skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot believe no one has brought up the fact Google's Chrome web browser updates have been practicing evil, and thus the impressive growth. Essentially, it tricks people into signing up as a Google user. The push to corner a phenomena, which has reached its peak, by Google has been rather jaw dropping. The next generation is about to change everything and only a few will guess correctly what they will make the next must-have service will be.
Interesting, but that first graph's y axis is a little misleading.
Who says the Library of Congress isn't archiving the open web?

http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/faq.html

Specifically, it states:

The types of sites archived include, but are not limited to: United States government (federal, state, district, local), foreign government, candidates for political office, political commentary, political parties, media, religious organizations, support groups, tributes and memorials, advocacy groups, educational and research institutions, creative expressions (cartoons, poetry, etc.), and blogs.
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We certainly hope it will be powered by a Linux kernel.
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> Evolution wise, we're disposable. Women are not. The human race can easily be replenished with 99 women and 1 man. But not with 99 men and 1 women

This is not how evolution works. It runs on which genes outreproduce which other genes within a species, and cares nothing for "the good of the species" or "the survival of the species". If men are more violent, it was because individually more violent males outreproduced less violent males - not because "males are disposable". (Even this is still a simplification relative to inclusive genetic fitness, but it's definitely not because "males are disposable!")

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Group_selection
The latest Zeus IDE beta includes support for gocode autocomplete:

http://www.zeusedit.com/z300/zeus-beta.zip

This video shows how to configure the gocode autocomplete feature:

http://youtu.be/_p2IPeJ3I_M

NOTE: Zeus is shareware, runs natively on the Windows and can run on Linux using Wine.

Jussi Jumppanen

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Peculiar how this comment is at the bottom of this page, yet has enough upvotes to have made it to the best comments page http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
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A 7-digit salary, or a 7-digit retention bonus / stock grant / whatever? A 7-digit salary would be absurd (Tim Cook didn't even have a 7-digit salary when he was COO), whereas a 7-digit retention bonus is plausible (and lines up much better with your follow-up comment about a "vesting period").
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Did you miss the note?

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/17/whyTheLocArchivingTw...

"(Note: I mean bloggers. The equivalent content that's on Twitter, but not in a corporate blogging silo.)"
Can you provide any links?
This is only US data, not global.
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Fake it.

Let's say your app is a marketplace of sorts. Your app need "buyers" to input data, store to a database, perform magic algorithm voodoo to find matches and then query "sellers" on the opposite side of the marketplace.

Don't do any of that to start.

Let a "buyer" input data, which is directly emailed to you. You then use your brain ("algorithm") to find matches and manually email those "sellers" manually with their matches. Further, don't program any of this. Use Wordpress for the site, WuFoo for the forms, etc etc.

People get way too hung up on the tech. Make everything as manual as possible to start, because that is the fastest way to realize your idea probably sucks (or, if you're lucky, only needs serious tweaking to make work)
There's still productive things you can do while being driven somewhere - phone calls, reading documents, etc.
FYI,if you're being penny wise and pound foolish then you're not doing a very good job of calculating opportunity cost.

And it also sounds like the "MBA type" wasn't doing a very good job of calculating value added, which is a separate problem from opportunity cost.
Well there certainly is a business advantage. Or why would Twitter have done it, and done a big rollout of the deal

You cannot assume companies always act logically. In this case they could have agreed to it just because it was "cool".

They didn't do it out of altruism, they did it because it was excellent publicity.

This is probably accurate, but it doesn't give them a long term advantage. It probably gave them a small boost in marketing (I say small because I have never heard about this). Marketing doesn't hold up without investment. (for those of you who say iconic brands will hold up, keep in mind that every iconic brand advertises constantly.)

Further, the government arbitrarily "subsidizes" businesses constantly. In many cases much more so than Twitter. I agree that any subsidy (whether monetary or otherwise) should be examined, but in this case it seems to be a complete nonissue to me.
Personally I switched because I could read tmux config as opposed to screen's, and tmux is shell friendly. I use ubuntu and the default screen there has vertical panes for a long time, so that doesn't factor in.

tmux being shell-friendly means I write one shell script for each project, and if I restart the system for some reason, I open the terminal and run tmux-foo. tmux-foo creates a session, cds to project root and create multiple windows, opens vim in one, rails s in another, logs in another, rails console, dbconsole etc etc.

If you are curious, pick a config which gives you screen like keybindings(tmux uses c-b; I swore to screen long back I would use c-a) and try it for some time. As far as user experience goes, you have everything you had in screen with some added benefits(no, it isn't bmw)
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I don't really get it. LoC also archives commercial content that was, at some point, closed off to non-payers.

As for why Twitter and not your average blogger...well...because there's a specific endpoint to get all the tweets, each of which is a discrete, well-defined object. Finding all the blogs on the Internet is likely not as easy.
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rickmb did not come even remotely close to specifying on which grounds he was asking his question. He might be a proponent of "if it's not automated [via capistrano/fabric/etc...] it's not deployed" for all I know.
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I think the only value-add about the construction of software can only come from people who are regularly cutting code. Other people just don't have enough detail to understand the implications of their mandates.

Your analogy is poor.

A normal house uses well-understood materials and established techniques to build very similar buildings. And even there, bad architects, ones without construction experience, can cause a ton of trouble. Talk to a house-builder sometime.

But many software projects aren't like that. They're much more like landmark buildings: novel structures, novel techniques, novel materials. And there, architects can cause massive troubles. Look at the Sydney Opera House, at 14x over budget and 10 years late. It's a classic case of an architect with limited understanding of construction techniques and materials just making shit up.

And of course, there's the problem that systems architects do something totally different in relation to software (issuing mandates about the internals and construction techniques) than architects of buildings (visionaries about the look and use).
He speaks as if jobs are the point of it all. Jobs are just a means to an end: the goal is to make the world a better place for everyone.

Jobs make the world better because people with jobs are better off than those without, and because employees are being paid to do things that employers and customers want done, making the employers and customers better off too. IOW, the non-zero sum benefits of trade.

But regulations are important. A good regulation perfectly internalizes externalities. I can't burn leaded gasoline in my car because even though it's an effective and cheap form of lubrication, it kills babies.

So maybe there would be more jobs if leaded gasoline was allowed, but the world would be a worse place.

And "every government-mandated low-flow toilet, phosphorous-free dishwasher detergent, CFL light bulb, and carbon-emission regulation" is a government attempt to internalize externalities, an attempt to force companies to pay the true cost of their activities.

It makes the economy function more efficiently, not less.

Granted, the government very rarely does its job perfectly. But the imperfect job it does do is much better than doing no job at all. Help the government do its job better, not worse.
This is idiotic. As always, you can narrow down who got you busted by figuring first out what authorities knew, then who could have known that information to tell the authorities.

Then you can kill them all, or kill them one at a time until they figure out who told and turn them over. You can do it in public and write an essay near their headless bodies in big black block capitals about how google won't protect you.

Cartels spent a time targeting bloggers and even forum commenters for a while, with gory results. This was simply for making insulting, not informational comments. I think I can remember one guy being killed for a comment because his sister mentioned to a friend that he had been to the site, then the cartel was able to figure out which commenter he was by looking through the comments and making connections.

Fight drug crime by not having stupid drug laws, and/or by following the money. We're not interested in following the money, because in the US, white collar crime is treated as if it were schoolboys breaking the Honor Code rather than mass murder. Angelo Mozilo is not only still free, but still richer than anybody you know will ever be.

edit: "Consider an all-too-familiar situation in Juarez: A man cooperates with law enforcement — or is believed to have cooperated — and his wife is subsequently targeted. Many people are aware of such occurrences but do not report it, thinking: Why take the risk when the chance of meaningful change is so low? Some version of this plays out every day in Mexico."

Everybody is aware of these occurrences, because they are intentionally publicized with placards leaned on piles of corpses, notes kept from blowing away by severed heads, banners stretched across highways with hanged men and women beneath them, and youtube videos. What's the use of killing snitches if nobody knows?
Your reply captures the sentiment very well - ownership of a microwave really isn't a good indicator of poverty. It IS a good indicator of the kind of systemic poverty that exists. Simply by luck of being born within the US, I'm privileged with higher wages which gives me the opportunity to purchase one, and easier access to buy such appliances. I can purchase one at any time (24/7) for an hour's wage, if not less.

For evaluating the impact on life outcomes, why not define poverty as the state where (lack of) financial resources frequently limit the choices available to an individual?

I like your definition for poverty. I'm well acquainted with our (US) social services that provide food, shelter, clothing, transportation, basic phone and internet service, and education funding to any parent, woman, or child, and some single men. By this definition, I'm led to believe that poverty doesn't exist within the US, even though myself and most of my friends and family fall below the "poverty line".
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you can say that this wasn't absolute proof and you'd be right, ... But if you're going to throw out this evidence you're going to have to throw out the rest of modern medicine too.

No, what needs to be thrown out is armchair scientists who don't properly understand the scientific method. Just because you've shown a statistically-significant correlation between two phenomenon, there really is very little reason to expect that shoring up one of those phenomenon will actually have an effect on the other.

Let's look at the question at hand, the correlation between (low) IQ and childhood poverty. Observing that the poor are more likely to be undernourished and at the same time, children in poverty show fewer signs of inherited high intelligence, there is very little (one might even say zero) reason to believe that giving poor kids food will improve their intelligence.

People seem to nod their heads and say "yeah, whatever" when challenged on the difference between causation and correlation, but in fact there's a world of difference.

Here's an alternative speculation about the real causation of the observation. Being a single-parent household causes poverty because a smaller income must be spread across the same fixed expenses (rent, etc.) and nearly the same variable expenses (say, 3/4 the food, medical care, etc.), and thus the money "runs out" sooner. Being a single-parent household also causes lower IQ, because there is less parental involvement available to the child (helping with homework and the like), because a single parent must be consuming at least as much time working, more (per family member) doing necessary household chores, and thus less remains for the kid.

Through this chain of causation, throwing food at the problem may fix the malnutrition, but that's not the identified cause of the lower IQ, so if our goal is to improve IQs, then the investment was entirely wasted. We've still got as many single-parent households who can't invest as much time interacting with the child, and since the actual cause is still out there, there will be just as many lower-IQ kids. Your un-scientific jump to conclusions about the causation has wasted what you've invested to fix it, and worse, because you believed you were fixing it, you've actually blocked more legitimate efforts to fix the real cause.

Really: seeing a correlation is no reason to believe that there's causation in effect. This is true in philosophy, but just as true in science!
Wow, my coderwall post got posted to HN? That's pretty cool! Interesting title choice, though... FTP will still be useful for a long time.

I didn't really write this as a tutorial as much as an easy way for me to look back and find the commands when I have a forgetful moment. That's why it doesn't go into explaining how or why things work, explaining how to set up git, explaining how to set up your web server to serve files from a directory, or other preliminary information.
Employees have plenty of insight, but they also have a lot of biases. Like not getting fired. And part of Yahoo's problem is that they have a lot of people who are totally out of touch, so I'm not sure voting will work.

A better way to extract information might be a prediction market: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
I know, that's why I wrote "This is for early adopters."
It's unfortunate that the submitter chose the most negative of the 4 to submit. Reading all 4 paints Miles in a much more balanced light.
Hi,

I'm immediately turned off by your web site's design - compare your site to Scoutzie (the mobile app designer marketplace from yesterday on HN) - you guys are going after the same audience with two different solutions - which is great, but your web site looks very amateur - I don't trust that these are good designs.

Also, I'm not really sure what I'm buying for $50 - you say I get an XCode project, but is it going to be something that I can easily reuse in my own app, or is everything hardcoded as UIViews with Photoshop slices?
Those people worked at Yahoo once. How many of them work there now?

At this point I must know 50 ex-Yahoos, but I don't know a single person there anymore.
Coderwall forces you to upload an image, then it "hipsterizes" it (their words, not mine). From what I can tell, this involves significantly reducing the size of the image, increasing the saturation and local contrast, and then stretching and blurring it.

As a photographer, this is quite annoying, because it's hard to predict what something will look like. I'll try to find a photograph of mine that'll stand up to being "hipsterized" better.
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I couldn't agree more. Deployment via SCM tool is a terrible idea. The first thing to do when starting a project, no matter how small, is to set up a continuous integration server with a clear build and deploy process.
My thoughts exactly. Even if they can't pinpoint someone directly, there are enough people in the cartel, or surrounding cities that are "disposable" and could be used to send a message - and that fear is what they are already using to control everyone around them. Even if they don't punish the correct whistle blower, that person isn't going to come out and announce that they got it wrong.
Or one could say instead that there are other costs besides monetary ones. Being less healthy and/or happy is a cost too.
The US of A has a greater capacity to produce grains needed to produce the noodles, and can deliver them to market without having to put them on a boat. Japan has less arable land, so less grain producing land, and (probably) has to import more (which requires boats).
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Also, there is a temporal paradox on the webpage. It says "best viewed in Safari browser", but Safari didn't exist in the 90s and I believe web pages "best viewed in <some-browser>" disappeared in the early 00s.
Clinton would have attacked Afghanistan, sure. But would he have stayed in Afghanistan and/or attacked Iraq? Those are the two items that have cost dearly.
Can someone explain what the relationship is between Lego, CUSOO, and the rights holders of the properties that the sets on lego.cuusoo.com are being designed around?
Why should it be considered morally acceptable by those who vote? When have we had the opportunity to vote on it?
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I don't know, to me it says that Twitter is small. How big is it in Libraries of Congress? Less than one!
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I almost got kicked off of my old shared host for installing Java on my machine after I faxed them a copy of my driver's license to get SSH access. Got myself a shiny new VPS a few months ago and haven't looked back. I can finally do things I could only dream about with the shared host.
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So you're implying that Ruritarian law includes explicitly laws against bombing foreign lands? How else do they try and lock him up? For the act of abusing the mail or the act of creating the bomb? I don't see how they can try him for the bombing itself -- it's not their country, not their jurisdiction.

I believe that jurisdiction matters, and where a crime is committed is jurisdiction.

I don't understand the jurisdiction grounds that Ruritaria would have on crimes committed in other countries.

If I were Poronian and a Ruritarian bombed my country and his government shielded him from Poronian justice -- I would call on my government to get his head. He gets tried in Poronian courts or he gets tried by Poronian missiles. But you don't get to commit a crime in Poronia and avoid the legal repercussions...
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I was an intern at a small start up last year that used FTP for deployment; it was horrific.
The school system in Sweden is many things (despicable, horrendous, etc etc), but free market it is not. These private schools don't operate on a free market - the government supplies the "customers" (students) under penalty of prison* for the students' parents, for crying out loud.

* Or possibly even worse: a student who doesn't go to school is liable to end up in the clutches of the meddling welfare board.
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But not the host's name. A direct link to the host from a high traffic site for everyone to see? Not cool.

I linked to the host's page because it shows at least some proof that this story is true. There is an auto-generated comment at the bottom showing that my reservation was canceled after confirmation.

I did not include Airbnb employee names because I don't believe they were doing anything outside of the norm for their company, and do not deserve to be individually called out.

I've had hotel bookings cancelled. Airbnb gave the guy a 150 dollar credit! That's pretty good.

No, they gave me an up to $150 credit that I couldn't actually use because I couldn't find an available property. This credit did not apply towards future trips, only this particular trip.

If it's not representative at all (and it isn't, I use Airbnb a lot), what's the point in sharing? Revenge?

A representative sample is made up of many individual experiences. When you shop on Amazon, do you only look at 5 star reviews, or do you use 1-2 star reviews to help assess what a bad experience looks like?

Mine is just one experience, but it is different from the norm and highlights what I perceive to be several severe flaws with Airbnb's current value proposition. I also had a very timely experience with a competitor, so it provides a sample point to compare how the two companies treat their customers under unfortunate circumstances.
...or use rsync?

rsync -avz somehost:/path/to/src /path/to/dest
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This and the other comments refer to "battles" in the war on terror, if you will.

I'm not sure it's how OBL planned but it does kind of look like he might have been happy with our trajectory.
Did you miss the last word of his quote?
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In case you were wondering. LEGO Cuusoo is an official LEGO design incubator. Members can post an idea for a set. If at least 10,000 other members support the idea, then LEGO evaluates the idea against a set of metrics (playability, cost, branding, etc). If it passes that final evaluation, then LEGO will start selling the set as part of their official line.

(The person or group that made the initial submission then get a 1% royalty of net sales)

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/CUUSOO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Cuusoo

http://lego.cuusoo.com/guidelines

[I'm not connected to the groups submitting the Portal sets... I just happen to really like both LEGO and Portal]