skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you can download custom iconfont and put in on any static server, it happens that they actually sell ~1mb static hosting for 100$ year.
It does not make any sense.
There used to be a few good examples on Dwave site through the dev portal they used to have, if you Google along + use archive.org you find some, here is an example ... http://archive.is/RE13f ... while it is black box it still gives you an idea of the python interface they exposed.
Thats funny, I was just remembering installing one of my first Linux distros where I had to choose between 2.2 or the brand new 2.4. I remember booting between them to see which one worked best with what I had.

I suppose I had to decide to deal with ext3 not long after that.
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I'll remind you just as politely that when we post our experiences to public forums, judging comes part and parcel with that.

True, but no one here really has enough information to truly make those assessments. That said, I get what you're saying and I actually agree with you to a large extent. In our case, doing things the way we chose was not a reflection of anything specific about the business or the business model, it's been more a reflection of our beliefs and attitudes and principles.

And to be fair, if I had to do it all over again, I probably would change a few things. Not a lot, but some things. Like not neglecting my health. I just went out and spent an hour on my bicycle earlier tonight, getting some exercise in. That was a part of my life I let slip over the past few years. Never again... I learned that lesson the hard way, and thankfully I'm still here to benefit from it.
There are a few problems with ceramic knives. The problems that I see personally are:

-Not sharp enough and no way to sharpen them at home without diamond, or potentially aluminum oxide, stones
-They're chippy and breaky. One of the reasons most makers produce them without a pointed tip. The high hardness of a material that is inherently not tough, reduces the toughness further. This material has the ability to take a razor edge, but it would be uselessly brittle. Under light use though, I can see them working really well for some users.
-The geometry is terrible. The bad geometry of the blade sacrifices cutting performance, the bad geometry of the handle is just uncomfortable. Their near weightlessness is also a detriment for anything beyond small tasks.
-They're typically only small and, again, lack pointed tips
-I find them to be particularly unattractive

Again, if they work for you, great! I got nothing against that and nobody should think less of you. They just don't work for me.
Frats are only for white people? I guess these folks[0] didn't get the memo

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Greek...
"Jackson Heights (7/E/F/M/R)"

Also ten minutes from Penn Station on the LIRR, whose Woodside station is next to the subway station (a bit more expensive than the subway, though).
Agreed. I'm native, born and raised, and learned about "gypsy cabs", "car service" and how to hail a yellow cab back when yellow cabs still had "jump seats". Uber has democratized what affluent people have always known, money can buy anything, including someone to drive you somewhere.
My point: If you find a group of us to be deers because we allow ourselves to be distracted from the work we are required to do by the criticisms we have of others then you are made a deer as well by being critical of us.
Well, I get that. To be as blunt as possible for comprehension - Tolstoy and the like, when they are busy living "the law of love," are actually dissociating themselves from the savage instincts (while identifying with the tender ones), which gives rise to the delusion that their newfound identification is somehow our "most natura, basic state" that other people need to return to.

This is the same old Spiritual nonsense being regurgitated by the so-called secularists. For example, Zen masters talk about (returning to) one's "Original Face" which is the same thing, ultimately. However just because some popular person says something doesn't make it so. As we know that human nature, deep down, is comprised of both the savage (fear, anger) and tender (nurture, desire) instincts - it is simply not possible at the same time for our "most natural, basic state" (that we supposedly had in the golden past and have lost since then) to be exclusively tender (love) in nature unless, of course, one is either smoking something or sitting cross-legged to some dissociative state.

> We may some day in the future be in this state (I hope so)

And I too hope we will figure out a way to live in complete peace and harmony. But denying human nature — as the likes of Gandhi, Tolstoy, Buddha are wont to do — ain't gonna get us there. We can already get a peek at what happens when people deny human nature by observing modern day social politics.
yes, me too. I remember living on the edge with the 2.4, I used Slackware. I recompiled the kernel once or two times a day :/
Always patching nvidia driver (in cli) because I cannot access X11 without driver :D
Easy pure python parallel workflows (OOC and in memory)
Ask HN: Gmail and Google Voice compromise  any ideas?
Last night I got an email stating that someone had gone through the process to recover my user name from my phone carrier. I have a family plan and multiple people pay, so I didn't think much of it. I should have.
This morning I noticed first thing in my gmail inbox was an email stating my long defunct google voice account had been reactivated and had been forwarded to a new number only revealed as --28. Literally within minutes of noticing that email I get dumped from my google session on my phone and find my password has been changed "Within the last hour" according to the google recovery process.

Meanwhile on my phone, I started getting texts for account password reset procedures for paypal, ebay, etc, etc. At this point I realized he was getting my text messages. Fortunately I was able to make enough phone calls to get the critical stuff under control.

If that wasn't enough I start getting text messages from the number that the google voice had been forwarded to. This time though I get the full number.

To which I received;

12:20 PM Hey 12:21 PM 10 BTC for your shit back and we go separate ways 12:46 PM Or do I post your nudes on your FB 01:26 PM Im closing all your accs perm

I looked up the number and found that its carrier is registered as bandwidth.com

Ugh ... to say the least.

So here is the conundrum. I wasn't using google authenticator (big mistake it seems). However the attacker has control of my gmail and google voice (essentially my phone). There are no contact numbers for either google voice or gmail.

I did contact my phone carrier and had them forcefully remove google voice from my account. I did the long recovery procedure for my gmail account which apparently takes 3-5 days.

Has this happened to anyone before. What do you do? Should I report this guy? I mean kids will be kids ... but a ransom? Thats pretty over the line.
That's not nature, that's how people behave in a leisure enviroment, and in other locations where they feel some commonality with the people around them.
Thanks for pointing that out! I hope the EFF updates their article.

Question: how can they push charges on the sources if they do not know who the sources are? (Or do they?)
I need this as a semi-historically-accurate Kirsten Wiig / Amy Schumer buddy comedy, and I need it yesterday.
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Well, both of you are right. The kitchen knife market in larger by way of necessity. However, I suspect that the market for outdoor knives >$500 is larger than that of kitchen knives. I do have kitchen knives showing up soon above $800 and am talking to makers that produce knives around $1500.

Still, I'm interested in outdoor and pocket knives. I plan on integrating them within a year. For now though, I'm trying to find a great EDC knife <$100. If you've got any suggestions on any of these fronts, I'd be happy to hear them!
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The Extended File System is not a hypothesis, it was a real filesystem. But it was replaced by ext2 (from the same author) very early, and by the time the distributions we know today were being put together it had already become the default choice. I don't know when exactly ext was removed from the kernel tree.
> I strongly think that there should be very strict regulations on how much they may drive.

And how will that be enforced ... how, exactly? Short of proactive electronic monitoring in every single vehicle on the road in Europe as a prerequisite for driving anywhere at all, that is.

The entire premise of this operation is that you throw caution to the wind and save money because it's an extra ~$200 and you're making around $3/hr, if you're lucky enough to be employed.
A complete general implementation requires some kind of static notion of an "inverse", which is hard in turing complete languages. But really this is quite a bit like RAII for a lot of practical applications.
I've got running copies of both preview and keynote open right now with no active or open documents in either.

I think what you're seeing is not a closing-windows behavior but a memory-saving one. MacOS can and will close or suspend applications that are not actively doing anything to free up memory and CPU cycles. This is enabled by 2 features/APIs Automatic and Sudden Termination. See http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/8/ for the Full Siracusa.

For obvious reasons, applications that properly tell the OS they are in such a state are the ones you'll most often see this behavior in, and Apple's first-party applications are written that way.
'Worked for Gandhi' != 'worked for the weak'. The weak in India have a pretty poor experience.

I also wouldn't use the New Testament as a canonical reference for human psychology. Jesus wasn't above a bit of 'violent' police-work anyway - chasing away shopkeepers from a temple with a whip isn't purist non-violence.
> For a while, some thought that might be a filesystem called reiser4, but that story failed to work out well even before that filesystem's primary developer left the development community

This was a nice toungue-in-cheek for Hans Reiser going to prison
Does anyone know if original german version is available online?
"Pools" are multiple riders.
According to Ted Ts'o (maintainer of ext4):
"the main reason why we did the ext3 -> ext4 fork was that adding 64-bit numbers required major surgery, and we didn't want to break a lot of production users who were using ext3. But from a file system format perspective, ext2, ext3, and ext4 are the same logical file system."
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/97986)
I just published “Programming fashion – the rise of Declarative Programming”
Parenthetically, the "dots" mentioned were a later diacritical feature added to Qur'anic texts to mark the placement of short vowels; since Arabic, like Hebrew, elides short vowel sounds in the written text, Muslims without Arabic fluency need markers to show them how to verbalize the Qur'an. (Arabic is seen in Islam as a particularly holy language, and while the Qur'an is widely translated, it is considered especially pious to recite and memorize the text in the original Arabic, even if one does not know the language.) I believe diacritics were introduced some 250 years after Muhammad, as they were only needed as Islam expanded beyond the Arabic-speaking world.
In most of their cities they are already a monopoly or near monopoly. Liquidity is a hugely massive advantage for both drivers and riders.
Firstly, I have no inside knowledge of their complete model, just assuming.
Travis has said that the early markets are 'profitable', the early markets are also their most competitive. So the 20-30% model they have now should allow profitability in all the 300+ cities they're in. I'm assuming the margins are very tight, and that they have to do a lot of volume to be hugely profitable, which they're fast approaching.
> Reducing the surface area of roads does not magically remove cars from the roads, it just creates congestion and traffic.

Most traffic theory maintains that this actually does magically reduce traffic. People who would have driven now decide that there's too much traffic and find another way. Similarly, expanding highways doesn't reduce congestion, the number of cars just increases to the previous levels of congestion.
That was pretty much what I was saying yes :).
I'm not actually involved in any mix-related projects (Though I'd love to be if I ever find the time), but I'm always happy to talk about them.

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Well, I can think of one and its name starts with "g". I've done Elance/odesk several times and its far from pleasant.
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Great point. Thanks for this! Part of the problem in elaborating on these differences is needing avoid the insider lexicon and references to insider knowledge. When I start to explain it, it becomes excessive. When I don't explain it, I risk alienating those that, for good reason, don't already know. Either way, I'll definitely work on this.
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Really cool ! Do you guys have any plan to expand other languages or IDEs ?
can you elaborate what that quote means?
under sounds like with in Python, e.g.

with open('workfile', 'r') as f:
read(f)
It's not clear why they don't remove both ext2 and ext3. From the article it sounds like they're equally redundant but harmless other than taking up space in a directory listing. Does ext2 have "features" (read: potentially useful bugs) that are no longer present in ext4?

Edit: Ahh. Looks like I missed "good filesystem for developers to experiment with."
Pride is in numbers:We saved Gir's Asiatic lions,but is it enough?
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> As a point of reference, compiling ~200 Scala classes at a time would take ~2.5 minutes on average.

Odd... I just did a full compile of a Scala project I work on which has:

- 259 source files

- Contains dozens of macros[1]

- Results in 2097 classes (includes companion objects and anonymous types)

And it took 75 seconds on my laptop. As I mentioned in another reply, doing a full recompile is rarely needed but was done now to provide quantified metrics.

1 - http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html
Operational efficiencies, sure, but brand plays a STRONG hand in said company's profitability as well I believe.
Isn't what he's describing very similar to the "with" statement in Python? You can define a context manager to use with "with" that has methods that get executed on the entry and exit of the "with" block, e.g., to open/close a file or acquire/release a lock.
Reminds me of Python's "with". I use it a lot for the "open the file, read, close it" idiom.
> His response was it was a lot of hype about of technique that requires a large amount of wasted samples to even get one usable mutation.

That's how progress happens. The difference between CRISPR and other techniques is that failed tests can be conducted for hundreds of dollars instead of thousands and in weeks instead of months.
Perhaps ext4 should be renamed ext34.
As the author pointed out, the ext2 is more like a canonical example of how a fs should look like. More for educational use I think.
That was exactly my thought. The pattern isn't new at all. C++ calls it RAII.
Thanks madars! This is actually the link (2nd one) I wanted to post.
It's already happening. 40min and counting of waiting in line to speak with a pm, not even starting with the quoting talk.

Idea is good but scaling to loads of projects will be a very hard endeavour (and scaling back after demand dwindle)
Yeah, RAII helps encapsulate this pretty well at least for the object case, but the notion of having an "inverse" operation is useful in many other situations.

An example I've run into a lot is wanting a generalized "toggle" for DOM actions in javascript (for example, show/hide), so if some property is true, I apply a transformation, and when the property is switched off I can apply the reverse easily.

The trickiness with RAII (or things like context managers in python) is that it mainly works when you have a companion object representing the action (files are the companion object to getting handlers through opening/closing for example). But what is the object you could use for scaling?

You can, of course, build a Scaler object (or MultiplierFactory ;) ), but I find myself wanting to avoid objects and methods to instead go for plain functions as much as possible.
This one? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13864 It is a little disappointing he didn't issue a new release with the patch included. Perhaps it can be rationalized that the original fork is abandoned, but distro-maintained forks are fine.

As someone who runs tinydns to serve a few personal domains, I'd be interested to hear of another simple, solid option, if it fixes any concrete problems a recent Ubuntu build of tinydns has.
I think Ubers monopoly will be at least as strong as Ebay's in online auctions. There's a humongous liquidity advantage.
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What would be the corresponding context manager for the summing example, where you use the square function and the inverse (the square root) ?

Context managers works well for files (or general relations on objects really) but less for more abstract operations, I've found.
Ahh, but did you understand any of it? Many people, particularly Indians/Pakistanis do this without understanding it. It is a very odd thing for me to comprehend.
You completely failed to produce a meaningful post; i don't understand what you're on about.
And that's not opinion: that's a fact of life in tech that repeats endlessly. Induced demand, Jevons paradox, Parkinson's law... the principle shows up endlessly.

Now, what effect it would have on a 1Gbit anonymity network is anyone's guess. All the streaming and web apps on my network don't really impact its normal performance because they're much slower than it. So, this concern might not affect what the other commenter proposes in practice.
I imagine because during their training of what the icon means, they will have been told about the reference. It's like how we all know the Rutherford model of the atom and what it represents, despite no human every actually seeing one in person... and it not being quite correct. Show someone an icon made from the Rutherford model and ask what it represents, and they'll say "an atom".

It's about training. Look at this picture[1]. If you made an icon from this simple structure, do you think people would understand what it meant? It's a pretty unknown bit of technology, but what it does has a clear analogue to a common function on websites. If only one site used it, it would be confusing. But if it were used by almost everyone, all through your growing up, you'd both understand the icon, and that it was shaped that way because it's meant to look like this object.

[1] http://www.reon-tuellensiebe.de/_EN/kategorien/Home/dateien/...
Saved. :)
This was found out to be a hoax 5+ years ago. Did this site not get the message?
Anyone familiar with seawater knows it is not acidic, nor anywhere close. Similarly, inland dry lakes (places like mono, great salt lake, salton etc) are not acidic. But the ph is not relevant to why they can't sustain life. Its a lot more complicated than that.
But if they face a new entrant they can easily just lower prices and suffocate them.
As far as I know big trucks have meters that monitor how long you have been driving (at what speed).

While I have no idea what that costs, you should be responsible for what you are doing on the road. And if commercial driver think it is a good idea to drive 100h in just 5 days, such reckless behavior has to be stopped. If you want to save money and sacrifice your on health, that's your decision but endangering others is a no-go.

I'd also be reckless (and forbidden) to drive without working breaks even if they have worked well enough for you so far. If you don't sleep enough, your reflexes will be pretty bad and that is just as bad as not having functioning breaks.

And how much would that cost him? Maybe 200€ per trip more. The cost would not only be split among the passengers but also among his legally smuggled goods. And I think he is making enough money if he gives each passenger tobacco that he sells for a lot of money and even has someone's paycheck for half a year with him.
I just got back from a walk in Nature for my lunch brake.

A Kookaburra stole my sandwich and now i'm stressed as fuck and angry at the world.

/anecdote
I think this is it.

Apple commodified fun computing - made it affordable, a bit lateral, a bit serious, but also creative and artistic.

No other computer company tried to own that space. The 8-bit S-100 companies were all serious bizness. Then IBM ate business computing, and it was all over for them.

Atari and Amiga tried to get into that space, and did okay for quite a long time. They died when they couldn't keep up with Apple or PC hardware.

Much later Apple did the same thing again with the iPhone and the iPad. (But not Watch, which is none of the above.)

IMO this is why MS completely failed with Win 8/10. They tried to make an OS that looks like it should be playing in that space, but MS isn't culturally predisposed to being lateral, fun, or artistic.

So instead of a camper van with a rocket engine they made a Jeep and glued Lego all over the windows. (Lego is fun, right?)
Yeah. The Q70 starts at Woodside, actually.

I personally always take the LIRR to Jamaica when going to JFK. It's a bit nicer than taking the E (from Manhattan), and a bit faster than taking the A (from Brooklyn, get the LIRR at Atlantic Terminal) because the Jamaica AirTrain seems to run more frequently than the Howard Beach AirTrain. The LIRR also runs on an actual schedule, so you will end up at the airport when you expect, which always makes things less stressful.
Why did they put their restaurant in a location that depends on a single, possibly illegal, transportation service to get their customers to them? Was that location easier to get to when they opened?
Does it strike anyone else as unseemly to share the pitch deck? I get that it's 7 years ago, but still seems like something a little out of bounds to me.
It means do only what is needed. If you do anything extra, you could be wasting your effort and/or causing problems. Doing just what is needed is sometimes difficult for developers.

I have made the mistake of spending too much time slavishly implementing some pattern only to figure out later that it was just serving my need to implement the pattern, versus just getting the job done with a simple procedural script.
Yeah. it's not new.
basically every programming language that respects itself has it in the form of:

- with blah do x
- using blah do x
- try(blah) { do x }
- File.open(blah, 'w') {|f| f.write(x) }
- there are even GCC C complier extension to hook in behavior like this

It's all over the place. Everything is new and old at the same time
Some commenters are pointing out that this is similar to "with" in Python.[0] At first glance - and using the example given of reading from a file - that may be true, but consider the final example given in the article. The Pythonic way to calculate the magnitude is something like:

math.sqrt(sum((i**2 for i in numbers)))

Using "with" to calculate a magnitude would be tortuous at best and it certainly wouldn't result in idiomatic code.

The point of the article is to illustrate the idiom: perform operation A, then operation B, then the inverse of operation A. "with open(foo)" or "using (foo)" implements that idiom in certain, specific cases, but not in the general case which seems to be what J implements.

[0] Or "using" in C#, for that matter.