skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand why it's ok for liberals to make fun of conservatives using "extreme snow" during winter as an argument against climate change

Because that argument betrays the most infantile misunderstanding of an issue that is extremely important; climate is not the same as weather, and extreme heat and cold and weather events are what climate models predict.

> Many conservatives are right to underline that simply increasing taxes is not the solution. So what's the solution? Innovation in new source of renewable or less polluting energy technologies.

Are you describing cap-and-trade? That's actually a conservative solution from decades ago; this is the "middle ground" and was roundly rejected as some kind of socialist takeover by today's conservatives.

Anyway it's probably too late for all of that anyway. It's certainly too late for your impotent handwaving about "innovation in new source of renewable". What a joke.
This new record high for the month beat the previous record from 17 years ago, to begin.

Do you really think you want to understand? Again, the irrational histrionics of so many to this discussion (such as the conflation of billions of years with a period of time that is a tiny, tiny sliver of human history, much less periods of the Earth). It is impossible to discuss nuances without the predictable, boorish stomping of feet and announcing of positions. People must make everyone know how firmly and strongly they believe in global warming.

And the funny thing is that I fully and completely believe in and understand AGW. It isn't a religion, however, and I'm not waving a flag or announcing fealty, or angrily posting over the top responses to anything that is other than full-fledged Belief. It is the most toxic, bottom-feeding discussion going.
I've been a DBA officially and unofficially off and on my whole career. On one hand it is great. UIs and front end software is like fashion and always changing. What lives on is the data those programs generate. Understanding that the data will outlive almost any program put in front of is a good thing to remember.

On the other hand there is a lot of pressure as the DBA. Backups, redundancy, security, etc... all fall onto the DBA to get done and done right. Fat finger a script and blow away a key table sucks (a DBA isn't a DBA until they have done this once), but it drives the point home that backups, backups, backups are key.

EDIT

The other part is the blame for lots of woes will end up on the DBAs desk. I'm a fix it and move on kind of person, but if you take things like that personally a DBA position might not be for you.
How does it handle data binding?
I think there's also a theme around young founders, the ability to work as a team when the going gets tough, hubris, and the fame that comes with being in YC.

During YC, you're in a very controlled environment - everyone around you is working hard, you have a deadline, you don't have money, and you just focus on building, etc. Once you leave YC, suddenly, a few things happen (I've seen this with exactly 2 start-ups so apologies for extrapolating):

1. You suddenly have a lot more money, and simultaneously lose the very guided structure you had at YC

2. A lot of YC founders are young, haven't worked in teams with different personality types, etc before and they have to learn how to manage people and each other

3. Because growth is the only thing they've been taught to look for at YC, at the first sign of any slowdown in growth (which could be natural and acceptable, or due to some other reason), they start freaking out and churning. This further exacerbates point 2 and they start stressing out their team and each other

4. There's a bit of a personality cult around YC founders right now - I recently attended a YC party in an apartment in a fancy high-rise in SF and it's amazing how many hanger-ons that were there fawning over the founders. It was a very SF start-up version of a celebrity night-club in LA/NYC. This unfortunately builds on the narrative of infallible YC founders who are building great billion dollar companies, etc

I guess where I'm going with this is that in addition to just growth, folks need to be taught how to work in teams, how to gear up to build a longer term, sustainable company, and to appreciate that they can and will make mistakes, but they need to handle that with grace and maturity.
Confirming nginx works in Windows -- nginx for our QuickStart guides: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

IIS is great too and in-box. It's nice having smart defaults but a lot of options.
Padlet (YC W13) is looking for a Head of Design
Padlet (padlet.com) is a revolutionary new way to create websites. It is so simple a 5 year olds use it, yet so powerful entire organizations manage their workflow on it. It’s the future of how people will build things on the Internet.

For 20 years, websites have stayed essentially the same (better fonts, though). We are reimagining what websites can be and what they can do.

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WHY US
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Big vision
There are 3 billion people on the Internet. They are going to do more than just messaging. We want to be the place they go to for creating things.

Huge traction
We have millions of monthly ACTIVE users and are growing fast. On pace to be one of the top 500 websites in the US in 6 months. We grow 2-3x every year by word of mouth alone.

Lotsa love
https://twitter.com/search?q=padlet.
As of writing this, we know 21 books that talk about us. These are like books books. Printed on paper. The kind you cut trees for.
http://padlet.com/doodlebug/padlet-in-books

Much wow
Venture-Backed. YCombinator. All that jazz.

Nice people
Small, elite team of 4. We laugh a lot. Really.

Awesome swag
We have the best tees. They feel like hugs from a malnourished teddy-bear.

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ABOUT THE JOB
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As the head of design of the company, you’ll be leading all of design - visual, graphic, UI/UX. (Duh!) And design is the most important part of our product. No pressure, though.

JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF DESIGN AT PADLET

Our software is used by 5-year-olds and 65-year-olds. A lot of design has to happen from first principles. You can't assume the user knows how modern software works.

Accessibility is a first-class citizen on our platform. You have to think about people with vision difficulties, screen-reader support on day 1.

Our software is used pretty much everywhere in the world; it’s available in 27 languages. Your design needs to look good in every language, and, even better, reflect the cultural subtleties of different regions.

OUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

We don't focus on pretty gradients and animations or the current design trends. All we care about a product that is simple to understand and easy on the eyes.

We are not wedded to design theory. It doesn’t matter what Dieter Rams says. The question is, does the design work?

Bias for action. Launch, learn, and iterate instead of trying to get it absolutely right on the first go.

BONUS POINTS FOR

Having an interest in designing physical products. Good design permeates everything we do - tees, stickers, and bookmarks included.

Being able to write well. You cannot have a good design without a good copy.

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HOW TO APPLY
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Please email job@padlet.com with some samples of your work and a cover letter.
Actually, an interesting bit of information on the topic of selling Banksy's art. The HBO documentary I mentioned concludes with a statement that while several of NY Residency pieces are up for sale none have sold to date. I don;t know if they have between then and now however.
What are the requirements for data lakes?
That means your internet is fast enough to reduce latency problem that HTTP/2 fixes.

on mobile the difference is much bigger, like, 100s vs 5s
FreeBSD was vulnerable to BadIRET. Oddly, they never seem to have published an advisory, but the fix was here:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS275833

I thought the handling of that issue was very strange. I notified CERT, who apparently coordinated with FreeBSD, but no one ever really responded. The closest thing to an advisory that I can find at all is my post:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/09/1

which contains a PoC that crashes the system. It's almost certainly possible to turn it into privilege escalation, though.

Go figure. I suspect that the security community just doesn't pay as much attention to FreeBSD as they do to Linux.
The way I would approach this is to kindle their imagination to build stuff. If in the process of building that thing, they need to use software then have them learn programming. If it requires them to use hardware, introduce them to Legos, hardware kits. If your kid wants to use colors and a canvas to bring alive their imagination, so be it. Be the enabler.
State pensions provide a much higher level of income than a universal basic income could possibly provide.

Basically, government workers agreed to work for a lower current salary for many years, with the coincident agreement that they'd get X% of that (via some complex formula) for life after Y years of service. That X% provides a modest but certainly comfortable lifestyle.

There's no way you can set basic income levels high enough to provide everyone with that same level of lifestyle before they've lifted a finger of productive work. Basic income must be more basic and spartan than that in order to work mathematically/economically/practically.

(My parents both retired as school teachers with 25-ish years of service and a full pension. I'm not privy to the details, but it's enough for them to live reasonably well, but that didn't fall out of the sky; it came from them raising kids and living 25 years on school teachers' modest salaries.)

I concur that child benefits need not exist (unless/except to the extent that children receive basic income of their own).
Completely true! I'm speaking about whatever tech we will have in a few decades; we're definitely not there right now.

Vertical farming is currently a very niche industry, and will remain that way for some time. But eventually, the technology will catch up, and vertical farming solves a lot of problems we're very likely to have given our current trajectory (loss of farmland due to climate change, water shortages, soil contamination, etc).
They seem to represent everything right in the field of payment processing, and their office vibe is extremely chill-- I just got rejected for a job there after a few weeks of really promising interviews, and I've gotta say it stings a lot to be told you don't fit in a company full of cool people.
Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth
"you want to raise taxes and you're poor? you're just jealous

you want to raise taxes and you're rich? you're just a hypocrite"

-- stupid people everywhere

Can't wait til the same argument is busted in favor of literal cartoonishly evil Master-race manufacturing.
Second Ashley Madison Dump Includes Source Code, CEO Emails
Karma does: https://blog.yourkarma.com/how-we-use-mqtt-at-karma
Thanks Rusty! This is awesome.
How Banksy still is anonymous with all this?

If you don't know him, checkout his website: http://banksy.co.uk/

P.S: It's known that it's a "he". That's why I used "he" and "his"
While you are technically correct, the term has an exact meaning in internet culture.

The term "safe for work" refers specifically to a lack of sexual and...medical... content. Looking at cat pictures might get you fired, but it's still "safe for work".
I agree. Perhaps some of the root cause here is a faulty premise. The idea that "25% of the companies are on a trajectory that could lead to a multi-billion dollar company" feels wildly optimistic to me. (And I say that with full respect of YC and the top-teir companies in the program.)

Strong early growth is a very positive sign. But growth is a funny thing and can be hard to sustain. The true market test may come later... from when you are trying to grow a $50 million dollar business into a $500 million dollar business.
I think it's good that the FAA is documenting close calls with drones, however the press is a little overblown. This long time pilot views drones less of threat then geese or other large birds. That may change if drones get bigger and heavier, but all things point to drones getting smaller.

A pilot's view on drones:
https://jethead.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/airliners-vs-drones...
I would be interested in a book on that.
I MET a Traveler from an antique land,
Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings."
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everything we make is ephemeral, nothing will last. It will be transformed by man or by nature. Either in its meaning or its form. And, ultimately, it will fall to the elements.

EDIT: I recently learned that there's a second poem, this one by Horace Smith. The two wrote their poems as a competition.

IN Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desart knows:—
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

- Ozymandias, Horace Smith
The pattern is that it is utterly impossible to discuss any nuance of AGW, the data, or its meaning, without zealots such as yourself acting as strongly as you can to make sure everyone knows how much of a Believer you are.

AGW is reality. The disciples of AGW are profoundly intolerable, however.
> Having a better environment for businesses boosts profits, not innovation.

Of course, but more profits encourages people to create more businesses which create more innovation. Sorry, I thought that was obvious.
I enjoyed it. The entire talk isn't about the history of open source - he eventually gets into issues about maintaining open source in modern day on GitHub.
The solution is simple: nuclear energy. Thorium.
How to promote music video from YouTube?
DoorDash (YC S13) Food Delivery by Drone
Let selection and mating sort it out.

Maybe very intelligent deaf humans would outcompete the rest of mankind in a few generations? You may not like that, but why exactly should I care?

Parents do have the best interest of their children in mind. Let them be free of making the best choices instead of government imposed ones.
how would you feel if you get rejected from a company of douches?
Google ordered to remove links to 'right to be forgotten' removal stories
So maybe YC isn't long enough to turn players into coaches?
Out of curiosity, which platform is that? If they have a standard REST API, hooking it up to Zapier is pretty simple.
So true that how we phrase our feedback can and will steer the conversation. And best-practices/industry-standards should definitely help make decisions. But I'm not sure that citing research is the best way to sell an idea to someone. When we show that we really understand their concerns, and address them inclusively, we can show the same sort of understanding without appealing to authority.

How'd I do?
Or underlines how silly it is to use a TLD ostensibly intended for porn sites for a blog.
ha I actually had typed out a sentencing saying, "this may be just my naivety since I'm inexperienced.." but deleted it but yeah I'm curious if that point will ever come for me.

Still I think in my position I am qualified to say that Casey is exceptionally good at explaining programming.
I remember when someone posted here their javascript project demonstrating how you could make ads and modals pop up when the user's mouse left the page. There were a lot of comments about the potential for abuse, but ultimately it was decided that like all science it could not be inherently evil.

Still, I sometimes wonder if they feel any remorse.
Okay, so I just took Imba for a little spin. Some thoughts:

I like the way it looks. A lot. Love, love the tags. Really like the simplified object literals. The use of global variables for class state is deeply troubling - they are not scoped at all. The parser is far too forgiving. if you change do |x| xx into something like do x xx it will compile fine, but be wrong. The tooling is quite nice, and I like the defaults - although it's still a little bit of a mystery where the imba.js file comes from in the Hello World browser example (I ended up just copying it from Github). I'd like to see argument comprehensions, and the option to generate code outside of an immediately excuting function (so I can play with instances at the dev console)

I would like to see a "strict" mode for imba that chokes on a do block without pipes, for example. I think that if JavaScript has taught us anything it's that anal compilers might frustrate us at build time, but that frustration is nothing compared to the frustration down the line when things break at runtime.
”There is a lot more you can do with 1h per day than you think. If you're consistent.”

I’ll second that. This fact is a great opportunity e.g. for people who get bored on their train commute or similar.
3+Reasons+why+you+should+start+ICD-10+testing+right+now+|+ICD-10+Blogpost
You're right; zero public defenders.

And rather I don't think they are bad people, just realistic about the nature of the system they work in.
OnHub Is Not a Router Focused on Simplicity
I don't understand what the fact that the previous record was 17 years prior has to do with my response, or your response to my response.

You're right, the discussion is mostly awful. Climate change has been turned into a political issue, and awful discussion is a predictable result of that.

On the other hand, I don't see how your comment improves that any.
pretty sure the only point of the .xxx TLD (aside from it being yet another source of income for ICANN of course), is that it clearly signals that the content is NSFW. It is totally reasonable for certain organisations to block it.
So, if I'm following your math right, you're proposing a basic income of €1000 per person annually?

That would indeed be basic and probably too low to achieve what proponents want, which is to allow the elimination of other welfare programs for the truly disabled, etc.
Or you can avoid the question with a tonic water or similar. Looks like a drink, but isn't.
State Supreme Court Upholds SeaTac's Minimum Wage Law
Ruby Coding Contest
Programming in particular has negative effects after the point of being tired. You make mistakes, you commit bad code, you have to maintain bad code for the lifetime of hte product.

That one grind where you kept pushing could keep affecting the productivity of the whole engineering team for the next 2 or 3 years. I've seen it happen. A lot.

I would assume doing strategizing or negotiating when tired could equally have devastating long-term effects on the business side.

Work as long as you want, just don't work tired. It isn't worth it.
I'm genuinely curious, how old were you when you had the heart attack?
Git from the inside out [video]
Did anyone else understand the first sample without knowing you had to hear the clear version first?
This is mainly marketing, to help utilities improve their reputation (according to Opower's employees I've met this year).
I agree the 1337speak stuff seems played out. I like the names though because they remind me of looking for episodes of TV shows on file sharing services back 10+ years ago. Catching up on the show on Amazon instant video gave me a flashback to doing the same thing on limewire a decade ago.
We are not using gevent anywhere and we can't really because of it not working well for the majority of our work. The redis pyrhon library only works with gevent if you monkey patch everything and that would be very problematic for us.

Lastly that does not support pipelining still, something that rb does for you n
It's not apple or apple's compiler, just because Apple happens to use it in presentations and press :)
Thanks for the excellent tl;dr of the paper. I'm surprised to see that sentencing plays such a small factor. I'm definitely going to have to reexamine some of my conclusions about what causes the U.S. prison population.
one of the UK papers figured out who he was a few years ago. i know he didnt officially admit it but if you read this article it is pretty clear they actually did track him down (in my opinion anyways)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-a...
So, do I prioritise Stockfighter or TIS-100?

Decisions, decisions :)
Not in this study, but the actual article, linked at the bottom, does refer to an earlier study on the whistled language of La Gomera.

Also, Wikipedia says that Silbo Gomero is "one of the best-studied whistling languages".
Nuclear weapons in ten steps [BBC future]
Oh, I avoid WP like the plague these days, and strictly use static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo. In any case, I'm referring less to specific plugins, and more to the critical importance of bootstrapping and fostering a thriving plugin marketplace for 3rd-party developers, just like WP did (and does). I'm surprised that none of the newer players are doing this.
Thanks for the feedback-- and out of curiosity, have you ever built an emulator before?
Parents get to bias their children from the moment they are born, and for decades after. This is unavoidable. Doing it with genes is probably no more invasive, and probably a whole lot more scientific.
How many hours can someone, average or not, work before they start making more bad decisions than good ones? The problem with 50 hour+ work weeks is at some point, depending on the individuals outside life, they enter a period of sleep deprivation.

Is it a characteristic of most successful founders that they can make good decisions in high stress situations while sleep deprived?
I concur it is about respect for time most of all. Though the technical portions are interesting, they could have been broken out into separate articles for people who want those additional details.

I may not be the target audience (novice coder) but I also feel the writing style would greatly benefit from greater focus.

A sentence that stands out in that regard is "Although my co-founders Thomas and Erin have done substantial work with securing real stock exchanges over their career, I have no particular background in finance." This sentence could be refined to "My co-founders Thomas and Erin have substantial experience securing real stock exchanges". This kind of editing would help the author avoid 8k word essays without a significant loss of content value.
It looks similar to React's one-way data flow - that render method produces the whole app view, and refers to all the necessary variables. When an event occurs [e.g. the user types text to add and hits enter]:

- the appropriate method is called [e.g. add]

- which mutates the state [e.g. TodoList.push(TodoItem.new(title.trim))]

- and then render is called, which updates the view/DOM

So in a sense it's not really data-binding, IMO - instead, the render method contains the entire view + view logic, and it gets called each time the state is changed.