skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Community website operators do have a duty to monitor for suicides to some extent, just as they have a duty to monitor for other things. But failure to meet perfection in the pursuit of a virtue is not morally the same as a vice. Online communities have moderators in much the same way as real communities have police--they're society's protection against something going wrong with the social contract. When they individually fail, they may (individually or collectively) bear some level of moral responsibility for the matter, but the buck stops there. The only way moral responsibility can find its way to the top is if it is clear that the community in vastly under-equipped to deal with such problems to begin with, and there is an expectation that such things will be actively prevented within the social contract. When a murder or suicide takes place in a physical town, neither the city (as a political unit) nor the mayor is personally morally responsible; a virtual town is no different.

I understand that you aren't necessarily saying that you entirely believe the views you're espousing; any debate in a public forum should be as much (if not more so) of a benefit for the observers as it is for the participants. Clearly stating both sides of an argument helps everyone involved understand the precise nature of the issue.
Right now the quota on my school inbox is so restrictive, I can't keep any significant amount of email history. So I just forward everything to GMail. And don't even get me started on the interface...

I think it's highly unlikely that in house solutions will survive much longer. Forwarding or outsourcing to something like Google Apps are better options by far.
YC readers are so encouraging.
Thanks for the feedback, I have changed the column names. I'm not sure which chart you are referring to when you say "cluster chart" Are you talking about the bar chart? If so, then that is just the popularity over time, which each bar being a decade. Or, are you talking about the flash chary showing all the indivudal names' popularity?

http://www.babynameclusters.com/?search=wes&search_gende...
I suppose many don't. I guess it depends on the meaning of "too high" for a student. I took it to mean "students cannot afford to pay $139" rather than "at $139, students will prefer to get the software illegally, even though they could pay if they chose to".
Q: Are you or might you take the application open source with the hopes of being the next Wordpress, Drupal, or SugarCRM?

A: PHP -- simply because it's so easy for people to install and run PHP apps. At this moment in time, I think almost all of the 'breakout' open source apps have becomes breakout hits in part because they're written in PHP.

You can do quite a bit in PHP. Facebook's FBML parsers are written in PHP and Flickr's home-brewed queue-based background processing system is written in PHP. Yes, PHP is difficult to stare at all day because of the $,->,=>,@, and ; (and soon /), but it's a perfectly fine language otherwise.

Python would be my choice if my web app required a lot of algorithmic work. If, for example, I was performing a lot of text analysis, I'd choose Python. They have a number of built-in operations and operators that make it easy and concise to do such things. I believe that the original Google spiders were written in Python. And there are numerous libraries for do statistics, advanced math, and such things in Python. If your web app can be built on-top-of Google's App Engine and doesn't require https (assuming you use your own domain name), then that might be a good place to start.
It’s all about love, when you love someone you are more likely to swallow nonsense from the person. Same thing between Google and people, most of the thing that people will not take from, say Wikia Search, they will tolerate it from Google; why? simply love.

Now talking of aggregating people vote into PageRank I doubt that it happens; at least not automatically. Technically it will burden the runtime of search and more likely have little effect on overall results.
I have no idea what that was... but I loved it.
I worked with him for about a year several years ago (before he got into Ruby). For the most part, his personality is just as you see him in his writing. He's very intelligent, which probably accounts to some degree for his prolific coding. I really doubt he's wealthy, though. He's too anti-establishment for much of that. Definitely a genuinely good guy, though.
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I think the link is dead.
Our culture also usually highlights weaknesses rather than virtues. We're told to improve the areas we are weak in, rather than mastering what we're already good at and take our skills to the next level.
They're more abstractly funny. As in, place yourself in his shoes at this meeting. And these are the notes you're taking.

Maybe the term I'm seeking is ironic.
What is art/creativity after all, other than the EMI's basic modus operendi:

1) Chop-up
2) Re-assemble

For example, a unicorn, takes a horn from say, a picture of a longhorn, and sticks that onto a picture of a horse in the mind's eye, and voila, there is a unicorn. Getting bits of information from disparate places and re-assembling them in ways which are harmonious in some sense underlies all art, be it music, or painting, or whatever.

Truth is, in my own opinion anyway, there is no "soul". There is only a complex neural net which can do the above algorithm pretty darn well, or at least, can do it well in the case of artists. Get over it, I say. The earth isn't the center of the universe either. Too bad.
This article doesn't really add anything to previously made points on the subject.

There's advantages and disadvantages to being in the Valley. Whether there's more of one or the other depends on many variables, including the kind of start-up you're launching, who your customer base is, how much money, if any, you need to launch it, etc etc etc.
Coupons, Inc. drops DMCA lawsuit against coupon hacker
Google CEO touts green energy shock doctrine
I think this is an excellent idea, however from the standpoint of someone who provides tech support to students at my university, this would be a disaster for a good portion of the student body. A good number of people here can barely turn on a computer (and we GIVE THEM a laptop). Assuming that people have an identity established seems logical, but is still too early. Some may say these are outliers, however looking at our support tickets, I'd say a good number of people have one email address, and thats the one we give them.
I'll use this opportunity to complain about experience with college e-mail.

For the last year and half of college I was having a tough time getting announcements for stuff that everyone but me seemed to know about and I seemed to be occasionally missing events and e-mail conversations with groups for certain classes. I wrote it off as me just not paying enough attention to e-mails and notices.

Then I realized right near the end of college that I was actually was missing a significant portion of my e-mails. This was due to the fact that while I normally used the webmail client, one time I had logged into the Exchange client to try it out. Apparently when that happened my e-mail was being randomly grabbed by whichever server was the quickest at that particular moment. Since I never checked the Exchange account I didn't realize until after the fact that it contained hundreds of important e-mails that would have made my college life much easier if I had known about. I'll, I'm probably partially to blame if I missed some warning somewhere during the process that indicated that this could happen.

Still though, I would have much preferred not having to deal with the school's e-mail system so this type of change is definitely for the better in my mind.

Edit: Plus, as others have mentioned, you generally lose access to that e-mail address once you graduate, meaning you need to transition all your contacts to a new account anyways.
Ah yes, sneaky. Because of course there's no way for HN readers to discover the full content of the article before voting on it.
Well, being a php developer and doing some django (django is a framework builth with python) I can honestly say that there is no clear answer.

If you just want to learn 'something' and not do any real project, by all means, learn python. Python is a great and easy to learn language that lets you make great programs, and not only webbased ones! Python is a very well supported language, it runs on linux, mac and windows so you can use it wherever you want.

If you just want to make a website for yourself and don't want to spend too much money, I suggest you use php. If you want I am sure you can find some webhost that offers you some webspace + domain name for around 20$. Will that be a very good webhost with lots and lots of space/traffic? Probably not, but I'm pretty sure it will enough you for some time. And besides, if you find out php you're not into making websites, you can have a wordpress blog up and running in about 5min, without any php coding required.
How to give directions
...there are two ways to give directions. One is using a so-called "route perspective", as in the example above. This adopts a first-person spatial perspective and is characterized by references to turns and landmarks. The other is a so-called "survey perspective", which gives directions as if looking down upon a map. This type of direction giving is characterized by references to cardinal directions (North, South, East and West) and precise distances.

And which is better?

When Hund's team used a fictitious model town made of plywood to test the ability of undergraduates to follow directions, they uncovered a curious anomaly. The students reported finding route perspective directions easier to follow and yet they steered a toy car to a destination more quickly and effectively when they were following cardinal directions.
It's interesting that my first thought after reading this was, "I wonder how Facebook will compensate for this?" I know university networks (verified by .edu email addresses) used to be the bread and butter of Facebook but maybe they're already becoming less important...
"..there are two ways to give directions. One is using a so-called "route perspective", as in the example above. This adopts a first-person spatial perspective and is characterized by references to turns and landmarks. The other is a so-called "survey perspective", which gives directions as if looking down upon a map. This type of direction giving is characterized by references to cardinal directions (North, South, East and West) and precise distances.

And which is better?

When Hund's team used a fictitious model town made of plywood to test the ability of undergraduates to follow directions, they uncovered a curious anomaly. The students reported finding route perspective directions easier to follow and yet they steered a toy car to a destination more quickly and effectively when they were following cardinal directions."
Chrome to Kill Firefox? Be Serious
Mosso's Cloud Files uses Limelight Networks' system. It's not a one-off with Limelight either, it's the same CDN service any of their customers use.

In addition to ReST, PHP, Python, Java, and C# API's, there is also a web-interface that makes it easy to sign-up, upload content, and CDN-enable it.
I did, in fact, read the article before posting this, and would have been entirely fine with the article if it just objectively looked at the database issues without injecting...

-- This:

It's asinine to do it this way. However, there is a good reason why I haven't just skipped schemas (schemae?) One to Six. There are a lot of people in the world who actually think like this. This is their for-real, no-joking conception of "marriage". They do not grasp that men and women are interchangeable, as a result of which homosexual marriages create repulsive integrity problems in their heads. "But if they're both guys, which one is the wife?" How sad.

-- And this:

Finally we are reaching something which is non-stupid and non-sexist enough that it might actually exist somewhere in reality. This schema is reasonably sensible assuming you live in a fairly God-fearing administrative district.

-- And this...

As an aside, I have actually considered that laws against (or implicitly disallowing) gay marriage are, actually, sexist. For example, suppose I lived somewhere with antihomonuptial legislation. As I am a man, any woman in that district has the right to marry me. (As well they should.) But any man in that district who wanted to marry me does not have that right. The women have a right which the men do not have. Likewise, if there was a nubile woman nearby, I (and any other man) would have the right to marry that woman. But any nearby woman would not have that right. The men have a right which women do not have. Sexist!

Anti-gay-marriage laws throw a very real legislative dividing line between two sets of people on the world, and say, "all marriages must cross this line". But any law which divides men from women is clearly sexist, and, as I've stated above, closed-minded towards unconventional gender assignments who don't clearly fall on either side.

And there's plenty more I won't quote for the sake of brevity. The article has a full freaking ASIDE with personal opinion weighing into the issue of gay marriage, it's pretty damn obvious this is just political opinion. Political opinion with an Engineering slant, NOT something Hacker News worthy.
You've made just 1 submission in 558 days? Way to contribute!
This is an interesting PR campaign by the Nova Scotia Tourism Bureau that has captured a lot of attention but doesn't quite work effectively. I give them points for trying, including the use Hacker News.
Isn't this exactly what bankruptcy is for? Put GM in a pre-packaged bankruptcy (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/prepackagedbankruptcy.as...), and one of the planned actions should be shedding these unprofitable brands and severing the relationship with these dealers. The dealers made a bad bet on a brand, they are entitled to nothing.
Stop pretending
Nice photos but where's the information about the restaurants? Until you add that, it's pretty but not useful.
The only thing facebook requires to join a university's network is an ability to receive emails sent to yourname@university.edu. Nothing is changing there.
Sage-3.2 and Mathematica 7.0
CouchDB is now officially Apache CouchDB
As mentioned in the article, the dealers survive off of maintaining cars that have already sold, not off of sales, so as long as there's enough cars to fill up their service bays, they won't just go out of business.
You should read why's guide to ruby. Its fantastic.
Overreacts, yes. The outrage I saw was way over the line.
Are you saying that hackers don't have political opinions, or that we don't like discussing them?

Either way, the fact that you have such a strong opinion about it seems to disprove your own argument, don't you think?

I'm finding this article very entertaining. And it's clearly stimulating some rousing commentary on this board already.

The great thing about HN is that you can just ignore anything you think shouldn't be here. Don't vote it up, don't comment on it, and if others agree with you and do the same, it'll fall off. Lots of articles never make the front page.

If you were intrigued enough to read it, and then moved enough to comment on it, then that proves it should be here.
I agree. It's just a political rant disguised as a database article.

"They do not grasp that men and women are interchangeable" - sure, because men can give birth too. Right?
It doesn't matter.

Both work quite fine, PHP is more web-centric. Its not used so much for scripting or even some desktop apps like Python is. But if I was going to make an off the cuff assessment I'd say its better for web development just because its so huge in the space.
I'm not going to speak at all to which language is better. As far as I'm concerned, if you're developing for the web they both have their pros and cons.

That being said, learn Python; if anything so you don't have to hear smarmy language snobs go on and on about how PHP is terrible.

On a deeper level, I would seriously consider taking some source code from each and pasting it into the editor of your choice. Then maximizing each one side by side and consider how staring at each one makes you think about working in it.

I know it's a bit fruity, but I like to think about it as code Ikebana. I'm only a little embarrassed to admit that I've made more than a few code decisions that way.

[Edit: I'm a smarmy language snob, so feel free to ignore this advice :D ]
I think the reaction to this issue is a bit beyond reasonable. People shouldn't be so quick to get offended. I'm rather participate in a community where the members don't care about shit that doesn't matter. So please don't get in arguments about how offended you are about another comment.

Say interesting and insightful things, upmod others that do, and downmod others that don't.
Yahoo staffer launches management buyout
I'll get downmodded for saying this, but HN is basically: web programming - the gay perspective.
Will Shaq turn Twitter into a mainstream success?
this is no surprise.

who designed appengine. it is poor. they should stop trying to host the entire thing and provide low level APIs like amazon does w/ S3 and SQS.
Aren't people who go to university meant to be fairly bright? If they can't figure out email, they probably wouldn't benefit from a university education anyway.
Thanks man, it's more accurate I feel. :-)
It's the difference between Kant's categorical imperative and the game-theoretic optimal action. "Responsibility" means lowering your personal utility just because if everyone did as you do, everyone's personal utility would be higher.

...personally, I just hypermile when I'm forced to drive, and ride a 45mpg, 3 second 0-60 motorcycle other times. I trade off expected lifespan instead of externalized environmental effects for my automotive enjoyment.
Wow this really sucks. I can't just enter a URL anywhere? I have to use their categories!? Worthless.
Multiscreen Mad Men: Advertisers talk about interaction
"THOSE R NOT TYPOS, JUST SAVN MONEY, MORE U TYPE MORE U PAY, LOL"

That feels poignantly brilliant.
My brother was the first person (ever) to go an offshore med school and then do his residency at Mass General (the Harvard hospital). So yeah, definitely don't need a top med school. And doing that at 30 (or 25 or 40) is awesome.

But a family is the biggest commitment/obligation you can have - [almost] impossible to deal with wife/kids/work/med school concurrently.
Supporting yourself and still coding a lot of cool stuff to give away isn't really that hard. There are plenty of service, light tech support, or even desk jobs which only require a few hours a day worth of real concentration, and leave you alone with your thoughts the rest of the time.

Covering rent + groceries in some sleepy midwest town with decent broadband is do-able on minimum wage, if you don't mint having a small apartment and older computers.

The challenge is in living the kind of lifestyle that most HN readers have or aspire to: living in S.F., going out to nice restaurants + clubs with your hip, hacker friends, owning multiple nice computers + tech toys, and flying to conferences and vacations all over the world several times a year.

That stuff gets expensive, fast.
Try "Tree": clean theme with high-enough contrast and very subtle edges, bevels and drop shadows used for structure, not for flash.
Open Beta of Google Friend Connect Coming Soon?
Good, there is nothing more annoying then having to mangle up HTML for IE, something like this might accelerate the demise.
Too bad they cant just replace all the IE6 out there in one fell swoop.
FTA: The public markets have failed to solve this problem so it's going to get solved in some other way.

The public 'markets' haven't failed to solve this problem so much as the government regulations that surround being public, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, have made it impractical for smaller (< $1B) companies to go or stay public in the US. It's impossible for a company doing $100M in revenues to justify a $5M fixed annual cost for SOX compliance, which doesn't even begin to take into account the compliance costs of other general and industry-specific regulations.
I'm not a lemming.
> They considered offering from both Google and Microsoft, but eventually decided against both in lieu of the new forwarding option.

UCF recently had to make this decision and went with Microsoft. And now our students do not have an option of forwarding those messages to an address of their choice.
New Business Model: Free iPhone Apps. The Source Costs Money.
Rappers figured this out years ago, "Real recognize real"
Battle for the smart-phone's soul
I remember looking at that page in 1999.
Goodmail secures $20M for certified email
Report: Facebook not in trouble, still planning world domination
What a speciest. Or rather, what a sentiencetist. Sure, marrying myself is a tax scam, but marrying my rock isn't. My rock needs regular polishing, and why should sentient beings get all the rights? They just happen to have a more complex AI algorithm than my rock does, and that's not its fault.

He should get rid of the 'human' heading altogether and just have 'thing.' Plus, things aren't static, they are composed of matter, and the matter is always changing form and mixing and matching with other matter. Not sure how this should be represented, though. Maybe each particle should have its own entry, though those aren't static either.

Database design is tough.
I find it very interesting because the solution he came to is actually how it works in many cultures - i.e. binary marriages.

Different cultures have different contexts when it comes to marriage. Some are monogamous, but even more are polygamous, where the husband marries the wives, or the wife marries the husbands... It all screams "graph", and I think in the end that's the only way we can represent it.

Which is funny, because that's already how we represent any other form of human relationships - romantic or otherwise...
i wouldn't say chrome will just kill firefox, but they might probably severely injure them.

chrome will injure everyone, however. chrome is god, all hail...
Was this only launched in the US ? I'm not geting any visual clutter for SearchWiki options.
I think a graph is too static and either/or ish. Instead, there should be links defining the relationship between everyone and everyone, where the links' values are a function of something; such as time, or the values of other links, etc.

But then this raises the question of how this maps to the legal/social realm? Well, first we have to chip everyone. Then, once we've extracted the global social network, we can define, in real time, the legal and social value and rights a person has at any given instant.