skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entrepreneurs blow their exit opportunity 75% of the time
Dear Bill Gates.
Stop buying stuff for people. Be that vaccines or portable toilets or donations to some vague "research" causes.

Invest in helping people to discover the powers within. Do not invest in making people think they need to depend on some external rich power to pull themselves out of their misery. That is misservice. This is lie. That warm, fuzzy feeling you get after spending billion on buying stuff for poor people comes with deeper unease - deep inside you know that you did not really make a lasting difference. Difference yes. Lasting - only until that billion ran out and your vaccines are used, food is eaten and very soon they will want more. This is not a difference.

Invest in helping people to learn the skills, invest in helping people to find inspiration within, invest in helping people to express their own creativity and power.

Invest in helping people to discover how each of them can help other million people without spending billion dollars.
there are a few options:

quercus and ibm's ... ack - what was it called? they had a 'freeware' CMS that included their own implementation of PHP in Java.

I think there's another too, but there's quite a lot of oddities and assumptions that make PHP-based code not play well in the JVM.
I have tried approaching one of the above mentioned. Chasing the other 2 is definitely on my to do list. if you know of any other similar sites please let me know.
Sleep Cycle for the iPhone tracks and graphs quite a bit of useful information and may provide many of the features you're looking for. (Note it uses the phone's accelerometer for sleep tracking, so be wary your partner/bed may skew data - i haven't studied the effects). You can get some raw data, and it plots some commonly asked datasets. At the very least, it can provide a quick way to collect data and correlate what may cause a lousy night's sleep (beer and D&D for example).

It doesn't embarrass you publicly on Facebook, but I'd personally write that off as a feature.
The guy killed himself for something greater then you.

No. One thousand times, no. He killed himself because he wasn't emotionally equipped to handle the situation he was in. That's why anybody does it.

What he thought he was doing when he did what got him in trouble is a separate argument. Acting like his death at his own hand somehow validates his cause -- or relates to it at all -- is only going to lead more people to senselessly "man up" by making the single biggest mistake a person can ever make.
I covered both bases. I was suggesting that the time to compile with clang is 4x LESS than gcc 4.7 for our code base. Which IMHO is a lot more important than slight optimisations of loops that don't make a difference in the end.

The end result produced by gcc in some cases is more performant (looking at profiling output), however we continue to use clang because most of our code spends a LOT more time in I/O than it does in certain tight loops that GCC would optimise, and clang produces better diagnostic output, and compiles faster thus we get feedback faster and spend less time waiting for our codebase to compile.
I graduated a little over a year ago and am now faced with at least $50k in debt (not accounting for interest). The school I attended was a state university and sadly, the education I received may have amounted to ~$20k. I say this because the majority of my instructors were recent hires out of the university's own graduate programs and (IMHO) lacked the experience to teach certain topics.

The remaining cost I assume, was for "campus enhancements" like swapping out printed cafeteria menus with flat screen tv's (you must understand, this was an eco friendly initiative).

Universities are a trap. The future they're selling kids is non-existent and they know it. Instead of uni-hopping, students should start picking up topics/trades of interest early, studying on nights and weekends leading up to their hs graduation. The obvious suggestion is learn code, but it could include a lot more. Don't send your kids to school. Be proactive and find out what they're interested in early and nurture it. It may rob them partially of a childhood, but at least their adulthood won't be a depressing, seemingly pointless adventure.
Sundance Snoozer: Steve Jobs Biopic Gets Lukewarm Reviews as Fest Ends
Anyone actually buy this?
For the same reason a modern CPU has capabilities far beyond what's exposed through Javascript or Ruby: it's easier to build a simple general purpose device and then implement any API through a software layer than to make hardware implementation of every complex API.
Maybe it is because with 'this is great' it searches with 'this is', 'is great' and 'this is great'.

I might be wrong but that's my guess. Why won't you try searching with "'this is great'" and include ' and ' so it srarches only sites that has 'this is great' in it.
Had this protest been launched somewhere other than in the security-screening area, we would have a much different case. But Tobey’s antics diverted defendants from their passenger-screening duties for a period, a diversion that nefarious actors could have exploited to dangerous effect.

Yeah, the "nefarious actors" couldn't grope, er pat down, any women during that time.
I am not questioning whether OP did something wrong; If he did, as a paying customer (and first offender), I would anticipate some kind of notification email, or something at least.

Sure, for repeat offenders: repeat notifications, then close account, refund adequate part of payment and that's it. You should never irreversibly delete someone's data. Moreover when he's paying you.
Yes it is for the session cookies. You are right that it won't work well for multiple frontend servers but that isn't going to be an issue for this current app. If it is written to the Heroku environment it should be available to all dynes I think.

I can rethink the solution if I need scale. I don't really think of it as config as I don't care what the value is just that it is consistent on any given host.
If you need help, ask for it. People tend to respond pretty well to that.

But do it quickly, because I'm pretty sure you're going to get hell-banned for this. And for reasons that will be painfully obvious to you once you are sober.
Knowing When A Python Thread Has Died
Employees are never rewarded for their openness and being forthcoming, only punished or worse replaced.

Maybe one company in a thousand is loyal and wants to empower their workers by helping them live fulfilling lives but until that is the norm and not the exception, employees have exactly zero incentive to play it any other way than close to the vest.
I like it, although I think there are other organizing principles to explore. Seconded on all the 'fork' comments its not at all intuitive to a chef what you mean here.

At present the top level abstraction is the recipe which you've sort of equated to 'source code' but when you look at something like Github or Sourceforge the high level abstraction is the 'project' and in the food world the closest I could come up with is 'cuisine.'

Consider one of my daughters favorite sites: http://smittenkitchen.com/ this site has lots of interesting recipes, and one might use them as a top level abstraction. So you've got the 'smittenkitchen' project equivlent or maybe 'smittenkitchen-breakfast' project which is breakfasts from smitten kitchen.

Then there are chefs which are much more important in the cooking world than individual developers are in the programming world. That is because the chef's 'taste' really defines the product in a way that is fundamental to the enjoyment. So you might want to build a '<Chef>-<category>' type model. Then you could do a pull of <Ramsay>-<appetizer> and get various appetizers that Gordon Ramsay makes.

Of course that will get you into a licensing battle. Because like fonts, recipes have this weird quasi relationship to name vs instructions (can't copyright instructions, can copyright the name, google Font Copyright for more info)

Conceptually I think this is a really winner idea (sadly easy to copy) but if you get the right mix going and critical mass it could easily be as successful as github or sourceforge.
The preview tab feature is standard in SeaMonkey. But I guess no one - except me - uses SeaMonkey (it also has built-in Mail).
I wasn't paying attention, no. I already knew who I was going to vote for. (I don't watch ads on TV anyway. This leaves me woefully uninformed as to what sugar-infused toothpaste to buy, but I think I'll live.)
Interesting. Do you mind me asking why they required a passport? Seems a bit off.
I don't know much about MSVC++, but Intel's compilers are widely considered the most advanced C++ compilers, as long as you stick with Intel hardware. There was some controversy over it generating bad assembly when targeting AMD cores, but this is a non-issue for companies like Boeing and Raytheon, who will be using custom hardware anyway.
"Dear god" is an idiom...
I have to admit it is quite astonishing to see someone denying climate change is a huge issue on a site dedicated to computer-logic based businesses that are future-focused, a site populated by many under 30.

Climate change is the primary challenge for the next few generations, and once we move on from 'debate' we see that there are a wealth of opportunities in mitigation, reduction of CO2 output and coping with the impact. Just ask Elon Musk.
Yes, startup times are a pain. As of this morning, Drake now works with Drip, which is a nifty tool to bring down start up times. It spins "backup" JVMs, so next time you run the command, JVM is ready. It works great for interactive environments where at least several seconds pass between runs, but won't do much if you need to run Drake several times per second from an automated script.

Another option is Nailgun, but it has its limitations, too.

None if this is ideal. If you want to write a very simple CLI program, keep this in mind. You may want to stay away from JVM.
depends, TL;DR, local disk drives (Ephemeral) do not persist anything that wasn't part of the base image if you power down the machine (doesn't include restarts - data is persisted in this situation). network based drives (EBS) persist all their data across machine shutdown.

Slightly longer version - When you stop a AWS instance, the instance is torn down completely and all local state/data (Ephemeral) on the hypervisor is lost. when you then start the instance again a new hypervisor with spare capacity is found and then booted with your chosen base disk image. Restarts do not cause your instance to torn down so you don't lose local state / data. If your instance uses network drives (EBS) then these drives keep state when your server is torn down, and are re-attached when the server is started back up again,
I just spotted it on Clojure subreddit few days back: http://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/16r9ym/my_clojuresc...
So do you propose we just stop cancer research just because there have been no immediate advances?

"Trying to help him could be a great research in itself"

Only if you volunteered your nephew as a test subject to go through unproven clinical trials.
I feel like I just earned a life achievement, seeing something I made on HN.
When should I make the first commit to source control?
"this is great" can be an entire sentence. "is great" could be preceded by any number of other words: "Hacker News is great," "The iPod is great," etc.

I've long ago given up trying to make sense of what the hell Google has done to search. Both Google Books and YouTube search are exercises in letting yourself be abused. None of this is the Google that made everyone flock to Google when it was unknown.

EDIT for a typo.
Hacktivism project: attend services at these churches around election-time and document (audio and video if possible) any cases of them endorsing for or against specific candidates.

Churches can lose their tax-exempt status for doing that. It happened to a church in upstate NY during the first Clinton election. (They later had the ruling overturned on the basis that the IRS somehow singled them out for disproportionate treatment, but I'm hopeful that with more evidence of more churches doing it, simply getting caught wouldn't be legitimate grounds for crying "They're picking on me!" any more...)
Ussc.gov is down
Welcome to PHP. This is the norm.

I worked at an outfit that hired some utter fuckwits who had been recommended by some more fuckwits for something and they did it in PHP and put it on budget shared hosting.

A week later: SQL injection, CSS, CSRF attacks and someone who had cracked the server was injecting malicious js in the page header.

That day was the day that management finally listened to my doomsaying about security...
A long long time ago back in the 64-bit era, a bunch of fellow conspirators got some of the videogaming news sites to wax poetic about the impending arrival of Super Multi-Uniform Rational F-Splines...

The more things change, the more they stay the same...
The problem with HT is that it can't do enough volume to actually build a profitable business. It's primary customer is someone bigger to buy them out.
Porn trolling firm accused of colluding with defendant in sham lawsuit
I think its just that in certain spheres/communities, certain events or stories have precedence. It should probably be expected for this story to be covered extensively in tech-spheres among some other niches.
Please stop with the accusations of dogmatism. Regardless of whether you agree with their goals or not, the reasons behind avoiding GPLv3 licensed components are very pragmatic.
I have been going most of my web app development in Clojure. For many years, I did most in Sinatra or Rails. I would argue based on my own experience that Clojure + Noir are every bit as quick and Agile as Ruby + Sinatra because of auto-reloading of Clojure, CSS, HTML, etc. in dev mode. (Yeah, BTW, Noir is deprecated but I still use it on 4 projects.)
FreeBSD has had a long outspoken goal of not relying on GPL in the base system, an ideological choice. The transition to clang/llvm has also been very long and will (if everything goes as planned) be finalized in FreeBSD 10.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase

Apple (as they would not accept GPLv3) was stuck with shipping the very old GCC 4.2.1, also Apple wanted to be able to incorporate the compiler toolchain into their proprietary solutions like XCode, something GPL obviously won't allow. Hence funding LLVM while starting work on Clang made sense for them, but again not a choice made (purely) on technological merits.
I have been going most of web app development in Clojure. For many years, I did most in Sinatra or Rails. I would argue based on my own experience that Clojure + Noir are every bit as quick and Agile as Ruby + Sinatra because of auto-reloading of Clojure, CSS, HTML, etc. in dev mode. (Yeah, BTW, Noir is deprecated but I still use it on 4 projects.)
I am also in school (1 year older). And have tried several laptops over the last couple years. I am currently using a 13 inch business laptop.

You asked about software

- Windows 7(I use the old Windows 98 interface, still don't like the docky thing)
- Ubuntu (I use the gnome style, again not the dock)
- Mac OSX (depends on the hardware and if you are willing to do some trail and error)

I have tried going with a Desktop for years, but for some reason teachers don't let me use them in class(joking). I agree I need that portability.

I currently am using one of the business laptops that are large corporate companies use. For example Thinkpad, and HP often get into corporate deals with hospitals, schools, IT infrastructures, etc..

Reasons I would do so.

1) Cost - They are often fairly cheap to buy a used one. I believe there is an decrease in cost that goes on with the devices. Companies buy them in bulk and then often sell them in bulk.

2) Supported - by companies, hardware and even linux(both hp and thinkpad are often Intel graphics cards)

3) Take Apart - They are often intended to be taken apart. I'm serious. I have a panel on the bottom of mine to eject the back. Instance access to RAM and hard drive. I personally like the flexibility.

4) Tracking Point -I can't stand one of those trackpads(Yes even on Macs). The business models almost always have tracking points because a lot of business people can't stand them either. This may or may not be a selling point for you, but it is for me.

5) Quality - The business models truly feel more solid to me, and you can more easily order replacement parts online.

6) Matte Display - If you are working for long hours, I find glossy displays impossible to use. Business laptops (at least all that I have seen) use Matte Displays. This is fairly different then the glossy ones they sell in Best Buy.

I used to own a Thinkpad, now I own a Elitebook 8460p - i5 4GB. I bought it for $350 off ebay.

I will probably get a Thinkpad in a year or so I like their keyboards better.

Additionally Thinpads are what a lot of the linux kernel guys and Googlers use.
Wow! Thanks for the insurmountable advice lol and links. Much appreciated! Seriously. I have not stopped reading/researching since!
Sidenote: The ; key will repeat an f or F search, going in the appropriate direction.

ie, fy;; will find the third 'y' in the line.
Thankfully, there is regulation in this area for any school that gets state funding. If state-subsidized 4-years don't accept X number of transfer students from that state's community colleges every year, they can say goodbye to a chunk of their state funding.

I can't speak for private universities, however.
It's not about whether or not to use Watsi now, but a concern on behalf of Watsi. I'm not going to refrain from donating today because Watsi might go away tomorrow, but I'm certainly concerned about if and how it will still be here tomorrow.
Don't think it solves this problem but Caucho Resin (Java EE server) should be able to run php as well.
Except that Rabois (and Thiel) were both in the closet at the time. In lieu of "look, I'm not homophobic"...

first-year law student Keith Rabois - refused to answer their questions, but sent a letter to the Stanford Daily confirming the allegations. "Admittedly, the comments made were not very articulate, not very intellectual nor profound," Rabois wrote. "The intention was for the speech to be outrageous enough to provoke a thought of 'Wow, if he can say that, I guess I can say a little more than I thought.' "
http://news.stanford.edu/pr/92/920212Arc2432.html

Because obviously, the world is a poorer, fundamentally less free place if we're not allowed to harrass people by shouting we hope they die of AIDs. Thiel at least later admitted embarrassment over the whole episode.

The bona fide bigots have more integrity.
Hmmmm...careful there. Check out this excellent Steve Blank post on "selling with sports scores":

http://steveblank.com/2009/06/25/convergent-technologies-war...
The people who are good programmers and know C well enough aren't the ones who stick with PHP. They moved on.

PHP is from newbies for newbies.
There are many, many more companies on the old model than there are Twilio-esque companies. Regardless, broadly speaking you are right: there are really interesting things happening in B2b right now. It's a great time to be alive if you like figuring out compelling ways to get people to buy software, and these days, not all of them involve steak dinners.
I meant they're similar in the way that it's able to captivate someone, despite being not really exceptional. I should have worded that differently.
Well, backwards compability is kind of a binary thing, isn't it. Either you're aiming for backwards compability and you can be sure your legacy code will keep running, or you don't. In fact it would be more helpful to throw fatal errors because a method signature changed, than start returning different and unexpected values which can break data integrity in subtle ways.
That's a developer incompetence problem, not a PHP problem. If python or ruby was as trivially easy to get running (read: preinstalled everywhere), then they would be the lowest barrier to entry and have the exact same problems.
Yes, I always name my .apk files to .jpg before sending over bluetooth.
I recall Michael Larabel (owner of the site and pretty much sole show-runner) indeed having expressed a personal dislike for FSF, which is further exemplified with a long line of 'articles' were he attacks FSF for just about every shortcoming in the FOSS world he can think of.

So yes, I'd say you are quite correct in your assessment.
"Reform or we'll release this incriminating stuff."

Clearly, the better way to get them to reform is to release the incriminating material and have a scandal about it. If it's really bad enough to be worth this headline, it'll do a lot more good when it's not a threat. Of course, that means it's probably irrelevant and/or useless.
It is difficult because I have heard this line of thought many times before when the person saying it did think that the person awarded money should not have won.

I lived in a school district adjacent to the Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania in 2004/2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School...) and I cannot count the number of times I heard people (people I knew to be ardent creationists that supported the defense) complaining about the award because the money was just coming from tax payers.

The message, as they expressed it, was not that we should be angry at the school-board for causing such a waste of money, but that we should be angry at the Plantiffs and the ACLU for 'wasting' that money. (Yeah, that is a crazy position. That was par for the course though.)
Also, last I checked, at least Debian ships with an Apache max-workers setting greater than the MySQL max-connections setting out of the box, pretty much guaranteeing errors like these even on a single virtualhost under load.
DNA succesfully utilized for storing data (739kB)
this is exciting news.
storing binary data in DNA means long term, reliable, robust, space & energy efficient and maybe even tasty data storage and archiving abilities.
nice. (x-post reddit)
Something I have started to find extremely annoying is the way Google now discards some of your keywords if they think they have a strong match for your other keywords. Synonyms I'm fine with, but does anyone know how to make Google match all of the keywords?

Example is "fab lab Sydney" bringing back the fab lab Wikipedia page, which doesn't have "Sydney" (or a synonym) on it.