skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have things very backwards. The way a company makes money is through making products that are better than the competition and doing so as efficiently as possible. The cornerstone of that is retaining highly talented people. Every employee is necessarily worth more than they are being paid. It is generally far more efficient to maintain an environment of mutual trust and appreciation by paying developers well and giving them raises as appropriate than to try to nickel and dime them. In the first case you pay a little bit more but you also retain top talent which more than pays for itself. In the second case you drive away top talent and retain only the dregs. On paper you are paying less money but you are paying vastly more on a per talent basis.
While I'm glad that someone found that total sobriety is the best for them, I found parts of this to be a bit distasteful. The times in my life when I overdid it a bit (or a lot) with the drinking, the next day I found myself thinking "wow, I acted like such an idiot last night", not "I could have acted like the same idiot without alcohol".

If I'm at a bachelor party making gay jokes ("no homo"), the amount of alcohol I've consumed is somewhat irrelevant.
From the comments:

Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube
Another simple yet fascinating device
In my experience, the Webkit tools (particularly in Chrome and Iron) are ahead of Firebug, especially when trying to debug minimized JavaScript (pretty print is included in the tool--in Firefox, you need an additional plugin). Firebug can get laggy when debugging large JS files, too.
Didn't think I was being pushy... just suggesting an alternative. And I would say for most people drinking is for the purposes of getting drunk / buzzed. All I'm suggesting is that people take on the challenge of trying to achieve that state of mind that getting buzzed gets you, when sober. Be able to find that place where you're more carefree, relaxed and fun... so you can find it anytime and then be it all the time.
I did this for four months. (Started drinking again around new years because it seemed highly appropriate)

I definitely got the "Wow, you've been sober for 4 months?!? But we partied so hard last friday!" thing a lot. When people are drunk, they really don't notice you not being drunk..

I agree with most of the article, and will probably go back on the wagon again soon. But he left out some of the negative stuff...
For example.. How grating it gets when your friends get so drunk that they start to repeat themselves... Over and over again.. And how hard it can be to get a point across to someone who's drunk when you're sober. Making conversations, at times, highly frustrating.
When I'm drunk I'm just as stupid and the conversations run smoothly!
Well, I tried opening the link mentioned in the article, but Opera told me it's blocked by the Content Blocker.
So I temporarily removed the /ads/ filter and tried to open the link again. Got forwarded to a different url and now Opera tells me this one is also blocked.
So I disabled Opera's AdBlock extension and tried to open the link again. This time, Google tells me that Ads Preferences requires enabled cookies.
So at that point I gave up and re-enabled AdBlock.
Looks like the shape tries to maximize turbulence in one direction, and minimize it in the other.

Probably it would be an effective mixing device too.
I don't understand why, either. Any good articles on what makes Dropbox Dropbox?
And also there was a lot of resistance to targeting purely civilian areas especially early on. Later on Germany did specifically terror raids Coventry for example.

But even hamburg was a major center for the support of U boats so you can see why the threat of the later Elektroboote Tpe XXI boats would put them on the target list.

Oh and my Fathers house was hit by a bomb - but they where going for the Largest Spitfire factory in the UK so it wasn't his house they were trying to hit.
First, learn vanilla JavaScript. Don't bother with all those libraries and frameworks as they try really hard to iron out JavaScript's particularities. When you know how to deal with scope, the prototype chain and a reasonable amount of DOM stuff you can choose tools to make your life simpler or realize that all the snippets you have accumulated are, in fact, your own framework.

Two, forget your traditional OOP roots, JavaScript is loosely typed, it doesn't have classes… it's very different. You simply won't be able to use it like Java.

Three, Eclipse (and probably other IDEs, too) is perfectly capable of debugging your JavaScript without using `window.alert();`. When testing your code in the browser you can use its own dev tools to inspect values at breakpoints and so on. Webkit's dev tools are my favorite.

Four, install a CLI interpreter with a REPL if you don't have one already. `jsc` is standard on Mac OS X but there are a lot to choose from, including `rhino`, `spidermonkey`… Your browser's dev tools has a REPL, too, if you like it more. Either way, a REPL is very handy when you need to try out a few things without messing anything.

Five, you might want to force your code to comply with loosely defined and not even widely accepted code standards. Installing a `jslint` variant on your system may help.

Six, keep in mind that JavaScript's development is definetely not centralized. While there is a standard body officially responsible for its elaboration, nothing is written in stone. New frameworks/ideas are poping every week only to be replaced by a "better" alternative the week after. It's all vey exciting but also very chaotic. Focusing on the basics first will help you keep your head above the water.
I've found this true in most places in (continental) Europe. I spent 4 years living in Vienna, Austria and was initially shocked & then spoiled by how well-behaved the kids there are. It'd become simply the normal background for me, but I was reminded of it again when a friend visited between Christmas and New Year's and we went to a v. large thermal spa outside of Vienna and were surrounded by children at the indoor pool.

She said, "Funny that there aren't any kids here." I said, "There are tons of them! Just look!"

Not only were there at least 30 teenagers of various ages, there were more than 10 young children under 5, including one infant in arms. All were so calm and quiet that she didn't even know they were there. Not that the occasional toddler didn't try to run away from her parents -- I saw it happening -- but everything was chill. No screeching. No tantrums. No "COME BACK HERE!".

It didn't stand out to me cuz I got used to it, but my friend was flabbergasted.

Austrians love their kids and treat them kindly and with respect, but never do the kids get the idea that they are the entirety of the adults' world. (Which sounds harsh at first, but that kind of relationship is truly codependent and bad for everyone.)
I've always been able to multi-task pretty well. If one feature/bug requires a long test run, or review by someone else, or an email back and forth I can often switch over to another copy of the code and work on another. This has actually backfired with micromanaging bosses, though. I remember once the whole engineering team at a startup agreed I could fix the file size of an app as I went. So I worked a new file compression into a commit that involved the files anyway. Unfortunately, it looked like it took three days when it actually took a couple 10 minute sessions with a glob command line as it went through the review process, but was interspersed with other work.

Well the manager went nuts against this change. Argued in emails citing problems that had long been fixed in the review thread emails, making up a bunch of incorrect complaints (he couldn't understand the difference between AAC and AAC+ and how they had different device support, and after having it explained to him, started with just vague "it's too much change" bullshit that couldn't be corrected). When I talked to him over IM about it later he admitted the real reason was because he said it took me days to do it and he wasn't going to approve any work on it no matter what. He was always the sort of guy who did the popular thing in big meetings with the employees, then pulled the rug out in private.
Why not to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead)
Is the unidirectional flow property dependent on the pressure gradient at both ends? It seems that at low pressure differences you could still get flow in the reverse direction. Yet, at high pressures I imagine you would see some leakage, too. Does it only work for medium pressures?
Indeed. Oops
A previous article about how chinese mothers are better created quite a stir. Is there some sort of parenting crisis in the US that leads to this kind of soul-searching? (I m not in the US, so i'm curious to know)
The Airplane Graveyard in Arizona
Interesting take on fun and relaxation: Try going to a party and drinking non-alcoholic beer. It tastes kind of meh, but overall delivers the same experience. One surprising result of that is that drinking non-alcoholic beer (which has the same alcohol content as some brands of orange juice) tends to loosen you up a fair bit, because it has all the trappings and promises of an alcoholic beer. Turns out the actual alcohol is incidental to those effects.
What parts did you find distasteful? I was conscious when writing this to keep an air of mtv beachhouse / jersey shore tone in it... That's the kind of partying that has been glamorized and what a lot of people seek out on the weekend.

I definitely don't suggest people act like idiots. I was simply trying to relate to the people that are probably overdoing it the most.
For college students I think that's true, but I wouldn't say for most people alcohol consumption is mainly for getting drunk/buzzed. Most people are somewhere between 0 drinks and "bottle of wine", along the lines of "a beer or two while watching a football game" or "a glass of wine or two with dinner".

I mean I guess you could drink soft drinks with dinner, but to me that's a weird unnatural thing to do (super-sweet, and doesn't fit well either taste- or culture-wise with traditional European cuisine). Water is ok, and I do drink that sometimes.
Indeed this has crossed my mind many times... I have blacked out far too often and thought to myself, whats the point if i don't remember anything the next day?

That being said, it's easy to claim that you can be just as fun,charismatic,etc without alcohol, but I have tried before and its really hard. Can you share how you transitioned to being drunk sober?
Work with a designer to give it the elegance that it needs and I believe you're on to something here. What you describe in the opening paragraph resonates true to almost everyone who has tried blogging only to give up after a few weeks. (I pay 7.99/mnth to host my MovaleType blog that has stale content from years ago..)

You did a great job convincing me I need something to fix it.

Increase the quality of the design by attention to detail (the colour is great.. find the right reading font, line-height, buttons, fields styles etc) and make the experience *elegant"and I think that's when you'll see adoption.
Ask HN: what's the best guide to code licenses you've come across?
I've got a working grasp of open-source code licences, but I'm determined to get my head more fully around them, so that I can be 100% confident about the side-effects of using open-source projects with a given licence.

I want to end up with a good, working grasp of GPL (incl versions), AGPL, BSD, MIT and as many other [relatively] common setups as I can, and be able to explain them quickly and correctly to others. To get me on the road to that, it'd be great to get a few pointers to good/trusted sources of knowledge that are relatively easily graspable.

I am not a lawyer, and I am busy making things, so summaries/grids/lookup tables are particularly welcome. :o)
My guess is there are comparable things that would be you those same positive results of a glass of wine

Don't keep us in suspense then, because the only things I can think of that give you similar results to wine are beer and liquor.
If my accounts were shut down and all my email handed over to any 3 letter agency on earth, I'd be mildy annoyed. Dare I say, inconvenienced. For like a day. There just isn't anything in it worth worrying about.

I can be up and running on another provider in minutes while they wade through my Amazon.com receipts and bug reports for CRUD apps.
There is a third way: making major decisions in cooperation, supervising without micromanaging, and delegating responsibility to partners.

OK, there's a continuum. The point is, people who try to frame the world in binary choices are often justifying their preferred method rather than experimenting.
Well, go to Eurodisney and compare kids that speak different languages. French kids are generally well behaved, with other southerneuropeans being the noisiest.
Using your own argument, what is hot cocoa and coconut-lime soda getting you? Is it strictly a taste thing?
I'm in the UK!
Everybody here's given pretty good advice.

Browser projects often have pretty complex build requirements - concatenation, minification, etc. A lot of people end up writing a ton of shell script spaghetti, or using a js-specific framework (jake, cake, etc.), but I've found that unless you need something super fancy, plain old Make is just fine.
I don't think the world needs another super-simple blog tool. Posterous, for example, does everything you've said here.

What would be interesting is a blog platform that can do more to make the reading experience more pleasurable, like really nice fontography and so on.
OT grammar question: I've noticed some comments from various posters use "properly" where I would have used "probably." Is this an alternate use of the word "properly" of which I have heretofore been unaware?
Most people who stop drinking do it for either health reasons (allergic, acid reflux, etc.) or because they are an alcoholic. He doesn't fully explain why he stopped drinking, and I'm wonder if it is because he had issues with drinking.

I do want to add before I write more that if you don't enjoy drinking, don't do it. Just because other people are doing it that doesn't mean you should. I know some people who don't actually enjoy alcohol, but they still feel like it's the thing to do socially. If you enjoy not drinking, rock it.

If you're out of your early 20s and you're still getting drunk regularly, you probably have an alcohol problem. I'm 27 and haven't been drunk in years. I drink a few times a week and usually only have a drink or two. I might have three-ish tomorrow because of the big game.

It's fine if you don't want to drink, but there is something missing from his story. Maybe he needed to stop drinking, but many of us can responsibly handle and enjoy alcohol.

I love beer. I love trying different kinds of beer. I love the taste, and I want to discover new kinds.

If you're drinking alcohol just to get drunk that's the issue. Many of us drink beer, wine or mixed drinks because we actually enjoy the drink.

I know I have a few tasty microbrews lined up for tomorrow.
Wow. Do you really feel like I'm forcing my choice on you? I wrote a blog post sharing my experience. 3 years I've enjoyed fully. Maybe you don't need to do it the way I've done it and can make every moment of your life a party with or without alcohol.

And I'm fully capable of regulating my drink. What I'm getting at is finding other ways to find the mental benefits drinking provides, ie, being able to have the confidence / happiness being buzzed/drunk provides... without needing the alcohol.
Apple's iPhone Business Alone Is Now Bigger Than All Of Microsoft
I read more about the partial sezuires and the way it describes my sleep is correct, a amnesia state and the laboured speech as well but i think clearly
And there seemed to be some sort of black list in operation from what has come out so far.

At the very least the guy that got fired needs to sue someones ass off.
If you haven't read Tesla's autobiography[1], I highly recommend it.

http://www.tfcbooks.com/special/my_inventions_index.htm

[1] I'm a bit confused as to whether it was genuinely an autobiography, or a compilation of articles. Either way, it was interesting to read, though very light on technical details.
I love ideas like this which seem completely obvious once you've heard them. It does move the responsibility for semantics from an external source to an internal database, but for many real-world applications, that's really not an issue.
You suggest alternatives in both the article and in every comment on this page. You're being pushy.
In Finland we have this joke that "You can't have fun without alcohol but you can have alcohol without fun—thus prefer the former, obviously."
My guess is there are comparable things that would be you those same positive results of a glass of wine.

That seems to be begging the question, if I'm using that term correctly. You're starting from the premise that the glass of wine has significant deleterious effects, and thus should readily be avoided if other goods can replace it. I'm not sure I personally agree with that premise.
That's pretty cool. The curved side channel actually pushes the main flow into the next side channel.

I wonder if a fractal version of this would work better. And what if there were side channels on the top and bottom too.

Of course, this will always pass some fluid. but if you need a complete shutoff valve, combining it with the tesla valve would allow you to use a smaller one and makes its failure less traumatic.
Ah, that was a mistake. ActiveRecord should have avoided :id until it was renamed in core Ruby, or returned some sentinel (other than nil) whose :id method fails. Assuming Ruby didn't critically depend on :id succeeding for every object, that is.
I meant the positive aspects of wine, ie Rich in Antioxidants, Flavor, etc.

Not any of the buzz/drunk happiness benefits. What I'm suggesting people try and do is find that place without drinking.
Housing in Sv is cheap try central London even grotty areas near Silicon Roundabout are way more expensive than that
For most people one glass of wine doesn't turn into a bottle. That's called a problem.

I enjoy having a glass of wine while I'm reading. It's relaxing and goes well with reading. Sometimes I have a glass of wine, take a bath and read. One day when you drink wine again you should try it.
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Example of a category error (stolen from Ryle): you are handed both the left glove and the right glove, and you ask where the pair is. The pair is not a separate thing from the left glove and the right glove.

'Category error' does not mean a quantitative or scale difference at all.
Sending people to the moon was an incredibly expensive process that gained us nothing. If we are going to spend significant resources on colonizing space it must either be economically viable or at worst a small net cost that can be reasonably subsidized for the long term. So while we are not there yet, there has been fundamental progress on 5 significant technology's for actually developing space since 1972.

Step 1: LEO
Scram Jet's which can dramatically increase payload to orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet

Carbon Nano-tubes, which is the first material that could enable a realistic space tether. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_propulsion

Step 2: After LEO
Ion Thrusters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster which when coupled with high efficiency solar panels enables better delta V than chemical rockets. And makes mining the asteroid belt a reasonable possibility.

Solar Sail's which could enable realistic travel to nearby stars by probes or robots to build infrastructure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail The delta V on slowing down is a major issue if you want to do more than a simple fly by which makes Solar Sail's the best non nuclear option for colonization.

Step 3: Power
Fission makes living in space between stars viable. The power requirements for a colonizing the ort cloud and then moving further to the next star(s) only work when you can acquire ridiculous amounts of power, store it for long periods of time, and then tap it on demand. Of the 5 fusion is both the most important and the furthest from fruition but it's still on the path to viability in the next 100 years.
It's very common to be willfully (as opposed to reflexively, as you would with a friend) nice in the US, though it depends a lot on the context and region.

I grew up in the upper midwest, and the politeness there is almost pathological. It seems to be mostly conflict avoidance. In California, I've seen more people wanting to paint everything a peachier shade than reality might otherwise indicate, due to optimism. In NYC, friendliness without cause is commonly looked at with suspicion, and there's a tendency to treat it like the 'grinfucking' in Suster's original article.

So, you might get the best feedback in NY (assuming someone doesn't have reason to exploit you). In terms of quality of life, I think there's a lot to be said for the California approach, which is why I live here and (in my opinion) why the bay area has a better culture of innovation. For the purposes of this article, the Midwest 'just trying to be nice' mentality is pretty ubiquitous (though more glaringly obvious there), and well worth being aware of.
A couple of years ago, I spent Thanksgiving with a friend and the first thing he warned was, "My family does not drink alcohol!". Interesting... I am accustomed to intoxicated family parties, but on that specific Thanksgiving, 20 of us drank tea and ate turkey. It was pleasant.

After dinner, his father (a Doctor, along with 80% of the family) shared his views about alcohol, predicting that in one generation alcohol will be socially rejected the way tobacco is today because of how utterly destructive alcohol is to the human body.

Remember! Just 50 years ago, the majority of the United States had no problem with cigarettes.

I still drink, along with almost every adult I know, though I cannot help but think that my friend's dad is right.
Suggesting an alternative is being pushy? Isn't the point of hacking anything to suggest alternative ways of doing something?
If you're aiming for simple, then the site you just launched would be it. However, Posterous, Tumblr and Blogger already has that covered since their templates are easily customizable. Apart from that, googling free "site" templates can already lead you to a number of templates, and I'm pretty sure an elegant template can be found in at least one of the sited generated.

But this thing has potential, if you can just market it better. Looking at the site right now, I don't think it's clear who your target market is.
it's very easy:

GPL: nobody can distribute your software as a closed-source system. Nobody can also link your software with non-opensource ones.

BSD, MIT, Apache: anyone is allowed to do anything with your code, provided that reference to your name is preserved.

If you code an open-source product, but it's intended for enterprise integration with lots of non-opensource components, go for a non-GPL licence, like MIT.

In most other cases, GPL is everything you need.

For non-software products that you want to share, use Creative Commons licenses.
If you're using keys for special-purpose accounts, be sure to limit what they can do. You can specify that only a certain command can be run, that port forwarding isn't permitted, etc.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektio...