skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love is.

It's not given or taken. It's not a thing. It's not a pie -- in which, once you've eaten it, no one else can.

It sometimes feel like it is a thing, a limited resource that we must hoard. Something made up of hormones and bioenergy. Something precious and delicate that we must protect. But that's fear, not love.

We're born in love. We receive it from our mother and father. But as we grow older, we forget that Love Is. So we attribute it to our parents. Our parents have bad days too. And we learned to seek out attention by doing things. We've substituted need for approval for love.

And then puberty happens.

What is it that the ancients say? A thirsty man stands in the middle of a river, screaming his heart out because he doesn't know what he needs it right there in him.

The gift is in remembering it's always been there. It's not something someone gives you because you've been a good boy. It's not that special: everyone, regardless of sex, race, or faith or lack of faith -- regardless of the acts you've committed, the shame, guilt, fear that tortue you -- everyone is loved. That is the "unconditional" part of "unconditional love."
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It's totally unfair to compare margins between gigantic wholesalers and some small hobby kit seller.

Building for entertainment isn't useless or somehow less important than making useful tools to solve problems. Remember what fun was like? Some people enjoy making simple toys.
Agreed for the most part - but are modern-day marketers not aware that there are more tools at their disposal? As a marketing professional, about 90% of what is described as growth hacking is, in my opinion, just plain old marketing. And most of it is pretty understood in my circles - content marketing, SEO, SEM, landing page optimization, etc.

There is a product part of it as well - so my conclusion is that growth hacking is probably more about a different way to think about product management than marketing. The examples given of Hotmail and others fall into that bucket - making changes to the product itself to drive growth.
Yeah, in the perfect world all your buyers will have them. In real life sometimes don't.

Plus there is a lot of things you don't know; maybe he haves the minimum requirements but he is running a lot of background process because he installed a bunch of things he doesn't use.
Not quite. Take two exponentially growing functions, say e^x and e^2x over the interval [0,infinity). as x-> infinity both grow without bound. So does the difference of e^(2x)-e^x because the former is just so much larger than the second. They both approach infinity, but at different rates! If the difference between two functions (in the limit) converges, that means that the two functions diverge at the same rate (i.e. both with the end behavior of e^(ax) for some constant a) This is all a little hand wavy though but I hope that clears things up.
Perhaps because of the sheer number of people the internet has connected combined with the bell curve of asshole-ness, we think humanity is stupider than it is. Anonymity, unaccountability may certainly make things worse, but a small fraction multiplied by an insanely large number will still give us a lot of crazies.
He isn't "cooking the data". Or, more accurately, he's the one who isn't cooking the all of the data in one big pot, without regard for whether all of the data are actually describing the same thing.

The point he's making is that there are qualitative distinctions within the data that demand their own discrete analysis. What's misleading here is ignoring distinctions in the data in order to falsely posit a uniform source of causality.
Pretty funny. Reminds me of the million dollar homepage guy who sold pixels. Good job.
Capacity for understanding isn't a limited pool. If people get excited programming micro-controllers let them. They really don't need to learn to build such a thing.

Should all programmers learn assembly? Sure. Should all programmers be forced to learn assembly before anything else? No.
I still regret that I no longer have the suitcases of lego that I acquired as a child.

I don't think I was ever disappointed with a Lego product.
I think the Japanese language is a big issue and Matz's decision to not make changes to the GIL in spite of Rubinius making great progress in that regard.
Personally I consider even the buzzword a misnomer:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-html5-buzzword-is-m...
When I was 9 I used to send my SASE and $.50 or so off to various mail-order companies. They required that you put your own address as both the return-to and destination on the SASE...through absentmindedness I soon discovered that the stamped part of SASE was optional.
It's ok, and heavily inspired by the zune windows app (which had some more interesting UI/precursor to metro):
http://cdn.appstorm.net/windows.appstorm.net/files/2011/04/s...

Rdio:
http://assets.gearlive.com/blogimages/rdio-white-redesign.jp...

I think a good argument against too much flat design is just how similar things end up looking.
Background and what social class you came from play a very big role in this too. While an upper class kid may feel perfectly entitled to say 'i don't understand' in any situation, this behavior is often implicitly if not more overtly discouraged for people from lower class backgrounds. When you say 'i don't understand', the unspoken subtext is 'i don't understand: this is important, and my understanding is definitely worth whatever time it takes for you to explain it to me personally, regardless of whether anyone else is having a problem or not'.

Equality among people academically and vocationally needs to be backed up by strong support and activism for greater social and economic equality. Otherwise trivial efforts to promote more participation are a farce, and nothing is ever going to change.
There's also a campaign on indiegogo to help a Kenyan conservancy adopt drone technology: http://www.indiegogo.com/olpejeta

Support levels include drone flight time, trips to the conservancy, and naming an animal you can track with the drones' RFID technology.
As someone 35 years old, I wonder - how many successful co-founders are there between 30-40? are there any statistics on that? What is the histogram by age for top 1000 startups? (any metric marking what "top" means will do)

And congratulations by the way to all the people on the list, instead of hurting my ego and discouraging me, I see this as a way to motivate me to make it to a 40 under 40 list (I'm sure there is one somewhere)
Analytics only matter if they help you make better decisions. Anything else, is, indeed, just vanity.
Early days for FSSF. You can use F# with MonoDevelop on Windows. Standalone compilers for all platforms are in the works.
The money spent on essentials may also be essential, but things can both be essential and the side effects of processes which have some other primary intent.
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Beats me why someone would not pay anything except for those people who really really really have no money at all. Like... none.
Everybody else... shame on you!
Another example is http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/09/12/salary/
> > Exactly, so why were you arguing that gun control is the solution?

> Because preventing ex-felons and mentally deranged people from buying guns (well, anyone who hasn't had a background check done) is an effective form of gun control.

"Concrete isn't edible."

"I know, but limestome-based concrete is the most nutritious kind."
A lot of people are complaining about the 'God' concept introduced in the latter half of the post. I think a lot of this is that people are pattern-matching 'God' with the huge amount of baggage that the term has rightfully accumulated.

I started reading the article in full (having read the criticism first), and soon realised that the god notion described doesn't really match anything in traditional religion, or anything that one would typically criticise. The god introduced doesn't seem to require anything tangible from the reader or anyone who believes in such a god. It requires no submission, suffering, organisation or decrees. It simply makes an offer. (and it very expressly makes that offer within a fable, not a description of reality)

The end paragraph is pretty hard to deny. You just needs to be careful not to associate your cached thoughts with the word 'God'. Essentially what the story concludes with is: love is a good thing; we should share it; and we should offer it to ourselves too[1].

This kind of love is most noticeable by its absence I think. After a couple of hard years, I recently looked back on the things that had been troubling me, and noticed that throughout it I had been very hard on myself, and very hard on others.

I think the god analogy as a source of love is one that is only useful to some people.

I'm sure that making physical world predictions based on the existence of any higher power is sure to result in predictions that aren't useful.

Regardless, the general point about love, suffering, loss, forgiveness and learning can be taken without changing personal beliefs, and without god. Equally, a very personal god who offers and requires only what Paul describes gives identical results.

As such I argue that the god described has no need to be excluded from this essay, or Hacker News. I urge those criticising it to read it again with strict mental effort on avoiding the 'god = bad' association that one leaps to out of past experience.

[1] (and it says this in an excellent way, and with more nuance than I describe, I know)
It's not limited to techies. This is something each of us
experience in ourselves, our own sacred journey.

It's not limited to techies...but, to put it in techie terms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

:-)
Have you seen this ignite talk:

http://igniteshow.com/videos/flash-mob-gone-very-very-wrong

I think you may enjoy it.
With physical access to the device. There still isn't an untethered jailbreak for iOS6. And even after a jailbreak, your data remains encrypted.

Jailbreak software uses 0-day attacks found by a small group of very skilled researchers/developers, which end up fixed in the next release. The same way you can root android.
oh ha, thanks! I just fixed that.
I think my email box will still be in a pain in the ass come 2020.
The biggest thing is that many of the products are not unlockable unless you pay over the average, so the average is always trending slightly up more than other pay-what-you-want models. High incentive to fork over a few more dollars.
Interesting you mentioned that. He used an AR-15 as one of his weapons which has been banned (like all semi-automatic weapons) in Australia since this occurred.

It's almost like the less powerful the weapon, the fewer amount of people you can kill.
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We've all had the entirety of our lives to come to our current opinion of gun control and have the remainder of our lives to change that opinion; no rushing involved.
Udacity has a course, "Differential Equations in Action", that's about numerical solutions of equations of motion and other differential equations from physics, biology, and so on. http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs222/CourseRev/1
just because you say something isn't hyperbolic, doesn't mean it's not. likewise, just because you say something is respectful, doesn't mean it is.

"liberal" and "conservative", as you don't seem to be aware, have meanings outside of United States politics.
How did you learn your F#?! Have never had any problem writing reusable functions.

On windows 8,000 nuget packages works for me as an ecosystem. on linux/osx/droid we have xamarin booming along.
While sold by Adafruit (among others), the TV-B-Gone was designed by Mitch Altman [1], who's as cool a frood as can be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman
Separate shipping and billing addresses. My fiancee ordered a pack for $5, put in her credit card number, and put the address of the person she was buying it for in the shipping address slot. Then she realized there had been no place to put the billing address.

Long story short, the credit card charge went through, the package did not get shipped, and she's in the middle of resolving the situation via email with somebody at CaH, hoping her giftee gets their gift.
You're not the target for the offering - the target is really large CPG companies such as P&G.
Wrote this in 2010 still seems valid:http://www.rakkhis.com/2010/10/rich-vs-thin-client-20-native...
Excellent Initiative..
Thanks so much, Scott! That is indeed an ace default, but I can try and figure out how to override it. Syntax completion is always tricky.
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"freedoms"; what a concept, freedom to what exactly? freedom to easily kill I am guessing... because that being the case you should allow the posetion and creation of nuclear weapons by any USA citizen; those things give a lot of freedom to kill.
Little Monkey Caye (Caribbean island for $55K):

http://www.caribbeanislandbrokers.com/islands-for-sale/Littl...
"X has Y millions of users, if they charged $5..." yeah, right. I am willing to pay for online services, but sharing phone pictures of coffee mugs or posting status messages isn't one of them. I bet most people feel the same.
This might help in 'the sooner I buy, the cheaper it'll be'. It's also easier on the eye to see what's going on and that the price increases incrementally by $1. Also, if there were more icons it means more images to load and slower loading times.
Australia has 1/4 the homicide rate of the USA. And most importantly it feels safer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
A friend ... hmmm.

I can tell you that, if you meditate (mindfully) long enough, you will trip out. Whether what you see while tripping out is something you want to call gods, or God, that is up to each individual. The religions you encountered as a child will frame much of the experiences you have during the trip, whether you want that or not.

There is a big difference between talking about being mindful, and practicing mindfulness. People like talking about it for a variety of reasons, and none of that helps with practice. Being mindful, you are probing into the fundamental nature of things: things come and go, they don't satisfy, and they are not you.

Things come and go: that includes any of the heavenly and angelic beings you might encounter while tripping out meditating. Easy to do if you don't want to believe their realness in the first place. However, that also includes any fears and aversions you might have about religion.

So ... the religious and mindfulness are not really separate. I've written some cheat-sheets and minor how-tos on how to practice mindfulness while avoiding bringing in religion. Because I know a lot of people have hangups that trigger this. (And I want to eat :-)). But essentially: if you are religious, then the attachment you let go is that of slavish worship; if you are not religious, then the attachment is in the aversion to anything smacking of religion. Either way, your actions and thoughts are being controlled by things that happen in the early childhood, ... that's not really being mindful ...

I don't know how to talk about the "first flowering" -- that first time you feel unconditional love while meditating -- without bringing in talk about the wisdom traditions. At best, I say, "practice this, and see for yourself." Usually it is, "practice this so you can feel calmer and be more effective living your life." And if they start blissing, well, let them be even then. They can come to their own conclusions.

I don't know if that helps you talk with your friend or not. I think it will come out better in your own words anyways :-D

@leibniz sound interesting, how about taking this privately by email?
another approach, which doesn't require modification of the rackup file:

https://github.com/padrino/padrino-recipes/blob/master/plugi...
Is there a way to publicly shame the reporter ? Instead of just naming it as "cnn" or any other name without a face, it would be better to name the reporter and the editor. And also link to their Facebook page.

Next time it could keep other reporters in line.
My email is in profile, hit me there
jQuery, Underscore, Backbone, require.js, text.js (require.js plugin), r.js (require.js optimizer) is the setup I've been using on new projects for about a year now and I love it. I love Backbone's models and collections. It took a while to come to terms with the get and set methods and nested objects is just a bit of a hassle (but that keeps me thinking twice about what I'm doing). I like the views but I find I'm repeating myself quite a bit and I've been meaning to extend Backone.View with a few conventions of my own, which is exactly the kind of thing Backbone was intended for. Require.js lets me modularize everything. the text.js plugin lets me keep markup in html files which get converted to JS functions during optimization with r.js. During development I have everything nice and separated for debugging and optimization before deployment jams everything up into 1 file. I have a bash script that generates a new project with the basic require.js config including shim settings needed for Underscore and Backbone and usually the localStorage plugin because that's real nice if you don't have actual services wired up yet. This setup is what made me start to enjoy front-end development.
87% of U.S. magazine and newspaper publishers have an iPad app, survey says
This buying strategy generally is supporting more sustainable jobs also. Doing things like buying less degradable products and shopping locally really does make a big difference over the long term. Food and drink is also good (way better if it's not a national chain) because that money will almost always be spent locally.

Not only is it a healthy form of nationalism that benefits your economy, but purchasing local goods that were manufactured in your home country also results in far less destruction and waste of resources.
that's interesting, because i too hold a similar opinion to rekwah, and consider myself nearly emotionless. with the ability to feign empathy. and i was moved to tears.

"About 100 people die every minute by the way."

i dont think you need my help to realize why this comment is hilariously off base. i didn't cry because people died. you have a very strange perspective.
No, but it is Hawaii. They may not be backwards, but within a few days visiting there I saw people on the job at two different locations taking a pot break.
It started with the implementation of an Infinite List Component that handles items with unknown sizes. Only a very small set of DOM nodes is actually created to fill in the actual visible screen area. They will then be constantly recycled to render next / previous data on-demand. As a result, memory footprint is kept minimal, regardless of the amount of data in the Store. Making this work is the easy part. Making it fast with the complexity and variety of items such as News Feed stories is the real challenge. The bottleneck lies within the core processes that a browser has to perform: layout and compositing.

I wished jQuery Mobile has Infinite List Component that handles the list item recycling the last time I used it. It is the equivalent of UITableViewCell's dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier.
My problem with this is two-fold:
1. Spree killings still happen without guns (see the similar school attacks in Asia where bladed weapons were used.)
2. This focuses the conversation on the tools used in the incident instead of the source of the problem: mental health.
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Curious to hear opinions from people who've done service load distribution with hardware or software load balancers...
reworded some of the verbiage to make more sense -- thanks for the feedback
While I agree with the overall sentiment of the article, the hypothetical monetization numbers in the last paragraph are just ridiculous. Getting 20% of a free userbase to pay anything is extremely high. ~0.2% to 2% sounds like a more likely number, based on my admittedly cursory knowledge of monetization of apps. $5 a month also sounds a bit high for essentially a photo-sharing service, a yearly charge of ~$20 sounds more likely. However, for users that have passed the "willing to pay anything" barrier, the actual cost might not as big a deal.

This also completely ignores the viral nature of these types of services; people are more likely to use Instagram when their friends are using it. Without being free, it's not clear whether it would have taken off enough to gain 2 million users (or whether it could keep 2 million after the remaining 98 million left).

That said, I'm all for paying for services, and much prefer that model to ads. But just because some of us would prefer that doesn't mean it would have been the right choice for Instagram. It's easy to look back and say "they should have charged users," but we can't be sure we'd be in a place to analyze them if they had.
>But later he had no problems.

No problems, except for being dead of diabetes and heart disease. Certainly makes me wonder if the stress of being a wrongfully accused terrorist shortened his life.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...
Google Maps for iOS hits 10M downloads in 48 hours
DropZap developer here, what do you think of my upcoming Chainphoria game?
Hey guys

would love to have your APIs on Mashape (http://www.mashape.com) --> I think our community of developers will love it.

cheers
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A gradient from one tone/tint/shade to another of the same hue implies one thing: directional light. If directional light is visible on an object, that object exists in 3D space, at least in the mind. If that object exists in 3D space, then it has tangible form. If a UI element has tangible form, instead of only function, then it is skeumorphic.

At least, that's what the article seems to be saying.
When I first saw the UI I thought there was a stylesheet missing or something. After several force reloads it started to dawn on me that they were serious.

I am generally very pro-minimalism and hate skeuo design but this is not only taking minimalism too far but failing to understand that a blinding white screen is visually exhausting. There's a reason almost all "pro" apps have a muted, grayscale palette.
HA!

(But yes ;-) )
Which is worth more? A pound of quarters, or a pound of dimes?
so actually one of my favorite things about the United States is being able to send my 5 year old kid to school without worrying they'll die of war, starvation, or poverty.

not to lead your answer here; but, what- by your definition based in statistics- warrants empathy or sympathy? surely nothing? which by the way, i think is a fair point to defend as long as you're consistent. a loved one with cancer, for instance? hey, it happens all the time.
Just remember this list is not based on meritocracy, most/all these people will have publicists and/or their startups will have "good" PR firm representation.

If you secretly wish you were on this list but don't have the above then you are doing it wrong.
Kathryn = Kate.
Here's an excellent article on it: https://www.lds.org/ensign/2003/02/divine-love?lang=eng
It's about statistics.

Reduce the supply of ammunition (especially the kind of ammunition used in assault weapons), and you will reduce the number of mass murders, by a measurable amount.

(And yes, I agree that the way the US and most Western countries treat their mentally ill is the major issue.)
This confused me as well. I had assumed 1 color front and back would be the 1 color column, plus 25 cents for the second location. Your explanation here makes good sense... but maybe it could be clearer on the website.