skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you're trying to say. Can you please explain?
Another one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038683
Facebook shares fall below $30 as US authorities begin investigation into IPO (guardian.co.uk)
Many people are sterile and cannot have kids. They are still alive by any definition. Many people decide not to have kids but are good Aunts or Uncles or adopted parents. Many decide not to have kids but take care of them, teach them, mentor them. There are even, god help us, productive people who don't have anything specific to do with children. That doesn't mean their existence is meaningless.

On the other hand, a man who spreads his genes by rape may be having lots of kids, but he is not doing a good thing, and is probably not leading a deeply fulfilling life.

The case of adoption and the case of rape say pretty clearly to me that love is more morally fundamental than differential fecundity.

The moral purpose of your life is not given by population genetics in any case. It is an error to conflate purpose in the adaptationist sense with purpose in the sense of your life's fulfillment or your moral values.

Different people are suited to different ways of living, and find different forms of fulfillment; it is part of what makes life varied and interesting.
Artificial heart makers hoping to expand technology towards permanent implants
Google uses search activity from the past several hours to help match ads in adsense for content[1]. Hiding those from other ad networks is, imo, one of the best reasons they should be sued for antitrust.

We've recently started to expand the use of the query words in referral
URLs to a few hours so we can so we can continue to deliver more relevant
ads. The technical way that we're doing this is by associating the
relevant query words in the referral URL with the existing advertising
cookie on the user's browser. After a short period of time (a few hours)
the query words are no longer used for the purposes of matching ads.

[1] http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/02/better-contextual-matchi...
under $29 now! How low will it go?
My wife is a full-time Mother and she picks up our kids from school.

It's interesting how you think a 20-year old can't fit into the world's normal working hours. I managed just fine working normal hours when I was in my 20s.
Iran Confirms Attack by New Virus
Perhaps I'm missing something, but in years of development using git as our scm, I have never used checkout -f. I've used reset --hard HEAD here and there. Is there any difference in their use?

Also, are there a lot of developers who work for hours without committing? I've only found myself in a situation where I could possibly lose hours of work a few times and each time this happens I realize I was treading thin ice.

Lastly, and maybe this is also just me, I keep my repos in Dropbox. Github is our main repo store, but I've got an extra level of protection, especially since Dropbox allows you to rollback file changes.
How does your statement have anything to do with Apple not stifling innovation? Because you pay Apple to vet your UI... what? Somehow innovation is fostered for you?...
I would add:

2(a). The Instagram team

700M of the 1B acquisition was stock. Assuming they didn't sell it yet, that's a good amount of money lost.
Your position is aggressive and invalid.

I personally have never leaned towards having children, I have friends and family with young children and I see the benefit and joy they get, but for me its never been a personal goal or desire. Maybe one day it will be and my viewpoint will change.

I consider the fact that I travel the world and experience amazing things, have tried a startup and am socially active most evenings a pretty good testament to having 'lived' as you would call it.
A lot of our Product and Marketing Team Members work remotely. The only folks required to be at our Orlando office are the Video Pros and Teachers.
New Bitly Site
Brubeck has experimental WebSockets support coming up soon. The basic idea is that all of the socket proxying takes place in Mongrel2 and Brubeck handlers simply process messages from the socket.

Brubeck, in this design, is asynchronous and full duplex, just like websockets themselves. The other models I've seen seem to require hooking your webframework up directly to the servers, without any socket proxying support. That might be useful for small installations, but it is a core design goal of Brubeck to make life easy as you scale up. Having Mongrel2 proxy the connections is part of how we do that.

(As the original author of Brubeck, I am biased)
Ubuntu: Heuristic Universal Discovery
This good. But how do you handle it when designing a protocol and a data encoding ? You can't iterate.
If Apple made printers
Steve Jobs once thought of entering the printer business to compete with HP. I believe this circle printer could have been a most likely outcome.
Apparently it's all been downhill since we were algae.
It really depends what kind of bullets you want to stop. Edit: alright, I admit I don't know what I'm talking about :)
Neither of those things are only one click away when you are at your computer trying to get work done. Being able to resist the temptation to buy beer or cigarettes when you are in a store is easier than resisting the constant temptations of the internet.
As a parent of a child who was born with a near-fatal congenital disorder (malignant sacrococcygeal teratoma), I can attest that the decision to try for #2 is a difficult one that we're still wrestling with.

On the one hand ours was a one-off event and subsequent kids should be fine. We've always wanted two, and it's been such a wonderful experience that we want more of. So there's that.

On the other hand, the months of treatment after diagnosis were the most emotionally draining experience we've ever gone through, and we don't know if we have it in us to go for number two. We're still in the early days (diagnosis + 9 months, all signs pointing to cured) so this may change, but active parenting causes healing and recovery to happen much slower.

My wife (and her brother) are also both adopted, so we're well aware of the dynamics involved there. We've said since before we started trying for kids that we weren't going to beat ourselves up if we'd had problems conceiving (we gave ourselves nine months of trying before we'd look at adoption. As it turns out it only took us one). One could probably argue that the truly optimal thing to do would have been to forego trying biologically at all and to jump right into adoption, but that didn't feel right either.

All of which is to say that I don't think it's egocentricity per se, but a natural desire to at least try and see your genes successfully expressed in the world. While that's not ideal from a rational perspective, I don't think you can go too far down that line of thinking without verging into eugenics.
Twig: the amazing ultra-portable cable for your iPhone
From 1995 though 1998 I had full blown AIDS. I knew more about care, medication and treatments for AIDS then (almost) any doctor I met.

It was one of the reason so many AIDS patient groups formed (I sat on the board of PWAC and was a member of ACTUP). Because at that time, either doctors did not or could not educate themselves on the subject.

Now, of course, it's a different matter. With HIV being a "manageable" condition (in the West anyway)every ID doctor worth his weight can talk on the subject.

From experience I can tell you, you have to manage your care. You can not expect (nor should you either) a doctor to do it for you.
It is really awful.

You could have left it at that.

Simply tragic.
You've got it backwards; cryptographic hash functions are designed to be as fast as possible without giving up their cryptographic properties. If you need a slow hash (e.g. for password storage), you use something like bcrypt that's designed to be slow.
My solution to this is a simple kanban board. Trello.com is a good on-line one, but when possible I'll make them out of index cards or post-it notes on the wall.

People think that a kanban board is a to-do list, but there's a subtle difference. The real heart of is limiting the number of work-in-progress items. That means that the backlog is less a to-do list and more a things-I-am-definitely-not-doing-now list.

For me, every time I have one of those "It would be nice" thoughts, I write it down on a card for the kanban, throw it in the backlog, and forget it until the next time I make a prioritization pass. Most of the cards end up in what I think of as "the pit of nice ideas", the bottom segment of the board that never moves up because more important things always come up.

For the curious, you can see a photo and a little more explanation here:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-uncommon-ways-to-work-sma...
Starting with Ajax - Lesson 1
I think Hacker News should be renamed Facebook news.
Schilling: RI broke financial promises, governor scared away investors
That guy knows how to get attention... Science shows that human DNA is degenerating. We are not getting "better and better" as some priests would say.
Regarding design choices, I think Brubeck and Diesel are indeed the future. They don't rely on the broken ideas found in WSGI and they don't attempt to bolt on concurrency. Both are designed around an async / nonblocking system that removes the horrible callbacks found in Node.js, Twisted, Tornado and even provide a system for converting your blocking calls into nonblocking calls.

On top of that, the performance of these two, by being based in gevent, blows the other systems out of the water. Tornado and Twisted are both slower due to so much of the core loop being written in Python instead of C. Here is a simple hello world comparison of Brubeck vs. Tornado: https://gist.github.com/2252671 - What we see is that at it's base level, meaning there's no I/O or CPU bound tasks, gevent is straight-up much faster.

Regarding features, Brubeck can already generate a REST API for you, provides auth hooks, has oauth plugins, supports the template systems you care about, works great with mongo, riak, redis, postgres, mysql, all with nonblocking support, and it even comes witha modeling layer that won't force badly generated queries on you, aka databaseless schemas.

(As said in my other comment, I am biased due to being on Brubeck's core team)
Do you seriously believe advertisers waste trillions of dollars? That not a single one has turned off ads in a geo-fenced area to see what happens? Or that adwords advertisers (and all direct response advertisers for that matter) don't fanatically track roas?

Also, empirically, users refuse to pay for stuff and want advertising so they're not out of pocket. For the 1e6 + 999th time: " If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."
> Yes you'll see it learn, smile, grow up and you're genetically conditioned to like it. But you will not be able to play your games, go to your parties - read book or contemplate on life, or code without expecting interruptions.

Enjoying parties, games, books, and coding has its roots in genetic conditioning, too.
A fully enclosed two-wheeler could be every bit as safe as a car.

Sure... if it also weighed as much as a car. Crash safety is a function of frame toughness and vehicle mass-- the heavier the car, the less G's it pulls when decelerating suddenly (when running into a wall, or being hit by a semi)
To use the bookmarklet, drag it to your tool bar. Then navigate to the page you want to submit, and click on the resulting button.

Alternatively, don't use the bookmarklet, click on "submit", and then fill in the Title and URL fields.

Click here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/submit

You've submitted things before - what exactly are you trying to do?
I just heard of Unicorn / Rainbow as a way to get more out of Heroku workers/dynos. I wonder if this is also compatible, or a better alternative?

I'm new to this whole concept, so am just about to get my feet wet.

Hopefully, Heroku will implement something like this internally, as it seems it would help them to eliminate the greatest flaw with their system - that each deployment require 5-10 seconds of downtime as new dynos are started.
Colloidal silver will probably help as well.
sadly, no. Adsense is a $10B/year business. Even ex tac of 30%, that's still a big business.

From wikipedia [1]:

In Q1 2011, Google earned US$2.43 billion ($9.71 billion annualized),
or 28% of total revenue, through Google AdSense

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense
Amazon Instant Video Comes to Xbox 360
Eeg, I never thought of it like that. Where does the flex come from, general springiness of the ribs or do they force then to hinge at the spine?
Why APIs? Anatomy of an Internal API Initiative
Michael Schuster about the start-up scene in Vienna
'Rationally there is no point in having children at all.'

You get older as well, and when you look at having kies purely from a rational view point...children are your insurance when you yourself get older, lose physical and mental strength and the ability to do stuff.

Of course, this all depends on actually being a good parent and having good relationships with your children, but since most people are selfish dicks these days...
At-the-pump gasoline prices have been moving steadily, inexorably upward for the past 13 years. It's not even news any more when we hit new record prices; it happens every summer. You really think that trend is going to halt any time soon? A median car in the USA is now less expensive than the fuel it will consume (and outside the USA, of course, fuel is a much greater fraction). You think that constraint won't "dicate personal vehicle design" in the future? I don't need "peak oil" theories to make this argument, just simple facts you can google for yourself.

(And the bit about the choice being "only" two wheelers is a strawman; please don't do that. I said it was a "reasonable commute vehicle", it was you that wanted to make an argument about whether it competes with a bike.)
I split lanes (San Francisco) to avoid being rear ended by an inattentive driver. The safest place to be is between 2 cars at a red light. Of course I like going faster than all the cars around me and I can get a block or two ahead of everyone by cruising up to the front of the queue. There is a safe way to split lanes - do not go more than 5-10 MPH faster than the cars, and watch for gaps because a car will change lanes unexpectedly to fill those gaps.

I like the idea of the vehicle in the article mainly for these reasons: more throughput on the roads (every car has only one passenger) and fuel efficiency. I would like to see a world where people commuted in these and only used the SUV for bigger trips.
Did I Mention That The Bitly Redesign Completely Disrupted My Workflow?
Do heed the warnings that it's not really all that Disneyland. PA's a beautiful city, but its notoriety as a tech giant is largely shrouded by its quaint and quiet suburbanness.

My trips to the area have been very intensely business related so I don't have many tourist suggestions.

Food: Milkshake at the Creamery on Emerson and University. Beer at Antonio's Nut House on California Ave. Burger at Kirk's Steakburgers on ECR by Palo Alto High School. Slice at Pizza My Heart.

PA Places: Stanford Campus/University Ave. Take pictures, it's a beautiful campus. Apple store on University if a Steve Jobs pilgrimage is your thing. If you play any stringed musical instruments check out Griffon at Park and Margerita (I think, its near the Fry's at El Camino Real and Portage). You can't do anything other than take a picture of the HP Garage, but if you want to experience momentous Palo Alto history, there it is.

Get outside of PA: Definitely get down to Mountain View for the Computer History Museum. Apple's company store in Cupertino (1 Infinite Loop) is open to the public, go there, do that, buy a t-shirt, if you're so inclined).
I don't even pretend to understand what you're getting at with your second paragraph, and since this is HN and not reddit, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you mean no harm. That being said, I might caution you to choose your words wisely and delicately when it comes to commenting on other people's parenting methods. There are few minefields more fraught with peril than those surrounding parenting. Someone less accommodating than I may well take offense to statements like that, so tread lightly.
Perl is like C++ for the Web. Bulletproof. Unless you intentionally remove the kevlar plates. But then it's on you ;)
I'm starting to see this more clearly as time passes. I've spent years developing the ability to "engineer" things and only now am I realizing that I've learned to "over-engineer" things. Writing software has taken on a life of its own that is actually counter to its purpose.

I don't think in terms of simplification though, I see it as "write what you need, when you need it." But I absolutely agree that you should avoid generalization aggressively and optimization should rarely be on the table. I also agree about minimizing state. Do it all "on the fly" unless there's known performance hit.
At Treehouse at various times we've had quite a few developers use their Friday for personal projects, but they just develop their own open source and personal projects on their own time on Friday (or whenever they choose to work on them during the week).
The rock that could spy on you for decades
Why Social Networks Need Musicians
It's obviously designed to administer as much force as possible directly to the brain in the case of a collision.
Well... this is being developed in Alameda, CA... so in one of a few US states that even allow lane splitting. Just like a lot of European cars never make it to the US, this may never make it out of the US. So to completely discount it because it can't/shouldn't do what is not really allowed in the vast majority of the most likely market seems like just looking for a reason to hate on it. If lane splitting is the best way to reduce traffic around here then we're all screwed.
Yeah, because any persons biggest concern when buying a vehicle is how bullet proof the glass is.

R.I.P. man.
Arrogance is probably the trait that most limits our intelligence. I've seen many smart people do extremely stupid stuff just out of fear of admitting they are prone to mistakes and failure. Humbleness is hard to master, but it's very important for us to try and practice it as much as possible.

Potential of success = (Intelligence / arrogance) + luck
How much power do the gyros consume?

And, of course, if you're using them for regenerative breaking, then they'll have less headroom to counter tilting forces. If you saturate them with regen load then they won't provide any stabilizing force at all. I hope it has a couple of really beefy power resistors in case the ECU suddenly has to bleed off gyro load in a way that won't cause an uncommanded acceleration.
To be honest, I'm surprised we have not heard more about these kinds of things. It seems like an obvious use of cheap low power cpus and sensors. Of course countries are really really big and getting dense enough coverage to make it meaningful is probably not practical in the most areas, but places like passes and roads, and around villages?
Facebook (FB) Pushes Opera Shares To All-time High
There's an angle I hadn't considered. The spammy and promotional type of comments would be far more likely to appear directly on the blog since that's where the value (for the commenter) is in leaving them. That's something that moderated comments would control, but you can't moderate your way out of fragmentation.

I would expect more negative comments to be left directly on the blog as well since the commenter won't have to deal with the potential backlash from their community. Which is probably also a good reason to never allow any kind of anonymous of guest comments. (Although that wouldn't stop the truly motivated negative commenters.)
Like most of these stories, I'm sure there are tons of details not in the press.

I find it difficult to believe that any statements made by the governor would have really scared away investors though. Any rational investor would be doing a fair amount of due diligence and looking at the companies financials before investing. Statements by the governor (if accurate) should at that point be redundant to any information gathered during the DD process.

Armchair-quarterbacking this, it seems that 38 Studios was spending money like a 90's dot-com company and didn't realize that the gravy train had a real chance of running out before they managed to get stabilized as a business.
Reliability? Sure. Readability? Not so much.
>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.

It's worth mentioning that some of the best tools for letting us do something with it come from the current facebook. I'm constantly tempted to move into academic research rather than helping people get their porn faster, but it seems like a very superficial judgement to say that would be better for humanity in the long run.
Even for cryptographic hashes, fast is what you want most of the time. Look at it this way: when you connect to a web site via SSL, all the data you send will be hashed for authentication. Do you really want this to be slow?
I worked at Expedia while he was there. He and I didn't work directly together. Despite that he and I are only very loosely connected through 6 months as coworkers more than 10 years ago, it somehow feels like I just narrowly dodged a bullet.

I'm really saddened to hear about this. RIP Justin. And best regards to your survivors.
What a waste.

BTW, he was not killed by a bullet. He was killed by the person that shot a bullet.
This argument continues to come up, but I don't buy it- At least not without some data.

My personal anecdote: Facebook ads are the only online Ads I click with any regularity. They are targeted to my interests, such as programming. They also hit me at a time when I am mostly bored and clicking around on anything that interests me.

When I find myself on Google, I am on a mission for very specific information. Even if I am shopping, I do a research phase and a purchasing phase. Ads in the research phase don't woo me. I google straight to trusted sources. Once I'm in the purchase phase (shopping for best price), I am not wooed either because the ads are too broad. E.G, I want the D3100, not just any camera in general.

I completely understand Google's strategy of "intent" based ads. I just think Facebook's user data is even stronger.
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Honestly, the original intent of a startup almost doesn't mater.

What a business does is always an intersection of what the producers and the consumers want. If users want something divergent but reasonable, the answer shouldn't be, "Well, fuck you then." The right response is, "Boy, that's a a great opportunity."

As proof, look at Friendster. They owned the social networking space before Facebook even existed. But it had started out as a dating site, and the founder stubbornly insisted that it stay a dating site no matter what the users wanted. At this point they're not even a punchline; MySpace has now taken over the spot of best-known failure.

I've stopped contributing to StackOverflow because I'm tired of them killing good discussions. Why take the risk that yet another good answer will get eaten?
Besides the studio recording of the Goldberg Variations is the new score, "engraved" in Musescore: http://musescore.com/opengoldberg/goldberg-variations -- "source code", if you will, that can be used. I'd love to see work done on integrating the video display of the score with the actual recording, using the "page turning recognition" technology shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLYCWFboieM&feature=plcp
From my reading of Rural, anything that is a fact is not covered by copyright protection. If you have to register a account to use for scraping things could get a little dicey.

I'm not a lawyer (so this is not legal advice) but I have looked into it for my own projects and decided I had a minimal risk.