skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is articulating (perhaps not as clearly as they could) a simple concern that many feel. We had on this planet a one time gift of crazy amounts of resources in terms of things like fossil fuels, but also things like high percentage metal ores that could be extracted at low energy costs. At some point humanity must become a multi planetary species or be doomed to extinction. The best time to go this would be when we had the resources to do so and the complex societal structures necessary to undertake this highly complicated and resource intensive endeavor.

However we are running - increasingly rapidly - into significant barriers of resource depletion. This is compounded by the fact that resource depletion itself can interfere with the capacity if society to solve big challenges.

Therefore if we don't get focused on getting a sustainable space presence now we may find we never do, having squandered our one time bounty of resources and society having peaked on its ability to deliver on grand programs.

It is an argument I have a lot of sympathy with. There are utopians out there who mistake technology for energy and believe smarts will necessarily overcome the coming energy crunch and its allied problems of resource depletion and overpopulation, as well as the relevant but slightly tangential issue if global climate change. I am not convinced.
Bah, yeah, so that's my biggest gripe with ST.. it seems to want to load the whole file into memory before it lets you work with it. I'm not sure if that's a philosophical thing or a limitation of how ST works, but it's really annoying.

If he worked out a robust way to have file open performance on par with the likes of vim then I'd upgrade in a heartbeat.
The risk element, to me, makes EVE a much more fun game than many others when it comes to combat. The pay off in fun, excitement and stories to be told is so much greater when there was a risk involved.
Cheri and I met in 1984. There have been hard lows.

I don't know what it would be to be fully satisfied with a relationship. I just know I love the one we've decided to make work. It's a decision we've each made many times.

At times, I've made it for me. Others, for our child. And I've made it for her. She's done the same.
IIRC Apple dropped ZFS around the time that NetApp was suing over it. Sun couldn't grant patents they don't own and indemnification probably wasn't financially feasible.
this article is injurous to the case for promises.

Haha I thought the same about the Crockford talk. Can you point me to a non-injurious source?
This general idea is well illustrated by LINQ: it essentially garbs basic functional programming into SQL's garments and passes it off to C# programmers, who happily use it for a whole bunch of different things. Some of these things (like RX) are really nothing like normal SQL at all.
The Prius was California's best-selling car in 2012
They were also at times barely surviving. They might not have had much interest in sex. Even if they did, the mother's reproductive processes may have been reduced due to lack energy/nutrition. You also don't know how many stillbirths they had. It's probably not something they would readily talk about, (and not something that the geologists were eager to discuss).
If you can sacrifice the automatic load, simply hitting C-S will allow saving a hard file to disk.

What's particularly nice about this is that when re-opened, they are still editable.
A better HN would be an HN where some bugs are fixed, and (some) people are a bit more civil. That's it. But nobody is perfect.
It's terribly sad that even in her process of reformation, she is still seeking approval and validation externally. The only person she needs to prove her worth to is herself.
I already have a revenue property on all my users in mixpanel. It seems like this new feature does two things

1) It keeps track of a revenue property as a time series. I.e. you can later look at the changes of revenue for a user over time (in their HTTP API you use a new $append command instead of $set)

2) It allows you to look at aggregate values (such as sum and average) for all revenues of all people in a certain group

I'm curious if this is something that could be extended to arbitrary properties on users. I operate a phone service and track usage of minutes in a similar way. It'd be great if I could do a similar kind of analysis.

It would be even better, if people analytics and events tied in a little more closely. I'm already tracking a "Charge succeeded" event that's tied to a distinct_id. If I could segment events by people properties (i.e. show me the "Charge succeeded" events for all people with Source=x), I could use the aggregate functions of the segmentation screen to do a lot of what revenue analytics provides and much more. I also wouldn't have to redundantly attach people properties to all my events anymore. Currently all of my events contain all people properties (such as Revenue, Number of minutes used, etc), so that I can segment by them.

In case suhail or anyone else is following along this thread, it'd be great to hear your thinking.
Attention.

She says she has "an addictive relationship with lying". I think she's addicted to attention and lying is means to that end.

1) Lie for attention.

2) Get caught.

3) Find yourself dismissed and forgotten.

4) Apologize for attention.

If everyone ignores her she'll disappear.
Why you should starve yourself a little bit each day
I just use a hot key that launches a gvim instance...
64 GB Surface Pro will only have 23 GB free
Even the simple File - Save Page As and save as a txt file saves a lot of time for me. I know it adds more clutter but beats opening a new app just to type few things.
No, I'm making a point for not overloading the meaning of the word "fact" to something it can't actually support. There exists no validation or falsification of the statement, so there can be no fact - after all, it's about personal belief in a set of ideas that are themselves notoriously slippery to validate or falsify.

It's a distracting point, and I shouldn't have included it - my main argument is the other part of my comment: That too often the facts of fact checks are, in fact, arguments.
Poor nutrition reduces fertility.
> obviously just some mental retardation on my part.

Well I am not going to disagree with you on that point.

There has ALWAYS been a way to have your hard disk on your desktop.
Looks like a WASP sausagefest.
Which isn't that bad. If your company is keen on having you stick around they can do the TN1->H1B->Greencard juggle in under a year. Otherwise, just sticking with your TN really isn't that different from being on a Greencard. Yes, you have to renew it yearly and the immigration folks can be surly about it, but you pay your $50 fee and you get another year. I did it for 10+ years without issues.
I have been sceptical about the educational part of the Pi since they literally said it. For a small set of kids who are already interested, yeah, great little toy. But if they think this will revolutionise computing and electronic education, I think that if serious, they will be disappointed.

Like you say, who is going to teach. Thats a problem in the best of times, but given the cuts and general low moral of teachers, I dont see it. Next, I simply dont see the imagination there. On top of that, they look easy to break. But above all, given that all schools have PC, what's the point, unless some how the school gets in to clever things a Pi could control. The idea that the average school will have kids building demo clusters is , well, amusing.

I really like the Pi, and see many many great uses for it. It is a brilliant thing. But this mass education claim looks to me like Pi in the sky.

Should add, I would love to turn out to be completely wrong.
The problem with these high barrier to entry discussion sites is that they lack productive people. The people who have the time and inclination to put up with rules like this spend far too much time posting on internet discussion boards, are far too little time building awesome things (i know this from first-hand experience). The best part of HN is the first-time commenters who have made something awesome and come here to reply in the thread about it. If you put up walls to keep casual users out, you drive all the best posters away.
What was it Grouch Marx said? "I don't want to belong to any club that would accept people like me as a member"?

Edit: Updated caps is from telegram, apparently.

Edit 2: Undid caps--sorry everyone. can't take it.
Visions of a Post-Agile World
Ask HN: Which programming language and framework should I learn?
I'm going to build a web application to get my programming skills up to date with the latest technologies used by startups in the US.

I'm a full-stack software engineer with some years experience building various web applications.

Which programming language, tools and framework should I learn that will be useful in the next couple of years?
It took me a few goes to figure out I could just click OK.
The word is "drivel".
How do Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey manage their email?
Who ate all the Pis?
We used to be able to see these from my backyard in Northern Minnesota too.
Thanks. Just expanded on that idea and did one of these:
data:text/html, <textarea style="border: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #F8F8F8">
Note: -40C == -40F, so grecy doesn't need to specify the units[1]!

[1] Unless he's using Kelvins.
400k+ active players IS a huge number. Specially considering they are in the same logical server. Other MMO's handle this by having copies of the world and splitting the population - which is the same approach used by Ultima Online back in 1997.

So actually, EVE is way ahead of the rest, technology-wise.
Other way: Finder->Sidebar

And add your computer or individual hard disks to the sidebar.
No, it is growing, and growing really well. At a macro level more and more advertising spend is moving to online. It is being sucked out of newspaper and television and sunk into online, which is now a $15B market (for display ads only) - 23% growth from 2011-12[1].

As for CPC rates, this link has a nice table showing the increase[0]. Anecdotally I can tell you that my own data corresponds with what they see (across a number of clients/startups I have worked with in past 5-6 years):

[0] http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/je-hochman-benchm...

[1] http://cdn.crowdscience.com/blog/2011/11/online_advertising_...
Firefox has Ctrl+Shift+K for its web console. It's not as polished as Chrome's, but at least allows running JavaScript in the current page.
I think I like it because of how weirdly constrained it is. Especially when you're writing something that will overwrite the handler itself, it's easy to get yourself stuck in a loop or a strange dead end.
The author's Google Plus page: https://plus.google.com/105795650153890257976/posts

I'm not sure if the "attended Yale University" is part of the Google+ page layout or a conscious choice on his part, but either way it says something.

Not that I disagree with his point.
How about we come back to this when libraries are monetized by billions of ad impressions a month and don't even pay for what they hand out?
I'm not sure why you go from "provides even less value" to "that 'even less value' < $30".
A $30/month SaaS app is usually paid for because it saves/brings value of $100+ per month to your tasks. A good editor easily brings more value to a developer.
Best chance I think it has in education is in small after school clubs for those interested. But its always going to need a decent teacher to lead it. Well, maybe not a teacher but knowledgeable parent?
It's customary and expected in some countries.
> I want to hire hungry creative kids that want to step up.

So Kan's companies are ageist, gotcha.
Thank you for the dose of logic. Truth be told, I hate not seeing it, but having turned it on, I use it less than I'd expected. If I could just disable the option if saving to desktop, home and work would be beautiful.
Sort of related to HD options, the default of having no display of remaining storage space is irritating to me, especially on the MacBook Air.
I also see many problems with the karma system and the rules. Like many others have pointed out, if you punish people for postings, people are way less likely to post and a forum without posts are useless. Also the rules for what to posts are way too strict. It is like not allowing students in the class to ask 'stupid' questions;overtime, students will be too afraid to ask any questions.
Apropos of nothing I believe this works because it frees up space in your brain. Sometimes, when I'm trying to get too much done at once, I'm stressed out by trying to keep to many things in the forefront of my thoughts at once. When I get stuck like that I create a scratch pad document with three 'zones'

Doing:
stuff I'm working on right now

ToDo:
Stuff that I know needs to get done

Done:
Stuff that is now done.

Start by dumping everything I'm thinking of in 'Todo' and pick one and put it in Doing and while I'm in the middle of doing it when I think thoughts like "oh and this should really do x" I add that to the Todo pile and go back to doing. Each time I finish of the 'Doing' task I scan the todo list, move anything I need to into Done and pull one up for the Doing pane.

By externalizing the bookkeeping of all the things I'm trying to keep straight in my head I free up cycles to actually work on something.
Very interesting! Thanks for the links!!
In a house that small they probably saw their parents.

Poor nutrition reduces the sex drive and delays maturation, so it probably wasn't as tough as you might think.
Obama's immigration principles
I think there may be a difference between the credentials which matter to big dumb companies and the credentials which matter "here".
Eve isn't sharded in the common MMO sense.
Thanks for the link! It sure looks like I need to read more on this subject
That, I would hazard to advance, is a very poorly written function.
I don't know. In Herzog's "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga," you see a dog keeping up with a snowmobile at a constant pace for several hours. (Edit: the dog ran 150 kilometers nonstop at a snowmobile's pace)
Help with the Windows startup challenge (vote)
I think one of the uncomfortable truths that people don't like to talk about in Silicon Valley is how much nepotism and old-boy-network is wrapped up in the clothing of "hiring from top schools". Social proof sounds really good until you start to think through that a lot of so called social proof actually comes from relationships built through serendipity of what school your parents could afford to send you to. It's not unusual, to steal a line from elsewhere, to be born on third base and think you hit a triple.

I see this even more with MBAs than comp sci and particularly in downturns (having been in Silicon Valley a long time now) where weaker VCs invest in MBA buddies as easy decisions in tough climates.

Credentials are great as lazy decision making tools for big co hr departments - you don't get fired for hiring the Ivy Leaguer. But for startups make sure you're hiring for what someone can do and has done, not for what paperwork they've accumulated. I've made the mistake of hiring the high flying Ivy League wunderkind straight out of college, highly recommended... it was an absolute disaster but my own fault for taking this as proxy for being good on a startup.
Maybe you only need to be a child at heart (fingers crossed). : P
As the post says, she's been going to therapy. I'm guessing this post is part of that as a first step in being honest.
It's intresting to note that something like 15% of Mexico's entire population has moved into the USA.

I'm note sure I've seen such a massive exodus like that before.
Incidentally, that was my only take-away from that article.
A couple of things to note:
- The applicants list features every person's email in plain text (in the 'send x an invite' href).
- The list is orderly illogically. As the idea behind this site is that you would sort the best from the worst, having the longest waiting people at the top of the queue until they get picked makes no sense.
- As mentioned previously, the applicant link takes you to a non-existent site.

Please don't claim to be something you are not. This is by no means a better Hacker News.
Ruby and Rails is currently in high demand right now. But so is Python.
Even simpler. Couch Potato Investing. http://assetbuilder.com/couch_potato/couch_potato_cookbook
Plus defunct operations like cdnow.
I've tried stuff like this before, but it clutters your code pretty bad anyway, doesn't it? You have to do something like this:

function myAsyncThing(cb) {
var handleErrors = errHandler(cb)
doSomethingElse(handleErrors(function(data) {
// repeat. use handleErrors at each callback.
}))
}

Am I missing something? Can you get it cleaner than that?
The nicest thing about this is that you can CTRL+S save it as a .html file, and then you can also CTRL+O load the file and it's still editable, and save it again!
Dr. Robert Lustig's War on Sugar (podcast)
Thanks, I understand. In the 'nice to know' I've made sliderocket presentations that were very well received by compagnies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and more. I love the way I receive analytics and could track it as they forewarded my presentations. ;-)
I'm looking at it in Firefox on Windows 7, and while the headline looks OK, the body text is still atrocious. The tops of the capital letters are all fug beyond belief.
I think part of the problem w/ performance issues is that Apple doesn't seem to give a crap about older hardware. The upgrade from snow leopard to lion pretty much left my mid 2009 macbook pro unusable. After many miserable months I gave up and switched over to a linux desktop for full time development work.

However, my brand new shiny 2012 macbook air _flies_. It's about as fast (build times, and what not), as my 2009 era desktop running linux. I have had similar experiences with my iphone hardware. You have to keep upgrading hardware if you want to keep up with the latest software.

Given that, there are still some awful bugs in later incarnations of OS X that remain unfixed. For example, lion's retina support broke external 30" displays in landscape mode. This is still not fixed 2 years later, despite bug reports and a very easy to reproduce problem. Apple just doesn't give a f*ck about power users anymore.
Build yourself a dialer using Clojure and Asterisk
It would be a couple of lines to check if the file is above some limit and offer an option to open it without the syntax definition applied.

If I work with many small SQL/XML/whatever files, then I want it to look pretty; but if I open a 100+ mb datadump, then Sublime should be able to open it as plain text without waiting for half an hour.

There are valid text files floating around with sizes above 1gb - why shouldn't I be able to open it, run searches and browse the contents? The computing power can do it, you can map it to memory if needed, I can spare 10gb ram if working on that size of data; but it needs to work reasonably fast.
Hmmm... What if she's not going to therapy?
What would be the point of having all this cool stuff if no one else even gets to see it and you don't get to use it?
no doubt - I purposely find campgrounds without cell coverage... if a network is there, I'll use it.

Believe it or not, there are still lots of areas in the Sierra Nevadas that meet this qualification - ~4hr drive from Silicon Valley.
Testing basic stuff like that is easy, just use one of those "website screenshot" services.
I fully agree with this post and this is exactly what I keep telling people that do things for their resume.

The one notion that always irks me though is talent. It seems to measure some combination of confidence and the amount of praise a person happens to have received in their life (i.e. how often someone told them they're talented) and is for the most part not well-defined. Yet, this article uses talent just like another credential.

I don't think talent is a thing that you either have or don't have. There's certainly some people that I'd like to hire that wouldn't with certainty say that they have talent. Vetting for confidence is a bit more interesting, but I also know plenty of confident people (i.e. that think they're talented) that can't get the job done.

The best way I've come up with to characterize what we're all looking for is people who can solve our problems/get the job done. That makes it mostly about what the applicant thinks they can do and less about the amount of praise they've received previously in live. This reminds me of how Kyle Neath posted yesterday that he thought he was not a great coder or designer but he could get the job done. When he was twenty, perhaps he didn't consider himself talented but I'm pretty sure nobody would have regretted hiring him.
I think that is the default Google+ layout to show where you went to school? If it says anything, I think it reinforces my point that US culture by default places too much emphasis on where you went to school.

Not that I don't value my time at Yale, but I don't feel like it is particularly worth highlighting on my resume: tens of thousands of people graduate every single year from top universities. Hardly something unique.
One of EVE's sayings is "Don't fly what you can't lose."

In general, you get that kind of ship especially for these types of fights. There isn't much base-building or PvE inside of EVE; it's all about the PvP. Being able to say that you flew a Titan into a battle is a major accomplishment inside of the EVE universe, so you don't care as much if you lose it (of course, you want to keep it safe, but only to fly it into more battles).
> Stole jobs that should have been theirs, stole attention that could have been directed to something legitimate...

You really hit the nail on the head here. Her pathological addiction to lies deprived hard-working people of opportunities. And it's a blackhole situation – had those opportunities gone to legitimate people, they could have advanced.

Instead, by sucking up all this value, Hornstein destroyed it. Everything she touched had a taint to it. Because everything about her was built on lies, everything she took, everything she accomplished, went nowhere. Good things that could have grown people's businesses or careers instead evaporated forever.

What a poison.
I was all hyped up until I remembered I was 35, went to a technical school no one cares about and code in languages everyone loves to hate. Something tells me I wouldn't make it past the lobby.
I agree.

Occasionally you'll find extras which sound Welsh, because the show is filmed in Wales. But for the most part it's a very neutral accent. Even Amy Pond's accent isn't particularly strong.
Or on OpenShift's DIY cartrige: https://github.com/gcmurphy/golang-openshift
Not in my experience. Air keyboards are horrible. The older (pre 2009) keyboards were way, way better. It's easy to accidentally press a nearby key if typing fast, so I have to type more deliberately (and slower). Maybe I just have fat fingers. Thinkpad keyboards get it right (for a laptop). I prefer everything else about apple hardware, though.
OP's link served an ad to me before I could see the page. Screw that - this is all over everywhere else w/ no ad-before-you-read:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/report-youtube-launch-paid-...

http://mashable.com/2013/01/29/youtube-paid-channel-subscrip...

http://www.dailydot.com/news/youtube-subscriptions-networks-...

http://thenextweb.com/2013/01/29/youtube-could-roll-out-paid...
Nice gimmicky hack but not so practical.

Just pin notepad/your favorite editor to the taskbar(win7+) and open it with win+shift+[whatever number that corresponds to the position you placed notepad on the taskbar].

Much faster and much more powerful.
If you spent six months grinding the ISK to buy and outfit a carrier, how willing would you be to take it into a battle where any of a hundred things could destroy it, including server lag or a random disconnection?