skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll play devil's advocate here. Are we sure Microsoft is not doing the same data mining on Bing411 as Google did on Goog411, and haven't dumped it because it is either a valuable service in their eyes or they are not done gleaning what google gleaned from their head start?

I somehow doubt this is the case but I'm not so sure we can assume that it is not.
I was contemplating that myself. Reddit is too much of a timesink - even for this!
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WTF??? Why does this guy hate PHP and its frameworks? He is obviously a n00b who has never tried Drupal or its easy-to-install open-source modules, which, BTW, include picture modules for him to upload the portrait photos to. It's amazing that this ignorance still abounds in the era where Google and Experts-Exchange provide easy access to technical resources and insight...#FAIL
Use to use cumbersome hacks with block lists in routers, but I discovered the SiteBlock extension for Chrome: make a list of "dangerous" sites, and give yourself a fixed time per day to visit them. In my casa, one hour works fine (although I'd probably prefer 2 :p)

Address: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pfglnpdpgmecffbejl...

Website Blocker seems to be similar, but without a time limit:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hclgegipaehbigmbhd...
An interesting post, but I felt you stopped short of any specifics that would help sway someone on the fence or without an "educated" opinion already.

While I prefer HAML to ERB, I understand that occasionally wrapper divs can be a hassle in HAML. I assume this is what you're alluding to in Breadth and Scope, but maybe there is more?

The point of this post may not have been to add clarity for people not familiar or already opinionated, but if it was, the more specifics the more helpful it'd be for someone like me.
Fair enough. :)

That said, there's a difference in tone between saying, "Haml is awesome, I love it, check it out!" (enthusiastic) and "Erb sucks, don't use it." (harsh)

Most Haml people I've seen/read seem to adopt the former tone, while most anti-Haml people adopt the latter tone. YMMV of course.
I don't think there is any reason not to lump this in with homeopathy and the Heaven's gate guys.

It's eschatology via William Gibson.
I disagree... I love them both. Everyone knows HAML has a weakness - inline markup - but it's meant more for templates than anything. I typically make my templates with HAML and use erb for the more advanced views. That being said, I rarely ever need to resort to erb.
I take my life for granted. I take the adoration my two year old son has of me, for granted. I take my wife's love and caring for granted. I do all this, thinking that what I build today will provide a better future for all of us. And I could be wrong.

I could shut my laptop when he squirms his way between me and the desk and wiggles his way on to my lap. I could switch my context when my wife sits down next to me aching for a conversation. I could spend more time with both of them.

I can pretty much be sure when I say I will not be the next Zuckerberg. There are many things that vy for my attention throughout the day and night. But there is only one thing both of them needs and which I squander.

I do not want to look back and regret. I am going home right now and I am going to kiss my wife and hug my kid.

Ciao.
Truly. Malware will just install user defined root CAs and you will be exploited that way.
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When someone says that he will only fund or work with people in their 20s, run. He's looking for a young, inexperienced person who doesn't know his rights and of whom he can take advantage.

Where there is some truth in this is that a 30-year-old first-time entrepreneur usually cannot get terms from a VC that would merit leaving a more stable job. A person of that age with a decent career is unlikely to have much interest in the terms (participating preferred, easy to fire the founders, giving up a lot of board seats, low salary) available to a no-name first-time entrepreneur. If someone who is 35 is willing to take a 3x-liquidation preference and participating preferred, do you really want to fund him? Obviously no, because he either lacks decent options or doesn't understand business, neither of which is a good sign for someone of that age. On the other hand, there are plenty of 22-year-olds with a lot of talent but no sense of what they're worth or what rights they have.
Drupal's coded in Erlang, right?
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The most common problem is conditional nesting, like with wrapper divs. In addition to :plain there is also :erb. I think the poster was implying that occasionally you'll need to structure code in a way that is not optimal (work arounds) to do something that requires no special work in erb.

I also wanted more specifics though, I felt like this was a fine opinion piece but lacked any specific world lessons.
He's a US citizen now so it's called targeted killing when it's not wrong :)
Yes, if you search for some older threads, there have been some pretty interesting and extensive discussions.
As a kid I spent a lot of time wandering around a cemetery near my grand parent’s house, I read tombstones of folks, some of them younger than I was; That somehow numb my fear of death as I considered each day alive as a gift. Now as a father I fear death not because of actually leaving this world but dying before my kids are old enough to take care of themselves. I see Derek had the same fear and that must have been devastating for him, so sad. I pray and wish his daughters and wife well.
The properties you mention are mainly "low level" properties, which in the end affect the "high level" properties that are speed and power consumption. For example capacitance limits clock speed and also has an effect on power consumption, and leakage current reduces power efficiency. Capacitance and leakage current themselves depend on size. I think that the physical properties you mention (and maybe others) may be used to create a model, which can then be used to estimate clock speed and power consumption at different operating points.
I do. I also break to take the dog for a walk. the point is that I'm so engrossed in what I'm doing, I lose track of things.
I'm a 31 year old entrepreneur. Here are my rough living costs. I've done them on a personal basis. The household costs (including my wife) are double this. I'm not saying I'm typical, but I am saying that it doesnt need to be as expensive as the article claims.

Rent/Mortgage/Prop Tax: $765 (single family home in SF, including office)
Utilities: $80 (fast Internet)
Insurance (car, home): $60 (free health plan through wife)
Transportation: $10 (bike)
Gas: $50
Food: $150
Fun: $200
Clothing: $50 (and it shows..)
Grand Total: $1365

And I'm not living on Ramen!
a friend just suggested that I use ical and schedule reminders for recurring events.
I would be interested to see how he justifies each of those 150 pills + 70 substances, much less how he priorities these three as the "top three"
I don't think it's about money as much as lifestyle -- the OP misses this entirely by assuming that both entrepreneurs are single and without children.

Something interesting I observed at Startup Weekend here in Indy last fall:

When it came time to form teams, all the young'uns grouped with one another, and the four of us codgers with responsibilities worked together. The line wasn't drawn according to age: there was one 30+ guy in another group, but he was single; two of the four members of my group were still in our 20's, but we were the primary sources of income for families with children, and I think that led us to fit in better with our 40+ cofounders.

With a few exceptions, I'd find it uncomfortable -- if not unworkable -- cofounding with the bouncy 20-something who has no outside responsibilities. When team building means getting drunk together on a Wednesday night, work hours are noon-8pm, and the company culture is low on planning and high on "nothing to lose", a company is just not going to be a good fit for me.

I'm fine with economic sacrifice, and with working hard. Because I'm looking for a new startup to join, I've tooled down my living expenses such that I could do an extended period somewhere between the two guys in that article. Because I've always been a hard worker, I've made my work schedule part of my family's life: I work a normal 9-3:30 in the office (currently home office, but I'm flexible), then after school, my son brings his homework to my office and we do our work together for a couple of hours. I tend to get in another hour or two in the evenings after he goes to sleep. I never get drunk, let alone on a weeknight when I have to get a first grader up for school in the morning. I'll never end up in an incubator because I'm not changing my son's school, leaving his speech therapy program, leaving our dojo, and generally up-ending his whole world in exchange for a few months of help for my startup.

I often meet people at my stage in life (kids, responsibilities, etc.) who say they don't do start-ups because they perceive "bouncy without responsibilities" to be the expectation of all startups. Their loss. I have to look a little harder, but I find other "codgers" out there in the entrepreneur community. I have to wonder if the people held back by the stereotype really have whatever that spark is that makes us take risks on new things anyway.

Oh, and I almost forgot.... GET OFF MY LAWN!
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I am actually subscribed to Sim Toolkit request/issue in Android issue tracker and each week it gets about 1-2 new requests. (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15070 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6666). And currently is not a single response from anybody representing Android team there.

My personal problem with this is that in Estonia MobileID (fancy way to authenticate yourself and authorize transactions in banks, public services and other web services - advertised as a more secure way comparing to username/passwords and one time tokens) works through Sim Toolkit.
I listened to Inside Home Recording (podcast he co-hosted) for many years and even had the pleasure of emailing/IMing with Derek from time to time about this or that. His writing on Penmachine was always very intelligent but also deeply honest, and human.

This doesn't come as a surprise - his battle with cancer was well known - but it still comes as a shock. Rest in peace, dude.
"Futher, the Sortfolio model could expand into a variety of other verticals including photographers, wedding planning, catering, illustrators, artists, etc. I’d love to see a Sortfolio for calligraphy or hand lettering."

Hrm, maybe it's obvious now that http://weddinginvitelove.com (directory of wedding invitation designers) was very influenced by Sortfolio. It was the best example of a directory website that put the emphasis on the work as well as shuttling customers to the designer's websites rather than being a middleman. Great to know that Sortfolio was doing so well, gives me hope for WeddingInviteLove!
Not, not really, I just accept that there are people out there expressing opinions about how I should live and that there's no way for me to shut them up. "How many times do I have to express my opinion before those dickheads stop expressing theirs?" is a natural feeling when a controversy drags on longer than one feels it should, but it is counterproductive to express that feeling as if it were an argument. (Also, personally, I don't think the free software ethic is something that ought to go away, even if I don't follow it myself.)

There are undeniably people who do what can only be realisticly described as "cramming" their ethics systems.

Most controversies include some number of unpleasant people. If we let that affect how we respond to polite questions from polite people, we become part of the problem. If you said something to me about the U.S. occupation in Iraq, would it be constructive for me to respond by complaining about the conduct of various people who have expressed similar opinions?
Agreed: "this feature works so transparently that I didn't even know it was there"

Not knowing was a bad thing in this case.
I for one am quite dubious when it comes to the idea of people learning Coffeescript "instead" of Javascript. I don't think you should pick up CS until you have at least a moderate understanding of JS.

Also, I don't think CS is a tool to abstract away these problems from DEVELOPERS...that is, it's not so developers don't have to understand these issues...it's a tool to abstract away these problems from your CODE...so that you don't have to write all sorts of repetitive, dense, and gnarly code to work around all this stuff

. A lot of times when Coffeescript comes up, people think that it's purely for people that don't "understand" Javascript, but this is not the case at all. I know some supremely knowledgeable Javascript developers who have adopted it.

Tooling is, imho, one of the biggest drawbacks of Coffeescript at this point; however it's making progress. Coffeescript produces fairly clean and readable code (though it is very verbose), and it also has pass-through syntax for both code and comments...so tools like Closure Compiler could be used on the generated Javascript without a whole lot of trouble.

Some tools can be adapted by the user to use CS, and in other cases the creators are working to support Coffeescript (there are some at Mozilla who want to add debugging, etc support for CS). In cases where all else here fails, the community is working on providing Coffeescript versions.

Some people may not want to use it, or may be unable to due to some tool or workflow not being supported; but I've found most JS devs I know able to pick it up and use it quite easily with good returns.
I would argue that this "over the hill by 30" mentality permeates a lot of things in our culture. I know I hear it a lot in the sports I am involved in (climbing, backpacking, etc.)

Yet there are at least 1-2 guys well past 30 (likely in their 50's) at the climbing gym I go to that could out climb most of us twenty-somethings. There are also a healthy number of successful entrepreneurs well past 30.

I would posit that more than anything, being "over the hill" is a frame of mind.
The "eating foods, mostly plants, not too much" is a Michael Pollan line. One of Pollan's many points is that there is quite a bit of difficulty in separating out the good stuff from the bad stuff in foods due to chemical interactions.

His general reasoning is along the lines of "There are x thousand different chemical compounds in an orange, it's very difficult to say, well it's the Vitamin C that's the important one." (scurvy notwithstanding)

A good example of something like that is B12 and Iron Deficiency. You can be ingesting a good amount of Iron supplements but not have your actual Iron levels increase much if you lack B12.

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/anaemiab12.htm

That's not to say that there aren't some pretty clear wins (Vitamin D comes to mind) from taking supplements, just that the actual benefits are often less clear than some of the literature would state.
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Or it could just fiddle with the browser directly. Why is trusting explicitly user-supplied CAs such a bad thing?
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No, that is false. And if you weren't able to figure out Drupal, you should've at least tried Rails. It sounds like it would do everything that you describe, but more efficiently.
Good work like this getting done in small- and medium-sized newsrooms all around the country thanks to frameworks like Django and the work-at-all-hours ethos that reporters and developers tend to share. Kudos for taking the time to do the writeup.
Autism epidemic?
Why don't we make Perspectives standard and just be done with it?
Disqus > "Discuss"

Wow, that makes sense. But for some weird reason, I always thought it was pronounced "Dis-kiss".
I disagree. Outside of a few specific situations (folic acid for pregnant women, etc.), most first world people satisfy their nutritional requirements. Micronutrients aren't a "if a little is good, a lot is better" situation. Once you meet your daily requirement, you're just passing most of what you take.

Further, of all the science done on CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicines), only a couple of studies have shown a positive impact.

I don't doubt Kurzweil is a smart guy. However, there are plenty of smart people who have had theories like this. Eg., Linus Pauling and Vitamin C megadose theory. (see wiki for more info).

It may not seem like there's a stretch. But your perception of the logical continuum doesn't really matter. Most supplements are nothing more than snake oil. (Again, assuming you have an otherwise balanced diet).

Also, you have a fallacy -- eschewing certain foods is removing potentially harmful nutrients from your diet. Why would it logically follow that adding something would necessarily confer a health benefit?
For anyone interested, I rewrote this entirely in bash.

https://github.com/cdown/ncrast/blob/master/ncrast
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Danno12, there's a fairly sizable Django community in media because the software was developed by a newspaper's tech staff (the Lawrence Journal-World). There's some good Rails development happening too, with the NY Time, ProPublica and others.
I'm trying very hard not to cry in front of my coworkers right now. A very emotional, great read. Unfortunate circumstances. Condolences to his family. :(
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Somehow, it doesn't seem like Google's plan was much of a secret, even back in 2007: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/goog-411-isnt-what-you-thin...
Times are dark now, but I'm actually excited about what kind of education system we'll produce when we finally tear down the 19th century one we have now and build a 21st century one. Can you imagine what kind of 20-year-olds would come out of a system that successfully produced deliberative practice across a wide variety of disciplines by harnessing the power of computers melded with the strengths of human instruction to build custom curricula for everybody?

The country that cracks this and builds this system instead of incrementally tweaking our 19th century system will own the rest of this century and most of the next.
Why are you only taking Vitamin D if you believe "an ounce of prevention's worth a pound of cure"? Shouldn't you be taking a multi-vitamin, at least, in order to hit all the other vitamins & minerals you might be short on?
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37Signals is not selling Sortfolio to make money - clearly they have enough

That's a strange statement. It's also countered by the fact that they're selling the company, for money.. and that they're not interested in equity as part of the sale.
In all seriousness, your snarky criticism of PHP is unfair. Like Django does for Python, there are plenty of great PHP frameworks that provide design templates, ORM, and ready-made admin.
Waiting for nginx to support it too.
Yeah, does this on Mac OS X as well. I have it set to currently launch Vim, but in the past I have also had it launch TextMate.
Actually, I've decided that ProPublica's approach is pretty weak by comparison. There are other shops doing it much better.
I'm just not buying it. Look at his example erb code, compared to haml. Which would you rather be typing day in and day out?

In terms of learnability, it takes 15 minutes to learn 95% of the haml featureset. So you spend 15 minutes, then presto, less repetitive stress injuries from hitting the shift key all the time when creating view templates. AND it's much easier to read, and it forces correct indentation. That's just a whole lot of win.

Also, haml and sass are not mutually exclusive, nor are they a pair. They are 2 different tools that work with 2 different things.
I often think that some people die "before their time" so that other people receive a unique, golden opportunity to learn to reprioritize their life. Thanks for that, Derek, again. (Didn't know you before.)

And yet it's real difficult to make good use of that opportunity; we people are so stubborn that we rarely change for the better of ourselves or for other people even if somebody goes lengths and dies to remind us that we won't be here forever.

Even worse, it might take a whole row of people dropping dead until we manage to corner ourselves into a position where we can no longer give ourselves a choice to postpone any necessary changes in our lives. But that's how it works, so can't complain.

I'm nearing that point myself, currently. It haunts me, all the time closer and closer. I can go only so far this way anymore until I have to take that other road and start living a bit differently: start living a life that is completely mine and not partially borrowed from anyone else.

I'm not there yet.

Maybe I need to bump into a few more deaths before I get zapped into alignment with all things relevant. I can just anticipate now, and that makes me both scared and thrilled.
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Ah hah, I see what you're saying now. Thanks for clearing that up.
Conditional nesting is pretty easy using the "capture" method:

- conditionallyNested = capture do
.foo
.bar
baz
- if f(x)
.wrapper
= conditionallyNested
- else
= conditionallyNested

Personally, I prefer this over duplicating the condition:

<% condition = f(x) %>
<% if condition %><div class="wrapper><% end %>
<div class="foo"
<div class="bar">
baz
</div>
</div>
<% if condition %></div><% end %>

However, you can trivially abstract my first example out into a helper and result in code looking like this:

= wrap_if f(x), :class => 'wrapper' do
.foo
.bar
baz

Much nicer looking, in my opinion. I don't consider this a workaround at all.
You have a home in SF for $765/month? That's ridiculously low. The rest of your expenses are low too, well done.
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While I cannot speculate on Microsoft purpose of a 411 service, I think it is pretty obvious why google dumped theirs - they now have access to an enormous source of human speech through google voice.
I've posted this a few times now, but always feel it is worth posting again when I read these types of blog postings and see the comments they inspire. It has been attributed to Jorge Luis Borges, but many disagree with that. At any rate, it inspires me...

"Instantes"

If I were able to live my life anew, in the next I would try to commit more errors. I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more. I would be more foolish than I've been, In fact, I would take few things seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would run more risks, take more vacations, contemplate more sunsets, climb more mountains, swim more rivers. I would go to more places where I've never been, I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans, I would have more real problems and less imaginary ones.

I was one of those people that lived sensibly and prolifically each minute of his life; Of course I had moments of happiness. If I could go back I would try to have only good moments. Because if you didn't know, of that is life made: only of moments; Don't lose the now.

I was one of those that never went anywhere without a thermometer, a hot-water bottle, an umbrella, and a parachute; If I could live again, I would travel lighter. If I could live again, I would begin to walk barefoot from the beginning of spring and I would continue barefoot until autumn ends. I would take more cart rides, contemplate more dawns, and play with more children, If I had another life ahead of me.

But already you see, I am 85, and I know that I am dying.
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