skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science, reason and rationalism are not incompatible with an ego. If you believe in some right and wrong, there should also be an emotion, and eventually an action.

I don't think selling ourselves is an overstatement here. And I would also say that we have one of the least scientific generation- not only because enrollment is scientific studies is low, but also because there is now a pride in being ignorant.

Also, while trying to protect everyone feelings, all opinions are considered as equally valid - even when some proved wrong. If that is not selling ourselves, how do you call that?

I only took organic food as an example of what one must love to be "in", trendy, hipster. A dissending opinion, even based on scientific facts, seems to be frowned upon by hipsters, and by extension the new moral order. In the organic food example, we want to believe in something other than facts. This is not science.

Let's follow that example, see http://reason.com/blog/2009/03/26/norman-borlaug-happy-95th-... - with organic food alone, the earth population would have to be around 4 billions. We're 7 billions. Oops. Internal consistence for organic food proponents would require suggesting china-like one child policy or genocides.

Here, the "selling generation" is using emotional engagement as a sale tactic, for "feel good" stuff.

Personally, I boycott organic food. I usually ask if the food I'm about to order is organic. If it is organic, I ask for something else. If I can not be served food that is not organic, I explain that I boycot organic food, and that I have to place my order somewhere else.

Regardless of your analysis of the organic food, you can say that's is very bold, and unfashionable, in today's culture.

So I guess I won't be a social media icon. Never mind :-)
Failure in this context likely means "is not attracting large swathes of Facebook users" though frankly I think that's but one measure of the success of a social networking website.
If you simply must speculate, you should at least try to remain tactful and be careful not to speculate too wildly (there are more likely and less slanderous reasons for a cause of death to be omitted than drugs or alcohol). Please remember, this is a person who was loved by many other people. Don't inflict pain needlessly.
Another example of a misuse of the phrase "disruptive innovation". The writer marvels at the fact that nearly no venture dough is thrown at the internal combustion engine. But investment in gas-burning engines would be a sustaining, not disruptive, innovation. Hybrid and electric engines are the disruptive innovations here, and plenty of investment is being done in this area.
Some people make money from friction.
Counting stuff is really hard (on distributed system design)
I like the idea of this, but I can't help feeling there is always too much for a user to do with app's like this.

I'm a busy person, I dont want to be filling in forms all the time keep this information upto date. I know this is hard problem to solve. I mean - show else would this work?

Makes me think of this post a few weeks ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3188635
(Dont give your users shit work).
I'm Hiring
Very sad news indeed.

I hope the passing of a co-founder doesn't result in the passing of the project as well.
If it also highlights the stories that (a) aren't making stuff up, and (b) aren't simply regurgitating what's in all the other stories, then I'd be interested.
This is too sad. Only 21 for goodness sake; his life was just beginning. Even without having known him, this feels painful and I cannot imagine what his family and friends are going through. I'm reminded of a Yoruba (West African language) saying to "kill someone alive", i.e. effect of something so painful on a person such that although technically alive, for all intents and purposes, he/she is dead. How does one possibly (if ever) recover from losing a child/sibling/friend in this way?

My condolences to all who knew him.
This misses two key motivators (and ignores the fact that Portland is an extreme example). One is an ambivalence about the products and marketing of large corporations and a corresponding search for authenticity through DIY. Why buy Heinz when you can make preservative-free ketchup from heirloom tomato varieties unavailable in any grocery store? And selling the product mainly sustains the enterprise, offering the potential for work with a degree of autonomy. Put up a web storefront and your niche local business has global reach.

As to “self-branding” and innocuous politeness: to Deresiewicz, these identify a salesman. More probably, they result from a generational awareness that one’s words and actions are immortalized online. One cultivates a persona or risks letting others do so for you.
Thank you for mentioning that. It is very paradoxical and quite an unfortunate phenomenon. And I think it is very real. I have a sample of one (a local high school) that suffered what seemed like a large cluster of suicides within a short time range. Then found out about Werther effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werther_effect

I am not for censoring information but maybe an admonition to refocus on checking up on friends who might be depressed or stressed out, without specifically mentioning the word "suicide".
lakoff also wrote an interesting book on the application of metaphor to political thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics
Please stop resorting to reductio ad Hitlerum arguments. It cheapens the thread, is lazy and soporific and will never make your point, if anything it does the exact opposite.
A real one, in the real world, where there are real contracts, which contain lots of things that you probably wouldn't like.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231615
I misread your comment. I thought you said "my three hopes for my kids...". I thought: that sounds like a good strategy for any parents to have.
Old guard? Don't flatter yourself. It always has been and always will be emotionally heated, name-calling comments like yours that detract from HN.
I'd love to see an android app, not with question-editing support but just to let me answer my questions when I'm on the road / in bed / otherwise not at my computer. The lower the barrier, the more often I will succeed at answering the questions for the day.

Great idea, great project. :-)
That's out of context and you know it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231615
And if everybody was a plumber, society could not function. This is such an uninteresting observation. Making something universal is usually impractical — that doesn't reflect on the thing itself, except to say that it requires some amount of time or space.
This is extremely shocking! He was much too young! :(
Writing as someone who has frequently had to negotiate on behalf of enterprises buying a resold service, I can tell you that I regard SLAs as a mechanism for a vendor to provide lousy service whilst transferring almost all the financial risk and compliance burden to the customer.

I have never yet seen a SLA with penalties worth signing up for. Nor do I ever expect to.

I would rather have reporting transparency on things like uptime & service desk responses, than have penalties on those things i.e. creating incentives for suppliers (especially intermediaries) to report them deceptively.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: How Medical Imaging Is Changing Health Care (by Bruce Hillman and Jeff Goldsmith )

Agile Web Development with Rails (by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson)
Pretty sure the Beatles had a pretty big effect on society and the status quo. The power of art and music tends to be a second order effect: it inspires people.

Without the music of the 60's/70's, do you think Steve Jobs would have dropped acid, become a Zen Buddhist and built Apple's brand as a the challenger of the status quo?
WhatsApp gives me a warm fuzzy feeling every time I use it, knowing that my messages are whizzing through an Erlang application running on FreeBSD.
Assuming that innovation truly is dwindling (not saying it is, just saying it is for this argument), maybe it's just because of exponential growth.

Think of the graph of the square root of X[1]; as x increases rapidly, the change in Y gradually gets smaller and smaller.

Maybe as advances in technology increase rapidly (as they have for the past many thousands of years), the amount of true innovation gets smaller and smaller as a function of the same changes.

Or maybe I'm just being a math nerd looking too much into this...

And also, I think if something was truly innovative, maybe we wouldn't immediately be aware of it[2].

[1] http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/media/png/Squareroot.png
[2] http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/09/why-we-desire-but-rej...
Hey theatrus,

Travis is similar to Jenkins, but also very different.

For instance:

1. Every build is run in a virtual machine sandbox so other projects tests won't affect yours (eg. files or dbs left over).

2. The full infrastructure is distributed, the web frontend has been decoupled from the workers completely.

3. All push information sent by GitHub is built by default, so no need to tell Travis to build a certain branch.

4. We use web sockets so you can see the results in realtime.

5. Hosted for free for the open source community.

The core goal behind Travis is to make it easy for open source projects to test against different environments (language versions, databases, services, env vars etc.) with the aim to increase code quality for everyone.

So comparing Jenkins and Travis (the service) is a little like comparing apples and oranges, even though they do have a lot in common.

Hope this helps,

Josh
Not just the aspect of "failing". But also mix in the tough, gruesome aspect of working 12 hours a day with little to no time for social life. And the inability for most people to understand what you're going through. And if you don't got a significant other, it makes it feels like you're all alone in this battle.

Not saying this is the case for him, but in the end, we're just cells.. and if we don't receive certain stimuli, science dictates we go crazy.
Well, a social network that is used by only a small fraction of one's friends and potential friends is not very useful.
So you're saying kidnapping and extortion are already a huge problem, and the cartels are already deeply involved.
El azucar se convierte en grasa ...
Great execution!
So he's skeptical of the singularity but he thinks we'll be able to live forever in a lifetime or so. Weird.
20 Must Know Things Starting A Career
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/11/co...
Wow, their book reading interface is incredible! It's actually a real joy to read even the most uninteresting scribbles with that interface. Wow. Now THAT is a design ebook-readers (... or the file format) need to adopt.
You aren't delivering bread to nazis, you are a nazi.
This is essentially why everyone enjoyed reading that Techcrunch guys articles. He asked the difficult questions everyone wanted answered and wasn't afraid to take some flak, unfortunately, it got him booted too.

I haven't visited the site since.
I don't think this point can be emphasized enough. When you comment code, your primary focus should be on the "why".

In all but very specific circumstances, the "what" should be fairly obvious by reading the code, with small clues being sufficient to guide the reader.

However, without any comments then there is no way for the reader to understand why a particular approach was chosen. Worse, they may think it needs to be refactored, and then waste time pursuing that only to arrive at the all-too-familiar "oh, that's why they did it that way".
Shouldnt have gotten flagged - Floating-point math functions abused
For what it's worth, I think something like Startups Anonymous is a fantastic idea.
Did the availability of Cocaine in Europe decrease the violence associated with it's trafficking? This is the case in the US:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/11/co...

Also, illegality has had no effect on use rate.
Size of what, then? Its not a particle. Having internal structure doesn't mean volume makes sense. You're right that distances do make sense, and he probably meant the electron has no known internal structure. But I don't know how you'd talk about size unless you mean a zone of probability of where it is.
Very important comment. The biggest risk in doing a startup is not the financial risk per se.

It's the psychological risk of knowing you really, really tried -- and still failed. That is the hard part, because everyone goes in with Dilbert/mass media notions of how easy it is to be a CEO or (just as bad) Social Network illusions of how easy it is to grow meteorically while fighting off lawsuits.

The truth is that it's not easy, that it takes a special and lucky person. If you fail it's really hard to realize you aren't that special. The possibly healthier (?) way of dealing is to convince yourself that it was bad luck, or the other guy cheated. Then it's not as much of a hit to the ego, to the sense of your own capabilities. But it's hard.
REASONS WHY FACEBOOK IS REVOLUTIONIZING EDUCATION
Well, no, I think the parent's tone is a bit paternalistic whomever the audience, so I'd say the author should consider writing differently regardless of who's reading. I guess there are several things that rub me the wrong way about the comment -- the paternalism and the implied assumption that HN readers aren't black.

And to the parent, I feel kinda bad now that this is generating this much discussion because I understand there wasn't any malicious intent in the comment but I do feel strongly that what I've said is true.
Consider some of the business and legal issues covered in a panel discussion (summarized at [1]) in which I participated for the IACCM [2], including:

- Territory

- Term

- Training (of reseller's sales and support people)

- Sales targets

- Resale restrictions

- Franchise-law liabilities

[1] http://www.lawnotes.com/reseller-agreement-negotiations-note...

[2] International Association for Contract & Commercial Management, http://www.iaccm.com
And we, as humans, are emitting photons right now. Little pieces of us are right now instantly traveling across the universe and colliding with other stars, planets, etc., or flying through the void - instantly - to who knows where?
Most countries mirror US drug policy. It's the right decision even if other places don't follow suit.
A domain could indeed have multiple PTR records and they can exist with other records for a name, however for PTR records to be used for the purpose of aliasing there would need to be some sort of additional processing in resolvers. If I were to write an RFC then PTR records might be a good place to start. Alternatively I think NAPTR records could be used as well.
CONVERT TO CARTOON ; TURN Your PICTURES INTO CARTOONS
Question: how do you know Whatsapp infrastructure intimately and if you do, can you elaborate on it more?

I am thoroughly interested in their backend. I've always wondered why the app is quite efficient across all platforms and have fantastic uptimes given their global scale/reach.
"""I wanted a happy culture. So I fired all the unhappy people."""

Wasn't that a Monty Python skit? Only, instead firing the unhappy people he had then hanged by the neck until they cheered up....
Having played around with one of their competitors, the UI to quickly build a cleanly designed page needs a lot of work, so they could probably put a front-end developer and a theme designer to good use. That's one thing anyway.
Viral Easy Profit is a powerful, highly refined WordPress plug-in.
Viral Easy Profit is a powerful, highly refined WordPress plug-in. It gives your visitors an incentive to share your content. It's simple: when a visitor "Likes" your offering, "hidden" free content is then revealed. This simple mechanism lets you monetize your content in a variety of ways.
Osteoporosis Guidelines
It is a particle, just because it has a wavelength doesn't mean it's not a particle.

An elephant has a wavelength it's just that it's rather small compared to the elephant
I imagine it's a difficult situation for the remaining founders, especially for those (if any) that encouraged Ilya to initially participate in their Diaspora team (it would be for me if I were in their shoes). I think it's important to remember in a context like this that failure is part of the plan: entrepreneurs are risk-seekers by definition, and the harder you fail, the more you learn, to such an extent that you could pass with flying colors a regular contributor role at a big software company. In the context of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan , I'd just like people to keep their perspective and not to take the assumed risk for granted by thinking they're a failure.
Evelyn H. Lauder, Champion of Breast Cancer Research, Dies at 75
URDU SEX STORIES: Saali Ki Albeli Kahani
One of my favorite Dirac stories "An interview with Dirac": http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~greenfie/mill_courses/math421/i...
"And then, the code changes but the comment doesn't. Now its downright misleading."

Sorry, that's just a failure of the programmer, same as any other coding mistake they may make. It is by no means a reason to not have comments.
Where is this meme originating? It a lame argument that ignores the problem in every way. It pops up so often I want to know where it's being broadcast from.
There's been the same poster of him within an average of 1km from me since I was 17!

My Physics class room at college had a copy, then my University had one, and now I have one in my Physics class room.

So, pretty sure that he's well sung, at least in the rooms I visit!
I hope you can forgive me a chuckle at the irony of a company in the marketing business worrying about having a channel conflict.

What can go wrong? They can do a better job of marketing & service than you and effectively build their own brand on the back of your efforts, before dumping you for another supplier or an in-house development.

I suggest you develop a reseller product and approach it as a whole new channel. You should consider whether to use push or pull marketing or whether to require co-marketing efforts linked to VAR channel discount points. Perhaps you will have minimum volume requirements and tiered pricing, with white-label option at additional cost. You should consider exclusivity requirements - on both sides, and examine the scenarios in a competitive context. Since this is effectively a revenue-sharing partnership, you should have a standard heads of agreement and standard T&Cs ready to go. Oh, and prime your accounts people for the additional reconciliation burden.

In other words, you need a channel management strategy. All this puts you in a much stronger negotiating position and is much better than allowing yourself to be led into it blind by a savvy customer.

If none of the above is worth the investment, don't do it at all.
>According to one of my students at Yale, where I taught English in the last decade, a colleague of mine would tell his students that they belonged to a “post-emotional” generation. No anger, no edge, no ego.

Sounds like Prozac has really had an impact. These kids, when they get the rare moment of depression or rage now, should savor it, like tasting a dish that one only eats once or twice a year.
You don't need the Dirac equation to understand semiconductor physics. Holes are not positrons, and I'm somewhat skeptical of the idea that if positrons had not been discovered or postulated, that the transistor would not have been invented.

Without a doubt, it's really cool that we can say "Hey! We can actually predict that electrons will have spin!", but you don't need to understand that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen to build a steam engine.

However, if someone can point me to writings by Shockley, Brattain, or Bardeen, or a historical account that indicates otherwise, I'd be happy to read it :)
Wow. I never met Ilya in person, but I spoke with him several times via a private mailing list of people doing social network research. This is incredibly unfortunate. In my limited interactions with him he was always incredibly intelligent and willing to help out others.
Excellent response. This is surely a worthy topic to discuss yet must done carefully as I'm sure many can relate to this tragedy in some aspect.

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

I'm not affiliated.

Please use use this service if you are even remotely affected by this discussion in a negative way. I fear this will escalate and push a reader over the edge who doesn't think they have an alternative. They do. If you are one of these, please seek help.
Thanks, Any tools to help me along?
With the auction model, the spoils go to whoever has the highest margin, and in my industry it is people doing reverse billing scams. I am not willing to advertise a price of $9.95, and then charge people's credit cards $130 every month after that, based on an agreement that is in low contrast and 11px font.[1] You are right, that an auction model doesn't make it a scam, but it does invite scams, and Google should be extra vigilant at policing the scams.

[1] https://www.pimsleurapproach.com/special-offer/
497.1-day uptime bug
> It is a true shame that this individual took the failure personally

Did you know him? Is this just speculation?
Check your cron jobs too, including those run under non-root accounts.
Innovating on an everyday business traveller's frustration
http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2011/09/one-million/
Just be aware that xmllint cleans up XML as well as formatting it, which can in rare circumstances cause some confusion.

So if the incoming XML had an empty tag specified as <tag></tag> xmllint will turn it into <tag/>. If you're specifically looking for <tag></tag> for some reason, then that could trip you up.

Shouldn't matter 99% of the time though.
I've found that sometimes, like you in this case, I think some stated premise is just plain wrong, but when I read on, I find that I agree with the subsequent argument. In some of those cases, that is possible because the argument doesn't actually require the premise (other possibilities are that I'm being inconsistent, that on second inspection the argument is wrong, etc.). So you don't necessarily need to stop reading :).
Google is launching its second incubator, this time in Israel
Amusing fake job post by Innocent Drinks
> with organic food alone, the earth population would have to be around 4 billions. We're 7 billions. Oops.

And if everyone had a car and lived like Americans then the world would be in a tough spot as well. That doesn't mean I'm going to give up my good life. I eat organic because I don't trust non-organic food, because I don't want to eat animals that lived their lives in feces, themselves consuming ground up animals that were too sick to survive. Is organic scalable? It'd be great if were, and I encourage industry to try, but I'm not in it to save the world, I'm in it for myself.
Sell out? No way, HootSuite founder Ryan Holmes wants a legacy
"motte" gewinnt €99.405,50 mit European Roulette
Honestly, as someone who interacted with him via email, the cause didn't even cross my mind.
He missed mods. Watch Antonioni's "Blowup" (1966) and tell me how Thomas (mod) differs from today's hipster startup founder. He doesn't -- except perhaps that he is a bit less polite and drives a vintage Rolls-Royce.
This article, like most business articles, is just too full of generalizations and the trivially obvious to be of any value.
MLM Attraction Marketing Revealed
Why is that so weird?
I'm far more into history than anything. I'm reading "The Campaigns of Alexander" by Arrian and "Halliburton's Army"
I wonder what will happen to Google's revenue when that tipping point happens.
The square root of s x is not an exponential function.
ThreeNodes.js - vvvv (dataflow GL/Video programming) using WebGL/JS
Your more diplomatic attempt isn't setting expectations properly and therefore is more trouble. Don't make promises you can't keep.

He simply won't read your email. He hardly said don't communicate with him again. Email him when he is back on two weeks.

Perfect. I know what to expect and what to do by when.