skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's what I eventually ended up doing. I only bothered to turn on my bookmark toolbar and use it in this case though because I had a particularly strong interest in reading this article. In most other cases I would have passed it by.
No, opinion is welcome (on Stack Exchange, not necessarily on Stack Overflow) but it needs to be backed up by research or fact.

That's not the problem on the sample question.
It depends on:

Where (climate)
and
Location on house (shading)
and
Electricity Price
and
Discount Rate
and
*Utility/Government Incentives (vary by utility)

but at $5.50/W (assuming installation is free) in a place like Phoenix, you're looking at about 27 years before incentives, about 20 years after.

$5.50/W is kinda steep nowadays, but probably a decent deal for a hobbyist-sized system of this nature.
Are we talking about the same Mads who created BlogEngine.Net?

Just curious? I would hope not, but if so, my entire image of him got thrown out the door.
"it makes stallman looks pathetic (no eye contact)"

I used to hang around the FSF/Media Labs frequently as a teenager in the early to mid 1990s (the era this story is from) and met rms several times and this description didn't seem out of place to me at all.

rms is many things, some of them quite admirable, but he is also one of the most socially awkward penguins you could ever meet.
How many times are we going to keep hearing the non-apology apology: "We are sorry if some were offended..."? I am so tired of it, it has become a cliche. When did the business world/lawyers decide this was the optimal legal response to customers? My blood boils every time I read it as it is the most disingenuous, calculated, shallow tripe you can trot out when you fuck up. What ever happened to just owning up to your mistakes? What exactly are the massive consequences between saying "We're sorry" and "We're sorry some were offended"? Is it liability, lack of character, "best practices", what?
Is 'Unfollowing' Someone on Twitter the New 'Dis'?
You're right, I left that portion about, but it's also important.
sure, ballpark math: 10c per KW hour, approx a 200W panel. assume 10 perfect hours of sun each day (unlikely), then you have 20c a day. $4 a month, $50 a year, so that takes you 20 years (simple math, none of the typical MBA voodo applied).. and its the weekend my brain is on holiday and no spreadsheet on the ipad, so that could be totally wrong.
Node.js is pretty "close to the metal", and HTML-as-a-GUI holds great promise for quality, and for cross-platform delivery. Maybe you can't touch the bottom and you can't reach the top, but you can get at the widening middle.

And you used to be just a front end hacker.
just to double check, the email i just received is from you, right? :-)
Cornucopians In Space
I´m sorry if my comment could be read hostile, it was not intentional.

But what I don´t understand is what more are you trying to achieve that cannot be done in XUL with a browser tag (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/browser), and where you can stick to vanilla html/js/css, if XUL is not an option?
Plumbum: Pythonic Shell Combinators
Might be liability, but it seems like PR flacks tend to also work for politicians who have a long history of not actually apologizing.
There can be a bit of that as well. I got the swag from both english.SE (both the "stackchange" and "stackexchange" tee-shirt as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) and photo.SE (logo tee-shirt and a logo Spudz lens cloth), along with the two Joel-signed letters, a bunch of stickers and Sharpies and such, but that's not always where it ends.

Photo.SE, for instance, has a program where one can be reimbursed for equipment rentals if you write a review/how-to of the equipment for the blog (with prior approval). Of course, only one person gets the nod for any given item, but it's a great way to try a new lens or piece of studio equipment at little or no cost, and provides an educational resource for the community at the same time. It's not a program that scales well—very few of the other SE sites are nearly as focused on tools (pardon the pun)—but it's definitely the kind of touch that makes SE different. Others will (partially) reimburse for conference attendance and that sort of thing, provided that you've made a significant contribution to the site and come back with the goods.

It's just token stuff in the grand scheme of things (the odd fifty bucks here or a hundred bucks there, and not very often) but those are the kinds of tokens that make a difference.
Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle
And kids, like one who grew up on my block, who got their kicks dunking people's cats in gasoline and throwing fireworks at them? Was that just being a brat?
That's a really big if. If it's truly open source then there will also be multiple contributors. Who do you pay? People always say this "open source doesn't mean you're not allowed to sell it!" and that's technically correct, but I don't think this strategy has ever been demonstrated to be economically feasible.
how is it lightweight if it is built on top of Backbone.js?
That's true. We all do it in different ways to counter our own psychological quirks. To say that our social behavior is a reflection of our true tendencies would be a lie. A psychopath is more honest when he is acting one than when he is pretending to be like the rest of us.
People are different from each other. Some more so than others. It's evolution at work. Acknowledge it and get over it.
There's truth to both reasons mentioned here and they aswell as several others certainly added up to the failing of the Weimarer Republik. It's not as if you have to narrow it down to one specific reason.

In fact the constituion back then was very progressive and ambitious, even by todays standards, but with the lack of support even in official positions (e.g. Justice, Army sticking with the former structure and personnel) it didn't last very long.

Add to that the people's wide spread opinion of being burdened with unfairly tough first world war reparations and the regular abuse of emergency law ("Notverordnungen", not sure if the translation is correct) and there are a lot of ears listening to the ideas of the NSDAP.

This may be true for most things in life, but if there's one subject that can't be explained with only one aspect or reason, it's the republic of Weimar. It's decline is the sum of several unfortunate developments and circumstances.
Very possible. I don't think there's any huge rush to get the iTV out the door. It could also be they plan to get started with 'off-the-shelf' components but hope to do some custom parts for later models or perhaps they've been working with Apple the entire time.
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Most likely not.

Mads Christensen is kinda the danish equivalent of John Smith
My best advice:

- Buy some rental properties with your money. This will prevent you from burning through your cash based on your passion for your startup ideas, give you income to live on, and give you a certain secure, prudent confidence.

- Use your own cash very sparingly to create and test your MVPs. That's a plural.

- Other People's Money is very important validation of what you're working on. Investors give little meaning to how much of a founder's own money has been spent on a project, so why burn down your savings?

- Learning Python and front-end coding is a great idea. Even if you dont become a great developer, it will increase your understanding of developers and increase your cred with them.

- Read lecture 9 in Peter Thiel's Stanford course, and the excellent article posted here on being a "Growth Hacker".

- Be courageous, fail fast, break things, and enjoy. Keeping your financial house in stable order is a great way to feel confident and stay on an even keel through the rollercoaster that is startupland.
The problem is mainly that chat.SO sucks in a lot of ways and probably should be reduced to a single room where all SO regulars who have time to chat do chat - together. That's the way pretty much all other sites do chat (including MSO) and it's... saner. I just don't know how much it'd scale.
Exactly, I mean it was 20 yards.. I think the poor woman was confused also. Independence and living in a remote, secluded place has it's price, sadly
I completely disagree. You can't enjoy life on the dole. The nanny state is a form of cruelty. I truly believe these things. I could go on at length, but what's the point.

Fiscal conservativism != less empathy.
This kid is a textbook psychopath. I can't even imagine being a parent in that situation. What can you do, even if you think he may someday hurt someone else? I mean, you can't just drive them out to the desert and push them out of the car and speed away.
Nope, we're here to answer questions. Can a dog have the Buddha nature is argumentative, and as far as I know would be off-topic since there is no Buddha site. However, "Can a dog be saved and go to heaven" would be closer to being on-topic, since there is a christianity.se. Make sense?
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"How would you scale a web service to handle 10 hits per second? 100? 1000? 10,000? 1,000,000?"
Is there any evidence that high-level businessmen and politicians are more likely to be psychopaths than the general population?
Review:

Christensen is the best speaker I've ever heard, a paragon of equality. After hearing his deeply enlightened views on women in the workplace, my whole perspective on hiring and employee management changed. Absolutely recommended five stars A++.

XKCD: http://xkcd.com/958/

EDIT: Let this be a lesson to other companies out there, vet the people you book for...anything.
Same, expected some good counter arguments to the article mentioned in the post. Instead, it reinforced my every stereotype about business people.
no luck with online anagram websites :(
That is, imo, a very simplistic explanation of what happened in the Weimar republic. The interwar period were complex and convoluted times

The military overspend during WWI and draconian terms that the winners impose over Germany destroyed the economy of the country, creating a spiral of hyperinflation[1], both led to an inevitable second conflict, as Keynes pointed in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" that was written many years before the WWII

[1] A great book about Weimar hyperinflation cycle is "When money dies: The nightmare of the Weimar collapse"
I thought this would come up. I think redditors are too stupid even for that. I mean, there is a certain point where you're preaching the Gospel to a group of orangutans, no? Anyway, it matters not.
What I am fascinated is the widespread migration caused by unity. In my circle, users have moved distributions to mint and debian, changed to using twm, dwm and xmonad. The despair at unity was caused by the bugs, and the fact that the ubuntu android distro required a proper screen to be utilised properly. It was not caused by the concept, but the implementation. If the user unfriendliness caused by unity was intended to support smartphones and smaller screen devices, why does the mobile unity require an external screen? Baffling! The user decisions made were relatively permanent. The users who made changes don't seem to be swayed by assertions that more recent versions of ubuntu have better implementations of unity.
Not really my thing at the moment, but I think you want 'list' for 'lis' in your front line.

Good luck with the project!
Right, I'm just wondering why this is relevant to Hacker News.
Psychopathy linked to brain abnormalities
We are not, completely unrelated. The surnames are spelled differently too - Christensen (show-off) vs. Kristensen (BlogEngine).
That page had a totally obnoxious in-page pop-up which half-loaded and took a full 15 seconds to load all the parts (background image of popup and importantly the close button).
That was in response to

pirtlj commented on pull request 17 on torvalds/linux a day ago
I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink. Thanks for clearing that up...
Any idea what type of patents are in Loewe's portfolio?
Don't forget the many design examples Braun has set for apple four decades before their hardware became design pieces.

http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secr...
For business at least, there seems to be: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422644
Not as such, though many commands can be prefixed by a "universal argument" count; "C-u 5 C-n" means "move forward 5 lines", just like "5j" does in vi.

In Emacs terminology, many vi commands can be followed by a movement command, in which case they act on the region from the current point to where the movement ends up. Instead of saying "dw" (delete forward-word), you'd use something like "C-space (mark position) M-f (forward-word) C-w (kill-region, AKA 'cut'). There are many semantic movement commands, acting on the space travelled just isn't automatic.
Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, Jasmine, HAML and Rails working together
The potential of web tech for universal availability and cross-platform is very alluring, even if it still has many pitfalls and inadequacies.
So this would be the equivalent of someone complaining about a popular US comedian well known for making racist jokes?
This is an insightful post. I think a stellar example of what you get when you run with this concept and try to use it as a tool to influence others is seen in the right wing propaganda machine in the U.S.

Often one has to sit back and wonder how reasonable, decent people can support horrible policies such as banning gay marriage, torture, and so on. At least part of the reason for this is because those in power who want to enact these policies have mastered the art of making them portable outside their own extremist spheres. They do this by "attaching" these ideas to more innocent, pure, and (generally) positive beliefs that are universally held by many conservatives, if not all Americans: love of country, love of God, the fear of harm to your children, belief in fairness, belief that hard work begets success, belief in the benefits of family and community, and so on.

The magic that makes it possible for decent, loving, hard working people to support things like torture is by making the idea of torture "portable" into their worldview, by hanging it onto one or more of these core beliefs. If you don't support torture, you're not protecting your children. If you support gay marriage, you're laying the groundwork for families to unravel. It's all bullshit, of course, but these are the root things people are being convinced of: not that torture is good, or that gay marriage is evil (though it often morphs into that), but that these things are natural conclusions based upon beliefs you already have. It takes the work of an evil genius to figure out how to connect these two things together and make them portable towards groups of people who have otherwise innocent and positive beliefs, but we see it happening every day.
I imagine it should be similar to having a kid with a physical disability - I might be wrong, but as I understand it, psychopathy is said to be caused by some kind of physical deficiency in the brain. I suppose it has to be taken as something like a debilitating medical condition...

... but then how do you know?
Is that the same Thomas Bushnell who was the primary architect for HURD until he said he didn't think the GFDL was free enough and got kicked off the project by RMS for that heresy?
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Ever wonder why it's so difficult to learn about exits?
Research I've seen reported seems quite dubious. For instance, a CEO may take decisions that 'harm' hundreds of employees and not appear to feel anything like 'remorse.' That could be because he's a psychopath... but a more likely explanation is that he is confident that his decision was ethical and justified.
I don't think it does support blanket tarring if interpreted reasonably.

I don't see it as a positive thing when science gets suppressed because it's conclusions are considered politically incorrect or unfortunate -- either by the left or the right.

We should have a heightened watchfulness for political bias from the researchers in these cases, sure, but usually it's not the researchers who are misinterpreting or over-interpreting or drawing heavily political conclusions from their work.
I prefer programmers.stackexchange.com and really want to contribute more, but the heavy handed closing of questions gors on there and it's really putting me off.
Obligatory: https://github.com/oyvindkinsey/easyXDM
V. insightful: One way to make an idea portable is to attach it to another idea that is strongly held in another “bubble."
> How many times are we going to keep hearing the non-apology apology: "We are sorry if some were offended..."?

About as many times as we make powerful people apologise in public, especially when they're not really feeling guilty. And it's not always in that form, sometimes it's closer to Clinton's "mistakes were made". While most non-apologies are pretty standard, there is some variation and innovation.
It does seem that Dropbox did not fix the app rejection issue at all. Instead, they complied with Apple's demands until Apple approved the app again.
[ Newbie ] exit - Command Line - User Environment 0x04
I see it as risk avoidance. The learning curve with the basic WMs is steep but a one-time cost. With richer WMs, You pay a tax with your time and productivity every time the UI designers f* with your s*. It seems like UI designers these days are about making BOLD MOVES without apologies.
You can't have it both ways. You started out by saying, "I think this is largely the expression of terrible, terrible social skills." If our level of sexism and sexist behavior is the same as the rest of society, then social skills are irrelevant. If lower social skills magnify existing sexism, then either our level of bad behavior should be much higher or our level of sexism would have to be lower.

I think the reason it comes up here is that it's a field that attracts smart, idealistic people who are unlikely to be consciously sexist (but still have a lot of bad behaviors and unconscious attitudes). Another factor is that the low ratio of women makes it easier for sexist and misogynistic subcultures and workplaces to exist.
I wouldn't go as far as saying he's explicitly known for making racist jokes. He is however known for (and markets himself as) being politically incorrect - which may very well include both racism and chauvinism.
>the Hegemon.

Okay, after searching the web I give up. Can you please explain what that is? (I get a general gist from related words but it would be nice to know what you're specifically referring to.)
Thanks. One thing I forgot to mention is that this becomes a self-perpetuating cycle by turning those holding the opposing viewpoint into enemies: if you're against torture, you are putting my children in harms way, if you are for gay marriage, you are destroying my family and community, etc.
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made), some version of "mistakes were made" dates back to Ulysses S. Grant, though it seems that Nixon popularized it.
No, he was an asshole.
In a "watch and learn" example of the halo effect, note the quoting of people on why to learn design. Personally the effect would work much better if they hadn't quoted Jobs. At a quick glance if they had just Graham, John Maeda and one other person or equal stature it might have seemed like a personal endorsement of sorts.
Rumor has it that Rickles is still doing the occasional corporate gig...
VC model is broken
It's either 100% lack of spine or 100% no clue.

Look at how well startups apologise when they get things wrong compared to long-established companies. They admit wrong and seek to put things right as soon as they are called on it. This is not just good PR: It's good morality, but it takes backbone.

Startups, though, are still run by their founders: people who know what they started their company to achieve and what moral code they were determined to adhere to while they achieved it…

…Dell on the other hand is, these days, run by some guy called "Michael Dell". Oh. Hang on.
Not even psychologists and psychiatrists agree on what sociopath/psychopath/ASPD (anti-social personality disorder) means.

http://helpingpsychology.com/sociopath-vs-psychopath-whats-t...

That article proposes that while most people consider the terms interchangeable, some people consider sociopaths to be psychopaths with additional personality disorders; from the description that additional disorder could be in the schizoid spectrum or something else like bipolar disorder that would cause them to be under-socialized.

Exhibit 2. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/us-brains-psychopa...

Those English psychiatrists are trying to redefine ASPD to mean hot-headed with poor impulse control, which is the opposite of my understanding of what it is: lacking empathy or deep emotions. Those shrinks want that to be called "psychopathy", and distinguish it from their redefined ASPD, even though psychopathy/sociopathy/ASPD currently, according to many psych professionals, refer to the same general thing.

I can see how some hot-headed criminals might seem to fit the clinical definition of ASPD, but I don't see how any reputable shrink would diagnose poor impulse control as ASPD. Borderline personality disorder, for instance, could be a better fit for many "hot heads".
I believe it's a reference to the Ender's Game series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enders_Game, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Hegemon), as lampooned here: http://xkcd.com/635/
i have had similar thoughts about kids i knew growing up, and a few have had a tough time in life. kids (peers) may be better at identifying warning signs than adults.
Apple also bought Emagic in 2002 - a German company known for its 'Logic' sequencer.
The thing I don't understand about this is that it seems to me that when public figures, companies, etc come out with genuine apologies, it ends up being a net positive. They garner respect from their friends and their enemies. They get good press. They often manage to repair most of the relationships that were in question.

It almost seems like that even if someone were not feeling guilty, the logical thing would be to pretend like you are and submit a real apology. I find it hard to believe that folks who are already so good at stretching the truth to their own benefit like politicans would somehow let their personal ego and pride get in the way of them making a fake "real" apology if that would benefit them the most. It seems to me that there is some underlying calculus that all these actors have made that issuing a bogus one has a better net effect that a real one. I suppose I should be thankful that if this is the case then at least we are going to be able to tell the bullshitters from the honest people, since only the honest ones will be making genuine apologies despite their potential for harm.
It's a reference to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_(series)

More specifically, a pair of kids (neither of which is the main character) create online pseudonyms ("Locke" and "Demosthenes") and eventually use them to convince the world of their great ideas (that they post in online forums). One of the kids eventually becomes "Hegemon," or the world leader.

By the way, I'd extremely highly recommend "Ender's Game" (the first book). Besides being an utterly awesome book, I even got a friend who "hated" reading to try it, and even he liked it. I mean, it's that good.
Actually apologizing admits to wrongdoing, which opens one up to liability and other consequences. Not apologizing at all is seen as callous and only incites the mob against you. A non-apology apology is still enough to settle the mob but not enough to open one up to liability. The only downside is that it upsets intelligent people like you and I who are capable of actually parsing and understanding these kinds of statements. Most people are content with something that sounds like an apology.