skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting to see this from a (former) CEO's perspective. I've seen many big company executives who get stuck in stage 3. I knew that my last big company was destined for failure when the CEO bought everyone a management book about dealing with change. He seemed to be saying, "its not me, its you". If he had a bit more humility, he could have made the changes to get the company moving again. Of course, it can be hard to accept responsibility when egos are big and failures are politicized.

In a startup, you have this process not just for the company itself, but for each setback (e.g. in fundraising, customer acquisition, customer issues, etc.). Establishing a culture of accepting responsibility and learning from failures is absolutely critical. I think the biggest thing I've learned about my time in the startup space is how to deal effectively (or at least better) with failure.
rob, not really interested in the monetary aspects of this problem, more interested in the open-access nature.

There is a subreddit for academic papers, I figured it would make sense having something ultra-targeted for computer science papers and I didn't feel like the right community was using the subreddit (the results quality wasn't great). It did teach me that a lot of people like requesting papers, so this is something I am considering.

Also, this was a good opportunity for me to attack a problem I am really passionate about while testing out a web framework I've been writing (waltz).

Finally, I did the project for sentimental reasons. I was talking to Aaron Swartz about open journal a while back over skype and was looking forward to working with him on it, so I thought it would be nice to finish it in his honor :o)

You have some great ideas (mass download is something I've seen requested by some of my friends from my phd program). There's a team called peer library who's attacking many of these problems and I'll be giving them as much support as I can.

Thanks for your kind remarks + great feedback
bsdiff is not a general purpose binary delta algorithm, it's targeted at executables. When you change a single line in the source code of a program and recompile it, bsdiff produces a small diff, even though a normal binary diff between the old and new executable would be huge due to how even a single extra instruction can cause many more addresses to shift. bsdiff wouldn't be particularly useful here.
Single page version here:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/new-stuxnet-variant...
For those looking for more information on this "wheat meat", searching for "seitan" will provide.
A quicker workaround might be an incognito tab.
Agreed i recently paid the full 70 (100 own currency). Was happy to see this post was just an empty whinge. Has st2 for 6+ months and complains he has to pay for an upgrade to st3yet is happy to pay a yearly fee. I dont understand at all.
I have also seen it called the clbuttic mistake:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-.aspx

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2667...
Programming enables automation of your domain-specific knowledge. Animators who could program gave us CG movies. Musicians who could program gave us software music composition tools. Would garbage collectors who could program give us robots to do parts of their jobs? Or apps to communicate real-time problems? Or public education websites? I think it very likely.

Any field -- any field at all! -- that can benefit from information organization and retrieval, automation, scripting, robotics, internal wikis, private smartphone apps, information dissemination, etc., will benefit from people who have deep domain knowledge ALSO being programmers.

And I think that's just about all of them.
Adding this to the github issue tracker, I'll get this setup for you as soon as I have a break in my schedule today. Thanks!
Very well said. I think the author was angered by some word Atwood used, and was blinded by rage for the rest of the article.

Try to think if any of the great activist had commuted suicide.
I was only pointing out the cynism in that last paragraph, not making analogies to the OP/ST. Capitalism in practice is not amoral, it is a system completely intertwined with society. The justice system routinely intervenes in economic transactions and disputes based solely on ethics, morality and intent.
Respectfully, I don't see how it's link bait, it's a very straight-forward and factual headline.

The ad hominem argument also isn't persuasive; judge the legislation based on your ethical compass, not on dislike for a specific profession.
That was when Mac users used to mock Windows for being a GUI perched on top of a character-based operating system.

They generally dropped that line when Mac OS X became a GUI perched on top of a character-based operating system.

Oddly, Mac users have also stopped mocking Windows users for having Intel processors, for not using SCSI and whatever else made Macs special before they turned into a variant of Windows PCs.... ;-)
Are roads not man made objects? Those are visible from very high altitudes!
FTA: "If it was written in C++, it would be threaded code"

Uh, why?
Does anyone know if a similar API exists for patient billing records? I see the OP API provides information on claims, but those are not necessarily detailed bills. I would assume that the answer is no, due to the many forms such bills could take. I am hoping they are required to have/provide an electronic bill in a set format, perhaps for medicare reimbursement purposes? Thanks......
This is one of those cases were google could wield it's near monopoly in mapping services for good.

They should just simply decide to follow this law preemptively and eliminate all aerial imagery of New Hampshire tomorrow. Let the uproar from the public sort the law makers out.
Thorium reactor + prior nuclear waste processing station

or

starting a company that google outsources fiber buildout work to.
I wouldn't call it a "spam filter" since it doesn't get placed into your spam folder.
True, I think it was my stupidity. Sorry about that.
Why not

alert = (args...) -> $globalMessenger().post args...

This allows $globalMessenger to be notified for upkeep whenever the call to .post is proxied.
My doctor told me to. Been wheat-free for 4 months, and feeling much better. Also, caffeine-free.
New crowdfunding platforms let you sell stock in yourself
Great point on the size of the team. It is definitely an important factor for choosing a hybrid approach.
A programming language.

I may spend a lot of time in management-land, but I love coding, and still spend a lot of time in Ruby and CoffeeScript. In the past, I've coded in C, Perl, a smattering of Basic, and have a passing familiarity with Python, Scala, and Java.

Ruby is a nice place to be, mostly thanks to the community, but I get very frustrated with the Ruby core. There's a lot of bugs and inconsistencies in the standard library, and the VM should be a lot quicker. V8 is an existence proof that it's possible to build a fast dynamic language runtime.

Instead of a sane Net::HTTP, or some good GC instrumentation, or an actual grammar to try and do some static analysis, we get Refinements, which should never have made it into the core language.

I get a little jealous of the Python guys sometimes; not only for SciPy and NumPy, but for the fact that the Python core team does spend a lot of time fixing and improving the internals. They don't get it right all the time, but the level of engineering feels better somehow.

But I don't like the "one way to do it" attitude; one of the things I really like about Ruby is that the community feels more experimental, more tolerant of change, and less likely to criticize non-constructively.

Rather than just complaining about it, I'd like to try and scratch my own itch, and see if it's possible to build a language that can match V8 for speed, Ruby for creativity and expressiveness, and Javascript for portability.
Is tearing people down at work an American thing?

I worked in Japan, and there was a culture of overwork, but it wasn't anything like Glengarry Glen Ross.
Nobody is unique. If you only love her because she's unique, that's a… wait for it… identity problem.
Samsung has the money and clout to move Google out of Android. IMO, in a year or to smartphones will probably be like desktops, boring, as they do everything needed and new features are not needed by 90% of people. Google has every reason to worry.
I would make a modern and open standard to replace email, fully encrypted and that would handle both voice and text and besides have a user interface that suits for short as well as long messages in a convenient way. =)

And if I get some time over I'd start making a replacement for the HTML standard that is more suitable for todays web apps where the inherited semantics no longer means anything.
I was thinking of a rapid release version of IE where MSHTML, IEFRAME, etc. are in the application directory instead of system32 for a while now.
But not in Windows, OSX, or Linux, where Chrome runs as an application. And it's likely to be embedded (like the normal Google account embedding) in stock Android devices, but not some forks or some carrier modifications (since Google accounts aren't required for any of the features any more).

The same cannot be said for Windows. Especially when Windows held an overwhelming monopoly on desktops, unlike Android.
It is even worse than that -- it also seems to automatically insert graphical smilies whenever it sees what it thinks is a text smiley. Makes it very hard to cut-n-paste a code fragment. Of course you can turn this off, but only on the receiving side -- if you are sending someone a command or piece of code (that contains parentheses and colons), you have know idea if their end will convert to the graphic smilies, and you end up sounding strange to them.
There's a lot of hype around the new configurable User module. But personally the new verbatim template tag is golden:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins...
That's the only username I have for the Google Apps account: username@companyname.com

Didn't realize there was anything more than possible.
My problem is that my conductive hearing is crap but my nerve hearing is great. Doctor and audiologist recommend putting a screw into my skull to attach one of those bulky bone-conductive hearing aids so I hear everything through the nerves. I don't like the idea because they are big and apparently not shrinkable, and because they basically make everything mono. Not sure if there's other tech that is a better alternative?
Google also runs an smtp server that violates the relevant RFCs, but nobody seems to care much: http://lee-phillips.org/gmailRewriting/
The best webapp since Zombo com. Then I'd spend my days doing whatever I want for the next 5 years.
Maybe it was a Mission Impossible /suicide mission for an older but reliable operative. It did the job but... :)
A lot of the anti-gluten sentiment semight be rooted in the need for a quick fix to dieting issues. The idea being 'if I just cut out this one thing, all of my belly fat will go away.' People (myself included) hate the idea that dieting is a change of lifestyle, that you can't just slash one thing for a few months and call it a day. I think the challenge should be: no processed foods for a month. None whatsoever. Then see how you feel. But because we've mostly decided that our budget should go to everything else besides good food, that's a difficult task indeed.
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Also, I'm french, and the bread from Udi's is awesome. (http://udisglutenfree.com/)
Django 1.5 unchained
> Also, caffeine-free.

You had me going until you wrote that.
After recently relocating to San Francisco, I'm concerned that I'm not getting enough gluten.
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I've enjoyed every writing, and found something useful, helpful, humorous or challenging in each.
My high school, when I went there a decade ago, had an giant aerial photograph right at the reception.

Crazy to think that it would be banned, but the map right next to that - which has an outline of every building and labels - wouldn't be. Which in turn makes me wonder whether this will give reason to ban maps of school campuses too. After all, school shootings happen so the solution could be to ban maps of schools :|
Many companies are still using Internet Explorer 6 or 7. It's absolutely ridiculous, why not upgrade or just switch browsers? Can't be that difficult, surely?

My previous school uses Internet Explorer 8, I asked the tech why he doesn't upgrade the computers to IE9, he just said he doesn't have the time.
I would build a comprehensive framework for teaching Hanzi/Kanji to non-native learners of languages that use Chinese characters.

Anecdotally, I've seen what I assume is a disproportionate amount of passionate learners of languages that use Chinese characters give up their studies after a few years, and many of those I talked to cited difficulty in learning/using/recalling the meanings and readings of Hanzi/Kanji. There are many tools and strategies for learning Chinese characters already in existence (using SRS, mnemonics, calligraphy, etc.) but amongst students in an academic setting, their use seemed fairly minimal when I was a student (a couple of years ago).

If I had 5 years to build something, I would bring together a system using both new approaches enabled by uniting the various existant methodologies and tried-and-true methods that could take you from complete ignorance of Kanji/Hanzi to a degree of reading/writing fluency over a few years. I consider a push like this to be akin to the shift we are seeing in learning methodologies used to teach programming to newbies like Codecademy and TryRuby that rely on hands-on learning rather than lecture learning or trial-and-error learning.
I would build a web site for making policies.

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/

A simple web site that is easy for the general public to use. A site that aims to connect the world, promote education, reduce corruption, and clarify the rationale behind political decisions. A site where people could express their satisfaction with political decisions. A place where people could hold rational debate backed by evidence.

Further, I envision an extension to the web site where budgets can balanced using crowd-sourced technology. Not where everyone can contribute, mind you, but perhaps for those who have backgrounds in finance and economy. Yet their work should be available to the public, along with why certain cuts were made.

As another extension, existing bills would be hyper-linked and have embedded content. Embedded content entails "single-source" definitions. For example, a bill that includes the text "age of majority", should have "age of majority" readily defined (from one source location).

A place where moderators are selected at random from the population, for random intervals of time, to prevent herd mentality.

Essentially, I would like to reshape the political landscape. Helpful pictures to get across the idea:

* https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Interests%...

* https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Policy%20P...

* https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Debate%20P...

* https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Supporting...
Aggregate change happens faster and faster these days but committing to personal change is the hardest.

Depression leads to introspection which leads to processing but change... man, change is the hardest.

Everyone pays lip service to it but the fundamentals to change are complex, and if you're older, with established responsibilities, recombobulating yourself and moving to the next level... man, that's heavy.

Therapy helps, support group helps, destroying your ego helps, but sometimes these are all very privileged. Sometimes you don't get the benefit of affording therapy, finding support, or get the time to learn humility.

And you're doing this in the midst of aggregate change happening around you, beholden to trends and action from others around you, and still needing to sleep on a bed, eat solid food, exercise, and maintain your sanity.

Sometimes when people ask me what luck is, I explain it as such. Luck is when all those things align in a way to assist you on your way.

Most people end up getting lost in the fray, a lot of the people I met during the web 2.0 cycle disappeared. And it's likely the new people I meet in the upcoming cycle will end up disappearing too. Who will remember the stories when the actors are gone?

In the end you just gotta keep pushing, keep swimming, keep going. Either you'll get it, or you won't, accepting is salvation.
Hey, that was me. Glad to hear it :)
Can someone explain how the medium instance is serving more req/sec than the large one when caching is on?
LOL at taligent. Did you experience that particular Apple disaster? I think that also went in for a certain amount of pleading along the lines of "crap isn't really crap, you just aren't smart enough to understand how superior we are".
As my high school drivers ed instructor always said: "Colored lights are physically incapable of stopping a moving car."

If there's one thing that I've learned being a pedestrian in NYC for the last 10+ years: Traffic lights are very loosely correlated with driver behavior. In my experience, you're far better off making decisions based on observing cars and drivers than faith that a red light means anything to a cabbie in midtown during rush hour.
Should You Be Allowed To Work From Home? (Answer: No)
We have a platform where people can sign-up, get trained and work. We launched it about 1.5 years ago and have partnerships with both government and non-government agencies. You can read more about the platform at www.mobileworks.com
Wow, didn't notice that. Must be a joke.
Thanks for the comments. I'm one of the authors of the book (Miller). Although I wouldn't say that the ADTs are strict ports from Java, I would say that because we teach Java in our next class that was definitely in the back of our heads. Now that we are online, I could definitely see moving in the direction you suggest to make this interesting to a wider audience.
> If you do understand it then your proposal is simply a pipe dream since this iron shield is impenetrable to individual citizenry.

This kind of attitude is... deep breath... calm down...

Well, it's bullshit, plain and simple.

I played a minor part in passing a law in Italy:

http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Presidenza/dettaglio.asp?d=690...

And I don't know if you've noticed over the past few days, but Italy is not exactly an easy place to get things done, with a smoothly functioning political system. Especially not for a foreigner with no connections and without oodles of money to spend on the issue.

By comparison, it's far easier for people to get involved in politics in the US if they want to work at it.

This sort of self-defeating "woe is us" attitude is garbage that will get you nowhere. If you're willing to do more than sit around carping online, there are plenty of ways of getting involved and making a difference.
I think it's great to have a centralized place where you can find answers to subjective questions; however, the current format makes it difficult to digest __why__ something is considered better than its competitors.

It would be useful to have a set list of pros and cons of each entry.
There was a bug with the rendering on firefox which caused the run buttons to not appear. Should be fixed!
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I'm curious, if you can get things done more quickly in Go, why do you feel C++ is generally a better choice? Performance?
+1

I'm gluten-free by medical necessity, though not nearly as bad as what is unfortunately afflicting your son. And gluten-free products are a) expensive, b) still pretty rare, and c) unlikely to be found outside of specialized sections in large supermarkets or online retailers.

If nothing else, gluten-free faddism creates market forces that increase the availability of gluten-free options while simultaneously reducing their (substantial!) cost. So in that sense, it has some positive externalities.

For example, you can actually get a gluten-free option on most airplane flights these days. That certainly wasn't the case 5 years ago (or at least it wasn't unless you went out of your way to arrange something).

Conversely, the one real danger is that a lot of products are coming to market very quickly, and not all of them are as gluten-free or wheat-safe as they claim. (For instance, a product not made with wheat, but processed in the same factory as wheat products, can get away with calling itself "gluten free," and you need to read the very, very fine print on the package to figure this out). The labeling standards need to catch up to the marketing.
Here I am thinking it'd be cheaper to give a 5-million dollar duffel bag to some freelance Russians..
I do just that... But I'm on Linux so I can use two (or three) instances of the same browser, from different user accounts.

Linux makes it very easy to display apps from another user (which you authorize) on your graphical session. AFAICT this is just plain hell to do on OS X and on Windows (but blablabla X Window System is outdated, OS X rendering rocks, gnagnagna etc. Meanwhile I'm trivially surfing using different user accounts and this provides both conveniency and added security [any browser exploit now need also a local root exploit to be able to access sensitive data in the "real" user accounts]).

My professional email is using a SSH tunnel / transparent Squid proxy : anyone doing a reverse shall find my company through the IP (on purpose). I'm launching Chrome from my "professional" user account using the proxy setting (from the command line).

Then I've got another Chrome for my personal stuff.

And a throwaway VM with yet another Chrome.
Wow, that's actually pretty great. One of the biggest reasons why people are still stuck on old versions of IE is because they don't want to run OS upgrades. Making the upgrades independent of everything else is quite sensible.
Wheat has been a key part of human diet for something like 10,000 years. The gluten crisis has been with us for 3-4.

It's an ideal chronic condition for the 99% of suburbanites not affected by celiac disease who need something to complain about, conspicuously spend money on and attract attention. It sounds serious, onerous to deal with, and has no stigma attached to it.

When people actually "stop eating gluten", they buy really bad bread for $8 a loaf. They also stop eating food like pizza, a variety of processed foods, ice cream, etc. So they lose weight and "feel better".
"Why Do So Many People Think They Need Gluten-Free Foods?"

Because when I eat it I feel bloated and nauseous. When I don't, I feel fine. Q.E.D. I talked about this a little bit the last time it came up[1].

The problem occurs when I eat barley, rye, wheat, and other grains that contain it. So, it's definitely not a wheat allergy. My symptoms aren't as severe as those that celiacs suffer from, thankfully.

Last year, after I thought I knew what was causing the problem, I tried eating some bread after my symptoms had all gone away. They came back within a couple hours. Going back to a strict gluten free diet solved the problem again.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5277765