skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A further thought: PG talks about Blub languages and Blub programmers (in both cases, those at level X can look down at level X-3 and see what it's missing, but those at level X-3 look up at level X and just thing "WT?").*

Which I find mostly a Blub observation. Yes, some languages have some more features than others. In any case the benefits are marginal compared to: their libraries, the general ecosystem (programmers, jobs, books, etc), stable, fitness for the job etc.

It's not like anybody will be more proficient writing a kernel or a 3D FPS in Lisp, just because it has garbage collection and C lacks it. Actually, C will be better suited for the kernel job PRECISELY because it lacks garbage collection.

And if you are in rural Romania, you'd be better of with CodeIgniter for your brochure-style web design firm, than with Snap, that is if you want to have a team with more than one programmer in it.
CodeSchool: Real-time Web with Node.js
MinuteSort with Flat Datacenter Storage
Can a sexual harassment suit shatter the glass ceiling in tech?
"They've been embarrassed in the press"

They've actually been profiled as a reasonable company that invests in the future. How many people reading this article know AOL as "that company that first sent me discs in the mail" and previously thought AOL as a dead company?

AOL gets free, positive press showing that they're not dead, they're investing in the future, and that they're reasonable. The positive spin this article gives them is worth every penny of resources spent.
Google takes down 1.2M search links a month over piracy, © issues
Author of the review here:

Yes, this book will be for you. I haven't read those other books, but this book is very light on the actual java usage. As long as you can create a class, and create a test class in java. You should be good. Follow along with the examples, and do all of them. I'm assuming that you'll be using an IDE.
Yes, he sold at $37.58 than price moves up, than 31$ and for markets news, that he bought shares at 31 back, can possibly be a big catalyst for growth. That's just a joke, i suppose this was not his purpose, but this "move" could be a big biz.
If I can get on my soapbox for a second (and let me know if this isn't cool - I just like pointing people towards more effective products), I'd like to call attention to http://www.lookwork.com, which was designed and developed by Ben & Eric of Svpply fame quite a few years ago using the jQuery Masonry that people seem to think is Pinterest's bread and butter. You can follow friends, tag images, add your own feeds and sync it to your Dropbox.

Lookwork, out-of-the-box, has a ton of fantastic inspiration feeds that are of much higher quality than Pinterest and Piccsy. In fact, when I received the email about Piccsy yesterday, I made a tongue-in-cheek tweet about the worth of an image aggregate that doesn't even aggregate quality images (both in resolution and their usefulness to the user - sorry Daniel).

I've been really pushing the site over the past few years despite the founders leaving it nigh high and dry after Svpply took up more of their time (and after they really bombed their public launch).

Regardless, if you're a creative or a dev looking for design inspiration, I'd highly suggest Lookwork over any other platform I've tried (and I'm a sucker for curation sites, so I sign up and use all of them). I'm really hoping they integrate it with Svpply and make it a truly one stop shop for all things visual.

Note: It does cost $5, which I kind of wish they'd drop unless you want more advanced features. I can see about getting people invites if anyone is interested.

Also, to say something from a design perspective on this pitch deck, it's rather annoying as between all of the CSS3 transform effects forcing the text to juggle between antialiased and subpixel and whatever resizing mechanism is causing the images to blur, it's hard to read/follow. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
I second this request. Been wondering more about this process ever since I noticed, sometime in January, that Rust (a nascent language with very little use yet) was ranked in the low-20s for language popularity. The problem likely had to do with how the Rust devs registered their language with Github's Linguist[1] project; Rust's units of compilation ("crates") have the .rc extension, and Github must have taken this to mean that every project with a .rc file (notably many Android-specific projects) contained Rust code. The Rust devs have since revoked that association from Linguist[2], but since Github takes a while to reevaluate a project's language breakdown, the language's popularity ranking on Github is still artificially inflated (sitting at #31 at the moment).

[1] https://github.com/github/linguist

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/1512
There are different degrees "commercial." It's not a binary distinction.
Everyone, use DuckDuckGo.com
that was really hard to read. And I only have a vague idea of what you are.

it does look really nice though.
Actually I think calling it 'financial independence' would head off a bunch of knee-jerk reactions and make it a lot easier to have a real discussion about.
Very cool - sounds like it is amazingly easy to deploy too. And inexpensive: http://www.iriscouch.com/
Future Passed: When we dreamed of television (2012)
In the end it's the same or worse. You'll be drowned in taxes in the typical European country with good free healthcare.
Who cares? It has no impact on your life, or startup.
In college I lived comfortably on $10k/yr in a high COL area.
Max Payne on iOS?
I wouldn't say this is too much work actually. It's beautifully designed and coded but a decent designer/coder duo can probably finish this in a week, iterations can happen after.

I believe they must have some sort of a Keynote presentation that is evolving constantly, to show in meetings or so. This thing is for showing off maybe.

My personal opinion is heck yeah it's worth it! I mean, even if it turns out to be not such a good idea for startups to consider, it's innovative if they have some good plans for growing -I believe they do considering that the founder is already in this field (vizualize.me)- it would be like creating some sort of a startups meme.
Please stop calling things that are not real-time real-time.
NodeJS + NowJS + Music = Synchronously listening to music together (Juke)
I think you're supposed to do the study sheet in class so that it doesn't use up any extra time.
In his case, it was a combination of frugality, a decent paying job, and good investing, esp. in real estate (note the "Eventually both rentals were sold and the gains were put elsewhere.") in the "Brief History of the Stash" article. Having gains on real estate probably means he sold them pre-crash.

I'm a fan of the MMM blog because it describes an attainable alternative lifestyle for talented people who aren't already wealthy. It may not be a lifestyle that many people want, but at least it's a change from the high college debt, two income trap, expensive city lifestyle that seems to be the norm for lots of young families.

I don't aspire to live on 20K per year, but thinking about how lowering your personal "burn rate" can give you more freedom in your life is a great mental exercise.
It's the reddit's algo, isn't it?
There was a minor config problem, but should be good now. Thanks for digging into it!
"everyone is a rational actor"

And that's why the message to Harvard graduates[1] (purportedly America's brightest rational minds) makes deliberate reference to a man[2] who has consistently proven this to be false. The message also is centered around another pillar of rationality: the idea of "luck".

1. A link to this was recently posted here on HN.

2. One who was "lucky" enough to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
this is my concern. As a developer and a manager I am immediately put on guard by companies with flashy propaganda. My first thought is, "Do they go out of their way to make it look nice in order to cover up a mediocre product?"

But that's just my initial reactions. Sometimes it is true, sometimes it isn't.
Think like a suit (and bill yourself for your own time)
Nice work, but what the app actually does is not evident on first glance when you scroll the page. You get to the solution, see the streams (and might not see that you can open some of them), the scroll lower, and see the team etc.

Doesn't really tell me anything about the app itself.
Oops, sorry, meant:

service httpd configtest

I.e run the proper init script (which might also do other checks), not just test the apache config, as you wouldn't also just start apache with apachectl.

Even if you have your own version of apache compiled, you should still provide your own init script, and write in in the standard service way.
Filed under "How did I not know this?!", with credit to @hmason on Twitter.
We are here to provide a platform for Men to share strictly male content.
http://llvm.org/demo/index.cgi is a similar tool for clang.
love pv, mostly use it for percentage bar on db restores:

pv -f *.sql.gz | zcat | mysql db_instance_name
He is also a Professor at Georgetown and teaching graduate level theory of computation and distributed computing:

http://cs.georgetown.edu/~cnewport/index.html

So the opportunity is there to take his course and practice his message.
Python for Data Analysis (new O'Reilly book from creator of Pandas)
Makes it sounds like these days you sell Pitch Decks to investors, not businesses
Smart move. Didn't realize it at first :)
Quebec cops kettle and mass-arrest demonstrators
Electric Ferrari Millenio - Futuristic super-car concept.
The best products are just bits of junk bolted together in 7 days
Apple claims that pushing a DRMed single vendor solution (basically intending the industry lock-in) is not anti-competitive? Whom are they trying to fool?
Utilizando ListView para fazer um CRUD (in portuguese)
I think we have different ideas about what the word 'rationalization' means because in my definition what I wrote does not fit that definition.

But to respond to this point: "I'd hesitate to do business with them again -- they couldn't be trusted to ethically consider both sides of a moral/ethical/legal quandary and resolve those gray areas to our mutual benefit."

When evaluating a series of events involving grey areas its always useful to try to understand the principles that are in play. Different sets of principles would lead you down two different paths.

You state your goal is to "resolve those gray areas to our mutual benefit." If you were an investor in Eric's startup you would see that his actions did exactly that, he resolved the grey area to the benefit of the startup which mutually benefits him and the investor. If he had been living for free in AOL's facility so that he could play Diablo III all day on their fast internet connection he would be resolving the grey area to benefit only himself.

So it seems that Eric's guiding principle is 'make the business successful.' And that is a good principle to invest in, but you have to consider 'at what cost.' And that is where people spend thousands of hours in business ethics classes. A typical ethics class might raise the question "Who was harmed?" and how. And the other party here is AOL, so it is up to AOL to determine how they would calculate the harm here. They could use a metric of "What would be different if this hadn't happened?" Would their network bill have changed? Would their food bill? Water bill? Since I've got visibility in to the way these things are costed I can tell you that no, there was probably zero difference in AOL's overall costs with Eric living there and had he not lived there. There was however potential liability on two counts, one the zoning laws don't allow for people to live in buildings zoned for commerce/industrial so AOL has a legal obligation to stop it when they find it, and two there is some injury liability if Eric managed to injure himself while living there. Some of that would be covered by their blanket policy on their facilities with respect to 'guests' and some they could be on the hook for if it could be proven that they knew he was living there and had done nothing about it. Since they clearly acted as soon as they became suspicious he was living there I don't think they incurred any legal liability at all.

Now Eric could use a similar line of reasoning to rationalize his action, I don't know one way or the other. I am just looking at the facts we know and observing what was at stake.

From a business perspective, if you have a potential partner who is focused on making the business successful you can be pretty sure they will resolve questions to your mutual benefit. On the other hand if they tend to resolve those questions to their personal benefit, without regard to the impact on the business then I agree they are not worth doing business with.
sorry for the delay. As far as I am aware, none of the browsers expressed vocal and specific support for <picture>. In fact, as I understand it, a few had reservations about the element, but these were not expressed to the members of the Responsive Images Community Group either.
Kickstarter does not seem to approve every project. As discovered here [1], there are currently at least 70,000 unpublished projects. For comparison, between 2010 and 2011 they launched 38,000 projects. [2]

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405270230437150...
[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/2011-the-stats
I totally see where you're coming from on this, but I think you're placing an awful lot of importance on things that might not be that important.

I'd say starting a design shop could count as company ops experience, but not everyone who starts a startup has experience. Indeed, people start up without experience all the time. From the looks of the presentation they have an MVP, have users and have burned through less money than they're asking for (although the details we don't know).

I don't know enough about Moxy to tell whether or not that's yes, but I would say it might not be wholly necessary and would be down to the investor to decide.
>The 'service' equivalent is: service httpd configtest

Yep, typo-ed it.

>What does 'going ghetto' mean exactly?

The slang meaning of the term in this case: a low level, jury rigged solution.
The problem is in the "do whatever you want with your time" phase you actually aren't "doing whatever you want with your time." You are doing things that don't cost much money to do, like volunteer at a homeless shelter or contribute to open source projects. If that is your life's passion, good for you, and maybe this plan would work.

But also, don't forget, during this 'early retirement' you're in a very risky financial situation full of worry for a very long time. (Probably the rest of your life.) If a $50k hospital bill comes your way, you're in a bad spot. You're potentially drawing down your assets over the years if you spend a little bit more than you thought you would so the risk could go up over time. In the approach above I outlined you still go into a period of risk, but it's shorter (with higher risk) since after a point you are shielded from financial worries.

The "buy a new car today" example was just that, an example. It could also mean "travel to Italy to work on my open source project out of a coffeeshop" or "open up my own homeless shelter to help my local community."
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That's awesome, thanks duskwuff.

Just one quote: "I asked my friend Greg Robbins to help me. His contract in another division at Apple had just ended, so he told his manager that he would start reporting to me. She didn't ask who I was and let him keep his office and badge. In turn, I told people that I was reporting to him. Since that left no managers in the loop, we had no meetings and could be extremely productive."

If you have a spare 15 minutes you really should read this.
A programming language is independent of its implementation. If web browsers supported CoffeeScript natively, would that make it more of a language?
European startups need to get a Valley education, and fast
Did Microsoft Drop Windows98.com and OfficeXP.com?
It is a crime (morally wrong, if not outright encoded in law) to download someone else's work for free

Other people have gotten into moral arguments here, and I'll leave them to it, but I should point out that downloading a file is not, legally speaking, a crime. Its not a felony, its not even a misdemeanor. Its just a civil infraction. Just like breaking the speed limit isn't a crime[1].

[1]Well, if you exceed it by 20 mph where I grew up it becomes "criminal speeding", a misdemeanor.

EDIT: I wonder if we wouldn't all be better of if we started talking about copyright infringement as "trespass" rather than "theft". You are, legally speaking, trespassing on someone's copyright when you pirate an mp3, and it nicely conveys that people are doing something wrong that isn't as wrong as a felony like stealing.
So I thought the EU directive 2009/136/EC only affected cross-site tracking cookies, the type of cookies that AD networks use. Is this not the case or it’s just BBC that goes the extra mile?

Anyway, it seems ridiculous to ask for consent to use basic cookies (e.g. to remember the preferred language or the region to use in weather widget) on every single website hosted in EU.

Optimally, browsers should just send your preference like they do with DNT headers:

Cookie-Preference: (None|Essential|All)

Something in that manner — I didn’t really think it through.

Actually, wasn’t P3P supposed to be used for something like that? Maybe it’s time to reinvent it… :)

From the Wikipedia page about P3P:

> As an example, a user may store in the browser preferences that information about their browsing habits should not be collected. If the policy of a Website states that a cookie is used for this purpose, the browser automatically rejects the cookie.

That’s even better, because you don’t have to rely on the site to follow law. If something like P3P was widely used by all the major sites, you could set your browser to reject all cookies that don’t include necessary privacy policy along with them. Persistent, tracking cookies could be rejected by default, unless signed by a trusted agency, that would make sure that necessary policies are followed (and it’s not just rogue site that wants to infect you with their cookies). That way AD networks could continue to work seamlessly.

P3P might have had some problems, but the core ideas appear to be sound.
Also, the added benefit of avoiding social distractions helps a great deal. I know I'll be able to sit down by myself, with my morning coffee, and have several hours of highly focused hacking.
Paragraph breaks was a wordpress bug. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/14/first-retire-then-...
Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD)
The entire US is geared towards spending money, and you will be encouraged to do so many times per day.

This is true to some extent, but it also varies a lot by social groups. If your social group is all people making $100k+, there's a lot more of this casual spending, and more entertainment and socializing is oriented around money-costing activities. If your social group makes less money, the amount of money-spending peer pressure gets somewhat less.

An odd aspect of it is that people who make more money generally have nicer living places, yet seem less likely to use them. With people who make a lot of money, the default is always to meet up at a restaurant, a cocktail place, etc.; whereas among my friends who make less money, dinner parties, house parties, etc. are much more common, even though their housing is considerably more modest.
No it's not.

(See what I did there? I responded to an unsupported statement of fact with another unsupported statement of fact. Both our arguments are equally valid, i.e. not at all. Perhaps next time you post on HN you could add some arguments to support your position, if only out of courtesy to those of us who cannot read your mind to see the no doubt infallible logic behind your opinion.)
I don't disagree at all. Like I said in the post, srcset will one day make a fine solution and given the right input, might even end up being developer-friendly. I hope that ends up being the case, because the current syntax is cryptic and vague.
I agree that it's down to the execution of an idea rather than just the idea itself
If someone is selling hot dogs at their stand for $2.00, and someone opens a stand next door selling hot dots for only $1.00, the first seller might complain that the second has "stolen" their customers and their profits, but that doesn't mean that it's theft in a moral or legal sense. Or in other words, theft of potential "proceeds or profits" is never theft per se.
> True, but then the live-migrate feature would not be possible.

Why not?

> Also, even in Xen, the ballooning can only be done in a range (I think not quite 4 times), so you can't set up 1GB and then balloon to 28GB, then go down to 1GB again.

I don't think kvm has that limitation.
Did he? He had a badge, and to get that badge, he likely had an NDA and background checks, if they are actually requirements.

It really couldn't have been a homeless person with psychological issues, he would have been noticed and likely wouldn't have made it into the initial incubator.
Sure, but wiring something that simple up to their system should be very easy as well.
I believe reddit's gives newer posts more points, rather than taking away points from older posts.

I might be wrong, though. It's been a while since I've looked at that part of the code.
Got to say the response from AOL was pure class. They could have been really annoyed at the kid for sponging off their employee services, but no, 'we just didn't expect it to work so well'. Nicely done from AOL there.

Sure, the kid contravened plenty of rules and laws, but the level of focus to do 18ish hour days and maintain a lifestyle like that to achieve the goals? You don't get that everyday.

And lets be honest, he's not the first guy in the Valley to treat the rules with a loose interpretation.
Is Pinterest using Masonry? It's not listed on the Masonry site as a reference.

Why does it cost 5$?
No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/19/facebook-is-secretly-buildi...

This article is from nearly two years ago and claims that Facebook was very secretively working on its own mobile OS. If this is indeed the case, a lot of their somewhat recent acquisitions make a little more sense (GoWalla, Karma, Instagram obviously, and LightBox).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Faceboo...

The fact that their valuation gets beat down on the lack of ad revenue in the ever growing mobile space turns into a bullish signal if they release a high quality phone with a high profit margin. I wondered why they were splitting up their mobile app into many recently on Android as well, and this tells me that it's possible they want to create a suite of "necessity" apps as the basis for their platform.
It's uncanny that you mention "winning the lottery", I nearly wrote that a fundamental problem with both marketplaces was that people dreamt of winning big and because they all secretly believed they would be the ones to make it, they were selling out everyone else (and 999 times out of a thousand their future selves) by accepting the winner takes all format of their industry rather than one in which more people make a decent wage.

I left it out because I'm not 100% confident that there's solid economic theory to back it up, but it's strange that my gut instinct is 180 degrees from yours, where you welcome the lottery aspect of the market.
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