skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Svbtle branding here is A Bad Idea.

I got halfway down the page, to the part where he appears to have picked a bug tracker project at random to call "me-too" and compare to a "Pascal for Dummies" exercise (there's a Pascal book somewhere that mentions Twitter? there's a high school that still teaches Pascal?) --- and started asking how something like this had managed to make it to Svbtle.

Then I realized, "oh, it's wp-svbtle, whatever the fuck that is".

This is a design whose entire purpose is to mimic the Svbtle blog network and confuse readers. Every design choice in it, from the duplication of Curtis' (pointless) "Kudos" thingy to the stroke width of the rules, is made not for its own sake but to duplicate the branding of someone else's site.

It's a jerk move all around, not just to Curtis, or to anyone else who has decided to write for Curtis' network, but to readers, who deserve to know at a glance who an author is, or in this case isn't, affiliated with or endorsed by. And because it's an irritatingly obvious jerk move, it does a disservice to the author as well, making their words a sideshow on their own site.
This is absolutely what happens. I've been fortunate in my own management over the years but I have witnessed atrocious management "nearby" and talked to friends at other companies in similar situations. One or two quit entirely because of their direct managers. Layoffs happen, incredibly talented people are pushed out the door for some stupid reason or another, and yet the most poisonous of managers somehow keep their jobs at most companies it seems.
In general there are 3 solutions involving 'moderation':

1) self moderation: Google Plus has circles which you can theoretically use to share specific topics only with circles that you know to be passionate about them. Requires manual work to setup the right circles and people rarely do it.

2) manual moderation: Hacker News uses pg's time and some admin/moderator supervision to trim unwanted topics. Requires manual work which expands proportionally with the community's size if no automation is used.

3) automatic moderation: HN's flag system and community moderation (voting, Slashdot karma) seem to work relatively well, but they've been used until now predominantly to "rank" good comments to the top as opposed to "clustering" online communities into "sub-reddits" with focused interest groups.
Design is really a way of life, in my case passed down from my father and great uncle to myself and my sister. If you're a real designer you never really "quit design" because it's always with you in everything that you do. The "web designers" who quit aren't really designers but production people just doing a gig; they are in fact no different than the typesetters of yesteryear. All of the peers I went to design school with may not be graphic designers at this point, but they are all doing something creative with their lives.
Zero Gravity Yo-Yo Tricks
Post a link when you get it all set up!
New Hampshire is building a tech cluster in Boston’s shadow
Is there actually any 3rd party ala kickstarter verifying the donations? Or is this number similar to those of political campaigns and their online fundraising self-reporting?
Actually you learned nothing, because he was not the inventor of the first computer as you wrote in your first article about him and you are seeking again for attention for the same occasion, lame.
The Rhode Island Computer Museum - see anything you worked on?
Good point. In the really early stages of a startup, it would seem best err on the side of focusing on maximizing the potential / value of "what makes you win" given the danger at that stage tends to be doing too many (unfocused) things. I still think "slack" time is important, but only after what "makes you win" is running out of juice or you need a different stepping type / level of stepping stone when expanding (say, when you cross $10,000 users and you've run out of friends / acquaintances to sign up). As you get bigger, it's probably easier to more formally dedicate people and time to "slack"
Jquery function demos for aspiring web developers
Many photographers have fond memories of their early SLR / rangefinder cameras. Models such as the Olympus Trip or the Pentax ME were loved.

I like to think there's a niche in the market for a robust aluminum body; a good sensor; fully manual settings; with a reasonable lens. There would be lots of adaptors to use other lenses[1] and students could upgrade from "good glass" to "really good glass" when they start work.

[1] This is much harder today, when even lenses have microprocessor in.
Do you code like a Republican or a Democrat?
Just wanted to point at a nostalgic event from 2009, when Facebook began censoring Piratebay links:
http://torrentfreak.com/facebook-blocks-all-pirate-bay-links...
Why do we hear music in our heads but can't perform it or write it down?
Software Development is an Apprenticeship
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So this is part of Pyjamas, which has been around for quite awhile. However, seems 2012 has been interesting. From the Wikipedia entry:

On May 2 2012 the leadership roles of the project came into question [8]. Prior to May 2 2012 Leighton acted as project lead, and operated the project according to free software principles. After taking control of the pyjs.org domain name and copying the mailing list data without members' permission, a group of developers critical of the leadership methods of Leighton effectively outed him from his role by transferring the project to non-free resources. Talks were held with the Python Software Foundation to have the project transferred to and run by the PSF, but the talks stalled after the PSF learned that, in direct violation of the UK Data Protection Act 1998, the mailing list data had been copied without Leighton's permission or knowledge, and without the consent of or consultation with any of its members. The pyjamas project is the first Free Software Project ever to have been hijacked, rather than forked.
I have been wanting to get started with Erlang for a while now. Mind telling me a bit about features I can look forward to? What makes Erlang great?
We are using Stripe to host/power the billing aspects of join.app.net. In the very near
future I will ask an impartial 3rd party take a look at our data (while preserving all
privacy of our backers) and publicly verify that the join.app.net was operated in an honest
manner.

http://daltoncaldwell.com/we-did-it
What Ouya Isn't
I agree. To a first order approximation, "Thanks, Congress!" always has an implied sarcasm tag.
Posted 5 days ago, comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350907
What is svbtle in the first place (never even heard of it, and I bet 99% of people haven't either)? Is it a theme? I have no clue why this needs to be mentioned. WHy not just criticize his words?
Librarians don't cheat by posting the prefix of the key on the aisles. That's called radix sort.
I just keep a fixed .cpp file with a bunch of common includes and directives, and alias the g++ command to link to common libraries, so my workflow goes:

> vim temp.cpp

> g++ temp.cpp

> ./a.out

Very similar to my process with Python, actually. Every time I use the REPL for some experimenting, the code ends up outgrowing it and I have to stuff it in a file anyway, so I may as well cut out the middleman to begin with. YMMV.
That's one of the reasons why a distributed open-source version of the service might be the best option.
The point isn't that Curtis has a monopoly on thin black strokes and generous leading. The point is that it's not OK to set out with the goal of confusing readers as to whether a blog is or isn't a part of a blog network.
You should consider that a.) two or more discussion for a major topic is actually appropriate and that b.) You can't, nor should you, control the flow or location of commenting on a particular subject. That will be determined by the community as a whole. As for reposting duplicate links, again, that is an issue that will be solved only with better software.
The h33t.com logo shows the demonoid logo now. Maybe they work together now?
My last sentence was possibly out of line. For that, I apologize.

The remainder of my comments can in no reasonable way be interpreted as a personal attack. They only concerned your comment, and I stand by them. You may believe you made a point clearly, strongly, and thoroughly; I seriously disagree.

Also, be careful about conflating anger and disagreement.
That's not a punk'd-ing. It's a small tribute.
Not to be too snarky, but this is likely much easier for startups that already have funding from Andreesen Horowitz. This campaign was more about gauging interest than getting money.
There's a difference between a rip-off and a site that's 'inspired by' another. svbtle is definitely inspired by drawar, but it's much more refined. wp-svbtle is just a plain copy, there's no originality to it.
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Svbtle is a blog network. Go to SVBTLE.COM to see who's writing for it; it's the first thing you see on the site.

Whether or not something is part of SVBTLE is about as important a point as whether it's written for Ars Technica, or for ZDNet: that is, not the most important thing about the piece, but by absolutely no means irrelevant.

Also, had this been an actual Svbtle piece, it would have carried the frisson of being a contrarian take on the work of another Svbtle author, since Svbtle is where Dalton Caldwell announced App.net to begin with.
Can't tell if sarcasm or not. HN has made me a cynical one.
From the source:

<!--
RainyMood.com
Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Tailored Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

DO NOT COPY THIS WEBSITE.

If you copy this website, Tailored Music, Inc. will find out.

Just look at the code below - do you really think you can understand it?
Of course not.

Can you find all the places where it contacts outside servers to report its location?
Nope.

Hey, do you know about trademarks?
"Rainy Mood", "RainyMood", "RainyMood.com", and "Rain makes everything better" are trademarks of Tailored Music, Inc.
That means it's against the law to impersonate us or to make products that use our trademarks.

Sorry if all that sounded snarky. But seriously, there are lots of great business ideas out there. Find something you love, and do it better than anyone ever dreamed. You can't lose with that formula!
-->
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Can you expand on why you consider Rails to have doomed them, and why NodeJS would be better? I'm not particularly familiar with either technology (besides reading about them here on HN), but it's my understanding that Rails powers some very big websites, like Hulu and Github.

That said, there's already a working Twitter-like distributed network. I hard my own StatusNet node running on my personal server and getting messages from people on Identi.ca, until I realized that I found the idea of the platform interesting, but not the platform itself (nor Twitter, for that matter). The fact that half the accounts were abandoned didn't help either.
Data Center Meledak, Sampai Pagi Ini Situs Berita Lumpuh
It may be a fad for the industry at large, but it's a requirement in US government contracting (as CMMI). It goes beyond software, too. My former employer just got their systems engineering up to CMMI Level 5[1] and was working hard on getting electrical engineering there (they are only at 3).

[1] Software had been there for a few years.
> * Filtering cards based on tags. Once you have a couple of dozen cards on a list it becomes increasingly difficult to get an overview of what you're doing, what you should do, etc. I use tags like DO THIS, DISCUSS THIS, INCOMING and would really like to filter lists so they only displayed, say, DO THIS cards. Right now I find myself fiddling around with the lists far too much, trying to figure out what I should do next. Not good if you're a procrastinator.

You can do this now in the "Search and Filter Cards" menu. Just click on the label and it'll only show you cards with that label. You can also rename labels to Incoming, etc...
I think most of the books at the library I visit already have RFID chips inside. I look forward to reserving a couple of books, walking in, and having the actual physical location of the book light up in a Augmented Reality display.

At that point, it won't even be necessary to sort.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Top+Hat+Monocle+groupon+sales

http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-top-hat-monocle-legal...
I have joined and paid $100 but my biggest concern is they are VC funded which is a more insidious position for someone to pressure them to do something not in line with the current vision. Also, there is a long line of startups that hate advertising at first then acquiesced when the only budget big enough to cover their burn rate are the ones advertisers have. This includes Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.
When Svbtle first launched, as a take on blog authoring software, the originality of the design might have mattered. At the time, I found it especially annoying that people reacted to Curtis' aloof online persona by deliberately cloning his offering in an effort to dilute his work.

But dilution isn't the issue anymore. Curtis won: he's built a real blog network, with many very interesting writers. He's got Dalrymple writing about Mac stuff, Justin Kan from Justin.tv, Dave McClure from 500 Startups, and John Collison from Stripe. It's past time people stopped pretending like we're talking about a page of CSS.
I would imagine it would be incredibly difficult to prosecute millions of users who frequent the site. No one can probably definitively answer your question with certainty but most likely majority of the users probably won't be affected. Of course I'm also taking a wild assumption here. Only time will tell whether or not anything will happen.
If you want this kind of ultra reliable software, have it built in-house, or hire vendors and contractors who will agree to your terms.

>Not a show-stopper then, thanks for proving my point. ;-)

You have no idea how many products I've shelved at the prototype stage because I didn't think I could recoup the regulatory costs.

>Interesting assumption, out of the blue. I started my own (vc-funded) company in 2000 and am still working there as CEO. Now what was the ad-hominem-ish point you were making?

Turns out it was correct, you haven't recently tried to start a company--you did so 12 years ago. Now you're an entrenched player with something to gain from additional regulation.

>Lots.

That's just absurd. Compare the number of software makers to auto makers. There's at least 2 orders of magnitude more software companies, probably many more.

>What exactly is so bad about engineers at Boeing that you expect me to answer with "no"? Is Microsoft a somehow much smaller, cooler and more flexible company than Boeing so I should feel like I'm getting a better deal now?

You seem to want desktop software to be as reliable as embedded real time software, that's what I mean by manufactured by Boeing. There is a huge trade off for that reliability, in the form of performance.

>Noone wants to take the freedom of choice away from you, just the freedom of vendors to sell junk ("no fitness for a particular purpose") disguised as software.

That's exactly what you're trying to do. Right now I have a huge choice of available software. You want to restrict what manufactures can produce, thus limiting my choice.

You don't like the current state of software--fine make better software, use BSD--don't tell me what I can and cannot buy and sell.

Good Day.
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This might sound pretty mundane compared to what most people usually quote, but I found this very enlightening

"When you except to run into brick walls you usually don’t go as fast as you can. When you let go of fear and focus on results, it’s freeing and effective."

It's by a tumblrer http://infjdoodles.tumblr.com/post/28056863738/
The HR-less performance review
I don't think most people understand that Svbtle is a "blog network" rather than a particular blog engine or even just theme. For a long time I assumed it was just a neat alternative to Wordpress, not an exclusive group of pen pals.
It's sarcasm. Billion dollar company or not, doesn't matter to me and most people out there. It's useful and something people will like. It's perfect for me at least to make my Mum happy from time to time so you'll see me using this!
I can see it being helpful if you are working in C++ all day and need to try small things out. I use LinqPad for doing the same w/ C#, helps when you need to test out some smaller ideas w/o all the cruft of projects and references / includes / etc.
Simple tip: For WSJ, and I think NY Times paywall articles, past the article title into google and click through to the article. So SEO purposes (I think) they allow you to access articles found through Google.
How do you test it?

In other words: how do you create email that would be otherwise recognised as a spam?
Embracing Risk in Career Decisions
Yep, it's still broken.

<base href="http://git.bytbox.net/ />
fixes that page, but pages reached from there are still suffering the some bad base href.
Step 1: Type SVBTLE.COM into your browser address bar.

Step 2: Close your eyes, hit ENTER, count to 10.

Step 3: Open your eyes and count to 10 again.

Step 4: Tell me how that argument still stands.
Poe's law [1] at work. My bet is on parody though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
Again (I feel like I'm repeating myself), I didn't say that purpose requires religion. I didn't say that social cohesion requires religion. I didn't say that ritual requires religion.

I said that human beings requires those things, and that religion is effective at fulfilling those requirements. I explicitly made the point that something else could be fulfilling those needs better than religion can. However, I do not think that that thing is science - at least not in its current form.
The article says this about insertion sort:

This is the fastest sorting algorithm for small arrays, up to maybe 20, 30 elements. Even in software!

No no no. Insertion sort is fastest only when the items being sorted are in nearly sorted order. Its runtime will always be dependent on the number of items, n, being sorted. For a completely randomized array of items, it will run at O(n^2 ) regardless if n is small. Quicksort and Mergesort will do better in these situations.
I think this logic is fine if you then donate to a cause that seeks to solve the longer term problems. But otherwise despite being a short term solution, feeding a hungry child means a hell of a lot to that person. And if you found yourself in a similar situation I think you would be happy for someone to skip the logical arguement and just give you a meal.
Which of the books on that page do you recommend reading to get a glimpse of how science can successfully fulfil the role of religion in providing purpose, meaning, etc?
This doesn't address the nature of his comment. Not everything is an argument.
> or example, that a swear word or nipple on US tv
> seems to cause comparable levels of outrage to a
> shooting spree.

Welcome to America, where people will flock in droves to show their support of anti-gay marriage attitudes[1], while none of those people will lift a finger to volunteer at a soup kitchen to help out people that actually need the support.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A#Controversy_regardi...
Contemporary start up culture seems to be in favor of launching with a "minimum viable product" as a way of gauging market demand before you sink too many resources into a product.

Not every product is amenable to this, of course, but HiMom is and you are seeing it in action.
Sorting is still necessary... but you might be interested in ShelvAR - http://shelvar.com/
Hmm yeah, they might be reaching a bit on this one. I'd wager we have just about sucked "social" dry. A lot of companies are trying to see just how far they can niche down the social networking concept, and I guess time will tell how much longer that lemon can be squeezed.
> That need could be filled in other ways, though. Religion is harmful because it makes people irrational and often controlled by dangerous forces (religious leaders).

I completely agree. In fact, that's my point. But you can't fulfil those needs by ignoring them. They need to be addressed directly, not denied - which is what proponents of atheism as a replacement for religion seem to be attempting.

I don't even agree that science doesn't care about human psychological needs. In the same way some scientists care about curing diseases, others care about curing psychological problems.

They care, no doubt, but I have yet to see a convincing solution that fulfils those needs in a way that matches what religion (despite being, perhaps, false) achieves, or anywhere near. The closest thing, ironically, might be the whole singularity cult, which is largely derided by a large portion of the "science" camp.
This exists - the Fuji X-Pro 1. To a lesser extent, also the Olympus OM-D.
You're probably right. Thanks.
It's a cool idea, but his reason for creating it is kinda dumb.

Creating an entire "project" just to check a code snippet is just silly.

Just create a "testing" directory and throw your one off test files into it and compile/run them there.

I start mine with a comment explaining what I'm testing, why I'm testing it, and what special compilation flags are required, if any. I even have an Emacs macro that fills in the boilerplate includes and main function. The overhead involved is probably less than 15 seconds.

It has the advantages that I can test multiple compilers and I keep a history of the things I've tried.
Phalanger ( http://phalanger.codeplex.com/ ) is an implementation of PHP running on the CLR with a fairly good compatibility story and sometimes much better performance.

Phalanger worked well even without using the DLR (dynamic language runtime) so a JVM implementation shouldn't be a massive undertaking (except for the lexer and parser parts...)
There's been plenty of skepticism, especially at the start (IMO). I think the successful funding is at least a signal that there might be something here.
That's fun to imagine, but wouldn't it be even better if you could get the books sent to your e-reader/tablet/computer in seconds? Then there's no need to travel to the library.

I haven't been to a library in years (San Francisco's main library might as well be a homeless shelter), so I don't have a clue how popular e-books are in public libraries.
IBM also has a realtime jvm, metronome (aka "websphere realtime"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jid4WaILPBk