skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent questions, and I don't have an answer either. I see exhortations to spend "to help the economy" as cargo cult logic. Yes, in a strong economy indicators like consumer spending and home ownership will be high. That doesn't mean you can improve a weak economy by getting people to spend more. Although you can apparently get people to go deeply into credit card debt and buy houses they can't afford.
There is always the tank story/myth http://neil.fraser.name/writing/tank/. Of course, that is more about how a neural network might not be training itself in the way you expect.
For how many years do you intend to keep that up? You might as well call it deadurl.com
If you look at what a can of redbull contains, it's not unhealthy if you buy the 10 cal/sugar free version. It contains B vitamins, taurine (an amino acid) and about 70mg of caffeine for the under 10oz can. They also use citric acid instead of the cost cutting phosphoric acid which causes calcium leeching.

The aspartame and sucralose may or may not be a problem for you.
I think the headline is misleading. This seems to be an alliance of startup-oriented folks. Hackers would generally avoid the weasel-words and centralization: "virtual incubator" and reliance on a site that presents itself as more or less a monolith. I also don't see where investment and sponsorship fall into hacking. Computers are cheap enough that neither is really necessary to do interesting work, even if new hardware is required.

My guess is they said "hackers" when they meant "Hacker News readers".
I don't believe the author understands innovation, craigslist, or online marketplaces.

1. Innovation is not features. It is utility. The real innovation of craigslist has been to resist so much call for change, especially in tech.

2. Craigslist is a product that works extremely well. It works well for a lot of reasons:

* The changes in UI are slow, even glacial. That means I don't have to re-orientate every time I visit the site.
* It works on all browsers known to man (and some unknown).
* Simplicity in browsing and posting (this is huge)
* It is fast. Really. Darn. Fast.
* It does not require a login to use. Only email.

I would say that Craigslist offers some the of the best user experience on the web. I often use it as an example of "WHAT WORKS(TM)"

3. Online marketplaces are successful because of people. Yes, people. Craigslist, is successful because it makes it easy for two parties to transact a deal. That ease comes from making a familiar and simple place to do it. Again. And again. And again. for over a decade.

I wonder if the author is an investor in the half-dozen companies listed at the bottom of that article. Or maybe I'm just cynical...
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Anybody know why craigslist allows some companies / startups to leverage their communities and not others? I can't seem to find any method to the madness. Looks like AirBnB got away with it for the most part, even after some blatant spamming, yet companies like CLmetric or Worthmonkey, that only made listing more informative got shut down. I have been looking at eggdrop and their posts seem to be searchable and they are much bigger than worthmonley or clmetrics ever got. Would love to hear some insight if anybody has any. Are the C&D letters provoked by something, or nothing at all?
These people don't go out and enjoy nightlife, staying up until 3am since that would put you off kilter for a few days in a row with this kind of schedule.
You might be interested in compressive sensing.
Thank you for this, it really resonated with me.
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There are already solutions out there for the paranoid who are afraid of cryogenic attacks on DRAM
Why do people choose running over biking, with the damage that running can cause?
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Could anyone who's got knowledge of the environment explain why a new language was required - what couldn't have been done as a library for an existing language?
I am a non-technical founder, grandma, wife of a starving artist. All I can say is, ya gotta start somewhere. It's been gruesome, and awesome. Promoting local sustainable commerce. Free online neighborhood Storefronts. Http://ourtownzip.com.
Hey Steve,

We view this as a business within a business. Nobody from the Flow development team is being distracted with Concierge, it's just another part of the MetaLab umbrella.

Also, I find it weird that you think us "focusing on monetization" is a bad thing. What's wrong with having a sustainable business?

-Andrew
There have been quite a few times I've gotten hopelessly frustrated trying to do simple photo manipulation tasks with GUI software and just jumped back to ImageMagick.

There's a lot to be said for the quiet simplicity of `convert -scale 25% foo.jpg smallfoo.jpg`.
Great. No, not a pivot, just the second stage in our plans (which we were a bit coy about). No email in your profile, but dropped a line to <first name> @ <your domain>.org. Hope that works. Thanks.
Good point. I know it's not crystal clear and that is largely my fault because I see it every day. I am hoping the newer style widget will clear things up maybe. The startup is allowed to customize an incentive when they get their widget code to display on their site. The purpose is to get something from the startup as a reward for beta testing their app. (A free upgraded plan, or some swag etc.)

Video recorded feedback has been proven to be much better than text based feedback. Why write out a problem and have something get lost in translation when you can show them and talk them through it?
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This is PandoDaily. The intent is to generate a flamebait headline to make you click, not to make a valid argument.
I think it is reasonable to demand not to autocomplete on the server side. Do they really demand not to autocomplete on the client side? In x-autocompletetype case, all CC information stays in the browser, only thing server does is to mark "this is CC field".
Good points--thanks. I'm not sure how much we'd use Github's advanced features in the near-term. Basically, they would just serve as the master repo.

Yes, the number of repos is an issue for me. We have 20-30+ active projects, which may not result in large files, but when Github places limits on projects vs. space that becomes an issue.

We're a consulting company, so we have lots of projects, many with repeat customers (hopefully). I'm stuck deciding on banking our SCM with a third party vs. self-hosting with no limits. Projects are usually short-lived (1-2 months) but we want to maintain a good archive of what we've done for future projects.
You can try Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/). For 10 users they have pretty good pricing of $10/per month.

edit : I missed that only 3 team members will be using git. In that case you can have unlimited private repository for free.
Cool trick, good to know!

But for practical reasons I'll stick with Math.floor. It makes my code more readable. Plus, Chrome is already faster using Math.floor. I'm sure the other browsers will catch up, or I at least hope they will.
Thomas Schelling argues in The Strategy of Conflict that in a cold war situation the belligerents might actually encourage spying to make sure the other side has accurate information. (The accurate information being necessary for effective threats of mutually assured destruction.)
This is just another example that image CAPTCHA's are a weak spam deterrent and they are great example of dark UI patterns.

The benefits of using this kind of system are shrouded in the user's cost.
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Autocomplete.
Community editing/additions are on the way. For the moment we're managing from HQ. MS Consoles are now on the to-do list! If you have any more suggestions for the library, love to hear them. I'm username 'glenn' or on glenn@curicon.com.
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Rails is not the difficult after you have done it a few times, just line up your console commands and get to work most of the time is waiting for stuff to download/compile.
Here's one organization already posting about the new pay policy:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=419234291450334&...

They're trying to beat it by getting their followers to like and share their posts more.

I wonder if this could drive more organizations to Google+, and how effective free G+ is vs unpaid FB.
This was discussed on TechDirt, without conclusion, in 2009. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090924/2309516315.shtml and this is the oft referenced SCOTUS ruling on the matter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

Even better explanation of SCOTUS ruling http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm
"You type something in, and the machine either executes your command, or goes “I have no clue what you just said, did you by any chance mean XYZ?”"

What sort of wizardry is this? My shell (BASH) does not say "did you by any chance mean XYZ?" It stops after saying "I have no clue what you just said" and then stares at me like I'm an idiot.
The command line may be efficient, but it is far from intuitive.

I work with command line tools every day, and I am still constantly searching Google and man pages whenever I need to do something outside of my normal flow.
Google is really good at seamlessly integrating the companies they acquire to give the appearance to users that Google develops much more than they actually do. The Google brand becomes synonymous with development that they actually did not themselves do.
Ms. Meeker and I must be reading a different budget (or reading the same budget very differently). Most of the spending budget and budgetary issues fall squarely in the lap of military spending -- which has consistently been the biggest-ticket item for many decades.

A full 20% of federal healthcare related spending goes towards veteran benefits. That's one dollar in five. This is military spending that used to be counted under the DoD budget, but now creates the false appearance that non-military aspects of government are to blame for much of the increased costs. We see ridiculous slides like this, which rank health care for injured soldiers, military pensions and so on as "entitlements" rather than "defense." Other items excluded from the defense/military "20%" figure include (next paragraph quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S... ):

"Nuclear weapons research, maintenance, cleanup, and production, which is in the Department of Energy budget, Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department's payments in pensions to military retirees and widows and their families, interest on debt incurred in past wars, or State Department financing of foreign arms sales and militarily-related development assistance. Neither does it include defense spending that is not military in nature, such as the Department of Homeland Security, counter-terrorism spending by the FBI, and intelligence-gathering spending by NASA."

I would suggest that military spending is out of control, has been out of control for a very, very long time. An honest appraisal of federal military expenditures will place it at somewhere near 50% of the entire federal budget.
Geocities just won't die - advice?
In the last 6 months, I've had to send two separate requests to sites cloning the original Geocities, asking them to take down my content (and another one a few months before that). This includes things that I really shouldn't have put on the open internet (resume, etc), but I was young, and sites like google and pipl weren't yet that good at tracking down arbitrary bits of information.

While I understand that there is some merit in reconstructing the Geocities sites (either for otherwise lost bits of arbitrary information, or for nostalgia's sake), my questions are:

1] How long will these sites keep on popping up?
2] Is it really legal for them to mirror expired (and copyrighted) information in the way they're doing?
3] Is there a way to flag my information as 'not to be rehosted', and require potential mirrors to check this list first (think do-not-call register)?
4] Has anyone else run into this problem at all?

For reference, the two most recent ones are geocities.ws and reocities.com. I cannot recall the first one's name, unfortunately.
Does this mean they crossed the atlantic first?

Sometimes I wonder if the official Columbus crossed it first story is valid. #NotAConspiracyTheorist
Great post. Here's the bit I'd like to emphasise:

> When you're with your family or friends, "be there" mentally

You know those ads for laptops with the perfect family plus dog on the beach or at the park, with one of the parents using a laptop?
What a horrible lie. Never do that.

It says to your kids/spouse that even when you're there you're not there.
Single Responsibility Principle - How Can I Avoid Code Fragmentation?
Heroku is Free for most small things and reasonable if you only need one instance. Not as easy as Parse but far from rocket science.

git push heroku master - FTW.
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Your arguments all tend to make sense when using the English common usage of the word primitive, because I believe that JS prototypes are possibly more advanced than Java classes.

However, speaking solely about the language Javascript, I think it's also fairly clear that in Javascript a prototype is a language primitive that you would use to build a Java-like class construct. Therefore in this context, according to the programming term primitive, prototypes are clearly "more primitive".

It doesn't matter what the Javascript interpreters are doing behind the scenes, because all we care about is Javascript as a language, and what building blocks are available there.

Your use of the word primitive does not seem to logically match the definition of the word provided in the Wikipedia article (admittedly not the best reference for programming concepts), which is why I believe the link was entirely warranted.

And just as a side note, it is entirely possible to be condescending without consciously intending to be.
I get a 404 error :(
I've deployed Git on a server in our DMZ for testing. So, it's possibly accessible from external IPs, but in reality we're using it via a VPN connection, so it's mostly internal. I haven't locked down the security yet. My idea is to create an internal git server that is freely accessible when connected via VPN or secure HTTPS (when not on VPN).

From what I've read, the self-hosted GitHub is far beyond our budget. We already have VM servers available. It's just a matter of choosing an appropriate self-hosted solution (e.g. WebGitNet, etc) vs. a more established and polished GitHub solution.
An internal (for now) local web app that provides 1-click installs for our numerous Github-hosted projects, applications, and Wordpress blogs using Vagrant, Capistrano and PhantomJS (environment, deployment, and change notifications, respectively).

Also, using AngularJS.
Modern video encoding is based on interpolating from the last frame, that is, only storing a real frame occasionally, and most of the time just having diffs from the last frame. ^+ This means that the data is inherently a stream -- a decoder needs to have completed decoding the previous frame before it can start on the next.

(^+ and B-frames, but let's not overcomplicate things)
Faster: a language change is not worth performance < an order of magnitude. Safer: unit tests; user input is only one type. Easier: prototypal inheritance is not a bug.

Next language please.
If I want to work with e output of ls, why do I need to manually parse fragile strings?

It would be neat to have basic stringable primatives, like maps and tables, that scripts could write and read.
Have you considered zsh? Much better autocomplete options available (and enabled by default).
Here's what really happened: Wells Fargo checked out your income and determined that you'd likely keep paying them 6+% if they said no.

Yes you should check out lots of other banks. After all, you're paying them nothing right now, so you're worth more than zero if they sign you up as a customer. You should check out a mortgage broker, who could give mucho assistance.

If that path fails, you should actually stop paying your mortgage, not just tell them. After it's late, tell them there will be no more payments unless you can refinance at a lower rate. Don't do it unless you're serious about walking away. If you do walk away you'll save a boatload of money of course, and the worst hit to your credit rating will last 3 years tops. But you shouldn't need credit during that time, due to the savings. You'll be mortgage-free rent-free for at least a year, or two if you take steps to drag it out. Let Wells Fargo know that you know that.
Speaking as a dev who uses Python on Windows primarily, I like this a lot. Much more lightweight than Windows Workflow Foundation and doesn't feel like sysadmin work compared to doing stuff with Powershell + Scheduled Services + other parts of Windows automation. In other words, this feels like "developer work" rather than "Windows IT Pro" work :p

Kudos!
I think it's the makers that have an itch to scratch. I think consumers will become more savvy after solutions like this, asking themselves questions like "was I really handing over my photos to other people to hold forever?"
Funny, how many people try to build the same thing? :)
Just posted here about my practically the same project, http://dozen.softover.com
Try a mortgage broker who specializes in refinancing, not a bank.

There's no reason whatsoever to stick with Wells Fargo for the refinance, because they'll probably still charge you closing costs, appraisal fees, etc.

I have no idea if defaulting on your mortgage will get you distressed mortage rates, but it will most likely make getting a refi or another mortgage a lot more complicated.
“I think that’s what the public wants the mayor to do.”
The same public which chooses to buy soda.
Zsh has an autocorrect feature that suggests different spellings of your command if it can't find anything exactly matching it. I'm sure that I recall hearing of similar functionality available for bash, too.

Also, recent versions of Ubuntu include shell aliases that will search for packages related to missing commands. I'm sure that if you don't use Ubuntu, you could rip this functionality out and port it to whatever packaging system you use.
>What sort of wizardry is this?

[Redacted]@[Redacted]:~$ nncat
No command 'nncat' found, did you mean:
Command 'sncat' from package 'sn' (universe)
Command 'ncat' from package 'nmap' (main)
Command 'uncat' from package 'socklog' (universe)
nncat: command not found
1) Running has an appealing simplicity: very little equipment is required (just a decent pair of shoes), you can do it anywhere (city/country, on/off road), etc.
2) Biking is not some magical risk-free activity, you have to take care whichever you choose.
Again, this probably isn't controversial: it's simply a mistake to make one-dimensional comparisons with a two-dimensional scale. Tufte called this specific example (abusing area as a one-dimensional scale) an examplar of the "lie factor" in statistical graphics.
It seems like one of the biggest ways we can help is in trying to find more people with the same mutation.
Do you think that is the sense of the word "Primitive" intended by the author of JSX? In that sense of the word, what does "More" primitive or "Too primitive" mean? I would have thought something was either a primitive or it wasn't- not a sliding scale.
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"Shhh, child. Mother knows best."
That's why a massvie amount of apple mobile devices jailbreak them, why their competitor has aimed enormous traction, right?
At least be honest about the it - it's your aesthetic taste that interests you, that'll be offended, not someone else's.
If your going to pull a Steve Jobs, just say so. It's a valid (and successful) point of view, but it's not a universal truth.
That's also what happens to me quite frequently -- when I'm using a GUI.
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Something being "a primitive" is entirely based on implementation details. Not implementation details of how the language interpreters/compilers are constructed, but how you as a programmer implement things in the language in question.

A associative array might be considered a language primitive in PHP, but not in C. It is contextually dependent on the language being discussed.

Without speaking about a specific language, you cannot define something as a primitive or not in the strictly programming sense. Once you start talking about comparing two types of constructs in an abstract sense, the word primitive can only be interpreted using the English common usage, and then you are talking about an entirely different concept.
I love this idea. Many tech companies have hackathons that run over a day or a weekend. Hackathons are a strange mix between R&D (any idea is on the table), lean startup (prove your assumptions through minimum work) and a work party.
Whilst usually great fun, the projects attacked are limited in scope in order to fit in the limited time available.
Turning this into a longer exercise means more time can be put into properly proving your assumptions and investigating concepts that can't be bashed out in two or three days.

The other important fact is that, when you have good employees, allowing them kind of flexibility can pay dividends both for the company and their own workplace satisfaction.
The fact this flexibility is so widely encouraged in the start-up scene is really encouraging.
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Wow, no idea who's downvoting. Have a sympathetic upvote for answering honestly.
I was just wondering what would be the use cases of this.

I mean to say code version control really is text version control. The whole idea is to track the changes, the cause for the change and who changed with some history. Added with this ability to do other code release related changes like revert, merge etc.

What is the use of semantic version control?
Ketamine blocks the NMDA receptor, which is thought to be the receptor that causes memory formation. So it is expected to affect memory.

The brain damage effect is uncharacterized in humans. Several NMDA drugs cause this effect in rats, but none of them have been found to cause devastating problems in humans except PCP.

There is some suggestion that opioids cause cancer, but the only study was small and observational.
I understood everything apart from 'discounted cash flow analysis of stocks' Can you please explain in plain English what that means?
You don't use Microsoft products, do you? :-)
Principle Component Analysis is the main example of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis
For me, ritual is great, but too much ritual can turn me into a robot. If I choose the right rituals for my autopilot program, I may be a fitter, happier, more productive robot, but I'm still a robot. The appeal seems to be, to paraphrase Simon & Garfunkel, that a robot feels no pain. Constant ritual keeps the demons at bay -- ask any autistic person.

I've learned, though, that to feel truly alive I need to turn off the autopilot, feel the emotions that come up, both painful and joyful, and accept the way that they demand to inform my direction on a moment-to-moment basis, often in ways contrary to what I had planned. That's life.
It's a CLI with terrible feedback. So many people (including people whose jobs are in some way related to Twitter) don't know that when you start a message with an @reply, only your followers who also follow that other person will see it.

A few years back, when more people used the SMS interface to post, it was common to see people occasionally slip and post what was supposed to be a direct message. I don't see that anymore now that people use GUIs.