skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No disagreements here. But two quick comments:

(1) There is still a software-design aspect to all this that has been neglected. For example, one can find all kinds of material on how to design OO software (e.g., the GoF book and its offspring). Find me something about how to design software using composable components. There isn't much out there.

(2) "Software engineers need category theory" is a statement that is almost too vague to be discussed. Certainly, a traditional presentation of category theory is largely useless to these people. What exactly is useful, and how should it be presented? People are starting to answer these questions, but only starting. Note, for example, that, in the brief intro to categories in the linked article, the fact that the categories allow for multiple identities (one for each object) is glossed over. It this a good idea? I don't know.
It works until you start snoring and somebody wakes you up to tell you that you're snoring. :P
It sounds more like randomness than anything else. If your goal is to increase U.S. energy production without any interest in cleanliness of the energy, sometimes this may result in the energy getting cleaner anyway, and sometimes it won't. In this case, the main controlling factor seems to be a mixture of what's in the ground, and logistics. We've found significant new exploitable natural-gas sources, but since exporting it is hard (U.S. LNG export capacity is very limited), it's mostly not traded on a world market, so there's now a domestic glut of gas that's so cheap it's even cheaper than coal to burn.
Management by abdication is one thing, but being able to drive the direction of the company is a key differentiator.

There is not much out there that is truly passive income. Reasonably passive income? Much more realistic.
I don't know him, but reading this story it doesn't sound like he learned anything. Sounds like this sort of behaviour is him. I'm jealous - it took me years just to get to the point where I realised I'd been taking "no" as an (unnecessary) absolute, never mind consciously changing that pattern of behaviour.
Sure, look at most Haskell libraries. A lot of them expose some of their APIs as monads, arrows, functors, and kleisli categories.

Some good examples: hakyll, Pandoc, pipes, conduits, warp, scotty, or anything by Edward Kmett ( https://github.com/ekmett/ )
It is one of the few books I wished I had 10 years ago and would have saved me aggravation.

Other books might teach it too, but how simply he explained the battle inside each entrepreneur between 3 opposing personalities (Technician, Manager, and Entrepreneur) is really eye opening, especially once you've been on the path for a bit.
One built from the ground up with the idea that people can hire online. Can I rent a clown for my kids birthday party through a temp agency? Can I hire someone to clean my house from that same temp agency? Can I hire someone to detail my car?
Some of the best books in any subject are often timeless.

The book lays out a systemic formula for making your business grow and run more and more with out you so you can work on your business, instead of your business.

Also this book has been updated I believe from time to time. It's not worth worrying about in this case because it's not opinion based advice, or based on current trends.
FWIW: http://www.50dollarlogo.com/
"Roncalli High School is an interparochial archdiocesan Catholic high school. The term interparochial refers to the fact that the school receives financial and pastoral support, along with the majority of its students, from the 14 parishes that comprise the South Deanery of the Indianapolis Archdiocese. The school is named Roncalli in honor of Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who, upon being elected pope by the College of Cardinals in 1958, took the name of Pope John XXIII."

http://www.roncalli.org/about
If you think he meant well, yet you think his comment could be misinterpreted, you could highlight where you think his comment could be misinterpreted and offer a more suitably qualified statement that all parties could agree upon.

Both mekoka and TazeTSchnitzel did just that, and I do it when people make stupid racist comments, too, for instance (I live in South Africa and sadly this still happens more often than I'd like).

It's a non-confrontational way of dealing with the difference in opinion, and critically, gives people an opportunity to move forward while saving face.

Some people don't think giving a diplomatic exit is appropriate in -ism scenarios, but I prefer giving people an opportunity to change their opinions - and the reality is that if you try to tell someone they are sexist or are racist you will never get through to them because their ego defences will kick in, but if you point out, with sensitivity, that their statement is unfair in some way they 'seem' to have missed, you give them an opportunity to grow because you didn't involve their ego.

Remember that most people's opinions are handed down from friends/family/social programming and seldom subject to introspection; they may be just embarrassed by what they've said as you are, but most people lack the self esteem to admit they're wrong openly. If you give them some sense of self respect despite their gaffe they often appreciate it.

In my experience most people pick up that if they don't deal fairly with reality as you propose then they'll have to admit they are sexist/racist/etc. and they quickly learn to revise their statements. Of course some people really are sexist or racist and don't care, but then at least you won't have to worry about misinterpretation once they freely acknowledge that.
> (as an aside, the bar on the left makes it look like a block quote.)

As does <blockqoute> in the html.
...and there must be at least someone, somewhere in your workforce under the impression that maintaining a wiki is somehow either the most productive or the most entertaining use of their time and effort at a given moment. That's the hard part.
The FSF uses the words lax and permissive to describe licenses which do not have the requirements of the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html), and describe the GPL as a copyleft license. If you want to describe the GPL with a word that is not "copyleft", I guess you would use some word opposite to lax and permissive, like restrictive. So it would only be restrictive relative to the permissive licenses, but in that context, it is restrictive, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Though personally I prefer to describe it as "strict".
"Every time the proprietor gets tired of a genre of emails, they improve either the internal tools or the business rules to optimize themselves out of that workflow."

I really like this point.. I always think of the FAQ as a bug list. If a question comes up repeatedly enough that people have to start searching for a solution, odds are there are a way more people not asking and you're losing conversions.
When content and substance is not important to the observer, the only way thing you see in other popular blogs is the design.

It's easier to copy someone's design than their writing, research, and analytical skills.

I see the same thing in bloggers themselves. They want to change things up, and short of broadening their horizon and immersing themselves in some literature and material that could help them pursue what they like to write about, they ... redesign the website. Because that's the only parameter to a good blog in their equation.

It's like re-arranging the furniture on the Titanic.
I assume you mean recent and active projects; there's nothing recent I can remember that attempts to do the kind of thing I tried to describe in the second paragraph of my comment. (Which is why I intend to start working on my own modest, desperate attempt at it in the following months.)

However, there are various projects, some of them historical, that have attempted to tackle it in limited contexts, or implemented parts of it, or have envisioned it in holistic systems that are now outdated. Almost all of the somewhat interesting ones I've come across can unfortunately be classified as one of the following: 1) Productized, narrowly focused yet-another-app 2) Academic or overly specialized in-house or personal project with no real effort at widespread usability 3) Unmaintained and outdated 4) Essentially vaporware

With that said, here are a few links of interest, with the forefathers noted first:

* Xanadu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

* NLS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_%28computer_system%29

* Relations: http://relations-rcp.sourceforge.net/

* Zettelkasten: http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/en/index.php

* semantic-notes: https://github.com/jsomers/semantic-notes

* Synapsen: http://www.verzetteln.de/synapsen/shots_e.html

* flashbake: https://github.com/commandline/flashbake

* ConnectedText: http://www.connectedtext.com/

* The Literary Machine: http://sommestad.com/lm.htm

* Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html

* Smart Notebooks (currently seeking funding on Kickstarter): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-noteboo...

* Bibkosh: http://www.bibkosh.com

* gitmarks: https://github.com/hmason/gitmarks

* Lifestreams: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html , http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams.html

* Locker: https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker

* Telehash: http://telehash.org/

* Singly: https://www.singly.com/

* pan.do/ra: https://pan.do/ra#about

* Papers: http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/

Some related reading:

* http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/1.html

* http://takingnotenow.blogspot.co.uk/

* http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/notebook.html

* http://web.archive.org/web/20100422130439/http://gilest.org/...

* http://web.archive.org/web/20100108034547/http://software-li...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book

* http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html

* http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/reading-with-the-stars...

* http://www.openannotation.org/

* http://www.katsommers.com/2010/11/02/web-narrative/

* http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/tag/dymaxion-chronofile

* http://www.jagshouse.com/swyft.html

* http://al3x.net/2009/01/31/against-everything-buckets.html
"I can't find any confirmation that the country-wide shutdown of nuclear plants in Japan has been anything other than bad for the country. While Japan continues to need electricity (for life-saving medical technologies, among other uses), and until other sources of electricity become less expensive, it makes sense for Japan to be open to restarting the other nuclear plants in the country."

OK, I don't know if anyone else finds this to be a strange statement, but I do.

First, no one is saying that shutting down 50 of 52 nuclear power power plants, providing 30% of Japan's electricity supply is an economic benefit. Would that even make sense?

But "bad for the country" is a very different proposition.

"Japan has shut down over 95% of the power plants which produce radioactive waste which lasts for thousands of years."

Bad for the country?

While Japan continues to need electricity (for SHORT TERM CONVENIENCE) , and until other sources of electricity become less expensive, it makes sense for Japan to be open to restarting the PRODUCTION OF ENERGY WHICH RESULTS IN RADIOACTIVE WASTE THAT IS LETHAL FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS).

Yeah. Right.

What IS good for the country? Short term consumption, or long-term sickness, death and mutation? What would Hoppe say, in terms of a time preference analysis?
Why I Endorse Twitter's New Changes, With Reservations
I agree that more convincing data is needed. The only evidence offered that this school is more effective is that some public schools have created advertisements and use Ipads. Considering the fact that this is a Catholic school, I also wonder about what students might be alienated or rejected due to religious prejudice.
The problem in loss of manufacturing jobs is deskilling. You only have a solid industrial design base if you have manufacturing communities, otherwise their isn't a wide culture to draw on of people who understand these kinds of problems. And so you might be able to compete on design for a while, but the places you have sent your manufacturing to will learn really fast and will be competing with you in design and research and have all the manufacturing base that you no longer have, and all the skilled workers.
Yes, Karma is important
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html#POLICY

(1) The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.

(2) The improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and space vehicles.

(3) The development and operation of vehicles capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies, and living organisms through space.

(4) The establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific purposes.

(5) The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere.

(6) The making available to agencies directly concerned with national defense of discoveries that have military value or significance, and the furnishing by such agencies, to the civilian agency established to direct and control nonmilitary aeronautical and space activities, of information as to discoveries which have value or significance to that agency.

(7) Cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this chapter and in the peaceful application of the results thereof.

(8) The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the United States, with close cooperation among all interested agencies of the United States in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment.

(9) The preservation of the United States preeminent position in aeronautics and space through research and technology development related to associated manufacturing processes.

I personally would categorize the above as follows, not that I gave it much thought:

1 = science

2 = could go either way

3 = could go either way

4 = science, peace

5 = dominance

6 = dominance, specifically military

7 = could go either way, science, peace

8 = efficiency (which I'll file under dominance, too)

9 = dominance

final scores:

science: 3

peace: 2

neither/nor: 3

dominance: 4
You need a way to bring up the preferences options again. I know this will offend the 'simple ui' sensibilities of some, but I clicked something wrong, and 'remember', and have no way to change it, so now I get no audio. ever. :/
I had come across this concept about a year and a half ago. Read some article about how our brain works to store new experiences and therefore time slows down. That's around the time that I left my full time job to travel full time! I even wrote an article on our travel blog about it:

http://bkpk.me/were-getting-younger-time-dilation-is-real/

This guy has definitely done a very quantitative analysis of my qualitative hunch. Subjecting myself to new experiences, new places and new environments everyday has definitely made time slow down.

My last birthday actually feels like it was a LOOONG while ago. That's because I threw in a bunch of interesting and new experiences over the last year.

I think the real way to feel like your 'real age' is to subject yourselves to new experiences as much as possible. Take a new route home, go to restaurants or parts of your city that you've never been to, learn a foreign language or salsa, learn a new sport, or if possible, travel! :)
Oh no! Women are being attacked on the internet, to the postmobile!

The replies to this post are hilarious and sickening at the same time. Whenever the social/cultural accepted image of women is questioned, everyone gets into this mode of "must defend women!". Just look at the amount of replies and rage this reply has caused. Any other undesired reply would have simply been downmodded, but when WOMEN are being slandered, (oh the humanity,) you just can't leave it alone (and of course, rape is brought up).

Not only are you not simply downmodding a comment that you feel is inappropriate and then leaving the post alone, a civilized debate is apparently also out of the question. If the post said something like "we should legalize guns in country x", we would not see a reply saying "delete your post, it's inappropriate" (it might've started an argument, it would probably just be downmodded). On any other topic a different opinion would be accepted, but on this subject you're just not allowed to even joke about it, let alone have a conflicting view. The White Knight in Shining Armour mentality is so deeply ingrained that all politeness, reason, and guidelines go overboard when the socially acceptable image of women is questioned, even on the supposedly enlightened board that is Hackernews.

Next time when a reply like this comes up, no need to get out your horse and armour, just downmod. If you feel the need to feel all Just and Righteous in defending the Female Honour, please start your Round Table elsewhere. These replies have done more to derail the thread than isalmon's original comment.
"Drill", in this context, also means "for oil". Specifically, "in Alaska". Even more specifically, "in ANWR".

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

Because ANWR would supply petroleum (a fuel mostly used for transportation and scarcely ever used for generating electricity), it has virtually nothing to do with the market for coal (which is used almost entirely for generating electricity), or disruptions to that market caused by a growing reliance on natural gas (which is also frequently used for heating, but remains uncommon in the transportation market).

And because transportation networks and electrical grids have so little overlap in terms of power supplies, policy choices made about Alaskan petroleum have little direct connection with policy choices related to fracking for natural gas. So no, there is no irony in any of this. The word is simply inapplicable.
Wait, so a PAN card, A ration card, license, passport, voters ID card are insufficient options?.

I know someone personally who got her passport soon after marrying, moving to her in laws place and having no voters id, valid passport, or any other proof of residence.

It was done logically, by showIng that she was married. The person she was married to lived at x location. And finally that x location was the residence of her in laws.

Further the requirements for address proof are governmental clauses. Those will never go away, even with a UID.

And this is the same govt that ensures people sign their names and provide photo ID every time you use a cyber cafe, and every time you visit a hotel.

The same people who said that a UID wouldn't. E compulsory to avail of govt services. Then made it compulsory if you want to get gas.

Meta: I've followed this topic since inception, years ago. Since then I've found that the defenders of this service are uniform in their thinking, they all believe that the benefits are invaluable and the costs overplayed or irrelevant in the face of the gains.

Edit: just because other people are doing it isn't good enough a reason to follow suit
Tips on reducing Cellulite easy
According to Fitness magazine reports, NOT just overweight people (especially women), but about 90% of women have cellulite. Cellulite is a skin that shows up on the thighs and rear.
I get the impression the author doesn't have a clue what 'realtime' means. I appreciate he is trying to say 'within seconds' but that is not realtime, true realtime is a completely different game.
Maybe the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition provides a useful way to think about learning a language. It classifies

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

It describes 5 skill levels: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert.
I'd start making your list of categories and then have associated linked words that appear in the title, where linked words are matched it's auto assigned a category. So Batteries (category) would be auto added to any product with battery, batteries, volt & discharge.

Just setting up some rules of how you would manually understand what a product is & automating it. Plus once you have good linking words to fit each category it should be perfect for new products that need categorizing. With MTurk, you'd have to keep paying every time new products were added.
The only thing using a centralized service buys you is a single point of failure.

(FTR, this is hyperbole, but not by much.)
fixed: http://www.readability.com/articles/vi6qkk41
How to write a Linux device driver
I have been playing with the concept of a distributed Twitter like thing built on Google's App Engine. You download it, edit one file (or run a setup program) and upload to your own account. Unless you become insanely popular, you should be well under the free tier limits.

Google would probably hate me.
Is Your Self Worth Lacking?
TEPCO measured radiation levels of 10 Sv in the basement of Reactor 1 in June this year [1].

In March TEPCO measured radiation levels of 73 Sv/h in the container vessel [2]. A Fukushima worker tweeted a radiation level estimation of > 1000 Sv for another part of the reactor (the endoscope used for radiation testing is only rated to 1000 Sv, so cannot be used) [3].

The radiation level next to Chernobyl immediately after the meltdown was 300 Sv/h.

Also in March, Arnie Gundersen of FaireWinds went to Tokyo to collect soil samples from parks and streets, and on testing the samples back in the US concluded they would be considered radioactive waste in the United States. [4]

The XKCD cartoon was produced during the perceived hysteria following the aftermath and reporting of the Fukushima radiation and fallout, but the history since then appears to indicate that the extreme concern over Fukushima radiation is depressingly justified.

[1] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120629a7.html

[2] http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/73svh-in-container-vessel...

[3] https://twitter.com/Happy11311/status/184586152186097664

[4] http://fairewinds.org/content/tokyo-soil-samples-would-be-co...
Beautiful graph. The notes with the graph are TC;DNG for me (too complicated; did not get). Sounded impressive though.
Ask HN: ideas for an iphone app that uses a web service?
I had planned on building a mobile service for a startup I had stuck in my head for a while, but I've given up that idea because of complications I came across while thinking it through.

I still want a project to work on while I think up a problem I want to solve, so I'm taking ideas!

I want to learn to build a web service and and integrate with an iphone app, similar to Instagram or something like that, and I have some great tutorials to learn from, I just need a project. I would like something that will end up being useful and I can actually upload to the app store, but I'm open to project ideas that are simply for "shits and giggles" as well.

Thanks,

Alex G
Yes, but has he not sent the beer, he would have not been accepted. Yes, or am I missing something?

Although PG is very good at politics and if tried hard he could semi-well explain you that white is black (to one of my comments he replied that the most important for YC is a team -- in that case why would he want to invest or work with one of the top 100s spammer? [1]), I have a hard time believing that when he pitched the first time, they could not understand the simplicity behind this idea and hence - get it right the first time, without a <strike>bribe</strike> beer being sent.

[1] http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...