skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I think it is worse than just justifying your purchase; for a lot of people it is defining their identity.

You say "iPhone's are stupid!" and all they hear is "I think YOU are stupid!".

A lot of people define themselves by distilling the version of themselves they want to portray to the world as a collective of company logos and brands.

I don't think it is healthy, but it sure makes sense why people do it.
I regret that I have only one upvote to give you, because you just wrote the most insightful comment I've seen on this issue.
If you haven't already - watch the documentaries "Century of the self" and "Human Resources" for more disturbing information on how this came to be.
And finally, in 2012, after mocking and lambasting traditional reportage and journalistic standards for years, the Internet finally learns that journalistic standards, expectations, and ethics are a set of rules learned the hard way, that are as relevant on the web as they were in print.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for "it's just a blog, man".
The description I give is that rails programmers think of databases as files with a funny accent.

The classic CF in rails is a form that ultimately deals with > 1 table. Multi-table forms are a pain for everyone, but with a bit of database juju you could disguise the complexity with, say, an updateable view.
I bought the ebook version of Running Lean... it had quite a few diagrams that are quite useless in that form. I imagine business books with lots of diagrams. This might suffer from the ebook format too.
Visual Studio compilation times are ridiculously fast for me, are you talking about Mono/Linux in point #2 also?
I love Free Software day
It's like the Republican presidential debate rules -- anytime you mention an opponent, the opponent gets airtime to respond.
The navigation font should be thinner, I can still see it a little.
You really believe that Arrington was "forced out" of AOL?! Duh.
This is exactly what Apple set out to do, equate the brand with the self - much like fashion.

Harley Davidson is another example where this occurs.
I've played a bit with caching models on the client: https://github.com/napoleond/localmodel

I'm planning to implement merges at some point, but the current implementation has still proven useful to me.
This kind of thing - not the exact events or people described, but the atmosphere conveyed - is exactly what's been turning me off from Silicon Valley. I've interned here twice, and I know that it's full of the top engineers in the world. Yet the underbelly seems to be full of these ridiculous cutthroat business practices and an atmosphere of self-indulgence, self-importance etc, most likely because Silicon Valley is where the money is. It seems like it's turning into the Hollywood of the tech industry, and not in a good way. T'would be a shame.
One cold dark night in Javascript-land...

A: Hey, remember when coding was fun? When it was an extension of yourself and you got to create things with it? Create things!

B: No. We're not allowed to do anything except what the Good Book deems acceptable.

A: But, but, you get to take this blank slate and carve out of it whatever you can imagine! Pure expression! And remember when you prioritized your coding style for enjoyment?

B: No. Coding is not fun. Coding is about maximum compliance.

A: ... I remember, but sometimes I think the web has forgotten.

A: I mean think about it. We're banished from the 'new' keyword. We can hardly use polyfills or even extend the native prototypes. How I used to love statements like [[1,2],2,3].flatten(), but lo they are forbidden! Having even one prototype extension in your library is a death sentence. No having fun in Javascript-land!

B: True, fun is not allowed.

A: Hey, what's that over there? That gleaming light coming from the back of that house? Is that a party? Hey it's that house that @fat and @mdo built. They're having fun? We should join them!

B: You don't want to go there man. They don't use semicolons.

A: Is that all they're doing? So what, they're not following the Good Book? They're not afraid to do things a bit out of the ordinary? I'm out of here. See you later Javascript-land. B, I'm going to have some fun with those guys.

B: ... prototype extensions?

(Thanks @fat, @mdo & Twitter for Bootstrap, and for giving it away nonetheless. If I ever have a problem minifying your code, I'll fork it and just add the semicolons myself.)
Actually, regardless the design of this site, contents are good though
"People instinctively recognize that while you may have to schlep thought he muck to find those gems, it is still important to have an "anything goes place"."

I do not think many people "instinctively recognize" this. What I do "instinctively recognize" is that as sites like this mainstream they uniformly clean up "the muck" and that any "creative gems" lost because the community no longer tolerates everything are a tiny price to pay. Whatever "creative gems" went on in /r/jailbait or /r/n*ggerjailbait we can only speculate...

"People will feel betrayed when they put time and effort into making the community what it is, and suddenly the rules are changed on them -- all their effort has been co-opted or may be co-opted, for something they don't want. It feels slimy."

What feels slimy is finding out the popular site you like is chummy with scum like Violentacrez the guy who started 90% of the worst of the worst subreddits. I got news for you, the tiny minority of pedosympathizers on reddit are not what made the site what it is. We aren't "coopting their effort", we're taking a break from construction to clean up a mess we didn't have time to focus on until now.
Bootstrap.js - An open source project by closed minded individuals?
Nothing is more dangerous to the Valley than threats of force from Washington.
The problem was that there was no context in the /. post. Once I showed them the context it wasn't a problem.

So hopefully if the context is very close to the unmentionable remark, federal agents are not dispatched.
No. He'll pass a law requiring us all to be cyber-converted. Whether the tech is mature or not.
It's hard to imagine someone enjoying his level of celebrity without even trying to appear pleasant. Even Steve Jobs reserved the bulk of his ire for those that worked for him, and appeared caring to his audience (customers), even "patronly".
Functional Way of Avoiding Nested Callbacks in JavaScript - Kodfabrik Blog
For 500M req/day, that's 6000 req/sec on average. That could plausibly fit with 40,000 req/sec peak.
Thank you for sharing your work. it's interesting. good start, buddy.
> loan guarantee would only have a cost if the utility defaulted

But loan guarantee does have a cost -- it is risk the taken on by the tax payer. The value of that risk is how much the loan guarantee would cost if purchased on the free market.
I agree that society's idea that marriage is the ultimately goal is complete BS and I hate that notion. In fact there was a discussion on reddit today about how society seems to think it ridiculous to even go out to dinner or to a movie by yourself; looking at that as pathetic... Again, another notion I disagree with.

However, while not all women may want to be married or be seen as "failures" by society if they don't, because this woman was married, it's clear that she wanted to and would be excited about it.

It's still a major life event that made her happy and deserves some congratulations or recognition. If the woman had, for some reason, been a huge WOW fan and just won a big national tournament or something, that could've been brought up and wouldn't have connotations along with it. It's still just as irrelevant, but once again, human beings usually seek to bring up and congratulate people publicly on major life events they find important.
Well, her hypothesis is, they'll value the real degree more until they realize that the MIT-lite students have a lower cost basis (they are minus ~200k in debt) and therefore always cost less.
what parts? I'm interested about the future of Couch(Base|DB) sans all the Apache wankery.

I really wish you'd take more of a BDFL approach to things.
I don't think you should have been downvoted, but you certainly missed something. days != seconds
"As a rule, the only thing that can kill a good startup is the startup itself" - http://www.paulgraham.com/superangels.html

As a rule, the only thing that can kill a good _ecosystem_ is the _ecosystem_ itself

Edit: We live in a democracy. If there is something that stands to significantly harm us, then we should (and can) do something about it. A recent example would be SOPA.

The biggest threat we face is not from Washington, it's ourselves. If we become so torn-apart that forces from Washington can destroy us, it's our fault.

It's rather easy to focus on problems being caused from an external force, but there are often larger and more dangerous threats internally. That brings up back to the startup quote, it's easy for a startup to focus on competitors (external threat) instead of working on their own product (which is really the biggest thing that will make or break them).
Drug abuse might be down, but homocide and drug mortality rates went up. http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/theses/yablon_daniel.pdf
For a lighter and modern take, the recent BBC show Secrets of the Superbrands does a good job showing why we like what we like. I can also second taking some time to watch "The Century of the Self" but its a bit darker.
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> People here say the exact same things as on Reddit.

Perhaps it's because they are correct and you are in fact in the wrong here?
let's get back to hacking/the technology.
What would people do if, as you say, everyone gets into it just for the money? Would enough people consider leaving somewhere else?
I would appreciate feedback for my new startup.
Is there any rational reason to derive this from pg's statement? Word substitution does not work in all cases. For example:

> As a rule, the only thing that can kill a good _human_ is the _human_ itself.
How can 200% of all jobs be destroyed?
Facebook and the big IPO letdown
If who you know and how well you can politic overshadows what you did and the results you got, then you're in trouble.

For me its just another sign that 'tech' is growing up. Pretty much any industry creates an economic flow, and the flow is a source of power (some would argue the only real source in peace time), and one can harness that power by having influence over the flow.

Back when the Homebrew Computer Club was meeting and Steve and Steve were there and nerds gathered at the ByteShop to see the latest S-100 board that Geoge Morrow had dreamed up, the total flow was measured in less than a million dollars a year. Few 'professional' power brokers even noticed. Today the total economic impact of 'tech' is approaching a trillion dollars by some estimates, with that kind of flow comes real power. You also get a different class of players in the game.

We joke about people who would sell out their families for a million dollars, however that number gets uncomfortably large as you go up in decimal orders of magnitude. 10 million, 100 million, a billion ?

The stakes are higher today, some people are the barrier to entry you have to get past. It hasn't been a "gentleman's game" for some time now. Kinda sad really.
Been there, done that. Reference T-shirt.

Eventually the RAM penalty kills you. Especially if you prefer the Linux environment to the Mac one (and hence are using it more heavily), or the need to run multiple VMs.

The real lesson: if your preferred environment is XYZ, then run environment XYZ. Not ABC. Not PRQ. Not KLM.

And all the ABC/PRQ/KLM fanboi/boosters/shills/fanatics on the planet won't change your preferences (or specific needs, or your twisted path through the world of computing evolution) one whit.
Personally, I think the mixing opinions and facts that blogs does is not a bad idea, but this don't mean conflict of interest isn't still important.
Oh the irony.

If only the web app about web apps was usable.
The real question is whether CrunchFund is leading or following. If they just follow, once other big names are committed, then frankly the value-added for startups is close to 0.
doh. I should've looked a little longer before ordering it from there on Steve's say-so.
There's no "case" here.

You've extrapolated from a single question from a single investigator to a nonexistent death penalty case and pinned it all on an imaginary Obama administration mandate to charge everyone involved in medical marijuana advocacy. That's not the story here.
I remember using this a lot when making a site back in the days where users could change stuff using HTML/CSS. I had to gradually add more regex filters to combat trolls who managed to insert nasty JS. It was great fun and I don't think the trolls realised that they were actually doing me a favor all along.
Our risk estimation brains are based on the ancestral environment. Technology multiplies impacts.
Thinkpad.

Don't bother listening to some other people recommending a MacBook of some variety if you really want to run Linux on it. As someone else mentioned, I've never gotten Linux working on it and not have it heat up to crazy levels with the fans running constantly. The multitouch features of the trackpad don't work and so on.

Your best nearest bet is a Thinkpad. Be sure to DDG (DuckDuckGo) the particular model you're looking at to get a jist of other people's experiences running Linux on it.

An old X200 here and Ubuntu runs great.
This is exactly why I prefer hiccup. I can operate on my interface code using the full power of the language, and it looks just like everything else in my project.

That's not to say Enlive isn't capable as well, but when I'm working on my own using Hiccup means one fewer context-switch when thinking about what I'm building.
Are trying to imply that deep down everyone inherently would choose theft over remuneration? Or that we all would prefer a world where everything is free?

Piracy exists sorely due to bad business models, where it is distribution of expected value of a product; Teens aren't going to pay $300 for Microsoft Office to use for 3 hours the night before a paper is due, I don't want to have DRM on my music.

If your opinion was the case we'd see businesses burning to the ground, which we aren't. We're seeing business like Spotify, BandCamp, Steam, Kickstarter, HumbleIndieBundle all flourishing.
It's unfortunate, but people open up Activity Monitor and get confused by what they see. This is why "FreeMemory" app listed on the Mac App Store went to #1 awhile back.
"Was that so hard?"

YES
DevOps war story: troubleshooting LAMP
The major problem I have with this is with "Education". Education does not solely consist of listening to lectures; it's a process that takes place between the educator and the student, and sometimes, you need a faculty member to talk to, simply because you have questions that are different from everyone else's. Khan Academy and similar efforts only go so far—not everyone learns best the same way. Colleges will certainly evolve and change in their methodology, but I don't believe that jobs in academia will change and/or disappear so drastically.
People panic because a society where the majority cannot do worthwhile work cannot continue to function as it currently does. Change will necessarily come about through cooperation or force because people's lives will literally depend upon it. Change is scary, nevermind one that large.
It depends, only a small number of PhD's get paid a lot of money in Finance. They work primarily for quant funds if they make a lot and more than likely work for risk management which pays much less.
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The estimate for the two reactors involves 3500 on-site construction workers [1] with a completion date of 2016 or 2017 [2]. This means 1750 construction workers employed for 4-5 years at each reactor. The average annual wage for a construction laborer is 34,040 [3]. So we're looking at labor costs of about 0.3 billion / reactor. Even if the US workers get paid double the average, and the Chinese close to nothing, labor costs only explain about 10% of the price difference.

Regarding components, anything that's not built on the spot (including pipe) can and will be shipped internationally from the cheapest supplier (particularly if it's expensive). Again, we're looking at price differentials of around 10% rather than 2500%.

[1]http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/obama-administrat...

[2]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/federal-regulators-...

[3]http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm#earnings
Ack. Sorry about that; one contributor got lazy. :(
Just fixed: http://goo.gl/dalkp Deploy going out soonly.
Choosing whom to work for: problems and products
Have these new designs improved on water usage problems [1]?

Although I agree about the closure of coal plants, it seems nuclear still has water usage issues (cooling needs) and given the upcoming fresh-water crisis [2], wouldn't solar be a better bet?

[1] http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_technology...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12291371
To speculate a bit, it seems like many people in the tech industry feel like women have been historically alienated in the industry, feel that this is unjust, and as a result are willing to err on the side of being oversensitive in this issue (perfection of course being impossible in this sort of fuzzy cultural area).

A similar thing applies to talking about women on the site. You can see the difference between referring to an example woman reading hacker news as a fellow hacker vs "someone's girlfriend or wife or little sister might be in the kitchen reading her iPad", right? The latter reinforces sexist stereotypes of women only being related to technology through men in their life rather than engaging with it themselves (plus, if someone's on hacker news, it's fair shorthand to assume that they're a hacker rather than a relation of one, whatever you want "hacker" to mean).

(Also you obviously do have an argument. The discussion is better when you state it outright rather than lashing out with vague sarcasm.)
Just give me some interesting data to work with, and I would gladly come to work for any of these firms for $125K flat salary just to get into the place.
Are the applications manually curated or are you using the top lists? (or something else?)
Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28cos%28x%29%29cos...
Wonder when someone will create a torrent of this, so it can be stored in a distributed way
I actually think Chrome actually has a superior search interface. You start typing the keywords for the site, then hit tab and you'll be using the search for that site. It also picks them up automatically when you visit the site. I've also found it bad that firefox needs an extension to search an alternate site without changing the default.
I completely agree. Would you trust Yelp for restaurant reviews if Yelp invested in the restaurants it provided reviews for? Of course not. Like you said, the only way to really punish behavior like this is to stop using their product.
Gmail- Quick(on iphone/ipad) way to block a sender?
I already have a filter that deletes email based on my block email list. However, painful to add new email addresses to it. More importantly, cannot access filter settings from iPad at all!
Any suggestions? Thanks
> When somebody else says things like that, we are often sceptical about that, and for good reasons.

Yes, the good reason is that this announcement is doing exactly what that sentence promises they won't do. Of course, they have the right to do whatever they want with their site, but that line is a blatant lie without the added clause "except for this case."

The administrative burden excuse seems half-hearted and almost a throwaway line. Also, regardless of the reddit admins' views, the views of many top commenters is that this is an appropriate moderation whether or not it's illegal.
Jobs are created all the time as well. New restaurants debut, new factories come online, new houses are built. If jobs weren't also being destroyed at a significant rate, then we would quickly have more jobs than people to work them.

Think of it in terms of mayflies. ~100% of all the mayflies in existence are destroyed every three days. It takes about six days to destroy 200% of the mayflies in the world. Jobs are like that, just a little less transient.
Exactly, I fear this too. I like Sarah Lacey, and I think she does have integrity.

But I can't help but feel this is the investors simply moving up the food chain to protect their startups. Rather than rebutting against the media when their own startups are attacked, they have obtained an inside position at source.

I don't believe Sarah thinks this will happen (or she feels she can push back and mitigate) but I'm [sadly] confident this kind of internal pressure will occur at some point.

Fuck it, if I'd invested in her media venture I'd want preferential treatment. And I'm ex BBC with a 'no bias' agenda beaten into me it hurts.
They introduced the infrastructure (bootstrap and jetpack) around Firefox 4.x, so there have been addons that can update without restarts. The problem is people need to port addons to the new api.
I feel like I've just been rick-rolled. Don't google it unless you're a big valentine's day fan.
Somewhat accurate. But I don't see why we would need more emergency workers when things go wrong with robotic transportation. We should be needing fewer.

And we'll have more automated emergency workers that can, for example, delivered medical care to someone before they can even be removed from a collapsed car or crushed building.

And why would we need dispatchers?
I can confirm it isn't.
This is a fantastic article. I think the start-up industry and the bloggers who report on them is increasingly tiring.

I'm glad this guy had the guts to call people out for who they truly are. Though I am sure this is far from the end of it all....
Sorry, can't help there. Good luck!
I'm only observing. The AP1000 design was originally proposed by Westinghouse in early 2004, based on entirely understood physics and components. Here we are 8 years later seeing the approval. I attribute much of that delay to a requirement that Westinghouse prove it would never fail. Meeting such a standard has been, for many years, effectively impossible, even for designs with a known history.

Thorium reactors don't have any of the 'known' history to rely on and so they have to prove something which cannot be proven without building one. In order to get past that cognitive stall, one has to 'take the risk' of actually building one with the promise that should the risk pan out as being Ok, the reactor will be allowed to continue to exist. It has been politically impossible to do that with a new nuclear technology in the US for some time.

Some cynics have suggested that the only reason the NRC licensed it in the US is because China is going to build them and the US wanted a local copy so that they could use as a model should they want to take the Chinese reactors offline "the hard way." I don't subscribe to that level of cynicism.

So ultimately I believe that Thorium reactors are worth pursuing, however any work beyond theoretical requires a different political climate than the one we've existed in to this point. Fortunately that is changing. I would love to find ways to help people with their emotional response to nuclear power, that will be a necessary part of putting us back on to a path of a sustainable future.
Threats from Washington are the natural consequence of shitty, unethical behavior. Which really brings it back to what the OP is about.
They likely do not want to maintain the interface, or the integration of the interface into the overall Google groups interface.