skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the bright side, the CEO cleaned house then got the axe himself. Decent setup for his successor to gain the goodwill of employees as he doesn't need to go through the painful layoff process.

+1 on concerns about the media focus of the company. If Yahoo! was YouTube, I could understand it. But I don't see the reasoning here.
They typically limit the number of hours you may take per semester. The most I've seen is 6 hours (about 2 classes) per semester.
Its an asset but what is the value (in dollars and cents)?
It sounds good on the surface but I don't know how feasible it is on practice. Creative work is not something you can turn on and off on command. You tend to think long and hard about a problem throughout the day. You think about it in shower, while driving, and during eating. There are fair amount of ramp up time to get back into a project. The things you have done, the tools you use, the libraries for the project, the API, all those need time to refresh in your mind. Context switch into a project 30 minutes a day would be difficult. If you can do it, that's great!
With a sufficiently low-power system, purely conductive/convective cooling should be sufficient. You'd be looking at a finned enclosure, possibly with a directed airflow over that.

The real problem is providing for ports (power, networking, comms) without penetrating the enclosure. The recent Marianas Trench submersible showed a number of connectors designed for very high pressure environments, something along those lines should be sufficient.

Grounding would deal with static.
Check this article if you are interested in the topic, it's quite illuminating (although a little journalistic):

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html
I feel said to say it, but this is exactly what happened with the Pirate Party of Sweden when another certain controversial party started getting traction. One could hope the situation turns out to be different in Germany, though.
Sure. But some actions have more weight than others. Who is a more moral person, a nice guy who speeds on the highway, or a murderer who drives by the limits? Are you gonna judge someone who says he loves women, but kills them during the night, by his actions or by his words?
The skills to get a degree do not always translate to the skills necessary to hold down a high paying or prestigious job. It's possible though you can't tell from the article that he is content doing the stuff that he is doing and doesn't want something else.
You can just go on youtube and search videos from various versions.
This is a bad day.
Have you read trusting trust?
I fail to comprehend how you can fix a backdoor.
I'll take 60 years of a sharp mind and body over 40 years of productivity and 50 years of senility any day.

What exactly is "aging" in the context of the OP? Would this "War on Aging" actually solve the right problem? Would it even be the right problem to solve for everyone... or even just a majority of the population?
Firstly, I never claimed America to be the pinnacle of civilization, and I don't see anyone else doing the same. I simply stated, that it's rather offensive to come in here and cast all Americans as uncivilized because one disagrees with how one police force operates related to another.

Whether you consider a particular elected official of a nation to be of your measure of specific intelligence quotient you desire does not either speak to the general civilized nature of a particular society. Are we really going to rate individual leaders? Where shall we start in Europe? There's so much wonderful material to work with...

We could talk about each of those incidents you mentioned, and the role that Europe played in each of them, we could play these tit-for-tat arguments that will result in no change. What does that achieve? Will you try forever to make all of us feel bad about where we were born? What's so lofty about that position? Why here, why now?
What's a camera? You mean the photo app on my smartphone?
Installing a custom ROM should fix this, if one is available for the Score M.
But we know that the auto industry is cut throat and low-margin. Paying $30K for a Ford doesn't mean Ford just made $30K. Between manufacturing, R&D, marketing, and raw customer acquisition cost (dealerships aren't free), I'd be surprised if Ford walked away with 5% of that.
then it makes no sense at all in the prev commenter's comment. i assumed, in context, what he meant was a kinder response and based my response off of it
Wow, you really are pulling out all the best for this discussion.

"The majority of artists seems to be very happy with the emerging distribution methods."

So why are we even talking about piracy? Clearly these people are pursuing alternative distribution models, relying upon concerts or whatever, etc. Therefore the torrents are full of legally allowed sharing.

That's right, right? Surely it must be.

Of course that's not reality at all. This bullshit Robin Hood act is yet another adorable piracy defense technique.
Exactly.

It's also why so much software in these areas is so terrible or does not exist. No one with the right knoweldge of the task at hand has the slightest clue how to program a computer.

But we do not have to call it "disruption".

It's just improvement over the status quo.
I was going to take your argument a lot more seriously, but then I came to this part:

fortunate enough to be endowed with a highly intelligent brain

That's just taking it too far. By that same logic they were fortunate that, about 2 billion years, certain bacteria and algae began to appear and thus we have life on Earth today.

If you think did anything alone in your entire life, you are sorely mistaken.

We're all standing on the shoulders of the giants. That doesn't mean we should spend our time looking down and exclaiming "Wow, these guys sure are tall!" We should be aware of where we are, grateful that we're there and make the best of it. And that means look forward and up, not down.

Everybody around you deserves respect because they are the co-authors of your life.

That's where you're wrong. It's true that everything in my life factors into my personality and my measure of success. That doesn't automatically mean that everything and everyone around me deserves my respect.

Like it or not, certain levels of respect have to be earned. Likewise, respect can be easily squandered.
I agree. Each person has his own measurement of success, depending on the circumstances in which he lives.
Based on going through nearly the entire Khan math test graph, I can say that the thing that was great was the instant feedback that the problems give you.

For those not familiar, you need to get many questions right in a row to move. These problems are generated along with "hints" specifically tailored to the problem - as-in the problem is worked step-by-step for you as you click "hint". What was also great is that it adapts (it seemed at least) to give you problems like the those you're having trouble on.

All of this gives you the feeling: "I'm really getting this, I'm not so bad at math after all" - all intrinsic. I looked at the badges as just "neat" - but the big chart of activity was somewhat inspiring because you can see yourself persevering. Then again - this is also intrinsic.
The difference is that Facebook is "threatened" by an intangible, hypothetical competitor who doesn't exist yet. Nor does the mechanism for defeating Facebook appear obvious or inevitable.

Whereas Ford faces very real, present competition in a market full of extremely competent players.
It isn't fine print.

There are countless indy bands and indy film makers who welcome sharing of their product. Why not stick to that?
Ask PG: Disable deleting of comments, only remove the username of the author.
Often when I'm reading comment threads on HN, I come across a [deleted] comment that has some replies to it. Sometimes, the deleted comment is even at the top of the comments page.

Deleting comments really makes the replies look out of context. Shouldn't we prevent the deletion of comments, and therefore preserve the context, and just delete the author's username? That would achieve approximately the same effect for the author (disassociate her/him from the comment they posted), while preserving the information for everybody else.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VAa-AouAHxoC&lpg=PA61...
I find it a little hard to believe that anyone would try to build a band-saw controller on a Windows box in the way suggested by the post and assumed by so many of the comments.

It seems likely that the Windows PC is just a job manager and GUI for a simpler embedded controller that actually controls the band-saw. A standard PC doesn't have, as standard equipment, any I/O capabilities suitable for machine control, after all. When I did software for industrial controls, most of the controls that had PC interfaces were built that way; an embedded controller in the machine, running a real-time OS, actually actuated all the relays and optos and was responsible for all the safety interlocks. The PC would talk to that controller through a serial port and put a pretty face on the front of things. If the PC crashed, the operator wouldn't be able to run the machine, but the machine wouldn't go berserk.

I understand why someone would say that running a browser on the Win 3.1 machine is a bad idea, but it may not really be that bad.
What the market decides. Just like with Ford.
And I felt sick that I got as high as 25% of them. I think it is better to know just a few of them very well. However the ones I use everyday I got immediately ...

What is interesting is so many languages look like C or Lisp or ML or its variants.
Gamification of Tasks That Require Self-discipline is a Mistake
Sorry, yes, thats what I meant. My bad!
or how about Lojban? That way it can be machine readable, unambiguously queried, culturally neutral and actually be a language designed for human communication.

(xkcd 191 comic joke notwithstanding)
I've had similar thoughts, but I would never voice them.

I even registered gitlaw.us a few years ago and then let it expire because I couldn't bridge the impedance mismatch between the idea and the implementation.

But again, I would never voice such thoughts, for many reasons:

1. It's exactly the attitude that your 'real customers' want in the public - learned helplessness.

2. You start believing it, and there is an insidious, negative effect on your judgement, decisions, and life. I'm not saying be a rose-tinted-glasses optimist, but don't be the opposite extreme either.

3. It is possible to win. Remember Gandi, Mandela, etc. Imagine how bleak their outlook was, yet they remained committed, steadfast, relentless, constant as the dawn, and eventually the time came for their ideas and there was nothing more powerful or unstoppable.

4. Real hackers aren't like that. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity for disruption and making the world better. There are few bigger than this.

It takes efforts like these to eventually make the time come for the ideas that change the world, so it behooves us all never to talk them down out of mere pessimism. Constructively criticize yes, but no shootdowns.

Remember, first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

It can be done.
The screwy logic of crowdfunding
I think there is market for that
It's a huge gray area. To expand on your point, if you're a socialist Buddhist and I'm a libertarian Muslim, there's nothing legitimate about that difference that makes me unable to code alongside you. We might not hang out, but we can debate the merits of application designs and help each other with bugfixes.

But I'd say personality is very different. Personality is basically a summary of what it's like to work with me. If I'm too shy to express ideas or passive aggressive or so extroverted that I won't stop talking and let you work, that's a real, practical problem.

"I can't get along with you" is a perfectly valid reason for me to quit if you're my boss or fire you if you're my employee. Anything restricting that will create dysfunction. How can this be compatible with making personality a protected class?

Heck, personality isn't even clear-cut like gender or disability is; I'm not clear on how you could even write such laws.
Investors care about marginal returns. An additional $1 invested into Ford won't bring as much returns as an additional $1 invested in Facebook.

Ford's is a capital-intensive business. That's what gives it hard assets that make its market cap 70% of assets (btw, the author totally forgets the liability side of equation - equity investors aren't owed assets - they are owed (assets - liabilities) - look at big banks, they have trillions in assets - but they have equally enormous liabilities too).
Except he's completely right.
In this case, improving on the idea is not going to help you actually achieve it.

So make it happen first, then make it work well.
But considering that 90% of the organisms that have ever lived on Earth have died without reproducing, and therefore you are the end result of a line of organisms every single one of which lived to reproduce, then yes, I'd say we are lucky to have been born at the end of this 4 billion year long process and to have a human brain instead of say, that of a slug. But slugs are lucky too.

I agree that you can grade respect based on how much people have earned it. What I'm criticizing here isn't levels of respect but disrespect.
Why The Campaign To Stop America´s Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing
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Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking
The other thing that isn't reflected is staying power or perhaps it might be called company lifetime revenue/profit/etc.

Historically for internet based companies this metric on average has been very low especially when put in comparison with the auto industry.

Where Facebook will be in 5-10 years is just about anyone's guess.
then what're the rules to figure out who's troll? I could be well intentioned and totally come off as a troll, if I disagree with majority. I could not be a troll, even if I am proposing the absolutely horrendous idea, to a majority which agrees. Not everything is black and white.
MacRuby/RubyMotion syntax translations of Apple's Objective-C/Cocoa docs
I was genuinely curious why grandparent would think that "I still suspect he stole the 18k bitcoins, the guy is slippery.". Why is the guy "slippery"? What makes you think that he stole the bitcoins?

Why would someone downvote for asking for clarification..?
Bye, Bye Waterfall: 5 Steps to Implement Responsive Web Design
I don't think I have any criticism for your approach on your project.

I was trying to comment on the idea that WSGI somehow conflates buffered mode with streaming mode. How is that even possible when WSGI does not even have a notion of buffered mode?

If you want your app or even your framework to buffer, you can just do that in the app layer. I can't see that the server interface should have additional moving parts just to do what is cleanly doable in the app layer.

I can only imagine this being a disappointment if someone wanted to use WSGI middleware to carry out buffering. But if (edit: internal) WSGI compatibility is not a high priority, then why would you want to use WSGI middleware for this (generally pretty messy)? Do it in your framework or in your app.

So I do not understand the complaint about the 'conflation' of buffering and streaming. I think it is appropriate to leave the buffering decision in the app layer. And it is also reasonable to use WSGI as just a way to talk to a server (what else is it really for? Obviously not to offer a big fat servlet API...)

If you want to do separate buffering and streaming APIs in your app layer then that could be a smart way to reduce complexity but I don't see why this is some sort of complaint about WSGI.
I do what you're doing. I do this not because it accurately supposes what C's syntax is (it doesn't; however that doesn't matter because I follow the 1 pointer per line convention), but because it was most common in codebases I've worked on and the notation commonly shown in school.
I think that xkcd was about overreacting to someone being wrong on the internet, and was making fun of the people who (all of us at times) start flaming with extreme prejudice when they see it.

I am proud that I still feel a bit of shame when I catch myself doing that, and glad that I haven't been able to rationalize it as a excess that I deserve because I am so awesome.

Instead, I try not to talk to idiots, unless they're in my way or about to get in my way, and then I sprinkle sugar all over what I'm about to say as if I was talking to a child. It's important for me to remember that I'm trying to advance my own goals, rather than make someone feel stupid. This applies even when I am speaking to the stupid.
Yes, and such moves just keep coming because all governments dearly wish to establish firm internet censorship under their own control. (I would love to be proven wrong on this, of course)

The discussions about 'the choice being with the user' and the effectiveness of filtering out sex (insert anything else here that you might be led by the media to morally abhor) are red herrings. These 'moral outrages' are not the real targets but the means to justify putting in place mechanisms to attack the real targets, such as the likes of the Wikileaks.

This is why their poor effectiveness does not matter and the choice is initially suggested to belong to the user. It won't last.
Does the action of insulting people really hold a light to his other actions?
I would start with "web" first. If you hit it off, then build a mobile version. My gut is always to google something on a computer and not to go to the app store and search for apps. But it could just be me.
I chose those two issues for a reason. Certainly there may be intelligent arguments for waterboarding or gay marriage, but they are few and far between those driven by emotions stirred up by the right wing media. And I don't think it's unfair to call these particular issues, as supported by mainstream conservative thought, horrible, since in the realm of torture you are going back against decades of international law and human decency, and in the case of criminalizing gay marriage you are basically carbon copying the discriminatory laws seen before the civil rights movement. Are you suggesting that just because people thought it was OK to ban interracial marriage just a mere few decades ago, it's unfair to claim that those views are horrible now?

And yes, I've read Burke and other conservative thinkers of the past. If you think these viewpoints have anything to do with mainstream "conservatism" in America, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know how I feel about immortality or hyper-long lives (not sure which one you meant). It's a complex question.

So I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your conclusion. But your argument isn't very good. I've made one that is exactly parallel.

"If you value pizza, why wouldn't you eat it forever? If you're content to one day stop eating pizza, why not stop eating it right now?"

Replace "pizza" or "life" with "X" and you have a parallel argument.

The (potential) answer is that some things change qualitatively over time, or with quantity. Life may be one of them, or it might not.

I don't think we're capable of imagining the answer. Everything we know about society is based on humans coming and going in cycles. To change this would change everything. It feels like it would be a good change, but the upsides are easier to imagine than the downsides.

"No one wants to die, ergo humanity would be better off without death." is not sound logic. We might be better off without death, but it's truly hard to say.
Do we really want to stand on the shoulders of giants looking down, flipping people off?
Yes, I think saving two lives is preferable to saving one life. What’s so hard about that? That’s simple math.

Firing shots at people is also illegal in most situations pretty much anywhere. The police gets an exemption from that blanket rule under very specific conditions. I’m consequently not sure of what the fact that firing shots in the air is illegal is supposed to convince me.

I don’t think people or the police should be allowed to fire in the air for no reason at all. That’s obviously stupid. That does certainly not mean that firing in the air can never be a great idea under very specific conditions.

I do not deny that bullets fired in the air are dangerous – but the probability of them actually being dangerous is extremely low. That’s the whole point.

I'm also not sure what that dig about probability is supposed to me. I think that probability is easy enough to roughly estimate and that any estimate leads to extremely low numbers. Estimate the area of humans exposed to the sky that would also lead to death if hit, compare it to the area of ground. For that second one you can use some densely populated area to get an upper bound.

That celebratory gunfire is common in some countries and that it – despite hundreds of shots being fired in the air – leads to only very few deaths should already tell you something about the low probability. (Celebratory gunfire is obviously stupid, though. There is no good reason to do it, nothing that could outweigh the probability of hurting or killing someone.)
Ask HN: Network for hackers without the Recruiter Spam? Meet SubRoutin.es
http://launch.subroutin.es

I've heard from friends/colleagues that the problem they have with networks like LinkedIn is that while they offer news on events, articles and of course meeting interesting people, it isn't too long before they're bombarded with recruiter spam.

SubRoutin.es will put the programmers and technical people right where they belong, at the forefront. It will be a platform to share what you're working on and discover just as much. And if a recruiter does manage to sneak his/her way on, then enough reports will get them booted right off.

Okay okay, not all recruiters are evil! the ones that provide value to the network won't find a hostile environment. There just needs to be a stop to being spammed with jobs that don't suit.

Of course every dev has gotta pay the bills, so a gig/job board will be the avenue for those looking.

If there's interest in a network where we can connect with other techies and share what we're working on and arrange meetups without the above hassles then I'd love to release it.

I'm trying my best to follow lean principles by putting a launch page up and making sure something is built that people want.

If you want to be one of the brave that get early access to the beta and shape what you want it to be, then sign up!
On the other hand, it made me chuckle. If gaining upvotes counts as gaining internet friendship, then he made out alright there.
> What is worth more; a car purchaser, or a Facebook user?

You're talking like the answer to this question is obvious. People will keep cars for 10 years, and they're as likely as not to get them from Toyota instead. At this point, Facebook is probably making a little bit of money (indirectly from Ford advertising) from that car purchase. Not as much as Ford, sure, but Facebook extracts a little bit of revenue from many, many consumer transactions.
Crockford didn't call anyone a moron. He called a piece of code stupid. There's simply no reasonable way to connect the dots from that to Crockford thinking that the person who wrote the code is mentally deficient. He just objects strongly to a particular coding style. Leave it alone.
What makes you think it has caught up?