skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I subscribe to the Church of Less Than 40 Character Lines, for no other reason than it's easier to read. Doesn't matter if it's code, poetry or prose.

My eyes never need to drift to the right side of the page/screen. Everything is justified at the left. Keep indentation to a minimum. Alas, this is not a popular idea when people write code.

Books, newpapers and magazines often adopt multi-column formats. Why? Does anyone know?

Columns also allow room for comments. Columned class notes are a great example. You can even leave the whole right side of the page clear for adding comments later.

Unconvential perhaps. But very useful.

Anyway, names are arbitrary. They are inherently ambiguous. The truth is that computers work via numbers, not names. As such, naming will always be a subjective affair, to some extent.
Thanks, apologies for the poorly formatted link!
Gabriella is the perfect employee for cost centers, places that consume rather than produce technology.

Rodrigo should go work in a technology company that makes the products Gabriella will use.
Right, I was speaking as a non-US citizen.

That said, there are various animals which we do not hunt; bears were just the given example.
Good. They're a bunch of assholes.
HTML5 Storage Key/Value Expiry
FWIW I run the DNS hosting service SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com). The focus is ease-of-use, but there is also good redundancy with multiple name servers located in the US, UK and Japan.
Do We Need Mysticism in Theory?
Michigan[1], Maine[2], and Minnesota[3] to name just a few states have a bear season.

[1]http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10363_10856_57530_5...

[2]http://maine.gov/ifw/hunting_trapping/hunting/bear.htm

[3]http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/bear/index.html
I feel that somewhere in the progress of western civilization, our culture lost track of some of the important but nasty sides of human nature. We censure them, and to an extent refuse to believe they exist.

I hope that the 'wild internet' reintroduces society to the fact that people have a tendency to lash out and hurt others, and that reintroduction serves to help us put value back on thoughtful and caring behavior.
Conversely, if Xerox had software patents, they would have likely licensed them to Apple anyway.

It's probably likely that not only did Xerox not imagine that software patents were a thing, they probably didn't even imagine that you could copyright the "look and feel" of software.
Honestly, at this point I tend to regard Marco and Gruber as slightly more eloquent versions of Siegler. It's been a very long time since I went out of my way to read anything either had to say.
? that link points to a comment about a different claimed proof from 2009
I think this a more insightful comment than the author might think.

I once had a boss in an IT support organization that believed it was easier to teach technical skills (assuming a basic level of competence) than customer service skills. As such, he preferred to hire those with a strong customer-oriented background, and regularly passed over programmers, MCSEs, and others with IT certifications. He consistently showed high marks in satisfaction from his customers. After working with both "types" of hires in his org, I came to agree with his reasoning.
That's just what they want you to believe!!!

Typical government cover-up!
That's a pretty callous thing to say. How do you get from a person was being misguided to they deserved their horrible fate?
Anonymous claims credit for GoDaddy outage
Mochizuki has also been keeping an informational, yet succinct diary of his progress for a few years: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/thoughts-english.h....
I would love to use this as a novel way to force myself to learn vim.
>(I’d love to hear insight on why there’s no .us on these).

It's not difficult to understand. If you're targeting a mainstream demographic in the US, then any domain name that isn't a .com is basically worthless. Among the non-tech-savvy, many will not even recognize "example.us" as a URL, and even the tech-savvy will sometimes forget and type "example.com", which means that you need to buy the .com as well.

So buying the .us domain in addition is basically just paying $4/year so that you don't look Americentric... in the rare case that somebody even notices.
It's also worth noting that the popup is still a lie. Instapaper can save articles from 9to5Mac, but chooses not to. It's an important distinction for the user, who probably will think that it is something wrong with 9to5Mac.
Was doing great until I ran across the Startup's lunch choice:

Sushi Burrito.

If that isn't a thing already, it needs to be.
> I will never understand why people personalize so much what what Arment says.

Perhaps because his writing, frequently obnoxious and bereft of charm, makes him very easy to dislike. Even for people like myself who might otherwise agree with his positions.
Who’s Trustworthy? A Robot Can Help Teach Us
This is a perverted view of history. In fact, in small hunter-gatherer tribes it was easier to keep track of each other and hold each other accountable, so crossing someone would be risky. Today, with large societies that are increasingly anonymous, one can more easily get away with screwing people over--you can always move someplace else. So I don't think being nasty is particularly natural for humans, it just comes out in the right conditions where people are likely to get away with it.
You don't find it interesting that one of the largest DNS service providers has had a major outage rendering browsing many websites virtually impossible for several business hours? Not every site I am interested in using is maintained by readers of HN who should (perhaps) know better.
Angry roboticist drops science
I recommend reading Martin Weissman's explanation from MathOverflow:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/what-is-the-underly...

[edit: Oops. Fixed attribution.]
Both of them feature "thread stitching" along the borders

It may be overused and bad taste but "thread stitching" is not in itself Skeumorphic design which is I believe the GP's point. A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ skew-ə-morf, or skeuomorphism (Greek: skeuos—vessel or tool, morphe—shape),[1] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original

A calendar app which looks like a desktop calendar is skeumorphic, a notepad app which looks like an actual notepad or a media player which looks like a tape player are the same. A weather app with a jean texture and a zipper may be ugly, but its not skeumorphic. The examples on this site may be examples of poor design but they are not, necessarily examples of poor skeumorphic design.
That's a great idea. Maybe it needs good auto-categorization to implement well, but another idea is to not bother with the thresholds at all -- every comment can potentially spawn off a new wave of replies, so why not just fork into separate threads immediately? The top level view gives you the flat view of the top level thread, and by diving in through the replies you can keep flat views of each sub-conversation. If every comment is treated the same, then it truly doesn't matter how old the comment you're replying to is because you could be sparking an entirely new discussion.
I can never remember the (ba)sh redirection syntax, and I used it for decades.

Rc on the other hand is much more clean: http://rc.cat-v.org
9to5Mac isn't the first site to describe Instapaper as scraping

NyTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/magazine/04FOB-medium-t.h...

Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/419326/why-instapaper-w...

BusinessInsider: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-23/tech/30193029...
Being a founder is about responsibility
Is there a particular reason you'd go for the PNG version over the PDF version? It's a more suitable format for these "cheat sheet" type pages, since it'll use the platform text rendering, and also keep the vector information (meaning it'll print better if you want to hang it up next to your desk).
Why? I completely understand the intent of "curl -L some.host|bash". Even if I don't have curl or bash, I immediately know what is happening.

It's obviously a concern that you are downloading unchecked code from the internet and running it on your computer, but if you are talented enough to be able to inspect the code and certify it is not malicious, you are also talented enough how to get the code without executing it.
Indeed, stalkers can obsess over people for years. It is not unlikely that such people could be attracted to a commotion such as this.
Because its easier to buy and use a cable lock.

Unless, like me, you've got a Mac Book Air whose design must be unencumbered by such pedestrian concerns.
I came here to recommend Pocket. Free. Natively supports iOS, Android, Firefox, Chrome (and has bookmarklet and other web app support for anything else). No ideological baggage or jerkiness.
DNT breaks down if advertisers don't participate. As long as it's not a law, what are the chances they will respect DNT if it's opt-out rather than opt-in?
I try to evaluate things rationally.

Just as I give both Timothy (who had spent 13 summer living among bears) and this girl (who as the article says was an old time /b/ user) the benefit of the doubt, that they rationally knew the extreme dangers that existed.

There's already enough tragedy that happens in this world - due to pure circumstance and things out of our control.

I only have a limited amount of energy and time on this planet. My empathy is better spent on the latter individuals than on those who knowingly put themselves in direct danger of being harmed.
On Business Decisions for Indie Games
I don't care for the tone of "deserve" in this context, but there are two ways to look at the term.

One is in a moral sense - something along the lines of "If you use GoDaddy, you share its guilt for its bad acts and deserve punishment". That's unfair, of course.

Another possible meaning is that anyone who fails to research something as important as a domain name registrar is suffering the natural consequences of their actions when a poor choice causes them problems. A person doesn't have to be very savvy to read the Wikipedia article and see that GoDaddy has been involved in several high-profile controversies regarding mistreatment of customers.

I don't think someone asserting the second should be shamed, though it doesn't seem to be very valid. I didn't come up with much negative information outside of the Wikipedia article when I avoided search terms specifically related to known issues.
Copying, not stealing.
And by say, I imply of course "truthfully".

While you merely do so Trivially.

But sleight-of-hand aside:

You're talking about an N dimensional problem

Without reference to N or which dimensions are most important.

Extending one dimension: energy/mass, threshold cost,... N

That that N2 fails your nuclear reactor. Electric still silly. etc, but now on 2 dimensions.

I'm not a schill for dino power.

But "It is in every other way..." is vastly comical.

Recall, Churchill created the petroleum economy.

Why did he do it? Energy to Mass.

He replaced coal with diesel oil to power the entire British navy.

This was ca 1910.

Only then, was the petrol infrastructure built in EMEA.

It follows, that this is a real problem.

And the petrol economy holding-you-back is a red herring.

And, sadly Energy/mass cuts the "envinonmental argument" deeply too.
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Sushirrito, 2nd Street and New Montgomery in downtown SF. Be prepared for a long line. Open weekdays for lunch.
I think you're actually mistaking religious for urban. In the Bible we talk about dominion over all animals, that is certainly a part of western culture, but few people actually believes that one should walk around randomly kicking puppies and shooting kittens in the head because they can.

Instead, I would argue that this is a function of urbanization and removal of a connection between humans and animals. Animals, which provide meat, eggs, and milk are removed as the providers as such and instead these things come from the grocery store. Because of this disconnect, animals undergo a process of anthropomorphism, which can clearly be seen in the form of lolcatz.
Introduction to Java Loops - What types there are and when to use them
I'm honestly not sure what you're saying.

Yes he made a mistake, that's why this thread exists. But making a mistake is not the punishment for making a mistake.

Until he comes around, apologises and reverts what is arguably censorship, all that is being said needs to be said.
I'm not mistaking anything, I'm drawing from an actual study[1]. Feel free to provide evidence discrediting it.

And you point out as evidence of the disconnect between the urban people and farm animals, by giving the example of the anthropomorphism of cats, which happen to be one of the few animals that actually live with people in urban environments?
I can't even comprehend such logic.

[1]: http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/745_s3.pdf
Is there a typo:
s/genuinely/not geniuinely

I guess what you're explaining is the process that happens as the kernel reserves fd's? And when you start your program there isn't necessarily any guarantee that a particular fd will be available, except for 0,1,2, right?
I've gladly paid twice the price of the book based on the reviews here. Can't wait to read it, keep it up with the good work.
The big question Marco didn't answer: Did he talk with a lawyer about this?

If someone's libeling you, you talk with a lawyer about suing them for libel. If someone's libeling someone else and you're worried about legal risk to your product, you talk with a lawyer about that. Then, if necessary, you censor. And when people ask why, you respond with something along the lines of: "I talked with a lawyer and I had to censor 9to5Mac to avoid legal risks. I'm sorry, my hands are tied."

I don't like 9to5Mac, but I dislike censorship more. I had to cancel my subscription because of this. It particularly sucks because Instapaper is a joy to use.

I realize my decision means nothing by itself, but it looks like other people are canceling their subscriptions for the same reason. Hopefully, that'll be enough to get Marco to change his stance.
Any ideas what I could add to the page or fix on it?

I have no automated payment method yet, which I should set up sooner rather than later. I've tried to set up Stripe, but it's US only, so that leaves PayPal, I guess.

On the other hand, I do enjoy the 1 on 1 with customers, which is the current way of ordering/paying. Feels a lot more personal, which is what the whole thing is about as well.
Klout is still treating G+ like an ugly step-child
For us the cost is definitely worth it. We're a Fitness social network and there are a lot of groups on the site dedicated to talking about meals, you have no idea how many people use the Filepicker functionality to cross-post instagram pictures of their food.
I wonder how much of this issue is aggravated by the fact that we are unable to identify children on the internet. In regular society, we would not dream of putting up with anti-social behaviour of this type but online we seem only too fight for their right to do this, with what seem to be rather drastic consequences.
The pundits try to weasel out of them. As Tetlock writes; “The trick is to attach so many qualifiers to your vague predictions that you will be well positioned to explain pretty much whatever happens. "

Yes the equivocation can be absurd. One example that has stuck with me due in part to it's brazen absurdity, was an expert something or other on some pbs news show saying

"I'm going to predict that [so and so] might happen."

I could only think, wow what a bold prognostication on your part.

---

As to the article in whole, I agree. I've always found the feedback aspect of deliberate practice to be a key part of the process.
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I'm afraid even as a new addition to the Bay Area I'm sitting at the intersection of these two. My MacBook Air rides in a repurposed burlap case made from a Guatemalan coffee sack, I hardly eat anything but organic meat and cream from Bi-Rite or food from gritty taquerias, I sold my car and kept my Italian motorcycle (which I moved here on with a vintage West German army backpack), I listen to bands that obfuscate their search results with non-ASCII names, I think Java is "too mainstream", I sleep on the floor, and I like to sprinkle my speech with Hungarian idioms. There's something good to be said about the cultures that attract and sustain such outliers.
I've been slowly moving away since the new UI. Hate it.
That's not a ruby comment either. It's just pseudocode.
> basically, moral responsibility is commutative

oh dear. this is scary
I couldn't buy the book earlier so I emailed the creator and he generously gave me the book for free (DRM free to boot!). I took a quick look through it before my last class and so far am loving it (yummm free quality content!). Thanks again Randall!
nope.avi

You need mysql-python, which depends on some header from mysql-client-dev, which requires some compiling or package, then there's PIL, virtualenv, uwsgi and shit.

Oh wait, you don't have pip on most distros by default. You need to apt-get or wget that.
Caught! I've been chastised for this laziness too many times. It ends now. Thanks!
To be honest, I went back and forth several times on which one I thought would be easier. It's extremely dependent on the skills and personality of the person in question.

I ended up deciding the people skills would be easier to teach because, frankly, the culture of the field demands a lot more in terms of technical skills than it does in people skills. The bar is set a lot lower for people skills among developers than it is for programming skills, and in my opinion, pulling someone from "horrible" to "competent" communication is easier than pulling someone from "ok" to "awesome" as a developer. But the truly skilled, in either area, are hard to find and worth their weight in gold.
I think empathy is more of an experience you feel when confronted with a situation or story, rather than something you grant to people after a process of logical judgement.
It absolutely is blaming the victim.

But what are we supposed to do when the victim bears some responsibility (obviously not all) for the process of their victimization?

Most people have some concept of a moral ladder ranging from "totally innocent bystander" to "criminal who deserved what they got". For example: a person who dies while standing on a NYC sidewalk and gets hit by a falling air conditioner is essentially blameless; a person who dies by being shot by a police officer while robbing a store at gunpoint earned their just reward.

Most situations, including this one, are less clear cut. She's not 0% responsible. She's not 100% responsible. But the correct number is somewhere in between. 5%? 10%? 20%? I don't know, and since I'm not presiding over a courtroom where she's suing 4chan, it's not my business to decide either.

In any case, to suggest that a person who freely chooses to venture into one of the seediest holes on the Internet, and then actively taunts and trolls the inhabitants (who are known to be vengeful, technically capable, and gifted with a lot of free time and tenacity) is absolutely and completely free from responsibility? ... Well, I'm not sure how to answer that.

Did /b/ overreact like a bunch of immature, possibly criminal, jerks? Of course they did. They played their part perfectly, living up to their terrible reputation. And if any of them have broken the law, then it's right that law enforcement get involved and the responsible parties be punished.

Does this young woman deserve this? Of course not.

But to ask the question, "what the hell was she thinking?", and to judge her partly responsible for the situation, is perfectly legitimate. She didn't deserve what happened, but she's not completely from responsibility for the outcome either.
How on earth did you manage to avoid My Account for 10 years?
Settlers and Shapers
Imdbapi.com shutdown for trademark violations.
I’d posit: the amount of time you spend teaching and advising your coprogrammers increases with experience and competence so that you spend less and less time actually typing and more and more time talking.

This makes sense because you can amplify the benefit of a great programmers by having them influence the design decisions of lesser programmers who will also learn from the process.
It's very easy to give someone a list of concrete things they need to do about communication: 1) respond to emails within one business day, 2) update your manager and coworker 4 days before a deadline if it looks like you'll miss it, etc.

On the other hand, it's very hard to give someone a list of concrete things that will make them a better programmer. I suspect if you tried, you'd end up with very subjective things like 'strive for readable code' etc.
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
Hiring one or two engineers (per team) who are as technically capable as they are socially capable is ideal. The Rodrigos on the team will rely on this person to communicate what the hell is going on, and the Gabriellas will (must) raise their game -- although, I think that you can do without a Gabriella if you have one or two of these ideal engineers around.

The combination of coding and employee skills usually also means that this person is a good candidate for a team lead.

If you've never worked with someone who's an A+ engineer as well as a fantastic teammate/subordinate, you don't know what you're missing. The unsocializable uber-geeks can do what they do best, which is produce great code, and the managers are much more informed (and relaxed). And the teammates (like me) find working with them a pleasure.

In summary, coding skill vs. employee skill is a false dichotomy; the alternative is someone who has both skills and whose value to a team and to management acts as a team & production multiplier.
Amazing to see how many sites ripped off Amazon's look-and-feel. Seems to be less of that now that the state of user interfaces have evolved and designers have more successful examples to copy and imitate.
From Wikipedia:

> Mochizuki entered Princeton University at age 16 and received a Ph.D. under the supervision of Gerd Faltings at age 22. In 2002, he became a professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in the Kyoto University.

Very impressive.
I disagree that empathy can only be the result of an emotional response and not rational thought.
Marco has posted an apology: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/31303984531
Best Startup Advice I've Ever Heard from Rob Majteles
Anyone who has been around a university physics lab will easily recognize linen (as well as paper) phenolics which are typically used as insulators and occasionally for mechanical parts. They used to be pretty popular for gaskets as well.

In general, paper based phenolics were used for tons of things, and if you have anything around that looks like hard plastic that was made before the 70s you've probably encountered it as well (buttons, knobs, etc...). The trade name Bakelite was a general term to denote a paper/linen/cotton based thermoplastics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite
Warning: this comment is out of date, the Nature article has correct formatting :)
Do you already have an Apple Developer membership? For iOS it is $99 a year and has a wealth of information about what you are trying to do...integrating iAd's, etc.

Worth the $99 for me plus I get beta's of XCode, OS X Updates, etc.
9to5Mac, a notoriously unreliable rag, claims Marco is censoring them. I should believe them... why?

There are sites Instapaper does not scrape. For example, ArsTechnica does not allow scraping of full articles. Instapaper respects this whereas other scrapers ignore ArsTechnica and scrape anyway.

My point is, just because Instapaper refuses to scrape a site does not automatically mean censorship has occurred.