skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're ignoring something important: Talk is cheap, and listening is expensive. Judging only the merit of ideas is nice, but it is only applicable within a small community. Once you have more people than you can easily listen to (even on a cursory level), it becomes a search problem. I don't have time to seek and consider opinions from all 7 billion people on the planet whenever I want an opinion on anything — particularly the kind of large topics where I'd generally want someone else's opinion — so I will focus my attention on people I know to be helpful. If I can't identify you as somebody who might have something to say, most of the time you'll get mentally lumped in with the teeming masses who don't even have an informed opinion on the matter.
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Jeff has done what women have tried for ages...made men open up emotionally

PS: for the 1% female population reading this...nevermind I don't think it is even 1%...
Why is he capitalizing moot's name? Is it just to be rude?
You said "I never really liked the way Gmail was designed. It was functional but not very pretty." which, I think, is showing a misunderstanding of design.

Good design is not "pretty" and has very few, mostly indirect links with aesthetics. One of the possible definitions for "good design" could be "don't need user's manual", and "test users took less than x seconds to find and perform tasks A, B and C".
Reddit and Digg were successful independent of Facebook. Their scale of success was not. Prove me wrong.

As for your example, you dodged a bullet. That girl was not prepared for the level of Internets and self-incrimination that is you.

I'm not defending Facebook connect, nor am I defending data collection based on rigid identity. Instead, I'm defending the fact that the existence of Facebook grew the Internet and the numbers of people comfortable with using the Internet.

Let's say that Facebook is Costco and your pen-name-using websites are a mom&pop grocery store a few miles away from it. Costco's strategy is to build their stores in places that aren't so populated at first, and then attract business by providing the incentive for urbanization in the area. This is actually how Costco chooses to locate. They have a lasting impact on the area, and drive urbanization, in the same way Facebook drives adoption of web technologies. Your mom&pop store will receive more customers with Costco there than with Costco not there (and with just an order of magnitude less residents resulting). Facebook/Costco provides a service of convenience and necessity for the masses, while the mom&pop chain falls under a niche market with its own costs/benefits. Nonetheless, the mom&pop shop (Reddit) will benefit with the Costco (Facebook) existing in the same landscape.
Pretty sure GP meant watt-hours.
Apple has never been credited with anything in the first place, so there is nothing to discredit. Even at their very foundation, Apple stole innovations from the workers at Xerox PARC, and then they went on to perpetuate DRM malfeatures and intellectual property / artificial scarcity, through iTunes, the appstore, etc. For more information see this link:

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=316

The difference that Apple has with Google is fundamental. Apple distributes artificially stupid malware and Google distributes free software and intelligent cloud services. In this context, I will take Google and Android over Apple and iOS any day.
I am curious what you found superior in the Ruby object model compared to CLOS. From those familiar with both Ruby and CLOS (or Moose), I've always heard that the latter is more powerful and more convenient, and (although intermediate at best with all three) found the same myself.
Peter Norvig's lispy ported to 800 lines of C:

https://github.com/sck/clispy

There's also a new version I've been working on that's more R5RS compatible and will support compilation to x64_86:

https://github.com/sck/ponzi

RIP John ...
Does rating a movie "Not interested" not accomplish that?
Cool idea :-)

Here's mine: http://code.google.com/p/bobscheme/

Bob is a suite of implementations of the Scheme language in Python. It currently includes:

- A Scheme interpreter

- An implementation of a stack-based virtual machine called the "Bob VM"

- A compiler from Scheme to Bob VM bytecode

- A serializer and deserializer for Bob VM bytecode

- An alternative, functionally-equivalent implementation of the VM in C++ - BareVM
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The thing about speeding and texting is that they are both incredibly difficult to do on a bike. I take your point though.
I did not mention the name Christopher Poole anywhere. Capitalizing on his pen name was within his argument's wishes.
not a slavic devotion to a specific technology

I'm thinking you mean:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slavish

rather than:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_peoples
I don't think anyone (the paper's authors included) would claim that this is objective proof that Perl is bad. I personally share your concerns. But wouldn't you at least agree that it's an interesting concept to try to test?
[edit: redoing my comment on desktop, was stuck with it on phone, sorry for the mess]

When our kid was still sucking his mother's milk we went on 5 days trip in Dali, Yunnan, rented a 4*4, went to cheap backpackers hotels, no problem at all. The only diff was to wake up earlier than we would without him.

For the interruptions, why do you allow them? When my dad was working at home, we wouldn't enter his place without a reason.

I think a big issue is about a new kind of culpabilization of the parents. Mothers need to be perfect mothers. Fathers need to be perfect fathers. Kids are supposed to be perfect kids. That's ok, but can be dangerous if taken to the letter and too seriously.
I think middle ground is healthier. Not too frugal, not too consumist. Enjoy life, money is just something that happens to be there at the time.

We're living in an age where we can get our kicks from something else than having the latest iPhone or the biggest car. Humans have infinite ways of realizing themselves, being money the most toxic of them in my personal opinion.
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Bummer, I didn't know that. That is just plain wrong.
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Not hard to transmit solar electric fifty feet, from the rooftop to the iPad charger, pretty much a solved problem.

The OP graph showed solar prices falling faster than linear on a log scale. Meanwhile, nuclear and coal plant construction costs are now two to three times what they were a few years ago.

Not sure where your confidence solar will be a niche player comes from when the pricing trends favor solar so dramatically.
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Awesome idea, now she will have enough orders to last a hundred years.
Not much to know as it was pretty crappy :)

Certainly I would not classify it at the same level as GOAL. No debugger, for example.

It quickly proved its worth but I wouldn't advocate it to still be used. We found better ways to do the same thing that didn't require as much intellectual masturbation.
Same here. I found it thoroughly annoying and stopped reading after a couple of paragraphs.
> Having a child is a selfish thing to do regardless.

Ridiculous. As stated elsewhere, having kids is giving a part of your self to create a new independent self. It will teach you the hard way compassion, love to the other, etc. It is exactly the opposite of selfishness.

How the hell can you hold such a paradoxical statement?

editadd: There is a very strong anti-child line of thought in the US, I felt it in many occasions (on Lifehacker, for instance), and I think it is very strange, and dangerous. Is it because of a fashionable thinking that humans are too many? Is it a consequence of utilitarian morals? Honest question here: I think it is a subject of tremendous importance. Hidden behind this apparently innocuous sentence and pushing its logic to its limits, one may find the death of humanism and the end of civilisation.
These solar panels are made with many of the same technologies used to make computer chips (or wafers) and much of the rapid cost reduction was possible because the PV industry benefited from the chip producer's R&D efforts without incurring the cost. This effect makes it reasonable to expect similar improvements over the next ten years - as long as there is still a market to justify the costs of transferring the learnings from the wafer fabs to the PV panel fabs.

Natural Gas prices took a dip because the energy demand curve took a dip in 2009 and most importantly, a relatively new source of of Natural Gas has been developed in North America, which had previously been a major importer. (http://ferc.gov/industries/gas/indus-act/lng.asp).

Most new power plants in North America and Europe are Combined Cycle Gas Turbines as the relatively low up-front investment, flexibility and (currently)low fuel costs make them the best solution. This should prevent Gas prices from dropping much further. When/if the economy picks back up, the increased demand should further solidify the price of gas.

Of course, if the energy supplied by wind and PV grows faster than the overall demand, then this will reduce the demand for Gas, thus keeping prices low.
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So, would you have solved it by a more readable form of metaprogramming? Seems to me it's either that, or copypasta.

(Could still be me being a noob, but I can't see some other architectural means of avoiding a choice between either duplication or tricky-to-read metaprogramming in that case.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUsuY8JZJI&t=2905
(48:23)
Can anyone at Facebook reinstate the LaGringa account(honduras crime reporter)?
Why this is Important.-
La Gringa is a serious, long-time blogger (since 2006) who lives in the most dangerous city in the most dangerous country in the world according to the United Nations - Honduras, where 17 journalists have been murdered in the past 2 years. and where many reporters are afraid to write about organized crime or political matters.<p>She uses a pseudonym, as many authors do, not to deceive, but because it is the only way that she can exercise her freedom of speech without fear of serious reprisals. Her articles have been published all over the internet under that pseudonym.<p>This week she started writing a series of blog articles about crime and narcotrafficking in Honduras -- and that is likely what prompted the complaint about her account, just as postings of her political articles were blocked by Facebook for a time last year and the year before because of false complaints.<p>e.g. http://lagringasblogicito.blogspot.com/2011/10/crime-is-out-of-control-in-honduras.html<p>Read full petition here.-
http://www.change.org/petitions/ceo-reinstate-the-lagringa-account<p>-----<p>I asked the same on Quora.. let's see what's the faster way of getting an answer..<p>Hacker News vs Quora
The commute isn't necessarily voluntary -- living closer to work may not be viable (especially for non-programmer types who work in the city but don't make enough to afford living there with their family), or may lack certain features (like a private yard or swimming pool) that make the commute worth it.

I'm not advocating for the status quo of one giant inefficient beast of steel per person, just explaining why some drivers get upset about small delays. It is my opinion that any transportation system that completely replaces the current road system will need to allow for the type of minimal-latency point-to-point mobility we now enjoy with cars (during off-peak hours, at least). The reason I believe this is that people are easy to move, but businesses, houses, and other resources are not. Extra mobility allows us to match the right people with the right resources in less time.
> I'm amused by the euphoric claims of parents regarding the improved quality of their lives after having children.

I would go the other way and claim that the main benefit of raising a child is that it's the most effective way to banish the seductive illusion that you yourself are the most important thing in the universe.
Right, but if there is actually any selection for aging and death in organisms (maybe there is, I'm not sure), it's not useful anymore. There's a lot of evidence that there's no longer genetic selection acting on the human population, and it's therefore no longer true that our children should be genetically superior.
One day you'll die :)
It was changed some time ago to simply "no downloadable code," however there seem to be even exceptions to that now days.
http://github.com/wsxiaoys/carc

An implementation try introducing arc style first-class macro.
Thanks will fix, completely forgot to mention that.
And there is a huge difference between rolling through a stop sign and rolling through a red light. I don't think the former is that big of a deal for both bicycles and cars, and I think the latter is a big deal for both bicycles and cars. I rarely see cars just decide to not stop for a red light, and I see bicycles do it on a weekly basis. I'm not talking about stop at a red light, look and see that no one is there, I'm talking about just go straight through a red light without slowing down.
That's correct, but it's not quite that simple.

If my car dies, I won't be able to get anywhere, because I can't get a loan for a new one.

When we move to a new apartment, they won't allow us to have Internet service. I am not exaggerating in the slightest. AT&T U-Verse already denied me once in the past, before I got my score to 760 --- they refused me service. Completely. No alternatives. It didn't matter to them whether I had $10, $1,000, or $10,000 in the bank. The computer told them "unknown risk", and so they would not do business with me. There were no alternative internet providers. I would have been completely screwed, but my wife (who was my fiancée at the time, thankfully; credit score of one person will reflect on both of you after marriage) was approved.

We will not be able to get a house, if we choose to. We might not even be able to live in a specific area we want --- apartment complexes check your credit before allowing you to live there.

All over $80, due to the messed up health insurance system. Blergh.
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Or, alternatively, how oblivious drivers are to the true human cost to their mode of transportation.

Let's take New York, since it wasn't too hard to find relevant data. Data can be found at:

http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/Statistics/2010NYSAccSummary.pdf
http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/Statistics/2010BicycleAccSummary.pdf
http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/Statistics/2010PedestrianAccSummary.pdf
http://gruskinfoundation.org/pdfs/Pedestrian-Cyclist-Accidents_3-1.pdf

In 2010, there were: 311 pedestrians and 36 cyclists killed by motor vehicle drivers. On top of this, there were 16,090 pedestrians and 6,058 cyclists injured by collisions with motor vehicles. 4,898 of the injuries (of pedestrians alone) were considered moderate or serious.

On the flip side, we have the comprehensive statistics on pedestrian/cyclist injuries compiled at Hunter University. In 2010, 927 pedestrians were treated for injuries involving cyclists. Of those, 84 received inpatient treatment, indicating a moderate or severe injury. Note that they count zero deaths.

Let's compile what we've got:

Cars : 347 deaths, 4898 moderate or severe injuries, 17,250 minor injuries
Bikes: 0 deaths, 84 moderate or severe injuries, 843 minor injuries

Now let's involve the WHO. Long story short, cars cause over twice as many deaths due to emissions as they do from accidents. No joke. We'll make it an even 2x, just to be generous. And we won't even attempt to estimate the "injuries" in the form of asthma and bronchitis they cause.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/369169.stm

Cars : 1,041 deaths, 4898 moderate or severe injuries, 17,250 minor injuries
Bikes: 0 deaths, 84 moderate or severe injuries, 843 minor injuries

Draw conclusions as you will. Unfortunately, it's somewhat impossible to reconcile the numbers at this point. Cars drive many more miles annually than bikes do, but cyclists also tend to live closer to their destinations, greatly reducing the number of miles they require traveling. Most estimates peg cycling traffic at around 2% of automobile traffic, give or take.

At that rate of comparison, cyclists would be expected to have caused 20.8 deaths, 97 moderate or severe injuries, and 345 minor injuries. If it were up to me, I'd opt for the higher number of minor injuries and greatly reduced number of deaths any day.

Please also take note that in this comparison, I was very generous to cars. We didn't add data on injuries and fatalities caused by car-on-car crashes versus bicycle-on-bicycle crashes, which I'm sure we can both agree would have come out far in favor of the cyclists. We also didn't consider non-fatal health effects of car emissions, and we rounded down fatal health effects. We also haven't even begun to talk about the year-over-year decrease in cyclist-related pedestrian fatalities in New York even though cycling participation has been increasing by double digits (as high as 26%) yearly.

And the cars _still_ came out looking bad.
Does your example include a FIT (feed in tariff) provided by government at a much higher rate than grid power, or are you doing a calculations at grid power? A lot of places have a high FIT value currently, but this is subject to political whims and any incoming government might find it easy to gain votes by trimming the FIT, as has already happened in many places around the world.

Another huge problem with these calculations is the very small fraction of people who stay in one house for more than 10 years. Essentially you have to stay in the house for the entire payback period or you've lost out.

Personally I think the solar price will have to drop to the point where it is much lower than grid (with no subsidies), rather than just about equal. At that point, takeup will be much higher.
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"my laptop might be old but I find there little reason to upgrade"

I hope you didn't get the impression I was dissing your computer, I bet it works great for you. It just wouldn't qualify as an 'ultraportable' or 'ultrabook' by today's standards, and that's what we were talking about.

I do feel I need to point out the following:

"a 13" Air is 12.8"x8.94"x0.68"= 77.8 in^3 and a dell latitude is 12.2"8.6"x1.1"=115.4 in^3, a difference of 38 in^3."

MacBook Air is wedge shaped, it tapers evenly from 0.68 inch to 0.11 inch. So its volume is actually 35.6 cubic inches (11.8"x7.56"x0.4"). Your notebook takes up more than 3 times as much space.

No clue how big a typical school backpack is, but my Emerica backpack is 17.5"x12"x6"= 1260 cubic inches. It would fit your notebook, but not much else.
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No, but I think I could learn. How complex of a project did you have in mind?
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Vicinity can include cars behind cyclists who do this perfectly safely.

But your point is completely irrelevant regardless. The existence of people who blow through red lights regardless of oncoming traffic does not make people who carefully and deliberately go through a red light with no oncoming traffic dangerous.
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in south san jose, we pay an average of $.42/kWH in the summer. and it only goes down to about $.31 in the winter.
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Solar will always remain niche because it can't do baseload power. Sure, there's been some success with solar thermal providing power for 24 hours, but during bad weather there's no chance it's going to do that for a week at a time. Anything that can't do baseload power has to have baseload power backup, which is a large cost of duplicating power. Which is why very few people will every totally rely on solar power if they can get a grid connection.

There is no way around the fact that the sun doesn't shine 24 hours a day, and residential power usage peaks after dark.

In short, other types of large-scale generation will always outdo solar because it just cannot reliably provide power around the clock.

A bicycle is cheaper than a car by an order of magnitude, but can't carry passengers or luggage, can't go long distance, and isn't weatherproof. That's why nearly everyone with a bike also has a car, even despite the massive cost advantages to cycling.
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Hard to believe you have that many movies in your Instant Queue. Is this Reed Hasting? I admit that I find a unpopular movie that I enjoy sometimes. But I mostly sit through 5 boring unpopular movies before I find a gem.
You can divide any list of more than three things into 3s.
js-lisp: https://github.com/willurd/js-lisp

unit tests: http://williambowers.net/projects/js-lisp/tests/

and for some face time with the repl: http://williambowers.net/projects/js-lisp/examples/repl/

R.I.P John McCarthy
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What a grim year. Jobs, Ritchie, and now McCarthy.
FWIW there are companies that specialize in 'fixing' your credit, and resources on the web for same. With some work you can usually clean up a bad credit score over time.
Well, there are certainly cases where you grab a reference speculatively; anything where you need > N in a collection to act on, for instance, but don't know how many items there are yet (such as when you're reading from a stream). There's also the "early return" case, where you'd grab reference say A, B, and C but only dereference C in code that runs if A and B failed some condition.

The equivalent to timely destruction in C# is a using statement combined with implementing IDisposable.

using(var stream = File.Open(somePath))
{
// use stream to do whatever
}

This is syntactic sugar for a try{ } finally { } (that also exists in Java) that calls Dispose() in finally. You do any cleanup you need to in Dispose(), things like releasing file handles. The only way to dodge that Dispose() is to tear the execution thread down, which generally means the process is gone with it.

C# classes (but not structs) can also declare destructors, but their execution schedule isn't guaranteed; they're useful for making absolutely sure resources are released eventually, Dispose() is preferred for timing and performance.
I think it's more about how hard it is than how important. Facebook represents a lot of work but nothing that seems to demand superhuman insight; an army of Stanford CS grads supplied with pot and Red Bull could probably make a tolerable substitute in five or ten years. But it's far from certain any of them could ever produce the kind of work Turing or McCarthy brought us. (And I say this knowing I won't, either.)
Whats the point of an IP if you have no control of who uses it.

Compulsory licensing already exists for music. Something similar could be done for movies. It may not fit in an $8/mo streaming plan, but the change would allow anyone to set up a streaming site as long as they pay the compulsory licensing fees.
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Once copyright goes to 20-30 years, Netflix (or its successor) could have a tiered plan: $8/mo that streams fully-recouped and out of copyright movies, $x/mo for new releases.