skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I confused about why he thinks it ironic
> that Nabakov is banned...

It's not ironic that something that is considered 'classic' literature gets banned in a rush to ban all 'pedo' material? If you want to play it up, I'm sure you could conjure up images of Nazis burning books.
> How would a driverless pizza delivery truck get my pizza to me if I lived on the 18th floor of a high-rise apartment building?

Since we're talking far-out future anyway, it's not hard to imagine a delivery drone-copter that flies your pizza to you right outside your window.
It's not really the same as Dropbox. Dropbox is all about file synchronization and Droplr is about file sharing. Drag a file, get a tiny link to the content.

You can get the same with Dropbox but with a lot more interactions, so it kinda breaks the work flow.
Track An iPhone With iPhone Monitoring Software
We all have our own reason for wanting to track an iPhone. Some of us want to keep an eye on our kids, and to have an easy way to locate them in an emergency. Others might be in a position where you are an employer and would really like a way to monitor employee phone usage on company issued iPhones or as a convenient way to locate your staff who are remote sales reps. Regardless what your reasons are, iPhone monitoring software is a low cost, but highly effective way to track an iPhone.
WHY TRACK AN IPHONE?
Here are the two most common reasons why someone would buy iPhone spy software to track an iPhone.
•	Track Your Children. Parents are always looking for a way to keep an eye on their kids. Since the iPhone is one of the most sough after phones today, buying an iPhone for your kids and installing iPhone tracking software is convenient way to track your kids so you’re able to locate them in an emergency, or if you just want to make sure they are at school, their friends house, etc.
•	Track Employees. No longer do employers have to worry about installing bulky and expensive GPS tracking devices on employee issued cars. Now employers can easily track their employees via iPhone tracking software. This could be to keep track of employees who are constantly out in the field, or for recovering lost or stolen employee owned iPhones.

HOW TO TRACK AN IPHONE?
Now that you’re familiar with the most common reasons why someone would want to track an iPhone, here is how iPhone spy software works, and how it’s used to track iPhones.
The way iPhone monitoring software works, is you install the iPhone monitoring app directly on the iPhone you want to track. This is done via a download using the iPhone’s web browser. You essentially type in the URL of the software (you’ll get this URL when you purchase the iPhone spy software), and then the app will download directly into the iPhone. Once the download is complete, you then go through the set up and configuration steps. Once installation is done, the iPhone will automatically start to records GPS locations of the iPhone, in addition to other iPhone activity such as text messages, call logs, photos, emails, and browser history.
As the GPS logs are recorded and sent to your account (this is set up at time of purchase), you can log into your account and you’ll see a list of GPS locations with date/time stamps. Now you just click on any location you want more information on, and that specific location will then appear on a map. From here, you can zoom in, zoom out, get driving directions, and more.

Website : http://omegaspy.com
So many options. WordPress is about as simple (from a end-user perspective) as they come, it isn't necessarily lightweight, but it's more lightweight than some other options. More importantly, it has a very active following and vibrant development community, and it's based on the LAMP stack, so hosting is very easy to come by.
A bit hard to comment without knowing what it is about, but ff the business is stable and anyone can run it, you can probably get a deal without a lock in. You won't get a 10x but you might be able to sell it for 5m if you find the right strategic acquirer that can fit it into his business model.

Having it as a cash cow is also cool, and you might be able to sell it in a few years at the same amount, pocketing the cashflow in the meantime.

What I'd do is:

- start transitioning to other people. This will take you in the sweet spot of being able to pursue option 1 and 2.

- get the dividends every month

- get heavy on the lookout for an acquirer

In this way you'll be free to do other things (or party), not be in the pressure to sell for a small amount and be ready for the big payday when it'll come
Check out http://masswerks.com -- he has done work for many great startups and can definitely help you guys out.
He's a Gruber knockoff. Same religious devotion to Apple, same trollish linkbait.
Building a Startup v. Building a Business
Why is it "repulsive" to see people in arms about it? The construction of that last line, that is supposed to appeal to reasonableness, is unfair from it's very phrasing. You, as many have sought to do in this issue, try to portray ANYONE who disagrees with the decision or rationale for the decision as a pedophile or a pedophile apologist. It's disingenuous and rude.

I don't agree with the decision because it's apparent that it was a simple reaction to pressure from, well, lots of different places. I disagree with it because there isn't a solid brightline defense of this decision in light of other subreddits that they not only tolerate, but openly endorse.

To write a post discussion the speech implications of this decision and to end it with "repulsion" of those who disagree is insulting.
Configuring a New Pairing Station
Neat hybrid idea between the two scenarios. Thank you for the advice!
I would love to try it when it reaches version 20.0.
It was a collection of subreddits for the purpose of eroticism focused on children. It wasn't child porn, but it's as close as you can come without actually getting arrested.

You're full of shit if you're trying to tell me otherwise.
>Are you expecting me to believe that in the entire development universe there is no solution adequate to any serious problem that didn't come from the MS stack?

The previous post does not say this. He is saying that for the particular problems he is facing (likely very Windows-centric), he doesn't think any other stack would be "better". Other stacks could still be equal (but if he knows .NET, there isn't any gain for undergoing the learning curve) and they might work better for other problems.
They conned AOL... committed to staying there in exchange for a big pay then violated the spirit of their agreement by launching a tech fund: a clear conflict of interest.
"We live in a democracy."

We don't live in anything close to democracy. It's hard for a populous to change a corrupt system when all the cards are stacked against the greater public.
Link me to Something Awful actually supporting these laws.
How to Crash Erlang
In my opinion, the first step is to collect information. It won't hurt to see what interest there is for selling the business... from there crunch the numbers on what you think you can generate on your own. Then it's a matter of what you think is more profitable. If you don't find the acquisition offers suitable, Scenario 2 is always a good option, because in general the more profit you're generating from the business, the greater the valuation. Step 2 could be a good intermediate step before Step 1. I'd imagine in either scenario, there's the capability for you to be more hands-off, which it sounds like its one of your ultimate goals.
> I don't trust Microsoft on Mono

The FUD on this issue has been tirelessly debunked. Microsoft would have to contravene its own covenants and agreements in order to do this.

There are reasons to dislike Mono. This is not a legitimate one.
Suspension is properly handled by using the right tires. Anything else adds significantly to weight and cost, and detracts from durability and pedaling efficiency. Also, the existing infrastructure for parts and manufacture has to be considered. I agree that it's a great goal, but those machines have been evolving for a long time.
Is solar feasible at the scale we're talking about? What's the $/kwh?
Maybe because it's simply false.

Static typing is not a pre requisite for quality code. Quality developers is. If you have your codebase maintained properly, maintenance is easy and cheap.
>Sigh. I’m quite disillusioned about HN, actually. Not that it should surprise me, but damn. People here say the exact same things as on Reddit. If you squint a bit the reactions are the same. That doesn’t make me happy.

Then perhaps you need to realize that some of the things people are saying have some merit and you're looking at them wrong. I realize ad populum isn't a valid form of logic, but when the great majority of people are telling you you're wrong, it could never hurt to re-examine your position.
How Good Are Google's Other Businesses?
>What is legal and morally right usually does not overlap 100%.

This is the key issue that almost NO ONE here understands and it's evidenced by high profile HN members calling people they disagree with "disgusting" because they don't understand that morality is relative and that slippery slopes are only absurd until they come true.

I, along with most everyone here it seems, have no desire for peoples' children to be posted online for other people to fap to. That having been said, reddit has historically deferred to the law for making decisions about what IS and IS NOT allowed.

With this decision, they're asserting that their feelings of morality are now grounds for moderating content. HN always surprises me how anti-drug it is. Would HN call those opposed to shutting down other subreddits "repulsive"? What if reddit decides to shutdown /r/drugs where discussion of "hard" drug use occurs. There is a morality argument that can be made.

The problem is that the bright-legal-line has been broken and from now on censorship becomes a question of appealing to the reddit admin's sense of morality.
Globe knots
To me its about trends as much as anything. I noticed a few years ago that the kids on reddit were not interested in .NET but were interested in JavaScript etc.

So, honestly one of the main reasons I got out of .NET was because it seemed like it wasn't as cool as I thought it was anymore.

Another reason, although this is probably a secondary rationalization, is that open source isn't really that big in .NET, and open source seemed important (and cool).

Which isn't to say that there aren't lots of rational reasons to get out of Microsoft development, but I just think that we should acknowledge that people don't usually do things for rational reasons. They mostly do what other people seem to think they should do.

Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with drag-and-drop components or intellisense or even compile time checks. That stuff is really helpful. I am working on composable drag-and-drop widgets for JavaScript/CoffeeScript web applications. And I think that less code is better, and if you can accomplish the same thing with a GUI designer, drag and drop and some property editing, then that is better than writing source code to do it. Its better engineering.

IDEs that are slow are not great, of course. The biggest issues for me are that most everything is closed source and generally the language C# is much more verbose compared to CoffeeScript or JavaScript. Also your software will only run on Windows desktops and not over the web.
Should i invest?
>it is unfortunate that Reddit is cracking down on child pornography.

And that's where a great many people have gotten confused. Child porn was already against the rules and already reported to authorities and the perpetrators banned. That hasn't changed.

What has changed were the subreddits like /r/jailbait - where there was absolutely nothing illegal going on. Creepy and skeevy perhaps, but not illegal.

Let me repeat this again: This is not about child porn.

Comparing the content of /r/jailbait to child porn is akin to comparing the sights of an average day at the beach to the set of a hardcore porno shoot. It's completely bogus.
In what way are you saying it's out of date? The vast, vast bulk of those will work today just fine; very few of them are actually based on browser bugs. Most of them are really about getting valid HTML past dumb filters.
Coming in 2012: Firefox for Windows 8's Metro
I think a big part of it is also the dead weight that accumulates with older technologies. Sometimes it is a person just making a decision for the stability of their household or because they've been at it so long it is all they know. Whatever the cause, as a technology (particularly a language) ages, more and more people that are change adverse remain and those (many times the best and brightest) move on. Not really surprising, but a bit unfortunate for those who remain.
Thank you valuegram!
Boxcar (disclosure: I helped build it) will allow you to send remote pushes to your desktop and mobile devices. On the desktop, we partner with Growl to display messages as a pop-up.

FWIW, we also push Github notifications.
Good piece. I think of Arrington, Siegler, et al. as the Swift Boaters of tech journalism. They just throw FUD everywhere and they never clean up after themselves.
"But why is there a general panic when the possibility of the end of work arises?"

At least partly because here in the USA (YMMV in other countries) we've spent much of the last century vilifying the idea of socialism.
Bram Cohen: My goal is to kill off television with new launch
Definitely, but where it's not possible, cut out the middleman and create your own sun :-)
I've been thinking about putting something together on sliderocket and then getting a hold of emails of the founders of the companies and sending it to them or something like that.
Does Government GIS Data Belong to the People?
Maybe look at http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ or http://radiantcms.org/
>Oh well

So in the spirit of most people in this thread, you're going with "you disagree with my moral framework so you're wrong".

Except it's even worse than that because no one (I think) thinks that these pictures are a good thing, we're just not comfortable with installing a select fews' morality as guidelines for censorship. But rather than have that discussion, you drag it into "well you either agree or you like pedophilia".

As long as you're proud of that, more power to you. I looove people preaching morality and especially absolute morality. There's a lot of people who would love to see a LOT of subreddits banned. Hell, there are people that would see me KILLED for how I live aspects of my life. You going to tell me "oh well" when that becomes the popular sense of morality?
It's not for any real point. It's like saying hello or goodbye to someone you meet on the elevator, or saying cheers to someone in the coffeeshop. You don't have to know anyone particularly well to do that - in the end it just brightens up the general mood.
Depends on the site, and how much free time to have to support him.

You might be able to get away with something like Jekyll, or else give your friend a template and a quick lesson in editing HTML (h1, h2, p, img, and a tags, plus testing and uploading should be about it...).

Option 2 is some sort of hosted CMS, with his domain name on the front - wordpress.com, posterous or tumblr, something like that.
"But more importantly, the problems I'm solving can't be more easily solved using another stack."

Its a sweeping statement to say the least.

I know the VS IDE and such often prevent you doing dumb things/shooting yourself in the foot and its great!

But are you saying that in the entire development universe there is no solution adequate to any serious problem that didn't come from the MS stack? You'll have never done anything like massively parallel computing or big/complex data sets then. Or AI development.

Air Traffic Control system in .Net, for example? Nah.

.Net is a just a general-purpose tool for writing certain kinds of software. That's all. And it is telling that none of Microsoft's core products (the ones that earn lots of cash) are even remotely going to ever be converted to .Net or managed code.
Firebug also causes a large performance hit, even for sites you haven't enabled it on. And it leaks memory, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669730.

I shudder to think how many people have concluded that Firefox is slow and memory-hungry when it was really Firebug that was the cause.
True, it's possible to do it (the ABB Frida is the first thing that comes to mind - it's pretty damn impressive, just needs a set of legs/wheels), but setting everything up will most likely be more expensive than just hiring people, at least by 2030...
First, lets assume your 100k+ loc codebase would be about 10k+ loc if coded in most of the "overhyped" languages. That's the primary reason there are not that many huge codebases in them - huge codebases aren't needed. That's also a reason no multi-year development is done with them - it just doesn't last that long.

Next, remember not having to upcast and downcast objects considerably simplifies the code, simplifying the tests you need to write. Less code means less places a bug can hide.

And, finally, understand that, while not passing compilation proves your program is wrong, passing it doesn't make it any closer to correct.

Trust me. I've seen enough "enterprise" codebases in my life. They aren't that special.
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From what I can tell the biggest issue you (and many others have) is the environment/culture issue. The stuff you see or some of the ways that you are expected to code with C# in many .NET shops will make you want to claw your eyes out. (And though I don't have any first hand experience, I reckon it's the same way in Javaland.)

F# is a mighty fine language but introducing that into an established shop just isn't going to happen. It's personally my favorite language but there is a very steep learning curve coming from C#. For my projects I use Windows & Linux, C#, Python, JS (client), and F# all over the place. I keep the programs small with a service orientation so it's easy to switch languages.

Anyway, all frameworks have their problems. It's hell to make a program of any appreciable size in Python. Javascript/Node turns into callback hall of mirrors. Avoid creating a mammoth framework with these and it all works out great. And while it doesn't have everything in the world like the Python ecosystem, .NET OSS ecosystem, which is really coming around. And Microsoft itself is encouraging exploration of other frameworks, e.g. NodeJs and WinRT's first class Javascript support.

My take is the problems usually aren't framework/tech related. It's about people and process. Diving into a new framework really isn't about the tech, it's about learning the tech, and thereby giving your brain some much needed stimulation.
Using Jython UDFs in Pig
"You also get a different class of players in the game."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Put your ideas to paper
The -c flag doesn't have anything to do with that behavior, it's just how you pass a one-liner as a command line argument. From the usage output:

-c cmd : program passed in as string (terminates option list)

Edit: fixed formatting.
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On Business Madness
TV will adapt. If TV adapts, you die :-)
One follow-up question--do you have thoughts on how to float interest among interested buyers? Or, once I have identified a potential set of buyers, how to propose that I'm open to an acquisition?

Thanks! I'm a newbie to M&A as well.
There's no reason that a compositor (maybe 'wayland client' is the more appropriate term) can't be created that includes network transparency.
This is a great example of what is wrong with with dotnet. Someone who has been doing their best to improve the situation and finally giving up, after years of effort is dismissed by some random .net programmer as, "...pointing his finger in the wrong direction" or "using the wrong tools to solve the problems he works on".

C# is an incredible language and VS w/ R# is a pleasure to work with. I have been working in this stack for over 6 years, so it is fair to say I have enough experience to know what I am talking about with regards to being a .NET developer.

That said, .NET, as a development platform, is a couple of diamonds covered by tons of shit and surrounded by people trying to convince everyone else their shovel has all the goodies. Microsoft's shovel comes up empty more often than not and each year sees fewer people sifting through it all to help guide those without the time or taste for it. The biggest killer of .NET is that the majority of the community seems content to keep taking spoonfuls from the MS shovel lying to themselves about it's content.
Legendary ! that is pretty awesome. I guess there are conditions on where you can do that and thinking about it now i cant think of anywhere near me where i could do that if i wanted/could do it.

Though if i went back to where my parents came from in south east asia i could think of alot of places where that would work.
We Are Better Than This
> I am repelled by any argument that suggests
> that it is unfortunate that Reddit is cracking
> down on child pornography

What Reddit is banning now is not child pornography, at least not in the cut-and-dry sense. They were already filtering clearly illegal images, and reporting them to the authorities.

They are now banning things like teen/preteen girls in bathing suits. Whether or not these things are 'child pornography' is more more up in the air than photos of children having sex, or being raped.

Trying to group this in with children being raped comes across as disingenuous because it implicitly claims that anyone that takes issue with this is somehow automatically in favor of child rape.
Works good with whatever the release version of firefox is as well (on osx). I've noticed for a while now that firefox has very smooth scrolling. Way better than both chrome and safari on my laptop.
Because even developers do "normal people" things. There are a lot of trade offs, but in my experience Apple provides the best middle-of-the-road machines.

Linux and Windows feel like they exist on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Why? Because not everybody is a human with 20/20 vision sitting in front of a monitor.

Before I go off on to much of a rant, I do want to clarify - having the javascript be the content is fine for a special 'once off' page like the one in the grandparent post. In this case its probably replacing a flash animation. Its also fine for applications where you have a tight handle on the people and devices which will use it.

However as a general practice its a bad idea. A few very important cases that this breaks:

* The googlebot and archive.org

* Vision impaired users

* Services such as readability and instapaper

All of these could be better served by having a symantec table of data, which is then then enhanced and presented in a different manner by javascript.
You're radically off the mark.

It's $100k per year per construction worker to build a nuclear power plant. Their pay will be $50k just for the base for an average worker.

The security issues (for various stages it requires a lot of background checks), the liability issues (requiring massive insurance outlays), the actual pay, the engineering requirements that the workers must qualify for (just finding the right engineers), any union tangles you run into, and so on. There is an extraordinarily long list of costs per employee to build a nuke plant.

You're looking at upwards of $1 billion per year with 10,000 employees. It's very easy to see where it ends up costing $7 billion to deploy a new plant (it's going to cost 50% more with cost overruns). Even if you were to amazingly slice the worker cost to $50k per year flat fee, with zero added costs per employee, you're still talking $500m per year with 10k workers, and over the build term that's going to be $3.5 billion to $5 billion (7 to 10 years).