skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's why environment is important.

Random man from environment picks up gun and shoots you point blank without warning. Agency your way out of that little pickle.

Or how about - you're a black woman in the year 1900. I'm sorry did you have a future?

The amount of things I can list here are endless. You might even be 1 in a million. Too bad there are 1000s of other just like you.

You are the least important factor in your success.
Obfuscated CC-licensed code is not open source code.
Defence bets big on Linux
Developers are supposed to be grateful that managers protect them from shit from even dumber and insane managers above them? Nope. Why not just fire those insane managers slinging shit everwhere.
It depends on what the server is doing - packets that size wouldn't be unusual in a bulk data transfer (like a HTTP response) but are larger than you'd see in the typical DNS query/response.
I'd love to see a good showing by any of them, but so far they've all launched with a thud.
Sometimes adding humans is the best option? How about just hire some student workers to sweep through bug reports remotely? Even some Mechanical Turk approach might work, if you can create some checklist of what a useful bug report must have (and if you got this, it could also be integrated into the bug tracker workflow).
http://androidandme.com/2013/01/smartphones-2/first-ubuntu-p...
The Government Is Not Building a National Wi-Fi Network
Slips vs mistakes – what WordPress gets wrong that Blogger and Tumblr get right
Probably because OpenID has largely been recognized as a misstep.

Separate logins for try and meta is just silly though.
Pure speculation, but I have to wonder if Sinofsky's firing had something to do with him not agreeing with this decision. Seeing as a key selling point for the Surface over the iPad is the inclusion of Office, and the Surface was Sinofsky's baby, I imagine he wouldn't like this decision at all. That, and one of the reasons Ballmer cited for Sinofsky leaving was his lack of cooperation with other senior leadership.
As someone who has tooled around with Meteor a bit, and also digging into the other platforms (although I haven't messed with FlatIron yet, despite being a Nodejitsu customer/fan), I think Meteor has a huge sweet spot in the Enterprise world. It really does abstract a huge amount in a way that is very un-Node, but that has some great pros when it comes to time saving. It is unbelievable how quickly a professional app with authentication, bootstrap, email (integration with mailgun out of the box, or your own) can be built. A lot of times in my day job as a data analyst, I just need to quickly get a tool deployed for my team to work with, and I'm not trying to be "pure" and worry about being able to npm install the latest MongoDB to Postgres synchronization module, or something like it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited about where Rendr will go when they finally get it ready for prime time, and I'm trying to get more comfortable with Backbone in preparation for it. But the ease with which I was able to quickly build something in Meteor makes a stark contrast with what I'm having to do with Backbone/Express combo.
Aaron Swartz's Girlfriend Explains 'Why Aaron Died'
Microsoft Attacks Google on Gmail Privacy
Mark my words: this phone will be an utter failure. "Linux" or "Ubuntu" aren't some magic talismans you can apply to any product and make it great; in fact, it takes a lot of hard work, design talent, and money to make a phone, and Canonical does not have the last two, possibly the last three.
I much prefer libreoffice and gnumeric to excel. Last I looked, of the three only gnumeric could do colored scatter plots, though this was a while ago...
One word: smartphones
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL62D6jcWHA
I am in (biological) research, and this would be a godsend in the unlikely event it's true. There are a lot of *nix users in research, but paradoxically, MS Word is a virtual requirement for submitting grants and manuscripts, and MS Excel is very commonly used to pass around datasets.

Libreoffice is unacceptably broken in a thousand small ways. The best compromise we have come up with is to edit internal documents with Google Docs until they are almost finished, then polish them in Word.
True enough. And employees who wait to be "trained" on interesting new technology instead of learning it for themselves aren't worth hiring.

Obviously neither statement is (completely) true. At the "rockstar" level, all learning is self directed. And rockstar employers expect and rely on that. But for everyone else I think it's reasonable that there be some level of support for education from employers, and some level of self motivation from good employees. Neither is going to make up for a total shortcoming in the other.
Nesting is both good and bad.

For hacker news it's good, because those are more "asocial" conversations - I don't know who I am replying to, I don't personally know any of you folks and I don't really remember to who I replied.

However, a lot of forums (phpbb and the like) are more "social" - you get to know the people, you want to read what they have to write even if it's not a reply to you.

You just want to follow the whole conversation. Usually it's doable, because the forums are rather small in audience, people know each other and so on.

Yes, it wouldn't work for reddit or digg or slashdot because there are tons of people there and you just can't read everything. But for a smaller forum? Yes, I want PhpBB style conversation rather than nested one.
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I see people from similar backgrounds achieving very different outcomes in life. Myself, I come from a poor rural area that many people of my peer group did not escape. I'm proud of my life today, though it is not perfect. I can say it was damned hard to get here and I am happy to be here.

What role did agency play in separating my more successful peers from the ones at home in their parents' trailers with no meaningful occupation, often accompanied by unplanned children and drug problems? I think it is greater than 0%.

I honestly believe that you have to be born into privilege to believe something like "You are the least important factor in your success". I cannot believe it after seeing what I have seen.

Moreover, when privileged people tell the world that success is all luck, I fear that it has a poisonous cultural effect. You are telling all the would-be strivers in the world "Give up. You lost the lottery at birth. What will happen will happen". I tell them "Fight harder! You'll make it! Keep trying!". Yes, the reality is that some of them will never make it. But if they fail, they'll fail with dignity and self-respect. That's worth something.
Of the three solutions, minBy is the only one likely to handle the empty sequence/database case at all gracefully. Returning a fake "zero" is particularly awful.

It probably doesn't matter much since it's a throwaway problem and the database is known not to be empty, but it bugs me.
To clarify, I was trying to use "specious" as a synonym of "flawed." I thought this was the common usage, but apparently not.

As to your point, obviously no one should be making any decisions off of flawed benchmarks, but flawed benchmarks (not so far as outright lies, just flawed) at least give me an objective justification to investigate further.

Even some flawed benchmarks could help turn the initial tide of responses like "this is X written in Blub, it's bound to be better!" or "this is a faster X! Now everything will be twice as fast!" They're silly examples, but it seems like every time a new technology comes out, these are the kinds of knee-jerk, overly-optimistic reactions people tend to have.
Ironically, GPG setup in mutt is extremely easy if you use the GPGME library integration:

set crypt_use_gpgme=yes

The documentation does not seem to stress that GPGME is favored over the old pgp_* settings (which are typically cargo-culted), but it should.

The author mentions GPGME in the article, but only to shrug it off as "too big". Given the fact that devices like the raspberry pi now run full Linux distributions, I'd say it's a weak argument.
> As a side note, maybe this is a good idea for startups. :)

But you said you don't want to pay for it. Rackspace Mail hosts the mailboxes on my domains at $1/mailbox/month with a 100% uptime SLA and 24/7/365 phone/chat/email support. There are plenty of other options when you're willing to pay.
I was quoting the video on the linked page, about 1:48: "OPEN SOURCE Make your own modifications and customizations."
Yes and in other news, many drugs that are illegal now were once legal and full auto-weapons were once legal, etc.
New York Times Employee Computer Policy (1983)
The really nice thing about labs these days is how much you can do virtually. Before I changed jobs, I had 2 NetApp filers doing replication, two EMC Clariion CX arrays, and two complete VMware datacenters doing DR failover, vMotion, and DRS. All on two PC servers in a downstairs closet.
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I was speaking figuratively, referring to the way Chrome alters its UI during updates. Those updates happen in the background, so you can literally close your browser one day, and then open it the next to find something has changed.

In Chrome's case, the most obvious changes lately always seem to be adding junk like apps or a web store or logging in (logging in... to my browser... yes, really). I have no need of or interest in any of these things, yet they now clutter up the UI where once they did not.
Back in the early 2000's I much preferred a flat forum. As I remember VBulletin had flat/ nested or a hybrid of both. When I was designing my own forum software I went with flat.

I think it really depends on the topics and the audience though. For something like Hacker News, flat would be a nightmare as it is such a large loosely connected community and each submission usually generates comments that are only loosely connected.

A smaller online community, maybe a few thousand where all the regular contributors know each other can have flat work fine depending on the topics discussed.

What is the answer? Probably the ability to configure. One thing I can say I do hate is nesting to one level, this confuses people more as the first reply will be nested then subsequent replies to the first nested level will be awkwardly placed at that first level also. (Guess I am mainly thinking of Disqus here)
yep: https://gist.github.com/2927038 used to redirect here: https://gist.github.com/doubleotoo/2927038 (in Google results)
Curiosity Tests Out Its Drill On Mars
Cloudyn says it exposes hidden Amazon storage costs
The relative difficulty of getting hosting for a Ruby app vs. getting hosting for a PHP app may work in their favour: they intend to offer managed hosting akin to Wordpress.com. (WordPress.com can be used for free, but there are all sorts of paid extras.)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Brisbane, Australia / Remote

Things I do really well: PHP; Javascript; MySQL

Things I do pretty well: Python; Server admin

Things I can do if I need to: Java, C#, perl

Some open source things that I built:

http://www.samuellevy.com/mico (2010) - PHP, MySQL, Javascript; Simple call tracker for small businesses. Translated into Russian, Spanish, and (shortly) Chinese

https://github.com/samlev/blogfile (2012) - PHP, MySQL; A single-file PHP blog (which I have since largely re-written since it was released to make my own blog better: http://blog.samuellevy.com)

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/samuel-levy/17/195/3a4

Contact: sam+hn@samuellevy.com
I also like "Outside Aperture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0
What did you have trouble setting up? Creating a key and informing mutt is fairly straightforward. What errors did you run into?

Configuring GPG and Thunderbird is brain dead easy.
I have a developer unit and can confirm: it's legit. I don't want to go into too much detail because of the developer agreement, but think it is best characterized as like a "useful, portable, affordable, easy to integrate kinect". I'm having a lot of fun messing around with it, though I don't have much to share yet as other work has taken precedence. SOON.
Women in Science Are Outnumbered and Outearned
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There is the hckrnews [1] browser extension that does exactly this for news.ycombinator.com. I believe the reddit enhancement suite also does this, but I've only heard about it since I don't use it. I do know, however, that reddit gold members get this functionality via the more-inefficient server-side magic. The coolest thing about the reddit gold implementation is that it allows you to select highlighting of comments from different times of past views so if you happened to visit but not read the new comments they're not wiped out on you.

About the original topic of conversion, discourse, I think I really need to see the site without all the cruft before deciding much about it. As it is, it's far too busy for me. I really hate this trend of "modern" web development, but the developers have stated that it should be themeable by those who deploy it.

Funny thing is, a couple ideas I've had myself about possible features of discussion forms appear to be present there but I dislike them already. Prime among this is the ability to spawn off a discussion thread from a main post to its own subpost. I always though that subthreads tend to get derailed to the point of needing to be a separate discussion. I think that what really matters is how the surrounding communities use such features. It being a playpen that is wiped every day, with users coming in to test features over and over might be painting my experience a bit.

[1] http://hckrnews.com/about.html
I tried to register and login into your demo site, it worked, but I can't post anything.

Also the metafilter post doesn't open for me.
So would you agree that the current achievement gap between women and men in school is a social/cultural bias or privilege? Or would you argue instead that women are just smarter?

Sorry to hear about your father.
Is The Government Telling The Truth When It Says Your Data Is Secure?
Not long ago I discovered that the coffee machine works better when you put the cup in place BEFORE pushing start.
Any reading list on Milken should include Den of Thieves.
nearly impossible to go back to a thread and continue where you left off

We have the technology, we can do both!

The page is drowning in useless javascript gimmickry anyway, it should be possible to add some actually useful javascript to seamlessly switch between linear, conversation and tree view. You know, to aid the user in his interaction with the content rather than fancy stylesheets and sliding widgets.

The more I look at discourse the more it infuriates me.

The complete disregard of time tested interfaces (Usenet and the authors own StackOverflow) just doesn't jive at all with their wild claims to "reinvent online discourse". Unless their idea of reinvention translates to repeating every mistake made in the past 30 years...

What they did is unleash a terrible forum software that will undoubtedly be forced down the throat of a great many users for no reason other than it being "the next hip SV thing".
I'm currently reading Warren Buffet's biography, Snowball.

A lot of it has taken me by surprised. My long standing idea of Buffett was that he was careful and prudent, but I'm surprised to learn how highly intellegent he was. the book references how easy school/college was and that he was the only one to get an A+ in Ben Graham's class. It was also very interesting at how OBSESSED he was with earning money, from a very young age, all his efforts revolved around how he could earn more and more money.

All that to say, there were a lot of serendipitous aspects to buffet's success, but I think more so he was just an extremely unique individual able to combine 1. very smart 2. very ambitious 3. very concerned with increasing his capitol.
I share your concerns regarding "walled garden." Are you aware of Meteorite, and the Atmosphere repository? Essentially Meteorite is an open package manager which wraps the meteor functionality, and allows installation of all of the third party packages on Atmosphere.

I do want to point out one difference I've noticed when using Meteor: ease of implementation.

Once the "accounts-ui" package is added, here is the code that is added (in two respective files) to implement a login/registration function:

<div style="float: right; margin-right:20px;">
{{loginButtons align="right"}}
</div>

and

Accounts.ui.config({
passwordSignupFields: 'USERNAME_AND_OPTIONAL_EMAIL'
});
I think there's a fundamental difference between this, which is interacting with an empty 3D space, and all other modes of input such as keyboards, mice, touchpads and touchscreens which are interacting with a physical 2D plane.
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My point was that thinking that thirty five year olds are old, that the goal of life is to make six figures plus, and that at any point it is reasonable to fire people because of their age... Well, these things are indicative of completely idiotic pre-teens with completely privileged and stupid priorities. That almost no one here even registered that it was weird to do those things, to me suggests that the people reading it are also bizarre privileged idiotic pre-teens.

It's being a bizarre privileged idiotic pre-teen that I'm pointing out is dickish - holding these beliefs, thinking they're even vaguely sensible or reasonable - to me these are people that need to be told that they're behaving poorly.

You may think its just the way of the world, but I'm suggesting, you know, maybe not being so self-involved and maybe recognizing that being in the first fifth of your career does not make you de facto the best person in any given room, and more importantly, something that you'll pass through relatively quickly before you get another forty years of being patronized by children.
rofl. what will they think of next…
" To clarify, I was trying to use "specious" as a synonym of "flawed." I thought this was the common usage, but apparently not."

"Specious" does mean, more or less, flawed.

Zero benchmarks are better than flawed benchmarks.
For me, standard "offline" Office suites are really "things of the previous millenium". MS Office or Libre/OpenOffice alike.

I use Google Docs for everything. It's simpler to use, it's simpler to share documents, it's inherently more mobile. The updates are instant. And so on.

Now I would be glad if there was free (as-in-speech) alternative to Google Docs, so I could just host it myself on my server. There IS etherpad, but it doesn't do tables and works slightly differently.

What do others think? Are "offline" office suites still relevant?
I can see how an overachieving/motivated 11th grader (you) might think this, but it is neither what "reasonable" hiring managers expect or what the average student produces. Maybe the situation is different at top-10 colleges, but my experience is that maybe 10-15% of a cohort will have >= 1 side project upon graduation. Most students don't even bother learning languages outside of what's taught in class.
I love that quote and the idea behind it. Hard to implement, but good to keep in mind.
The ending of episode 2 in particular had a profound effect on me emotionally. Not sure I've ever felt that in any other game that I've played.
Are you male, white and born in America? Sounds pretty lucky to me.

But then again - you probably can't see past your own ego (fundamental attribution error FTW). Let's see you fight your way out of being an AIDS infected baby born somewhere in Sudan.

> I see people from similar backgrounds achieving very different outcomes in life

Similar backgrounds. Different outcomes. Take the delta - you get luck.

> I fear that it has a poisonous cultural effect

Ah yes - attributing success to oneself is soooo much healthier.

> You are telling all the would-be strivers in the world "Give up. You lost the lottery at birth. What will happen will happen".

Straw man. Never said that. Only indicated that your success is dictated to you by both your environment and your DNA.

> Yes, the reality is that some of them will never make it

s/some/most/g

> privileged people tell the world that success is all luck

You are privileged - but you obviously can't see that (how many people have access to safe water again?). It's to your own benefit that you attribute success to yourself.
The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem
Good god. I don't know how you poor bastards put up with that ridiculous nanny state firewall. Living in China must be like living with really strict parents.
Federal Reserve hacked
Don't listen to the doubters: Facebook is your friend
Seconding the PenFM suggestion. I know mike personally and have seen his work on the platform. It's very impressive. I don't think there's anything else out there that can so easily push out a perfectly-formatted ebook without all the usual pains involved.
No burger_king.com either.

is this a typo, or could domains back then contain underscores (or maybe the reporter is mistaken)?
I really like the StackExchange family. But this is weak, IMO, for some reasons:

1. A typical forum looks simpler to me than this. If they're going to reinvent forums, it should be intuitive

2. AJAX? Yea, fine, but only as means to an end

3. "Discourse is designed from the beginning for high resolution touch devices." -- Tried on my nexus 7 and it looked bad, I had to turn on the laptop. Not all mobile devices can be described as "high resolution touch devices".

4. Their key features: "Conversations, not pages", "Get notifications when mentioned", "Simple, but with context", "Remembers your place", "Reply while you read", "Reply as a linked topic", "Real time updates", "Links automatically expand", "Bring your friends", "Paste to share images", "Log in with … anything", "Moderation that scales with the community", "Categories that grow with you", "Search that actually works", "Simple metrics", "Your stuff belongs to you", "Comprehensive API", "No app required". -- These are all welcome features, but they don't reinvent anything IMO, more like an incremental improvement. Most of them could just as well be implemented as plugins to traditional forums.

That being said, forums need to be reinvented, but Discourse doesn't do that.
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Luck matters. It has always mattered.

http://chester.id.au/2012/03/02/does-leadership-matter/

Of course, you can't control it. At best you can optimise based on the cards you're dealt in life.

Before this discussion gets too far down the usual track, it's useful to remember the distinction between necessary and sufficient causes.

Is luck necessary for success? At the super-high level, yes. In fact at the low level, yes. Being born in the USA or the anglosphere or in a wealthy country is a massive stroke of luck.

Is luck sufficient for success? No. Ask any lottery winner.

Now to all the other things people list -- intelligence, personality and the like.

Is an anxious drive to achieve necessary? At that level, it would seem so.

Is it sufficient? No. It's not; no matter how ambitious you are it's going to be difficult to transcend some starting conditions.
http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/domain.html

He returned the domain and talked McDonalds into making a donation to charity.
What is Java technology and why do I need it?
This mentality towards training people is common, but is a textbook case of stupid management. Companies under-invest in training, then pay enormous recruiting costs in getting people with the "right skills" as well as paying opportunity costs when projects can't go forward because they can't find the "right people." It's a bit of brain-dead management that's common in some other fields, but acutely common in software/IT.