skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I'm not sure how startups' focus on iPod apps is related to race and ethnicity. Probably because it isn't, but hey, you were on a rant so okay.

2. Indian people in the United States do not identify themselves as "dot Indians". Perhaps it is easy to differentiate between different peoples who are called "Indians" by whether or not they stereotypically wear a bindi, but it also, unfortunately, propagates the notion that "them Indian people over there with them dots." It's yet another stereotype people have to deal with on a daily basis when trying to fit into society, and it takes away the focus from treating people as, well, as people, and focusing on the work they do or the value they bring.

3. Similarly, by speaking of "wild Indians" it does indeed marginalize a people and shoehorn them into a stereotype of being uncouth individuals. There are thieves and poachers in all parts of the world, and to say that Native American poachers are any worse than any others is, again, a stereotype and probably untrue.

4. In that light, I never really grew up in a society where rampant poaching by Native Americans was a problem. Perhaps living in a native tribal village, where everyone was part of an Alaskan Native tribe, the only people around to do any poaching were natives. But there is no reason to believe that they would be any more despicable than poachers of any other ethnicity.

This isn't about politics. It's about treating people fairly and equitably, and since that is something that we often do a poor job of doing, well, the things we write and say help form our culture.

And since we're on hacker news, where we tend to value correctness, the presuppositions that your comments make are unfounded and lack truthiness. That isn't being "politically correct"; merely "correct".
The problem with this is that humans are actually really bad at reading others' intentions-not to mention the fact that several people who commit atrocious acts see themselves as good, e.g. Al Capone.

My aim is to judge others by their repeated actions and track record. This is hard, but I've definitely found it worth doing.
The U.S. Centric View on the World in 1962.

Except the Mongolian photo. How did it make there?
'Drive' Review
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It looks and feels the same with the originals.
That was the picture that struck me most as well. Reminded me of this "Iran in the 70s" collection

http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-...
For a variety of reasons I recently needed a reverse proxy(#1) and went with Apache 2.2 w/Google's mod_spdy. What are the advantages, if any (above and beyond that nginx has a lot of cred right now), of using nginx? In a prior build-out nginx didn't even support HTTP/1.1 on the inside side of the reverse proxy, while Apache 2.2 does.

#1 - We use it as a "least effort" geodistributed CDN. GeoDNS directs worldwide users (a small number of very high value users) to their local reverse proxy that has local caching of cacheable resources. Those proxies speak to the normal HTTP back-end servers through an SSH tunnel).
"I'd like to make it easy for people who learn JavaScript to get into scientific and numerical computing without having to learn Python (& company). (I know it's easy to learn Python"

I don't like artificial barriers, but I also think the group of people who could "get into scientific and numerical computing" and for whom learning Python would be even a minor stumbling block is infinitively small. I also think that the world would be better of if those for whom that would be a stumbling block did not "get into scientific and numerical computing". Because of that, I advise you to reconsider whether doing this is worth your time.
You initial point is related to the fundamental attribution error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

But I have to agree with the others, I think there is more to being "smart" than just being able to accept that others may change.
> If anyone is interested in building Hacker News with photos get in contact.

I think you are totally not getting whats the value in HN. Seriously, do you see at least one picture on this site, except their logo?

If anything, it would be interesting to see Pinterest for HN comments. So often I miss out reading amazing comment because I either skip it or did not come back to the board when it showed up. Perhaps an idea where hackers could "pin" awesome comments to their boards and then I could lookup hackers by their karma (or karma/their lifetime here to see high karma on average per post) and follow hackers that pin awesome comments (so I can read more amazing comments in less time, with a "comb"), perhaps that idea would fly.

But not photos for HN for cry out loud.
Apache OpenOffice. Windows Users Dominate Downloads
The Optimistic Directive (Neal Stephenson seeks optimistic science fiction)
Nope. It's not even possibly to buy any unless you're an accredited investor.
Very few people act without good motivation to do so. So when most people see someone engaging in an act that is "stupid" they are generally failing to see their motivation for the act.
I think all this applies only to developer tools/libraries. There interested people can also help i.e. they find a bug and fix it and if they are nice, they contribute.

Projects for end-users tend to either have a corporate interest behind them, are ex-commercial projects, have a strong core developer team without which the project will die or just live and die unnoticed.

As in every project, if you think 90% is done actually less then 50% is done. Documentation, installers, etc. are all a lot of work. Try getting a new package into the major Linux distributions!

If you do not have documentation, installers etc. you won't get users and your project will be irrelevant - if you are lucky someone contributes, but most often everybody has his own pet projects in which they are emotionally invested.
Exactly. Humans are more likely to attribute their own behavior to situational factors (I acted stupidly because I haven't gotten much sleep recently) and the behavior of others to inherent characteristics (he's stupid).

Edit: What I may have slightly mischaracterized is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error, and I guess I'm one of many pointing it out here.
Ford tweaks GM about Facebook ads
Personally, I really like the design. The only thing I would do would be to slightly increase the line-height on your copy. It should make it slightly easier to read (I usually aim for about 1.5em but some prefer slightly less).
Quick list of videos about the top stories in Tech
Nginx is widely regarded to be much more efficient than Apache, as it using non-blocking IO. I believe Nginx does support HTTP/1.1 now.
> you don't need Ruby to use it, which is a big plus for Windows users

Not just. It's a plus for someone who already uses CoffeeScript in a Django project and don't want to bring in another huge piece of infrastructure as a dependency.
> Already a veteran of several start-ups at the tender age of 17

> Groom attended Dev Bootcamp straight out of high school, skipping college to move to Silicon Valley.

On the other hand, college could be pretty useful if you aren't already selling startups in high school...
Is Death Bad for You?
1 programmer + 1 designer + 5 years = the "Finnegan's Wake" of video games
Sounds like I have ADHD.

>identified as likely having ADHD //

Yes this is the part I'm interested in, what's the diagnostic
process you've gone through?
The “Build Something Fun And Win Some Pi” Contest
Anonymous hater claims responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS attack
India proposes government control of Internet at UN General Assembly
I always read Steve's articles with a mix of fascination and horror. If I ever find myself taking him too seriously I just look at the bottom right of the page and remember that he believes that the number 11:11 has magic properties and is evidence that the universe is sending him secret messages. (Really, look at the bottom right of the page).
Typical CNN. The study finds an association, so CNN reports a causation.
My guess is that if you're drinking 6 cups of coffee a day, you've probably got yourself a nice white collar job - and a lot of the other life lengthening perks that come along with gainful employment.
Hi, yes actually I tried exactly that. It cost me $60 / customer, which is over my lifetime value so I discontinued advertising there.

Here's my stats from the attempt: http://www.bemmu.com/stats-from-advertising-candy-japan-on-r...

Things might be different now, the page was less optimized back then. I might try again later, but I'm really hoping Reddit would just lower their minimum daily spend. Right now they have no advertiser there at all, I'd love to advertise if it was just a tad cheaper.
What happens under this law if you are already living in the US and renounce your citizenship for tax reasons and have no other country of which you are a resident? Do you get deported to NULL?
Senators want to block Facebook’s Saverin from reentering the U.S
The need for easter eggs
If you have Varnish then why have nginx? Is there an advantage to having nginx do the request routing?
Show HN: Nodo, command line TODO app in Node
In case it's not clear -- you know all those people who want to have passive income but have mental barriers to the concept of passive income? They are imaginary. There is no one saying, "why would I want money coming in every month for something I did years ago, instead of going to work?" Not being comfortable with the "passive income mindset," as the author describes the problem, is not a mental barrier human beings have.

The purpose of setting up a fictional person who doesn't like money coming in every month is so the author can explain at length how great his life supposedly is, and implicitly how great your life will be if you reject the stupid Friend character and instead give the author some money. This is not ambiguous. It's about as subtle as those Axe Body Spray commercials.

What real people have concerns about is whether the particular strategies available to them for generating ongoing income will be reliable, lasting, or lucrative enough to be worth the effort. That's an interesting question. But this article is an elaborate pitch not to address those concerns but to make you ignore them long enough to give the author some cash. If you're considering it, here's a hint: the small percentage of people who manage to start successful businesses are the ones who don't fall for this kind of pitch when they're spending their money.
AGREED
I share your distaste for 802.11. DECT also is lower power, longer range and even offers audio if you want it.

Bottom line, however, is that there is a huge installed base of 802.11. Every phone, home, and business already has it. You either stubbornly fight the tide, or you roll with it and use it to your advantage.
Well, for those who agree with the talk's sentiment, it having not made the cut is probably the best thing that could have happened to it. Now it will reach way more people under the false assumption that it was "censored".
Doubt Cast on the 'Good' in 'Good Cholesterol'
Virtualization for High-Performance Cloud computing 2012 CfP
I'm naive about ADHD but not that naive.

I was specifically interested in the TV part rather than trying to suggest that if they could concentrate [on TV] that was asymptomatic of any disorder that might have been diagnosed.

Thanks for the reading suggestion.

At what point does ignoring people (or bodily needs, or whatever) because you're focussed [which is genuinely something I do] become "hyper focus" and how is one differentiated from the other diagnostically?
My personal favourite:

gem install pry
pry -r ./config/environment

(or add pry-rails to your Gemfile)

http://pry.github.com/
> The same thing will happen if the record industry embraces piracy. People will just expect to get it for free from then on.

But you can get most mainstream artists for free already. Check out the VEVO channels on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/VEVO

Hell, Justin Bieber now has 2,5 BILLION views on his VEVO channel. If that isn't giving away your music for free, then I don't know what is. And apparently he and his record company is making money anyway.

The industry actually moved on, music is free, as long as you listen to it online in a way that you get occasional ads. It's radio, effectively. If you want to be able to listen to it on any device, offline, without ads, well, then it's 0,99$ a song.
HTTPS works for appspot domains, so I thought I'd redirect them to bemmu1.appspot.com for the checkout. That wouldn't exactly inspire confidence in the service, but just until App Engine gets around to adding proper support.
Here's a dump of blogs I follow that have lots of devops-oriented contents.

http://www.kartar.net/

http://www.kitchensoap.com/

http://www.masterzen.fr/

http://blog.nistu.de/

http://www.jedi.be/blog/

http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

http://www.unixdaemon.net/

http://www.rottenbytes.info/

http://blog.lusis.org/

http://bitfieldconsulting.com/

http://agilesysadmin.net/
Adjust Layout View Options & Improved Font Change in JasperReports
The long awaited version of Aspose.Words for JasperReports 1.5.0 has been released. This release introduces several new options for better layout view. Now users can enable or disable options like export rectangles as frames, move elements to frames and use exact row heights etc. We’ve also improved Font changed and background lost upon exporting to DOCX and wrong page break in Generated Docx. Starting from this release there will be 2 versions of jar libraries available, for JasperReports 3.7.4 and higher aspose.words.jasperreports.jar and for JasperReports 3.7.1 and lower aspose.words.jasperreports-3.7.1.jar. The list of new & improved features in this release are listed below

•	Export rectangles as frames (default=true)
•	Move elements to frames (default=true)
•	Use exact row heights (default=true)
•	Font is changed and background is lost upon exporting to DOCX is fixed
•	Overlapping Jasper Frames in Word Exporter is fixed
•	Wrong page break in Generated Docx is fixed
•	When placing text within a frame with JasperReports the right indent is set to a wrong value.
•	Problem with Jrxml to Docx conversion
•	The characters cut off in output docx is fixed.
Java seems to possess the correct combination of features: mature platform, wide adoption, familiar syntax, readily-available developers, maintainability by those other than the original authors (Java isn't necessarily great at this, but better than many), and a quality that I'll describe only as hard to really fuck things up too badly. If it wasn't for that last requirement, I'd already be trying to sell Python to my boss; as it stands, if I can't find some really awesome static analysis and verification tools for Python

I think one can make a case that Groovy comes pretty damn close, and at least as close as any other "scripting language on the JVM."

Platform: Well, it's the JVM.

Wide Adoption: Define "wide?" But from what I can see, Groovy is pretty popular, especially Grails. There are plenty of books on Groovy/Grails, Grails meetups / users groups in many cities, an active community of developers, etc. There are even consulting companies that focus on Groovy and Grails. SpanTree in Chicago, IL come to mind.

Familiar Syntax: Groovy is great in this regard, as almost any .java file can be renamed to .groovy and compiled with groovyc. Most of the syntax that's different between Java and Groovy is optional in Groovy, so you can start off writing Groovy that is very Java-like and slowly evolve to more idiomatic Groovy over time.

Maintainability: No better or worse than any other dynamic language, IMO. If you have access to metaprogramming and duck-typing and what-not, there opportunity for abuse is there. But Groovy's culture does not seem to be big on a lot of BFM.

hard to really fuck things up too badly - hmm... that's pretty subjective, but to that point, Groovy does have unit-testing tools, static analysis tools, etc. available. The ecosystem might not quite as rich as of that for pure Java, but I think you can find what you need to create a sane development environment.
I never understand this complaint. It's a US-based news source (The Atlantic) posted to a US-based news aggregator (HN). Why would you expect, or demand, it to not be US centric? You're more than welcome to post collections like this from non-US news sources on hacker news, if you wish.
Ha! A friend of mine built something exactly like that for blind people [not for judging direction, I think for judging proximity to objects].

Haptics is a really awesome field that I feel is going to be really really important moving forward with some of this new HCI stuff.
.NET on Unix can be a really pleasant experience, to be honest (I'm even working on a blog post.NET on Unix), but as much as I think it could be awesome for a start-up, I do not currently believe that it's a viable option for a conservative enterprise. Right now, we're going through a heretofore unprecedented deluge of open-source .NET libraries, and along with that has come a massive spike in Mono-compatible frameworks, but it's still a bit of an uphill struggle if you're coming from the Mono side. MonoDevelop is no VisualStudio, for example, and while NuGet runs fine on Unix, you miss out on all the pieces that integrate with solution files. I am optimistic you could pick .NET for Unix in a year or two for super-conservative corporate development, but I get your requirements, and regretfully believe you're making the only viable decision right now.
No, try reading it again. "So if you decide someone is stupid, it means you’re not thinking, which is not being smart."

"Not being smart" != "is stupid" is exactly the distinction he is making.
It's the same story with Lebanon and Iraq. We can take the opportunities of modern society for granted, but so much can be destroyed by war.
Yet another very nice HTML5 presentation framework with no GUI for actually making nice presentations. Until someone spends some time putting some actual user tools around one of these things, HTML5 presentation tools will remain a geek sandbox.
NPR article on the same study, with link to the study itself, http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/16/152835058/can-co...
The Gumtree Forums are now closed
Thank you! So far there have been 23 new subscribers today that I would attribute to this HN post.
How over-capacity hurts your scalability
thanks, will include these in the future.
I could see imposing US capital gains taxes, but barring travel to the US seems vindictive.
Off-the-shelf forensics tool slurps iPhone data via iCloud
Here you go: http://awwation.com
Unfinished, but it works. Code's on github.
"Yeah, it would be weird to have a black friend." ... I have a hard time believing the kids weren't getting it from the parents.

I know that school is still basically exclusively white

I think this is a non sequitur. (IMO) the stuff about "people are colorblind until society teaches them otherwise" is ridiculous, so you put these kids in an environment with no black children? Of course they are going to see black children as strange- they haven't had the opportunity to interact and learn otherwise. It doesn't have to have anything to do with racist comments from their parents.
Open Source Guitar Effects Pedal
Google's new search technique augments search results with associated facts
Hmm, but did they get bigger sales because they were leaked? Or did they get leaked because they were in more demand in the first place?

Also it doesn't really matter because the core of the argument will always be individual rights and control of intellectual property.
Pry is indeed amazing.

Don't miss the various extensions which are out there:

http://banisterfiend.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/the-pry-ecosys...

You can give it basic debugger stepping abilities, you can do remote sessions, you can have it automatically drop in a REPL before an exception, repair it, and carry on, it's amazing. Really shows off the power of ruby.
Le Territoire des Loups
From a career perspective, I believe not going to college was the best choice I could have made. Not even for the startup life, just the regular 9-5. From a personal growth perspective though, I probably missed out on a lot.

It's impossible to have everything in life. I optimized for my career, but those who optimize for other areas of their life are to be respected too. The hard part is figuring out what you want from life straight out of high school, with very little real-world experience.
"Most of the "normal" young people I meet these days behave either like wild Indians (feather not dot) or slovenly Barbarians."

I hope you realize this is incredibly racist.
nginx can compress your HTTP traffic, while Varnish can't. So there are some things you would need nginx for.

However, I really think that nginx should implement proper support for WebSockets by now. I have requested this previously, but the request got unanswered.
I have a slow caffeine metabolism (SNP: rs762551) and according to some studies this may lead to me to develop heart disease if I drink too much caffeine.

The fact that I'm a minority and that fast metabolizers might actually benefit from caffeine says to me that going just on that article might not be a good idea.

A majority of people might benefit from caffeine, while a minority might have really dire consequences.

/edit this is all preliminary research so add more weight to "might" that I use here.
Can you expand on why you recommend Fireworks over Photoshop, please?
Is There a Drone in Your Backyard?
How about another category of income called "My needs income". An income where you set the work, the ideas, the amount of hours you put in (vs. amount of hours you spend with your loved ones/leisure etc.) and the amount of money you can make out of it.
Some people are ok with maintaining a blog and making few hundred bucks a month (maintaining a day job perhaps) while some people want to take the full entrepreneurial plunge risking everything they got but hoping for a huge payout in terms of time, money and personal gratification.
You can try my iPad app Imprys (http://imprys.com/), which does just that. It's in an early stage, and currently uses impress.js, but if there's interest, I can produce a version with presenteer as well.
Interestingly enough, the framing of the Quora question leaves out "the buyers" as part of the critical circle for wealth creation. That is the role that, I thought, Hanauer's talk was pointing out is played by the middle class. Perhaps the Quora question meant to capture them as "the workers", but that, according to my interpretation of the talk, mislabels their most critical role.
Thanks for the encouragement, I sometimes wonder whether or not I really have any idea what I'm doing. :)
Article gone :(
There's also jmpress.js[1], which is the jQuery port of impress.js and improves on several aspects.

[1] http://sokra.github.com/jmpress.js/#/home
And you also just screwed the artists you didn't like out of cash. Note: before you say you wouldn't have bought them anyway...that's how it works. You either listen to it on the radio / youtube etc for free. Then get to own the whole pristine mp3 version of it after you pay for it, not before.