skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I'm ignorant, but the major problem with seasteading I find is when you have your first pirate attack or your first natural disaster. Defense/rescue are expensive and would increase the daily costs significantly. In my biased opinion, seasteading sounds neat until you let reality get in the way.
"Without me, developers would not know what to build."

If that is true for your team (and I'm highly dubious) then I'd have to say you have mediocre to downright incompetent developers (being able to code does not immediately qualify someone to design and build good software). Understanding the use cases, business requirements and the user are all part of designing great software. If none the developers can manage to accomplish this, then they are going to build mediocre software regardless of what BA or PM they have on the team.

For my part I've met very few good developers who were not capable of developing a fairly deep domain understanding even in complex domains.
Zynga IPO Will Make Mark Pincus Poorer
I believe this is a good thing. I jQuery daily, and when searching for a plugin lately I would avoid the plugins site when it came up in search results. It was outdated and the stuff in there isn't generally well maintained. I was glad to hear about a new plugin site coming (it was announced at jqcon in Oct I believe) and see this as a positive move towards that being live.
You know, the young ones complain nobody hires them because they don't have experience and buzzwords on their resumes.

The old ones complain that they're discriminated against because they are... old.

Meanwhile business complain they can't find good people no matter how much they pay and Google & Facebook can't give enough bonuses to stop their people from being pouched.

So, who's right? Bunch of f-ing whiners all of them, if you ask me:

Youngsters should CODE and get the right experience.

Oldies should LEARN continuously, not stop and rely on their old stuff.

Business should PAY and PAY even more, while rewarding on merit, not people skills.

Now get off my lawn!
I've found that Parkinson's Law is quite useful for being extremely productive. The law states that "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." In other words, if you give yourself 30 minutes to complete a task (despite if it actually will) you will work harder because you've created a sense of urgency for yourself.

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law
It it's my last day in general; I wouldn't be working at all.
So why not take that guidance directly from the users of that product. Sure if that really isn't an option (though it usually is even when people and business make excuses for why it isn't) having a "user representative" is a distant second that must be accepted. However it is still your job to build some level of shared domain knowledge with the users of the software.
* I've been running this on heroku for free for weeks. Why would anyone be nervous about that?

* As tombell pointed out, you don't need Redis

* The docs are ok but compared to just ranting docs for this fork they're awesome.

* The docs for IRC usage have moved - https://github.com/nandub/hubot-irc/

* Who cares if Hubot is over-engineered? It has tests. This ranting fork has none. Moving on ...
All great feedback. The primary reason to limit signups right now is twofold: 1. There are only two of us and the holidays are upon us, so we wanted to keep support load as low as possible for now, 2. Our on-boarding process/funnel, as you've pointed out, is really lacking. Two nerds with full-time jobs don't make great copy editors unfortunately.

We're working on all of these things. I'll check out scrumy.com as well. Thanks for the tip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_York

The MV York is a liquified gas tanker that was captured in 2010 and is/was used a mothership.

The use of larger and more robust vessels as support / launch platforms greatly increases the operational range of piracy.
Can whoever downvoted me please explain yourself? You have to pay a 6 EUR "admin fee" to get the .01 EUR fare unless you use their proprietary approved prepaid product (which, amazingly, has its own fees! - The card alone costs 6 EUR plus an extra upcharge every time you put money on it@)
In DOS everything was a file too. Its not just *nix.
Hey foca! :) What webhooks should we add? I have a few ideas, but would love more. API is in-progress. :)
There is a big difference between hardware and software rendering. Software rendering has you plotting each pixel individually and writing to the framebuffer. Hardware rendering uses specialized APIs and hardware to dramatically speed up drawing and transformation functions.
Somali pirates vs seasteaders has potential as as a Neal Stephenson plot.
We do offer a free 30 day trial, which should be plenty of time to get a quick thumbs up / down for your needs.
These are great links, and answer many of the questions that I had. But there must be something more to the story; PhyloD is from 2007 and the news article is from 2011. Tangentially related, the research article that you linked is cited by a paper in PNAS that describes extraordinarily constrained coevolving group of sites in HIV (which appears to be a site of protein-protein interaction in the Gag protein). Such a group is likely a good target for multiple simultaneous therapeutics, as multiple mutations there likely reduce HIV's intrinsic fitness: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/28/11530.full
"This isn't to say that we must all resign to this fate, but you're deluding yourself if you think that self-employment or startup work is all that much different at the end of the day."

The work may not be different. However, you have much more freedom in your choices and at the end of the day, your reward is much better for having to deal with boiler plates and life-sucking tasks.

I'm running a startup now and I've never felt like I've been wasting my life. I do, however, when I work for other people.
there is a chance if they were more involved there would be an implicit loss on their freedom to do amazing stuff.
Great idea. Version 2.0 will be better!
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I really don't see what this has to do with HIV. There is only a passing mention of HIV on the page. And I think this constant association of Africa with HIV is insulting - there is a higher HIV prevalence amongst gays than among Africans, yet there is no instant association always.

For african technology to progress, these negative associations have to be removed from peoples minds - starting from you, reading this comment.
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As for #3 in your list, we offer a feature where coder A can say, "Hey, coder B, you're item X is blocking my item Y!" When coder B finishes item X, coder A is alerted via email that coder B has unblocked them.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/

You say you don't use Firefox on mobile, which is fine, but then you seem to claim their product isn't on the devices you're using, when it is.
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Great stuff! Thanks a lot!
These clowns will be crying for the US Coast Guard to come and rescue them the moment their "seastead" springs a leak.
Alan Kay on stronger and weaker conceptions of computing--and life
Zynga and Poetic Justice: Mark Pincus Will Be a Poorer Man
In logic and philosophy, a fact is a proposition that can be true or false.
You say that as if that was a fact but in reality is nothing but your opinion.

I can barely stand the, in my opinion, horrible mouse acceleration in OS X and knowing apple I can imagine that they feel that giving me the option to disable it isn't user friendly.
I have flown in Ryanair flights that cost £0.01.

They often advertise flights for €0.01 but then charge ~€10 for various other things, so the actual price is usually about €15. However, it is possible to get a 1 cent flight, although it is rare.
Indeed, «correct math» seems strange here, for interpretation of hints is equally correct as beziers.
I had a funded streaming media startup from '99-'01. We built overlay multicast software --- the kind of middleware code that Enron is accused not to have had to back up their CDN.

What I can add to this thread is, Enron very much was talked about in '00 as a real CDN player. Not just in our own internal meetings, but in bizdev discussion with other large media and CDN companies.

That doesn't mean Enron-the-company wasn't a giant fraud (EBS was a tiny portion of Enron as a whole), but I plausible the idea that some senior guy at EBS could truly believe Enron was a legitimate enterprise.
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Compared to spdy, it is standing still.
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And yet again a 10 year old article[1] from Spolsky captures most of the rants in both the post and the comments. What works for a game developer does not necessarily work for an internal cooperate developer.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html
"I'm already busy executing my plans for freedom (by starting my own business, for instance)

Ah, one of my favourite fallacies. Hate to break it to you, but starting your own business more often than not leads you to have to do more things outside of your comfort zone or strengths, not less.

It's for this reason that businesses need...business guys, and also why tech people undervalue that need. It allows the engineers to engineer things.
They are, and have been, at the forefront of cheap low fares flights in Europe.

In essence, they are cheap.
Pupils should learn about "responsible betting" to tackle problem gambling
Will Android 4 still redraw everything when rotating the phone instead of animating?

This is not only a bad experience for users but also is one of the most difficult parts when developing Android apps.
We use Python/Django and MySQL. Pretty boring to be honest, which I'm digging after spending nearly five years working on crazy ass big infrastructure.

That being said, I'm eyeing Redis, Node.js, Memcached (of course), and some AWS services for future upgrades, services, and features.
This just screams: Economist staff writers reading HN looking for story ideas.

Click on the link and maybe we can keep some hapless journalist employed.

Of course in the grander scheme, if we make a habit of such mindless reading selections, it may only hasten the inevitable downfall of serious journalism and the print publications we once associated with it.
Yeah, exactly. It's not that I'm lazy. It's just that I want to do something meaningful and on my own terms. I have much more value to give to the world than I can express in a 40 hour a week coding job.

I crave the three elements of intrinsic motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose. More on that here: http://lateralaction.com/articles/dan-pink-rewards/
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As well as Dublin & Madrid, they also fly direct (ish) to: Nice, London (ish. Gatwick is a big London airport), Birmingham. etc.

However they do sometimes take the piss. Until recently you couldn't fly near Barcelona. Paris is still Paris (Beauvaus (sp?)). Rome, Brussles likewise.

I think they once advertised flights to Copehagen, the capital of Denmark, but the flight landed in Sweden!
I guess I take your point, but "cloud computing" today is very much not the same thing as "cloud computing" in '00. To build a streaming testbed network in '00, we had to buy physical colocations in data centers around the world, and we were a tiny company.

Everything has precedent in something else, but that doesn't make everything a CICS mainframe.
"you'll need supplies from a country"

It's called importing. Most countries do it these days.
Tech journalism makes us look bad: todays front page of "business" insider
Ryanair have always been the first to change things radically. From scrapping travel agents, scrapping in flight meals, requiring you to pay extra for checked in luggage. Each of these could be seen as "too far", and yet they have grown by leaps and bounds each time. Why would this be an different?
I doubt that I am the sole exception. I take much more time to reply to friends (probably) because I care about what I write. So for me, this would be quite the opposite.
Maybe you, as a consumer, only care about how fast something is. This post is more geared towards people who actually care about how things work, or, more pertinently, to the people who have been spreading misinformation around. So it isn't a post about Android's being slow or fast as much as a post about its internals.
Many folks on the coasts are unaware of how wacky some crazy religious people are. Fundamentalism is a southern and rural phenomenon in the US.

I live in New York. There are definitely crazy religious people here, but not enough of them that they can strut their stuff in public and carry on with the crazy nonsense that you see in the South or Midwest.

Also, we have enough cultural and religious diversity that fundamentalists dominating school boards or town/city governments wouldn't fly. (We get machine politics and union domination instead)
That's the right attitude. :)
The fees are atrocious, but during promotions they sometimes sell tickets with taxes and fees included. I once bought a roundtrip Oslo-Edinburgh and the total charge was £1.98. The airport bus ended up being 20 times more expensive than the actual flight.
Would work in Firefox too with if the author had bothered to add the -moz-animation rules.
>An eyeball estimate [1] suggests the cost would be 35% of what the US govt spends, and that's assuming the sea-based nation still pays for things like military adventurism and the war on drugs.

Only if that eyeball is completely blind to economies of scale.
I believe Ryanair are more likely to cancel a flight if it's delayed (e.g. by snow). This may or may not be a good way to ensure that "number of flights that arrive late" is low.
This particular plot appears to show evidence of winner's curse rather than publication bias.
Exactly. Ryanair are a bus. They are as cheap as a bus, and as good quality as a bus. That's what I use them for.
at long last! and not just because of the spam. i hope you guys make something much more awesomer. the old plugin site was infuriating to use/search.
> That is engaging and persuasive for almost no one.

It's engaging and persuasive for those of us who just want to grasp the underlying ideas. Maybe not so much for people who need all the rhetorical grease I was talking about earlier.
I didn't mean it personally either, it's more that I felt you didn't add anything to the conversation and seemingly ridiculed other people's rates.

My point was you're not talking about the UK, you're working for BIG CORP that hires out consultants in a scenario I outlined above, so why start declaring people's rate peanuts?

For the record I'm actually a UK Freelancer and these rates are exactly what I see.

For some reason the UK pays less than the US for programmers. I don't know if it's because we've got more or it's something cultural, but that's the way it seems to be.

EDIT: These are also similar to the rates I know others in the East Midlands region charge too. One peculiar example is a small embedded systems company I know of about 6 people that charges all their staff out at £250 p/d. The owner claims that's the market rate, but that seems low to me for fairly specialised work.
Haskell if you are an artist. OCaml (without the OOP stuff, no one uses it any way) if you are a plumber.
Compassion vs Empathy Vs Sympathy vs Plain Horny?
http://www.swedetrack.com/ is an older example of a similar idea, but I always think of JPODS http://www.intelligenttransportation.com/ when these ideas are suggested.

So this new idea is nothing new, just has a fancier site behind it. There are many examples available at http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/itrans2.htm
FYI, this article is about 2.5 years old.

Zed Shaw has in the interim released some projects under a BSD license (like Mongrel2) while other projects like Lamson (I believe) are licensed under GPLv3.
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I've got the same issue with all the Linux distros I've seen. There might be some way of fixing it... but I just end up almost never using a GUI.
If you own the copyright on all the code (i.e. you didn't accept any external patches), then you can release the code as GPL and also relicence it to yourself as a propriatary code. You don't need BSD for this.

If someone contributes to your GPLed project, then you cannot 'make propriatary' that contribution, unless they assign copyright to you./
Look again, because iOS has greater market share than Android does. But it's a moot point anyways, because one OS is limited to a few devices that sell at high price points and the other is used by tens of manufacturers and hit low, medium, and high price points. Actually, because of that, it makes iOS's market share even more impressive.
I could not help it

I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.
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I definitely agree on the physical whiteboard + cards. Having used a large Kanban board and then changing to a project using the full suite of Jira tools, I am dying to get back to the board.

WIP limits and ordered backlogs are missing. There is no need to make 'custom views' for a whiteboard - with Jira they are like 5 different ways to get to a list of items that need to be worked on and I'm never quite sure I'm looking at the right list.
I should say, within any one team working on something these procedures are used to get things done. I don't speak for the company as a whole but this seems to be the precedent for most.
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Definitely tempting, thats the dream for me. However, do you think he'll still be living that lifestyle for the next 2, 5, 10, 25 years? I'm working toward that dream every day, but its a purely temporal thing.

Even the $100k+ engineer salary talk around here isn't necessarily a realistic goal either. Sure, there's always been people making that sort of money but not to the extent that they do now. Is it a safe bet to gamble that you'll still make that money in their in positions? Is it a safe bet that salaries will keep going up at this pace, or that life will stay at a pace where you can afford to work so much?

Again these are my dreams and goals too. But its just not safe to walk around with blinders on all day.
> Claiming unwritten social contracts should guide behavior is asking to be disappointed. Not everyone will have the same view of what those contracts are. I certainly don't share your views on the subject. What, objectively, makes you right and me wrong?

This nuance is why the BSD license relies on social contracts. Attempting to codify the OSS social contract as license would result in something rather like the GPL, and is at the core of why we disagree.
For everyone who has not read it: Aaron is not proposing the future of ground-based transportation. This is an analysis why he scraps his plans for a magnet-levitation, personal transportation system and a call for new ideas.
We wrote a little game that should help with pitch recognition. Uses Couch for storing high scores, Redis for cache and Tornado for the server.

Makes use of Audiolib.js (https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/audiolib.js/) for audio that works in FF/Chrome. Bit weird in FF though, but at least it plays.

I did most of the JS and my friend did most of the backend. We were sorta on deadline, so the design isn't quite what I would call perfect (ha) and my JS is super-messy in places. Also, there are bits where I inexplicably use jQuery for stuff I had been doing without a framework and other weird inconsistencies like that, but hey, it works. Anyway, let me know what you think! Thanks.
Well, all I can say to that is each engineer has to decide for themselves how much they will be swayed by popularity vs real supporting evidence. There's a great rush to quality in software engineering, just as there once was in science. Today, no self respecting scientist would write, "As mature researchers, of which I am the model because I'm telling you what one is, method A is the best because when I worked at Acme chemical for over ten years I personally implemented method A. I'm amazed at how other researchers still don't understand chemistry, and, by the way this is just a rant so I'm allowed to say whatever bullshit I want without the need to support it with fact."
Something similar happened to my wife.

The President of their company would breeze by the lab. In an effort to keep employee salaries down he would casually mention how everyone in the lab was easily replaceable. I have no idea how one would casually mention this but he somehow managed to work it into the conversation. Needless to say everyone there in the lab got the impression that they weren't wanted. I think in the span of twelve months everyone woman there quit and moved on to better jobs. When my wife moved on she found a job with double the salary and a company that really appreciates her.
So you think the Germans or Chinese would want to invade the seastead? Do you think it's because the Germans/Chinese would want the seastead's land to extend their own borders?
Yes, the Mac acceleration is horrible. The best solution I've found is to buy a Microsoft mouse and install the Microsoft driver for it. Works properly, just like Windows.
If there's one thing we've learned from the financial crisis, it's that Wall Street will do anything to prevent becoming "poorer". I think we all agree that Pincus hasn't demonstrated that he has morals above and beyond those of your typical financier.

Put on your tinfoil hat for a second: Zynga of late has been bombarded with negative news. With the IPO looming, Forbes (part of the financial machine) and others begin to spin tales of how this IPO will actually make the individuals most likely to gain poorer by going public.

"See? They're good guys who put the company ahead of themselves, not a bunch cut-throat, data-munching, nickle-and-diming sharks."
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I'm pretty sure the author reached an entirely fallacious and baseless conclusion. My understanding of the events are thus:

1. An authentication daemon crashes periodically due to a bug.

2. "S" discovers that rebooting the daemon's host prevents this from happening for a while, and does so.

3. The author is paged( 5 times ), discovers the problem, and writes a kludge script to keep the systems running until the bug can be fixed.

4. During the post-mortem meeting, she identifies "S" for his role in the events.

5. A thin-skinned manager suggests the author was too hard on "S".

6. The author, without any evidence, concludes that the manager said this because she is a woman, and is hellbent on "pushing [her] out" of the team.

The reality is that thin-skinned managers and managers overly sensitive to maintaining office decorum exist everywhere, and they don't do this based on your sex. Citing anecdotal evidence, I can say that having a penis does not shield you from accusations of being "too hard", and that hearing this from managers, coworkers, or employees, likely has nothing at all to do with sexism or a desire to "push out" women.
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