skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So essentially ESR is butthurt that Turing is remembered for being gay. This somehow diminishes him. And Turing most definitely wasn't persecuted for being gay. It's just that he was prosecuted and forcibly treated with female hormones. In ESRs head, that's not persecution because he had the chance to get out of it, most likely by denying who he is, ie a gay man:

Rather than confront Turing’s homosexuality, the British authorities
from the arresting constable on up tried to look the other way and
gave every easy out they could; Turing, through some combination of
carelessness and self-destructiveness, took none of them.

Shorter esr:

Silly queers should stay in the closet.

Has esr gone full mens' rights / misogynist while I haven't been paying attention?
Second by working for 130 hours they are basically taking away jobs from 2 other people who could be gainfully employed if these types of employees worked a normal schedule.

One could say the same about technology in general, and some foolish people have.

But in that case isn't it better that they do some charity work, help more needy people rather than helping fill the coffers of mega corporations.

I'm pretty sure Marissa Mayer has donated far more to charity than most of us ever will.
Pearl Jam is really a different example: you can't use, say, a local movie theater that converts to stage because of the sheer size of the equipment needed (Metallica had their own jumbo jet for this). For smaller bands and other groups however, I hope to see this kickstart a new era.
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In case it's not immediately obvious (no visible sign, even on hover), clicking on the people's names will take you to their facebook profiles.
Interesting. I've been looking into dropcam. How secure are wifi cameras like this? How easy it for someone to hack into them and be able to view a live feed of my house? Is there a way to secure them better than just having a strong wifi password? Encryption? What about the server that the feed passes through, does it actually pass through a dropcam server or can I connect from my cell phone directly to my home network to obtain the feed?
Taken over a decade, that number is 1/225th of a single quarter of Facebook's operating cost.

Craigslist occupies what should be one of the most lucrative pieces of real estate on the entire Internet. With numbers like that, you're making the parent commenter's point for them.
As much as I dislike being asked to pay up to access WSJ content, I am consistently surprised that the paper has managed to retain its readership even in these increasingly hard times for publishing in general. At one point you got access to Barron's free with a WSJ signup. I guess they figured they didn't need to sweeten the deal anymore.
I still remember, several years ago, when NYT declared it had hit its target paywall numbers to sustain operations and announced it didn't see a need to continue with the paywall model only to later fumble (and decide on the 10 articles cap).
Buffet has recently bought some 63 newspapers. He suggested that the dominant model of free access is unsustainable.
How could this boost wi-fi? (The article mentions wi-fi).
That's it! I'm canceling my subscription to Facebook. Oh wait. Oh yeah.
The reason we didn't include exceptions in Go is not because of expense. It's because exceptions thread an invisible second control flow through your programs making them less readable and harder to reason about.

In Go the code does what it says. The error is handled or it is not. You may find Go's error handling verbose, but a lot of programmers find this a great relief.

In short, we didn't include exceptions because we don't need them. Why add all that complexity for such contentious gains?
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That's what a few major tours are requiring nowadays: paperless tickets where you don't even get a ticket, just your card.

With this, he's still sending out paper tickets though. It'll be interesting to see how this in-between method will work as he does seem very serious about cancelling sold-for-profit tickets. Do third party ticketing sites have a way of letting tours get ahold of those who bought second hand tickets.
I took part in Startup Weekend Newcastle earlier this year in the first one outside of London or Cambridge in the UK.

While I loved the event it frustrated me how the focus of the weekend seemed to be as far away from technical as possible.

My team involved 4 developers so we wanted to make sure we could build something in the weekend. We built instaquote.co and didn't place in the final results, what annoyed us the most was the fact we were the ONLY team with a MVP/prototype. We 'hacked' our website up and there were times when we found ourselves employed as official VPN guy and official LastFM DJ!!

The winning team had the idea of a online video CV, they won on the premise that they had a BBC interview lined up(didn't happen) and a big customer from the city(didn't happen/they had connections there {family}). Needless to say we were pretty annoyed at the non technical attitude, probably due to the fact Newcastle has about 20 developers who don't call themselves a web guru while only knowing HTML.

BUT by far the best thing to come out of the weekend was the guys I met, I'm still friends and keep in touch to this day and have even started a project with one of my team members! It's about the people you meet IMHO.

Have a great time and I'm sure you will find your role!
Is anyone else having trouble buying tickets? I'm getting a "Sorry, card cannot be processed" error, even after I asked my friends to buy me a ticket where it worked for their card.
NOPE.

Banks are malicious. They are very very competent at stealing money.
I actually am a licensed substitute teacher. And I've served plenty of time in Indiana schools.

Yeah, they do tend to get a wee bit rowdy, but I saw no violence or such in the classes I've been in. There has been the usual silliness like paper airplanes and such, but nothing that would get anybody hurt.

I've also learned that they are respectful if you respect them. Tit for tat, with the benefit of the doubt.
Dear Orbitz - I'm done using you.

-Love Your Ex-customer
Go is certainly not (yet) ready for every task C++ has taken over during the last 25 years.

But I would say that for most tasks, it is more than good enough already.

> Similarly I'm not sure how great it is at client side apps where you need certain code for OSX and different code for Linux and yet different code for Windows.

This is very easy in Go, just name your file foo_windows.go, foo_linux.go, etc. See for example:

https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify
The new title is definitely better, imho. I hate titles that keep me guessing about what the article is actually about.

"It's Playtime" has zero informative value. At least with the edit I now know it's about Light Table, and can click or skip as necessary and not waste any cycles guessing, or clicking and finding it's something I'm not interested in.

Uninformative titles are a plague. Concrete titles (and concrete language in general, but that's a whole nother blog post) are always better than vague ones, no matter how catchy, cutesy, or kitschy you may think it is.
Thank you for the great work you're all doing at Khan Academy. Also, I'll take this opportunity to give a small suggestion :-)

I was wondering if you guys could make Mathematics more problem solving centric (see www.artofproblemsolving.com for an example approach. Also "The Art and Craft of Problem Solving" by Paul Zeitz and George Polya's "How to solve it")

Most of the Mathematics in school curriculum is just plug n' chug work at a slightly higher level. Students do not get any insights into how really good problem solvers solve tough problems. Mathematics competitions such as the regional and international olympiads give students an exposure to such type of problem solving, but this experience is limited to a narrow pool of students who through pure serendipity discovered how intellectually rewarding problem solving can be. Perhaps if training materials were more widely available, more students would be able to get a glimpse of Mathematical problem solving at a totally different level.

In a previous life, I used to tutor O-level and A-level students in Mathematics in Singapore. The transformation some of them had when exposed to say principles in Polya's "How to solve it" was phenomenal. All too often I wished I had access to more easily accessible training materials that I could give them (and that I myself could learn from!). I'm sure there are plenty of teachers in my position all over the world.
This looks pretty awesome, I was about to suggest you put it on kickstarter but then realized it's already backed by adobe which is pretty cool. Could you tell us how involved Adobe is in this project and what their goals are? Do you plan to make it usable directly from the browser using the file system API? Do you plan to support other languages such as ruby and python? Also you kind of sound like Abed from Community :)
Which in turn depends on your view of Man.
I think your kids should hit you until you can't hit them.

Pig fucker.
The police are there for liability reasons. If a teacher disciplines children a lawsuit occurs.
That something works does not make it ok. The ends do not justify the means.

Depends on whether you're consequentialist or deontologicalist, I guess. For a consequentialist, nothing can make something okay other than that it works, and ends are the only thing that can justify any means. :)
It't NOT differential pricing, that would be offering the same product top Mac users for more money.

They are instead offerent more expensive hotels to Mac users - on the reasonable assumption that Mac owners are higher spenders compared to somebody connecting from a free PC in a public library.
So the method you're using is not best practice for MongoDB. This is what you should be doing:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5049992/mongodb-paging
I don't see any reason to prefer Go to the D programming language. D achieves all the major claimed benefits of Go and yet has vastly more abstraction power and better type safety and error handling. The interest in Go is a mystery to me.
I have a custom audio service on the site as well which I recommend for people seeking exclusivity and the more traditional commission approach. The prices are still lower than most composers can offer, but they're obviously a good deal higher than what I can offer for the non exclusive library tracks.

I've also considered the buyout approach for the library, and it's something I may eventually include.
It would be helpful if that is, in fact, what you want. Owning a Mac is correlated with having more disposable income available, but that doesn't necessarily mean you want to get a costlier hotel room. I would hope they use other data points too, not just using a Mac, to decide whether the user would be amenable to pricier offers.
Well it's a good thing I didn't actually say that. I'll repeat... That the abused don't feel abused doesn't mean they aren't being abused. That is a statement of fact, not opinion. It doesn't in any way say they are incapable of anything, it merely points out that victims don't always realize they are being victimized; this is especially true of children, as anyone should well know.
Clearly this is the future.
It's pretty weird how popular music and comedy acts resist setting ticket prices at market clearing levels. If you're selling tickets at a flat rate and a sellout happens in a few minutes that means your tickets were too cheap. Shortages in a market are bad and can be solved with higher prices. Acts that leave surplus on the table are mostly benefiting scalpers not the fans, and it is also part of the reason Ticketmaster can tack on their huge fees. In the internet era there is no reason not to setup an auction system and sell the tickets to the highest bidders.

What seems to happen is that acts worry about their shows having too many random rich people and not enough "real fans". They think without the super-excitement from the "real fans" it would ruin the experience of the show. I'm not sure if that is true, anyone willing to pay a lot of money to attend is probably a real fan, rich or not. But if the bands want to they could allocate a smaller portion of tickets at a lower price using some other method, maybe a lottery, but it's going to be hard to keep the scalpers out.

With all the problems with the copyright-based business models fans should actually want their favorite acts to raise prices and make as much money as they can from touring, instead of the money going to middlemen.
> In short, we didn't include exceptions because we don't need them.

I would say that not only I don't need exceptions, I absolutely don't want them.

A really annoying thing about languages with exceptions is how they contaminate code, exceptions are (often hidden and badly documented) part of the interface of libraries and packages which you have to deal with when you least expect it.
"Hey, this is pretty cool!" ... "Wait... Adobe!?!" - The Internet
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>Hopefully the mystery will bring more people in? haha ;)

I know that's why people use mysterious titles, but trust me - that's done, it's over, it's the old and busted of social news.

It's one of those things that may have worked when social news was new and interesting and still a novelty, and people would click all sorts of stuff wily-nily just to see what neat treasure lies underneath.

But we're all over that, and now what we're dealing with is information overload - how to manage the signal:noise ratio in the information we consume and maximize the signal.

The expectation of informative titles is a key part of that, so all mysterious titles do now now is piss people off for making them click to see what the article was about, instead of just telling them in the submission title, which is what it's for.

You as a submitter (or advertiser, I've seen studies on this for SEM) are much better served writing a concrete, informative title. You may have less clickthroughs (but sometimes more - specifics are very effective), but every single one of them will be someone interested in whatever you linked to (or are selling, in the latter case), more likely to read, buy, participate, etc., and less likely to close the window annoyed at having been tricked into wasting a few seconds and attention on something they don't care about.
> C++ has a complicated interface and a complicated implementation. So it's neither NJ or MIT style.

Yes, in a way C++ is the worst of both worlds.

I'd like to think Go combines from both traditions and comes to a very nice and useful compromise.
A tip after poking around: when you're on the page where you select how many tickets you want you can click on a hidden "By Section" link and pick your section instead of having it selected for you. I was able to pick up a couple first row balcony tickets using this method.
This is completely evil genius if nobody found out about this, but since this is out there... KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Whales have decreased in numbers, violence has increased in schools. Just sayin'
That the abused don't feel abused doesn't mean they aren't being abused. It just means they're rationalizing or denying...

There should be a name for this particular kind of ad hominim fallacy. "Fallacy of the Retreat into the Subconcious", maybe.

Eg "The fact is"---always start with "the fact is..." so that your assertions cannot be doubted---"that they are really very severely traumatized by that violent swat on the rump they got when they were three and trying to punch their mommy, even if they say they're not. They just don't realize it because it's subconscious trauma."
If you try to purchase a ticket you are warned

> We reserve the right to change the method of delivery to Will Call (pick-up at the box office) at any time after purchase. If we make this change the ticket(s) may be picked up within 2 hours of the show’s start time and a photo ID and the charge card used for the purchase will be required to claim the ticket.

This is the same as your "use a registration system and personalised tickets" solution, except without forcing everybody to go through all that hassle. It seems he's chosen to let a few scalpers have a chance, instead of ruining the experience for everybody.

Also, when you attempt to buy the tickets, (at least for the SF venue), your only delivery method is print at home. It looks like your implied fears that he doesn't know what he's doing are unfounded.
The interest in a language with even more features than C++ is a mystery to me.

If you read the linked article you will realize that the main benefits of Go are precisely from "features" that it omits. D takes almost exactly the opposite approach, and takes C++ and adds even more.
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Type abstractions are fundamentally hierarchical

In C++ or Java they certainly are, but Haskell's type classes, for instance, are much more similar to Go's interfaces.
Does anybody know if his color scheme exists for Textmate/Sublime Text?
Asking for a raise will never get you there. Just saying.
That's like confusing... Yeah, I can't find an analog to that. Totally not in the same league.
Book Shelf Porn - it is that good...
Just change your user agent.
I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. Surely there has been enough press coverage about people getting fired for fb/twitter antics
Where have you been all my life? Oh right, it still doesn't fully exist yet, but I'm excited to contribute because being a purely JS dev I could see this saving me loads of time and frustration.
I've been trying to find out how much of this change has to do with iOS 6's Facebook integration. I remember having to re-do my contacts two weeks ago and this was a HUGE issue because, as Swang 5 said, i had to basically call or SMS everyone to get their e-mails into my contact lists.

Really big inconvenience.
For personal finance, use a credit union.
Is it really a mystery? It was created by some of the most well known computer scientists of the last several decades and was created by and for systems engineering at Google.
I've always loved the concept but found the products so crappy (visually and UX) that I can't keep in the routine of using them.
He is playing at offbeat venues; The Chicago Symphony center, for instance, and the Symphony Center in San Francisco. A quick peek at both venues will show you that neither are popular among mainstream touring acts.
I am happily practicing Abstinence
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New Sony Google TV Set-Top Box Disappoints, Increases Desire for Apple TV
The Google TV announcement this morning was greeted by underwhelming hands-on reviews. The continued weakness of Google's platform is good for Apple, of course, but it also raises questions about how much is really needed to create a satisfying, web-enabled TV experience for most users.
See also the patch: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2719615
Rim: What the hell happened
Not everyone here is a founder.

Most people on HN are employees and don't want 130 hour weeks to become the norm.
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Setting up this tour has been fascinating and difficult. this ticketing service is a brand new thing and I really fucking hope it works and that there aren't any problems. If anything comes up, please be patient

There is something so honest and earnest about this message. It's basically what I wish I could say whenever I was doing something new and difficult.
In general, I 100% agree with you that prices should rise or fall until markets clear, but there is a counter argument that I believe is correct in some cases:

Fans are a complex system, and the people who might turn out for dozens and dozens of shows over years, create buzz, convert friends to your cause, etc. may not have the funds to pay for tickets priced at the margin.

Thus, it might be a mistake to charge market clearing prices that cause long term damage in your fan base.

I don't know for sure that this is correct, but in general, the market evolves behaviors that make sense, so the fact that very few performers try to squeeze every last dollar out suggests to me that it might be a reasonably intelligent strategy to avoid the quick profit that way.
Looks useful for static pages, but a lot of the shiny features wouldn't work for any site designed using a template library (which is any dynamic site).
Maybe best just to clearly disclose it somehow. I know it's not apples with apples, but should we ban patio11's potential $5 comprehensive ebook because it's not free or behind an email registration? Or (apples with a non-fruit) 'Show HN' efforts that are paid services?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Archibald_Spooner

One recorded incident had Spooner write a note asking for a fellow lecturer at New College to see him immediately about a matter. The note had a postscript informing the lecturer that the matter had been resolved and he no longer needed to see him.
The article title is far less ambiguous than the HN title: "On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels"
If anyone would be willing to give me a sample of the export data, I'd be willing to look into making a weekend project out of building an MVP and importing the data. It wouldnt be as pretty nor, I'm sure, as functional, but there it is.
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This is what keeps me from being a shareholder of Microsoft: that they are willing to pay ridiculous premia to purchase speculative or middling businesses.

Think about it this way. $1.2B in cash would purchase ~39.1 shares of MSFT stock, had they repurchased stock instead of buying Yammer (at today's open of $30.70/sh, per yahoo finance). Those shares have a proportional claim on $106.7M of after tax earnings over the last 12 mos (approx $2.73/sh, TTM, again per yahoo finance). $1.2B represents 1/250th of MSFT's market cap.

Even if Yammer grows revenues at 100% y/y for the next 10 years (it won't), its cumulative after-tax earnings won't come close to the benefit shareholders would have received--esp when discounted appropriately for the risk--had MSFT simply bought back $1.2B worth of stock.

Don't get me wrong, Skype represented even more egregious profligacy. But my point is that I (and many others) would be far more interested in owning MSFT stock if they fired the entire corp dev team and replaced them with a small laptop that merely issued orders to buy back stock every quarter.

Silicon Valley used to view MSFT as a rapacious shark. Now it sees MSFT as a well-heeled but dim tourist--an interloper that has more money than brains and is willing to spend exorbitant sums for shinky trinkets. Sadly, MSFT has warmed to the role.
Analyzing the Overall Design and Content of a Blog
//@ TODO: give a shit

epic comment, in an epic app
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A little example I've come up with is writing a bunch of tests for a function you are implementing and seeing them automatically executed.

Try to fix fib by changing a, b and i values:

(defn fib [n]
(loop [a 1, b 1, i 1]
(if (= i n)
a
(recur b (+ a b) (inc i)))))

(= (fib 0) 0)
(= (fib 1) 1)
(= (fib 2) 1)
(= (fib 3) 2)
(= (fib 4) 3)
(= (fib 10) 55)