skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you provide more specifics here? There was a good amount of that book which wasn't to like, as it was inferior in quality to the other Ender-related works, so I wasn't paying the bestest of attention, and it's also been a while, but I didn't notice any overt incidents where the writing served to degrade the status of homosexuals as people, and I can't find any particular references on Google. (If you want to hear homosexuals and supporters of homosexuality degraded as illegitimate actors in the sociopolitical arena and the like, Card did a speech in 1990 which did that, which I'm sure you've seen, though the general public should be aware that claims that it's no longer an accurate representation of his views, which I guess is good because it's been like 23 years and anyone who sticks with an idea in one form exactly for 23 years either isn't much of a thinker or hasn't been paying any attention to reality).

The closest I've found is someone's article writing about how Card generally doesn't depict homosexuals - or, for that matter, depict very much sex in general.
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That's nice but that is hardly a skyscraper. By the look of it the building is around 15 floors high... let's say around 40m high. The author was talking about putting trees at 500feet in the air, that's 152m... considerably more.
Very similar thing happened with a US money market fund a few years ago. They are supposed to be rock solid, always being worth $1 per share and paying out a paltry amount of interest. But safe. So basically, like a bank (but without the FDIC protections).

When Lehmann Brothers went down, the Reserve Primary Fund suddenly didn't have enough money to pay out everyone, which had the same effect of "getting in line with the other
creditors". They actually had almost all the money, but distributing it took nearly a year IIRC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_market_fund#September_200...
It's possible just not feasible and therefore there is no interest in executing these plans by corporations.
Seems like Orson Scott Card is the opposite or an anti-Semite.

http://www.red-alerts.com/comintern/orson-scott-card-on-the-...

I always interpreted Rose Da Nose and the 'Kike squad' to be endearing.
Regarding the US to China route, this is more complicated than it would seem. While getting a visa is probably the easiest solution, there are some situations where it is not required. An example being that you can enter visa-free into Shanghai for 48 hours if you're in transit through the airport.

There are some other odd visa-on-arrival schemes available for places like Shenzhen if you're arriving via Hong Kong (although I think this isn't available to US citizens, only to Australians, and a few other nationalities). I wouldn't be surprised if this is true of some of the other Special Economic Zones as well (e.g. Hainan island). It can be really hard to find this information though, even through official channels.

So this kind of confusion is what the author is up against when collecting data.
But Noah merely implemented the spec; the actual design work was done by an infallible God — making it the canonical example of a water-fall process.
It is not that he worships a god which only blesses certain marriages. It is that he opposes equal treatment under the law. All gods are imaginary. The people Card wants to harm are real.
I'd also like to see at least some kind of quick explanation of why this is being created. How does it differ than CloudFoundry, for example? What issues does it try to solve that don't work well with the existing platforms? Just a few minutes to explain the "why" question, and I might actually want to sit down and read through the installation documentation.
I wonder if he would be willing to reconsider his beliefs about same sex marriage now that there is more evidence to draw upon. Other staunch conservatives, like David Frum [1], have recently acknowledged that they were wrong to fear that same-sex marriage would somehow undermine the institution of marriage or weaken social integrity.

[1] http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-27/opinion/frum.gay.marriage...

Edit - on examination, probably not. [2]

[2] http://greensboro.rhinotimes.com/hc.e.211703.lasso
No, it isn't. It claims to be faster than squid, not nginx. But it doesn't even meet that claim.
300 million users and still no app for studying Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters? You'd think someone in Asia would have made a Skritter knock off for Android by now.
Please do not stop!

I absolutely love the idea of buildings lush with vegetation, as if in some post-apocalyptical world where nature has reclaimed the cities.

It may not be very possible/feasible, it may even be a public safety hazard, but I'm so fed up with steel, concrete and glass.
Did you actually try it? It gives you a direct link to the relevant document, so you don't have to trust the site and you don't have to go digging.
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Creating art, painting and photography, are also both highly meditative experiences

They're certainly mindful, but I like to distinguish the mindfulness of meditation from the mindfulness of concentration on something specific.

When you're concentrating on something like coding or creating art, the thoughts themselves provide the framework of your mindfulness and drive your mind's focus.

When I'm meditating, I try to create that intensity of mindfulness without the framework of something specific to concentrate on. By learning to separate the focus from the things that I focus on, I feel I'm doing something more fundamental with my brain.
Most millionaires here in Uruguay don't have a house that large.

I can't believe how big U.S. houses are. A quick Googling shows they're much larger than the average house in my country:

Average House Size By Country
Australia - 214.6 sq m (2310 sq ft), 2.56 people per household (pph)
USA - 201.5 (2170), 2.6 pph
New Zealand - 196.2 (2112), 2.6 pph
Canada - 181 (1950), 2.5 pph
Japan - 132 (1420), this year the pph in Tokyo dropped below 2 for the first time (1.99)
UK - 76 (818), 2.1 pph

and those are averages, I'm sure median shows a different picture (small flats for Europe and urban Latin America, large houses for suburban U.S. and Australia).

The median for a flat here in Montevideo is about 60 square meters (the one I rent is 55 square meters, and most new ones are even smaller), and the median house is about 100 square meters (and forget about the humungous driveways and stuff the U.S. suburban house has).

http://notbuyinganything.blogspot.com/2012/03/average-house-...
A lot of artists (and a lot of coders for that matter) have political views I disagree with.

I even have friends with beliefs I strongly disagree with.

I don't care.

I have no belief test that they must pass before I enjoy/use their work. Or talk to them. The very idea of such a thing repells me.
> Sounds like someone had a Lua hammer, so everything looked like a Lua nail.

Same could be said for most of the JS proponents in the thread.
Life of Pi was unfilmable.
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Sorry Ben, I didn't mean to accuse you of anything. Sorry if it came out that way. And yeah, that's what I was looking for :) thanks!
I helped mothball one of the ships shown there, I suppose. The link above is dead. But if that is the american mothball fleet, I once had a job in a shipyard as an auxiliary electrician helping to mothball one of those ships. THat was 20 years ago.
Exactly the point. Maybe we should add #2, remember rule 1!
We're all based in Birmingham, with operations in London - the role can be remote though, so the lucky person can work wherever he or she wishes! We do have weekly team meetings, but Skype is fine with face time every couple of weeks.
Re: the no MVP. Since this is a content-based startup, I think our MVP should be some sort of blog/tumblr to build an audience. Our content is our core product. We aren't doing anything novel in terms of technology. Right now we're building a platform around that content, but I think our efforts are better spent building an audience than building the platform.
Will that include addons, for instance a mobile backend-as-a-service, Parse style?
One thing O'Reilly 'programmers' should try; cacheing their websites before posting on HN
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That's what made the article rather provincial and a fail, even though the basic point that "gardening is somewhat complicated" was OK. If you've never been out of your urban area, ever, perhaps a native New Yorker or something like that, you may not realize that trees can be found all over the world in some pretty crazy conditions. Not just trees, but even human beings, have been known to live in places that are 26 degrees warmer (or colder), although someone extremely unsophisticated may not be aware of it. Which made me interpret the article as a humor piece.

What could be a problem is placing a skyscraper in an area already only borderline habitable, but why would you want to live there anyway? The treeline in colorado is around eleven or twelve thousand feet so given that Denver is about five thousand feet up, I would not put a tree covered skyscraper more than 5000 or so feet higher than Denver. Or if you're building in Denver and insist on putting a tree on top, don't make the building more than 6000 feet tall. Or if you're building a little hut at Mt Everest base camp, putting a tree on top of it might not work out so well. Another issue is the absolute tree line for all conifers might be 11000 feet but for say, palm trees, it might be lower.
No, they don't "grow under some of the most extreme conditions possible"; consider the meaning of the phrase "tree line". It is routine for conditions to be too extreme for trees to be feasible.

Life is very adaptable, but it's a category error to then conclude that any given life form is very adaptable. Trees have limits. Ones based in physics.
We have an incredible 4000sq ft olive grove at the top of the 48 storey Beetham Tower in rainy Manchester. The architect turned the top two floors into his own penthouse, complete with enclosed olive trees.

Picture: http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2009/04/27/...

Trees at the top of a skyscraper convey both extravagance and eco credentials. Helipads are no longer credit-crunch-friendly.

Video (Skip to 1:16 for the trees)

http://karmacrew.tv/our-work/architect-profile-ian-simpson-b...
Building the product is the easy part of the work. First we have to sell. Here is the summary of my experiences:

[http://www.drdacademy.com/?id=first-solve-the-selling-proble...]
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#1 is a good point -- I never thought about building some type of metric dashboard. Thanks!
In addition to what Sean pointed out, the Tea Party effectively started in 2007, as a small group of right-leaning folks on a couple of investing forums equally disgusted with both political parties. They had the idea to mail tea bags to Congress then as a form of protest, but it wasn't until two years later that that movement culminated in the official Tea Party. Some of these early people were later alienated as it quickly became more partisan.
But I have noticed that constantly programming and thinking about software design is hurting the quality in the end. Letting the mind drift of once in a while helps me slow down a bit.

It kind of feels like I'm offloading my thoughts for re-factoring in the back of my mind while I'm doing something else.
// It was hard coding it
// so it should be hard reading it
rurounijones posted a link:

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_warship_HMS_Invincible_...
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Very cool, but that building at 3 stories is no sky-scrapper and having plants grow on it is actually reasonable.
Please make it viable instead of halting it, just because it's hard.
Thanks a million bud.
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I run in to loads of people that want to "do a startup". They've subscribed to the culture of 'tech startup', they know all the buzzwords, go to the right networking events, learn about VC and term sheets before they even have a product or service, and so on.

She did have a Virgin tattoo, and was/is a fan of Branson from an early age; I'm assuming from that she had a head for business early on, and built from that, but that is miles different from the 'startup culture' I run in to these days ("how many accelerators have you applied to? are you on angel list?" etc)
Expect – automates programs that expose a text terminal interface
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500 feet up is really not that much considering trees are just fine over two miles (10,560ft) above sea level. Mountains generally do have a tree line, but most buildings are well below what the local tree line would be as most city's are fairly close to sea level.
I had the same thought as I went back to append the names of the artists in the collection. I have seen lots of great logos designed by women as I've scoured Dribbble, just not so many using the negative space technique. What does that say? Maybe men and women perceive design differently? This would be an interesting topic to explore.
> Programming, maintenance, scaling, etc, is not hard.
> If you think it is hard you are either doing it wrong, or it's the wrong job for your personality.

You're replying to jrockway. Perhaps you could curb your arrogance. Programming is indeed an extremely hard topic filled with compromises and tradeoffs that are often unattractive.

Picking the correct solution that fulfills time, effort, complexity constraints is why some people are paid so well.
I think you'd need to not provide Wi-fi or else people would just be huddled around laptops. But then if you did that maybe no one would come? Or they'd just use their aircard :|
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If you watch the video, it's clear that she's joking. It was a roast-style speech.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/03/18/elizabeth-warren-st-p...
I'd say read the whole Bean series, but only read the lastest in the Ender series. You'll get caught up with Ender and you don't have to wade through most of what many people have described as bad storytelling (friends).
I get what he's saying. I think he's more upset that architects are using a "tree" to add some level of trendiness to their buildings. When in fact they should be adding altitude hardened plants that are typically not the most aesthetic plant.

But it is after all just a model and hopefully someone will sit down and scratch their head and say, wait what happens if a branch falls off that tree? Lets just put some bushes up there that don't grow past the railing...
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Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/397/
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the problem is a large JS application is no different from a large desktop application. You cant code your way out of it without States , Proxies , Commands , Mediators , etc ... wether they are blundled with the framework one uses or not. Or one writes "throw away" code , which is what most people do anyway.
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There was a passage where I think Bean found Volescu, who strongly insinuates that he is gay even though he believes homosexuality is wrong.

Sorry, I can't be much more specific about this - I only read the book once about 10 years ago and did not hang onto it when I moved abroad.
Highest tree line in the world is at 5200m[1]. Don't see why trees couldn't cope with 150m (yes, I know building != mountain, but still).

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_line#Alpine_tree_lines
Agreed. I think a blanket "Don't even try" is silly, and antithetical to the ethos of HN. I'm surprised there isn't more backlash against this.

"Don't just draw them on the skyscraper, make it work." would be a better sentiment. If wind is a problem, find a way to break the wind. If roots are a problem, find a way to stop the roots, or trim the roots, and build that into the design.

But there's a pile of evidence for the benefits of adding greenery to cities, so please just don't say to stop trying.
What about "proliferation" is unclear to you?

Also your conclusion re: dirty jokes displays a basic logical reasoning error. What the case says is that participating can nullify the inference that the jokes were unwelcome. It does not say a dirty joke should be responded to by filing notice.
f2py is a remarkable tool. And it's much easier than the documentation would lead you to believe. It's literally as simple as doing

f2py foo.f -c -m foo

Which creates a foo python module with easy access to whatever functions you put in foo.f, with proper type checking and conversion from python objects to fortran arrays. It is also clever enough to remove some unecessary inputs which are common in old fortran. For example, in fortran you usually define an extra input argument to be the length of an input array. f2py determines that this variable is uncessary as it can be determined from the length of the python object and makes it optional.

If you write fortran90-95 it's even better, as you can mark a variable as output and f2py puts it on the left side automatically.

I wish they would update it to support pointers and custom types, though. That's about the only thing it lacks right now.

It's the best and quickest way I know of linking python and native code. Scipy's weave is also nice.
It's a pain because some libs support AMD and some don't, but it's the least bad solution that I know of. If there's a better option I'm all ears.

Of course you can add a global variable in a module if you want to, but 1. why would you? and 2. If this happens by accident it should be picked up by a linter.

Which mobile browsers have issues? Would be good to know.
question: he says: Life sucks up there. For you, for me, for trees, and just about everything else except peregrine falcons. It’s hot, cold, windy, the rain lashes at you, and the [b]snow and sleet pelt[/b] you at high velocity.

so for snow and sleet, how is it any worst than at ground level? wouldn't it be worst at ground level since there is more gravity?
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It's a question of supporting and finance of something you dislike. I am not saying Enders Game does not stand for its own merits.
80 chars per line is great
Should also add that we don't "force" home education, we discuss it regularly and he's the primary decision maker in terms of what to do for high school.
> No, they don't "grow under some of the most extreme conditions possible"; consider the meaning of the phrase "tree line". It is routine for conditions to be too extreme for trees to be feasible.

'Routine' is a strong word. You'll note that tree lines exist at significant altitudes commonly on mountains. Typically places that trees cannot grow are also places that humans find difficult.

Demonstrating that trees are incapable of growing on buildings would of course shut me up, but the author didn't do that. What they did was to say 'trees wont grow on buildings'. A bare assertion. One counteracted by pictures in this very thread.
Thanks for the comment, I think I've seen your blog before actually! I know a few FP specific recruiters in London, and my feeling is that FP is not quite widespread enough that you could jump directly from one contract to the next without being in Java/C# land at least a little bit.

Almost all of the FP jobs I've seen are <an imperative language>, F#/Scala/clojure experience considered beneficial. Are you working more with greenfield projects or transitions from Java would you say?
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A pile of buzzwords, a funny sounding name that's fun to say, and "written in go" to get some HN love.

Yawn. Wake me up when they do something Heroku/CloudFoundry/Appfog/Ironfoundry etc aren't doing.
I have a hard time to nail down civil rights to just plain simple political views and beliefs.
Another reason people haven't considered here is that nginx can display error pages for you when your application server crashes, or is taking too long to serve requests. This is much nicer for the user than a browser error.
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The article is meant to present the concept and provide inspiration for other artists; it's not a treatise on the history of the technique. I plan to update it as I find more clever examples.
when it's to good to be true...
Ask HN: Why is HN based on tables?
From my point of view, it's paradox that a website like HN is so outdated (HTML-tables, inline-styling, non-responsive) while hundreds of people post interesting state-of-the-art stuff here... Is it because of the KISS-concept? Or does nobody dare to update the source code?
I hope that the "why" is that it's much simpler to use on a small scale. What I'd really like is a standardized engine to deploy apps of many flavors on rather than having to create new chef scripts to deploy everything I write.

I essentially want something that works like heroku as far as ease of use for deployment/scaling, accommodates many different application types, and is easy for me to spin up in a 2-4 node cluster on my own VPSes. Every time I have a new app to deploy I just push it to the cluster and I'm done, adding additional VPSes as it starts to get full. I'm hoping this is such a thing, but I haven't tried it just yet, so I can't say for sure.

CloudFoundry, OpenShift, etc. seem pretty heavyweight and more meant for service providers or large corporate private clouds. If they can be used like I describe too could anyone provide some links to docs/blogs about it? I haven't found it so far.
For those who have taken it already, what's the time commitment like? I would hate to sign up to find myself swamped with more hours than I can feasibly handle on top of an already full schedule.
There are many companies who do just that and make a killing.

Jack&Jones, HM, GAP, Banana Republic etc.

Most people just want to look contemporary without looking trendy. Think about it as curation for the common man.
Some form of vegetation may be feasible. I think the author makes a fairly good argument that trees are not it.
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Maybe there is a certain height where this comes into play, but I've seen trees growing naturally (not by design) in abandoned buildings. The first I could think of is the 13-story Highland building here in Pittsburgh you can kind of make out the quite large tree in this photo http://photos.mycapture.com/PITT/1314621/37517652E.jpg
Ah, I understand, I took "free" in the other context when I read it originally.
In keeping with HN guidelines, title should be revised to "The Greatest Investing Lessons from Rock".
A good functional programmer should be able to update inline styling and replace it with an external style sheet, although there is still the issue of whether anyone who has authority to change the code base actually thinks that is worth the trouble.
I think RISUG (Vasalgel) is the most promising male contraceptive ... its waiting for FDA appoval and is being used in India for more than a decade, it looks like it will change the world :) , ofcourse we need more data before we can really say RISUG will be effective against HIV transmission ... but nevertheless its very promising amongst all other options ...

http://www.gizmag.com/risug-male-contraception/18824/
I'm a bit surprised that the article never mentioned the potential affects of the tree's roots on the structures supporting them. My driveway can tell you that the roots of a decent sized tree will not play nice with man made things that get in their way.