skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bad, I always thought the definition of Confederation to be a more closer coupled federation, but it's the other way round. I think we were being taught the wrong way.
Since technology of our times have been unable to solve troubles of our times I think long term or fundamental research is our best chance to survive.
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Eight years ago I taught as an adjunct instructor. I'm still getting physical junk mail addressing me as "Professor". It's kind of nice. :-)
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Fine application, except for the wood grain background.
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That ignores what Servo actually is. The entire point of it is that it's written from the ground up in a modern, typesafe language. External libs take away from that and add security and performance concerns.
Well personally I'm quite happy with my life. For my helping other live better lives* is meaningful(but if everyone had same purpose it would be uncomfortably circular).
I found it interesting that ChrisNorstrom can be happy when he reminds himself that he does not matter. Either I misunderstood something or there is a way to be happy even about that.

*happier/longer/leading to total higher number of happy people in the future etc(Although obviously my success in this goals is very limited)
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Can this be the homebrew-hardware-gadgets equivalent to the Apple AppStore?
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"In this and the next decade, we will begin to make energy and food abundant, inexpensively purify and sanitize water from any source, cure disease, and educate the world’s masses."

I may just be cynical, but I don't see how that automatically follows from rapid tech advances. I thought most of the problems of distributing food and education were "people problems" that won't just go away because you have fancy gadgets.
I should pretend that I spotted the satire and was just acting as though it were serious for the purposes of discussion.
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thats what I'm trying to do :)

(I made tindie)
what does it bring more to : post a blog on the platform you like (tumblr, blogger, your own code...) and then twit the link?
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At least give it to them for being straight forward and honest. Yes, they screwed up, but so have a lot of other companies that in my opinion hold much much more sensitive data about me.

Not saying it's right for them to not take security as serious as they should have, but unlike a lot of other companies, they disclosed it immediately, came up with a game plan, apologized multiple times and are refunding users and offering others free stuff.

I've changed my password on the other envato services I use as a just in case and I still plan on using them in the future. They've always put together great and in-depth tutorials and are a great resource for beginners, hackers and experts.
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So you don't have a blog, you don't use twitter. But you like the idea.

This thread is getting really suspicious.
Great reply and great attitude!
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"I find this assertion to be virtually nonsensical. I've never met a programmer who hasn't written some code that they could show you"...

I've met plenty. Interviewed 6 candidates a few years ago - only one even brought anything beyond his resume. He brought a full physical portfolio of work he'd done. Most of it was web screenshots and such - not much 'code' to speak of, but he'd made the effort. No one else did.

I've been in plenty of places where people say "I can't show my work, cause it's for my previous employer". And they don't code when they go home. Or on weekends.

I brought code samples to an interview once, and the interviewer wouldn't look at it because "it wouldn't be fair to other people who don't bring code samples".

No doubt many people can, but you may be living in a bit of a self-selection bubble where everyone you know and mix with has loads of spare code to demonstrate. Many people don't. Now... if you want to use that as a signal for that person's interest level or ability, feel free to. You may be missing out on some otherwise competent or talented folks. But we all have to use signals to filter out candidates, and that may be a valid signal for you to use.
What is it, then? Anybody have enough experience to give us the HN-style breakdown (as opposed to the marketing pitch)?
As a former student of Mark, this should really be "26 schools that totally missed the boat"
Too brazen to be Mac users.
Greeks would rather crash a van into MS headquarters than actually pay for a copy of Windows.
My first thought (before clicking): Why would they redesign their site? Their site, and all their related apps, look really wonderful.

After clicking: Still looks great, although now the landing page looks like grooveshark :)
You don't need to be a ninja programmer to write great books. I would say that it might be even an advantage - you might write something more approachable. If you had any problem with learning a new language there is a big chance that other people did too. In the very worst case you will only have something to put on your resume and obviously you will learn a lot.
My glass table always has fingerprints on it, which bugs me. Ground glass probably doesn't have that little problem.
The "feature" I was shooting for is zero-signup. It authenticates you via Twitter and that's it.
To support that, ghostwriters and copywriters are two examples of writers that take the gist of another person's thoughts and express them well in writing. They are creative writers, but they don't necessarily have to have anything to say to do their job.
It's an interesting question: what determines how many messages a gay guy receives? What type of guys are most likely to send the initial message?

In the first four months I was on OKCupid, I got unsolicited messages from about 115 guys. In the same period, I sent unsolicited messages to about 10 guys, of which 7 elicited responses. My sense is that my numbers are higher than if I were a straight guy, but I have no idea how they compare to "typical" for gay guys.
Ughh, I really don't like it. I felt lost right away. I use to think about Airbnb's design a lot when designing on my own because it was simple and told you directly what you wanted. Like dropbox for example. I don't get the complication here.

PS: This should be #1 on HN...
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It's easy to write out a few sentences or a paragraph for something you're interested in. If you really want to test a writer, ask them for their opinion on traditional publishing. There's no "right" answer, but most writers have an opinion on it and shouldn't have trouble writing a little on the subject.
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No text-based summary, introduction, or blurb? Not everyone is able to view video at the moment they come across your site; if they can't immediately read what it's about, they may not come back to find out.
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It may be an artifact of the different city problem in data collection, but assuming it wasn't, I find it interesting that the woman who was 'second most attractive' got significantly more messages than the 'most attractive'. To me this suggests interesting game theoretical stuff going on here. Does anyone know any good research/math on strategies that would optimize for this phenomenon?

e.g. I can see a thought process happening along the lines of "she is too good looking for me, I won't try, rejection sucks. I'll try this slightly less attractive woman who probably isn't hit up as often because my chances will be better, because everyone is hitting up the really good looking woman". Of course if most men follow this, you get the discrepancy I noted.
With a modern pcre library version and nginx, instead of

location ~ ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/ {
set $username $1;

you can use named captures

location ~ ^/(?<username>[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/ {
When I see heavy web pages like this it makes me worry about the state of front-end web design.

According to YSlow, the site came to 3.5MB, which is quite large when compared to the average home page. The site took at least five seconds to load on my fast dev machine, which is far too long.

The nail in the coffin for me, however, is that this site does not work in older browser, namely IE7. I've worked with large clients and we've made sure that everything works in IE6 and above because they make the cost back from sales within hours. A large company like airbnb simply cannot afford to not support older browsers and I firmly believe that they'll lose a ton on money on their lack of support.

All in all, I'm disappointed.
Agreed and great point. Thanks.
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If he's able to prove that someone else is involved, then it appears that he's involved again.
From my understanding: It's Etsy for Handcrafted Electronics.
Thanks. I didn't know that. I did strip out a lot of the more advanced/ambiguous Nginx config for clarity though.
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You're judging to quickly. Take a step back and reconsider. The point is in the use-case, not the mechanics. He is allowing people to blog ad-hoc, using twitter as the glue to otherwise loose content containers. By doing this, he is extending the light(er) state-of-mind of twitting into blogging (which is otherwise a 'heavier' commitment). It's clever.
Fairly or unfairly, the fine was levied for "continued involvement". I don't think we have any way of knowing whether their evidence is any good... Though if we're going to play guessing games about guilt and innocence, I would point out that Neij doesn't deny the charges -- he only denies they could have enough evidence to prove it.
While I think it's gone a bit too far, the situation isn't totally ridiculous. Just to play devil's advocate here:

My girlfriend yesterday remarked to me that the SGS2 looks just like an iPhone. She doesn't know anything about the lawsuits going on.

HTC makes tablets that look nothing like the iPad. I presume that Samsung could too, if they wanted.

Even Samsung's chargers look similar.

The Kindle Fire and Playbook are manufactured by the same company and it's speculated that the reason they look the same is so Amazon could bring the tablet to market faster.

Look, if someone designed a product that looked like mine, I'd be pissed.
So the real question is, do they look alike?

I used to think they were similar, but not so similar as to justify an injunction. But after what my girlfriend said, it's possible that people who aren't familiar with tech like HNers are might actually think Tabs are iPads.
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Glad you shipped it :) Any plans of monetization? Open-source?
I'll this in mind, thanks, it might come in handy.
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Only startup founders and not-quite-exec's at other companies have kids that are born with a special gene that programs them to wake up or be woken up at the precise time prescribed by some app only available on iphone. Everybody else's kids (or if you have an Android--sucks for you) wake up at random times at night, scream bloody murder and generally don't follow any schedule other than their own.
I bookmarked link to this study some time ago - http://phys.org/news/2011-01-mindfulness-meditation-brain-we...

I've also read "the miracle of mindfulness" which was a pretty good read. You can find a pdf quickly if you know how to use google ;)

I would love to see some more scientific studies on how meditation affects one's brain. I'm not a big fan of all those "metaphysical" writings on meditation. I'd like to treat it more like a consciousness training.
I think this whole conversation is making a mountain out of a molehill. When you're building sites which have enormous performance requirements, you take what you have and you force it to scale. You don't need to compare one tool to the other and find the perfect benchmark. Whatever you use, I promise you, you can make it perform as fast and scale as far as you need it to.

So just pick the tool that fits your requirements the best and stick with it. That being said, I also urge you to pick something free and open-source if you can. Some of the ways big sites have leveraged MySQL to the extent they have is due to the custom patchsets they apply. Closed-source solutions may not provide similar hotfixes or customization (and when it comes it's months later than they claimed they'd have it ready)
A/B testing, at a guess.
I doubt there would be, because historically it has been far more common to assume that the past was a Golden Age from which we've fallen due to our sins (or other appropriate word). Optimism about the present is a fairly recent phenomenon.
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Newer versions of pcre and nginx also include the ability to use the pcrejit which provides a nice speedup for regex.
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This is going to be very tough to enforce, but I think it could have a positive effect on many websites. Forcing ADA requirements could lead to a better design in some places. Heck, just making sites readable on a screen reader could force huge improvements. Of course, the downside is that this is going to be a very costly change for most websites out there who have never even considered accessibility issues. That is, assuming this ruling is upheld.

Really, though, as a web developer/designer, you need to be considering accessibility from the very start. It's likely to come up as an issue at some point, especially if your software is going to be used by educational institutions or non-profits.
Good write up for a sensible solution to a problem which should effect lots of sites.

Personally, I would probably take the approach of settings a cookie per user. This would be very suitable when beta testing is enabled/decided by users, rather than a subset being chosen A/B style based on a value in the database. This would have the advantage that nginx would not have to make any database requests; just check a cookie on the request, likely speeding up the speed at which nginx handles requests. However, it would require some changes to the application (versus [small] changes to the database which the slug approach) to set the cookie etc.

I wonder how easy this is to do in apache.
There new feature Wish List may have something to do with the redesign. More here --> http://blog.airbnb.com/hello-world-im-an-airbnb-wish-list-yo...
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Maybe ;) There are opportunities for both. I'm not committed to any one path yet.
The first click on a link works, the second does not (tested on latest stable Chrome).
It's true that no one can force you to testify. (And indeed it seems clear that Neij didn't testify in his civil case in Sweden.) But that doesn't mean you're going to win your case.

You have a right to remain silent, but that doesn't automatically make it a good idea.
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It should also now be used to describe sites that outright copy it's style.
"Hey, you go to www.abcdefg.com? looks like they squared up!"
But the case at hand wasn't talking about a time span that short, either. When you look at it in the long run, I'd say that both men and women have an equal likelihood of selecting a mate who is not the optimum for all qualities they look for. (i.e., to use less Greenspan-eque language, that I think that both men and woman will in the end "settle" for someone if they can't find someone who they'd consider "perfect" rather than remain alone).

However, come to think of it, I guess a prerequisite would be that there are an equal amount of men and women in the pool; which I think is so, I seem to remember from one of the okcupid analysis posts that the majority of profiles are male. Then again, on the whole, there are roughly the same amount of both, so I'm not so sure about your statement that "the stable marriage algorithm is a poor model for reality"; maybe for dating sites, but on the whole?
TweetDeck used to let you post long messages. Have they stopped doing that, or is Prolifi.cc trying to let you do something else?
Also I would put the page title blurb ("use Twitter as your blog") somewhere prominently in the page text. I had to read around here to figure out what itch this was scratching.
In of itself, the statement isn't incorrect though is it? Are you sighing because you believe the statement implies a poor hash function will be chosen?
I have a blog BECAUSE twitter doesn't do this.
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This type of redesign is not needed. Full redesigns are rarely needed. In my opinion, they should have spent several months changing small pieces of their site and testing how well people respond to the changes.
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Is this really so difficult to see or differentiate?

Not at all. I never said it was wrong to provide feedback or constructive criticism. But the tone of the earlier post - that kicked off this thread - just seemed (to me) a bit overly antagonistic and demeaning, as opposed to constructive.

As far as I know, the social norm here at HN is not to "slam" somebody when constructive criticism would suffice instead. I mean, this is something of a community of (largely) like-minded peers in many ways. And I, for one, would like to think that that we're sort of "on the same team" here.
Um - I have to "think" about what archaic command I have to use with vim.
Well, presumably there was some amount of evidence submitted that he was still running the site. We don't know how strong it was, but if the standard is "preponderance of the evidence" then something beats nothing.
As a counter to this, humans have been doing small groups more or less effectively for... well forever. There are certain controls built into small groups that aren't at state scale:

* stronger pressure to fit the ruleset/norms

* stronger "altruistic" motives - people within the group getting the group ahead is a stronger drive in small groups than at a state level (generally as a trend, yes there are counter examples)

* more people, in a smaller group, the members are all people, and you know them, compared to at a state level, where most people are not actual people, but 'others' (again general trend, also, other is a specific term, look it up).

* small groups are more constrained geographically. They can only exclusively occupy small spaces, or must be interspersed geographically with other groups. This necessitates certain considerations states don't have for the 'nuclear' option - e.g. sure we could nuke them, and kill all our crops and kids too, that might be dumb.

I'm not saying this is a full counter, and renders the stuff you are saying incorrect, nor am I suggesting a full anarchist solution to the future. I just am pointing out that there is some balances to the problem you present. I see the points I mentioned above as bringing less state authoritarianism, and a general aggregate good for the majority of people as small groups have the ability to affect change for themselves. Of course, some of the concerns you bring up are very scary and very real. The trick for us (humanity) is to find a sane balance and strike it.
It's a new homepage, not a new site. The profile pages are unchanged.
Looks very interesting.

I'd suggest to add a short one-line description below the titles. For some projects neither the name nor the photo gave me an idea what it was (e.g. what's a "Femtoduino"?).
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"And if you have a whiteboard in your office and you do use it for actual work and not just interviews, this gives me an excellent opportunity to check your quality as a future problem solving accomplice."

Except that when preparing for an interview, most places will clean the whiteboards before you arrive to make things more presentable, and to avoid accidentally divulging company secrets.
I might actually use this... Markdown, Twitter auth, nice interface. Really low friction. Sticky domain name, too!
There are quite a few long message services. Most (if not all) are plain text. Prolifi.cc allows styling via Markdown, images, etc. More of a proper article post and less wall of text.
My guess would be that Microsoft's Greek office didn't want to pay protection money to some or other criminal racket -- or something else along similar lines also involving criminals. This kind of violent activity tends to become more prevalent and audacious when grown men and women can no longer provide food and shelter for their families.

Greece is truly in the midst of a Great Depression. According to official statistics published by the Greek government, the country's rate of unemployment is now nearly 22% -- that is, one out of every five people looking for a job can't find one; and more disturbingly, the unemployment rate for young people is 53% -- one out of every two can't find employment.[1]

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9V87S5G0.htm
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Cheers. Yeah a cookie approach would be suitable for a lot of uses, including A/B testing. It's easy in Nginx/Lua:

local is_some_cookie_set = nginx.var.cookie_SomeCookie ~= nil;

Then you don't need Redis at all. For us though, we want to separate users by the URL and then a check at an application level variable, so I think this is the right approach still.
I agree with everything you've written, but I couldn't disagree more.

Once the page loads it draws you in to wanting to visit nearly any of those places they've listed. Every shot looks like it was staged by an expert.

Or to put it another way, I would rather have someone who's trying to sell me steaks show me pictures of mother-watering, expertly cooked beef, rather than show me a drop down menu of the types of steaks they have. No matter how fast the page loads.

As for the Internet Exploder issue. In all honestly, anyone who is still using that browser probably wouldn't be very comfortable using AirBNB on their next vacation anyway.