skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That is what parenthood does to you."

No, that is what parenthood has done to you. And I'm glad for you but you don't have to look far to find people for whom the effect was less than positive and if I relate more to those people than to you then I would do well to heed their warnings than your espousing of supposed absolute truth.

Seriously why is it that parents want to convince others who don't buy into the whole pronatalist view so much that having kids is always, every time, and in every way, the most positive, ultimate experience any human can have?
This is anecdotal, but the one hardcore libertarian I knew fit this stereotype perfectly.

We all have varying degrees of empathy and ability to understand and act on the intentions and emotions of others, but those of us who are on the lowest end of the empathy scale tend toward libertarian ideals. It is no coincidence.
OWASP Top 10 for Javascript
OWASP Top 10 for single page web apps. First part is on A1 Injection.
The Average Angel Investor Makes Less Than a Good Developer
Wasn't it Einstein who said something along the lines of "Don't memorize anything you can look up?"
Maybe its because the YC founders are not representative of HN's readers. If so, why that's the case could make for interesting discussion.
I can assure you they read you (now!)
I was also a skeptic of Chromebooks until I took mine home from Google IO last year and gave it to my then 7yr old. His response after a few minutes, "Dad, this has the whole internet on it!"

This was followed by a detailed lesson from me on exactly how the "whole internet" works. Then later, regret on my part for not having explained that to him earlier.
It is actually counter-productive for doctors to learn too much about rare diseases.

When a patient presents with a set of symptoms, the doctor has to decide whether the patient has a boring common disease or the cool disease which is 100 times rarer. Human beings can't make good judgements about probabilities like that. If every doctor were trained to recognize a rare auto-immune disease that looks just like the flu, plenty of flu sufferers would be misdiagnosed. Far better to teach doctors the treat for flu and refer the cases that don't respond to a specialist.

It is a common problem with doctors fresh out of med school. Common enough that most doctors are taught to "not look for zebras when horses are more likely." If you spend enough time in a hospital you will hear veteran doctors dismiss interns and residents saying, "she's just looking for zebras."
A good motorcyclist would not allow you to pull up along side them in their lane. When riding normally, we take up an entire lane by riding in the middle, to prevent people from thinking "Oh, that motorcyclist is at the edge of the lane, that means I can try and use the rest of the lane to pass".

Lane splitting is an exception, and a pretty hair-raising one at times because people are constantly jockeying to get into the next lane over which looks faster, without signaling. And then there are the people who actively attempt to prevent lane-splitting, by pulling onto the line when they see you coming.
It's because you need to secure business license to sell.
Awesome, and this goes for everybody else, too: thanks for the replies!
Programming language benchmark data.
Why You Should Be Using Pinterest To Pick Up Women
I don't know if they've disabled it in their distribution, but Ctrl-A (beginning of line) and Ctrl-E (end-of-line) work in my version of Chrome. Not sure if this is a default or something I've set system-wide.
SFC Projects Launch Coordinated Free Software Compliance Efforts
FWIW, I'm very much a libertarian and spend a lot of time with other libertarians, and I don't know a single one who would contend that

"ie: get rid of all law enforcment some magic is going to happen and criminals won't be criminals".

What we might contend is that the current system doesn't do much to stop criminal from being criminals and probably (actually, almost certainly) creates even more criminals, and has all sorts of unintended consequences in the process... We might also contend that modern day law enforcement is largely reactive and does very little to stop crimes from happening, and that individuals should take on some degree of personal responsibility in terms of protecting themselves and their property.

I suspect life would be a lot like the show Deadwood, not really my ideal life)

Yeah, few libertarians contend that a "libertarian world" would be a "libertarian utopia" (as our detractors like to suggest)... we just argue that it would be a great deal better than the current system in many ways, and perhaps worse in some ways... but that the gain in freedom more than makes up for whatever failings such a society would have.
So when senseless atrocities are committed the proper response isn't outrage and attempts to fix problems but to sit by quietly and "respectfully"?

Yes it's a damn tragedy he is dead. I'm pissed off and angry about it. Was it preventable? Quite possibly. Even sadder. But instead you say I should stand by quietly and watch as it happens again and again with regularity.

It's a damn shame that taking steps to prevent deaths is such a political issue to some people :(

What about the marches after Trevon Martin's death? Should they have stayed home and not "politicized" that either? What about genocides? Should we just be sad and stand by?
You missed our site, lanyrd.com (W2011) - out of interest, what was your soure for the list of YC companies?
Considering the number of folk dealing with COBOL systems I bumped into at GOTO Copenhagen last week, and the number of COBOL jobs that pop up after a quick google I would beg to differ.

I can, of course, understand why you would really want it to be dead ;-)
If PE is so important why is LinkedIn http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALNKD not getting bashed as fb is. Both are kind of social networks (used differently with different target audience) . LinkedIn is trading at 600+ PE.
Actual article: http://www.fastcompany.com/1837966/mustafas-space-drive-an-e...
The problem with this theory is that it assumes a couple of things:

1) The market fully defined by exchanges underwritten by currency (read: a fluid medium of exchange).

2) Value can be assigned to anything and is therefore finite in all circumstances.

But there is a singularity where it all breaks down:

The value of one's life is infinite. Without it, no other value matters. If I could give you $10 trillion but I kill you 60 seconds afterward, what value does it have?

One's life cannot be underwritten by currency because currency is finite. Therefore the market as defined as an exchange of value underwritten by currency is inadequate for any exchange where one's continued life is a factor.
I just love when job ads require 2-3 years work experience, but also have a requirements list so long that would take 10+ years of dedication in 7 completely different, or contradictory, disciplines to qualify for the position.

Now Hiring: Visual Studio/.NET + Ruby on Rails developers with Oracle DBA and jQuery UI experience, XSL and Adobe Illustrator experience a plus
Well it's not so sweet to be an angel. Is it an income from investments?
Seriously, are you reading a press release? Also, you're 10-ish years behind, which is how long ad.com has been doing retargeting. Retargeting has widespread since the advent of a global cookie space with exchanges -- rmx in '08 or so. And yet we still have direct response and brand display ads.
Macs don't have home/end/delete. Personally I don't miss them.
And they should build the batteries into the wheel rims for extra stability.
> def Factorial(x): output = 1 for i in xrange(x): output = (i + 1) return output

Umm, did you mean:

def factorial(x):
output = 1
for i in xrange(2, x):
output *= i
return output

Here are the perl versions. Such trivial examples are going to look the same in languages which share the same paradigms.

use List::Util qw(reduce);

# This is how I would write it.
sub fact1 {
my $num = shift;
my $output = 1;
$output *= $_ for (2 .. $num);
return $output;
}

# Most people don't prefer inline loops and $_ variable, though
# I don't see why not.
sub fact2 {
my $num = shift;
my $output = 1;
for my $i (2 .. $num) {
$output *= $i;
}
return $output;
}

sub fact3 {
my $num = shift;
return reduce { $a * $b } 2..$num
}
May you provide an email address?
And because of what then?
"They should be designed in a way that they just work -- they are easy to use and use without error."

But how do you learn how to do that? For example, making an API. API's, once released into the wild, should never be changed (unless your hugely popular like Facebook). Public changes breaks code.

I look at some of the most popular API's. They look easy but I don't know how they got to that point. They had an infinite amount of choices yet they choose that particular way of doing it.
Different levels of regression. I have several Ubuntu using friends - completely normal users - who constantly need help because the Ubuntu upgrade broke.

I did a 10.04 to 12.04 upgrade on a server the other day. It also broke. Completely standard with no software installed except for Apache. No modifications done whatsoever. Upon booting into 12.04, the screen just flickers. I looked at the log (from ssh) and it had to do with vesafb or something like that. I didn't bother investigating, and did a plain 12.04 install from ISO.

Things like that, Canonical.
Yeah, cuz developer actually make stuff happen. Other just talk about it.
You cannot deny it carries with it certain effects and consequences, and debatably, pre-existing personality traits.
I agree with you as it pertains to stackoverflow. I vote to close non-technical stuff all the time there I appreciate that is kept technical q/a. I do not agree about programmers. This particular question was long-winded but it boils down to "What are effective strategies for countering analysis-paralysis"? If that is not a relevant question for programmers than I don't what is. I'd rather just ignore that particular stackexchange and stick to stackoverflow then.
Is there a way to filter out gaming articles?
Isn't Sudan about half that size now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudan
That's what the chat rooms are for[1].

[1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/do-trilogy-sites-need-...

I really like the "third place" idea, but I don't think the chat rooms have been successful in realizing it. Unfortunately, people just don't use them very much--even the StackOverflow rooms rarely have anybody to talk to.

I think the fundamental problem is that discussion in other parts of the site is asynchronous, like email, while the chat rooms aren't. The comments and posts stick around and allow people to talk about something across a longer period of time, which also allows more people to join the discussion. On the other hand, chat happens immediately--it only works for the people who are there at the moment and only works while everybody is on.

There is, of course, nothing wrong with chat in general. I just don't think it's the best match for the SE format.
Dark Theme in Visual Studio 11 RC
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-market-c...
Hmm... my MacBook doesn't have a home/end cluster and I seem to function fine on all those sites. CTRL-A & CTRL-E (handy if you're an Emacs fan).
Completely different market. People don't type on an iPad for long periods.
Likely it's just that I'm pretty dense about certain subjects, but I had a hard time grasping the basics of photography until I watched this ten minute video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-NhJua5NFA

The relationships between the basic elements of exposure seem so straightforward now.
We Have the Port Scans, what now?
For me, this is the strongest case yet for niche social networks being the future of social media. FB is too broad and demographics tell you little about the people you are speaking too unless you can inject some sort of context.

If (via a Distributed Social Networking Protocol) people were subscribed to several social networks focused on their hobbies and interests, then I believe Social Media Advertising would be more viable, and more useful to the audience.

You don't need DSNP: niche social networks already exist. Ravelry and GoodReads, as examples, seem to be making a decent go of it. Would love to know how their advertising does.
When it comes to keeping the service running, there's always one person on call. We're really flexible on our team about hours, so if you need to do something on Saturday night you can cut out a little early a different day - honestly if you feel done for the day you can be done any day, but most of us are super driven and don't want to stop working when it's time. Despite the general 9-6 guideline we're not super formal about our hours.

Our support team also works a bit on the weekend (around 3 hours per day), and that's something we're working on fixing by adding to the team.
Sex and the keynote
Show HN: Los Angeles Startup Club
RIM board member scoffs at critics (Feb 2012 article)
Yes, that sucks. It's not much extra typing:

def function(x, y, z):

versus

sub function {
my ($x, $y, $x) = @_;
}

The overhead is only really the 'my = @_;' chars, but it is annoying. On the other hand, it does allow you to do things like partially unpack args and pass the rest as a bundle to a super class.
The readability arguments need to include such modules as Method::Signatures::Simple, which replaces the old manual method (no pun intended) with:

method foo ($a, $b) {
$self->blargh($a + $b);
}
The pie charts seem like an odd way of counting some of these; for example, one site could use Facebook Like, Google +1 and a Tweet button all at once, but showing them as slices in a pie chart implies to me that the options are mutually exclusive.
Bitly Goes Beyond Link Shortening, But Users Not Amused
Today, the sci-fi novels of the sixties feel like artifacts from a distant age. “One way you can describe the collapse of the idea of the future is the collapse of science fiction,” Thiel said. “Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’"

You know, I think he's on to something there. Modern sci-fi really doesn't seem to have a whole lot left to say about potential advances in technology, and the tone does seem to have shifted away from the optimism of yesteryear. The best new scifi I've read lately was a post-apocalyptic zombie story trilogy, for crying out loud.
I think you miss the point a bit, but I admit it's a bit long so I don't blame you for not reading it all. Mediation is just one of the author's guesses at what free market law might look like.

The first half of the article addresses the fact that it is impossible for the law to be objective. This is an extremely interesting idea in my opinion so I would encourage onlookers to check it out even if you are solidly convinced that free market law could never work. It's a bit hard to summarize the article so don't accept qdog's TL;DR at face value without reading it yourself.

My TL;DR, quoting from the article's conclusion:
"The fact is that there is no such thing as a government of law and not people. The law is an amalgam of contradictory rules and counter-rules expressed in inherently vague language that can yield a legitimate legal argument for any desired conclusion. For this reason, as long as the law remains a state monopoly, it will always reflect the political ideology of those invested with decisionmaking power. Like it or not, we are faced with only two choices. We can continue the ideological power struggle for control of the law in which the group that gains dominance is empowered to impose its will on the rest of society, or we can end the monopoly."
It's not the most used language, actually, though I don't think it's your fault for misreading the chart. Ruby on Rails and "Ruby on Rails Token" were split into two different categories, based on how they figured out the site was using Rails. If you combine those two categories, ruby has higher usage than php.

Not to defend the php hate, of course. Just to point out that it's not actually the most popular language, despite the misleading graph.
Cortex A15 SoCs (specifically the Exynos 5 line, which includes ARM Mali GPUs) production didn't start until Q2, and I would assume they won't be ready until at least midway through Q3, so there's no way Google could use them in their Chrome OS devices.
Typical right-wing businessman:

If he succeeds (with the benefit of tons of public financial support), all the credit is due to his brilliance.

If he fails (despite all that public money), it's the government's fault for not supporting him even more and bailing him out.

Oh, and btw, let's keep repeating the mantra: Big government is baaaaaad! Rich people must be coddled as job creators!

Schilling is a douchebag.
So there's actually a market of people that don't want a fully capable laptop, and don't want a tablet + external keyboard, and want a web-only miniature laptop? I think these Chromebooks are targeted at market that actually does not exist.
Troll? if not:

These keys are easily replaced by ctrl-a ctrl-e or alt-arrow keys. Moving your hand all the way over there to the arrows and 6key cluster is for the birds.

That said, I agree, google seems dead set on making these machines for "normal people", and that they are lacking in a few ways that keep the "normal" folks away (not the least of which is that you can't just walk into a best buy and pick one up), but not having home/end/delete is probably low on that list. Not a single Mac laptop has those on single keys and they seem to be selling ok.
Depending on your platform, how many children you've forked, and your rate of incoming connections, this design could expose you to a thundering herd.

You might find that you get better performance by having the parent call accept() and hand off sockets to the children. With sufficient abuse of LD_PRELOAD you can probably do this without making any changes to the child processes -- you just need to override accept() with a function which checks if any sockets have been handed off.
Indie game developers band together to promote price control
The chromebox really needs to be $200. I have a Cr48 and I went and threw Win8 Consumer Preview (and it runs VS2k11 Beta - not the best experience but it is not unusable) on it.
Maybe 1 or 2 iterations later, this will be a very competitive offering.
Temperature Management in Data Centers: Why Some (Might) Like it Hot
I don't program in perl now a days. But when I did, I generally used perl's shortcuts a lot.

For example:

return reduce(sub { $a * $b; }, 1, (1..$n));

would be:

reduce { $a * $b } 1..$n;

This

my $output = 1;
for my $i (1..$n) {
$output *= $i;
}

would be:

$output *= $_ for (1..$n)

So, I have a question for you(assuming you write perl for a living). Is this your preferred style, or you do this to appease readability police which demands programming languages be readable by non programmers? Because really, what kind of programmer programs in perl and is averse to $_?
Great idea. I think that adding an amount sold to the widget may add a bit of interest. it was the first thing I looked for when I went to the site, and provides a crowd-validation. Thanks!!
Hm, looks sweet! One gripe about super-realism - usually "fun" stems from unexpected game-play variations (and decreasing entropy). In Quake 3, it was the rocket jump. In sandbox games, it's, well, the sandbox. This is also why finding (physics) bugs is so fun. Here, however, I'm not sure if one will be able to do interesting things. Can you, for example, smash half the truck away and be left with a "bike"? Just random destruction seems like it will get old fast.
IIS took a roughly 5% share on web servers but Windows doesn't appear on the OS breakdown at all...
What I learned by getting rejected by DreamIt Ventures
The longing I feel is the ability to create sketchnotes without detracting from the learning and listening experience.

The main pre-requisite seems to be the ability to sketch (i.e. quickly draw) the ideas that you're hearing in a real-time flow. I can do the latter (i.e. synthesize and absorb the talk with bright visuals in my imagination), but putting them down on paper is the daunting task.

Is this the type of art that's only within the grasp of gifted artists? I'd be happy even if I could quickly and accurately sketch rage comics or simpler xkcd stick figures, but alas even those require an inordinate amount of time.
First one (not 100% sure it's constant memory, I think perl optimises the for to avoid instantiating the (1..$n) list:

It does since 5.005 - so for a good long time now :-)

The reduce version (again, I'm unsure of const mem req). Comes in at ~1.4s:

This would allocate the array I'm afraid. You'd could use something liek List::Gen's reduce() to get around that.
No

Because if the company keeps the cash it still is part of the company worth calculation (unless investors expect managers to steal it in the future). Not issuing a dividend is also a signal that the company believes it can earn a better return on the cash then if it were returned to the shareholder.
default, at least it's true for me to, and I never set anything
I think the op's point was completely ignored: Different people progress at different rates. When you're in high school, you have roughly the same amount of schooling experience as your peers. That doesn't change the fact that you may be taking advanced classes while they take remedial ones.

It's easy to accuse the op of arrogance. And who knows, maybe he is arrogant. But in the end, that's just an ad hominem and is insufficient for dismissing his point, which I believe is a legitimate one.
A gun is a force multiplier that makes it easier to kill someone.

A car is a force multiplier that makes it easier for a drunk person to kill someone.

A fork is a non-sequitur placed presumably to create a Voltron-like strawman out of a gun, car and fork.
The ideal to strive for is what we call the "Goldielocks effect".

Not knowing too little. Not knowing too much. Knowing just enough to get the job done.

In computing there will always be multiple solutions, and tradeoffs. What you want to aim for is "The simplest solution possible."

In my experience, this is really hard for most developers.
Maybe the smart thing to do is find someone who makes it look easy and trust their judgment. Again, my experience is that most developers are reluctant to do this.

The question is not how much someone knows, it's whether they know "enough" to get the job done. Goldielocks.
This looks amazing.I tip my hat to those guys, and would love to see this in a Burnout game.

I wonder how easy it is to incorporate this in a game model. In the truck model looks like each piece of the car is modeled individually and might be a lot harder for the artists to make models. And wonder how are materials calculated, some things in the model bend in different ways.
To be clear: I think it's unconscionable to conceive a child while there are un-adopted ones, even if it's your first and guaranteed to be healthy.

There are perfectly good babies out there that need love and care, and by making your own you are basically saying "fuck them, the one that shares my DNA is better".
Yeah - I noticed the same thing with Python / Django being so poorly represented - seems like there's an disproportionate number of Python related posts and discussions on HN - but it could just be my internal bias as a Ruby guy :)