skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Review my web app, a cli script repository
I heavily modified Wordpress to create a community-based cli script repository, where users can sign up and submit their own whacky scripts:

http://scriptables.com

I chose WP mostly because I really like the new 2.7 dashboard, and wanted to see how hacked-up I could make it and still have it be functional.

Let me know any critiques you guys may have: it was a learning process at the very least... I descended deep into WP's innards, farther than no one man should ever have to go.
It's interesting that an essay about how to avoid religious arguments should center around a timeless spiritual principle. (I wouldn't say it's ironic, though; what's ironic is how people turn religions into their opposites and still call them the same thing.) This principle (of non-identification) is also very practical. It's amazing to me how often suffering comes from saying "I am X", therefore "I am negated if X is negated". The converse is also true: it's amazing how much more freely one can live when one doesn't do that.
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Yes, it's possible. I'm assuming you don't have the MacMini in the same building (otherwise, just plug a monitor, mouse, and keyboard in). The co-location service below does what I'm assuming you'll be doing with your friend's MacMini.

http://www.macminicolo.net/macmini.html
Well, Rumi is the best-selling poet in the United States. Rightly so, too: the Sufi poets are as great as any poetry ever written, I think, and can be astonishingly modern. That being said, I have the impression that they are distinctly non grata in the vast majority of the Muslim world. No?
Elevator. I want my iPhone to tell it when I enter the building, and that I'm going to the 6th floor. Ditto for when I'm going back.
The interesting thing about Pausch's last lecture is I've met people who don't normally go for self-discovery, self-help type motivational materials who have really identified with it/recommend it to their friends. My boss even has the book.

I think most motivational content is a scam because it is heavily tilted/skewed in favor of positive-only (e.g. don't talk about real failures). Randy Pausch wasn't trying to make a motivational speech - he was trying to deliver an important message (to his kids). He was real and passionate.
Thanks so much paul, I really appreciate that.
You can do it, but it will suck.
Hacker news doesn't have an API yet...
I don't see how it consumes mental energy to be less judgmental and make fewer identifications. If anything, the opposite is the case. Carrying a heavy identity takes a lot of energy: you have to defend yourself against anyone criticizing any piece of it.

As for "following this line of reasoning to its limits", there are very few people who have. I came to the conclusion it was better not to try, as such; you're most likely to end up in self-deception if you do.
eBuyer.com - they're like the NewEgg of the UK. They have some great bargains from time to time but you always have to visit their site to dig around for them.. they have no Twitter feed, no blog, no API for their products, no affiliate program.. it sucks because otherwise they're the best place to buy computer parts/gadgets/techie gear here.

A more general answer is.. ALL e-commerce sites. Preferably with a standardish API so that you can do stuff like put together comparison engines easily without scraping HTML.
To me it makes sense to keep good records of security events so if I were to get this "signal" I'd make sure the details were captured and the appropriate people informed. Then I'd double check the obvious things like who logged into the database server that day, who had access to backups, who may have worked on database code in that time, when that code was last (or ever) audited and so on.
I doubt few people would be so anal to hook up to the gym's API and analyze the data to figure that out. In that sense, someone who does spend the time to do that will reap the reward for their ingenuity :)

(That said, when it comes to gyms it's pretty easy to figure out anyway. People don't tend to generally go during or immediately after mealtimes, there are fewer women during school-run times, etc.)
I thought it was about domain names.
I have been wanting to work through the problems in OP. Doing it as part of a group might be helpful.
In contrast to other SDK/platforms like Windows Mobile, Core Telephony is a private framework - unlinkable.

http://iphone-rejectdb.appspot.com/detail.html?id=23
I'm fairly sure that only Apple could add this feature. Almost everything having to do with the cellphone part of an iPhone is off-limits to third-party developers.
My grandfather gave me that advice, and he's a member of the clergy. There are varying levels of social sophistication amongst religious people. In general those born into some sort of longstanding cultural religion tend to not bring it up in polite conversation. It's the newly converted noobs, or perhaps a crazy aunt, who ruin the dinner party.
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What exactly is involved in relocating across international borders? Perhaps I should post this as a Q. I would love to relocate to another country for a while, but I find the paperwork to be intimidating.
Ask HN: Programming internationally?
If a programmer would like to work overseas for a while, how does one go about finding jobs?

Do any of you have past experience with this (particularly relocating from the US to another country)?
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O'Reilly's ONLamp Python Dev Center has languished for about a year and a half now too. The last article there is from June 2007.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/q/all_python_articles
It's not all that easy - you need to find a job before you go. One way might be to just go to your target country and look for a job. If you find one, they can help you do the paperwork. You'll probably have to go back to the US at that point to get a real working visa. It's a bunch of bureaucratic BS, but c'est la vie of the average immigrant (the US treats its own immigrants in a similarly shoddy way).
I have very strong opinions about the invasion of iraq, public education, taxes, church&state, 2nd amendment etc.. , but I've never got into an argument with anyone about those them because I felt that they had a material impact on my life. It was all about identity for me.

Material impact is certainly a factor. I have seen people who oppose the kyoto treaty because they were employed at a coal-fired power plant, but these are exceptions.

If you believe the thesis that social issues such as flag burning and gay marriage lead poor voters to vote against their material interests then you have another case where identity trumps impact, at least in voting decisions.
"Lucky things happen to entrepreneurs who start innovative, morally compelling companies."
Network like your life depended on it (maybe it does?). A few good contacts are worth more than any job board or anything else.

You need to find other good networkers. Once you find them, help them before they help you. Prove to them that recommending you will make them look good, too.
I've worked in Japan. It is easy if you already have a job offer. It's probably impossible if you don't. Getting an apartment there is painful because Japanese won't rent to foreigners without a Japanese person signing the lease. I think it might even be a law? So you either need a Japanese co-signer or you have to rent a place owned by the mob.
The Work In Darwin's Shadow
> There are certainly some political questions that have definite answers, like how much a new government policy will cost.

Even this statement is not true. Government policies may have costs and benefits; the true cost needs to take into account the net position, so a myopic focus on costs is disingenuously partisan.
This is an interesting concept, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

A lot of people ask me of what ancestry I am and usually I tell them "I dunno.". The usually are incredibly surprised by this answer and I usually reply with something like, "I don't care whom came before me, because it has no effect on me now, and it can only bias my thinking."

The exceptions to this idea, for instance it is very useful to know whom begat you for genetic counseling, but on the whole, this policy makes it so that the only labels that affect my life are the obvious ones - unless I make an effort to introduce new ones.
Power grid data would be nice, maybe then devices could start knowing when it best to power down or charge.
Yet, many antivaxers will no doubt refuse to be "distracted by the facts."

Somehow such issues become a "raison-d'etre" for some people and essentially an identity issue (as PG discusses regarding politics & religion in a recent HN post).

It's just a shame when innocent children are deprived of important immunity because of such zealotry by their parents. I can only hope that the light brought on the possible fabrication behind the original antivax data will provide some "immunity" against more parents being infected by the zealotry.
Yahoo! continually comes up with some amazing stuff. XPATH selection of a URL via a SQL like query (http://tinyurl.com/c5jrot)... so awesome! Tell your coworkers that they've impressed me.

And now, I test querying the page for itself. If your servers crash, it was all me.
only two thirds to go!
Good luck... ever head of HIPAA?
For those of who are self-employed and cannot "get away from the boss's expectations" anyway... I would really appreciate the opportunity to be productive on a cross-country flight.

As for those expectations of being at beck-and-call 24/7... corporate bosses (and clients) need to have some limits set. And that's not an issue of technology - or one to be solved by reduced technology.
Internet access is one thing. But the day they have cellphone access on planes will be (god willing) full of bloodletting and apocalyptic reckoning. I don't have a cellphone, and it is an utter mystery to me how cell users are OBLIVIOUS to the intense social disruption they cause by their one-sided shouting-match competitions consisting more-or-less entirely of:

CALLER: I'm going to blah-blah-blah [at 115 decibels]

CALLEE: [unheard]

CALLER: Yeah, I'm just going to blah-blah-blah [at 120 decibels]

CALLEE: [unheard]

CALLED: Yeah, I'm blah-blah-blah bullshit bullshit more bullshit times 100 [at 125 decibels]
Great data, although it leaves out some useful bits to the formula, such as how loyal readership is to a certain company or individual sending the email.

If the email were going out to random folks, it would be a much more accurate survey.
But really, CSS is better for layout.

... ;)
Thanks for asking! It's coming. We had a recent setback due to the current economic problems. My partner lives in an apartment with his girlfriend. She had a full-time job at a large company doing quality assurance testing (finding bugs), so she offered him the opportunity of leaving his full-time job while she paid the bills. Just a couple months after he did that, the recession hit, and she was laid off. So our startup is somewhat inactive for a couple months while my partner saves up money doing contract work.
Wow that is amazing - I didn't realise there were places that did that, or even could do that - did they also time your toilet breaks (make sure have enough fibre !). No job is worth that sort of sillyness. No job.
Well, certainly in the case of the devout religious, there is a firm set of rules and values to which one is supposed to adhere. It may demand effort from you, but not so much of introspection and self-examination, which is often frightening and tiring. And to avoid identification resists the following of role models, to a large extent one must walk their paths alone. Lastly, one is then impeded in finding those of like mind and affinity. We meet here not at Hacking News, but Hacker News, presumed by and for Hackers.
I quite liked how you finished up -- very well put.

I would say, though, that on the subject of religion-as-identity, we only permit this kind of accountability-dodging when it involves a monotheism. When someone tries to defend a shoddy point by saying 'it's so because I know it,' we call them a fool. We only allow this defense in the name of 'faith.'
The less points you have to defend, the better off you'll be.
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until you get diagnosed with somethig that makes you uninsurable, then you'll wish you had kept it private.
This has proven to be impossible
I've considered the idea too. Perhaps a Wikipedia based on prolog. The main problem is that the expert system would be too tedious for most to fill out. There needs to be some kind of happy medium between rigor and usability. That middle point hasn't occurred to me yet.

Perhaps just some kind of reference system, so when an old debate reemerges, people can just refer to the online record until new ground is broken. The problem in this case is succinct yet meaningful summaries of the debate.
I agree.

Use connections instead of competing.
Depends on how long it takes people to get to the gym.
You can believe in or participate in something without having it form a significant part of your identity. Usually we say something like that is a "preference" or "opinion", but the difference in name is only a an indicator that it is less coupled to our identity than that it is a distinctly different kind of thing.

It's true, people who don't believe in anything don't argue about religion and politics, they fight over fashion and celebrities.

This is an excessive generalization, and a false dichotomy. The people who argue over fashion or celebrity are those who have incorporated it into their identity. Those subjects are distinct from religion in politics by a matter of degree, not category.

A typical person responds very differently to having their religion criticized than they do having their favorite flavor of ice cream criticized, even though objectively speaking they are both just preferences among a wide number of choices. It isn't even necessarily true that they've given more thought to the former than the latter, only that they identify with that preference much more closely--and criticism of it feels that much more like criticism of the individual.
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In general identity gives you strength while making you stupid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer in a nutshell.
Try breaking up an inner city gang fight by telling them to let their concrete beliefs dissolve in persistent self and consciousness.

My point is that this zen buddhism stuff is mainly the luxury of the elite few. Others have to grapple with the practicalities of daily survival, group membership, and hope for the future. Out of such things come the hard forged religious and political systems.
Wal-Mart's January sales are up 1.8% over the comparable period 1 year ago, not December. So you can't multiply (or even compound) that by 12 to get an annual figure.
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Indeed, how do you bring up your own kids to have a small identity?

I get the feeling that children growing into adults have an innate need to find identity, and if you have an identity vacuum at home they'll find it elsewhere.
At the popular level, yes. But there are other concerns, like the practical basis of marriage rights for procreation and that it is contrary to the American experiment to mandate gay marriage for all states.
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That exists in science and pretty much everything else too. For example, look at how obesity has been labelled an "epidemic," implying it is a disease and not something people have control over.
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Ok, so demos are great to have. As a person in charge of hiring, what kind of demos would you like to see in a candidate? What kind of portfolio should a person without demos try to develop for the purpose of trying to get a job?
I think politics and religion are very different than most other disagreements because they extend beyond that one person. When a person believes in fascisim or racism, they begin advocating policies to force their believes on others. Religion gets tossed in there because a long time ago morality got tied to religion.

So in my opinion, people get into "religious wars" because the beliefs of other affect them.

Hell, when people get all worked up about a language there are benefits to convincing people to use their language -- better tool support, better libraries etc; and if they are on the losing side of a language they will have to learn another one.

In the end these types of debates are all about control, either direct or indirect. Direct -- Force, rule of law, etc ... Indirect -- public opinion, social mores, # of followers.
No one lives in a persistent fight. But for those that do experience conflict, I don't see how those who needn't sustain their identity in the face of adversity fare much worse than others.
I've found that the best way to do this is to make "values the truth above everything else" be the core of your identity.

Then you can let yourself peripherally identify with other things, and, when they're challenged, your core will step in and let you deal with the challenge rationally.

But doing that is even harder than it might sound. I've been explicitly working on it for a couple years now, and although I've made progress -- I think I care about getting the truth more than I care about avoiding embarrassment now, for example -- I'd still probably religiously defend myself or my loved ones if either were verbally attacked rather than try to figure out what truth the accusation contained.
It honestly depends where you are and where you are going. I'm from Canada originally. When I moved to England I had to go to the embassy and fill out a form and show some birth certificates(I was claiming ancestry). I'm now in Australia on a working holiday visa. To get that I filled out a form on a web page and got an email a few hours later with my visa number.

In both cases I found a job when I got there.
Preface: one thing I like about PG's essays is that even though I often strongly disagree with his position, they really make me think, and force me to clarify my own position in my mind.

The essay said, "people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity".

Hmmm. I don't think that's correct at all. For example, I have a great marriage, and my wife's a big part of my identity, but we've had many fruitful discussions about marriage and related issues. Being a Christian is also a big part of who I am, but that doesn't stop me having fruitful discussions about it (admittedly usually not online). If it's with an atheist or agnostic, sometimes I'm sharpened, and sometimes they're challenged.

There's a big difference between being blinkered, and having strong but clearly-argued positions that weave in and out of your identity.
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I think it is more than just having one's sanity questioned. Speaking for myself, I react this way not because I don't value rationality over what feels good, but its that it seems there is knowledge behind my belief and I'm being forced to reject it because I am not articulate enough to defend it. This can be a major problem if the cultural context of the debate does not contain the right words and concepts to explain what I believe. Consequently, since debates go to the most succinct and clear, I must lose, but not due to necessarily having a more irrational belief. Then, if I persist in my belief, I become ostracized as an irrational person.

Articles like this merely fuel the feeling of impotence in the culturally disadvantaged like myself, leading to a more irrational defense of their (my) beliefs, and a vicious cycle follows. This is the "core going critical" that pg mentions. The ultimate result will be a more "rational" person, but they are more "rational" because they have been lobotimized.
Politics + Religions = Collection of Rational and Irrational Beliefs.
Yes, and pg also doesn't observe that a person's identity tends to be strongly tied to things that provide for their welfare. For the common person, religion and politics do this. For the elite, not so much. But, say if they are programmers, they can have a strong identity tie to their editor (vi vs emacs) or language, since they depend on these things to prosper in life.

This is not merely an unthinking thing on their part. Considering other points of view and trying new things can take up a person's time. Claiming that the basis of their welfare is incorrect implies it is taking away from their welfare and they should try something else. If a person reacts "irrationally" on such an issue this may be because they do not judge their resources sufficient to change course. I think "irrationality" should be addressed on these grounds instead of merely labelling a person's opinion as irrational/bad, along with the social estrangement this entails.
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What does Richard Stallman have to do with epidemiology?!
Regarding religion: there is no other thing which is able to change you so profoundly (in good ways or in bad ways) like religion:

Neither your wife, nor your children, really nothing else is able to touch/change you so deeply. There are many examples of this: many many humans which offered/donated/gave whole of their life for religious reasons.

This could be read as a hint that faith/religion is rooted so deeply that it seems not reasonable that it is only an invention of humans themselves.
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I posted this in your submission as well but just posting it here for anyone that didn't see that.

It honestly depends where you are and where you are going. I'm from Canada originally. When I moved to England I had to go to the embassy and fill out a form and show some birth certificates(I was claiming ancestry). I'm now in Australia on a working holiday visa. To get that I filled out a form on a web page and got an email a few hours later with my visa number.

In both cases I found a job when I got there.
Being honest to yourself is much harder than it seems. Have you read Ghandi's "Experiments with Truth" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_My_Experiments_wit... ?
It depends on the job. I'm hiring web devs at the moment so cool functioning sites are great(but rare). I'm certain a few little games I wrote in javascript(blackjack, and copies of a few of the games from kde games) got me my first job in web development. The CTO loved the blackjack game in particular.

I guess the best advice would just be anything interesting that shows off your skills.
Your crazy aunts don't necessarily need to be religious to ruin dinner parties.

Many of my family Christmas' have been ruined by drunken dancing old women :)
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