skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Pete's sake, at least 568 people upvoted the question, and at least 1004 people upvoted the first answer alone.

The community has spoken - they see this as valuable content.

Popular is not necessarily the same thing as valuable. This is a problem that reddit's been hitting a lot lately (e.g. image macro posts everywhere). The most easily-digested simple things get lots of upvotes because everybody can relate, or at least understand. The more complex, useful answers to more specific problems get a lot less attention because a lot fewer people can recognize the value, or even understand the question.

I have to agree with Jeff Atwood, these types of discussion questions shouldn't be on SO. They're just fluff questions that drown out the important work of solving actual problems.
A very small corner case here, but on certain keyboard layouts, hjkl is actually harder to use than the arrow keys. To be more specific, I use an alphagrip keyboard most of the time where left,right,up,down are all under the left thumb and a trackball is under the right thumb. The way I interact with vim is thus very different from most folks, I imagine.
Thanks for the correction. +1
Lets' not forget that if they actually pull that off without taking extreme precautions, we're all dead. http://singularity.org/files/IE-EI.pdf
Yes. Maybe a whole separate blog post coming on that :)
Ask HN: Is there a way to create prepaid credit cards via API?
Saw a startup launch today that displays on a phone temporary prepaid MasterCards that are valid. Is there an API to create these? Cannot find any major vendors that do this.
Manage multiple WordPress installations from a single dashboard
Here's the thing.... who asked?

I mean, I never would have had a clue that they were making cut-backs if they didn't publicly announce it.

Are they in trouble? Are they going out of business? Should I be reading between the lines?

The state of gaming has changed, and it's easier than heck to get your hands on a fun casual game now-days, so I can see why having 50+ people with multiple offices working as a casual game creating force may not be the greatest plan moving forward, but couldn't this have all been a pretty silent process?

I've always been fearful of openness with business methods and actions, yet I've adopted a lot of practices in my own business because others HAVE been so open. But things like this... a blog saying people are getting canned, well, it just feels "icky" to me. Kind-of pointless almost.

Enlighten me.

What was the point of this blog post?

How does a company benefit from telling the world they are cleaning house?

Who asked? Who are they afraid of? ... Is this because they fear the press would catch wind and report speculation?
If every request is delayed by the same amount, then it just moves the peak. Otherwise it just flattens/spreads it around peak_length + 4.
Sounds like you're referring to a one-time pad[1], which is what that grid looks like. Google's 2-factor auth has a simpler version of this -- they just give you 10 or so one-time passwords. I like the grid; it seems to have a much longer potential "lifetime" of use.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
My generally rule of thumb is to pick a project that is far beyond what I could hope to do in the language in a reasonable amount of time, then work as hard as I can, get as far as I can with copious amounts of googling and docs reading. By the end of it I have a good idea of how to work on the language. (And sometimes even a finished project)
One thing worth noting: You have to hit the so-called minimum deduction (9K last I checked) to benefit from this sort of write off, whereas a company can do it regardless of absolute annual business expenditure.
One slightly annoying thing I noticed. If I select a t-shirt ie: http://getnifty.com/market/1001/product/1002 the sizes appear

0S 0M 0L 0XL

which for a second till I ran the mouse over them realised it was a form selection. Can you pre-populate or add spacing?
Who asked? Most of the game industry. This and the lay-offs at Funcom today have been the talk of the town(/Twitter) before they came out and posted this.
Why? How is it so different?
I wish good luck to all involved with this company. I am not sure if it's a good idea to work so closely with your fiance/wife/husband in a start up. If things don't work out, there will be more than a job that's lost.
Announcing Burningmap
I think the position is that having users is necessary but not sufficient for being a startup. NTS doesn't apply here, since no one is changing the definition of startup to exclude a counterexample; they simply disagree with it a priori.
Oatmeal Hits Its $850,000 Goal To Fund A Tesla Museum In Less Than A Week
It'd be nice to have the shortcuts accept both ctrl and ⌘ as modifiers (for us Mac users)
Thanks for the reply, Stefan, but I think you misunderstood what I meant by "appropriate" (thought I understand your use); I meant the zoological equivalent of SO/SE (Zoooverflow?)
I didn't read the comment as referring to the author as an admin, it was just offering a lowly position stand-in in the current hypothetical.
God, that's cheesy: breaking an interview like that into trivial chunks, released weekly. My respect for technologyreview just plummeted.

In addition, the opening question: "Why is most contemporary science fiction so debauched?" was answered long ago by Stephensons lexical neighbor Ted Sturgeon with his law. No further response necessary, though Stephenson politely gives one.
How does one win?
Homework for posting on your company's blog
I'm a teacher at DBC and that's not our attitude at all, for what it's worth. :)

As we get better-and-better at optimizing those ten weeks, we'll add more advanced topics. I'd love to have a set of challenges like that later in the 10 weeks.

In fact, one group wrote their own custom query language to query github repositories (e.g., a language to say things like "Give me a list of all github repositories whose primary language is Ruby with more than 1 contributor and 10 outstanding TODOs") as part of their final 9-day project. They might not have had the vocabulary for it, but they were essentially wrestling with problems in compiler design.

The more salient part of his sentence is the last half: he didn't care. At DBC we spend tons of energy on creating situations where the only way to solve a (fun, hopefully) problem is to learn compilers, algorithms, databases, etc.
Before the current version of what we know as the internet there were alternative silos of information you could mine. Some of these, like bitnet/netnorth, usenet, BBSes, FTP sites (like Simtel-20) were eventually absorbed by the internet. If you worked for a big enough company they usually had internal repositories you could access that were full of "hackers" showing off their stuff. Software/Developer focused magazines like Dr. Dobbs, BYTE, CUJ, etc. were a LOT more useful and relevant before the internet stole their thunder.
Burningmap from Stamen (WebGL)
There's a world of difference between "I want to learn Perl or Python, what are the pros and cons of each?" and "What's your favorite programming cartoon?"

I think moderation efforts would be much better spent directing the answers to the open-ended questions away from monoglotist flame wars and toward an honest discussion (there's that word again) of something.

I don't think anyone would complain about aggressively closing questions like the one you posited.
Do you know about worst case analysis?

Let's say your data loss occurs on the Sunday, 31th of a month at 23:55 and then gets synched across all your S3 backups (or it could occur at some point before that but you don't notice it). And poof goes your data.
Delayed Development: 20-Somethings Blame the Brain
That guys' definition of acceptable area must be 3 blocks. I just hunted for a one bedroom place last month and was finding wonderful places for ~$2,200 to $2,300; that's the equivalent of a 2 bedroom just under $3,00.

There is no way that San Francisco has higher rent than Manhattan: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/rent-manhattan-may-... Those numbers blow away San Francisco.
Are you in the SF Bay Area? If so, stop by our office some day. My email is jesse@devbootcamp.com

MCSE-style certification is the opposite of our mission.
Or "Ode to Lifelong Incompetence"?

The article is framed as an attempt to reassure the parents of sluggish and vacant twenty-somethings, suggesting that their vapid little darlings have simply not found themselves yet -- just give them time. After all, the article suggests, their brains do not fully mature until their middle twenties or later. How could we expect them to make important decisions?

www.alfin2100.blogspot.com
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Yes, a bakery is a startup if it is just starting up. So is a taco cart, if it the vendor is just starting out. This is the classical definition of startup.
Do you mean how to master that language, right?

Build and read.

I recommend getting a good reference book for the language (I personally find the O'Reilly books pretty good), with most of its features included, and read it from start to end. This way you will become familiar with the majority of the language concepts.

Then, find open source projects made by experts on that language and try to understand them. There will be simple things, but you will also find some constructs or language tricks.

And, of course, build things. You will not learn the language if you don't use it. Create hard things: there's no need to create a complex application, but instead a difficult application, where you need to explore deep in the language to achieve some goal.
this has so much potential to create awe and wonder for all it's visitors -- I really hope it's done well.
Do you prefer your app blinking or upside down
My startup makes it easy for everyone to create bingo cards for YC demo day. The TAM is like 20; we launched less than two weeks ago and our customers love us. We're the most viral YC bingo card generator ever, so if you're passionate about bingo, come talk to us. To sum up: viral, social, big data.
It will be if you can have a so well designed UI that it's in Octarine.
Medium is open to public beta
It looked like a simple bug: an OpenGL application that blinks in full screen (http://www.taodyne.com/shop/en/blog/39-could-someone-at-amd-...). But the rest of the day was an infuriating tale of Kill All Humans installers and Beware of The Leopard DRM restrictions. And at the end of the day, an unanswered question remains. What kind of driver bug could possibly cause an OpenGL application to blink in full screen, unless the display is rotated?
Eventually, that makes communication impossible. If people are constantly reassigning different values to the same terms, you may have a conversation where each participant is actually discussing something different, and where the conclusions are therefore irrelevant.

To give you a current example, take REST. When a service says it has a REST API, it tells me absolutely nothing, since I don't know if they mean REST as in Roy Fielding's dissertation or REST as in "JSON instead of XML and some URL templates".

Their ability of communicating with me has been destroyed by people constantly reassigning different definitions to the term.
We used floppy disks to exchange files. Software was purchased and received by post mail as bunch of floppy disks. Was it better or worse? It was fun. Much more exclusive than now.
ReKognition.com vs. Face.com – (Facial Detection)
Facebook have moved fast to integrate some of Face.com face detection into photo tagging already. However, based on my testings, ReKognition.com's facial detection has performed better than Facebook's. Try your own photos!
I was coding back on Windows 95 before it was common in the UK to have internet access. My machine was a Pentium 75Mhz with 8MB RAM and an 850MB hard drive.

I got my warez from local computer fairs (fayres?) and bought books on Visual Basic from PC World.

I miss the buzz of Windows 95 and the Pentium from back then...
"... Sales and marketing were skills I just didn’t have and were I to ask others to entrust their livelihoods and their families in such an enterprise, it would be incumbent upon me to learn. ..."

Business/marketing readers, this would be the line you give back to hackers who say learn to code and point number 4, "You Can Learn To Schmooze" highlights a hackers weakest link, people.
These are all good suggestions.

Bug fixing is sometimes a useful way to learn a language.

Another good method is to try to teach it to someone else - what you do and don't know becomes clearer to you. So, you could look for questions on various online forums and provide the best answer you can. (You don't need to post that answer, you just need to write it.) And then compare what you wrote with the answers provided by other posters.
While I don't fully subscribe to the "you have to be a psychologist to indulge in psychodynamic theory", I do tend to agree with you in this instance.

It's unlikely he is generally that myopic, and more plausible that an emotional reaction is occurring.

The subconscious can have a profound effect on decision making.
I agree, the first thing I did was to start typing vim commands just to see letters on the screen.
Tracks.by (YC S12) hiring: Solve hard problems with celebs, disrupt $50B market
Tracks.by is fixing the music industry. We are bringing fans and artists together in a more meaningful way + bringing celebrity endorsements online so that artists can better monetize their fame (as opposed to charging for music!). This is a $50B industry.

We work with 52 of the Billboard Hot 100 artists AND every major record label and artist management company. We have done all of Lil Wayne’s digital for the past three years - growing him from 1-40 million likes on Facebook.

We recently launched our destination, http://hipset.com, to give fans an easier way to connect and keep up with the artists they like (it is a personalized music magazine). The response has been incredible. So incredible that our users are BANGING DOWN OUR DOORS demanding a mobile version. We need a mobile engineer!

Press:

• TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/hipset/

• Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/08/19/hipset-is-next-generation-music-site-from-y-combinators-tracks-by/

• Hypebot: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/08/hipset-tracksby.html

• Forbes 30 under 30: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mmj45ifhm/matt-schlicht-and-mazy-kazerooni-co-founders-tracks-by-2321/

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Join our team of hustlers and hackers to disrupt a $50 billion dollar industry that hasn’t moved into the digital age (yet).

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We are looking for:

Mobile Engineer

• Experience building mobile applications that run on multiple platforms using web protocols.

• Performance is a must. Slow mobile applications frustrate users.

• Willing to lead our mobile effort.

• Mobile usability experience.

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Backend Engineer

• Develop on a rapidly evolving stack supporting clients with millions of subscribers.

• Obsessed about latency optimization, query speed and runtime performance.

• Building versioned de-coupled services used by web application layer and browsers.

• Our stack is Node.JS, but experience with similar technologies is fine.

• Experience with MongoDB, Redis, Riak, or Postgres.

• AWS, Heroku, DNS, and horizontal scaling techniques.

• Heroku buildpacks, Opscode Chef.

• General *nix knowledge -- Comfortable logging into production instances to analyze problems.

• Experience writing unit tests.

• Plus if experience with aggregating social media APIs.

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Frontend Engineer

• HTML / LESS / JS

• Experience with Backbone.JS and implementing JS SDKs.

• Experience working with teams of designers and backend engineers.

• Knack for discovering useful open source modules.

• Understanding of usability and design principles.

• Plus if experience developing mobile apps using web technologies.

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Email example work, resume, github, or whatever you want us to see to hiring@tracksby.com
I have had the damnedest time getting the size right on those buttons. Can you tell me your device/browser/screen size?
Bloggers show how to upgrade Windows 8 previews to RTM
Stuffed Breakfast Portabello Mushroom Recipe
Of_Prometheus: you're probably hell banned. You'll see your posts, but others who didn't explicitly enable the option will not.Which is also something that I see a lot lately... pretty well written comments from hell banned accounts. Makes me a bit uneasy - maybe there was some reason for those actions, but I rarely see one in the author's history.
This makes me wonder if we could crowdsource the Titan Mare mission which got passed over for another bot to Mars.

It "only" costs $425 million ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Mare_Explorer )
This was one of the biggest red flags to me. If 2 people on a platform were doing well and the rest were struggling everyone would team up and take down the griefers. There's no way they could stop 5+ people coming up at once, especially if this was before there were potions. Build up behind a wall and they wouldn't be able to shoot arrows at you.
Can't sites like this provide a transcript or a summary in addition to the video? This is the Internet… I don't have time to stop and watch dozens of minutes of video for a few hundred words worth of information.
"Which is why the site is hugely successful."

You and Jeff are confused about what makes stackoverflow.com successful.

The reason stackoverflow is successful is because it's a clone of another successful tech Q&A site (experts-exchange.com) minus the scummy answer cloaking plus some social voting.

That's it.

All this stuff about the "right kinds" of questions being "key to its success" is based on absolutely nothing. There is nothing to support that. The one thing we do know is that deleting high quality user-generated content pisses people off.
No, the museum did not get funded. The campaign to raise funds to (hopefully?[1]) purchase the land for a museum got funded. There's a long ways to go before this is a reality.

[1]: There's another interested buyer. My read on it is that rallying the funds is only the first hurdle in getting the land to this organization. I'm sure there's lots of lawyering and bartering that is yet to be done.
"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man." --Thomas Hobbes
Anyone else see "Airbrite" and furrow their brow?

(I don't know if there are grounds for a trademark infringement nastygram from Eventbrite, given they're in the same space.)
I generally love the subjects Stephenson writes about and the specific ideas he explores, but I find his style exhausting.

He's just so damn wordy.
For those interested in playing on a map like this there's now a subreddit for limited size servers: http://www.reddit.com/r/limitedservers/
Great! It's rather easy to cheat though. :)
Well, $500 a month is on the lower side if you eat out all the time (as I do) - with that behavior you'll tend tp hit $600 or $700/month.

On the bright side, $2,000 is really high for housing (want to easily cut $800+ off that? get some roommates), so the conclusion that living off 70k shouldn't be so bad (or even $60k!) stands.
Thanks for reading my post :)
I wrote about my decision to make the jump in a previous blog post:
http://blog.keen.io/post/26096112831/why-i-left-consulting-a...

Some things to consider:
1. Consulting work is still there if I need to return to a higher salary.
2. My salary in the startup will be adjusted if the startup does well. 70k will not work out long term in SF, but it's ok for a year or so.
It would be nice to actually use this from a text-editor. Maybe git integration? Auto-pull/commit in the web-GUI and standard git sync commands locally.
I don't clearly understand this, but does it create a scenario akin to a "pre-ipo ipo" where start-ups can get funding from the general public?
Now, "Why I'm installing Windows 8" would be more make for a more interesting story :)
I honestly think the guy from Oatmeal carries so much weigh he could generate maybe several million dollars for a cause. If he did a couple of comics about the Mars bot who knows

Maybe there's a cheaper Mars project :)
We exhausted our $50 credit in minutes so probably doing something wrong - any tips appreciated :)

Very cool idea by the way! Congrats on the traction...
My thoughts exactly. Why can't someone just ask others for money? What is so wrong with "broadcasting" a solicitation for money?
I do feel there's a legit subtext here: we're going to see a ton of startups operating at a micro level. The culture, and daresay the economy, of SV that is based on big dreams and big VC may not always have enough wind behind it. I don't think that time has come, but I don't believe that the winners will always come out of SV, but we'll see more or more SaaS apps built by 1 or 2 people in Kansas or the Ukraine that generate a nice $200-300K revenue stream.
I can't quite put my foot down on what the scenario is exactly. One time might have been a case where a folder with lots of small files got moved away and Dropbox only allows single file restore, which would have taken hours, possibly longer than the lost work. Once I've done something stupid where I wanted to exchange a whole Dropbox folder with a different version. I switched off the client on one PC (by mistake, obviously) and exchanged the folder on the other, then switched it on again. Then I became aware the the old folder had important stuff in it. The versioning was corrupted at that point, many old files would either not show up online or would produce an error message.

So usually there is some user behaviour involved, yes. But the whole point of a backup system is that you can rely on it, even when the user behaves stupidly up to a certain degree. Sync is for day to day collaboration and data management, it's not for backup.
I'm curious; what gets you excited about Plivio?
So many Tesla books out there. If I had to pick one to read, which would you recommend?
I would have titled this "How I taught Myself Enough Python/Django to do what I wanted in 8 weekends" ...there is so much to both of them, you can always learn more. But, you are indeed cruising, keep up the good work!
One could extrapolate from the username...
checkvist.com is a similar app with great keyboard shortcuts-I use that as opposed to workflowy.
The difference between that and bootcamp is that the end-goal used to be to get a certificate that in theory could get a job.

Bootcamp is different because the goal is for the engineers to be bootstrapped to the point they can use google to build any project they want.
I think the point is that they're trying to average the load across the datacenter, only part of which is Glacier. If they can offset all the Glacier requests by 12 hours, they'll help normalize load when combined with non-Glacier activity.
Sneakernet was a common network protocol.
It's especially ironic considering that they're interviewing a writer.
because they picked <? without realizing that those were being proposed/used as the xml parsing directives. hence they clash(ed) with xhtml.
Great point. To sum it up briefly: we have no kids, no debt, and some savings. Now is the best opportunity to try and do this together. It's something we've talked about for a long time.

I'm pretty sure consulting work will still be there if the startup doesn't work out. I have SAP and Salesforce.com experience; both are widely implemented across the US.
It doesn't work like that.

The CDN portion is completely independent of the website. The website is really just an index of the files on the CDN.
I entered Dev Bootcamp already knowing Java (I worked in the industry for several years on j2ee and j2me). While I felt like I had an advantage at first, once we hit rails and other technologies, everyone was pretty much at the same level. I was amazed at how much everyone learned in such a short period of time. I was also amazed at all the projects we all created over a very short period of time.
So is this like marauder's map for muggles?