skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're talking about the economic prognosis of art, I'd like to direct you to the world of high-end sports cars. There are many people who can afford to buy and maintain them in this world. Not all of them do. Just like many people can afford to buy works of art, but not all of them do. Why? Because one doesn't really need a sports car, just like one doesn't really need an art piece. The author's essay isn't one of the lament of the hard times of an artist. It is a lament of the diminishing of creativity because his definition of creativity is rooted in a traditionalist idea of creativity as resting solely in the lap of artists. Before the PC revolution no one would want their kids to be programmers. "Programmers were smelly fat white kids". Now it's a hot commodity. Welcome to the markets. Mathematicians were "useless theorists" till a couple of decades ago (as a matter of fact many people still think this). Until industrialization, scientists were a bunch of "rich white guys, not in tune to the needs of the common man". And more importantly, up until recently, engineers were little math nerds, easy bait for the MBA alpha dudes.

You're confusing economic safety with societal respect. If you're talking about the economic aspect, as far as being a professional artist, well guess what; when I was a kid I wanted to be a poet. Poems wouldn't keep a roof over my head and hell, at the time, neither would code. Hasn't stopped me from writing poems in my spare time and engaging in my other pursuits. If ever a time comes when one could sustainably make money selling art, then I'm sure many artists and even non artists will flood the market. But economics isn't the author's thesis.
"the importance of creativity will trump systems thinking..."

Systems ARE art. Freud was a systems designer. Religious metaphors are introspective systems.

These are systems as metaphors of the human condition.

Do they describe the human condition? No - bigger - they create it. Freud invented a lost continent that allowed us to pronounce ourselves.

As computers and consciousness continue to intersect.. great artists will be expressive, critical, abstract engineers.
I know you will recoil in horror, you won't believe me, you will fling hate at me. But my duty as a hacker and a person who prides intellectual curiosity above everything: THE HOLOCAUST DID NOT HAPPEN. It's a propaganda lie with no substantiated evidence to defame White European people. To extract monies for Israelites and to justify the ethnic cleansing and race replacement of Whites in Europe and western countries through the "asylum industry".
And to answer your questions: seems like is not registered (by them): http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4002:4p...
Perhaps it's more of an issue of simple market dynamics of demand and availability than you care to paint it? Every other kid wants to do a liberal arts major, but how many want to do math? How many americans, in fact, because most I see are driven immigrant individuals taking up this baton so many americans drop in favor of studying philosophy. Both are equally important, yet not equally coveted. And that results in how many teachers we end up with, generation after generation, with a fresh degree in whatever he chose and now needing a teaching position.
That's not by default. User-specified CSS is even less usable by most end users than a 3rd party "make readable" bookmarklet.
Jekyll + S3.

Easy.
Know the WordPress Theme and the File Structure
WordPress has a very flexible theme structure to organize the different files which constitute a theme. Depending on the request on hand the WordPress system.
Thanks, I'll definitely check it out. I signed up for lessons at the local YMCA, but this could be a nice supplement. Thanks again!
This is the tricky part. I don't remember exact figures, but wasn't Truman's dilemma a choice between invading Japan or dropping the bombs?

The real concern was probably the Soviets. They had already invaded Manchuria and some say they had their eye on Japan.

Seems pretty evil to drop an A-bomb as a warning to someone else, but the next few decades of Soviet occupation would have sucked for the Japanese, too.

Also, it was probably a good idea to confront the morality of nuclear warfare by dropping a 20 kT bomb. Would Truman have stopped MacArthur from deploying a hundred times that much firepower in Korea, if he hadn't seen the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs for himself?
I have news for you, the movies that are showing on the cinema are works of fiction (mostly)

This doesn't mean we should throw them out because they were invented.

It may be fiction, but it certainly has less BS than many true stories.
"The real crime is that programmers have so little time for the exploratory work that the career requires that they have to do all of that off-hours."
You want to get paid for improving your craft? Your professional development is up to you. If you are passionate about your choice of a profession, then money shouldn't matter. You will do what ever it takes to learn, experiment and grow your skills because it is what you want. At work we do what we have to to get things done. If we are contributing to our personal experience on work time, are we not taking away from the task at hand if the exploration does not further that task? Hopefully, you can someday work for a company that encourages and facilitates personal development woot!. Hackathons are all about getting together and sharing ideas and pushing the envelope. Or should be in any case. The venue, the timing, the subject matter, all contribute or detract from the experience. But most of all it is the mix of people that make the difference, and the experience itself. Some of my best experiences have been late nights in a "skunk-works" project, building something we weren't sure could be built, and sure enough we did it! It didn't feel like work it felt like an adventure! I hope you get to experience something like that in the future. Don't confuse work and making yourself better. Think about changing the Hackathons for the better -- you get out what you put in.
"It works or it doesn't" suggests you either limit yourself to extraordinarily simple projects or your clients don't care what happens as long as it's not a 500. Development is not such a black and white pursuit if you're working on projects with any sort of complexity.

I'm better with programming than I am with charcoal, but I can say with certainty that while my art is hanging in a few living rooms, my code gets a lot more scrutiny (appropriately) and evolves much more. That's not because it can or should be perfect, it's because the result and the scrutiny is less subjective.
I have been going through the O'Reilly book for clojure:

http://www.clojurebook.com/

I like it so far because it relates many new functional programming concepts back to ideas from other languages. In the early portions of the book it frequently shows ruby, java, and python code alongside a line of clojure.

A more interactive way to try out the language would be to try www.4clojure.com or the clojure koans. Both take different approaches to giving you puzzles to solve with clojure.
I was just telling my husband (who used to order food for his startup every single day) about you guys and he pointed out that your website really doesn't make it clear you're in the Bay Area, or whereabouts you serve. The yelp page is a lot clearer, but you might want to put a little more location information on your site; the 323 phone number confuses things too.

Good luck! You could try the free samples approach at the Hacker Dojo one lunchtime, perhaps? see if you can get a regular set of customers there.
I agree, it is super irritating to no longer be able to do precise searches on google like I used to. Is there another search engine you would recommend which provides this functionality?
you know as someone that likes working there, awesome customers are awesome. thats all. <3
I'm not sure if you're being disingenuous, but that's what the title is intended to imply.
Thank you so much for pointing these things out. I realize my site needs a major overhaul. I would love to cater to your husband's startup if he would like to give us a try. I would be willing to give him a discount to take a chance on us.

Will definitely reach out to the Hacker Dojo and other hacker spaces per your suggestion. Thank you so much!
This should be taken with the massive grain of salt that is the history of DA. For anyone who's been involved in it since the beginning -- I ragequit with the Jark debacle long ago -- shrugging off their particular brand of bullshit is second nature.

Don't make the mistake of thinking anything done on DA is done for art. It's done for cash. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's an important distinction, and that's the basic truth the more in-depth rebuttals here outline.
If you can get down to Mountain View, we'll try you. Send me an email (click on my username).
You can add to that the repeated refusal of the allies to accept hitler's offers to take jews out of german territory, even while there was some knowledge or at least rumors about the holocaust.
Nobody in America drops a math major to study philosophy. A more likely scenario is someone who can't handle the coursework to get a business degree so they end up majoring in communications.
Using generators in Python will get similar laziness in Python:

from itertools import imap
map(f, imap(g, imap(h, someList)))

I think Python 3's map built-in is a generator so you no longer have to use the itertools module.

Unfortunately we don't have . or currying in Python so no pointfree python :(.

from itertools import ifilter
# ugly python function with a "Maybe dict" return type
def query(data, date):
"""Return the first dict where date is > x['date'] or None"""
is_greater = lambda x: date > x['date']
return next(
ifilter(
is_greater,
data
),
None
)
The GPL requires that any changes (made to code used in released products) be released under the GPL. I'm unaware of any home appliance manufacturer that freely releases the OS of their products under the GPL, as they would have to if they were using Linux.
Straight up bullshit. "It isn't much" is not valid commentary on "$28 million."
While this is interesting it shouldn't really be surprising. Whatever happens in the real world is inevitable in the cyber (ugh, dislike that word) world. Government and commercial espionage is fairly common and employs the use of sophisticated infiltration, sabotage and subversion techniques; this is just its parallel on the Internet.
Yes. Also, the MacRumors version shows all the data, which can be really revealing. For instance, the progression of cycle length on the Mac Pro vs other products.
I'll definitely try you the next time I have an event; Indonesian food is awesome.
"Every other kid wants to do a liberal arts major, but how many want to do math?"

Liberal arts major as such is quite different from an art major. Many kids do want to maybe be an English or History major and then teach. Far, far fewer want to be an art major and try to survive as an artist (or even an art teacher).

As far as math goes, maybe not all that many kids want to be mathematicians, but plenty do take a fair bit of math on their way to becoming engineers, programmers, doctors, and scientists. They all certainly take far more math courses than art courses.

Of course, few artists take many math courses, but there are far fewer art students than there are students of professions that rely on math and need a decent education in math to graduate.

"so many americans drop in favor of studying philosophy"

Oh please. There are probably fewer philosophy majors in the US who actually want to do philosophy after school than art majors (of which there are very few). There'd be even fewer overall if philosophy wasn't the number one major of students accepted in to law school. Most philosophy majors just use that major as a means to get in to law school.
Looks like somebody else doesn't know what near-linear means.
TL;DR - we (testers) need to tackle these problems head on ourselves rather than wait for people to "get it".

It seems to me, a lot of folks here wouldn't be adverse to using a freelance tester in general, but are extremely adverse to using bad freelance testing (and have the scars to prove it!).

I'm a contract tester and recently decided to make the transition to freelance. From my experience (and confirmed by the comments here) the main barrier is one of perception - how can testers / add value to my organisation? And how do I know this tester is as good as they claim?

There are numerous ways someone like me can help an organisation:

Help organisations find the right permanent employees; Mentor said permanent employees by sharing knowledge; provide testing experience to a known or unknown business domain; supplement the clients test lab with your own equipment; evangelise testing throughout the company, demonstrate what good testing can do, what it looks like

I had to stop myself there! And pretty much all of those examples are from recent (within 12 months) history. Luckily for me I've been able build a decent enough reputation that there is potential for repeat business.

Two more key problems: first, the kind of testers that people here need may live in a bubble where everyone knows the value of testing and as such may not realise the rest of us exist - my colleagues and I need to start dispensing some red pills :). Second, the testers that are trying to be better appear to be outnumbered by the ones that aren't (snake oil merchants, testing zombies, call them what you will) so again we need to tackle that head on too.

Nice discussion. Thanks for the illuminating comments folks.
But much harder. Slides (with notes!) are a VERY good compromise.

Remember: the author does not owe you anything.
From user's point of view, I'd prefer something with static typing.
Hey Feldo, we cater food into our office in SOMA, we'd be happy to try you out. Give me a buzz.

-Matt@Gigwalk.com
This has been around for a few weeks: http://hsmaker.com/
"failed to turn off and enter sleep mode"

Oh no! Not this ACPI crap again!

(just kidding)

Yes, it can be cosmic rays, or maybe just a task that didn't exit properly

One thing I find different about Mars Curiosity is how results are slow to come. In other Mars missions it seemed they would expedite the experiments (but of course, other robots had a much shorter 'due date')
Thank you Matt, appreciate this so much. Will email you right now.
Well, even if they are not treated that way, the bondage feels that way. The boldness while doing your job well goes away. We cannot ask for promotions since there is no point. I worked with a huge pay cut for years and today I question if my decision to come to US was a right one. I could have been in any of the other open developed countries instead and would have happily settled down.
Well, maybe, just maybe, there are more people who want to be art teachers, than there are math teachers.. and in that, the positions are relatively hard to fill.. There are also more jobs at Walmart than in Education.

The financial disparity of "art" is that there is only so much room for people to excel and you have to be very good... only the top 1% will ever gain any recognition... There are plenty of schools out there dedicated to the arts... there are also schools dedicated to science.

From the financial perspective, nothing is stopping anyone from picking up a pencil and paper and drawing, or dancing to music. YouTube etc has given rise to quite a few self-starters. The same goes for computers... Except with computers the financial barrier to entry is a little higher. Just the same, there's a number of articles, books, blogs, etc that will help you learn if you take the initiative.

Not having something in a classroom never stopped someone with initiative from learning something. Have some.
U.S. student debt: $966B as of Q4, 2012
I agree. We are just bleeding money right now and this has definitely set us back even more. I have debt right now and if things don't turn around soon, I may not only not have a business, I may be in deep debt trying to keep things afloat, so I promise you this is pretty dire. Its quite difficult for me to admit this publicly or even put all my cards on the table the way I am. I would not do this if I didn't felt like I honestly need the help. I definitely am trying to keep a calm mind and the comments here have been greatly helpful. I appreciate everything and I agree with what you've said. I will do my best to survive and hustle right now.
Thank you so much for your kind words. If you are able to spread the word, that is more than enough. If you guys would love for us to cater for you again, just say the world. I truly appreciate it.
I don't think you can compare coding and writing so closely. I don't know about you, but I've never thought of coding as involving much creativity.

Or is your point that good writers and artists and such are not actually being creative?
We definitely do Mountain View. Will email you right now. Thank you so much.
"as far as being a professional artist, well guess what; when I was a kid I wanted to be a poet."

You were certainly not representative of the typical American kid.

"If ever a time comes when one could sustainably make money selling art, then I'm sure many artists and even non artists will flood the market."

I'm not. Not until they can make a better living at it than most other professions.

The sad fact is that not only is making art looked down on in this society (as "emo", or "gay", or as not serious or worthwhile), but most people are not interested in expressing themselves artistically (partially as a result of the education system, and partially because of social attitudes towards artists and art).

Maybe as kids, a minority of Americans enjoyed an art class here and there, but they probably never dreamed of creating art for a living -- even if it somehow could earn them a decent wage (which it can't now.. not even remotely).

So I don't think even economic parity with other respected professions would suddenly flood the market with artists. Not until societal attitudes and the education system changes pretty radically. Until then, people will still want to go in to a more respectable and "achievable" career path.

Sure, if there's suddenly a swarm of artist billionaires like there has been of dotcom billionaires, then many money-hungry people will swarm in to the art field (as they have in to the startup industry). But I for one am not holding my breath.
Funny, in my late teens, I was interested in philosophy, politics, religion, and government/law. My interest in philosophy wasn't as a career path... just an interest I had.. I was also interested in art/design... which is how I wound up falling into programming (which paid a lot better, and I had a talent for).
Thank you so so much. I appreciate it more than you know.
Thank you. Please email me a reminder. I will be sure to give you guys a discount for helping us out at this time.
"Far, far fewer want to be an art major and try to survive as an artist (or even an art teacher)"

Are you discounting the multitudes that study fashion design and graphic design? The ones that pile on at RISD and New School? Julliard? At this point I feel you should specify what you consider an artistic pursuit

"As far as math goes, maybe not all that many kids want to be mathematicians, but plenty do take a fair bit of math on their way to becoming engineers, programmers, doctors, and scientists. They all certainly take far more math courses than art courses."

No, actually beyond basic high school math many people never touch math again. Not even calculus. You talk about the ones on their way to becoming engineers and such. That's like complaining that people at chef school take more cooking classes than astrophysics classes. You talk about engineers, programmers, and scientists like everyone's just lining up at the door to become one.

"few artists take many math courses, but there are far fewer art students than there are students of professions that rely on math and need a decent education in math to graduate."

See the chefs and astrophysics above. A further counterpoint is that there are more students who graduate college who take a cultural "creative" course than there are students who take math. And like you've alluded to, many who even bother to touch calculus are the ones who are required to.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
Why the story being untrue makes it a waste of time for everybody?
Minor gripe, but a list seems wrong for that usage. A map or set seems more appropriate.

Referring to: https://github.com/airbnb/twitter-commons-sample/blob/master...
Fearing the micro-transaction future
There is a false assumption that manufacturers don't use Linux because of GPL. Most products don't use Linux because they don't need it, and they use something like FreeRTOS or another commerical RTOS. Plenty of companies use Linux in all sorts of home appliances, mostly TV products, but an increasing number of fridges from companies like Samsung do have Linux and they do release the code. What manufacturers don't do is release the applications that they run on the OS (despite the false assumption that they should).
Ask HN: How do you decide whether to accept a LinkedIn invitation?
If the invitation comes from someone who is in some way connected to my career, I always accept. However, I'm at a loss when one comes from somebody I barely knew in high school or from a recruiter with no additional context.

Whose invites do you accept? Is there any benefit to curating one's connections or should we just be accepting all invitations?
A genuine question, please don't take it as an attack, I have some remote jewish blood in my veins, but I have to ask:

What was so special in the Holocaust? I mean there were a lot of similarly dark points in history, both in terms of numbers (people killed) and cruelty, but still, it seems we always only care about the Holocaust (or at least it overshadows everything else).

I think we should remember other events too, more frequently.
Lest you forget, while installing dictators and facilitating genocide is bad enough, the US also oppressed civilians during the time. Mississippi, for instance, was a police state with apartheid a good 20 years after the end of the war. Americans with Japanese heritage were forcibly removed and put in concentration camps.

Suffice to say, your moral high ground is not as clear cut to me, especially when you talk about justifying the atom bomb.
This is great. The lesser the product line the more one can focus.
Thanks josh!
Hopefully it's in pursuit of a connector that's somewhat forward & backward compatible for the next decade. It would be nice to learn more about Lightning. In particular the 1600x900 limitation is irritating. It'd be reassuring if this is something that will be addressed with a firmware update (similarly with the artifacts, though I have somewhat less hope for improvements there).

I'm gung-ho for Lightning but if it turns out to be nothing more than a fancy way to make USB expensive and proprietary I'll be having another think. If it guarantees accessory compatibility for 6-10 years it's worth a couple compromises but I do expect 1080P output as advertised.
> creating a new user account

that gives me less confidence, not more.