skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Chrome's works better and has been around (and useful for millions) for years. Perhaps they'll move to a JS solution in the future, but if I had to choose between the two right now I'd take the faster more complete one.
The Airbnb For Boats
I can assure you that there was no Bootstrap involved in the making of Copy :p

We're taking a lot of this feedback and looking into rewording things.
How so? Aren't coal-fired plants more efficient than internal combustion engines?
I suspect that your suspicions are wrong because I wrote the article and I spend much of my day writing both Java and Ruby. I just find it easier these days to work with Spring 3. Why? Because the Spring and the Oracle folks reacted to Rails pretty quickly and came up with a lot of solutions that might surprise you.

It takes just about the same LoC now to do in Spring what I'm doing in Java. The difference is that the performance in Java is much higher.
Reminds me of an old essay by Steve Yegge about Agile: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.ca/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_...
I would be surprised if anyone didn't know this was illegal, though?
It does not occur naturally on earth, takes energy to make, takes energy to compress, is prone to exploding, and is only liquid at extremely low temperatures. Or that's what Musk keeps saying every time he's asked, I'm not sure what the general consensus is among scientists and engineers on the subject. As things stand right now it does not appear to be a useful fuel source for cars.
That's what I don't like about voice control. I'm too shy/reserved to do that kind of thing in public.
Is he lying? He says he visited the factory and observed that they worked as described, and called them on it, and they were indignant. So yes, "really".
This is bullshit. I'm no fan boy but you can't blame yourself when you've cornered yourself in an complex case of interdependencies. BREAKING NEWS: OVER-ENGINEERED PIECE OF SOFTWARE IS REVEALED TO BE OVER-ENGINEERED.

I don't use Refinery, Devise, OmniAuth, Unicorn, Rack Rewrite, Fog, AMQP, or Heroku.

I use Passenger with Apache or Nginx, self-host, and write my own core functionality like authentication.

Rails is still great at having an idea and throwing together a proof of concept in one day; running "rails s" still works out of the box. It still allows you to defer the hard choices, until you actually have to make them. If you've cornered yourself by making your stack too complex too early, that's your own damn fault—in Java you have to make those architecture choices day 1.

Dynamic typing: if you treat Rails like Java, it acts like Java.
From the comments here I suspect that not many read to the end, and so may have judged the story before reading these closing words:

"Publishing this was hard but it felt like my only option. For years I have not been living my life, I have been delaying it. Five years ago I paused my life and now it's time to choose between play or stop. I'm pressing play. The world pushed me and instead of pushing back I hid, now I'm pushing back. I'm determined to be myself no matter the consequences.

I know that facing what I am and facing the world is really going to hurt, but I now know that I can survive it. I know that eventually all pain fades away and you're left with only scars. I know that no matter how shitty my emotions tell me things are, that it's not actually that bad. I'll come out the other side no matter what. I'm going to step once more into the fray, come whatever may.

[...]

For now, I'm going to;

Get Out.

Live.

Grow.

Change.

Fight The Urge To Fade."
I think I disagree.. The rise of the "brogrammer" is proof that nerd culture is not only on the rise, but actually revered as the new "cool".

Look at television for example.. Asthon Kutcher is the highest paid actor on TV, and he basically stars as himself on Two and a Half men. Ashton is a product evangelist + angel investor. He makes nerds look awesome

Another example from (popular culture/TV) is Big Bang Theory. "Toward the end of its run, Friends was topping out around 20 million viewers, meaning Big Bang is now standing shoulder-to-shoulder with one of network TV's biggest and longest comedy successes."[1]

Movies like The Social Network + jOBS will further push the perceived nerdiness for Google into a good thing, not a negative thing. Our culture is shifting.

[1]- http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/01/big-ban...
His posts aren't for OP; they're for himself.
Podcast: Why Right Now is the Right Time for Hadoop
Dolphins Call Each Other By Name
>Microsoft is already preparing a service pack for this year (Blue version)

It's amusing to hear this parroted across the Internet.
Right, and I'm calling Grails, Play, Scala, Vert.x Java in that article I wrote. I think a lot of Rails folks walked into a closed box in 2008, and they should have. Rails was hugely different from the alternatives back then.

The world has caught up. That's one of the points I didn't quite make very well. Ugh.
Not locally.
It seems they are charging ~.5% on top of whatever Vanguard charges, whose own expenses are typically around .3%.

For the general case it probably makes more sense to just invest in Vanguard directly. The downside is that people would have to do their own research in regards to asset allocation. But imo that endeavor would be worth it seeing how these accounts will be around for potentially decades.
That is fine and true. But if you guys know this why do rails people love to bash on Java and act like rails is the second coming of Jesus. Fine, you love your language but why the unnecessary insults? That always bugged me. A community like that is toxic.
On a related note, I have read one line here a few times that is very similar.

I did not have time to write a shorter comment.

Far too many of us ramble, we do not take the time to focus our thoughts. This results in replies that just go on and on repeating the same thought in as many ways.

While I like Clarence Thomas, having read his books and some about him, I do not always like his decisions but at least I have a chance at understanding them
Any particular reason? OS X natively supports PDFs (and is both much faster and more complete than pdf.js).
Replying here since your reply to mine is too deeply nested:

Yes, "ask a professional" can be misread as "I don't care about that person". What it means when I say that is "I am not qualified to help you. You're in deep shit, and you need help. You really should find somebody who is qualified".

If I happen to know the person, and they're in my area, it comes together with a number or two where they could find somebody competent. And with a clear statement that I expect them to call, plus follow-ups from me if they called. I'm a persistent nag if I have to :)

I'm also pretty clear about the fact that if they keep coming to me with their problem, I expect them to do something about it.

On the Internets, it's hard to do more than say "go see a professional". The OP laid their soul bare, but I don't know them enough to give them any better advice.
> Sure, Rails itself is straightforward, but the frameworks you slap on top of it can quickly become burdensome abstractions: RefineryCMS, Devise, Omniauth, Carrierwave, Unicorn, Rack Rewrite, Fog, New Relic, Foreman, AMQP, and Honeybadger, not to mention the extra magic that Heroku gems throw into the mix (backups and other fun).

You don't need to use any of these. I once tried to use Devise for a project. I fiddled with it in an attempt to make it work exactly the way I wanted, but eventually I gave up and just rolled my own authentication. It's not hard at all to do in Rails, and you end up with much simpler code. I also tried New Relic, but I didn't see much point to it (maybe it's more useful for apps with a ton of traffic) and they sent me spam until I asked them to stop several times.
I love that Orwell collection.

An entire collection of Martin Amis essays and book reviews is called 'The War Against Cliché'[1] (your #1 above) because he too prioritizes resisting the all-too-easy tendency to rely on tired worn-out phrases. I have noticed that tabloid papers lean on this style of language more than traditional broadsheets - for me it is this (deliberate) literary lazy folksiness that sets them apart rather than mere content. Note Amis puts an elitist accent on cliché breaking Orwell's #5 but I like it because it reminds us that it is cleeshay rather than cleesh and I am not afraid of foreign tongues :)

Philosophy is another area (besides law) rife with jargon and, if I may say, prolixity. It is an area here care is rarely taken to express oneself plainly and simply. Schopenhauer has an essay called simply enough 'On Style'[2] which starts out "Style is the physiognomy of the mind, and a safer index to character than the face.". I use this as a guiding light. Some philosophers are too important to avoid regardless of style (Hegel, Kant, Luhmann) but I am always and everywhere suspicious of any who are too verbose and needlessly opaque (Quine springs to mind). This is why I love Nietzsche so much, whatever you may say about his ideas - my God - his turn of phrase is sublime.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_Clich%C3%A9

[2] http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/lit/cont...
Is there anyway to change the background/foreground color ?
Just because you're a shut in doesn't mean you're depressed.
Most people are incredibly vapid. I don't like interacting with most people because of this reason.
Being a shut in is not as depressing as it seems. Perhaps you are an extrovert and simply cannot comprehend this.
Is this still an issue with the development version? https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js#extension

I tested it on Windows and it 'works for me'.
You forgot:

Je vous prie de bien vouloir agréer, Monsieur, l'expression de mes honnêtes et respectueuses salutations.
It's high level corruption if a ranking official enriches himself to harm the state/government.
It's [efficient, non-corrupt but still] dictatorship if a ranking official says "ends justify means" and is ready to harm citizens if it's useful for state/government/military goals.
This is my company Drifty (http://drifty.co/). We make make HTML5 dev tools Codiqa and Jetstrap.

In 2012 my best friend and I bootstrapped the company while working full time (we just charged for our products). We made enough to go full time later that year and we employ one person and are hiring more.

We are actually in TechStars right now (score one for great value-add seed investors), but we are saying "no" to extra money beyond that. Why? We think bootstrapping it fits who we are and what we want this company to become.

Does that mean we are a "lifestyle" business? I don't see it that way. We are still insanely motivated and have high aspirations for this company, but we don't think throwing tons of cash in it will have the best result for us, our happiness, our customers, or our long-term sustainability.

We go back and forth every day about raising, but we have a lot of support not to right now, so we'll see what happens.
Around $100k. http://www.namejet.com/pages/auctions/standarddetails.aspx?a...
The problem with this analysis is it's based largely on numbers provided by unscrupulous people trying to game SEO.

Speaking as someone who has purchased multiple sites off of Flippa -- I view any revenue numbers with lots of skepticism. The majority are spammy sites and the remaining sites that are legitimate have often faked/inflated their numbers to entice purchasers.
Uhm... on my machine, the firefox version actually loads this just as quickly and with notably smoother scrolling? I guess it's the other way around on your machine. It doesn't allow form filling though.

Honestly I couldn't care either way. Even the acrobat plugin seems to be much better behaved these days, so...
I don't get the Java hate. The stuff in Java is not there just to make your life miserable, it's a result of thousands of people spending millions of hours on complex problems finding that certain methods work well when your source code base becomes too large for simplistic methods.

The fact is: Java works, and it works well. Ruby/Rails is getting there, as we see from larger and larger code bases being build on Ruby/Rail and needing more and more of the hated 'Java' features - because they work.

Any language can be used for a small project and work very well - precious few can still continue to work well at scale.

I've found a lot of the HN crowd to be biased in this area. I believe that comes from most of HN working in startups which means less legacy code, smaller code bases, and more focused products with less management bureaucracy and changes. A sizable part of HN is also younger and hasn't yet worked in an environment of sufficient scale to require Java's(c++, advanced RoR, etc) features.

I could be way off here - but if you're knocking this kind of complexity and haven't worked on a massive project - it might simply be your frame of reference and you should stop knocking it.
He's trading most of the simplicity for rich pre-rolled features.

Building your own authorization/authentication and integrating with OAuth is pretty trivial, maybe a few hours if all you need is simply logging people in. Same with a CRUD CMS that'd replace refinery -- you're collecting complexity for a more rich feature set out of the box.

Rack Rewrite isn't really that complex, though Carrierwave+Fog is a complexity layer, if Fog is anything like S3 you could just be posting directly to a REST api(adding complexity in client-side JS -- my favorite kind of complexity.)

Unicorn is slightly more complicated to manage than Passenger, but, apparently you needed to serve fast clients and work on disk a lot? Well, can't be mad about what it buys you.

Honeybadger, Foreman, and New Relic are pretty much DevOps burdens, you'd probably have some form or fashion of this complexity in any web-based app, ever. AMQP is a standard, most people would need a library to interact with it -- this is sort've akin to complaining that you need a library/gem for JSON.

I wasn't even sure you needed heroku as a project dependency -- I though you just needed it locally because it acted like a CLI to their service.

Also, Sinatra is it's own framework, having nothing to do with Rails. And it certainly wouldn't trade out a lot of the dependency complexity you're dealing with.

Really, you traded simplicity for rich features out of the box. Hopefully you took the time to figure out if you actually need those features before integrating them with your app. Also, Refinery's Engine architecture is kind've hair brained.

(P.S. on chrome 24.0.1312.57 and Mountain Lion the dynamic length comment box on this blog is totally fucked.)
Apart from a nicer UI, and the somewhat orthogonal feature of keeping a journal to share with your kid later on, how much benefit does this really offer over just setting up a trust directly with Vanguard rather than indirectly through TrustEgg?
This is clearly wrong. All you need to do is read a bit of legalese to someone, have them ask "what's that mean?", and then realize that what you say next to them is entirely different.

Legalese has all manner of special constructs that have to be learned to understand.
>In fact, it's just the opposite. Many Christian denominations (e.g. Catholicism) specifically DISALLOW circumcision, if it's done for religious reasons.

On the other hand, many christian denominations (e.g. esp pentecostals) circumcise precisely for religious reasons.

The simple fact is that while it might not be a religious ritual for some christians, it is for others christians.

Oh, look at that, christians not being consistent from one type to another. What a surprise.
It's lovely how one comment like that also manages to turn the whole thread into a them vs. us flamewar :-(
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I, for one, welcome our W3C overlords.
An article comparing Spring 3 to Rails, enumerating some of those solutions, would have been more informative.
Already I'm turned off. Why? There doesn't seem to be a login page that I can use with my password manager app. I'm so tired of these JavaScript login popups.
I'm very impressed with the Copy web interface. Drag and drop works flawlessly. The in-browser preview is really nice as well.

Does anyone have experience with Barracuda Networks (the owner of Copy)? The name sounds familiar, are the reputable?
Google, Facebook Executives Award $33 Million in Prizes
What happens to the files on the server? Do they sit unencrypted (so sensitive files are a no-go)?
Why Not Try a Scientific Approach to Science Education?
> I make no claims that we have the best team (I don't think teams are totally ordered, in any case)

Partially ordered sets can have greatest elements -- you don't need total ordering (although you do need to have at least one element which is comparable to every other element, of course).
It's like getting used to snow, humidity, or traffic in other places (oh, wait you get those too)
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Spelling out the implied, creating long lists, and adding wordiness are common features of legalese.

I'm fairly sure it has something to do with making the text more appealing to clients -- if they hire you to write a contract and then give them a "normal" document they feel they could have written themselves (whether or not that's true), they'll be upset.
The whole point of rails is not to build massive projects. If you're building massive projects with thousands of classes on rails then you should be all means switch to J2EE.
I had hoped they had come up with a more robust version of their card reader. There have been several times where it has taken 5+ swipes to read my card. I have also witnessed this happen to people in front of me in line. My credit card has never had a problem anywhere else.

I've found it easier to just use the Square app on my phone, though I've yet to see someone in front of me in line use it.
You have to be an idiot if you actually bought the crap about EJBs. The first time I heard about them I said "What is this bulls*t" and swore never to touch it. It is one of those sins that you hope never to repeat again. I continued writing Java server code and never used that. Everyboy I knew thought the same thing. And yet I'm still able to progrAm in Java.
Not even close. First of all, mining and burning coal is far worse for the environment than oil. Mining is destructive, impacts water tables, and burning coal produces lots of toxic byproducts like mercury and other heavy metals. Further, there is significant loss/waste as you push electricity across the grid.

There's no environmental case for EV-only cars, unless you are powering the grid with solar, wind, or hydro.
Flame-bait title if I've ever seen one.

Let's see an actual comparison with some numbers:

* Lines of code, and number of tasks necessary to get a development environment set up.

* Memory used with one client accessing the system, and with, say, 10 clients accessing it.

* Some performance benchmarks.

I keep my ear to the ground, and have used enough languages in my time that jumping to a new one isn't that big a deal, but I'm pretty happy with Rails and use it by default these days. It's a great way of getting something up and running quickly, while maintaining some order and sense of purpose to the code. It's what I'd use unless there are very clear reasons not to, such as huge scale requirements from the get-go, heavy involvement with web sockets or something like that where thinking a bit before coding is in order.
Do you believe we have a relatively prosperous society because of an excess of laws, or do we have one in spite of an excess of laws and would have even more wealth and prosperity without these laws?
I had similar thoughts about "edit: removed words"
@atto - We encrypt the data on the server, AES256 I do believe.
Don't do this, do:

* settings/base.py
* settings/production.py
* settings/local.py

settings/base would have your "common" settings,
settings/local.py could be as simple as from .settings.base import
I'm stoked to read these opening phrases:

"...The founding team is very small, often one technical person. In some cases ... hacking something together because she needs this thing to exist ... They are slowly and deliberately building small communities or early customers. Some are even making money. In fact, a few of these startups are profitable (in the ramen sense)."

...because they read exactly like a case-study for what I've been experiencing with my project[0] over the past 12 months, and have found very hard to explain to people.

It's really nice to have a rosy outlook beyond "Hey that's neat, now you can go do a real startup!"

[0] Open Exchange Rates (https://openexchangerates.org)
What a joke --

"Watch it grow",

"The money in the account will be invested in a mutual fund and will grow at the market rate of return!"

Then somewhere deep down in the FAQ they say they use Vanguard Wellington.

Is anyone that naive to fall for this?

What's wrong with regular UTMA, UGMA or 529 accounts?

(I have two kids, aged 5 and 1 -- both have 529s with Utah UESP, one of the best 529 plans out there)
I'm not sure Thomas's opinions are the ones I'd hold up as paragons of clear thought and clear writing, though he certainly does have a succinct style. One of the things about legal writing is that you have to "show your work"--guide the reader from accepted premise to conclusion via accepted authority. This is necessarily a somewhat verbose process, and doing this thoroughly is somewhat in tension with doing it succinctly.

I personally think Scalia's opinions are amazing, notwithstanding his habit of writing very long inverted sentences. I'm not sure if they're the most approachable for lay people, but they are incisively clear. "Hand-wavey" is not a term that ever comes to mind reading Scalia's opinions (except when talking about drugs or gays).

Richard Posner (7th Circuit) and Alex Kozinzki (9th Circuit) are also known for their writing. I like this one from Kozinksi: http://notabug.com/kozinski/kremen_v_netsol
Egotistical self-serving tough love vendor? Guilty as charged. But he now has a googleable term for something that's undoubtedly been causing him grief and unexpected outcomes in life, and that's probably the best I can do from where I sit.
This so much. You should be setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE in your uwsgi config or in your virtualenv postactivate for dev.
I store my keepass file like this and surprisingly the best storage provider for this I have found is Sugarsync. It's possible to have the file and changes end up on ALL of my devices, including my phones basically automagically. Check it out, might work for you.
It can be stretched to read that way, but I believe the context makes it clear that he is primarily speaking about those he observed and spoke to in that factory.

For example, the last sentence phrase "I told this to the French union workers to their faces" is clearly referring to specific workers at a specific site, not all French workers (or even French union workers) everywhere.

He does emphasize the descriptor 'French', but that seems both to rub a little salt in the wound of the national official he's responding to, and perhaps to contrast those he's describing with non-French workers at the same factory, or with workers in similar tire factories outside France. It isn't evidence the author has the same judgement of all French workers, even though that expansive interpretation is an easier strawman to knock down.
Website of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences:

http://www.breakthroughprizeinlifesciences.org/

This year's prize winners, the first eleven recipients of the Breakthrough Prize, are:

Cornelia I. Bargmann
David Botstein
Lewis C. Cantley
Hans Clevers
Napoleone Ferrara
Titia de Lange
Eric S. Lander
Charles L. Sawyers
Bert Vogelstein
Robert A. Weinberg
Shinya Yamanaka