skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy it. People don't criticize a king at all. You don't criticize the
communist party in Stalinist Russia, tactfully or otherwise. Doing that gets you
sent to the gulag

That's not true. Even during the Stalinist period in Russia or the Maoist period in China, there was still criticism of the government. It's just that criticism was phrased in language that was politically acceptable to the leaders. Individual cases of corruption and mismanagement could and were exposed and castigated, but as long as one was careful to emphasize that they were exposing and castigating the individual case of corruption (as opposed to the system as a whole), one could obliquely criticize the system.

That's exactly what I'm seeing here. Small businesses are afraid of Google. They're afraid to directly criticize the general principles behind Google AdWords program. But they can highlight individual failures of the Google AdWords program, and, as long as they emphasize that they're talking about this specific business or that specific account, they can obliquely criticize the general principles.
Always! Every machine I've ever owned and every workstation I've used gets a name.

I've never named my phones, though; you'd think they would be more personal, but somehow they feel less personal, like they don't really belong to me in the same way that a proper computer does.
I wouldn't say Philly is going anywhere quickly at the moment, whether good or not. However it has excellent food, decent drinking and nightlife, and it's pretty close to both DC and NYC.
Thanks! Glad you like it. I think there's a lesson for entrepreneurs all over the world in it.
I would find your first example very readable on multiple lines (it lends itself naturally to breaking up), but only if you go all the way and break on every dot. As it is, it looks asymmetric, like something an automatic word wrap would do and it is very easy to miss that last build() statement when scanning.

But second one looks like a mess either way :), partly because I am not familiar with the language, but mostly I think because brackets are opened and closed on different lines.

I'm sure you can come up with several pretty ways of breaking up every specific situation that is both aesthetically pleasing and functional (in fact I already use your first example, with slight modifications), but there is no general way that can be encoded in rulebook or indent rules of an IDE.
They're also horrible trash cans.
Tried again without HTTPS and this time it worked (What the f..).

I hope this will be fixed soon, I would prefer to force HTTPS everywhere.

Anyhow, thank you very much, at least now the bot will be able to crawl my site!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7TVRU5nho
I named my old Inspiron 8200 "Ghost"! There's a story behind that: Once upon a time, I ran a community called Ghostnetworks and I actually hosted the first node on my laptop (don't laugh).
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That's a superficial view of the state of affairs.

Of course that the offer (pitches) will always be greater by several orders of magnitude than the demand (investor money). A natural consequence of that is that investors are sick of being pitched everywhere they go.

But for investors, is it better to have too many pitches, or not enough?

Don't worry, there are still plenty of people shipping shit that people want :)
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Amazon would just have to have a policy along the lines of, "We only sell guns via gun stores in your local area,"

Federal law already requires that anyone selling guns by mail-order do exactly that. A gun can only be shipped to a licensed dealer, who must then perform a background check on the buyer before handing it over. It's common enough that almost all gun stores have a set fee for providing this service.
I'll say it. We hold up some incredibly deficient people as idols in the tech world.
The original SMBC specifies that everything except the nouns should be nurbled; your implementations replace the nouns themselves.

I'd like to refactor the Ruby example, but I'd like to know what the proper implementation should be!
heh. It does if he wants to later complain about html and php code all mixed up.

The only reason that is true is that he chose not to use a micro framework for php.
There is one more point we all might be missing here. This is not just about knief-depot.

It is unreasonable to believe that someone at Google said, "Hey, I dont like these knief-depot people, let us screw them to benefit Amazon".

Likely case is this. People at Amazon (or put other large company spending significant amounts with Google) maintains a dashboard and does a competitor analysis to find out that knief-depot is doing better than them and hence there is scope for screwing this smaller company. They talk to google and create problems from them. And I dont think they have singled out knife depot alone, but they have done this with many more on the slippary slope.

This means that Google does have some non-transparent ways of doing business when with comes to Adwords.

This is not just bad for Knife-depot but bad for all of us.
It really depends on how quickly you can wrap around your head around FP; I had done a little bit of Scala before the course and usually could code the assignments in an evening. The assignments are really fun, by the way.
Yes, the only possible barriers are physical ones. Motivation is a completely intrinsic quality, perfectly unaffected by how people are treated. And yes, harassment is totally ok if the person meant well, or at least didn't provably intend harm. That's just how it's done, after all! Women should be grateful for the attention!

Seriously, it's depressing to read a total dismissal of the actual experiences of half the planet like that. And a willingness to opine on the issues with zero understanding of the history or the lived experience of women in tech. If you're going to call yourself a geek, try learning a little about the topic before you speak.
Show HN: The day SEO types and babbling idiots took over HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5438797

Top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5439191

I blame Matt Cutt's occasional cameos here for attracting this sort.
I think a bunch of kids would tend to respond well towards a telling-off for Ted, and instructions to everyone else to stop Ted from being naughty.

Adult professionals, on the other hand, usually face more nuanced problems to which they can offer more constructive solutions, but have developed senses of tact and self preservation which mean they're unlikely to say "Ted wasn't smart enough for the task you gave him" or "actually the senior guy we're all afraid of delayed Ted's work" in a group meeting, both suggestions which might achieve more than a public confessional or argument

I don't think this is a "specific quirk" of developers; I think most sections of society actually require more sugar-coating on their criticism.

IMHO there's something seriously dysfunctional about a manager whose response to a problem with a team member is to belatedly announce it in a public meeting and then follow up by stating they've delegated dealing with it to everyone else, right now, as obviously people will feel much happier voicing things in public they haven't said in private.
If the king has to do what the subjects and lesser lords want or he'll be
overthrown, he's really serving at the consent of the people.

That sounds an awful lot like the "mandate of Heaven" principle they have in China. The government can do whatever it wants, as long as it has the mandate of Heaven. How does the government know that it has the mandate of Heaven? By successfully surviving an attempted revolution or coup. How does a government lose the mandate of Heaven? By falling to a revolution or coup.

It's wonderfully circular logic that highlights the flaw in your argument. By your logic, every government that manages to survive is serving with the "consent of the governed". By your logic, even Kim Jong-Un is serving with the "consent" of his people, simply because they have not risen up and cast him down.
Stupid question, but how did you pay 2012 taxes before 2012 was over?
Weird that performance was the first reason mentioned when saying that is why he picked clojure. Ease of development is usually the top of my list. Then ease of hiring developers to maintain the system. Clojure is hard to dive into and hard to hire for right now. Two big minuses in my book.
No, because you don't have additional IO overhead.
> While I don't think these current retroactive taxes are intentional hard core redistribution of wealth (because there might be some technicality or specific quark we are dealing with here) it is none-the-less a soft beginning and a peak into what's to come.

> When a State becomes a welfare and entitlement land, the hordes that it will bread will have a voting power that will outmatch those that work and earn.

Perhaps, but the US's domestic policy from about 1980 has been an intentional distribution of wealth: [1].

And on top of that, americans prefer much more evenly distributed wealth than the current situation: [2].

Source article for [1] and [2] is [3].

> Just look at any city or state that's failing. They all have the same thing in common. Too many resource consumers (and destroyers), not enough resource producers (and creators).

The US has a consumer based economy, so wouldn't more consumers be a good thing since it would require the producers to produce more, which would create more jobs? Also, wasn't the main problem with the recession that most companies couldn't find enough consumers willing to buy their product? I think you have this part backwards.

> There is no doubt that in the next 20-50 years we will probably see this redistribution mostly in the form of higher taxes, and taxation without representation will become the norm (see - http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/suburbs-secede-from-atlanta/ for an intresting example of this last part). And it will always fail and just make things worse.

It seemed to work pretty well in the 1930's and 1940's.

[1]: http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2011/inequality-p25_a...
[2]:http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2011/inequality-page2...
[3]: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit...
That's actually clever. There should be a similar method for babies. Alas, I fear too many parents flock to People Magazine than gsub.
Yeah that's really it. Still an improvement on the $1 million required for an EB-5 (although that gives you a green card).

It feels like there could be some workarounds here. They explicitly say the money can't be from a loan, so that idea is out.

But I've read of other techies getting an E2 for an investment just in the mid 5 figures range, so it mightn't need to go into the 6 figure range after all. Especially with a profitable software business where the profit margins are extremely high and the running costs are extremely low, I think they would lower the threshold.
Certainly, and to the extent Google is required to intervene, I have no problem. It's when it goes the next step and says, "Google has decided foo objects are bad, therefore, thou shalt not sell them", independent of any regulatory concerns, that I have problem.

TFA is a gray area. I don't have a problem with Google's requirement so much as their capricious implementation. But if they decide it's OK to say, "We don't like the sound of that type of offer. You shall not pass." That I would have a real problem.

To be clear, this is a hypothetical brought up by the parent of my original post and referring to things like miracle diet ads that he/she doesn't like.
Are you generating revenue from your writings?
> product being discussed, where a protruding trigger is, with obviously little force via an index finger, actuated causing the blade to immediately swing 180 degrees at a high rate of speed.

You were not discussing that. You were making claims about the broader category of knives saying: "No one using a knife as a tool is going to buy an assisted opening knife" (In response to someone who provided a concrete example of where such a knife may be used even!) If you are vilifying everyone that owns that general category of knife, then my experiences with another knife in that category could not be more relevant.

> The context of my comment on it is that people who actually use knives as tools don't use knives made for 14 year old boys, emblazoned with names like "SWAT" by gun makers. I stand by that.

You'll be glad to know then that mine is not. However you have yet to explain how gaudy aesthetics are at all relevant. What about the form of that knife do you think renders it unsuitable for practical non-violent use?

> I suggest you try posting minus variations of "bullshit" or "shit".

Do you prefer "crap"? I prefer "shit".

I think we are done here though. I'll leave you with this, two non-scary looking assisted opening knives explicitly for hunting, fishing, and camping. One hansom, the other gaudy yet 'non-military': http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Stainless-Steel-Assisted-Opening... http://compare.ebay.com/like/150975567917?var=lv&ltyp=Al...

Clearly both instruments of murder and mayhem.
Unless you are a committer to Ruby now, or plan to invest in learning more powerful languages, Go probably isn't a good choice. I run a pure Go shop and we generally look for people with hardcore C (not C++ or C#) or systems/kernel backgrounds or at least one open source Go library under their belt.

If you're just looking for another language to get away from the cesspit that is Ruby, try Python.
The equal and proportional was with regard to the income tax bump. Since not everyone was given an increase, it can neither be equal or proportional. Sales tax is of course a dollar for dollar match. We all got hit with that. But my simple reasoning was not "people with more money spend all their money"... it was that people with more money tend to spend more money. Their dinners out are often more frequent and more expensive. Their cars are often more expensive. They often have more gadgets and stuff. So while the sales tax bump itself was equal, the net gain is going to be higher from those that spend more money. That was not so much a criticism of fairness but just another point of getting more from the rich... who were already being asked to pay more from the start. Sure, Prop 38 was not perfect either, true. But, IMO, it was more balanced and fair. It was less likely to drive people away like 30.
I guess 80 chars is a rule for latin alphabet based code. A similar rule for chinese would be "whatever historically didn't fit on printed media in country of origin". :) If there are historical parallels at all that is.
Back in the day, Firefox experimented with making third-party cookies session-only, but I believe this option was disabled because some websites using third-party login cookies required users to login every session.

Have you run into any problem websites with self-destructing cookies?
As far as I know this is the case. In the end it is an 'investor' visa.
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That's not what happened, the tax law was found to be invalid by a court, so all taxes paid under the law had to revert to the rate paid under the previous law.
No investor money will do as long as you have > 50%. But it's only a valid option if you have already started your company in your home country and have had some funding and incorporated your company in the US.

If you move to the US and get funding from a US VC / Angle then I think it gets tricky because it says : At least 50% of the investors must be nationals of the treaty country.
Though there is the rare case when a browser had supported a feature for a while, and a nasty bug makes its way into public release where you need to hotfix for a specific version (3D-transforms refusing to work in Firefox 18.0, yet being reported as supported, as an example).
I have the same opionion on phones actually. That may have something to do with the fact that they're not really independent and their very use is limited by connectivity to a wireless provider. That makes them feel... chained?

Do you build your machines? Care to list a few names?
I enjoy Turing's contributions as much as the next man, but this really isn't an apt comparison. Socrates talked his way into his own grave when he could have easily gotten out of it. Galileo is probably closer, but the church beefed with his work, not the man per se. Meanwhile, Turing worked for the establishment directly and was very definitely embraced as a researcher. His persecution is completely unrelated to his genius; he seems to serve more as a figurehead for examples of homophobic bigotry because of his success and successive fame and recognition, not because his case was unusual.

That said, I'm happy with the situation; I don't see anything wrong with using him for that purpose. I just don't see much of a parallel because his anti-establishment status wasn't tied to his genius, and is in fact completely separate.
PyCon = Donglegate
More importantly most non-technical founders (my past self included) have a habit of bringing very little to the table. With this kind of approach there's a clear value that both the technical and non-technical people are contributing.
i'd be interested in seeing a go version as well just for comparison.
"full disclosure: I didn’t want to install Apache+PHP on my dev machine, so I haven’t tested this one"

Something rubbed me wrong with this statement. If you are going to make a remark like '[Clojure's] performance should be the highest of the above,' shouldn't you at least try them first?
Hey guys, want to collaborate with http://docker.io on the lxc provisionner? There are a bunch of "heroku-in-box" building on top of it already.
Making stuff people want is different than making what you think investors or well-known tech people want.
Or because you really like the company.

Who says the two thoughts are mutually exclusive? In Imperial China, people genuinely loved the Emperor, even as they ran from his mandarins. In Soviet Russia, people genuinely loved Joseph Stalin, even as they ran scared from the NKVD and (later) the KGB. So it's entirely possible to love Google (the company), but think that the AdWords team or GMail team <whichever other team> is being unfair and stupid.
Previous discussion (same essay on CNN.com):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5386249
Just a quick note that since php didnt use a microframework (because it didnt need to) you could've used many of the ones that already exist, however, someone wrote a clone of Sinatra for PHP called Frank[1], although the code is old now and there are many newer, maintained microframeworks to chose from.

[1] https://github.com/brucespang/Frank.php
To apply a fairly abstract curiosity to the contents of your pocket, it is closely related to Gorilla Glass[tm]. Gorilla Glass is chemically treated "tempering" rather than heat treated.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass#Manufacture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass#History
That is correct :) Are you thinking of the post about http://docker.io? If so, I concur: Tsuru + Docker seem like they would be an awesome match.
There's http://expectj.sourceforge.net, https://code.google.com/p/expect4j, and https://code.google.com/p/enchanter.
Is it just me or is PHP easily the best choice for quickly implementing something like this? The Ruby example required the framework Sinatra, Python isn't a language most servers support out-of-the-box (it is beautiful though) and Clojure is the ugliest language I've ever seen (at least in this example). I look forward to the day PHP is standardised (it will happen), because it cops a lot of flak when it gets the job done without needing usually anything installed on the server to run it. Upload your scripts and run, BAM!
It could be, fast forward ten years and the majority of the smartest minds in the industry will have no experience with your flagship product.
There is a microwork made from Symfony components called Silex: http://silex.sensiolabs.org.

Edit: I mis-read; reworded for clarity.
It would seem to me that a better solution would be a simple, traditional open-top can, and a solar powered, high-mounted (ie, out of reach) remote camera with sensing technology would get most of the savings with a much lower up-front and continuing capital cost.

The main savings seems to be from being able to monitor when the cans are full, and only pickup when needed.

To me, it would be simple to write an app that read in a x daily image upload of the can which automatically calculated the level of fullness. It wouldn't require specialised can hardware and could drive most of the benefit (only emptying when required). You could double the size if more capacity was required.

Also, I would expect that these would fall into a very predictable pattern, with some cans requiring emptying 5 times a week, some 8 times a week, some twice a week. It seems some simple modelling would also give you many benefits for a very small upfront-cost.

I have visited many friends places that had compactors installed when their kitchens were new, and over time they just stop bothering with the compaction and use it as a regular disposal. Usually because the compaction is messy, faulty or just too much bother to use. I would expect public trash cans to have the same problems, but magnified.

The whole thing looks like a solution searching for a problem - bludgeoning a simple problem with too much technology.
Pot meet kettle. That's the definition of irony right there since in my experience, most hipsters tend to use Macbooks and are fanatic about iPhones. Naturally, they have copious complaints about both.
the tax law was found to be invalid by a court, so all taxes paid under the law had to revert to the rate paid under the previous law. However, only taxes paid in the last four years are subject to court rulings like this due to statutes of limitation, which is why the CFTB went back four years, and not zero (everyone paying after the law was found to be invalid would have a 14th amendment suit since the law is invalid), three (see previous) or five (statute of limitations).
These are examples of economic war (Sun Tsu) tactics rather than "things of real worth".

So shooting up all the way from war-ravaged societies to developed first world economies in just 40 years (from the 40s and 50s to the 80s) doesn't count as "real worth"?

You are just discounting or dismissing what doesn't fit within your ideology rather than considering the evidence.
APC. It comes as part of the official package as of 5.2.
How is this going to interact with plugins that cover similar ground (e.g. DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery)?
MD5s, IPs and Ultra
MongoDB, has 3 black eyes in as many weeks. Not that I'm surprised that in addition to corrupting data, AND wasting resources it also is a endless security hole...
Hi, I'm fsouza on github. I already have access to it, and I will try to help tomorrow in getting docker launched :)
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You would also want to install an opcode cache like APC, XCache, etc. That way the code is only compiled on the first page load.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PHP_accelerators