skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sincerely, I don't know how the US manages to be the second most touristic country in the world. Travelling to the US can be a nightmare - customs, TSA, metal detectors, body scanners, etc. As a tourist, I've never felt as unwelcomed as when travelling there.

That is mostly a small BS business that ends in, like, 15 minutes. Then you are in the US and you can start your travel.

I've visited the US six times, road-tripping for 40 days each time, and visited (more than once) all states but Vermont (just for lack of time, next time).

You can opt for a traditional holiday (i.e pick a place, like NY, Chicago, Miami, L.A, S.F etc) or have excellent road trips, or go explore huge natural parks.

In any case, you will find great city life, places untouched by tourism at all (e.g. I remember Langtry, TX, where the nearest shop was like 50 miles away, or Avalon, MS, where only 2-3 blues buffs a year ever venture), and generally helpful and curious folk (with the occasional idiot).

Everywhere you go with a small drive you can find 99% of anything you want (just walk into the nearest Walmart for example), and you can find places to sleep ranging from $3000 a day hotels to $30 a day motels, with even the latter being just fine compared to shitholes you can get in other countries.

What I want to say is, this TSA/Airport business is an INSIGNIFICANT part of the trip. Act along with the security theater, and it is over in a few minutes.

In contrast, there are countries where you even have to bribe some officials to get in (or to avoid trouble).
Well, that's your opinion and it's your right to have it. When you make a web page, don't put women in lingerie on it. Done.

But that's not what you said. You said it was NSFW, which I thought was a ludicrous claim and still do.

Trying to whip up a storm of righteous outrage about sexism and misogyny out of this is just ridiculous. Don't you have anything better to do?

And the hilarious thing is how you just assume the author of the page is a guy. Because, y'know, only guys can make web pages, and only guys would read hacker news! Who's sexist now?
Thanks for the links; Now I noticed, I had encounted the title, nookd on HN; and took it for an article about a Linux daemon; "nookd".
Last I tried (admittedly a few months back) it was still alpha-quality. I.e. the entire screen would get shuffled unpredictably, windows would end up misaligned (partly overlapping each other) etc. - nowhere near usable.
Static Sites on Heroku
Linus uses a macbook air [1]

Linus Torvalds: "That said, I’m have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air – even several years after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push those ugly and clunky things. Yes, there are vendors that have tried to emulate it, but usually pretty badly. I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light."

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-millenium...
Which hardware does use thunderbolt? Never heard of anything that used it. Except for apple stuff, of course.
You bought a new computer because of a fan error?! You could have got a new fan with next day delivery (so Tuesday in your case) for a hell of a lot less than a new computer and all the time it took you to get OS X setup how you want.

Or do you earn such crazy amounts of money that you made enough money on that Monday to cover the cost of the new Mac and your time configuring it?
I completely disagree with many points in this article.

There are a great many people out there who are very good at building stuff but utterly fail at "being successful". And conversely, there are people out there who suck at doing the stuff they're supposed to do but are very good at being successful. The two are orthogonal.

If you focus entirely on "your craft", whatever it may be, and ignore the skills that will enable you to deliver the resulting mastery to actual people (in particular sales and marketing, which most "I just want to be really good at X" people seem to think is beneath them), then you won't be successful. You'll just be one of those people who spends their life wondering why they were always penniless and couldn't get the things they wanted or have the impact they deserved to have even though they were really good.

The world is full of smart, competent people who don't know how to build their success, don't know how to market and sell themselves. Don't be one of those. Be a master - sure - but also learn how to translate that mastery into real success.

Re: mastery being more satisfying than success - that's only true if you're not broke. An empty belly, or the inability to afford even the most basic things you really want, makes mastery a hell of a lot less satisfying.
Ardour is a cool project but again, it's not remotely close to Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, or even REAPER. It's like comparing a military aircraft carrier with a canoe, sure they both float on water but they're not even in the same league.

I've kept up with Ardour progress over the past 6 years and it has consistently gone nowhere while the major players innovate continuously. The assertion that Ardour has a chance at competing with the professional packages is absurd given that they've been promising basic MIDI support for years now, a feature that was present in software packages on the Atari. Add to that the fact that the project doesn't even have a roadmap for future development and it all looks pretty grim.

My previous career was audio engineering, and I can't help but laugh when the FOSS crowd insist that Ardour and Audacity are capable of replacing the industry leading software packages.
CoffeeScript relies heavily on the underlying JavaScript semantics (which is one of the main reasons it's so useful: It's Just JavaScript) so other backends would most likely be a lot harder to do than the JS one.
Instapaper has a setting to restrict downloads to wifi. I'm assuming this new feature respects that.

edit: Apparentley Instapaper = Instagram when I am on HN way too early for a Sunday.
Plants grow heroin now?
BTW, I hope you are aware of the massive selection bias you have going on. You are only reading about the decisions you disagree with because the forums you choose to read are those you agree with. (And because the decisions no one agrees with will be featured on the news.)

If you read all - or at least a random sampling, of decisions you will reach a different conclusion.
"PHP makes writing clean code a challenge..."

If that works for you, great, but it sounds like a reason to stay as far away from PHP as possible to me.
I haven't used XMonad but I've been a heavy ion3 user for many years.

Last I checked none of the available bolt-ons (including Sizeup which the author proposes) would come anywhere near a true tiling WM.

The only candidate that would even try to automatically tile windows was TylerWM - but that was buggy as hell. All the others only act on keyboard-shortcuts, which largely defeats the purpose.

I'd happily pay $200+ for ion3 as a native OSX WM. The OSX window manager is just absurdly terrible.
I understand what you are saying in the context of the audience for this forum; coders and those running software start ups, and I think you have a point. Those who see refining their coding craft as their central interest do need to link up with market facing people to become successful.

However, I think the gentleman running the sushi bar in the original article has no big money worries if he is charging $600 a head for 10 seats with half hour turnaround!
Sample size of one here, but if I could reasonably easily get the Adobe Production Suite, 3DSMax, and a couple of other pieces of unique 3D software to run on Linux, I'd probably move as and when Windows 8 became otherwise inevitable.
Many people seem to think that clean PHP code is an oxymoron, but it's not; it's just that PHP doesn't penalise you for not writing clean code. There are a few things in the object model (and other areas) which are inconsistent, or not fully fleshed out, which makes it difficult to write code which seems consistent.

For me, this just means that I think more about the code that I do write, and tend to cut out the extra stuff that I don't actually need.

As I mentioned in the post, this isn't a "why you should use PHP", it's a "This is why I use PHP".
So this will increase the slaughter and inhumane treatment towards other sentient creatures. Put another blind eye to slaughterhouses. Better people should get graphic reminders of where their meat comes from than put another layer on the plastic packaging through using a machine.

Losing empathy towards living creatures means reducing empathy for humans as well. A controversial statement, but i am sure one can search that out within themselves.
TCP optimization for video streaming, part 2
Part 1 is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3965150
Aaron Patterson (tenderlove) gave a presentation where he said he wanted to refactor rack to make it more simple. He said Rails 3 had a lot more depth in the stack and it was making it slower. (when i start up an old rails 2 app i can't believe how fast it is). I don't think that is in Rails 4 though. I guess that is a separate project.

Also deprecating vendor/plugins means Heroku will have to change the way they deploy. You can notice that by the deprecation messages when you start a heroku console.
That's a religious argument. Many applications are a perfect fit for a database centric design with business logic written in stored procedures. Not all, but some.

You might find find old article interesting,
http://ora-00001.blogspot.com/2011/07/mythbusters-stored-pro...
But one could argue that in many modern societies, empty bellies are never of issue. Given that you could find the means to sustain certain basics (food, love, friendship, etc), reasoning about "what's next" (e.g. pondering about purpose, what would make you happier) could actually be done without considering, say, money.

The interesting thing in posts like these, I would say, is that everyone puts in the "classic" Wall street boys comparison. Are they really all unhappy, money unconsidered? Is money their only measure in life? Sounds rather generalizing to me..
Nice, but what about a mail server on your custom domain? I think its not that easy according to this post anyway ... http://xtargets.com/2010/10/04/using-gmail-for-email-on-a-he...
Hmm, true, I forgot about paidakia... The rest of your comment is spot on, I think, thanks.
> By definition part time folk are spending the time they're not with you doing something else. Whether that's surfing, spending time with their family, working on a side project, or whatever. Those things are important to them otherwise they wouldn't be spending their time on them. Sometimes they get more important than the part time role.

Don't really agree with that. This is a heavy start-up community so perspectives will be screwed, but most of the side things people spend time on are things that aren't going to become a full time job and mean they resign. In fact, I would reckon it's probably the other way around - the reason your making it your side thing and desperately clinging on to your part-time job is because it's something that you know will almost certainly never make you money; like having a kid or some strange hobby like acting in amateur theater :-)

I've also done part-time for years, and in general I'm a big fan of it.

Thing is, all the risks you describe happen with full-time employees to. So is it they are worse with part-time? Or more importantly, do employers perceive them to be worse? As you say, as the job-seeker it falls on you to convince the employer the risks are less in your case.
Numbering paragraphs in what is essentially a prose article is like thumbing your nose at the concept of mastery.
Vertebrates share ancient neural circuitry for complex social behaviors
Your Facebook Universe. Visualized with WebGL
Are you kidding? Have you seen a macbook logic board?
I think his Thinkpad died, because of a fan error. Maybe it overheated or something like that.
That's completely unacceptable - the idea that I need to keep a background app running at all times just so I can play a game once or twice a month. Imagine if all apps took such an arrogant approach; our machines would barely run under the weight of the cruft. I similarly avoid Intel installers when using their drivers because they also like to install and keep running a half dozen services and widgets. Same thing with iTunes - I use a shell script to start it up so it can start up all the extra services and kill them later after iTunes exits.

There's a lot of entitled software out there that arrogantly assumes sovereignty over your machine. I don't accept it.
The function is location-based, not network-based, i.e. it is not dependent on GSM/3G and its cell towers and iOS location works with Wi-Fi too.
It's an Insta_paper_ feature, not an Insta_gram_ feature.

https://www.instapaper.com/
Geofencing works IMHO with all localization features available on iOS, i.e. it's not limited to 3G/UMTS.
Maybe a name that distinguishes this compiler for CoffeeScript from CoffeeScript-the-language would be better? There may be other CoffeeScript compilers int the future, should they really all have the same name and be numbered? "CoffeeScript 2" (or any whimsical name that contains "CoffeeScript") would be confusing, it implies that it's the second version of the original CoffeeScript compiler, which it isn't.
Crowdfunding For Start Ups
I really don't think having some poor people working in slaughterhouses, treated slightly better than the animals they butcher (but only slightly) really improves anyone's sense of empathy for animals (or humans). That ship sailed a long time ago, around when we got factory farming or really once any family didn't contain at least one farmer (1800s?)
I just recently discovered Spectacle and it's really awesome. It's open source and free, doesn't take up a lot of memory.

http://spectacleapp.com/
https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
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Thing is, all the risks you describe happen with full-time employees to. So is it they are worse with part-time?

Like I said - I don't have any hard data. But I've been working for... gosh... 26 years now.... and my observation is that part-time employees generally (not always) have a higher turnover than full time.

As well as "other thing" becoming more important than the part time job - another common failure mode is "other thing" failing, and the employee then looking for a full time role. That full-time role is often not at the same place they're working full time (either because there isn't room for a full time role - or because they have better options elsewhere).

Or more importantly, do employers perceive them to be worse?

Certainly true in my case. I could be fooling myself - it's been known to happen fairly often :-)
Have you read Genius by Gleick? His response to his wife's death was to frenziedly throw himself into work and systematically abuse women. The idea that his grief was not being repressed doesn't stand up.

Again, very understandable in an ambitious young man growing up in the shadow of war with all that responsibility on his shoulders. But not what you'd call a healthy grieving process.
Suggested reading -- Joanne Siegel et al v. Time Warner Inc

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/californ...

Includes the history of Superman creation (with pictures) and some discussion of his superpowers.
Being Amost Deaf
Motivated by David Peter's article. I was happy to see this article as top post for a while at HN.
This isn't directly related to your complaint, but the source_location method in Ruby 1.9 is very useful:

> method(:gem).source_location
=> ["/Users/wycats/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb", 1228]
Laste- minute Ardennen: genieten dichtbij huis - Richting Vakantie
Forex Traders School
API's? C'mon.

Bulk data.

Agree with polemic.
The good news is that less chicken will have to die for the same amount of meat.

But it's sad to see the amount of sophistication in deboning when the actual slaughtering still seems to be a "mostly works" thing. I wish they'd invest the time and money in lab meat instead.
How I Prepare to Speak
I have a suspicion you have it exactly backwards. It's now a requirement for some|many devices to have non-removable moulded plugs (although they still have replaceable fuses).

I'm not certain on the exact motivation, but I think it's a mix of preventing people doing it wrong, and better mechanical properties (especially strain-relief) of moulded plugs.

It's also required now that the live/neutral pins be partially insulated (the 1/3rd closest to the plug or so) to prevent shock hazards to people curling their fingers around the plug when inserting or removing.
The idea that a lone polymath experimenting in his basement, a la Ben Franklin or James Maxwell, could make a genuinely important scientific discovery, disappeared a long time ago

As a general rule.... but it's not like we know it's impossible these days. Who's to say that a lone researcher won't come up with a startling simplification of physics? Maybe this won't ever happen. The point is we don't know, and it's not as certain as what your comment implies.
If you'd be making 100k USD per day..
Hi. I'd like to ask what would you do if you'd be making 100k per day from your startup company. Would you still hack? Because you know you've got people doing this for you, as well as business people taking care of the business side of your company. What kind of stuff would you do with this kind of money and would you still code/work?

Please let me know!

Bart
Montreal F1 ticket-buyers hacked by Anonymous
Love it. Really nice site, I'm going to have to try and remember to use this over torrentz.eu. Killer extra feature: Suggestions. But before you go reinventing the wheel, can you implement this? tastekid.com. Best recommendations I've seen. I believe they have an api.
As a jquery.transmit user I'd say that that the major advantage of js vs plain css3 is in terms of lines of code, especially wrt to browser prefixes. Then I really like to have the timing of animation explicit in js code near the usual .animate(), fadeIn(), setTimeout(), etc... instead of having to check two places.
Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part I re-starts June 11th
Cake Vodka Coconut Cream Martini Recipe
To anecdotally confirm what you said: There was a "scandal" in Germany last year where a school slaughtered and barbecued a hare. (Students were around 10/11 years old) Parents were outraged, basically arguing 'it should be everyone's choice to either know or ignore where meat comes from'.
I believe those numbers matched up to the his Ignite slides. 20 slides at 15 seconds a piece. He wasn't thumbing his nose at anything.
Traffic control
Show HN: open source Sudoku random board generator for iPhone / OS X
So when you're awake you never mistake it for a dream? If I could no longer do that reliably, I would be a bit spooked.

From what you're saying that's not the case, so I should go ahead and try.

I like lucid dreams as I'm waking up, I get to "fix" the ending of whatever dream I'd had until then.
The Specification Paradox
As far as I know, chickens are still slaughtered by cutting their necks. The failure rate of that is probably about as low as you could possibly get in the entire meat industry.

Regardless, money being spent on deboning technology is not automatically money that lab meat research missed out on. Research is not quite that zero sum..
:) Maybe that's just me and my european thinking that jewelry should have more "curves" and round shapes.

I'd like to know more about your project, I'll contact you via your website!
Did you read the article? The robot just separates the meat from the bone of chicken that are already dead. Robots won't increase the number of kills - consumer demand will.

Interestingly, robots might even reduce the inhumane treatment towards these animals, which is, if I understand correctly, most often the result of cost-saving.
Depends on how you structure your hours. Three days a week instead of 4 hours per day is usually better. In any case, everyone has to context switch when they go home and come back in the morning.

The real reason, I think, is that it's weird, which makes managers uncomfortable enough that it puts you down the list. There are ways to arrange it though - it definitely helps if you talk directly to the employer rather than through a recruiter.

It might also help if you have some contact with them first - perhaps think about segueing from either a full time role or a freelance contract into part-time work. Once they know you're good and get to know you, they'll be a bit happier to discuss it.

I work three days a week for a government department, which works out pretty well, and then the other two I work with my wife on her business. So it is possible - you just have to look.
I'd expect a paradox of thrift situation to apply here; if prices go down due to efficiency, consumption will increase, likely to a point where the number of slaughters would actually increase.
This is a much cleaner way of serving static sites on Heroku: http://kennethreitz.com/static-sites-on-heroku-cedar.html

Using this technique you can even use .htaccess files.
First of all, they are closed.

Second, they do all sorts of stupid non-standard stuff, so you can't use KMS,
a framebuffer or xrandr[1]. The GUI application for managing monitors sucks balls
and isn't scriptable. I happen to use some older monitors, and that gives me all
sorts of pains, too.

To be somewhat fair, it used to be even worse. But it's still nowhere near decent,
and will never be unless they open the specs and release the source for the drivers.

In the future, I will exclusively use Intel Graphics. While they aren't perfect
either (from what I could gather), at least the drivers are open, which already
places them light-years ahead of nvidia and ATI. For the record, my netbook never
had a single graphics-related problem, while I lost count of how often I cursed
nvidia for their shitty drivers on my desktop.

[1] Support was apparently added to the current beta, but I haven't tried it yet.
From my experience Haskell has two faces. One is the one that says "write a piece of software right with the tools I provide" and another is a messy "one"-liner (happens to me particularly when using pointfree style) with the "line" being an indecipherable mess of operators and library functions that is right as "fire and forget" kind of code. Haskell has a very rich range of libraries on the Hackage.
That's true, and in those cases, a more generic "we had other qualified candidates" letter/email would be fine.

If unskilled candidate X gets "other candidates had more specific skillz" while uncultured candidate Y gets "sorry, you suck for unspecified reasons", it sounds like a lawsuit risk.
It is an excellent development. It means developers can finally start to live from _independent_ open source development.
This is not and never will be a replacement for hobby opensource, because that is done by developers who just want to do it, it would not make sense for them to threaten to not do it if we don't give them money.
This is for the people who contribute to opensource, but also have a day job developing low-impact closed source commercial software, who don't have time or energy for large refactorings and rewrites.

"Crowd fund us or we won't do it" sure is a lot better than "We won't do it".