skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because you're looking at the platform with the wrong perspective...

When the Uber app needs consensus with the banks in order to mark a payment as "legit", it uses just few kb's of bandwidth and a couple of requests to communicate with Braintree. You don't run all your apps on Braintree's shoulders.

The same way, I can build a normal app, or NW.js wrapper for my desktop app (HTML/JS/CSS) and use localstorage as db, or remote servers as backends to process the heavy tasks. Then I'd connect to the Ethereum network just when is required consensus. I don't have to run all the app on Ethereum.

That's how I see it. You don't use a blockchain as a DB to store Reddit posts. It's a poor choice. Ethereum is very good for other use cases.
lol i just deployed reddit on docker. very, very nice. will put it up on github if you are interested.
That one ? :

http://www.gizmag.com/littlebits-electronic-kits/28822/
Reacting to backlash isn't an argument.

Why would you (or anyone) downvote me for criticising things like integrating a social API[0] into the browser?

If you feel like downvoting opinions you don't like, by all means go ahead, I'm just not sure if that's the way to have a meaningful discussion. Pocket never bothered me because, honestly, I never saw it. But yes I dislike it's integration. Still no reason to reduce this to the "Pocket indicent" I never realized was a thing until I've read about it.

I still use Firefox.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/So...
They have 7 people in SF and 45 in Utah
Ethereum has launched Frontier
/Begin Edit

Ignore me I got confused. :D I see what you did. I'll leave the below so that others might see my confusion. I was confused by your emphasis of "eel in the corner" because there are valid combinations that lack that.

/End Edit

The issue is that all combinations are valid given the conditions.

>You can paint a single sea creature of your choice on each of these canvases, with one condition. I would like to see a picture of an eel when I move my gaze vertically or horizontally. So there must be at least one eel in the vertical column and at least one in the horizontal row.

"At least one" means there can be multiple - and, in fact, without having an eel in the corner it is necessary to have at least 2 eels. So "a single" simply means a painting cannot be of an eel and a sea turtle.

Given X = No eel and O = Eel

X
O
X
XXO

The above is a valid combination. As is the below:

O
O
O
XOO

Now if you consider:

O
O
O
OOO

All combinations will result with an eel in the corner and all combinations are equally valid. All paintings are of a single sea creature (an eel) and meet the requirement of vertical and horizontal inclusion.
Perhaps Larry C. could raise his profile with the New Yorker by joining NAMBLA. I'm sure that it was an innocent oversight on Bebergal's part to omit that detail about Delaney from the piece.
I don't know about Windows 10 but I will help a friend skip GNU/Linux and use Ubuntu.
When teams have problems with remote v local employees, I've found this to be because they actively treat them differently, sometimes without realizing it.

It takes work to establish your culture to work remotely well -- if you just hire some people that you only ever hear on Skype during standup and give them work, they don't become enmeshed in the fabric of the company. Cliques form everywhere but they can be especially brutal in excluding remote workers from the 'core' teams that are seen as successful within a company.

I'm sorry to hear it hasn't worked for you. If you attempt it again, make sure you evaluate whether you've built a culture based on 'being there' before hiring people who can't be. Lots of people make this mistake and just see cheaper workers.
"nobody goes there anymore it's too crowded"
This is an extremely difficult proposition, especially given the fact that most people don't know what an operating system even is. If I influence someone to switch from Windows to desktop Linux, I will be the person responsible for their acclimatization and I will have to do the support as well.

There's also a question about long-term usability. They won't be able to install the same apps their friends are using. In many cases, there won't even be a viable equivalent to a given Windows app, at least not for non-techies. Some Linux updates will break key components, such as the display driver, and it will be very difficult and frustrating to fix (if not impossible).

The assertion that they are free won't mean much to these users, and over time they will resent me for suggesting the OS switch - just before they return to Windows, install their favorite game and their favorite crapware chat client, and breathe a sigh of relief.

Even as an open source advocate (where I can!) I have to accept that my motivations and use cases are drastically different from 99% of the population.

If someone has a solution to this, I'd be eager to hear it.
Is there something you want to work on? A gps tracker for hiking, maybe?

Something simple that’s useful to you. Then stick it up on Github.

(Or maybe even better yet, find a project already doing something you want and help.)
That dataset contains languages and accents that are not relevant to me. It could easily be culled to a size where it's no compromise on language+region of birth alone.
I think the main point of the article is the country codes are not very defined in the process of creation, their use and who reaps the rewards of ownership.
The recorded music biz has embraced big data, the live space lags far behind
Interesting parallel with DNA here, the ribosome as the robot and the blocks as the RNA strands. Of course it doesn't exactly output proteins but it's neat to see such a close mechanical analogue.
"It sounds like you're unwilling to ride through the phase of uneasiness, of I-don't-know-how-to-do-anything-with-this-stupid-new-tool, of feeling dumb and clumsy, for long enough to become proficient. Look, I don't like having to do that, either."
Many thanks for this - this is a great analysis, followed by just the reminder I needed. With this in mind, I will force myself to learn a couple of new things. I guess if I do that often enough, I'll have enough data-points to prove to myself that something that was once unknown and made me feel dumb can become a power tool.
Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux distribution; what point were you trying to make?
Am I the only one seeing the irony in a speculative post about privacy on a site that uses Google Analytics and Disqus?
Forget it. I do too much tech support already. The kind of people that should consider switching to linux are the ones that can figure it out themselves.
Hmm... it could be argued that Google's repeated failures in the social networking space are compelling evidence that it's one of the least likely companies to succeed with remote workers.
I don't quite follow. How does this help them more? Isn't that a less supported and less well tested system? What value does it add over Linux for the average user?
Um, no. Not all pre-release builds of Windows 10 have that watermark. I'm talking about the "Activate Windows" message. Also, the final version of Windows 10 has been released (and the video was recorded after the final version was released), so no reason to use a pre-release version of Windows in the video.
> It's worth noting that what we are looking at now is some re-centralization.

I think there are some local re-centralization trends, but it doesn't really show up in the overall numbers. Most of the fastest-growing areas in the U.S. are suburban, e.g. the Dallas suburbs are growing far faster than SF is.

Fivethirtyeight had a piece on this focusing on millennials: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/think-millennials-prefer-...
> Chrome doesn't log every website you visit

But it does. If you get a new android phone and log in with a google account then it updates your browser history on chrome. Which could only be done if your non-incognito history is stored in google's servers.
CLOS class instances are implemented with handles for a very important reason: so slots can be added to classes dynamically, even if live instances exist.

In decades of Common Lisp programming I think I've written a CHANGE-CLASS call maybe twice, but I add slots to classes all the time (and occasionally remove them).
Not a bad idea, if you're an interested hacker. I certainly would not recommend it to an end user or a hacker who wants a daily use machine.
To add another example, I normally do JS using Node and there (and also in IE) you have a very useful function: setImmediate.

A few days ago, when doing some client-side JS I wanted to use it and I saw that it is not part of a standard, not only that, it has actually been REJECTED. It's really sad to see the development of the language crippled for a reason that basically boils down to "No, because it was proposed by Microsoft".
I didn't downvote you.

I agree that downvotes are not conducive to a discussion.
Exactly. It's a non-profit that owns a company. All proceeds go into the non-profit.
I think I'm more cynical about the process than you are. From my point of view, the process has been intensely political from day one, with rules honoured mainly in the breach.

The best retelling of events, I think, is this one: http://nolanlawson.com/2014/04/26/web-sql-database-in-memori...

Has some very good details. And it's certainly funny to see what was said during the discussion with how things turned out in practice.

Edit: I'd sum it up as "Google and Apple argue for a solution that will work on mobile; Mozilla and Oracle don't care about mobile, are weirdly obsessed with the idea that developers hate SQL, and use political manoeuvring to win the fight". (Oracle's role in this seems especially odd, but perhaps they had some longer term strategy in mind.) In any case, in retrospect ignoring mobile was a bad idea, and ditching SQL seems to have had no real benefit.
It like help a friend move from a Ferrari to a tractor that was put together 10 different vendors. I friend who is a mechanical engineer with 10 years experience in building cars might like it but my peers who's technological knowledge is limited would like to use a product that was put together by a professional product team. This is why I gave up trying to move my friends to Linux, it is simply not as well integrated as MacOS or Windows. They get several problems that they cannot solve alone and I much rather help them on where to change something in Windows or MacOS than in Linux. Again, I am a senior systems engineer with 18 years of experience using Linux and other unix clones, including using them as desktop.
In flight entertainment has been notoriously awful. Would love to see some improvements in design here.
> I find it shocking how people readily accept Google's far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.

For me it's because I control my interaction with Google. I don't use their search for things I don't want them recording, I don't use gmail for conversations I expect to be private. Once your talking about the private files I store on my hard drive and access with the OS, the keystrokes I enter on my keyboard for every application, then the reach is far greater. Having a company like Google say "You can use these services, but we're going to spy on you" is not the same as MS saying "we will be watching and have access to everything on your computer, oh and you can't disable all of this spying without an enterprise license."
Floating City-State to be Built by 2020
Sorry, that is not correct.

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/aztec/aztec_property....

I doubt there's ever been an urban culture that didn't have some concept of property ownership, whether by individuals, "nobles", or the state.
When you've studied the roman republic and the athenian democracy it's obvious how the two systems are fundamentally different and have nothing to do with each other. And then you understand why early french and U.S. revolutionaries such as Madison were against democracy and wanted a republic because they knew that in the roman republic unlike in democratic athens, the wealthy ruled. The only one spreading myths here is you.
Amazing network infrastructure has always been one of my favorite hidden technical wonders behind Google. It's amazing how they handle so much data.
Wasn't Bing Ads just sold to AOL a month ago?
LA is not a desert in the sense used by climatologists. For example:

http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2013/10/myth-of-a-desert-metro...

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/los-angel...

LA is in the Mediterranean climate zone.

If you are willing to entertain the idea that not just Los Angeles, but San Francisco is in a desert -- I have no words. Have you been there?

People, typically not very well-informed about California geography and the Southwest, do sometimes lazily refer to LA as a desert. They seem to do this because they have heard other people do it. If you have lived here, you will see how evidently wrong this is. It's July and I can take my dog to a creek that has flowing water. This is not something you can do in a desert.

Have you been to an actual desert, such as the Mojave, the Sonora, or the Anza-Borrego?
Boulder is an incredibly difficult market to hire in. I was talkign to the head of Google Boulder when he mentioned they can't even get engineers hired there.
Ask HN: Tools of the Software Architect
If you guys were designing a new system for a new team of around 10-15 people, what are some of the tools and processes you'd use? It's an open ended question but I think we are all interested in what people have recently found to be better processes, diagramming software and examples...that kind of stuff.
> isn't the "browser for doing."

Is that a bad point? If you want a "browser for doing" install Firefox and 2147483647 extensions until it explodes.

The fact that the default browser is extremely minimalistic is something good, users just need a "browser for browsing".
Best of luck guys!

I prototyped something like this on two separate occasions in 2012[1]. The first attempt was using a laser projector to do the AR in a way that multiple people could observe - I still think that's the ultimate way to go for this problem space. The second attempt was part of a hackathon at Bigcommerce. We skipped the AR part, but worked on the live two-way comms bit, synchronising the content between two whiteboards. That worked well, but was totally outside the company's remit.

Ultimately, I could never find a suitable team or investment to carry this forward in Australia so I just dropped it. Feel free to reach out at tom@jugglethis.net if you want to discuss this further.

[1] See http://www.drtomallen.com/blog/the-magic-torch-part-one
Honestly, if 42floors just discovered this...they should never have gotten into the commercial real estate business.

Real Estate 101 is about leverage and the cost to borrow is directly impacted by the tenant mix and their respective credit ratings.

How do you operate in the real estate leasing game for years without knowing what landlords want?!
I meant the search engine thing.

It's pretty normal for a program installer to set itself to handle files.
Well, today was the day. I finally got my fill of this site.

Thanks for the memories HN, but this just isn't worth it. I could have been coding. From now on I will be.

Adieu.
Is there something particular about base-10 that makes it a better system?
I lack an ability to put into words just how much I hate the tone of this article and the tone of this author. Particularly this last line.

> As we build new worlds with our technologies, knitted from fiber-optic light and lines of code, it is incumbent on us to ensure it does not reproduce the erasures and abuses of the old, but properly accounts for the rights and liberties of every one of us.

Why has every Silicon Valley leftist gotten it into their heads that this isn't a completely ridiculous statement? We're not superheros or magicians, in spite of the fact that the technical illiteracy of the rest of society may make us believe we are. We had some power a decade ago, but we've spent that. How did we spend it? What do humans historically do with power? They leverage it!

We pillage and rape the earth. Five million people are dead in the congo so that we can steal their minerals and ship them to China where a suicidal 9 year old makes it into an iPhone, which is sold at exorbitant prices to lower and middle class Americans who consume websites that act as Centrifugal Bumble-Puppies and Orgy-Porgies that we create.

But yeah, the real tragedy is that there's a TLD for an island of 2000 people who are losing their culture. Techies needs to be aware of THAT and stop THAT tragedy. Get real.

The only power of the Internet ever held any promise in was allowing fringe opinions to be heard. Anyone could publish and be heard and read about certain taboo subjects and not be publicly shamed for entertaining a certain thought. 4chan still holds this sentiment. Reddit did for a while until it decided it had to make more money. I grew up on that Internet.

It's long dead. Political correctness has killed everything. We had an opportunity to expose the masses to truly uncontrolled thought and discussion. We had an opportunity to embrace society-- ALL of society. We had an opportunity to create forums where we could all try to understand each other. Yes, that means racists and pedophiles and sexists and dickheads. But we instead created controlled environments like Facebook and reddit that represent nothing new and the world will flow on as it always has. We've created systems that encourage homogeneity in opinion and have marginalized the same people we always have.

Tech isn't special.
This may seem like a weird request, but let me know what you think about this quora answer:

http://www.quora.com/Reviews-of-Haskell-programming-language
Ah, that's a much better way to handle it than in the previews. Thanks for the heads up!
The article conveniently misses the fact that the connection may be used for all sorts of illegal activity. In such cases, the perpetrator would likely avoid detection, and not only would the owner get the blame (hence risking a custodial sentence), but also in most cases would have a very difficult time proving their innocence.
"LA is not a desert in the sense used by climatologists."

As I said, "not in a technical sense", but that's irrelevant to the actual point under discussion, which is that cities have been built in areas that don't have anything like the amount of natural water resources necessary to sustain them.
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The train system around NYC makes it practical to live in more idyllic locales than the heart of the concrete jungle. There are plenty of quaint towns built around LIRR and NJ Transit stations.
I did a brief stint replacing burnt out parts in a Google datacenter.

This paper is weird--like maybe they switched around the names of some things and didn't mention others.

Just an FYI.
Sorry, I guess I was just frustrated, didn't mean to jump to conclusions. Leaving my original comment for reference.
There are two others, Steven Barnes and (the late) Octavia Butler. Besides being great storytellers, Butler won the MacArthur Prize and Steve has written episodes for a variety of TV shows over the years. Each was (arguably) commercially more successful than Delany. If Butler were still living I'm sure she'd have been interviewed as well.
This lawsuit will have far reaching ramification.

What if a company buys an app just for competitive benchmarking and then copy the essence of the app's user onboarding or some other aspect of the app's unique features that is considered a trade secrete. Buying an app is like a paywall.

Or what if a company subscribes to a competitor's SAAS service just to copy their most valuable features.

If Angie's List wins this one, I think we should brace for many more to come.

edit: typos
Really nice writeup! I wish more graduate students would blog about their research in this way. Could be a great way to educate the public and convey the importance of government research funding.

I wonder how big the reflection coefficient is for the air/ice interface. It seems like it would be huge. So maybe ground based techniques offer better coupling at the cost of not being able to survey as much area?
I agree, if I (as a non-agent of Angie's list) can just sign up and access the data, it's not really a trade secret.
Microsoft are becoming more "open" because, like many other companies, they're shifting into a service business where much of the software has been commodified, with the actual product being the monolith platform you rent computing resources and tasks from. As such, there is no necessity to foist any preferences, provided they're running on their (ultimately proprietary) server farm. No copyleft unless there's a linking exception, obviously.

I've seen little that would convince me to actually move back to Windows as an OS. All of the privacy SNAFUs that are leaking out do not inspire confidence.
That's fine. That's no different to an IP address or a DNS record or something that you'd put on an envelope. That is public information.

The content of our communications is the matter under consideration i.e the content of the envelope.
Check. $200 for a low-flush unit and problem solved.
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There's always Lego mindstorm, it doesn't exactly teach programming but the skills involved is pretty similar.
I agree, I already have to provide friends & family with enough tech support already.

I'm just happy I've convinced my parents to switch from Internet Explorer and XP.
http://ankisrs.net

The number one problem with note taking for me is keeping track of all the notes. In the past, I'd make all these great notes with Zim then never read them. With anki and spaced repetition, that problem is solved. When the memory of the note is on the verge of decaying, anki reminds me, keeping it fresh.

Anki has a web, android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS client, it features online syncing, supports html markup and has extensions support with python. Works for me!
Which is likely. Echoes of the eurozone here for sure; SF probably needs 8% interest rates but even 0% is doing very little for the Rust Belt and other perennially depressed regions. Now, the eurozone critics think the problem is lack of fiscal union, but the US suggests it goes a lot deeper than that.
So then what's wrong when an OS does it?
Except that you're now out of pocket an extra hundred bucks, even though you live in an area that has no water shortage, nor has any prospect of ever having a water shortage.
Both logistic regression and deep learning are basically just big conjugate gradient minimizers.

What I meant by asynchronous is that not all terms in a gradient are required to be summed in the same step.

The transpose step in Sibyl is implemented in the Shuffle and Reduce phases. The filesystem is used to hold the temporary data. Nevertheless even for large systems, very few steps are required, and step times are reasonable, even compared to modern supercomputers. This is a tribute primarily to the design of sibyl and the implementation of MapReduce at Google.

This is all explained in online versions of the Sibyl presentation. I really wish more people from DOE who write modern solvers would pay attention to this stuff.
You may be oversimplifying here. I can't speak to Eukaryotes, but Prokaryotes are routinely flash frozen in liquid nitrogen and then stored for years at -80. Gently thaw them out and they're happy to go on reproducing.

For the purposes of a drug test, your requirements are even looser. I don't see why you'd need or care about lysing your cells. A test is only going to be screening for small molecules, so destroying organelles and lysing cells should be largely irrelevant.