skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to read the top comment on this thread to understand why the stuff you are saying here is nonsensical.

If you want to keep perspective, it's important to remember that the world of 1993 looked very different from that of 2012. Very few people believed that every teenager in America would be using the Internet as their first line of communication, or that the Internet would steadily consume retail, finance, media, and even industrial controls. Commercial cryptography itself was merely nascent; "cryptography 2.0", a trend of the late 90s, introduced authenticated cryptography to the mainstream (prior to that people just encrypted and added checksums) --- look at SSHv1 and PGP for representative designs. Nobody understood anything in 1993.
The problems as you've listed here have no context, which will make them extremely difficult to answer, if not impossible.

For example:

> How clever to get with javascript in the browser
> without going overboard.

Depends completely on whether anyone other than you needs to read/maintain the code base, what kind of advantages the "cleverness" brings (performance, maintainability), etc.
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Not to mention that despite their paywall, anyone can still link to an article in the NYT, and people can read it for free (as long as they haven't read too many articles that month). The NYT seems to have realized that the links to them from all over the web are free advertising that they can't afford to do without, and that having lots of people discuss their articles on the web makes them more influential.
All we love we leave behind. Converge released an album with this title this year.

2012 was bleak for me. I lost my grandfather and my aunt within a week from one another. Soon after, my girlfriend left me to be with someone else. I moved out of the house that we had rented together, and left her with the first two dogs that were ever partly 'mine.'

She left me with the last dog we rescued, Gatsby. Before we brought him home, she clarified he was my dog and that if anything happened between us I was to take responsibility of him. I guess I should have seen the break up coming.

So now here I am. Alone in this house, with Gatsby. I mostly think about how one day I'll have to leave him behind too. It's too easy to become jaded by loss and abandonment. It's too easy to tell your friends that you have work to do, just so you don't have to go out and face them. It's too easy to stop caring, when caring is what hurt you in the first place.

So is "all we love we leave behind" my most painful realization of 2012? Not quite, but close. These events took place about 5-6 months ago. From then until now, AWLWLB has been stuck in my head, but the most painful realization happened just recently. I _have_ to go on loving anyway. I have to keep trying to make relationships and friendships work. I have to put forth effort, whether I'll lose them or not.

It's not about what you've lost, but what you had. Eventually all of the things you have, will be things that you once had, and that's all you will ever have.

Here's to 2013.
That would never happen to me. Ahem.
Reading between the lines it sounds like the author is just struggling with the amoral nature of most businesses. Superficially company mission statements and slogans may appear to contradict this assertion, but they are best guidelines rather than constitutional legislation. At least in Tech as a creator you can find a path within your job to generate something meaningful if at worst only for personal / technical pride.

Personally, I cordially dislike most attempts by corporate (and entertainment) celebrities to influence domains outside their primary interest. It's easier to appreciate Bill Gates as a full time philanthropist than Bono the singer and part time pamphleteer.
Just past midnight here, so Happy New Year.

And this definitely made my day. Good start to the year I would say. :)
As a teacher (14+ years) and a tech guy (20+ years)I have researched for a long time the idea that teachers could go away. But students always seem to need the 'human' touch. It's irrational and against all logic, but I feel there will always be a teacher. Sometimes that teacher may reach a million students (udacity et al) or just one pupil (Yoda/mentor). I am now trying to find the best way to augment teachers...
thanks for this, $15 for the ebook == immediate purchase
I just use a rubber band.
Any review of it yet?
Fun tech business books
Some stuff I don't understand fully because I am not native English speaker. Can somebody recommend Youtube video instead?
Thank you for the advice, you've definitely given me some stuff to thing about, and I'm glad to hear from somebody who's worked in a field similar to what I'd like to get into.

As for the man pages, I'm starting off with 'man', then will move onto my most commonly used commands for general Linux use and server administration. After that, I'll be using a shell script to give me a random man page.
How easy it is to fail.

How easy it is to do it all wrong.

How easy it is to make the wrong decisions.

How easy it is to get really down on yourself.

How easy it is to blame others for your own mistakes.

How easy is is to think others are right and you are wrong.

How easy it is to think it is hard to get back up and really "do it" and "do it right".

How easy it is to get back up on your feet once you've made a decision to do it.

How easy it is to then see others were wrong and you were right.

How easy it is once you've done it.

How easy it is.
Considering the date, it seems as if it might've been pushed out the door to satisfy contractual obligations.

I'm not sure just how relevant it will be, now that the JS ecosystem has exploded -- seriously, 4 years is _eons_ in the JS world, I think the Jaxer server was still the new tech and NodeJS wasn't even heard of at the time -- and there are 10x's as many JS devs now than there was in 2008 (not to mention that the average competency seems to have greatly improved as well). And I could be wrong, but I think he's mostly disconnected from jQuery itself now, too; I'm clumsy with git/github, but I can't even find his last commit to jQuery, and I know that all of the blog posts on jQuery.com have long since been done by other team members. While he's a really talented dev, his name is pretty rare when it comes to JS news and topics these days.
Async Http Client for iOS - add asynchronous REST API calls to your iOS app.
After building online business for the last 16 years, I took serious venture capital for the first time in 2012. So managing that relationship and meeting someone else's expectations has shaped my 2012 (set my hair on fire). I have a very patient investor, and it's still not easy, I don't know how people deal with the real sharks of VC.
Sencha Touch + Phonegap, as it turns out it's not very pleasant to try to make a good looking responsive multiplatform app, specially with android browser weirdness and bugs.

Lesson learn, if you care about the user experience there is no other way than native.
Sorry. You're right. But I don't think I'm throwing up my hands. I think there are many solutions and certainly not ones that are easily laid out as a final paragraph in a post like this. I'll definitely follow up when I think I have ideas (or share other good ones when I see them) but for me this post was an important first step to clarify my thinking about what the problem is.
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Well written. This is you?

Catherine Bracy

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/cbracy

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/catherine-bracy/19/84b/350

You might want to include an "about" page on your tumblr it's nice to know who is saying what and I had to follow some links to find the above.
Some preemptive advice: pick a small (tiny!) project and do it with C and/or sh and other command line tools (don't forget about awk and sed). Often you can do something quickly in a shell script that would be a pain to implement in C, but the reimplementation can still be a good learning experience. Once complete, repeat. You will learn far more like that than by trying to memorize man pages and doing programming exercises out of a book. I mean, did you try "man gcc"?

Of course, maybe the only way for you to realize this is by actually trying to memorize man pages and doing lots of programming exercises first. That's what it took in my case...
Now why did you have to go and ruin a perfectly good libertarian fantasy world with facts ?
San Francisco’s minimum wage will rise again to $10.55
Prestige and quality may help the NYT be successful in charging for content but that doesn't mean smaller local newspapers will fail if they try the same tactics. Warren Buffet seems to think that the paper editions of local newspapers will not fail (especially in areas with strong community) and owns over 20 now. It seems likely that eventually they will just charge for online access and be successful at it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2012/06/22/would-yo...
That paywall works because it actually allows you to read some articles. Solid paywalls in the past have failed terribly.
Ctrl+F Tesla, SpaceX, zero results. Really? I'm excited about these companies.
She's talking about others as well. Instead of helping people get better education to find better jobs, or even creating jobs, they'd much rather take the unemployed and say "why don't they just buy my app, smart phone, tablet, PC, etc and have a better life?" Well because most of the unemployed and poor cannot afford them and go without them.

Then you have a lot of unemployed and poor who do buy that app, smart phone, tablet, PC, etc and suffer because they cannot afford food and shelter, but they got nifty things to improve their life. Just walk around homeless with a backpack and sleep near a dumpster, but use that shiny tech at the nearest library or Starbucks.
(Computer Curmudgeon did not age very well, with some stuff now obscure even for those of us who were watching at the time, but this entry is an interesting snapshot of the commercial internet in 1991 California:)

"AppleLink - A marketing research project to determine whether people will pay $25/hour for electronic mail service when $5/hour service are available.

America Online is for geeks; CompuServe is for tweaks; AppleLink for sheiks; The Well is for freaks"
I was thinking giving any hacking attempt some sort of fake shell access would be a great learning experience, how awesome is it that other people had that thought and made it.
If it's such a huge problem why don't you go fix it?

Or are you volunteering other peoples time?
So, what this is really about is not the destruction of the movie business and western culture, its all about the movie business thinking its not making enough money. It should be making more. Making great profit is not enough. Thay must have more.

Well, me too. Can the government get behind that please?
Hah! If only I had time for late night gaming sessions.
This happened to me. I had a streak of bad luck that left me with an unimpressive resume and made it incredibly difficult for me to get hired, even though objectively I was/am very good at making companies money.

In my case it came down to the realization that the standards people use to judge your skills are very arbitrary. Once I went out and got a few certificates I started getting job offers. Nobody cared about the fact that I was smart enough to learn SAS in two weeks or make my previous employers large sums of money, they only cared about the fact that I had the certificate. C'est la vie.

In every industry there's some sort of bar past which people start treating you like a real person. Getting past this bar often has little to do with merit-think having a degree from a "prestigious" college or having exceedingly specific previous experience. Try to figure out what that bar is in the field you want to work in and how you can show that you've cleared it. Programming is a diverse field but a few bars I've seen people use (not saying I agree with these) are "has experience in Ruby/Python/Functional Programming/my favorite language", "has contributed significantly to open source", "recommended by someone I know who is competent", and so on.

The last one is IMO the most valuable bar to clear. The more you can get out and know people, and show them that you're competent, the easier it is to get better jobs and better projects in the long run.
They've probably been revising it as JS has progressed.
Only share actionable anxieties.

Just because an anxiety is not actionable by you does not mean that it is not actionable by someone else. And one way you, who lack the means to solve the problem, can motivate people who can to do so is by raising the profile of the problem. Writing about it is a way to do that.

When Thomas Paine wrote of "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" in The American Crisis, he didn't have any direct way to stop soldiers from deserting from George Washington's army because the weather was cold and the fighting was rough. All he could do was highlight the problem of desertion and point out the consequences of their actions. Does that mean he shouldn't have written it?
Damn man, I know how that feels. So sorry for your loss.
What killed me:

Ms11-100 security patch. Utter disaster that broke our entire cache and UI layer. Literally our kit jumped from 10% utilisation to 90% overnight resulting in a last minute rollback. Didn't show up in load testing.

business analysts lack of grasp on reality "its only a few billion rows" (to download our audit data via HTTP in CSV format - not going to happen).

SQL Server 2012 pricing.

Mark shuttleworth being an ass over a amazon integration causing us to move all our Linux stuff to debian.

VMware 2tb lun limit on iscsi. This sucks badly.

Compilation speed of c# - this is knackering us. Java is much better as it doesn't have to create monolithic dependency units (assemblies).

Exploding kit.
This is weird. Techcrunch in my eyes contributed to the startup hype machine that it's now complaining about?

Celebrating funding like winning the Startup Lottery is only going to feed the monster of hype vs real innovation.

Is it just me?
This doesn't have to just be about finding potential customers. If you've built an open source project that solves a problem, you can use similar ideas to find people with that problem and show them what you've built.
I have some stupid aliases that go to multiple people set up as virtual addresses in Postfix. I'm sure I could convince google to do that for me.
Philanthropy and charity aren't the same thing. The Gates Foundation does much, much more than just walk around handing out cheques. I'm not even sure they do charity in any significant way, but the money they're putting towards, for example, vaccinating large numbers against the rotavirus, is hugely effective in actually improving things. You can't partake of the global economy when you're shitting yourself to death.
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I have no idea if these are true, but I like a person who can self-reflect well. I love folks who are able to attack/correct things they need to.

Best of luck!
Nice work! That I can organize repositories by my own tags seems very useful and I second the "most up-to-date fork" feature request.

I happened upon a once-in-a-sign-up bug. Here are the steps to reproduce (I cannot reproduce it anymore as it will only happen the first time you need to allow gitrep access to your github profile):

1. Sign in to gitrep.
2. Allow gitrep access to your github profile.
3. Hit the back button until it asks you to allow gitrep access to your github profile again.
4. Hit allow.
5. Notice 500 error.
Charity isn't just about direct ROI, it's about the attitude of the people giving. I think that speaks to the idea of SV being in a bubble when a simple idea like charity is so easily dismissed.

>Charities in general have almost no effect on the ground.

I would point you to organizations like Charity Water (http://www.charitywater.org/) & Pencils of Promise (http://www.pencilsofpromise.org//) who are doing quite well at disproving that statement.
Yes. I bought my house when the UK market was still booming, and sellers were used to houses going substantially over the advertised price. Instead we negotiated 10% off the advertised price, and I don't think we did particularly well even though the estate agent we dealt with seemed rather shocked to get an offer that low. In terms of picking the area, we did well - current value has increased at least 10% more than the average for London in the time since we bought.

We could likely have started lower, and we messed it up by using some repairs that needed to be done (that were clearly priced into the advertised price) as an argument for dropping the price when we ought to have been able to get that price drop and make the offer contingent on the seller having some of the repairs done on their dime.

The key thing is to be able to move quickly. They picked us because the alternative would have been to wait for other offers, while we turned around and started negotiating as soon as we were sure, offer an agreement in principle subject to a survey right off the bat if they could meet our price, had an agreement in principle from my bank, and had been renting so we stressed that we could move on everything immediately.

If you can stress to the sellers estate agent in particular that you can move quickly, keep in mind that it will be in their interest to get a quick, trouble free sale vs. hanging on for weeks for 10% more commission, and that will influence how they deal with their client (conversely, it is in your interest whether selling or buying to be very wary when an estate agent pushes you to accept an offer - there's been some survey where it turned out estate agents typically hold out longer and sell for more when selling their own houses than their clients do).
Could you elaborate? I'm interested.

By "first order desires", do you mean complete barbarism, such as seeing someone with an ice cream cone, and killing them on the spot so you can have the ice cream?

And where do you feel second-order desires come from? Are you talking about the idea that humans can acquire new goals without even being aware they have done so? [1] Or something else?

[1] "We do, as shown by decades of research on operant conditioning. When a neutral potential goal is associated with a stimulus of positive affect, we acquire new goals, and we can be unaware that this has happened:" from http://lesswrong.com/lw/5sk/inferring_our_desires/
You will note that Thomas Paine did not write "The deserting soldier and the sad but inevitable mindset of cowardice".
>the point is that the source can be reviewed and improved by anyone.

Exactly. And therefore it needs a license permissive enough to allow that.
Couldn't read the repos listing on my Iphone the display was quite mangled. Will check again when I'm near a laptop.
I do this myself off a Linode. It's neat to understand how this stuff actually works, it expands the imagination of what's possible. I like being able to quickly stand up a subdomain for development / testing / staging. I really want to get an email server running, I think the ability to spark up email addresses and servers for automated reporting or file distribution opens up some useful possibilities.
If you allow me a small anecdote... I used to live in Manhattan. Occasionally, I would go to the store to get paper towels or toiletpaper and buy the bulk-size. Invariably, the package would be too big to fit in the small plastic bags that were available and carrying it along with everything else was rather awkward. Last year I moved to Turkey, and one of the first things that I noticed is that all of the bulk-size packages of paper towels and toiletpaper have built in carrying straps.

Now, this may seem like a very, very minor thing (and it's not unique to Turkey). On it's own it says nothing, but the longer I've been away from the US, the more and more I've noticed just these sorts of little things. It's the sum total of these "little things" that indicate to me that the US has, on a very fundamental level, stopped innovating.

Oh, sure, the US will continue to produce new things. It'll probably even produce one or two big new things in the next couple years, but it's not the big things that drive the innovative spirit. Gather enough smart people in one place, give them enough time and enough money, and you're pretty much guaranteed to get a major innovation (or, at least a driverless car).

You'll also waste an enormous amount of resources. A society that is innovative at its core has only to foster that innovation, in any small way, to get a far greater return on investment. In short: America has a tremendous head start, but America has become complacent. The "next big thing" just might come from somewhere where the people are still hungry.
I agree in theory, but it's difficult to align values with someone whose strategy is to shift blame to clients and subordinates due to lack of planning and communication skills. These people create a toxic, reactive working environment and their damage needs to be managed. I don't believe that they bring good things to the table.

I realize that this sounds exceptionally bitter so I am open to the possibility that I have become cynical and am unable to see from outside the lense of my own vision.
it was discussed in pre-publishing feedback site. But it was over 2 years ago and I don't even remember how the discussion ended lol.
This is almost a country song! Except that it ends on a positive note ... you'd need to reverse it to make it sad if you really want to make a hit out of it.

(Not criticizing -- I think it's nicely written).
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so...you went to one theater in a foreign country and couldn't complain about it and now all movies in all theaters have terrible quality

Nope - I go to many theatres here in Poland. Now I'm fine with complaining where necessary, but at the time my Polish wasn't up to it. The point I wanted - and failed - to illustrate was more that no-one complains, and so the cinemas get away with it far more often than they should.
A very hearty welcome to my hometown. Enjoy the fireworks tonight!
How to combat frauds with e-commerce transactions:

1. Pro-actively block Tor nodes and all hide-my-ass type of open proxy. To e-commerce merchants, tor node users are not freedom fighters, but fraudsters, every-single-one-of-them.

2. For credit card transaction, always check the return "credit card" country

3. Shopping carts need to track IP address. Fraudsters always can bounce from Brazil to UK to Italy in a single cart session.

4. Have to come up with a score system to determine fraud risk of transactions. Maxmind API seems to be helpful.

5. When in doubt, ask user to take a picture of their credit card, and upload to your site.
ZFS doesn't do it automatically, you have to crontab it. I have it crontabbed for the 1st or the 15th.