skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember trying b2 out early in the development and finding the installation on hosted server space a bit complicated. I had a few gremlins as well about the navigation from article/archive/index pages.

Tried later when it was wordpress and used wp to publish the vanity page from October 2004 to February 2010 my backups tell me. I used MoveableType and Greymatter[2] as well - anyone remember those?

Went back to old school static web pages about 4 or 5 years ago, mainly because I wasn't writing much and keeping the scripts up to date was getting to be a drag...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greymatter_%28software%29
Incredibly misleading graph with one line moving 6% and the other line moving 60% but the axis pruned to make it look like there is a relationship.
The root? A thousand years of Christian-Muslim violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade

End it by replacing guns with first aid and tanks with schools. End it by replacing violence with empathy, by replacing fear with love.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552932
> Radical Islam

But there are plenty of other radical groups. Today the right wing extremists are a greater threat to Americans than Muslims are.
This is another one of those things that I blame on what is certainly a hot boom and what many call a bubble. Look at HomeJoy for comparison:

https://medium.com/backchannel/why-homejoy-failed-bb0ab39d90...

In a saner funding environment, people get small things working reasonably well and then scale up. But with the oceans of cash sloshing around and the land-grab mentality, it's too easy to get something half-assedly working and then throw money at all your problems. Disappointed customers? Give refunds! Give coupons! Do more marketing! Frustrated pseudo-employees? Subsidize them! Do more recruiting! Poach from your competitors!
West is a enemy against which they can unite all other arabs. If west is not an enemy, they cannot unite and will fight each other, e.g. sunnite vs shiite like they have been doing last thousand years.

> They want all non-Muslims who don't want Sharia Law dead

This is a good example of a western propaganda. Sure, there are radical people who say so but they do not have mass support to realise this plan and not everyone thinks so.

> Leaving the Muslim lands and making reparations is not going to help the situation at all

Why don't we try? In the meantime we can take other measures to protect ourselves too.
IIRC the Bush administration had planned to invade Iraq regardless of 9/11. The US Department of Defense had placed the final documents on Bush's desk (ready for him to sign) 48 hours prior to the fall of the first tower. So really, 9/11 gave Bush a convenient excuse to do what he was going to do anyway.

The rationale was that Hussein needed to be replaced. Iraq was too unstable and it might fall to Iran, which would upset the power balance in the middle east. I think Afghanistan was thrown in as an afterthought because, you know, "terrorists".
> I see you were saying that if we have armed citizens, the offenders will only use methods that don't get them shot, so bombings and other "assailant not present" offensives.

I was saying that if we have armed citizens, the offenders will only use methods that don't get them shot before they strike. So suicide bombings are on the table. Compare with this attack, where the assailants must have known they're not walking out of that one alive.

> I just want people to have the option to defend themselves if they choose.

The core question here is - defend from what? Guns won't help you defend from a terrorist attack anymore than they can help you defend from an asteroid strike. Since we don't use extinction of dinosaurs as a pro-gun argument, we shouldn't use terrorist attacks either. Note that I'm not supporting pro- or anti-gun stance here, I only refuse to accept invalid arguments - from either side.
forked by Mullenweg to become WP, more here http://winningwp.com/a-brief-history-of-wordpress/

best part http://winningwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/W-WordPress-...

(for the horror fans)
"Nobody used it" because until the early '00s bandwidth was so precious, and latency so huge, that making multiple HTTP calls was insane in most target markets (US/EU). So you would try to cram everything you could in one big request and push it out. JS was also very immature (both as a language and browser runtime, with differing DOM support etc), and computers could hang if your code was too expensive.

When DSL, cable and fiber started becoming commonplace, computers got faster and browsers started shipping compatible and optimized runtimes, then advanced techniques became really accessible. Eventually jQuery came out, making all browsers work the same, and the rest is history.
If you believe that arbitrary browser code running arbitrary website code doesn't weaken security, then I don't know what to say except I disagree.
The video-game-playing mobs occur, pretty much by definition, organically.

If this stuff catches on, it will be imposed from above on coders who are far from enthusiastic.
"then their professional liability insurance would protect them from the fall-out of sloppy workmanship"

Assumes the homeowner checks that the insurance for the professional is valid at the point the repair is made. Of course nobody does that. (They ask and are told they are insured. Maybe on a large project but on a small repair?)

Along those lines I have a doctor that is practicing in a property that I own (commercial). As part of the lease (as with all tenants that I have) they are required to provide not only proof of insurance but to add my LLC as a named insured to the policy and provide what is known as an ACCORD certficate (as proof). They do have the insurance (I have seen the policy) but even after 2 months I have not been able to get them to get their agent to provide the ACCORD cert. So what am I supposed to do? Tell them to move out? In theory this needed to be provided prior to moving in. But as things like this go of course you give leeway and try not to be a hard ass. I am sure I will get the cert but there is liability for a brief time prior to receiving it. My point is all of this is real life and the difference between what is taught in school (or online) and what actually happens in business. [1]

[1] And another tenant provided the CERT but named me personally instead of the LLC. And I've had cases where my own insurance company mixes up company names (there are several) on the policy and it's a constant battle to get all paperwork actually straight and in order (easy when you own 1 thing, much more difficult to keep track of when you own several or have multiple tenants).
Come visit us.
It's especially fun when it's a helicopter and the camera is synchronized with the rotor:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qgvuQGY946g
How to Delete Foreign Lock Enteries?
The issue is not liability. It's whether there is a leg to stand on to get sued for this. In this case there is a leg to stand on to get sued. And in that case it's time and money to defend, assuming insurance does not cover this of course.
I agree with you in principle, but I believe these agreements exist so that you can't take a $10m payout (and drop the legal case with a no-fault agreement), and then turn around and tell the media that "I was paid $10m, but they TOTALLY were at fault". It'd come across as disingenuous all around (company & victim).
I just use consul/consul-template and Vagrant (+ Puppet) right now. Vagrant works just fine, I do not experience routing problems. But I will remember your advice/experience for our future plans.
Playing Sherlock Holmes
I tried their chat support, they were very outgoing, personable & solved my problem almost immediately. If they were helping other people at the same time, I certainly didn't notice.
junto said:

> We could try and close all the borders... or... kick all immigrants out of our countries

mbrock said:

> Draconian measures... historically unsuccessful... [establishing those measures] also grievously violates the core principles of an open and liberal society... Vehemently disagreeing with your opinion is a crucial necessity for anyone who stands for democracy and liberty.

Dolores12 said:

> It is actually succesful in Israel.

Mbrock, I beg you to engage the argument. This is the debate we should be having. There can't be double standards. Either closing borders and kicking out immigrants "grievously violates the principles of democracy and freedom" [1] or they don't. Which is it?

[1] In which case the U.S. supports a State that "grievously violates the principles of democracy and freedom" and we should stop supporting them immediately.
do you remember all those too-cool-for-school types who kept whining about the AJAX acronym and how it was overhyped and BLAH BLAH BLAH
So did western invasion into Iraq stop genocide and make things better there? It just made everything more complicated.
And radical drivers are a greater threat to Europeans than Muslims are, since they do "become obsessed" (with the right to drive like they like regardless what the law says) and "decide that the end" (getting to the red light 2 seconds faster) "justifies the means" (speeding), killing a lot more of people in the process than terror attacks ever did.

The point is, there are many other groups we could focus on and be much more productive with it. Hell, "radical Islam" probaly has the feature that if we elected to ignore it instead of messing with it abroad and radicalizing people even further, it'd probably eventually go away.

But either way, it's a job for the police to deal with, and it does not call for the general population to start retaliating on innocent people who sorta, kinda look a little similar to the radical branch of a radical branch of a foreign religion.
> I don't really like the fetishizing of Tuft's style.

Just so we're clear, this isn't some fanboy trying to imitate Tufte, this project is partly by Tufte. Is someone creating something promoting their own work and style fetishizing themselves?
Material often places action item in very bad places, floating over content, far from where you were touching... like a mouse compared to a keyboard home row, aka non-ergonomic.

It was amazing as a design idea, having all the pieces analog, independent yet coupled when needed, it felt like the proper way to build things, but I'm starting to think that this is a classic wrong variable focus, this doesn't matter for the kind of interaction it's used for.
Electronic and audio versions of this book are hosted by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/HighOutputManagement_201308
"Any contained item that can fit inside a refrigerator, whose quality would degrade significantly more when kept at room temperature rather than at 1-4°C, by the estimated time of use/consumption."

The term "contained" above is restrictive, and probably needs further precision. Only things that thrive inside an opaque and sealed container would fit the definition above. Otherwise, things that can affect the quality of other items (i.e., gas emanation), things that need light, things that need oxygen, things that need a specific range of moisture, things that can grow and/or move, would all need their containers to provide these conditions and/or have a dedicated location inside the refrigerator.
In France there's even this group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_R%C3%A9gional_d%27...

Comité régional d'action viticole (CRAV, Regional Committee for Viticultural Action), or sometimes Comité d'action viticole (CAV, Committee for Viticultural Action) is a French group of radical wine producers. It has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks including dynamiting grocery stores, a winery, the agriculture ministry offices in two cities, burning a car at another, hijacking a tanker, and destroying large quantities of non-French wine.
Your claim is fallacious, because a floating-point value denotes a range of the real number line, whereas you're insisting that, no, it stands for its literal value: the absolutely precise rational number that lies at the center of that range.

That is no more true than my current body temperature being precisely 36 4/10 degrees Celsius because the thermometer reads 36.1.

All numbers in that range alias to the same double, yet differ wildly in their decimal digits beyond the fifteenth. That "long tail" of digits is a meaningless residue arising from the arbitrary difference between the chosen center-of-range point and the actual number it approximates.

> Printing only 15 digits is not doing programmers any favors

Note that the ISO C function printf uses 6 digits of precision under the %g conversion specifier by default. So a team of experts can find it justifiable to severly truncate precision on printing. I find that justifiable also, like this: printing is not only for constants, and trivial expressions like 0.1 + 0.2, but for the results of complex calculations, which accumulate significant rounding errors. Six digits of precision is prudent: for many complex calculations, it will avoid misleading the user with too much precision. Fifteen decimal digits will be wrong after just a few operations; there is hardly any "headroom" to absorb error.

> just makes the lie even worse

If merely neglecting to reveal some aspect of the stark truth is tantamount to lying, then you're also lying when you pull a number with 54 significant decimal figures out of a 64 bit double. Revealing some truth without an explanation can also be construed as "lying", as in "[N]one of woman born shall harm Macbeth".

I personally find it convenient that when I bang the token 0.3 into my REPL, it comes back with a tidy 0.3. I know that there are several values of double which will print as 0.3, and don't compare with exact equality except in special circumstances (like when deliberately using integral values not far from zero).
Then there needs to be a huge disclaimer about safety liability and people need to be given a checklist of safety items to inspect upon their arrival. There should also be a guarantee of a full refund and/or alternative accommodations if the host fails the checklist. If you really want to blame the customer and put the burden on them for their own safety, make them aware of it. The problem is that informing the consumer of all the risks is going to be less profitable because people may second guess if it's right for them, and the checklist makes AirBnB look like a lot more work.

Either the homeowner needs to see a huge disclaimer and accept liability when they place a property, or the consumer needs to see a huge disclaimer and accept liability when they rent a place, or AirBnB needs to assume responsibility and liability for both. You can't just leave it a grey area where it automatically defaults to the consumer being liable for everything, so that the homeowner and AirBnB can maximize profit while assuming zero risk.
I know that, literally, that's the meaning of what they wrote. But this is an emotive issue. Anyone reading it quickly can easily misunderstand the intent; judging by the downvotes, many did. It would be wise, in such a case, to be as unambiguous as possible.
I've long found it strange that the same company that didn't want a second mouse button because they didn't want to hide functionality in context menus now hide so much functionality behind gestures with a varying amount of fingers. This started while Jobs where still at Apple, so it can't be blamed entirely on his successors.
I'm on the other side of the fence – I'm using tufte-css for my course on Computer Architecture at the CS department in Aarhus, Denmark. I've found the design very easy to work with and easy to read for the students.
When you catch all the falling knives with an index fund, some will sink, but most will rebound.
> Apple simultaneously made a radical move toward visual simplicity and elegance at the expense of learnability, usability, and productivity.

Case in point: calendar.

I simply cannot tell where one month ends and another begins in the flat UI. Sure, the skeuomorphic version looked corny, but it was a lot easier to use.
> now I have to destroy this droplet and start over.

Can you not just get a fresh IP on Digital Ocean? You can on Scaleway.
> One big question is how quickly frackers would ramp up production again if oil prices rise.

What would Nash say about this?

a) Stable: Saudis: production high, prices low. US: shale not developed. (OPEC: no "cheating," production adjusts to price.)

b) Unstable: SA: low supply. OPEC: cheating. US: shale.

c) Unstable: SA: whiplash production and hopefully prices to continually scare US producers out of market. OPEC members desiring predictable revenues revolt / periodic shortfalls make cheating rampant. US: prep work / tech developments for quick spin-up shale projects. Or, big tanks: Massive arbitrage opportunities emerge for futures and warehousing, cutting against SA's ability to control prices.

Good article, but I think there's reason to believe SA (or really, US shale) has put a ceiling on oil that isn't going to budge for a while.

(OTOH, oil price forecasting has historically ranked highly among foolish human endeavors... )
There are quite a number of good software development practices that are mostly great when teams choose them on their own but often produce terrible results when imposed. Unit tests and writing documentation are two that come to mind.

I think the problem isn't with the individual practices, it's with a theory of management that treats programmers as minions rather than professionals. And, of course, with programmers' widespread acquiescence to that power relationship.
Yep, that's a pretty apt description. The sad thing is almost all these fires were avoidable if they had let forward thinking engineers work on problems we all knew were upcoming, but weren't the emergency of the week. Unfortunately, the dedication to "agile" seemed to mean that anything outside the scope of the next two weeks pretty much didn't exist, and if you tried to do anything that wasn't in the "backlog" you were some sort of rogue cowboy. (Even if the backlog was empty!)

Fundamentally, the problem was trust -- the management didn't trust the engineers, so they micromanaged them poorly while invoking "agile" to make heavy management somehow seem like a populist movement for the "team". And because the team was micromanaged and not trusted, motivation was low and the output was poor, which just made the problems worse.

(Not surprisingly: the company recently just laid off the entire staff)
I certainly remember Movable Type, and I think a few well-known blogs are still powered by it: two that spring to mind are Daring Fireball and kottke.org. (Probably a case of "if it works, why change it?".)
Reflections on my Alma Mater, Google, and the new world of startups in India
640x480 @ 14" is 57 dpi, but Windows, back then, was commonly configured for 96 dpi.

Making fonts tiny was the only way for them not to render huge on the typical end-user device.
Which is the point: the "sharing economy" encourages service provision by amateurs without regulation, oversight, formal accountability, or adequate backup.

It looks like a win because it's cheaper, but that's only true until something goes badly wrong.

Oversight and regulation aren't always a bad thing. Sometimes they prevent avoidable accidents.
Could you simply respond to the point? I already understand how modern central banks work so a reference to a 14 page intoduction doesn't help.

According to your claim, debt interest just disappears while i know for a fact that it does not since i've used such money myself (earned on my savings) in the past to buy stuff.
There's not being modern, and then there's not chasing every rabbit down every hole. Right now I feel like FreeBSD is a wonderful mix of advanced, modern tech like ZFS and bhyve, married with an absence of "oooo-shiny!" misadventures like PulseAudio and systemd.

And in particular, right now I'm grateful that the BSDs are small enough to be ignored by the herds of people migrating away from Windows and bringing their mindsets with them - that all seems to be landing on Linux.
I haven't heard that before. Do you have any sources?
Except that multiculturalism is pretty much the antithesis of the French system. But maybe you meant something else like "foreigners living where they don't belong", right?
Make way for the future of videos
I agree. The local chapter of the Project Management Institute has 7,000 members. I don't think there are 7,000 people here in town who can actually write code, so this is where Agile becomes Agile™. They map agile buzzwords into their own screwed up processes designed mostly to appear important and CYA. It's almost the definition of an anathema.
Ask HN: How do you make friends / potential startup partners?
I'm curious about how other geeky people here make new friends IRL. I'm approaching 40 and I've realized that many other people have families and kids and thus seem to have little time/interest in making new friends to hang out with or create a new interesting startup with. Do you prefer to stay home, read HN and other news or do you call someone and say "let's have a beer" or do you go to meetups and exchange contact details? Or do you do something completely different?

I'm primarily asking for input from people who are not students but who work and don't have a family.
Most people will re-roll if they get a name they don't like.
> If Israel weren't around, Syria would still be destabilized and we would still have ISIS.

Are you sure?

According to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, “the area of the Jewish State stretches: “From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.” According to Rabbi Fischmann, “The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon.”

When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing war on Syria and Iraq, the war in Yemen, the process of regime change in Egypt, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East. The latter consists in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of an Israeli expansionist project.

The Zionist project supports the Jewish settlement movement. More broadly it involves a policy of excluding Palestinians from Palestine leading to the eventual annexation of both the West Bank and Gaza to the State of Israel.

According to Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya in a 2011 Global Research article, The Yinon Plan was a continuation of Britain’s colonial design in the Middle East:

“[The Yinon plan] is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
I'm not sure that whether the individual believes there is a reward is relevant.

Example: atheist terrorists -- atheistic suicide bomber, say -- would be heroic because they don't believe there is a reward?
I work most of the weekends, sometimes it is necessary and we know it. But when it is not necessary I like to take the Saturday, so on Friday night I can go out with friends, Saturday is for relax/recover and Sunday I can be up and running again.