

Situations were HAM operators can get packet radio through but cell phone towers and land lines remain down are not unimaginable or unprecedented.

(edit it's possible we're confusing each other's meaning. "amatuer radio operator" typically implies "licensed amatuer radio operator", in the same sense of licensed amatuer pilots. It's possible (even very common) to be licensed but not a professional.)
It's been a while, but as I recall, when it started it involved a proxy to inject the client code into pages, and a hosts file mapping that pointed an invalid FQDN ___._ to the backend, whose IP you had to get from someone who already knew it. Then, once you were in, there was also a karma system which limited the capabilities of low-scored users, and karma was hard to earn.

All told, it gave a strong impression of being less a web annotation system, and more a secret club for soi-disant cool kids. I didn't stay in long; a couple of days, no more.
What a terrible medium with which to convey that message. I'm sorry to see this kind of excuse for a story for the second time this week.
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There's basically no reason for me to carry cash in my daily life. Uber of all companies should be working to facilitate that trend, not impede it.
Try the Asus Zenbook UX305, everything works out of the box with Ubuntu and it's as thin as a Macbook Air but more powerful and with a ridiculously high res screen.
> Unfortunately you have to have a license to use Ham Radio.

Fortunately, amateur licenses are easy to get and you can do most of what you would be able to do on a modest budget with an amatuer license (with some exceptions) :-)
I'm not sure what the big fuss is over this.

Here's the story in one sentence: an angel recognized Airbnb's potential but never got the deal in writing so they used it as leverage for a better offer.

Paige invested in Lyft, Twitter and Postmates. He's doing fine and learned from this.
You guys are missing the point. AirBnB didn't screw me over - this wa any first deal and I screwed around debating stupid points. I was disappointed they didn't do the deal but this whole post is about lessons learned. And one of the biggest ones was move fast once you have conviction. At the time of this Airbnb event I was just learning. I thought an investor had to worry about all these little details, negotiate tons of clauses, etc. but post Airbnb I realized all that detail was stupid. After that event I learned to move fast.

Example: When I met Peter (Contextlogic now known as Wish) I wrote him a physical check within a day (pretty sure it was his first) as I planned to take whatever terms he ended up negotiating. And then I immediately started brining in other investors, introductions to engineers, etc

So don't take this post as a "Brian screwed me" / the screwing was all self inflicted and a very important lesson
Wow ! Your answer just boosted my energy ! Thanks !
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haha. Amazon requires vendors to provide 1 year of free service if they want to use Amazon's name in their bizdev.
That part of Idaho is interesting to drive through. It's near craters of the moon national park. The Idaho Nuclear Laboratory is pretty big. I remember it being nearly 50 miles along one side of the road with all barbed wire fences. It's pretty lonely and creepy out there. There was one cliff in Atomic City that was covered with graffiti of large random numbers. It turned out that the numbers were from high school graduating classes but the numbers weren't in order so it seemed like some random code.
My biggest frustration with Linux development is how poor it has made windows development env look in comparison. Every time I have to fire up a windows VM to do some work for some of our clients that still use MS tech I hate it. Before using Linux as a dev environment I honestly thought windows and the associated dev tools were really good. Now using anything else seems like a huge chore.
There's a great speculative scifi book called "Welcome to Moonbase" (Ben Bova, 1987)[0] that is written as an employee manual for people relocating to an established moon colony. There are sections on the history of the moonbase, the economy, the social aspects, living and working on the moon. It's a fantastic paleofuture read, and is one of the books that kindled my love for sci-fi and space exploration as a kid. It's fiction, but does make it seem like living on the moon is something achievable within our lifetimes and could serve to answer the question "can we colonize the moon?".

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Moonbase-Ben-Bova/dp/034532859...
I enjoy ideas. Here are the ones from the tweet storm:

• Full stack law firm: template all contracts, law APIs as core, hyperdeflate legal costs.

• Full stack clinic: mobile EMR/EHR, qself, genomics, telemed. Employ MDs w/ tech skills. Accept insurance, prefer cash subscriptions.

• Full stack architect: put @vannevartech APIs at core of new construction co. Start with unmanned buildings like datacenters to derisk. Ultimate goal = hit enter to build a building w/ drones + prefab.

• Full stack accounting firm: Given bank account, auto prepare it all: tax to diligence to S-1 w/ legal sign off. (@xero could do this).

• Full stack restaurant: Mobile order/pay/reserve, A/B tested dynamic menus w/ supply chain integration, robot prep.
> Would it be interesting to have some community that would allow you, as an employed hacker, to find other hackers to work on side projects with?

I'd just go to local programming meet ups, hackathons, subreddits, github to new a few. Even on the internets I often see Sydney based hackers and it ain't exactly the tech mecca of the world.

I think the relationship is better if you meet in a way where the focus is not on networking but doing something else. The worst meetups are ones designed for networking. I hate those. It is like a shark tank and leads to very stinted conversations in my experience.

An idea for you:

Create impromptu 'popup' 1 hour hackathons. Name a cafe and a time, and anyone who pops up with a laptop you just work on something together, or share ideas or whatever.

You could get the idea started the good old boot-strappy way - set one up in your city every day (Mon-Sun) at a different location, and you and a friend turn up so that if anyone else turns up there will be at least 3 of you so it wont suck.

Make them find you via the website. Then if it catches on and grows add another venue, and you and your friend split up, so now you have two meet ups happening every day. Etc.
Of course is can be completely reasonable to ship with a known bug, which is why my initial reaction to the OP was: why are you bringing this up here?

However, not all bugs are made equal and this one seems relatively likely to actually cause problems for users. Wouldn't someone running some service and handling say 10 requests/second, while using the regex global variables, run into this bug on a daily basis?

So I guess I'm just interested in how such a decision is made: what bugs get shipped and which block a release?

If this bug would reasonably cause problems in such a situation and if the policy of JRuby is to ship anyway, that seems to be a relevant piece of information to consider for someone using JRuby in production and considering whether to upgrade.

Perhaps one should always check the list of open bugs for the version of a compiler/interpreter one intends to start using, but I've never done so, haven't been bitten by a bug yet (AFAIK) and yet this one seems one that could be a problem. The main problem is of course that this may just be 'the curse of knowledge' in play.

So I guess I was being a bit dismissive towards OP, then I was sympathetic and now I'm mostly thinking about how I should handle this as someone using JRuby in production. Perhaps I should just ignore it. Perhaps I should investigate the set of concurrency tests and contribute a few. Perhaps I should be conservative and only use 'proven' JRuby versions. Perhaps I should learn to stop worrying and love the bomb :)
TL;DR. Try it here: https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental=true
I recommend checking local Meetups(www.meetup.com). I have yet to be in any city where there aren't people just like you who are just looking for people to build cool stuff with.

I also believe that is actually the main objective of most Hackathons.
One thing we can all learn from AirBnB: if any group of people you hire for any reason, even on a contract basis, do one bad thing on the Internet one time, haters on the Internet will never let you live it down. Hire carefully.
I've actually found JRuby to be very handy when it comes to packaging. Using warbler I can generate a jar file and then using the javapackager I can create self contained packages for all the major platforms/package managers: windows (.exe/.msi), linux (.rpm, .deb), osx (.dmg). Way more painless than packaging a ruby runtime. I've tried traveling ruby, but have not had the same seamless experience. Especially when it comes to multiple platforms. However, packaging with java, jruby and my application usually turn out to be quite large. Around 80Mb for a CLI and the startup time for short running programs like CLIs using JRuby can be quite long.
Over is similar, but not identical.
Greg was not in CA, and snap is open source, so this example is a non-issue and the author didn't care.
Let’s not take that call
It seems most of the content is under "Standard YouTube Licence"[1]. Since this is historical footage I would have preferred if it was under Creative Commons, so that it could be included in other videos. Anyways, this makes YouTube even more useful for preserving and making notable videos more accessible.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms
You missed the part where the reverse operation is inferred automatically -- not just written explicitly to run in the end.
They probably have Google contractors, not employees. Or former employees, since their website has already shown to have proven deceptions (like claiming to have solely created Yahoo Weather)
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Well, if it did fall apart at the literal last hour and you were going to sign the formal paper work (which only reiterates the terms already negotiated and agreed to at dinner) the next day, but didn't because YC came in overnight and took the entire round...then it does sound like you got screwed.
TC's business model is to publish startup press releases.
I guess Mark Cuban forgot to explain this correctly.

If you follow sports at all, you know what I'm talking about.
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So why does JRuby never got as much traction as other jvm langs like clojure, scala, groovy? I have heard good things about the ruby syntax, top that you get unparalleled powers of jvm like gc, cross platform, libs and much more!
There are very differing options between cities and countries. This article shows a bunch of them: https://medium.com/@ImJasonLi/around-the-world-with-uber-124...
"one file isn't going to make a difference"

That's what they all say, every single time.
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I walk 20 minutes to and from work through park each day. I like it, but I kinda associate that park with my job at this point, and immediately start to think what I have to do the next day.

I also like to go on a few hours long photo-shooting trips through my city and it relaxes me more, no matter the relative lack of nature. I think the point is - it makes me focus on different things, after a while I'm in the "flow" and forget about daily problems.
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is also one great scifi classic Although more later stage living on the moon and revolution.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Moon-Is-Harsh-Mistress/dp/03128635...
TMI's radioactive gas release was nothing compared to the years of above-ground nuclear tests in the 50's and 60's. There are plenty of non-nuclear superfund sites that have done more harm too.
I'm slightly alarmed by urls such as: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi?text=Hej&s...

Relative paths allowed from user input is usually a HUGE warning sign. Are you sure I can't make it open arbitrary files? What happens to your cgi script if it reads a file in the wrong format?
pH is highly relevant to the types of life sustainable in a body of water. Yes, it is absolutely more complicated than just pH, but pH is significant.
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Some people like living on the edge. Angels are a certain kind of crazy.

Also high risk -> high reward, right? 10x in 7 years can be game changing.
Yes, you can stick to 16-bit and keep using 640k of RAM, segments and offsets

No, thank you
In 4th grade a friend got an Amiga. He boasted that it had 4096 colors, and we ridiculed him mercilessly. There aren't that many colors! Can you name them?

We had our Apple IIs and TI-99/4As with their 16 colors or less and couldn't imagine anything greater.

Then we went to his house and saw Defender of the Crown, and we were humbled.
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Sorry, but this protocol should be improved: "in" is ambiguous.

All the startup has done is repeat verbatim what the investor said. In this situation the startup has signaled receipt of the investor's offer and has not signaled intent to ratify or otherwise accept.
This seems interesting.. Anything more in depth to share?
The SL-1 story is well known in the industry. The Atomic Energy Commission has a video.[1] SL-1 was an experimental reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, an 8000 square mile AEC reservation. It's an isolated area, and the test reactors were many miles apart, just in case.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOt7xDKxmCM
How and where did UK lose city-sized area of green space in just six years?
I was a power plant operator on a nuclear submarine. We were shown a classified film that about the SL-1 incident as part of our training. Recalling that film still gives me chills.

A lot was learned about reactor safety as result of that disaster.
Does the Demon Core count as a reactor?
The easiest criteria for becoming an accredited investor is to be a millionaire. So I'm assuming from your post that you are not a millionaire. Startup investing is very high risk, and if you can buy a meaningful stake in one startup, your odds are actually worse than the roulette table. So you need to invest in multiple startups without going broke, and for that you probably should be at least a millionaire. Regulations stopped you from doing something foolish.

If you take that money you've been saving and invest it in something more conventional, it won't explode 100x overnight but you'll definitely get somewhere.
On the other hand, we can still read the great novels and do with them what we wish, and the man is long dead. So maybe that hipocrisy isn't that relevant these days?
"You're in for [number]" is meant to be interpreted as acceptance.
This is awesome and i only now begin to really grasp the importance of things like this. I recently showed some german post and pre WWII footage to my grandma on youtube and she was delighted about the ability to access that kind of rare footage on demand. I recorded her commentary while watching the videos which was super interesting. She remembered many small details of living in Berlin post-war that she probably wouldn't have otherwise. She is 87 now, so i plan to do this a couple more times and make a video that shows the footage with her commentary on it, just to be able to preserve some of her thoughts and feelings.
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How on Earth did they strongarm anybody? Whatsapp didn't want to meet with any investors. Sequoia put in a lot of effort to be allowed to invest at all.
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reminds of FAT, where clever scheme was put to keep the long file names in between the short ones, using several records, all begining with \0x00 so that they are ignored.
I remember having similar trouble imagining why a PC would need a sound card.

After all, the PC speaker could already play every note: C, D, E and so on... What could a sound card possibly add?

Then I got a copy of Sierra's demo cassette that had sounds from games like King's Quest IV and Space Quest 3. It blew my mind. I listened to it a hundred times. (The whole cassette is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC91456D0EB82E02A )

Of course the Amiga had 4-channel sample playback several years before my Sierra cassette revelation, but I didn't know anyone with an Amiga at that time.
Most embedded shops release u-boot source, just not in a very usable state, eg. based on old versions, zip package instead of version control, not following any of the development practices or internal organization of the original project... Same thing with the kernel. Excited to see mainline support!

Source: working in embedded, trying to fix how we release exactly these things.
Starting a company is like building an airplane and trying to fly it straight off a cliff. You might crash, it might be a foolish use of your time, and you might die, but you have a lot of control over whether or not that happens.

Investing in a startup, with the bulk of your savings, is like being a passenger on that airplane.
I have presided over a couple of to-PostgreSQL migrations but I've only heard of one away-from-PostgreSQL migration, and it was Skype when MS bought it.
From that paper: " A 1980 summer study at the NASA Ames Research Center (Freitas and Gilbreath 1980) showed that self-reproducing machines are theoretically possible."

I remember that crowd. They wanted to have self-reproducing machines on the moon by 2000. I asked, "how soon can you do it in New Mexico". They didn't like that.
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> Nobody died at Three Mile Island” — unless you count babies

Seems consistent with liberals...
A small to medium business website is never likely to get as much traffic as Amazon gets on holidays. If you are going for serious marketing campaign then you have to keep in mind following things.

1. Total volume of traffic

2. Maximum simultaneous connections

3. Average page size of landing pages

If your average page size is 1mb and you are likely to get 20,000 pageviews a month then you need atleast 25GBs of monthly bandwidth to handle the traffic.

The second factor is simultaneous requests. If your campaign condensed to a specific time of day..or by any other reason, you get 1000+ people coming at a same time then a shared hosting will fail. Alternatively, you can distribute traffic to entire 24 hours to reduce simultaneous server requests.

To handle huge traffic, you will have to follow these steps.

1. Bring page size to minimum.

2. Estimate maximum number of page views and simultaneous visitors

3. Contact your web host to check for their limitations and choose a suitable package.

4. Distribute your content to various servers. Place static content on a CDN.

This is just to give you some food for thought. Research on these lines to get your site ready.

Hope it helps.
Strongly disagreed that it's a good reason to avoid databases. If you are going to collect data of any value over a long period of time, pick a horse and stay on it. Over time, technology and business needs might force a re-evaluation of that position, but you don't want to build around unmeasured plans to maybe switch databases at random some day.
I had a similar experience calling into Sierra's 800 number and listening to their hold music, which was music from their games played on a Roland MT-32. I had an 8 bit Sound Blaster at the time, which sounded pretty good, but this just absolutely blew my mind.

Today it's kind of impossible to explain to a young person that at one time, there were sound cards, and they were analogous to video cards today in that the music in a game would sound much better depending on how much you spent. In a world with MP3s, MIDI just doesn't compute.