skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Clojurescript and love it, and also really like Elm. I think the difference is that the Clojurescript community is really on the leading edge of web application development techniques. Elm does it all right, in a similar way, but more basic. In Elm you're also encouraged to develop UI's with no private state and a single Immutable app data structure, but that strategy only gets you so far. Om has the concept of cursors to deal with this, and Om Next will have the evolution of that in a GraphQL type solution which I think is the future.

So basically I'd do any serious development with Clojurescript. Elm is a really cool thing with a small community that's fun to mess around with.
This is what I could find about mining ether: http://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/content/mining.ht...
Which skills do you have?
Are more technical, creative, or business-oriented?

Without knowing anything, I would suggest selling services/freelancing. Your gross margins are high and you usually don't need initial investments.
I don't think you understand what network effect is. A network effect is where the network raises the costs of switching to another network significantly that they are locked in. ex. FB and your friends.

There is nothing that suggest Uber has a network effect that locks in a user to use Uber. You are talking about a quality effect from the assumption that more assets will lead to a lock in effect but it's hopeful at best. There are no barriers to entry to erode future Uber profits if they make money and no perceived cost of using new entrants services or existing ones.
What's wrong with DBpedia?
I'm not surprised by the UI dissonance.

I was in the insider preview, and they changed the UI style they were going for a few times. I suspect its just a matter of scale: they eventually settled on a given style, but didn't have a chance to upgrade the six million dialogs in the system in time.

Importantly, its not just look but the app technology that needs to shift. The new stuff is in the Universal App framework, some other stuff in WPF, and the ancient stuff in forms. I imagine as the updates come in, one after another dialog will be updated.
It's more complicated than that -- x86-64 systems only use 48 bits of addressable space. JS engines use all the remaining bits for tagging, not just bits resulting from 8- or 16-byte alignment. This works great until you want to run on another CPU architecture that actually has 64-bits of addressable space and uses it regularly...
An Arch Linux install with i3 as the window manager will consume <300MB of RAM and be (subjectively) more responsive than Windows. On the same machine, a default Windows 7 install will take 1.6GB of RAM.

I think it's a baseline like this that leaves people wondering why Windows by default needs to consume large amounts of RAM.
That's the part I'm split on with regard to the right to be forgotten law. I support it in regards to allowing people who have served their time (post-probation) to be forgotten/forgiven in regards to their crimes. And the way we use the Internet today makes that nearly impossible. I'm not sure if it's Google's job to erase or censor data other users create as that would set the precedent that anyone can ask for anything to be removed from the index. This is both bad on the basis that Google's reliability depends on indexing all it can (but respecting the robots.txt no indexing rules) and to harm that reliability for reason, even good ones, could mean that what the general public knows is being actively censored. Governments would love to make Google into the memory hole in that respect. And corporations already have that sort of functionality via DMCA which isn't any better.

In a perfect world, Google wouldn't index criminal records because they wouldn't exist online (imo, unless it's a crime that is as serious as rape, murder, assault, or major larceny it shouldn't be in the public) and folks who have naughty pictures on their Facebook wouldn't be shamed by society (at worse they would just be embarrassed). But we don't live in that perfect world, so I hope we can come up with as close to perfect solutions to the problem. I think the first step is to make sure we have better privacy advocacy on government and corporate information. Google can help foster that front with their own lobby efforts if they have any. It wouldn't be against their best interests, imo, since Google has no real need to freely share user information other than metadata. But I'm sure they would oppose any strengthened privacy laws just to cover their bottom line.
James Woods demands $10m from Twitter troll for 'coke addict' claim
Very interesting result from DuckDuckGo for "unbridled socialism" (without the quotes).

It asks "do you mean unbridled capitalism?"
and then gives me only results for unbridled capitalism.
I paid good money for that RAM. I don't want it to go to waste.
Actually, it's not excusable to have issues in the kernel or UI.

I just brought up the kernel thing because I was pandering to someone inventing poor excuses for MS. I shouldn't have pandered.
And I can recommend against it.

I attempted to use them for a while but found the upload speeds of their (proprietary and closed) clients to be utterly useless for anything more than a trivial amount of data.

Everything I found pointed to it being a client issue (the client was simply not uploading 90% of the time and my PC was more than capable of performing the required encryption and hashing operations far faster than my network connection could accept the bits) so I opened a ticket and talked to their support for over 6 months (!!!) and in the end they decided to just refund my money.

If you have a trivial amount of data, go ahead and use the $7, 30GB plan but don't fall for their 1TB plan, there's no way you can get close to using it.
Presumably he would then give the money to some other charity.
The boom in mini stomachs, brains, breasts, kidneys and more
I think you're correct but I don't think the author was arguing his version was Tolkien's intention, just that it fits the evidence surprisingly well.
Kickstarter Campaign to photograph wounded war veterans gets 410k
There's something very 90s about this idea. Also, I'd have thought it would include paying via SMS billing as well? How is this different from visiting an ecommerce site on the phone?
In a giant’s shadow: LinkedIn and Twitter
> 'Move fast and break things'.
In a way, Mac OS X is like that.
>we went from Hello World, to doing VGA graphics with the different SCREEN modes and FILL, LINE, etc, making programs that could play christmas carols using the built-in MIDI commands

I miss these in the new generation of languages. You could do so much cool stuff with swithcing to graphics mode and using pixel, line and circle commands. I was able to write a (1) shooter where you shoot down a plane that moves horizontally across the screen and the projectile was subject to 'gravity'. (2) A program that 'morphs' one outline to another. (3) A wireframe/3d space shooter.

I was able to build all this without the internet, with plain high school math and physics. And I wonder if I was a kid who grew up in todays environment, I would have been able to build the same. I have the internet, but I doubt I would be enticed into making stuff like that, like I was enticed by QBasic. I mean, one minute you are printing multiplication tables, the next minute you are turning individual pixels on/off on the screen. I remember it being a very empowering feeling.
For those interested on exactly how to set one up and how it works, there is a great Vimeo video outlining installation and operation:

https://vimeo.com/128802766
Everyone I've ever discussed LoTR with either can't remember Tom Bombadil or despises him. That's about 20 data points for what it's worth.
Very similar. I used to own an OP-1 and loved the visuals. On a different note, does anyone else have a massive slowdown of their browser while viewing https://stats.ethdev.com/ ? I'm on firefox 38.1.0.
Close, but not quite. The steel of your engine did not cause your engine to exist. But gravitational collapse of interstellar gas is the process that formed the sun. So, in that sense, gravity comes before the fusion.
I upgraded from 8.1 (the free upgrade notification/activation) and it was enabled and set to internet by default.
I pretty much agree with you except for the fact that NT3.5 and NT4 should not be included in this list because they were not consumer versions... and I would rate DOS as good. Also, I am not sure if 8.1 should be considered a major as I never used it.
[Private Beta] Escherpad, a real-time collaborative math notebook
Steve McConnell on #NoEstimates
Taylor Swift and Feminist Solidarity
Never is a bit ambitious. There are 100s of implementations out there. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were NSA sponsored as Trojans as well. Oh wait...
The point of the puzzle is to show that there is not a unique way of applying the Principle of Indifference when there are different ways of enumerating the possibility space.
Going Electronic: From Bob Dylan to Tame Impala
IBM to purchase up to 200,000 Macs annually
Why you should take a closer look at Rust 1.0
Yahoo Acquires Polyvore
The parent isn't saying the author is cranky, like ornery, he's saying he's a crank. The link being referred to [0] seems to be a classic piece of crankery meandering from the solution to global warming to perceived slights against the author on Internet forums and who knows what else.

The question then, knowing this, is whether the OP link is quality content?

[0] http://settheory.net/life
This looks great! Looking forward to playing around with it.

I loved the idea of Airbnb's Synapse, but it's tricky to configure (you basically have to write an haproxy config from scratch plus learn how synapse config sections map to the haproxy config). Plus it seemed like the non-zookeeper backends were pretty unstable, I had to fix a few things to get it working with ec2 tags (and fwiw, at this point it's been over a month and my PR to merge the changes back upstream hasn't even been commented on).

How does Baker Street handle restarting haproxy, does it do anything like this[0] automatically to get zero-downtime configuration reloads?

[0] http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-zero-downtime-h...
Yes I believe it's often very loose. Just because a position is open, not all those HAVE to be filled, and even if so, not immediately. The urgency isn't there. Also, the mgmt may not be in sync on the role.

A number of things need to fall exactly into place for them to pull the trigger on the offer. Smart technical people I think tend to think Sr. management and processes must be sensible and completely aligned. "How could they not be..". HR can have some of the biggest nut cases..

Not there is anything much to be done about it, although it is wrong to waste peoples' time. I tend to not put much stock in what I'm told about the reasons, in that situation anyway.
It used to seem to be that most UPS/FedEx deliveries of were signature-required, it seems to be the norm (default option with most online orders delivered by those vendors) now that they are not (though both do still offer delivery that is signature confirmed.) Definitely a change over the last couple decades, but I don't think its an urban/rural thing (I've lived in various parts of Northern California suburbia throughout the change.)

Google Express has this as an explicit option in their order flow.
According to a "Megastructures" documentary, because Shanghai harbour is to small for the new generation of container ships.
There's as much difference between Uber and the airline industry as there is in a $10 ride home versus a $250+/person flight.

Uber doesn't own any cars. How would better service and lower prices be bad for Uber? It wouldn't. The more activity they generate, the better off they are. They simply get a cut off everything. It would be wiser to compare to VISA/MasterCard. Those are software companies with huge network effects similar to Uber. Could anyone just go out and create their own payment network? Sure. Are prices per transaction competitive? Sure. Do VISA and MasterCard make a TON of money? Absolutely. And in this case (the more accurate comparison), the first guys to do it are still the main players, and they haven't needed to truly innovate in decades.

I think a lot of people tend to forget that these valuations aren't just some people out there being euphoric about the future. These valuations come from experienced investors, using real money, making thoroughly calculated guesses.
> but it's a book in French

Some of us read French.
[citation needed], preferably in a format both my conscious and unconscious mind can parse.
Erasing yourself from the Internet is really, really hard
Logistics. I don't think people realize that to move around army of even 10% of that 2.3 million, you require significant logistic support (sort of like upkeep in Warcraft 3). You then have to question which country has the access to most of the world's ports and bases outside of their own. Most importantly, you need to be on good terms and friends with these host countries. This is what China is going up against. A huge military resting at home means jack all if you can't mobilize it and upkeep it.
Lightweight Dependent-type Programming (2008)
Hello Tab replaces your new tab page with random thoughts from others
How to Speak Startup, Part Deux
Mass Deleting Documents by Compound Key Prefix Using Node.js
HN comments for Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9122275
The Marines say the F-35 is now ready for combat
Conceptually, though in reality/over shorter time frames, it's potentially just as tied to political/human considerations vis a vis the person setting the compensation decision. Maybe easier to avoid this in start-ups, but I saw it happen with some frequency in the context of working for a large global bank. At a certain scale, feudalism or liege-lord-vassal models becomes as good of a mechanism for interpreting outcomes at a human level as anything else.
Elon Musk has enough to worry about, leave him alone!
"D'oh, we forgot to charge our solar light earlier today."

"No worries, we'll just use the gravity light for now."

That scenario seems reasonable to me. The point is not the amount of energy the technique provides. The point is the utility people get out of it. And I see a place for both; GravityLight and Solar Aid seem like great projects.
You seem to be going thru a quarter-life crisis. The state may have other names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-life_crisis
Side effects of Sprycel:
http://www.drugs.com/sfx/sprycel-side-effects.html
Ask HN: Do you learn a lot from IRC?
I just set up an IRC and I was curious to see what you guys think of it in terms of learning opportunities? Would you say that Stack Overflow is more useful and/or better? Thanks
Yahoo to Acquire Polyvore
Not only is that not what I was thinking of, which was more akin to a grandfather clock, but I don't believe that at all. Just using piezoelectric vibration sensors I was able to charge a cap to light up an LED- a rotor mechanism would generate much, much more power, and consider today's energy efficient ICs I see know reason why it wouldn't work.
The fact that they don't own any car proves there is no barrier to entry. If they had their own self driving cars it would be a very different story but since they don't own any of the assets like an airline does, the barrier entry is nil. To start an airline you need large investments (you need to rent or purchase airplanes, crew, fuel). To start something like Uber does not require the same investment in assets, there is no such cost apart from copying the app and offering lower prices as soon as Uber begins to raise prices.

Nothing suggests they are like Mastercard company, rather the logistics company line is a better explanation of their high valuation. But network effect or lock in? It simply doesn't happen by purchasing more assets because the customer simply does not care in a price sensitive market.
Given the multitude of things you can learn to fix in your house using YouTube videos, (plumbing, electrical, appliances, finish work, etc) I think it's clear that you don't need an onsite instructor to learn trade work.

It would obviously be tricky to learn plumbing without wrenches or pipes, but I don't think an onsite instructor is required.
> Frankly i fear that the tech world is getting less and less tinker friendly decade by decade.

That's kind of a constant in the tech world with every technology; I remember as a kid old timers making that complaint about radios. For a long time, its been made about cars. And, yeah, more recently, personal computers.
I would pay not to use Reddit (or HN, for that matter). I would say..

$500 a month for a solution that would make me do something semi-productive instead of spending time on those websites.
Agreed. There's a lot of frickin' ocean, and they'd have to saturate it, one missile for every 20 sq. miles, in order to have a hope of hitting a carrier. That's assuming the USN ships don't try to shoot down said missiles. They've got a lot of missiles, but not that much. China can talk trash all they want, but there's not much they can do–or would want to do, really.

The fact is, the United States is effectively guaranteeing the trade lanes for everyone. They have not tried to own the oceans for themselves as others did. They have not tried to own resources or markets for themselves the way the Europeans did in the age of mercantilism.

China does what it does out of paranoia. And because people have been jerks to them in the past. But they know that what they have is not effective for waging expansionist war. Those missiles could make it really, really hurt if the United States were to try to take a military action against the Chinese mainland, because that would place a number of CBGs in close proximity to the mainland, where it'd be much easier to track and launch said missiles at them. A more ambitious project would be to cut off American support for Taiwan, and that would be a much longer-term issue for both sides, and one that is not abetted by these islands.

As for the islands, there isn't even any military value in holding them. They are a military liability rather than an asset. Unlike Guam, etc., they are not useful as a staging point, because the range of modern ships makes them kind of useless as a staging or refueling point. They are small–they don't even have fresh water–and thus they are easy to saturate with a few cruise missiles (the USN has 3000 tomahawks in inventory, last I checked?), so, forget about trying to put serious static defenses there. When you look at the fluff, yea, it seems alarming, and that's what it's for. It's politics. The Chinese are doing it because they know the Vietnamese and the Filipinos can't, and the U.S. will just #facepalm and mostly go back to staring at maps of the Middle East the next month, in spite of all the talk of an Asian pivot.
Except that the executives usually have automatic sales, to shield themselves from illegal insider trading. This usually happens inside the trading windows, and mostly using pre-scheduled recurring sales. A public company normally has a lawyer that specifically deals with this compliance.
I was rather hoping this would be a hawking radiation method, i.e. actually generating light using gravity
Critical Factor Bypass is a well known technique in hypnotherapy, and I could provide tons of links. That said, it's an experimental project and has been extremely beneficial for me. I thought I'd share.
My guess is inflexible deadlines for products and a certain death march culture for meeting them (from what I've heard (third-hand, admittedly) from people who work there) lead them to be forced to cut corners in some places.

On the bright side, Apple does usually eventually fix or replace the hacky solutions. The other side of that is that it sometimes takes years.
FlexibleCalendar for android, now has the feature to change the cell background for three different states, i.e. day today, day selected and day regular. Stay tuned, more to come.
Thanks for the pointer! This one, we hadn't seen. Based on a 5 minute read, my take would be 1) uses etcd (strongly consistent service discovery) 2) it looks like it is a centralized architecture, versus a distributed one and 3) it looks like it's a ground up write of a proxy in Go (we decided to just use HAProxy because it's super well debugged).
The previous thread was linked to a crowdfunding campaign, which this may have influenced the conversation substantially.
Thanks for the help.

Thanks for a definition of "drive by".

The link was for a lot of versions of IE,
some of which don't run on XP. I try not
to use IE. Sometimes I had to use it at
some Microsoft Web sites. Okay.

Mozilla will let me install a new version of
Firefox, but Microsoft won't let me install
a new version of IE or let me patch an
old version of IE. Bummer.

I'd be reluctant to let my 2003 copy
of Word open a file from an untrusted
source. I do next to nothing with Word.

Occasionally I run the 2003 version of
Excel: I generate the data outside of
Excel using whatever software I write
and then pull the data into Excel for
graphing. I don't try to use Excel files
from other people.

So, Flash can hurt even if I don't run it!
Wow. Looks like Adobe worked really hard
to help the hackers.

Does Microsoft really want the their
security holes fixed?

Gee, in a big company, how can people
pass around Word, Excel, and HTM files?
One infected file, and many of the
computers in the company can get infected.

Whatever happened to the idea that a program
that reads data checks to see if the
data is okay and makes sure that
bad data can't cause the program to
hurt anything? That was the
long the implicit, expected standard, right?

If someone can send me a DOC file for
Word and, reading that file, Word
infects my computer, then Word is junk,
and Microsoft writes junk software.
Bill and Satya need to get on the case
here.

Microsoft's infected toxic-ware?
It's been a long time, Microsoft --
time to fix this stuff.

On time sharing, it was the case
that any user could write and run
any software at all with no damage
to the operating system or to any other
user. Why is it possible at all to
run software as a user on Windows and
hurt Windows? Bummer.

Microsoft,
we need some guarantees, or at least
strong assurances with, say, a
major bounty program, that such things
just are not possible. How about
a bounty of $1 for the first bug and
for each subsequent bug double the
bounty? How 'bout that Bill?
Risk your fortune or fix the bugs?
My dad's VW bus was a challenge to drive in the Midwest in a crosswind. Going in and out of cuts meant the bus would veer from side to side. Had to be very careful not to wind up in oncoming traffic, or in the ditch.

I see a lot of nostalgia for those machines, but I was glad to be rid of it. They're noisy, uncomfortable, the heater is a joke, windshield defroster never works, and dangerous.
Did you expand the sections in the Privacy Statement [1]? Open the page in Firefox or Chrome, hit F12 to get to the browser console, then run this to expand all the sections:

$('.learnMoreLabel').click()

If you search the page for "disclose", you'll see that that exact wording is no longer present, but very similar wording is in the "Reasons We Share Personal Data" and "Skype - Partner companies" sections.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...
I spent a term at Cambridge in Electrical Engineering. Our tutorial sessions were very similar to recitations in America and classes still had traditional lectures. I'm not sure if this is different for other fields.
van Coevorden is dutch I hear.