skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you completely. Too bad in this case one can't view the upvotes... Keeping logins across different domains is definitely an anti-pattern.
I never disputed that many people want to secure the border. I disputed that "people who want to militarize the border with Mexico [...] explicitly hold[...] it [the Berlin wall] up as a model."
First of all you should know what they are doing, each day should begin with them answering 3 questions, in SCRUM meeting or in writing:

1. What you did yesterday?

2. What you'll do today?

3. Are there any impediments in your way?
For the sake of the argument, I'll assume that it's actually possible (and desirable) to unify languages in Europe.

A lot of the infrastructure could be used for any kind of language at all, as long as you've got text books. If Esperanto really would be an order of magnitude easier to learn, than that alone would make it much cheaper. You might have some initial expenses, but you'll make up for them soon enough.

It also has the additional advantage of not being tied to a particular country. You won't get a whole country's support for free, but you won't hear people cry about cultural imperialism.

But yeah, this isn't exactly new. A lot of these arguments were in existence when Esperanto was invented over a hundred years ago. Not much came from it.
That's a good point, but is it more depressing than living in WI is?
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http://testingbot.com/ is a website we launched a couple of days ago. It offers easy to use online Selenium testing.

You can use our Selenium grid to run tests on multiple browsers. We also have a feature where we can run your tests on a daily basis and notify you when a test fails.

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> There is no longer the designer/programmer separation, now with CSS designers can do everything if your HTML layout makes a bit of sense.

I'm sorry, but this is simply not true. You can't just magically move elements around in CSS without changing the markup. And even if you can accomplish a lot, many things will become very awkward as you try to tweak CSS in ways that was never intended.

I think we must just accept that we have a markup language (HTML; <p>, <strong> and so on), a way to style that (CSS) and a layout engine (CSS+HTML; <div>, <span> and so on).
I used functional developer (the commercial product that became open dylan when it was open sourced I believe) to write some freeware GUI apps on Windows a few year ago and it worked well.
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> America was not actually founded solely on "tired and poor masses yearning to breathe free", but on a huge takeover and displacement plan for the native Americans.

America wasn't founded in order to take anything from Natives; this was a very unfortunate side affect. Your right, slavery was a stain on America for nearly a century. And there was racial tension against Irish, Jews, Italians ect, just like it is for Muslims in some sectors of society right now.

But these people were still given an opportunity to flourish through their own doing, and many of them have. The Kennedy's are the most obvious example of an Irish American family doing supremely well despite lingering prejudice towards Irish immigrants. Obviously other examples exist.

The Muslim question you bring up at the end is different. The reason people are so scared is that Islamic Law contradicts the notion of freedom. We can and should allow freedom of religion, but not before we ensure that all people are free. And Islamic Law flies in the face of a lot that is presented in our Constitution.
In this particular case it is that I want to provide more than just a end point and a port. A JSON string is put in the TXT record to store associated meta data. If you do not need these metadata, SRV record is perfect.
Or put an unread number next to it. I mean, even gmail tells me how many spam messages I have.
I'm sorry but I don't see how this addresses my point? If they are checking 20 bands for results with p < 0.05, the likelihood is that one will show up, just from fluctuations from background.
No offense meant, but "our pace is often fast and furious. We put in extra hours to output excellent results" in your careers page is working against you here :)
Why would anyone want a customer who is willing to go through that hassle to save $5?

My cheapest (and not frugal, actually cheap skates) friends are the ones who would jump through all sorts of hoops for a dollar. They are also the ones I'd never want as customers. It's odd to me that businesses don't recognize this.
I just looked at this. Most of the messages in the 'Other' section are things I probably would have ignored anyway. I did find a five year old message that slipped past me. I was looking for a good python book and this guy recommended Dive Into Python. For a while, I was a bit aggravated at everyone ignoring my question, but I suppose I would have complained about Facebook spamming me if they would have made more effort to notify me of those incoming messages.
Stop Telling Women To Do Startups
Sorry man, this just goes against the grain of the web - the future is imo in using browser as a smart, hw accelerated runtime that is native on every platform, not in creating a dumb/slow proprietary emulation layer inside. Flash has already lost, and whatever good it had (fast accelerated video) has already been made native.
I have been intressted in dylan for some time. Here is my take on it. Dylan is just an awesome language, you will have to learn some dylan to find out if you agree. It has great potential to be a dynamic language that is really really fast, the compiler and gc are already really good. Its a really intressting project to hack on, the compiler for example is written in dylan itself.

Its not ready to go into production use but if you want an awesome opensource project with loads of potential to hack on dylan might be just the thing.
I dunno, it sticks pretty close to the style and tone of Maron's own stand-up, which like Louis's is deeply personal and raw and itself challenges what constitutes 'comedy' to some degree. I'd say it's funny in the same way Maron himself is funny.
We've heard this a lot and couldn't agree more. Originally we tried to find a market of home cooks that wanted to host events but (fortunately) we couldn't find them which led us to the pros. They were easier to find and they have the added benefit of being legal and much less likely to poison our consumers.

That said, it's going to happen at some point. Someone will get sick, it's inevitable. We're prepared to do anything we can to reduce the impact of a media fire.

We're staying in NYC at first not just to make it feel more exclusive, but because it makes it easier to know ALL of our chefs personally. Which we do. So we feel comfortable putting diners in their seats.
If we call this 'flash': My dream is to create a better flash than flash. I do this in my spare time, so the features a I've put into this are very limited as of yet, but once I will have more time/resources I will try to do my best on things like accessibility.
May favorite was when a very large corporation started to call their HR department Human Capital Management. Human Resources is bad enough, but once you start calling me captial I'm never going to work for you again.
Smaller, thinner and maybe even bendable phones.
This is kind of why I asked this on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8463353/what-makes-open-d... - because the OpenDylan page doesn't really makes it clear to me why I should start doing Dylan.
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Your son Rip is on line toot.
Yeah, that is one reason they weren't the first source.
You could ask the same question about SF. Northern California isn't the bastion of hippies and free love that most people make it out to be.
For those on dynamic IP the data is so mixed up. Atleast a date or timestamp of the download would make it more clear.
I have been intrested in dylan for some time know and its fantastic to see some progress. I think dylan has great potential to become the nearly as fast as C dynamic language. The Compiler and GC were made by people who really knew what they were doing. Would be cool to see some new benchmarks.
Is it really so terrible? What if you found that some orphan drug could be used for something that nobody had thought of, after the patent expired? You'd need to spend a lot of money testing it, to get it approved, otherwise no-one could use it. You didn't spend a few million developing the compound, but you did spend a few hundred million testing it. Surely drug patents exist to encourage drug companies to test drugs, and bring them to market, not just to create the initial compounds.
Word on the street is that you guys have a core group of developers that are set in their (old and busted) ways.
...there is an incredibly shrill minority that shouts down anything that's immigration-related when it looks like that change could benefit "them durn illegalz" who are already here.

It's always convenient to blame things on your political opponents, but lets be realistic here. Bush's amnesty bill was shot down by a bipartisan group.

Some of them did actually oppose amnesty. But quite a few of them on the opposite side of the aisle had strong opposition to replacing family based immigration with skill based immigration.

In reality, the fight about immigration is about importing people to vote for their political party. The politicians don't care about much else.
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You really don't need to worry too much about disconnects.

I disconnected twice while downloading and emailed the customer support address and they just replenished my downloads.
Google Admits 'Organic Results' Are Filler To Pump Deceptive Ads at Consumers
The loss of computer/files was just the framing device, a scenario that created a need to communicate which is the actual point of the article. Why bikeshed the author's workflow? Its not like she'd actually see it here.
The key point surely is that English is a living language that is adapting constantly to reflect a world culture as it develops.

Plus there is a great body of existing English speakers in Europe matched by qualified teachers in most secondary schools.

There might be cultural objections in parts of Europe to adopting the language of another country but in reality - English is already the dominant business language.

Having said all of that it would be sad if other European languages were not maintained - you can say things in (for example) French that you just can't say in English - well not without a lot more words and it still would not be quite right. French is the second language of our family but I am sure this is true for all other languages.
tl;dr - You reminded me of a favorite article on relativism and understanding other cultures (especially other cultures very far from us in time and circumstances). There's a quote from the piece below, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in this issue.

>> As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

This reminded me immediately of a line of thought from Bernard Williams[1]. He's discussing relativism, and he argues that there is some truth to it (roughly: relativism, understood in a very specific way makes sense for ethics, but not for science). In order to make this argument, he considers what it would mean for two or more systems of belief to come into contact. (As a shorthand, he calls a system of belief an S throughout the paper.) He wants to make the claim that relativism is coherent in cases where Ss can to some extent understand one another, but there is no real possibility of a person with S1 giving that up in favor of S2 (or vice-versa).

This is already very long, but my point is that I think it's not so much that "they couldn't understand our world at all" or that we can't understand theirs. It's rather that however well we understand it, we simply could not give up our S and take up theirs - not without massive false consciousness.

Here's the key quote you made me think of:

>> [M]any Ss which have been held are not real options now. The life of a Greek Bronze Age chief, or a mediaeval Samurai, and the outlooks that go with those, are not real options for us: there is no way of living them. This is not to say that reflection on those value-systems may not provide inspiration for thoughts about elements missing from modern life, but there is no way of taking on those Ss. Even Utopian projects among a small band of enthusiasts could not reproduce that life: still more, the project of re-enacting it on a societal scale in the context of actual modern industrial life would involve one of those social or political mistakes, in fact a vast illusion. The prospect of removing the conditions of modern industrial life altogether is something else again -- another, though different, impossibility.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Williams

[2] "The Truth in Relativsm" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 75, (1974 - 1975), pp. 215-228, on page 224. It's here on JSTOR, in case people have access to that: http://www.jstor.org/stable/view/4544875. It's also collected in Bernard Williams Moral Luck.
This isn't that absurd, right now the great secret of US immigration is that someone with $1M USD of surplus liquid savings can definitely get on the green card track with the advice of their attorney.
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I get this, as I worked in a startup and saw how many of the early employees started to fill in leadership roles within the company. However, we had remote teams too and they worked out just as well. Our VP of Development for a long time was remote too.

I do agree that it's not optimal in every situation, and your culture has to adjust for it. I'm just saying, if there is a talent crunch, companies need to be willing to take steps to handle it. Distributed teams are one such option.
I had to smirk when I read the following part:

Permanent residence in the USA is a valuable asset

It really depends on where you live. :)
While it's true that demand for goods and services increases GDP, it's not good for any person. It's better for any individual consumer to live in a world where demand (and therefore prices) of the goods they consume is low.

The only exception is where the number of immigrants present creates beneficial economies of scale. For example, without the many Indian immigrants in Jersey City, Sri Ganesh's Dosa House probably would not have sufficient business to continue operating.
The problem with this is that the web is driven by commitees, so innovation is terribly slow. For example there is no real dynamic layout in web standards, which is crazy. (Look at my v0.1 GridPanel class and compare it to CSS layout...) I want to create a system in which people can create their own components, own layout managers, etc... This thing should not replace the web, but has a place in UI tech research and application development.
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It's neither. It's history repeating itself.
Yeah, but here's the thing: it will always be cheaper to design products to be manufactured by special-purpose robots than to design them to be manufactured by humans and use "human-capable" robots to do the work instead.

A perfect example is modern electronics. A large part of the reason for the rise of surface mount electronic components (SMT parts are soldered to the same side of the circuit board that they are placed on) is that they make it much cheaper to assemble electronics by automated pick & place machines than it would have been to keep the older through-hole components (with pins/wires that go through the board and are soldered on the opposite side) and use human-like robots to assemble them.

Likewise, airplanes have autopilots designed into them for that purpose instead of having robotic pilots sitting in seats.

The reality is that in most large volume manufacturing, special purpose automation will win out over general purpose robots.
Be careful, some of those reddit threads have terrible information/ advice in them voted to the top. For instance http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/g9ugs/just_bombed_a...
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120050
Wondering how fast it could build Android 4.0. (http://source.android.com/source/building.html)
Bit of a pun intended. I have recently realized that a 4-core smarthpone, one of those coming in mid-2012, on a 1.5 GHz (e.g. the rumored HTC Edge) theoretically packs similar power to that of my dual-core Macbook Pro 2.8 GHz (4x1.5=6 vs. 2.8x2=5.6). One probably cannot compare OMAP with x86 too much, but still, the CPU developments in mobile space excite me more than the desktop ones, which frankly, disappoint me a bit. Somehow, sometime in 2000s I expected to have massively parallel CPU sometime around now, not a mere 6-core.
The urge to not read the article after reading that paragraph was so strong, I felt that THAT was worth sharing. It is probably the best comment I’ve written to date, maybe not in terms of technique or artistry, but it is the single comment that is fueled by an intensity that did not wane at any point.
I think this was one of the most interesting parts of the article:

The other question that made sense was from Chief Justice Roberts:

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: So I have a great idea. You take wood, you put it on a grate, you light it, and you get heat. That recites a series of acts performed in the physical world that transforms the subject of the process, the wood, to achieve a useful result, which is heat. So I can get a patent for that?

Believe it or not, the answer was no, not because it's not patentable subject matter, but because it's not novel. So cavemen entrepreneurs could have patented it?
> do you have any tips on negotiating?

Interview like it's going out of style; it'll help you feel more comfortable, if nothing else. When you have multiple offers, you can tell one company that the other is offering more. Then you can say that you have a significantly higher offer that's much closer to the average offer in your area, without revealing the exact dollar amount. Plus, you actually have a second offer you can go with if the first company doesn't offer more.

Also, look up online what average salaries are for your occupation and your area.
You are absolutely right about them hitting the wrong geographical area.

However, as a developer in the mid-Atlantic, I think the lifestyle here is just as good :)

I'd love to find a remote opportunity with any of those firms, but it seems that is difficult to find these days.
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Many people do like where they live, but... I suspect more people would prefer to leave, say, Maryland for Austin than leaving SF.
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Take what I'm about to say with a massive grain of salt as I don't know you, your cofounders, any back story you guys may have, or anything else with the following opinion.

My personal opinion is if there's doubt, usually, you should probably back away. Take it from someone who has worked with many people. The times that I've had success with those I've worked with, there were never any doubts. Debates, disagreements, among other things are common but doubt was not one of them. If you have doubts, its a sign of potential problems not worth having that could escalate or unravel the startup later.
Including arbitrary remote javascript on your page? What could possibly go wrong!
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I'm a consultant from NJ and just got back from Austin a couple days ago, meeting with all my clients who live there and pay me to live and work from here. Anyway, the Texan version of rude and self-centered is pretty quaint by my personal standards...

Edit: If I were a Rails dev, I'd imagine I could be making $200/hr down there. The circles I move through are like desert-island desperate for Rails devs. (Started working through Rails 3 in Action on the plane home).
I fully agree, if you redefine grep as a byte search program, rather than for text search. Rule it out for most languages apart from English.

To have any usable grep with applicability beyond programming languages, English-language log-files, etc. (i.e. massive Anglocentrism), the normalizing would need to be built-in. Sketched:

#!/usr/bin/bash
regex="$1"; shift
unicode-normalize-to-utf8 "$@" | byte-grep "$(utf8-byteify-regex "$regex")"
Why are companies so averse to telecommuting? There is an endless supply of S/D around the world.
Funnily enough, I saw that argued just the other day in http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/12/08/selective-use-of-te...
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You might want to have a look at Amazon's Flexible Payment System (FPS):
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Yes, I do think that is the case. I also just, very plainly, don't see that much craft in drama-from-ignorance. Sure, "x knows something that y doesn't, subsequently y runs into a number of cringeworthy encounters" does make for drama, but if somebody saying "no y, actually, it's THIS" would destroy the entire plot from thereon, I find the whole setup a bit stale.

Same goes for "x is a twat, situations involving x will make you cringe" shows - there are only a few like that which I can tolerate and they make a huge effort to assign enough other redeeming qualities to x to make up for it. For Curb, I do like Larrys character, but after a while, it seemed like he existed solely to feed the cringe.

And yes, I have it bad. The last episodes of Curb that I watched, I permanently had my finger on the space bar. Sometimes, I would have to pause it for periods of time that were longer than the show itself.
With autonomous cars, who needs you to drive?
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That just spreads out the data. It does nothing to erase the association of the IP that pulled the torrent with your account, which can still be subpoenaed by a copyright holder. There are much better privacy solutions.
Team communication - Make sure there is a way for all developers to brainstorm easily, we did this by setting up an IRC channel. But it needs to be used obviously, which is the hard part.

Give credit - If any one even mentions an idea in passing, etc and it is later discussed, that mention should be attributed. 'A few weeks ago Mike suggested RabbitMQ, we did some research and we've decided this is the best solution'. Of course for obvious good work praise should be given.

Celebrate team effort - There is a problem in production, your developers are working hard to pinpoint. Once the dust settles and you are sending out your final status email, be sure to praise the team effort, include names (be sure to include anyone that even had the slightest impact, seeing their names together reinforces the team)

Other obvious ones - sufficient funds for tools, hardware, training, books etc. code reviews, personal growth plans, frequent employee performance reviews (6mo).

motivation is tough, sometimes people need a little peer pressure. Give an unmotivated developer a visible high priority, small(!!), project. Something you know is a homerun. Email the stake holders and CC the developer explaining the developer is on it and it's their #1 priority. Give them plenty of time, but just knowing that people are depending on their work helps some people with motivation.