skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a Wordpress blog for ages and wasn't getting hardly any recognition for what I wrote. 1 or 2 comments here and there, but that's about the most is get from it. I do like Wordpress and the sense of individuality about it, but glipho has everything it does and doesn't. I joined glipho a couple of months back and you can see the community of bloggers, writers and readers interacting waaaay more then I've seen on my Wordpress blog. Plus, all I have to do is WRITE, I don't have to worry about anything else which is what I think ALL writers NEED.

I love reading, what's your blog mike? :)
Could anyone explain, why Lua is so special?
I'd say get a cheap VPS from a service like linode or digital ocean (there are many others listed on lowendbox.com but I would recommend sticking with the well-known/bigger providers) then take it from there. Most major distributions have tutorials in their wikis for setting up commonly used software--linode even has a community resources section with a lot of material for server software.

Edit: My comment was slanted towards linux and I forgot to mention that maybe some familiarity with linux would be useful, but windows is also an alternative (usually more expensive).
I didn't realize Zalando was a Rocket Internet company. I see their ads on Belgian television all the time (a very good, funny ad).

I agree with you - as a European I don't care about it being a clone, at least they make an effort to serve my market.
If you have a spare computer laying around you could put Ubuntu server on it. The stack setup can be pretty easy for something like PHP or Django.
>Ubuntu searchable menus (HUD) coupled with execution of the command from the search results would be something I'd be interested in.

You mean like the OSX help system? Yes, feature discoverability is the main issue I have with Office ribbons. For this reason alone it's IMO not well thought through. iWorks still has the best / most consistant UI, if only its features weren't so lacking. I'd much rather have LibreOffice copy these concepts, such as the info window, table insert hotkeys and spreadsheets with multiple tables per sheet.
Happy Valentine’s, Google — see you in court
related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369485
So far we're using Git Extensions in our deployment here, but this looks promising.

Signed up for the beta. Most of our users unfortunately have a dislike for everything CLI (.. =( ..), so in this environment it's either Git Extensions, the upcoming VS 2012 native client or .. maybe this project.
I think the key problem is that such consumption isn't sustainable. Sooner or later you run into the fact that we can't keep running on this treadmill and pushing the costs on down.

It seems to me that the call to action should be building a new economy, one of free individuals guided by a truly free market, because as the article demonstrates the market is hardly free at the moment.
There is some merit to this claim. Firefox on my 4GB 1GhZ laptop is somewhat sluggish (it could be down to several factors), especially when it comes to Flash. Chrome flies, but Nightly is actually on par with Chrome.
Some developers don't appreciate the value of separating data from UI. A UI designer says, "Give me the data and I'll present it." But if they get a mixture of data and UI code, there's a serious problem, requiring a rewrite. If you're lucky, the project is already using UI templates, but that's no guarantee that they're flexible. It can be hard to keep a designer's interest if they're waiting on a complete refactor just to make a new UI even possible.

The worst I've seen is where users have been encouraged to embed UI elements (such as HTML or nonprinting ASCII) in raw data or settings to trigger certain functionality. That'll drive a UI designer to drink.
It the beginning, yc had much more interaction with their startups and it's clear that they wanted the startup to survive at any cost. Once the model grew larger there were just too many startups to mentor. Then, pg wanted them to fail as quickly as they could if they could not make something of their company quickly. That way yc would only have to mentor what he considered the strong companies.
IBM used to own a category.
I'm always a bit surprised that people are surprised to discover this. You know the experiments where monkeys will do things for grapes or tokens? That, writ large, is human society. The feelings we get making and spending money, and the feelings we get comparing our ability to do that to other people, satisfies a deep biological need in our primate selves.
The neat thing about old codebases, is that even if the code is messy, the problem it solves can be very interesting.

"Legacy codebase" is another word for "important codebase".

When you're coding, you solve the most important problems first. Thus, in some sense, the older the code base, the more important the problem it solves.
It's very small and uses very little memory. It's designed to be embedded. And has a liberal license (MIT).
Yes I did probably word it wrong, of course to cure these diseases is awesome, but we kind of know what the potential is there, I am more interested in what other potentials, apart from diseases, are there
At Mandalorian we generally have to work the standard work week when doing stuff for clients, but beyond that people manage their own time, often spending bits of time here or there to do the school run, take their kids to the doctors or as happened for the last two weeks, one of our consultants taking half days off every day while they get their new house sorted out.

I find that a results oriented work environment seems to make for happier employees.
This is absolutely false, making more money can make you subject to the AMT (and potentially a higher marginal tax rate), but you will never be in a situation where if you make an extra $1000 you'll owe an extra $1001 in taxes.
As good as pypy is it's no replacement for python yet.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12867263/why-wasnt-pypy-i...
It's not the language itself. It's its implementation. Embedding a Lua interpreter in a C program is straightforward. See the 'Python' and 'Java' slides in the OP: it's all about integration.
I, by default, have all rights
to it

That's the UN's opinion, not divine law. But in any case, the article doesn't say we have the right copying. A system with attribution protection and mandatory profit sharing - but no copyright - would be enough.

If any photo I took
would automatically belong to
anyone

It doesn't belong to anyone. A copy can be owned (by you, until you sell it or give it away); a photograph is a concept, an idea.

I would not take any more photos. In my case nothing of value would be lost, but that's not the point.

That's absolutely the point. The only reasonable justification for granting a monopoly over copying is because of the benefits to society. But the context has changed and deal stopped being fair a long time ago - if it ever was.
> the song's quickly viral music video parodying traditional hip-hop excess.

Suddenly realized the connection between Thrift Shop and Gangnam Style.

This is a great article about a great story. Did his coworkers know his musical talent before Thrift Shop?
Are We Suffering From Mobile App Burnout?
Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp
Small plug related to the learning curve. Many of the most popular apps, like ownCloud, WordPress, etc. you can get free, easy to install packages at http://bitnami.org You can choose to self-host (downloadable installers) or run on Amazon/Azure
Despite the very strong Chinese cultural meme that encourages care of the parents, such care usually does little to continue one's genes. In contrast expending that same effort aiding the child usually increases the likely continuation of one's genes.

China will have a serious problem with their largely-unsupported elderly.
Microsoft's new "Have you been Scroogled?" campaign.
Another vote for PickFu. I've used them in the past as a part of design project and I've been happy with the results.
I've seen this on an embedded product that has been sold for years.

The license is liberal, it's remarkably easy to work with Lua, is can basically call any of your C functions. Great for debugging stuff, prototyping, certain kinds of monkey patches. Great for doing unit test like experiments too; you can have some Lua put the system in to a particular state and then do your experiment.
The standard git-gui and gitk tools, bundled with git, are much better than nothing, but at the same time not much to look at compared to some other GUIs. It's a shame that these tools have seen almost no considerable improvement in the last few years, as a good cross-platform GUI bundled with git would certainly be great. Perhaps that is due to the fact that they're written in Tcl/Tk, so the codebase is not easily approachable.

I've tried a few third-party GUIs such as SmartGit (now SmartGitHg), git-cola and Git Extensions, but they all lacked in one area or another and drove me back to the standard ones. Looking forward to trying SourceTree.
This is my way to say several points:

- If the majority of our industry can make the switch to JavaScript, they'll ruin it in terms of average code quality.

- Even good, idiomatic JavaScript code sucks for reasons inherent in the language.

- I wish people wrote just good enough Python or Erlang or Haskell or whatever code instead of excellent PHP/JavaScript.

So yes, I treat PHP and JavaScript backend jobs equally.

[Edit: grammar.]
Evolving Game AI – Part 3 (Algorithm Implementation and Issues)
Couldn't we start a co-op where every member user/company/organization owned the servers? That way nobody is hosting on a third-party server where the federal government feels that they have eminent domain?
Incidentally the article references a Book and Documentary both called "The Corporation" by Joel Bakan. The book[1] is an excellent read and the documentary[2] is also worth a watch, free on archive.org.

[1] - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corporation-Pathological-Pursuit-Pro...

[2] - http://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_
In America we just call it Accutane. It's the one with all the terrible side effects, right?
I would say you should own your own domain and only use services which can hang off your domain.
That way you get the convenience of third party services, but any time you want/need to, you can shift to self-host without having to change your email/blog/whatever addresses.
What's striking to me is that we have the abbreviation "i18n" for internationalization, and "a11y" for accessibility. From the perspective of a typical young American software development team, these are two instances of "making software work for those other people that aren't quite like us". Is it a coincidence that (1) both of these concepts got cumbersome words, and (2) both of these words were abbreviated in the same way?
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
Just so I'm clear on this: The number 1 song on the US charts (EDIT: and a bunch of others, according to wikipedia) isn't on a major label, is a white guy rapping about going to the thrift store, and the hook is sung by a software test engineer?

Somebody should call Alanis Morissette and explain the concept of irony, because this is about as golden as opportunities get.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Autism -- PLEASE READ
SoundCloud's UX is confusing
A hosted OpenStack controller node which controlled a bunch of servers sitting on people's refrigerators in their garage would do the trick. Would have to figure out routing.
That doesn't really answer why use the slowest one with PyPy (and no, uWSGI does not work for PyPy, but a lot of stuff does)
http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/index.html

http://opencores.org/project,igor
Proof Bird Shot Is Good For Home Defense,Video
"Can you imagine what would happen if all of America stopped buying so much unnecessary fluff that doesn’t add a lot of lasting value to our lives?

The economy would collapse and never recover."

I used to think this, but I don't believe that so much any more. It would take a hit, but would adjust to people spending more time and money on things that mattered more to them - the things that take more money to do, vs the $5-$10 impulse purchases on things of limited value.

What things might those be? Travel? More energy efficient housing/appliances? More experience-oriented stuff in general (time with family/friends/etc)
The REAL issue with this is the high cost of N employees vs just hour per employee. Training, health insurance, etc

If we could drop it so everyone worked 30 hours but worked 75% of what they do today, many would jump at it in the higher earning echelons.

Per worker costs strongly incentivise long weeks.
How would you compare it with python for things like unit testing c code? Here lua is chosen because of it's small footprint, but for testing that doesn't really matter.
You'll probably be behind a dynamic ip, so go to dnsdynamic.org and set up your server to be "followed." (You set up a cron job to ping dnsdynamic.org periodically, and dnsdynamic.org updates its record of your ip. So you get to your server by going to myproject.dnsdynamic.com rather than myproject.com.) Set up your router so the only port(s) that is/are forwarded is/are to the port(s) you want to access (perhaps, ssh and http ports). Configure your ssh daemon to allow only private keys to log in (that is, turn off password 'logging in') and don't allow root logins.

Set up rkhunter and denyhosts.

Then, sit back and watch the logs as the attacks come in.
Depends on your experience level. If you have never setup postfix/exim/sendmail to do more than accept local mail then it will indeed be a giant headache. With a bit of work with dovecot and postfix you can have yourself a very nice mail-server. That said, there is a point at which the self-hosting pain point is not necessarily realistic, and if you have two accounts you need and they're $4/month elsewhere, why bother would be the discussion to have.
Easy blogging with iPython notebooks and the pelican static site generator
Blogging with iPython notebooks is now easier than ever.
In Europe, stations play the grown-up versions of songs, and even play songs for which there is no hope of a censored version. Example: The Ballad of Chasey Lain, which received some radio play in Germany a number of years ago.
Why We Can't Look to Space for Resources (Do the Math)
Linode has some excellent step by step guides on setting up a server.[1] You could also start with a virtual machine using those same guides.

[1] https://library.linode.com/lamp-guides
Grab yourself a Raspberry Pi. You can set up a LAMP stack, and it'll even stand up to moderate abuse. Best of all, it's cheap.
It's an interesting concept, but I'm not sure the financials would add up to just renting you're own 1u collocation space with bandwidth.

It's an extremely cheap setup if you don't need to worry about downtime in the event of hardware failure
One of the very interesting aspects of Indian culture is that there is (or used to be) a very high social respect for a "well-educated" person. So if you have a PhD, then even if you don't make a ton of money, you get the same social status as a wealthy businessman. I don't know why this is so, but it has led to nearly everyone desiring their children to have a better education than they did and escape from the grips of poverty.

There is a paragraph in Richard Feynman's "What do you care what other people think?" where a carribean cab driver asks Feynman how is it that his Indian neighbor (presumably of the same economic standing) has a son studying medicine at Maryland? Which is when Feynman explains this hypothesis.
There's much less mercury in a single vaccine dose than in the average can of tuna.

Almost every kid eats many magnatudes more mercury in their food than thy get in all the vaccines they get in their entire life. And this food-sourced mercury compounds are usually MUCH more toxic versions than the kind in vaccines.

But then again when someone says "Speaking for myself, I would never knowingly give a child of mine a vaccine containing mercury, even if there were no links to autism" then it's clear they're an idiot to begin with.
Nicely written piece. I like the progression from the author's observation about his backpacking trip; the contrast with his regained 9 to 5 day, and the realisation that consumption is driving the whole whirlygig. Reminded me of Tom Hodgkinson's The Idler http://idler.co.uk/magazine/

"It's amazing how much you can get done in twenty minutes if twenty minutes is all you have. But if you have all afternoon, it would probably take way longer."

I've just relearned that lesson; we have come through a very busy time at work and things just had to get done in minutes, right now. It worked and the sky did not fall.
Some ISP will assign you a static IP if you ask. I've never been turned down.
Take JavaScript, remove all the wonky stuff, and now you've got Lua. Then ask yourself, why has JavaScript become popular outside the browser?
Here's what my dad said: the resume submission systems for DST Output (this one is completely broken), Kaiser, Dignity Health, Sutter Health, and, shockingly, Stanford University, are particularly bad (I don't know who the vendors are).

He said a big part of the frustration is the resume formatting requirement — some systems will only take resumes in either PDF or Word, and sometimes Word 97 or lower, and sometimes these requirements aren't explicit, or the application system will take a file format the HR department won't actually accept.

He said another problem is the lack of an automatic "receipt", or some kind of response letting you know a resume has been received or when it's been rejected.

He also said that in general, he feels like the automatic screening performed by some of these tracking systems (for instance, looking for key words from the job description) weeds out qualified applicants and selects for people that are best at gaming the software.
Sure, he could have become a billionaire, but that's not good rationale as a reason "not to leave a startup." For every "Ronald Wayne" there are many many more people who will never become billionaires (or even millionaires) no matter what investment or employment decisions they make. Using this guy as a reason to not leave a startup is like pointing to the last person who won the jackpot in a lottery and saying "that's why you should always buy lottery tickets."
Just some anecdotal evidence to confirm the OP. One of my e-mail aliases, apparently the one I had set up for Buy.com (I did not pause to check), started receiving e-mails from this "Rakuten." I blacklisted the sender instantly.

The new name is abysmal.

Buy.com was already the shady back-alley version of Amazon, a domain I ventured into only when the price offered was notably better than its more above-board cousin. I don't mean to say Buy is a nefarious company, but rather my own admittedly ill-conceived notion of Buy was not (and is not) good. For all I know, they are a completely honest operation.

But with the new new name, I just instinctively and instantly turned off communication with the firm. Call it what you will, but an Asian-sounding name nudges the needle too far toward the greatest source of spam my aliases see. I have been trained by history. And my blacklist trigger finger is ready.
Or just the same types of things, but in lower quantities and with higher quality, to a higher price. It is not strange to buy toys for kids, but buying crap that is added to already large piles of crap and used just a few times is just bad for all humans and the environment (with the only "positive" being short-time profit for the consumer industries).
+1 for "Small" plan on github :)
FreshBooks (http://www.freshbooks.com) is fantastic for invoicing. That's the primary reason we use it, but it also tracks time, expenses and is moving towards a full accounting offering.
Airlock.io cloud hosting focused on security
I guess I need to rethink the whole layout. Under 'tips' there is a small explanation but might still be confusing. There's also a 'see an example' on the bottom, but I guess it's not that helpful either. Someone gave me a nice hint of doing a landing page with explanation and a huge 'start coding' button. I'll do that :)
"Even satellites can utilize the charts. Here’s a chart as seen by the satellite used for Google Maps"

It's not clear that that is a satellite photograph. Just because it was taken from above it doesn't mean a satellite did it. Mapping services (such as a Google's) do a disservice to call all this overhead photography 'satellite'. It's the sort of looseness that causes people to think cellular telephones also talk to satellites.
No problem.

I wouldn't have thought about InfoJobs either but one of our clients is a startup at Wayra and they're using it.

Forgot to mention Betabeers before:

http://betabeers.com/post/

These guys and gals get around too:

http://iwork.iagora.com/jobs/listing/
http://www.womenalia.com/wempleo
> Whole Foods

That's your problem right there
Here's what's even better, possibly: the song just broke into the Billboard Hip Hop charts which means this is getting played on actual rap radio.
I'm not sure I get it. You can start coding and just keeping on commiting and it will handle branching automatically. No doubts that I should make that clear somewhere.
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Yet there are those of us who enjoy our jobs and don't mind spending 40 hours a week doing something fulfilling, and who look forward to exercising and don't look at it like a chore, or who take great pleasure in saving money and being frugal.
Well tailing logs in one way to tackle the problem, but have very limited scalability. We have just two eyes and our attention is very expensive.

To tackle more logs well we need also searching, SQL-like aggregation and some analytics. I would recommend trying Sumo Logic which provide SaaS to do that:
http://www.sumologic.com/
500MB/day is free (disclaimer: I work there)
Pretty painless:

1. Get an old computer and plug into router

2. Install ubuntu server

3. Buy your domain from namecheap.com and look up their documentation on dynamic DNS (assuming you are on a home net connection

I did self hosting for years (age 16 - 24) with the same K6-II box. Just recently retired it and use a VPS now, but I highly recommend doing it to anyone
That would be one of the next steps. I just released an really simple MVP and got my head around other projects. I'm sure gonna refactor the thing eventually and make some things clearer.
Am I the only one who doesn't find this terribly exciting? I mean, it's a neat idea, but I don't see it to be that interesting to actually play with.

The beauty of each set is its self-consistency. If you attached this to that, then there's a good chance that 3rd and 4th will fit right in too. But once you start mixing sets, all the proportions fly out of the window and so to assemble something meaningful you would still need to build modules from the same set and then use these adapters to connect them together. Nice to have, certainly, but it doesn't sound that dramatically more interesting.
Anti-Asian racism is still pervasive in the US. Toyota and Nissan continue to succeed despite their names.
They are definetly cheaper due to govt. subsidy, but apart from IIT's and a few NIT's they aren't much different from private counterparts.

Remember that in India universities are not judged by the quality of their research, but solely on the "success" of their alumni. Since govt. colleges are cheaper, even though they might not be good, they do attract smart students. One thing that the Indian govt. did do right was to have a highly meritocratic system of admission, although that has recently suffered many setbacks