skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were sending a 60+ year old man to jail for what could potentially be the rest of his life, maybe I would cry to. A thing to keep in mind is that Mr. Gupta does not come of as an 'evil' person. He has done quite a lot of good in the world too and was and probably still is one of the sharpest minds in the corporate world. Obviously he lost all respect by doing this, but that doesn't mean one does not feel bad seeing a man's reputation and life so thoroughly destroyed by his own greed.
No problem, it's cool to find someone else who thinks this type of alarm is something worth doing.

I'll be following your progress.
I'm a dev. I wouldn't buy a Mac even if they did cost similar to what I paid for my ASUS laptop.

Some people like them, and some people swear by them, but the people who say they can't develop on anything but a Mac are asshats.
indeed. sliding panels don't work in IE8
Dude. Really ? You've just invented objects, but you'd rather not call it that. You have two attributes ( name & distance ) and you've made an attribute out of the method ( move_verb ?! heh heh ) as well, very clever. You are then calling a function & asking it to sort it all out. If we are going to call this FP, that's a real stretch. What objects buy you is that name,distance & move_verb are common to both snake & horse, so they should be refactored to some base class & then snake & horse should be instances of that class. But then you won't do OO, so you must encapsulate in this roundabout fashion:) I'll grant it does give you FP + encapsulation.
It depends how you define "outage". When we had an ADSL line it rarely went down, but regular ping tests along it often showed packet loss.
Thanks to some quick turnaround from the Easel guys, just added it to the Backbone.js homepage here:

http://backbonejs.org/#examples-easel
Agree and also: this plays into the irony of the hero/protagonists name
Ask HN: How many domains do you own?
A lot of us have business websites, side projects, etc... how many domains do you own, and how much do you pay yearly? Under what circumstances do you not renew a domain?
Yeah they're like $80 from the registrar I use. :( Going to let some of them go after this year.
Ask HN: What monitor do you use?
I am looking for a new monitor to buy, but do not have much knowledge of them. I will use it primarily for software development, so I would like one that is easy on the eyes. What monitor would you recommend? Also, would you recommend a dual screen setup?
It sounds like they still have several single points of failure. Most obviously the multi-WAN router - I doubt they paid double for a cold or warm spare unit.
Downside: Mac laptops are much more "out of reach" to folks overseas that normally aren't "entitled" in those giveaways..
It seems the general consensus is that a great programmer can write better quality code in less time than others.

This requires a high level of aptitude and experience (which comes with practice).

However, I feel the ability to write quality code quickly is just one facet of a great programmer's skillset.

Often overlooked is the ability to communicate and collaborate with others effectively--which is just as important.

With complex projects, I oftentimes find that the solution to my problems has already been solved. Sometimes the best code is no code at all.
Heh, I think your brother was just unlucky.

I've been sitting while peeing for most of my life and I've never sprayed myself. It does take a little practice to do it with an erection, but you have this problem if standing too.
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience.

Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members from family friends before family members would have a chance to tell me personally.

After I stopped going to FB my important friends started CALLING me. Can you believe that? They picked up the phone and CALLED me. I went out to dinner more. I stopped engaging in those destructive conversations like "Can you believe so-and-so's status message..."

There have been some drawbacks though. I don't always hear about last-minute parties. I don't get to see the pictures my friends take from events. And I don't have the luxury of sending a message to someone I don't quite know very well who wouldn't have my phone number or e-mail, most likely through group activities like Crossfit that I'm a member of.

But all things considered, ditching Facebook is highly recommended.
Diamond age is interesting, he almost gets to write actual characters. Snow Crash is an 80s heavy metal album made into a book. Cryptomincon is excellent.

The Baroque cycle - you have to like Baroque. All those gold filigrees and cherubs of a Baroque opera house don't compare to the elegant lines of a Gothic cathedral and these three books aren't a lean story.

Anathem - I have to read again to decide if it's simply too long or if there is a point.

Readme - I can only assume he got a massive tax bill or is channeling the spirit of Michael Chrichton on a bad day. The only thing that raises it above Tom Clancy is that his editor managed to cut out 1000pages of weapons specifications.
Looking through CF's own site, plus a few of their "case study" links, I don't see the domain rewriting happening on these scripts. And as you indicated, with additional complication of user cookies / HTTP vary, I'm not sure that's necessarily a good idea either -- if either of those in place, all of your cache optimizations go out the door. Best gotcha example: ads.

Seems like there is a bit of false advertising going on here.
I have novemberwest.com, which I bought to do a webcomic. I currently blog there. I still want to do a webcomic. Time will tell. But I think I have already owned it for three years.
This letter is surprisingly readable to non-lawyers. I wonder if this is sometimes done intentionally if the lawyer writing it knows it may/will end up publicly available like this.
Demo Day for TechStars NYC’s Spring 2012 Program
Even though we don't run any office-based servers at Sumo Logic, the recommended way is to make the Peplink a DNS server. It will then serve the IP of the currently active link...

They also just sent me this in an email:

"Our revolutionary SpeedFusion technology is now available. Adding a wealth of innovations that take Peplink/Pepwave gear to the next level, SpeedFusion provides Balance users a cost-effective, high-bandwidth, and reliable alternative to using expensive MPLS connections in their branch VPNs, while SpeedFusion 4G/3G Bonding gives MAX users the ultimate in speedy and dependable networking on the road. Blazing fast, secure, and easy to manage, SpeedFusion is part of Firmware 5.4, so download this new release and become part of the SpeedFusion revolution today."

http://www.peplink.com/speedfusion
I know it's not in the fun tone of these particular proceedings, but consider that this exchange illustrates a problem that does exist on the Internet: the DMCA, as it exists today, seems to create asymmetric incentives for the infringement vs. protection of copyrighted content.

While true, there is no other way for protection of copyrighted content to work without restricting free speech. Fingerprinting to block repeat uploads doesn't always work, because the second uploader may be the copyright holder himself! I got the impression that The Oatmeal would have less/no a problem with FunnyJunk if the images were attributed and linked back to their site.
His wife and daughters were in the courtroom for the verdict, and they did not take it well. Anyone would be shaken by that.
REAMDE was a bit long, true, but I had a blast reading it anyway. For one thing, it's really fun — right now — to read a book which accurately portrays up-to-the moment garbage like social media, MMORPGs, and a bit about startup culture. Plus, much of the text is hilarious, especially Ivanov's lines.
Narnia has also been around long enough that parents remember reading it.
The point of Baroque architecture and music is to have too much detail at every level to take in - presumably he was trying the same thing in writing.
There was a discussion a while ago where a lot of HNers said they rather not have a MBP: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786930

I am attracted to Apple products, but I don't own any because I don't want to spend the money and I am perfectly happy with a (much faster) PC running Linux. Developing for iOS might be a problem at some point, though...
Marshall Brain On The Meaning of Life and the Role of Robots
Ask: Anybody wants .net freelancer/partner or a creative enthusiast?
On HN I rairly see people looking for C#/.net dev/freelancer and I feel sad as my expertise is in MS stack. This is not to say that I have not touched other languages; I've worked on php, python (a bit), Java and I'm very good with javascript. But since I have been working in companies with MS stack as primary development platform, I have become quite efficient in it – so I want to use those skills. FYI, I have developed apps ranging from Window services, forms and ASP.NET MVc3; I'm excellent with Sql Server – normalize design/stored procedures.
The most important thing is that I don't afrade to take challenging stuff – be it a mishmash of different stacks or learning something completely new.
So anybody wants to have a chat for something exciting to work on? Anybody? shoot me petershah89 (gmail)
The prose is ...weak, to say the least

Really? I mean sure, on the scale of "everything written in the English language" it may not be top notch, but I think it's one of Stephenson's best crafted works. The allusive density and rhythm of the prose is delightful, and it's packed with juicy, gritty metaphors. Who could forget:

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters... You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.

Yeah, it may not be provocative, life-altering science fiction, but dammit, Snow Crash is good storytelling.
This is one of the better things to hit HN in awhile, and is uniquely relevant to professionals. Shame it's taking a back seat to The Oatmeal and Kittydar.
Best RC Helicopters: Micro Flyers Pink Paradise
Please note that I cited the 420s, not 420. It's under 4 pounds, which is half a pound lighter than the new mpb. It's slimmer than my 15" old-gen mpb, although I believe the retina is slightly thinner still.
Yeah, for consumer level ISPs in California, sadly, this is a reality. I've used Comcast, AT&T U-Verse, sonic.net, Speakeasy, etc over the years, and they all had outages.

Amongst the better ones were Speakeasy and sonic.net. Comcast is amongst the worst. Especially here on Castro Street in downtown Mountain View, which is basically littered with tech startups, things are pretty bad.
I agree it's a big deal, but I wouldn't say people aren't noticing[1][2][3] or complaining[4].

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-montenegro-httpbis-speed-mobility-01
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012AprJun/0498
[3] http://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/03/31/whats_next_for_http
[4] http://librelist.com/browser//mongrel2/2011/8/17/opinions-about-spdy/#e67f0aaa71f4af3f0663195b99217f80
I felt the same way. It is worse still in that I have never considered children as human beings -- I've always seen them as monster like. I then came back and re-read the post and had a realization. This is how I have learned to talk to my supervisor! I think I will now have to read this book in case it helps with other human beings.
Filling out my e-mail address and clicking "I Want In" shows me a new form on list-manage.com with no information pre-filled and an error message saying "Blank email address."
I dunno -- I haven't actively used reddit in a couple of years but I remember it always being pretty meme-heavy...

(that and an unhealthy obsession with comparing reddit to digg, though I'm guessing that theme has fallen by the wayside)
I've used many platforms for development, over many years. My current setup is an MBP running an Ubuntu VM.

For pure Java dev, I'll usually use Intellij on OSX. As I have to deal with more non-Java components, I'll move to the Ubuntu VM (still using Intellij for Java). Getting open-source components to install, compile and run just seems simpler in Ubuntu than OSX. OSX is familiar enough (Linux-like) so that I can work in it comfortably most of the time. But when I can't, I have Ubuntu nearby.

I far prefer this to a non-VM Ubuntu installation because having the Mac there is nice. Multimedia works really well (it's probably nearly as good on Ubuntu now, but I've stopped trying). And setting up networking (wireless, VPN) is still easier on OSX. It usually isn't bad on Ubuntu, but when I run into roadblocks, I just configure my VM to go through OSX.

This setup also allows me to move my VM easily across hosts, have multiple VMs running (e.g. use an old one, build a new one).

Finally, this is a minor point yet a huge one for me. Gnu Emacs on the Mac just isn't right. There are enough tiny differences to make it frustrating. One of the major irritants is the font. I've been using 9x15 with Emacs on various platforms going back many, many years. For me, it is the perfect font. After many hours of searching, I can't find it for OSX, or anything that even comes close.

What are the alternatives to MBP for me?

- Windows + VM: I just don't want to deal with Windows at all. I've wasted enough time on it. Absolutely will not consider it.

- Ubuntu only (on arbitrary hardware): I'd be open to considering it. My impression is that the entertainment parts of it (audio, video) are far better than a few years ago. This would probably be fine.

One last consideration: The Mac hardware is just so nice, and it's sturdy. I recently replaced a 5-year old MBP. It would have survived longer, but I ran over it with my car a few years ago, and last year, for some reason, the damage started causing the display to flake out.
The biggest problem with this is the difference in ToS between consumer grade and business grade connections. If you try to use a consumer comcast cable connection for business you may run into things like bandwidth caps, filtered ports, etc.
Seems like a nice site, I like the idea (though I don't love "maid"... I prefer "cleaning person.") But, the e-mail signup doesn't seem to work perfectly. Put in e-mail address, get sent to a sign up page saying my e-mail was blank. Not a great first impression (though I wouldn't judge a whole company based on this.)
But not every item is available in the store. The ones that aren't - unusual hats, super-rare "glitch" items, community weapons - sell for hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

One such "glitch" is known as a "vintage scrap metal" which only a few exist in the game. They popped up when a user would delete their metal and ask valve to put it back, when they did, it showed up as "vintage scrap metal" with blue text. Such metal has sold for over $1,000.

I feel much of the TF2 economy (these items that can't be bought in a store) is simply players holding onto the weapons and working together to sky-rocket the price. Now, people refer to a "spreadsheet" which is set by a group of individuals. Everyone follows this spreadsheet religiously.

For small items, I think the TF2 economy is very neat. But for rare items? A mess.
I think every previous study of this topic has determined that the best programmers are those that can keep more layers of abstractions in their heads (I'll add a citation when/if I find it).

For me, there are days of brilliance and days of complete distraction. I won't call myself a 10xer but I think much of my success has come because I truly love what I do.

EDIT - I couldn't find a reference to the study I was remembering, but Steve McConnell of "Code Complete" fame has written a blog post describing how flawed the studies he's reviewed have been - http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/09.... There are links to a lot of interesting sources and he clearly isn't arguing against the idea of dramatic differences in programmer ability ... just sayin'.
They already have visible LEDs. You could just use that. Flash different subsets of bracelets on and off while an algorithm correlates bracelet IDs to pixels. It would only take a few seconds. Hell, the audience would think it was part of the show.
Absolutely, the Peplink is a SPOF. They do support an HA mode with two Peplinks, but that hasn't been necessary for our uptime requirements yet.

It helps that the unit has been rock solid, too. Not a single crash or hickup.

We do have another (non-Peplink) router we can drop in within a few minutes, we've had to do that a few times when we were running another brand of router prior to the Peplink.
Aw. Too bad he closed the applications. Would have loved to apply.

But I wholeheartedly applaud the fellow. Private displays of charity to encourage others in their dream are always nice to see.
Reading DFW is like being run over by a train of literature.

I mean that in the best way possible -- he's an amazing author and one of the most unique voices that we've been fortunate enough to receive. If you haven't read it, his Kenyon address is stunning: http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...
As I reached about half way through the article I got bored and my mind starting having stray thoughts

- god this is long. Isn't it ironic that a superstar programmer would have been bored by now and stopped reading.

- momentarily after that, I guess I just admitted that I'm not s superstar programmer.

- momentarily after that, I wonder if there are writers who can transmit ten times as much information using one tenth of the words.

- just now, I imagine magazines don't want superstar writers. That would diminish the amount of ad space they could sell.
The Golden Compass screwed itself. Trying to appease the protest, they softened the message, thus losing fans of the book in favor of conservatives who were never going to see it anyway.
Housekeepers don't look like that, nor should they be expected to. I'm instantly alienated by the design.
Giving values and more hobbies? OP sounds like he's doing PUA's inner game stuff.

I guess I'm a bit on the high horse since, I can do social media, and still be able to Judo, workout (6 days a week with insanity,gym, and hiking), dance at clubs, hang out with friends, self help stuff, and study for fun.

I don't think social media is the problem but his lack of discipline.

And everybody is jumping on the bandwagon "Whooa he's right! It's all social media fault." Hello, what you do with your time is up to you, it's not social media fault at all. It's your lack of time management skill.
Why? This makes perfect sense. Who Google's Google?
Almost as important. I agree wholeheartedly: without communication, there is no team, just a bunch of folks sitting next to each other.

(Still, working is more important than talking about it.)
Turning into an Entrepreneur [poster]
The main difference in many cases is memory usage. When cloning in prototypal inheritance, you point back to the prototype's function, unlike classical inheritance where you are copying methods on every instantiation.
On a related note, when is someone going to make The Moon is a Harsh Mistress into a movie?
Aside from the earlier mention of 'I want to just let my cat into the house to the exclusion of others' I think it's interesting because if you're not in the computer vision world, you don't see a ton of stories or demos about detecting things other than human faces in pictures.
A lot of people really hate the present tense, I think.
Trench? Wishful thinking in California. :) There's a big telephone pole behind our building, and both the cable and phone lines run from the building to the pole...

This setup is by no means good enough to run any mission critical services off of. It is, however, a big improvement over a single business line to keep a group of 30-40 people reliably connected to the internet.
TO be fair adapting a book about the evil church with the studio forcing them not to mention the church. It's a bit like having Sony insisting that Pearl Harbor shouldn't mention the Japanese.
Someone on reddit started a business very much like this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/sblc6/from_an_...

Product site: http://www.maidsinblack.com/
I've this book, and I'm in same situation as yours. Do u want to discuss more books on this context ? gtalk ?
Forgive potential ignorance here, but people often quote Joel Spolsky as saying things like: "...the trouble with using a lot of mediocre programmers instead of a couple of good ones is that no matter how long they strive, they will still produce something mediocre."

What really genius-level things has Fog Creek done? I remember demoing FogBugz, and it was marginally better than its competitors, but it was far from a complete game-changer. Trello is ok, but it's only marginally better than a whiteboard with post-it notes. None of these reinvent an industry, or provide something so outstanding that people rush toward it.

Don't get me wrong; I think Joel has a lot of good ideas in general, and Stack Exchange is indeed a game-changer. But as someone who continually talks about hiring "rock star programmers", I simply don't see a result that I'd consider "rock star" equivalent. But, maybe I'm missing something?

Edit: More than that, I don't even consider myself a rock star developer, just a normal developer who loves learning new things and getting a lot of stuff done. I'd be thrilled to work for a Google or Microsoft, but what would attract "rock star developers" to Fog Creek? Basically, are fancy chairs enough? Isn't the most attractive thing a super interesting problem domain?
Is getting a customer to interact with its product really considered terribly clever or Apple-esque? Isn't this the goal of any decent marketer? I like looking at electronics at walmart, but it frustrates the hell out of me that I can't USE them. I'm not going to buy something unless I can test drive it first.
I know it's a very simple app but did they need to copy Uber's UI almost exactly [1]?

Sounds like a good idea though. If they can ensure the maids are well vetted and the service quality is consistently high I could see myself using it (if it was available in my city).

[1] https://www.uber.com/images/screen1.png
And 20 years later there will be a series of directors cuts with/without the voice over explaining the metaverse
The Two Horsemen of the Enterprise Software Apocalypse
When they can manage to fit a high school full of teenage vampires into the plot ?
Hack lets iOS apps run on a Playbook
I never understand how sites like this get votes on HN. We have: a splash page, no code, no product, no service, and an apparently nonworking form. That leaves us with: A splash page.

Why even bother announcing a product/service when it's in this state?