skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you ignore the "thousands of people killed each year by drug cartels which the police and military are unable to control" metric
Python for 1,2 with a little bit of manual pasting into wolfram alpha

And for part 3 I used prolog. About ~6 lines or so.
I would argue a different root cause for "Analysis Paralysis": fear.

Most people who analyze things to death fear making decisions that result in a mistake (subsequently resulting in job loss). The costlier a decision, the more likely the paralysis will occur.

And quite often, these people are technically competent.
> So, is his opinion more relevant for having that much stock in facebook?

No, but currently in our society, for better or worse, his status as a celebrity sure does.
Why do so many folks use "overcrowding" as a rationale for keeping innocent people out of prison? Is that really the best reason you can come up with? If there was room for them, would it be fine? Would you legalize legitimate crimes because jail was full?
I love that first article; after many paragraphs extolling the "safe" choices, at the end he casually slips in that he's actually using a language that no-one else in the world is.

Nevertheless, Wasabi is to VB as Arc is to Lisp.
It's from 1998. Quit taking stuff from Reddit :)
An infocom interpreter for the Kindle.
You're right but I think they end up with the same result. Whether or not it's "my phone sucks" or "my OS sucks," the result is just going to be people leaving for the main competitor (i.e., Apple).
IF your system is getting pounded with queries, and you suddenly have to page to serve those queries, the ability of your system to respond to queries and other operations goes WAY down, and the queries are just going to pile up, causing further swapping and load - it's a vicious cycle.
I'm not sure where you're getting "denialist" from his article. He doesn't say anything about whether there is or isn't global warming, or whether humans are or are not causing at least a portion of it. His charge is that the APS, instead of fostering open debate, is stifling it. I do think he's too preoccupied with money as a motivation for why the stifling is being done; but his primary charge is basically that scientists aren't doing their due diligence the way they used to:

"As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time...How different it is now."

When I read the IPCC reports, for example, I find it hard to disagree with this assessment; even before ClimateGate we had plenty of evidence that what went into those reports was largely politically, not scientifically, determined. Note that this does not mean the IPCC reports are entirely wrong, nor does it mean that global warming will not be a problem. It means the reports don't make a good enough case for, say, emasculating the entire world economy in order to maybe, possibly, reduce the global temperature rise over the next century by a fraction of a degree Celsius.
She raises some valid points. I'm in my late twenties, and I do want to have a family some day, but to be honest, it's not a burning issue for me right now. I feel fairly comfortable that 10 years from now I could find an attractive woman who I can share my life with.

What I CANNOT feel comfortable with however, is still toiling away 10 years from now, still trying to get my first break.

As men, we have a longer runway to start a family which certainly has an impact on the numbers of women in this endeavor.
I do wish women with a chip on their shoulders would stop getting all aggro about observations that are not prescriptions. You saying "that's not true" is just as globalizing as "this is true."

There is just something about women and product businesses that's weird. I recently put on a conference about bootstrapping paying products only, and I looked for ages to find a single woman bootstrapper like myself. They can't be found.

There are uncountable zillions of women freelancers, women running agencies, women coding, women designing, women writing, women coaching.

There are way more women running tech startups that have VC funding than there are with bootstrapping.

I can name 5 to 7 female founders with VC off the top of my head -- to my mind, they have better brand name recognition than male founders (the only men I can think of by name, I know personally).

But, after days and days of searching and mining my (RL) social networks, I was able to identify only ONE single fellow bootstrapper (and she's "only" part of a 4-person team). And she's not from The Land of Opportunity, if you know what I mean.

Outside of tech, there are lots of women who've gotten loans or other capital to make ands sell physical goods, of all the risky-ass things they could do. Or restaurants, shops and cafes.

So, obviously there are many women who are not afraid of entrepreneurship and not really risk-averse. Selling specialty shoes or front-end web dev is much, much riskier than creating a paying digital product, and less remunerative than doing a startup with funding. (And most of those funded startups are "social long shots" -- not product businesses.)

I don't have the answer, but there is something weird going on there. But I don't think it's an external thing. Nobody is keeping those other women down.

That said, I'm a married woman in my mid-20s. I married when I was 24 and launched my product business right after. If I ever wanted to have kids (which I do not), I would definitely wait, because the "have it all" thing is definitely a myth. You end up either shortchanging your kids or your work, unless you're totally unstoppable (and who is?).
This is the primary reason I left reddit for HN many moons ago.
Yeah I deleted that immediately after posting because I thought it was too hyperbolic (despite being a great book).
Is there a startup scene in Italy? :)
Tunable concurrency control for the number of incoming requests would have been good - before they even hit mongo.

Then you can just dial things down a bit (making customers wait a bit) and let the system recover, and tune things back to the point of optimal behaviour, rather than letting things overload. (You set your concurrency limits at a point where you know the system is just beginning to slow down but is still performing satisfactorily)
Did you ask the admin staff what they were doing? They could all be working on insurance paperwork.
Verizon Getting Simultaneous Voice and Data on CDMA in 2011
Of all the rationales, that's a poor one. How about:

- Forcing it onto the black market makes producing marijuana the most profitable use of lots of land that would otherwise be used for non-crime related agriculture.

- Locks up lots of people for non-violent offenses, ruining lives.

- Deprives the state of Billions of dollars in tax revenue

- Wastes billions on the nearly impossible task of enforcement

- Leads to US military intervention all over central and south america, which leads to puppet regimes, corruption, and tremendous amounts of human suffering.

- Marijuana proceeds fuel the expansion of criminal orgs that also practice human trafficking and import harder drugs. Legalization will destroy many of these organizations.

- Promotes the emphasis on alcohol as the recreational drug of choice in America, when in fact Marijuana generally has fewer adverse side effects.
UPDATE. Thanks for testing everybody, sadly there are serious problems that need fixing. So for now the project is closed.
Why is this a valid rebuttal?

I don't agree with everything Joel says, and I definitely find the StackExchange marketing approach flawed at best, but I've been using Fogbugz for quite some time, and it is far from being horrible software. I would take it over JIRA any day.

Yes, Joel is an Internet brand. His blog entries are designed to get eyeballs by being opinionated. But he does have a legitimate development background. You can't dismiss his opinion outright because he sells bug tracking software.
Instead of

def sum_double(a, b):
# Store the sum in a local variable
sum = a + b
# Double it if a and b are the same
if a == b:
sum = sum * 2
return sum

I wrote:

def sum_double(a, b):
return (a+b)*2 if a==b else a+b

My solution was accepted. Apparently the site evaluates the python program. This is much better than some online C++ test I once took, where my entry had to match perfectly a pre-canned solution letter by letter (it would even balk on differences in whitespace).
I'm not sure I understand. Is it the language that offends you, or the venting about a client? Because you already said the latter is "not bad" and "necessary." But getting that upset that somebody uses very mildly offensive swear words in an informal, personal setting seems a bit petty and kind of juvenile, certainly not something I would expect from most adults. I don't know, maybe the words "douche" and "prick" are more severe in some places than in my neck of the woods? Because over here, they're roughly on par with "jerk."
It really bugs me how Facebook's MO seems to be to make every new feature opt-out, and often awkward to do so, in order to gain traction.

For example I can't even find a way to prevent people adding me to groups, other than outright de-friending them. That's a little nuclear for over-enthusiastic family members.

I suppose they'll add one later, after they are able to announce how millions of users are using the new groups feature.
Now, that's some serious linkpaid or commentbait. Surprised it wasn't written by MG Siegler.
When campaign money is considered free speech, then yes, some people have more than others. Opinions are more valuable when they can influence others. You can go door-to-door and reason with everyone you meet, or you can buy advertising space and ram it down their throats - which is more efficient when you only need a majority.
Psychic numbing and genocide
Yeah, I'm afraid I really don't see the relevance. I'm sure he also has opinions on Roe vs Wade, Bush vs Gore, Coke vs Pepsi and who should have won America's Next Top Model, but I don't see the relevance, and am concerned that some people may be upvoting the story just because they agree with this particular proposition.
> which ever of those is the case it is not going to hurt us one bit to know.

This seems to be the major contention being brought up in the letter. Not that GW is completely and purely a scam or should be completely written off (as you imply he is suggesting), but that the process for understanding and studying it has been corrupted by money and that attempts to put together a "topical group" to study it have been ignored for political reasons.
I wonder what would have happened if CERN had patented the inventions that make up the Web?
I never understood why the boxes are shaped the way they are. Is the area proportional to importance? Why is market on the left and not the right? Why not just do a boring row of boxes?

Or is it just arranged in a way the visual cortex finds interesting? That would add weight to the idea that this is just a meme.
Google and Facebook are both doing this: Make an unpopular, privacy decreasing, and probably mandatory change, then say "If you don't like it, you're doing something wrong [Having prank-pulling friends, wanting privacy, etc]."

I've already changed my name, increased my privacy settings and removed my photos on Facebook... It's a damned fine product, if its administration didn't insist on making people give things up against their will.
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You sound like a newspaper publisher.
I can't stand Mercurial branches. They make no sense once you've tasted Git's.

Heck, Mercurial users / developers / websites as much as admit it sucks. The most-recommended way to branch that I've seen is to clone the remote, never develop on that copy (a "pristine" clone), and clone that repo to make your branches, pushing back into your pristine when you're ready to upload.

Git? Just branch and code.
XML isn't overrated, but it is often misunderstood and misused.

Know of any other data formats that allow schemas, validation, and transformation/styling of their content to other formats in a mature implementation independent manner?

If you're just moving bits around, use whatever.

If you're trying to create data interchange standards, XML is a pretty good choice.
I still don't see how what you wrote conflicts with what I wrote though.

If

19 states allow it

15 ban it completely

the rest have exceptions for location and family members

Then it stands to reason that a majority of the states allow it in some form just as much as a majority (but a smaller one) forbids it in some form.

Because it was more complex than just that single number (the 15 that completely forbid it) I included the link so you can verify for yourself that only 15 states have an outright ban.

What is considered a 'private setting' and a family situation is not for me to decide, we're talking about consumption here, not about sales.

So in 35 states drinking by minors in some settings is legal, and in 19 of them there are no restrictions.

By the same logic, in 31 states there are some restrictions on alcohol consumption, and it is completely forbidden in 15 of those.
Dirkon - The Paper Camera from Communist Czechoslovakia
I'd guess because many people opposed to marijuana legalization are also frequent complainers about their taxes going to 3-square-meal-a-day criminals in prison. Inform them that a huge portion of people in prison are there just for having pot, and taking them out would save them tax dollars and better the economy, and you may convince them to help legalize it.
The article's own title is: Gradual Engagement Boosts Twitter Sign-Ups by 29%

You're referring to the HN title, which unfortunately has become the focus of discussion here. Gradual engagement is intellectually interesting. eg:

- make people successful along the way to a signup

- games should allow people to succeed within the first 5 seconds

- postpone account creation

- end registration with a set of relevant topics (not dump users off a cliff)

EDIT they don't mention this, but it would fit with postpone account creation to push back the captcha validation of an account until the user requested an action where it matters.
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I have used and paid to use Fogbugz. I've used JIRA as well, and I would choose Fogbugz over JIRA any day, despite the silly name. Since I've gone independent, I use the free version of hosted Fogbugz (Fog Creek is kind enough to offer it for free for independents and startups).

--edit it's free for students too

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I'm of the opinion that truly top talent doesn't care about the language. It's the programming problems they care about. Fogbugz does some non trivial stuff like evidence based scheduling. I'm sure some top programmers would find that interesting, regardless of whether it's programmed in a vb-like syntax or not.

Having said that, Joel says a lot of things, some of it makes sense and some of it doesn't. It's the Internet. Opinions are plentiful, and we're all free to agree or disagree.
document.write.to isn't something used by any browsers, it's something that my asynchronous document.write library uses instead of polluting the global namespace. Those image results are interesting, and I admit that I only took a quick skim of your code, so I may have been wrong to assume that it would be limited by onload.
I downmodded this because it's content-free ("Either AGW is real, or it's not. Maybe we should find out.") and it's sprinkled with emotionally-laden words like "scam" and "conspiracy theorists." I don't think it's good to approach a flamewar-prone topic like that.
Yes, but that might easily be a case of sour grapes because it is not his proposal that got accepted.

I really got that vibe from the article, that this was as much about him not being part of the 'in' group as it was about a suddenly found set of principles over which to resign from this body.
Risk aversion makes sense from a biological standpoint, though. Males are expendable, thus must show off to get mating rights (because we don't live in a world where women are won (in most places)).

As to the Modern World, men rarely take maternity leave. That's a long time to be away from a job, a large risk for the company, at a possibly highly inopportune moment. Risk.
Preference dialogs that have a dozen tabs each with a dozen settings need cancel buttons. Make a better and simpler preference window and the need for those buttons goes away.

I don't need to confirm every command I issue. That is just madness. I like zsh confirming when I type `rm foo/*`. I don't like a preference dialog confirming that I really meant to change some colour (OK and Apply don't pop up but they are confirmations nonetheless).
Overcrowding is the most tangible effect the voting public cares about, because everyone understands there are limited resources and at some point you have to make a decision who you want to keep in jail and who you don't.

I would say most people really don't care if an innocent person is in jail. But they do care if someone they consider a threat is let out because someone they don't consider a threat is taking up a spot.

Remember you're not dealing with rational beings, you're dealing with voters.
He makes some good points, but probably goes too far when he starts impugning the motives of others.

The APS shouldn't have dashed off such a dodgy statement about climate change without better consultation with its thousands of members (including me). And the word "incontrovertible" is too strong for just about anything in science, and shouldn't have been used.
You definitely have to take him, and anyone proclaiming to be an expert or analyst, for that matter, with a grain of salt.
Interestingly, builtwith.com did not recognize a project I am working on is built with Rails, whereas IsItRails.com was very sure that it was built with Rails.
Thanks for that input.

It is real or it is not is simply indicating that I think that as far as the science is concerned this is still an open question, even though you can find plenty of stuff out there which states with great levels of certitude that it is the one or the other, I simply disagree with that.

As for the conspiracy theorists, yes, I really do believe they will be all over this, any high profile person that would use words like "It is of course, the global warming scam" (which came directly from the article) is going to find their words quoted forever by those that would rather deny the possibility of this somehow being effected by humanity.

I'm on the fence I'd like to know but I don't, anybody that is yelling 'scam' or 'for sure' is most likely pushing an agenda.

So I'm all for science to be done here preferably in as independent a style as possible with a strong accent on transparency.
Not doing something because the minority can't use it is hardly a good reason to not do something. It's more of a reason to find alternatives for that minority, especially when it's something like this, which uses familiar elements in a familiar way.
The only reason that ultimately matters is that poking smot is not wrong, and putting innocent people in jail is. All that other stuff is incidental.

If it helps the cause, then use it, but I think most of it just confuses the issue, and opens it up to more fallacious counter-arguments. If we argue that certain unethical things should be stopped because they are impractical, then what do we say about the ones that are practical?
Seventy-five percent of American respondents to a survey sponsored by the Wi-Fi Alliance said that a week without Wi-Fi would leave grumpier than a week without coffee or tea.

Uhhh-huh. And I wonder what a survey sponsored by the Coffee and Tea Alliance would have to say.

Is there no filtering layer at the New York Times that comes in between the press release and the story and says "Boy, this sounds like a bogus poll, we probably shouldn't base an entire article around it"?
Add to your database which hosting provider the site is using (for those you can figure out). I think that really increases the value of your pitch and saves the sales people from having to cross reference to make sure they aren't pitching existing customers.
Not every mention of Judaism is associated with Hitler, so I'm not sure why you ask. Most of the times I hear Judaism mentioned, it is not in the context of Adolf Hitler. I think you're the first person I've ever heard draw a universal connection between the two.

As for Hitler, he is most famous (at least in America) for his violent hatred of the Jewish people, so it is likely that mentioning him will bring it to mind. I mean, what are we supposed to think of? Complaining that Hitler is associated with Jews seems like saying, "Good grief, every time I mention Picasso, people think of Cubist art!"
The criticism over Facebook's opt-out trend in new features is definitely warranted, but Forbes' editors continue to go for reader-baiting titles.

This story "Zuckerberg quits NAMBLA," and "Facebook Billionaire Explains Why He Backs Prop 19" from yesterday are great examples of perfectly fine stories made needlessly sensational in order to get attention. I'm guessing most people wouldn't think of any name _but_ Zuckerberg's when asked to name a Facebook billionaire.
> Headlines omit qualifiers.

It wasn't just the headline. Example: "even the most child-oriented men are not as child-oriented as their wives." This line isn't merely lacking in qualifiers, it explicitly denies exceptions, saying that even outliers fit the stereotype.

(I happen to be one of the exceptions.)
From the headline, I was hoping this involved some research, some sort of new finding, at least with tentative causality ("because" is hard to prove, but there is evidence that is more persuasive and less persuasive). But it's just someone's opinion based on anecdotes.

And it's not really a new one: the "women do more/less of X because they want to have a family" argument is written about all the time. It vies with "inherent biological differences" and "discrimination" for the most-frequently-suggested explanation for gender differences in any field. You can get dozens of entire books on it.

It's also somewhat at odds with the (admittedly spotty) research that's been done in the area. For example, one in-depth series of case studies found that a large proportion of women who opted out of work to raise a family did so largely because they wanted out of the work, rather than because they wanted to raise a family and weren't able to do the work at the same time: quitting to raise a family was the plan B that they turned to when plan A (have a career) turned out to suck for various reasons: http://www.amazon.com/Opting-Out-Women-Really-Careers/dp/052...

On the other hand, it's perfectly fine for people to write personal blog posts about their own experiences. I think I'm mostly objecting to the attempt to generalize it based on one example; a "why I quit my startup to raise a family" post would've been fine.
It seems to me there are 3 basic components to "smart"
1) How fast your processor is.
2) How big your data base is.
3) How refined your algorithms are.
Flying Car.  really.
I would definitely be in, but I can't even code yet.

What are your suggestions on going from 0 - launch by the end of November?
There is little technical reason to choose Git over Mercurial or vice versa. Their usage is extremely similar. Git exposes a few more internals, and lets you fix mistakes more easily. For sharing branches which are incomplete, git's `rebase -i` is also somewhat superior to mercurial queues.

Overall, I've found git to be marginally better than hg.

The real killer feature that git has is that git talks to github and svn. Mercurial only talks to bitbucket (sorry guys, network effects are important and github won).
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