skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it does move the burden for maintaining compatibility from third-party import tools / glue code / adapters back to the original vendor, which I think is extremely sensible.
Is HP’s Autonomy the Worst Place to Work on the Planet?
"To win, you must fight not only the creature you encounter; you must fight the most horrible thing that can be constructed from its corpse." (http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/steven/?p=155)

However, like you, I don't feel particularly inclined to take a crack at it today...
http://news.ycombinator.com/classic shows what the frontpage would look like if we only counted the votes of people who joined HN in the first year. It looks pretty much the same.

The comments are declining though, I admit that.
Meet the 20 year old entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
JavaScript Library for Objective Sound Programming
I wonder who picked the picture for it and what their intentions were. I mean, an N64 controller? Really? The language screams of bias. The severity and implications of internet/porn/video game/etc addiction are certainly up for discussion, but this article is pure troll bait.
Jeff is having too narrowminded a view. Whatever takes people off TV and Facebook to acquire a skill is a net win to society.

They could do even better things? Probably, but that's not the point. If you had a similarly structured online course to communicate better, then you might have something useful to say.
What is the name of this operator --?
Where the hell are you getting this 100,000 people dead stuff? It's a rocket engine, not a nuclear weapon. What problem is it you're suggesting they need to solve?
FBI releases "Child ID App for Androids"
Using the app, you can show pictures of your kids and provide physical identifiers such as height and weight to security or police officers on the spot. You can also quickly and easily e-mail the information to authorities with a few clicks.
I was intrigued by it and wanted to learn it for a small web project. I was trying to get an objective view to avoid drinking the kool-aid.
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As some who used to work on cars for a living, I can say that the analogy does not fit very well.

Learning how to check your oil level, or even how to change a tire is more akin to learning how to install a new wi-fi dongle for your laptop, or how to install a new OS.

Learning how to program the computer is akin to learning how to modify the drivetrain of the car. You modify the engine to make it perform better (versus a standard baseline) by modifying or even replacing the components of the engine.

You modify your computer with code to make it perform better (again, versis a standard baseline). All computers ar equal, what differs them is the software. How each programmer can modify the order of zeroes and ones to make the computer work in a certain way.

Some people go as far as creating an engine from raw materials. In computers, we know those people as the embedded folks.
can we do that for rubygems too?
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1. Recognition of arbitral award is much faster.

2. Awards can be recognized in 146 countries.

3. In 96% of the cases recognition is not even needed, the losing party pays up.
>Aren't corporations regulated by the laws made by the governments elected by the electorate?

If SpaceX goes public (and my understanding is that it will soon enough), then government can buy a massive stake in the company to control it, if they so choose.
It could easily be a necessary but not sufficient sort of thing.
Bollocks!

This article is based on the premise that 'guys' are being destroyed by technology addiction amplified by a confluence of games and porn. Firstly it is a sexist argument, and secondly, a confluence of games and porn sounds like a good description of the majority of social obsessions throughout history, especially in male dominated environments.

[edit] I just thought about this and realised that the hero in nearly every western ever is a guy with a technology addiction amplified by a confluence of games and porn, usually in a saloon with swing doors, cards instead of consoles and the porn is live.
He's still missing the point.

If anything "learning to code," is just bad language to describe something more worthwhile: teaching people the fundamentals of algorithmic and logical thinking. We don't teach mathematics to kids so that they will all become mathematicians and we certainly don't teach them literacy so that they will all become the next J.D. Salinger. They are just tools for solving other problems. "Learning to code," is just another tool that will become ever more prevalent in the years to come.

The problem of not teaching these fundamental principles is that when it does become useful to do so it will be too late. We cannot afford to wait yet another generation to teach these ideas and principles. I think we're far enough along by now in the development of computer science to have a basic language of things to talk about. If we at least teach people these things then how many other judges in technology patent cases will be able to at least have an intuition to call out a patent troll? How many office workers will be able to find hidden information in their data or automate the repetitive tasks they do and move on to better things? How many of them will know that at least it can be done and perhaps they should hire a programmer?

As it stands right now most people don't even have an intuition of what can be done with a computer. Their world is comprised of apps and silos. When they get onto an airplane they have no idea that they're sitting in a flying solaris box with wings. They don't realize that their e-reader is a general purpose computing device capable of more than just downloading books from that one store they bought it from.

I don't think anyone advocating algorithmic literacy is suggesting that we train legions of crafts-people.

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I played D2 with a number of non-technical people, and it took quite a bit of explaining before they finally understood why they couldn't play their solo characters online. Their usual response at the end was "well, that's stupid."
Hi -- I know quite a bit about this stuff (worked at Scribd on the pub side, Quantcast on the DSP side, and Yodle doing sem). Contact me offline if you'd like to talk. Email is in my profile.
More likely the legal team just forgot that Bing exists.
I don't understand this.

Doing a couple hours a week learning Javascript and you will now change careers?

Or, inversely, learning Javascript on Codecademy will get you a lucrative job on frontend programming, if you are not talented?

Yes, of course doing what you love and striving for excellence and doing your research on your own are all great admirable things everyone should do. But they are hard, and not at all at odds with this tiny time investment. What's all the fuss about?

Let people do what they want to and get off the high horse, unless you are pulling people up with practical contributions, not just "don't do this"
I haven't watched porn in years so no need for me... I am just weirdly wired and find most porn stars unattractive
Nah you're just addicted to meditation. :)
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The seat of arbitration and the choice of law are two different things. Parties prefer London or New York for all challenges related to the arbitration process (stay the hearing, challenge the award, etc) but this does not exclude the actual arbitration from applying Delaware law.
At least this article isn't written by a female -- those always concludes that dudes are being overtaken females based on idiotic stats like how many people graduate college with a degree (implying that all degrees are equal) and how many finish high school, not taking into account that the high school environment has essentially striped away any posibility to use ones hands.

But this article doesn't present anything new or even noteworthy. Instead it is just more conjecture, more bullshit and nothing that take into account what is really missing from guys life.

This article series on the art of manliness (http://artofmanliness.com/2011/05/09/the-cure-for-the-modern...) does a much better job at hinting at the truth.

We don't go to video games just because they are fun -- we go to them to get a challenge to over come and prove ourself.

We do this not because video games are stimulating, but because there isn't much place in left in this society for doing and creating (computer programming and especially start ups are the exception, but most people don't live in the valley) things and because the traditional manly role of a provider and protector is essentially gone and there isn't a new distinct one that we can take on (if we are simply the same as the females, how do I prove my manhood?).
Nothing about Rick Santorum is acceptable, the idea that he was even considered for the position probably violates most of the Bill of Rights.

Fake counters are pretty far down my list of grievances.
Governments can, with care, be kept under control.

Can they really? I personally disagree. I believe that it is always the nature of governments to grow larger, more evil, more bureaucratic and more corrupt, until they are - by necessity - overthrown and replaced by the next iteration.

As for your disdain of corporations... I'll remind you that corporations are an artificial legal fiction that depend on the State for their very existence. They are however, arguably more accountable to the populace at large, who can vote with their dollars when it comes to interacting with said corporations. Governments, on the other hand, hold for themselves a monopoly on the "legal" use of force, and are ultimately not accountable at all. Witness the governments that have suspended elections, imposed "marshal law" or otherwise pre-empted the democratic process in the name of some "emergency" or other. Reichstag fire, anybody?

Anyway, to keep this remotely on topic, I'll say that the fact that a private entity accomplished this feat is very significant exactly because it represents a step towards the democratization of space travel. No longer will the State be in the position of determining who can and can't go into space, and picking a handful of elites to send up. Now, space travel is cheap enough that it no longer requires the trappings of the State... we're one step closer to space tourism, to a day when travelling into space is accessible to a large percentage of the population, and to a day when we decide who goes into space, as opposed to a few bureaucrats deciding. That is a big-deal as far as I'm concerned.

Disclaimer: I'm about as libertarian / voluntaryist / anarcho-capitalist as you can get.
Learn enough about code to read others' programs.

Learn enough to not be spied on and manipulated by sociopathic web developers and cybercriminals.

Maybe you can contribute something back to programmer/user community that demonstrates ethical principles. Maybe you found a startup. Maybe you make a career out of writing programs.

At the very least, you make it harder for the bad actors who use their coding skills to take advantage of people who are not tech savvy.
First take some time off to perform a time audit. Really take a look at what you're spending time on, and reducing the amount of time consumption that keeps you from freelancing before you do so. Not sleeping is not a sustainable nor a scalable option.
Back in the 1700's, nobody had cars, but they (arguably) did just fine. And yet today, hardly a day goes by when you don't hop into your car and go somewhere!

I bet most people who currently use cars for transportation (which is to say, probably the majority) would not be able to stop using cars for 40 days straight. Does this not tell you something?
Wouldn't it be simpler if it was just JavaScript?

express + backbone

Not that I want to be painted as another node.js nut but if you're going to do a javascript client single page app why even bother with Flask/Python on the server? Express is simpler.
Looks like its only US centered. No trace of European/Australian/Asian startups.
Are you folks seriously insinuating that MS purposely keep Windows and XBox warez links in Bing to compete against Google?
It's just a poor analogy. The two have nothing in common what-so-ever.

You do not simply modify your computer with code to make it perform better.
I agree. OP offers a rant with no constructive solution or even asking helPful questions. I actually agree somewhat that porn is a net negative

I view porn and to most addictions as symptoms. Society is not providing us with what we need to feel fulfilled and meaningful. If we all had deep relationships, a connection to our community and worthwhile goals to aim for I doubt most addictions would occur
Measuring The Universe [video infographic]
"if we are simply the same as the females, how do I prove my manhood?"

Why do you feel the need to?
Can I register my business phone number or a fax number?

The National Do Not Call Registry is only for personal phone numbers. Business-to-business calls and faxes are not covered by the National Do Not Call Registry.
Is HTML5 going to signal the end of sites structured like infoq? Will we just be able to extract a download link instead of jumping through endless hoops and tolerating annoyance after annoyance?
Merge multiple lines in Vim
So why are they then contracting out the takedown notices to a third party which must be charging them a whole bunch for sending notices for hundreds of thousands of links? Just to make Bing better and Google worse for 0.01% of popular illegal downloads? Again, does not compute.
Fear of releasing a hobby project - how to overcome?
Indeed, I had missed this point too, but it is too true. Algorithmic literacy is important. More important than mere computer proficiency.

Now, is it more important than the purported alternatives? Hard to say. But maybe there's no need to decide.
One Advertising Award That Does Count
"I do believe that the plethora of instant stimulations is having a major impact on our cognitive processes. Some good, some bad. The bad I see is that it seems that people have a much more difficult time quieting down their minds or enjoying peace. If you watch people, there is a subtle but strong constant desire for stimulation. In fact, its almost odd to see someone waiting for anything without pulling out their smartphone and poking at it."

This. PG did a good blog post about this a while back, "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" or something like that. If you're building stuff, and what you make is habit-forming, you win. So people build habit-forming things and create habits in other people. So most people have habits that are not necessarily beneficial for them at all, but which are beneficial for whoever built their favorite app, or game, or gadget.

How many people check Hacker News more often than they really want to? I regularly uninstall my Twitter clients because they're too habit-forming. This is my third or fourth Hacker News login; I get disgusted with the sheer amount of time I spend on here, I sign out, throw away my password, and then come back anyway.

Porn and video games make better link bait than Hacker News or Twitter, but the truth is that habit-forming entertainment is a serious problem.

Also, as an aside, I fucking hate how people use the term "addicting" when they really mean "habit-forming." The technical meaning of addiction requires a physiological change where the body cannot function without a given substance. I think I'm on the losing side of this battle, but I haven't made peace with it. I'd even agree that "addiction" in the more general sense is a bigger problem than pure addiction in the literal sense, but it still just drives me fucking nuts.
When people or organizations get together and lobby the government so that their business or industry makes more money as a consequence of the changes they're lobbying for, then yes, that's bad. Sure, corporations should be able to influence policy, but this influence must happen democratically and out in the open, and potentially opposing parties must have an opportunity to comment.

The fix doesn't lie, however, in hoping that businesses will voluntarily stop lobbying, so I won't criticize back-country tourism companies from giving money to the Sierra Club to ensure that their venues remain unspoilt. Even if a business didn't want to, it might nonetheless feel compelled to lobby congress for reasons of competitive advantage. When many entities feel compelled to act in opposition to their ethics, it's a sure sign that the system they operate in is broken.

(That said, many businesses sponsor the Sierra Club for P.R. reasons, which is fine and categorically different from the "bad lobbying" explained above)
Ways Happiness Can Hurt You
End of lawnmower man.

[edit] but with Douglas Hofstadter. And a kitten. But the kitten is just out of shot, so we can't really see it.
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Browser yang paling umum digunakan sekarang adalah Internet Explorer Banyak orang berpikir tidak ada orang lain
Imgur API is redirecting to NSFW images
I was thinking about the launcher falling on a skyscraper for example. My number was off by an order of magnitude, sorry.

The problem is: making sure the launcher lands where it has to or else falls on an unpopulated area. I expect this to be harder than with the free fall capsules, where you only have to calculate a trajectory and gravity does the rest.
With Twitter’s help, White House ‘bootstraps’ a new digital strategy
[video] San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro's message to Charles Barkley. Priceless.
Full Show 5/24/12: Is Austerity Heading to the U.S.?
I don't really have an answer on the question, I am just another person starting out on freelance and struggling at the similar situation. I have a kid and a fulltime job as well. So I guess I am on the similar situation as yours. But I am already 37 ;-)

I tried not to sacrifice my time with kid and wife so I tried to wake up earlier at 4-5 a.m., spend 2-3 hours to work on things, then go to my fulltime work. I find this time of the day work better for me than if I stay up late to the night. You are alone, the air is fresh, and you are like having the whole world :-).

It is not easy, sometime I just couldn't wake up that early after the alarm went off. And then feeling guilty the whole day for not able to achieve the thing I plan to do. Sometime the alarm wake up my wife instead of me, and she couldn't fall asleep again after that, that is also a big problem.

I think focus, persistent and discipline is important. When we don't have the luxury of spending the whole day on the thing we need to work on, break a big task to smaller chunk that we can complete in shorter amount of time. Focus on small steps instead of climbing the big mountain.

I post about my story here as well http://www.kahfei.com/?p=242. A long post though.
You want to know if it's as good as Hacker News reader say it is, so you ask Hacker News? :P

Yes, it's awesome. :)
If you aren't already, there are probably many people that would enjoy taking a look at that ui toolkit.
This is one of those cases where I wish I had a giant "SELECTION BIAS!" sign that I carried around everywhere.
I hate the favoritism people show to companies. Whenever Apple (and normally Google) come out with something, people go crazy just drooling to try it out. However, when Yahoo came out with Axis, I saw people saying things like 'Why doesn't Yahoo just quit trying and go bankrupt already?' etc. When a company comes out with a new product, people shouldn't jump on the company-fanboy/hater bandwagons.

That being said, it's nice to see Yahoo do something well.
Not to be a jerk and I'm no expert in ruby (or much python for that matter), I don't think they do, at all really. At least no go-style interfaces or channels.
Dude. Way too much pedantry. They are experimenting. If they get it right on your screen you get a more precise rendering of the font, if they don’t you get a slightly suboptimal rendering, but that’s the same result you'd get with a generic font.
It would obviously be the latter right? Because who wants some random advertising agency putting together you like concentrated acid and bathtubs?

Just me?
> Is it as good as we read here? What are its benefits?

C - pain.

[+ps]: well, the concurrency model is quite nice, too.
> On Linux for example, which hosts most servers, you upgrade python libraries with yum update/apt-get update/you-name-it.

Not really. In many cases distro provided packages are unsuitable, either because they are just outdated, or because they have some strange patches merged in. So people are already managing their python packages with pip, virtualenv makes it easier.

If you want to use distro packages, then virtualenv allows you to use those (it does that by default). You only need to install into virtualenv those libraries that are unavailable/unusable from distro packages.

> I know a lot of companies hosting python things and using VirtualEnv because "its easy", but they entirely discard updates.

Discarding updates (without due care) is bad sysadmining regardless of what kind of package management is in use. Virtualenv is no magic bullet, nor is it an excuse for sloppy procedures.
WTF?!

I'd call that more like three orders of magnitude, and the world has been launching rockets and landing capsules since 1961. Nothing even remotely like what you are speaking of has ever come remotely close to happening.

No one launches rockets over populated areas, nobody aims capsules for populated areas, the CIA spent the 1960s recovering CORONA satellite film canisters with such precision they captured them with planes in mid-air.

Stop fear-mongering.
Bad example. It does tell you something important, namely people no longer live easy walking distance from things which are important to them: job, food, and friends. If you live in a city next to a grocery store and walking distance from your job you could probably go 40 days without driving. You may not even own a car. However, most people (in the US anyway) are not in this situation. Therefore, we drive more than we should.
I understand Jeff's motivation for writing his piece.

Alas, I just hope people learn to code if they want, or don't if they don't want to. That's all. No one else can make the decision for them.

I also go out of my way to teach people coding concepts. I recommend Zed's books to beginners. I recommend stackoverflow or quora for asking / answering questions.

Just be helpful to beginners and help them ignore the rabble rousers until they've got their bearings.

All this blogging and tweeting on the subject is just going to confuse folks in the early days, when they should be focusing on learning instead.
There needs to be two other buttons:

"Meh": which means I wouldn't use either.

"WTF??": (one for each side). This isn't just a "not vote up", but is a "major vote down".
Minimum viable product does not mean a product shipped as fast and cheaply as possible. I see a lot of projects announced as a MVP, that can barely even be called a finished product. If you are building a quick project because you just learned a new technology, it is not a MVP - it is an experiment. A true MVP is something closer to "as simple as possible but not simpler", which as everyone knows can be time consuming and difficult. It is the simplest product that can fully achieve its intended goals.

The key word is "viable", not "minimum".
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I'd guess it needs to show only stuff that was submitted by those people to be really useful.
That's cool, but given the subject matter it is hard to treat it with anything other than absolutely no, you-know-what.
"I'm going to sexually dominate you like a woman".

If you want to be pedantic, it's:

I'm going to sexually dominate you like a female dog.
You don't change individuals' identity. Instead you add individuals to groups.
Was just looking at namespace best practices today for a utility library I was implementing. Is there a defacto standard?