skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marriage is about compromise. Children, however, afford no such privilege.

No, marriage is having one heck of a good time living your life with your spouse.

Being a single parent is better than a bad marriage. And marriage can only be good if the parents know and acknowledge that they together go first, kids come second. Period.

Your spouse is the person you spend rest of your life (or at least decades, if you're lucky) and if you give up too much of that for the kids, you won't necessarily have a relationship once the kids move out in twenty years or so.

It's not my intention to lure you into thinking that parents should do whatever they need to do and mostly ignore the kids. (A whole lot of good people have been raised that way over the centuries, though.) However, nobody promised the kids a rose garden and neither did anyone promise the same to you.

It's just those times in life when there's too much everything and good times are sparse. That is when you need to take care of yourself first, because that's a prerequisite for a relationship. Then you need to take care of your relationship because that's a prerequisite for a working family of two parents and one or more kids. When the relationship is all right, then you can truly take care of the kids too, not just mechanically play a role for a decade while getting more and more bitter every year.

Most of the time you do all three—yourself, your relationship, your kids—but you must know which comes first in the tight spot. It's like oxygen masks on the plane.

After all, your kids will first try to learn how to live and be happy by mimicking how you live your own life.

You don't ever own your kids' lives and you won't even have much control over theirs for more than the 10-15 early years.

So be sure you take care of yourself and your marriage because that's what makes you happy for a long time, in your own life.
When we decided to have a second child, we'd ruled out every existing disorder that could possibly explain him.

After consultation with our medical team, they concurred that a de novo mutation for Bertrand was a strong possibility.

And, in truth, the conditional probability of de novo mutation for Bertrand was much higher than what actually happened--two independent mutations in the same gene colliding with one another.

If we had known the probability for Victoria was 1/4, we never would have gotten pregnant.

Ignorance was bliss.
To me the problem with Clippy is that he never gave useful help and annoyed me when I didn't ask for anything.

Imagine, you're at your desk. Someone comes up: "Hey I see you're at your desk, do you need help with sitting on your chair?".

Don't help someone who doesn't ask for help.
Yeah, it's mostly a stopgap.
Sure, go in to bioinformatics research. You might even end up doing something that benefits humanity more than trying to make the next Facebook! Data is piling up faster than we know what to do with it.

There are a lot of problems to be solved that might benefit from computer science. De novo Protein structure and function prediction, better alignment from noisy data, drug target discovery, homology modeling in the twilight zone, better ways to share the data that we do have, better databases to store the data from high-throughput experiments, better ways to compare pathways and biochemical networks, and all of the other things that I could go on to list.

There is no shortage of problems to be solved, only shortages of good people and funding.
Zillow, ex-MS, Pure Networks, Cisco hacker killed by random bullet in Seattle
How much money did these people that "knew it would fail, of course!" put on shorting it when it was $35? If any of the people that "knew $38 was way too high" had done that, they'd be out counting their money on a beach, not sitting at their desk.

It's all just hindsight garbage.
Here is wonderful explanation of "DNA seen through the eyes of a coder". It makes Intercal seem sane.

http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/
Some interesting observations about Amazon's P/E ratio here http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/05/27/decoding-share-prices-a... on Jean-Louis Gassée's "Monday Note".

Basically, Amazon forgoes profit to get market share, will push out all competitors, build a huge barrier to entry with excellent execution and logistics, and then raise prices to increase profit. Traders are buying now and holding until that happens.
i saw a suggestion a few years ago for a mode that would just let you set depth of field directly, picking an aperture and shutter (and possibly iso and comp too) appropriately given the lighting. after all, what most people want most of the time is either a narrow depth to isolate a subject with bokeh or a wide depth to show something in context.
Reminds me of the Odone story as dramatize in the film "Lorenzo's Oil"
Relevant: http://vimeo.com/13667174
The illusion of self as well as, for instance, illusion of free will, only work best for book titles.

Mind can sometime be tricked by illusions, or it can, sometimes, not be free, but that does make it a rule. It doesn't mean all we experience, self included, is an illusion, or that we don't have a free will. Drawing conclusions from particular examples, and particular persons is, well...
I'm submitting this in honor of my friend, Justin Ferrari. He was a fellow hacker at Viair (now Good Technology). He worked at Microsoft with the Outlook Express team, among other things, helped start Pure Networks (acquired by Cisco). He was a really amazing guy. He was killed while driving w/his father and children through South Seattle by a random bullet thought to have come from two kids who were arguing on the side of the road.

I submit this as a small way of reminding the community that life is short, and as a small and insignificant way of honoring a great man.
Wow! This is fascinating.

Thank you so much for the pointers!

Are you a grad student/postdoc/faculty?
"A non-parent could similarly argue that you don't get to pass judgement since you are under the influence of cognitive dissonance."

The difference is that someone who is a parent has also been a non-parent.

Someone who is a non-parent has never been a parent.
MsAgent was awesome, I had a lot of fun in high school with a tool called Vox Proxy[1] which added tons of different higher-level agent controls to powerpoint.

[1] http://www.voxproxy.com/
> Rationally there is no point in having children at all

Nonsense. When used as service animals, children have several advantages over the alternatives. They can be trained to do much more than dogs, for example, have a longer service life, and when they get too big to keep safely they yield more meat after first training their successors for you.
Why would they buy DDG when they (FB) already have Bing? Oh...yeh. Is DDG for sale? :)
Try using less things... How about just using Node and Mongo, and building the rest yourself?

Node being in its infancy is a pretty good reason in itself to not tie yourself to the frameworks which are likewise infantile.

I've got several production back-ends and a full-stack e-commerce site running with Node and MySQL only.
I don't think that anyone who did their homework would have bought FB stock as a 'sure thing for long time investment'. FB didn't fool anyone who wasn't too greedy for their own good. Obviously I'm not saying FB is not a hugely successful product with an immense user base, but obviously the fact that this IPO is not 'going as predicted' by it's underwriters was clear to me waaayyy before the stock hit the markets ...
"Whow, are you arrogant. Can you even contemplate somebody who doesn't want to have children?"

Can you contemplate that if you are having heterosexual/breeder sex, you may have children even if you never planned to?
Looking at the top 4 monitors advertised to me on NewEgg, only the most expensive one had the right holes on the back for you to use that sort of mounting arm.
US CTO seeks to scale agile thinking and open data across federal government
This comment rings too true.

Most doctors quickly realize that they're outgunned when my wife and I start talking about our son.

We have a lot more luck with PhDs than MDs.
I read a few paragraphs, started skimming, and eventually gave up, maybe it was only those first few paragraphs. It just didn't seem like a meaty article to me, and if it was, it was too much work for me to get to the meat. The internet may have made me lazy.

Or maybe I read jwz too often and was pre-biased against Thiel - http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/08/paypal-founder-has-played-fa...
Well, you're still paying for fuel/energy unless you recharge at work. ;)

Of course it's a much more efficient vehicle than a car, due to it's weight, the higher efficiency of electrical motors[1] and regenerative braking. One figure in the article is 220 miles on an 8kWh battery. I think I pay something like €0.25 per kWh, most of you probably spend less. So about 100 miles/€, and about €2 to recharge the whole battery.

[1] Not that they're readily comparable, since "regular" motors convert a primary fuel into motion, while electrical motors convert electrical energy. Which itself is often generated from a primary fuel, introducing significant inefficiency.
is stripe only available to us customers trying to buy through your site? or only us startups, and all of their customers?
I'd go as further as saying, that if you aren't able to self teach yourself programming, then you can't be a programmer, no matter what classes and universities you attend. Programming involves a lot of continuous learning anyway.
what do you mean? I know how silencer (sound suppressor) works and I know (and was shooting) a gun which doesn't require a suppressor. The latter one makes no noise AT ALL, except for the mechanics.
http://blog.ryankearney.com/2010/01/ipad-vs-hp-mini-netbook/

The line that reads "Many of the Dell Laptop deals now include the Mini 10v and 11 at several hundred dollars less than the cheapest iPad." and links to Dell.
This article doesn't seem to actually debunk anything at all. It's a weakly supported opinion piece.
>There are only two parties hurt by this:

>1. The premiere clients of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley who bought into the lie that FB should trade at >100:1 P/E; and

>2. Facebook.

Wrong. FB did crazy volume on the first day at $45 to $38. 580 million shares were traded and the total number of shares in IPO was only ~470MM IIRC. That does not mean that the big clients unloaded all their shares because of shares getting traded multiple times and by HFT, but the really smart ones(most of them I would guess) sold their shares above $38 and some even went short and are making bank now, while the retail investors and other financial companies who bought the first day are left holding the bag.
Linkedin's kick ass Auto-generated Congratulatory message for Profile Updates
Have we actually seen that? I've seen a lot of meta-argumentation here about "fragmentation", but almost no use cases of "providing support on android is absolutely brutal".
It sounds like the basic idea is that these flights are there for the taking, but the search engines to find them all suck, to the point that someone will pay $40 to hire a flight search expert.

Some immediate concerns:

Is this really a problem that most people have? (i.e., do most people think Kayak sucks that much?)

Even if they do, how often is this a problem? Once a year?

Are you cooked if Google finally makes a decent flight search engine?

Do the most frequent/valuable flyers even care? (business flyers who aren't paying the fare anyway)

Your solution is full of friction and extremely slow (paying, waiting for results, administering a contest, etc). This model works for 99designs because hiring designers is even more annoying and unpredictable than running an auction. Is flight search the same kind of problem?

The angle, of course, is that you can "resell" the surfaced deals. i.e., when a good deal is surfaced you can promote it on your homepage, sell it to others, and hopefully make a nice commission from the airline. I get that. I just don't see enough people using the service to surface enough deals for this kind of serendipity, and there's nothing to stop Kayak/Orbitz/etc from scraping the deals you do find.

That said maybe you'll learn enough about 'why flight search sucks' that you'll invent a killer new engine and get rich. But I don't think crowdsourced deal finding for flights is a viable idea.
It's illegal to split lanes in most states.
Please read the whole thread before replying with the "premature optimization" thing. We are talking about hash table optimizations; this commenter -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4037320 -- is asking about the cost of modulo operation.
Actually, Unicorn is indeed free (you can grab the code from git://bogomips.org/unicorn.git -- looks like it's GPL). FastCGI is an open specification, with many free implementations. There's definitely a lot of cool prior art in this space.
Interesting. Hope that leads to a new blog post, how to bring all of these talented engineers up to speed at the same time while keeping the product on track.
I call survivor bias. Historically, the only player in online advertising is Google, which is 100%-focused on intent-based advertising. So the article, logically concludes that intent is the only way to advertise (despite decades of TV and radio ads).

Some products do great with intent-based advertising. Other products (that you didn't even know you needed) need other forms of advertising.
Inside Tesla Motors' Model S factory
And my point was that you should always get your way. She should get her way too. So should the kids.

You should lead them there.
Hackathon for Midwestern hackers
Functional style of writing?
When a mutation occurs, there are four possibilities for
the mutant...

I'd nitpick this slightly, since there's a slight anthropocentric bias here.

You could say there's three types of mutations: genes that do not affect evolutionary fitness, genes that increase fitness (faster running, better eyesight, etc) and genes that decrease fitness. (chromosomal trisomy, which either instantly kills the host, or greatly reduce its fitness)

And, of course, fitness is relative. Heterozygous HbgS makes you resistant to malaria, homozygous HbgS gives you sickle cell anemia. Being tall adds fitness in a calorie-rich environment, but reduces it when food is comparatively expensive. Etc etc etc.

But you probably won't want to double the length of the article, by going into even greater depth on genetics.
Is there an official minimal/lite fedora variant like minimal ubuntu or debian netinstall ?
I think the mistake is less about making software less programmable and more about trying to appeal to some mythical idealized "common man" so hard that you appeal to nobody. It's the same strategy a politician uses when they go to the Midwest to find "Real Americans" only to find out that nobody really cares all that much.

Power users aren't very common, but they exist. The idealized "common man" doesn't because everybody truly is different.
Dear author: the plural of alias is aliases.
The point of all life is to reproduce. It's one of the qualifications to be considered alive. So yeah, without children, life literally loses its meaning =)
Amusingly the problems you mention are inherent to a two-wheeler, and given the necessary dimensions of the egg-shaped outside you might as well add some more wheels at the corners to solve the stability problem. Then you end up with something like Renault Twizy [0] (look at the top view on page 2 to get an idea of its dimensions), currently sold today starting at 7000€, plus 50€/month of battery rent.

I would not have bet on that vehicle but it seems to be selling, since I already encountered a bunch of them.

A bunch of stats (for the topmost model, as the lower one is limited in power and does not require a driving license):

13kW/17ch
80km/h top speed
0-45km/h in 6.1s
100km range
6.1kWh battery
473kg with battery (~100kg)

[0] http://www.renault.fr/media/e-brochures/att00409285/ebrochur...
Two-wheeled vehicles have a party piece - they keep moving when traffic stops.

That's primarily due to their width, not their wheel count. This vehicle is a two-seater, so in terms of congestion it probably has a lot more in common with city cars than with motorcycles.
It is not necessary or helpful to be uncivil about this.

altrego99 is expressing a considered personal view with which you disagree, not insulting you or the mass of humanity. You are entitled to your personal view as well. But you could recognize consideration of the issue as a good thing and the disagreement as normal and healthy. Instead, you are calling people terrible names and picking on grammar, without provocation. Please don't continue in that vein.

I think for most people, you are right that having a kid is a fulfilling thing. I am personally glad that someone is having kids (particularly if they are doing a good and thoughtful job of caring for them). But the implication that no one with kids could ever disagree with you is not correct - though it is unlikely that they will bother to do so in public. I have talked to several people who do regret having kids (particularly in a certain time or situation) but they are not so likely to say it - both because of the kind of aggressive reply you have given but maybe also because they are likely to be wrongly taken as saying that they do not love their children, or that they wish the child did not exist. A person can believe that having kids is not necessarily altruistic, or that there is no moral or practical imperative to have kids, without being an awful arrogant psychopath.

Before you have a child, there is no child to wish the nonexistence of. And since it is an irreversible long-term decision, you should definitely think about the pros and cons in a rational way. Many people do come to parenthood by a reasonable, conscious choice and that is a blessing. Other people decide not to. If that is in their best interests then good for them. Perhaps there will be a future time where it does make sense to have kids. Leave them be. It's a personal decision, not a moral necessity.

Not everyone has to get married, either; not getting married doesn't make you a psychopath or a pathetic unfulfilled person, even if it's a nice thing and a great life work for many people.
And speaking statistically, research shows that parents are no more happy than are those who are not parents.

[citation needed]

Also, since we're being rational and all, define happiness. Contrast it with "fulfillment".
1) Are you sure Doctrine is the best choice?

2) Why not simply use PHP for templating?

3) Using YAML would be just as bad, if you want to use something use something standard for localization like gettext or XLiff.
I think you're missing what's good about what the gp is advocating.

Even as a power user, I quite likely only want to change a few things "under the hood" and otherwise I appreciate a clean design. Further, the more programmers design an interface "for those other people", the more likely they are to make it purely brain dead. So you find up with two lousy interfaces instead of one well designed one (not just two interfaces take time but because you've started with the wrong attitude).
Can Data Really Be Governed?
Ok there is some irony in the huge investments in robots that blow people up and robots that fix them up. A friend of mind is at Intuitive Surgical (makes the Davinci robot) and they are unable to keep up with demand.

That said, this is such a good use of technology. It is so stupid to disassemble someone so that the big hands of a surgeon and maybe a couple of nurses can get in there to work, when the thing being worked on may be quite small. The snake aspect of it is pretty cool because it leverages the fact that you need to have cable back to the power source etc, and you can use all of that volume for useful stuff rather (motion control) rather than wasting it. I expect these will be 1/3 this thickness within the decade though.
Thank you for posting this, Matt.

It's amazing that you were able to learn so much about his condition. It gives me hope for the future of medicine, because I sometimes feel like we are still in the dark ages.

I hope you have success with the treatments.
You've made a bunch of claims without showing any evidence to support them. Please point to specific examples we can all look at on the website which show -- "Programs are not meant to be..." -- which show -- "They are meant to resemble the C implementation." etc
Thiel identifies the issue. There is a big difference between identifying an issue, and suggesting a proposed solution.

I can identify the fact that people die in car crashes, and this in no way makes it understandable that I would prefer cars not exist (for the record I don't).
Miguel de Icaza on ASP.NET MVC, Moonlight, and the Android Lawsuit
Yes, but if anything that seems to contradict the gist of the first paragraph of the comment.
They'll do it as soon as they are confident that they can pay websites more per click than AdSense. It's a winner-take-all market.

But AdSense is very vulnerable: intent (the search string), which is the one reason Google advertising works, is absent from AdSense.

As an example, I once wrote a blog post with a title like "startup financing: take the elevator, not the stairs". Google placed ads on that post for Thyssen elevators. It had just no clue that the topic was startups, not actual elevators. Not impressed.
Yes, there is Network Install CD.
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all
Approximately 200MB for i386.
Just Wow!
I haven't lived/worked in the Bay Area for two years so hard to gauge mojo levels though I'll take the writer's word for it. However, I'm not convinced on Europe at least from my perspective as a self-funding entrepreneur living in Spain. There are a lot of incubators but funding still remains tight while funding in Silicon Valley is flowing. So what? The writer is talking about innovation. True, though without funding I believe most innovative companies that are taking big risk in Europe will die from funding starvation while in Silicon Valley, superstar innovative companies will find funding even if it is among a hundred copycats.
Supposedly. Everyone has been waiting for the big payoff since the 90s, but Amazon remains a stubbornly low-margin retailer. Eventually people are going to be forced to face the fact that there is no sinister Phase 2. Amazon is just happy being a low-margin, high-volume Walmart-of-the-Internet with little interest in its investors.
Kudos to the mother and father for not giving up and to figure out the medical mystery, it read like a House episode with the various diagnoses then you realize that it's real life, not a TV plot.
I truly believe that future technological advancements have an obligation to serve humankind for the better and that real progress is made though breakthrough medical and scientific breakthroughs.
I made the same decision on my personal blog. When there are comments both on a blog and here on HN, the conversation feels unnaturally fragmented to me.

Further, when I did have both, comments that self-selected the blog (vs HN) are - in my opinion - much more likely to be spam/promotional, or generally less 'valuable' (e.g. more likely to be simple questions that are already answered in the post).
AJAX Autocomplete Search With Django and jQuery
Of course it could. But then, why would anyone do that? You can't compete with TeX on price, on correctness and quite probably not on quality of output. You're left with ease of use and performance. Not sure either it actually warrants such a huge undertaking as recreating TeX.

This leaves open source typesetting a hostage of its own success.