skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scientific claims for 'magic' chocolate
Banners and Interstitials and App Walls, Oh My An #appdevchat Summary
"Amazing Web" roundup - Visual Election Outcome, Ratchet, browser Market Share
Oh no. How do i make this javascript code modular?! There is no way i can split it in multiple functions or files. Now my code will be one giant blob.
I think you just described the business model of a collection agency.
BitKeeper user here; AFAIK BitMover got $0 for hosting Linux though they did get a lot of fame. And their biggest problem apparently isn't that BitKeeper "turned into a LinuxKeeper", but rather free BitKeeper clones like git and hg (the first of which was originally created for Linux). So, just curious about your interpretation of your Cokecamp analogy; to me their problems (to the extent that they experience problems) do seem very much related to losing their biggest, most visible user, but in a different sort of way.
Interesting that a highly transient society has managed to apparently reduce genetic diversity to an observable degree in such a short span of time.

Having recently rewatched Gattaca and falling in the Asperger range of ASD, I can't help but wonder if studies of this nature will nudge us closer to passive forms of eugenics. We're certainly within the realm of feasibility at this point...
African Teens Create Urine-fueled Generator
I really think you need to get your biases in check. Pursuing one's dreams is exactly what the last couple generations have been raised to do. They didn't exit the womb feeling entitled. They were told since near birth they could be whatever they wanted to be. They were told they needed to go to college. They did exactly as they were told and wound up with little to show for it and an overwhelmingly difficult job market. They have been following the cultural narrative.

Now, they're thinking, "What the fuck?" and society is acting like it didn't push them headlong into this. By the time they've realized the narrative failed them, it's too late.
Yeah, it's not the most professional way to put things. The question itself is, frankly, ridiculous -- I only see two ways to parse it:

1) This person is asking for a philosophical discussion on the nature of semantics. Given the incendiary context here, if that is a sincere desire, I consider that to be sophistry.

2) This person is impossibly naive about society, the world and the state of current affairs. In this case they should be listening more and speaking less.

At any rate, thank you for your comments and your faith in my abilities. I genuinely appreciate your not flaming me, however deserved, and expressing your concern calmly instead.

However, although rash and inarticulate, stating my feelings the way I did communicates an emotional punch that my outline above doesn't. And although I do sometimes delete hastily-written comments, in this case I will leave my name it. I don't care much for people who can't see the forest for the trees on this issue. Arguing the semantics of racial epithets is, frankly, bullshit.
In the U.S., Autotrader is a better option than hitting dealer websites one by one. It has good search features, many dealers post their inventory, and you can cross shop.
Why console gaming is dying
Animating the Cloud Modules Icon
Seriously, MS has been going toward easy scripting for years:

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

And Powershell ISE is like bash with Intellisense.

You can access .Net from Powershell and pretty much do anything you want. You can easily write new commands in C#.

Everything you want is already there. You just have to step slightly out of the Unix mindset to find the Windows equivalent. And I'd have to say that the powershell idea of passing objects around instead of text is exceptionally useful.
It’s official: Daily deals are unhip, and Groupon isn’t disruptive
Agreed, It wasn't until recently I actually realized how badly a lot of my stuff fit! Since then I've been more picky about it, and it is hard. Some retailers are better about it (lands' end canvas) and some carry a slim/tailored fit option.
That's actually a common misconception. The church teaches that for sex to "whole" it has to have both the formative (pleasure/love) aspect as well as the procreation aspect. You can certainly procreate outside of marriage (in the literal sense. This is also why they teach against birth control even for married couples. Only in marriage, with the purpose of child bearing is sex "whole".
There is not a price that is worth dealing with toxic customers. They undermine your confidence and make you resent your job. They also distract you from delivering what you promised to your good customers.

My view is that it's healthy to say "no thanks," politely and frequently.
First you should ask yourself why is it you want to be in the tech industry? Second you should be self aware and better understand what you really enjoy doing and if there is something you have natural knack for.

Most successful people in tech didn't come up with a career plan and path-and as trite as it sounds-they just did what they loved doing.

Lastly, tech career could mean anything, from hardware to software to product management, etc. and each have a slight different trajectory to them.
It's not the generic 'Chinese' who are at fault, but their government. Economic sanctions, like always, will just hurt the people while strengthening the government's power base.
On windows, I imagine you could set screensaver to call firefox directly to load the web page - and set firefox to default to full screen mode.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
Obama campaign technology use
> Then we need to change this narrative, because it doesn't fit the real requirements of the job world.

Exactly this.
Last I heard RethinkDB was a tail-append style engine for MySQL that was optimized for SSDs. Interesting to see a drastic pivot like this. Looks good, and good luck.
Exorcising the curse of knowledge
They deny its a fork, but since its clearly based on Android both in software and functionality, you could say its a "ripoff".
Chinese Government Also Blocks Facebook.com
People Comparison Shop, Plan Accordingly
Hey I replied to you above. I am not 100% sure how this will play out wrt demo day. I was convinced in August by Alex and Rosanna to delay presenting until the next demo day, obviously because they knew something I didn't. This was offered by YC as an option for the first time, I believe due to the volume of companies in the batch.
Google Docs were blocked earlier this year when I was in China. I had put part of my travel plan there so it was an inconvenience, but as I did not expect it I felt very offended by that.
Sounds like taking on interns or co-ops. Pretty nice idea.
Calculators will be banned in maths tests for 11-year-olds in UK from 2014
Facebook's Legendary Hackathons
If I had to wager a guess, I'd say this is probably due to the 18th Party Congress going on in Beijing right now, and that the block will be lifted sometime in the next week, once the transfer of power is over.

I think we may see some more moderates come to power, so I wouldn't expect this to continue. Whether or not Wang Yang gets a seat in the Standing Committee will be a good bellwether though.
I'm not dismissing the point that people have hard choices to make in life, but I am refusing to acknowledge that they lack responsibility for those choices.

Society puts a lot of pressure on me to live up to its standards. It's my choice as to whether I let that pressure influence me against my values.

Sometimes all the choices and options suck. Not denying that at all. But if I ran over someone while driving in a tired state, or otherwise impaired, it would be ridiculous to not assume the blame for it. Yeah, my fatigue would be a slightly mitigating factor that might garner some sympathy, but compared to the poor schmuck I just hit? Not so much.

You can't really control the amounts of pressure and negative influence you get in life. But you can control how you react and respond to it.
A million moments
this has been around for some time now: http://code.google.com/p/domplate/

EDIT: now here: https://github.com/cadorn/domplate

more: http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/category/domplate/
Eton Boost Turbine - Hand-cranked USB Charger
where is the doc ? domo-js.com takes me back to the github repo , hard to understand what it is actually about.
An Embeddable PHP Engine for C/C++ Host Application
You may already be aware of this, but the word "soccer" in fact comes from shortening the word "association":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
This is pretty par for the course, given the once / ten years party congress that is going on.

Every year around June 4 (anniversary of Tiananmen "incident") and typically around Oct 1 (national day) Google gets blocked for a few days.

China is much more adept at censoring the Internet than everyone thought 5-10 years ago.
Nearing half the market of games that have protagonists? I think it's great that more women are gaming. And I'd love to be wrong about this, but it does seem like they mostly make up the casual end of the market.
Reminds me of Mad Men and what happened to SCDP when they lost their Lucky Strike account.
In this article it appears that similar results were found in the Netherlands.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2089358-3,0...
I'm an IT auditor. Looking at what my career path could look like. I'm particularly interested in product management.
Interesting that despite having what looks to me like Haskell and CL expertise, Slava's RethinkDB (various article describe as a "founder") seems to be written in C++.

What do Haskell or CL implementation lack to be competitive with good old C++ there?
How Hurricane Sandy Reminded Me Why I Love the Tech Industry
Oh, great but then, who is accountable for precisely these rogues? That is certainly a systemic problem or am I missing something? I like the idea.
to a point... enough economic pressure will eventually trigger revolution... or can at least make it very unpleasant for the government to continue it's ridiculous position
Nice work! It seems that you are well aware of the tradeoffs that you are taking and communicating it openly in your documentation (and your choices seem to be very reasonable). I really like the tone of your communication – it seems essentially BS/koolaid free.

1. How much data can you put in one instance before seeing performance degradation? I know that you still working on good benchmarks – but do you have any ballpark figures?

2. How does replication work? Is it closer to row/document or statement based (or something completely different)? How fast is the replication?

3. What is your envisioned used of the replication? Are replicas supposed to serve read traffic, or their goal is to keep the data safe in case of a catastrophe?

4. Can you tell me something more about cluster configuration propagation? The Advanced FAQ answer doesn't get into much detail.

5. Am I correct to assume that you are using protocol buffers? What motivated your choice?
Thanks for posting that.

This statement by spolsky, from my many years experience, is correct and needs to be emphasized:

"Summary: while it's fine to turn away truly toxic customers, and you are welcome to decide that you'd rather sell to the starving startup founders on Y-combinator who would rather spend 2 hours scouring your website than deal with a salesperson, the corporate customers turn out to be remarkably price-insensitive, once they make a purchase they will keep paying you maintenance for years long after the product is not even in use, and they're just as likely to leave you alone as the small guys, but they do have "multiple stakeholders" and if you want to sell to them you need a process that matches their reality."

The problem with some of the advice given on HN is that it is right and wrong depending on the circumstances. Many of the people reading that advice don't have years and years of real world experience and may take that advice out of context to their detriment. (Note I say "many" which doesn't mean "most" or "all").
They dont need more homes? Are you not familiar with all the homes that burned down during sandy?

There's nothing wrong with them moving onto other things... but those other things are a waste of time and are not beneficial. If youre going to act like youre trying to make the world a better place, at least do something that supports that. Paying somebodies old debt from 5 years ago is a freebie that teaches nothing. It didnt save anybody money this month. It didnt teach anybody a lesson. It gave some one a free way out of a debt that havent paid in years, which was more than likely their own fault for over borrowing. Meanwhile, people are living in unsafe conditions in NYC & Jersey with very little to their name right now in the present tense. Helping Sandy victims is the first productive thing OWS has ever done, and they should stick to that.

And for the record, I'm quite aware that social capital has a definition. I put quotes around it because the original usage didn't match up with the same definition you linked to and I was mocking it.
I'd really like to know why they don't have a PHP library, considering it powers half the web. The key shouldn't be to promote someone elses own language when using infrastructure products but rather to support everyone in using their tool. Mongo supports everything under the sun, so should this.
>Except you're the one who brought up $200k as a number to begin with.

Yes.

>And those people who sold themselves into debt slavery, by going to an extremely good school, may actually still hold jobs that will allow them to repay their loans eventually.

Well then, there's no problem, is there?

>Thinking that only 18-year-olds can be fooled into saddling themselves with excessive debt is nonsense.

At some point people have to think for themselves.
SEC staffers slammed for serious security snafus
When I came to US in 10th grade, I was completely caught off guard by how dependent everyone was on their TI-83s (a powerful graphic calculator with a built-in OS that could accept basic programs, and even simplistic games) for the most basic stuff.

In 10th grade, I never imaged I'd be solving linear equations, let along see people use a graphing calculator to solve them!
> quorum-based approach...wonder if antirez considered that approach.

I'm sure he's aware of it, but I doubt he took it incredibly seriously unless he has a very specific strategy in mind. He's explicitly avoiding the Dynamo model for a lot of reasons.

The mixture of composite types and mutation-centric semantics have boxed Redis in a bit, although I love using it.

Hickey was probably right. Pity Datomic is commercial.
Samples can miss small pockets of behavior that are out of the norm but very interesting. As a business people using your product or service in unexpected ways can lead to greatinsights, new markets etc.
DRM hating readers of Military science fiction might be a small niche, but it's one that publishers BAEN owns.
Well, Zeta Design & Development, LLC is technically the legal owner of Gittip, and I'm the owner of Zeta Design & Development, LLC. The open company philosophy means that I'm managing it as a community resource and not a closed product. Am I answering the question?
What's the elevator pitch? Maybe we can help you with those advantages if you can tell us right now.
I don't think that analysis is correct. Silver's analysis did not include the effect of Romney's app in the input, and so the expected result of Romney's app failing is to make the result more in line with Silver's prediction.

The whole point of Romney's app was to make Silver's prediction turn out wrong, by changing one of the conditions contributing toward Silver predicting an Obama win.
>Moreover, the IRS does exercise discretion over pursuing cases--as the OP has already indicated, they have provided their blessing to these transactions and it is unlikely that any negative tax consequences will accrue (especially in this political environment).

Rule of law. Who needs that old thing anyway?
Parse and Stripe are two startups with some amazing design talent on board. It seems every webpage and blog entry for each of these companies has beautiful, custom icons/illustrations for each main point or section. These are the little details that make a company stand out and get noticed, and I love that they sweat the details so much that a small sub-section near the bottom of a page in a larger hierarchy has this cool animation. They didn't need to do it, but they cared enough to make the effort and focus on polish. It makes me think that they take the same level of care with everything else that they do, and that's a competitive advantage if I've ever seen one.

Here's a link to the page where this animation is found on, check out all the other cool illustrations/animations they have just on this one page: https://www.parse.com/products/cloud_code
Does anyone know what this means for US websites that use Google Analytics and are visited by people in China? Not that many of my website visitors are in China but I'm wondering if it will also stop the tracking code from working. I'm guessing it would since it won't be able to connect back to GA.
> eventually trigger revolution.

These are the Chinese we're talking about..
I agree 100% with your reply, but I guess I've got a blind spot about my biases. In the case of my friend's daughter, she's aware of her options, realizes that she's not making any progress towards her dreams, but refuses to acknowledge the failed narrative. If she was thinking "WTF?" she'd be moving on and not dogwalking...
Thanks for posting. Joel does outline the dynamics of an enterprise or larger sales prospect or customer. But he's also highlighting the dynamics of a toxic prospect so it's not that far from the original author's point. If you're dealing directly with procurement, if you're filling out 80 questions and returning via email, if it's a 10 person team drawing it up and giving it to Junior to go chase down...............you're not going to win the business and it's going to suck out time and worse, you may get emotionally attached because it is a larger opportunity so the team will get deflated. This author is correct either way in pushing back on these requests. If your offering is truly of interest to them they will engage in the manner you want. (which is what happened here when they kicked the original guy to the curb and someone more reasonable took over)
Agreed, although I use Redbull as my "I'm not in the mood for something hot" coffee/tea alternative.
Buy a car with Bitcoins, save $5,000
Overall amateurs spend a lot of time and money and contribute next to nothing to scientific progress. Astronomy is known for the contributions from armatures, but if you actually look at all known objects in space they have contributed a ridiculously small fraction of them and have been limited to rather bright objects.

I fear the media focuses so much on the armatures contributions that most people have a rather distorted view of the value of large and well funded projects like ITER.
The author seems to have forgotten that birth control is (mostly) a modern invention.
Where isn't that true?
> Bigger women are begging for cute, trendy clothes and whoever delivers it will hit pay dirt.

This is how Jessica Simpson is becoming a more successful "fashion designer" than she ever was as a singer.
I see nobody wants to admit it. Instead, you just want easier access to pot...
I want to preface my comment: this is impressive work, congratulations on shipping, and this is what MongoDB should have been from the start.

In reality, most transactional database deployments are heavily skewed towards read workload, so reading from hot slaves is basically a requirement for master/slave databases. So, in most real world applications at scale, apps already deal with inconsistencies between slaves and the master and are making the "difficult" choice of dealing with CAP trade-offs. Asynchronous replication also creates a potential for difficult or impossible to recover from data loss in the sense that masters & slaves always have a continuous possibility for split-brain.

RethinkDB does not provide multi-shard transaction atomicity and/or isolation, which in my experience is the biggest difficulty thrown up in front of developers coming from single-node databases. I feel like the difficulty of dealing with inconsistencies across multiple versions of a single object is far more familiar as most developers have at least dealt with cache invalidation in some form. It's really having to ensure and deal with potentially out of order operations (inconsistency in the ACID sense) across a "graph" of data that's more insidious.
I am Senior Software Developer at the Parallel Scientific, Inc.

I probably will say more in Dec. ;)
This reads like typical feminist over-generalization.

I think of at least two counter examples: Marissa Mayer, Carly Fiorina.

Yeah, they are not Steve Jobs, but really, not even Bill Gates could out-Steve Steve.
One of us is being stupid, but I don't think it's me.

You also have proven unable to parse English.

The assertion is college is necessary for a middle class lifestyle.

Your continued inability to parse English is getting old. Here, for the record, is the original assertion.

Not when the majority of jobs that create a vibrant middle class in the post-industrial United States require at least a college degree.

Now why do I say that you failed to parse this correctly? Because "majority" does not mean "all". So the majority these jobs could require a college degree but there could still be lots of them that don't require a college degree.

Going back to what you wrote...

Yes. Anyone who goes to law school right now is an idiot, unless that law school is Harvard or Yale. The 70% in your example are either lucky or have been shunted into jobs that don't require a law degree or they're working as lawyers and making less than they would have made teaching Social Studies to the local second graders. The number of newly minted lawyers far, far exceeds the number of jobs for newly minted lawyers.

Can you cite a source?

According to what I can find now, until 2009, law school had a fairly stable economic outlook. Then the bottom dropped out. Median starting income for newly graduated lawyers has dropped 35% since then. (See http://www.nalp.org/classof2011_salpressrel for a source.)

However stop and think for a second. Law school takes 3 years. People graduating this year into the dismal market entered in 2009, with decades of history of law being a good economic choice. The lifetime income for someone with a law degree averaged DOUBLE the lifetime income for someone with a bachelor's degree. In retrospect, the law degree was likely a mistake. But when they committed to it, based on the data that then existed, it looked like a good choice.

So, were all of the people who are walking around with useless newly minted law degrees demonstrating poor decision making abilities when they chose to do that? I don't really think so. They didn't spot the oncoming macro-economic train, but these things tend to be much clearer in hindsight than in advance. (I knew about the oncoming problem, but only because my brother was selling stuff to lawyers, and he told me how the financial crisis was impacting law firms.)
Good Lord, these are like fun little programming potato chips.

Update: Aaaaaand then they get to be fun big potato chips.
You wouldn't have to pay taxes if the assets you collected were less than what you paid for debts. If they were greater, well, that would make you just another bill collector.
They must be disappointed that their patent just didn't stand up.