skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, as per the original post, I guess war would be a subset of pizza.

Remember the Battle of Salamis!

(One blogger took a comment I wrote out of context for humor's sake and asked if we "needed a nice violent movie about Salamis")
Why-i-love-sharepoint
Our in-house @Sharepoint specialist, Howard Bayliss has written a blog post explaining why he loves it so much. @Redweb
Out of interest what OS are you using?

Something like WAMP for Windows, XAMPP for Linux or MAMP for OSX will give you a full LAMP stack with PHP in minutes. It's great for local development, although of course terrible for an actual web server.
Amazing image effects with HTML5 canvas
Because you don't need to create an account on each and every site you visited (together with decoding a similar number of CAPTCHA's, etc)
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It isn't the color that is the problem. It's the relationship of the lime green to the other colors on the page that makes it jarring. The Django site uses a harmonious color scheme with the lime green as a highlight.
For the most amazing building toy with great hackability, I highly recommend Uberstix - you can build planes that fly, boats that sail, robots, buildings, dynamic systems, catapults etc etc: http://www.uberstix.com/
It doesn't even necessarily make them overrated. It just means they must be in the service of larger, business concerns.
If you think that design == appearance, you must not spend time on the internet.
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Something similar on a Commodore PET at school. Aged 11ish.
I understand that, but there seems to be some doubt about whether they legally compelled YouTube to take it down or simply asked nicely via some pre-arranged deal with Google. If it's the latter, then perhaps any secondary criticism should be directed at Google for entering into such an agreement rather than at a legal system that wasn't used here anyway.

I think my general point is that while SOPA is obviously a crazy idea and Big Media obviously do go too far at times, we should be careful to choose the focus of our criticism correctly.
I run a Hadoop cluster on Ubunutu and use Sun's JVM. Hadoop doesn't function properly on OpenJDK[1].

"OpenJDK cannot be used to compile hadoop mapreduce code in branch-0.23 and beyond, please use other JDKs."

1: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopJavaVersions
Life after Steve
Statuscats API - use the statuscats on your web server
Wait, you just said you hope there's an afterlife, and so did the GP. Where's the objection?
Oh boy that's a biggie here. Last year the raise given for "exceeds" was around 1% - 3%. For comparison, inflation is running at about 5% in the UK, so effectively if you work as hard as you can, you still get a pay cut.

Currently, I'm interviewing new hires who will be roughly a paygrade below me. They will start with a 10% higher salary than my current.

Needless to say, I'm not a happy bunny. Sadly, there aren't that many software companies here, so I can't easily move jobs.
The fist error was to flight into the storm, and not avoid it like the other planes. (Perhaps it was due to a misconfiguration of the radar.)
Have you considered using RVM?

http://beginrescueend.com/

I use it to replicate Ubuntu 10.4 server setups on my Arch dev box. RVM does weird stuff with 'cd' so you may prefer rbenv:

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

...though I have no experience of that.
Why large firms are often more inventive than small ones
The role of "designer" is by definition a person who doesn't get their hands dirty. It's one that depends on other people to make things happen.

Care to justify that statement with evidence?

Or do you think that only back-end code will make your hands dirty, and not research, requirements gathering, ensuring the product does what paying customers want and expect, customer support, analyzing, categorizing, prioritizing customer feedback, analyzing usage statistics to divine customer intent, creating and managing a/b tests, writing road maps, defining feature sets, managing development, html, css, wireframing, testing?

In companies I've worked with, the developers have been sheltered from most of the "real work" of turning their code into an actual business, but simultaneously believe that they are the only ones contributing value. It's cute.
Awesome - Booking.com donates 100,000 euros to TPF
Clojure has something even cooler than doto. It's called "thrush operators":

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E
and
http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E%3E
He missed a word like "frequently" after "airplane crashes are", and that might confuse a few people (as it confused you). His point is - much like you said yourself - that most airplane crashes are often related to engineering failures (actual mechanical/system failures), but that in this particular case, it was human error.
I think the author is making assertions based on dubious assumptions:

Whether it’s a high-profile tech company like
Yahoo!, or a more established conglomerate like
GE or Home Depot, large companies have a hard time
keeping their best and brightest in house. Recently,
GigaOM discussed the troubles at Yahoo! with a flat stock
price, vested options for some of their best people, and
the apparent free flow of VC dollars luring away some of
their best people to do the start-up thing again.

Firstly, these companies are in trouble. It doesn't matter whether it is a big company or small. Financial troubles tend to lead to cuts in headcount.

Places such as DuPont have a lot of long term scientists. They offer the best unprecedented freedom as well as a lot of facilities and support. In startups, a worker has to wear many hats, and not all wish to do that.
[...] so that the Sun JDK will be removed from all
users machines when they do a software update

A ridiculous solution...

Oracle has retired the “Operating System Distributor
License for Java”

... to a ridiculous problem.
Big corporations still use desktop software, and I can't see that ending any time soon.
Adding a new To Do list / memo in iPhone application Next Task 
In this video you can easily understand how to operate and configure iPhone Next Task Application.
I'm not splitting hairs about my main point, which is that Leys doesn't actually respond to Hitchens's main criticism.

But let me respond about "obscenity":

You call Mother Theresa "respectiable". Hitchens's whole book advances the argument that she is nothing but, and is in fact contemptible. His argument is not germane to your point, so I won't delve into it.

Hitchens, in a video (you can find it on youtube, can't remember the title), argues that laughing at religious authority is important, and that religion should be mock, because mockery is one of the first steps towards overthrowing an oppressor. So the argument that we can't talk about a "respectable nun" in profane and coarse terms, and instead must treat her with ignorant reverance, is poisonous and cuts to the foundation of Hitchens's argument.

"It (the title) is actually a perfect triple entendre: the book is about the politics of missionaries and the position of those who feel they can enlighten by divine warrant and presume to instruct the rest of us not just in morality but in day-to-day conduct. It was a title I couldn’t not use."

[edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t4VhQX5Ckk
"Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority..."]
Stanford Online Classes. Like A Great Movie With A Bad Ending
Adding a new To Do list / memo in iPhone application Next Task
In this video you can easily understand how to operate and configure iPhone Next Task Application.
http://yieldkit.com/
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PDNSD HowTo - A DNS Caching Personal Server (Fedora 16)
New years eve 2011 miami beach watching
new years eve 2011 miami beach watching
This is a tale of my preferred New Seasons Eve of all time I was 17 sometimes and like most of my education associate.
The "Surprise Exam" paradox
Fuck you (you representing anti-christian trolling in general in HN).
I think it's one of his most admirable qualities, namely that he will admit fault, change his position, and correct himself when he overspeaks.

My apologies if you're actually quite extraordinary.

None taken.

[edit: A question I asked him at the NYPL, 55:30 in the video http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/god-not-great-debate-between-...

Q: In the beginning of the talk you expressed antipathy towards deism in principle, predicated along this
particular interpretation of God as a supreme dictator and judge. Is that correct?

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: That would be correct, yes.

Q: Now, if I could play devil’s advocate for God for a moment. Could you appreciate a God who
watches us and our actions eagerly and with great interest because he created a world where everything
is permitted?

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Yes, I can picture it, but I’m not without horror.
(laughter)
]
redhat also removes packages when they cant update them

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0368.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1045.html
I'm tired of the useless back and forth over whether "design is horseshit." That's not only a falsehood, it's a simplistic falsehood. Reducing the work of something as broad and universal as "design" to "laying on the pretty" is definitely a one-two punch of reductio ab absurdum and strawman. And yongfook is smarter than that.

But.

I believe only one of the companies on this list is profitable, maybe two. And there's no way Behance produces billions of dollars of "value" all by itself, even with the potential of help from Pulse or Slideshare (MAYBE).

That has nothing to do with the fact that they prioritized design. That has nothing to do with the fact that they are led by designers.

It has everything to do with VC-driven startup culture which believes getting funding and getting bought is the way to go, rather than self-funding and creating a sustainable, profitable business.

It has everything to do with the idea that you DESERVE money NOW, for what you MAY do or MAY achieve in the future. And the belief that you WILL do or WILL achieve whatever you imagine, because your internal, imagined narrative is just like The Kung Fu Kid, complete with montage. If you make the bestest location checkin app people will flock to you! Cue riches!

But no. You end up bought because you can't sustain yourself.

It also has to do with the absolutely crippling belief that there can be free money with no strings. Startups are rarely bought because they are profitable and sustainable, they are bought for a million other reasons. And getting sold or going on IPO is the only way for 99% of VCs to get their payday, so once you accept VC, that is the track you are on.

Value is quantum: it only happens when you have a customer. Value is something you create for the customer, which they are willing to pay you for. If your customers won't pay for your services, that's the #1 sign that you don't, in fact, create value. Or if they will not pay you enough to cover your costs, ditto.

Most startups sadly put themselves in the position of having only one true customer -- the company that buys them.
Heaven does seems rather boring. However if we allow ourselves more creativity than scripture, we don't need to assume that eternal life must be dull.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/
What do you need to know about SOPA PIPA? Begin here
Isaac is up in heaven now.
I don't this is a good analogy except if you cry out about pizza in a place where people are used to using 'pizza' as slang for 'war'. That's the situation here, isn't it? People in the "startup community" already use the word 'design' in the narrow sense of 'graphic design'.
It's a fantastic book that literally changed my life. I've incorporated checklists deeply into my workflows, to the extent that when I start a new project, the first thing I do is generate a checklist to work against. The number of casual errors, oversights and other preventable errors I make has dropped precipitously. Call it Checklist-Driven-Development (CDD).
Deploying Plack Web Applications: OSCON 2011
Lean Startup has been, for the most part, a trojan horse to get design thinking into engineering driven organizations. Everything the lean startup movement talks about with getting out of the building and customer validation is essentially principles of good user research that the design community has been advocating for since forever.

It's unfortunate that designers still have to battle ignorant misconceptions that their work is about pushing pixels and making things look pretty. At it's heart, design is exactly what this article is advocating for; understanding a deep user need and developing an elegant experience that fulfills that need.
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"""This stuff was bizarre to me:
> Design enhances value, it does not create it. Stop creating shitty startups that look amazing.
> It is to a massive degree much, much easier to spend a week pushing pixels to create something beautiful
> If there’s one thing you can rely on everyone having an opinion on, it’s how something should look."""
"""

Really? Because it seems damn logical to me.

"""The author's conniption would appear to be around graphic design. Graphic design is a subset of design, and covers nothing close to the full scope of what goes into the design of a new product. Design is about how things work and, often, what feelings they evoke in the process. How they look can be a part of that, but it needn't always be."""

Yeah. Only in web design it almost always are. And in the specific "over-designed" startup web services he rants about it always is. We all heard the quote "design is how it works" from Jobs et co. But:

1) In most cases it's 80% graphic design and 20% though of how it works.
2) How it works still means nothing, if WHAT IT DOES does not add value.

Customers don't care how "well designed" (graphically AND in "how it works") a service is, if that service does nothing useful for them.

Example: a well designed and totally usable "social something" site -- and why would I want to use that if no one of my friends is using it?

tl;dr: both how it looks and how it works are secondary to what if offers the customer
> We will put it together once and we will play with it a lot and that will be that. It won’t get remixed, won’t get hacked.

My kids have gotten their share of Star Wars and Harry Potter themed Lego over the years, and in every case the original set was eventually taken apart - usually bit by bit in a kind of salvage operation for needed parts - and incorporated into the Lego bin. Once the pieces go into general circulation, they're used to build an arbitrary collection of original ships, buildings and so on.
Even if he redefines design to "how things work", the author is still correct.

Who cares 1) how well something looks, and 2) how usable something is, if that thing provides no value to him?
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Fedora 16 Verne with KDE - Rather nice, actually
This can be summed up with the words 'middle managers'.

Middle managers are like giant herbivores who multiply like crazy. You need to cull them once in a while or they will eat the whole place.
On a whole other topic, that's quite the footer....Dustin Curtis is a superhero!!
OK (because that's not the case in CPython, I think)
The problem is that the people who watch TV aren't the customers. Advertisers are the customers and viewers are the product being sold. To the extent that TV gives viewers what they want to watch, it's a case of optimization-by-proxy, with all the attendant pitfalls.
Can you give me an invite code? I'd love to try BrowserID out and openphoto looks interesting! My email is in my profile, if you need it.
Here's another example:

"A Bit Buggy but Pretty Good

I am been storing information on the whereabouts of nuclear reactor fuel in this app, but recently we have become aware of the possibility that the information we think we are saving isn't what's getting out. So now we cant be sure some of our uranium hasn't been stolen. Oh well, what's someone going to do with uranium anyway? I suppose it's no big deal."

(http://www.cdi.org/nuclear/nukesoftware.html and noted on other sites. If one is going to come up with reviews, one can also make fun of some real cases, I suppose.)
"Works mostly as advertised, although it’s not clear whether some behaviors are a bug or a feature."

This one may have come from a real SQL Server review.
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You're refuting a point he didn't make. He never wished anything away. He wished that a different means to an end was more common.

Then those organizations (riaa/mpaa) will have to be useful or die.
Zed's productivity is truly inspiring
I believe you said you were using Alfresco one of those days. How is this different?
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Above all, I really respect him for his piece on waterboarding. For those of you who didn't see it/hear about it, he wanted to try to settle the debate on whether waterboarding is torture or not.

So he let himself be waterboarded.

VF Article (site's getting hit hard): http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens...

Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7u-Wk1aU-E

The title of the article? "Believe Me, It's Torture".
Fractals in Clojure: Buddhabrot Fractal
"The Protester" - Time Magazine Person of the Year for 2011
Java classes, objects, and instances demystified (hopefully)
A core concept they drill into your head in flight training is the following axiom:

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate
(in that order)

First and foremost, keep the plane in the air. Then you can worry about where you're going (e.g. don't fly into terrain, start heading towards an airport). Finally, coordinate with others (e.g. controllers) to let them know what you're doing and seek guidance.

This axiom can be applied to lots of other areas, too, including startups. For instance, it explains why I don't blog: I'm concentrating on execution and strategy.

It's one of the reasons I wonder if the many prolific startup bloggers have their priorities straight.

EDIT: oops, just saw yread's comment below.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3360071
Anyone who knew Hitchens knows that "heaven" as depicted by cristianity is a "celestial North Korea, where the sole purpose is to praise the dear leader incessantly, compelled to love someone you fear (essence of sadomasochism). You'd think the Lord himself would get bored of this after a couple of billion years"...

So, wishing him in heaven from another atheist as you say you are is really saying you don't know much of his work and life.
Good designers are ridiculously hard to find now. Try scouring Dribbble to find someone:

http://dribbble.com/search?q=retro

It took me a while, but I was able to the perfect designer after a couple weeks.
You're saying this isn't for beginners and you set a price of 24$ for it?

I bet a lot of advanced backbone devs will also not buy it because of the price.

While the content may be of good to high quality, the pricing is a bit off.
And here's Aaron Sorkin's first attempt at a hommage to The Network (his second attempt being, of course, The Social Network): http://youtu.be/5zyOhZsvIzI (warning: lots of cursing).
Are you working on building a portfolio?

I'd seriously only consider adding your best work into it, even if that's only a handful of things. I've seen people that moving into a new industry, feel they lack experience & add everything they've ever done into their portfolio.

A solid portfolio will get you into a web dev role faster than any academic results.

Build up a range of work, ideally from others requirements freelance work etc. While it's great to build apps from your own ideas, in a role you'll have to follow, interpret and understand the sometimes crazy requirements of others.

Perhaps do a few Elance jobs, offer local businesses or HN even.
On the ZX Spectrum:

10 PRINT <something>;
20 GOTO 10

I was hooked from that point on. Brings back memories.
I think Apple will do extremely well without Steve. He has instilled the company with his DNA and the product pipeline is filled for a while.

The company will execute well but will anyone have the guts to make the tough calls that push the envelope? Does Jonathan Ive have enough power to make that happen?
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Atheism is a very broad category. It just means you don't believe in any gods. The people who belong to that category, and their philosophies, are wildly different. You can't draw a lot of conclusions just from knowing someone is an atheist.

I'm an atheist myself and I do find the idea of an afterlife extremely compelling. The tragedy here is that I'm also enough of a scientist to know that the odds of there being any kind of afterlife are vastly against us. So there is probably a group of atheists who, like myself, wish for an afterlife but at the same time know that wishing doesn't make it true. The universe doesn't really care whether a couple of carbon-based molecules change their state and it, sadly, doesn't care about the information stored in our brains either.
Why is it unpainted?
I'm sure there are bad systems. Perhaps they fail so fast that we never appreciate how many.