skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to add to that our CEO presents himself as 'the janitor'. This is to avoid people trying to cling to him and asking all kinds of things he can't fulfill anyway. He dresses very casually, so you couldn't tell him apart of a true janitor. And anyway, he wouldn't be afraid to do real janitor jobs (just like I ain't afraid of doing 'em). In the end, our CEO tries to make himself as invisible and unnecessary as possible. I think this is a good strategy, since it leaves him with more time to spend with his family and young kids ;-)
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Fake it before you make it
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LLVM itself knows almost nothing about GPU-specific architectural features. Emitting PTX from LLVM, for example, is mostly just a translation from one compiler IR to another compiler IR.
It is great that he is a well respected researcher, but I will question him when he implies a site is a phishing site when it quite clearly isn't (I'm sorry, if Google employees really wanted GV numbers/PINs and Gmail addresses, they wouldn't start posting a Google Doc in support forums to get them [1]) on the basis of a "Twitter consensus". I just prefer my researchers to do some actual research, not go off half baked in a public forum.

1: Not to mention that the form in question has been used successfully for its intended purpose many times. http://smarterware.org/6437/how-to-transfer-google-voice-to-...
Yes, it's quite inspiring to see how much it succeeded despite the overwhelming negative feedback. Just goes to show that judging the viability of ideas is hard, no matter how many experts there always seems to be in the TechCrunch/HN peanut gallery. I've really tried to train myself to answer "do you think this is a good idea?" with "I haven't a clue."
Jeff Jarvis on Twitter and Journalism Without Articles
He should have been persisting the work in progress too. That's not really a weakness inherent to editing layers.
I find wind mills much nicer than the huge nuclear sites heating up the rivers, their large cooling towers with the large clouds, their large power lines, ...

I find it much better if a city has their windmills, compared to huge mega corporations and monopolies of the nuclear industry backed by corrupt politicians.
Thanks.

I couldn't muster anywhere near the same level of rational response to this. I have learned from you today and you have my gratitude.
The issue isn't size, it's technique.

Generating a small static HTML page from a JSON object using a multitude of JS libraries is overkill and degrades poorly. Not to mention all the other issues it causes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598273

Annotated HTML is the best tool for the job here.
PowerPoint: the kudzu of modern communication
If all you want to do is write a blog then definitely go the tumblr route (for that matter posterous does pretty well too). I have been a long time user of wordpress (hosted sites on my own as well as wordpress.com) and recently started using tumblr and posterous and like the simplicity of these blogging tools/services.
Compare that to the fate of Tepco. How much was the government give them to survive?
It seems like the only real problem with this article - the one causing any contention - is simply that no one really specifies what time frame they mean when they say "pre-launch."
I think you are right. But, I'm not sure.

Perhaps it's better to look at "destroying our planet" (or whatever) as a byproduct? Like you said, we didn't decide this in Africa, it's just a result of our drive to advance our way of life. But, now preserving our environment and adopting more sustainable practices is the next frontier in advancing our way of life.

Also, isn't the basic animal instinct to survive? Scientists claim with the 2C threshold (I think this covers it slightly, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023072.stm) that we are at a time where without change, we may not survive (in large numbers at least, and in some years)? Maybe the instinct doesn't act on a tribal or global scale, but only personal. Like when a tiger is coming after you.

And, of course, I don't expect everyone to grow their own food. But, there are people who love farming, and if we help these young people get into it, they can provide on a smaller scale, within each community.

I suppose my point is, sure humans have the instinct to advance their way of life, but that does not necessarily go against producing ones own food, or living a quieter and simpler life.
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Weird, I just did this exact same thing yesterday for another GAE/Backbone.js app! In my case I was using Flask though.
It depends on what is more important to you: do your blog have to be ultimately easy, instantly working and that's all. Or do you need ultimate control over it and to have your data where you decide to. In the first case go for Tumblr, Posterous, Wordpress.com, Blogger..., in the second case go for a self hosted blog like Wordpress.org, Jekyll, fugitive, DotClear...

And since you ask for personal experience: I've always prefered to host my own data so I'm in the second case, also I've almost always written my blogging engines myself (fugitive is the first I open source thought) since what I wanted didn't exists (a git managed blog, with nothing more than git).
How to understand non-trivial declarations in C. (right-left rule)
A big thanks to the best professor I had in undergrad for making this.
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I did a similar simple Todos application using Backbone.js + CouchDB:

https://github.com/edc/backbone-sample

It's about 80 lines of CoffeeScript and 0 lines of server side code.

CouchDB's RESTful API makes it a really natural choice for storage backend for Backbone-powered applications.
Several countries are trading oil directly with each other in non-USD currencies now.
The clone can be profitable if you are able to make it appealing enough to a specific niche, because you can then have hyper targeted content and ads. I wouldn't think an exact clone of Quora or Groupon would work, but a version tailored to a specific Groupon niche would be able to have deals more targeted than a general one, and a Quora clone could have ads that appeal to the questions on the pages that are niche-specific. Also, look for ways to mutate and twist the existing version, not just simply clone it completely.
That alone sounds like a fascinating topic. How old is your kid? Did he ask to learn, or did you suggest it? What sorts of things is he doing? Etc.
Or we build more darknets.
Hayek on non-government currencies (1977)
I think there's something to be said about knowing when to fold, and not to view these nobody-believed-in-us-but-we-overcame edge cases as motivation to play a losing hand.

There will always be false negatives, ideas that are rejected by angels but which later become enormously successful. However, if the industry's finest angels are all passing, and you can literally find nobody to invest, it is probably a wise decision to give up. While angels are far from being 100% accurate in choosing what to invest in, overall they have to have some sense of what's a good idea in order to sustain themselves. If they're all passing, better off hitting the drawing board.
NFC won't be near enough widespread for this sadly