skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My typical question is what does "desktop" even mean? Yes, BSD can run a window manager. It can run cups (though perhaps not the binary driver that counts as support for your $20 inkjet. I recommend, for many reasons, dropping the $100 it takes to get a laser printer with an ethernet port). It's POSIX and X11.

You may have trouble with flash, but didn't you get the memo? Flash is dying. :)
Aside from the book recommended in the post, Learned Optimism by Seligmen is another dealing with "learned helplessness" and how to combat pessimism. It frames the struggle as optimist vs pessimist instead of growth vs fixed mindset.
>To whatever extent law enforcement overstepped their bounds, due process will eventually prevail.

You have a lot more faith in the infallibility of our justice system that I do. For example:
http://www.change.org/freedaniel
> I hate kqueue because, in all likelihood, I'll never get to use it in a production system, because it's not in Linux.
Cathedrals can be nice to look at. Bazaars are often more functional.

Except that FreeBSD is functional in production, so what is the actual problem? That market effects and accidents of history resulted in Linux becoming more widely adopted?

What does that argue for, exactly?
What's the latter book about?
Thanks for your comment here is what the app does:

addfs.com is inspired by the mount command in Unix OS. Just as mount command enables the ability of accessing multiple external devices using the same API i.e. Unix File System, addfs.com enables users to access multiple cloud storage (Box, Dropbox and Google Drive) through the same interface (HTML and Rest).
> Given how hard it is to build anything that can zoom at 225mph without losing control or crashing, I find this a rather impressive feat!

Just to put it into perspective, the new Mustang GT500 can reach 200mph stock from the factory and that starts at $49,600. ~220+mph is the norm for supercars these days.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/11...

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>I can't help but be impressed by his accomplishment as a company-founding "car hacker-artist" CEO.

I strongly suggest you look into Noble Automotive, Vector Motors and Koenigsegg. All founded by "car hacker-artists." You'll probably find their stories interesting too.
People are getting confused between two different categories for software.

Software License metric: [F] Free and Open Source, [P] Proprietary/Closed source

This metric can also be modeled as a continuous variable rather than a discrete variable. But let us stick to two values for simplicity.

Development model metric: ranges from extremely [C] Cathedral-type, .........., to extremely [B] Anarchism/Bazaar-type

FOSS proponents don't care about development model as long as it's FOSS.

Let [x][y] denote the Software License metric (x) and Development model metric (y) of a software project.

Observations:

1. [P][C] is the combination that FOSS proponents hate the most.

2. [x][B] where x ∈ {F, P}; is less peer-reviewed (anyone can commit anything), so less accountability/responsibility, highly decentralized, so no guarantee of quality.

2.1. [P][B] sounds like a contradiction!

2.2. [F][B] Poul-Henning Kamp seems to have problems with this kind of setups.

3. [F][y] where y -> B (i.e. closer to [B] than it's closer to [C]). Mostly same as [F][C] except that it is mildly better.

4. [F][C] In this setup, the cathedral authority is the bottleneck in improving the project.

5. [F][y] where y -> C (i.e. closer to [C] than it's closer to [B]). This kind of setup "works like a charm!" See the overall success of GNU/Linux in the industry! There are some people who act as maintainers of Linux, but come on, you too can become one! The more popular such a software is the more thoroughly it is reviewed. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
Well, it is color coded on wikipedia. Further, a gap of 1/3 might not be very significant if the scores are closely packed.

Also regardless, stack ranking is known to be bullshit. Ask any current or former Microsoft employee :)
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I'm another grumpy old man, much like I imagine the OP. I have mixed feelings about this topic.

I found the autoconf comments amusing, we have supported a pretty broad range of platforms, from arm to 390's, IRIX to SCO, as well as Linux, Windows, MacOS, and our configure script is 157 lines of shell. Autoconf had its place but I think it was much more useful in the past and now it is baggage. The fact that it is still used (abused?) as much as it is sort of speaks to phk's points.

I think the jury is still out on whether the bazaar approach is better or not. It sure is messier but it also seems to adapt faster. I worked at cathedral places like Sun, and while I continue to emulate their approach I also question whether that approach is as nimble as the bazaar approach.

I've voted for the older style of more careful development and I think it has worked pretty well for us, we can support our products in the market place and support them well. The cost of that is we move more slowly, we tend to have the "right" answer but it takes us a while to get there. Bazaar approaches tend to come up with answers of varying quality faster.

It's really not clear to me which way is better. I'd be interested in hearing from someone / some company that is supporting a lot of picky enterprise customers with some sort of infrastructure product (database, source management, maybe bug tracking) and making a success of it with a bazaar approach. Seems like it would be tough but maybe I'm missing some insight.
Progress is not a linear measure. Patents can help to keep hardware vendors away from converging towards the same design, which would be bad for product variety.
My point is, I'm not aware of any evidence that arranged marriages are in general a crappy deal for both sides. I found that paper while looking for a full text of this one http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1985-19991-001 which demonstrates that objective measures of love increase over time with arranged marriages and decrease with marriages for love. These papers have small sample sets because they're exploratory and pointing directions for future research, which as far as I can tell, never happened on a large scale.
I don't know about Android but you don't swipe toggle buttons on iOS.
Okay, let's define "practical programming" as creating programs that will be of use to someone who doesn't know the programming language that the program was written in. So in this case, this means writing Haskell programs that will be used by people who don't know Haskell.

This isn't the only reason to write a program of course. You can do it just for fun or to explore the mathematics. But I'm mostly interested in abstractions that might be useful for solving problems outside mathematics.
What a novel concept: users actually wanting to create and see ads because they are so incredibly targeted and relevant. I wonder at what point facebook lost their grasp around such a tightly coupled ecosystem.
Site is down. Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.mor...

Link to the actual app (when it comes back up):

http://www.moreofless.co.uk/todo
Saying the deal was bad for instagram and attributing it to careless decisions by young founders is like saying you should have known how the FB stock is going to develop.

Duh, you always take risk if part of your deal is in stocks, you dont have to be a professional to know that. Heck, people, including seasoned investors have predicted on average 54 for the stock, so why wouldnt you have taken stock?

Always awesome to see people play Captain Hindsight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqkI691dxNg
"Privacy is a struggle, not a right."

You are wrong:

"Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights and in many other international and regional treaties. Privacy underpins human dignity and other key values such as freedom of association and freedom of speech. It has become one of the most important human rights issues of the modern age. The publication of this report reflects the growing importance, diversity and complexity of this fundamental right. "
http://gilc.org/privacy/survey/intro.html

You call it meekness, I call it cowardice.
Gifting service is very crowded place and yet there is no company that solved the problem successfully but there a plenty of "dead" companies tried to do gifting and social gifting.
Do you support automated extensions? For example, if we wanted to offer pro support to users and give them a unique PIN code to reach us faster. Also, you mention SIP handsets, so I assume this would work for SIP desktop apps?
All of this is just such antagonistic linkbate if you ask me. No offense to OP, but it really just seems like oh I had a controversial thought so I'll play up two sides.

Maybe one isn't better than the other? Maybe they are just different kinds of things and some people work better in one or the other. Maybe some projects do to. We live and work in dynamic environments and there is no big T Truth in design. People change, the requirements change, the market changes.

Indulging in this kind of petty software holier-than-thou while highlighting only flaws and failures as defining characteristics of another generation is only destructive for the entire community.

If OP was serious this would have actually been about showing a new generation of coders good cathedrals, and not just banal whining.
My favorite example of this is Penny Arcade.

First year: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18

Five years later: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/18
Why does changing the option pool % not impact any of the calculations?

[ADDED] (maybe there should be an error if premoney valuation pool + owner's equity >100%?)
Drawing at the level of that book isn't a hard problem, as, say, learning organic chemistry. Or is it? some people seem to have a natural ability in some things. In fact, the idea that some children naturally fall into "try harder" vs "this is too hard" camp points to something influenced by biology.

How about creating new solutions to what are considered hard industry problems?

If it takes you 10,000 hours to learn the basics Organic chemistry, can you say you succeeded? That's almost five years learning what most people do in five or ten weeks.
Assuming you're comparing arranged marriages to "love marriages" I wouldn't even bother. In the US the divorce rate is somewhere near or above 50%.

Logically "love marriages" make plenty of sense but the data proves (in the US at least) that it doesn't work. At least not once the human factor is taken into account.

People from cultures where arranged marriage is not acceptable seem to have a very hostile view on it. There's good and bad but having come from that culture as I grew older I began to see the benefits.
I think this (intentionally or not) points out some of why people want Apple to beat Samsung. Not just win, but beat Samsung. It ties in precisely with what the grandparent is saying.

People want to choose sides and, for whatever god-forsaken reason, there are still people who haven't used it since 2.0 convinced that Android is massively inferior, and thus they see this as Apple beating a knock-off.

But it's not, and anyone whose seen Samsung's sales figures knows that.
"just" is a dangerous word. if you are hearing it, prepare to be condescended to. if you are saying it, you probably don't actually understand the situation.
It would be great if everybody saw code as a utility belt, but I imagine that it would be unrealistic to expect people to develop those skills. When I think about what kinds of tools I use in, say, home DIY projects, I tend to have a decent understanding of a narrow part of the field but not a lot of knowledge about the area in general. I know how to change a light bulb or a fuse or fix a power strip, for instance, but I don't claim to know much about circuits in general.
> I'm not saying he is innocent, but if he is, he has every reason to believe this is a politically-motivated frame-up

If he is in fact guilty then it would be rather odd for him to regard this as a politically-motivated frame-up, so I guess you are saying he's innocent.

I think it is implausible that politics have not played some kind of role in proceedings (e.g. the linked article does not explain the use of an Interpol "red notice"). But if it were a frame-up you'd think the accusations would be more serious and consistent. If he were to go to Sweden and then suddenly be extradited to the US to face serious criminal charges it seems to me that this would make his case.

So, I think it makes him look guilty.
It would have been a great deal had Facebook's stock shot up (which it could have, I think). So the split between cash and stock is a good way to hedge bets, NOT necessarily a "very very very very veryvery shitty deal".
Slightly off-topic: why are you using/testing on a Chrome version that was released more than a year ago?
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"[M]ore disturbing than the resistance to learn math is the resistance to learn. Period."

To call learning "the ugly side" betrays a certain ethos, no?
I'm in the PNW as well, but not too fond of Brown Paper Tickets.

One company that I believed in was Bookr - they took away the ticketing fees (well actually they bundled it into a final price... so it was 'hidden'). They were working with local venues to give customers a clear price for the tickets they paid for.

Unfortunately Bookr didn't make it :(
The scores are not closely packed. Not only that: the US was #20 on the World Press Freedom Index in the survey immediately prior to this one, and lost places due to municipal arrests of journalists covering Occupy.

The idea that the press freedom situation in the US is comparable to the press freedom of a country in which the ruling party seizes television stations, jails the owners of newspapers for allowing the publication of unfavorable columns, and levies $2MM fines against book authors is far past ludicrous.
What if someone prefers a different editor?
their failure rate is just as spectacularly high, if not higher

I asked a question, you are making a statement. If you have numbers that prove that the formally educated are failing more then I think we'd all love to see them. Otherwise, this is just conjecture.

As for 'science projects' failing it could be a number of things. I would assume that hard science startups fail a lot of the time because of cost. "Twitter for teens" is much cheaper to start than one doing alternative energy. Also, hard science is less sexy than a lot of the social stuff that currently dominates the landscape. Thusly, it can be much more difficult to find the money you need due to visibility. The social startups will probably pay out sooner than long-tail hard science companies.
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Totally understood, seems like there must have been a lot of backend / technical work to get this far - did it come from a personal need/itch?

As you are asking for permission to access to people's personal / private files I think it's really important that the site comes across as very professional so that potential users feel they can trust the site with connecting the different services. Not sure if you are explicitely asking for feedback and ideas but this definitely the area I would work on - creating a polished feel, particularly on the landing page.
This article is light on detail, and heavy on FUD. It seems to me that the author is (just doing his job) making a story out of something relatively small and insignificant, while promoting fear of electronic medical records and health information exchange.

Do we need to be careful about security? Yes, but we need to get over this fear of efficiency in healthcare.
Do the words you put in quotes actually sound like what I said to you? Bit of a straw man.

But even if you want to argue to that extreme, then well, yeah if you consider the USA sent its military into Pakistan without them even knowing. The USA does that kind of stuff all the time and at least in this case, the UK will know about it and is cooperating with Sweden on the issue.

Even further, Sweden has an embassy there already with armed guards that could very well likely beat up Ecuador's armed guards, so no one needs to be sent there -- they are already there.
Off topic,

The example given of an appliance that cooks food in a sealed bag in a water bath called sous-vide [1] is interesting. I heard about this technique from a coworker for camping and cooking omelets, where there is no cleanup and everyone can make the omlet how they want. I had no idea this was a legitimate cooking technique - cool, now I know what it is called.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous-vide
Wow, that component's approach is a nice idea. That component ALSO handles keyboard changes to the date.
Cloud9 does at least have an offline mode; so one isn't totally hosed if you're not connected or they go down. Granted, you can't actually run much, but it's still better than your entire display locking up if the network flakes out.
Behold the data tsunami: IEEE begins work on 400Gbps and 1Tbps Ethernet
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When you have 608 of those in a rack I think the fans are very welcome :)
It was hard for me to get past the 'two week' problem being the opening argument for this. It has never taken me 2 weeks to get any machine configured and ready to go. I agree with cmwalsh in that this drastically weakens the overall message. The only reason I continued past the 2nd paragraph is because this was linked from HN. My initial response would normally be "Who really takes 2 weeks to configure a machine??" and then move on to something else worth reading.
Interestingly, I did this for an event hosted by a student organization at my small university (~3,000 full-time students) last spring. According to the campaign statistics, CA$10.54 bought an astonishing 101,937 impressions. This is somewhat less impressive when you consider that we were paying by clickthrough to the event page, not by impressions, and only got 43 clicks, but due to the size of the university, I think almost every page view that whole weekend had an instance of our ad.

Edit: I feel I should clarify that last remark for those not immediately familiar with Facebook, or those who use ad-blockers: yes, of course there were a whole lot more than 100k page views that weekend, but our targeting was perhaps a bit too constrained (~1.1k users targeted out of a hypothetical 3-4k applicable), and on top of that, Facebook only reloads ads when you perform “serious” navigation, not just AJAX-based actions available directly from the news feed.
What math do you think one needs to learn to be a programmer?

To be a good programmer, you need to think in a somewhat mathematical way at times, but you almost never actually need to know math beyond the elementary school or early high school level.

There's was an interesting essay in the Notices of the AMS a couple years ago called "What is Mathematics For?" that explored the widespread belief that high school math is an important job skill. The conclusion was that it isn't for most people. However, learning high school math teaches reasoning, and that IS an important skill--so even though most people won't have any use for the math, math classes are important. Here's the essay: http://www.ams.org/notices/201005/rtx100500608p.pdf

I think the same applies for programming. You need to be able to reason, and learning some math is probably the best way to pick up those reasoning skills.
Ask HN: Which segment of the ERP market is easier to attack?
Suppose I am creating an ERP 2.0 startup, or another one where the data is coming to/from an ERP system. At the start I have two choices:

1. Target only clients with simple schema (simple CSV files or even manual entry) and modest budget.

2. Target only clients with complex schema and large budgets (bunch of data sources).

The former is more like a product business which later grows to provide customizations, the latter is more like a consultancy shop which later begets a product from common functionality.

Which approach has been more successful historically? Any pointers at all are greatly appreciated. If you're in Seattle, I'm buying beer! :)
What Happens When Our Cellphones Can Predict Our Every Move?
If Linux became more popular/more widely supported by mere chance, then there's nothing to argue about, and nothing to learn...
Imagine if Uber employed self-driving cars. You ping them on the GPS, and the car comes to the closest point automatically, automatically finds the best route to your destination, and then returns to pick up someone else. It would lower staff costs, have one less person in the car in the event of an accident, and can automatically come to exactly where you are without hassles that may be introduced by relying on people.
I don't think Plivo (the underlying core of Profig) is supporting handset registration yet (but it is native to FreeSWITCH, so it should be relatively straightforward).

You're looking for REGEX in callflows (only certain users with codes can get through) and this is totally doable in FreeSWITCH, but, again, I don't know if this functionality is exposed within Plivo (although it's feasible for the underlying core, the APIs may not be done yet).

SIP Desktop apps are WAAAAY easier to work with than Handsets, so if they support any kind of registrations, I would imagine desk apps would be supported.
Do it! What's stopping you?
Seems me that Best Buy would be better served by reinventing itself as an incubator of/investor in these products and selling them on Amazon.

Nothing is going to save the dead model of service contract bullying and cavernous stores where everything costs 50% more than it does (or would) on Amazon.

In any case, I'd be very surprised if Best Buy has the guts to do anything radical.
Read the article, it answers those questions.
Interesting that these can run a single OS as a huge multi-core machine.
I do not how to make this any clearer for you. You said the reason his freebsd system works is because a bunch of independent components happen to fit together. This is false, and that is what I said. That's it. If you said 1+1=3 and I said "actually, 1+1=2" would you then insist on a giant thread of trying to create an argument about whether or not two is a good number?
This is a high-risk strategy, and I think it would be very cool. Unfortunately, Best Buy culture basically eschews risk. Being successful in that company mostly involves not doing anything that will get you noticed in a negative way, and eventually you'll get promoted. The entire company has become all about squeezing out profits on commodities at ever-shrinking margins - and we've seen how well that is going. Everyone there felt pretty smug when they were wiping the floor with Circuit City, but now they are being pwned by Amazon. I just see too much inertia to turn that ship around. If Schulze can take the company private again, then maybe they can recover, but mostly I think they are doomed.
I really wish people would stop saying "Retina" when they mean HiDPI.
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I honestly don't know where the wikipedia ones come from. On the map you've linked to, they are different, but only by one.
As a test, you could read another article by a legal expert that has a very different tone: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/20/julian-a...

Both articles are fact-based, and neither contradicts the other as far as I can tell. But it's very easy to put a bias on fuzzy political issues.
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>Well I think most of it is time, the whole 10,000 hours thing.

Please stop repeating Gladwell's pseudo-scientific BS.

Putting in a lot of hours is necessary but not sufficient to become excellent at something.