skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. One cannot just look back at all the things that have happened and conclude they are right because you have prospered. We have, or some do, the capacity to think in principles and what things actually provide real benefit.

I happen to think people are more generous when they are free to be successful and they aren't bled to death.

Even with the high taxes in the US, I read that charitable contributions are up around $300 billion.

And private charity has some incentives that are absent in government charity. People are actually more careful with their own money. And when the results are obviously bad, they change what they are doing.

The federal government has let many bad things happen for decades before addressing them. The disastrous public housing projects. Welfare that destroys the work ethic. It eventually changed course on these things, but not without much political wrangling. A private donor would move to change it after seeing the evidence.

Worse still is the total lack of gratitude and sense of entitlement that many recipients of public money seem to have. I feel most people when receiving a gift from a private donor would say please and thank you. And if the private donor could not continue to give for some reason, they'd say thank you just the same, not harass them.
Didn't you know about http://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors?

(They're not in order of popularity though.)
Show HN: Turn Your Blog Into a Downloadable Ebook
Something along the lines of:

> I'm not racist! I have black friends!
> What if Intel's offerings beat ARM chips on, say, efficiency and price

Very unlikely. First, because ARM already has chips that are much more efficient, like Cortex A7. Intel can't bring Atom to that level right now. It would take a few years, just like it took for Atom to get from 10W to 2W. By that time A7's successor would probably again be more powerful.

I also doubt it will be cheaper. So far no indication that Intel has managed that compared to ARM - ever.

>or efficiency and performance

That may already exist, in the form of their high-end chips, and in terms of performance/Watt. But their prices are 10x bigger. So pretty irrelevant when it competes to competing with ARM in the same markets.
Which influences make people work smarter, harder, and more efficiently than others and how does one attain these influences?
Nth-child CSS pseudo-class Christmas colors.
Doh! I missed it due to my awesome dd66ff custom colored toolbar.
Exactly, thank you for your much better explanation than I could give.
Wow. This is interesting (would be more interesting graphed for popularity, or at least ordered and tallied. Then people could campaign for correct topcolors)
They should acquire them and give them the freedom to keep doing stuff like this independently, just advancing SpaceX goals.
I'd say HTC and AT&T sold you hardware, not MS.
I worry that an app like Astrid wouldn't live the long life of my house, whereas GitHub might.
Third paragraph:

> A number of physical retailers have already succumbed to online competition including Circuit City, Borders, CompUSA, Tower Records and Blockbuster

I was curious about the timeline of these closures so I opened all five businesses' Wikipedia pages to find out when each went out of business. (Tower Records - 2006, Circuit City - 2009, Borders - 2011)

It turns out CompUSA[1] and Blockbuster[2] are still operating retail stores! Both are now owned by other companies and CompUSA at least has a substantially reduced number of stores, but you can hardly say something "succumbed" when it still exists. This has me questioning whether I want to bother finishing the article.

[1] http://www.compusa.com/retailstores/compusaStores/index.asp

[2] http://www.blockbuster.com/stores/storelocator
It is so common with heroku to go down !

Not just because of AWS, but on there own they have many issues with platform..
a short list - https://twitter.com/rtdp

we need to seriously shift away of heroku asap !
Leverage aside, it also protects MS a bit in case x86 crashes and burns.
I am using Python since 6 months after working with PHP for many years. Guess what? I don't hate PHP.
I'm not Kenyan, but I've been based in East Africa for the last two years and have been living in Nairobi and running a startup there since March. Happy to answer questions. (I'll be on and offline today because of the holdiay)

It's fantastic to see Sue and M-Farm getting this kind of exposure.
He lost me at this -

> assert is used for algorithmic error detecting instead of for debugging only. This is a serious error, common to many, otherwise good, books. But here it is very widely used.

One man's error is another man's programming style. Using asserts as comment-like statements to declare invariants is a very useful a well-established practice that leads to a more concise code. Perhaps it's a nuance not fit for the novices, but to call a book bad because if that is unreasonable at best.
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Hi! I made this as a side project to play around with Elastic Beanstalk and scalable ebook conversions, and it's now evolved into something a little bigger.

I'd love some feedback, and it's still pretty experimental, so there will be some bugs, but I've got it working for most full-text RSS feeds.

Currently, the interface is very simple: you give it the URL of your blog, RSS, or Atom feed, and it will give you a link you can use to share it. This "share link" contains downloads for ePub and Mobi files, and the downloads will always stay up to date with the latest content (I use Superfeedr to poll the feeds on the backend).

Let me know if you have any questions.
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We needn't be pedantic here. These guys are essentially the black knight from Monty Python: "still alive!" but with no arms and legs.
I have already basically decided I don't want to have kids, so to that extent, I've "gone first" already.

As for going first to Mars, I think Elon is going to beat us all.
"If mass shootings are really occurring at random, then this suggests that they are extreme, unpredictable events, and are not the most relevant measure of the overall harm caused by gun violence."

In my Undergrad years I would get crucified for arguing that a computational model works and concluding that it is therefore the way reality works.

Seriously though, can anyone reading this fathom a way to formalize the event "Guns are available"? What's the probability of getting a gun if it's not available in shops? You need to model a different country for that.

The same reasoning can be used to show that the probability of a mass shooting given the availability of guns is lower given a lack thereof. In other words, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsN0FCXw914 .

And if they are indeed rare events, what's the metric for that? If we have a chance of stopping a rare, unexpected event that would add quite a lot to the expected value of deaths per year, would it not matter significantly in our efforts of stopping it?
As someone who doesn't know much in the way of Python, it seems odd to me that many of the examples are blocks of code vs one line replacements for PHP functions. Is Python just more verbose?
People are starving this very second. Instead of helping them you're sitting on your first world ass commenting on a forum. Does it not bother you they're dying and you can do something about it? Why are you so mean spirited and cold? I'd like to steal half of your property and donate it to the needy and less fortunate. So what if I steal your means of production? Sure, you'll also become poor and require my generous assistance - but that's welfare. Rinse and repeat.
Or kills people that aren't aware that it can be extracted.
Where is hacker news for business?
I've been looking for source like hacker news for business related news. I've been on /r/business and /r/economics but wanted to check with hn community what are our favorite choices.

thanks!
Your comment bothers me in very fundamental ways, though this is far from the first time I have seen this sentiment.

At the core of it is that your entire position is based around supposition - notice the generous use of "I feel that... would...", "I happen to think", and pointing out a lot of theories - that people would spend private charity differently than government charity, that welfare destroys the work ethic, that public housing would not have been implemented if the money was in private charitable hands, that people who receive public money are ingrates, etc.

Where is the empiricism that we hackers pride ourselves in? Your entire position is based on your personal behavioral model of how people think, that isn't verified against copious observations from around the world. This is, I think, a long-winded way of saying "citation desperately needed" and drawing big bold underlines beneath it.

Have you actually talked to a substantial number of welfare recipients to know that they generally do feel a "total lack of gratitude and sense of entitlement"? Or, pardon the bluntness, is that entirely a personal assumption?
You missed the point. This is not an expectation of luck, but is his acknowledgement that he could not have made it alone. The post is not meant to help you achieve like him (which I understand is different from most of what is posted on Hacker News), but is a retrospective acknowledgement that it is impossible to succeed alone.
Its an intriguing question isn't it? Here we have two companies which together have all the moving parts necessary for a lunar landing and return mission. It would be fascinating if Bigelow Aerospace could put a habitat at the Lunar L1 point. Then SpaceX provides a boost to L1 capability, and Armadillo provides a transport service from L1 to/from the surface of the Moon.
I can't speak for everyone, but I used Tylenol essentially out of habit as a young adult, because my parents gave me Tylenol as a child. This makes sense (I think), I am told aspirin should not be given to children.

So, it's probably just an education thing. Tylenol seems fine at what it does, and it isn't like people are misled. I bet you the label warns against mixing alcohol with Tylenol, and people really should know not to mix alcohol with other drugs.
Birds are also long-lived, compared to mammals of similar size. One of Nick Lane's books discussed this and something about their adaptations against damage from respiration -- either Oxygen or Power, Sex, Suicide, I forget which.
"Everyone hates PHP"? Really?

It might not be the most popular language around the HN crowd, but this forum is subject to trends and "emerging technologies" - not necessarily to say that these technologies are better or worse, just that they are the flavor of the month.

It's hard to argue with the numbers, PHP is still the most popularly used language [1] and while the gap is being bridged, it is really minuscule in comparison. I'm sure that while you may hate PHP, not every single developer does.

Yes, yes, down vote me, I'm a proud PHP developer and to even utter such words on this site seems to result in the most powerful of criticisms, but subjective to this entire argument is that behind every person who writes PHP is a ruby coder, tutting and shaking his head, stood behind him is a Node.js developer, laughing at him, behind him is somebody writing Assembly, scowling in to the distance in disgust, behind him is a C coder, eyes wide with surprise that someone is working in Assembly, etc.

I give it a few years until people are crying out loud on here that Node.js is dead and superlanguageemulator.pm or whatever comes next is the only way to code, at least, for people wise and intelligent enough to embrace this new technology.

[1] http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_languag...
also really interested in this ^^.
Agree. I've used "void main(void)" on embedded applications where 1. there is no OS under you. 2. it can never "exit"

void main(void) {
init();
for(;;) {
web_tick();
serial_tick();
tcp_tick();
etc.
}
}

An example is the horrible Dynamic C compiler from z-world (or digi as they are now called). Guys who complain about "violating standards" clearly haven't worked in diverse enough fields on broken, shitty and half-standard compilers ;)
This was a great article, but I'm not convinced mass shootings are completely independent. Given the media attention, it is very likely that event n+1 was, in some way, impacted by event n.

I don't have any evidence to back this up, so I could be (and I hope I am) completely wrong. But if I'm right, then I think it would imply we need to reduce the correlation between events. And it is likely the media that provides that correlation. Instead of reporting about the <insert your word here> that causes these events, report on the impacts of these events. It would, hopefully, stop deifying the perpetrator, which might reduce the likelihood of other perpetrators from doing the same.
> "So what if I steal your means of production? Sure, you'll also become poor"

This is such a huge straw man it may in fact spontaneously combust.

Your post is so full of mindless rhetoric, blatant exaggeration, and outright falsehood that I feel stupid for having responded to it.

If you would like to have a conversation about very important issues re: taxation, the duty of the individual (or lack thereof), and other such issues that are pertinent in our time, I would be glad to do so as soon as you are willing to talk without sounding like a raging manifesto.

Good night.
That's exactly what I was pointing out, actually. Hence the poor implementation ;)
That makes sense though. I think we generally agree as a country that we don't want to make alcohol freely availible to minors- so what do you do about industrial usage? Do you want to be carded to buy solvents? Should a teenager be prevented from buying solvents for painting?
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I don't think the author is attempting to imply anything other than "Assuming mass shootings are random unrelated events, 7 mass shootings in 1 year does not necessarily signal a significant change from the past 30 years. (Though if it happens again, it does.)"
So there's no middle ground? Extreme libertarianism / survival of the fittest or you must try to help all 1.29 billion people in poverty?
I would love the day when you could get a motherboard and the current Intel and ARM chips are pin compatable so you could drop what you like in, wouldn't that be a wonderful dream.

I'm already crossing my fingers that AMD will offer that, as they have announced they are developing an ARM chip and historically are friendlier about socket compatibility.

Not really sure whether it's actually possible though. It also might not be quite as dreamy as you and I are imagining- are drivers CPU architecture dependent?
I don't get why Netflix doesn't put enough logic in the client to deal with this kind of thing in some kind of graceful way.

Netflix, to me, is a big collection of links to stuff in CDNs (which, got a first approximation, never go down; Akamai is essentially unfadeable, highly resistant to all forms of outage because it's a trivial replication problem.)

I rarely if ever care about the recommendations engine, new content in the submission queue, etc.

Yes, there's an authentication problem, but this is also trivial to replicate, and it's fine if "is a valid subscriber" goes even a month out of date.

Essentially, even if AWS goes down completely, the Netflix client should be able to get a static list of movies and show them. Maybe that's my queue, maybe that's the top 10 per genre, whatever.

In times of degraded operation, show me something.
I recently attended a talk by netflix on building fault tolerant systems. From what I could tell, there wasn't an architecture, everything could talk to everything else, with a thin Api layer on top. The way they achieve fault tolerance is by not having an ops team, instead they have a resiliency team and monitor everything. This team uses various monkeys to try to break the application in different ways.

They then put all developers on call, and force them to write code that can recover from faults by trying different methods to break it.

tl;dr netflix systems are chaotic, because chaotic systems tend to tolerate failures.
There should be some way to formalize this into a hypothesis. Testable with the same data I mean. If you were correct we should see more clustering then we do with a random sample.
Newline characters make for some interesting spoofing here.
while (true) { say("foobar"); }
I thought the whole design scheme (or lack thereof) for Hacker News existed to scare off non-serious and unintelligent posters -- i.e. who both 1) care that much about eye candy and 2) are unable to set up a custom rendering in their browser.
I love the concept of 3D printing but there is not one story out there that tells me what consumers could practically want with a 3D printer.
Atom SoC NEVER cost close to $100. And it doesn't cost $40 now either. What you are talking about is the Desktop Atom. Which is different to Mobile / Tablet Costing.

I dont think anyone should doubt Intel's Enginerring Power to bring Power and Performance Level unseen before to SoC market. The only problem is Margin and Price. Who these should work out are remain to be seen.
You so nailed it.

As a corollary I think it also speaks to the importance of keeping moving, be it inward, onward, and upward in life.
Not all devices support all streaming protocols and formats. I.e. their desktop player uses the proprietary SMPTE 421M codec (microsoft) which is not available (or efficiently implemented) on platforms where silverlight is not available (read: most of them).

Since many of these other platforms also use proprietary formats they end up having to maintain a range of different proprietary streaming servers, many of which presumably need to interface with their respective mothership platform services (XBox live, PSN, Roku).

Oh, and recently they have begun building their own CDN[1] which may add further to the diversity.

[1] https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect
Perhaps looking at the time between mass shootings would be more interesting than simply looking at mass shootings per year.
Heroku, AWS, GAE are popular and well-known... but by tightly integrating an application or service to a proprietary platform, you're pretty much at the mercy of the PAAS provider.

To avoid vendor lock-in, check out OpenShift[1] from Red Hat. It's open source[2] so you can set it up on your own servers if you felt Red Hat weren't providing the service you required, or as redundant servers for fail-over.

[1] https://openshift.redhat.com/community/paas

[2] https://openshift.redhat.com/community/open-source/download-...
I have flagged this article; is not only link bait using the subject everyone is talking about; is being extremely disingenuous using statistics about a so ambiguous concept as "mass shootings" to draw conclusions about a real world situation.
All developers with an MSDN account, have a free 1 yr subscription to both the Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 store to deploy apps.

With a Dev account, you can, like with Apple deploy anything you like to your Dev unlocked Windows Phone 8 phone(s).
> If we have a chance of stopping a rare, unexpected event that would add quite a lot to the expected value of deaths per year, would it not matter significantly in our efforts of stopping it?

I wouldn't characterize the number of deaths via mass shootings as "quite a lot". It's probably in the same ballpark as death by lightning strike (~50/year, according to Wikipedia).
This seems like trying to use a hammer (statistics) because you have a hammer, not because it's the right tool for the job.

Essentially, if you look at the incidents, you see enough common factors (increasingly, using semiautomatic carbines, carrying multiple weapons, attacking schools, wearing armor or load bearing gear, etc.) to think there is some common factor at work. The population of random people on the street doesn't pick the AR-15 to do anything, and certainly doesn't pick a school as a target for anything. The solution space here isn't "spree shootings at schools through time", it is traits of spree shootings themselves -- location, methods, etc. They're pretty tightly clustered.

Either there is a common hidden factor, or these incidents are feeding on each other.

I personally don't think gun control is the major tool to deal with this, and don't think violent video games are the problem, but rather the non-stop multi-day press coverage by the media of each of these incidents.

Some insignificant douchebags from a Colorado school became about as famous as the 9/11 terrorists (and far more than fortune 50 CEOs or scientists or classical musicians) by murdering their classmates.

(Columbine essentially as as big a deal for the 'how to respond to shootings' world as 9/11 was to aviation security; previously, you cordoned off the area and called in SWAT to negotiate, thinking it was a hostage situation -- now, the first 1-2 responders on scene move directly to the threat with whatever weapons they have on them at the time, ignore any wounded victims, close, and engage/destroy -- similarly, hijacked airliners are now viewed as air to ground missiles vs. hostage negotiations.)

Every time the media talks about the shooters in one of these situations, making them famous, it reinforces the rational (if defective) choice of someone who wants to be famous at the cost of doing evil to copycat.

The mythological/historical example is Herostratus, who burned the temple of artemis just to be famous.
I come here to gain knowledge about things related to science and computers. I'm tired of all the "humanities"
I agree that "hate php and love python" part, however, we may still need to use php or at least read php code at work/school. and this app could be useful for that purpose if it had python to php conversion too.
That doesn't really justify using it for me at least. If I need light, I can pick and chose my exact components for bootstrap.
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"quite a few hackers" != "most people are hackers"
Blockbuster still had profitable locations, IIRC. It was the company as a whole that was collapsing. I assume that those locations are probably still profitable now, though maybe not as much as at its apex.
This is a cool service, although I have to say I'd never use a website or app (especially a free one) if going into it I thought I'd ever have to sue them for anything. Litigation is a time-sucking expensive PITA. This ain't exactly like a doctor's arbitration waiver where you might be signing away the right to sue for millions if they remove the wrong kidney. :P
At some point, companies that rely solely on AWS will be seen as having a "technical debt" - to not be able to engineer around such obstacles will be seen as a management failure.
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Those are programs, not services. Dropbox is a great service (client + server) for syncing your files.

There is no other simple option that "just works". So my choice is Dropbox + encfs (to encrypt everything). But I also keep another local copy of the entire dropbox folder in case the sync fails and decides to delete everything.