skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice.

One UX suggestion: don't center the text in the drop downs. It makes your eyes jump around when scanning the list, and has made me look past a country I was looking for.
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Yes.

I basically "kill" the ego and surf around in the absolved state of all-knowing, looking for clues on what to do next in the real world.
How about just displaying the result below as soon as the selection is changed? Having me click a button, and then click 'Back' to try a new combo, is annoying.

Other than that, great idea :)
> You are not Marco Pierre White or Steve Jobs, acting like them is not a step in the direction of becoming more like them, and social forces in your workplace that keep you from throwing risotto or hurling obscenities at your coworkers are in fact doing you a favor.

That wasn't his point at all. Personally, I think Linus' behavior is ridiculous and counter-productive.

The article's point seemed to be, quite simply, that if the target of Linus' rant was a woman, it would have instigated a massive gender debate, rather than simply leaving most adults to shake their head at his poor ability to communicate firmly AND politely.

> I had the same problem to varying degrees with other parts of this article, which (with only minimal pejorative intent) I'd describe as mostly shit-stirring.

With only "minimal pejorative intent:" that's how I usually perceive most of your comments. They're always written in an clear, authoritative voice, even when said authority is not justified by experience or credentials, and the comments seem tuned for the purpose of declarative "shit stirring" through tone and content.
Bungie's Marathon trilogy, although not a novel, explored the inevitable digression of AI into rampancy. The terminal transcripts can still be found over here: http://marathon.bungie.org/story/contents.html
It kind of depends where you live in the US. I live in a rural PA town where they have built highways over dirt roads and the main state route into town is a two lane country street that carries 18 wheelers every hour of the day and has a never ending backup.

Parking on main street, for example, is nigh impossible. Parts of it aren't wide enough for many cars to go past one another while the streetside parking is in use (and it always is, the town has no parking since... who needed parking in 1800?). And then there is a big state university in town, so you end up getting delivery trucks to the campus all the time and some drivers don't have the experience to know not to try taking an 18 wheeler down main street.
I'll add that information shortly - for things like EU citizens travelling in the EU, I try to put a little more information than just "no tourist visa is required".
I don't remember the new ToS being that bad... but did you perchance export to a private backup or alternate service (like Pinboard)?
As a kid I watched a UPS truck run down my dog on a quiet residential street.
Odd factoid: You are responsible for my not being afraid of hexadecimal when I first encountered it in computer science literature.
I'm totally pro-facebook: It's a nice, free platform where people can share pictures and chat (the chat is awesome since everybody has facebook).

But someday people are gonna realize how much information they have given facebook about themselves. It's like people go out of their ways to have such a complete profile as possible...
Is it just me, or does the title and opening paragraph seem a little misleading? The author says:

"Most of us are well aware of the convenience that instant electronic access provides. Less has been said about the costs. Research that my colleagues and I have just completed, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, suggests that one measurable toll may be on our biological capacity to connect with other people."

After that intro, and the title, I expected the study to focus around the ability of people to connect with others in relation to their use of their phone.

That is not what the study seems to be about. Instead, the author describes how people who were taught an 'ancient mind-training practice known as metta, or “lovingkindness,” that teaches participants to develop more warmth and tenderness toward themselves and others.' There's no mention of phones or electronic devices in relation to the actual study.

I understand that there is concern about the effect of our handheld devices on our ability to interact in real life with other people, but this whole article feels a little...off. If you're going to frame an article around phone v. love, I'd prefer to see some actual research on phone v. love.

Did I completely misinterpret this?
Bullshit scam by her mom.
Toyota Corolla can tow 1500 lbs which is a fair sized load.

While the engine can handle it, that's generally not the issue with towing anymore. Like you said, todays engines are powerful. It's the rest of the car that needs to be beefed up for towing. Particularly the transmission and breaks.

My 4-runner had plenty of power to tow my boat, but over time the wear and tear on the rest of the vehicle would destroy a perfectly good car. I now have a Tundra that is build to pull the load. FYI, my boat ready to fish plus trailer is ~7k pounds.

To the original poster wondering why people want such big cars. Personally I would love a smaller car, but I enjoy my boat more :)
> I tried it for a week, nothing over ST2 as far as I was concerned. What do you like about it?

I've tried both ST and TM. TM is enough editor for me. I can do some pretty advanced things with it (like sending selected text to an external script) and it now has ongoing development and community support.
Actually, you do end up needing a degree of domain-specific knowledge. Do you not think that programmers of medical software don't pick up a ton of medical knowledge while they're working? And that people who are programmers who were, say, pre-med or bio students or whatever wouldn't have an edge? As someone who happens to work in a science/bioinformatics environment with no education on the topic, I can definitely say that I make decisions based on the domain (what I've learned since joining) and the behaviors of our end-users, scientists.

When programmers lack domain knowledge, they're likely to make bad assumptions that will hurt them later. Of course you have to know intended use when you're writing software, it can help you design it properly. A very simple hypothetical: Designing a database to efficiently receive some data set. What if Etsy's users aren't interested in that data? And they care more about something else, which would merit designing it differently? Maybe having a female voice to bring that up would be helpful. Obviously, it's purely conjecture, but I think it's a reasonable scenario.
Wouldn't it make more sense to not pay for your email, calendar and everything else and wait until Google warns you and gives you months to migrate all of your data to a competing service?
In Lufia 2, a SNES JRPG, there is a boss called the Giant Jelly, which disappears after three rounds. If you don't kill it in this time, you don't get the reward. However the ending condition isn't defeating the jelly, it's just the battle ending. So if you kill all your characters, the battle will end and you'll get the reward. One of the unique things about this is it's in a special 'battle tower' called the ancient cave, so dying after the final battle doesn't trigger the normal "game over" state.
I would suggest that while there might be employers who'd take a risk with someone who had a dishonesty offence from their youth, that same pool would very quickly dry up when in became apparent such a person kept behaving dishonestly, in employment situations, no less, years later.
Fantastic collection, thanks for sharing.

WiredPR, Oak Bro, Fingers, Giraffe... these are all excellent. Makes me very envious of the creator's talent and creativity!
Neither is TextMate.
Make sure to write the requirements for visa on arrival.
http://www.doineedavisafor.com/visa/swedish-citizen/travelli...

$20 and recent passport photo, or you can bribe them with $10.
Great collection of logos -- a few of these I feel are "too much" but many are great. Love the Giraffe one.
No configuration needed in order to talk to it. You just tell your users to connect to the access point it provides, and everything happens automagically from there.
This is long established common law. Just because it is your property, you cannot escape your obligation to mitigate obvious hazards, particularly where children are involved. So hanging a tree swing that is unsafe and snaps, injuring a child playing on it, still creates liability for you even though the child was trespassing.
I have to disagree with this. I've watched every episode of Shark Tank, and many of the businesses are in highly competitive markets and do not have any fundamental competitive advantage. 10 times profit is actually a really good valuation.

Investing at a 10 times profit in a small company is a highly risky investment. You are gambling that the company will be: a) ethical b) continue to operate for enough years to pay you back c) If they stay the same then after tax it will take 15 years to pay back the investor assuming that all the profit goes to paying back the investor which is highly unlikely.

Potential growth is the upside that you are looking for but it's certainly not at all guaranteed, and the opposite is also possible (negative 100% growth, or company being worth nothing).
I know I'm required to have visa for a bunch of places but not sure which ones, would be really cool to see given your nationality all the countries for which you are required to have visa.

btw, I'm Colombian, we don't need visa for Russia and Turkey (Data not available yet in your DB).
Spring Cleaning Is A Good Idea For Founders Too
Kids bike and play in neighborhood streets. Surely you recognize that some untrained guy driving a massive firetruck up and down that street just to get groceries is a problem.
The world belongs to those who hustle
I think when you reference "producers," you really mean laborers. i.e., laborers in a factory produce goods, so you are calling them producers. In reality, laborers are actually a type of capital. They are replaceable and you buy them from a market. That's why you can get away with taxing them higher than investors. The investors provide the monetary capital necessary to buy physical capital (like machinery) and labor "capital." So you need to tax them less, or else the companies they invest in will have less monetary capital to purchase laborers, and therefore demand for laborers will diminish, resulting in job loss.
Interesting project. Outside of interface choices, are there any differences between this and some of the existing offerings like DoYouNeedVisa[1] or VisaMapper[2] (which is crowdsourced and includes the very important information of whether visa are available at the border)?

[1] http://www.doyouneedvisa.com/
[2] http://visamapper.com/
I'd like a hackerspace that's not overrun with makerbots.
"until Google warns you and gives you months to migrate all of your data to a competing service"

That's a big assumption. Google could axe a service tomorrow with no notice (which apple has a tendency of doing)
Right, I presume tptacek to be older and also see him as more in line with lawful good. I'm closer to chaotic good.

It's generational, I think. My parents grew up in a time when it was unthinkable to do some of the things I've advocated (e.g. concealing a felony record, using harsh tactics to improve a reference) but, in their time, it was much more the norm for employers to be decent. You wouldn't get fired because your new boss (hired 2 days ago) wanted his high school friend in your position. That happens all the time now. My parents' generation grew up before the corporate social contract fell to pieces. It vanished for them before most of them could get to the top of anything, but they still want to believe in it and have a hatred for the rule-breakers at the top who killed it.

Millennial rule-breakers are different. We never believed anyone took the rules seriously, and we break them from the bottom.

I was born in 1983 (after the apocalypse had begun) and the differences in assumptions are huge. I never grew up thinking anything positive about corporations in general. Specific companies, sure. Microsoft seemed OK, Google was neat for some time. But it was clear even in the mid-90s that most of them had turned brazenly evil and weren't coming back.

As a generation, we are ethical, but we have more fluency with rules than older generations. None of us would think twice about bumping a performance-based bonus to the top bucket (e.g. in finance where that's important for future jobs). That's just something you do. It's none of their business and the lie is what they get for asking. On the flip side, there are a lot of things that most of us find disgusting and truly unethical (war, pollution, oppression of overseas workers) that Baby Boomer CEOs don't seem to oppose.

Frankly, in a world with the Koch Brothers and Xe/Blackwater and private health insurance, I don't give the square root of a fuck if someone decides to lie on his resume. I don't lie, but that's because I have a good resume and don't want to gamble credibility, but other people who do it are a rounding error, compared to the real shit going down.
Brigade - Real-time path tracing engine
Some of the better known ones are https://github.com/huacnlee/social-share-button and https://github.com/adamstac/zocial though these don't have all the buttons of shareable and vice versa. I can't speak for the others but my gem doesn't need to be required in the view level and configuration is straight forward. Try them out and choose the best fit for you!
As I read this, I found myself trying to find the bits of text that would inevitably be cherry-picked by others to argue opposing points (or simply to make Steven Wittens look bad for having written this piece).

And, while there are certainly quotes that could be misconstrued, I had a hard time seeing how anyone could take away part of this without at least acknowledging the rest. Yes, the author touches on some uncomfortable topics. Yes, I can see how someone might find parts upsetting, or even offensive. At the very least, not everyone will agree with every point Wittens makes.

But the take-away, at least for me, was how vast the grey area is between the "sides" of these topics, and also how much of what we perceive (about people, sexism, and the tech industry as a whole) happens within a bubble. That there are a ton of related and important issues in the wider context, which fail to get addressed when the discussions are too narrow in scope.

I'm sure there are plenty of other take-aways too, and perhaps I'm missing something that someone else will point out, but overall I found this piece really refreshing, especially after a the other discussions I've read lately, on HN and elsewhere.
Show HN: Sub-Modals in BootStrap
The future of data visualization in Python
*A as well: http://www.staralliance.com/en/services/visa-and-health/
Brian Deer’s modest proposal for post-publication peer review
There's a really similar group to this at my school called Washington University Tech Entrepreneurs, and they also have a venture capital lecture series called wute.vc. In the past they've brought in people from Union Square, TechStars, etc. You can check out their site here, might help you come up with more ideas:

http://wute.vc/
What's strange here? He's factual, explains everything he does. No mysticism here.
But they typically haven't. They've had an excellent track record so far of giving reasonable notice.
I really fanatically hope this doesn't happen and the opposite happens i.e. a fuller version of iOS is used on iPhone/iPad. The revolutionary step would be to open up iOS more while still maintaining the same level of security. That would be revolutionary.
I'm expecting Google Code to be shut down sooner or later. It hasn't received any new features for years; for instance, GitHub, BitBucket and Sourceforge have the ability to set a custom domain and Google Code has never implemented it, despite this 5+ year old issue: https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1222

Google has also been moving their code examples and open source to Github ( https://github.com/googlecloudplatform ), and completely ignoring their in house open source hosting.
Yes it is: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/master/LICENSE
And: http://www.fark.com/comments/7662138/Millionaire-one-of-most...
If it's big enough, I've always wondered if you could basically drive some form of caravan/motor home into something like that and live there while you renovate the place.
It's also grammatically incorrect. I am citizen of the United States of America, but an American citizen. The correct demonym in English for a citizen of the United States is American.
Google makes a lot of money on Gmail/Calendar (http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/), so they are very unlikely to go away.
Whatever you do, don't Google "Unimog".
Email addresses are private?
So you keep saying. What's the big deal about blind spots? So, he shouldn't reverse without a spotter, and he should be extra careful merging on the freeway. Looks like he has a circle-driveway so, he's got that covered. Seriously, this thing isn't any worse than a Class-A RV, a vehicle which, like it or not, requires no special driver license.
I did some dumb things when I was a teenager, and eyebrows get raised when I answer certain questions truthfully (although in my case, none of it quite rises to the level of a federal conviction). In the circles in which I have worked for the past 15 or so years (slinging Ruby, PHP, Node, and so forth), this wouldn't even come up in an interview, let alone elicit more than a few chuckles if mentioned. The only thing that matters is that you're mature enough to be trusted now, and your work will show that. Really, you should have heard the giggles when I said I was leaving work early one night to sit the GED (and I was 25 and making six figures). TL;DR let your work speak for you.
Runa is hiring Chef DevOps
Runa is hiring Chef DevOps! Desire to learn Clojure or Clojure experience is a big plus. Drop a line to kasim@runa.com if interested.
I really Google Scholar doesn't go away. While there are other academic search sites, most of them seems to be science-focused. As someone in the humanities, I don't find these to be useful. The university library has lots of database searches but they pretty uniformly stink. MS Academic search is ok but it still doesn't really have much humanities stuff, and other places like deepdyve.com can't stack up to google's search accuracy.
Nginx+PHP-FPM blows the doors off of Apache+mod_php. Why "should" you do this?
One option might be to go ahead and get on with a non scalable business in your ultimate market, using it as a way to build personal reputation and credibility. Shoot for a base hit and early exit (or failure) off the show, and then raise money in a year or two from the same caliber of investor but on better terms by going direct.
He gave really good lectures on literature. I recommend the one on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - I think you can find it on Google Books.
Of course should be allowed to own the truck, but I'd have a problem with him parking it visibly and operating it regularly in a residential neighborhood.
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Comparing someone making dick jokes in a convention to the kind of hostile workplace contemplated by Title VII ("permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment") is a slap in the face to all the men and women who actually have to endure sexual harassment.

The purpose of the feminist movement is not to solve all the problems of all the people. It's to advance the cause of women in the workplace. To the extent that going off on tangents detracts from that, it's a disservice to the core constituency.
Ungh, I wish we could move past vague titles phrased as questions.
I mean, being qualified is never the only piece of the "getting hired" puzzle, right? You want someone who fits well in your team, is generally interesting, is eager to learn, and possibly fills some other niche that you feel your team is missing. I think it's a fair question to ask, "Will this person provide a unique perspective within our team?"

It seems simply that Etsy is trying to fill a female niche and add female perspective. It's not like they're hiring random ladies off the street, their hires have gone to hacker school and are clearly capable given the opportunity. Software isn't written is silos where you don't talk to other people about what/how/why you are going what you're doing.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of those people came to google through an acquisition or other means (I took a very cursory scan but couldn't find a contributor that identified as working for google out of mountain view)
I can't say that I care if its a lie or not. I find it utterly distasteful that a millionaire parent would 'use' their kid on Kickstarter for $900 in some strange publicity stunt or an unprecedented act of greed.

The fact that Kickstarter seems to allow this also takes away from their credibility, not to mention the complete idiocy of allowing the campaign to collect over $20k.

The again, I guess if you are massively cheap, have zero integrity and don't mind ruining your reputation for less than 1/1000th of your net worth I guess it's a good idea.
I agree that terminating Google reader isn't the smartest decision I would consider Google made, but IMO, cancelling a product that probably cost more than its revenue isn't exactly evil.

I have a product (it's like a google reader but for photographs), it has a couple of thousands of users, but it's not making any money. Right now I am paying $70/mo for the server. I can afford it, but will I deem myself "evil" if one day I decide to stop paying for that server? I don't think so.
My wife did for most of her life, but then stopped as she realized that it more "harming" her than "helping". I learned per her custom as were dating and so tried "her" method myself, and I'm not sure I got much out of it myself -- granted that I was doing it for somewhat selfish reasons.

We both don't now-a-days. I may or may not return to it in the future, depending; I doubt my wife will, given her bad and prolonged experience with it.
Sorry about your dog. A school bus got my cousins' dog under the same circumstances. The two of them had to helplessly watch the whole thing from the bus.
Net neutrality was FCC’s biggest recent failure —Departing commissioner
I've found the pomodoro methods helps with this. As the top comment mentions, this may be a crutch, but for me it's a useful crutch.

I've found one other tool helps. Some tasks don't require internet. For those, I unplug my router for the 25 minutes the task requires.

The added barrier of physically restarting the internet removes the temptation to check email etc. and means I expend less willpower while doing the task.
How to help improving information?
highly recommended story on the topic: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
But do you find that counting prevents you from having other thoughts? Because I can count just fine and still be thinking (usually about the fact that I'm counting ;)

In fact, the fact that I'm actively doing something to avoid thinking just brings self-awareness of that and therefore more thinking. In many other activities I can concentrate and think of nothing else just fine.
Do you want to live in a world where I get to decide if your lifestyle will scale to seven billion people?

Because I'm thinking your computer would use less electricity and cause less CO2 pollution if it were half as fast as it is.
Is there a way to list the visa requirements for a US citizen? (just a simple list of the other countries and whether or not a visa is required to visit those countries)