skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original title: "After a year of reading HN, this is how I view the successful entrepreneur"

New title: "Citizenship in a Republic"
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Has a Baby Nursery at Work
It really isn't that expensive, is it? Hmm...
Well, "she" doesn't have any, considering she is a he.
Good product/market fit I think.
Most of the time people think things are necessarily black or white, but often it is somewhere in the middle and may also depend in the context. I believe he genuinely thinks what he wrote and it might be his truth. Of course, it doesn't discard all the justified criticisms on Marc Pincus, it is just another side, there are not mutually exclusive imo.
If you're from the area I could see that. I'm pretty confident the Hub Seattle is part of a larger network: http://www.the-hub.net/
is there a possibility of foregoing EBS storage, using instance storage, and creating incremental backups to S3 using a secondary server on a replica set? is there a reason this would be a bad idea? seems like it would cost a lot less.
Came here to say the same thing. Also, Celery has been around since 2009. So I'm thinking this might not be the best name...
We don't use Gotham anywhere on our site at the moment.
I disagree, but not because I think you're wrong about the feasibility. I've no way to judge, but let's assume you're right: this car doesn't make sense either mechanically or economically.

And the cost to produce it? A few hundred thousand dollars of printer, a few hundred thousand dollars of designers and engineers, a bit of plastic...call if 5 million to be generous. On the scale of a wealthy nation like the United States, 5M is not much money. But the (perhaps tiny) chance that this project leads to discovery or innovation in manufacturing, fuel efficiency, 3d printing, etc. is worth far more.
The question isn't how much Python there is relative to C++, the question is how much C++ there would be if there were no Python.

To put it more concisely: "only 20% of your logic is performance sensitive and the other 80% can be encoded in scripting language X leading to a significant reduction of your total code."
I never said it was a prerequisite, "pretty much required" is not "requires," and have gone out of my way to couch my point with wiggle room. Yes, it's not required, but these days it's pretty much all they work on. It's just an observation based on historical behavior, not an analysis of the various paths by which a case can make it there.
Although I wouldn't put these on a consumer site, I might throw it on the personal one. These are absolutely beautiful. Great work tholman.
This is a cool effect, but I wonder if it wouldn't be more effective if instead the reveal had the logo come in after the onhover.

What I mean is that the link is plaintext, something like "Follow me at @username", which most people recognize as a call to action and a link to Twitter. Upon hover, the Twitter blue is applied with some animation, maybe something like the logo flying in. (yes, I know that screams against most people's personal design aesthetic here, but maybe it will work for some designers who want to stand out and are clever about it).

The main difference is that the Twitter logo is too discrete. There is literally no call to action and there's nothing about the Twitter logo that leads me to think that hovering over it will reveal the call to action. It's more likely to make me think: "This person works at Twitter!"

* edit: on reflection, I do realize that those Twitter icons, especially when used in conjunction with other social icons, are recognized as the "These are the social accounts", especially when they are in the footer. But I guess you'd have to do something different for the other social buttons?

If it's just one Twitter logo and no other social-button context, I still think that the call-to-action is too subtle.
I assume you test for nicotine and alcohol use then, correct? If you aren't 'responsible' enough to quit smoking - since you know it's bad for your health - why should I hire you?

Drug tests are counterproductive, because not only do they not dissuade drug use (empirically), but they push drug users towards drugs like cocaine, which are detectable in drug tests for only two days, instead of drugs like marijuana, which are detectable for several weeks.

The only drug you can really test for effectively is marijuana, and I frankly couldn't care less whether an employee uses marijuana - medicinal or recreational - in his free time, just the same way I don't care whether he drinks alcohol or smokes cigarettes.

Finally, it's nobody's business what an employee of mine chooses to do after work so long as it doesn't impact his work performance. If it does, that's reason enough to fire him right then and there, without any need for a drug test.
WebPlatform: Pointing Toward the Future
Ubuntu for tablets - demo, features, how it works.
Matter past the event horizon falls into the singularity pretty quickly, and that's a mere dimensionless point in space. But the singularity's spin does have an effect on spacetime around the black hole, in effect creating a second (much stranger) type of event horizon called an ergosphere. In a way one could say that rotation changes the shape of the black hole and that property can be observed from the outside to determine the spin. This is cool because, while pretty much everybody was certain that black holes do spin, this hypothesis was not yet backed up by data. The phenomenon doesn't have anything to do with quantum information leaking out, however.

I didn't get to see the actual announcement but my guess is that effect of the spin on spacetime has now been actually observed in the wild.
A Company's Culture matters.
From their source, it appears that the font they are using is called Proxima Nova. Which can be purchased for web use.

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/proximanova.html
Yes, but you cannot load external scripts. Only content or XHR. I thought the OP was talking about loading code over the network.
My problem with such buttons is actually something slightly different: I often notice that on webpages that it looks like the page is interesting and I want to follow similar work, but I don't know how much noise is on the person's twitter account (as opposed to the person's projects). ...I would like to see the most recent tweets show up when I hover over the button.
Interesting, but it seems to show up as a Unicode missing character of E000 rather than whatever it intended to show up as.
This is an accurate and uplifting account of what it was like for _Sash_ to work with Mark.

The reality for many other people, myself included, is quite different.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.
This was posted on HN nearly ten months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3853688
Naming something isn't inventing it.

Kay's Turing award was "For pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages" which might or might not include inventing "Object Oriented Programming..." and as it happens turns out not to.

See:
http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/kay_3972189.cfm

Key quote from the article:

"While working on FLEX, Kay witnessed Douglas Engelbart’s demonstration of interactive computing designed to support collaborative work groups. Engelbart’s vision influenced Kay to adopt graphical interfaces, hypertext, and the mouse."

Incidentally, Doug Engelbart is still alive and a Turing award winner:

http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/engelbart_7929781.cfm

"Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity after 1976 due to various misfortunes and misunderstandings. Several of Engelbart's best researchers had become alienated from him and left his organization when Xerox PARC was created in 1970."

History of OOP including Simula 67:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

Go look at the "Mother of All Demos" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos -- which introduces the mouse, a macdraw-like drawing program, and a mouse-driven word processor. This is the invention of the GUI that not only predates Xerox PARC but students from the lab that did this work went on to work at Xerox PARC. (And the Xerox PARC mouse was a clumsy, expensive, and unreliable device very similar to the crude device from the older demo -- the modern mouse was actually invented by an engineer contracted by Steve Jobs).

"the personal computer as we know it today was first created at PARC"

The personal computer as we know it today was invented by a lot of people over a period of time, although it is usually ascribed to Apple, Altair, IMSAI, etc. -- not Xerox. Xerox added a GUI to their $10,000 "personal computer" and that is a feature of today's personal computer, but so are scalable fonts (btw: that's Donald Knuth who deserves as much fanboi love as Alan Kay) and web browsers, neither of which were created by Xerox.
I moonlight to pay the bills by delivering fresh vegetables.
I'm with everyone else in this thread: you screwed up but in reality it is EXPECTED.

Do you know why I have backups? Because I'm not perfect and I know one day I will screw up and somehow drop the production database. Or mess up a migration. Or someone else will. This is stuff that happens ALL THE TIME.

Your CEO/CTO should have been fired instead. It is up to the leadership to ensure that proper safeguards are in place to avoid these difficult conversations.
What I want to know is, why didnt the guy who canceled the database backups get fired also?
The Reemergence of Datalog
Balanced, Social Engineering & Fraud: How we got fooled
> Everything that you can do incorrectly with C, you can do incorrectly with C++

This isn't true. C++ doesn't allow certain implicit casts that C allows (e.g., from void* to T*).
HTML5 just needs a better sound API (e.g., programmatic playback, midi) so that we can make better games/apps. Many games just fall back to Flash for their sound.
I think the negative responses come from the total disconnect with what is known about Pincus and Zynga.

The piece would have a lot more credibility if he acknowledged the issues. He could have denied them, or, better, could have explained that they were legitimate but that there was another side to Pincus.

But as it is, all I can feel about the piece is WTF. Is the guy clueless? Is this denial? Is he kissing ass? Did he just see the hero he was looking to see? Is he right but only seeing a narrow slice? Do we all just have Pincus wrong?

No idea, but the piece gives me no reason to find out.
Walks And Walking - Spring Walks In Snowdrop Gardens
Chromebook: Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS
Best part: "Whilst the benefits of this specialisation have been understood since Adam Smith profiled the original Pinterest[asterisk] we still need to acknowledge their impact on collaboration."

[asterisk] Featured Pin Factory in the Division of Labour (it was a hot startup, sweeping the 1776 Crunchies)
Inventing a Dating App That Women Will Actually Use
... wasn't Radiohead's first album, is what you forgot to say. It's easy to be magnanimous and "experimental" when you've already got yours via the traditional route.
People come to Zencoder wanting this, but it isn't really what we do. Not sure how big it is, but there is a market for this.
OP is a fag!
Regardless of the truth of this story, I hope someday to have a manager/mentor that works with me with such care and talent.
Commitment (fitness advice)
Zynga is notorious for it. E.g.:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/zyngas-tough-culture-...
Scripting in Lua? Neat!
I would love to use InstaCart. Their interface is leagues above what my Safeway offers, and I'd love to get TJ/WF stuff as well.

Only issue - I'm out of their delivery range - I'm desperately waiting for expansion.
I like the design, but the thought of using a spreadsheet without a keyboard makes my head hurt.
You can pick and choose any number of 'wrongful' or 'unjust' litigation. There's a ton. HSBC is irrelevant to Swartz.

It's obvious that not every legal action is socially desirable (or "moral", for the sake of brevity) and not every illegal action is immoral (whistleblowers, protestors, etc.).

Irrelevant. Social desire and morality has nothing to do with it. BTW, those are very subjective. I do feel that Swartz should've gone a different, more legal route if he wanted to cause change. I have no issue with him being prosecuted. So who is right, you or me?

JSTOR is not the law. MIT is not the law. They are involved in the criminal matter but do not determine whether something gets prosecuted. Is it arbitrary and sometimes political? Sure, but we shouldn't be outraged over Swartz being prosecuted. Very few gave a shit about the case until he killed himself. Where was all the outrage over the prosecution up until then?

When you say "Someone felt wronged and brought it to the attention of those who could prosecute the crime", you make it sound like it's an automatic process from one to the other.

Absolutely not. If JSTOR and MIT didn't think it was an issue it wouldn't have gone anywhere. If a crime is not reported it can't be followed up on by law enforcement. Obviously JSTOR and/or MIT brought this illegal activity through the proper channels and law enforcement took over. Maybe the FBI/Justice Dept was using Swartz as an example but he still broke a law.

As someone who has both suffered and carried out actions which are illegal according to the letter of the law, I assure you that nothing could be further from the truth.

You can feel free to rape, murder, and pillage all you want. If there's no one to report the crime, no one willing to report the crime, or no authority to report to, then, sure, you won't be prosecuted. But don't be outraged if you get prosecuted when you break the law.
From the author's page, clicking "PAST" shows the following:

I've worked as a Software Engineer at TechStarsNYC, Klicknation(acquired), Shelby and I'm currently working on Followgen

So, yes.
Microalgae lamp absorbs CO2
Artists make their own functioning stock photo site
Created by DisMagazine in partnership with the Suzanne Geiss gallery in the Lower East Side.
Anyone has experience with StartupXchange Program?
Shopping is hard in general, but especially so when the list gets bigger. You end up making more circles through the store and it's hard for the human brain to validate that the 20 things in my cart are the same as the 20 items in the list. As far as error prone-ness, this is on the level of matrix multiplication ;)
Yes, I simplified and I shouldn't have.
It does detect them, but it does have a minimum size of block move it can detect due to the signature matching method.
What happens when you live abroad
molly-guard -- looks great. I've always aliased my commands so if I accidentally type 'po' while in an ssh session on a production server then it complains. On my local dev box, 'po' is just quicker for me to power off the box. It has saved me at least once.
An old math teacher friend of mine has introduced his 7th grade students to "programming" through Lego Mindstorms. The kids work in teams to build the robots from kits and then program them to navigate a maze/obstacle course using Lego's software. I don't think its that close to "real" programming, but it does get the kids thinking about how to break down problems into logical steps. And it's enough like play that pretty much everyone gets into it, and the ubernerds in the group race to see who can finish the course in the best time.

I'd like to see more things like this happen in schools, but it's hard to find the time and money for ~10 mindstorms kits in every classroom.
Ten Years of Fedora — Project Leaders Look Back
If your data is not backed up it may as well not exist.
I'm so glad Netflix went out to prove this can be done. Truth is many cable providers have exclusive content like DirecTV and Friday Night Lights. It never really worked because the cost to subscribe to cable for one show was so high. Netflix is much more economical and to have a Davind Fincher directed pilot starring Kevin Spacey is proof. Not to mention how accessible the show is.
I become more and more convicned every day that a spreadsheet is the ultimate "manage the stuff in my head" interface. Putting it onto an iPad is genius.
There may be no `public static void main(String[] args)`, but there's still a lot of `();`

We can do better! Why not just `move`, `turnLeft`, `putBall`, and `takeBall`?

Better yet, camelCase is kind of weird. Why not `turn left`, `put ball`, and `take ball`?
The CEO leaned across the table, got in my face, and said, "this, is a monumental fuck up. You're gonna cost us millions in revenue". His co-founder (remotely present via Skype) chimed in "you're lucky to still be here".

This is when you should have left. That's no way to manage a crisis.
You don't understand the proccess... The billing system password is a simple phrase to make certain changes to you Verizon account. It is designed to be shared with people authorized to make changes to the account, (ie. your kids, wife) if you speak with a call center employee they will ask you for the same password.

Calm Down.
Leap Motion ship date announced
I thought it was interesting-- Pincus/Zynga have been vilified here and elsewhere-- it was interesting to read a first-hand account of it. Given that the author now works at a different company, there not a huge incentive to write this post in a slanted fashion-- I suspect it's pretty honest.
An explanation of what this is and why it exists: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r=....

Personally, I've set up a cheap router [1] with OpenWrt [2] with similar privoxy functionality, as well as a Wi-Fi hotspot and a webcam + motion(1) [3] for surveillance as an experiment. This might be an alternative if you want a small, low-power combination of hardware and software for privacy- or security-oriented applications right now. The hardware was sadly too slow to handle 2 FPS @ 720P video capture from a Microsoft LifeCam HD 3000 camera but it was usable with a 640x480 no-name cam from eBay.

I'm looking forward to mesh networking on OpenWrt.

[1] A TP-Link TL-MR3020; it's $35 where I'm at. I also had to use a powered USB hub and a USB flash drive for a pivot overlay file system.

[2] OpenWrt is quite possibly the most underrated Linux distribution from an administrative standpoint due to how it manages configuration and packages. See http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020 for how it handles my particular router model.

[3] http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
Good point. Delegating to the storage backend instead of using a STATIC_URL is a don't-repeat-yourself solution.

It's interesting that the CachedStaticFilesStorage will replace urls inside of CSS (as part of the time-stamping), but the standard Storage won't do it to change paths for development/production. As it stands, I use production urls in CSS so that I don't have to change it when I deploy.
Linux Developer Gets Laid
I was looking for this detail - and not sure where it says you get 2 instances free. Can you post a link?

Edit: I did my math wrong previously. It is 1500 hours/month.
Couldn't agree more with your sentiments.

I find it sometimes very frustrating to read about all these people doing start-ups (who I am cheering to succeed - I have nothing against others succeeding, no matter how good their circumstances are) talk about the struggle and the hard work, etc. It's inevitable that either consciously or subconsciously you do a mental comparison between yourself and these people.

Sometimes, I tend to have questions such as "ummm... why am I not/did not follow similar path". I don't dwell to much on it as I catch myself and look at their background. For example, I will use the founder of one particular company (which I won't name). Let's see, father is CEO/founder of a medical company (ie. already no risk of any real failure - dad is available for a start-up capital and a job if things don't workout). He is graduating from Stanford (already higher chance of success, considering the reputation and connections that exist). I watch a presentation with the father and son and I just could not understand how this person felt they were taking a huge risk by doing their start-up versus "getting a job". He mentioned the risk and it really emphasized the vacuum some of these founders live in.

I will gladly give more respect to people such as Mark Cuban and many others like him who have built their companies from the start with real risk and real failure.

I wish the best of success for these people that do have these really good circumstances. Being able to leverage their good fortune to do a start-up is adding value to society but I tend to find it a bit too much sometimes when I read about the struggles of these people that have the good circumstances. I also feel it perhaps leads some people astray who should not do a start-up as the consequences of failure are extremely bad as they don't have the good circumstances to cushion the failures.
News about PIT Mutation Testing tool
Man, you need to do your homework. Throwaway account to accuse me of something? Flagged bro. I've been here for 4+ years. Loser.
Sorry about that, had some CORS problems with the fonts... should be fixed :)
Yeah, it makes the for line shorter.

We sometimes hoist the end iterator as well, as often g++ can't optimise out the call to .end() each iteration - it can if there's a ref to a const item and you call end() on that const ref, but otherwise, it generally doesn't as it can't guarantee the item hasn't been modified.

We're still stuck with CentOS 5.4, so g++ 4.1 for us as that's what we've got to deploy to (although we use ICC for production builds, building off the g++ 4.1 standard headers)...

Basically, we want top possible speed - if that means the code's a bit more verbose than it can be, so be it.
Stanford Grad Sues Snapchat Claiming They Stole His ‘Million Dollar Idea’
I was trying to prove my photo point ("If you were to repeat the same comparison with a realistic photo, the differences between the original and the jpegmini version, there are some, but you have to look hard, would be even less noticeable.")
It doesn't make anybody feel singled out though. People affected by suicide and depression are much less visible of a population, and I think they'd be a lot less likely to have negative experiences at the conference as a direct consequence of the talk. If anything, that's a topic that doesn't get enough exposure. Sex does.
There's a use case for Google Glass right there. Amazon already has the product recognition software problem fairly nailed. The person doing order fulfilment simply holds the product at eye level before placing it in the card, and it deletes from the list until there's nothing left.

Step two: integrate with inventory management so Glass tells the human where to go. Step three, replace the human with a robot and the store with the local distribution warehouse.
Interesting, though perhaps they misinterpreted the question. Some companies seem to have a culture where you never admit failure and perhaps they assumed that was the answer you were looking for?
THIS IS HECTIC!!!
My First Fork: Facebook-ios-sdk
What's the advantage of a font over an image here?
I agree is one of the advantages of the Pascal language : readability

http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.var

Free Pascal : Readable like Python , fast like C++/C
Ah, I remember being called away from my new year holiday when an engineer dropped our entire database.

This happened because they didn't realise they were connected to the production database (rather than their local dev instance). We were a business intelligence company, so that data was vital. Luckily we had a analysis cluster we could restore from, but afterwards I ensured that backups were happening... never again.

(Why were the backups not already set up? Because they were not trivial due to the size of the cluster and having only been CTO for a few months there was a long list of things that were urgently needed)