skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really understand why they didn't reinstall my packages after forcibly removing them. Take five minutes and write the currently installed package list to a tmp file, and then install all those packages again automatically after the upgrade.

I just ended up copying the list to a file, then:

cat list | xargs npm install

Other than that, awesome! npm has always been rather pleasant to use.
President of the current liberal democracy obviously can't survive in this system because he is the head of organization, that extort money from its subjects by force.
Law Students Lose the Grant Game as Schools Win
Internet Techies of the Old West
Perl Best Practices isn't a new book. Pervasive testing took over the (Perl) world a decade ago. There are lots of people doing serious development with Perl.

But that kind of code won't go away, since Perl is a system administration language. It will be the first language lots of people use for fixing things in their file systems, batch download of web pages, etc. Such code will never be pretty. And there is nothing wrong with that.

And btw, I'd use one of the many CPAN modules for fork/exec, but if I was in a hurry I'd copy the Perldoc example. It is a standard idiom in the Unix world.
I think you've misunderstood the comment.

The comparisons made in the GP have very little in common. The Java:Scala distinction is not similar to that of ASM:C, and neither has a similar relationship to that of HAML:Erb. So there are many objections that can be made to the analogy, especially that the analogous relationships provided are not even analogous to each other!

The sentence you quoted makes some assumptions of the reader's knowledge, namely that the reader understands "syntactic sugar" to be a process of trivial, linear transformation. The basis of the objection is not that Javascript is unlike ASM; the objection is that the relationship between Javascript and CoffeeScript is between a high-level scripting language and a trivial transformation layer of that language.

On the other hand, ASM is a low-level interface and C is a paradigmatic shift (comparatively) in programming that introduces semantics which are divorced (to an extent) from their machine implementations.

That relationship is not analogous to Javascript:CoffeeScript, as it is not nearly as significant.
Ah, how do I miss f'dcompany.com. :)

I'm still impressed by the VA Linux IPO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet
I think "be weak" only meant "be humble", or to put it another way, don't make a show of strength.

Also, I think by ethos he meant https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ethos#Rhetori...
Just out of curiosity . . . what is the url for your app?

(Not that hacker news is a app directory, but if you post the url, I'll be checking it at least =)
There's this received wisdom among sociologists that three prerequisites for a stable country are laws, someone to enforce them and a judiciary. I mention this since Bitcoin is creating it's own economy which is analogous to a virtual country. The major benefit of Bitcoin, it's lack of jurisdiction, may also be a disadvantage. As the first disputes arise, hopefully a body of precedent will be developed that strengthens the currency rather than destroys it.
Successful Acquisition Stories
I read a blog post about "top ten worst deals in tech" or something to that effect. A comment on the post stated that there seemed to be no successful acquisitions.

It got me thinking. Can you name any successful acquisitions?

Successful:
Flickr by Yahoo

Non Successful:
Dodgeball, Jaiku by Google
Myspace by Newscorp
Bebo by AOL
My friend used this strategy to make tremendous amounts of money during the Dot Com bubble.
http://nettuts.com The best dev tutorials
Metricom burned through $600M of Paul Allen's money building out an early wireless network that hardly anyone used, then folded. I don't know if this is quite in the "Internet startup" category since it wasn't a Web site, but it certainly was Internet infrastructure.
They use different architectures but there is a real organizational connection between the two products. I interviewed with the VoltDB team at Vertica's office.
Agreed, especially since there was a red patch in the Missouri for earthquakes because of New Madrid, a similar low-frequency devastating quake generator.

The Northeast has a decent balance. Our natural disaster is the winter storm, which are harmless in comparison and, at least, pretty afterward.
But do you realize that the security personnel, cleaning ladies, and contract workers [your classes of employees] do get the perks?
Just the special contractors with their golden badges don't.
I'm similar. I used to always listen to music while coding, but over time I realized for a lot of work, it really is a bad distraction. The only time I really listen to music while working now is for parts that are mostly the coding equivalent of manual labor. When I do -- if I need the energy -- I usually listen to http://di.fm/
how can "professional manager" burn so much money without any profits, knowing that spending this money will not affect the business (positively) -- is really building your own offices because you seen five premises and dont like the view from windows will sell more toys online??
I like the concept, and the cards look good enough, however I find the specific tasks boring and limited (to 52).

You might try making the tasks combinatoric.
Why don't you make your critique on RRW, instead of just complaining here?
Omega-3s in the blood may boost risk of aggressive prostate cancer
keely -- with your game design skills, how come I dont see you #1 in app store with angry birds eating your fumes!!

I had way more fun with your little game than with angry birds which are stupid, imho.
What about the supervolcano[1] risk around Yellowstone, or the megatsunami[2] risk from intraoceanic volcanic islands on either cost or near Lituya Bay in Alaska[3], or meteors? Where do you go to avoid meteors?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami
Nobody will ever pay $52 for a deck of cards.
Well - I guess "smart" is just a word that's difficult to define. I think the definition used by the OP is something along the lines of being better at academical subjects, which clearly isn't your only criteria.

I for one used to be quite awkward, but had awesome friends that pointed out what (not) to do. Am I less smart for not having figured that out on my own? Perhaps, but I don't think it's relevant how skills are obtained.
I've recently used http://feedmyapp.com and it worked pretty well. Within a day or two my site was picked up by several directories and sites.
Had to upvote this as it's, to my mind, a subtle but important point. Part of the 'book' experience is the typography, and someone who is blogging about the demise of the book and uses crappy typography doesn't appreciate that aspect of it.

That being said, the typographic conventions available in electronic books (that aren't simply software on a PC) allow them to invest more time in this sort of thing.

For me, an iPad like device with the 2560 x 1600 (300dpi) 10" screen would be the killer e-book device. But until then I too keep regular books around with e-books too.
Definitely drkoop.com. Its market cap at one point was around 1.3 billion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/business/technology-briefi...
1. $52 retail for a deck of playing cards is prohibitively expensive. $26 is kind of outlandish. Go to ArtsCow and you can print full color custom decks on demand for $10 each

http://www.artscow.com/photo-gifts/playing-cards/playing-car...

ArtsCow even lets you upload your deck for other people to print. I am positive there are much cheaper options if you actually print in bulk

2. The video and description should be shorter and more concise. Successful Kickstarter campaigns usually have very high quality pitches. You are competing with professionals masquerading as hip indie hobbyists.
Yea I do have a social networking site in the works where travelers can find and create treks for various places c

The reason I'm using the cards is because many travelers carry playing cards with them already. If they are carrying Trekdek cards they can be dual use.

Thanks for the feedback!
This isn't about social skills, it's about not being a dick.

I am socially awkward, I struggle to talk to people and I can't maintain eye contact, but I sure as hell know "You're a moron and your beliefs are idiotic" isn't a nice thing to say. Are there seriously people who think that this is appropriate (and use "Sorry I'm socially awkward" as an excuse)?
Add a NSFW tag. Also Yandex's results are clean too.
Thanks for the feedback. Would you mind sharing some examples?
That depends entirely on the rate at which Amazon accepts bitcoins.
The focus on being a spy is useful but ultimately misguided. The real problem is being so cocksure to begin with. You DON'T know everything, and other people generally do have something to offer.
How about Iridium? Over $5 billion invested, sold for $25 million.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/03/35043

Right now it is hard to compete with bing.com, losing 2.5 billion per year.
I hope you are right.

>the government is not as dumb as the music industry, to play whack-a-mole versus grandmothers and kids.

I think the war on drugs would be a counterexample to this statement. Especially considering that legitimate bitcoin use is largely confined to nerds, I don't think the government would have a hard time painting bitcoin users as people who ought to be punished.
I remember someone posting about these trekdek cards before. I didn't get the point then or now.

Your video is way too long. You should think of kickstarter videos like VC or YC pitches.
I watched a video of him picking something from his foot and eating it (during a question and answer setting full of people and, obviously cameras). But really, what does it matter if he doesn't mind?
1. Yea I was planning on experimenting with the price. I'm planning on ordering from china and the primary cost is shipping. What would you think about selling the PDF file for a much lower cost so that customers can print them at a much lower cost (and it's less work for me).

2. Yea I'm not design oriented at all so icant do to much better than that on my own. Were you able to understand what I was going for in this video or was it too long and boring?
I guess that I'm not that sensitive to racial issues as I was born and raised in all white country, to see more than just curiosity about what yellow badgers do why they are mostly people of color and why they don't have perks and why people generally don't know them.

I also fail to see how him being perceived as argumentative and condescending makes him unfit for the job.

I used "retard" as a synonym for "having the quality of
stupidity" perhaps incorectly. I apologize.
You can't just segregate walmart and say: "Walmart can pay everyone $12 an hour because they have lots of cash". You would have to implement it countrywide, so that every no-skill labor job makes at least $12/hour. Hell, lets solve the problem completely and just make the salary minimums $25/hour.

With all due respect, the writer of this article needs to take economics 101.

The wage for a job is precisely set at the balance point where willing workers meet willing employers. Walmart would pay these guys minimum wage if they could get away with it. This is not evil, it's capitalism. The more you have a central authority fiddle with minimums and caps on wages the more you wreck what made this country great.
Yup was me. I did a post about outsourcing to china that included some pics of the cards.
From what I remember, if the volcano at Yellowstone does erupt, pretty much everyone will be screwed.
2. It was a little long winded and boring
Meh. This "one-two" thing seems disingenuous. It's good to be slightly self-deprecating in the sense of knowing what you don't know and having a sense of humor, but presenting oneself as an idiot is just dumb. I think it's best to take the attitude of, "I'm good, but this person might be smarter, or at least know something I'd benefit to learn".

What I think smart people could be better at is separating stupid ideas from stupid people. Most smart people have stupid ideas on occasion, and I've certainly had my share. It happens.
Northern Europe......
Now do this for the whole world, and multiply these stats by the arability of the land and the necessity of climactic intermediation (i.e. thick clothes/central heating/air conditioning) and you get a map of "where everyone would immediately get up and move to, if they were rational agents and there were no political considerations."

Aside: I've had a hypothesis for quite a while that the land most fought-over in land wars (or holy wars) has extremely low value on such a map. I'd love to see the data to confirm/refute that.
The problem isn't with intelligence, it's the fact that gifted kids are often left in average classrooms rather than placed among their peers. Everyone is liable to develop awkward social habits if they grow up outside their peer group, regardless of how intelligent they are.

Also, a lot of the traits people mention when talking about smart, awkward people are common signs of Asperger's...
Neologism alert:

"Doing this in the wrong way Schrutes your whole mission. Doing this in the right way makes you Ani Difranco, or Bob Dylan."
I don't think people (except for the most abrasive) actually say "you're a moron and your beliefs are idiotic". It's more smug and subtle than that, but yes, there are a lot of people who palpably write others off as inferior because of such beliefs. I had this experience as a liberal in a conservative social group at one point in my life.

Where it's most jarring is with religion. I don't object if people believe or don't believe in a God, but I do find it bizarre how many people out there will automatically write someone off as a moron just because that person has any religious beliefs. Sure, there are a lot of moronic religious beliefs and idiotic religious people, but not everyone who has religious beliefs is an intolerant idiot.
Many people seem to ignore that pypy is not a new project. It's been on the works for more than 8 years now.
This place is definitely nice.

One thing I've found with even very basic tutorials on something, is that if you read through it carefully, write each character of the code by yourself -- something will click, and it'll stick with you. Skimming never works.
WTFPL and other similar licenses seem to belong with the MIT license, but they're just floating off on their own.
Funny, we were chatting about this in the office yesterday...

But I don't see wildfires in their list of disasters.
I've written two books. My first book, Zero to Superhero: http://www.zerotosuperhero.com took four years to research, test and write. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. More than once I broke down and wept in frustration. In the end, for all I learned, it was worth it, times a thousand.

My second book is Economtricks: http://goo.gl/Fd8tW took only a year to write. I got some things off my chest. Not as rewarding, financially or personally.
WARNING: Installing Natty may brick your Macbook Pro

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774089
http://old.nabble.com/Ubuntu-11.04-broke-my-MacBook-Pro-td31...

I really love ubuntu, but if you have a macbook pro be careful! I may have to have my logic board replaced!
I would hazard a guess that it would not be as wisely spent as someone who works designing airports or writing software.
What if the banks went on strike? - ireland did the expt in 1970...
Where's the link to it in the Asset Store?
Considering that the ash bed from the last Yellowstone super-volcano eruption extends southwest almost to Los Angeles, south to Mexico, southeast to the Gulf, east almost to the Great Lakes, and northeast to Canada, "risk around Yellowstone" is a massive understatement.

Super-volcanos are amazing in how widespread their destruction is.
and the rare hurricane if you live on the coast
> The intention is to avoid someone making a big stink over a non-issue

A better way to do that is to ... not raise a big stink over it. That is exactly what Google didn't do. If they'd just let this guy talk to people and post his video or photos online, maybe a a couple hundred readers of his blog would have seen the story and it would have been a real "non-issue" as you say. By getting the guy (especially a guy they determined likes to film "exposes") fired they pretty much guaranteed this to become and "issue". This the basic Streisand effect in action : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
try allmyapps.com they do Web app too.
There is a nice thread on Quora that discusses this question: http://www.quora.com/Which-have-been-the-most-successful-acq...

My favorites are probably PayPal (by eBay) and Overture (by Yahoo).
That is very cool.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt put-off by this. Generally the smartest people I know are also the most humble. And is it just me, or does this article not even take its own advice as evidenced by phrases such as "oh ye smart and lonely"?

Some more nuanced advice would have been nice, so I'll toss this out there: my current effort is to avoid over-qualifying what I say. Because I care about precision & nuance (and being 'actually right'), I can end up taking 90 seconds to say something that a 'normal person' can say in 15. "I thought it was a pretty good movie" turns into, "Though the cinematography seemed like it was trying too hard to be cinematography (though it resulted in some moments of beautiful film,), I thought the actors did great. Obviously not his best acting, but pretty good, really, considering that..."

Conversational negotiation demands shorter transactions: if the other person wants to know more they'll ask, "Oh, what did you like about it?"

It's hard stuff :)
Interesting article. It's strange that over the last 100,000 years no one in Namibia or other parts of Africa had discovered any of these insects.

Or had they.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story"

Honestly, it doesn't really matter if people lie about how long they took, it'll just make the rest of us rage, and try do better - which in my books, is good for programmers.
http://www.succeedsocially.com/intellectual

was more helpful to me.
I use http://www.stereomood.com/ and click for a random mood until it suits me - however I'm hearing impaired so as long as the tone is nice, I enjoy it. (i.e. I cannot pick up on the 'words')
For comparison, tineye.com (a reverse image search engine that I worked on a few years ago) queries well over 1 billion images (and thus rows of metadata) in under 0.5s (our goal was sub-250ms).

I also know that the size of the cluster is a fraction of 40 instances (especially if you don't include the subcluster of web crawlers).

By comparison, it doesn't seem super impressive. Tineye's metadata is stored in a sharded PostgreSQL database, the image index itself is a separate proprietary engine (also sharded).

Then again, we probably dealt with a smaller set of query types so we could optimize those scenarios much more heavily. Nonetheless, from my experience it feels like they could do better with any of the options they've tried. It's important to be aware where the bottleneck is. In our case, the IO of the EC2 storage disks was a bottleneck (which we mitigated by sharding). Once we moved the cluster off of AWS and shoved some nice SSD drives into the machines, the performance increase was dramatic (half the shards for twice the speed, pretty much).
> sensitive enough issues that their badge specifies a number to call if someone asks questions.

Nobody doubts that there are sensitive issues, we are just debating what those issues are.

Presumably you are implying they are security issues relating to what they are scanning (Well because ... Google told us that). I read sensitive as an euphemism of "please don't let anyone know how much you make or the benefits you don't have".
I think you meant

OH! Good thing I know how to fix this now, damn PC got Fur Elise stuck in m[NO CARRIER]
I think this is the job:
http://us.randstad.com/content/findjobs/job-details/index.xm...
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

Caused the eastern front of WWII. The Ukraine and Kazakhstan have extremely fertile soil. Holy wars are maybe fought over useless land, but the deadliest military campaign ever was fought in large parts because of good soil.
I've worked with Ted on Zigzag and think it's a brilliant piece of software. More people should check out the Java version of Zigzag, Gzz. Basically, where the WWW was Word for the Internet, Zigzag is Excel to the Internet.
The entire premise of the article, and much of modern science, is that something is not a true discovery until a white european or american observes it. There are countless examples of this principle.
A useful list of logical fallacies in argument
How would you react if you find the builder of your home has installed hidden cameras in every single room? If you somehow find about it and call him he'll turn them off. No big deal, right? If you're a proper person you have nothing to hide anyway ...
More like Reddit material...
But one can be courteous and gentle and strong at the same time. A gentleman if you will. Humility is for peasants not for those whom they aspire towards.

And this is exactly the ethos I am talking about. Doing anything self-deprecating is hurting your value proposition if you will. Thus one must strive to appear powerful, yet abstain from insulting the observers. Humility has nothing to do with winning peoples respect - quite the contrary.
Is there any speculation on how much of a forewarning we'd have if it were to erupt?
Nice initiative.

added your blog to my RSS subscriptions
List of current and upcoming cloud platforms
How hard would it be to modify it to store it locally on your computer?
Bitcoin exchange account of Coinpal shut down by Paypal
How does the buy-ask resolve if there is information hidden?
Printed books still have a higher resolution:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/12/printer-and-screen-...
XSL and other (lightweight) XML cleanup
It seems that Bing is NSFW.
I wrote BlackBerry Hacks several years ago:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101152

Definitely a lot of work and a worthwhile pursuit.
You should see if AppSumo.com will feature your app for a day.
I wish I could agree with you here, but there's a lot of distrust of smart people especially in some parts of the US. If you are immediately and obviously smart, some people will tend to think you will use your intelligence to trick or manipulate them or that you have a hidden agenda.

It's unfortunate, but it does make sense to view someone more intelligent than you with a little bit of suspicion if they're trying to persuade you of something. The reason is that if they're trying to trick you, they have a head start due to the disparity in intelligence. Of course, someone with superior social skills is even more dangerous in that sense.
Unfortunate that it seems at least for FF4 there is an interaction between the <pre> and <code> tags around the actual haskell such that about the last 1/2 of long lines are cut off.

It did finally get me to install the readability addon though.
How would the gift make sure Bose never faced a hostile takeover? I believe that the given shares are non-voting, so they shouldn't help or hinder a takeover.