skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the "brutal truth" of applying economic theory and armchair psychology to human interaction. I sometimes hypothesise that the people peddling these notions do it because they really do see life as an economic system and consequently, no arguing with them would change their opinion, because they're obviously right. Meaning, I wonder if this is a simple case of "I expect others to experience things the same way I experience them". However, I can't imagine someone really thinking that way. But that's maybe because I don't.

Enjoy your stay. Good luck and have fun!
How are you managing your buddies golfleague?
Hello there, Trying to get some feedback on how people manage their golfleagues.

We've scandered the web for something simple, but when not finding something we were left wondering if maybe other people have the same problem.

So, my question is this:
How do you manage your buddies/companies internal competition over a season?

Do you even want to do it?
I have a feeling that most spam doesn't pay off for the person selling, but only pays off for whichever marketing company they hired to send the spam. And this technique doesn't hurt the actual spammer (assuming they are a separate entity from the seller), as there are a fairly unlimited number of sellers willing to take a chance on hiring a spammer for a few bucks.
No, just all the elements of any one of the claims.
I just gave Ember a whirl the other day because I wanted to fiddle around with a prototype for an experimental interface. I'd had a little exposure to Ember and related projects before, and generally liked it, but hadn't really set it up entirely from scratch.

It was... amazingly annoying. And I don't just mean the fact that I needed to search around for a box that had an appropriate version of Ruby installed to build the ember-data project from source (heaven forbid that they offer a download of JavaScript, let alone a single package of all the libraries you're going to want to use for your project -- but it's okay, I'll forgive you, you're a release candidate). I mean the stuff where I wanted to load a simple skeletal data structure in JavaScript from JSON with a FixtureAdapter before attaching it to a real backend, and the documentation was all "sure, you can totally use a non-REST store!" -- http://emberjs.com/guides/models/defining-a-store/ -- but wasn't really strong on the How. Fortunately, StackOverflow came to my rescue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15301918/how-do-you-set-t...

But it was a negative experience. If I hadn't been exposed to a taste of its power and elegance before, I would have probably given up.
Riak provides key-value services for Riak CS, and there's nothing stopping you from configuring the same Riak cluster for both the Riak CS application and another application.

Riak CS doesn't use any Riak functionality you can't use yourself, so accessing Riak CS-created chunks is easy because that's what Riak CS itself does. The source for how this works is at https://github.com/basho/riak_cs/tree/develop/src in case you want to play and have fun with that.
Apple has arguably destroyed/killed off RIM. Microsoft's "destruction" is today's startups' "disruption". (At least in HN circles I think we applaud AirBNB or Uber doing damage to the hospitality or transportation industries). Twitter and Google are gobbling up and often times killing products of value.

I think Microsoft did a lot of things we value: disrupt and grow. Looking back, I think we see it through a different lens, but modern startups (or those who have eclipsed that label to be "big") can be Microsoft (or at least little Microsofts). Probably the only thing separating Microsoft from many companies is the presence of a moral compass at the company level.
JavaScript is rather long. This can be an issue with domain names, event names, Twitter handles, etc. "Ruby" is a lot more succinct which is why we tend to use it as-is.
So that's what happens.

Solution, fire the recruiter and be honest in the job description.
The link at the bottom of the article (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0) is awesome. Just 2 years ago, someone paid 10,000 BTC for a pizza. That was worth $40 USD back then. If he saved it, he could've had $600,000 USD...
He's trading heavily on nostalgia and free press for his new game. Talking about Wright, Roberts and Molyneux is a way to stoke the nostalgia, and blanket blasting the industry with contentious quotes is just a way to get that free press. He doesn't have a "point" beyond that. He's not 'right' about anything of substance.

If you actually drilled into Garriott's argument here -- instead of just recording 'bombshells' and briefly trying to establish some room for him to backpedal later -- his argument would dissipate into a lot of hand-waving. Because the particulars are just going to identify exceptions and display a lack of concrete evidence for his view, beyond slinging arrows at designs that 1. he personally doesn't like 2. are beyond any designers' ability to influence (e.g. things handed down, or shortcuts taken due budget/scheduling issues, etc)
>shows only single example of her failing at her research

It wasn't example of her failing at her research, and it's exactly how Glen Beck would make an argument.

> assumes that something that happens at the end of the story is at least as important as something that happens at the beginning?

those are unstated terms of his argument, yes. it was one example where it broke the mold (debatable), she cited I think 3 other examples of her 20 that did this. She goes on to state how these examples are swiftly undercut by the main point of the stories.

> uses this example to have a little bit of fun by ridiculing to entertain his viewers (and probably himself).

he was dead serious, he's also incoherent.

> claims (falsely?) that tropes vs women fails to acknowledge that these games and their stories were designed to make a profit.

yes I have an issue with that.

> proposes that this trope is just using natural instinct of helping loved ones and oppressed to provide motivation for male protagonist and was not invented to diminish women.

I'm sorry. That argument was such a blatant emotional appeal, I'm really stunned you're backing it.

>What about the part where he shows that she contradicts her own masters thesis in this video?

I stopped watching once the first 3 minutes gave me 2 paragraphs of errors.
A known "Developer Evangelist" with a large following that's been featured on mainstream media tweets a picture of someone in the technology field that has offended her, as opposed to simply confronting him, or just notifying the conference management. You were very aware that there would be repercussions. No offering of suggestions, ideas or mentoring to help solve a problem, simply call the masses and authorities to deal with it. I realize that my opinion doesn't matter to you, however I think that you were wrong in this instance.
It reminds me of another project to fight off spam[0], by automatically replying to each spam message. That one didn't end too well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog
+1 great comment...

Especially the '"emperor has not clothes" random splotches' part ; )

There are however great differences between gold and diamonds: liquidity of the market and buy/sell price. As TFA points out you're getting scammed everytime you buy a diamond and you're getting super-scammed everytime you buy one. Not so much with gold: you buy gold at price X, you sell it 6 months later when it took 3%, you're still making a benefit (even with the margin taken by the professional vendor / buyer). With diamond if you buy one at $2000 you're lucky to be able to sell it at $600.

The other difference is can we can synthetize diamonds now. Gold not so much: the only way we know how to create synthetic gold is to start from an even rarer metal (which is hence guaranteed to be always more expensive than gold).

Unless a major discovery in physics --so important that the world as we know it would profoundly change-- we can't create gold.

If suddenly we could synthetize gold from a lower-grade metal, it means we could also synthetize silver and then copper etc. The implication in various industries would be more than major: it would be a revolution.

Now my great-grandmother gave me a nice, never mounted, one-carat diamond that I've tested and that is true: it got hidden in Europe during WWII so that the nazis wouldn't confiscate it. I love it because I know it's a real one (tested) and I know it's history. So it's "sentimental" and one day my SO shall wear it and one day my daughter... And then my daughter's daughter.

If all goes well ; )

I don't care much that it would take me anywhere from $5k to $12k to buy one. I know that if I were to sell it I wouldn't make anywhere near as that and I'd regret it anyway.
Seems like LiveJournal did the "followers" thing first.
Moved to the correct thread per @kbenson's response
I don't see spam. I use gmail.
Create a New Business Bubble, Don’t Chase Old Ones
Github repository which includes the raw data dump: https://github.com/InternetCensus2012/InternetCensus2012
Wayland, Mir, and X - different projects
IMNAL, but, AFAIK, you can infringe individual claims. The reason patents are written this way is generally to pack together all related things, claims, into a single patent rather than file several, 22 in this case, patents.
It probably takes a huge amount of work to make something easy to use.

Look at Go.
A Hitman is expensive.
Childish idea, kind of.
Anyone want to take a stab at filling out the spam solutions checklist? :)

http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
There is some humour to be had. From No 136:

"An Example of Intelligence Community Synergy"

[four blank pages]

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologs/cryptolog_...
I reviewed both angular and ember for integration with a rails app for my job recently: https://github.com/et/ember_vs_angular
To my dismay, we went with angular. In retrospect, after playing with the framework, I'm fairly pleased with the choice.
Its kind of funny that the crossword puzzle in the September 1978 issue is redacted.
I have admitted that, publicly, very often, in other topics on discuss.emberjs.com, on websites, on twitter, on videos, and elsewhere. It's no secret I'd like to improve the documentation for Ember.js and I'm already well aware of the places that people are facing difficulty right now.

There's work, if people spent a moment reading the top topics in the forum, on a getting started guide with a direct call for feedback http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/todomvc-based-getting-started-g...

I've been extremely vocal in soliciting actionable feedback on that. I'd like to help!

Discourse isn't for making places like hackernews, where a playful, sometimes discouraging culture of dickitude is acceptable and encouraged. The goal of Discourse (a "Civilized Discourse Construction Kit") and our use of it is to create a place where civil discussion can take place to improve Ember.js as a framework.

Delvarworld's tone strayed into territory I don't think remains civil because of his use of sarcasm:

"are you serious?"

"oh god this is going to be fun, isn't it?"

"by the awful grace of god"

"3 more results linking to the first dead article! FANTASTIC!"

And so I signaled that I empathize with his frustrations (because I do) but I can't participate in that discussion because it violates community norms I'd like to uphold. If he'd like to rephrase his topic, I'd be glad to help.

Ego and pretension have nothing to do with it. Contributing to OSS is something I make a personal decision to do with my time. I wish I had an infinite amount of time, but I don't. Most people associate me with Ember.js, but I'm very active elsewhere. Did you know I regularly run through all the TodoMVC examples looking for bugs https://twitter.com/trek/status/313015370728501248 ? Most people don't, because it's just something I quietly do. Less quietly now, I suppose.

In addition to working on OSS, I'd love to maybe find a nice boy to date (https://github.com/trek/lonely_coder), see my friends, visit my aging, ailing parents more often, maybe catch a moving once in a while, or eat a meal I'd don't grab on the go running from one obligation to another.

Like most OSS contributors, this isn't my job. It doesn't pay my bills or put food in my belly. I do it because I'd like to improve the tools I work with and share those improvements with the larger tech community. In the finite time I can offer, I have to make decisions about where to expend energy. I choose to do that in places where I can have the most impact. I don't feel that I can be helpful when people approach with sarcasm. Rather than remaining silent, I let people know I'm happy to engage when we trend towards civility.
A great example of how fixing security weaknesses is more important than trying to outlaw their exploitation.
I had never heard of cyveillance, but after googling I'm guessing these reasons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyveillance#Criticisms
Wait, why did you upvote an article without reading it or the comments?
This is true, but Riak CS has special configuration requirements for the backing Riak cluster that might make it not the best choice for combining with your typical Riak applications.
Practicing safe DNS with Google DNSSEC
Sort of like this:

http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2010/05/19/examining-scam...

Turns out its really hard to prevent malicious actors abusing it.
Not for me, no sir/madam.
Persistent Data Structures and Managed References
Hilarious. The Ultima games were far from perfect, and it's not like they stood alone without any influences. They were heavily derivative of D&D, like any fantasy RPG.

Also, this idea that a person is infallible in any role (such as Game Designer) is absurd. He seems to believe that he posesses some special mojo or insight which means that any game he makes is a work of genius. This is obvious on the surface that it is not the case.

Just because a talented person is involved is no guarantee the work will turn out any good, games or otherwise. This is a simple truth. Creating something great is much more complicated than that.
How I Got Hired at Apple - New guide for getting the job you want
> Is it really that hard to get people don't write open source to solve your problems?

Yes. There is a persistent set of well-intentioned but clueless people.

> What state of mind makes people believe they are entitled to someone else's time?

"I want the software to work. You wrote it, you need to fix it! It's your problem. What's wrong with you? Why won't your software work? I need it for a deadline! Please fix it now!"

I've been running an open source project for ~15 years, with many millions of running installations. The only solution I've found is to ignore these people. The "d" key comes in handy. Where that isn't possible, I ban/block them.

The level of cluelessness can be seen in the following typical exchange:

- user engages in anti-social activity

- I say "stop or you will be banned"

- user repeats the anti-social activity, and calls me names for "threatening" him.

These people don't even realize that annoying the mailing list administrator is unproductive. It's like their psychology is missing a reward/punishment feedback loop which normal people have.
There was a recent article on HN saying that spam was pretty much a non-issue nowadays to people using mail services with correct spam filtering.

Since I moved to GMail I don't know what spam is anymore: everytime people complain about spam I'm confuzzabled because I honestly thought the issue was solved.

It's great to run your own mailserver and be independant of the evil Google etc. but face the facts: people on GMail hardly get spam anymore...

Now as to how to fight spammers I'd suggest building a gigantic botnet, taking control of hundreds of thousands of credit cards numbers and ordering like mad from these spammers. Make it so big that credit cards companies start noticing the issue.

This of course should be done by someone who doesn't care about petty money...
Because "game designers" are "idea guys".
I rather have a gamer graphics artist or gamer game developer, than an "idea guy".
Why do you think your argument contradicts the claim that it is about social status?

Diamonds are a sign of social status in large part because De Beers marketing has convinced them (and their friends) that it is a sign of social status.

The connection between diamonds and social status in this case is supporting evidence for the assertion that "advertising works".
Malware World Map, ASCII Edition
Oh good, the one with the obnoxious banner that slides down, and takes three times the RAM to display in my browser. Thank you.
I totally agree that our getting started story could be much better. In fact, it's our primary focus as we move towards 1.0.

Specifically:

* We're actively working on a Getting Started Guide with live examples that walks the user through building a new application from scratch.

* We're continuing to improve our guides to talk through areas that might be confusing for new developers, like the naming conventions[1] we use in Ember

* Ember 1.0 will feature the return of the Starter Kit[2], which directly addresses the concerns by the OP. We removed it temporarily to bring it up to date with the most recent idioms, but it will be coming back very soon[2]. This was a hard decision that sucked, but leaving around an out of date starter kit seemed worse than removing it.

I take this concern very seriously, and hope that people will continue to give us a look as we improve the experience for new users.

[1] http://emberjs.com/guides/concepts/naming-conventions/
[2] https://github.com/emberjs/starter-kit
This is so f'ing true. I have ankylosing spondylitis, and I'm in pain all the time. My attitude towards the pain is what makes this bearable. While I'm lucky that anti inflammatories and pain medicine are helpful, they aren't something that even gets close to taking the pain completely away. Your attitude towards pain, and the will to live a full and rich life besides the demons that you face are what makes all the difference. The way I look at it is that I have a demon, well most everyone out there has one or maybe several. I can still walk, I'm able to pick up my son most of the time with some effort, and I still live a mostly normal life. The lesson here is that our demons only have the power we let them have, attitude is everything.
To me, the most notable thing in this article is that selling open-source software -- the software itself, not support or consulting -- actually worked.
Ember.js Core Features
Constant (https://www.constant.com) also has cheaper server in http://www.constant.com/servers/specials/ but OVH seems way much cheaper, do you know of any other provider like this?
Hello hp50g,

Thanks for your link

I have used http://webmatrix.uservoice.com/ too much. Search for google on this site with "Kristina". You found a lot of post written by me.

I just hate it because I can't gave it to fellow guys work on Linux and Mac. Secondly When I tried it it's crash too much. I write a lot of post their but atleast finally move to Sublime text 2.
Ask HN: Do you have dead domains for sale?
I am curious if there is a need for this; I personally have 20 or so domains I have purchased for random things over the years, but I probably will never use them. Selling them is a pain generally, and I know none of them are worth too much. Would there be demand for a site:

1. setup a landing page listing your domains
2. verify all the domains with a text record
3. point all your domains to the landing page
4. someone can purchase the domain

Would you pay 7.99/mo for this service? Would you pay nothing, and allow adwords?
“If you’re not a good artist and not a good programmer, but you still like games, you become a designer.”

This is what I have been preaching all along. I apply this to UX monkeys and other scum too.

Game Designers are basically just idea guys - get a gamer game developer or a gamer graphics artist you'll get a better job, leaner too.

Thanks for getting some validation here, Richard.
As a person using Jira daily in a, fortunately well done, agile environment. I must say I can see how, when used with all the bells and whistles, strictly-enforced-workflow this and work-log that, it would be unbearable, the worst interpretation of Agile used to justify creating a sacrosanct "process" and going against the very core "people over process".

As a bug-tracker shoehorned into doing double duty as a Kanban board, does Jira have rough edges? Sure.

However, used as a slightly more feature-full variant of Trello, as a wall of virtual sticky-notes, as a way to help see if the team improves over time like it should, it's pretty useful.

The moment it becomes an impediment it, well, is an impediment, and should be dealt with accordingly.
Best quote for me "Eighty-six percent of Ivy-League graduates ranked university education as important"
New DNA Technology Might Bring Back The Woolly Mammoth
What 'Lean In' Misunderstands About Gender Differences
Which is why everyone needs to learn about HSTS (my new favorite thing). There's room for a stripping attack upon first connecting and being redirected from http to https but from then on you've mitigated most of the problem.
Kali Linux on the Chromebook
Yes, that immediately turns me off the project. This is great feedback and not at all rude, I wish I could get feedback like this for my projects!
KO has great how-tos and examples, no doubt, but I would never put it forward as an example of great documentation, for the single and very large fact that it's utterly lacking in API reference documentation. Where, for instance, can I find a list of the ko.utils.* namespace? How do I release bindings when I dispose of a view? The existing documentation gives me nothing. I'm left googling blogs and stackoverflow answers.

Compare that to http://docs.angularjs.org/api .

Real API documentation would do a lot to dispel the myth that KO is only for small to medium projects.
Respect for something you are or something you do is not the same as respect for something you buy.
'Full' Neanderthal genome sequenced for the first time
Is it prudent to utilize the functional style in a language that isn't tail call optimized? Doesn't that create a lot of garbage for the GC?
What an obvious oversight. It is unbelievable that the developers would allow for a 'getting started' guide with such a poor first impression to exist. I have had a similar experience with jquery. As someone who has been using mootools before jquery I was completely furious with the lack of proper documentation and ambiguity in it. I hated learning jquery. Thank god mootools exists. Confusing, incomplete or ambiguous documentation is the absolute worst obstacle to a positive learning experience. I've not tried Ember, but if the experience is as the author describes, then I shall stick to angularjs. And what a tragic reaction to the criticism from the ember developer. It seems fitting that their documentation would be crappy. I'm sure that ember is a wonderful project and took a lot of hard work to create, but please fix the first experience - is important otherwise all that hard work goes to waste. Good luck.
Look at the IndieGoGo header image he's using. It's a screencap of Gmail's spam folder with 5,048 messages. Hasn't this clearly been solved?

I get MAYBE 2 spam emails a month that gets through the filter, and my address is pretty easy to harvest.

So is this still a problem?
I basically agree, but those who made Tabula Rasa shouldn't throw stones.
I love the NSA sponsored writing contest in this newsletter:

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologs/cryptolog_...

"Writing for a competition may bring about revolutionary changes!"