skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decentralisation is quite important for a basic business communication process.

If business switched to facebook as the primary method of communication then facebook becomes critical infrastructure for the economy.

If it suffers downtime then there becomes a massive economic cost, so "move fast and break things" is no longer a reasonable motto.
Much cheaper and as much fun to buy an aerobatic airplane. I know you can purchase decommissioned Russian fighters, but I have no idea what they cost.
Yeah, sounds like it could just be a screen shot
You can use it to set up your own, see http://docs.tsuru.io/en/latest/

EDIT: I'm not from the project, I just found it interesting and posted it...there probably isn't anyone from the project watching this thread.
Here's the thing: You probably disagree and even loathe the personal politics of many of the artists whose works you enjoy, be it writing, paintings music, games, etc. If you go down the road of selecting works based on a merit outside of the work itself, then you will spend more of your time researching people than ever experiencing a work.

My view is that as long as the work itself does not reinforce terrible positions on issues social or otherwise, then the work should probably be evaluated in a vacuum.

Otherwise, you'll probably go insane.
Don't worry about it. Isaac Newton was a total bastard too.
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Given the choice between recognition of basic civil rights (same sex marriage, reproductive rights) and a not-insane view of copyright law, I think I'd choose basic civil rights. The Right needs to get their social positions into the 20th century, or preferably the 21st century, before they can expect any kind of youth (read: techie) vote[1].

[1]
"Fully 81 percent of adults between the ages of 18 and 29 support same-sex marriage"
http://daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=505164
What does "1.5+" mean in the context of being a great engineer?
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Not to mention an anti-Semite, which actually plays a prominent role (Rose da Nose) in the book. Still, Heinlein was a fascist, and L. Ron Hubbard, well...Anyway, it's the age old debate that pops up with artists. Do you overlook their personal issues for the sake of their work? Wagner is another anti-Semetic example.

I'll probably go see it, but I have my issues...

EDIT: I should say I think Heinlein was a fascist. I know that's a contentious point, and various people read him various ways...
As a strong Haskell programmer I'm curious about the statement that "eliminating mutable state is neither possible nor desirable". My first response is to say that I find it both possible and desirable. My second is to note that "elimination of mutable state" isn't really the goal.

The real goal is to give mutable state a very composable, repeatable, clear, and restricted semantics. This is what occurs in the State monad in Haskell, for instance. You retain mutability (observable w.r.t. the stored state over applications) but can slice up the mutation and the intermediate, immutable values and recompose them in various forms with impunity.

That kind of state model is incredible to learn. Monads might be scary because they're unfamiliar, but in a functional context they can do some beautiful things.
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Do we not have exactly the opposite problem within this community?

We know coding so we spend our time hacking away in dark rooms on product stuff such as frameworks, features, deployments, websites etc.

We leave considerations about marketing, distribution, customer research till later, and end up building something that we have no way to effectively market.

The order should probably be to develop the business model, then develop the product, and only add this kind of administravia in as absolutely necessary.
Is the feeling you get from meditation the same feeling as you would get from doing the same amount of sport per day?
HN traffic took it down. Keep trying :)
This is really interesting. It appears to be a lot easier to get started with than CloudFoundry, but it is difficult to tell at this point how well it compares. Very cool none-the-less!
More than a homophobe, he turns out to hold truly repugnant views on a wide range of subjects. I was really disappointed when I learned this, not by reading about it but by reading a book he wrote post 9/11 (Empire) that I kept expecting to turn into a clever political satire, but never turned the corner.
It's a personal choice, right? It's not like the gay community is going to shun you if you see his film. At least, I'm not going to stop talking to my friends who see the movie. Personally, I love some of his work, but I made a choice not to buy his books anymore due to what he has said publicly about homosexuality. Admittedly, I had already cooled on his works after rereading some of them and realizing just how much Mormon ideology was included.
I finished reading the book recently and one of my first thoughts was "the movie is gonna stink". The book could very well be a Poe story the way it's written. Every word is chosen for the final effect. All the character's development and what he does is preparation for that crucial moment in the story, pretty much like "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". You could even remove the ending and it would still be an awesome story.

And then when I thought about the movie the first thing that came to mind was all the possibilities for visual effects in the battle room. And now the first thing I see from the director is mentions of the battle room. So, are two hours of visual effects enough to build up the climax of the story? Will they split the novel in two to be able to do it in the second film? I sincerely hope they manage to get it right.
Depends on how far it is to his work, I mean the thing is a novelty. And reducing carbon emissions isn't the point of it. It's about him following his dream of something he's loved all of his life.
Apparently someone hasn't heard of the Guinigi Tower.

Trees on top of buildings didn't used to signify green. They used to signify power.
This is more geared towards the administrative stuff that adds no value and is an excuse to doing actual work.
Truly nitpicking ;), you're probably right, but as a convention it makes sense for me and hopefully others!
I recommend anyone getting into building web apps (regardless of framework) to read Mixu's "Single page apps in depth" http://singlepageappbook.com/single-page.html

It's a short read, it's opinionated and will make you think, especially if you're a novice / intermediate programmer. In particular, the "Writing maintainable code" chapter.

Focusing on things like namespacing is not necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn't address the real goal - writing modular, testable, maintainable code. If your components know where other components are in the namespace and depend on them internally, the namespace hierarchy does nothing to help your design.

The main difficulty in designing complex web applications is managing dependencies between objects, just like any large object-oriented piece of software (assuming that is the paradigm you choose).
I didn't have to do research, it was at the back of my head, I recall reading his shitty essay some time ago.

With the facts at hand, I can make a decision without going insane. :)
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I do like programming but since few weeks I just can't.
I am just too addicted to reddit, fb, quora and twitter and even if I was to block all of them, I don't feel like I should do programming. I have lost the taste in building something new or discovering tools and languages. I don't even feel like picking up a freelance job or something. Need advice on how can I program for fun again.
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Lululemon, maker of high-end yoga and exercise apparel, patented some design elements on their yoga pants.

They sued Calvin Klein when they started to make some similar pants. It was settled out of court:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/lululemon-calv...
I was taught Transcendental Meditation in high school and learned some self-hypnosis techniques in college that I practiced a bit.

These types of meditation get you to focus/defocus your mind in active ways that appear to be beneficial.

If you're practicing some form of meditation that is just relaxing and daydreaming without trying to use your mind in a specific way - then it isn't really surprising that the results would be no different to relaxing and daydreaming or listening to music.
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She can just claim to be a victim anyways, nobody cares if it is true or not. Just like "I got death and rape threats" wasn't true the last 10 times women claimed that for public sympathy/cash.
> For another, the final Federal deficit pre-debt crisis in 2007 was a mere $158B and had been steadily trending downward since the height of the previous recession five years earlier. Now we're four years past the peak of the last recession and deficits are routinely $1T+.

I'm tired of these freaking lies. Debt per GDP shot way up under Bush and didn't stop shooting up at basically the same slope until after 2009. The intellectual dishonesty on the right is absolutely amazing.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_debt_chart.html

> Even Bush took his second term pledge to halve the deficit seriously.

No he didn't.

http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/us_deficit

Notice any trends?

Really, why the unfounded Obama hate?
There was a pretty big BASIC cargo cult back in the day.
I didn't even really know what C/C++ were for a fair few years of programming apart from some vague notion that they were used for games because they were faster.

In fact back then you had to pay for C compilers usually, whereas BASIC interpreters were often free with the platform so it was fairly common to have never used anything else.

That became further cemented with Visual Basic it's legions of copy/paste & visual designer oriented developers.

Javascript has a large following not because it's a particularly great language but because it is so ubiquitous. The draw of stuff like node seems to be more to do with code-reuse and having a language that is async-by-default rather than necessarily not knowing anything else.
Study warns on mobile location data privacy
It is probably unfilmable. Many things work great in our heads and don't translate when out on paper etc. in this case the internal monolog of the character is what makes it work, I haven't tried it but I'm sure if you looked at the story from only an observers view Ender looks like a nasty little sociopath. Films with lots of monolog are damn near impossible to pull off.
Humm ... Doesn't work for a huge number of things I entered:

Have a lot of friends and family in Asia, and too many answers are "dunno, sorry".
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An interesting read (albeit a month old), but it didn't take that long for him to turn the full feed back on - http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/03/ive-turned-full-fe...
Yep! I find it easier to use the debugger statement though when changing code a lot. Also, some places like compiled templates are difficult to set the breakpoint so it's useful there too.
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Awesome article. I'm glad someone has resposted it here.
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>There seems to be a prevailing attitude among some that the "users" don't like trees of files and we should all move to something more advanced.It has always seemed weird to me.

The opposite should feel weird to you. The notion that files belong in some kind of tree structure. It's just an artificial implementation we came up with, more Platonic than realistic.

A file doesn't belong in some "node" in a "tree". It belongs to multiple nodes all around the tree, including "nodes" that only make sense for that one only.

A tree hierarchy FS doesn't reflect that (except if you go crazy with symbolic links). And then it doesn't scale with lots of tags, or tens of thousands of files.

A tagging/metadata system is a far better way to manage those files, and closer to they way we think (associating attributes with objects, remembering based on keywords, etc).
He mentions "500 ft" as a height that the trees would be at (and wouldn't deal well with). That's roughly 50 stories. I don't think that shopping malls reach those heights. ;-)
Can't the trees be enclosed?
Here's why I don't understand the point of a site like this.

I don't know anything about the site. I don't know if it's accurate. I don't know if it's maintained. I can't trust the information on it, so if I get an answer from it, in order to verify it I'll have to do whatever work I would have done if the site didn't exist. I've gained nothing.
wtf happened to the math here?
Why aren't you commenting your code?
A refresher on some of the major benefits of commenting throughout your code. Meant to serve as a reminder for those still struggling to make it a habit.
a bit of a side track here, I've been seen a lot of blogs with this same layout, is it a blogging platform or just people copying around?

If it is a blogging platform, which one is it?
Well. If by "homophobe" you mean someone who dislikes and works to oppose gay marriage causes, yes. If by "homophobe" you mean someone who literally fears that social acceptance of gay marriage, related causes, and homosexuality in general is likely to undermine the vitality (and virtue) of America, then yes.

But do realize that the guy treats homosexual people with similar levels of dignity and respect as any other human being, at least in the likes of his writing. If you doubt this and wish to see examples in his literature, please read his novel _Songmaster_ - a novel which caught Card a lot of flak from conservative groups who accused it of glorifying homosexuality.

(If you still doubt this afterwards, well, okay, maybe it won't convince everyone, but you'll be much better informed about the nature of the problem and your opinion will have nuance).

Anyway. For what it's worth, I'm sure a lot of interesting authors like C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkein, and many of their less obvious contemporaries would find themselves in a non-dissimilar position if the issue were one in their times - as would a variety of Christian groups opposing gay marriage and similar causes today.

For this reason I find the outcome of the recent Card/Superman hullabaloo disappointing and distressing. It is nigh unto unthinkable that you would actual find any representation in a Card-authored Superman comic which would be anything less than perfectly charitable towards homosexuals - and more likely he would just steer clear of stuffing modern sociopolitical controversies into it. (And it's nice to escape those once in a while, you know? like in comics and stuff. :P)

DISCLAIMER. No further comment is offered herein on the validity or invalidity of gay marriage, related causes, or any group which has opinions on those issues, except maybe for the likes of Westboro Baptist, which almost everyone ever knows is something like the worst people ever. :P

(Postscript. Also, notwithstanding above comments and expression of disappointment, the overall validity of Orson Scott Card or his works is left as an exercise to the reader. But your opinions would be improved by, and deserve to be shaped by, nuance. :)
I agree that doing a bunch of research to decide whether or not you agree with an author before reading his works is silly, but at the same time, if you are made aware of them, there's nothing wrong with letting that determine whether or not you want to support the person by purchasing their works.

In the case of Card, he unfortunately has put his position in some of the books. It can be rather subtle, but there was definitely an example of it in Ender's Shadow.
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Yes and no: some of that 'busywork' is pretty important if there's more than one founder and you don't want to deal with a major shitstorm when someone bows out and still wants a share, or some such similar situation.
michaelochurch, like a few others, has his own meme on HN - he has a well received blog post describing it in detail, (http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector...)

Essentially he rates programmers on (IIRR) a 0-3 scale of impact - so a 1.0 developer neither adds nor subtracts to the overall quality of the code base, and a 3.0 invents C and Unix.

This quote is something we should all measure ourselves against - honestly and painfully at times.

1.4 to 1.6: Solid adder: well above-average (top 10%) by
software-industry standards, but average (at 5-10 years’
experience) in the context of the best companies (e.g.
elite startups, Google, and research divisions of IBM).
Can be trusted to independently solve most problems in an
elegant and maintainable way. Engineer can make reasonable
time estimates and communicate in both business and
technical terms with management as well as other
engineers. Can handle small levels of deadline/delivery
responsibility and should be encouraged to participate in
architectural decisions (“multiplier” concerns). Technical
leadership non-urgent projects is a serious possibility.

That's average base level in my book. And sometimes I mess up on those too. (Communication being a big bug bear for me)
Show HN: Juntoo - Co-browse websites together in real time
In my neighbourhood there is an apartment block with two pine trees on the roof terrace. The trees are about 2m high. I still do not understand how they are not causing any trouble. Its not a skyscraper but still..
If you think the first book is a masterpiece, don't read anymore in the series. It will ruin it for you. :) I "like" some of the later ones, but none are as well-written, impeccably paced, or engaging as the first in my opinion.

I don't doubt we'll see some adaptation of the story for film, but at its core, I think it should hold up fairly well. Let's just hope we don't end up with Bean being a Jar Jar Binks character or something stupid like that.
"Trolling"? I have no idea what you are talking about. What I wrote is simply, rock-solidly, literally true -- "I've been surprised and pleased ...".

Your concerns are that I'm on Windows instead of Linux, not using Visual Studio, am using Visual Basic .NET instead of C#, that I didn't just criticize Microsoft but found something in their work I like, or something else?

Me? I've never touched Linux, tried Visual Studio in total for less than an hour, have not looked seriously at C# and so far have yet to write a single line of it, and do have some objections to some of Microsoft's work. Still, as I wrote, "I've been surprised and pleased ...".

If you have some concerns, then cough them up.
Hi all!

This is our public beta of Juntoo, an iPad app that lets you have a voice conversation (we're using Twilio Client) while you co-browse (we're using Pusher) websites together with another person.

We would love it if you would install it and invite some people and co-browse some websites together and give us feedback on the app. If you have the time we would greatly appreciate if could tell us any usecases that pops into your head!
A sneak preview - Idea to MVP.
Read Ender's Shadow and you'll find an example where he doesn't treat homosexuality with respect or dignity.
I'm kinda glad that when reading the book a few years ago (way out of my teenage years) that I found it to be a rather trite Mary Sue story with some very questionable moral conclusions, and thus didn't have to come to grips with some kind of Wagnerian conflict.
Heinlein was large, and contained multitudes :-) I'm still floored by the fact that he wrote Starship Troopers, his ultimate "fascist" book, during a break in the middle of writing Stranger in a Strange Land, his ultimate "hippie" book. From a high enough vantage point, I guess both the left and the right look like amateurs, and you can't resist the temptation to come up with better moves for both sides...
With the difference that the Titanic actually existed
Can someone explain how this (or other tools like this?) work? How do they install services, ensure they start up, handle upgrades, etc? I am utterly confused by all these PaaSaaS apps.
How about this?

Build an experiment, then your product.
Heinlein is generally better read as a libertarian, possibly to the point of anarchist. He wrote about Fascist societies, but reading both his fiction and his nonfiction does not generally lead to the conclusion that he considered this desirable or stable.

I think the people who get that he's a fascist are making the mistake of assuming that because an author writes about it, they are endorsing it. This obviously falls apart under any sort of thought whatsoever, but that's more thought than most people give it. Alternatively, they get it from the Starship Troopers movie, in which IMHO the director misread Heinlein as a fascist, leading everyone else to the same conclusion by the nose. This is not the best source from which to conclude anything about Heinlein; I think it was a good movie on its own merits but little of Heinlein's politics shown through.

In N-Space, Larry Niven directly addresses another example of this; Jerry Pournelle's Co-Dominion future, in which their co-written A Mote in God's Eye takes place, is set in a galactic empire consciously set up to be feudalistic, including starting from a fairly idealistic conception of feudalism where obligations are bi-directional, and decaying (in the sequel) into the sort of feudalism where the nobles begin to consider their privileges their right without any corresponding responsibility. Neither author is endorsing this political structure, per se, but observing the course of human history, one can not deny that under the right circumstances feudalism could very well rise again, and it can work well for a story.
The software industry equivalent of "never waste a crisis"
Most of the books are indeed infilmable, you stated the reason. That's way almost all the movies are _adaptations_ of the books. Mainly the screenwriter has the infamous job to take out the infilmable scenes and hopes that the director is transposing this into art of filming. Some mood states, or emotions are thus found back into the film, but on a different artistic dimension.
Another fun part is the quote:

Again the intention would be that when HTTP2 comes along

Twenty years later and we've still not got it.
Just watch out, we get these committed semi-frequently. Whoops!
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Late to the table but completely agree here - think of yourself as a one person business, not an employee, and these issues become much clearer
> Heinlein was a fascist

Really? The general tenor of his work seemed quite libertarian, albeit rather technocratic.
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There are tools to handle that, for example Ender has plenty of characters around him to help verbalize some of that internal dialogue. It's certainly hard, but it's doable with the right talent.

(Or they could do Avatar's "dialogue with the recorder" and I'll turn into a raging fanboy hate machine)
Isn't the product the experiment?
Funny

"Trees won't survive in this conditions", but in Nature they are not watered, they are not pruned, and they have lived for millions of years

What harsh conditions are there in the side of a building that don't exist in nature? (Off the top of my head there are several, but it would be nice for him to specify)

It could be: temperature, winds, lack of cover (either soil cover or taller trees) and their corresponding soil dynamic.

But it shouldn't be too complicated to find a plant that works there.